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July 25 - Gates Foundation partner forces vaccines on Malawian children at gunpoint, arrests parents
Article:Miscellaneous
Get
your shots, or else get shot.
That is the message being sent by the Bill &
Melinda Gates Foundation and its partners in Africa that are helping
the organization achieve its goal of vaccinating every
single child on the planet
According to a recent report in the
Malawi Voice, at least 131
Malawian children were vaccinated this week at gunpoint after having
previously fled the country with their parents to avoid the
mandatory jabs.
Reports indicate that a number of children and
their parents belonging to Zion and Atumwi Churches fled the
southeast African country of Malawi to neighboring Mozambique a few
months ago in order to avoid a measles vaccine campaign. Upon
recently returning, officials
apparently learned of the unvaccinated children's whereabouts and,
with the help of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation allies, forcibly
injected them at gunpoint with the vaccines.
The faith and personal beliefs of the children
and their parents obviously convinced them that the vaccines were
not a good idea -- and as individual human beings,
they have every human right to deny any form
of forced "medicine" that violates their convictions or risks
putting their health at serious risk -- which is why they were
willing to flee in the first place.
But thanks to programs
launched and promoted by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, these
and many other Africans no longer have a choice but to accept forced
vaccinations
or face being murdered by police.
In a video posting at the Gates
Foundation website, Melinda lauds Malawi's efforts to reduce child
mortality, which include the establishment of 11,000 "health
surveillance assistants" that she says "spend three weeks out in the
villages ... providing basic vaccinations ...
and they make sure the vaccinations happen not just at the village
level, but all the way back through the system"
And
just how do these "health surveillance assistants" make sure that
the vaccinations happen? By forcing villagers to get them at
gunpoint which, of course, is not mentioned in Melinda's video blog.
If you simply watch the video and accept it at face value, you will
be left with the false impression that the Malawi government's
health initiatives are nothing but benevolent efforts to help people
that want it.
And if they refuse, they can literally be
arrested and thrown in jail, or potentially even murdered.
This is the dirty reality behind the "humanitarian" efforts of the
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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July 26 - Internet takeover: New legislation would allow state to arbitrarily shut down, seize websites
Article: One World Government
Freedom of speech is
under attack once again as the bloated US federal government
continues its quest to destroy the last bastion of free and open
communication -- the internet.
Sen. Patrick Leahy's (D-Vt.) "Preventing Real Online Threats to
Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property" bill, also
known as the Protect IP Act, is more oppressive and restrictive to
free speech than even communist China's internet censorship
protocols, and a group of law professors recently wrote an open
letter warning that the bill would
allow the government to freely pull websites without any proper
legal restrictions.
Last November, Natural News reported
that the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) had already begun
seizing website domains and ordering that they be shut down
permanently for supposed copyright infringement -- and the agency
did this apart from due process or a proper trial No law or legal
precedent permitted this rogue agency -- which
is a tyrannical spawn of post-9/11 hysteria that is not even
constitutionally legitimate to begin with, by the way --
to undergo its website seizing operation. The
agency simply decided to break the law and do as it pleased.
Though it is currently stalled in the Senate,
according to a recent report from PrisonPlanet.com, the Protect IP
Act may eventually get passed under
the radar, and eventually turn the internet into a government-run
propaganda tool similar to network and cable news.
"At a time when many foreign governments have
dramatically stepped up their efforts to censor Internet
communications, the [Protect IP Act]
would incorporate into US law -- for the first
time -- a principle more closely associated with those repressive
regimes: a right to insist on the removal of content from the global
Internet, regardless of where it may have originated or be located,
in service of the exigencies of domestic law,"
says a portion of the open letter.
After all,
protecting intellectual property from theft will help ensure that
private enterprise flourishes, right? Indeed it will, but the
provisions of the Protect IP Act
completely bypass due process, and do not even allow website owners
a fair trial -- the bill basically gives the federal government
arbitrary power
to shut down websites
that it feels are an "infringement."
And since the bill would require
no independent investigation or proper trial
prior to enforcement to verify that any laws had actually been
broken, the US government would thus have the perceived authority to
target practically any website, or party connected to that website,
that it chooses to, without any checks and balances or restraint.
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July 27 - Consolidation of seed companies leading to corporate domination of world food supply
Article: One World Government
Throughout the history
of agriculture across the globe, farming has always been a diversified
sector of the economy. Small, self-sustaining, family farms were the
order of the day in most cultures. Even as small farms grew larger and
more specialized over time, many of them still saved seeds or purchased
them from other farmers, which kept control of
farming in the hands of the people.
But today everything has changed, as
large chemical and agribusiness firms have acquired or merged with seed
companies
and other agricultural input companies. They have successfully gained a
foothold on genetically-modified (GM) crops
with transgenic traits. These primary factors and
several others have facilitated a
crescendo towards the global domination of agriculture by corporations,
and thus the world's food supply.
The ability to patent both seeds and seed traits has also added injury
to insult, as the ability to obtain
natural
or heirloom seeds is becoming increasingly difficult, and many farmers
feel they have no choice but to go with the flow.
Monsanto, DuPont, Syngenta, Bayer, Dow, and BASF
collectively own or partially-own hundreds
of formerly-independent seed companies -- and Monsanto, of course,
dominates them all.
Monsanto had little-to-no involvement in the seed
industry prior to the mid-1980s, but since that time
has been rapidly eating up seed companies and
furthering its development and control over the food supply through GMOs.
Today, Monsanto is the world's largest seed company, and the
transnational behemoth continues to acquire or otherwise create
"partnerships" with various independent seed companies that are still in
existence.
The only thing worse than Monsanto and the dominance
of the seed market are the cozy relationships with
one another. Prof. Howard's analysis reveals that
every company in the "Big Six" has at least one
mutual relationship with one another, and they together share corporate
control of the seed industry.
One would think that farmers would be more aware of
this takeover and resist it. But the "Big Six" effectively fly under the
radar, in most cases,
by selling their seeds and chemicals through various vendors and under
different names. According to Prof. Howard, this is how they effectively
maintain an illusion of competition and choice in the midst of their
takeover.
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July 26 - Does 'God Particle' Exist? Scientists to Decide by 2012 Year's End
Article: Creation/Evolution - Misc.
Physicists directing research through the
Large Hadron Collider at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear
Research) have announced that the
existence of the sub-atomic "God particle" will be decided by the end of
2012.
For many years, scientists have speculated
the existence of the particle, also called the Higgs boson particle,
but have not been able to provide any
proof to corroborate the fact. However, at the
International Europhysics Conference on High-Energy Physics in Grenoble,
France, this past weekend, researchers presented some curious data
bleeps that could hint the existence of such a particle.
So far, the physicists stated that after
conducting particle-smashing tests in the LHC, reaching speeds up to
99.99 percent of the speed of light,
they were only able to determine the location the particle was not
found, adding that with more tests and more data they would be able to
determine whether the particle exists within 18 months.
If the
particle was found to exist, then it would explain how all matter,
including creatures, in the universe have come to have mass.
Additionally, it would complete the puzzle for the Standard Model of
physics that was first established in 1970, a
theory that explains the Big Bang as well.
"This experiment is
one of the most significant of this third millennium," Dr. Karl
W. Giberson of the BioLogos Foundation said earlier. He called the LHC
experiment an "extraordinary event for
Christian to contemplate" and said it might lead to further experiments
that will one day answer some of man's deep questions regarding the
universe.
"What is
most exciting in this experiment is that it lets us push back a bit
closer to that mysterious moment almost 14 billion years ago, when our
universe emerged in the Big Bang," he stated. "What
the LHC might demonstrate is a piece of the grand puzzle:
where does mass come from? If Christians can embrace the Big Bang
theory, instead of inventing odd and implausible reasons to reject it,
they will be drawn into a most wonderful world of grandeur that will
greatly enlarge their concept of God."
While Dr. Jason Lisle of Answers in
Genesis believes the experiment may give some insight into how God
upholds the universe today, he said the
LHC cannot confirm the Big Bang nor prove anything. "Just because
something can be done today doesn't mean it has ever happened in nature
in the past," he has argued. Lisle is a creationist
astrophysicist.
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July 29 - The Sacrament of Love - The Happy Priest Reflects on the Gift of the Eucharist
Artcle:Roman Catholic Church And The Last Days
This Sunday's gospel passage reminds us once
again of God's unconditional love for us. "When he disembarked and saw
the vast crowd, his heart was moved with pity for them, and he cured
their sick" (Matthew 14: 14). In essence, Christianity is an on-going
love story. It is a love story about God's unconditional love for you
and me.
"Taking the five loaves
and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, he said the blessing, broke
the loaves, and gave them to the disciples, who in turn gave them to the
crowds" (Matthew 14: 19). However, the miracle of
the loaves and fishes directs our attention to the miracle of the
Eucharist. Jesus' miracle is a foretaste of the greatest of all
miracles, the miracle of the Eucharist. The Eucharist is the sacrament
of love. The Eucharist allows us to experience his unconditional love.
He loves us so much, that he
cannot leave us.
When Jesus ascended to
the Father, it would have been very simple for him merely to leave us
with a record of all that he had said and done; however, he could not
contain his love within the confines of time and space. Because of his
unconditional love, he had to remain
with us. The Eucharist is not a symbol, it is a reality. Jesus is truly
with us.
The Eucharist is the most
perfect of the seven sacraments. God
dispenses sanctifying grace through the sacraments. Moreover, not only
is the Eucharist an aqueduct of divine life, the Eucharist is God
himself!
In the most blessed
sacrament of the Eucharist the body and blood,
together with the soul and divinity of our Lord
Jesus Christ and, therefore, the whole Christ is truly, really and
substantially contained. (Catechism of the Catholic
Church #1374).
Transubstantiation means "change of substance", or
"change of reality." When the priest repeats the words that Jesus spoke
at the Last Supper, the bread is no longer bread, and the wine is no
longer wine. Instead, the entire substance of the bread and the entire
substance of the wine have been changed into the substance of The Body
and Blood of Christ.
Look at the tabernacle. Our Lord is truly there.
He looks at you and cries out: "All you who are thirsty, come to the
water! You who have no money, come, receive grain and eat; Come, without
paying and without cost, drink wine and milk! Why spend your money for
what is not bread; your wages for what fails to satisfy?"
(Isaiah 55: 1-2)
"It
is highly fitting that Christ should have wanted to remain present to
his Church in this unique way. Since Christ was
about to take his departure from his own in his visible form,
he wanted to give us his sacramental
presence; since he was about to offer himself on the
cross to save us, he wanted us to have the memorial of the love with
which he loved us 'to the end', even to the giving of his life.
In his Eucharistic presence he remains
mysteriously in our midst as the one who loved us and gave himself up
for us, and he remains under signs that express and communicate this
love" (Catechism of the Catholic Church #1380).
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July 29 - Scientists clone genetically-modified dog that 'glows' when given antibiotic
Article: Cloning/Genetic Engineering
Mad science continues with the recent
announcement that South Korean scientists at Seoul National
University (SNU) have successfully
cloned a genetically-engineered (GE) dog that they say glows
"fluorescent green" under ultraviolet light when fed an antibiotic
known as doxycycline. And just
why did scientists feel the need to spend the
equivalent of roughly $3 million on this gene-tampering experiment?
To allegedly find cures for human diseases, of course, which is the
only explanation that even begins to approach justifying such
insanity (yet miserably fails).
The announcement comes roughly two years after researchers
from the same school announced that
they had created GE dogs that glowed red, and which they
claimed were "the world's first transgenic dogs."
In that instance, researchers
deliberately infected the GM dogs with a virus that implanted
fluorescent genes into their cell nuclei. These nuclei were then
transferred to another dog's cells whose nuclei had been removed,
and the resultant cloned embryo implanted into a surrogate mother
Both
cases of animal experimentation are truly horrifying, as they
demonstrate the shockingly boundless possibilities in the field of
genetic manipulation that are possible when "curing disease" is the
stated goal. Splice, dice, mix, match, insert, inject -- there
really seems to be no area that is off limits anymore to scientists
hellbent on controlling the entire living (and non-living, for that
matter) world.
"The creation of Tegon opens new horizons since the gene injected to
make the dog glow can be substituted with genes that trigger fatal
human diseases," stated Byeong-chun to the
Yonhap news agency, concerning his team's findings. He added that
since dogs apparently have 268
illnesses in common with humans, creating GMO dogs may eventually
prove beneficial in medicine.
So there you have it, folks, right from the
horse's mouth. Researchers are busy injecting genes into animals so
that they can eventually inject those same genes into humans.
The day is coming when
self-proclaimed "experts" will tell human beings that they need to
undergo genetic manipulations in order to prevent or treat disease
-- and sadly many people will blindly accept this as truth and
comply.
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July 29 - UK government to save DNA profiles of innocent people, civil liberties groups speak out
Article: One World Government
If you are arrested in the UK on
suspicion that you may have committed a crime but are later
proven innocent,
your DNA profile will still remain within
government databases, according to a new
report in The Daily Telegraph.
After previously promising that it would destroy all DNA
profiles of innocent civilians, except when charges involve
violence or sex crimes,
the UK government has now decided that it will keep such
profiles after all, but do so "anonymously."
DNA profiles are encrypted numeric sequences
that identify individuals within a database system. Law
enforcement agencies use
DNA
profiles to easily identify individuals for the purpose of
parental testing or criminal investigation.
But UK officials want to retain all DNA
profiles of individuals that are taken into custody, regardless
of whether or not they actually committed a crime.
The government's excuse for breaching its promise in the matter
is that retained profiles will supposedly be categorized
anonymously. However, the UK's Home Office minister James
Brokenshire openly admitted
that it is possible to identify the profiles through simple
laboratory analysis, which many civil liberties groups say is
absolutely unacceptable.
"Members of the
committee will be aware that most DNA records ... will include
the original barcode, which is used by both the police and the
FSS [Forensic Science Service] to track the sample and resulting
profile through the system," said Brokenshire before the
UK Parliament. "It is therefore
theoretically possible that a laboratory could identify an
individual's profile from the barcode, but only in conjunction
with the force which took the original sample, by giving details
of the barcode of the force and asking for the individual's
name."
In other words, the
system is anything but anonymous, as it would be quite simple
for local police departments to identify an "anonymous" profile
by matching barcodes with their corresponding information sets.
"This is disgraceful
on the part of the government," said Daniel Hamilton,
director of the civil liberties group Big Brother Watch, to the
Telegraph.
"Destroying physical DNA samples
is a pointless gesture if the computer records are to be
retained."
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July 28 - Doug Clark: Holy molar! Madonna sighted on a bicuspid
Article: Signs And Wonders
Comment from Understand the Times:
Mary has been sighted on a bicuspid according to the
following article. Mary sightings are on the increase
these days. This of course is to be predicted as the
Bible states that people will be more and more willing
to accept lying signs and wonders. UTT recommends that
you read the Bible to find out the truth about "Mary
sightings."
Dr. Michael Trantow has seen plenty of the expected in his 30
years of peering into the mouths of patients. Cavities. Diseased
gums. Abscessed teeth .Seeing the Virgin Mary
staring back at him, however, was definitely a first.
"I was so startled," the Spokane Valley dentist said of what he
witnessed earlier this month after removing a patient's crown.
"I told everyone in the office to come in and
look at this." The consensus, he said, fell pretty much into the
category of shock and awe.
The image, the dentist explained,
was made by what was under the crown: glue
remnants, an old filling, tooth enamel?.All that combined into an
unlikely human pattern.
"I think there might be
something there because I've never seen it before,"
he said. "You always trust your
gut reaction in the first two seconds and it kinda looks like Mary."
Proclaimed images of Mary do
have a way of popping up in the craziest of places. Searching the
Internet for "Mary sightings" will quickly validate this truth. I
found photographs of Mary's supposed visage on a tree, a banana, a
potato and - my personal favorite - a Mary like salsa stain on a
restaurant wall.
The tooth's owner isn't so sure. "He (Dr. Trantow) was quite
excited about it," said Blossom, who turned 79 on Tuesday. "It's
something different, anyway,
Everybody sees what they want to see."
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July 28 - Cardinal: Mercy Is Key to Interreligious Dialogue
Article: Roman Catholic Church And The Last Days
If mercy can be considered a
name of God, its role should not be forgotten in
interreligious dialogue, says Cardinal Philippe Barbarin, archbishop
of Lyon.
On Sunday, the primate of
Gaul suggested this as he presided over a Mass in the Church of the Seven
Saints of Ephesus, in the small village of Vieux-Marche. He was speaking in
the context of a Muslim-Christian
pilgrimage that has been held for almost 60 years in this locality.
"Why has the word mercy
deserted the lips of Catholics?" the Morocco-born cardinal wondered in his
homily. "Why do we use it so little? Why are we afraid to use it? I'm
surprised, because it appears everywhere in the Bible,
and it would be a wonderful concept for interreligious
dialogue."
The cardinal recalled that
the Jewish people received the vocation to "be
servants of God's mercy in all nations." Moreover, he added,
"this word appears in each of the Surahs of
the Quran, which always begins by invoking the merciful God."
"It's also present everywhere in the Gospel," the 60-year-old prelate
reminded. "I don't know why we have neglected it."
"Perhaps for some it seems
out of fashion, but it came from the lips
of Christ, from the lips of the Virgin Mary when she sang the Magnificat,
and it is in the Canticle of Zachariah, which is our prayer every morning.
So, why don't we use it?"
Recalling Karol Wojtyła's
thought, the cardinal said: "Merciful is not only an adjective we can
attribute to God. Mercy is not only one of the qualities of God, who is also
Creator, Almighty. Mercy -- said the Pope -- is really his name."
"This
phrase could be very useful in profound dialogue, following the
record of God's love, with our brother believers of other religions,"
the cardinal affirmed.
The Christian-Muslim
pilgrimage to the Church of the Seven Saints of Ephesus is due to the
tradition surrounding the "seven sleepers" to whom the church is dedicated.
Tradition holds that seven Christians who were trying to escape the
third-century persecution of Decius hid in a cave at the site where the
church was built. When Decius found that they refused to recant their faith,
he had the cave sealed as the young Christians slept.
Some 150 years later the cave was opened and the young men awoke.
The story of the "sleepers" is more prominent in the Islam
tradition because it is recounted in the Quran.
This year it has beaten all records of participation.
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July 25 - Blair sees the real power in faith
Article: One World Religion
FORMER British prime minister Tony Blair has a
different and challenging view of the 21st century: he argues that
religion will replace the clash of political
ideologies as the dominant issue of the coming age.
Blair's further message is that the growing
aggressive secularism in the West is the wrong response. It misreads and
misconceives the nature of the 21st century and the best path to social
harmony in a more globalised world.
He warns that the struggle against a violent
Islamist minority symbolised by the 9/11 attack on the US a decade ago is
ongoing and unresolved. He fears that the West misunderstands how to wage
this struggle -- that it requires both
fortitude and an embracing attitude towards faith and religion.
"For example, the fastest growing part of the
world for Christianity is China. You've got major evangelical movements
starting in Latin America and obviously you've got the expansion of Islam;
there will be a doubling of the Arab population over the next 30 years.
So religious faith is important and it's
growing. Yet at the same time globalization is throwing everyone together."
This leads Blair to his intellectual
conclusion and current career preoccupation. "The issue is this:
if faith is becoming a badge of identity and it says: 'I am what I am in
opposition to you', then that's when religion is dangerous.
If, on the other hand, faith becomes a
humanizing and civilizing set of values it can play an important role in
making globalization work."
A powerful trend in Islam has been the
pushing aside of moderate clerics and thinkers
and the embrace of hardline dogma. Blair warns that
across Europe there is a "strong reaction" to
Islamization and "some of that finds its way into appalling extremism and
sectarianism. He attributes the high profile of immigration in many European
elections to the depth of tensions over Islam, religion and culture.
"I would say that all over Europe this is
an issue," Blair says.
He hammers
the need to
manage the rise of religious faith and the consequences of its mismanagement
with the risk of resulting violence. "There is a real risk,"
he says. "And
I think it is the most substantial risk we face."
"The threat we saw that culminated on 9/11 is
still with us. It is still claiming thousands of lives every year. But more
importantly it is causing great tensions within the Arab world and the
Middle East and also between Islam and the West. I think it is unresolved.
The key to resolving it is, in fact, openly
and clearly to provide means by which peoples of different faiths come
together and interact with one another."
For Blair,
the West must be prepared to fight for its values and deploy hard power when
required. These values of "sensible, decent democracy" are the same values
that most Muslims want for their own societies.
Asked about the key to successful
integration, Blair says: "To insist on
diversity but also to insist upon a common space, common values and common
practices.
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