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Remember the Urunga wetlands waste tailings rich in antimony, arsenic, lead and cyanide?
"For five years in the 1960s and 1970s, antimony and other heavy metals leached from an ore processing plant into the melaleuca wetlands. The wetlands used to open up into a moonscape of light grey sand with not a single bit of vegetation."
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https://www.crownland.nsw.gov.au/sites/default/files/2022-07/Urunga-Wetlands-fact-sheet.pdf
https://majorprojects.planningportal.nsw.gov.au/prweb/PRRestService/mp/01/getContent?AttachRef=SSD-5357%2120190227T035916.488%20GMTNow they want to go for Wild Cattle Creek 'high-grade and high-tonnage' antimony-gold mining >>
https://www.listcorp.com/asx/tmg/trigg-minerals-limited/news/acquisition-of-globally-significant-antimony-project-3091939.htmlA Clarence Catchment Alliance community meeting
is being hosted by the Bellingen Environment Centre,
with Blicks River Guardians and Lock the Gate Nambucca,
from 2pm on Friday May 31 at 16 Cudgery St, Dorrigo.
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https://clarencevalleynews.com.au/clarence-catchment-alliance-community-meeting/
#NSW #Dorrigo #Urunga #remediation #CoffsHarbour #mining #antimony #gold #extractivism #harm #WildCattleCreek #WCC #water #contamination #wetlands #rivers #waterways #freshwater #MarineWater #platypus #biodiversity #BellingenShire -
Remember the Urunga wetlands waste tailings rich in antimony, arsenic, lead and cyanide?
"For five years in the 1960s and 1970s, antimony and other heavy metals leached from an ore processing plant into the melaleuca wetlands. The wetlands used to open up into a moonscape of light grey sand with not a single bit of vegetation."
>>
https://www.crownland.nsw.gov.au/sites/default/files/2022-07/Urunga-Wetlands-fact-sheet.pdf
https://majorprojects.planningportal.nsw.gov.au/prweb/PRRestService/mp/01/getContent?AttachRef=SSD-5357%2120190227T035916.488%20GMTNow they want to go for Wild Cattle Creek 'high-grade and high-tonnage' antimony-gold mining >>
https://www.listcorp.com/asx/tmg/trigg-minerals-limited/news/acquisition-of-globally-significant-antimony-project-3091939.htmlA Clarence Catchment Alliance community meeting
is being hosted by the Bellingen Environment Centre,
with Blicks River Guardians and Lock the Gate Nambucca,
from 2pm on Friday May 31 at 16 Cudgery St, Dorrigo.
>>
https://clarencevalleynews.com.au/clarence-catchment-alliance-community-meeting/
#NSW #Dorrigo #Urunga #remediation #CoffsHarbour #mining #antimony #gold #extractivism #harm #WildCattleCreek #WCC #water #contamination #wetlands #rivers #waterways #freshwater #MarineWater #platypus #biodiversity #BellingenShire -
4 May: Blesseds Angel Maria Prat Hostench, Lucas of St. Joseph Tristany Pujol, Priests, and Companions (Not observed in 2025)
May 4
BLESSEDS ANGELUS MARY PRAT HOSTENCH,
LUKE OF ST. JOSEPH TRISTANY PUJOL,
PRIESTS, AND COMPANIONS
MartyrsOptional Memorial
In the houses in Spain: Memorial
In a single celebration, both Orders of the Brothers of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel commemorate their martyrs who, in different places in Spain, bore witness to the faith before and during the long and bloody religious persecution for hatred of the faith (1936-1939). Father Angelus Mary Prat Hostench, O. Carm., was murdered with his confreres in Tárrega in 1936; Father Luke of St. Joseph Tristany Pujol, O.C.D., was slain with his confreres in Barcelona the same year. This memorial also includes the groups from Lleida, Tarragona, Toledo, Terrassa, Olot, and others. This multitude of bishops, diocesan priests, religious of various orders and lay people were beatified, in part by Pope Benedict XVI on October 28, 2007 (498 martyrs), and in part by Pope Francis on October 13, 2013 (522 martyrs).
From the Common of Several Martyrs
OFFICE OF READINGS
The Second Reading
From the writings of Blessed José María Mateos Carballido, priest and martyr
(The Holy Scapular 33 [1936], 135-137)The history of the Church is written with the blood of its martyrs
It is an undeniable truth that the athlete is formed through exercise, that through it he strengthens his limbs and becomes strong and invincible for the fight; that gold is purified in the crucible and that the more it is purified, the better it is to make precious objects with it.
Something like this happens to the human heart, a precious gold that increases in dignity when melted in the crucible of tribulation and in which are formed holy men and heroes. And something like this also happens in the mystical body of the Church; in her, persecution brings forth unsuspected flowers, unseen virtues, unprecedented heroism. That is why her divine founder announced to her that she would be persecuted at all times: “You will be hated by everyone because of me. They will hand you over to the courts and flog you in their synagogues. They will make you appear before governors and kings for my sake, to bear witness before them and the pagans” (Luke 21:12).
And under the blows of the battering ram of persecution, the Church was forged with its martyrs and its virgins, its saints and its doctors, until it became the prodigy that, after nineteen centuries, appears to the eyes of friends and enemies as the admirably divine work of its Divine founder.
From its beginning, the Church has been chiseled by that engraving tool of persecution, by which each blow that has been dealt has placed a precious stone in the always immovable walls of that beautiful building.
The pages of its history have been written with the blood of its martyrs and from its appearance until today, there has not been a century in which it has not flourished.
Thus, the Church was born; and, watered by the blood of so many innocents, this rich and generous sap flowed through her mystical body to make her produce the most beautiful flowers of science, virtue, heroism and holiness.
Thus, it was born, and over the centuries, it could be seen that those thorns of persecution never left her. But those blows did nothing other than give new vigor to that blessed tree, which, after each persecution, appeared more luxuriant, just as when spring emerges, the tree that has received the attentions of the successful hand of the pruner shows its lushness.
Given the events of recent months, what is our duty? To pray and to love. These are the two most powerful means that can revive peace among men. Pray much, because prayer will give us strength to confess Christ and not to turn our backs on Him like cowards. And love, for so much hatred, can only be drowned by a great outpouring of charity. For her enemies, the Church only has those words that came from the dying lips of Christ in agony on Calvary and were his most beautiful testament: “Father, forgive them”. The Church opens her arms as a loving Mother to all her children, even to those who persecute her, and she says to them all, “Father, forgive them.”
Faced with the danger of new persecution, let us not lose heart. Christ will always be with us, and no matter how rough the combat may be, we will emerge from it purified and the Church will gather new flowers between the folds of her tunic once again dyed with the blood of her children.
Responsory
2 Tim 4, 7-8a; cfr. Phil 3, 8. 10℟. I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. * Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will award to me on that day, (alleluia).
℣. Indeed, I count everything as loss that I may know Christ, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death. * Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will award to me on that day, (alleluia).Or:
From the writings of Blessed Luke of Saint Joseph, priest and martyr
(The Words of the Crucifix. Tarragona-Barcelona 1928, pp. 65-69)The law of forgiveness shines in the martyrs
The great law of forgiveness, already promulgated from the beginning of the gospel teaching on the Mount of the Beatitudes, and so solemnly confirmed on the cross, points out to all of us the straight and sure path of eternal blessedness, and creates a wellspring of happiness and harmony, so that men can already taste it here on earth. It descends to the most intimate part of human consciousness, and stirs it all up, attacking to its deepest roots the poison of selfishness, destroyer of all happiness and harmony between souls.
This sublime doctrine of the Redeemer imposes on all of us, as a formal and necessary precept for our salvation, the sincere forgiveness of all serious injuries that have been inflicted on us. And, as an indispensable condition for inner peace and for achieving some degree of evangelical perfection, it also imposes on all of us a benevolent, total and sincere indulgence for each and every one of the many and varied deficiencies of our neighbors.
And, consequently, the great law of evangelical forgiveness is imposed not only on those who have to deal with specific enemies from whom they have received serious injuries, or from whom they know that truly bear them ill; but it reaches to all of us, whatever our state or condition, since there is no one who has not at some time felt offended or bothered, whether little or much.
This law can be applied every day and every hour of our daily life, both in the intimacy of domestic life and in social relationships; it is the same in the most secret and secluded part of the cloisters as in the whirlwind of worldly business.
For the holy Gospel, ideally beautiful as it is in everything, is always very simple and practical, because it can be adapted to all the modalities of each person’s real life. But, among all the evangelical precepts, this one of the forgiveness of enemies is one of the most eminently practical, because, as it penetrates to the most hidden depths of the human conscience, it reaches even to the most secret recesses of the heart, where the subtlest selfishness is also well hidden and concealed. This precept uncovers it; it reveals it to the conscience of every man who wants to know himself. And so this admirable law intends to intervene and inform all our actions, both the religious and the social: the religious, because we know that God does not accept them if we offer them to Him while nursing bitterness or fraternal resentments in our soul; and the social ones, because this precept reminds us that we will be treated by God just as we ourselves treat our brothers.
In this great school of the Cross, all the saints and martyrs learned its admirable wisdom and received its strength, knowing how to live without cursing anyone and how to die content, praying for those who made them shed their generous blood.
This sublime word of Jesus Christ was very fertile and creative, for it awakened, and still awakens today, in many souls, marvelous sentiments that the world had not known before. It taught so many millions of martyrs of all conditions to die with a smile on their face and a prayer on their lips, praying for the very executioners who were tormenting them.
Responsory
Mt 5, 43-45; Jn 13, 15℟. You have heard that it was said: “You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.” But I say to you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, * so that you may be children of
your Father who is in heaven, (alleluia).
℣. I have given you an example, that you also should do just as I have done to you. * so that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven, (alleluia).Prayer
Almighty and merciful God,
who granted the priests Blesseds Angelus Mary, Luke of Saint Joseph,
and their companions
the grace of reaching the summit of Mount Carmel through martyrdom,
grant, we pray, through their intercession,
that we may always live with wisdom and zeal,
by bearing witness to the kingly majesty of Christ.Who lives and reigns with you
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
God, for ever and ever.We are grateful to our Discalced Carmelite Friars for providing the English texts of liturgical offices published after the 1993 edition of the Carmelite Proper—Liturgy of the Hours.
#BlessedAngelMariaPratHostench #BlessedLucasOfStJosephTristanyPujol #Carmelite #DiscalcedCarmelite #friars #Liturgy #martyrs #SpanishCivilWar
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I have not loved the World, nor the World me;
I have not flattered its rank breath, nor bowed
To its idolatries a patient knee,
Nor coined my cheek to smiles, — nor cried aloud
In worship of an echo: in the crowd
They could not deem me one of such — I stood
Among them, but not of them — in a shroud
Of thoughts which were not their thoughts, and still could,
Had I not filed my mind, which thus itself subdued.George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824) English poet
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto 3, st. 113 (1816)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/byron/76282/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #byron #difference #heterodoxy #humanity #independence #mob #noncomformist #nonconformity #public #separation #standalone #world
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In #rpg The Devil's Doorbell you take the roll of a Missionary for #Satan. Prowling through the tough streets of suburbia. Bring Souls into the cult by fulling their petty needs. Get rich in spirit and cash money.
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In #rpg The Devil's Doorbell you take the roll of a Missionary for #Satan. Prowling through the tough streets of suburbia. Bring Souls into the cult by fulling their petty needs. Get rich in spirit and cash money.
Join the down line now on @kickstarter
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In #rpg The Devil's Doorbell you take the roll of a Missionary for #Satan. Prowling through the tough streets of suburbia. Bring Souls into the cult by fulling their petty needs. Get rich in spirit and cash money.
Join the down line now on @kickstarter
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In #rpg The Devil's Doorbell you take the roll of a Missionary for #Satan. Prowling through the tough streets of suburbia. Bring Souls into the cult by fulling their petty needs. Get rich in spirit and cash money.
Join the down line now on @kickstarter
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#NW-ish #PORTTOWNSEND #TACOMA #WA #GIBSONSBC
#SupportLocal #Bookshops #BookArt 📖 🖼️~ #Poetry on the #SalishSea @ Wilderbee #Farm, 7/23+
https://www.wilderbeefarm.comBTW: There’s a #meadery, #lavender #ucut 😍
~ #PugetSound #BookArtists #Exhibition (pictured: At Loose Ends by Jessica Spring and the late Chandler O’Leary), UPS’ Collins Memorial Library, through 7/27
https://pugetsoundbookartists.wildapricot.org/12th-Annual-Members-Exhibition~ Upstart & Crow 🇨🇦 has a new book nook!
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#HowToThing #024 — 2.5D hidden line DEM heightmap visualization featuring: image pre-filtering (customizable gaussian blur), bicubic subpixel image sampling, timesliced geometry generation and hidden line clipping, canvas drawing & SVG export from the same source geometry etc. All in ~85 lines of code (rest is comments & imports)
For the #GIS crowd: The attached images are of DEMs sourced from USGS (https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/) and are showing regions near/around two of my fave mountains[1]: Mt St. Helens (WA), Mt. Jefferson (OR), plus Amargosa Valley (NV) north-east of Death Valley
Demo:
https://demo.thi.ng/umbrella/geom-terrain-viz/Source code:
https://github.com/thi-ng/umbrella/tree/develop/examples/geom-terrain-viz/src/index.tsIf you have any questions about this topic or packages used here, please reply here or use the discussion forum (or issue tracker):
https://github.com/thi-ng/umbrella/discussions
I hope this (and other parts) of this ongoing #HowToThing series are interesting & educational. If so, please consider boosting to increase reach and/or supporting my #OpenSource work via GitHub or Patreon. Thank you very much in advance!
https://github.com/sponsors/postspectacular
https://patreon.com/thing_umbrella#ThingUmbrella #GIS #DEM #Heightmap #DataViz #ImageProcessing #SVG #Geometry #GenerativeArt #TypeScript #JavaScript #Tutorial
[1] cc/ @andrewbriscoe: "your" mountains too...
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Reports from the Festivals of Resistance / Day of the Forest Defender
#Crimethinc, 2025-01-20"January 18 is the Day of the Forest Defender, honoring the life of Manuel '#Tortuguita' Terán, who was murdered by Georgia State Troopers two years ago while protesting the construction of Cop City in Atlanta, and everyone else who has given their lives in the fight against those who would render the earth uninhabitable in the course of their pursuit of profit. This year, a call circulated for people to organize festivals of resistance in their communities on the weekend of January 17-19. Here, we share reports from some of these events.
"The situation is grim. Despite acknowledging that Trump represents #fascism, Democrats have nonetheless welcomed the arrival of #despotism, dutifully voting for new legislation targeting immigrants and doing their best to keep protesters out of the streets. #TechCEOs have followed suit, pouring millions of dollars into his inauguration and crowding into St. John’s Church to worship at the feet of their new master.
"#ElonMusk made the #Nazi salute twice from the podium during the inauguration, leaving only just enough plausible deniability to confuse the most naïve. Musk has posted fascist dog whistles on Twitter before, even before he purchased it in order to reintroduce Nazis to the platform, ban anarchists, and promote the fascist agenda.
"From this point forward, nothing should surprise us. The incoming government has made it clear that they intend to inflict as much harm as possible on those who are vulnerable while concentrating as much money as possible in the hands of the ultra-rich. These are the central points of their agenda. Attempting to spread information about their misdeeds in order to provoke popular outrage is a waste of time. From here out, all that matters is developing the capacity to defend each other from their attacks while preparing to go on the offensive as soon as the opportunity presents itself.
"The faces of the #oligarchy looked craven and servile as they lined up at the inauguration to toady to Trump. #Capitalism concentrates power in the hands of the most rapacious, but they can only hold on to power by being completely subservient to its demands.
"Fortunately, not everyone is taking this sitting down. #Anarchists around the country called for 'festivals of resistance' the weekend before the inauguration in order to bring communities together prepare to resist. Here follow reports from a few of these. You can read the original call to organize festivals of resistance here, along with a list of dozens of events around the country."
Read more:
https://crimethinc.com/2025/01/20/reports-from-the-festivals-of-resistance-day-of-the-forest-defender
#FestivalsOfResistance #DayOfTheForestDefender #JusticeForTort #StopCopCity -
Reports from the Festivals of Resistance / Day of the Forest Defender
#Crimethinc, 2025-01-20"January 18 is the Day of the Forest Defender, honoring the life of Manuel '#Tortuguita' Terán, who was murdered by Georgia State Troopers two years ago while protesting the construction of Cop City in Atlanta, and everyone else who has given their lives in the fight against those who would render the earth uninhabitable in the course of their pursuit of profit. This year, a call circulated for people to organize festivals of resistance in their communities on the weekend of January 17-19. Here, we share reports from some of these events.
"The situation is grim. Despite acknowledging that Trump represents #fascism, Democrats have nonetheless welcomed the arrival of #despotism, dutifully voting for new legislation targeting immigrants and doing their best to keep protesters out of the streets. #TechCEOs have followed suit, pouring millions of dollars into his inauguration and crowding into St. John’s Church to worship at the feet of their new master.
"#ElonMusk made the #Nazi salute twice from the podium during the inauguration, leaving only just enough plausible deniability to confuse the most naïve. Musk has posted fascist dog whistles on Twitter before, even before he purchased it in order to reintroduce Nazis to the platform, ban anarchists, and promote the fascist agenda.
"From this point forward, nothing should surprise us. The incoming government has made it clear that they intend to inflict as much harm as possible on those who are vulnerable while concentrating as much money as possible in the hands of the ultra-rich. These are the central points of their agenda. Attempting to spread information about their misdeeds in order to provoke popular outrage is a waste of time. From here out, all that matters is developing the capacity to defend each other from their attacks while preparing to go on the offensive as soon as the opportunity presents itself.
"The faces of the #oligarchy looked craven and servile as they lined up at the inauguration to toady to Trump. #Capitalism concentrates power in the hands of the most rapacious, but they can only hold on to power by being completely subservient to its demands.
"Fortunately, not everyone is taking this sitting down. #Anarchists around the country called for 'festivals of resistance' the weekend before the inauguration in order to bring communities together prepare to resist. Here follow reports from a few of these. You can read the original call to organize festivals of resistance here, along with a list of dozens of events around the country."
Read more:
https://crimethinc.com/2025/01/20/reports-from-the-festivals-of-resistance-day-of-the-forest-defender
#FestivalsOfResistance #DayOfTheForestDefender #JusticeForTort #StopCopCity -
Reports from the Festivals of Resistance / Day of the Forest Defender
#Crimethinc, 2025-01-20"January 18 is the Day of the Forest Defender, honoring the life of Manuel '#Tortuguita' Terán, who was murdered by Georgia State Troopers two years ago while protesting the construction of Cop City in Atlanta, and everyone else who has given their lives in the fight against those who would render the earth uninhabitable in the course of their pursuit of profit. This year, a call circulated for people to organize festivals of resistance in their communities on the weekend of January 17-19. Here, we share reports from some of these events.
"The situation is grim. Despite acknowledging that Trump represents #fascism, Democrats have nonetheless welcomed the arrival of #despotism, dutifully voting for new legislation targeting immigrants and doing their best to keep protesters out of the streets. #TechCEOs have followed suit, pouring millions of dollars into his inauguration and crowding into St. John’s Church to worship at the feet of their new master.
"#ElonMusk made the #Nazi salute twice from the podium during the inauguration, leaving only just enough plausible deniability to confuse the most naïve. Musk has posted fascist dog whistles on Twitter before, even before he purchased it in order to reintroduce Nazis to the platform, ban anarchists, and promote the fascist agenda.
"From this point forward, nothing should surprise us. The incoming government has made it clear that they intend to inflict as much harm as possible on those who are vulnerable while concentrating as much money as possible in the hands of the ultra-rich. These are the central points of their agenda. Attempting to spread information about their misdeeds in order to provoke popular outrage is a waste of time. From here out, all that matters is developing the capacity to defend each other from their attacks while preparing to go on the offensive as soon as the opportunity presents itself.
"The faces of the #oligarchy looked craven and servile as they lined up at the inauguration to toady to Trump. #Capitalism concentrates power in the hands of the most rapacious, but they can only hold on to power by being completely subservient to its demands.
"Fortunately, not everyone is taking this sitting down. #Anarchists around the country called for 'festivals of resistance' the weekend before the inauguration in order to bring communities together prepare to resist. Here follow reports from a few of these. You can read the original call to organize festivals of resistance here, along with a list of dozens of events around the country."
Read more:
https://crimethinc.com/2025/01/20/reports-from-the-festivals-of-resistance-day-of-the-forest-defender
#FestivalsOfResistance #DayOfTheForestDefender #JusticeForTort #StopCopCity -
Reports from the Festivals of Resistance / Day of the Forest Defender
#Crimethinc, 2025-01-20"January 18 is the Day of the Forest Defender, honoring the life of Manuel '#Tortuguita' Terán, who was murdered by Georgia State Troopers two years ago while protesting the construction of Cop City in Atlanta, and everyone else who has given their lives in the fight against those who would render the earth uninhabitable in the course of their pursuit of profit. This year, a call circulated for people to organize festivals of resistance in their communities on the weekend of January 17-19. Here, we share reports from some of these events.
"The situation is grim. Despite acknowledging that Trump represents #fascism, Democrats have nonetheless welcomed the arrival of #despotism, dutifully voting for new legislation targeting immigrants and doing their best to keep protesters out of the streets. #TechCEOs have followed suit, pouring millions of dollars into his inauguration and crowding into St. John’s Church to worship at the feet of their new master.
"#ElonMusk made the #Nazi salute twice from the podium during the inauguration, leaving only just enough plausible deniability to confuse the most naïve. Musk has posted fascist dog whistles on Twitter before, even before he purchased it in order to reintroduce Nazis to the platform, ban anarchists, and promote the fascist agenda.
"From this point forward, nothing should surprise us. The incoming government has made it clear that they intend to inflict as much harm as possible on those who are vulnerable while concentrating as much money as possible in the hands of the ultra-rich. These are the central points of their agenda. Attempting to spread information about their misdeeds in order to provoke popular outrage is a waste of time. From here out, all that matters is developing the capacity to defend each other from their attacks while preparing to go on the offensive as soon as the opportunity presents itself.
"The faces of the #oligarchy looked craven and servile as they lined up at the inauguration to toady to Trump. #Capitalism concentrates power in the hands of the most rapacious, but they can only hold on to power by being completely subservient to its demands.
"Fortunately, not everyone is taking this sitting down. #Anarchists around the country called for 'festivals of resistance' the weekend before the inauguration in order to bring communities together prepare to resist. Here follow reports from a few of these. You can read the original call to organize festivals of resistance here, along with a list of dozens of events around the country."
Read more:
https://crimethinc.com/2025/01/20/reports-from-the-festivals-of-resistance-day-of-the-forest-defender
#FestivalsOfResistance #DayOfTheForestDefender #JusticeForTort #StopCopCity -
Reports from the Festivals of Resistance / Day of the Forest Defender
#Crimethinc, 2025-01-20"January 18 is the Day of the Forest Defender, honoring the life of Manuel '#Tortuguita' Terán, who was murdered by Georgia State Troopers two years ago while protesting the construction of Cop City in Atlanta, and everyone else who has given their lives in the fight against those who would render the earth uninhabitable in the course of their pursuit of profit. This year, a call circulated for people to organize festivals of resistance in their communities on the weekend of January 17-19. Here, we share reports from some of these events.
"The situation is grim. Despite acknowledging that Trump represents #fascism, Democrats have nonetheless welcomed the arrival of #despotism, dutifully voting for new legislation targeting immigrants and doing their best to keep protesters out of the streets. #TechCEOs have followed suit, pouring millions of dollars into his inauguration and crowding into St. John’s Church to worship at the feet of their new master.
"#ElonMusk made the #Nazi salute twice from the podium during the inauguration, leaving only just enough plausible deniability to confuse the most naïve. Musk has posted fascist dog whistles on Twitter before, even before he purchased it in order to reintroduce Nazis to the platform, ban anarchists, and promote the fascist agenda.
"From this point forward, nothing should surprise us. The incoming government has made it clear that they intend to inflict as much harm as possible on those who are vulnerable while concentrating as much money as possible in the hands of the ultra-rich. These are the central points of their agenda. Attempting to spread information about their misdeeds in order to provoke popular outrage is a waste of time. From here out, all that matters is developing the capacity to defend each other from their attacks while preparing to go on the offensive as soon as the opportunity presents itself.
"The faces of the #oligarchy looked craven and servile as they lined up at the inauguration to toady to Trump. #Capitalism concentrates power in the hands of the most rapacious, but they can only hold on to power by being completely subservient to its demands.
"Fortunately, not everyone is taking this sitting down. #Anarchists around the country called for 'festivals of resistance' the weekend before the inauguration in order to bring communities together prepare to resist. Here follow reports from a few of these. You can read the original call to organize festivals of resistance here, along with a list of dozens of events around the country."
Read more:
https://crimethinc.com/2025/01/20/reports-from-the-festivals-of-resistance-day-of-the-forest-defender
#FestivalsOfResistance #DayOfTheForestDefender #JusticeForTort #StopCopCity -
The soul united with Christ lives out of his life—however, only in surrender to the Crucified when she has traveled the entire way of the cross with him. Nowhere is this expressed more clearly and more urgently than in the message of St. Paul who already had a well-developed science of the cross, a theology of the cross derived from inner experience.
“Christ sent me to preach the gospel, and not with eloquent wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power.… For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God” [1 Cor 1:17–18]
“Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles, but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men” [1 Cor 1:22–24]
The word from the cross is the gospel of Paul—the message he announced to Jews and pagans. It is a plain witness, without a trace of grandiloquence, without any effort to convince on the grounds of reason. It derives its entire force from that which it proclaims.
And that is the cross of Christ, that is, the death of Christ on the cross, and the crucified Christ himself.
Christ is God’s power and God’s wisdom not only as one sent by God, as God’s Son who is himself God, but as the Crucified One. For the death on the cross is the salvific solution invented by God’s unfathomable wisdom.
In order to show that human power and human wisdom are incapable of achieving salvation, he gives salvific power to what appears to human estimation to be weak and foolish, to him who wishes to be nothing on his own, but allows the power of God alone to work in him, who has “emptied himself” and “become obedient to death on the cross” [cf. Phil 2:7–8]
The saving power: this is the power that awakens to life those in whom divine life had died through sin. This saving power had entered the Word from the cross and through this word passes over into all who receive it, who open themselves to it, without demanding miraculous signs or human wisdom’s reasons.
In them, it becomes the life-giving and life-forming power that we have named the science of the cross.
Saint Edith Stein
Introduction: The Message of Sacred Scripture
Learn about the relic of St. Thomas Becket’s skull in the Corona Chapel of Canterbury CathedralStein, E 2002, The Science of the Cross, The Collected Works of Edith Stein, Book 6, translated from the German by Koeppel, J, ICS Publications, Washington D.C.
Featured image: The crucifixion of Christ is the central window in the Corona Chapel or Beckett’s Crown in Canterbury Cathedral. The window dates from 1200; the center panel was fully recreated in 1853 and the typological scenes are the original stained glass from the medieval period. Image credit: Fr. Lawrence Lew, O.P. / Flickr (Some rights reserved)
https://carmelitequotes.blog/2024/03/28/edith-scicross/
#cross #crucifixion #death #Gospel #JesusChrist #power #salvation #science #StEdithStein #StPaul #theology #wisdom
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#HowToThing #024 — 2.5D hidden line DEM heightmap visualization featuring: image pre-filtering (customizable gaussian blur), bicubic subpixel image sampling, timesliced geometry generation and hidden line clipping, canvas drawing & SVG export from the same source geometry etc. All in ~85 lines of code (rest is comments & imports)
For the #GIS crowd: The attached images are of DEMs sourced from USGS (https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/) and are showing regions near/around two of my fave mountains[1]: Mt St. Helens (WA), Mt. Jefferson (OR), plus Amargosa Valley (NV) north-east of Death Valley
Demo:
https://demo.thi.ng/umbrella/geom-terrain-viz/Source code:
https://github.com/thi-ng/umbrella/tree/develop/examples/geom-terrain-viz/src/index.tsIf you have any questions about this topic or packages used here, please reply here or use the discussion forum (or issue tracker):
https://github.com/thi-ng/umbrella/discussions
I hope this (and other parts) of this ongoing #HowToThing series are interesting & educational. If so, please consider boosting to increase reach and/or supporting my #OpenSource work via GitHub or Patreon. Thank you very much in advance!
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https://patreon.com/thing_umbrella#ThingUmbrella #GIS #DEM #Heightmap #DataViz #ImageProcessing #SVG #Geometry #GenerativeArt #TypeScript #JavaScript #Tutorial
[1] cc/ @andrewbriscoe: "your" mountains too...
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#HowToThing #024 — 2.5D hidden line DEM heightmap visualization featuring: image pre-filtering (customizable gaussian blur), bicubic subpixel image sampling, timesliced geometry generation and hidden line clipping, canvas drawing & SVG export from the same source geometry etc. All in ~85 lines of code (rest is comments & imports)
For the #GIS crowd: The attached images are of DEMs sourced from USGS (https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/) and are showing regions near/around two of my fave mountains[1]: Mt St. Helens (WA), Mt. Jefferson (OR), plus Amargosa Valley (NV) north-east of Death Valley
Demo:
https://demo.thi.ng/umbrella/geom-terrain-viz/Source code:
https://github.com/thi-ng/umbrella/tree/develop/examples/geom-terrain-viz/src/index.tsIf you have any questions about this topic or packages used here, please reply here or use the discussion forum (or issue tracker):
https://github.com/thi-ng/umbrella/discussions
I hope this (and other parts) of this ongoing #HowToThing series are interesting & educational. If so, please consider boosting to increase reach and/or supporting my #OpenSource work via GitHub or Patreon. Thank you very much in advance!
https://github.com/sponsors/postspectacular
https://patreon.com/thing_umbrella#ThingUmbrella #GIS #DEM #Heightmap #DataViz #ImageProcessing #SVG #Geometry #GenerativeArt #TypeScript #JavaScript #Tutorial
[1] cc/ @andrewbriscoe: "your" mountains too...
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#HowToThing #024 — 2.5D hidden line DEM heightmap visualization featuring: image pre-filtering (customizable gaussian blur), bicubic subpixel image sampling, timesliced geometry generation and hidden line clipping, canvas drawing & SVG export from the same source geometry etc. All in ~85 lines of code (rest is comments & imports)
For the #GIS crowd: The attached images are of DEMs sourced from USGS (https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/) and are showing regions near/around two of my fave mountains[1]: Mt St. Helens (WA), Mt. Jefferson (OR), plus Amargosa Valley (NV) north-east of Death Valley
Demo:
https://demo.thi.ng/umbrella/geom-terrain-viz/Source code:
https://github.com/thi-ng/umbrella/tree/develop/examples/geom-terrain-viz/src/index.tsIf you have any questions about this topic or packages used here, please reply here or use the discussion forum (or issue tracker):
https://github.com/thi-ng/umbrella/discussions
I hope this (and other parts) of this ongoing #HowToThing series are interesting & educational. If so, please consider boosting to increase reach and/or supporting my #OpenSource work via GitHub or Patreon. Thank you very much in advance!
https://github.com/sponsors/postspectacular
https://patreon.com/thing_umbrella#ThingUmbrella #GIS #DEM #Heightmap #DataViz #ImageProcessing #SVG #Geometry #GenerativeArt #TypeScript #JavaScript #Tutorial
[1] cc/ @andrewbriscoe: "your" mountains too...
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#HowToThing #024 — 2.5D hidden line DEM heightmap visualization featuring: image pre-filtering (customizable gaussian blur), bicubic subpixel image sampling, timesliced geometry generation and hidden line clipping, canvas drawing & SVG export from the same source geometry etc. All in ~85 lines of code (rest is comments & imports)
For the #GIS crowd: The attached images are of DEMs sourced from USGS (https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/) and are showing regions near/around two of my fave mountains[1]: Mt St. Helens (WA), Mt. Jefferson (OR), plus Amargosa Valley (NV) north-east of Death Valley
Demo:
https://demo.thi.ng/umbrella/geom-terrain-viz/Source code:
https://github.com/thi-ng/umbrella/tree/develop/examples/geom-terrain-viz/src/index.tsIf you have any questions about this topic or packages used here, please reply here or use the discussion forum (or issue tracker):
https://github.com/thi-ng/umbrella/discussions
I hope this (and other parts) of this ongoing #HowToThing series are interesting & educational. If so, please consider boosting to increase reach and/or supporting my #OpenSource work via GitHub or Patreon. Thank you very much in advance!
https://github.com/sponsors/postspectacular
https://patreon.com/thing_umbrella#ThingUmbrella #GIS #DEM #Heightmap #DataViz #ImageProcessing #SVG #Geometry #GenerativeArt #TypeScript #JavaScript #Tutorial
[1] cc/ @andrewbriscoe: "your" mountains too...
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A headless eagle
Walking my dogs in the nearby Giardini Pubblici (or Giardini Napoleonici as they're also called), my eyes fell on one of the many lampposts.
I've seen them a many times. I walk there several times every day.
They're of cast iron, painted bright green, with some floral designs on them, half obscured by many layers of paint. Close to the base is a coat of arms with the Lion of St Mark, which is on everything the Municipality of Venice makes.
No surprises there.
Then I looked closer at the lion because something was a bit off.
Surrounding the coat of arms with the winged lion is a floral pattern, something that could be a crown, and … a pair of extra wings.
The coat of arms itself had wings.
The dogs had wandered off at this point, doing whatever dogs do when you don't look.
Read more here: https://historywalksvenice.com/article/modern-venice/a-headless-eagle/
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#NW-ish #PORTTOWNSEND #TACOMA #WA #GIBSONSBC
#SupportLocal #Bookshops #BookArt 📖 🖼️~ #Poetry on the #SalishSea @ Wilderbee #Farm, 7/23+
https://www.wilderbeefarm.comBTW: There’s a #meadery, #lavender #ucut 😍
~ #PugetSound #BookArtists #Exhibition (pictured: At Loose Ends by Jessica Spring and the late Chandler O’Leary), UPS’ Collins Memorial Library, through 7/27
https://pugetsoundbookartists.wildapricot.org/12th-Annual-Members-Exhibition~ Upstart & Crow 🇨🇦 has a new book nook!
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#NW-ish #PORTTOWNSEND #TACOMA #WA #GIBSONSBC
#SupportLocal #Bookshops #BookArt 📖 🖼️~ #Poetry on the #SalishSea @ Wilderbee #Farm, 7/23+
https://www.wilderbeefarm.comBTW: There’s a #meadery, #lavender #ucut 😍
~ #PugetSound #BookArtists #Exhibition (pictured: At Loose Ends by Jessica Spring and the late Chandler O’Leary), UPS’ Collins Memorial Library, through 7/27
https://pugetsoundbookartists.wildapricot.org/12th-Annual-Members-Exhibition~ Upstart & Crow 🇨🇦 has a new book nook!
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#NW-ish #PORTTOWNSEND #TACOMA #WA #GIBSONSBC
#SupportLocal #Bookshops #BookArt 📖 🖼️~ #Poetry on the #SalishSea @ Wilderbee #Farm, 7/23+
https://www.wilderbeefarm.comBTW: There’s a #meadery, #lavender #ucut 😍
~ #PugetSound #BookArtists #Exhibition (pictured: At Loose Ends by Jessica Spring and the late Chandler O’Leary), UPS’ Collins Memorial Library, through 7/27
https://pugetsoundbookartists.wildapricot.org/12th-Annual-Members-Exhibition~ Upstart & Crow 🇨🇦 has a new book nook!
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#NW-ish #PORTTOWNSEND #TACOMA #WA #GIBSONSBC
#SupportLocal #Bookshops #BookArt 📖 🖼️~ #Poetry on the #SalishSea @ Wilderbee #Farm, 7/23+
https://www.wilderbeefarm.comBTW: There’s a #meadery, #lavender #ucut 😍
~ #PugetSound #BookArtists #Exhibition (pictured: At Loose Ends by Jessica Spring and the late Chandler O’Leary), UPS’ Collins Memorial Library, through 7/27
https://pugetsoundbookartists.wildapricot.org/12th-Annual-Members-Exhibition~ Upstart & Crow 🇨🇦 has a new book nook!
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A talk by Nick Papadopulos describing his time in this city
September 2024
Nick is the Dean of Salisbury Cathedral and has spent three months in this troubled city earlier in the year. He gave a talk last evening (September 11th) in St Thomas’s Church in the centre of Salisbury. Over 200 attended.
The conflict in the region raises great passions which are not to be seen in the same way with the Ukrainian conflict for example. Russia’s bombing of civilian targets and key infrastructure is seen straightforwardly as a war crime. The destruction of huge chunks of Gaza is not seen in such black and white terms. The increasing settler (and the word ‘settler’ came up in the talk, see below) violence receives only modest attention by news media or politicians. Indeed, Papadopulos commented on the reluctance of politicians in the UK to say or do much seeing the conflict as ‘toxic’ he said. The recent decision by the UK government for a modest reduction in arms sales suggested an attempt to assuage those who argue for a complete ban and a reluctance to upset the Israeli government. It looks as though they have achieved neither, one of the perils of fence sitting.
When he arrived in Jerusalem a Palestinian asked him “what brought you to such a God forsaken place?” He commented on the 40,000 plus killed in Gaza and the 600 or so killed in the West Bank. He arrived a few months after the Hamas atrocity in October last year when 1,200 were killed and over 200 taken hostage some of whom remain in custody while others have died or been murdered. He emphasised that he was neither pro Palestine nor pro Israel but also said he could not be neutral either.
‘You cannot be neutral’
He gave a brief history of key events in the recent past starting with 1948, the declaration of the state of Israel and the displacement of three quarters of a million Palestinians which they refer to as the Nakba. He briefly discussed the 6 day war which saw the new state annex large areas of land in the region. These have been given up but they obtained control of Jerusalem and maintain control of Gaza. In answer to a question on this he emphasised that it was true that Israel no longer occupied Gaza but they did control it. It became the largest open air prison in the world with no access by sea or air and surrounded by checkpoints.
He described witnessing some of the arbitrary restrictions imposed by Israel on citizens in Jerusalem. One concerned a desire by Moslems to enter parts of the city to pray at the Al-Aqsa mosque. Restrictions were suddenly imposed which included only allowing men over 55 to enter and women over 45 likewise. New ID cards and a permit required giving them no time to acquire them. The result was that almost no one got in.
It was not just Moslems but similar restrictions applied to Christians who wish to celebrate Palm Sunday. 20,000 permits were applied for but only 2,000 issued too late for them to be of use. These events are confirmed by Machsom Watch a locally based women’s group which monitors checkpoints in the country. Freedom of worship is protected by article 37 of the Geneva Convention. We do not know the Israeli response to these events but they happen sufficiently frequently to appear to be an act of policy rather than a response to a particular threat. Checkpoints are surrounded by heavily armed soldiers with a ‘Skunk Water‘ van in attendance. These are used to drench crowds with an evil smelling fluid. The effect of these actions he said is to ‘weaken Jerusalem’s religious diversity’.
West Bank
A few items have appeared in TV news recently by BBC, ITV and Channel 4 showing the settler violence in the west bank. He described one such where Israelis arrived in the early hours and completely destroyed the Palestinian village. He also described the destruction of solar panels, important where there is no electricity. Pouring raw sewage onto land where children play was also mentioned. The various examples he gave concerned collective punishment which is contrary to article 33 of the Convention. He provided several examples of homes and facilities destroyed.
There was a question about the word ‘settler’ which by itself is a fairly neutral word and implies something small scale. In reality the settlements are almost cities and represent a permanent development. It was important to note he said that the ‘settlers’ were now part of the government.
Another question concerned the Holocaust. He reminded us that no Arab was involved in that atrocity, it was Europeans. He did not think that comparison of the Holocaust with what is going on today was helpful he said.
This was an extremely interesting illustrated talk from someone who has spent time in the region and witnessed first hand some of the oppression Moslems, Christians and Armenians experience on a regular basis. It was a pity he did not mention the ‘Apartheid‘ word which was relevant to his presentation. Thee seems no end to the violence at the time or writing and it does not seem the various cease fire initiatives have come to anything.
For those not able to make this presentation, there will be a chance to hear it again on 3 November at the Quaker centre on Wilton Road.
There will a Vigil as usual this Saturday 14th September in the market place starting at 5pm for half an hour. Last week’s Vigil attracted around 35 people.
https://salisburyai.com/2024/09/12/three-months-in-east-jerusalem/
#HumanRights_ #DeanSalisbury #Gaza #Israel #Palestine #Papadopulos #talk #WestBank
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Alberta's Premier is once again saying the media repeating things she herself is on video actually saying is defamatory.
Now, I am by no means an expert in civil litigation or defamation law but I don't see this going particularly well for her.
Source: https://twitter.com/ABDanielleSmith/status/1641101399038758915?t=NmBRR8wCNIwB1thmem2edg&s=19
Reference to Rebel interview and video:
https://edmontonjournal.com/news/politics/smith-walks-back-claims-she-spoke-to-alberta-crown-prosecutors-about-covid-19-cases -
#Rape #Pedophile #PedophileJesus #TaxDollarsAtWork
Vancouver judge greenlights class-action lawsuit involving Mount Cashel abusers.
Mount Cashel never stopped.
It got a new coat of Taxpayer funded Catholic White Wash and sent to seed your neighbourhood & the world, grow the cohort.Would saying screw 'em to the wall & leave 'em for the crows be too kind ?
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I give thanks to Providence for granting me the opportunity to come and venerate the relics and recall the figure and teachings of St. John of the Cross, to whom I owe so much in my spiritual formation. I came to know him in my youth and was able to enter into an intimate dialogue with this master of the faith, with his language and thought, culminating in the development of my doctoral thesis on Faith in St. John of the Cross. Since then, I have found in him a friend and teacher, who has pointed to the light that shines in the darkness, guiding me always toward God, “with no other light or guide / than the one that burned in my heart. / This guided me / more surely than the light of noon” (The Dark Night, stanzas 3–4, trans. Kavanaugh and Rodriguez).
The Saint from Fontiveros is the great teacher of the paths leading to union with God. His writings remain relevant and, in a way, explain and complement the works of St. Teresa of Jesus. He shows the paths to knowledge through faith, for only such knowledge in faith disposes the mind to union with the living God.
How many times, with a conviction born from experience, he tells us that faith is the most fitting and appropriate means for union with God! It is enough to cite a well-known text from The Ascent of Mount Carmel, book II, chap. 9, sec. 1: “Faith alone … is the only proximate and proportionate means to union with God. … Just as God is infinite, faith proposes him to us as infinite. Just as there are three Persons in one God, it presents him to us in this way. … Only by means of faith, in divine light exceeding all understanding, does God manifest himself to the soul. The greater one’s faith the closer is one’s union with God” (The Ascent of Mount Carmel, book II, chap. 9, sec. 1, trans. Kavanaugh and Rodriguez).
With this insistence on the purity of faith, John of the Cross does not wish to deny that the knowledge of God is attained gradually from the knowledge of creatures, as taught in the Book of Wisdom and echoed by St. Paul in the Letter to the Romans (cf. Rom 1:18–21; cf. Spiritual Canticle, st. 4, sec. 1). The Mystical Doctor teaches that in faith, it is also necessary to detach oneself from creatures, both those perceived through the senses and those reached through understanding, in order to unite oneself cognitively with God Himself. This path that leads to union passes through the dark night of faith.
Saint John Paul II
Homily, 4 November 1982
Convent of the Discalced Carmelite Friars
Segovia, SpainJohn of the Cross, St. 1991, The Collected Works of St. John of the Cross, Revised Edition, translated from the Spanish by Kavanaugh, K and Rodriguez, O with revisions and introductions by Kavanaugh, K, ICS Publications, Washington DC.
Translation from the Spanish text is the blogger’s own work product and may not be reproduced without permission.
Featured image: At five in the afternoon on October 31, 1982, Pope John Paul II arrived at Barajas Airport in Madrid, kissing the ground upon his arrival. When the crowd erupted in excitement, officials began placing carpets along his path, which he bypassed to continue his custom of kissing the ground. That same day, before departing Rome, he had canonized two French nuns and led the Angelus prayer in St. Peter’s Square, as he did every Sunday. This marked his 15th official trip, covering sixteen locations in nine days at an intense pace. Image credit: Marisa Flórez / prisamedia.com
https://carmelitequotes.blog/2024/11/03/jp2-4nov82homly/
#darkNight #detachment #DoctorOfTheChurch #faith #inspiration #StJohnOfTheCross #StJohnPaulII #theology #unionWithGod
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The Bay View massacre was the result of a strike held on May 4, 1886, by 7,000 building-trades workers and 5,000 Polish laborers who had organized at St. Stanislaus Catholic Church in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to strike against their employers, demanding the enforcement of an eight-hour work day.[
By Monday, May 3, the number of participants had increased to over 14,000 workers who gathered at the Milwaukee Iron Company rolling mill in Bay View. They were met by 250 National Guardsmen under order from Republican Governor Jeremiah M. Rusk. The strikers had shut down every business in the city except the North Chicago Rolling Mills in Bay View. The guardsmen's orders were that, if the strikers were to enter the Mills, they should shoot to kill. But when the captain received the order it had a different meaning: he ordered his men to pick out a man and shoot to kill when the order was given. Workers camped in the nearby fields and the Kosciuszko Militia arrived by May 4. Early the next day the crowd, which by this time contained children, approached the mill and were fired upon. Seven people died as a result, including a thirteen-year-old boy. Several more were injured during the protest. Several contradictory newspaper accounts described other possible casualties, but the count of seven deaths is substantiated by specific names (Frank Kunkel, Frank Nowarczyk, John Marsh, Robert Erdman, Johann Zazka, Martin Jankowiak, and Michael Ruchalski).
#Politics #Leftism #Leftist #Socialism #Labor #LaborDay #Communism #WorkerRights #LaborRights #Weekend #8HourDay #Meme