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| UK concludes biggest pandemic simulation with virus targeting children |
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Posted by: Stone - 11-25-2025, 02:20 PM - Forum: Global News
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Summary from disclose.tv:
Quote:UK concludes biggest pandemic simulation with virus targeting children
This autumn, the UK conducted Exercise Pegasus, the country’s biggest pandemic simulation in nearly a decade and its first Tier 1 national emergency exercise since Covid-19. Concluding last month, it involved ministers, all devolved nations, COBRA activation and every major government department. Participants faced a fictional novel strain of enterovirus D68 (EV-D68) that originated on the imaginary southeast Asian island of Musiyana after a food festival.
Unlike Covid-19, the simulated virus primarily killed infants, children and teenagers, causing respiratory failure, brain swelling and occasional paralysis. The three-phase drill began in September with regional spread in Asia, progressed in October to a WHO-declared pandemic with school closures, hospital strain and street protests over social distancing, then escalated in November to national lockdown, non-essential business shutdowns, travel bans and fears of food shortages from potential pig herd infection.
Sir Peter Horby, Director of the Pandemic Sciences Institute at Oxford University said:
Quote:“The choice of an enterovirus is a good choice because it is a real possibility with real risks but is different from what we have seen before,”
Ministers tested both containment and mitigation decisions, including whether early travel restrictions could keep the virus out of Britain. The exercise followed Covid Inquiry findings that pre-2020 plans focused only on coping with high deaths rather than prevention, and that school closures “brought ordinary childhood to a halt”.
Lessons from Pegasus will be published next year.
Full article here:
Schools locked down again in secret pandemic drills
Exclusive: Exercise Pegasus imagined a virus deadly to children spreading around the world from an island in southeast Asia
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News of the drill comes a week after the Covid Inquiry found the UK did ‘too little, too late’ to contain and mitigate the virus Credit: TOLGA AKMEN/AFP via Getty Images
telegraph.co.uk [slightly adapted, not all hyperlinks included from original] | 25 November 2025
Schools across the UK were locked down this autumn as part of a state drill to tackle the threat of a new deadly virus.
Exercise Pegasus, which concluded last month and involved all major government departments, was the biggest pandemic simulation exercise the country has ever held.
Those participating in the drill were told a novel enterovirus had broken out on a fictional Island in southeast Asia before spreading across the world.
Unlike Covid-19, which disproportionately affected older age groups, the new virus was most lethal in the young. The virus, “EV-D68”, was said to cause respiratory failure, brain swelling and – in rare cases – paralysis in infants, children and teenagers.
The spread of the imagined virus resulted in travel restrictions, school and business closures and mask wearing in the UK and around the world.
Ministers involved in the drill also had to “wargame” dealing with fictional street protests over social distancing, the Telegraph understands.
News of the drill comes a week after the second module of the Covid Inquiry found the UK did “too little, too late” to contain and mitigate Covid-19 in the early part of 2020 and prevent a series of ruinous national lockdowns.
Closing schools “brought ordinary childhood to a halt” and the decision to shut them had a “profound consequence” on children, it said.
‘A realistic pandemic scenario’
Exercise Pegasus was designated a “Tier 1” national emergency exercise, meaning it involved ministerial participation, all devolved nations and activation of COBRA, the Cabinet Office Briefing Rooms.
It ran in three parts in September, October and November this year and imagined a novel version of EV-D68 had triggered a pandemic.
It’s key purpose was “to simulate a realistic pandemic scenario, and is the first of its kind in nearly a decade,” according to a NHS briefing document.
The real EV-D68 is a respiratory virus first isolated in California in 1962, which has gained global traction. As well as respiratory disease and meningitis, it can cause a polio-like paralysis in children known as acute flaccid paralysis.
“The choice of an enterovirus is a good choice because it is a real possibility with real risks but is different from what we have seen before,” said Sir Peter Horby, Professor of Emerging Infections and Global Health at the University of Oxford and the Director of the Pandemic Sciences Institute.
“The big question for me would be, has anything really changed since Covid?” added Sir Peter, who was not involved in the exercise. “Have the systems changed and were the responses different?”
In Phase 1 of the Exercise Pegasus, participants were told an outbreak of a novel enterovirus had occurred on the fictional Island of “Musiyana” in southeast Asia and that it had already spread to Malaysia and Singapore.
The outbreak followed a local “food festival”, a child had died on 17 September and the virus was “considered to have pandemic potential”.
It is not clear if travel restrictions were recommended by UK ministers at this point in an attempt to prevent the virus getting to Britain, but the Telegraph understands a range of travel restrictions were in place by the end of the exercise.
In Phase 2 of the simulation, the World Health Organization (WHO) formally declared a pandemic, schools were closed and hospitals started to come under pressure. Protests over social distancing also broke out.
COBRA was told that, like Covid, the virus can be spread through respiratory aerosols and droplets and that “asymptomatic spread cannot be excluded”.
In Phase 3, a national lockdown was declared and non-essential businesses ordered to close. There were also fears that the virus – thought to be carried in pigs – could also cause food shortages if UK herds became infected.
The first part of the Covid Inquiry found the UK’s pandemic plan ahead of that outbreak was flawed in that it failed to consider preventing a novel virus sweeping across Britain in the first place.
“It focused on only one type of pandemic, failed adequately to consider prevention or proportionality of response, and paid insufficient attention to the economic and social consequences of pandemic response,” said the Inquiry.
“When it was said that the UK was well prepared before the Covid-19 pandemic, this meant at the time that the UK should have been able to manage the deaths of [837,500] people – not that it was prepared to prevent them,” it added.
It is not clear what measures ministers ordered during the Exercise Pegasus to try and prevent the virus getting to the UK, but the exercise was designed to test government decision making around “containment” as well as “mitigation”, say government documents.
Closing schools during the Covid-19 lockdowns “brought ordinary childhood to a halt,” the second part of the Covid Inquiry found. No plans had been made ahead of the pandemic that would have allowed for a quick switch to remote learning.
“The decisions to close schools and early years provision to most children and to implement a lockdown were steps taken to protect the adult population. They brought ordinary childhood to a halt,” concluded the Inquiry.
In Exercise Pegasus, the imagined virus was most lethal to children – presenting ministers with a different challenge around schools.
It is not thought that any ministers walked out during the exercise as happened during Exercise Cygnus in 2016, when the then Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt downed tools when it became clear hospitals would be overrun and he was asked to decide who should get care and who should not.
“The hospitals were full and Hunt was asked to make the call as part of the exercise. But instead of doing so he basically said ‘I’m not playing any more’. People were very cross as it mucked up the exercise,” recalled one observer.
Mr Hunt said he had paused the exercise to argue that such decisions indicated insufficient planning and maintains that his action prompted improvements in the UK’s pandemic planning protocols ahead of the Covid-19 outbreak.
The Department of Health and Social Care is expected to publish a report about the drill next year.
A Government spokesperson emphasised for the avoidance of doubt that the lockdowns were not real but a table to exercise, and said: “Exercise Pegasus concluded this autumn and was the largest simulation of a pandemic in UK history, involving every government department, all four nations, and many government agencies.
“A fictional scenario was designed to test participants and improve public bodies’ ability to respond to a pandemic.
“Learnings will be taken to strengthen the UK’s ability to protect the public, and findings will be published as part of the Government’s commitment to transparency.”
Trudie Lang, Professor of Global Health Research at The University of Oxford, said pandemic drills like Exercise Pegasus were now being held around the world and that there was a need to better share the results and findings.
“These exercises are really important as they throw up barriers and innovations you might not have foreseen but they should be made open and shared internationally in a curateable form,” she said.
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| More than 300 students, staff abducted from Catholic school in Nigeria last week |
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Posted by: Stone - 11-25-2025, 12:12 PM - Forum: Anti-Catholic Violence
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More than 300 students, staff abducted from Catholic school in Nigeria last week
Initial estimates were that 52 children were abducted from St. Mary's Catholic boarding school, but recent reports indicate that it was 315 students and 12 teachers.
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(LifeSiteNews [slightly adapted - not all hyperlinks included from original]) — Attacks on Christians in Nigeria have reached new heights after more than 300 students and staff at a Catholic school in Papiri were abducted last week.
“I make a heartfelt appeal that the hostages be immediately released, and I urge the competent authorities to take appropriate and timely decisions to ensure their liberation,” Pope Leo said after Sunday Mass this weekend in St. Peter’s Square.
On Friday, gunmen forcibly took some 315 students and 12 of their teachers from St. Mary’s Catholic boarding school in Niger State, making it one of the worst kidnappings the country has ever seen. Initial estimates were that 52 children were taken.
“The gunmen were on about 50 motorcycle bikes while controlling them,” one of the children’s fathers told the BBC. “Some children were falling and the men would kick them and instruct them to stand up.”
Prayers seem to have been answered as the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has reported that 50 students have been returned to their families.
“The pupils escaped between Friday and Saturday and have reunited with their parents as they could not return to the school after they escaped,” a spokesman for CAN’s Niger State chapter said.
Niger State promptly closed all schools after the abduction.
The Sisters of Our Lady of Apostles operate St. Mary’s. The group’s leader, Sr. Mary Barron, asked for “prayers and spiritual solidarity” in an appeal following news of the kidnapping.
“We believe deeply in the power of unified prayer. We need as many people as possible to lift this community before God during this moment of suffering and uncertainty. May God, in God’s infinite mercy, protect the innocent, guide leaders to act with justice, and bring all those taken back home safely,” she said.
READ: Trump’s UN ambassador calls persecution of Nigerian Christians a ‘genocide’
Friday’s attack is the third major incident reported in recent weeks. Last Wednesday, gunmen killed at least two people and kidnapped several more in an attack on a church in Eruku, a town in the central Kwara State. Also last week attackers abducted 25 girls from a predominantly Muslim boarding school.
On Tuesday, November 18, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz described the ongoing slaughter of Christians in the country as a “genocide wearing the mask of chaos.”
Waltz made his remarks during an event hosted by the United States Mission to the United Nations. Following Waltz’s address, best-selling rapper Nicki Minaj took to the podium to express her own concerns. She previously praised President Donald Trump’s social media posts condemning the killings.
Trump previously announced that he is preparing the U.S. military to potentially “wipe out” Islamic terrorists who are killing and kidnapping Christians in the country.
Nigerian President Bola Tinubu has canceled foreign trips to South Africa and Angola, where he was scheduled to attend an African Union-European Union summit and a G20 summit. Tinubu has sent a delegation of government officials led by Nigeria’s national security advisor to the U.S. to meet with American government officials about the situation.
Findings published by the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) highlight many of the state-sponsored attacks on Christians in the country. In its 2025 report, the USCIRF urged the U.S. government to designate Nigeria as a “country of particular concern.” It also noted that “the Nigerian government remains slow or, at times, appears unwilling to respond to this violence, creating an environment of impunity for the attackers.”
Shockingly, during a keynote address for an event held at the Vatican last month, the current Secretary of State Pietro Parolin diminished the influence that Islam has played in the attacks.
The violence is “not a religious conflict, but rather more a social one, for example, disputes between herders and farmers. We should also recognize that many Muslims in Nigeria are themselves victims of this same intolerance,” he claimed.
Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, who served as Apostolic Nuncio to Nigeria from 1992 until 1998, denounced Parolin’s remarks.
“The shameful words of Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin on the alleged ‘social conflict’ in Nigeria misrepresent the reality of a ferocious and genocidal persecution against Catholics, martyred while Rome rambles on about synodality and inclusiveness,” His Excellency remarked.
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| Leo XIV Eliminates the Filioque with a Footnote |
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Posted by: Stone - 11-24-2025, 09:48 AM - Forum: Pope Leo XIV
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Leo XIV Eliminates the Filioque with a Footnote
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gloria.tv | November 23, 2025
Pope Leo XIV has issued a new Apostolic Letter titled In unitate fidei (“In the Unity of Faith”), calling Christians to renewed "dialogue" and "unity".
Released on Sunday to mark the 1,700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea, the document contains the usual word salad about "shared foundations" of the Christian faith. Next Friday, Leo XIV and the controversial Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew will visit Nicaea, near today’s Iznik in Turkey.
Credo in pluralitatem Ecclesiarum
In the new letter, Leo XIV writes that Christian unity is not about “returning” to the past, but about “an ecumenism that looks to the future, that seeks reconciliation through dialogue.”
He even speaks - contrary to the Faith in the ONE Church founded by Christ - of a “current status quo of the diversity of Churches and ecclesial communities.”
Leo XIV continues: “We must therefore leave behind theological controversies that have lost their raison d’être in order to develop a common understanding and, even more, a common prayer to the Holy Spirit, so that he may gather us all together in one faith and one love.”
The Silent Disappearance of the Filioque
The Apostolic Letter presents the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed as prayed by the schismatic Orthodox, omitting the Filioque: “I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life, who proceeds from the Father, who with the Father and the Son is adored and glorified, who has spoken through the prophets.”
The manipulative Footnote 10 says that “the statement ‘and proceeds from the Father and the Son (Filioque)’ is not found in the text of Constantinople; it was inserted into the Latin Creed by Pope Benedict VIII in 1014 and is a subject of Orthodox–Catholic dialogue.”
Necessary History Left out by the Footnote
Three synods of Toledo (400, 447, 589) approved the Creed stating that the Holy Spirit “proceeds from the Father and the Son.” It was ordered to be sung in the liturgy, becoming standard in the Mozarabic rite. From there it spread into Gallican liturgy. In 809, Charlemagne convened a synod in Aachen, Germany where theologians—especially Theodulf of Orléans—defended the Filioque as an integral part of the Christian faith.
Rome had the same doctrine but did not pray the Creed during Mass at all. In 1014, Emperor Henry II came to Rome to be crowned and was surprised that no Creed was sung at Mass there. Therefore, Pope Benedict VIII introduced the Nicene Creed with the Filioque into the Roman liturgy.
The theology behind the Filioque
The Filioque remains the necessary and fitting expression of the inner relationship of the Holy Trinity: the Son receives the entire divine essence from the Father, including the Father’s eternal spiration of the Holy Spirit.
Christ indicated this in John 16, stating that the Spirit “will take from what is Mine.”
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| Bishop Strickland denounces Pope Leo, bishops for scandalizing the faithful |
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Posted by: Stone - 11-20-2025, 11:38 AM - Forum: Vatican II and the Fruits of Modernism
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Bishop Strickland denounces Pope Leo, bishops for scandalizing the faithful
The bishop emeritus questioned the hierarchy's complacency in celebrating Mass, failing to address illegal immigration,
and welcoming same-sex 'couples' without a call to conversion.
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(LifeSiteNews [not all hyperlinks included from original]) — Bishop Joseph Strickland, in a lengthy X post Friday, asked Pope Leo XIV and all of the bishops how much longer they’ll continue to serve two masters and “scandalize the little ones” by turning a blind eye to sin.
In his November 14 post, the bishop emeritus of Tyler, Texas, questioned how long the bishops, the Vatican curia, and the Holy Father will continue to scandalize the faithful by their complacency in the celebration of irreverent and sacrilegious liturgies, welcoming same-sex “couples” into the Church without calling them to conversion, emphasizing welcoming migrants without addressing the effects of illegal immigration on native populations, and ultimately “halt between two masters.” (1 Kings 18:21) The bishop underscored that there are millstones ready to be distributed to Pope Leo a “truckload” for the Roman curia, and a “cargo load” for the vast majority of the world’s bishops who frequently scandalize the “little ones.” (Matthew 18:6)
“How long will you halt between two masters? If you believe Christ is Lord, then follow Him! If the world is your master, then go to it! But no longer profane His sanctuary while you betray the Cross!” the bishop wrote.
“Bishops, STOP with the games! STOP with the lies. STOP turning a blind eye to the little ones! A massive stockpile of millstones is ready to be distributed among you,” he added. “One for Pope Leo, a truck load for the Curia in the Vatican, and cargo ships full for the vast majority of today’s successors of the Apostles.”
Turning a blind eye to heretical Masses
His Excellency noted that while some may object to his “judging” these princes of the Church, it is these successors of the Apostles who have repeatedly inflicted harm on the little ones.
“No brothers, HOW DARE YOU inflict harm on the little ones over and over again??” the bishop wrote.
Delving into specific ways the bishops, including the bishop of Rome, have scandalized the faithful, Strickland noted that they mock the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass by turning it into little more than a “bauble” and often use these sacred liturgies to promote heresy.
“(Y)ou make the Sacred Sacrifice of Jesus Christ, the Holy Mass, a bauble, a bargaining chip for your worldly conniving, a platform for spewing heresy and playing footsie with the world,” he wrote.
Indeed, in addition to the average irreverent parish Masses, several pro-LGBT “pride” Masses and other heterodox Masses are celebrated throughout the U.S. and across the globe frequently, often without a rebuke from the celebrant’s bishop and complete silence from Rome.
READ: Homosexual priest who celebrated New York ‘pride’ Mass is member of heretical priest association
Welcoming unrepentant ‘married’ homosexuals into the Church
Strickland highlighted how priests and bishops frequently scandalize the faithful by welcoming homosexual “couples” into the Church, and Pope Leo grants them an audience without calling them to repentance for their disordered lives.
“You harm the little ones when you welcome couples caught up in sin, flaunting their sad disordered lives, and instead of calling them to repentance in Jesus Christ you have a chat about silly things and are acclaimed for being so kind,” he said. “You even welcome them into the sacred sanctuary and drape a veil of blessing over the dung of their sin.”
Within the last week, the notoriously pro-LGBT Jesuit Father James Martin celebrated a confirmation Mass for the openly homosexual ABC News correspondent Gio Benitez, who is “married” to another man. Benitez even credited Martin for his return to the Church, noting that the dissident priest had welcomed him into the Church “exactly as I am.” His partner, Tommy DiDario, whom he referred to as his husband, served as his sponsor.
READ: Fr. James Martin celebrates Confirmation Mass for homosexual ABC News anchor
According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, marriage is defined as “The matrimonial covenant, by which a man and a woman establish between themselves a partnership of the whole of life, is by its nature ordered toward the good of the spouses and the procreation and education of offspring; this covenant between baptized persons has been raised by Christ the Lord to the dignity of a sacrament.”
The Catholic Church also condemns homosexual activity, declares homosexual inclinations “objectively disordered,” and calls homosexuals to chastity and conversion.
During this week’s USCCB Fall assembly, Strickland questioned the Confirmation of the openly gay news anchor.
“I don’t know how many of us have seen on social media,” His Excellency began during the question period. “Priests and others gathered, celebrating the Confirmation of a man living with a man openly. And it just needs to be addressed.”
The USCCB refused to respond to Strickland’s concerns. Instead, session chair Bishop Daniel E. Flores acknowledged his question, saying, “Thank you, Bishop.”
Flores then promptly moved on to the next agenda item without engaging the substance of the intervention or inviting further discussion from the panel or other bishops.
Pope Leo also held a private audience with Alex Capecelatro, CEO of Josh.ai, and his homosexual “husband” Brian D. Stevens, a philanthropist who is a member of the Knights of Malta despite his scandalous lifestyle at the Vatican this week.
During the audience, the same-sex “couple” shared with the Pope how much Martin’s pro-LGBT activism “means to them,” to which Leo reportedly “nodded approvingly at the mention of that (so-called) ministry,” according to Letters from Leo, a website authored by a Democratic Party operative, Christopher Hale.
Hale further stressed that Leo did not clarify Church teaching during the audience but appeared to accept the two homosexuals as is.
Welcoming illegal aliens with open arms
Finally, Strickland noted that the bishops have urged the faithful to welcome “migrants” and staunchly oppose the enforcement of immigration law, but most will not speak about the hordes of criminals who cross the border illegally.
“You harm the little ones when you promote lawlessness and turn a blind eye to the rapes, the murders and the attacks of nefarious criminals who waltz across open borders,” he said. “Some of the little ones are caught up in these mass migrations and trampled upon as they seek a better life. Some of the little ones find their homes and towns invaded as shepherds say ‘we must welcome the stranger,’ and then allow marauders and criminals free rein.”
Since Trump returned to the White House in January, the U.S. bishops, Pope Francis, and then Pope Leo have repeatedly denounced his administration’s attempts to curb mass immigration. Pope Leo has repeatedly said that the faithful will be judged for how they “receive the foreigner,” and even falsely suggested that supporting the purported “inhuman treatment of immigrants in the United States” under Trump is the same as supporting abortion.
As Strickland noted, the vast majority of Catholic prelates, while correctly stating that countries have an obligation to treat all migrants with human dignity, have largely failed to mention the issue of the heinous crimes committed by MS-13 gang members and others entering the United States illegally, and how they are violating the human dignity of its citizens.
Other bishops have also been critical of the open border policies of the majority of Western nations.
In 2018, Bishop Athanasius Schneider told an interviewer from Milan’s Il Giornale that “the phenomenon of so-called ‘immigration’ represents an orchestrated and long-prepared plan by international powers to radically change the Christian and national identities of the European peoples.”
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