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… Music speaks for us.

Please Listen: (Adagio for Strings – Samuel Barber)

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I know it was from you.

Like pennies from heaven, only sweeter!

From Zbigniew Preisner’s Requiem for my friend

Lacrimosa die illa

Qua resurget ex favilla

Judicandus homo reus

Huic ergo parce, Deus

Pie Jesu Domine

Dona eis requiem.

Translation:

Ah! That day of tears and mourning!

From the dust of earth returning

Man for judgment must prepare him

Spare, oh God, in mercy spare him!

Lord, all pitying, Jesu blest

Grant them Thine eternal rest.

Notre-Dame du Perpétuel Secours

Patronne de Haïti

Priez pour vos enfants Hatian.

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No, not that Holocaust; rather, the one that occurred in Rwanda in 1994. The Rwandan Holocaust lasted only 91 days, but claimed almost a million lives. This is the story of Immaculée Ilibagiza, a young Tutsi woman, who survived the genocide perpetrated by the Hutu tribe by hiding for 91 days in a bathroom with 7 other women. This is one of the most moving stories you’ll ever hear, and one that could have ripple effects throughout the entire world – if only we would listen.

Immaculée was a college student in April 1994 who was home for Easter vacation when the plane carrying the (Hutu) President of Rwanda was shot down. Immediately the Hutus sought revenge against their Tutsi neighbors, most of whom they had lived with and been friends with for years. The Hutus comprised about 80% of the population and the Tutsis about 20%, but the Tutsis were the better educated of the two tribes and had good jobs and standards of living. (This is more likely the real cause of the genocide: envy.) Immaculée’s parents were both teachers, well-respected in their village, and had always been helpful and kind to their Hutu neighbors. But there would be no mercy for them when the Hutus stormed their home.

As Immaculée describes in her book, Left to Tell (read 421 Amazon customer comments, average 5 star rating), when the genocide began, her parents ordered her to run to a minister’s house 3 miles away and ask him for protection. Immaculée’s parents, two brothers, and grandparents were all slaughtered by the Hutus. One brother survived because he was studying outside the country. The minister who sheltered Immaculée (and 7 other Tutsi women) in a 3′ by 4′ bathroom for 91 days was not only a Hutu, but also a Protestant minister (Immaculée and her family are Catholics).

This calls to mind the parable of the Good Samaritan, where we are called to assist our neighbor in trouble, regardless of tribal, religious or ethnic affiliation. If the minister had been caught harboring Tutsis, both he and his family, along with the 8 Tutsi women, would have all been killed.

This is not only a story of survival amidst unspeakable horror, it’s also an inspiring story of faith, love, and forgiveness. In her book, Led by Faith: Rising From the Ashes of the Rwandan Genocide, Immaculée describes how she was spiritually transformed during those 91 days of terror by turning to her faith in God and meditating on the words of the Lord’s Prayer:

Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.

For me, this is the most amazing part of the story. Immaculée later sought out the man who had killed her family and offered him her forgiveness. She asked him why he had done it, and he replied that they had all been promised banana plantations and riches if they would slaughter all the Tutsis. Instead, he ended up spending 11 years in prison, and lost everything he had. Immaculée is now married with 2 children, is a motivational speaker, and the author of 4 books on the genocide. She has appeared on CNN, 60 Minutes, EWTN, and many other forums. Always her message is of forgiveness and reconciliation.

This brings to mind other survivors of Holocausts and the very different ways they have reacted. Without mentioning any names, there are those who still live on the bitterness and hatred, and who pass that sentiment onto their descendants. Regardless of whether the most famous Holocaust happened as has been purported, there were human rights abuses committed during World War II, and millions of people were killed – not only those of a certain group. The tens of millions of Russians who were worked, frozen and shot to death by the Communists have never gotten justice. Their story has rarely ever been told and most in the West have no idea it even happened. Some Holocausts are more equal than others.

We have all been victims of injustice, either as individuals or as groups, in one form or another. But perpetuating the hatred only leads to more violence, and on and on it goes. I hope the story of Immaculée’s survival, and her message of forgiveness, will inspire people to forgive those who have trespassed against them – and to work for peace on earth. Forgiveness does not mean no justice, it just means you don’t continue the cycle of violence. Peace.

[Read her blog here.]

Sister Teresa Forcades is a Benedictine nun who also happens to be a physician specializing in internal medicine. She also has a Ph.D. in Public Health as well as a degree in theology from Harvard. So she’s obviously an extremely intelligent and well-educated woman, highly qualified to speak out against a medical crime against humanity. She herself admits that if she were still practicing medicine in a hospital setting (in other words, for money) she might not be brave enough to speak out against the medical/pharmaceutical cartel. But as a nun, she has no personal stake in maintaining the status quo (in other words, money) and can use her medical knowledge as a spiritual work of mercy. I think it’s of paramount importance that anyone considering getting the flu vaccine listen to what Sister (Doctor) Teresa has to say. As she says in the video “money cannot buy health or life.”

Sister Teresa explains that in February 2009, the pharmaceutical giant Baxter sent 72 kg. of the seasonal flu vaccine to 16 labs in Austria, the Czech Republic, Slovenia, and Germany to be distributed to the populations in the next two months. But thanks to the scrupulosity of one Czech hero who worked as a lab techician, an evil, genocidal plan was uncovered. This Czech lab tech decided to run a test on the vaccine material received from Baxter by injecting the material into ferrets in the lab. All the ferrets died from the vaccine.

Only then was it discovered that live Avian (Bird) flu virus was mixed in with the seasonal flu vaccine sent from Baxter pharmaceutical. This would have had the effect of creating a new virus by recombining the seasonal flu virus with the Avian flu which would have produced a highly contagious, highly lethal vaccine. Once this vaccine was innoculated in the general public, being both highly contagious and highly lethal, well, you get the picture. Only due to the extra efforts of a single Czech lab tech, was a catastrophe of epic proportions averted. Sister Teresa asks why this explosive news was not covered by the media or the politicians. By the way, she says that it is virtually impossible that this was an accident, given the extremely high standards employed in laboratories, and for 2 virii to be found mixed together like that is just inconceivable as an accident. It was a deliberate contamination of vaccines that were to be administered to the general public.  She even says that one must assume malicious intent, given the series of extraordinary coincidences which would have been necessary for this to have been an accident.

Are you getting the picture? They had the vaccines all set to be shot into people’s arms, but a single Czech lab tech literally saved the world. Their nefarious plan was foiled. But the next “irregularity” she notes is that the World Health Organization (WHO) has changed the definition of a pandemic from a highly contagious infectious disease present in multiple countries with a high mortality rate, to just an infectious disease present in multiple countries. In other words, if only a few people in several countries have the same virus or symptoms (since they’re no longer verifying in labs whether patients even have the A-H1N1 virus anymore), then it’s a pandemic even if relatively few people are dying. Why is this significant? Because, says Sister Teresa, the WHO changed their regulations in 2005 stating that in the case of a global pandemic, the WHO can override national sovereignty and order countries to take certain measures with their populations. Dr. Margaret Chan, head of the WHO, declared in June that the swine flu is now a pandemic - even though hardly anyone has died. The WHO is an arm of the United Nations. So it appears that they’ve decided to go ahead with the “global pandemic” scenario anyway, the way they had planned it when they thought the lethal vaccines were going to be administered. More on this later.

Other factors which should raise the hair on your neck include: the vaccine for the A-H1N1 (swine flu) virus will be administered in 2 doses, which is unprecedented, as the effects of a double dosis are as yet unstudied. Also, the use of the coadjuvant squalene (which caused Gulf War Syndrome in vets vaccinated against Anthrax) is dangerous because it will trigger the immune system to react 10 times more strongly to the vaccine than a normal coadjuvant. Squalene is an excitant or accelerant which directly targets the immune system to react 10 times more powerfully than normal. Does this sound safe to you? There’s also the risk of Gullain-Barre paralysis which can be permanent. So Teresa asks: compared to the risk of getting the flu and spending a few days in bed, is it really worth it to risk auto-immune diseases, paralysis, or contaminated vaccines that cause God-knows-what side effects? These warnings apply to the seasonal flu vaccine as well as the “swine flu” or H1N1 vaccine, so don’t think the regular flu shot is safe. In summation: the swine flu (A-H1N1) is more benign than the seasonal flu, and the seasonal flu is only minimally fatal. So the risk of the flu vaccines outweighs the benefits.

Sister Teresa intimates in video #6 that there have always been people throughout history who have wanted to control the world. This is nothing new. The Romans, the Incas, etc., have established empires with the intention to civilize other peoples and bring order to the world. But these days, she says, there are also people who think we have an over-population problem as well. Put the two together, i.e, a group of people who want to control the world and who think a huge number of us need to be eliminated, and a clear picture starts to emerge. I believe that even though their plan to innoculate people with the contaminated vaccine was thwarted, the WHO (et al) have decided to go ahead with their plans to declare a pandemic and at least soften us up for the final kill. That is, sicken and disable as many of us as they can this time around, even though it will be much less lethal, thanks to the Czech lab technician. They will use this false  pandemic to continue to suppress individual rights and sovereignty, then maybe next around they’ll get it right. Maybe next time their plan won’t be thwarted. These are the people who want to control the world.

The problem, as I see it, is that the people who want to control the world today are not the extraordinary and civilized Romans who wanted to spread Pax Romana. On the contrary, they make the pagan Romans look like Christians by comparison. What we have today is a cabal of people who are full-blown psychopaths with almost unlimited power, nuclear weapons, control of the press, the medical industry, most governments, an implacable hatred of Christianity, and a hatred of human life in general. And many of these people are from Christian backgrounds themselves, which in my mind, makes them all the more culpable for their actions. But then psychopaths will be psychopaths. So I’ll just come right out and say what Sister Teresa does not say:

The so-called New World Order being brought to fruition before our eyes is nothing less than the Kingdom of anti-Christ on earth. This may sound hyperbolic, but hear me out. They do not want simply to conquer or control - but to kill as many of us as possible. I believe that that they cannot help themselves. They are under the power of the Prince of Darkness who Jesus Christ said is the Prince of This World, who prowls about seeking whom he may devour. It is their hatred of Christ which leaves them open to being used by Satan. Their aim, perhaps not fully understood even by them, is to kill, destroy, ruin, corrupt, and usher in the era of the anti-Christ. I mean the real anti-Christ, the actual Man of Perdition. I truly believe that they are not fully aware of what they are doing; rather, they are simply compelled to kill and destroy because they are in the service of the Evil One himself. It’s sometimes difficult to feel sorry for these lost souls because they are so dangerous and deadly, and have absolutely no remorse or compassion for the suffering that they cause. Yet in a very real sense, they are simply slaves themselves, and their deadly machinations will ultimately bring them down.

Sister Teresa says do not panic. I would add: do not despair. God is in control. All the evil we’re seeing in the world right now – which has accelerated exponentially since 9/11 – has been permitted by God to happen, foreseen since the beginning of time, and described in the book of Apocalypse (or Revelation). We don’t even  have to bother deciphering those cryptic lines in the Bible. God sees everything for us. They won’t get away with what they’re doing. They will not control the whole world. As Sister Teresa says in the video, our human goodness will not allow their plans to succeed. Just as a single heroic lab technician in the Czech Republic was able to thwart their plan, there are so many good and decent people in this world, and many of them are finally waking up. The good and decent people on the planet far outnumber the evil ones, but we are hindered by our consciences from taking appropriate action. Psychopaths have no such hindrance. But their plans will not ultimately succeed, although they will cause tremendous human suffering while they can. So in the meantime, just be extremely careful (especially of vaccines), pray, and stay in a state of grace. And pray for those poor lost souls who aim to kill us. The fate that awaits them is worse than anything they could do to us in this world.

Good ultimately triumphs over Evil. It just takes a while to happen. But God is in control. We saw His hand in the Czech lab technician who held back the hand of Satan. And we can see Him in Sister Teresa Forcades, an aptly-named, modern-day saint from Spain.

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