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WHAT IS THIS? SO YOU THINK YOU ARE SAFE?
Listen to the news reporters explain it best…
ADOPTION AGENCY SITES – LIMITED CHILDREN AVAILABLE DUE TO INCREASE DEMAND BY GAY COUPLES
In a sweeping move, the congress is now considering a bill that would give 10 billion to the Federation of LGBT who will now turn their attention on promoting youth, not to abort their unborn babies but to instead consider putting them up for adoption.
“Who would have thought the LGBT community would have helped solve the anti-abortion problems in America.” The congressman went on to say: “It’s time we come together and heal as a nation and come up with real solutions. The way I see it, these Gays and Lesbians are Gods angels to the world. After all they are not the ones creating all these unwanted babies right!”
This move was brought on by the recent polling of adoption agencies across the nation, who report the wait time for a traditional marriage couple to adopt, has gone from 6 months to nearly 3 years, due to the increased demand by the newly legalized same sex marriage and the tremendous influx of new adoption requests by these gay couples.
When asked if they thought this bill would be blocked by the right wing controlled anti-abortion house, they said: “These anti-abortion groups should be happy. The LGBT community is now working with them to bring all these unborn babies into the world now that Gay marriage is legal. These loving gay couples are the solution to these unwanted babies and they will raise them up in a world where there is tolerance and no hate. These rightwing nuts should really be happy and stop hating everyone.”
When asked to comment, one unnamed major player in the anti-abortion movement had no comment.
EXIT EXODUS – AND GOOD RIDDANCE!
EXODUS International, the world’s oldest and largest “gay cure” Christian ministry announced this week that it would be shutting down for good after almost 40 year of claiming that “reparative” therapy works.
In a stunning apology letter to the LGBTQ community, Exodus President Alan Chambers said he was “deeply sorry” for the “pain and hurt” he, his organisation, and churches in general have inflicted on many people over the years.
He continued:
There were several years that I conveniently omitted my ongoing same-sex attractions. I was afraid to share them as readily and easily as I do today. They brought me tremendous shame and I hid them in the hopes they would go away.
Looking back, it seems so odd that I thought I could do something to make them stop. Today, however, I accept these feelings as parts of my life that will likely always be there. The days of feeling shame over being human in that way are long over, and I feel free simply accepting myself as my wife and family does. As my friends do. As God does.
In a statement concerning the decision to shut down Exodus with immediately effect, Chambers said his group has:
Been imprisoned in a worldview that’s neither honoring toward our fellow human beings, nor biblical.
The statement goes on to announce the formation of a new ministry from the ashes of Exodus.
This is a new season of ministry, to a new generation. Our goals are to reduce fear (reducefear.org), and come alongside churches to become safe, welcoming, and mutually transforming communities.
GLAAD welcomed the news of Exodus’ passing, saying Chambers has fully and completely come to the realization” that his ministry has harmed thousands, and made the right decision “to end that harm now”.
Meanwhile, another crackpot outfit – JONAH – which was set up to cure Jewish gays of their homosexuality, is now in deep doo-doo, having been targeted by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). The organisation is suing the ministry and its founders for “consumer fraud”.
IS GOD DEAD IN AMERICA ?
June 25 2013 the Supreme Court of the United States did for America what Senator Grassley, Nancy Pelosi (Dalai Lama), Anton Lavey (San Francisco Author of the Satanic Bible) and so many others could not do. Stop the church and effectively dethrone God over America.
These 5 US Judges decided that the Bible is hate speech and set a new precedence effectively saying those that speak what the Bible says are indeed enemies against humanity and enemies of the United States.
The religious still have not truly understood what we won here and what they lost, and it will only sink in with Christian hate crimes law suits.
AND SO IT BEGINS…
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CANADIAN COURT RULES AGAINST BIBLICAL HATE SPEACH:
The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that biblical speech opposing homosexual behavior, including in written form, is essentially a hate crime.
According to this report, the court upheld the conviction of Christian fundamentalist William Whatcott, who found himself in hot water after distributing flyers regarding the Bible’s prohibitions against homosexuality throughout the Saskatoon and Regina neighborhoods in 2001 and 2002.
Homophobic Christian nutter William Whatcott
One flyer that was found to be in violation stated, citing 1 Corinthians 6:9:
The Bible is clear that homosexuality is an abomination. Scripture records that Sodom and Gomorrah was given over completely to homosexual perversion and as a result destroyed by God’s wrath.
Another flyer, entitled Keep Homosexuality Out of Saskatoon’s Public Schools, was written in response to the recommendation of the Saskatoon School Board that the subject of homosexuality be included in school curriculum.
The Supreme Court declared the document to be unlawful because it called the homosexual acts that would be taught to children “filthy,” and contended that children are more interested in playing Ken and Barbie than:
Learning how wonderful it is for two men to sodomize each other.
The justices ruled that because the use of the word “sodomy” only referred to “two men” and not also the sex acts of heterosexuals, it was a direct target against a specific group of people.
Whatcott had distributed the flyers over a decade ago to raise awareness of his paranoia about both gay parades in Canada, as well as the vulnerability of children in a culture that promotes homosexuality.
However, when Canada’s Human Rights Commission found out about the matter, they took him to court, citing him with a hate crime.
The Supreme Court noted in its opinion, among other concerns, that Whatcott’s use of the Bible to target homosexuals was a problem. It ruled:
[Whatcott’s] expression portrays the targeted group as a menace that could threaten the safety and well-being of others, makes reference to respected sources (in this case the Bible) to lend credibility to the negative generalizations, and uses vilifying and derogatory representations to create a tone of hatred.
It pointed back to the lower court ruling, which asserted:
While the courts cannot be drawn into the business of attempting to authoritatively interpret sacred texts such as the Bible, those texts will typically have characteristics which cannot be ignored if they are to be properly assessed in relation to … the [Hate Crimes] Code.
The judges did note, however, that:
It would only be unusual circumstances and context that could transform a simple reading or publication of a religion’s holy text into what could objectively be viewed as hate speech.
Whatcott has now been ordered to pay $7,500 to two gay people who took offence at his flyers, as well as to pay the legal fees of the Human Rights Commission – which could cost him hundreds of thousands of dollars.
The bigot moaned:
The ruling and the reasoning [of the court] is terrible,. They actually used the concept that truth is not a defence.
He added:
It’s worse than I expected. What it means is that my life is over as I know it.
According to this report, Whatcott described the ruling as as “rubbish”, and said the ruling criminalises a large part of Christian speech on homosexuality and morality.
Unapologetic, he suggested he may put out another flyer on expressing that viewpoint and it will be written in what he calls his usual blunt and forthright manner.
DOMA STRUCK DOWN–
Defense of Marriage act, being struck down by the US Supreme Court, who will pay for all the law suits that will now be brought against the United States?
Oh… the tax payers…
Amazing, simply amazing…
FACTS ARE FACTS ? ?
A recent “Investor’s Business Daily” article provided very interesting statistics from a survey by the United Nations International Health Organization.
Percentage of men and women who survived a cancer five years after diagnosis:
U.S. 65%
England 46%
Canada 42%
Percentage of patients diagnosed with diabetes who received treatment within six months:
U.S. 93%
England 15%
Canada 43%
Percentage of seniors needing hip replacement who received it within six months:
U.S. 90%
England 15%
Canada 43%
Percentage referred to a medical specialist who see one within one month:
U.S. 77%
England 40%
Canada 43%
Number of MRI scanners (a prime diagnostic tool) per million people:
U.S. 71
England 14
Canada 18
Percentage of seniors (65+), with low income, who say they are in “excellent health”:
U.S. 12%
England 2%
Canada 6%
And now for the last statistic:
National Health Insurance?
U.S. NO
England YES
Canada YES
Check this last set of statistics!!
The percentage of each past president’s cabinet who had worked in the private business sector prior to their appointment to the cabinet. You know what the private business sector is; a real-life business, not a government job. Here are the percentages.
T. Roosevelt (R)…………………. 38%
Taft (R)………………………… 40%
Wilson (D) ……………………… 52%
Harding (R)……………………… 49%
Coolidge (R)…………………….. 48%
Hoover (R)………………………. 42%
F. Roosevelt (D)…………………. 50%
Truman (D)………………………. 50%
Eisenhower (R)…………………… 57%
Kennedy (D)……………………… 30%
Johnson(D)………………………. 47%
Nixon (R)……………………….. 53%
Ford (R)………………………… 42%
Carter (D)………………………. 32%
Reagan(R)……………………….. 56%
G H Bush (R)…………………….. 51%
Clinton (D) …………………….. 39%
G W Bush (R)…………………….. 55%
Obama (D)……………………….. 8%
This helps to explain the problems this administration faces: only 8% of them have ever worked in private business!
That’s right! Only eight percent—the least, by far, of the last 19 presidents! And these people are trying to tell our big corporations how to run their business?
How can the president of a major nation and society, the one with the most successful economic system in world history, stand and talk about business when he’s never worked for one? Or about jobs when he has never really had one? And when it’s the same for 92% of his senior staff and closest advisers? They’ve spent most of their time in academia, government and/or non-profit jobs or as “community organizers.” They should have been in an employment line.
FIRE FOX CALLS FOR OBAMA TO REVEAL EXTENT ON US CITIZEN SPYING BY NSA
Fire Fox the famous web browser created by Mozilla and independent developers around the world, are calling on congress to force Obama to reveal the depth of the US government spying on it’s own people.
This strikes at the core of what the US stands for.
Angela Merkel of Germany during the G8 also expressed great concern for the “Chicago Gangland” style politics being levied against the American People including the IRS targeting and punishing conservatives for fundraising for conservative politicians.
LAST MONTH, FOR THE 37TH TIME, THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES VOTED TO REPEAL OBAMACARE…
What Sweden Can Tell Us About Obamacare- The New York Times
AFTER READING THE ABOVE ARTICLE, ONE CANADIAN WRITES:
Don’t buy into this socialist crud — I’m in it, and its not so pretty.
I love the sheer cold meanness of this bit:
“whereas in the United States a wealthy or well-insured patient might schedule a hip replacement with only a week’s notice, in Sweden the wait could be as long as three months. He described such waits as a design feature, noting that they allowed facilities to be used at consistently high capacity, and thus more efficiently.”
Yes, ok, I want to see this jerk and his mother in unbelievable excruciating deep-bone pain 24/7 for 3 MONTHS because of a “design feature” – namely not having the capacity needed to care for the number of tax-paying citizens in temporary physical dire straits, and refusing not to allow a capital market to provide the relief because of a idealogical conviction.
Example:
Perfect timing here – I got severe sinusitis friday, haven’t had it for a long time. trying to get (expensive) antibiotics here in Canada’s socialized Obamacare system, forget it. even to get into the doctor is 6- 9 days. I would have to go to emergency. sit with maybe 40 REALLY contagious people for hours only to be given a salt rinse and advil.
So, instead, I went to the pharmacist (who becomes really important in socialized medicine) who sold me spray that took away maybe 75% of the 8″ ice machete cutting into my skull just above the right eye, leaving me functionally limping but better.
As compared to a few years ago in LA, when I got severe sinusitis, went to the doctor, same day, 30 min later was treated and I was totally cured same day.
You choose,
Real medicine and fast healing, or pain and suffering waiting for a government bureaucracy that is broke and cannot handle it…
HINDUISM, JUDAISM, BUDDHISM, MUSLIM AND CHRISTIANITY
VENEZUELA CONSIDERS BANNING BABY BOTTLE FEEDING
SOCIALISM TAX DOLLARS AT WORK…
The Venezuela congress is to discuss legislation next week that would prohibit bottle feeding of infants in an attempt to encourage breast feeding and reduce the use of baby formula.
Odalis Monzon, from Venezuela’s ruling Socialist party, said the proposal would “prohibit all types of baby bottles” as a way to improve children’s health.
“We want to increase the love (between mother and child) because this has been lost as a result of these transnational companies selling formula,” Ms Monzon said.
She said the Law for the Promotion and Support for Breast-Feeding, passed in 2007, did not establish any sanctions for using formula. However, she did not say what the sanctions might be if the proposed change to prohibit bottle feeding is passed by Congress, where the Socialist Party has a majority.
She said, however, that exceptions would be allowed, such as in the case of the death of a mother, or for women with limited breast milk production, as determined by the health ministry.
Such legislation would likely raise the ire of opposition sympathisers who say the government of the late President Hugo Chavez excessively extended the reach of the state into the lives of private citizens.
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HUMAN LIFE VALUED AT FIVE CENTS…
The following report is only the tip of the iceberg and the premise of information for identity theft… read and enjoy…
Corporate competition to accumulate information about consumers is intensifying even as concerns about government surveillance grow, pushing down the market price for intimate personal details to fractions of a cent.
Over recent years, the surveillance of consumers has developed into a multibillion-dollar industry conducted by largely unregulated companies that obtain information by scouring web searches, social networks, purchase histories and public records, among other sources.
The resulting dossiers include thousands of details about individuals, including personal ailments, credit scores and even due dates for pregnant women. Companies feed the details into algorithms to determine how to predict and influence consumer behaviour.
Basic age, gender and location information sells for as little as $0.0005 per person, or $0.50 per thousand people, according to price details seen by the Financial Times. Information about people believed to be “influential” within their social networks sells for $0.00075, or $0.75 per thousand people. Slightly more valuable are income details and shopping histories, which both sell for $0.001.
According to industry sources, most people’s profile information sells for less than a dollar in total. “You’re not worth much,” said Dave Morgan, founder of one of the first companies to use web surfing data to target online ads.
As basic information on consumers becomes ubiquitous, data brokers are tracking down even more details. For $0.26 per person, LeadsPlease.com sells the names and mailing addresses of people suffering from ailments such as cancer, diabetes and clinical depression. The information includes specific medications including cancer treatment drug Methotrexate and Paxil, the antidepressant, according to price details viewed by the FT.
LeadsPlease offers a discount for bulk buyers. The price of a record drops to $0.14 if a buyer purchases 50,001 to 100,000 names.
Another company, ALC Data, sells a list of consumers with specific ailments sorted by credit score. “In the current economy, targeting prospects who have good credit, bad credit or a lack of credit can dramatically affect results,” the company states in its marketing materials.
Buyers of ALC’s “MH2 Credit Ailment Masterfile” in the past 12 months include Blue Cross Blue Shield, the insurance group, mobile operator Sprint Nextel and TXU Energy, the Texas energy utility, according to usage details on ALC’s website.
ALC also tracks more than 80 per cent of all US births and competes fiercely against other data brokers in the baby sector. The company recently unveiled a new “Newborn Network” database containing information about prenatal and postnatal mothers, as well as their aunts, grandmothers, close friends and neighbours. “It is a saturated market,” says Lori Magill-Cook, an executive vice-president at ALC.
The US Federal Trade Commission and a congressional committee are investigating the data broker industry to understand what these companies know and how the information is used. Few laws exist in the US that protect the privacy of an individual’s data.
The industry operates under self-regulatory guidelines, which bar the collection of information about children, specific health and financial data. Under the guidelines, the tracking and selling of information derived from medical records and prescriptions are allowed if patients’ names and other identifying data have been deleted. LeadsPlease and ALC state that the patient-specific ailment information they sell is not sourced from such records, but has instead been revealed by the patients themselves.
EDWARD SNOWDEN: US GOVERNMENT HAS BEEN HACKING HONG KONG AND CHINA FOR YEARS
Former CIA operative makes more explosive claims and says Washington is ‘bullying’ Hong Kong to extradite him
The former Central Intelligence Agency analyst also made explosive claims that the US government had been hacking into computers in Hong Kong and on the mainland for years.
A week since revelations that the US has been secretly collecting phone and online data of its citizens, he said he will stay in the city “until I am asked to leave”, adding: “I have had many opportunities to flee HK, but I would rather stay and fight the US government in the courts, because I have faith in HK’s rule of law.”
US National Security Agency’s controversial Prism programme extends to people and institutions in Hong Kong and mainland China;
Snowden said that according to unverified documents seen by the Post, the NSA had been hacking computers in Hong Kong and on the mainland since 2009.
One of the targets in the SAR, according to Snowden, was Chinese University and public officials, businesses and students in the city. The documents also point to hacking activity by the NSA against mainland targets.
Snowden believed there had been more than 61,000 NSA hacking operations globally, with hundreds of targets in Hong Kong and on the mainland.
“We hack network backbones – like huge internet routers, basically – that give us access to the communications of hundreds of thousands of computers without having to hack every single one,” he said.
“Last week the American government happily operated in the shadows with no respect for the consent of the governed, but no longer. Every level of society is demanding accountability and oversight.”
Snowden said he was releasing the information to demonstrate “the hypocrisy of the US government when it claims that it does not target civilian infrastructure, unlike its adversaries”.
“Not only does it do so, but it is so afraid of this being known that it is willing to use any means, such as diplomatic intimidation, to prevent this information from becoming public.”
Since the shocking revelations a week ago, Snowden has been vilified as a defector but also hailed by supporters such as WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange.
The interview comes on the same day NSA chief General Keith Alexander appeared before Congress to defend his agency over the leaks.
Snowden’s revelations threaten to test new attempts to build US-Sino bridges after a weekend summit in California between the nations’ presidents, Barack Obama and Xi Jinping.
If true, Snowden’s allegations lend credence to China’s longstanding position that it is as much a victim of hacking as a perpetrator, after Obama pressed Xi to rein in cyber-espionage by the Chinese military.
A PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS
