Yoda: Pope Acknowledges Corrupt Gay Cabal Across Vatican & Church

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Pope ‘admits that gay prelate network exists'

Leaked notes from private meeting show pontiff speaking about a ‘stream of corruption'

The pope has admitted the existence of a network of gay prelates in the Vatican, reports published on Tuesday said.

According to leaked notes of a private conversation with Catholic officials at the Latin American Conference of Religious (Clar), Francis was asked about being in charge of the Roman curia, the Chilean website Reflexión y Liberación reported. According to site, the Argentinian pontiff, speaking in his native Spanish, said the task was difficult as, alongside “holy people”, there was also “a stream of corruption”. He was then quoted as adding: “The ‘gay lobby' is mentioned, and it is true, it is there … We need to see what we can do.”

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Clar later confirmed its leaders had written a synopsis of the pope's remarks and said it was greatly distressed that the document had been published. Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi said he had no comment to make on the remarks made in “a private meeting”. The text follows repeated claims that there are a significant number of influential gay clerics within the Vatican.

The speculation peaked in February when, soon after Benedict XVI resigned, the Italian newspaper La Repubblica claimed he had decided to step down after receiving a dossier investigating the Vatileaks scandal containing details of a network of gay prelates, some of whom were vulnerable to blackmail.

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Yoda: Nicaraguan Canal Moves Forward — Thai Canal Next?

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Nicaragua Plows Ahead With Chinese-Funded Panama Canal Rival

Fast-tracking a proposal through the ruling party-controlled Congress despite a lack of details about the $40 billion project, Nicaragua is moving ahead with a plan to dig a Chinese-funded rival to the Panama Canal across the midriff of the country.

A China-based consortium says it will finance the project and turn over control of the infrastructure to Nicaragua in exchange for a majority of the earnings, which it would share with the Nicaraguan government.

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Proponents have said the project could capture 4.5 percent of world maritime freight traffic and double the per-capita gross domestic product of Nicaragua, one of the poorest countries in Latin America. The canal has won the enthusiastic backing of President Daniel Ortega, whose Sandinista Front controls the national legislature with 63 out of 92 lawmakers.

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Thai Canal Project (One Rendition)

Yale Environment 360 and Chinadialogue article on environmental impacts

Yoda: America the Refrigerated Nation — What Happens When….

01 Agriculture, 03 Economy, Commerce, Cultural Intelligence
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CABINET, Issue 47 Logistics Fall 2012

The Coldscape

Nicola Twilley

More than three-quarters of the food consumed in the United States today is processed, packaged, shipped, stored, and sold under artificial refrigeration. The shiny, humming stainless steel box in your kitchen is just the tip of the iceberg, so to speak—a tiny fragment of the vast global network of temperature-controlled storage and distribution warehouses cumulatively capable of hosting uncounted billions of cubic feet of chilled flesh, fish, or fruit. Add to that an equally vast and immeasurable volume of thermally controlled space in the form of shipping containers, wine cellars, floating fish factories, international seed banks, meat-aging lockers, and livestock semen storage, and it becomes clear that the evolving architecture of coldspace is as ubiquitous as it is varied, as essential as it is overlooked.

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To engineer a consistent supply of a highly perishable product, Big Juice (Tropicana, Florida’s Natural, and their ilk) pasteurize, de-oil, and then strip the oxygen from their OJ before chilling it to 32°F and pumping it into million-gallon, refrigerated, epoxy resin-lined, carbon steel, aseptic storage tanks.

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Mother Jones: Latin American Nations Distance Themselves from USA, Debate Legalizing Marijuana

01 Brazil, 07 Venezuela, 08 Wild Cards, Civil Society, Commerce, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, Government, IO Deeds of Peace, IO Sense-Making

"Do Not Piss Me Off!"Latin American Nations Debate Legalizing Pot

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Mon Jun. 10, 2013

At last week's annual summit of the Organization of American States, Latin American leaders distanced themselves from the United States' drug policies and agreed to consider the widespread legalization of marijuana.

The OAS summit “was really a tipping point for this movement” to end the war on drugs, said Pedro Abramovay, a campaign director for Avaaz, a global nonprofit group that has petitioned the OAS to liberalize its drug policies.

The move comes as Uruguay debates a bill to legalize the production and sale of pot (it is already legal there for personal use) and as Chile considers decriminalizing it. Latin American leaders also have kept a close eye on how Colorado and Washington, having legalized marijuana, will go about regulating its consumption.

At the summit, which wrapped up on Friday in Antigua, Guatemala, delegates reviewed a recent OAS study that explores a range of options for a new regional drug policy that might include legalizing or decriminalizing cannabis, and even abandoning the fight against the coca production in some areas. “Never before has a multilateral organization engaged in such an inclusive and intellectually legitimate analysis of drug policy options,” Ethan Nadelmann, executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, said in a statement. The delegates agreed to create a high-level commission to debate the study and make policy suggestions.

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SchwartzReport: American Idiots in the (Slight) Majority on NSA Surveillance

07 Other Atrocities, Cultural Intelligence, Government, Military

schwartz reportThis is how far we have changed from the Founder's vision of the United States.

The Founders', as the Constitution and Bill of Rights make clear, made a big deal about privacy. “Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
– Benjamin Franklin (on the title page of An Historical Review of the Constitution and Government of Pennsylvania – 1759)

How different that is from the Pew and The Washington Post survey which discovered: “A majority of Americans – 56% – say the National Security Agency’s (NSA) program tracking the telephone records of millions of Americans is an acceptable way for the government to investigate terrorism…”

Majority Views NSA Phone Tracking as Acceptable Anti-terror Tactic
Pew Research Center for People and the Press

John Maguire: Eric Dollard and Tom Brown’s Classic Scalar Wave Video

05 Energy, Earth Intelligence
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For those of you more interested in understanding the basics/dynamics of Scalar/Longitudinal-Waves, and their potential applications, see description/video below.

YouTube Abstract: Wireless Engineer Eric Dollard demonstrates the reality of longitudinal waves and their application to the natural transmision of electricity…The Longitudinal Magneto-Dielectric wave (L.M.D.) is shown to have a propagating velocity greater than the speed of light! The transverse electromagnetic wave, (in present use) is shown to be a retarded, unnatural form of energy transmission…A competent researcher can duplicate the experiments on this video from the information given…This is a rip from an old VHS someone posted on the web and is now posted in numerous places.

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