From Daniel Valles, Editor  3-2-10
New Article! Frequently Asked Questions About Prudent Living is a collection of the miscellaneous questions/comments we receive the most here regarding our ministry and why we encourage prudent living. Each question also has a Biblical response.

Failed Banks May Get Pension-Fund Backing as FDIC Seeks Cash businessweek.com 3/10/10 ["The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. is trying to encourage public retirement funds that control more than $2 trillion to buy all or part of failed lenders, taking a more direct role in propping up the banking system, said people briefed on the matter."]
Census: A Little Too Personal lewrockwell.com 3/10/10 [by Ron Paul  "The invasive nature of the current census raises serious questions about how and why government will use the collected information. It also demonstrates how the federal bureaucracy consistently encourages citizens to think of themselves in terms of groups, rather than as individual Americans. The not so subtle implication is that each group, whether ethnic, religious, social, or geographic, should speak up and demand its “fair share” of federal largesse. "]
Unbelievable Coincidence Saves Baby from Abortion in Indianapolis lifesitenews.com 3/10/10 ["Instead of Planned Parenthood, she got Joseph, who was answering the cell phone that's being used by ..."]
Britain could force owners to microchip their dogs google.com 3/10/10 ["British dog owners may be forced to microchip their pets and take out insurance, part of a proposed crackdown on the country's dangerous canines."]
U.S. Taxpayers on Hook for $5 Trillion of Fannie, Freddie Debt ... No Matter What Barney Frank Says yahoo.com 3/10/10 ["The U.S. government placed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in conservatorship in September 2008: "This means that the U.S. Taxpayer now stands behind $5 trillion of GSE debt," according to the Congressional Research Service."]

 

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The Most Important Issue of This Hour worldchallenge.org 12/5/8 [by David Wilkerson (Written in June, 2008) "I believe the most important issue of this hour has to do with what is called “enduring faith.” Simply put, will the faith of God’s people endure the terrible shaking of all things, the intense trials and testings to come, which no previous generation has faced?"  ...Ten years ago, I wrote a book entitled, America’s Last Call: On the Brink of a Financial Holocaust. In that book, I warned of the following events..."  Editor: I have read his book (America's Last Call) several years ago, and it has also been on my Recommended Book list for a couple of years now.]

Program Will Pay Homeowners to Sell at a Loss nytimes.com 3/9/10 ["This latest program, which will allow owners to sell for less than they owe and will give them a little cash to speed them on their way, is one of the administration’s most aggressive attempts to grapple with a problem that has defied solutions. "]
Detroit wants to save itself by shrinking google.com 3/9/10 ["Several other declining industrial cities, such as Youngstown, Ohio, have also accepted downsizing. Since 2005, Youngstown has been tearing down a few hundred houses a year. But Detroit's plans dwarf that effort. The approximately 40 square miles of vacant property in Detroit is larger than the entire city of Youngstown."]
Proposed European Monetary Fund Advances nytimes.com 3/9/10 ["But details of the fund proposal were vague, and any plan faced political and legal impediments. A plan would also come too late to help Greece even if all European Union members agreed to it, analysts said. "]
Strong earthquake hits eastern Turkey news.bbc.co.uk 3/9/10 ["A strong earthquake has struck eastern Turkey, killing at least 57 people, officials have said. The 6.0-magnitude quake, centred on the village of Basyurt in Elazig province, struck at 0432 (0232 GMT). It has been followed by more than 40 aftershocks. "]
HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius Misleads on Abortion Funding in Health Care Bill lifenews.com 3/9/10 ["Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius contradicted herself on abortion funding in the Senate health care bill in a Sunday interview on NBC's "Meet the Press." Sebelius applauded the Senate language before and talked about mandatory abortion fees, but now she claims there is no funding. Sebelius also appeared to contradict herself within the interview, saying at one point that abortion funding is a part of the government-run health care bill."]
China ready to end dollar peg telegraph.co.uk 3/9/10 ["The head of China’s central bank has given the strongest signal yet that the country will move away from pegging its currency to the dollar, but he said any changes would be gradual. "]
Au: Retrospective land tax to hit Queensland property investors couriermail.com.au 3/9/10 ["Under the innocuous title of the Valuation of Land and Other Legislation Bill 2010, the Queensland Government will literally rewrite history and rewrite the dictionary. It will retrospectively change the way land tax is applied in Queensland – back to June 30, 2002."]
Feds Move to Break Voting-Machine Monopoly wired.com 3/9/10 ["Even before the sale, ES&S, based in Omaha, Nebraska, was the nation’s largest voting-machine maker, with machines being used in 43 states. ES&S systems were “utilized in counting approximately 50 percent of the votes in the last four major U.S. elections,” according to the company’s website."]

Obama 9th Circuit Nominee: Constitution Must Adapt to Changes in the World foxnews.com 3/8/10 [""Applications of constitutional text and principles must be open to adaptation and change ... as the conditions and norms of our society become ever more distant from those of the Founding generation." That theme -- that the Constitution's text and principles must be adapted to changes in the world -- repeats throughout the book and raises eyebrows among conservatives."]
Top home-school texts dismiss Darwin, evolution google.com 3/8/10 [""The majority of home-schoolers self-identify as evangelical Christians," said Ian Slatter, a spokesman for the Home School Legal Defense Association. "Most home-schoolers will definitely have a sort of creationist component to their home-school program.""]
Kansas City wants to close half its public schools google.com 3/8/10 ["A final plan presented last week calls for closing 29 out of 61 schools to eliminate a projected $50 million budget shortfall."]
Schools' New Math: the Four-Day Week wsj.com 3/8/10 ["A small but growing number of school districts across the country are moving to a four-day week, in a shift they hope will help close gaping budget holes and stave off teacher layoffs, but that critics fear could hurt students' education. ...Of the nearly 15,000-plus districts nationwide, more than 100 in at least 17 states currently use the four-day system"]
Waste watchers? UK group fears trash bin spies google.com 3/8/10 ["The advocacy group Big Brother Watch found through a series of Freedom of Information requests that many local governments, called councils in Britain, are installing the microchips in trash cans distributed to households, but in most cases have not yet activated them — in part because officials know the move would be unpopular."]

Aid curfew as second quake hits Chile abc.net.au 3/6/10 ["Meanwhile, less than a week after the earthquake and tsunami rocked Chile, the country has suffered a separate quake. "]
Magnitude 6.5 earthquake shakes Indonesian Sumatra google.com 3/6/10 ["A magnitude-6.5 undersea earthquake shook the western shore of Indonesia's Sumatra island on Friday, causing panic but no casualties or damage, an official said."]
Regulators close banks in four states reuters.com 3/6/10 ["FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair has said she expects bank failures to remain high through 2010, even as the economy improves, because the bank industry is continuing to recognize loan losses and clean up their balance sheets. Regulators closed 140 banks in 2009, up from 25 in 2008 and only 3 in 2007."]
Massachusetts: Lawmakers review 'male mutilation' wnd.com 3/6/10 ["Lawmakers in Massachusetts are attacking the practice by Jews and other groups of circumcision with a bill to label the process genital mutilation and outlaw it. The proposal would make Massachusetts the first U.S. state to take such action. "]
UK Govt’ to Impose “Hate Registers” for British Children who Make Gay Comments lifesitenews.com 3/6/10 ["Late last year, Schools minister Vernon Coaker said that as of September 2010 all schools will be legally required to report all “hate incidents” no matter how small, and keep records on offending children. Serious cases were to be reported to local councils. "]
U.S. airports expand passenger full-body screening reuters.com 3/6/10 [" Three to be activated on Monday at Boston's Logan International Airport will be the first of 150 the U.S. Department of Homeland Security officials hope to deploy in the next few months using funds from last year's American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, also known as the stimulus."]
DeMint: White House land grab washingtontimes.com 3/6/10 ["A secret administration memo has surfaced revealing plans for the federal government to seize more than 10 million acres from Montana to New Mexico, halting job- creating activities like ranching, forestry, mining and energy development. Worse, this land grab would dry up tax revenue that's essential for funding schools, firehouses and community centers. "]
Obama calls 'entrepreneurship summit' with Muslims breitbart.com 3/6/10 [" In the closely watched address, Obama said the United States was seeking a "new beginning" with the Islamic world to rebuild relations that had sharply deteriorated over the past decade. "]
US to launch security-enhanced 100 dollar bill in April 3/6/10 ["The Treasury said the unveiling will launch a global multi-government agency public education program before the new 100 dollar note is put into circulation."]

Doug Philips: Rescue Haiti's Children: Trailer vimeo.com 3/5/10 [Editor: Even if you have dial-up, this is worth downloading to see the extent of damage in Haiti.]
Senators: Lift ban on gays donating blood google.com 3/5/10 ["The lawmakers stressed that the science has changed dramatically since the ban was established in 1983 at the advent of the HIV-AIDS crisis. Today donated blood must undergo two different, highly accurate tests that make the risk of tainted blood entering the blood supply virtually zero, they said."]
WA Senate leader suggests income tax referendum seattletimes.nwsource.com 3/5/10 ["Senate Majority Leader Lisa Brown wants voters to weigh in on the idea of an income tax on high earners."]
Senate Judiciary Committee OKs Obama Pro-Abortion Pick Dawn Johnsen lifenews.com 3/5/10 ["Johnsen is the radical pro-abortion activist President Barack Obama named to head up the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel. The post is one of the top legal positions in the federal government and frequently a stepping stone to the Supreme Court."]
Ingredient used in many processed foods recalled google.com 3/5/10 ["It only involves hydrolyzed vegetable protein manufactured by Las Vegas-based Basic Food Flavors Inc., which did not return a call for comment Thursday."]
House OKs $15 billion jobs bill reuters.com 3/5/10 ["Rather than passing another massive job-creation bill along the lines of last year's $863 stimulus package, Democratic leaders plan to advance a series of smaller job-creation bills to avoid public sticker shock and keep their job-creation efforts in the news."]
U.S. right-wing groups, militias surge: study reuters.com 3/5/10 [""The anger seething across the American political landscape -- over racial changes in the population, soaring public debt and the terrible economy, the bailouts of bankers and other elites, and an array of initiatives by the relatively liberal Obama administration that are seen as 'socialist' or even 'fascist' -- goes beyond the radical right," the report said."]
Australia Bans Christian Schools from Teaching Creationism lifesitenews.com 3/5/10 ["...goes on to state that it "does not accept as satisfactory a science curriculum in a non-government school which is based on, espouses or reflects the literal interpretation of a religious text in its treatment of either creationism or intelligent design.''"]

150 same-sex couples seek marriage licenses in DC google.com 3/4/10 ["Some said it was symbolic to get married in the nation's capital..."]
Lawmakers launch bill to end military gay ban reuters.com 3/4/10 ["But Pentagon officials leading the policy review wondered why lawmakers didn't wait for the results. "I would think Congress would like to hear from us first before undertaking to consider to repeal (the law)," Jeh Johnson, Pentagon general counsel, told a House Armed Services subcommittee."]
America, the fragile empire latimes.com 3/4/10 ["Here today, gone tomorrow -- could the United States fall that fast?" Editor: Food for thought, mostly agree, but the comments are good perusing, too.]
Obama Pushing for New United Nations Agency Dedicated to Radical Feminism lifesitenews.com 3/4/10 ["Both the Obama administration and the European Union immediately seconded the proposal to create a new U.N. super-agency, which thus appears to have a good chance of passage. ...The new agency would amalgamate four existing entities... "]
Cry, our beloved America: Sliding Down the Communitarian Slope crossroad.to 3/4/10 [By Berit Kjos  "The government may own GM, but it won't own everything. Instead, it will control, tax and manipulate everything. That means it can crush or strengthen any company at will. It's far easier to give the commands when it's free from the responsibilities of actual ownership."]
Powerful quake strikes southern Taiwan google.com 3/4/10 ["The 6.4-magnitude quake hit about 70 kilometres (about 40 miles) from the main southern city of Kaohsiung, the US Geological Survey said, and it was felt as far away as the capital Taipei in the north of the island."]

Chile curfew extended as troops fail to grasp control after quake timesonline.co.uk 3/3/10 ["Chilean authorities today extended a night curfew to midday as thousands of troops struggled to contain worsening looting and crime in the wake of the devastating earthquake. "]
Post-quake chaos, looting wound Chile's pride google.com 3/3/10 ["Leonardo Sanhueza lamented in the Ultimas Noticias newspaper a "social disintegration" in the wealthy country that has led some people simply "to look out for themselves — and let the rest eat like dogs.""  Editor: Preview of America...]
Study "Proves" Violent Video Game Play Makes More Aggressive Kids lifesitenews.com 3/3/10 ["...a new study he led, analyzing 130 research reports on more than 130,000 subjects worldwide, proves conclusively that exposure to violent video games makes more aggressive, less caring kids -- regardless of their age, sex or culture."]
Gold Hits Record High In Euros, Pound nytimes.com 3/3/10 ["Uncertainty over plans to tackle Greece's fiscal crisis and over what the next British election may mean for UK debt have heightened volatility in the European currencies, lifting interest in gold as an alternative asset, analysts said."]
US grants German homeschoolers asylum. Will others follow? csmonitor.com 3/3/10 ["A US judge granted German homeschoolers asylum in January after ruling they faced persecution in Germany, where the practice is punishable with fines or imprisonment. The US Home School Legal Defense Association says other German families are exploring political asylum in the US."]

Chile Quake Is One of the Biggest in a Century wsj.com 3/2/10 ["The Chile quake released 500 times more energy than the quake that hit Haiti.""]
Recent large earthquakes in first two months of 2010 indicate trend sfgate.com 3/2/10 ["First, the rate comes to about one major earthquake every two weeks. Second, the US Geological Survey reports that earthquakes of over 7 on the Richter Scale are still constant in number, not increasing or decreasing."]
Pictured: Body of looter left dying by side of the road after being hit by car in aftermath of Chile earthquake dailymail.co.uk 3/2/10 ["His horrific fate came as the Chilean government was forced to send in 10,000 troops to manage the chaos as earthquake survivors scramble for food and water. ...Bachelet signed a decree giving the military control over security in the provinces of Concepcion and Maule and announced a 9 pm-6 am curfew for all non-emergency workers."]
Chile Battles Lawlessness, Desperation After Massive Earthquake voanews.com 3/2/10 ["In Concepcion, Chile's second-largest city, some residents have taken local security matters into their own hands, setting up impromptu roadblocks to keep track of all who seek to enter their neighborhoods."]
Hundreds of looters detained in Chile abc.net.au 3/2/10 ["Hundreds of looters have been detained in earthquake-hit Chile, where troops have been forced to fire tear gas to stop mobs from pillaging shops and homes."]
American reliance on government at all-time high washingtontimes.com 3/2/10 ["Moreover, for the first time since the Great Depression, Americans took more aid from the government than they paid in taxes. "]
High court to define reach of gun-control laws usatoday.com 3/2/10 ["The new question is whether the 2008 decision also applies to cities and states, or only to laws in the federal government and its enclaves, such as Washington. It sets up another major constitutional question with ramifications for scores of mostly urban gun regulations."]
Fannie Taps Treasury for $15.3 Billion More After a 10th Loss bloomberg.com 3/2/10 ["...will seek $15.3 billion in U.S. aid, bringing the total owed under a government lifeline to $76.2 billion, after its 10th consecutive quarterly loss. "]
One in four Germans wants microchip under skin: poll google.com 3/2/10 ["But 72 percent said they would not "under any circumstances" allow electronics in their body."]
Dramatic Vegas Abortion-Reversal Results in Healthy Birth lifesitenews.com 3/2/10 ["The late-term abortion – which takes between two to three days – was just underway when two pro-life crisis pregnancy counselors at First Choice clinic in Las Vegas were able to reach out to Jamie and convince her that she still had a window of opportunity to stop the death of her child. "]

America - Infested With Spiritual Bacteria! lasttrumpetnewsletter.org 3/1/10 [By Pastor David Meyer  "One of the great signs of the end of this present world is the earthquakes, which are increasing in number, frequency, and intensity on average. Anything above a magnitude four is considered to be a significant quake. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, we have had 389 such quakes within the past thirty days as of February 11th, 2010. "]
Head of IMF Proposes New Reserve Currency abcnews.go.com 3/1/10 ["Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the head of the International Monetary Fund, suggested Friday the organization might one day be called on to provide countries with a global reserve currency that would serve as an alternative to the U.S. dollar."]
Chile was ready for quake, Haiti wasn't google.com 3/1/10 ["Chile is wealthier and infinitely better prepared, with strict building codes, robust emergency response and a long history of handling seismic catastrophes. No living Haitian had experienced a quake at home when the Jan. 12 disaster crumbled their poorly constructed buildings."]
Tsunami sets off panic but does little damage google.com 3/1/10 [""We expected the waves to be bigger in Hawaii, maybe about 50 percent bigger than they actually were," Fryer said. "We'll be looking at that.""]
Google launches ’person finder’ for Chile quake victims vancouversun.com 3/1/10 ["It asks users "What is your situation?" and gives them the choice between "I’m looking for someone" and "I have information about someone." Users can then search records by name or input information about someone."]
Iris scans may prevent mistaken release of inmates google.com 3/1/10 ["The U.S. Justice Department has given a $500,000 grant to the National Sheriff's Association, which is doling out the money through $10,000 grants to about 45 agencies across the country that will create a national database that better identifies, registers and tracks inmates"]
Germany and France agree to rescue Greece, with conditions telegraph.co.uk 3/1/10 ["Germany and France are putting together a plan to buy as much as €30bn (£26.7bn) of Greek debt to help the country avoid a calamitous sovereign default – but only if Athens commits to slashing public spending. "]
Supreme Court scrutinizes state, local gun control google.com 3/1/10 ["The justices will be deciding whether the right to possess guns guaranteed by the Second Amendment — like much of the rest of the Bill of Rights — applies to states as well as the federal government. It's widely believed they will say it does."]
Rain triggers deadly floods in Haiti news.bbc.co.uk 3/1/10 ["The deaths occurred in or near the southeastern port city of Les Cayes which was swamped by more than 1.5m (5ft) of water. "]
Greenspan: U.S. recovery "extremely unbalanced" reuters.com 3/1/10 ["Small businesses and the jobless are still suffering from the aftermath of a credit crunch that was "by far the greatest financial crisis, globally, ever" -- including the 1930s Great Depression, said Greenspan in an address to a Credit Union National Association conference."]
Sweden: State takes custody of 7-year-old over homeschooling wnd.com 3/1/10 ["WND reported late last year when the Administrative Court of Stockholm affirmed the state custody of Dominic, who was taken from the airliner by uniformed police officers on the orders of social workers even though there was no allegation of any crime on the part of the family nor was there any warrant. "]
FDIC shuts down banks in Nevada and Washington google.com 3/1/10 ["Regulators have shut down banks in Washington and Nevada, marking the 21st and 22nd failures this year of federally insured banks."]
Augmented Identity technologyreview.com 3/1/10 ["An application that lets users point a smart phone at a stranger and immediately learn about them premiered last Tuesday at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. Developed by The Astonishing Tribe (TAT), a Swedish mobile software and design firm, the prototype software combines computer vision, cloud computing, facial recognition, social networking, and augmented reality."]
Obama signs one-year extension of Patriot Act google.com 3/1/10 ["Provisions in the measure would have expired on Sunday without Obama's signature Saturday."]
Unemployment Benefits to Expire Sunday After Senate Stalemates On Extension foxnews.com 3/1/10 ["But the Senate will likely be able to renew them with a Tuesday vote. Democrats are expected to take up a broader bill next week, the second in their “jobs agenda” that will extend the benefits, among many other provisions – including popular tax extenders – for one year. The bill is expected to pass by the end of next week."]

IMF wants more power to promote financial stability: chief google.com 2/27/10 ["But Strauss-Kahn said that as the world slowly emerges from the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, "we must build on this positive momentum: to transform the Fund into an institution even better equipped to meet the challenges of the post-crisis era.""]
Head of Marines Defends Military Ban on Open Homosexuals lifesitenews.com 2/27/10 ["Donnelly noted that the Commandant of the Marine Corps "is the person to whom Marine families turn when they have problems and concerns,” and thus "is much more representative of military families and those who are on active duty" than, for example, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs."]
Massachusetts State House Holds Hearing on Bill to Legalize Assisted Suicide lifenews.com 2/27/10 ["A bill in the Massachusetts legislature would make the state the fourth to legalize the practice of assisted suicide, following Oregon, Washington and Montana. Several groups and 10 individuals testified against the legislation in a hearing that hasn't drawn much national attention yet."]
Banks at risk of going bust tops 700 cnn.com 2/27/10 ["More than 700 banks, or nearly one out of every 11, are at risk of going under, according to a government report published Tuesday."]
Suit possible over baby DNA sent to military lab for national database statesman.com 2/27/10 ["An article Monday by the Texas Tribune, a news Web site, said the state health department sent 800 anonymous samples to the military to help create a national mitochondrial DNA database. The samples were sent in 2003 and 2007, according to the department's Web site."]
World economy to be hit by several sovereign defaults, Ken Rogoff warns telegraph.co.uk 2/27/10 ["The prospect of a country defaulting on its debts has long been seen as one of the greatest risks to the global economy this year, with fears currently centered on Greece. As interest rates rise, Greece and Portugal will "have a lot of troubles,” according to Rogoff. "]
Congressman Says Abortion More Devastating Than Slavery for Black Americans lifenews.com 2/27/10 ["According to figures from the Centers for Disease Control, while black women represent 12.5% of American females they have 38.2% of all abortions, according to the authors."]
Oregon Planned Parenthood Offers RU-486 Abortion in 'Privacy of Their Home' lifesitenews.com 2/27/10 ["RU-486 blocks the action of progesterone, the natural hormone maintaining the rich nutrient lining of the uterus. The developing baby then starves to death as the womb’s nutrient lining disintegrates."]

Anarchy At The Door newswithviews.com 2/26/10 [By Sheriff Jim R. Schwiesow, Ret.  "Josiah pulled down idols, destroyed false prophets, moved a people to obey God’s Laws and saved - albeit temporarily - a nation. As I look around this nation, I see no Josiah. ...The ultimate goal is to move the collective capital assets of the people into the hands of the illuminati that when the collapse occurs these immense reserves of stolen capital will be used to assemble the pieces of a new world order. Out of chaos comes order, a new world order."]
Supreme Court Rejects Appeal of Woman Forced to Share Daughter with Lesbian Ex-Partner lifesitenews.com 2/26/10 ["Kristina S. had conceived her now six-year-old daughter Amalia through artificial insemination during her domestic partnership with lesbian Charisma R. However, Kristina left the partnership three months after her daughter’s birth. "]
Arrest Warrant Issued for Lisa Miller in Vermont lifesitenews.com 2/26/10 ["A Vermont judge has issued an arrest warrant for Lisa Miller for failing to transfer custody of her daughter to her former lesbian partner."]
Au: Children to be given identity numbers smh.com.au 2/26/10 ["A program in which every school child in Australia would be given an identity number so their academic progress could be tracked through their school life is expected to be announced by the federal government as early as today."]
There's No Power in This Blood! crossroad.to 2/26/10 [By Jan Markell  "Christianity Today online says that vampires are hot stuff right now even for Christians. Visit a Christian bookstore or publishing house Web site and you might be surprised how many vampire-themed books you will see. What's wrong with the picture? Legions of people will tell you that nothing is wrong. They are, in fact, trying to sanctify vampirism. "]
German slur damages Greece bid for rescue smh.com.au 2/26/10 ["Greece has greatly damaged its chances of a European Union bailout by lashing out at Germany over wartime atrocities and accusing Italy of cooking its books to hide public debt. The escalating dispute came as a general strike spilt over into violent clashes between hooded youths and riot police in Athens. Chants of ''burn the banks'' are a foretaste of tensions once austerity measures bite in earnest this year."]
Lawyer who challenged Obama: Ineligibility could prove costly wnd.com 2/26/10 ["...revealed two precedents he believes would be applicable in the Obama case. In one, state officials arbitrarily removed a candidate from an election ballot because it was not proven the candidate was qualified for office. In another, the North Dakota Supreme Court removed the sitting governor from office when it was documented he was not eligible under the state's requirements. "]
Haiti: Voodoo leader strikes back at Evangelicals brisbanetimes.com.au 2/26/10 ["Haiti's supreme voodoo leader has vowed to wage "war" after Evangelicals attacked a ceremony organised by his religion honouring those killed in last month's massive earthquake. "]

Argentina Seizes the Central Bank wsj.com 2/23/10 ["Yet Americans can still hold out hope that competing institutions will check the runaway power of a government that is being underwritten by the central bank. In Argentina, institutions are frail and it is far from certain that they can hold up under Mrs. Kirchner's iron fist. "]
Citigroup Warns Customers It May Refuse To Allow Withdrawals businessinsider.com 2/23/10 ["When Citibank moved to unlimited FDIC coverage in 2009, we had to reclassify many checking accounts to allow for immediate withdrawals in order to ensure all customers qualified for the additional coverage."]
Obama proposes $950 billion health bill kcrg.com 2/23/10 ["But Republicans declared the effort dead on arrival, condemning the Democratic president's plan as a warmed-over version of the unpopular healthcare bills passed last year by the Democratic-controlled Senate and House of Representatives."]
Newly-Unveiled Obama Health Bill Proposal Even More Pro-Abortion: NRLC lifesitenews.com 2/23/10 ["The White House is threatening to ram the proposal through the Senate on a 51-vote majority using a tactic known as budget reconciliation. The process circumvents the need for a filibuster-proof 60-vote majority by placing the health care overhaul under the heading of a "budget" bill."]

Greece loses EU voting power in blow to sovereignty telegraph.co.uk 2/22/10 ["The European Union has shown its righteous wrath by stripping Greece of its vote at a crucial meeting next month, the worst humiliation ever suffered by an EU member state. "]
Layoffs loom for teachers: education secretary reuters.com 2/22/10 ["The economic stimulus package... It created a stabilization fund of $48 billion that provided cash directly to states, mostly for schools. But those funds will likely run out before the end of the year."]
OneWest Buys Failed Bank, Three Others Collapse as Toll Climbs businessweek.com 2/22/10 [""]

More Precious than Gold: Canadian Olympic Champ Calls Disabled Brother 'My Inspiration' lifesitenews.com 2/20/10 [""It's really getting me right now - my brother is my inspiration, growing up with handicapped people puts everything back in perspective, and he taught me so many things in life," he said."]
Google Approved to Buy, Sell Energy pcmag.com 2/20/10 ["In October, Google announced that Energy Inc. will be the first device partner for PowerMeter, which monitors electricity consumption in real time and offers feedback on how to reduce consumption."]
Who is Rashad Hussain? townhall.com 2/20/10 ["President Obama's appointment of Rashad Hussain, his deputy associate counsel, as special envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), the second largest inter-governmental organization after the United Nations..."]
Google Probably Not Making You Stupid, Report Says pcmag.com 2/20/10 ["Does the plethora of information available on the Internet contribute to our overall knowledge, or do the bite-sized snippets of information the Web provides make us less likely to read or search out more in-depth content - essentially making us stupid?"]
Virginia Christian Leaders Urge State Officials to Cut Planned Parenthood Funds lifenews.com 2/20/10 ["Dozens of Christian pastors and religious leaders signed a new petition to the state legislature and top state officials asking them to end state funding for the Planned Parenthood abortion business. The petition also went to the state's governor, lieutenant governor and attorney general."]
Your kids: Dumb, difficult and dispensable wnd.com 2/20/10 ["Millennials are a generation of youngsters that reveres only itself for no good reason. They have been unleashed on America by progressive families and educators (Democrat and Republican alike) who've deified their off-putting offspring and charges, and instilled in them a sense of self-worth disproportionate to their actual worth."]
U.S. "tweaks" stem cell policy reuters.com 2/20/10 ["Skirboll said the new definition will include earlier stage embryos. "We are making what I think is a relatively small technical change to the definition of human embryonic stem cells," Skirboll said in a telephone interview. "This changes none of the ethical requirements in the guidelines.""]
Jesus was 'gay:' Elton John news.yahoo.com 2/20/10 [Editor: The only reason I am posting this garbage is to take note of how his statement was not obscure, it was published "on the website of US celebrity news magazine Parade."]

Tax Protester Crashes Plane Into IRS Office wsj.com 2/19/10 [""Well, Mr. Big Brother IRS man, let's try something different; take my pound of flesh and sleep well," he wrote in conclusion, signing the posting, "Joe Stack (1956-2010)." The Web site was taken down on Thursday "]
I Wish Joe Stack Had Not Killed Himself newswithviews.com 2/19/10 [By Chuck Baldwin  "A lot of us are angry--and for many of the same reasons that Mr. Stack was angry! While I would certainly take exception to some of the things Stack says in his manifesto, he said things that many of us are feeling."]
South Carolina Lawmaker Seeks to Ban Federal Currency cbsnews.com 2/19/10 ["South Carolina Rep. Mike Pitts has introduced legislation that would mandate that gold and silver coins replace federal currency as legal tender in his state. ...Though he did not offer a timeframe, Pitts told Hotsheet that he anticipates a nationwide economic collapse "if our federal government continues the course it's been traveling under the previous administration and this administration." "]
Los Angeles Plans 3,000 More Job Cuts wsj.com 2/19/10 ["Los Angeles is struggling to close a $200 million budget gap this fiscal year, and a nearly $500 million budget deficit forecast for the next fiscal year. On Thursday, Moody's lowered its opinion of city finances from stable to negative."]
U.S. state pension funds have $1 trillion shortfall: Pew reuters.com 2/19/10 [""The funding gap will likely increase when the more than 25 percent loss states took in calendar year 2008 is factored in," the report said."]
Obama Pro-Abortion Pick Dawn Johnsen May Have Worked Without Senate OK lifenews.com 2/19/10 ["Johnsen is the radical pro-abortion activist President Barack Obama named to head up the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel. The post is one of the top legal positions in the federal government and frequently a stepping stone to the Supreme Court."]
Lisa Miller Safe for Now: Virginia Judge Refuses to Issue Arrest Warrant lifesitenews.com 2/19/10 ["Judge Harrison of the Bedford County Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court ruled that because Miller's whereabouts are unknown, it cannot be proven that she is aware of the court order to transfer custody of her daughter Isabella. He scheduled another hearing for May 19."]
Exclusive: Shipments of Medical Aid to Haiti Delayed by Massive Condom Overload lifesitenews.com 2/19/10 ["The source reported that shipping containers of medical supplies were unable to be unloaded, sorted and distributed since an enormous supply of condoms clogged the facility till early February, when the condoms could be removed. The condoms were estimated to take up about 70% of the space in the 17,000 sq. ft. warehouse. "]

Conservative leaders call for return to founders' principles mercurynews.com 2/18/10 ["The document — produced by the Conservative Action Project, a new group seeking to coordinate the movement — says the nation's founders created a framework of limited government and "sought to secure national independence, provide for economic opportunity, establish true religious liberty and maintain a flourishing society of republican self-government. "]
Mount Vernon Statement Released lifesitenews.com 2/18/10 ["The full text is as follows:"]
IMF to sell 191.3 tonnes of gold on market 'shortly' google.com 2/18/10 ["At Wednesday's market price of about 1,120 dollars an ounce, the gold to be sold would be worth nearly 6.9 billion dollars."]
LifeSiteNews Interviews Ron Paul: How Congress Can Stop Roe v. Wade Now lifesitenews.com 2/18/10 ["Paul admits the solution is "imperfect" - and therefore displeasing to some national pro-life leaders - but through Congress empowering the states "many, many abortions would be prevented" and pro-life advocates would be even further empowered to make changes. "]
Fed Thinking Of Selling Debt to Withdraw Stimulus nytimes.com 2/18/10 ["To combat the worst recession and financial crisis since the 1930s, the U.S. central bank has cut benchmark interest rates to near zero and bought more than $1.5 trillion in government and mortgage bonds to pump money into the economy."]
Texas to challenge US greenhouse gas rules reuters.com 2/18/10 ["Texas and several national industry groups on Tuesday filed separate petitions in federal court challenging the government's authority to regulate U.S. greenhouse gas emissions."]
Haiti's earthquake camps turning into shanty towns google.com 2/18/10 ["The overcrowding is the chief reason officials say they don't want to give people the waterproof tents they are demanding — there just isn't enough space for them."]

Obama Gives Planned Parenthood Abortion President Frequent White House Access lifenews.com 2/17/10 ["Wendy Wright, the president of Concerned Women for America, told LifeNews.com the "visitor logs document the close relationship that the Obama administration has with the largest abortion provider in the country." "For a president who claimed he would fight against lobbyists' influence, these records reveal a different story," Wright said."]
No guns allowed, declares city, it's a 'snow emergency' wnd.com 2/17/10 ["North Carolina isn't the only state where authorities can ban gun sales, or even possession, upon declaration of "emergency," even though what constitutes an "emergency" might be deemed questionable. "]
America’s Invisible Homeless and Hungry aim.org 2/17/10 ["As the recession took hold one food pantry organizer noted that "the next layer of people" were showing up; "a rapidly expanding group of child-care workers, nurse's aides, real estate agents and secretaries who are facing a financial crisis for the first time." ...Entitlement programs, along with defense, represent half of the nation's annual budget."]
Foreign demand for Teasury securities falls google.com 2/17/10 ["The government said Tuesday that foreign demand for U.S. Treasury securities fell by the largest amount on record in December with China reducing its holdings by $34.2 billion.  ...The big drop in China's holdings meant that it lost the top spot in terms of foreign ownership of U.S. Treasuries, dropping to second place behind Japan."]
Virginia Legislature Strips Planned Parenthood Funding From its License Plate Bill lifenews.com 2/17/10 ["In what pro-life advocates are hailing as a brilliant legislative move, Virginia lawmakers stripped Planned Parenthood funding from its own bill to sponsor pro-abortion license plates. The plate bill now sends the proceeds from sales of the plate to a state fund that actually helps pregnant women."]
Even the MSM Notices TV Getting Really Raunchy newsbusters.org 2/17/10 [Graphic Content]
Google Apologizes for Buzz Fuss, Stops Automation cio-today.com 2/17/10 ["So as the Mountain View, Calif.-based search giant looked ahead at how to make Buzz more marketable, company executives also looked back, admitting it might not have been a good idea to beta-test the system Relevant Products/Services only with Google employees."  Editor: I believe this was done deliberately to get people used to eroded privacy, etc.]
US lab reaches Big Bang heat of 4 trillion degrees Celsius google.com 2/17/10 ["The ultra-high temperature is higher than what is needed to melt protons and neutrons into a plasma of quarks and gluons, the substance that filled the universe a few microseconds after it came into existence 13.7 billion years ago..." Editor: Kinda ironic that they had to use ions from some pretty dense pre-existing matter to come up with this false, unsubstantiated THEORY... when they can make something from absolutetly nothing, then I might be impressed... Genesis 1:1 - time, space, matter, and energy - all from absolutelty nothing.]

Harrisburg excludes debt payments from 2010 budget reuters.com 2/16/10 ["Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, moved a step closer to defaulting on a bond payment when its city council passed a 2010 budget that does not include $68 million in debt repayments..."]
World needs a reboot: TED google.com 2/16/10 ["Nobel laureates, technology titans, artists, scientists, and academics spent five days here grappling with how best to reboot the world."]
US banks facing $1.4tn crisis over commercial property loans guardian.co.uk 2/16/10 ["A congressional oversight panel charged with scrutinising the Obama administration's bailout efforts has warned that $1.4tn of loans covering commercial premises will reach maturity between 2011 and 2014. After a plunge in property prices, nearly half of these loans are underwater, with borrowers owing more than their underlying property is worth."]
Forget Greece, The US Almost Had A Failed Treasury Auction istockanalyst.com 2/16/10 ["Indeed, on that note we know that the US Federal Reserve accounted for 11% of the total purchases. Folks, you're not dealing with a healthy debt auction when the Fed accounts for 10% of purchases. "]
String of Snow Days Deprives Many Students of Food foxnews.com 2/16/10 ["...leaving more than 3 feet of snow in some areas, deprived tens of thousands of children from Virginia to Pennsylvania of the free or reduced-price school lunch that may be their only nutritious meal of the day. "]
Wakefield Inquisitioners Have Their Day newswithviews.com 2/16/10 ["...been asked many times over the last few weeks to share my opinion on the verdict of the U.K’s General Medical Council (GMC) about Dr. Andrew Wakefield and the retraction of his 1998 article, “Ileal-lymphoid-nodular hyperplasia, non-specific colitis, and pervasive developmental disorder in children” by the medical journal, Lancet. The many inquiries fall into four basic questions, answered below. "]
Report: As Independent Abortion Centers Close, Planned Parenthood Biz Expands lifenews.com 2/16/10 [""This news emphasizes the need to de-fund Planned Parenthood nationwide. Without being artificially supported with our tax dollars, Planned Parenthood would be closing clinics, not building new ones," said Newman."]
Congress Refuses To Bring Home Millions Of Jobs newswithviews.com 2/16/10 [By Devvy Kidd "The people's purse is overdrawn, well, go look at the debt clock; it runs faster than I can type. But, the Outlaw Congress wants to spend another $85 BILLION "dollars" that will have to be borrowed? Create jobs out of borrowed debt? Does anyone see the insanity of this? Remember: you are going to work today to help pay $800 MILLION dollars a week just on the interest to commie China for "our" debt."]
Body Scanner = Naked Movie Star Pictures; That Didn't Take Long aclu.org 2/16/10 ["But contrary to the stated policy of the British government, this image was not immediately discarded. Instead, airline personnel apparently printed it out."]
Leaked Document: No Opt-Out for Children from Pro-Gay Classes in Ontario Schools lifesitenews.com 2/16/10 ["Among other things, the Ministry is requiring all boards, Catholic and public, to develop a plan for combating “homophobia.”"]
During the Olympics, The Feds Will Be Reading Your Tweets -- And the Blotter abcnews.go.com 2/16/10 ["DHS officials say they will not be monitoring the web sites extensively, but would use the sites as a reference and open source tool in the event of an incident or emergency. DHS officials also used the monitoring of social media sites in the aftermath of the Haiti earthquake to aid rescue efforts. "]
Michigan: State lawmakers work on bills to limit property seizures by police detnews.com 2/16/10 ["Efforts are under way to change Michigan's civil forfeiture laws that allow police to seize property without proving a crime occurred. State law allows police to take property, usually vehicles, for any reason, even in the absence of criminal activity. A Detroit News investigation in November found that vehicles sometimes are seized even when police admit no crime took place."]
Tension among Haiti's religions grows after quake google.com 2/16/10 ["The catastrophe has driven a wedge between Haiti's religions as Christian groups make inroads among shaken Voodoo followers — some drawn by the steady flow of aid through evangelical missions and others frightened by a disaster they saw as a warning from God.  ...Voodoo has been in my family but the government isn't helping us. The only people giving aid are the Christian churches.""]
Au: Taxman free to break in to homes smh.com.au 2/16/10 ["...has been given a ''tick of approval'' to break into homes, cars and workplaces where it believes documents are at risk of being destroyed."]

How Christian Were the Founders? nytimes.com 2/15/10 ["Following the appeals from the public, the members of what is the most influential state board of education in the country, and one of the most politically conservative, submitted their own proposed changes to the new social-studies curriculum guidelines, whose adoption was the subject of all the attention — guidelines that will affect students around the country, from kindergarten to 12th grade, for the next 10 years."]
Obama Making Plans to Use Executive Power nytimes.com 2/15/10 ["Mr. Obama has already decided to create a bipartisan budget commission under his own authority after Congress refused to do so. His administration has signaled that it plans to use its discretion to soften enforcement of the ban on openly gay men and lesbians serving in the military, even as Congress considers repealing the law."]
Atheist billboards in Sacto: 'Are you good without God?' sfgate.com 2/15/10 ["With the help of an umbrella organization called the United Coalition of Reason, local atheist groups have paid for billboards and other ads in about a dozen cities, including San Diego, Houston, Tulsa and New Orleans."]
Bankruptcy Bloodbath May Hit Muni Bond Owners Next: Joe Mysak businessweek.com 2/15/10 ["Since Vallejo, California, successfully petitioned for bankruptcy protection in May 2008, California’s towns, Detroit’s schools and Pennsylvania’s capital city of Harrisburg have all talked about Chapter 9."]
How Google Buzz for mobile will change your life sfgate.com 2/15/10 [""Near me now" and "Explore right here" functionality is baked right into the mobile version of Buzz. That, combined with cell phone GPS capability and Twitter-like posting, is mobile magic."]
Controversial Ga. billboards link abortion, race google.com 2/15/10 ["Nationally, black women were more than three times as likely to get an abortion in 2006 compared with white women, according to the CDC."]
Faber: Debt Interest Will Lead to Default, Then War moneynews.com 2/15/10 ["At a conference in Moscow, Marc Faber laid out the crisis that he sees coming in the next 10 years: Interest on U.S. debt will crush other spending, then inflation and depression will take hold and eventually lead to war."]
In Internet Era, an Unwilling Lord for New Age Followers nytimes.com 2/15/10 ["“It’s incredibly flattering, just for an instant,” Mr. Patel said of his unwanted status. “And then you realize what it means. People are looking for better times. Almost anything now will qualify as a portent of different times.”"]
Is The Gardasil Vaccine An Experiment On Your Children? newswithviews.com 2/15/10 ["Another concern, like all the other vaccines recommended, there are no long-term safety or efficacy studies done on this vaccine and the short- term studies are of great concern. "]

Pound falls as Bank signals QE not over telegraph.co.uk 2/13/10 ["The Bank's Monetary Policy Committee voted last week to pause the QE programme, through which it has bought about £200bn of government bonds with newly-created money. However, the Bank's Governor, Mervyn King said: "It is far too soon to conclude that no more purchases will be needed."]
China orders retreat from risky assets telegraph.co.uk 2/13/10 ["China has ordered managers of its vast currency reserves to withdraw from risky dollar assets and retreat to core debt guaranteed by the US government, a clear sign that Beijing is battening down the hatches for fresh trouble on global markets. "]
YouTube Excludes Pro-Life Tim Tebow Commercial on Super Bowl Ad Voting Site lifenews.com 2/13/10 [" YouTube has caused frustration for pro-life advocates before on videos. Last year, YouTube removed a new undercover video that exposes dishonest counseling practices at Planned Parenthood abortion centers. The new video showed a Planned Parenthood staff member telling pro-life activist Lila Rose that images of victims of abortion are "not real.""]
Courageous Not Conservative newswithviews.com 2/13/10 [By Coach Dave Daubenmire "If I remember correctly, a storm is the result of two different fronts colliding. When a high pressure system comes in contact with a low pressure system the result is nothing more than two systems battling for control of a particular region."]
Greek slump threatens debt plan, EU aid elusive reuters.com 2/13/10 ["It is common for governments to revise GDP figures but large inaccuracies in Greek economic data -- some of them apparently deliberate and politically motivated -- have fueled its debt crisis by angering investors and Greece's EU partners."]
Editorial: Rotten to the AmeriCorps washingtontimes.com 2/13/10 ["...spending increases hidden in President Obama's 2011 budget proposal is his plan to create an army of government-funded community organizers at the shocking price of $1.4 billion. ...a whopping 59 percent boost for the Corporation for National and Community Service and its best-known program, AmeriCorps."]
Planned Parenthood Opens Big New Abortion Center Sunday in Portland, Oregon lifenews.com 2/13/10 ["Despite boycotts of contractors, builders and plumbers, Planned Parenthood was able to complete the new abortion facility. The abortion business also received a grant from the federal Housing and Urban Development department to help it build the new center."]
A Warning To The Tea Party Nation newswithviews.com 2/13/10 [By Chuck Baldwin  "Perry is the quintessential establishment Republican. Perry has been in office for some 9 years, and what has he done to thwart the NWO in Texas? Nothing! Perry is even a Bilderberg Group attendee. What has he done for State sovereignty in Texas? Nothing! In fact, he supports the North American Union and the NAFTA superhighway. "]
Feds push for tracking cell phones news.cnet.com 2/13/10 ["...the Obama administration has argued that warrantless tracking is permitted because Americans enjoy no "reasonable expectation of privacy" in their--or at least their cell phones'--whereabouts."]

H.R.4530: Assault on Genuine Child Safety and Morality missionamerica.com 2/12/10 ["Sweeping “gay rights” powers over local schools to be given to federal bureaucrats like Kevin Jennings and Kathleen Sebelius"]
Obama czar's 'homo-genda' proposed for U.S. schools wnd.com 2/12/10 ["Polis' proposal would provide special protections for students who claim they are discriminated against because of their "perceived sexual orientation.""]
Greece ‘Dress Rehearsal’ for U.S., Deutsche Bank Says businessweek.com 2/12/10 ["The cost of insuring against U.S. and U.K. debt defaults may rise in the same way as it has for so- called European peripheral nations including Greece and Portugal, Deutsche Bank AG said."]
Dawn Johnsen May Receive Recess Appointment, Perhaps Supreme Court Seat lifenews.com 2/12/10 ["Although he didn't name the nominees he would put in position without Senate approval, Johnsen's nomination to head the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel is considered one of the most likely."]
7 US States That Are Worse Off Than Greece, Portgal, Ireland, And Spain 2/12/10 ["While the PIGS are without question a problem for Europe, whatever problems they present for Brussels are easily matched by the looming headache for Washington that’s coming from large, US states such as California, Florida, Illinois, Ohio, and Michigan."]
It's ba-ack! Health-care plan redoubles 'marriage penalty' wnd.com 2/12/10 ["Quist said the fine print of provisions still alive in both the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives deliberately create enormous pressure for couples to live together without marriage – or even get divorced – by charging married couples thousands of dollars more in premiums and fees. "]
Obama's Expensive Train Set humanevents.com 2/12/10 ["It will create relatively few high paying jobs because the companies who build high speed trains are mostly in Europe and Asia. It will not be truly high speed like Japan’s Bullet train, because U.S. roadbeds can’t handle such speeds safely. It will have little or no effect on traffic because most of it is in urban areas not between them."]

Arsonists on rampage as 11 churches burn wnd.com 2/11/10 ["At various intervals since New Year's Day, 11 churches in the state have gone up in flames, and authorities have ruled nearly all of them arson. A $25,000 reward is offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the fire starter. "]
New federal climate change agency forming google.com 2/11/10 ["Commerce Secretary Gary Locke and Jane Lubchenco, head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, planned to announce Monday that NOAA will set up the new Climate Service to operate in tandem with NOAA's National Weather Service and National Ocean Service."]
Hillary's eligibility challenged in Supreme Court wnd.com 2/11/10 ["A brief filed with the U.S. Supreme Court by Judicial Watch, which investigates and prosecutes government corruption, questions whether members of the "political branches of the government" can "evade the clear and precise language of a provision of the Constitution through the use of a legislative 'fix.'" "]
Haitians need shelter ahead of storm season: Red Cross abc.net.au 2/11/10 ["The Red Cross's current priority is to ready shelters for Haiti's hurricane season. "Many of these people will be in settlements for years to come," said Mr Pappiat."]
Obama Panders to the Feminists townhall.com 2/11/10 [By Phyllis Schlafly  "Now we learn that all feminist programs and organizations will also be exempted from the freeze. Instead, they will get what White House spokesman Kate Bedingfield admits are "significant funding increases." ...15 federal programs that will receive increased funding to appease the feminists. ...targeted for a 22 percent increase, an extra $117 million more than current funding, which is already close to $1 billion a year. "]
Rare earthquake rattles northern Ill.; no damage google.com 2/11/10 ["The USGS initially reported the magnitude as 4.3 but later downgraded it. USGS geophysicist Amy Vaughan says such quakes are rare in northern Illinois."]

China PLA officers urge economic punch against U.S. reuters.com 2/10/10 ["The People's Liberation Army (PLA) plays no role in setting policy for China's foreign exchange holdings. Officials in charge of that area have given no sign of any moves to sell U.S. Treasury bonds over the weapons sales, a move that could alarm markets and damage the value of China's own holdings."]
Health crisis in Haiti enters new stage google.com 2/10/10 ["In a report issued Monday, the United Nations said the Haitian government estimates 212,000 people were killed and 300,000 injured in the quake."]
Police debate use of family DNA to ID suspects google.com 2/10/10 ["Police in at least two states are increasingly using a DNA crime-solving technique that some legal experts say amounts to guilt by association: If your brother, father, uncle or son has been in trouble with the law and is in a DNA database because of it, you, too, could fall under suspicion."]
License to Kill? Intelligence Chief Says U.S. Can Take Out American Terrorists abcnews.go.com 2/10/10 ["The director of national intelligence affirmed rather bluntly today that the U.S. intelligence community has authority to target American citizens for assassination if they present a direct terrorist threat to the United States. "]
Obama's new pick: Gov. of state that linked Christians, violence wnd.com 2/10/10 ["President Obama has picked to advise him on military actions inside the U.S. the Missouri governor whose state "Information Analysis Center" last year linked conservative organizations to domestic terrorism and said law enforcement officers should watch for suspicious individuals who may have bumper stickers from Ron Paul or Chuck Baldwin. "]
Council Of Governors Takes Shape newswithviews.com 2/10/10 [By Chuck Baldwin  "...Obama significantly increased the ongoing effort to federalize the states and take control of the National Guard in violation of the now more or less moribund Posse Comitatus Act. Posse Comitatus was effectively annulled by the 2006 John Warner National Defense Authorization Act. The act provides the president with power to declare martial law under revisions to the Insurrection Act and take charge of United States National Guard troops without state governor authorization. Parts of the act were repealed in 2008."]
San Francisco Chronicle: “Open Secret” That Prop. 8 Judge is “Gay” lifesitenews.com 2/10/10 ["The revelation now raises questions over whether Chief Justice Vaughn Walker of the U.S. District Court for California's Northern District should recuse himself in the federal trial against Prop. 8, California’s ban on homosexual “marriage.”"]

Irony: 19-Child Duggar Family Renting Former Home of Local Planned Parenthood Leader lifesitenews.com 2/9/10 ["The family moved to the Little Rock house to be closer to the University of Arkansas for Medical Science, where Josie, their daughter born at 25 weeks' gestation December 10, continues to be monitored."]
Hey People: Is the Duggar Family Too Big or Are Our Hearts Too Small? lifenews.com 2/9/10 [" The Duggars subscribe to a philosophy that is considered radical today, but was once viewed as the norm: God should be the one who decides whether a child is to be born. It is telling that “People” puts this phrase in quotes: “each child is a gift from God.” The use of quotation marks indicates that such a belief is not necessarily widespread, that a child may not be a gift after all. That is the pro-abortion mindset, that people are the problem, rather than God’s magnificent handiwork. "]
Forget the Mortgage, I'm Paying My Credit Card Bill usnews.com 2/9/10 ["A recent study developed by TransUnion found the percentage of Americans who were current on their credit cards but behind on their mortgage increased to 6.6 percent in the third quarter of 2009, up from 4.3 percent in the first quarter of 2008."]
Pink Ouija Board 'Toy' Targeting Young Girls Sparks Boycott lifesitenews.com 2/9/10 ["A boycott has been launched against toymaker giant Hasbro and Toys R Us for making and marketing a pink Ouija board targeting girls as young as eight years old."]
Report: Google to Add Social Features to Gmail pcmag.com 2/9/10 ["...more power to Google. And that's exactly what you'll be giving the company if you sign on, unfortunately: the ability for Google to sniff a collection of inbound communications and updates, rather than just the Gmail and Google Reader feeds it previously only had access to."]
Obama Administration Admits It Wrongly Tracked Abortion Groups in Wisconsin lifenews.com 2/9/10 ["The Department of Homeland Security admitted today that it improperly conducted a threat assessment on pro-life and pro-abortion groups in Wisconsin. The assessment came before an expected rally last year in response to the University of Wisconsin Hospital board decided to allow abortions."]
Haiti and the Voodoo Curse wsj.com 2/9/10 [By Lawrence Harrison "While these and other factors may be relevant, none of them, even collectively, adequately explains the unending dysfunction of Haitian society. Haiti's predicament is caused by a set of values, beliefs and attitudes, rooted in African culture and the slavery experience that resist progress. "]

Despite Lancet Retraction, the Vaccine-Autism Controversy Remains foodconsumer.org 2/8/10 [""]
Chrysler bankruptcy lawyers raise eligibility question wnd.com 2/8/10 [""It appears that Old Chrysler's attorneys are doing their best to distract the court from the law by raising issues which do not affect the case. … I have reminded these attorneys and the court that 789 small businesses were gutted and approximately 40,000 jobs lost as a result of the Chrysler dealers having their livelihood ripped from them," he said. "]
Dubai pumped 6.2 billion dollars into debt-ridden giant google.com 2/8/10 ["Dubai was able to rescue Nakheel from an imminent default thanks to a last-minute lifeline from neighbouring Abu Dhabi, which brought Abu Dhabi's total financial aid to Dubai since the global financial crisis hit the emirate to 10 billion dollars."]
It Is Now Mathematically Impossible To Pay Off The U.S. National Debt theeconomiccollapseblog.com 2/8/10 ["...the truth is that the U.S. government now owes more dollars than actually exist."]
Secret summit of top bankers news.com.au 2/8/10 ["Organised by the Bank for International Settlements last year, the two-day talks are shrouded in secrecy..."]
‘Don’t Be Evil,’ Meet ‘Spy on Everyone’: How the NSA Deal Could Kill Google wired.com 2/8/10 ["...in a sense, it’s only natural that Google would turn to the NSA after the company was hit by an ultrasophisticated hack attack. After all, the military has basically done the same thing, putting the NSA in charge of its new “Cyber Command.” The Department of Homeland Security is leaning heavily on the NSA to secure .gov networks."]

 20 reasons Global Debt Time Bomb explodes soon marketwatch.com 2/6/10 ["Yes, 20. And yes, any one can destroy your retirement because all 20 are inexorably linked, a house-of-cards, a circular firing squad destined to self-destruct, triggering the third great Wall Street meltdown of the 21st century..."]
Clash of the Abortion Titans: Planned Parenthood Launches 'Pro-Choice' Football Ad lifesitenews.com 2/6/10 ["The Washington Post also added to the football-themed abortion debate this week, re-publishing a 1989 video of NFL players who condemned the destruction of unborn life for an American Life League video."]
Second Focus on the Family Ad on Tebow, Abortion to Air Before Super Bowl lifenews.com 2/6/10 ["The second commercial plans to go further than the first and will reveal more details about Pam Tebow's decision not to have an abortion than CBS would allow in the first ad already planned for during the Super Bowl."]
Pentagon Will Require Military Bases to Stock “Plan-B” Morning-After Pill lifesitenews.com 2/6/10 ["Officials at the Pentagon have decided to require U.S. military bases all over the world to provide abortifacient morning-after pills, or emergency contraception..."]
Colorado Springs cuts into services considered basic by many denverpost.com 2/6/10 ["More than a third of the streetlights in Colorado Springs will go dark Monday. The police helicopters are for sale on the Internet. The city is dumping firefighting jobs, a vice team, burglary investigators, beat cops — dozens of police and fire positions will go unfilled."]
Foreclosures Are Making The Majority Home Sales newswithviews.com 2/6/10 [By Dr. Laurie Roth  "I was looking at some of the manipulated home sales stats that could make you think home sales are moving again in various states, WRONG. In Phoenix alone, 52.2% of houses and condos that had been resold HAD BEEN FORECLOSED ON IN THE PREVIOUS 12 MONTHS!"]

'Underemployment' Tops 20 Pct in 3 States abcnews.go.com 2/2/10 ["The official unemployment rate of 10 percent doesn't include people who are working part-time but would prefer full-time work, or the unemployed who have given up looking for work. ...Nationwide, the underemployment rate was 17.3 percent in December, just below the 17.4 percent reached in October"]
Earth religions get worship area at AF Academy washingtonpost.com 2/2/10 ["A double circle of stones atop a hill on the campus near Colorado Springs has been designated for the group, which previously met indoors."]
Feds claim authority to regulate in-state commerce wnd.com 2/2/10 ["The federal government is claiming in court documents demanding the dismissal of a gun-law challenge in Montana the authority to regulate in-state commerce under the Constitution's Commerce clause. "]
Au: Barcode plan to restrict welfare recipients' purchases theaustralian.com.au 2/2/10 ["...government is investigating barcode technology to enforce spending bans under controversial income management arrangements for people on welfare payments. "  Editor: Thanks for the links T.M.!]
US raises stakes on Iran by sending in ships and missiles guardian.co.uk 2/2/10 ["Tension between the US and Iran heightened dramatically today with the disclosure that Barack Obama is deploying a missile shield to protect American allies in the Gulf from attack by Tehran."]
Anger as Iceland battles to recover news.bbc.co.uk 2/2/10 ["The crisis has also caused a radical U-turn in people's views of society. "There is clear evidence that the nation believes free capitalism has completely failed and now wants to focus on the Scandinavian welfare model," says Prof Olafsson. "]
In Coke We Trust wsj.com 2/2/10 ["Investors now view a default by the U.S. Treasury as more likely than a default by the Coca-Cola Company.  ...Now the United States has taken its place next to Italy and Spain in a special club that no major country wants to join -- countries whose debt is considered less safe than that of Blue Chip businesses."]
Judge Gives Miller 30 Days to Transfer Daughter to Former Lesbian Lover or Face Arrest lifesitenews.com 2/2/10 ["Although Vermont Judge Richard Cohen has so far refused to issue an arrest warrant for Miller, he has set a deadline of February 23rd for the transfer to take place."]

Conquering Winds newswithviews.com 2/1/10 [By Sheriff Jim R. Schwiesow, Ret.  " If this is a nation based upon God’s Laws why is it that with consent of the government, the courts and the people fifty-one million unborn and partially born infants in this nation have been, with cold-blooded premeditation, murdered? Is it that “Thou Shall Not Murder” is obtusely written?"]
Uncommon Sense newswithviews.com 2/1/10 [By R.C. Murray "Most Americans today lack that special reasoning skill so common 235 years ago. They lack common sense. That’s partly because most Americans’ vocabularies are too small for them to articulate a significant thought, and nearly all their life experiences are limited to what someone else has told them or what they’ve watched on TV, heard in the mindless lyrics of a pop song or read (I use the term loosely here.) in some tabloid headline."]
Bankers in favour of paying global fee ft.com 2/1/10 ["Some of the world’s most prominent bankers have come out in favour of a global bank wind-down fund, a concession from the industry after weeks of fighting proposals for new taxes in the US and Europe."]
Secret Banking Cabal Emerges From AIG Shadows: David Reilly bloomberg.com 2/1/10 ["We’re talking about the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, whose role as the most influential part of the federal-reserve system -- apart from the matter of AIG’s bailout -- deserves further congressional scrutiny. "]
Haiti proves 'Avatar' religion doesn't work wnd.com 2/1/10 [By David Outten and Ted Baehr  "Comprehending the connection between the film and the earthquake begins with understanding the underlying battle of worldviews: Christians are taught that their savior, Jesus Christ, is not of this world. He did not die, get buried and become a glowing tree. He is not one with the earth. He ascended to heaven. This is where the Christian is to be connected."]
Chaos Eases as Haiti Food Lines Focus on Women abcnews.go.com 2/1/10 ["Workers are handing out 1,700 rations daily at each location. Each bag is intended to help feed a family of six for two weeks with about half the calories they need each day.  ...Aid workers worked with community groups and others to make the operation as smooth as possible. U.N. officials even sought the help of Voodoo priests, who urged people to stay calm, said Max Beauvoir, head of Haiti's Voodoo Priest Association. "Voodoo constitutes a large part of our culture and priests often help mobilize communities," Beauvoir said."]

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