Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Previsión especial ola de frío siberiana desde el día 2 de febrero de 2012
What comes next in the Republican race for President
- On February 4, Nevada is holding their Presidential caucuses. Given its proximity to Utah and high Mormon population, Mitt Romney is expected to win, though Ron Paul's campaign has shown a high degree of organizational prowess in caucus states.
- Next up is the Maine caucuses, to be held on February 4 - February 11.
- On February 7, three caucuses are held: Colorado, Missouri and Minnesota.
- February 28 sees the next two primaries held - Arizona and Michigan. As the son of the former Governor, Romney is the likely favorite in Michigan.
- On March 3, Washington State holds their Caucuses.
- March 6 is the big day: Super Tuesday. Primaries will be held in Georgia, Massachusetts, Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia & Vermont, with caucuses held in Alaska, Idaho and North Dakota.
- Believe it or not, there are no debates for three weeks. The next debate is February 22, in Arizona, sponsored by CNN and the Republican Party of Arizona.
- The next debate is before Super Tuesday on March 1, in Georgia, sponsored by CNN and the Georgia Republican party.
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Exciting news as Marian icon embarks on ocean-to-ocean pro-life pilgrimage
| From the icon-blessing ceremony |
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Dramatic Call from Czestochowa
This icon will embark on a pro-life pilgrimage from “ocean to ocean" from Vladivostok to Fatima.
"We stand before you, Mother of Our Redeemer, fully aware that alone we are unable to win this global struggle. Stand at the forefront of the defense of pro-life movements and lead us. Protect life! Save the family! Strengthen us!”
On Saturday, January 28 in the Jasna Gora monastery leaders of the pro-life movements of 16 European and Asian countries: Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Latvia, Russia, Kazakhstan, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria, Switzerland, Spain, Italy, Portugal, UK, USA and Poland came together. They made an "Act of Trust and Consecration" to the Black Madonna icon of Jasna Gora placing into Our Lady’s hands the protection of life and the civilization of love. Fr. Peter West, Vice President for Missions of Human Life International (HLI), the largest international pro-life organization, read the text in English. Galina Maslennikova, Head of the Family Center at the Catholic Cathedral in Moscow, read the act of Trust and Consecration in Russian. Ewa Kowalewska, representing the Club of Friends of Human Life and HLI-Poland presented the text in Polish.
This solemn celebration in the icon chapel of Jasna Gora was led by Czestochowa Archbishop Stanislaw Nowak along with two other bishops and numerous Polish and foreign priests. Also present were Orthodox priests from Ukraine and Belarus and the pro-life leaders from these countries.
During the ceremony, Archbishop Nowak blessed a copy of the icon of Czestochowa. According to an ancient tradition of the Pauline Fathers, the copy was touched to the original which the Orthodox Church also recognizes as a significant gesture. Archbishop Nowak called it the “kiss of love.” During the evening televised and radio transmitted “Jasna Gora Appeal” Fr Isidore Matuszewski, prior of the monastery, turned to the Orthodox priests present and welcomed them in the Russian language. They will be entrusted with the copy of the icon as it travels through Russia and the East.
This icon was made using traditional egg tempera and mineral pigments and 23 carat gold on wood of the same size as the original.
The celebrations at Jasna Gora were preceded by a pro-life leaders' meeting consisting mainly of HLI representatives from different countries.They discussed the planning of this ocean to ocean pilgrimage. Fr. Zacharias Jablonski explained the tradition sending icons on pilgrimages and even on the frontlines of battles, with a request to God for help, where there is the greatest threat to life. He spoke about the Polish experience of pilgrim icons of Our Lady of Czestochowa and its fruits.
Dr. Igor Beloborodov of Russia shared the experience of organizing car rallies for life in Russia and Ukraine. He also pointed out the real possibility of an icon pilgrimage from the Far East of Russia, through Central/Eastern Europe and on to Fatima-from the Pacific to the Atlantic.
An organizing committee was formed with representatives of 16 countries including Orthodox movements. Each member of the international committee will create a national committee responsible for the national pilgrimage of the icon. The exact timing and route of the pilgrimage will be determined by the Orthodox movements from Moscow.
"The number of victims already exceeds two billion human beings. Each day an additional 50 thousand children die in their mother’s womb. Many people do not want to have any children at all. Means of destroying fertility and life are becoming more and more common.”
“Infertility of married couples is increasing. The human child is a becoming a product of modern technology, a donor cells and organs.
Children ‘are produced’ with designated attributes, subject to selection. Hundreds of thousands of frozen embryos are preserved between life and death in liquid nitrogen.”
“International man-made law denies legal protection for the life of the unborn child. More and more countries are legalizing euthanasia.
There is a growing attack on marriage and family." (from the act Trust and Consecration)
Defenders of human life take note of these dramatic facts and are convinced that with God's help, through the intercession of the Mother of God, the civilization of life shall prevail. They declare that; "every effort will be made to defend human life, especially the lives of the smallest and most vulnerable.” This new icon of Our Lady of Czestochowa will now begin to create its own history. On Sunday, January 29 it travels to Minsk, Belarus on her way to the East.
Ewa Kowalewska- Club of Friends of Human Life - Human Life International
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Ola de Frío Siberiana
Extradition
Article 373 of the Honduran constitution, as clarified in 1986 by Decree 169-86, states that any constitutional amendment must be approved in two sequent Congressional sessions. The idea is that there be adequate time to publicize and debate the changes, both among members of Congress and the informed public. I doubt, however, that the framers of the constitution ever envisioned that those two sequent sessions would be literally six days apart, and that the Congressional session might be closed, and the vote secret, as has frequently been the case in the Congress as administered by Juan Orlando Hernandez.
Until last Thursday night, Honduras had a constitution that prohibited extradition. This prohibition was enshrined in Article 102 of the constitution. It states that no Honduran may be forcibly expatriated. It was clearly violated in 2009 with the military's expatriation of Manuel Zelaya to Costa Rica, officially whitewashed by the current Honduran Supreme Court.
But it was also violated back in 1988 with the forced extradition of Juan Ramon Matta Ballesteros from Tegucigalpa to the United States. The military was involved in this extradition as well. Matta was a suspected member of the Medellin drug cartel living in Tegucigalpa. He had been known to the DEA since 1973. James Mills, in the Underground Empire, cites a DEA intelligence report as stating that Matta had financed the coup d'etat in 1978 that installed his partner in the drug business, General Policarpo Paz Garcia as "President" of Honduras.
Matta was also the owner of SETCO Air, the principal air transport company used the by Contras to haul fuel and arms to their camps, according to the US Senate Subcommittee report "Drugs, Law Enforcement, and Foreign Policy", an investigation of Oliver North's clandestine Iran-Contra drugs for arms swap. Furthermore, the report notes he was paid for this service by the US under a two year contract despite already being well known to the DEA as an important player in narcotics smuggling.
The DEA accused him of ordering the assassination of DEA member Enrique Camarena in Mexico. The DEA had tried several times to kidnap him according to Christopher Pyle in his book, Extradition, Politics, and Human Rights (page 282). On April 5, 1988, a group of 60 Cobras, the military's special forces unit, seized Matta as he returned home. He was immediately turned over the US Marshals, where he was handcuffed, hooded, and driven to the Tegucigalpa airport and flown to Miami.
Forced extradition; illegal.
Then Porfirio Lobo Sosa and Juan Orlando Hernandez flew to the United States for an emergency meeting with high level Homeland Security people. That was January 18, 2012. On January 19, 2012, Congress held a late night closed door session where a bill to modify article 102 to permit the extradition of Hondurans to countries with which the executive branch has negotiated an extradition treaty was introduced, voted on, and passed without further discussion. Did I mention the text of the bill was not revealed outside of Congress "for security reasons".
So on January 19th of this year, at the tail end of the second congressional session, this constitutional reform was introduced debated and passed all within a few hours. Six days later, the third session of this Congress began on January 25. This bill was brought up in a closed session, debated, and approved that evening.
So Juan Orlando Hernandez took six days total to modify the constitution, holding votes in two sequent sessions of Congress. While that accelerated process does fulfill the letter of the law, it clearly thwarts the intention of the writers of the Constitution, who wanted to encourage public discussion of the bill between its initial and second vote.
Marvin Ponce, of the UD Party, says the bill's language and origin are foreign.
"This is a law logically which comes more from outside than inside,"
said Ponce. Remember that secretive flight to the US by Lobo Sosa and Hernandez the day before its introduction?
January 27 that constitutional amendment (Decreto 02-2012) was published in La Gaceta (El Heraldo called it "at the speed of lightning") and became law and we got to read it for the first time. Extradition is permitted if the crime involved is one of drugs, terrorism, or organized crime.
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Entrada de aire siberiano para los próximos días.
Analicemos la situación para los próximos días:
Empecemos por lo que tenemos ahora,o teníamos a las 1 de la madrugada de anoche ,para ver el porqué nos llegará ese aire frío. El mapa siguiente nos muestra la presión a nivel del mar y con colores el geopotencial a 500hPa,el cual nos dice si tenemos aire cálido o frío a unos 5500m aproximadamente.
Lo primero que nos llama la atención es ese potente anticiclón en superficie de más de 1050hPa centrado al NW de Rusia.Ese anticiclón es el anticiclón siberiano,y como vemos abarca casi toda Europa. El origen de dicho anticiclón está en las bajas temperaturas que hay en estas fechas en el interior de Rusia,ese aire es muy frío,muy denso por tanto y cae,provocando esas presiones tan altas.Por otra parte,tenemos bajas presiones en el N de África y en el Mediterráneo. Entre ambos centros de acción,se canalizan vientos de NE muy fríos directos desde el E de Rusia,desde Siberia,vientos que arrastran una masa de aire muy frío y muy seca hacia Europa. Podemos ver con colores,esa lengua de aire frío procedente desde el interior de Rusia y que avanza inexorablemente hacia Europa.
Si miramos la temperatura a 1500m,vemos cualitativamente mejor esa masa de aire frío con temperaturas inferiores a los -20ºC en su núcleo. Si nos fijamos,ya está afectando esa masa de aire frío a gran parte de Europa,con temperaturas inferiores a los -8ºC dentro del área roja.
-Hoy por la noche,vemos como la previsión del centro europeo (y de todos los modelos aunque sólo pongamos este),va acercando la masa de aire frío siberiano,y es que los centros de acción que la impulsan siguen igual.
A esa hora,la masa de aire con temperaturas inferiores a los -20ºC sigue avanzando hacia el W,hacia Europa.
Situazione neve Live
Temperatura: -3°C
Vento gelido: -7°C
Meteo: neve ; foschia
Cielo: coperto
Umidità: 100%
Vento: Da W a 5 mph
Pressione: 1019
Punto di rugiada: -3°C
*** Prosegue discretamente a nevicare molto sottile e ghiacciata *** vedremo gli accumuli nelle prossime ore, massima attenzione per fondo stradale innevato e ghiacciato.
Ore 22.10
Temperatura: -3°C
Meteo: neve debole che accumula; foschia
Cielo: molto nuvoloso
Umidità: 100%
Vento: Da WNW a 2 mph
Pressione: 1019
Punto di rugiada: -3°C
**** Neve al suolo 5 cm massima attenzione per fondo stradale innevato e ghiacciato****
Comunicato del comune di Bergamo
L’Amministrazione comunale di Bergamo, preso atto delle previsioni meteorologiche che indicano possibili nevicate anche in pianura dalla prime ore di Martedì 31, con fase acuta dalle ore 8, fino alle ore 24, ha attivato il piano neve.
I mezzi A2A saranno operativi per garantire la percorribilità delle strade cittadine e per prevenire la formazione di ghiaccio, tenuto conto del possibile abbassamento delle temperature per i prossimi giorni.
In caso di nevicate l’Amministrazione comunale di Bergamo invita gli utenti della strada a circolare con gomme antineve o catene e con la massima prudenza, solo se strettamente necessario.
Si richiede inoltre la preziosa collaborazione da parte dei cittadini per i quali vige l'obbligo della pulizia dei marciapiedi fronte casa/negozio.
Ore 17.00
Temperatura: -2°C
Meteo: neve debole; foschia
Cielo: coperto
Umidità: 92%
Vento: Da NNW a 2 mph
Pressione: 1019
Punto di rugiada: -3°C
Nevischio moderato, proverbio confermato ! I giorni della merla hanno portato la neve !
nella foto in basso ecco "Merlino" il merlo meteorologo che interrogato domenica confermava l'arrivo della neve !



Bergamo ore 16.00
Temperatura: -2°C
Meteo: neve debole; foschia
Cielo: coperto
Umidità: 92%
Vento: 1 mph (direzione variabile)
Pressione: 1019
Punto di rugiada: -3°C
Bergamo ore 13.00
Temperatura: -1°C
Vento gelido: -6°C
Meteo: neve debole; foschia
Cielo: molto nuvoloso
Umidità: 80%
Vento: Da NNW a 9 mph
Pressione: 1020
Punto di rugiada: -4°C
nevischio che si accumula nei prati e sui tetti. Strade trattate con sale perfettamente percorribili. Si ricorda di tenere in auto catene da neve
Bergamo ore 11.00
Temperatura: -1°C
Vento gelido: -6°C
Cielo: molto nuvoloso
Umidità: 68%
Vento: Da N a 9 mph
Pressione: 1021
Punto di rugiada: -6°C
NEVE
Bergamo ore 10.00
Temperatura: -1°C
Vento gelido: -5°C
Cielo: molto nuvoloso
Umidità: 68%
Vento: Da NW a 8 mph
Pressione: 1021
Punto di rugiada: -6°C
seguiamo l'ondata di gelo.
nevica sulla pedemontana bergamasca visibili virghe nevose sul Canto Alto e Misma.
Ecco la cartina delle temperature in europa questa mattina con il gelo pronto a raggiungerci da est con valori di -25°C .
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