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		<title>Off Island Perspective Spring 2026</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Iranians have been burring not only Israeli and American flags, but statues of Baal, the Satanic demon appeased by child sacrifice, usually by burning. On February 11, on the 47th anniversary of the Iran’s Islamic Revolution, Iranians burned Baal effigies across several cities. ]]></description>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Burning Baal</h2>



<p>Iranians have been burring not only Israeli and American flags, but statues of Baal, the Satanic demon appeased by child sacrifice, usually by burning. On February 11, on the 47th anniversary of the Iran’s Islamic Revolution, Iranians burned Baal effigies across several cities. This attitude is in a stark contrast with the UK and USA where in 2016 Arch of Triumph of the Temple of Baal from Syria was erected and celebrated by high UK officials in London’s Trafalgar square. The Iranian Baal effigy carried a slogan: “<a href="https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/rest-of-world/watch-iranian-protesters-burn-baal-effigy-marked-with-star-of-david-chant-death-to-israel-at-rally/articleshow/128215927.cms" data-type="link" data-id="https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/rest-of-world/watch-iranian-protesters-burn-baal-effigy-marked-with-star-of-david-chant-death-to-israel-at-rally/articleshow/128215927.cms" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">We, the monotheists of the world, by the help of God, will bring down the worshipers of Baal, the worshipers of Satan, and the arrogant oppressors</a>.” Thirteen days later, the Israel-US attack on Iran begun by perfidious assassinations of its 84-year-old religious leader meeting to discuss a response to US demands. Bombings begun on February 28, the eve of Jewish holiday of Purim – celebrating Jews killing 75,000 Persians in 355 BC. In another assassination that day 176 Iranian schoolgirls aged 7 to 12, were killed by US jets in a “double-tap” missile strike that also killed first responders who came to help the survivors 40 minutes later. While US public is confused about why their armed forces attacked Iran, many Iranians believe the true nature of their struggle is spiritual and eschatological in nature.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Isaac Coming to Honduras</h2>



<p>In June 2025, President Milei’s personal Rabbi launched the Isaac Accords – Israel’s diplomatic initiative to spread its influence across Latin America. The Isaac Accords are modeled after the 2020 Abraham Accords that served as a prelude in spreading Israel’s sway in the Middle East and its war on Syria, Lebanon, Yemen and Iran- countries that were not part of the accord. The original signatories of the Isaac Accords were Uruguay, Panama and Costa Rica and in 2026 Brazil, Colombia, Chile, and potentially El Salvador could join in. As Honduras’ president<a href="https://mondoweiss.net/2026/03/meet-nasry-tito-asfura-hondurass-new-christian-zionist-president-of-palestinian-descent-who-is-looking-to-deepen-ties-with-israel/" data-type="link" data-id="https://mondoweiss.net/2026/03/meet-nasry-tito-asfura-hondurass-new-christian-zionist-president-of-palestinian-descent-who-is-looking-to-deepen-ties-with-israel/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"> Asfura owes a debt to Israel for his controversial 2025 election win</a>, it is likely Honduras could be signing the accords in not too distant future. The cooperation proposed in the accords focuses on forming intelligence-sharing alliances, economy and security.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Drones in Haiti</h2>



<p>XXI century technologies XXI century technologies have arrived in Haiti &#8211; Western Hemisphere’s poorest country. Since March 2025 over 1,200 Haitians have been killed by quad copter explosive drones. The killer drones are manned by private military contractors Vectus Global, which is led by Blackwater founder Erik Prince. According to human Rights Watch the “gang member” assassinated by the drone strikes were not directly threading any civilians. The most lethal of those drone assassinations killed 57 Haitians in one explosion. These strikes not only kill suspected “gang members,” but many civilians and until now 17 children. The so-far<a href="https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/haiti-drones-fragile-states/" data-type="link" data-id="https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/haiti-drones-fragile-states/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"> $52 million cost of the drone assassinations comes out to $42,000 per person killed</a> and is paid by Haitian government. Haiti is providing a glimpse at the future of surveillance and punishment systems that are being implemented across the world.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">More SSPX Bishops</h2>



<p>The Catholic Priestly Society of San Pius X [SSPX] has announced that it will move forward with consecrating a <a href="https://onepeterfive.com/the-60-year-battle-for-tradition-in-defence-of-the-sspx/" data-type="link" data-id="https://onepeterfive.com/the-60-year-battle-for-tradition-in-defence-of-the-sspx/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">number of bishops after Vatican refused their approval</a>. The consecrations are scheduled for July 1, 38 years to the day after SSPX consecrated its four bishops, also without Papal approval. Two of its four consecrated in Écône in 1988 bishops have died in 2025. Vatican has stated that these consecrations would form “decisive rupture of ecclesial communion (schism)” and carry “grave consequences.” While both the consecrating bishops, and consecrated bishops face an automatic excommunication (latae sententiae), SSPX argues that the “grave state of necessity” that exists in the Catholic Church allows them to proceed to with consecrations as the paramount Catholic goal is saving souls. Without new bishops SSPX faces a risk that the communities it tends to lose the ability to receive new ordained priests and receive bestowed by bishops sacraments of confirmation. SSPX was funded by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre in 1970 and grew from around 60,000 followers in 1988 to include 700 priests, 134 schools, six seminaries and well over 600,000 followers today.</p>
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		<title>Homily on Ash Wednesday</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><img width="800" height="533" src="https://payamag.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/photo-vigano-ashx2.jpg" class="attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" fetchpriority="high" srcset="https://payamag.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/photo-vigano-ashx2.jpg 800w, https://payamag.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/photo-vigano-ashx2-300x200.jpg 300w, https://payamag.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/photo-vigano-ashx2-768x512.jpg 768w, https://payamag.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/photo-vigano-ashx2-128x86.jpg 128w, https://payamag.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/photo-vigano-ashx2-600x400.jpg 600w" sizes="(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" /></p>The beginning of the sacred season of Lent, which the Holy Church inaugurates with the austerity of her ceremonies and vestments on this Ash Wednesday, was in ancient times marked not only by the practice of fasting and penance for all the faithful, but also by the solemn rite of expulsion of public penitents until Holy Thursday. ]]></description>
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	T</span>he beginning of the sacred season of Lent, which the Holy Church inaugurates with the austerity of her ceremonies and vestments on this Ash Wednesday, was in ancient times marked not only by the practice of fasting and penance for all the faithful, but also by the solemn rite of expulsion of public penitents until Holy Thursday. Sinners guilty of particularly grave crimes were summoned to the Cathedral before the beginning of the Pontifical Mass to present themselves, barefoot and dressed in sackcloth, to the Bishop. In the presence of all the people, the Penitentiary would announce the sins of each penitent and impose ashes on them, saying: Memento homo, quia pulvis es, et in pulverem reverteris: age pænitentiam, ut habeas vitam æternam. A Canon sprinkled them with holy water and the Bishop blessed their penitential vestments – that is, their sackcloth – and all the clergy recited the seven penitential Psalms and the Litanies. Finally, after four prayers, the Bishop gave a homily, (…) – showing how Adam, because of his sin, was expelled from paradise and many curses were poured upon him; and how, following his example, they too [the penitents] must be temporarily expelled from the Church.</p>



<p>At this point, the Bishop took one of the penitents by the hand, forming a chain out of all those who were expelled from the church. And showing his own emotion, cum lacrymis, he said: (…) today you are expelled from the confines of Holy Mother Church because of your sins and wickedness, just as Adam, the first man, was expelled from paradise because of his transgression. Meanwhile, the choir sang an antiphon that recalled the words of the Book of Genesis (Gen 3:16-19). To the penitents who remained kneeling and weeping before the Cathedral portal, the Bishop urged them not to despair of the Lord’s mercy, but rather to dedicate themselves to fasting, prayer, pilgrimages, almsgiving, and good works. Finally, he invited them to return no earlier than the morning of Holy Thursday. The church doors were then closed before Mass began. (…)</p>



<p>In the contemporary world—particularly since Vatican II—those who once would have been considered public sinners are now welcomed and encouraged in their deviations, even by popes, by prelates and members of the clergy who are most unworthy, whose sins are equally public and scandalous to the faithful, who in turn are led into sin. But it is precisely this that constitutes the ultimate offense to the Divine Majesty: not so much and not only the evil committed, but rather its denial, indeed its legitimization, and at the same time the condemnation of the good that opposes it.</p>



<p>For this reason, dear faithful, the earth is still cursed today; nor could it be otherwise. The horrors and heinous crimes brought to light in recent days with the publication of Jeffrey Epstein’s files cry out to Heaven for vengeance, all the more so because of the silence surrounding them and the impunity ostentatiously granted to the guilty. Our skies are sprayed with poisons that spill over into crops and aquifers; carcinogenic substances in food; the destruction of crops and livestock for the benefit of multinational corporations’ intensive production; diseases caused by deliberately harmful and sterilizing pseudo-drugs; the imposition of “sacrifices” and “penances” for the so-called protection of our “common home”; the minute control of our every action, no longer under the gaze of God but under the eye of surveillance cameras: all these outrages, the infernal parody with which an elite, intoxicated with power and literally thirsty for human blood, seeks to replace God in legislating, in deciding what is good and what is evil, in declaring its “saints” and its “damned,” in promulgating its “rites” and its “excommunications.” This elite also has its “public penitents,” who are ostracized by the system until they convert to the infernal ideology of globalism.</p>



<p>Let us return to the Lord, dear faithful. Let us return to Him in sackcloth and ashes, and may the Church return along with us to condemn sin and encourage virtue, without pretense or hypocrisy, without compromise, without culpable indulgences that offend Divine Justice and nullify Divine Mercy. This is the meaning of the prayer the Bishop used to recite before the penitents dressed in sackcloth. (…) Lord our God, you who are not overcome by our offenses, but are appeased by penitential satisfaction, look, we beseech you, upon these your servants, who confess that they have gravely sinned against you. For it is yours to grant absolution from crimes and to grant pardon to sinners, you who have said that you prefer the sinner’s penance to his death. Grant, then, O Lord, that they may keep vigils of penance for you and, by the correction of their deeds, rejoice in receiving from you eternal joys. And so may it be.</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[After a 100 year break, a cargo sail boats are once again crossings the Atlantic. In October 2025 a 136 meter long French built RoRo Neoliner Origin, arrived in port of Baltimore with 5,300 tons of cargo of Renault vehicles and French liqueurs. The Neoliner Origin is equipped with auto sail systems and anti-drift controls. During the stormy crossing the ship suffered damage to its semi-rigid sail. The crew relied on the second sail and auxiliary motor to continue their voyage.]]></description>
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	A</span>fter a 100 year break, a cargo sail boats are once again crossings the Atlantic. In October 2025 a 136 meter long French built RoRo Neoliner Origin, arrived in port of Baltimore with 5,300 tons of cargo of Renault vehicles and French liqueurs. The<a href="https://www.offshore-energy.biz/neoliner-origin-the-worlds-first-sailing-roro-vessel-is-finally-here/" data-type="link" data-id="https://www.offshore-energy.biz/neoliner-origin-the-worlds-first-sailing-roro-vessel-is-finally-here/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"> Neoliner Origin is equipped with auto sail </a>systems and anti-drift controls. During the stormy crossing the ship suffered damage to its semi-rigid sail. The crew relied on the second sail and auxiliary motor to continue their voyage. The plan is to maintain monthly Trans Atlantic crossings at a speed of 11 knots an hour.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Anglican Schism</h2>



<p>After 491 years after it broke away from Catholic Church the Anglican Church is itself breaking apart. The schism begun with a 2008 warning letter from Anglican’s traditional wing -Global Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans (GAFCON) and in October 2025 it became a break, a schism if you will.<a href="https://livingchurch.org/news/news-anglican-communion/gafcon-meeting-could-alter-the-anglican-communion/" data-type="link" data-id="https://livingchurch.org/news/news-anglican-communion/gafcon-meeting-could-alter-the-anglican-communion/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"> Forty-two million, or 85% of all practicing Anglicans are part of the GAFCON</a>. The recent appointment of Sarah Mullally as Archbishop of Canterbury, a liberal woman was the final straw for the church’s traditionalists. The GAFCON bishops who hail from outside of Europe have condemned the ever progressing drift of “advocating liberalized sexual or moral teaching” and “abandoning of scriptures” by the Archbishop of Canterbury. GAFCON states that they represent the traditional doctrine of Anglican church and that liberal, Canterbury centered north have strayed into schism. Honduras belongs to IXth Province of the Episcopal Church and is not part of GAFCON.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Bye Bye Nuclear</h2>



<p>Germany continues to blow itself up into economic irrelevance, as on October 25, its last two nuclear cooling towers were destroyed in Bavaria. Since 2017 Germany has shut down all of its 10 nuclear reactors. According to Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh, in 2023, the<a href="https://militarnyi.com/en/news/man-accused-by-germany-of-blowing-up-nord-stream-and-released-by-poland-gives-his-first-interview/" data-type="link" data-id="https://militarnyi.com/en/news/man-accused-by-germany-of-blowing-up-nord-stream-and-released-by-poland-gives-his-first-interview/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"> US Navy has blew up three of four German-Russian Nord Stream pipelines</a> in a case of biggest since WWII industrial sabotage. This inter NATO sabotage has broke off the inconvenient for NATO German-Russian energy cooperation. This sabotage has helped Germany’s economy to continually contract since 2023 and now its energy costs are the fifth most expensive in the world. At 38-44 US cents/kWh, Germany’s consumer energy prices is around 5% more expensive than Roatan’s.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Trump frees JOH</h2>



<p>On December 1, 2025 the ex-Honduran President<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/feb/01/honduras-human-rights-environment-activists-impunity-juan-orlando-hernandez-pardon-trump" data-type="link" data-id="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/feb/01/honduras-human-rights-environment-activists-impunity-juan-orlando-hernandez-pardon-trump" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"> Juan Orlando Hernández was pardoned by President Trump</a> and few people seem to understand why. The Honduran head of state was arrested in 2021 and extradited to US where he was convicted of drug smuggling charges and sentenced to 45 years in jail JOH, but served just 19 months. JOH was extremely pro Israel in his eight years as Honduran president, to the point that in 2021 he converted to Judaism with his entire family. According to Israeli media JOH received assurances from influential Israeli officials that they would act on his behalf in an event of extradition to the US. It looks like while Israelis couldn’t fight JOH’s extradition during Biden they did secure his pardon during Trump. JOH is one of several Jewish criminals pardoned by Trump, including Joseph Schwartz, Philip Esformes and Joe Lewis. Israel is likely eyeing JOH as someone key<br>in implementing the Isaac Accords in Honduras.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Honduran Elections Fiasco</h2>



<p>Honduras is no stranger to creative presidential coups and Hondurans were served yet another electoral fiasco in their November 30 elections. After around 12 hours of counting, on December 1, 57% of presidential votes were counted and National Nasry “Tito” Asfura was 515 votes ahead of Liberal Salvador Nasralla. The counting was inexplicably suspended with a “technical tie” and it took another 23 days to finish courting the remaining 43% of the votes. In the end, the Colombian based Grupo ASD [Grupo Asesoría en Sistematización de Datos Sociedad por Acciones Simplificada], which won the election counting bid, counted 3,793,868 cast ballots, with 5.2% of them being blank or null. In recent Honduran elections the invalid votes have been between 6% and 8% in 2013 Honduran elections. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/24/honduras-nasry-tito-asfura-declared-president-donald-trump-backed" data-type="link" data-id="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/24/honduras-nasry-tito-asfura-declared-president-donald-trump-backed" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Nasry “Tito” Asfura was declared a winner</a> by 27,026 votes, or below 1% of the vote. If the voting inconsistencies weren’t enough there was plenty of foreign interference in 2025 Honduran elections. President Trump meddled in just two days before the vote with a tweet threatening to suspend US aid: “If he [Asfura] doesn’t win, the United States will not be throwing good money after bad.” Brad Parscale, a former Donald Trump campaign manager and registered Israeli government agent has become part of making sure Tito Asfura won the elections. Nasralla and president Rixi Moncada’s Libre party called it the 2025 elections an “electoral coup.”</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><img width="800" height="533" src="https://payamag.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/photo-editorial-vigano-latin-2.jpg" class="attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" srcset="https://payamag.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/photo-editorial-vigano-latin-2.jpg 800w, https://payamag.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/photo-editorial-vigano-latin-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https://payamag.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/photo-editorial-vigano-latin-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https://payamag.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/photo-editorial-vigano-latin-2-128x86.jpg 128w, https://payamag.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/photo-editorial-vigano-latin-2-600x400.jpg 600w" sizes="(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" /></p>The glories of ancient Rome, its culture, its law, its arts, its territorial and administrative organization, its ability to unite and pacify peoples in the practice of virtues – even if not yet enlightened and vivified by Grace – were destined to find their fulfillment in adherence to the Catholic Faith, prepared by Providence also in the Martyrdom of these pillars of the Church, which in the Creed we profess as Una, Sancta, Catholica et Apostolica. Belonging to that Church makes each of us, as the Supreme Poet (Dante) sings, cive di quella Roma onde Cristo è romano [a citizen of that Rome where Christ is Roman] (Purgatorio XXXII, 102).
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	T</span>he glories of ancient Rome, its culture, its law, its arts, its territorial and administrative organization, its ability to unite and pacify peoples in the practice of virtues – even if not yet enlightened and vivified by Grace – were destined to find their fulfillment in adherence to the Catholic Faith, prepared by Providence also in the Martyrdom of these pillars of the Church, which in the Creed we profess as Una, Sancta, Catholica et Apostolica. Belonging to that Church makes each of us, as the Supreme Poet (Dante) sings, cive di quella Roma onde Cristo è romano [a citizen of that Rome where Christ is Roman] (Purgatorio XXXII, 102).</p>



<p><a href="https://catholictimescolumbus.org/voices/why-latin/" data-type="link" data-id="https://catholictimescolumbus.org/voices/why-latin/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Hatred of the Latin language</a> is innate in the hearts of all the enemies of Rome: they see in it the bond of Catholics in the universe, the arsenal of orthodoxy against all the subtleties of the sectarian spirit, the most powerful weapon of the Papacy. The spirit of revolt, which induces them to entrust universal prayer to the idiom of each people, of each province, of each century, has moreover produced its fruits.</p>



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<p>We should ask ourselves with what wretched thoughtlessness the Council Fathers – and today’s continuators of the so-called conciliar “reform” – allowed a handful of anti-Roman heretics to carry out within the Church, and with the force of the Church’s own authority, that attack on Romanitas that four centuries earlier was at the origin of the Lutheran schism; and how illusory is it to believe that article 36 of the conciliar Constitution Sacrosanctum Concilium – Linguæ latinæ usus in Ritibus latinis servetur – The use of the Latin language shall be preserved in the Latin rites – could have been sufficient to prevent the demolition of the Latin Liturgy – when it was obvious that the first and fundamental purpose of the reform was precisely that of abandoning the Roman language in favor of the vernacular idiom.</p>



<p>Today we ought to and want to hope that the multiplication of appeals from the ecclesial body for a return to Tradition will induce Leo to abandon Bergoglian “synodality” – an evolution of the conciliar “collegiality” of Lumen Gentium – and to exercise the Papacy without adulterating its authority with contaminations of an antichristic matrix that deny the Universal Lordship of Christ in the spiritual and temporal sphere. And Christ’s mandate to Peter – Pasce oves meas, pasce agnos meos (Jn 21:17) – must once again be exercised in the guarding of the Depositum Fidei and in the faithful transmission of immutable Catholic doctrine, without yielding to the spirit of the world that Peter, at the Council of Jerusalem, had already believed he could legitimize in the name of inclusion – as we would say today – of the Jews who wanted to maintain the rites of the Old Testament.</p>
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		<title>Off Island Perspective Fall 2025</title>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Cheaper from Honduras</h2>



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	H</span>onduras has now two more discount airlines flying from abroad. In June 2025 JetBlue launched a connection between San Pedro Sula with New York for as little as $80 a seat. In December 2025 Frontier plans to connect SPS with Atlanta for as little as $100. Spirit has been flying passengers from Palmerola International Airport and SPS to Fort Lauderdale for as little as $100. Europe is also becoming more affordable as Palmerola and SPS are now home to two discount airlines <a href="https://tnh.gob.hn/nacional/air-europa-fortalece-conexion-entre-honduras-y-europa-con-nuevo-vuelo-directo-a-san-pedro-sula/" data-type="link" data-id="https://tnh.gob.hn/nacional/air-europa-fortalece-conexion-entre-honduras-y-europa-con-nuevo-vuelo-directo-a-san-pedro-sula/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">flying directly to Madrid and Barcelona</a>. Iberojet connects Honduras with Spain for around $650. Discount Air Europa flies from San Pedro Sula to Madrid for $730. Roatan’s first discount airline is Sun country that can get you to Minnesota for as little as $200.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Healthier in Honduras</h2>



<p>Honduras, while economically poor, is top notch in the Americas in a<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667193X22001119#:~:text=Overall%20cancer%20burden%20in%20LAC,:%200.75%20and%200.65%2C%20respectively." data-type="link" data-id="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667193X22001119#:~:text=Overall%20cancer%20burden%20in%20LAC,:%200.75%20and%200.65%2C%20respectively." target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"> leading health indicator</a>. It is the fourth healthiest country both in North and in South America as far as cancer rates are concerned. Honduras is one of the least affected by cancer countries in the Americas. Here USA leads the sad statistics with 367 annual cancer cases per 100,000, while Honduras has only 128. Only Belize, Guatemala and El Salvador have fewer cancers per person. According to the 2022 study by World Cancer Research Fund, Americans and Canadians have 300% higher cancer rates than Hondurans do. Out of 180 countries tracked, Honduras is number 128. The most infected countries are western, developed countries: Australia, New Zealand, Denmark and USA.</p>



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<p>Dozen countries are building a cyber prison control system that effectively will make any dissent or talking-about-dissent a punishable offence. For western societies it is a shift of paradigm from a society where an individual is presumed innocent, to where an individual is an automatic subject of pre-crime investigation by AI, social media monitoring, preventive policing and financial tracking. China already uses a combination of its cameras, social credit system, and snitching to keep their population from voicing any discontent. In Argentina, Javier Milei created an <a href="https://www.perfil.com/noticias/politica/a-un-ano-de-su-creacion-el-gobierno-oculta-que-funcion-cumple-la-unidad-de-inteligencia-artificial-del-ministerio-de-seguridad.phtml" data-type="link" data-id="https://www.perfil.com/noticias/politica/a-un-ano-de-su-creacion-el-gobierno-oculta-que-funcion-cumple-la-unidad-de-inteligencia-artificial-del-ministerio-de-seguridad.phtml" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Orwellian Ministry of Security </a>that is supposed to predict the “future crimes” of typically well behaving Argentineans.</p>



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<p>While European nations have been coerced to import migrant workers since 1970s, and migrants since 2000s, the low birth yet thriving economies of Japan, and South Korea have been given a pass. Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has become a tool for globalists to erode the Japanese phenotype. JAICA announced an <a href="https://unseen-japan.com/japan-africa-hometown-protests/" data-type="link" data-id="https://unseen-japan.com/japan-africa-hometown-protests/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Africa Hometown Initiative </a>opening Japan to migrants to immigrants from Africa’s Mozambique, Nigeria, Ghana and Tanzania. In response Japan’s authorities were contacted by huge amount of concerned Japanese. The controlled media attempted to gaslight the public calling the concerned Japanese “racist” and “xenophobic.” Japan’s population peaked in 2010 with 128 million, but the country is on track to implode to 70 million by 2060, with 40% of those Japanese being over 65 years of age.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">2025 Hurricanes</h2>



<p>It is almost over and the 2025 Hurricane season, June 1 to November 30, has been the lowest in a decade. It should be a bit of a surprise as in May 2025 NOAA predicted that the years hurricane Atlantic hurricane season, had only a<a href="https://wmo.int/news/media-centre/extreme-weather-and-climate-impacts-bite-latin-america-and-caribbean" data-type="link" data-id="https://wmo.int/news/media-centre/extreme-weather-and-climate-impacts-bite-latin-america-and-caribbean"> 10% chance of a below-normal season</a>. The average Hurricane season for the past 10 years had 18 tropical storms through September and so far in 2025 there has been eight. In fact 2025 is only the third time in modern record, after 1968 and 1992, went two weeks leading to peak season without an active named storm.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Digitalized Hondurans</h2>



<p>In April 2025, Honduras <a href="https://www.biometricupdate.com/202504/tech5-to-provide-decentralized-dpi-for-honduras" data-type="link" data-id="https://www.biometricupdate.com/202504/tech5-to-provide-decentralized-dpi-for-honduras">signed a contract with Tech5</a>, a Swiss technology company, to create a digital ID, digital foreign resident ID, digital driving license, firearms permit and later on digital wallets. These documents are planned to be accessible via a smart phone app on a “secure digital wallet.” In poor, rural Honduras smart phones are expensive, and lost or damaged frequently. Also many Honduran police officers, already used to frequent extrusion, will likely exploit errors on smart phones, apps with bribes. This state surveillance effort, a Honduran effort to do their part in fulfilling the Agenda 2030 plan, will likely become another white elephant paid by Honduran taxpayers.</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><img width="800" height="533" src="https://payamag.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/photo-illustrations-vigano.jpg" class="attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://payamag.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/photo-illustrations-vigano.jpg 800w, https://payamag.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/photo-illustrations-vigano-300x200.jpg 300w, https://payamag.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/photo-illustrations-vigano-768x512.jpg 768w, https://payamag.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/photo-illustrations-vigano-128x86.jpg 128w, https://payamag.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/photo-illustrations-vigano-600x400.jpg 600w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" /></p>The theory that blames humans for climate change resulting from CO2 emissions into the atmosphere is supported by a clear minority of the scientific community, which is also in a very serious and obvious conflict of interest. Its media overexposure stems from the systematic censorship of all truly independent and authoritative voices and constitutes a complete distortion of reality.]]></description>
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	T</span>he theory that blames humans for climate change resulting from CO2 emissions into the atmosphere is supported by a clear minority of the scientific community, which is also in a very serious and obvious conflict of interest. Its media overexposure stems from the systematic censorship of all truly independent and authoritative voices and constitutes a complete distortion of reality.</p>



<p>The entire barrage of lies and fraud that supposedly legitimizes the “<a href="https://balkangreenenergynews.com/serbia-adopts-just-energy-transition-plan-until-2030/" data-type="link" data-id="https://balkangreenenergynews.com/serbia-adopts-just-energy-transition-plan-until-2030/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">green transition</a>” is based on the goal of reducing of CO2. In reality, carbon dioxide is essential for the survival of life on the planet, and reducing it would destroy all life on Earth. And even if global warming were real, it would have no significant relationship with human activity, being primarily caused by solar activity. Finally, the solutions proposed to address the increase in carbon dioxide sound laughable, as they are being adopted by only a fraction of nations, while China and India continue to build coal-fired power plants and use energy from fossil fuels. And in addition, alternative energy production plants are much more polluting than traditional ones.</p>



<p>This theory has become part of the UN program called “Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development” and is propagated by international organizations based on neo-Malthusian theory, which considers humanity the cancer of the planet and pursues the extermination of billions of people. To make the climate emergency credible, these organizations fund associations, companies, experts, and influencers to sow panic, in an orchestrated media terrorism operation. At the same time, they force governments to censor dissenting voices, branding them as conspiracy theories or “climate denialism,” in the same way as happened a few years ago during the psycho-pandemic farce.</p>



<p>In order to achieve global population reduction, organizations such as the UN, the World Economic Forum, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the European Commission use enormous resources to finance and implement concrete projects that are intended to cause the impoverishment, disease, sterility, and death of billions of human beings. At the same time, they guarantee enormous profits to the multinational corporations that collaborate in this infernal plan. Wars, crime imported through immigration, pandemics, mass sterilization (through vaccines but also through gender theory and LGBTQ+ ideology), abortions, genetic mutations and tumors induced by pseudo-vaccines, the poisoning of the skies, water, and food, and electromagnetic pollution: these are the horsemen of the globalist apocalypse of the Great Reset.</p>



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<p>The detailed and incontrovertibly supported denunciations made by numerous scientists, philosophers, historians, intellectuals, and politicians are powerless against the media propaganda machine, funded by the taxes paid by citizens, whom none of the governments involved have consulted to ask their opinion. Not a single one of the programmatic points of the “Agenda 2030” constitutes any sort of solution to the alleged environmental emergency: these are merely false solutions to false problems, whose true aim is to decimate the population, enslave the survivors – including by imposing liberticidal measures and social control – and centralize political power in the hands of usurious high finance. This is effectively a global coup d’état which I have repeatedly denounced in my speeches and writings since 2020.</p>



<p>This panorama of widespread corruption among government officials, scientists, and the media, funded by agencies, including government agencies (<a href="https://africa.businessinsider.com/local/lifestyle/kenyan-man-indicted-in-us-over-dollar650m-usaid-funded-health-supplies-scandal/pxwtj3h" data-type="link" data-id="https://africa.businessinsider.com/local/lifestyle/kenyan-man-indicted-in-us-over-dollar650m-usaid-funded-health-supplies-scandal/pxwtj3h">such as USAID</a> and the European Commission), cannot, however, erase some inconvenient truths. (…)</p>



<p>The Mass for the Care of Creation (Missa votiva de Pachamama?) is yet another confirmation of the disturbing subservience of the Catholic Hierarchy – which is not free from conflicts of interest, just like with the business of welcoming illegal immigrants – for which it will have to answer first and foremost to Our Lord Jesus Christ, who granted Peter the power of the Holy Keys not to pass judgment on the climate – in accordance with a scientifically untenable theory, moreover – but rather to guard and transmit the Depositum Fidei, to shepherd and protect the Lord’s Flock, which today is threatened in body and soul by an elite of dangerous, psychopathic criminals bent on evil.</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[After insistence of IMF and a visit of Marco Rubio, President Bukele folded and withdrew Bitcoin’s status as El Salvador’s official currency. In December 2024 El Salvador took out a $1.4 IMF loan and in exchange agreed to reduce Bitcoin purchases, removed mandatory acceptance of Bitcoin for merchants and withdraw option to pay taxes in Bitcoin. ]]></description>
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	A</span>fter insistence of IMF and a visit of Marco Rubio, President Bukele folded and withdrew Bitcoin’s status as El Salvador’s official currency. In December 2024 El Salvador took out a $1.4 IMF loan and in exchange agreed to reduce Bitcoin purchases, <a href="https://dig.watch/updates/most-bitcoin-firms-in-el-salvador-are-inactive" data-type="link" data-id="https://dig.watch/updates/most-bitcoin-firms-in-el-salvador-are-inactive" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">removed mandatory acceptance of Bitcoin</a> for merchants and withdraw option to pay taxes in Bitcoin. The number of El Salvadorian who used Bitcoin for transactions fell from 26% in 2021 to 8% in 2024.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Greenland’s Shift</h2>



<p>President Trump has repeatedly called for acquiring Greenland to be part of USA. As US pressure mounts Danish rule in Greenland that dates 200 years could be coming to an end. Greenlanders are not happy with their <a href="https://www.thedial.world/articles/news/issue-12/greenland-inuit-danish-birth-control-iud-campaign" data-type="link" data-id="https://www.thedial.world/articles/news/issue-12/greenland-inuit-danish-birth-control-iud-campaign" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Danish government after a policy of forced sterilization of girls </a>without their or their parents consent has come to light. Greenland has the highest suicide rate in the world, surpassing that of the runner up Guyana by almost a factor of three. If US managed to acquire the world’s biggest island it would jump from being the fourth largest country in the world with 9.8 million square kilometers to being the second largest with 12 million square kilometers. US with Greenland would surpass China and Canada and place just behind Russia with 16.4 million square kilometres.</p>



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<p>The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System, located in California’s Mojave Desert, is set to close after just 11 years of operation and a cost of $2.2 billion. The facility is the world’s largest thermal solar power plant with 173,000 heliostats that focuses sunrays onto a 459 foot tower. The 4,000 acre folly is proving not only an energy failure by not delivering nearly enough GWh projected, but also as an ecological disaster on a massive scale. The “eco” solar plant had killed turtles by the thousands and insects by the millions. <a href="https://apnews.com/article/california-solar-energy-ivanpah-birds-tortoises-mojave-6d91c36a1ff608861d5620e715e1141c" data-type="link" data-id="https://apnews.com/article/california-solar-energy-ivanpah-birds-tortoises-mojave-6d91c36a1ff608861d5620e715e1141c" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Ivanpah also became world’s biggest animal incinerator</a> as the facility created a death trap for birds with its heliostat mirrors burning to death tens of thousands of falcon, owls and warblers as the flew by its mirrors.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Honduras Elections</h2>



<p>On Sunday March 9, Honduras held its every four years primary elections. While Liberal party’s Salvador Nasralla beat Jorge Cálix, the ruling Libre party’s Rixi Moncada, w<a href="https://insightcrime.org/news/narco-money-influence-2025-election-honduras/" data-type="link" data-id="https://insightcrime.org/news/narco-money-influence-2025-election-honduras/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">ho is currently Secretary of National Defense</a> and Secretary of Finance, easily beat Rasel Tome. National’s party Tegucigalpa Mayor Nasry Asfura beat Ana García de Hernández, the wife of US jailed ex-president Juan Orlando Hernández. General elections are scheduled for November 30 to determine the next president and 128 deputies.</p>



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<p>El Salvador’s prison experiment with its gang members has made a left turn. On February 4, after a one day visit from US’s Secretary of State Marco Rubio, El Salvador’s president Bukele agreed to house violent criminals currently held in US jails regardless of their held nationality. This agreement has little precedent around the world. Some of these criminals will be Salvadorians that are MS-13 gang members, others would be the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang members, and also U.S. citizens and legal residents with no US nationality. <a href="https://www.axios.com/2025/04/14/trump-americans-el-salvador-prison-bukele" data-type="link" data-id="https://www.axios.com/2025/04/14/trump-americans-el-salvador-prison-bukele">They are planed to be housed in El Salvador’s</a> CECOT maximum security mega-prison that houses 15,000 currently, but has a capacity for 40,000.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Panama Drama</h2>



<p>Upon taking office in January 2025 president Trump criticized Panama for allowing China a growing influence over its strategic waterway canal. According to sources <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2024/12/23/politics/panama-canal-history-trump/index.html">Trump has ordered the military to draw up</a> a plan how it could seize the canal. US acquired the rights to build and operate the canal, but in 1974 sold it to Panama for $1 and its control ceased in 1999. US and Panama agreed however to defend the canal against any threat to its neutrality allowing for a unilateral action to be taken to reestablish it. In March the Hong Kong-based conglomerate CK Hutchison Holdings Ltd. allowed a US based Black Rock-led consortium to purchase Panama Canal ports Port of Cristobal and Port of Balboa for $22 billion.</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><img width="800" height="533" src="https://payamag.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/photo-editorial-vigano.jpg" class="attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://payamag.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/photo-editorial-vigano.jpg 800w, https://payamag.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/photo-editorial-vigano-300x200.jpg 300w, https://payamag.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/photo-editorial-vigano-768x512.jpg 768w, https://payamag.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/photo-editorial-vigano-128x86.jpg 128w, https://payamag.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/photo-editorial-vigano-600x400.jpg 600w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" /></p>During the singing of the Gospel we have just witnessed the Paschal Candle being extinguished, symbolizing the Ascension of Christ to the Father, Forty Days after the Resurrection. Some paintings represent the scene of the Ascension showing us the Apostles looking upwards, where sometimes we see the entire figure of the Lord and sometimes only His feet.]]></description>
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	D</span>uring the singing of the Gospel we have just witnessed the Paschal Candle being extinguished, symbolizing the Ascension of Christ to the Father, Forty Days after the Resurrection. Some paintings represent the scene of the Ascension showing us the Apostles looking upwards, where sometimes we see the entire figure of the Lord and sometimes only His feet; in others, it is as if we saw what the Lord saw as He ascended, that is, his own feet and further down the absorbed faces of the Apostles. They are two different perspectives of the same scene, and it is precisely on this different perspective that I would like to pause with you as we meditate about the <a href="https://www.catholic.com/tract/the-ascension-of-jesus-catholic-answers-guide" data-type="link" data-id="https://www.catholic.com/tract/the-ascension-of-jesus-catholic-answers-guide" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Mystery of the Ascension</a>. (…)</p>



<p>We ought to know how to look at the Ascension from above, as the Lord saw it: the Apostles becoming smaller and smaller, their features becoming more and more indistinct, while the dazzling light of Paradise approaches above us, and the praises of the angelic Choirs become clearer; while the doors of the heavenly Jerusalem open not only for the King of kings, but also for the holy souls of the Old Law, freed from Limbo on Easter Eve. We should consider the Ascension as the necessary premise of Pentecost, and Pentecost as the indispensable vehicle of Grace that prepares us to fight, to conquer, and to deserve the palm of victory. The absence of our King and Lord gives us the opportunity to testify to Him of our fidelity: not when He conquers and triumphs over His enemies; but when everyone, even His generals, betray Him and go over to the adversary. And just as among the Jews there were those who knew how to await the return of Moses with the tablets of the Law without building reassuring idols, so – and even more so – in the Church there have been, there still are and there always will be those who keep in mind the words of the Savior: A little while and you will no longer see me; a little while and you will see me again, because I am going to the Father (Jn 16:16). A little while and you will see me again: you will not know the day or the hour, because the master will come like a thief in the night, like the Bridegroom awaited by the wise virgins. (…)</p>



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<p>Dear faithful, we know that these are difficult days: the recent events, the death of Jorge Bergoglio, the convocation of the Conclave, the election of Pope Leo come at a time when we are worn out by decades of crisis, with the last few terrible years of usurpation, heresies, scandals, and the apostasy of almost the entire Catholic Hierarchy. Added to these events is the globalist coup, the increasingly evident hostility of world rulers towards those who are ruled, and the looming establishment of the tyranny of the New World Order with its diabolical agenda. We are all tired and worn out. Tired of fighting against blatant lies passed off as truth. Tired of having to justify the obvious, when the entire system propagates the absurd. Tired of having to defend ourselves from those who instead ought help us. Tired of having to protect ourselves from doctors who want to poison us, from judges who want to imprison honest people while freeing criminals, from teachers who teach errors, from priests and bishops who spread heresy and immorality. We are not made for this: it is not up to the flock to command the shepherds, the student to teach the teacher, the patient to give lessons to the doctor. This is the reason why authority exists: so that as a vicarious expression of the sole Authority of Jesus Christ, King and Pontiff, it may govern to bring about the Good.</p>



<p>Let us therefore live every moment of our life knowing that this is the time of trial; and that the more the battle rages, the more Our Lord will multiply the Graces He grants us to fight and conquer. And if it is true that the Lord is now physically in Heaven, it is equally true that He wanted to grant His Ministers the power to make Him still present in the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar. Every tabernacle, however abandoned and neglected by the foolishness of men, brings back to this valley of tears the glory of Heaven, the adoration of the Angels and Saints, the Real Presence of the incarnate God. It is true: the flame of the Paschal Candle may be extinguished, but the flame of the red sanctuary lamp that honors the Eucharistic King remains alive and burning. May the flame of Charity that burns in each of us also shine, so that our soul may be less unworthy of becoming the dwelling place of the Most Holy Trinity. And so may it be.</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[“Satoshi Nakamoto,” the entity behind Bitcoin’s launch in January 2009, is now at least the 11th richest person in the world. Satoshi owns around 1.1 million Bitcoins that hit a record $111,000 price in May. Satoshi ranks somewhere between No. 10 rich man Sergey Brin, with $143 billion, and No. 11 Michael Dell, with his $123 billion. ]]></description>
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	&#8220;S</span>atoshi Nakamoto,” the entity behind Bitcoin’s launch in January 2009, is now at least the 11th richest person in the world. <a href="https://www.arabictrader.com/en/news/cryptocurrencies/184475/bitcoin-fluctuations-ignite-a-race-for-wealth-between-satoshi-nakamoto-and-the-worlds-billionaires" data-type="link" data-id="https://www.arabictrader.com/en/news/cryptocurrencies/184475/bitcoin-fluctuations-ignite-a-race-for-wealth-between-satoshi-nakamoto-and-the-worlds-billionaires" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Satoshi owns around 1.1 million Bitcoins</a> that hit a record $111,000 price in May. Satoshi ranks somewhere between No. 10 rich man Sergey Brin, with $143 billion, and No. 11 Michael Dell, with his $123 billion. To surpass the world’s richest person, Elon Musk, with $340 billion, Bitcoin would have to more than triple in price and go to $360,000. Unless it is an unknown introvert living in his mother’s basement, Satoshi’s persona has been attributed to Peter Todd, Len Sassaman or just maybe a small team at the NSA.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Optimism for Optimus</h2>



<p>The race for releasing general-purpose robots for sale is on. Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk announced that his Optimus robot “has the potential to be more significant than [Tesla’s] vehicle business over time.” In December 2023, the 5-foot-8, 125-pound <a href="https://www.bhaskarenglish.in/tech-science/news/tesla-robot-will-now-cook-and-clean-too-optimus-seen-doing-daily-chores-at-home-135085323.html" data-type="link" data-id="https://www.bhaskarenglish.in/tech-science/news/tesla-robot-will-now-cook-and-clean-too-optimus-seen-doing-daily-chores-at-home-135085323.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Optimus 2.0 was shown to do perform complex tasks</a> such as dancing and poaching an egg and was reported to be able to carry objects up to 45 pounds. Musk said he is planning a limited production of Optimus robots to be used first at Tesla facilities in 2025 and other companies in 2026. The robots price is estimated to be at around $30,000. The projected first tasks for Optimus are those that are “dangerous, repetitive and boring.” Tesla’s competitor in the field of humanoid robots is Boston Dynamics, funded by DARPA. Its Atlas robot is estimated to be sold for $150,000.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">What after Iran?</h2>



<p>Fall of Iran will not mean the end of wars in the Middle East. According to General Wesley Clark US military had plans for Iranian regime change as early as September 2001. “We’re going to take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran.” said Gen. <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2025/06/28/iran-israel-ceasefire-us-middle-east-stability/84356762007/" data-type="link" data-id="https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2025/06/28/iran-israel-ceasefire-us-middle-east-stability/84356762007/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Clark about being alerted to the plan</a>. While it took 24 years to completely destroy Syria, Iran regime tippling is well underway. There are signals of plans for continuation of the region’s destabilization. When the Iran regime falls due to US, Israeli and likely Afghani efforts there are other countries that have been moved up on the regime change list. They are Qatar, Pakistan with its nuclear arsenal and Turkey with region’s largest military.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Coincidence of Drones</h2>



<p>Operation Spiderweb and Israeli drone attacks on Iran had some striking similarities in never before seen, surprise military drone warfare operations, suggesting Israel involvement in the <a href="https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-us-company-to-co-produce-hundreds-of-thousands-of-drones-in-2025-zelensky-announces-06-2025/" data-type="link" data-id="https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-us-company-to-co-produce-hundreds-of-thousands-of-drones-in-2025-zelensky-announces-06-2025/">Ukraine Russian war.</a> The June 1, 2025 Operation Spiderweb utilized quadrocopter drones with explosives that were smuggled in 40 foot containers to the vicinity of Russian long range air force bases. Five bases, some as far as Mongolian border, were targeted and Ukrainians destroyed around 20 Russian airplanes. As many as 117 first-person view drones were used using AI to overcome time delay from such long distances. While president Zelenskyy stated that the preparation took 18 months, only 12 days later, in the night of June 13, Israel’s Mossad launched assassination operations. The drones and quadrocopters launched inside Iran killed estimated 10 Iran senior military commanders and 16 Iranian nuclear scientists as they slept in their homes.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Habemus Papam</h2>



<p>On May 8, 2025, Robert Francis Prevost, a cardinal with US and Peruvian passports, was elected pope and took the name Pope Leo XIV. The election took place on the fourth vote of the conclave to elect the pope after the death of Jorge Bergoglio. Pope Leo XIV is the first pope from North America, the first pope from the Order of Saint Augustine and the second one to speak English as a native. <a href="https://abc7chicago.com/post/2025-is-new-pope-cardinal-robert-francis-prevost-1st-american-chicago-elected-catholic-church-leader/16358670/">Prevost was born south of Chicago</a> in 1955, and he is the first baby boomer pope. He has a bachelor of science degree in mathematics, a Master of Divinity and a Doctorate of Canon Law. Since the 1980s, he lived and served in Peru when and in 2014, Pope Francis appointed him Bishop of Chiclayo. In 2023, Prevost was created a cardinal-deacon, and in February 2025, Francis promoted Prevost to be cardinal-bishop.bishop.</p>
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	T</span>he divine liturgy accompanies us through the solar year as in a mirror, in which we see the history of the redemption summarized and represented.</p>



<p>The time of Advent takes us back to the expectation of the Messiah in the ancient law; the time of Christmas celebrates His most holy Incarnation; <a href="https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/library/history-of-passiontide-and-holy-week-11140" data-type="link" data-id="https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/library/history-of-passiontide-and-holy-week-11140" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Holy Lent and Passiontide </a>take us back to the times that preceded the Sacrifice of the Cross; the time of Easter celebrates the Resurrection and the Ascension of the Lord into heaven; the time of Pentecost retraces the earthly life of the Savior, His miracles, and His teachings; and at the end of the liturgical cycle – just as at its beginning – we are projected to the End Times, to the Universal Judgment, to the reward or condemnation of each and every person.(…)</p>



<p>Those whom we thought should defend the truth and proclaim the Gospel of Christ are now revealed as the followers of error and lies. And the authority that Our Lord, King and High Priest, has granted to our rulers – both civil and religious – has been used for the very opposite purpose of that for which He established it.</p>



<p>In the face of this global rebellion, and especially in the face of the betrayal of those who hold authority, we must return with greater conviction to clothing our souls in ashes and sackcloth, to prostrating ourselves before the Lord and repeating the cry of our fathers:</p>



<p>Flectamus iram vindicem, ploremus ante Judicem; clamemus ore supplici, dicamus omnes cernui: Parce, Domine; parce populo tuo: ne in æternum irascaris nobis. — “Let us appease the vengeful wrath, let us weep before the Judge; let us call upon Him with a supplicating voice, let us prostrate ourselves and say all together: Forgive, Lord, forgive Your people, and do not remain forever angry with us.”</p>



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<p>The truth is of God; indeed, the truth is God.</p>
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<p>However, precisely because of the enormity of our sins and the horror of the public sins of nations and of the ecclesiastical hierarchy, our penance must be accompanied – and preceded, I would say – by the proclamation of the truth against lies. Because the truth is of God; indeed, the truth is God; and lies are the cursed mark of Satan. Let all the veils and artifices that seek to conceal sin and vice, to deny it, to give it the appearance of good and virtue, come crashing down. Let all the masks that hide heinous crimes and evil doing in a network of shameful complicities among lost souls – crimes against God and against the little ones, first of all – all fall off. Let the fictions of a rebellious world, the lies of a perverted authority, of an infernal system that denies, offends, and fights against Christ and His children all crumble.</p>



<p>Let the lies and deceptions of a hierarchy and a papacy held hostage by the enemies of Christ who are enslaved to Satan all be exposed. Let the arguments and excuses that we give all too often to justify our laziness, our spiritual inertia, and our inability to take sides and remain under the banner of our divine King all come tumbling down. Let all the pretexts that we know how to find in order to postpone our conversion and our progress in holiness all fall down.</p>



<p>This is the hour of darkness, probably. But it is a darkness that is destined to be pierced by the<a href="https://www.piercetaylorhibbs.com/articles/the-light-of-christ-inside-you" data-type="link" data-id="https://www.piercetaylorhibbs.com/articles/the-light-of-christ-inside-you"> Light of Christ</a>, before which everything will appear as it truly is, and not as we would like it to be, not as would be more convenient to indulge our laziness.</p>



<p>And the first truth to proclaim, to shout from the rooftops, is that we are sinners, that there is a certain death, an irrevocable judgment, a hell to punish the wicked, and a paradise to reward the good. And that this ultimate and indefectible truth is part of our very being is inscribed in our heart as a law of nature, is revealed in the Scriptures, and delivered by Our Lord to His Church so that She may faithfully preach it to all peoples.</p>



<p>Let us proclaim this truth without fear of contradiction, remembering the words of the Book of Ecclesiasticus: Memorare novissima tua, et in æternum non peccabis (Sir 7:40) — “Consider what awaits you, and you will never sin.” And so may it be.</p>
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