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Fascists – Hell Rome
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Stalingrad, 1943. “Dude, where is my Father?”














“A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.” (Douglas MacArthur, year unknown)


 



General of the Armed Forces Douglas MacArthur together with Jesuit professor in geopolitics fr. Edmund Walsh S.J. who founded Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in 1919.














Say. No. More.



Hugo Chavez. Filling the void after Fidel Castro.










TIME magazine, 2005. Hell Rome









“The great masses of the people … will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.” (Adolf Hitler)




Celebration of Adolfs birthday in Berlin 1935 together with papal nuncio Cesare Orsenigo. Please note Adolfs schoolboy smirk.



Christmas Party



Christmas Party


 










The above symbol with the shortening “SS” represents:


1. Schutzstaffel [German for "Squadron"]


x. Sedes Sacrorum or Santa Sede [Latin for "Holy See"]


2. Both of “1″ and “x” are correct.












Adolf Hitler. Roman Catholicism.









Sieg Des Glaubens [Hail the Faith] , Leni Riefenstahl, 1933. I wonder which faith they are referring to.



 


 




Snapshot from the film; Adolf meeting up with with Goebbels and Franz von Papen. Pomp and high spirits.


Ardent Roman Catholic von Papen signed the Reichskonkordat together with Pope Pius XII in Rome the same year the film was made (1933). After that, Hitler was given the position of absolute dictatorship mainly because the Roman Catholic Zentrum party dissolved itself, which was one of the conditions of the Concordat itself.


During the war, von Papen chilled out as ambassador to Turkey. Close to to the end, he was “captured” by “allied” troops in Germany, and had to serve a “prison sentence” until 1949. His title as “Papal Chamberlain” was restored in 1959 by pope Paul XXIII. All the time, he had been a Knight of Malta.


Franz von Papen died in 1969, at the age of 89.



Easy-going roadtrip with Adolf and good chum Franz von Papen, also 1933.










Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler. White key (silver?)



Did anyone in this city state lose a silver key?











Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler.



Seal of the Jesuit order, a.k.a. Society of Jesus.









“The framers wanted to build a “novus ordo” that would secure “liberty and justice for all” … The underlying principle of this new order is the fact of human sin. To build a republic designed for sinners, then, is the indispensable task. … There is no use building a social system for saints. There are too few of them. And those there are are impossible to live with! … Any effective social system must therefore be designed for the only moral majority there is: sinners.” (Michael Novak, Jesuit political scientist in America, the weekly magazine for American Jesuits, 1989)




Washington DC, Pentagram goat structure, mouth at white house




George Washington, Goat pose. “As above, so below” cabalistic hand signs”










“Buried Standard” of Loyola painted in 17th century. Brought down for conservation in 1908, uncovered in the last years. Situated in Church of the Gesu in Rome which is the mother church of the Jesuits. Shown periodically. Loyola recieves red flag from deity. This entitles him to wage holy war on heretics in the mind of a Jesuit. Of course it is just a picture. Below some carriers of red flags.



Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, 1870 – 1924.



Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili, 1878 – 1953.



Mao Zedong, 1893 – 1976.



Adolf Hitler, der bannerträger, 1889 – 1945.










I, …………………….., Now, in the presence of Almighty God, the Blessed Virgin Mary, the blessed Michael the Archangel, the blessed St. John the Baptist, the holy Apostles St. Peter and St. Paul and all the saints and the sacred hosts of heaven, and to you, my ghostly father, the Superior general of the Society of Jesus, founded by St. Ignatius of Loyola, in the Pontificate of Paul the Third, and continued to the present, do by the womb of the Virgin, the matrix of God, and the rod of Jesus Christ, declare and swear, that his holiness the Pope is Christ’s Viceregent and is the true and only Head of the Catholic or Universal Church throughout the earth; and that by virtue of the keys of binding and loosing, given to his Holiness by my Saviour, Jesus Christ, he hath power to depose heretical kings, princes, states, commonwealths and governments, all being illegal without his sacred confirmation and that they may safely be destroyed. Therefore, to the utmost of my power, I shall and will defend this doctrine and his Holiness’ right and custom against all usurpers of the heretical or Protestant authority and churches of England and Scotland, and branches of the same now established in Ireland and on the Continent of America and elsewhere; and all adherents in the regard that they be usurped and heretical, opposing the sacred Mother Church of Rome. I do now renounce and disown any allegiance as due to any heretical king, prince or state named Protestants or Liberals or obedience to any of their laws, magistrates or officers.


I do further declare that the doctrines of the churches of England and Scotland, of the Calvinists, Huguenots and others of the name Protestants or Liberals to be damnable, and they themselves damned and to be damned who will not forsake the same.


I do further declare that I will help, assist and advise all or any of his Holiness’ agents in any place wherever I shall be, in Switzerland, Germany, Holland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, England, Ireland, or America, or in any other kingdom or territory I shall come to, and do my uttermost to extirpate the heretical Protestants or Liberals’ doctrines and to destroy all their pretended powers, regal or otherwise.


I do further promise and declare, that notwithstanding I am dispensed with, to assume any religion heretical, for the propagating of the Mother Church’s interest, to keep secret and private all her agents counsels’ from time to time, as they may entrust me, and not to divulge, directly or indirectly, by word, writing or circumstance whatever; but to execute all that shall be proposed, given in charge or discovered unto me, by you, my ghostly father, or any of this sacred convent.


I do further promise and declare, that I will have no opinion or will of my own, or any mental reservation whatever, even as a corpse or cadaver, but will unhesitatingly obey each and every command that I may receive from my superiors in the Militia of the Pope and Jesus Christ.


That I will go to any part of the world whithersoever I may be sent, to the frozen regions of the North, the burning sands of the desert of Africa, or the jungles of India, to the centres of civilization of Europe, or to the wild haunts of the savages of America, without murmuring or repining, and will be submissive in all things commanded to me.


I furthermore promise and declare that I will, when opportunity presents, make and wage relentless war, secretly or openly, against all heretics, Protestants and Liberals, as I am directed to do, to extirpate and exterminate them from the face of the whole earth; and that I will spare neither age, nor sex or condition; and that I will hang, burn, waste, spoil, flay, strangle, and bury alive these infamous heretics, rip up the stomachs and wombs of their women and crush their infants’ heads against the walls, in order to annihilate forever their execrable race. That when the same cannot be done openly, I will secretly use the poisoned cup, the strangulating cord, the steel of the poinard or the leaden bullet, regardless of the honor, rank, dignity, or authority of the person or persons, whatever may be their condition in life, either public or private, as I at any time may be directed to do so by any agent of the Pope or Superior of the Brotherhood of the Holy Faith, of the Society of Jesus.


In confirmation of which, I hereby dedicate my life, soul, and all of my coporeal powers, and with this dagger which I now receive, I will subscribe my name written in my own blood, in testimony thereof; and should I prove false or weaken in my determination, may my brethren and fellow soldiers of the Militia of the Pope cut off my hands and feet, and my throat from ear to ear, my belly opened and sulphur burned therein, with all the punishment that can be inflicted upon me on earth, and my soul to be tortured by demons in an eternal hell forever.


All of which I, ……………………, do swear by the blessed Trinity and blessed Sacrament, which I am about to receive, to perform and on my part to receive inviolably; and do call all of the heavenly and glorious host of heaven to witness these my real intentions to keep this my oath.


In testimony hereof I take this most holy and blessed sacrament of the Eucharist, and witness the same further, with my name written with the point of this dagger dipped in my own blood and sealed in the face of this holy convent.









Etymology of the word Holocaust;


Old Greek Holokauston:   Holo —> whole, entire, total + Kauston —> burn ===> Total burning.


The word first appeared in English around 1250, and gradually came to signify Sacrificial Burning.










“… We shall slay one third of the [Orthodox] Serbian population, drive away another [third], and the rest we shall convert to the Roman Catholic faith and thus assimilate into Croats. Thus we will destroy every trace of theirs, and all that which will be left, will be an evil memory of them ….” (Mile Budak, Chief ideologist behind the Ustaša, 1941)



Mile Budak.



Ustaša.



Roman Catholic horror









Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini. Also known as Paul VI between 1963-1978.



Pope John VI, masonic handshaking.



Again, This time with “Patriarch of Constantinople” of the Orthodox Church.



Split V-sign of right hand. Freemasonry.


 









“We’re talking about a crime. You must think on a different level, like the CIA does. We’re through the looking glass. White is black. And black is white. ” (Kevin Costner as Jim Garrison in JFK as directed by Oliver Stone, 1991)


Costner




“We should always be prepared so as never to err to believe that what I see as white is black, if the hierarchic Church defines it thus.” (St. Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Jesuit order)


Loyola - Fanatical Catholic fundamentalist militant








Tony Blair … 666






… who officially converted to Catholicism in 2007



Masonic handshake with the Pope















Joseph Goebbels. Hell Rome. Accidentally flanked by some other Nazis and unidentified Roman Catholic clergy









“Wenn ich Kultur höre … entsichere ich meinen Browning!”  ["Whenever I hear [the word] ‘Culture’… I remove the safety from my Browning!”] (Hanns Johst, German Nazi playwright from “Schlageter” which was written especially for Adolf Hitler’s birthday in 1933)



Hanns Johst.


The quote has also been linked to other Nazis, such as Hermann Göring and Julius Streicher.


BISMARCK’S KULTURKAMPF (1871-1878), which was the expression of anti-Catholic policy, namely cleansing the Prussian empire from subversive and manipulative Vatican influence including banning the order of the Jesuits. This lead to, among other things, a two-year imprisonment of Cardinal Mieczyslaw Ledochówski, who was the uncle of Wlodimir Ledóchowski. The latter became Superior General of the Jesuits from 1915 until his death in 1942. After his imprisonment, Mieczyslaw returned to the Vatican and played the role of a highly venerated and influential authority. Wlodimir was only eight years old when his uncle was incarcerated.


The Prussians have payed for their resistance to Roman catholicism the last 100 years. First through almost complete destruction of infrastructure and slaughter through the wars of 1914-1918 and 1939-1945, and then through the slower process of demoralization, geographical disruption and spiritual death which lasted until 1990 during the “Communist” era. Today the annihilation of Bismarck’s legacy is near completion.



Cartoon from the old times. Bismarck and the Pope.



Religious situation in Central Europe around 1618.










Grigori Rasputin. Crafty and evil Jesuit black priest who infiltrated the Russian royal family and threw it into darkness?



Cartoon from back then.



In bed with Satan. Claw-hand?



Claw-hand?


 










Klu Klux Klan. Concealed idiot in front of burning cross. Hell Rome.



Let’s indoctrinate and destroy our children immediately!


 










Wewelsburg Castle in Westphalia is the only triangular castle in Europe. That’s probably why the very sick inquisitor Heinrich Himmler liked it so much and turned it into his own “Reich SS leadership school” from 1934 until the “demise” of the infamous “thousand-year reich”.



Smirk of arrogant infamous satanic blasé.










Unidentified Roman Catholic Clergy










Erik Prince, founder of Blackwater Worldwide. Overt convert to Roman Catholicism.


Hell Rome.




















Silvio Berlusconi










Paolo di Canio









Two thousand years ago the proudest boast was civis Romanus sum [I am a Roman citizen]. Today, in the world of freedom, the proudest boast is ‘Ich bin ein Berliner!’… All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin, and, therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words ‘Ich bin ein Berliner!’ (John F. Kennedy in Berlin, June 26 1963)


John F. Kennedy was assassinated under obscure circumstances on November 22 the same year.










“Is Rome worth one good man’s life? We believed it once. Make us believe it again. He was a soldier of Rome. Honor him.” (“Lucilla”, Gladiator, 2000)



Yeeeahh!!!









“The third Reich is the first power, which not only recognizes, but puts into practice, the high principles of the papacy.” (Vice-Bundeskanzler Franz von Papen, Der Voelkischer Beobachter, Jan. 14, 1934.)




Von Papen and Cardinal Pacelli (later Pius XII) sign a Concordat (agreement) between the Vatican city state and Nazi Germany in Rome, 1933.









“Throughout Christendom, Protestantism was menaced by formidable foes. The first triumphs of the Reformation past, Rome summoned new forces, hoping to accomplish its destruction. At this time the order of the Jesuits was created, the most cruel, unscrupulous, and powerful of all the champions of popery. Cut off from earthly ties and human interests, dead to the claims of natural affection, reason and conscience wholly silenced, they knew no rule, no tie, but that of their order, and no duty but to extend its power. The gospel of Christ had enabled its adherents to meet danger and endure suffering, undismayed by cold, hunger, toil, and poverty, to uphold the banner of truth in face of the rack, the dungeon, and the stake. To combat these forces, Jesuitism inspired its followers with a fanaticism that enabled them to endure like dangers, and to oppose to the power of truth all the weapons of deception. There was no crime too great for them to commit, no deception too base for them to practice, no disguise too difficult for them to assume. Vowed to perpetual poverty and humility, it was their studied aim to secure wealth and power, to be devoted to the overthrow of Protestantism, and the re-establishment of the papal supremacy.

When appearing as members of their order, they wore a garb of sanctity, visiting prisons and hospitals, ministering to the sick and the poor, professing to have renounced the world, and bearing the sacred name of Jesus, who went about doing good. But under this blameless exterior the most criminal and deadly purposes were often concealed. It was a fundamental principle of the order that the end justifies the means. By this code, lying, theft, perjury, assassination, were not only pardonable but commendable, when they served the interests of the church. Under various disguises the Jesuits worked their way into offices of state, climbing up to be the counselors of kings, and shaping the policy of nations. They became servants to act as spies upon their masters. They established colleges for the sons of princes and nobles, and schools for the common people; and the children of Protestant parents were drawn into an observance of popish rites. All the outward pomp and display of the Romish worship was brought to bear to confuse the mind and dazzle and captivate the imagination, and thus the liberty for which the fathers had toiled and bled was betrayed by the sons. The Jesuits rapidly spread themselves over Europe, and wherever they went, there followed a revival of popery.” (E. G. White, The Great Controversy, pp. 234, 235, Pacific Press Publishing Assn., 1911).















“I am Your Father.” (Darth Vader, The Empire Strikes Back, 1980)



Father Francisco de Borgia, 3rd Superior General of the Jesuit order



Father Wlodimir Ledóchowski, 26th Superior General of the Jesuit order



The Venerable Father Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Maria Pacelli; Pope Pius XII











Bellamy Salute










USA Congress. Politicians surrounded by the Fasces.










Ferenc Szálasi









“As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice.”


“I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator.”


“Who says I am not under the special protection of God?”


“The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.”


“Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.”



Adolf Hitler – Horrific Perversion










John Kerry










Reinhard Heydrich










Heinrich Himmler










OK, sure. I´ll look into that.











Cardinal Pacelli (later Pope Pius XII)










Vladimir Putin, Dmitry Medvedev










Complex 320-325 of Coronado naval base in San Diego, California.


This American military complex has the shape of a Swastika. It was built between 1967 and 1970. You can see it for Yourself with Google Earth. Elite brainwashed Navy SEAL troops are trained here. The structure of the building is related to:


I. A mistake and funny coincidence.


X. Architectural sarcasm.


2. The fact that we are under freemasonic fascist supremacy.






















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The Inquisition Is Alive and Kicking

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The Inquisition Is Alive and Kicking

An interesting piece found via a Countinuing Counter Reformation comment box

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Disclaimer.I will provide a train of unconventional and controversial information. The intention is not to blog, but to create an archive which is relatively independent from time. This is a repository of my own thoughts, and I will continue to write as long as I can handle a keyboard, irrespective of feedback from the surrounding. I will periodically alter or withdraw information which I come to consider incorrect or misleading according to the due course of my own learning. Everything has to start somewhere, but after that point one must remain as objective as possible, and thereby become able to change any given subjective opinion at any time in order to stay honest in relation to oneself.

Unfortunately most people choose ignorance, simply because it is easier to anesthetize oneself with fake truths than to choose the narrow road and experience what Jean Paul Sartre called “the vertiginous feeling of absolute freedom”.

It is exactly this chosen ignorance which leads to concepts like “the banality of evil”, and in turn gives rise to genocide, war, slavery and other horrors.

Sadly, human beings throughout history have tended to discover their evils in retrospect, because the greatest horrors are brought ahead by false prophets.

This is nothing new, it has always been this way. Thus one should not hope or strive to inform others.

Although nobody is perfect, any human being can be beautiful and has the power to save him or herself to become one with God. That is beyond race, capacity or belief system. Many great people have lived and died in silence with fulfilment and happiness accompanied by superior knowledge. They are the “happy few” as I see it.

The actual truth is more insane than most people can imagine, but we owe it to the victims to speak it. It lies behind and beside the official explanations.

“Do not participate in the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but instead even expose them” (Ephesians 5:11)

Added on the 31 of December, 2010;

At this point, even though there would be much more to add, my own learning on the subjects of this archive has come to an end.
As saddened by the state of these matters as I am, I still believe that it is in the right and capacity of every person to reach an independent spirituality and connection with God untainted by the forces of evil. I will try my best to succeed with this myself in a simple life, and wish everyone else inclined to do so the best of luck.

Just remember that the inquisition is very much alive and kicking.
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Pope Sets Up Financial Oversight for Vatican

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Pope Sets Up Financial Oversight for Vatican

This article comes from the Catholic News Service.
Pope signs new measures to guarantee financial transparency in Vatican



By John Thavis

Catholic News Service



VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Benedict XVI has instituted a new agency to monitor all Vatican financial operations and make sure they meet international norms against money-laundering and the financing of terrorism.



The pope issued an apostolic letter Dec. 30 that established the Financial Information Authority as an independent agency to oversee the monetary and commercial activities of all Vatican-related institutions, including the Vatican bank.



At the same time, the Vatican promulgated a detailed new law that defined financial crimes and established penalties -- including possible jail time -- for their violation. The list of transgressions includes corruption, market manipulation, fraud and virtually any activity that facilitates or provides funding to acts of terrorism. The new law, which reflects the latest European Union regulations, takes effect April 1.



The pope's brief apostolic letter said the Vatican fully supported the international community's efforts to coordinate a response to financial crimes, which often involve more than one country.



"In our age of increasing globalization, peace is unfortunately threatened by many factors, including an improper use of the market and the economy, and the terrible and destructive violence perpetrated by terrorism, which causes death, suffering, hatred and social instability," the pope said.



The creation of such an oversight agency is unprecedented at the Vatican, where several departments have operated with some degree of financial independence for decades or centuries.



The Vatican spokesman, Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, described the move as a courageous step that reflects the moral requirement of "transparency, honesty and responsibility" in the Vatican's operations.



"Vatican organizations will be less vulnerable in the face of the continuous risks that inevitably arise in the handling of money. Those errors which so quickly become the cause of 'scandal' for public opinion and the faithful will be avoided," Father Lombardi said.



"In the final analysis, the church will be more credible before the members of the international community, and this is of vital importance for her evangelical mission," he said.



The move came several months after Italian treasury police, in a money-laundering probe, seized 23 million euros (US$30 million) that the Vatican bank had deposited in a Rome bank account. The Vatican criticized the confiscation, saying the deposit was legitimate and that the Vatican bank was committed to "full transparency" in its operations.



The Vatican has been working for some time with Italian and international authorities to comply with procedures that ensure funds are not used for terrorism or money-laundering. The new documents represent the fruit of those efforts.



In addition, the Vatican announced three new laws aimed at curbing counterfeiting of euros and currency fraud.



The Financial Information Authority will operate with full autonomy and monitor all Vatican agencies that have financial dealings or commercial transactions. That includes major institutions like the Vatican City State, the Vatican bank, the Vatican's investment agency (APSA) and the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, and smaller agencies like the Vatican pharmacy, supermarket and the Vatican Museums.



The authority will be headed by a president and a council of four other people, all appointed by the pope. The president will name a director and additional staff. The appointments were expected to be announced in early 2011.



In addition to investigating reports of suspicious activity, the authority is obligated to examine any new business relationships by Vatican agencies and any single transaction involving more than 15,000 euros ($20,000). The authority has access to all financial and administrative records of the agencies; Vatican officials and employees are required to furnish all such information, an exception to the normal rules of secrecy in Vatican institutions.



All Vatican agencies are now required to verify the standing of any potential business partners, keep detailed records of all transactions and report any suspicious transactions. Anyone entering or leaving Vatican City with 10,000 euros or more in cash must now declare it in writing.



If the Financial Information Authority investigates and discovers evidence of financial impropriety, it is to report its findings to the Vatican's judicial system for prosecution. If a conviction results in a prison sentence, it would presumably be served in Italy, in accordance with an agreement between the Vatican and the Italian government.



The Vatican bank handles accounts of religious orders and other Catholic institutions. It was involved in a major Italian banking scandal in the 1980s, when fraud led to the collapse of Italy's Banco Ambrosiano. Although denying wrongdoing, Vatican bank officials made what they called a "good-will payment" of about $240 million to the failed bank's creditors.
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Crime UK Inmates Set Fire to Prison After Refusing Alcohol Breath Tests on New Year’s Eve

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Crime UK Inmates Set Fire to Prison After Refusing Alcohol Breath Tests on New Year’s Eve

Scott Baker

LONDON (AP) — Rioting inmates caused heavy damage to a low-security prison Saturday, smashing windows and setting fires that engulfed buildings and spewed clouds of black smoke.


Officials said about 40 inmates at Ford Open Prison near Arundel, 60 miles (95 kms) south of London, began the disturbance at around midnight New Year’s Eve after some prisoners refused to take breath tests for alcohol.


By midday, two buildings were still ablaze, though fires had been extinguished at several other buildings, which were heavily damaged.


The prison’s staff retreated and specialist officers were called in to handle the riot, the Ministry of Justice said. There were no immediate reports of injuries to staff or inmates.


The prison houses up to 500 offenders with less than two years remaining on their sentences to prepare them for release.


Mark Freeman, deputy general secretary of the Prison Officers Association, said the riot started after some prisoners refused to take breath tests. At the time, only two prison officers and four support staff were on duty, he said.


Freeman said a large amount of alcohol had been found at the prison.

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Another Ellipse around the Sun

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Another Ellipse around the Sun

The last year took you far--hundreds of millions of miles, in fact. Steve Mirsky reports


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Happy New Year! And don't feel bad about taking today off. After all, you've traveled far. And I'm not talking about the trip home from the party last night. According to NASA, just by being on the planet Earth in the last year, you’ve zipped about 584 million miles around the sun to get back where you were. At an average speed of about 67,000 miles per hour. Again, not talking about the drive home last night.

Of course, the trip was not a perfect circle. As Kepler showed, the Earth’s orbit is an ellipse, with the sun at one of the two focal points. He also figured out the planet goes faster when it’s at perihelion, nearer the sun, than when it's at aphelion, its farthest distance.

Which would explain why summer seems to zip by, except the seasons are a function of the tilt of the Earth’s axis, not its different distances from the sun. And the Earth rotated 365 and a quarter times during its sweep around the sun. The trip took 8,766 hours. Or 31,557,600 seconds. Or 525,960 minutes just like this one.

—Steve Mirsky

[The above text is an exact transcript of this podcast.]

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Propane Leak Prompts Evacuation of 3,000 People on Long Island

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Propane Leak Prompts Evacuation of 3,000 People on Long Island

By AL BAKER

Propane seeping from a 30,000-gallon underground tank behind a department store in Suffolk County early Saturday led emergency officials to evacuate about 3,000 people from 900 homes within one mile of the leak, the authorities said.


Officials also closed the major roadways leading through the area, on Montauk Highway, in Shirley, N.Y., and Long Island Rail Road service in that region was temporarily suspended. The power to a grid serving southeastern Suffolk was also turned off as a precaution against ignition of the fumes.


By midday Saturday, no injuries had been reported, the officials said. “Propane is a very volatile substance that could explode,” said Steve Levy, the Suffolk County executive. “It is also heavier than air, so it will settle in one’s home, and this is not the type of substance you want to be breathing.”


About 1:15 a.m. Saturday, the driver of a propane delivery truck noticed a plume of vapors rising from the ground as he pumped around 9,000 gallons of fuel into the tank behind the Kohl’s department store at Montauk Highway and William Floyd Parkway, officials said.


Police officers, Town of Brookhaven workers and members of several volunteer agencies, including the Mastic Fire Department, converged on the area and began to knock on doors to get people out.


Many residents “found comfort with friends and relatives,” Mr. Levy said. But about 200 people were taken to an emergency shelter at William Floyd High School, in Mastic Beach. There, in coordination with the American Red Cross and county social service agency workers, evacuees were provided with “medicine and food,” he added.


Several large trucks were brought in and spent Saturday extracting the remaining propane from the faulty tank, he said.


By Saturday evening, Mr. Levy’s office announced that the leak had been successfully contained by closing a valve on the tank. Earlier, he had said that possible causes of the leak were a malfunctioning valve or a cracked pipe.


Officials gave the evacuated residents permission to return about 8:30 p.m. Saturday, said Dan Aug, Mr. Levy’s spokesman. Mr. Aug said that tests of more than 100 homes showed propane levels “low enough that it’s safe now for everybody to return to their homes.”

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