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CHRISTIAN MEDIA
WORLDWATCH
MARCH 10,
2010
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Appeals for calm after Nigerian
sectarian slaughter
JOS, NIGERIA -- UN chief Ban Ki-moon
appealed Monday for "maximum restraint" amid revulsion at the
slaughter of more than 500 Christians in Nigeria, as survivors
told how the killers chopped down their victims.
Funerals began taking place for victims of the three-hour orgy
of violence on Sunday in three Christian villages close to the
northern city of Jos, blamed on members of the mainly Muslim
Fulani ethnic group.
While troops were deployed to the villages to prevent new
attacks, security forces detained 95 suspects but faced bitter
criticism over how the killers were able to go on the rampage at
a time when a curfew was meant to be in force.
Newspapers reported that Muslim residents of the villages in
Plateau state had been warned by phone text message, two days
prior to the attack, so they could make good their escape before
the exit points were sealed off.
Survivors said the attackers were able to separate the Fulanis
from members of the rival Berom group by chanting 'nagge', the
Fulani word for cattle. Those who failed to respond in the same
language were hacked to death.
One local paper said the gangs shouted Allah Akhbar before
breaking into homes and setting them alight in the early hours
of Sunday. Churches were among the buildings that were burned
down.
The Vatican led a wave of outrage with spokesman Federico
Lombardi expressing the Catholic Church's "sadness" at the
"horrible acts of violence".
Ban told reporters he was "deeply concerned".
"I appeal to all concerned to exercise maximum restraint," he
said . . . .
The death toll was initially put at a little over 100 but then
shot up. The information ministry said pregnant women were among
those killed and around 200 people were being treated in
hospital.
"We have over 500 killed in three villages and the survivors are
busy burying their dead," said state information commissioner
Gregory Yenlong.
"People were attacked with axes, daggers and cutlasses - many of
them children, the aged and pregnant women." . . . .
"The attack is yet another jihad and provocation," the Plateau
State Christian Elders Consultative Forum (PSCEF) said in a
statement.
However the archbishop of the capital Abuja, John Onaiyekan,
told Vatican Radio that the violence was rooted not in religion
but in social, economic and tribal differences.
"It is a classic conflict between pastoralists and farmers,
except that all the Fulani are Muslims and all the Berom are
Christians," he said . . . .
Locals said that the attacks on Sunday were the result of a feud
which had been first ignited by a theft of cattle and then
fuelled by deadly reprisals.
Acting President Goodluck Jonathan's office said the security
services in Plateau and neighbouring states had been placed on
red alert to ensure that the violence did not spread.
Source:
AFP / channelnewsasia.com
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Mitchell: Direct Israeli-Palestinian
talks to start next week in Washington
The delegations will be headed by
Israeli prime minister's adviser Yitzhak Molcho and senior
Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat. DEBKAfile's Middle
East sources disclose that Special US Middle East Envoy George
Mitchell notified Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu and
Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas Monday, March 8,
that his mission on behalf of president Barack Obama was
to get direct peace talks started
without delay at a venue near Washington.
The US president, he said, was out of patience with the two
sides' objections, gripes and maneuvers.
According to our Washington sources, administration officials
were charged with finding a location around the US capital
isolated enough for Israel and Israeli negotiators to talk in
private. They recommended the 11th Wing's facility at Bolling
Air Force base, which best answered the White House's request
for a venue where the Israeli and Palestinian delegations could
be kept out of reach of US, Israeli and Palestinian media, so
that Mitchell could act as the negotiations sole spokesman.
The US envoy's immediate plan now is to ensconce the two
delegations for a couple of days in separate rooms at a place in
Israel still to be selected to preserve the semblance of
indirect talks. After that, they will be transferred to
Washington early next week.
DEBKAfile's sources stress that the reports leaked from
Israeli and Palestinian quarters about the subjects of the talks
are irrelevant because the US envoy is still pondering the
agenda and has not yet decided where it will start.
Our sources disclose that the Palestinians spent most of Monday
finding ways to clamp their delegation's wheels because Fatah
does not trust Erekat enough to give him a free hand. His
opponents finally established a "national committee" to monitor
his decisions at the negotiating table. Its members are Jibril
Rajoub, Muhammad Dahlan and Nasser al Kidwa.
The Palestinian team will therefore operate under the
close scrutiny of two commissions, one Palestinian, the other
appointed by the Arab League.
The Israeli prime minister and defense minister Ehud Barak both
warned Mitchell against Abbas' plan to attach representatives of
Palestinian terrorist groups to the monitoring commission,
including the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and
Damascus-based extremist groups, all of whom are determined to
derail the US peace initiative. [emphasis added]
Source:
debka.com
MORE
Note: see these related
stories:
Biden Says There Is A 'Moment
Of Opportunity' For Peace
LINK
U.S. Pledges 'Unvarnished'
Commitment To Israel's Security
LINK
U.S. Says Tentative Mid East
Peace Talks Under Way - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon
said he would attend an Arab League summit in Libya later this
month to push forward the Middle East peace process
LINK
Israel Asks UN To Press For
Direct Israel-Palestinian Talks - Ban confirmed that he
planned to attend a meeting of the diplomatic Quartet in Moscow
on March 19 to encourage an early resumption of direct peace
talks between Israel and the Palestinians
LINK
Bill Gates: Use
vaccines to lower population
Billionaire advocates curbing CO2 by reducing
earth's inhabitants
One of the world's wealthiest men
and the founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates, has suggested vaccines
as one method of reducing the world's population.
Gates made his remarks to the invitation-only Technology,
Entertainment and Design 2010 Conference in Long Beach, Calif.
His February address was titled, "Innovating to Zero!"
He presented a speech on global warming, stating that CO2
emissions must be reduced to zero by 2050. Gates said every
person on the planet puts out an average of about five tons of
CO2 per year . . . .
Discussing . . . [population], he stated, "Let's take a
look. First we got population. The world today has 6.8 billion
people. That's headed up to about 9 billion. Now if we do
a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive
health services, we could lower that by perhaps 10 or 15
percent" . . . .
Gates' comments immediately raised questions in the blogosphere
about whether the billionaire was advocating dissemination of
sterilization agents.
In 1995, UNICEF's anti-tetanus vaccinations were found to
contain B-hCG, a pregnancy hormone that can permanently
sterilize women. An estimated 3 million women between the ages
of 12 and 45 received that vaccine. Another UNICEF polio
vaccination campaign in Nigeria was suspected of sterilizing
women in 2004.
However, according to LifeSite News, the Gates Foundation claims
Gates actually advocates using vaccines to decrease child
mortality – something he believes would actually serve to
decrease population growth. In his 2009 annual letter, he wrote
that a "surprising but critical fact [is] that reducing the
number of [infant] deaths actually reduces population growth."
Gates contends that parents have more children when infant
mortality rates are high so they can be sure several children
will survive to care for them later in life.
"And so, if they think having six children is what they need to
do to have at least two survive, that's what they'll do," he
told CNN in 2008. "And amazingly, across the entire world, as
health improves, then the population growth actually is
reduced." [This sounds
reasonable, but it may still be a cover for a more ominous
agenda. Especially given the history of misuse of vaccines. -Ed.]
. . . .
In addition to Gates, the meeting included some of the biggest
names in the "billionaires club," according to the London Times
– David Rockefeller, Ted Turner, Oprah Winfrey, Warren Buffett,
George Soros and Michael Bloomberg . . . .
Taking their cue from Gates, the report said, they agreed
population control was the No. 1 issue . . . .
A guest at the meeting said population growth would be addressed
as a potentially disastrous environmental, social and industrial
threat.
"This is something so nightmarish that everyone in this group
agreed it needs big-brain answers," said the guest. "They need
to be independent of government agencies, which are unable to
head off the disaster we all see looming." [Emphasis added by
source website]
Source:
wnd.com
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ID Card for Workers Is at Center of
Immigration Plan
Lawmakers working to craft a new
comprehensive immigration bill have settled on a way to prevent
employers from hiring illegal immigrants: a national biometric
identification card all American workers would eventually be
required to obtain.
Under the potentially controversial plan still taking shape in
the Senate, all legal U.S. workers, including citizens and
immigrants, would be issued an ID card with embedded
information, such as fingerprints, to tie the card to the
worker.
The ID card plan is one of several steps advocates of an
immigration overhaul are taking to address concerns that have
defeated similar bills in the past.
The uphill effort to pass a bill is being led by Senators Chuck
Schumer (D-New York) and Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina), who
plan to meet with President Barack Obama as soon as this week to
update him on their work. An administration official said the
White House had no position on the biometric card.
"It's the nub of solving the immigration dilemma politically
speaking," Mr. Schumer said in an interview. The card, he said,
would directly answer concerns that after legislation is signed,
another wave of illegal immigrants would arrive. "If you say
they can't get a job when they come here, you'll stop it."
The biggest objections to the biometric cards may come from
privacy advocates, who fear they would become de facto national
ID cards that enable the government to track citizens.
"It is fundamentally a massive invasion of people's privacy,"
said Chris Calabrese, legislative counsel for the American Civil
Liberties Union. "We're not only talking about fingerprinting
every American, treating ordinary Americans like criminals in
order to work. We're also talking about a card that would
quickly spread from work to voting to travel to pretty much
every aspect of American life that requires identification."
Mr. Graham says he respects those concerns but disagrees. "We've
all got Social Security cards," he said. "They're just easily
tampered with. Make them tamper-proof. That's all I'm saying."
U.S. employers now have the option of using an online system
called E-Verify to check whether potential employees are in the
U.S. legally. Many Republicans have pressed to make the system
mandatory. But others, including Mr. Schumer, complain that the
existing system is ineffective . . . .
A person familiar with the legislative planning said the
biometric data would likely be either fingerprints or a scan of
the veins in the top of the hand. It would be required of all
workers, including teenagers, but would be phased in, with
current workers needing to obtain the card only when they next
changed jobs, the person said.
Source:
wsj.com (Wall Street Journal)
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Peres
calls for 'total' world isolation of Ahmadinejad
President Shimon Peres on Tuesday
said Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad must face "total"
international isolation, adding that his anti-Israel rhetoric
was only a cover for his ambitions for Iranian hegemony in the
Middle East. "A person like Ahmadinejad, who calls openly to
destroy the state of Israel, cannot be a full member of the
United Nations," Peres said, as he met visiting U.S.
Vice-President Joe Biden in Jerusalem. "A man who calls for acts
of terror, and who hangs people in the street ... he should be
placed in his proper definition. He cannot go around almost like
a cultural hero," Peres said. "Ahmadinejad has to be isolated
and not be welcomed in the capitals of the world," Peres said.
Peres urged Washington to "surround Iran with an envelope" to
protect Israel against Tehran's "missiles and nuclear threat".
"We have trust in President [Barack] Obama," Peres told visiting
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden. But when it comes to Iran's
contentious nuclear program, said Peres, "Nobody knows exactly
what they are doing." . . . Biden's main task during his
visit is to assuage the Israeli leadership and ensure that it is
not planning any preemptive strike against Iran's nuclear sites
which would disrupt the Obama administration's efforts to form a
broad international front that would impose tough sanctions on
Tehran.
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Biden
says Israeli housing starts 'undermining' trust
WASHINGTON (JTA) --
Vice President Joe Biden denounced a decision to authorize new
Jerusalem housing starts as "undermining the trust" that he
needs to advance peace while in Israel. "I condemn the decision
by the government of Israel to advance planning for new housing
units in East Jerusalem," Biden said in a statement issued
Tuesday, the second day of a visit that had been aimed at
underscoring the closeness of the U.S.-Israel relationship. "The
substance and timing of the announcement, particularly with the
launching of proximity talks, is precisely the kind of step that
undermines the trust we need right now and runs counter to the
constructive discussions that I've had here in Israel." . . .
Biden was referring to the announcement Tuesday by the
Jerusalem District Planning Committee that it had authorized
1,600 units in Ramat Shlomo, an ultra-Orthodox neighborhood. The
committee is jointly run by the Interior Ministry and the
Jerusalem municipality. A statement Tuesday evening by the
Interior Ministry said that the authorization was merely
"procedural," that the plan had been in the works for more than
three years and that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
did not have prior knowledge of the plan.
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Turkey,
Angry at U.S., Pledges Support for Iran
(CNS News) -- As the Obama
administration scrambles to contain the diplomatic fallout with
Turkey over the “Armenian genocide” resolution in the U.S.
Congress, Turkey’s tilt towards Iran continues largely
unnoticed. Turkey’s “formerly Islamist” president, Abdullah Gul,
in a weekend telephone conversation with his Iranian counterpart
called for a deepening of bilateral relations and voiced support
for Iran in international forums. Turkey is non-permanent member
of the U.N. Security Council ...
MORE
Note: see these related items:
[Turkey]: Heritage Sites Will
Never Be Jewish - Turkish prime minister says Rachel's
Tomb, Cave of Patriarchs will forever be Islamic sites
LINK
Commentary:
Bad Things Happen When Empires Fall Apart - Harking
back to Armenia in 1915 will only drive modern Turkey into
China’s arms
LINK
Oil
Traders Dump Iran
(Israel National News) -- The
three largest oil trading firms in the world – Glencore,
Trafigura and Vitol – announced Monday that they would no longer
do business with Iran. A report in the London Financial Times
said that the companies had concluded that there was too much
risk and not enough profit in supplying Iran. The three
companies had been responsible for supplying Iran with about
half its daily oil use. [no further content]
LINK
U.S.
Scientist: Developing Nations to Adopt GM Crops Faster
NEW DELHI -- Developing countries
led by China and Brazil will overtake rich nations in adopting
genetically modified crops over the next two-three years, as
they strive to raise yields to meet demand from their growing
population, a top farm scientist said. Currently, 46% of the
land under genetically modified crops is in developing
countries, but their share will increase to more than half in
two-three years, Clive James, chairman of the U.S.-based
International Service For the Acquisition of Agri-biotech
Applications (ISAAA), told Dow Jones Newswires Wednesday . .
. India, a major user of Bt cotton seeds, has witnessed a
sharp rise in areas under the genetically modified variety since
the introduction of it in 2002, and domestic cotton industry
experts expect the growth to continue. However, the country's
federal government last month had put on hold the commercial
cultivation of Bt brinjal, or genetically modified eggplant, for
exhaustive tests after protests from environmental groups and
farmers. Mr. James still expects India to be a major user of
genetically modified seeds. "China, Brazil, India, Argentina and
South Africa are the big five that will drive rise in Bt crop
areas as they try to improve yield when arable land growth is
stagnant." He said as much as 60 million hectares of land would
come under genetically modified rice and maize (aka corn) in
equal proportions in China over the next three years, as that
country has granted a critical regulatory approval for both the
crops. Globally, the cultivation area under genetically modified
crop is expected to rise to 200 million hectares by 2015 from
134 million hectares now. Of the 25 countries that grow
genetically modified crops currently, U.S. accounts for the
maximum acreage - 64 million hectares, according to ISAAA data.
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Culled
out
Public input period for federal fishery strategy has
ended
The Obama administration will
accept no more public input for a federal strategy that could
prohibit U.S. citizens from fishing some of the nation's oceans,
coastal areas, Great Lakes, and even inland waters.
MORE
Note: see also
Fishermen's Fear: Public's 'Right To Fish' Shifting Under Obama?
- Sport fishermen worry about an eroding 'right to fish'
as the Obama administration shifts fishing policy to include
United Nations objectives
LINK
Christian's speech deemed 'hateful propaganda'
A Christian student in the Los
Angeles Community College District is carrying his free-speech
case to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Jonathan Lopez
had an assignment in a public speaking class and was required to
give an informative speech on any topic. Alliance Defense Fund (ADF)
attorney David Hacker tells OneNewsNow that Lopez chose to speak
about his Christian beliefs. "And during that speech, when he
mentioned that marriage is between a man and a woman according
to his Christian beliefs, the professor called him this horrible
name, refused to let him finish the assignment, and told other
students in the class, 'If you're offended, you can leave,'"
Hacker explains. When no students left, the professor dismissed
the class. Hacker adds that Lopez is an "A" student - "but the
problem is he never got a grade on that informative speech, and
in fact, the professor wrote on his evaluation form, 'Ask God
what your grade is.'" The ADF attorney argues that demonstrates
the hostility towards religion on many college campuses. The
lower court in Los Angeles issued a preliminary injunction
against the school, saying its speech code - allowing
administrators to punish Lopez's "hateful propaganda" - is
unconstitutional. That has been appealed to the Ninth Circuit. [no
further content]
LINK
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Commentary:
INSURERS' PROFITS AREN'T THE PROBLEM (Jeffrey H. Anderson)
. . . . According to the most recent Fortune 500
rankings, health insurers are not even among the top-30 United
States industries in profit-margin. Health insurers rank 35th,
with a profit-margin of just 2.2 percent - less than one-fifth
the profit-margin of railroads. None of the ten largest American
health insurers made profits of more than 4.5 percent, and two
of them lost money. Health insurers’ collective profit-margin is
less than one-eighth that of drug companies and less than
one-seventh that of companies that sell medical products or
equipment. It’s also less than that of medical facilities. Yet
when was the last time you heard President Obama rail against
greedy hospitals?
The combined profits of America’s ten largest health insurers
are $8.3 billion. That’s less than two-thirds of the profits of
Wal-Mart alone, less than half of the profits of General
Electric alone, and less than one-seventh of what Medicare loses
each year to fraud. Health insurers collectively have one-eighth
the profit-margin of McDonald’s or Coke, one-ninth that of eBay,
and one-fifteenth that of Merck.
Why don’t these much more profitable companies or industries
need to be taken over by the federal government? Why don’t they
need to be subjected to something like President Obama’s
proposed Health Insurance Rate Authority, which would be run by
the same U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that
already loses $60 billion of taxpayer money to Medicare fraud
each year? (Not that I want to give the Obama administration any
ideas.)
In all, the combined profits of the 14 largest American health
insurers (the ones who crack the Fortune 1000) are $8.7 billion.
That’s less than 0.4 percent, or 1/250th, of overall U.S.
health-care costs, which are $2.5 trillion.
Source: nationalreview.com (2-24-10)
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Note: see also
Commentary:
Obama Seeks To Vilify Health Insurers ... [And]
Give Them $336 Billion Check -
[Sounds a little hypocritical, eh? -
Ed.] LINK
Commentary:
DO YOU LOVE GOD? (Paul Proctor)
And this is love, that we walk
after His commandments. [2 John 1:6]
. . . . [“Love”] is
clearly more than an emotion and even more than a religious or
benevolent act. The world is full of good feelings, good words
and good works, which may or may not have anything to do with
Jesus Christ or loving God.
You see, Jesus defines “love”
. . . as obedience to His commandments – that is to say, His
Word. If we obey His Word, then we demonstrate our love for Him.
When we disobey or ignore His Word, we show that we in fact do
not love Him regardless of the loving things we might say about
Him or to Him in public or in private.
It is our obedience to His Word that reveals our love for Him –
not our loving words, good intentions or good deeds. Why do you
think Jesus said: This people draweth nigh unto Me with their
mouth, and honoureth Me with their lips; but their heart is far
from Me. [Matthew 15:8]
What would you think if your husband or your wife told you and
everyone else that they loved you, but always ignored you or did
whatever they wanted to do day after day without considering
your wishes? Their profession of love wouldn’t mean much, would
it? You’d know they were either lying or that they don’t really
know what the word “love” means. So, it is when we tell Jesus
how much we love Him while ignoring or disobeying His Word to do
whatever we want to do.
To make matters worse, Satan has
taken advantage of our biblical ignorance, willful disobedience
and overall confusion and has formed a very unbiblical theology
out of it, persuading Christians through various movements,
programs and para-church organizations that proclaiming and
obeying God’s commands is not “love” at all, but “legalism.”
Consequently, Christians who proclaim the Whole Counsel of God
and quote the Bible in response to sin are regularly rebuked as
“legalists” and called “Pharisees” by those they offend . . .
.
[But] Jesus didn’t call the Scribes and Pharisees “legalists” –
He called them “hypocrites.”
Consider carefully what Jesus said in Matthew 23:1-4: Then
spake Jesus to the multitude, and to His disciples, Saying The
scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat: All therefore
whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not
ye after their works: for they say, and do not. For they bind
heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's
shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of
their fingers. [Matthew 23:1-4]
He’s telling them to do whatever the Pharisees instruct them to
do, but not to be a hypocrite and merely claim to do it and
teach others to do things they won’t do themselves . . . .
Loving the Lord means we take up
our cross, follow Him and obey His Word – all of it – even
though many will call us “legalists,” “fundamentalists” and
“extremists” for doing so.
Source:
newswithviews.com
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No more
food aid, Haitian leader urges
LINK
President Rene Preval said international food aid
to Haiti has to be scaled back so the quake-ravaged nation can
find its feet through its own domestic production and employment
... He also said Haiti's priorities now were to prepare for the
coming hurricane season, which starts in June, and to get
children back to school
Haitians wary of U.S. military reduction
LINK
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Citizens' Rights Alert: Virginia
health bill could foil Obama proposal
LINK
State questions constitutionality
Silver
bullet from U.S. states kills 'mandatory' Obamacare
LINK
36 legislatures fight for citizens' rights to opt
out of health-coverage demand
[analysis]: Reconciliation bill will be hard for GOP to
derail
LINK
Senator
Feingold Admits Ultimate Goal of Healthcare Reform
(Video)
LINK
The Obama Administration and the Democratic leadership
have known for a long time that they have no chance of passing
single-payer legislation ... And so they have devised another
strategy for getting there – the so called “public plan option”
... All the while vigorously denying that the real agenda is to
ultimately end up with a single-payer system ...
Rep.
Schakowsky Admits Goal of Healthcare Reform is to Destroy
Private Insurance Industry (Video)
LINK
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Iraqi PM Maliki sweeps polls, defeats pro-Iranian bloc
LINK
Israel: Outlook for tough U.N. steps on Iran 'grim'
LINK
[analysis]: Jerusalem expansion spurred by Biden's clampdown on
Israeli action on Iran
LINK
Israel 'to unveil plans to build nuclear power plant'
LINK
Israel,
Syria eye nuclear power plants
LINK
The new Israeli plant would be a joint project
between Israel and Jordan
Lebanon Resumes 'National Dialogue' ... But Hezbollah Refuses to
Discuss Its Weapons
LINK
[analysis]: U.S.-NATO versus Russia: Towards a Regional
War in the Caucasus?
LINK
[analysis]: THE GROUP OF TWENTY and THE EVOLUTION OF GLOBAL
GOVERNANCE
LINK
Who really runs the country and the world? ... He
who has the gold makes the rules and it is not governments!
(9-28-09)
Misinformation Alert: Marjah: The
Non-Existent City the Military Said We Conquered in Afghanistan
LINK
Marjah isn't even a town, but rather one of the clearest
and most dramatic examples of a war of perception as outlined in
the US' counter-insurgency doctrine
U.S. 'Jihad Jane' arrested for terror recruiting
LINK
Chief
justice unsettled by Obama's criticism of Supreme Court
LINK
He objected to criticism in such a public setting,
where the justices had no choice but to sit silently
Crackdown on dangerous dogs in UK to make microchips compulsory
for all
LINK
Program
to pay homeowners to sell at a loss
LINK
Obama administration’s latest attempt to stem the housing
crisis ... For the administration, there is also the concern
that millions of foreclosures could delay or even reverse the
economy’s tentative recovery - the last thing it wants in an
election year
[analysis]: Are unemployment benefits no longer temporary?
LINK
Under multiple extensions enacted by the federal government in
response to the downturn, workers can collect the payments for
as long as 99 weeks [and still
counting! - Ed.] in states with the highest
unemployment rates - the longest period since the program's
inception
Failed Banks May Get Pension-Fund Backing as FDIC Seeks
Cash
LINK
Public
pension funds are 'going to Vegas'
LINK
States, government bodies are increasing
investment risk to raise returns ... Trying a wide range of
investments: commodity futures, junk bonds, foreign stocks,
deeply discounted mortgage-backed securities and margin
investing ... And some states that previously shunned hedge
funds are trying them now [?!]
Dollar Gains as Ratings Agencies Warn on Europe
LINK
[analysis]: Billionaires and Mega-Corporations Behind Immense
Land Grab in Africa
LINK
20+ African countries are selling or leasing land
for intensive agriculture on a shocking scale in what may be the
greatest change of ownership since the colonial era
IMF
Suggests How to Raise Climate Change Funds
LINK
Proposed that countries adopt a quota system
similar to the one the Fund uses to raise its own money ... The
organization will release a paper later this week with full
details
Chile
quake moves city more than 10 feet [and
shortens length of day]
LINK
The results were reached via global positioning
satellite measurements taken before and after the February 27
quake ... NASA scientists have also credited the quake with
shifting the Earth's axis enough to create shorter days: Each
day should be 1.26 microseconds shorter, according to
preliminary calculations ... A microsecond is one-millionth of a
second
CUFI Alert: Text of [Israeli] PM
Netanyahu's Address to the Christians United For Israel
Jerusalem Summit
LINK
"Remind the world that the land of
the Bible is not in the heavens but right here on earth ... And
that the people of the Bible, are on the land of the Bible"
1
of 2 arrested U.S. missionaries released in Haiti
LINK
Church
renames Jesus' resurrection after pagan goddess
(Video)
LINK
Richard Rives explains how synod co-opted worship of sun
queen
Health
Alert: Rise of the Superbugs: Why We
Are Increasingly at Risk From Antibiotic-Resistant Diseases
(Followup)
LINK
The evidence is overwhelming that these new superbugs are
at least partially a result of dosing farm animals with
sub-therapeutic doses of antibiotics added to their feed
Patients'
medical records go online without consent (UK)
LINK
Patients’ confidential medical records are being
placed on a controversial NHS database without their knowledge,
doctors’ leaders have warned
[analysis]: Are Veterans Being Given Deadly Cocktails to Treat
PTSD?
LINK
A potentially deadly drug manufactured by
pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca has been linked to the deaths
of soldiers returning from war ... Yet the FDA continues to
approve it ... The deadly drug cocktail combines the
antidepressant Paxil, the mood stabilizer Klonopin, and a
controversial anti-psychotic drug manufactured by pharmaceutical
giant AstraZeneca, called Seroquel
Pet Food
Recall Expanded LINK
A recall of Nature's Variety raw, frozen
chicken-flavored pet food has been expanded ... The pet food is
being recalled because it may be contaminated with salmonella
Two
Flavors of Pringles Chips Recalled LINK
[scroll down]
Two types of Pringles chips [Cheeseburger and Taco Night]
have been recalled because of concerns about possible Salmonella
contamination
HEALTH HIGHLIGHTS: MARCH 9, 2010 LINK
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Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked Him a question, tempting Him, and
saying, Master, which is the great commandment in the law? Jesus said unto him,
Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and
with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment.
Matthew 22:35-38 KJV
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