Saturday, December 12, 2009
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
The Most Wanted Man In Islam!!!
There is a SIXTY MILLION DOLLAR $60,000,000.00 Bounty on the head of Fr. Zecharia Botros!!!
This man is telling it like it is and helping thousands of Muslems to convert to Christianity!
This man is telling it like it is and helping thousands of Muslems to convert to Christianity!
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Friday, November 20, 2009
Catholic Campaign for Human Development...NO WAY!!!
This Sunday November 22, 2009, DO NOT give any money to this organization! They have been caught funding ABORTION, PROSTITUTION, and HOMOSEXUAL projects... these are things which are diametrically opposed to Catholic Teaching! There is BIG TIME DECEPTION HERE!!!
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
“Swine flu vaccine is bioweapon”???
Joseph Moshe (MOSSAD Microbiologist): “Swine flu vaccine is bioweapon”
Friday, August 21, 2009
Joseph Moshe, MOSSAD
Today, the MSM are not talking about this case any more. Yesterday, they wanted us to believe that Joseph Moshe was a nutcase and a terrorist, arrested for threatening to bomb the White House. Interesting detail about his arrest (the “Westwood standoff”) was that he seemed to be immune to the 5 cans of tear gas and 5 gallons of law-enforcement grade pepper spray they pumped into his face. He very calmly remained in his car, as the video footage of his arrest shows.
Professor Moshe had called into a live radio show by Dr. A. True Ott, (explanation of Joseph Moshe’s call at 06:00) broadcast on Republic Broadcasting claiming to be a microbiologist who wanted to supply evidence to a States Attorney regarding tainted H1N1 Swine flu vaccines being produced by Baxter BioPharma Solutions. He said that Baxter’s Ukrainian lab was in fact producing a bioweapon disguised as a vaccine. He claimed that the vaccine contained an adjuvant (additive) designed to weaken the immune system, and replicated RNA from the virus responsible for the 1918 pandemic Spanish flu, causing global sickness and mass death.
FOR FULL ARTICLE GO HERE
Friday, August 21, 2009
Joseph Moshe, MOSSAD
Today, the MSM are not talking about this case any more. Yesterday, they wanted us to believe that Joseph Moshe was a nutcase and a terrorist, arrested for threatening to bomb the White House. Interesting detail about his arrest (the “Westwood standoff”) was that he seemed to be immune to the 5 cans of tear gas and 5 gallons of law-enforcement grade pepper spray they pumped into his face. He very calmly remained in his car, as the video footage of his arrest shows.
Professor Moshe had called into a live radio show by Dr. A. True Ott, (explanation of Joseph Moshe’s call at 06:00) broadcast on Republic Broadcasting claiming to be a microbiologist who wanted to supply evidence to a States Attorney regarding tainted H1N1 Swine flu vaccines being produced by Baxter BioPharma Solutions. He said that Baxter’s Ukrainian lab was in fact producing a bioweapon disguised as a vaccine. He claimed that the vaccine contained an adjuvant (additive) designed to weaken the immune system, and replicated RNA from the virus responsible for the 1918 pandemic Spanish flu, causing global sickness and mass death.
FOR FULL ARTICLE GO HERE
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population control,
Swine flu
Friday, October 30, 2009
Monday, October 26, 2009
The Devil in Ohio
A rain of rocks
Mysterious pelting of Akron family creates a big sensation in 1878
By Mark J. Price
Beacon Journal staff writer
Published on Monday, Oct 26, 2009
Surely the devil was at work in Hell's Half Acre. What else could account for the strange manifestation that terrified a South Akron family in 1878?
German immigrant Michael Metzler Jr. and his wife, Maria, a native of Lorraine, France, felt the sting of fear when an unseen presence pelted their family with rocks for two weeks.
The Metzlers had 10 children, but only the first six were alive during the ordeal: Mary Elizabeth, 13; Emma, 10; Julia, 8; Joseph, 6; Charles, 3; and Frank, 19 months. Maria's mother, Bridget Noss, 72, also resided with them.
Michael worked as a plasterer. The family lived in a 1 1/2-story brick home on South High
Street extension, the modern-day path of South Broadway, between Thornton and Voris streets.
The neighborhood owed its devilish nickname to the Akron Iron Co., which operated a blast furnace and rolling mill a few blocks to the north.
''Many employees of the rolling mills lived in the vicinity of the plant and since many of them were heavy drinkers and often engaged in fights, that neighborhood was known for years afterward as Hell's Half Acre,'' Akron historian Karl H. Grismer wrote.
The family's troubles began Oct. 8, while Maria Metzler was shucking corn in a field next to the home. Without warning, a violent downpour of rocks fell on her. The stunned housewife couldn't tell where the projectiles originated, so she ran indoors for shelter.
FOR FULL ARTICLE GO HERE
Mysterious pelting of Akron family creates a big sensation in 1878
By Mark J. Price
Beacon Journal staff writer
Published on Monday, Oct 26, 2009
Surely the devil was at work in Hell's Half Acre. What else could account for the strange manifestation that terrified a South Akron family in 1878?
German immigrant Michael Metzler Jr. and his wife, Maria, a native of Lorraine, France, felt the sting of fear when an unseen presence pelted their family with rocks for two weeks.
The Metzlers had 10 children, but only the first six were alive during the ordeal: Mary Elizabeth, 13; Emma, 10; Julia, 8; Joseph, 6; Charles, 3; and Frank, 19 months. Maria's mother, Bridget Noss, 72, also resided with them.
Michael worked as a plasterer. The family lived in a 1 1/2-story brick home on South High
Street extension, the modern-day path of South Broadway, between Thornton and Voris streets.
The neighborhood owed its devilish nickname to the Akron Iron Co., which operated a blast furnace and rolling mill a few blocks to the north.
''Many employees of the rolling mills lived in the vicinity of the plant and since many of them were heavy drinkers and often engaged in fights, that neighborhood was known for years afterward as Hell's Half Acre,'' Akron historian Karl H. Grismer wrote.
The family's troubles began Oct. 8, while Maria Metzler was shucking corn in a field next to the home. Without warning, a violent downpour of rocks fell on her. The stunned housewife couldn't tell where the projectiles originated, so she ran indoors for shelter.
FOR FULL ARTICLE GO HERE
Saturday, October 17, 2009
Washington Health Department Suspends Mercury Restrictions for Swine Flu Vaccine
Posted by: Dr. Mercola
October 17 2009 | 18,456 views
Selecky, flu, swine flu, flu vaccine, swine flu vaccine, mercury, thimerosal, ethylmercury, methylmercuryIn preparation for swine-flu vaccinations next month, the state of Washington's Health Department has temporarily suspended a rule that limits the amount of a mercury preservative in vaccines given to pregnant women and children under the age of 3.
Thimerosal has been eliminated from most vaccines in the United States, and the compound may be linked to autism. But it will be added to the bulk of swine-flu vaccines.
Thimerosal will be added to the vaccine because it is being produced in vials that contain enough medication for 10 shots. The mercury compound kills bacteria, lowering the risk that the drug will be contaminated by needles used to withdraw separate doses.
A smaller amount of mercury-free vaccine will be produced in single-dose vials. Nasal sprays do not contain mercury but are not recommended for children under the age of 2 and pregnant women, because they contain live, weakened virus.
Five biopharmaceutical companies have been awarded massive contracts by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for development and production of more than 195 million doses of swine flu vaccine.
The companies -- Novartis, GlaxoSmithKline, MedImmune, Australian drug maker CSL, and Sanofi-Pasteur -- will likely make a great deal of money.
Drug companies have sold $1.5 billion worth of swine flu shots, in addition to the $1 billion for seasonal flu they booked earlier this year.
These inoculations are part of a much wider and rapidly growing $20 billion global vaccine market.
"The vaccine market is booming," says Bruce Carlson, spokesperson at market research firm Kalorama, which publishes an annual survey of the vaccine industry. "It's an enormous growth area for pharmaceuticals at a time when other areas are not doing so well," he says, noting that the pipeline for more traditional blockbuster drugs such as Lipitor and Nexium has thinned.
As always with pandemic flus, taxpayers are footing the $1.5 billion check for the 250 million swine flu vaccines that the government has ordered so far and will be distributing free to doctors, pharmacies and schools. In addition, Congress has set aside more than $10 billion this year to research flu viruses, monitor H1N1's progress and educate the public about prevention.
Drugmakers pocket most of the revenues from flu sales, with Sanofi-Pasteur, Glaxo Smith Kline and Novartis cornering most of the market.
But some say it's not just drugmakers who stand to benefit. Doctors collect copayments for special office visits to inject shots, and there have been assertions that these doctors actually profit handsomely from these vaccinations.
October 17 2009 | 18,456 views
Selecky, flu, swine flu, flu vaccine, swine flu vaccine, mercury, thimerosal, ethylmercury, methylmercuryIn preparation for swine-flu vaccinations next month, the state of Washington's Health Department has temporarily suspended a rule that limits the amount of a mercury preservative in vaccines given to pregnant women and children under the age of 3.
Thimerosal has been eliminated from most vaccines in the United States, and the compound may be linked to autism. But it will be added to the bulk of swine-flu vaccines.
Thimerosal will be added to the vaccine because it is being produced in vials that contain enough medication for 10 shots. The mercury compound kills bacteria, lowering the risk that the drug will be contaminated by needles used to withdraw separate doses.
A smaller amount of mercury-free vaccine will be produced in single-dose vials. Nasal sprays do not contain mercury but are not recommended for children under the age of 2 and pregnant women, because they contain live, weakened virus.
Five biopharmaceutical companies have been awarded massive contracts by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for development and production of more than 195 million doses of swine flu vaccine.
The companies -- Novartis, GlaxoSmithKline, MedImmune, Australian drug maker CSL, and Sanofi-Pasteur -- will likely make a great deal of money.
Drug companies have sold $1.5 billion worth of swine flu shots, in addition to the $1 billion for seasonal flu they booked earlier this year.
These inoculations are part of a much wider and rapidly growing $20 billion global vaccine market.
"The vaccine market is booming," says Bruce Carlson, spokesperson at market research firm Kalorama, which publishes an annual survey of the vaccine industry. "It's an enormous growth area for pharmaceuticals at a time when other areas are not doing so well," he says, noting that the pipeline for more traditional blockbuster drugs such as Lipitor and Nexium has thinned.
As always with pandemic flus, taxpayers are footing the $1.5 billion check for the 250 million swine flu vaccines that the government has ordered so far and will be distributing free to doctors, pharmacies and schools. In addition, Congress has set aside more than $10 billion this year to research flu viruses, monitor H1N1's progress and educate the public about prevention.
Drugmakers pocket most of the revenues from flu sales, with Sanofi-Pasteur, Glaxo Smith Kline and Novartis cornering most of the market.
But some say it's not just drugmakers who stand to benefit. Doctors collect copayments for special office visits to inject shots, and there have been assertions that these doctors actually profit handsomely from these vaccinations.
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Thursday, October 15, 2009
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Saturday, October 10, 2009
News with a Laugh
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Newsbusted,
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Monday, October 5, 2009
The Fed Fighter
The Fed Fighter: DealBook’s Ron Paul Interview
October 2, 2009, 1:35 pm
Ron Paul
Fed
The fallout from the credit crisis has put the financial system of the United States under a microscope. Banker pay, lending practices and regulatory oversight are now topics of mainstream interest for the first time since the Great Depression.
As Congress debates whether or not to give more power to the Federal Reserve to watch over the financial system, Ron Paul, the Republican congressman from Texas, is arguing, as he has for years, for the government to go in the opposite direction and actually cut the Fed’s powers.
In an interview with DealBook on Thursday, Mr. Paul discussed his new book, “End the Fed,” as well as his views on Wall Street.
The outspoken lawmaker contends that the government is essentially controlled by the Fed and in collusion with Wall Street, and has created an unsustainable economic system through the excess printing of money. He predicts that the system will eventually break down and the dollar will collapse, creating economic chaos.
FOR FULL INTERVIEW GO HERE
October 2, 2009, 1:35 pm
Ron Paul
Fed
The fallout from the credit crisis has put the financial system of the United States under a microscope. Banker pay, lending practices and regulatory oversight are now topics of mainstream interest for the first time since the Great Depression.
As Congress debates whether or not to give more power to the Federal Reserve to watch over the financial system, Ron Paul, the Republican congressman from Texas, is arguing, as he has for years, for the government to go in the opposite direction and actually cut the Fed’s powers.
In an interview with DealBook on Thursday, Mr. Paul discussed his new book, “End the Fed,” as well as his views on Wall Street.
The outspoken lawmaker contends that the government is essentially controlled by the Fed and in collusion with Wall Street, and has created an unsustainable economic system through the excess printing of money. He predicts that the system will eventually break down and the dollar will collapse, creating economic chaos.
FOR FULL INTERVIEW GO HERE
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Thursday, October 1, 2009
'Jesus' Banned From Christmas!!!.....WHAT???
Guess who's now banned from Capitol Christmas tree!
October 01, 2009
1:00 am Eastern
By Bob Unruh
© 2009 WorldNetDaily
The U.S. Forest Service has banned the name of Jesus from decorations being assembled by children in Arizona for a blue spruce from the state that will become the Capitol Christmas Tree this year, and a legal firm is challenging the censorship.
"Banning Christmas from the Capitol Christmas tree is just absurd. Christian students shouldn't be discriminated against for expressing their religious beliefs," said Jonathan Scruggs, litigation staff counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund.
"The First Amendment does not allow government officials to exclude school children's ornaments for the capitol's Christmas tree merely because they communicate a religious viewpoint," he said yesterday.
The organization has sent a letter to state and federal officials, including Arizona Gov. Janice Brewer, who are supervising the program, calling on them to stop enforcement of the prohibition.
FULL ARTICLE GO HERE
October 01, 2009
1:00 am Eastern
By Bob Unruh
© 2009 WorldNetDaily
The U.S. Forest Service has banned the name of Jesus from decorations being assembled by children in Arizona for a blue spruce from the state that will become the Capitol Christmas Tree this year, and a legal firm is challenging the censorship.
"Banning Christmas from the Capitol Christmas tree is just absurd. Christian students shouldn't be discriminated against for expressing their religious beliefs," said Jonathan Scruggs, litigation staff counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund.
"The First Amendment does not allow government officials to exclude school children's ornaments for the capitol's Christmas tree merely because they communicate a religious viewpoint," he said yesterday.
The organization has sent a letter to state and federal officials, including Arizona Gov. Janice Brewer, who are supervising the program, calling on them to stop enforcement of the prohibition.
FULL ARTICLE GO HERE
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Christmas,
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Praying To OBAMA???
Are people under a spell or insane or what? Watch this video and judge for yourselves.
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Martial Law On Its Way? OR , Here Already!!!
September 29, 2009 5:50 PM
American Police Force Corporation Takes Over Small Town Police Force and Prisoner-Less Jail
HARDIN, Mont. (CBS/AP) This is the strange story of how American Police Force, a little known company which claims to specialize in training military and security forces overseas, has seemingly taken control of a $27 million, never-used jail, and a rural Montana town's nonexistent police force.
After arriving in this tiny city with three Mercedes SUVs marked with the logo of a police department that has never existed, representatives of the obscure California security company said preparations were under way to take over Hardin's jail, which has no prisoners.
Full Story
American Police Force Corporation Takes Over Small Town Police Force and Prisoner-Less Jail
HARDIN, Mont. (CBS/AP) This is the strange story of how American Police Force, a little known company which claims to specialize in training military and security forces overseas, has seemingly taken control of a $27 million, never-used jail, and a rural Montana town's nonexistent police force.
After arriving in this tiny city with three Mercedes SUVs marked with the logo of a police department that has never existed, representatives of the obscure California security company said preparations were under way to take over Hardin's jail, which has no prisoners.
Full Story
Crucifixion in Sudan
Christians are ‘crucified’
in guerrilla raids
By Simon Caldwell
25 September 2009
Marauding bands of guerrillas have crucified seven Christians during a series of raids on villages in Sudan.
One of the men was tied to a tree and mutilated while six other victims were nailed to pieces of wood fastened to the ground and killed.
Villagers who found their bodies near the town of Nzara said it was like a "grotesque crucifixion scene".
Bishop Eduardo Hiiboro Kussala of Tombura-Yambio has now appealed for international help to stop the attacks by members of the Lord's Resistance Army.
He said his government appeared powerless to prevent attacks by members of the guerrilla force based in northern Uganda. He spoke out after a spate of killings and abductions in two towns near the borders of the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
In one instance guerrillas stormed into Our Lady Queen of Peace church in Ezo during a novena prayer and desecrated the Host, the altar and the building before abducting 17 people mostly in their teens and 20s. One of the captives was later tied to a tree and killed while 13 others in the group are still missing, according to Aid to the Church in Need, a charity helping persecuted Christians.
The bishop said the attack, which happened on the feast of the Assumption, was "a huge shock to us".
"It was hard to take in the fact that we were so exposed to such a risk," he said. "The attackers clearly wanted to harm the people because they knew they were at prayer.
For Full Article GO HERE
in guerrilla raids
By Simon Caldwell
25 September 2009
Marauding bands of guerrillas have crucified seven Christians during a series of raids on villages in Sudan.
One of the men was tied to a tree and mutilated while six other victims were nailed to pieces of wood fastened to the ground and killed.
Villagers who found their bodies near the town of Nzara said it was like a "grotesque crucifixion scene".
Bishop Eduardo Hiiboro Kussala of Tombura-Yambio has now appealed for international help to stop the attacks by members of the Lord's Resistance Army.
He said his government appeared powerless to prevent attacks by members of the guerrilla force based in northern Uganda. He spoke out after a spate of killings and abductions in two towns near the borders of the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
In one instance guerrillas stormed into Our Lady Queen of Peace church in Ezo during a novena prayer and desecrated the Host, the altar and the building before abducting 17 people mostly in their teens and 20s. One of the captives was later tied to a tree and killed while 13 others in the group are still missing, according to Aid to the Church in Need, a charity helping persecuted Christians.
The bishop said the attack, which happened on the feast of the Assumption, was "a huge shock to us".
"It was hard to take in the fact that we were so exposed to such a risk," he said. "The attackers clearly wanted to harm the people because they knew they were at prayer.
For Full Article GO HERE
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Monday, September 28, 2009
A Village To Raise a Child???
Apparently, Obama wants parents to start spending LESS time with their children. The President, according to the article below, thinks that children are not as proficient in school as the children in other countries. The article also says that they would be safer in school and parents are not capable of caring for their children from 3pm to 7pm! Is this "Big Brother" making a move on our children and our Parenthood?
You decide...
By LIBBY QUAID, AP Education Writer Libby Quaid, Ap Education Writer – Mon Sep 28, 9:11 am ET
WASHINGTON – Students beware: The summer vacation you just enjoyed could be sharply curtailed if President Barack Obama gets his way.
Obama says American kids spend too little time in school, putting them at a disadvantage with other students around the globe.
"Now, I know longer school days and school years are not wildly popular ideas," the president said earlier this year. "Not with Malia and Sasha, not in my family, and probably not in yours. But the challenges of a new century demand more time in the classroom."
The president, who has a sixth-grader and a third-grader, wants schools to add time to classes, to stay open late and to let kids in on weekends so they have a safe place to go.
"Our school calendar is based upon the agrarian economy and not too many of our kids are working the fields today," Education Secretary Arne Duncan said in a recent interview with The Associated Press.
Fifth-grader Nakany Camara is of two minds. She likes the four-week summer program at her school, Brookhaven Elementary School in Rockville, Md. Nakany enjoys seeing her friends there and thinks summer school helped boost her grades from two Cs to the honor roll.
But she doesn't want a longer school day. "I would walk straight out the door," she said.
Domonique Toombs felt the same way when she learned she would stay for an extra three hours each day in sixth grade at Boston's Clarence R. Edwards Middle School.
For Full Article GO HERE
You decide...
By LIBBY QUAID, AP Education Writer Libby Quaid, Ap Education Writer – Mon Sep 28, 9:11 am ET
WASHINGTON – Students beware: The summer vacation you just enjoyed could be sharply curtailed if President Barack Obama gets his way.
Obama says American kids spend too little time in school, putting them at a disadvantage with other students around the globe.
"Now, I know longer school days and school years are not wildly popular ideas," the president said earlier this year. "Not with Malia and Sasha, not in my family, and probably not in yours. But the challenges of a new century demand more time in the classroom."
The president, who has a sixth-grader and a third-grader, wants schools to add time to classes, to stay open late and to let kids in on weekends so they have a safe place to go.
"Our school calendar is based upon the agrarian economy and not too many of our kids are working the fields today," Education Secretary Arne Duncan said in a recent interview with The Associated Press.
Fifth-grader Nakany Camara is of two minds. She likes the four-week summer program at her school, Brookhaven Elementary School in Rockville, Md. Nakany enjoys seeing her friends there and thinks summer school helped boost her grades from two Cs to the honor roll.
But she doesn't want a longer school day. "I would walk straight out the door," she said.
Domonique Toombs felt the same way when she learned she would stay for an extra three hours each day in sixth grade at Boston's Clarence R. Edwards Middle School.
For Full Article GO HERE
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Live Forever...Here in This World...No Thanks!
SCIENTIST Ray Kurzweil reckons man could become immortal in just a few years’ time.
The 61-year-old American – dubbed the smartest futurist on Earth by Microsoft founder Bill Gates – has consistently predicted new technologies many years before they arrived.
Here, Ray explains why he believes today’s 60-year-olds could go on to live forever.
WE are living through the most exciting period of human history.
Computer technology and our understanding of genes – our body’s software programs – are accelerating at an incredible rate.
I and many other scientists now believe that in around 20 years we will have the means to reprogramme our bodies’ stone-age software so we can halt, then reverse, ageing. Then nano-technology will let us live for ever.
Already, blood cell-sized submarines called nanobots are being tested in animals. These will soon be used to destroy tumours, unblock clots and perform operations without scars.
Ultimately, nanobots will replace blood cells and do their work thousands of times more effectively.
Within 25 years we will be able to do an Olympic sprint for 15 minutes without taking a breath, or go scuba-diving for four hours without oxygen.
Heart-attack victims – who haven’t taken advantage of widely available bionic hearts – will calmly drive to the doctors for a minor operation as their blood bots keep them alive.
Nanotechnology will extend our mental capacities to such an extent we will be able to write books within minutes.
If we want to go into virtual-reality mode, nanobots will shut down brain signals and take us wherever we want to go. Virtual sex will become commonplace. And in our daily lives, hologram-like figures will pop up in our brain to explain what is happening.
These technologies should not seem at all fanciful. Our phones now perform tasks we wouldn’t have dreamed possible 20 years ago. When I was a student in 1965, my university’s only computer cost £7million and was huge.
Today your mobile phone is a million times less expensive and a thousand times more powerful. That’s a billion times more capable for the same price.
According to my theory – the Law of Accelerating Returns – we will experience another billion-fold increase in technological capability for the same cost in the next 25 years.
So we can look forward to a world where humans become cyborgs, with artificial limbs and organs.
This might sound far-fetched, but remember, diabetics already have artificial pancreases and Parkinson’s patients have neural implants.
As we approach the 21st Century’s second decade, stunning medical breakthroughs are a regular occurrence.
In 2008 we discovered skin cells can be transformed into the equivalent of embryonic cells. So organs will soon be repaired and eventually grown.
In a few years most people will have their entire genetic sequences mapped. Before long, we will all know the diseases we are susceptible to and gene therapies will mean virtually no genetic problems that can’t be erased.
It’s important to ensure we get to take advantage of the upcoming technologies by living well and not getting hit by a bus.
By the middle of the next century we will have back-up copies of the information in our bodies and brains that make us who we are. Then we really will be immortal.
Source: The Sun
The 61-year-old American – dubbed the smartest futurist on Earth by Microsoft founder Bill Gates – has consistently predicted new technologies many years before they arrived.
Here, Ray explains why he believes today’s 60-year-olds could go on to live forever.
WE are living through the most exciting period of human history.
Computer technology and our understanding of genes – our body’s software programs – are accelerating at an incredible rate.
I and many other scientists now believe that in around 20 years we will have the means to reprogramme our bodies’ stone-age software so we can halt, then reverse, ageing. Then nano-technology will let us live for ever.
Already, blood cell-sized submarines called nanobots are being tested in animals. These will soon be used to destroy tumours, unblock clots and perform operations without scars.
Ultimately, nanobots will replace blood cells and do their work thousands of times more effectively.
Within 25 years we will be able to do an Olympic sprint for 15 minutes without taking a breath, or go scuba-diving for four hours without oxygen.
Heart-attack victims – who haven’t taken advantage of widely available bionic hearts – will calmly drive to the doctors for a minor operation as their blood bots keep them alive.
Nanotechnology will extend our mental capacities to such an extent we will be able to write books within minutes.
If we want to go into virtual-reality mode, nanobots will shut down brain signals and take us wherever we want to go. Virtual sex will become commonplace. And in our daily lives, hologram-like figures will pop up in our brain to explain what is happening.
These technologies should not seem at all fanciful. Our phones now perform tasks we wouldn’t have dreamed possible 20 years ago. When I was a student in 1965, my university’s only computer cost £7million and was huge.
Today your mobile phone is a million times less expensive and a thousand times more powerful. That’s a billion times more capable for the same price.
According to my theory – the Law of Accelerating Returns – we will experience another billion-fold increase in technological capability for the same cost in the next 25 years.
So we can look forward to a world where humans become cyborgs, with artificial limbs and organs.
This might sound far-fetched, but remember, diabetics already have artificial pancreases and Parkinson’s patients have neural implants.
As we approach the 21st Century’s second decade, stunning medical breakthroughs are a regular occurrence.
In 2008 we discovered skin cells can be transformed into the equivalent of embryonic cells. So organs will soon be repaired and eventually grown.
In a few years most people will have their entire genetic sequences mapped. Before long, we will all know the diseases we are susceptible to and gene therapies will mean virtually no genetic problems that can’t be erased.
It’s important to ensure we get to take advantage of the upcoming technologies by living well and not getting hit by a bus.
By the middle of the next century we will have back-up copies of the information in our bodies and brains that make us who we are. Then we really will be immortal.
Source: The Sun
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Thursday, September 24, 2009
H1N1 Vaccine PLUS Implantable Chip...Wow, What a Deal!
Now, let's think about this... If, Verichip can now LEGALLY scan people for viruses AND in order to scan the people, the person must have an IMPLANTABLE CHIP implanted in them, then I wonder how all those people with VIRUSES will get a Chip IMPLANTED in them??? Could it be through FORCED VACCINATIONS??? It seems to make sense now, doesn't it? Be aware...we seem to be getting one step closer... Now don't get me wrong, some people may find it attractive to be implanted with a foreign body, but I suspect the great majority of us believe that we don't need "big brother" getting that close! Read The Article below.
UPDATE 1-VeriChip shares jump after H1N1 patent license win
Mon Sep 21, 2009 3:11pm EDT
Sept 21 (Reuters) - Shares of VeriChip Corp (CHIP.O)
tripled after the company said it had been granted an exclusive
license to two patents, which will help it to develop
implantable virus detection systems in humans.
The patents, held by VeriChip partner Receptors LLC, relate
to biosensors that can detect the H1N1 and other viruses, and
biological threats such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus
aureus, VeriChip said in a statement.
The technology will combine with VeriChip's implantable
radio frequency identification devices to develop virus triage
detection systems.
The triage system will provide multiple levels of
identification -- the first will identify the agent as virus or
non-virus, the second level will classify the virus and alert
the user to the presence of pandemic threat viruses and the
third level will identify the precise pathogen, VeriChip said
in a white paper published May 7, 2009.
Shares of VeriChip were up 186 percent at $3.28 Monday late
afternoon trade on Nasdaq. They had touched a year high of
$3.43 earlier in the session.
(Reporting by Mansi Dutta in Bangalore; Editing by Mike Miller
and Anil D'Silva)
© Thomson Reuters 2009 All rights reserved
UPDATE 1-VeriChip shares jump after H1N1 patent license win
Mon Sep 21, 2009 3:11pm EDT
Sept 21 (Reuters) - Shares of VeriChip Corp (CHIP.O)
tripled after the company said it had been granted an exclusive
license to two patents, which will help it to develop
implantable virus detection systems in humans.
The patents, held by VeriChip partner Receptors LLC, relate
to biosensors that can detect the H1N1 and other viruses, and
biological threats such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus
aureus, VeriChip said in a statement.
The technology will combine with VeriChip's implantable
radio frequency identification devices to develop virus triage
detection systems.
The triage system will provide multiple levels of
identification -- the first will identify the agent as virus or
non-virus, the second level will classify the virus and alert
the user to the presence of pandemic threat viruses and the
third level will identify the precise pathogen, VeriChip said
in a white paper published May 7, 2009.
Shares of VeriChip were up 186 percent at $3.28 Monday late
afternoon trade on Nasdaq. They had touched a year high of
$3.43 earlier in the session.
(Reporting by Mansi Dutta in Bangalore; Editing by Mike Miller
and Anil D'Silva)
© Thomson Reuters 2009 All rights reserved
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Saturday, September 19, 2009
Friday, September 18, 2009
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Criminalization of Prayer!
HELP Lord...America Is Drowning!
Pensacola, Fla., Sep 16, 2009 / 03:43 pm (CNA).- In what critics are characterizing as the “criminalization of prayer,” a principal and an athletic director at a Florida high school are facing criminal contempt charges for violating a federal order prohibiting prayer at school events.
Principal Frank Lay and Athletic Director Robert Freeman at Pace High School in the Florida panhandle county of Santa Rosa could face fines, jail time and loss of their retirement benefits.
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Pensacola, Fla., Sep 16, 2009 / 03:43 pm (CNA).- In what critics are characterizing as the “criminalization of prayer,” a principal and an athletic director at a Florida high school are facing criminal contempt charges for violating a federal order prohibiting prayer at school events.
Principal Frank Lay and Athletic Director Robert Freeman at Pace High School in the Florida panhandle county of Santa Rosa could face fines, jail time and loss of their retirement benefits.
Watch Video Below:
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Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Nano Particles used in Untested H1N1 Swine Flu Vaccines
Nano Particles used in Untested H1N1 Swine Flu Vaccines
F. William Engdahl
Global Research
September 14, 2009
Vaccines which have been approved by the responsible government authorities for vaccination against the alleged H1N1 Influenza A Swine Flu have been found to contain nano particles. Vaccine makers have been experimenting with nanoparticles as a way to “turbo charge” vaccines for several years. Now it has come out that the vaccines approved for use in Germany and other European countries contain nanoparticles in a form that reportedly attacks healthy cells and can be deadly.
featured stories Nano Particles used in Untested H1N1 Swine Flu Vaccines
There is only one small problem with vaccines containing nanoparticles — they can be deadly and at the least cause severe irreparable health damage.
In 2007 researchers at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) announced in an article in the journal, Nature Biotechnology, that they had developed a “nanoparticle that can deliver vaccines more effectively, with fewer side effects, and at a fraction of the cost of current vaccine technologies.” The article went on to describe the effects of their breakthrough: “At a mere 25 nanometers, these particles are so tiny that once injected, they flow through the skin’s extracellular matrix, making a beeline to the lymph nodes. Within minutes, they’ve reached a concentration of DCs thousands of times greater than in the skin. The immune response can then be extremely strong and effective.” 1
FOR FULL ARTICLE GO HERE
F. William Engdahl
Global Research
September 14, 2009
Vaccines which have been approved by the responsible government authorities for vaccination against the alleged H1N1 Influenza A Swine Flu have been found to contain nano particles. Vaccine makers have been experimenting with nanoparticles as a way to “turbo charge” vaccines for several years. Now it has come out that the vaccines approved for use in Germany and other European countries contain nanoparticles in a form that reportedly attacks healthy cells and can be deadly.
featured stories Nano Particles used in Untested H1N1 Swine Flu Vaccines
There is only one small problem with vaccines containing nanoparticles — they can be deadly and at the least cause severe irreparable health damage.
In 2007 researchers at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) announced in an article in the journal, Nature Biotechnology, that they had developed a “nanoparticle that can deliver vaccines more effectively, with fewer side effects, and at a fraction of the cost of current vaccine technologies.” The article went on to describe the effects of their breakthrough: “At a mere 25 nanometers, these particles are so tiny that once injected, they flow through the skin’s extracellular matrix, making a beeline to the lymph nodes. Within minutes, they’ve reached a concentration of DCs thousands of times greater than in the skin. The immune response can then be extremely strong and effective.” 1
FOR FULL ARTICLE GO HERE
Prayer to Break Negative Strongholds...very effective!
...Break strongholds and sever un-holy bonds…
God our Father, heal my negative emotions and re-order my passions. Heal the wounds of my mind, body, heart and spirit. By the authority of and in the name of Jesus, I destroy and loose from (me, or whomever you are praying for) every stronghold against the knowledge of God and obedience to Christ. Especially, I come against the strongholds of [Name particular strongholds] and I destroy them in Jesus’ Name. I declare today that my only stronghold is the Lord Jesus Christ and His mighty virtue. I take the sword of the Spirit and in Jesus’ Name, cut and sever all un-holy and unclean bonds between me and any other person, place, organization, activity or thing. Lord, as you remove those unholy bonds, I pray you fill that area where that un-holiness existed with your Peace and The Holy Spirit in order that I may come to know and share in true communion with you and your Church under the Lordship of Jesus Christ.
God our Father, heal my negative emotions and re-order my passions. Heal the wounds of my mind, body, heart and spirit. By the authority of and in the name of Jesus, I destroy and loose from (me, or whomever you are praying for) every stronghold against the knowledge of God and obedience to Christ. Especially, I come against the strongholds of [Name particular strongholds] and I destroy them in Jesus’ Name. I declare today that my only stronghold is the Lord Jesus Christ and His mighty virtue. I take the sword of the Spirit and in Jesus’ Name, cut and sever all un-holy and unclean bonds between me and any other person, place, organization, activity or thing. Lord, as you remove those unholy bonds, I pray you fill that area where that un-holiness existed with your Peace and The Holy Spirit in order that I may come to know and share in true communion with you and your Church under the Lordship of Jesus Christ.
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Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Obama chief: Embryos are 'just a handful of cells'
Obama chief: Embryos are 'just a handful of cells'
Argues cloning ban 'silly,' scoffed at those who find it morally repugnant
Posted: September 14, 2009
8:59 pm Eastern
By Aaron Klein
© 2009 WorldNetDaily
Cass Sunstein
TEL AVIV – There is no moral concern regarding cloning human beings since human embryos, which develop into a baby, are "only a handful of cells," argued President Obama's newly confirmed regulatory czar, Cass Sunstein.
"If scientists will be using and cloning embryos only at a very early stage when they are just a handful of cells (say, before they are four days old), there is no good reason for a ban (on cloning)," wrote Sunstein, who was confirmed by the Senate last week as administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.
FOR FULL ARTICLE GO HERE
Argues cloning ban 'silly,' scoffed at those who find it morally repugnant
Posted: September 14, 2009
8:59 pm Eastern
By Aaron Klein
© 2009 WorldNetDaily
Cass Sunstein
TEL AVIV – There is no moral concern regarding cloning human beings since human embryos, which develop into a baby, are "only a handful of cells," argued President Obama's newly confirmed regulatory czar, Cass Sunstein.
"If scientists will be using and cloning embryos only at a very early stage when they are just a handful of cells (say, before they are four days old), there is no good reason for a ban (on cloning)," wrote Sunstein, who was confirmed by the Senate last week as administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.
FOR FULL ARTICLE GO HERE
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Monday, September 14, 2009
Ghost Fleet Off The Coast Of Singapore
The Incredible Ghost Fleet Off The Coast Of Singapore
Jay Yarow|Sep. 14, 2009,
Ghost fleet Off the coast of Singapore is a collection of ships larger than the U.S. and English navies just sitting idle, waiting out the recession. It's a spectacular image, capturing our bruised global economy better than any we've see thus far.
The Daily Mail has pictures of the idled fleet, and the full story about the decline in the world's trade business.
At this time last year one of the massive cargo ships carrying 80,000 tons of cargo would cost $50,000 a day. Now it's just $5,500. To send a 40 foot steel container of goods from China to the UK cost $300,000 in the summer of 2008. Now it costs just $10,000. The world could have 25% of its ships sitting idle in the next two years.
While the President says the economy has been pulled from the brink, and economists say the recession has ended, these ships floating in Asian seas are big reminder that we're still far off from recovery.
For FULL ARTICLE GO HERE
Jay Yarow|Sep. 14, 2009,
Ghost fleet Off the coast of Singapore is a collection of ships larger than the U.S. and English navies just sitting idle, waiting out the recession. It's a spectacular image, capturing our bruised global economy better than any we've see thus far.
The Daily Mail has pictures of the idled fleet, and the full story about the decline in the world's trade business.
At this time last year one of the massive cargo ships carrying 80,000 tons of cargo would cost $50,000 a day. Now it's just $5,500. To send a 40 foot steel container of goods from China to the UK cost $300,000 in the summer of 2008. Now it costs just $10,000. The world could have 25% of its ships sitting idle in the next two years.
While the President says the economy has been pulled from the brink, and economists say the recession has ended, these ships floating in Asian seas are big reminder that we're still far off from recovery.
For FULL ARTICLE GO HERE
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Obama,
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Wednesday, September 9, 2009
On The Lighter Side...WOW!
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x games
Is Another 9/11 Set to Unfold?
Is another 9/11 set to unfold?
By Lee Benson
Deseret News
Published: Saturday, Sept. 5, 2009 9:32 p.m. MDT
Earlier this year, quite by happenstance, I read a book written by Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter James B. Stewart.
"Heart of a Soldier" tells the story of two men who, well before it happened, foretold not only of the terrorist attack of 9/11 but also the 1993 bombing in the World Trade Center parking garage that preceded it.
One of the men, Rick Rescorla, was chief of security for Morgan Stanley with an office in the World Trade Center. He died on 9/11, but not before he shepherded all but six of Morgan Stanley's 2,700 employees to safety because of a well-prepared and well-executed evacuation plan. He'd have made it out, too, had he not gone back in the building looking for those six.
The other man, Daniel J. Hill, is still alive.
With another Sept. 11 approaching I wanted to talk to The Man Who Predicted 9/11.
Although the primary focus in Stewart's book is on Rescorla — a bona fide hero for his actions on 9/11 — I found Hill to be an even more fascinating character.
It was Hill who converted to Islam as a young U.S. Army paratrooper stationed in Beirut in 1958. It was Hill who learned fluent Arabic. It was Hill who joined the Mujahedeen Freedom Fighters in Afghanistan and fought the Soviet invasion there in the 1980s. It was Hill who personally met Osama bin Laden. It was Hill who used information from Islamic extremists to warn Rescorla that terrorists would use the underground parking garage for a car bomb attack on the World Trade Center. It was Hill who asked the U.S. government to assist him in an assassination attempt on bin Laden in 1998 (the request was rejected). And it was Hill who warned the FBI just weeks before Sept. 11, 2001, that his Mideast contacts told him "something big" was about to happen in the United States, in New York, Washington, D.C., or Philadelphia — maybe all three.
FOR FULL ARTICLE GO HERE
By Lee Benson
Deseret News
Published: Saturday, Sept. 5, 2009 9:32 p.m. MDT
Earlier this year, quite by happenstance, I read a book written by Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter James B. Stewart.
"Heart of a Soldier" tells the story of two men who, well before it happened, foretold not only of the terrorist attack of 9/11 but also the 1993 bombing in the World Trade Center parking garage that preceded it.
One of the men, Rick Rescorla, was chief of security for Morgan Stanley with an office in the World Trade Center. He died on 9/11, but not before he shepherded all but six of Morgan Stanley's 2,700 employees to safety because of a well-prepared and well-executed evacuation plan. He'd have made it out, too, had he not gone back in the building looking for those six.
The other man, Daniel J. Hill, is still alive.
With another Sept. 11 approaching I wanted to talk to The Man Who Predicted 9/11.
Although the primary focus in Stewart's book is on Rescorla — a bona fide hero for his actions on 9/11 — I found Hill to be an even more fascinating character.
It was Hill who converted to Islam as a young U.S. Army paratrooper stationed in Beirut in 1958. It was Hill who learned fluent Arabic. It was Hill who joined the Mujahedeen Freedom Fighters in Afghanistan and fought the Soviet invasion there in the 1980s. It was Hill who personally met Osama bin Laden. It was Hill who used information from Islamic extremists to warn Rescorla that terrorists would use the underground parking garage for a car bomb attack on the World Trade Center. It was Hill who asked the U.S. government to assist him in an assassination attempt on bin Laden in 1998 (the request was rejected). And it was Hill who warned the FBI just weeks before Sept. 11, 2001, that his Mideast contacts told him "something big" was about to happen in the United States, in New York, Washington, D.C., or Philadelphia — maybe all three.
FOR FULL ARTICLE GO HERE
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Tuesday, September 8, 2009
THERE IS ENOUGH EVIDENCE FOR A TRIAL ON OBAMA'S BIRTH CERTIFICATE!!!
Trial set for Obama's birth certificate dispute!
Arguments planned Jan. 11 for challenge to eligibility
A California judge today tentatively scheduled a trial for Jan. 26, 2010, for a case that challenges Barack Obama's eligibility to be president based on questions over his qualifications under the requirements of the U.S. Constitution.
If the case actually goes to arguments before U.S. District Judge David Carter, it will be the first time the merits of the dispute have been argued in open court, according to one of the attorneys working on the issue.
In a highly anticipated hearing today before Carter, several motions were heard, including a resolution to long-standing questions about whether attorney Orly Taitz properly served notice on the defendants, which she had.
For Full Article GO HERE
Arguments planned Jan. 11 for challenge to eligibility
A California judge today tentatively scheduled a trial for Jan. 26, 2010, for a case that challenges Barack Obama's eligibility to be president based on questions over his qualifications under the requirements of the U.S. Constitution.
If the case actually goes to arguments before U.S. District Judge David Carter, it will be the first time the merits of the dispute have been argued in open court, according to one of the attorneys working on the issue.
In a highly anticipated hearing today before Carter, several motions were heard, including a resolution to long-standing questions about whether attorney Orly Taitz properly served notice on the defendants, which she had.
For Full Article GO HERE
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Monday, September 7, 2009
Obama Administration Denies 'FLYBY" due to "Christian Nature" of Event!
What is REALLY happening to our country. Is our Commander-in-Chief showing us his true colors by denying this 42 Year Tradition of celebrating of our Troops?
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Friday, September 4, 2009
Thursday, September 3, 2009
On Facebook, MySpace? BIG BROTHER is Watching You!!!
On Facebook, MySpace? Obama's got your e-mail
White House spammer-in-chief wants contractor to track critics
Posted: September 02, 2009
8:57 pm Eastern
By Chelsea Schilling
© 2009 WorldNetDaily
The White House is hiring a contractor to harvest information about Americans from its pages on social networking websites such as Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, YouTube and Flickr.
The National Legal and Policy Center, or NLPC, revealed the White House New Media team is seeking to hire a technology vendor to collect data such as comments, tag lines, e-mail, audio and video from any place where the White House "maintains a presence" – for a period of up to eight years.
"The contractor shall provide the necessary services to capture, store, extract to approved formats, and transfer content published by EOP (Executive Office of the President) on publicly-accessible web sites, along with information posted by non-EOP persons on publicly-accessible web sites where the EOP offices under PRA (Presidential Records Act) maintains a presence," the posting states.
For FULL Article Go HERE!
White House spammer-in-chief wants contractor to track critics
Posted: September 02, 2009
8:57 pm Eastern
By Chelsea Schilling
© 2009 WorldNetDaily
The White House is hiring a contractor to harvest information about Americans from its pages on social networking websites such as Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, YouTube and Flickr.
The National Legal and Policy Center, or NLPC, revealed the White House New Media team is seeking to hire a technology vendor to collect data such as comments, tag lines, e-mail, audio and video from any place where the White House "maintains a presence" – for a period of up to eight years.
"The contractor shall provide the necessary services to capture, store, extract to approved formats, and transfer content published by EOP (Executive Office of the President) on publicly-accessible web sites, along with information posted by non-EOP persons on publicly-accessible web sites where the EOP offices under PRA (Presidential Records Act) maintains a presence," the posting states.
For FULL Article Go HERE!
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Do NOT TAKE The H1N1 Vaccine...It is Not Tested In Humans!
Tuesday, July 28. 2009
Health Officials Admit Fast Tracked H1N1 Vaccines Will Not Be Tested for Safety
in Health
By Harold Gray
JustGetThere |
The media is reporting on the governments preparation for a massive vaccination campaign this fall for the hyped up H1N1 hybrid flu virus. Recently Katherine Sebelius, the Health and Human Services Secretary, granted legal immunity for vaccine manufacturers during the stage 6 pandemic declared by the WHO. Even more troubling than the new vaccines or antivirals themselves, is the Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) declared by the FDA, which enables the use of expired stockpiles of Tamiflu or Relenza, and non-compliance with label requirements. The EUA authority will also permit the FDA to allow the use of “unapproved or uncleared medical products” during an established emergency.
The new stock of vaccines the governments purchased, has been fast tracked for approval by the FDA. Health officials admit that the clinical tests are about dosage amounts, and not safety. So the new vaccines being approved for the fall campaign, have the potential to cause severe harm or death, due to the lack of safety tests.
PLEASE READ FULL ARTICLE HERE
Health Officials Admit Fast Tracked H1N1 Vaccines Will Not Be Tested for Safety
in Health
By Harold Gray
JustGetThere |
The media is reporting on the governments preparation for a massive vaccination campaign this fall for the hyped up H1N1 hybrid flu virus. Recently Katherine Sebelius, the Health and Human Services Secretary, granted legal immunity for vaccine manufacturers during the stage 6 pandemic declared by the WHO. Even more troubling than the new vaccines or antivirals themselves, is the Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) declared by the FDA, which enables the use of expired stockpiles of Tamiflu or Relenza, and non-compliance with label requirements. The EUA authority will also permit the FDA to allow the use of “unapproved or uncleared medical products” during an established emergency.
The new stock of vaccines the governments purchased, has been fast tracked for approval by the FDA. Health officials admit that the clinical tests are about dosage amounts, and not safety. So the new vaccines being approved for the fall campaign, have the potential to cause severe harm or death, due to the lack of safety tests.
PLEASE READ FULL ARTICLE HERE
Cops Jump on Swine Flu Power
Posted: September 01, 2009
9:11 pm Eastern
By Chelsea Schilling
© 2009 WorldNetDaily
A "pandemic response bill" currently making its way through the Massachusetts state legislature would allow authorities to forcefully quarantine citizens in the event of a health emergency, compel health providers to vaccinate citizens, authorize forceful entry into private dwellings and destruction of citizen property and impose fines on citizens for noncompliance.
If citizens refuse to comply with isolation or quarantine orders in the event of a health emergency, they may be imprisoned for up to 30 days and fined $1,000 per day that the violation continues.
For Full Article GO HERE
9:11 pm Eastern
By Chelsea Schilling
© 2009 WorldNetDaily
A "pandemic response bill" currently making its way through the Massachusetts state legislature would allow authorities to forcefully quarantine citizens in the event of a health emergency, compel health providers to vaccinate citizens, authorize forceful entry into private dwellings and destruction of citizen property and impose fines on citizens for noncompliance.
If citizens refuse to comply with isolation or quarantine orders in the event of a health emergency, they may be imprisoned for up to 30 days and fined $1,000 per day that the violation continues.
For Full Article GO HERE
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Saturday, August 29, 2009
Freedom of Speech...Think Again
Watch this video. Do we realize what is happening to our country, right under our noses? What can we do about it? What is happening with our rights???
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Miraculous Healing at Lourdes
Healing ‘gift’ from Lourdes visit frees ALS victim from wheelchair
Turin, Italy, Aug 25, 2009 / 12:03 am (CNA).-
A woman who suffered from a severe nerve disease now no longer uses her wheelchair and has even gone for a run, after she visited to Lourdes earlier in August. The woman credits the baths at Lourdes for the ‘gift’ of her improved health.
Antonia Raco, 50, had been in a wheelchair for four years because of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease. She made a trip to the shrine at Lourdes on August 5.
For Full Article GO HERE
Turin, Italy, Aug 25, 2009 / 12:03 am (CNA).-
A woman who suffered from a severe nerve disease now no longer uses her wheelchair and has even gone for a run, after she visited to Lourdes earlier in August. The woman credits the baths at Lourdes for the ‘gift’ of her improved health.
Antonia Raco, 50, had been in a wheelchair for four years because of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease. She made a trip to the shrine at Lourdes on August 5.
For Full Article GO HERE
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Saturday, August 22, 2009
Mexico City Legalizes Personal Drug Usage...WOW
Wow! First Mexico City legalized Abortion and now Drugs. Did Obama's visit to Mexico have anything to do with this? You have to wonder about this decision coming on the heals of such a momentous occasion as the meeting of the Presidents of Canada Mexico and USA, earlier this month in Guadalajara. This is quite a different approach to the 'War on Drugs' we've heard so much about.
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexico decriminalized small amounts of marijuana, cocaine and heroin on Friday—a move that prosecutors say makes sense even in the midst of the government's grueling battle against drug traffickers.
Prosecutors said the new law sets clear limits that keep Mexico's corruption-prone police from extorting casual users and offers addicts free treatment to keep growing domestic drug use in check.
"This is not legalization, this is regulating the issue and giving citizens greater legal certainty," said Bernardo Espino del Castillo of the attorney general's office.
The new law sets out maximum "personal use" amounts for drugs, also including LSD and methamphetamine. People detained with those quantities no longer face criminal prosecution.
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexico decriminalized small amounts of marijuana, cocaine and heroin on Friday—a move that prosecutors say makes sense even in the midst of the government's grueling battle against drug traffickers.
Prosecutors said the new law sets clear limits that keep Mexico's corruption-prone police from extorting casual users and offers addicts free treatment to keep growing domestic drug use in check.
"This is not legalization, this is regulating the issue and giving citizens greater legal certainty," said Bernardo Espino del Castillo of the attorney general's office.
The new law sets out maximum "personal use" amounts for drugs, also including LSD and methamphetamine. People detained with those quantities no longer face criminal prosecution.
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Arrested For Going To Church?
Are we missing the forest for the trees here?
Below is an article which demonstrates the hypocrisy of much of the Christianity in this country.
Who needs 'church' more than anyone else? This of course is a rhetorical question, because as Jesus pointed out, it is the sick person who needs the doctor. The person in the article below may possibly need God more than many others. Who are we to deny him that? I am not saying that child molesters should not be supervised, but they should be allowed to worship at church.
Arrested for going to church
Sex offender charged after attending church with child care facility. Law being challenged.
By Jesse James DeConto
Nichols has lived in a tent near Sanford for nearly three months. He and his fiancee are expecting a baby.
James Nichols said he was flabbergasted when a Chatham County sheriff's deputy arrested him in March for a simple weekly activity: going to church.
Nichols, 31, had served six years in prison for indecent liberties with a teenage girl and attempted second-degree rape. He was released last September and started attending Moncure Baptist Church. He met with the pastor, disclosed his crimes and often sat in the front row for worship.
But after the Chatham sheriff's office investigated an alleged sexual assault by another person in the church parking lot in March, Nichols was arrested because he was attending the church, which has a child care facility on its premises.
“Anyone in this world has a right to practice their religion, and whether they've made any mistake in their life, they should have the right,” Nichols said.
But a state law that took effect in December forbids registered sex offenders from being within 300 feet of a school, playground, day care or children's museum.
“The law we passed doesn't let them go to church, because there are nurseries in churches,” said state Rep. Verla Insko, D-Chapel Hill, the only legislator in the House and Senate to oppose the law.
Nichols, with the help of the American Civil Liberties Union, is challenging the law in Chatham County. A coalition of social workers and psychologists who treat sex abusers have been fighting it in the legislature. Some think churches should play a role in rehabilitating offenders.
Proponents, though, want to keep sexual offenders away from children at all costs, even after they've finished their prison time.
For Full Story GO HERE
Below is an article which demonstrates the hypocrisy of much of the Christianity in this country.
Who needs 'church' more than anyone else? This of course is a rhetorical question, because as Jesus pointed out, it is the sick person who needs the doctor. The person in the article below may possibly need God more than many others. Who are we to deny him that? I am not saying that child molesters should not be supervised, but they should be allowed to worship at church.
Arrested for going to church
Sex offender charged after attending church with child care facility. Law being challenged.
By Jesse James DeConto
Nichols has lived in a tent near Sanford for nearly three months. He and his fiancee are expecting a baby.
James Nichols said he was flabbergasted when a Chatham County sheriff's deputy arrested him in March for a simple weekly activity: going to church.
Nichols, 31, had served six years in prison for indecent liberties with a teenage girl and attempted second-degree rape. He was released last September and started attending Moncure Baptist Church. He met with the pastor, disclosed his crimes and often sat in the front row for worship.
But after the Chatham sheriff's office investigated an alleged sexual assault by another person in the church parking lot in March, Nichols was arrested because he was attending the church, which has a child care facility on its premises.
“Anyone in this world has a right to practice their religion, and whether they've made any mistake in their life, they should have the right,” Nichols said.
But a state law that took effect in December forbids registered sex offenders from being within 300 feet of a school, playground, day care or children's museum.
“The law we passed doesn't let them go to church, because there are nurseries in churches,” said state Rep. Verla Insko, D-Chapel Hill, the only legislator in the House and Senate to oppose the law.
Nichols, with the help of the American Civil Liberties Union, is challenging the law in Chatham County. A coalition of social workers and psychologists who treat sex abusers have been fighting it in the legislature. Some think churches should play a role in rehabilitating offenders.
Proponents, though, want to keep sexual offenders away from children at all costs, even after they've finished their prison time.
For Full Story GO HERE
Friday, August 21, 2009
Pope to G8: ...
Pope to G8: Against the crisis, invest in human beings and listen to poor countries
In a letter to President Berlusconi, Benedict XVI addresses an appeal to the leaders of the G8 and suggestions to overcome the crisis by investing on education, development aid, debt cancellation. The need to convert development models with ethical values and solidarity. The G8 should be closer to the UN, where the voice of the poor carries equal weight to that of the rich.
Vatican City (AsiaNews) - The solution to the global economic crisis lies in "investing in human beings"; maintaining and even " increasing development aid" to poor countries; ensuring an "ethical value" to technical solutions; listening not only to rich countries with major economic success, but also to those "less developed". This is Benedict XVI’s invitation to the Heads of Government who are to gather in l'Aquila from July 8th to 10th next, in a letter sent to the Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
For full story GO HERE
In a letter to President Berlusconi, Benedict XVI addresses an appeal to the leaders of the G8 and suggestions to overcome the crisis by investing on education, development aid, debt cancellation. The need to convert development models with ethical values and solidarity. The G8 should be closer to the UN, where the voice of the poor carries equal weight to that of the rich.
Vatican City (AsiaNews) - The solution to the global economic crisis lies in "investing in human beings"; maintaining and even " increasing development aid" to poor countries; ensuring an "ethical value" to technical solutions; listening not only to rich countries with major economic success, but also to those "less developed". This is Benedict XVI’s invitation to the Heads of Government who are to gather in l'Aquila from July 8th to 10th next, in a letter sent to the Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
For full story GO HERE
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Mayo Clinic Doctor Admits Abortions Hurt Women, Cause Premature Births
by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
August 20, 2009
Rochester, MN (LifeNews.com) -- A physician who works for the prestigious Mayo Clinic has written a new factsheet that admits abortions harm women. Roger W. Harms, M.D., a Mayo Clinic obstetrician and medical editor-in-chief, also says abortions can cause women problems with subsequent pregnancies.
The Mayo Clinic posted Dr. Harms' new factsheet, with the title "Does it affect subsequent pregnancies?" on August 6.
For Full Article GO HERE!
LifeNews.com Editor
August 20, 2009
Rochester, MN (LifeNews.com) -- A physician who works for the prestigious Mayo Clinic has written a new factsheet that admits abortions harm women. Roger W. Harms, M.D., a Mayo Clinic obstetrician and medical editor-in-chief, also says abortions can cause women problems with subsequent pregnancies.
The Mayo Clinic posted Dr. Harms' new factsheet, with the title "Does it affect subsequent pregnancies?" on August 6.
For Full Article GO HERE!
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Monday, August 17, 2009
Swine Flu, a Hoax???
Swine flu panic an absurd falsehood
DailyRecord.com DANIEL ALBANESE • August 16, 2009
The U.S. government has bought 195 million doses of swine flu vaccine. In tough economic times where almost one out of 10 Americans are jobless, it begs to ask; why?
As of July 24, which is the last day Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will report specific numbers on swine flu cases and deaths, 302 people have been killed due to the swine flu pandemic out of 43,771 total cases in America. Food for thought: on average, the regular seasonal flu kills 36,000 people per year in the U.S. and between 250,000 and 500,000 people worldwide.
Go to Full Article HERE
DailyRecord.com DANIEL ALBANESE • August 16, 2009
The U.S. government has bought 195 million doses of swine flu vaccine. In tough economic times where almost one out of 10 Americans are jobless, it begs to ask; why?
As of July 24, which is the last day Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will report specific numbers on swine flu cases and deaths, 302 people have been killed due to the swine flu pandemic out of 43,771 total cases in America. Food for thought: on average, the regular seasonal flu kills 36,000 people per year in the U.S. and between 250,000 and 500,000 people worldwide.
Go to Full Article HERE
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Sunday, August 16, 2009
Swine Flu Vaccine Side Effect...CANCER???
German health expert's swine flu warning Does virus vaccine increase the risk of cancer?
07.08.2009 - 15:29 UHR Bild.com
The swine flu vaccine has been hit by new cancer fears after a German health expert gave a shock warning about its safety.
Dr. Wolfgang Wodarg is a politician and a specialist in lungs, hygiene and environmental medicine. He is the chairman of the health committee in the German parliament and European Council.
Lung specialist Wolfgang Wodarg has said that there are many risks associated with the vaccine for the H1N1 virus.
He has grave reservations about the firm Novartis who are developing the vaccine and testing it in Germany. The vaccination is injected “with a very hot needle”, Wodarg said.
The nutrient solution for the vaccine consists of cancerous cells from animals and "we do not know if there could be an allergic reaction".
But more importantly, some people fear that the risk of cancer could be increased by injecting the cells.
The vaccine - as Johannes Löwer, president of the Paul Ehrlich Institute, has pointed out - can also cause worse side effects than the actual swine flu virus.
Wodrag also described people’s fear of the pandemic as an "orchestration": “It is great business for the pharmaceutical industry,” he told the ‘Neuen Presse’.
Swine flu is not very different from normal flu. “On the contrary if you look at the number of cases it is nothing compared to a normal flu outbreak,” he added.
The chairman of the health committee in the European Council has urged for a careful and calm reaction to the virus.
Up until now, the producers of the vaccine did not know how many orders they would have by the autumn, but the German Government is now a guaranteed customer.
07.08.2009 - 15:29 UHR Bild.com
The swine flu vaccine has been hit by new cancer fears after a German health expert gave a shock warning about its safety.
Dr. Wolfgang Wodarg is a politician and a specialist in lungs, hygiene and environmental medicine. He is the chairman of the health committee in the German parliament and European Council.
Lung specialist Wolfgang Wodarg has said that there are many risks associated with the vaccine for the H1N1 virus.
He has grave reservations about the firm Novartis who are developing the vaccine and testing it in Germany. The vaccination is injected “with a very hot needle”, Wodarg said.
The nutrient solution for the vaccine consists of cancerous cells from animals and "we do not know if there could be an allergic reaction".
But more importantly, some people fear that the risk of cancer could be increased by injecting the cells.
The vaccine - as Johannes Löwer, president of the Paul Ehrlich Institute, has pointed out - can also cause worse side effects than the actual swine flu virus.
Wodrag also described people’s fear of the pandemic as an "orchestration": “It is great business for the pharmaceutical industry,” he told the ‘Neuen Presse’.
Swine flu is not very different from normal flu. “On the contrary if you look at the number of cases it is nothing compared to a normal flu outbreak,” he added.
The chairman of the health committee in the European Council has urged for a careful and calm reaction to the virus.
Up until now, the producers of the vaccine did not know how many orders they would have by the autumn, but the German Government is now a guaranteed customer.
Friday, August 14, 2009
Why No Air Time For This???
More of us need to feel a "Social Responsibility" and do something about it. This video is a prime example of using what we have to affect change.
(It's a bit long, but worth it.)
Keynote Address at the 54th National Prayer Breakfast
delivered 2 February 2006 at The Hilton Washington Hotel
(It's a bit long, but worth it.)
Keynote Address at the 54th National Prayer Breakfast
delivered 2 February 2006 at The Hilton Washington Hotel
Very Cool Video About From A Different Perspective
Special Happy Birthday song by Flipsyde tells about the 'other' point of view, Watch:
A Tale of Two Kennedys
Father Raymond J. de Souza: A tale of two Kennedys
Posted: August 12, 2009, 9:48 AM by NP Editor
Two of the last three Kennedys have taken centre stage this week. Yesterday, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, founder of the Special Olympics, died in Hyannis, Mass. Today, Senator Ted Kennedy is being awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. For the last of the Kennedy sons, aged 77 and suffering from brain cancer, the ceremony in Washington is something of a valedictory.
After the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, the Kennedy family had two paths before it -- one represented by Eunice and her husband, Sargent, and the other by the last surviving brother, Ted.
On July 20, 1968--just weeks after RFK's death -- Eunice convened the first Special Olympics, a movement of dignity and hope for mentally disabled children. It was born of Eunice's love for her mentally disabled sister, Rosemary; her firm defence of the dignity of every human life; and her deep Catholic faith. Eunice and Sargent (who also founded the Peace Corps and was the architect of many of the Great Society programs for the poor) changed the way we think about people with special needs.
For Full Article Go HERE
Posted: August 12, 2009, 9:48 AM by NP Editor
Two of the last three Kennedys have taken centre stage this week. Yesterday, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, founder of the Special Olympics, died in Hyannis, Mass. Today, Senator Ted Kennedy is being awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. For the last of the Kennedy sons, aged 77 and suffering from brain cancer, the ceremony in Washington is something of a valedictory.
After the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, the Kennedy family had two paths before it -- one represented by Eunice and her husband, Sargent, and the other by the last surviving brother, Ted.
On July 20, 1968--just weeks after RFK's death -- Eunice convened the first Special Olympics, a movement of dignity and hope for mentally disabled children. It was born of Eunice's love for her mentally disabled sister, Rosemary; her firm defence of the dignity of every human life; and her deep Catholic faith. Eunice and Sargent (who also founded the Peace Corps and was the architect of many of the Great Society programs for the poor) changed the way we think about people with special needs.
For Full Article Go HERE
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Eucharistic Miracle...Milagro Eucaristico
How many ways and how many times must God show himself to us before we believe???
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Nuns Chase Robber Into Woods
Nuns Chase Robber Into Woods
Man Believed To Have Robbed Nearby House
INDEPENDENCE, Mo. -- A man who robbed a house and ran near an Independence convent was chased from the building by one of the nuns Thursday morning, police said.
Police said the man took a shotgun and other items form a house and then ran near the Sisters of St. Francis convent. Sisters Connie and Catarina said they saw a suspicious man walking in a bean field behind the convent.
At first the sisters thought he may have been a hunter, which they said is illegal. The two nuns said they approached the man and saw that he had a shotgun in one hand, boxing gloves and other items in the other hand. They said when they began to question the man, he ran into a nearby wooded area.
Full Article go HERE
Man Believed To Have Robbed Nearby House
INDEPENDENCE, Mo. -- A man who robbed a house and ran near an Independence convent was chased from the building by one of the nuns Thursday morning, police said.
Police said the man took a shotgun and other items form a house and then ran near the Sisters of St. Francis convent. Sisters Connie and Catarina said they saw a suspicious man walking in a bean field behind the convent.
At first the sisters thought he may have been a hunter, which they said is illegal. The two nuns said they approached the man and saw that he had a shotgun in one hand, boxing gloves and other items in the other hand. They said when they began to question the man, he ran into a nearby wooded area.
Full Article go HERE
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Ghosts at Naval Museum
Eerie occurrences at naval museum attract ghost hunters
Ghost hunters from Alabama to investigate museum for paranormal activity
By Tim Chitwood - tchitwood@ledger-enquirer.com
Books are flying off the shelves down at Columbus' National Civil War Naval Museum.
One hit a customer square in the back. Others from the museum gift shop’s rear bookshelves land up to 7 feet away — sometimes upright, as if someone set them there in a flash.
An invisible flash, that would be, because no one’s there to move them.
Photo Illustration/Mike Haskey mhaskey@ledger-enquirer.com This is the keychain rack in the gift shop of The National Civil War Naval Museum that some people have said they’ve seen spinning on its own. 06/24/09
Jerry Franklin, the museum’s maintenance supervisor, said he was standing near the gift shop entrance one day when he saw a book shoot across an aisle and smack a woman in the back, right between the shoulder blades.
She spun around, saw no one there, then looked around the store until she made eye contact with Franklin. He shrugged.
This is the sort of eerie experience a team of ghost hunters will check out next weekend.
To workers who run the gift shop, this is common: “This happens all the time,” said Susan Ingram, the 1002 Victory Drive museum’s visitor service manager.
On average, a book shoots off the shelf every two weeks or so, sometimes more often, she said: “It kind of goes in cycles.”
Ghost hunt
An Alabama Paranormal Research Team led by Faith Serafin of Salem will conduct a seven-hour investigation in the museum after it closes. Serafin did not want to say exactly when, fearing pranksters might play ghosts.
“We bring in lots of different kinds of equipment, from video to audio, electromagnetic field detectors, and we have an abundance of software that will help us amplify sound or an image,” she said.
“We research all the reports very thoroughly. We kind of figure out whether or not there is a correlation between a story and evidence that we pick up, to determine whether or not we can actually say that this location has some type of abnormal or paranormal activity.”
Her group formed about two years ago, she said.
Spin zone
The book Franklin saw hit a woman in the back was a 10-by-10-inch hardback titled “The Confederate Navy: The Ships, Men and Organization 1861-1865.” Workers afterward discovered the book’s spine was broken and torn. Lane Palmer, a school teacher and museum volunteer, bought it.
Books aren’t the only gift-shop goods moving on their own: On the front counter, key rings, pins and whistles hang upon a square, black spindle. Workers say sometimes it spins without anyone touching it, and the motion is not spurred by a fan or air-conditioner.
Bruce Smith, the Port Columbus National Civil War Naval Museum’s executive director, would not go so far as to say the place is haunted:
“I am prepared to say that we have these continued unexplainable dumping of books on the floor. … We don’t know what the deal is. We’ve looked, and we can’t figure it out. We think we’ve got these things anchored pretty good, and the next thing we know, crash! And there’s nobody in the store.”
Ghost hunters from Alabama to investigate museum for paranormal activity
By Tim Chitwood - tchitwood@ledger-enquirer.com
Books are flying off the shelves down at Columbus' National Civil War Naval Museum.
One hit a customer square in the back. Others from the museum gift shop’s rear bookshelves land up to 7 feet away — sometimes upright, as if someone set them there in a flash.
An invisible flash, that would be, because no one’s there to move them.
Photo Illustration/Mike Haskey mhaskey@ledger-enquirer.com This is the keychain rack in the gift shop of The National Civil War Naval Museum that some people have said they’ve seen spinning on its own. 06/24/09
Jerry Franklin, the museum’s maintenance supervisor, said he was standing near the gift shop entrance one day when he saw a book shoot across an aisle and smack a woman in the back, right between the shoulder blades.
She spun around, saw no one there, then looked around the store until she made eye contact with Franklin. He shrugged.
This is the sort of eerie experience a team of ghost hunters will check out next weekend.
To workers who run the gift shop, this is common: “This happens all the time,” said Susan Ingram, the 1002 Victory Drive museum’s visitor service manager.
On average, a book shoots off the shelf every two weeks or so, sometimes more often, she said: “It kind of goes in cycles.”
Ghost hunt
An Alabama Paranormal Research Team led by Faith Serafin of Salem will conduct a seven-hour investigation in the museum after it closes. Serafin did not want to say exactly when, fearing pranksters might play ghosts.
“We bring in lots of different kinds of equipment, from video to audio, electromagnetic field detectors, and we have an abundance of software that will help us amplify sound or an image,” she said.
“We research all the reports very thoroughly. We kind of figure out whether or not there is a correlation between a story and evidence that we pick up, to determine whether or not we can actually say that this location has some type of abnormal or paranormal activity.”
Her group formed about two years ago, she said.
Spin zone
The book Franklin saw hit a woman in the back was a 10-by-10-inch hardback titled “The Confederate Navy: The Ships, Men and Organization 1861-1865.” Workers afterward discovered the book’s spine was broken and torn. Lane Palmer, a school teacher and museum volunteer, bought it.
Books aren’t the only gift-shop goods moving on their own: On the front counter, key rings, pins and whistles hang upon a square, black spindle. Workers say sometimes it spins without anyone touching it, and the motion is not spurred by a fan or air-conditioner.
Bruce Smith, the Port Columbus National Civil War Naval Museum’s executive director, would not go so far as to say the place is haunted:
“I am prepared to say that we have these continued unexplainable dumping of books on the floor. … We don’t know what the deal is. We’ve looked, and we can’t figure it out. We think we’ve got these things anchored pretty good, and the next thing we know, crash! And there’s nobody in the store.”
Saturday, August 8, 2009
Congessman Chides Mrs. Clinton
Congressman Smith: Mrs. Clinton, choose either Our Lady of Guadalupe or Margaret Sanger
Congressmen Chris Smith
Washington D.C., Apr 2, 2009 / 01:25 pm (CNA).- In an impassionate address to the House of Representatives on Tuesday, Congressmen Chris Smith (R-NJ,) argued that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s visit to the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe and the speech delivered immediately after, in Houston, Texas, during Planned Parenthood’s Margaret Sanger Award were completely inexcusable.
Smith said that Clinton’s visit to the Catholic Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City, where she presented a bouquet of flowers on behalf of the American people, was “a very nice gesture.”
But the gesture was at odds with her speech while receiving the Margaret Sanger Award.
“In her remarks, Secretary Clinton said she was ‘in awe’ --I repeat, ‘in awe’-- of Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood.”
“To our distinguished Secretary of State, I respectfully ask: Are you kidding? In ‘awe’ of Margaret Sanger, who said in 1921, ‘Eugenics…is the most adequate and thorough avenue to the solution of racial, political, and social problems’ and who also said in 1922, ‘The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it’?” asked Congressman Smith.
For full article click HERE
Congressmen Chris Smith
Washington D.C., Apr 2, 2009 / 01:25 pm (CNA).- In an impassionate address to the House of Representatives on Tuesday, Congressmen Chris Smith (R-NJ,) argued that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s visit to the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe and the speech delivered immediately after, in Houston, Texas, during Planned Parenthood’s Margaret Sanger Award were completely inexcusable.
Smith said that Clinton’s visit to the Catholic Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City, where she presented a bouquet of flowers on behalf of the American people, was “a very nice gesture.”
But the gesture was at odds with her speech while receiving the Margaret Sanger Award.
“In her remarks, Secretary Clinton said she was ‘in awe’ --I repeat, ‘in awe’-- of Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood.”
“To our distinguished Secretary of State, I respectfully ask: Are you kidding? In ‘awe’ of Margaret Sanger, who said in 1921, ‘Eugenics…is the most adequate and thorough avenue to the solution of racial, political, and social problems’ and who also said in 1922, ‘The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it’?” asked Congressman Smith.
For full article click HERE
Friday, August 7, 2009
Swine Flu Vaccinations? ...Not For Seniors
I am NOT a Conspiratorialist...well not really...well maybe just a little!
Senior Citizens Left Off Government’s Swine-Flu Vaccination Priority List
Friday, July 31, 2009
By Susan Jones, Senior Editor
(CNSNews.com) - Vaccination is one of the most effective ways to minimize suffering and death from influenza, the Health and Human Services Department says on its Web site.
But some senior citizens complain they’ve been left off the list of people who will be first in line to get the swine flu vaccination, when it is ready. One CNSNews.com reader suggested the omission is in line with the Obama’s administration’s plan to "minimize" health care for the elderly, as the reader put it.
For Full Article Click HERE
Senior Citizens Left Off Government’s Swine-Flu Vaccination Priority List
Friday, July 31, 2009
By Susan Jones, Senior Editor
(CNSNews.com) - Vaccination is one of the most effective ways to minimize suffering and death from influenza, the Health and Human Services Department says on its Web site.
But some senior citizens complain they’ve been left off the list of people who will be first in line to get the swine flu vaccination, when it is ready. One CNSNews.com reader suggested the omission is in line with the Obama’s administration’s plan to "minimize" health care for the elderly, as the reader put it.
For Full Article Click HERE
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Madonna Accused of Satanic Provocation
Madonna accused of satanic provocation
Agencies Posted online: Friday , Aug 07, 2009 at 0940 hrs
London : Pop diva Madonna has come into the ambit of religious controversy again, with a former president comparing her to the Satan.
Nobel Prize-winning former Polish president Lech Walesa has expressed his displeasure with the fact that Madonna's upcoming show 'Sticky & Sweet' is happening on the same day as the Feast Of The Assumption, the day Mother Mary ascended to Heaven, Femalefirst reported.
"It is a Satanic provocation. I am a man of faith and ask for such events not to happen on such an important feast in my religion," said the devout Roman Catholic.
Madonna's scheduled concert was described as "an attack by the devil on our immaculate Catholic nation" by Father Stanislaw Malkowski who is leading the protest against the controversial pop star.
Madonna had earlier run into a controversy with the Catholic church for the controversial video of her song 'Like a Prayer' in 1989 and more recently with an on-stage dedication of 'Like A Virgin' to the Pope last year.
The impending concert has created a wave of protest in the Catholic nation with Parliamentarian Marian Brudzynski saying, "The concert of a highly perverse singer who calls herself 'Madonna' is deeply humiliating to Warsaw residents and Poles in general."
The fact that the 50-year-old star is a follower of the Jewish cult 'Kabbalah' has added fuel to the fire.
Agencies Posted online: Friday , Aug 07, 2009 at 0940 hrs
London : Pop diva Madonna has come into the ambit of religious controversy again, with a former president comparing her to the Satan.
Nobel Prize-winning former Polish president Lech Walesa has expressed his displeasure with the fact that Madonna's upcoming show 'Sticky & Sweet' is happening on the same day as the Feast Of The Assumption, the day Mother Mary ascended to Heaven, Femalefirst reported.
"It is a Satanic provocation. I am a man of faith and ask for such events not to happen on such an important feast in my religion," said the devout Roman Catholic.
Madonna's scheduled concert was described as "an attack by the devil on our immaculate Catholic nation" by Father Stanislaw Malkowski who is leading the protest against the controversial pop star.
Madonna had earlier run into a controversy with the Catholic church for the controversial video of her song 'Like a Prayer' in 1989 and more recently with an on-stage dedication of 'Like A Virgin' to the Pope last year.
The impending concert has created a wave of protest in the Catholic nation with Parliamentarian Marian Brudzynski saying, "The concert of a highly perverse singer who calls herself 'Madonna' is deeply humiliating to Warsaw residents and Poles in general."
The fact that the 50-year-old star is a follower of the Jewish cult 'Kabbalah' has added fuel to the fire.
Thursday, August 6, 2009
Pelosi at Her Best ...on Abortion in Health Care Reform
WOW!!! Where did she take her dancing lessons?
Women Religious Investigated by Vatican
Catholic sisters queried about doctrine, fidelity
By ERIC GORSKI (AP) – 1 day ago
A Vatican-ordered investigation into Roman Catholic sisters in the U.S., shrouded in mystery when it was announced seven months ago, is shaping up to be a tough examination of whether women's religious communities have strayed too far from church teaching.
The review "is intended as a constructive assessment and an expression of genuine concern for the quality of the life" of roughly 59,000 U.S. Catholic sisters, according to a Vatican working paper delivered in the past few days to leaders of 341 religious congregations that describes the scope in new detail.
To read full article click HERE
By ERIC GORSKI (AP) – 1 day ago
A Vatican-ordered investigation into Roman Catholic sisters in the U.S., shrouded in mystery when it was announced seven months ago, is shaping up to be a tough examination of whether women's religious communities have strayed too far from church teaching.
The review "is intended as a constructive assessment and an expression of genuine concern for the quality of the life" of roughly 59,000 U.S. Catholic sisters, according to a Vatican working paper delivered in the past few days to leaders of 341 religious congregations that describes the scope in new detail.
To read full article click HERE
Face of Christian Angel Uncovered in Famous Mosque
Friday, July 24, 2009
ANKARA, Turkey — A Turkish official says restoration workers have uncovered the never-before-seen mosaic face of an angel at Istanbul's Haghia Sophia — a former Byzantine cathedral.
The cathedral's Christian mosaics were covered up in line with Muslim custom shortly after Constantinople — the former name for Istanbul — fell to the Ottomans in 1453 and the cathedral was turned into a mosque.
Some of the mosaics were revealed after it was turned into a museum in 1935, but the angel image remained covered.
Ahmet Emre Bilgili, the head of culture and tourism affairs for Istanbul, told the Associated Press on Friday that restoration workers will now work to uncover a second mosaic angel image.
ANKARA, Turkey — A Turkish official says restoration workers have uncovered the never-before-seen mosaic face of an angel at Istanbul's Haghia Sophia — a former Byzantine cathedral.
The cathedral's Christian mosaics were covered up in line with Muslim custom shortly after Constantinople — the former name for Istanbul — fell to the Ottomans in 1453 and the cathedral was turned into a mosque.
Some of the mosaics were revealed after it was turned into a museum in 1935, but the angel image remained covered.
Ahmet Emre Bilgili, the head of culture and tourism affairs for Istanbul, told the Associated Press on Friday that restoration workers will now work to uncover a second mosaic angel image.
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...And This is Why The Church Has Rules
Has Mel Gibson Gone Completely INSANE, or Just a Little?
I suppose anyone can make up their own rules, if they OWN THEIR OWN CHURCH!
Read the following article. Gibson's behavior is ridiculous.
"No wonder Mel Gibson is giving the thumbs-up. Full time has been called on his 28-year marriage to Robyn Moore.
The Pope didn't give the order, though. That edict came from Mel's 90-year-old father Hutton Gibson, and it paves the way for his son to marry his pregnant Russian girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva by Christmas.
Having had his request turned down by Catholic bishops, Mel, 53, pleaded his case in front of a tribunal of members from the Church of the Holy Family, his breakaway Catholic church in Malibu.
Hutton, who once studied for the priesthood only to leave before he was ordained, presided over the hearing. He granted Mel's annulment request after his son presented evidence that his union to Robyn, 53, was never a true marriage — even though they wed in a Catholic ceremony in Australia in June 1980.
"Especially important was Mel's description of how he felt pressured into the marriage in the first place because Robyn was pregnant," a family insider says.
"Those feelings indicated to Hutton that it couldn't have been a true marriage, and so he felt it must be invalid.
"After the discussion ended, Hutton pounded his fist on the table and said, ‘It is true that this union did not have what it takes to be a true marriage.'"
The family are at pains to keep the annulment, which took place a month after Robyn filed for divorce in April, a secret — but maybe not too secret.
"Mel hopes some of the bishops he has befriended recently can be persuaded to give him a proper Catholic annulment," the insider says.
Either way, Mel is forging ahead with plans for a Christmas wedding to Oksana, 39, despite her cold feet over his recent behaviour, which includes gambling escapades in Las Vegas."
For the full story see this week's Woman's Day, on sale August 03, 2009.
I suppose anyone can make up their own rules, if they OWN THEIR OWN CHURCH!
Read the following article. Gibson's behavior is ridiculous.
"No wonder Mel Gibson is giving the thumbs-up. Full time has been called on his 28-year marriage to Robyn Moore.
The Pope didn't give the order, though. That edict came from Mel's 90-year-old father Hutton Gibson, and it paves the way for his son to marry his pregnant Russian girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva by Christmas.
Having had his request turned down by Catholic bishops, Mel, 53, pleaded his case in front of a tribunal of members from the Church of the Holy Family, his breakaway Catholic church in Malibu.
Hutton, who once studied for the priesthood only to leave before he was ordained, presided over the hearing. He granted Mel's annulment request after his son presented evidence that his union to Robyn, 53, was never a true marriage — even though they wed in a Catholic ceremony in Australia in June 1980.
"Especially important was Mel's description of how he felt pressured into the marriage in the first place because Robyn was pregnant," a family insider says.
"Those feelings indicated to Hutton that it couldn't have been a true marriage, and so he felt it must be invalid.
"After the discussion ended, Hutton pounded his fist on the table and said, ‘It is true that this union did not have what it takes to be a true marriage.'"
The family are at pains to keep the annulment, which took place a month after Robyn filed for divorce in April, a secret — but maybe not too secret.
"Mel hopes some of the bishops he has befriended recently can be persuaded to give him a proper Catholic annulment," the insider says.
Either way, Mel is forging ahead with plans for a Christmas wedding to Oksana, 39, despite her cold feet over his recent behaviour, which includes gambling escapades in Las Vegas."
For the full story see this week's Woman's Day, on sale August 03, 2009.
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Catholic Archbishop Slams Facebook
August 04, 2009 | by Christopher Nickson, Digital Trends
The leader of the Catholic Church in England and Wales has criticized social networking sites, e-mails, and texting.
According to Archbishop Vincent Nichols, the leader of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales, the accoutrements of the digital life – social networking sites, texting, and e-mails, are undermining community life.
Talking to the Sunday Telegraph, he said that friendships were becoming more “transient,” with quantity valued over quality, and claimed that was a key factor in suicides among young people.
"Friendship is not a commodity," he said.
"Friendship is something that is hard work and enduring when it's right."
He said that society was losing its interpersonal skills because, more and more, people were using media that were not real communities.
"Facebook and MySpace might contribute towards communities, but I'm wary about it."
"Among young people often a key factor in their committing suicide is the trauma of transient relationships."
"They throw themselves into a friendship or network of friendships, then it collapses and they're desolate."
"It's an all-or-nothing syndrome that you have to have in an attempt to shore up an identity; a collection of friends about whom you can talk and even boast."
The leader of the Catholic Church in England and Wales has criticized social networking sites, e-mails, and texting.
According to Archbishop Vincent Nichols, the leader of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales, the accoutrements of the digital life – social networking sites, texting, and e-mails, are undermining community life.
Talking to the Sunday Telegraph, he said that friendships were becoming more “transient,” with quantity valued over quality, and claimed that was a key factor in suicides among young people.
"Friendship is not a commodity," he said.
"Friendship is something that is hard work and enduring when it's right."
He said that society was losing its interpersonal skills because, more and more, people were using media that were not real communities.
"Facebook and MySpace might contribute towards communities, but I'm wary about it."
"Among young people often a key factor in their committing suicide is the trauma of transient relationships."
"They throw themselves into a friendship or network of friendships, then it collapses and they're desolate."
"It's an all-or-nothing syndrome that you have to have in an attempt to shore up an identity; a collection of friends about whom you can talk and even boast."
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Monday, August 3, 2009
Vatican to Cast out Doctors, Women for Abortion Pill Use
Times of India LONDON: As Italy authorised the use of the abortion pill Mifepristone, the Vatican threatened to excommunicate doctors who prescribe it and women
who take the pill.
After a heated four-hour session, Italy’s drug regulation agency announced its decision on Saturday following opposition from the church and Catholic politicians, including many from PM Silvio Berlusconi’s centre- Right government.
The Vatican, which has battled in the United Nations and other forums to halt acceptance of the abortion pill, reacted with dismay to the decision to approve limited use of the Mifepristone that has been available in much of the rest of Europe since the 1990s.
Archbishop Rino Fisichella, head of the Pope's thinktank on bioethical issues, the Pontifical Academy for Life, said: “The fact of taking a pill may be less traumatic for a woman, but it does not change the substance. It is still abortion.”
He underlined that the consequences for a Catholic - automatic excommunication - were "the same as those for surgical abortion", the Guardian newspaper reported on Satuday.
Elio Sgreccia, another top official from the Academy for Life, said that women taking the pill or doctors administering it incur automatic excommunication under church law, according to media reports.
who take the pill.
After a heated four-hour session, Italy’s drug regulation agency announced its decision on Saturday following opposition from the church and Catholic politicians, including many from PM Silvio Berlusconi’s centre- Right government.
The Vatican, which has battled in the United Nations and other forums to halt acceptance of the abortion pill, reacted with dismay to the decision to approve limited use of the Mifepristone that has been available in much of the rest of Europe since the 1990s.
Archbishop Rino Fisichella, head of the Pope's thinktank on bioethical issues, the Pontifical Academy for Life, said: “The fact of taking a pill may be less traumatic for a woman, but it does not change the substance. It is still abortion.”
He underlined that the consequences for a Catholic - automatic excommunication - were "the same as those for surgical abortion", the Guardian newspaper reported on Satuday.
Elio Sgreccia, another top official from the Academy for Life, said that women taking the pill or doctors administering it incur automatic excommunication under church law, according to media reports.
Pope Benedict to Catholics: Kneel For Communion
NewsBlaze.com Published: August 01,2009
"Whosoever shall eat this bread, or drink the chalice of the Lord unworthily, shall be guilty of the Body and of the Blood of the Lord... For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh judgment to himself, not discerning the Body of the Lord" - 1 Corinthians 11:27,28
Pope Benedict to Catholics:
Kneel and Receive on the Tongue Only
Pope Benedict XVI does not want the faithful receiving Communion in their hand nor does he want them standing to receive Christ in the Blessed Sacrament. According to Vatican liturgist, Monsignor Guido Marini, the pope is trying to set the stage for the whole church as to the proper norm for receiving Communion for which reason communicants at his papal Masses are now asked to kneel and receive on the tongue.
The Holy Father's reasoning is simple: "We Christians kneel before the Blessed Sacrament because, therein, we know and believe to be the presence of the One True God." (May 22, 2008)
According to the pope the entire Church should kneel in adoration before God in the Eucharist. "Kneeling in adoration before the Eucharist is the most valid and radical remedy against the idolatries of yesterday and today" (May 22, 2008)
To read full article click HERE
"Whosoever shall eat this bread, or drink the chalice of the Lord unworthily, shall be guilty of the Body and of the Blood of the Lord... For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh judgment to himself, not discerning the Body of the Lord" - 1 Corinthians 11:27,28
Pope Benedict to Catholics:
Kneel and Receive on the Tongue Only
Pope Benedict XVI does not want the faithful receiving Communion in their hand nor does he want them standing to receive Christ in the Blessed Sacrament. According to Vatican liturgist, Monsignor Guido Marini, the pope is trying to set the stage for the whole church as to the proper norm for receiving Communion for which reason communicants at his papal Masses are now asked to kneel and receive on the tongue.
The Holy Father's reasoning is simple: "We Christians kneel before the Blessed Sacrament because, therein, we know and believe to be the presence of the One True God." (May 22, 2008)
According to the pope the entire Church should kneel in adoration before God in the Eucharist. "Kneeling in adoration before the Eucharist is the most valid and radical remedy against the idolatries of yesterday and today" (May 22, 2008)
To read full article click HERE
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Sunday, August 2, 2009
Football Star and CHASTITY
College football star Tim Tebow says he is ‘saving himself for marriage’
Hoover, Ala., Aug 2, 2009 / 06:32 pm (CNA).- Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback Tim Tebow brought chastity and college sports together at a press conference last week at U.S. college football’s SEC Media Days when one reporter asked him if he was “saving himself for marriage.”
The question, asked by FanHouse.com reporter Clay Travis, prompted laughter from Tebow and other media members in the audience before the University of Florida athlete replied:
“Yes I am.”
For full article click HERE
Hoover, Ala., Aug 2, 2009 / 06:32 pm (CNA).- Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback Tim Tebow brought chastity and college sports together at a press conference last week at U.S. college football’s SEC Media Days when one reporter asked him if he was “saving himself for marriage.”
The question, asked by FanHouse.com reporter Clay Travis, prompted laughter from Tebow and other media members in the audience before the University of Florida athlete replied:
“Yes I am.”
For full article click HERE
Persecution Watch...Muslims Burn 6 Christians To Death
Muslims burn 6 Christians to death after false allegations
Lahore, Pakistan, Aug 2, 2009 / 11:31 am (CNA).- Religious extremists struck again in Pakistan on Saturday when a violent mob of Muslims looted and burned a Christian neighborhood, killing six Christians by burning them to death. The attacks took place in reaction to a rumor that the Koran was desecrated in a nearby village.
The violence, which took place in the central Punjab town of Gorja City, occurred early on Saturday when a throng of Muslims surged into the Christian quarter, setting all 40 of the Christian houses and two churches aflame.
As the crowd of Muslims approached Gojra City, Christians fired shots at them in self-defense.
Six Christians—four women, a man and a 7 year-old child—were burned to death in the attacks.
The rioters were enraged by the alleged desecration of the Koran in the village of Koriyan, about two miles away.
However, Rana Sanaullah, provincial minister for law, who is also responsible for security matters of Punjab, said that an initial investigation found there was no desecration of the Koran. "It was just a rumor which was exploited by anti-state elements to create chaos," he said.
According to locals, the police observed the looting and burning, but took no action. “Though police was present at the time of attack, miscreants were not stopped by them,” local Christians complained. After some time, the police tried to stop the protesters, but the mob turned on the police, resulting in some injuries.
According to Minorities Concern of Pakistan, “this is the third incident in the last two months of this kind in Punjab province in which Christian localities were attacked due to alleged blasphemy.”
Christians make up just 1.5 percent of the total population of Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
Lahore, Pakistan, Aug 2, 2009 / 11:31 am (CNA).- Religious extremists struck again in Pakistan on Saturday when a violent mob of Muslims looted and burned a Christian neighborhood, killing six Christians by burning them to death. The attacks took place in reaction to a rumor that the Koran was desecrated in a nearby village.
The violence, which took place in the central Punjab town of Gorja City, occurred early on Saturday when a throng of Muslims surged into the Christian quarter, setting all 40 of the Christian houses and two churches aflame.
As the crowd of Muslims approached Gojra City, Christians fired shots at them in self-defense.
Six Christians—four women, a man and a 7 year-old child—were burned to death in the attacks.
The rioters were enraged by the alleged desecration of the Koran in the village of Koriyan, about two miles away.
However, Rana Sanaullah, provincial minister for law, who is also responsible for security matters of Punjab, said that an initial investigation found there was no desecration of the Koran. "It was just a rumor which was exploited by anti-state elements to create chaos," he said.
According to locals, the police observed the looting and burning, but took no action. “Though police was present at the time of attack, miscreants were not stopped by them,” local Christians complained. After some time, the police tried to stop the protesters, but the mob turned on the police, resulting in some injuries.
According to Minorities Concern of Pakistan, “this is the third incident in the last two months of this kind in Punjab province in which Christian localities were attacked due to alleged blasphemy.”
Christians make up just 1.5 percent of the total population of Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
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Saturday, August 1, 2009
Abortion Drug Has Killed 29 Women
Abortion Drug Has Killed 29 Women, European Maker Tells Italy's Government
by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
July 31, 2009
Rome, Italy (LifeNews.com) -- The world may never know how many thousands of women have been injured, or even killed, by the dangerous RU 486 abortion drug. The best worldwide guess is that 13 women have been killed as a result of the mifepristone abortion pill, but the maker of the drug in Europe is saying 29 women have died.
If the information given to the Italian Pharmaceuticals Agency (AIFA) by European abortion drug maker Exelgyn is correct, then twice as many women have died from the abortion drug globally than the pro-life community has thought.
Currently, eight women have died from using the RU 486 abortion drug in the United States, two in England, and one each in Canada, Sweden and France.
But, according to a report by the Italian news agency ASCA, Exelgyn provided the figure of 29 women dying from the abortion pill to the Italy Ministry of Health, which, in turn, gave the information to the AIFA drug regulatory agency.
Meanwhile, Eugenia Roccella, the subsecretary of the Italian health office, also reportedly confirmed the figure she received from Exelgyn to L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper.
AIFA is the agency that announced this week that the abortion drug, marketed in Italy as Mifegyne, will now be available for purchase across Italy, after years of the European nation only allowing surgical abortions.
Dr. Randy O'Bannon, the director of research for the National Right to Life Committee and one of the American authorities on the abortion drug, told LifeNews.com that he can't confirm the Exelgyn figure of 29 deaths.
"It has always been difficult to get complete information on the deaths and injuries associated with the RU-486 method," he said Friday.
Typically, a death from the mifepristone abortion pill doesn't become public information "unless someone knows that a woman has had a chemical abortion and recognizes that her complications are related to that event" or "unless someone reports that to the distributor or manufacturer."
Abortion deaths may also become known if someone submits a report to a governmental agency or "someone goes to the press or the press uncovers and publicizes those incidents," O'Bannon says.
If none of those actions occur, "then no one knows and the industry goes on promoting the myth of these drugs’ safety and more women’s lives are put at risk."
"We can only wonder how high the number would be if we had all the information," O'Bannon said.
by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
July 31, 2009
Rome, Italy (LifeNews.com) -- The world may never know how many thousands of women have been injured, or even killed, by the dangerous RU 486 abortion drug. The best worldwide guess is that 13 women have been killed as a result of the mifepristone abortion pill, but the maker of the drug in Europe is saying 29 women have died.
If the information given to the Italian Pharmaceuticals Agency (AIFA) by European abortion drug maker Exelgyn is correct, then twice as many women have died from the abortion drug globally than the pro-life community has thought.
Currently, eight women have died from using the RU 486 abortion drug in the United States, two in England, and one each in Canada, Sweden and France.
But, according to a report by the Italian news agency ASCA, Exelgyn provided the figure of 29 women dying from the abortion pill to the Italy Ministry of Health, which, in turn, gave the information to the AIFA drug regulatory agency.
Meanwhile, Eugenia Roccella, the subsecretary of the Italian health office, also reportedly confirmed the figure she received from Exelgyn to L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper.
AIFA is the agency that announced this week that the abortion drug, marketed in Italy as Mifegyne, will now be available for purchase across Italy, after years of the European nation only allowing surgical abortions.
Dr. Randy O'Bannon, the director of research for the National Right to Life Committee and one of the American authorities on the abortion drug, told LifeNews.com that he can't confirm the Exelgyn figure of 29 deaths.
"It has always been difficult to get complete information on the deaths and injuries associated with the RU-486 method," he said Friday.
Typically, a death from the mifepristone abortion pill doesn't become public information "unless someone knows that a woman has had a chemical abortion and recognizes that her complications are related to that event" or "unless someone reports that to the distributor or manufacturer."
Abortion deaths may also become known if someone submits a report to a governmental agency or "someone goes to the press or the press uncovers and publicizes those incidents," O'Bannon says.
If none of those actions occur, "then no one knows and the industry goes on promoting the myth of these drugs’ safety and more women’s lives are put at risk."
"We can only wonder how high the number would be if we had all the information," O'Bannon said.
Friday, July 31, 2009
Political Arm Twisting... Not in America...Right!
Abortion measure passes, then fails, in House
(AP)
WASHINGTON — An anti-abortion amendment to a sweeping health overhaul bill was voted down in a House committee late Thursday — a dramatic reversal just hours after the measure initially was approved.
The amendment said health care legislation moving through Congress may not impose requirements for coverage of abortion, except in limited cases. It was approved in the Energy and Commerce Committee after conservative Democrats joined Republicans to support it.
But committee Chairman Henry Waxman, D-Calif., invoked House rules that allowed him to bring up the amendment for a second vote, despite Republican objections.
This time, one conservative Democrat — Rep. Bart Gordon of Tennessee — changed his vote from "yes" to "no." And a second conservative Democrat who hadn't voted the first time — Rep. Zack Space of Ohio — voted "no."
It was enough to take down the amendment on a 30-29 vote.
(AP)
WASHINGTON — An anti-abortion amendment to a sweeping health overhaul bill was voted down in a House committee late Thursday — a dramatic reversal just hours after the measure initially was approved.
The amendment said health care legislation moving through Congress may not impose requirements for coverage of abortion, except in limited cases. It was approved in the Energy and Commerce Committee after conservative Democrats joined Republicans to support it.
But committee Chairman Henry Waxman, D-Calif., invoked House rules that allowed him to bring up the amendment for a second vote, despite Republican objections.
This time, one conservative Democrat — Rep. Bart Gordon of Tennessee — changed his vote from "yes" to "no." And a second conservative Democrat who hadn't voted the first time — Rep. Zack Space of Ohio — voted "no."
It was enough to take down the amendment on a 30-29 vote.
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Obama Awards Medals of Freedom
President Barack Obama Awards Abortion Advocates With Medal of Freedom
by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
July 30, 2009
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- President Barack Obama today named 16 recipients of the 2009 Presidential Medal of Freedom, which is the highest civilian honor that can be bestowed on its citizens. Obama's group of recipients includes abortion advocates who have repeatedly earned condemnation from the pro-life movement.
In a statement LifeNews.com received, the White House said the medals were awarded to recipients who "make an especially meritorious contribution to the security or national interests of the United States."
The recipients were said to have promoted "world peace, cultural or other significant public or private endeavors" and "were chosen for their work as agents of change" and because they "have changed the world for the better."
For Full Article click HERE
by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
July 30, 2009
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- President Barack Obama today named 16 recipients of the 2009 Presidential Medal of Freedom, which is the highest civilian honor that can be bestowed on its citizens. Obama's group of recipients includes abortion advocates who have repeatedly earned condemnation from the pro-life movement.
In a statement LifeNews.com received, the White House said the medals were awarded to recipients who "make an especially meritorious contribution to the security or national interests of the United States."
The recipients were said to have promoted "world peace, cultural or other significant public or private endeavors" and "were chosen for their work as agents of change" and because they "have changed the world for the better."
For Full Article click HERE
Did Jesus Reveal The NAME of ANTICHRIST???
Watch this video. It is very interesting and revealing, regardless of your Political affiliation.
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Social Justice Being Tested
Mexican bishops call for end to violence in Michoacan
Mexico City, Mexico, Jul 20, 2009 / 02:38 pm (CNA).- The bishops of the ecclesiastical province of Morelia in Mexico have called for an end to the violence that has plagued the region. They have also implored Mexicans in the area to participate in the Triduum of Prayer for peace July 23 to 25.
“As disciples of Jesus Christ and as pastors of the People of God, we cannot remain silent or indifferent. It is time to raise our voices and ask in the name of God: Enough death! Nobody can escape divine judgment and each one will have render and account for his actions. We call on those involved in violence to heed the voice of God who calls us to life and to peace,” the bishops said in a statement.
They went on to express their sorrow over the wave of violence that has spread across the region and they noted that residents live in an atmosphere of uncertainty and anguish because they feel defenseless. “There are places becoming ghost towns because the lack of security,” the bishops warned.
For this reason the bishops have called for a Triduum of Prayer July 23—25. It will include Holy Hours, Stations of the Cross and the Rosary. They also suggested using prayers for Reconciliation during the Mass when permitted by the liturgical calendar and to pray for peace each afternoon at 3 p.m.
“We must humbly and persistently implore the God of mercy to take pity on us and grant us peace. With the strength of prayer let us struggle to overcome evil with the force of good,” the bishops said, urging that all Mexicans work to “re-establish public order in peace and justice.”
Mexico City, Mexico, Jul 20, 2009 / 02:38 pm (CNA).- The bishops of the ecclesiastical province of Morelia in Mexico have called for an end to the violence that has plagued the region. They have also implored Mexicans in the area to participate in the Triduum of Prayer for peace July 23 to 25.
“As disciples of Jesus Christ and as pastors of the People of God, we cannot remain silent or indifferent. It is time to raise our voices and ask in the name of God: Enough death! Nobody can escape divine judgment and each one will have render and account for his actions. We call on those involved in violence to heed the voice of God who calls us to life and to peace,” the bishops said in a statement.
They went on to express their sorrow over the wave of violence that has spread across the region and they noted that residents live in an atmosphere of uncertainty and anguish because they feel defenseless. “There are places becoming ghost towns because the lack of security,” the bishops warned.
For this reason the bishops have called for a Triduum of Prayer July 23—25. It will include Holy Hours, Stations of the Cross and the Rosary. They also suggested using prayers for Reconciliation during the Mass when permitted by the liturgical calendar and to pray for peace each afternoon at 3 p.m.
“We must humbly and persistently implore the God of mercy to take pity on us and grant us peace. With the strength of prayer let us struggle to overcome evil with the force of good,” the bishops said, urging that all Mexicans work to “re-establish public order in peace and justice.”
PERSECUTION WATCH!
Priest beaten into a coma by police. Catholics Protest throughout Vietnam
by J.B. An Dang
Thousands of the faithful take part in demonstrations and prayer vigils in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi. The priest in a coma was beaten and then hurled from the 2nd floor of a hospital. Another was savagely beaten while 30 policemen stood by watching. The Diocese of Vinh publicly denounces the episode.
Hanoi (AsiaNews)-Two priests are in serious condition after they were savagely beaten by Vietnamese police and thugs, who tried in vain to stop the demonstrations held last July 26 in Vinh (300 km south of Hanoi) to demand justice for the violence used against the Christian community of the parish of Tam Toa (see AsiaNews 21/07/09 - Beatings and arrests of priests and faithful in the historic church of Tam Toa). As news of the priests conditions spread, a series of new demonstrations have been launched in several cities of Vietnam.
The diocesan office in Vinh issued a statement last night in condemning the attacks by police and gangs of thugs acting on police orders, on the two priests, Fr Paul Nguyen Dinh Phu and Fr. Peter Nguyen The Binh, whose conditions are very critical. Both have been admitted to hospital in Dong Hoi, the first with broken ribs and head injuries, the second was beaten into a coma and then hurled from the 2nd floor of the building.
For full article click HERE
by J.B. An Dang
Thousands of the faithful take part in demonstrations and prayer vigils in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi. The priest in a coma was beaten and then hurled from the 2nd floor of a hospital. Another was savagely beaten while 30 policemen stood by watching. The Diocese of Vinh publicly denounces the episode.
Hanoi (AsiaNews)-Two priests are in serious condition after they were savagely beaten by Vietnamese police and thugs, who tried in vain to stop the demonstrations held last July 26 in Vinh (300 km south of Hanoi) to demand justice for the violence used against the Christian community of the parish of Tam Toa (see AsiaNews 21/07/09 - Beatings and arrests of priests and faithful in the historic church of Tam Toa). As news of the priests conditions spread, a series of new demonstrations have been launched in several cities of Vietnam.
The diocesan office in Vinh issued a statement last night in condemning the attacks by police and gangs of thugs acting on police orders, on the two priests, Fr Paul Nguyen Dinh Phu and Fr. Peter Nguyen The Binh, whose conditions are very critical. Both have been admitted to hospital in Dong Hoi, the first with broken ribs and head injuries, the second was beaten into a coma and then hurled from the 2nd floor of the building.
For full article click HERE
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Transsexual Attacks Priest During Mass in Italy
Milan, Italy, Jul 29, 2009 / 04:12 pm (CNA).- Police in Milan detained a Brazilian transsexual on Sunday after he stripped naked in front of the altar during Mass and began to attack the priest who was presiding over the Mass.
The incident occurred at the Church of St. Babila at the 8:30am Mass on Sunday.
According to ANSA news agency, the subject entered the church and approached the altar, where he stripped naked. “Afterwards he took a pole used by the sacristan to close doors and approached the celebrating priest. Several people in congregation tried to stop him, and the man went to the baptismal chapel and began striking a commemorative plaque full of money, which he tried to steal.
Police arrested the Brazilian man and charged him with theft, property damage, public disruption and resisting arrest.
For Full Article click HERE
The incident occurred at the Church of St. Babila at the 8:30am Mass on Sunday.
According to ANSA news agency, the subject entered the church and approached the altar, where he stripped naked. “Afterwards he took a pole used by the sacristan to close doors and approached the celebrating priest. Several people in congregation tried to stop him, and the man went to the baptismal chapel and began striking a commemorative plaque full of money, which he tried to steal.
Police arrested the Brazilian man and charged him with theft, property damage, public disruption and resisting arrest.
For Full Article click HERE
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Are We Our Brother's Keeper?
In the book of Genesis we have the scene of Cain killing his brother Able, out of jealousy. God then comes to Cain and asks him where his brother is (knowing well that he had killed his brother). Cain replies, with the now famous line, "I do not know, am I my brothers keeper?" Gen 4:9. In other words, how should I know, find him yourself God! Pretty belligerent words, coming from Cain toward God. God responds, "Listen: Your brother's blood cries out to Me for the soil!" Gen 4:10
But don't we all act like Cain in a sense telling God the same thing when it comes to people who are victims of crime? How many times have we seen something bad happening to someone and we say to ourselves, 'that's none of my business' or 'they made their own bed, now let them sleep in it' or the like? We as a society need to wake up and understand that WE ARE OUR BROTHERS KEEPER! We need to watch out for one another and stand up for injustices which are happening, not only in 'other' parts of the world, but in our own back yards! We need the Power of The Holy Spirit. That Power which is called DUNAMIS in the New Testament Greek, from which we get our word DYNAMITE! We need to be more involved with others. To care about them so that when we see something happening that should not be, we can recognize the red flag and act (preventatively).
So the answer to Cain's question is a resounding YES, we ARE our brother's keeper. When God sees injustice, His response is the same as that to Cain, "Listen: Your brother's blood cries out to me from the soil!" Are we LISTENING as God requests?
Read the following article...how long will it take us to wake up and be involved with each other so we can possibly prevent such things...
July 29, 2009(CNN) -- Police are searching for someone who killed a woman in her Massachusetts apartment and cut an 8-month-old fetus from her body.
Officers found Darlene Haynes dead after neighbors complained about a stench coming from her Worcester apartment.
The 23-year-old was found in the closet of a bedroom, wrapped in bedding, according to authorities. She was last seen on Thursday, police said.
Haynes had been dead for several days, police said. During an autopsy, police learned that a fetus had been removed from the woman's body.
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Police say the missing infant could survive, but would need immediate medical attention.
A friend of Haynes told CNN affiliate WHDH that she had received a text message from Haynes at 11:20 p.m. Thursday that said she was having wine coolers with a friend at her apartment. That was the last she heard from her.
But don't we all act like Cain in a sense telling God the same thing when it comes to people who are victims of crime? How many times have we seen something bad happening to someone and we say to ourselves, 'that's none of my business' or 'they made their own bed, now let them sleep in it' or the like? We as a society need to wake up and understand that WE ARE OUR BROTHERS KEEPER! We need to watch out for one another and stand up for injustices which are happening, not only in 'other' parts of the world, but in our own back yards! We need the Power of The Holy Spirit. That Power which is called DUNAMIS in the New Testament Greek, from which we get our word DYNAMITE! We need to be more involved with others. To care about them so that when we see something happening that should not be, we can recognize the red flag and act (preventatively).
So the answer to Cain's question is a resounding YES, we ARE our brother's keeper. When God sees injustice, His response is the same as that to Cain, "Listen: Your brother's blood cries out to me from the soil!" Are we LISTENING as God requests?
Read the following article...how long will it take us to wake up and be involved with each other so we can possibly prevent such things...
July 29, 2009(CNN) -- Police are searching for someone who killed a woman in her Massachusetts apartment and cut an 8-month-old fetus from her body.
Officers found Darlene Haynes dead after neighbors complained about a stench coming from her Worcester apartment.
The 23-year-old was found in the closet of a bedroom, wrapped in bedding, according to authorities. She was last seen on Thursday, police said.
Haynes had been dead for several days, police said. During an autopsy, police learned that a fetus had been removed from the woman's body.
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Police say the missing infant could survive, but would need immediate medical attention.
A friend of Haynes told CNN affiliate WHDH that she had received a text message from Haynes at 11:20 p.m. Thursday that said she was having wine coolers with a friend at her apartment. That was the last she heard from her.
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7 Year Old Causes Car Chase...To Avoid Going To Church!
Holy car! Utah boy goes for spin to avoid church
AP Wed Jul 29, 2:05 am ET
PLAIN CITY, Utah – Police in Utah say a 7-year-old boy led officers on a car chase in an effort to avoid going to church.
Dispatchers received reports of a child driving recklessly on Sunday morning. Weber County Sheriff's Capt. Klint Anderson says one witness said the boy drove through a stop sign.
Anderson says two deputies caught up with the boy and tried unsuccessfully to stop the Dodge Intrepid in an area about 45 miles north of Salt Lake City. The car reached 40 mph before the boy stopped in a driveway and ran inside a home.
Anderson says when the boy's father later confronted him, the boy said he didn't want to go to church. The boy is too young to prosecute and no citations were issued, although police did urge the father to make his car keys more inaccessible to children.
AP Wed Jul 29, 2:05 am ET
PLAIN CITY, Utah – Police in Utah say a 7-year-old boy led officers on a car chase in an effort to avoid going to church.
Dispatchers received reports of a child driving recklessly on Sunday morning. Weber County Sheriff's Capt. Klint Anderson says one witness said the boy drove through a stop sign.
Anderson says two deputies caught up with the boy and tried unsuccessfully to stop the Dodge Intrepid in an area about 45 miles north of Salt Lake City. The car reached 40 mph before the boy stopped in a driveway and ran inside a home.
Anderson says when the boy's father later confronted him, the boy said he didn't want to go to church. The boy is too young to prosecute and no citations were issued, although police did urge the father to make his car keys more inaccessible to children.
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Nurse Forced to Participate in Abortion Speaks Out
New York City, N.Y., Jul 28, 2009 / 05:12 am (CNA).- "It felt like a horror film unfolding," said Catherina Cenzon-DeCarlo, the Brooklyn nurse who says she was forced to aid an abortion against her will. Now Cenzon-DeCarlo is speaking out, describing the terror she felt as she was asked to sacrifice her religious convictions for the sake of her job.
Catherina Cenzon-DeCarlo, a devout Catholic, says she has been having nightmares and difficulty sleeping ever since the incident took place on May 24, reports the New York Post.
"I couldn't believe that this could happen," Cenzon-DeCarlo told the Post, describing how she was threatened with charges of insubordination and patient abandonment, which could result in possible loss of a job and nursing license, if she did not participate in the abortion.
Although she was told that it was an emergency and the woman would die if she did not assist, Cenzon-DeCarlo observed that the woman had not received the treatments typically given to a patient whose life is in danger as the hospital claimed it was.
She later found out that the hospital itself had declared the case a “Category II,” meaning that it was not immediately life-threatening, and that there was a six-hour window for the operation to take place, allowing ample time for the hospital to find a replacement nurse who did not have moral objections to the procedure.
“I felt violated and betrayed,” Cenzon-DeCarlo said.
The nurse had clearly stated that she was unwilling to aid in abortions during a job interview with Mount Sinai. She says she had put her beliefs in writing.
Cenzon-DeCarlo went on to explain that she was later told by two supervisors that she would need to sign a statement agreeing to participate in abortions if she wanted any more overtime shifts. Over the next month, she was designated only one overtime shift, instead of the eight or nine she was usually assigned, reported the New York Post.
Now, the Alliance Defense Fund is representing Cenzon-DeCarlo in a lawsuit that seeks to force Mount Sinai to surrender their federal funding because it has violated a federal rule protecting employees who morally object to controversial procedures.
The lawsuit also seeks damages on behalf of Cenzon-DeCarlo, as well as a restoration of her overtime shifts and a respect for her objections to abortion.
Now, the married mother of a year-old baby hopes the litigation will be enough to restore protection to her religious convictions. "I emigrated to this country in the belief that here religious freedom is sacred," she said. "Doctors and nurses shouldn't be forced to abandon their beliefs and participate in abortion in order to keep their jobs."
Catherina Cenzon-DeCarlo, a devout Catholic, says she has been having nightmares and difficulty sleeping ever since the incident took place on May 24, reports the New York Post.
"I couldn't believe that this could happen," Cenzon-DeCarlo told the Post, describing how she was threatened with charges of insubordination and patient abandonment, which could result in possible loss of a job and nursing license, if she did not participate in the abortion.
Although she was told that it was an emergency and the woman would die if she did not assist, Cenzon-DeCarlo observed that the woman had not received the treatments typically given to a patient whose life is in danger as the hospital claimed it was.
She later found out that the hospital itself had declared the case a “Category II,” meaning that it was not immediately life-threatening, and that there was a six-hour window for the operation to take place, allowing ample time for the hospital to find a replacement nurse who did not have moral objections to the procedure.
“I felt violated and betrayed,” Cenzon-DeCarlo said.
The nurse had clearly stated that she was unwilling to aid in abortions during a job interview with Mount Sinai. She says she had put her beliefs in writing.
Cenzon-DeCarlo went on to explain that she was later told by two supervisors that she would need to sign a statement agreeing to participate in abortions if she wanted any more overtime shifts. Over the next month, she was designated only one overtime shift, instead of the eight or nine she was usually assigned, reported the New York Post.
Now, the Alliance Defense Fund is representing Cenzon-DeCarlo in a lawsuit that seeks to force Mount Sinai to surrender their federal funding because it has violated a federal rule protecting employees who morally object to controversial procedures.
The lawsuit also seeks damages on behalf of Cenzon-DeCarlo, as well as a restoration of her overtime shifts and a respect for her objections to abortion.
Now, the married mother of a year-old baby hopes the litigation will be enough to restore protection to her religious convictions. "I emigrated to this country in the belief that here religious freedom is sacred," she said. "Doctors and nurses shouldn't be forced to abandon their beliefs and participate in abortion in order to keep their jobs."
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Sunday, July 26, 2009
Dead Sea Sink Holes ... Signs From Sodom?
Friday, July 24, 2009
By Mike Tobin
Sinkholes at the Dead Sea's Mineral Beach, in the West Bank, in February 2005.
The Dead Sea is the lowest spot of land on the planet, where the Bible says God rained fire and brimstone down on the misbehaving residents of Sodom and Gomorrah — and where now, the Earth occasionally opens up and swallows people.
Geologist Eli Raz was one of those people.
"It happened so quickly," says Raz. "I was busy documenting, taking pictures, writing in my notebook, using my equipment, etc. All of a sudden, I found myself down. It was terrible."
That scene is repeated over and over as rescuers haul hikers from subterranean misfortune. Some 3,000 sink holes have appeared on the banks of the Dead Sea — and an estimated 3,000 more are ready to burst open.
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This time however, it's not an act of God. This moonscape was created by residents of Jordan and Israel tapping into the Jordan River.
"The Jordan River used to be the main contributor of water to the Dead Sea," explains Raz. "Now there is no Jordan River anymore. It is just a switch channel."
The Dead Sea's waters — famous for their heavy salt and mineral content — have shrunk by a third and continue to recede.
As the Dead Sea recedes, fresh water comes to the dried-up areas in the form of rain, runoff and underground streams. The fresh water soaks into the ground, dissolving the salts that had been deposited there since long before there was a Sodom or a Gomorrah.
Once the salt dissolves, that opens up great underground caves — and the earth comes a-tumblin' down.
Now tourist parks look like earthquake aftermath. Roads are closed, famous desert hikes fenced off, construction projects canceled.
Israel's comptroller criticizes the country's own ministries for doing nothing — while the soft soil in the Earth's basement waits to swallow another victim.
Abortion and The Demonic
For Father Euteneuer, some consequences are apparent. He considers a demonic presence in the abortion industry to be obvious.
“Abortion is a demonic industry,” he told the Philadelphia Bulletin. “Abortion is blood sacrifice of innocent blood to the devil. The clinics are like temples, the doctors are like priests, the medical table is like their altar. It’s a ritualized sacrifice. They have a dogma called choice, a hierarchy called Planned Parenthood, and guardian angels in the form of police guards that will arrest you if you try to stop them.”
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“Abortion is a demonic industry,” he told the Philadelphia Bulletin. “Abortion is blood sacrifice of innocent blood to the devil. The clinics are like temples, the doctors are like priests, the medical table is like their altar. It’s a ritualized sacrifice. They have a dogma called choice, a hierarchy called Planned Parenthood, and guardian angels in the form of police guards that will arrest you if you try to stop them.”
For Full Article Go HERE
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Father's Consent Before Abortion!
Columbus, Ohio, Jul 25, 2009 / 06:47 am (CNA).- An Ohio state legislator has introduced a bill that requires written permission from an unborn baby’s biological father before an abortion.
Rep. John Adams, a Republican from Sidney, Ohio, calls his bill H.B. 252 "Father’s Rights Regarding Abortion," Politics Daily reports. The legislation has more than a dozen co-sponsors in the Ohio House of Representatives, where Rep. Adams is Minority Whip.
"When the fetus that is the subject of the procedure is viable, no person shall perform or induce an abortion on a pregnant woman without the written informed consent of the father of the fetus," the bill’s text reads. "When the fetus that is the subject of the procedure is not viable, no person shall perform or induce an abortion on a pregnant woman without the written informed consent of the father of the fetus."
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Rep. John Adams, a Republican from Sidney, Ohio, calls his bill H.B. 252 "Father’s Rights Regarding Abortion," Politics Daily reports. The legislation has more than a dozen co-sponsors in the Ohio House of Representatives, where Rep. Adams is Minority Whip.
"When the fetus that is the subject of the procedure is viable, no person shall perform or induce an abortion on a pregnant woman without the written informed consent of the father of the fetus," the bill’s text reads. "When the fetus that is the subject of the procedure is not viable, no person shall perform or induce an abortion on a pregnant woman without the written informed consent of the father of the fetus."
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Saturday, July 25, 2009
U.K. Catacombs as Modern Day Mortuaries?
Catacombs may be used to store bodies of swine flu victims
guardian.co.uk, Saturday 25 July 2009 11.52 BST
Exeter city council plans to use 19th century burial chambers as emergency mortuary if pandemic worsens.
A city council is considering using 19th century catacombs to store the bodies of swine flu victims if the outbreak worsens, it was confirmed today.
Exeter city council has identified the empty underground burial chambers, currently used as a tourist attraction, as a potential mortuary.
A council spokesman said the plan would be implemented if the crematorium and cemeteries could not keep up with funeral demands.
"We have some empty catacombs in an old cemetery in the city," he said. "These are 19th century underground burial chambers which are normally a tourist attraction. They can, however, be safely used for their original purpose and allow us to temporarily store bodies in the remote possibility that the need should arise."
So far at least 31 people have died in the UK after contracting the virus. Yesterday, the World Health Organisation said 800 people had now died worldwide from the H1N1 virus and as many as 2 billion people could eventually be infected.
Doctors have warned that NHS intensive care wards could be overwhelmed by severely ill swine flu patients if infection rates climb rapidly.
The growing pressure on critical care beds was underlined this week when a pregnant 26-year-old was flown from a hospital in Kilmarnock to Sweden for life-saving treatment because of a shortage of equipment in Britain. Sharon Pentleton's family said she was gravely ill, but her doctors believe she has a good chance of recovery.
According to Dr Alan Hay, director of the WHO's London-based world influenza centre, the first wave of UK infections is likely to peak within the next week or two before re-emerging in the winter.
Research published in the journal Anaesthesia suggests that when the peak comes, demand for intensive care beds could outstrip supply by 130% in some regions, while the demand for ventilators could exceed supply by 20%. Paediatric facilities are likely to become "quickly exhausted" as hospitals confront "massive excess demand", according to experts in intensive care and anaesthesia from the University of Cambridge, the Intensive Care Society and St George's Healthcare NHS trust in London.
The Department of Health said the NHS was prepared for the pandemic. "Guidance has been issued which contains information for primary and secondary care services in the UK on managing surge capacity and the prioritisation of services and patients during a widespread influenza outbreak," a spokesman said.
guardian.co.uk, Saturday 25 July 2009 11.52 BST
Exeter city council plans to use 19th century burial chambers as emergency mortuary if pandemic worsens.
A city council is considering using 19th century catacombs to store the bodies of swine flu victims if the outbreak worsens, it was confirmed today.
Exeter city council has identified the empty underground burial chambers, currently used as a tourist attraction, as a potential mortuary.
A council spokesman said the plan would be implemented if the crematorium and cemeteries could not keep up with funeral demands.
"We have some empty catacombs in an old cemetery in the city," he said. "These are 19th century underground burial chambers which are normally a tourist attraction. They can, however, be safely used for their original purpose and allow us to temporarily store bodies in the remote possibility that the need should arise."
So far at least 31 people have died in the UK after contracting the virus. Yesterday, the World Health Organisation said 800 people had now died worldwide from the H1N1 virus and as many as 2 billion people could eventually be infected.
Doctors have warned that NHS intensive care wards could be overwhelmed by severely ill swine flu patients if infection rates climb rapidly.
The growing pressure on critical care beds was underlined this week when a pregnant 26-year-old was flown from a hospital in Kilmarnock to Sweden for life-saving treatment because of a shortage of equipment in Britain. Sharon Pentleton's family said she was gravely ill, but her doctors believe she has a good chance of recovery.
According to Dr Alan Hay, director of the WHO's London-based world influenza centre, the first wave of UK infections is likely to peak within the next week or two before re-emerging in the winter.
Research published in the journal Anaesthesia suggests that when the peak comes, demand for intensive care beds could outstrip supply by 130% in some regions, while the demand for ventilators could exceed supply by 20%. Paediatric facilities are likely to become "quickly exhausted" as hospitals confront "massive excess demand", according to experts in intensive care and anaesthesia from the University of Cambridge, the Intensive Care Society and St George's Healthcare NHS trust in London.
The Department of Health said the NHS was prepared for the pandemic. "Guidance has been issued which contains information for primary and secondary care services in the UK on managing surge capacity and the prioritisation of services and patients during a widespread influenza outbreak," a spokesman said.
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Murdered Priest's Last Words "I Forgive You"
Friend Tells of Spaniard Slain in Cuba
SANTANDER, Spain, JULY 22, 2009 (Zenit.org).- The last words of Father Mariano Arroyo Merino expressed his forgiveness for the would-be robbers who knifed and burned him.
The Spanish priest, 74, was murdered July 13 at his parish of Our Lady of Regla, in Havana, Cuba. Father Arroyo was the second Spanish priest to be assassinated in Cuba in less than a year. Father Eduardo de la Fuente Serrano, 59, was killed Feb. 14.
Father Isidro Hoyos, another Spaniard who carries out his ministry in Cuba, was a friend of them both. In Santander for vacation, Father Hoyos was interviewed by the Diario Montañés. He recounted that Father Arroyo's last words were "I forgive you."
This revelation came from the suspect who has admitted to killing the priest.
Father Hoyos met Father Arroyo in 1970 in Spain. At the urging of his friend, Father Hoyos left for Cuba in 2001, having reached the age of retirement in Spain, to continue with his priestly ministry on the island. "Yes," he explained, "it happened that that summer (of 2000), Mariano was here (in Spain). He had already spent many years in Havana. I told him (I'd go to Cuba), it seemed a good idea to him and I went. We lived together for four years and then they assigned me to the barrio of Alamar in Havana."
There, he carries out his mission among a population of 100,000 people. "It is a village that was created after Castro's revolution, but a village of 100,000 inhabitants. Actually it's a city-dormitory" and it has just one parish.
The priest described it: "It's a little house with a patio -- a few grains of sand among this immense multitude. On Sunday we have the (Eucharistic) celebration and some 300 people participate. That's not many, but before there was nothing."
Father Hoyos said being a priest in Havana is not difficult. "People treat you very well," he explained. "I wasn't accustomed to the adoration that is felt there for the figure of the priest. The Cubans are very reverent with sacred things."
He said he supposes that the investigations are correct in presuming the motive for Father Arroyo's murder was an attempted robbery.
"Mariano had a big safe but he didn't have much of value there -- only a crown for Our Lady that had more sentimental than monetary value. It was very old," he noted. "If he had money, it wouldn't have been much. Mariano had just finished doing some work in the parish because it was in very poor conditions. And if he had money from donations, he didn't keep it in the house but in the bishopric. In any case, if the robber would have given him the choice between the money and his life, undoubtedly Mariano would have given him the money without resistance."
The two suspects under arrest for the murder have confessed, Father Hoyos noted, "and the one who killed Mariano revealed that his last words were, 'I forgive you.'"
And that would be characteristic of Father Mariano, his friend contended. "He was a profoundly religious man. He was very coherent, very austere."
Father Hoyos added that it was no surprise multitudes attended the funeral. "I imagined that would happen," he said. "Mariano was very well-known there. I think that it was the biggest gathering Havana has seen, not counting Castro's manifestations."
For his part, Father Hoyos will be returning to Cuba next month, and reported that he is not frightened by this prospect. "I don't think (the two slayings) are going to become an unending chain," he said. "I have a commitment to those people and I am going to fulfill it. It seems cowardly to not return. I am not saying that I'm indispensable, but I feel obligated to return."
SANTANDER, Spain, JULY 22, 2009 (Zenit.org).- The last words of Father Mariano Arroyo Merino expressed his forgiveness for the would-be robbers who knifed and burned him.
The Spanish priest, 74, was murdered July 13 at his parish of Our Lady of Regla, in Havana, Cuba. Father Arroyo was the second Spanish priest to be assassinated in Cuba in less than a year. Father Eduardo de la Fuente Serrano, 59, was killed Feb. 14.
Father Isidro Hoyos, another Spaniard who carries out his ministry in Cuba, was a friend of them both. In Santander for vacation, Father Hoyos was interviewed by the Diario Montañés. He recounted that Father Arroyo's last words were "I forgive you."
This revelation came from the suspect who has admitted to killing the priest.
Father Hoyos met Father Arroyo in 1970 in Spain. At the urging of his friend, Father Hoyos left for Cuba in 2001, having reached the age of retirement in Spain, to continue with his priestly ministry on the island. "Yes," he explained, "it happened that that summer (of 2000), Mariano was here (in Spain). He had already spent many years in Havana. I told him (I'd go to Cuba), it seemed a good idea to him and I went. We lived together for four years and then they assigned me to the barrio of Alamar in Havana."
There, he carries out his mission among a population of 100,000 people. "It is a village that was created after Castro's revolution, but a village of 100,000 inhabitants. Actually it's a city-dormitory" and it has just one parish.
The priest described it: "It's a little house with a patio -- a few grains of sand among this immense multitude. On Sunday we have the (Eucharistic) celebration and some 300 people participate. That's not many, but before there was nothing."
Father Hoyos said being a priest in Havana is not difficult. "People treat you very well," he explained. "I wasn't accustomed to the adoration that is felt there for the figure of the priest. The Cubans are very reverent with sacred things."
He said he supposes that the investigations are correct in presuming the motive for Father Arroyo's murder was an attempted robbery.
"Mariano had a big safe but he didn't have much of value there -- only a crown for Our Lady that had more sentimental than monetary value. It was very old," he noted. "If he had money, it wouldn't have been much. Mariano had just finished doing some work in the parish because it was in very poor conditions. And if he had money from donations, he didn't keep it in the house but in the bishopric. In any case, if the robber would have given him the choice between the money and his life, undoubtedly Mariano would have given him the money without resistance."
The two suspects under arrest for the murder have confessed, Father Hoyos noted, "and the one who killed Mariano revealed that his last words were, 'I forgive you.'"
And that would be characteristic of Father Mariano, his friend contended. "He was a profoundly religious man. He was very coherent, very austere."
Father Hoyos added that it was no surprise multitudes attended the funeral. "I imagined that would happen," he said. "Mariano was very well-known there. I think that it was the biggest gathering Havana has seen, not counting Castro's manifestations."
For his part, Father Hoyos will be returning to Cuba next month, and reported that he is not frightened by this prospect. "I don't think (the two slayings) are going to become an unending chain," he said. "I have a commitment to those people and I am going to fulfill it. It seems cowardly to not return. I am not saying that I'm indispensable, but I feel obligated to return."
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