Politics should be the Struggle for the Happiness of All.

José Alberto "Pepe" Mujica Cordano was born 20 May 1935 and was the 40th President of Uruguay between 2010 and 2015.

The World’s Poorest President Is Here To Explain Why We Need To Kick Rich People Out Of Politics.
Addicted 2 the chains | December 13, 2015

Do you love money and want to control the world? Then you’re not going to like what former Uruguayan President José Alberto “Pepe” Mujica Cordano has to say about the wealthy in politics.

“We invented this thing called representative democracy, where we say the majority is who decides,” President Mujica said in the interview. “So it seems to me that we [heads of state] should live like the majority and not like the minority.”

President Mujica became popular worldwide after the BBC circulated a piece dubbing him the “World’s Poorest President.” The story reported that he donated 90% of his salary to charity during his time as president and, instead of living in a presidential palace, he opted instead to live on his modest farm with his wife and drive his two-door beater of a car.

Now, he’s lashing out at politicians who only care about themselves and their wealthy donors. And he may have a point. Today, the average member of congress has a net worth of a million dollars and corporations give huge amounts of money to Super PACs without having to disclose their donations.

“The red carpet, people who play — those things,” Mujica said, mimicking a person playing a cornet. “All those things are feudal leftovers. And the staff that surrounds the president are like the old court.”

I can hear the cries of “socialist” already, but Mujica denies that he has any problems with rich people. He just doesn’t think they do an especially good job of doing the business of a nation.

“I’m not against people who have money, who like money, who go crazy for money,” Mujica said. “But in politics we have to separate them. We have to run people who love money too much out of politics, they’re a danger in politics… People who love money should dedicate themselves to industry, to commerce, to multiply wealth. But politics is the struggle for the happiness of all.”

When asked why rich people make bad representatives for poor people, Mujica pulled no punches.

“They tend to view the world through their perspective, which is the perspective of money. Even when operating with good intentions, the perspective they have of the world, of life, of their decisions, is informed by wealth. If we live in a world where the majority is supposed to govern, we have to try to root our perspective in that of the majority, not the minority.”

“The tie is a useless rag that constrains your neck,” Mujica said during the interview. “I’m an enemy of consumerism. Because of this hyperconsumerism, we’re forgetting about fundamental things and wasting human strength on frivolities that have little to do with human happiness.”

Today, he continues to live on a farm on the outskirts of Montevideo with his wife, Senator Lucia Topolansky. SOURCE

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A Note From The Gull

Thank you, José Alberto "Pepe" Mujica Cordano.

Memorable quotes:

On his being described as being poor.

1:47 - My definition of poor are those who need too much. Because those who need too much are never satisfied. I am frugal, not poor. Frugal, with a light suitcase. I live with little, just what's necessary, not too tied down to material things.

On freedom.

2:30 - Freedom is having time to live.

On the war against drugs. Why enforcement is not enough. Why drug use should not be clandestine.

6:41 - Because worse than drugs is drug trafficking. Drugs are a disease and I don't think that there are good drugs or that marijuana is good, nor cigarettes. No addiction is good. I include alcohol. The only good addiction is love. Forget everything else.

On his eleven years of solitary confinement in prison.

7:41 - I lived many years in solitude and I had to find refuge within myself to resist. Man is a strong animal when he has convictions. Maybe I am a bit primitive. Maybe I have a primitive strength, the product of my ancestors, of my peasant childhood.

On Pope Francis.

12:46 - We have to admit that this Pope is quite something. There is a lot to him and I think he is trying to modernise the last royal court of the modern world: the Church. He talks of returning to basics, of humility, of commitment. So as a person, I have tremendous respect for the Pope. On the other hand, it is true, I am an atheist but I admire the Catholic Church because I am a Latin American and we Latin Americans have two things in common: language and the history of the Church in this continent. So I give it importance, although my country is the most secular in the region. But in the Caribbean, Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia, people are profoundly Catholic and I don't want to be divorced from my people.

On the power of the Church.

14:45 - Whatever a parish priest says on a Sunday during his sermon is important in the opinions of the people. The Church has ways of communicating things at a popular level that aren't said at the top. It can help develop an attitude of peace in a country made sick by war.

On consumption and waste.

15:59 - I don't oppose consumption, I am against waste....If every powerful person has three, four, five cars and needs 400 square metres to live and a house at the beach and an airplane to go here and there, there isn't enough for everyone. What does modern science tell us? It tells us indisputable facts. If the current world population aspired to consume like the average American we would need three planet earths.

...because we complain about global warming while we assault nature by producing so much waste. We are mortgaging the futures of the next generations

On what he hopes to accomplish.

19:08 - My goal is to achieve a little less injustice in Uruguay, to help the most vulnerable and to leave behind a political way of thinking, a way of looking at the future that will be passed on and used to move forward. There's nothing short-term, no victory around the corner. I will not achieve paradise or anything like that. What I want is to fight for the common good to progress. Life slips by. The way to prolong it is for others to continue your work.

On the reluctance of presidents to leave office.

20:34 - I am a republican. Republics exist to demonstrate that no one is better than anyone else. A president is a high-level official who is elected to carry out a function. He is not a king, not a God. He is not the witch doctor of the tribe who knows everything. He is a civil servant. As such he must leave and be replaced. I am against re-election. There are feudal systems that have survived within our republics so we lay down red carpets, the kind of things used by kings. I don't like those things. I think the ideal way of living is to live like the vast majority of people whom we attempt to serve and represent.

On why the USA has been spying on foes and allies.

22:01 - Because it is afraid. Very afraid. Because it has played the role of policeman and has made many enemies in its history. And he who has many enemies naturally is very afraid. All that. It's a mix.

On what is the USA and a prediction.

22:28 - But I don't put all the United States in the same bag. There are many United States. Luckily the number of Latin Americans grows. The United States will become a bilingual nation very quickly. The wombs of Latin American women will conquer it little by little. They are stronger for love.  So they have children and establish changes in the U.S. society. But it will take time.

On the secret for happiness.

23:21 - To live in accordance with how one thinks. To talk to the man you carry inside. It's the companion we carry to our grave. Be yourself and don't try to impose your criteria on the rest. Let's see...I don't expect others to live like me. I want to respect people's freedom but I defend my freedom. And that comes with having the courage to say what you think even if sometimes others don't share those views

"Patria est communis omnium parens" - Our native land is the common parent of us all. Keep it beautiful, make it even more so.

Blessed is all of creation
Blessed be my beautiful people
Blessed be the day of our awakening
Blessed is my country
Blessed are her patient hills.

Mweh ka allay!
Guanaguanare

The Catholic Church Is Right About This Gardasil Issue.

Update: Catholic Church lifts ban on HPV vaccination.

I want to say a thank you to the Catholic Church in Trinidad and Tobago. I share your deep concern in this matter and I stand firmly with you. Even if there were no problems with the vaccine, - and there ARE - it is absolutely wrong to attempt to dump a vaccine on minors without allowing parents the time and means to assess the purported benefits and the recorded problems. Parents must take the time to make informed decisions and if they decide to allow their children to accept the vaccine it should be made available at medical centers so that they can go there to receive it.

Serious problems with Gardasil have been reported. I will just cut and paste some information which is widely available on the Internet.

The following article was published by the The United States based vaccine watchdog, the National Vaccine Information Center:

Gardasil Death & Brain Damage: A National Tragedy.
By Barbara Loe Fisher

Posted: 2/9/2009 11:52:28 PM | with 5 comments

The tragic story of Gardasil vaccine is one that is playing out real time in the homes of trusting parents, who thought they were doing the right thing to try to make their daughters "one less," and in the 21st century cyberspace forum of public opinion as well as on television. On Feb. 6, CBS-TV Evening News released NVIC's new report on Gardasil vaccine risks. (watch VIDEO here)

Today, NVIC launched a petition and issued a national press release calling on President Barack Obama, his Administration and Congress to investigate the fast track licensure and universal use recommendation of Gardasil in 2006 and the dismissal of more than 10,000 reports of Gardasil-related reactions, injuries and deaths to the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) as a "coincidence" by federal health officials.

NVIC's latest Gardasil risk report comparing the number and severity of adverse events reported to the federal Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) through November 30, 2008, reveals that death and serious health problems such as stroke, blood clots, cardiac arrest, seizures, fainting, lupus and rechallenge cases are reported three to 30 times more frequently after Gardasil vaccination than after meningococcal (Menactra) vaccination. If the deaths and serious injuries being reported after Gardasil were only a "coincidence," there would be little or no difference between the frequency and severity of vaccine-related adverse events between two vaccines if the vaccines were equally reactive and the number of doses were roughly the same.

Gardasil and Menactra vaccines were licensed within a year of each other and recommended by the CDC for universal use in 11-12 year olds. Although Menactra is given to boys and girls and has already been mandated in many states for high school and college entry, Gardasil is only given to girls and is not yet mandated. Menatra is given as one-dose series and, by February 25, 2008, the CDC reported that about 15.5 million doses of Menactra had been distributed in the U.S. Gardasil is given in a three dose series and the CDC reported that, by July 2008, about 16 million doses had been distributed in the U.S.

This means that about 15 million doses of Menactra were given to about 15 million boys and/or girls and about 16 million doses of Gardasil - if every girl got three doses - were given to about five million girls. It is individuals - not doses of vaccine - who collapse, convulse, become paralyzed, have heart attacks, develop lupus and other chronic health problems after being vaccinated. The fact that death and serious health problems are reported 3 to 30 times more frequently after Gardasil than after Menactra is highly significant and it is irresponsible for federal health officials and Merck to blow it off as unimportant.

What is sad is that the average junior high or high school student could do this VAERS analysis and come to the same conclusion. It does not take an M.D., Ph.D. or math genius to figure it out. In the hours before the CBS News report was broadcast, the best answer that Merck could come up with to address the differences between adverse events associated with Gardasil and Menactra was this:

"It's important to remember that the proven benefit of GARDASIL is that it helps prevent cervical cancer caused by the two virus types responsible for most cases of cervical cancer. Nothing is more important to Merck than the safety of our products and we carefully monitor the safety of GARDASIL on a routine basis. Experts at the FDA and CDC also continue to review data and, as recently as four months ago, said "GARDASIL continues to be safe and effective, and its benefits continue to outweigh its risks." NVIC is not a medical organization and has a long history of raising concerns about vaccines that are in direct conflict with the opinion of leading medical experts. We encourage consumers to get reliable information about the safety of vaccines from www.cdc.gov

No, it doesn't take a doctor, health official or "medical organization" to do the math. What it takes is caring about every life - whether that life represents a baby, toddler, child, teenager, young adult, adult or senior citizen - because every life is important and nobody deserves to be written off by a drug company or government agency as an expendable casualty of public health policy.

Gabrielle, the 15 year old gymnast, honor roll student and cheerleader from Wichita, Kansas, who talks about how her health has been destroyed by Gardasil vaccine in the CBS report and in the NVIC video press release, spends most of her time at home or at doctors' offices now. A few weeks ago, her school voted her Homecoming Princess. On Saturday, she tried to go to the Homecoming dance. As she was getting dressed, she collapsed with seizures and severe abdominal pain. The medication she has been taking to try to control the seizures she developed after Gardasil vaccination caused her to develop kidney stones. She was rushed to the emergency room and hospitalized.

In the past 27 years, the stories of death and brain damage that have been reported to the National Vaccine Information Center have never changed. Whether the vaccine victims are 15 months old or 15 years old, the stories are the same: a trusting parent took a bright, healthy child to a doctor for a routine vaccination and the child was never the same again.

Gardasil vaccine was inappropriately fast tracked and licensed by the FDA and recommended by the CDC with too little attention paid to the reports of brain and immune system dysfunction that developed after vaccination in pre-licensure clinical trials. That same cavalier attitude toward Gardasil-related deaths and serious health problems, which have been experienced by many girls and young women after licensure, is inexcusable.

Americans are losing trust in pharmaceutical companies making drugs and vaccines and in federal health agencies, whose responsibility is to ensure that drugs and vaccines licensed for public use are safe, effective and necessary. If those responsible for protecting our health are not going to step up to the plate and do their jobs, then it is up to the people to do it.

At www.NVIC.org you can sign the Investigate Gardasil Vaccine Risks Now! petition, read NVIC's new report on Gardasil risks, and check out our new website that makes it easier to navigate and find information to prevent vaccine injuries and deaths.

In 2009, I have a sense of déjà vu, as the story of Gardasil vaccine plays out real time. There are striking parallels between how those operating the mass vaccination system reacted in the 1980's to persistent reports that DPT vaccine was harming more children than originally assumed and the way they are reacting now to persistent reports that Gardasil is more reactive than it was originally assumed. Assumption of safety is no substitute for proof of safety. And turning away from human suffering in order to protect the status quo is not the way to run a government that needs the trust and support of the people.

In the 18th century, Queen Marie Antoinette looked down at a starving people pleading for bread to stay alive and said "Let them eat cake." It is time for everyone in government, industry and medicine to take a different approach to persistent reports of vaccine injuries and deaths or risk metaphorically suffering the same fate that ended the monarchy in France. In the 21st century, today's peasants don't have pitchforks - they have laptops, desktops, smartphones and the internet. Posted: 2/9/2009 11:52:28 PM | with 5 comments

The next was published in the Legal Examiner, South Carolina:

The Dangers Associated With Gardasil.
By Brad Hewett
June 28, 2011 8:32 AM 4

What is Gardasil?

Gardasil is manufactured by Merck, Inc., and promoted as a cervical cancer vaccine. According to official product information, "Gardasil is the only cervical cancer vaccine that helps protect against four types of human papillomavirus (HPV): two types that cause 70 percent of cervical cancer cases, and two more types that cause 90 percent of genital warts cases." The manufacturer states that Gardasil is for girls and young women ages 9 to 26.

What are the dangers associated with Gardasil?

Among the official side effects listed by the manufacturer are pain, swelling, itching, bruising and redness at the injection site; headache, fever, nausea, dizziness, vomiting and fainting. Sometimes fainting is accompanied by falling with injury, as well as shaking or stiffening and other seizure-like activity. Patients who are severely allergic to yeast should not take Gardasil.

However, since the drug's introduction in 2006, the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) has received more than 15,000 reports of adverse side effects related to Gardasil. These reports include serious adverse side effects including Guilliane Barre, lupus, seizures, paralysis, blood clots, brain inflammation and many others.

There have been 44 reported deaths as a result of Gardasil uses.

Then, on October 25, 2009, Dr. Diane Harper, lead researcher in the development of two human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccines and director of the Gynecologic Cancer Prevention Research Group at the University of Missouri, told an audience of medical professionals that Gardasil is largely unnecessary, and that it has never been fully tested on females under the age of 15. This, despite strong marketing efforts to make the drug mandatory for girls, and product literature and advertising that state the product can be used by girls as young as age 9.

Dr. Harper's remarks were made to an audience at the 4th International Public Conference on Vaccination. During this talk, she said 70 percent of all HPV infections resolve themselves without treatment within a year, and that within two years that number climbs to 90 percent. Of the remaining 10 percent, she said, only half will develop into cervical cancer, resulting in "little need for the vaccine." She also said incidences of cervical cancer are steadily decreasing with conventional treatments and preventative measures.

What can I do?

If you or a loved one has suffered a serious injury or other serious side effect as the result of taking Gardasil, or if a loved one has died as a result of taking this drug, you may be entitled to compensation. Please contact us today by calling our toll-free number (1-866-959-4341) for a free, no-cost, no-obligation evaluation of your case. SOURCE

The following is an excerpt from the website "The Truth About Gardasil."

"Since the drug’s introduction in 2006, the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) has received more than 18,000 reports of adverse side effects related to Gardasil. These reports include serious adverse effects including Guilliane Barre, lupus, seizures, paralysis, blood clots, brain inflammation, severe fatigue and weakness, heart problems, shortness of breath, chest pains and many more.

   
At last count, there have been at least 73 reported deaths as a result of Gardasil use, this does not include spontaneous abortions. Cervarix has been responsible for more than 9,000 cases of serious, adverse reactions and at least 3 deaths since this vaccine has been in use. One of the worst cases involved 14-year-old Natalie Morton, who collapsed and died in school in England just one hour after receiving the vaccine. (Her death was later attributed to a brain tumor, but if this were true, why were there no symptoms prior to her receiving the vaccine?)

   
I’m sure many people reading this will say ” Every vaccine has it’s risks”, to be followed by the statement, “Well surely the benefits outweigh the chance of any adverse side effects”.  Let’s see what Dr.Diane Harper, lead researcher in the development of two human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccines and director of the Gynecologic Cancer Prevention Research Group at the University of Missouri, told an audience of medical professionals on October 25, 2009.

   
And remember, this is coming from a developer of the Gardasil vaccine! She says, “Gardasil is largely unnecessary, and that it has never been fully tested on females under the age of 15. This, despite strong marketing efforts to make the drug mandatory for girls, and product literature and advertising that state the product can be used by girls as young as age 9.

   
Dr. Harper’s remarks were made to an audience at the 4th International Public Conference on Vaccination. During this talk, she said 70 percent of all HPV infections resolve themselves without treatment within a year, and that within two years that number climbs to 90 percent. Of the remaining 10 percent, she said, only half will develop into cervical cancer, resulting in “little need for the vaccine.” She also said incidences of cervical cancer are steadily decreasing with conventional treatments and preventative measures.

   
Add this to the fact that Merck’s own website says this vaccine is not intended to take the place of regular check ups and pap smears. Then why take the chance and let your daughter be injected with Gardasil? This vaccine that contains chemicals such as an aluminum adjuvant – that has been linked to the Gulf War Syndrome, also contains polysorbate 80 – shown to cause infertility in rats,  as well as sodium borate – a common roach killer that has been attributed to causing unconsciousness, seizures and death — this chemical  is said to be  carcinogenic and known to cause cancer.

   
Also according to Merck’s website 60% of the American population has HPV. They fail to mention that HPV is a medical term used for many different warts, 99% which are harmless: Planters warts, Flat warts, etc. Gardasil is intended to protect againist FOUR types of HPV. But there are over 120 different strains of HPV.

–Over 100 of these strains cause harmless warts (you’ve had them as a child, probably) that cause warts on the hands/feet. They do no harm. Over 30 of these strains remain invisible and disappear by themselves.

–10 strains are caught ONLY through sexual contact. Most of these go away by themselves. They do not cause cancer.

–10 strains cause warts on the genitalia. Caught by sexual contact. They do not cause cancer.

–4 strains are only caught by sexual contact and can lead to cervical cancer. However, you have a 92% chance of surviving cervical cancer after being diagnosed with these strains.  Less than .8% of the population carries one of these strains.

   
After looking at all of the information on Gardasil, it appears there are more questions than answers." SOURCE

Finally, for those who have an interest in the ethics of this government action, next is a document produced in 2009  entitled "Informed choice and mass immunization programmes." It it comes out of New Zealand following their own government's HPV (human papillomavirus) immunization programme: 

"The school-based phase of the HPV (human papillomavirus) immunization programme which will provide Gardasil vaccine for girls from 12 years old is about to start. Given the debate on the failure of informed consent processes with the MeNZB immunisation programme, and a troubling start to the national HPV immunization programme launched in September last year, it is timely to raise concerns about the fate of informed choice and consent in the school-based phase of the programme. Christy Parker looks at some of the ethical issues surrounding mass immunization programmes targeting children and young people and argues that the principles of informed choice and consent must not be compromised by population health objectives."

Read more...

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"Patria est communis omnium parens" - Our native land is the common parent of us all. Keep it beautiful, make it even more so.

Blessed is all of creation
Blessed be my beautiful people
Blessed be the day of our awakening
Blessed is my country
Blessed are her patient hills.

Mweh ka allay!
 Guanaguanare
 

Clutching At Aliens

The Papal Bull, Dum Diversas was issued by Pope Nicholas V on June 18, 1452. It stated:

"We grant you [Kings of Spain and Portugal] by these present documents, with our Apostolic Authority, full and free permission to invade, search out, capture, and subjugate the Saracens and pagans and any other unbelievers and enemies of Christ wherever they may be, as well as their kingdoms, duchies, counties, principalities, and other property [...] and to reduce their persons into perpetual slavery."

You can see why this Bull has been credited with ushering in the African slave trade. The scope was extended to the Americas in 1493 by Pope Alexander VI with Inter Caetera. This is just one illustration of the Church's undisguised enthusiasm in the past for the claiming of persons' souls AND their property for its own benefit and that of its allies, and all in the name of God.

Is something changing though? Back in May of this year, I read the news that the Vatican chief astronomer, Father Jose Gabriel Funes, was acknowledging the possibility of the existence of intelligent alien beings. This was actually not the first time that the such declarations have come from the Church that once condemned Galileo. The booklet "Intelligent Life in the Universe" featured above, and which I have not yet read, was published in 2005 by another Vatican astronomer, Guy Consolmagno. His conclusions are that mankind is facing a future discovery of extraterrestrial intelligence. Similar disclosures were made in the past by Monsignor Corrado Balducci and Catholic theologian Father Malachi Martin.

Many Catholics, whether practising or recovering, had already accepted this probability so the information had already been received. What is frustrating for this observer is trying, with imperfect information, to figure out what is behind these public announcements and the book published by the Catholic Truth Society. We all know that everything that comes or does not come out of that institution, is carefully timed and choreographed and has to be vetted by this and that theocrat or group of theocrats. There is a right time and a wrong time, a right way and a wrong way in which, for example, to apologise to its many victims over time.

So why is this a good time to be talking about aliens?...and in such generous terms? Why is the Church wooing the beings almost as if it has been told that it will soon have to accommodate the ET's...not only as equals but possibly as our superiors!

Clearly, there is not another Papal Bull on the drawing board. If The Church had been planning to draw another line, this time across the heavens to divide up the universe and claim the new heathens and their territories in the name of God, it has now put that plan on the back burner. Instead, the newsflash is entertaining the idea that these aliens might be SUPERIOR and might NOT be in need of REDEMPTION, and could even be FREE OF ORIGINAL SIN.

Some of us would have no problem accepting that any other life form could be superior to human beings. Some of us might already be convinced that the "animals" with which we interact as domestic companions or in the wild are vastly superior to many humans that we know. But why would a Church that has consistently acted, with its own flesh and blood, as a physically and psychologically invasive force, be now preparing to roll out the red carpet for aliens? What exactly is happening here? Here are some questions:

Is the Church "taking in front" because it is anxious to be seen as thinking outside of the box and being broad-minded enough to keep up with the times, to absorb scientific discoveries, especially after that embarrassing business with Galileo?

Does the Church "know something"...or has the Church always known something that we don't know, or is that just the impression that it wants us to have. If the Church does know something, what is it, and how and when was it discovered? Is it true then that the Bible itself contains descriptions of alien life and technology? Is the Church finally waking up and smelling Ezekiel's wheel.

And what has the Church been doing sinking all these resources into these impressive observatories in Italy and Arizona to study the skies? Why is this research group directly supported by the Vatican?

For a Church that has over time seen all beings as being in need of conversion, why would it now be so generous in its appraisal of aliens, sight unseen (as far as we know). Female humans are not allowed to become priests. Will female aliens be allowed to become priests? And how can the Church be so comfortable bigging up the aliens when it doesn't even accept that animals on this planet have spiritual souls? Why has the Church been so careful not to class the aliens as heathens when it did so readily enough with non-believers and native peoples all over the world? I predict some wrigglings and contortions ahead:

--What if some of these alien races are hermaphrodites? Will only the male parts be ordained?

--And what if a male alien were to have a child with a female human? Would that child be born "partly" without original sin?...Would it be the top or the bottom half of the halfbreed child that would stand in need of baptism and conversion?

--What if the aliens were to look like lizards and walk like lizards and embrace with joy the lizards on earth as their long-lost brothers? Would that association change the status of the earth lizards' souls?

Is the Church so desperate to increase the membership that it wants first dibs at welcoming alien life into the fold?

OR, assuming that human beings arrived on this planet and have made scientific leaps only through alien intervention, is the Church now afraid of the grilling that it is going to get from its extraterrestrial overlords about how well over time, it has impacted the intelligent and humane evolution of mankind.

That Bull, Inter Caetera has not yet been repealed. The Church is not even close to concluding the long list of apologies that its earthling victims, both dead and alive, are awaiting. Its human members, meanwhile, are doing a grassroots downsizing by jumping off the mother ship in droves. There is a now a shortage of priests and churches are being closed. You'd think that this Church would be paying more attention to fixing its business here on earth than to over-extending itself to alien territory.

Update: The year after this was posted, the Vatican hosted a conference of over 30 astronomers, biologists, geologists and religious leaders to discuss the question of the existence of extraterrestrials. This event ran from November 6-11, 2009, and was put on by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences at the Casina Pio IV on the Vatican grounds.
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"Patria est communis omnium parens" - Our native land is the common parent of us all. Keep it beautiful, make it even more so.

Blessed is all of creation
Blessed be my beautiful people
Blessed be the day of our awakening
Blessed is my country
Blessed are her patient hills.

Mweh ka allay!
Guanaguanare