"A prudent man forseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished."   Proverbs 22:3 and Proverbs 27:12  KJV   Word study on this verse

Gasoline supplies at lowest ever thestar.com 8/31/7 ["...recorded when measured in terms of demand, at just 20 days of average fuel consumption, the Energy Information Administration says.  "This is even fewer days than seen following the hurricanes in 2005," the agency said yesterday in a weekly review of the oil market."]
Union: Mexican Trucks Begin Crossing Border Saturday nbcsandiego.com 8/31/7 ["What a slap in the face to American workers, opening the highways to dangerous trucks on Labor Day weekend, one of the busiest driving weekends of the year," said Teamsters President Jim Hoffa."]
Judge strikes down Iowa's same-sex marriage law chicagotribune.com 8/31/7 ["Camilla Taylor, an attorney with Lambda Legal, a New York-based gay rights organization, said the ruling requires "full equality for all Iowans, including gay and lesbian Iowans and their families."  "The Iowa Constitution has lived up to its promises of equality for everyone," she said.  Polk County will appeal the ruling to the Iowa Supreme Court, County Attorney John Sarcone said."]
Subprime loans face big hikes csmonitor.com 8/31/7 ["Millions of homeowners around the nation are now getting the news in the mail: The interest rate on their home loans is going up, possibly to double-digit levels.  ...The peak for resetting loans will be in October, when the rates on some $50 billion worth of mortgages are likely to rise by 2 percentage points or more. This could mean a rise of several hundred dollars a month for many borrowers."]
Michael Chertoff As Attorney General? newswithviews.com 8/31/7 [By Frosty Wooldridge  "To top it off, Chertoff stated that new terrorist attacks remain imminent in the United States. Duh! With wide open borders for the past six years, this is a given!  ...Does anyone realize that the president of the United States hires incompetent people? Does he do it on purpose? What motivates Bush’s decisions against our country’s security?"]
Brazilian Gay Groups Launch Multiple Lawsuits to Silence Christian Opposition lifesite.net 8/31/7 ["On August 5th, the Brazilian Association of Gays, Lesbians, Bisexuals, and Transgender People (ABGLT) filed a criminal complaint against several websites for exposing the fact that the leader of Brazil's homosexual movement, Luiz Mott, is a promoter of pedophilia and pederasty..."]
Are We Teaching Children To Lie? newswithviews.com 8/31/7 [By Coach Dave Daubenmire  "What you THINK matters more than what you say. If I love you, I will speak the truth.  Therein is where the battle lies, over truth. We do our children and our Lord a dis-service by teaching them it is wrong to speak it. The sooner we teach them to speak the truth, the more effective they will become in defending it. "]
For Iran's Shiites, a celebration of faith and waiting iht.com8/31/7 ["Shiites believe that Imam Mahdi, the 12th imam in a direct bloodline from the Prophet Muhammad, is alive but has remained invisible since the late ninth century, and that he will reappear only when corruption and injustice reach their zenith. This year, in keeping with the government effort to promote and enforce religious values under President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the celebration is receiving plenty of attention from the state, even to the point of being extended an extra day."]
 

Home Prices Biggest Drop in 20 Years cbn.com 8/30/7 ["U.S. home prices fell 3.2 percent in the second quarter, the steepest rate of decline since Standard & Poor's began its nationwide housing index in 1987, the research group said Tuesday."]
AETNA Insurance Will Cover Any Abortion, for Any Reason, Any Time During Pregnancy lifesite.net 8/30/7 ["Aetna is also one of only 11 US company's which is given a 100% approval rate by homosexual activists  ...Fortune 100 company Aetna, one of the nation's largest health care insurance providers, has a surprising and little known policy. "Aetna will pay for a woman to receive an abortion for any reason at any time during her pregnancy. "]
Illinois: Governor allows stem-cell funding chicagotribune.com 8/30/7 ["In an effort to woo researchers and investors to Illinois, Gov. Rod Blagojevich Tuesday signed a bill that allows public funding of research on all types of stem cells, including controversial embryonic stem cells.  ...The measure, which bans human cloning, ensures researchers could work with embryonic stem cells in Illinois, which typically come from early-stage human embryos left over from in-vitro fertilization."]
Should You Chip Your Children? pcmag.com 8/30/7 ["Yet it seems all I hear is moaning about the privacy and First Amendment implications. This is growing tiresome, and it's time to set people straight."]
Chinese parents fight forced abortions forbes.com 8/30/7 ["Some 30 years after China decreed a general limit of one child per family, resentment still brews over the state's regular and sometimes brutal intrusion into intimate family matters. Not only are many second pregnancies aborted, but even to have one's first child requires a license."]
Gul sworn in as Turkey's president guardian.co.uk 8/30/7 ["Turkey's foreign minister, Abdullah Gul, a practising Muslim and former Islamist, was yesterday sworn in as the 11th president of the staunchly secular republic in a move that will be seen as a defining moment for the country."]
Extreme disasters on the rise theaustralian.news.com.au 8/30/7 ["In an address to an APEC Emergency Management chief executives seminar in Cairns, Mr Skavdal said savage flooding across Asia and parts of South America, Africa and Europe served as a reminder that recent decades had brought a higher rate of extreme disasters. "This was also brought home by the 2004 tsunami and the series of several record storm seasons in the Atlantic and Caribbean," he said."]
Not So Hot wsj.com 8/30/7 ["The latest twist in the global warming saga is the revision in data at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, indicating that the warmest year on record for the U.S. was not 1998, but rather 1934 (by 0.02 of a degree Celsius).  ...The new data undermine another frightful talking point from environmentalists, which is that six of the 10 hottest years on record have occurred since 1990. Wrong. NASA now says six of the 10 warmest years were in the 1930s and 1940s, and that was before the bulk of industrial CO2 emissions were released into the atmosphere."]
U.S. under U.N. law in health emergency worldnetdaily.com 8/30/7 ["The Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America summit in Canada released a plan that establishes U.N. law along with regulations by the World Trade Organization and World Health Organization as supreme over U.S. law during a pandemic and sets the stage for militarizing the management of continental health emergencies.  The "North American Plan for Avian & Pandemic Influenza" was finalized at the SPP summit last week in Montebello, Quebec. "]
Residents Say Planned Parenthood Lied on Giant Abortion Mill Application - City Investigates lifesite.net 8/30/7 ["But the decision to investigate came after local residents voiced a different opinion at a town meeting on Tuesday. City officials heard from the future neighbours of the abortion facility that Planned Parenthood “snuck” into their town by lying to officials and going through the application process under the name Gemini Development Corp. The city was only informed of the true nature of the venture a month ago."]
 

J'lem worried by Iranian owned anti-ship missile jpost.com 8/29/7 ["...Russian-made anti-ship missile to Iran has defense officials concerned it will be transferred to Syria and Hizbullah and used against the Israel Navy in a future conflict.  Called the SSN-X-26 Yakhont, the supersonic cruise missile can be launched from the coast and hit sea-borne targets up to 300 kilometers away. The missile carries a 200-kilogram warhead and flies a meter-and-a-half above sea level, making it extremely difficult to intercept."]
Largest International Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide Symposium - Toronto Nov. 30 lifesite.net 8/29/7 ["Organized by the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition - Canada and co-sponsored by: Co-Sponsored by: Euthanasia Prevention Coalition - Canada, NOT DEAD YET - USA, Compassionate Healthcare Network - Canada, Physicians for Compassionate Care - USA, Vermont Alliance for Ethical Healthcare - Vermont, Care NOT Killing Alliance - UK, No Less Human, UK."]
Asia markets drop following Wall Street plunge iht.com 8/29/7 ["Investors sold risky assets on Wednesday on renewed fears about the health of the U.S. economy, Asia's top export market, sending regional stocks down and fuelling gains in the yen and safe-haven government bonds."]
Dollar collapse, stock market sell-off looms worldnetdaily.com 8/29/7 ["An unprecedented strategy of widely available easy credit has stimulated world stock markets to a string of record highs since 9/11, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average reaching a peak of more than 14,000 July 19.  To stabilize the Dow's 1,000-point drop since then, the Fed literally has printed money.  Williams estimates central banks around the world, including the Fed, have infused $1 trillion in the global banking system during the last two weeks. "]
Fort Lauderdale's mayor removed from tourism board sun-sentinel.com 8/29/7 ["...controversial comments about homosexuality cost him his seat Tuesday on the board that promotes Broward County to tourists.  County commissioners accused him of jeopardizing the area's multibillion-dollar tourism industry.  ...In additon to the comments on public sex, Naugle has described gays as unhappy, contended the gay Stonewall Library should not be housed in a city building because its collection contains pornography and questioned whether the county should market itself to gay tourists because of the high rate of HIV infection in the area. His comments have been reported across the nation."]
Italy Investigates Botched Abortion of Healthy Twin, Disabled Brother Lives lifenews.com 8/29/7 ["The disabled brother was the target of the abortion procedure and the case is raising the ugly specter of abortions done to kill disabled people."]
Illinois School Pushes Smut on Children as Young as 12 with Porn-Laden Book lifesite.net 8/29/7 ["Illinois School District 126, covering Alsip, Hazelgreen and Oak Lawn, has defended its choice to assign summer reading to 12- and 13-year-olds that is replete with harsh profanity and references to teen sex (even teen sex with adults).   Prairie Junior High School's required reading list for rising 8th graders gave children six books to choose from over the summer. Parents have complained that three of the six books contain adult content which is highly age-inappropriate."]
 

Over 1,300 Illinois Citizens Protest Largest Planned Parenthood Abortion Clinic lifesite.net 8/28/7 ["About 900 formed two large picket lines on York Street and another 250 were at a prayer vigil sight next to the new Planned Parenthood center. Another 75 people participated in a Face the Truth Tour, holding graphic abortion signs at street intersections. Warning signs were posted in all four directions so that the drivers were forewarned of the images."]
Gay marriage goes way back msnbc.msn.com 8/28/7 ["Civil unions between male couples existed around 600 years ago in medieval Europe, a historian now says.  Historical evidence, including legal documents and gravesites, can be interpreted as supporting the prevalence of homosexual relationships hundreds of years ago, said Allan Tulchin of Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania."  Editor: Actually, it goes much further back then that - try Sodom and Gomorrah which God overthrew because of their wickedness.]
Americans fatter than ever: study reuters.com 8/28/7 ["Adult obesity rates rose in 31 states last year and obesity rates did not fall in any states, the report said.  "Rates of adult obesity now exceed 25 percent in 19 states, an increase from 14 states last year and 9 in 2005. In 1991, none of the states exceeded 20 percent," the Trust said in a statement."]
 

America - A Nation With No Foundation! lasttrumpetministries.org 8/27/7 [By Pastor David Meyer  "America is a nation without a foundation; for she has denied, rejected, blasphemed, and insulted the Lord Jesus Christ.  ...In England, flooding struck in a very significant area. We must remember that in the month of July 2007 the new Harry Potter book, and a new Harry Potter movie were released. Here let it be noted that the Harry Potter witchcraft movies were filmed in Gloucester at Gloucester Cathedral, which became Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Here let it be noted that this is the very area, Gloucestershire, that was hit with the severe flooding! (7) Only a few days after the release of the latest Harry Potter book and movie, 340,000 people in that area found themselves without clean water for two weeks!"]
Currency Change Aimed at Adding Security washingtonpost.com 8/27/7 ["A new security thread has been approved for the $100 bill, The Associated Press has learned, and the change will cause double-takes.  ...The $100 bill represents more than 70 percent of the $776 billion in currency in circulation, two-thirds of which is held overseas."]
Ford and GM say factories in US face axe guardian.co.uk 8/27/7 ["Ford and General Motors have threatened to leave Detroit and take their car manufacturing operations overseas if unions do not agree to a massive pay cut for hourly paid workers.  ...Sources close to senior GM executives confirmed that the prospect of shifting operations away from North America was very real. 'We have seen it in every other industry,' one said. 'There are no sacred cows today. Globalisation means just that, it's a worldwide playing field.'"]
"Kid Nation" has CBS on defensive denverpost.com 8/27/7 [""Kid Nation," in which the kids live a "Lord of the Flies" scenario for the entertainment of a voyeuristic nation, marks the first time underage youths have been commercially exploited for unscripted "reality" television. Tears, fears and homesickness are captured up-close as the children struggle to self-govern and otherwise organize in a supposed ghost town..."  Editor:  What sick and depraved levels our nation has sunk to, to where the gladitorial circuses of today feature the exploitation of children in social experiments.]
 

Subprime problem hits 2 China banks iht.com 8/26/7 ["Shares in the bank, the second-largest in China, fell 5.4 percent to close at 3.87 Hong Kong dollars, or 50 U.S. cents, after it reported holding almost $9.7 billion in securities backed by subprime mortgages.  That is about 3.5 percent of its total securities portfolio."]
Financial bankruptcy, the US dollar and the real economy onlinejournal.com 8/26/7 ["One possibility is the complete collapse of the U.S. dollar and an uncontrollable burst of inflation in the years ahead if the salvage operation were to increase money supply on a permanent basis. Indeed, if central banks continue to shore up the artificial financial houses of cards to prevent them from going bankrupt, they may end up monetizing mountains of worthless debts with the potential of creating monstrous inflation. A dollar panic may be just around the corner."]
Alabama drought worsens southeastfarmpress.com 8/26/7 ["The U.S. Drought Monitor has been updated to show that 73.1 percent of the state is experiencing a D4, or exceptional, level of drought and an additional 12.4 percent is at D3, or extreme level.  ...“Not only have our farmers been suffering through the highest level of drought in the entire United States, but now we are experiencing record breaking temperatures that may cause even more losses,” added Commissioner Sparks."]
 

CNN airs 'one of the most distorted programs' ever worldnetdaily.com 8/25/7 ["The first part of the series, "God's Jewish Warriors," compared Jewish and Christian "radicals" to Muslim supporters of suicide terror, presented anti-Israel commentators with no counterbalance, falsely labeled the West Bank as Palestinian land, and minimized Jewish rights to the Temple Mount – Judaism's holiest site, the critics said."]
Missouri: Court Upholds Ban on Bible Distribution to Fifth-Graders abcnews.go.com 8/25/7 ["All four sets of parents are Christian, said Tony Rothert, legal director of the ACLU office in St. Louis.  "Their objection is they don't want the school telling their children what their religious beliefs should be," Rothert said. "They believe that should be done at home with the family." "]
Ohio Court: Planned Parenthood Doesn't Have to Release Abortion Records lifenews.com 8/25/7 ["An Ohio state appeals court has ruled that Cincinnati Planned Parenthood abortion business doesn't have to release the records of abortions done on girls younger than 18. The documents were requested after it did a secret abortion on a 14-year-old girl who was a victim of rape."]
One Quarter of Black Population Missing from Abortion Genocide Says Dr. Alveda King lifesite.net 8/25/7 ["“The great irony,” she said, “is that abortion has done what the Klan only dreamed of.”"]
Wheat prices reach record level news.bbc.co.uk 8/25/7 ["Global wheat stockpiles will slip to their lowest levels in 26 years as a result, official US figures predicted earlier this month."]
Fed injects 17.25 billion dollars into market breitbart.com 8/25/7 ["... The latest injections brought the total to 120.5 billion dollars added to money markets in repurchase agreements in the past two weeks."]
New York Governor Moving Ahead With Bill to Remove Abortion Limits lifenews.com 8/25/7 ["The bill would also remove limits on late-term abortions that makes sure they are done only in hospitals if the abortions fail and women need emergency medical attention.  It would also remove any limit on doing an abortion after the baby is 24 weeks into the pregnancy."]
IDF modifying Arrow deployment in the North jpost.com 8/25/7 ["Ahead of a possible conflict with Syria and Iran, the Air Defense Forces are also conducting an increased number of joint exercises with the United States Armed Forces, in an effort to increase coordination between the two countries and to prepare for the possibility that Washington will send US missile defense systems to Israel if and when they are needed."]
 

Diseases spreading with faster world travel iht.com 8/24/7 ["Because of this risk, greater international cooperation among governments and scientists is essential for protecting the planet, said Margaret Chan, director general of the health organization.  "Given today's universal vulnerability to these threats, better security calls for global solidarity," Chan said in a statement that accompanied the World Health Report 2007, issued in Geneva. "The new watchwords are diplomacy, cooperation, transparency and preparedness.""]
Bush doesn't deny plans for N. American Union worldnetdaily.com 8/24/7 ["President Bush today sidestepped a direct question about whether he'd be willing to categorically deny there is a plan to create the North American Union.  Instead, he ridiculed those who believe that is taking place as conspiracy theorists. "]
Scientist says tests back Russia Arctic claim reuters.com 8/24/7 [" Under the 1982 Law of the Sea Convention, coastal states can claim the seabed beyond those economic zones, if they can show it connects to the continental shelf on which they are located.  Denmark this month announced it would speed up its own scientific efforts to establish a similar legal basis to justify control of the Arctic through Greenland, which it administers."]
Wall Street Journal Lies About Sea Treaty newswithviews.com 8/24/7 ["King writes that “The treaty is now the world’s primary legal blueprint for what constitutes international waters and airspace.” This is false, too. As long as the U.S. refuses to be a party to it, the treaty can’t affect or restrict the activities of the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard or those U.S. corporations which stake claims to oil and gas and minerals in international waters.  So why are the Navy and Coast Guard backing the measure? Simply put, the number of U.S. ships has declined to such an extent that their current leaders apparently think a piece of paper with a U.N. stamp of approval on it will offer some sort of protection for U.S. interests around the world."]
White House Manual Details How to Deal With Protesters washingtonpost.com 8/24/7 ["...any event must be open only to those with tickets tightly controlled by organizers. Those entering must be screened in case they are hiding secret signs. Any anti-Bush demonstrators who manage to get in anyway should be shouted down by "rally squads" stationed in strategic locations. And if that does not work, they should be thrown out."]
Myanmar Protesters Stopped by Security Personnel foxnews.com 8/24/7 ["Myanmar's military government, seeking to tame continuing street protests against fuel price increases, strong-armed demonstrators for a second day Thursday as they marched peacefully through the streets of the country's main city, Yangon.  The defiant protesters, many of them supporters of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, marched Thursday for the third time this week to protest the ruling junta's doubling of fuel prices last week in the impoverished country."]
Bush put on spot: Where's the fence? worldnetdaily.com 8/24/7 ["Despite $800 million in funding, only 18 of 854 miles completed"]
American home foreclosures leap 93% in a year guardian.co.uk 8/24/7 ["Across the US, there is now a foreclosure of one in every 693 homes.  ...Only a few of the worst-hit regions are economically deprived areas - historically the kind of places that produced the highest rates of foreclosures."]
 

Beijing's Nuclear Option newswithviews.com 8/23/7 [By Jon Christian Ryter  "The officials hinted that China might be forced to liquidate its vast holdings of US Treasury notes—totaling some $1.33 trillion. That could trigger a dollar crash that would spark a major economic recession. In addition, a spike in bond yields could trigger additional problems for the US housing industry, sinking any housing market recovery for the balance of this year and perhaps next year as well.  In addition to the foreign reserves China is holding, Beijing also has over $900 billion in US Treasury debt bonds."]
Mortgage Job Losses Surpass 40,000 forbes.com 8/23/7 ["Since the start of the year, more than 40,000 workers have lost their jobs at mortgage lending institutions, according to recent company layoff announcements and data complied by global outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas Inc. Meanwhile, construction companies have announced nearly 20,000 job cuts this year, while the National Association of Realtors expects membership rolls to decline this year for the first time in a decade."]
Largest Ever Planned Parenthood Abortion Mill Threatens to Open Near Chicago lifesite.net 8/23/7 ["If the 22,000 square-foot, $7.5 million facility opens, it will offer contraceptives, pregnancy tests, sexually transmitted disease testing and abortions. Officials expect to receive 8,000 patients and 10,500 visits within the first year. Of those visits, reports the Chicago Daily Herald, about 2,400 will be for abortions."]
U.S. to leave Cheyenne even as Russia flexes muscle abcnews.go.com 8/23/7 ["It will combine operations now divided between Cheyenne and Peterson, helping the commander to receive information and respond to crises or attacks more quickly, Renuart said. It will not, however, save money as the military promised, congressional investigators have shown."]
Global Food Imperialism - U.N. Style newswithviews.com 8/23/7 [By Elissa Meininger  "...if what they have reported as heading our way ever comes true, we may see the demise of the right of citizens to use medical modalities of their own choice in countries like ours that already have such freedom. But in addition, we may see it occur in developing nations, where malnutrition is still a big a problem, and where implementation of Codex “guidelines” declaring supplements too dangerous to remain on the market would be extremely counterproductive."]
China is not the Problem counterpunch.com 8/23/7 [By Paul Craig Roberts  "Every time a US company offshores goods and services, it adds to the US trade deficit.  Clearly, it is a mistake for the US government and economists to think of the imbalance as if it were produced by Chinese companies underselling goods produced by US companies in America. The imbalance is the result of US companies producing their goods in China and selling them in America.  Many believe the solution is to force China to revalue its currency, thereby driving up the prices of 70 per cent of the goods on Wal-Mart shelves."]
Police deny using 'provocateurs' at summit thestar.com 8/23/7 ["The Mounties and Quebec provincial police deny using agents provocateurs at this week's Montebello summit, despite video evidence that suggests undercover cops tried to incite violence.  The denials Wednesday did nothing to quell mounting outrage over police tactics. Anti-globalization and union activists joined with opposition politicians to demand an independent investigation."]
Most US adults in the dark about world politics breitbart.com 8/23/7 [" "Well over half (57 percent) say they do not like learning about political issues in other countries," and 32 percent expressed a lack of interest for homespun politics, the Harris Poll group said."]
2005 Incomes, on Average, Still Below 2000 Peak nytimes.com 8/23/7 ["The combined income of all Americans in 2005 was slightly larger than it was in 2000, but because more people were dividing up the national income pie, the average remained smaller. Total adjusted gross income in 2005 was $7.43 trillion, up 3.1 percent from 2000 and 5.8 percent from 2004."]
 

Summit prompts super-government fears washingtontimes.com 8/22/7 ["President Bush's two-day summit with the leaders of Canada and Mexico, beginning today in nearby Montebello, is raising fears among some conservatives that the three governments are planning a European Union-style super-government."]
U.S. fears overseas funds could 'buy up America' iht.com 8/22/7 ["U.S. concerns - like those of many European policy makers - focus on a growing but little understood trend of foreign governments converting their debt holdings into "sovereign investment funds" that are acquiring assets in the United States and elsewhere - and could influence the markets when they buy and sell."]
America's Pastors: Preachers Of Truth Or Promoters Of Tyranny? newswithviews.com 8/22/7 [By Pastor Chuck Baldwin  "According to KSLA television in Shreveport, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) intends to use America's preachers to help pave the way for martial law in the event of another terrorist attack upon the United States."]
Pentagon to Suspend Anti-Terror Database guardian.co.uk 8/22/7 ["The Pentagon said Tuesday that it will shut down an anti-terror database that has been criticized for improperly storing information on peace activists and others whose actions posed no threat."]
Letting Witches Be Witches in Salem time.com 8/22/7 ["In fact, the new regulatory changes are an indication of growth in the witchcraft industry. In 1998, the last time the town addressed the issue, it had legislated a quota allowing only one professional fortune-teller per 10,000 Salem residents."]
 

Housing market gets more bad news usatoday.com 8/16/7 ["Countrywide Financial (CFC) got hammered on Wall Street Wednesday after a Merrill Lynch analyst raised the possibility that the nation's largest mortgage lender risks bankruptcy. The news underscored fears among home builders that turmoil in the mortgage industry could shut out more buyers."]
BoJ to inject 400 billion yen into banking system channelnewsasia.com 8/16/7 ["Wall Street suffered another heavy sell-off on Wednesday as another big injection of funds by the US Federal Reserve into the financial system failed to calm jitters. "]
China's Tallest Building Catches Fire, Does Not Collapse prisonplanet.com 8/16/7 ["Shanghai's World Financial Center, the tallest building in China upon completion, defied all known physics yesterday afternoon when it caught fire but did not collapse, a modern day miracle in light of the commonly accepted premise that since 9/11, all steel buildings that suffer limited fire damage implode within two hours."]
Fire blazes at new Shanghai tower news.bbc.co.uk 8/16/7 ["The fire shattered windows and sent smoke billowing from the unfinished building until it was extinguished about one hour later."]
New York police report warns of mounting homegrown terrorist threat iht.com 8/16/7 ["Average citizens who quietly band together and adopt radical ways pose a mounting threat to U.S. security that could exceed that of established terrorist groups like al-Qaida, a new police analysis has concluded.  ...The report was intended to explain how people become radicalized rather than to lay out specific strategies for thwarting terror plots. It calls for more intelligence gathering, and argues that local law enforcement agencies are in the best position to monitor potential terrorists."]
U.S. Expands Access to Spy Imagery forbes.com 8/16/7 ["A new office within the Department of Homeland Security, called the National Applications Office, will now be the conduit for all domestic requests for spy satellite information.  It will be up to the intelligence agencies themselves - the Pentagon's National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, for example - to determine which requests they can honor."]
 

Why so many Americans today are 'mentally ill' wnd.com 8/15/7 [By David Kupelian  "A spiritually perceptive lady, she summarized her experience this way: "David, do you know what the Valium did for me? It deactivated my conscience." "]
Shaping the Global 'Christian' Youth crossroad.to 8/15/7 [By Berit Kjos  "Like our secular guides, today's postmodern, purpose-driven church guides keep sounding the call for continual change. And their restless audience -- dulled by decades of "progressive education" and corrupt entertainment -- are fast falling in line behind the most popular pied pipers.  There's little to hold them back from the tempting snares that tug at their hearts these days. The greatest obstacle to deception has always been God's unchanging Word. But that wall of resistance is crumbling fast. Today's transformational leaders know that their pleasure-loving followers would rather dialogue about "biblical principles" in popular movies than study or memorize Scriptures. And such facilitated dialogue is central to this revolution.  ...Compromise becomes the norm as blinded shepherds of God's flocks pursue the latest strategies for "success." The steps below are vital to their unbiblical mission:"]
Has Martial Law Arrived? newswithviews.com 8/15/7 [By Nancy Levant  "And amidst all this, what do the American people do? They play the “bring our soldiers home” game or the “illegal immigration” game. They play “the debates” game and the “global warming” game. People! You cannot see the forest for the dialectic trees! Why, why, why can’t you put the pieces together to see the FACTS BEFORE YOUR FACES??? America IS the sacrificial lamb! YOUR freedom is GONE!"]
Fed refrains from injecting cash into market reuters.co.uk 8/15/7 ["This marked a pause in the Fed's actions over the past three trading days when it injected a substantial amount of cash into the market to increase liquidity."]
Learn from the fall of Rome, US warned ft.com 8/15/7 ["David Walker, comptroller general of the US, issued the unusually downbeat assessment of his country’s future in a report that lays out what he called “chilling long-term simulations”.  These include “dramatic” tax rises, slashed government services and the large-scale dumping by foreign governments of holdings of US debt.  Drawing parallels with the end of the Roman empire, Mr Walker warned there were “striking similarities” between America’s current situation and the factors that brought down Rome, including “declining moral values and political civility at home, an over-confident and over-extended military in foreign lands and fiscal irresponsibility by the central government”."]
600 pros urge Congress to stop fluoridation wnd.com 8/15/7 ["Their statement released yesterday cites a 500-page review of fluoride's toxicology by a panel appointed by the National Research Council of the National Academies.  The panel looked at a large body of literature in which fluoride is said to have a statistically significant association with a wide range of adverse effects. They include an increased risk of bone fractures, decreased thyroid function, lowered IQ, arthritic-like conditions, dental fluorosis and, possibly, osteosarcoma. "]
Britain To Expand Police State Apparatus and ID All Subjects by 2009 lifesite.net 8/15/7 [""This project will do nothing to improve our security," said David Davis, the Conservative shadow home secretary. "In fact independent experts like Microsoft and the LSE (London School of Economics) have pointed out that it could well make our security worse while costing the tax payer 20 billion pounds in the process.""]
Russia said flying more missions near U.S. territory reuters.com 8/15/7 ["Russian bombers are flying more missions than normal near U.S. territory, including Alaska, demonstrating their long-range strike capability, U.S. and Canadian officials said on Monday."]
3rd SPP summit shrouded in secrecy worldnetdaily.com 8/15/7 ["President Bush will interrupt his summer vacation in Crawford, Texas, next week to attend the third summit meeting of the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America, or SPP, slated for Aug. 20 and 21 in Montebello, Quebec, at the five-star Fairmont Le Chateau Montebello resort."]
 

What Does "Fed Pumps $68 Billion Into Banking System" Actually Mean? newswithviews.com 8/14/7 [By Devvy Kidd  "When up to a third of a trillion dollars being dumped into financial market's in 36-hours doesn't stem the tide, even the financially ignorant can sense something has changed. That's pouring money into the financial system at a rate equivalent to all of Canada's Annual GDP every four days. And what did we get? A 31-point Dow loss anyway!"]
Fed Again Tries to Calm Wall Street, But Dow Has an Up-and-Down Day washingtonpost.com 8/14/7 ["The Fed added $19 billion in liquidity to the market Friday morning, followed by $16 billion and $3 billion later in the day. On Thursday, the Fed added $24 billion."]
NY Fed buys $38 billion in mortgage-backed and other securities to inject cash in system iht.com 8/14/7 ["When the Fed buys securities, the dealers put the money they receive into banks, and when banks have more money on hand, they are more inclined to lend. Wall Street is worried that losses involving subprime mortgages and collateralized debt is making financial institutions unwilling to lend money — which could crimp the global economy."]
New Order Ushers in A World of Instability washingtonpost.com 8/14/7 ["It is in the nature of the new financial order that it's hard to figure out exactly what everyone's role is. All the borrowers are lenders and all the lenders turn out to be borrowers, so nobody -- including regulators -- can quite figure out where the ultimate risks really lie."]
Fudging The Bellwether newswithviews.com 8/14/7 [By Jon Christian Ryter  "As the transnational industrialists, the barons of business and the merchant princes played ping pong with US jobs and US factories as the Bill and Hillary Clinton-orchestrated NAFTA job drain began in 1993, it was necessary to find a way to artificially inflate the US economy to make it appear that America could surrender millions of middle class jobs and maintain economic stability at home. The job drain was necessary to bring the human capital-rich third world into the 21st century, and to create—for the barons of business and the merchant princes—the product-starved consumers of the New World Order who would be able to buy their wares at the expense of working class stiffs throughout the United States."]
Abortion Advocates Still Want Age Restrictions Off Morning After Pill lifenews.com 8/14/7 ["Because the maker of the Plan B drug couldn't prove the pill is safe for teenagers, the FDA ruled that no one over the age of 18 can get it without a prescription."]
IDF Will Invade Syria if Missiles Fly israelnationalnews.com 8/14/7 ["...Defense Minister Ehud Barak is planning a ground assault deep into Syrian territory if Syria attacks Israel with missiles..."]
Scan sees brain activity in 2nd vegetative patient reuters.com 8/14/7 ["Scans have shown near-normal brain activity in a second patient who is in a vegetative state, British researchers reported on Monday in a study that may show a way to predict who is likely to recover from the usually hopeless condition."]
 

China seeks to dampen US dollar rumors mercurynews.com 8/13/7 ["A report in the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph this past week that quoted Chinese government economists as saying China would dump its dollar holdings in the event of a trade war with Washington added to jitters in stock markets already unnerved by volatility in U.S. share markets."]
The Christian and the Theater crossroad.to 8/13/7 ["Published by the American Tract Society in the 1820s  ...Theatrical entertainments are not merely unprofitable—not merely a sinful waste of time—but they also directly tend to ... destroy all taste for serious and spiritual employments."]
China Enacting a High-Tech Plan to Track People nytimes.com 8/13/7 ["At least 20,000 police surveillance cameras are being installed along streets here in southern China and will soon be guided by sophisticated computer software from an American-financed company to recognize automatically the faces of police suspects and detect unusual activity."]
Zimbabwe passes law to monitor phones, mail reuters.com 8/13/7 ["Officials have said the new law is designed to protect national security and prevent crime, but human rights groups fear it will muzzle free speech under a crackdown on dissent."]
Congressional approval would be needed to attack Iran kansascity.com 8/13/7 ["Bush on Thursday threatened unspecified consequences for alleged Iranian meddling in Iraq.  It has been the consensus for months among the Democrats that Bush must get congressional authorization before any military strike.  The authorization would be no easy sell. Two knowledgeable U.S. officials said that the administration so far doesn’t have “smoking-gun” evidence that could be used publicly to justify an air attack."]
 

U.S. Lags Behind 41 Nations in Life Span forbes.com 8/12/7 ["Something's wrong here when one of the richest countries in the world, the one that spends the most on health care, is not able to keep up with other countries  ...The U.S. has the resources that allow people to get fat and lazy"]
Lutherans to allow pastors in gay relationships reuters.com 8/12/7 ["The ELCA, which has 4.8 million members, had previously allowed gays to serve as pastors so long as they abstained from sexual relations."]
Bush Plans to Veto Removal of Mercury From Infant Vaccines mercola.com 8/12/7 ["President Bush plans to veto the HHS-Labor-Education Appropriations Bill, which includes a measure to ban childhood flu vaccines that contain thimerosal, because of the cost and “objectionable provisions.”  As it stands, flu vaccines which contain thimerosal, are recommended for all pregnant women, infants and children, even though the Institute of Medicine recommended in 2001 that these population groups not be exposed to thimerosal-containing vaccines."]
Russia, China and allies play war game nwsource.com 8/12/7 ["Russia, China and four former Soviet Central Asian republics have sent some 6,500 troops to participate in a multinational war game, in which they have deployed paratroops, 80 aircraft and hundreds of armored combat vehicles to suppress an Islamic uprising"]
Book sees lessons for today's market in 1907 panic reuters.com 8/12/7 ["Timed to coincide with the 100th anniversary of one of the worst financial meltdowns in U.S. history, the book's arrival on shelves in September is all the more fortuitous, since even mom-and-pop investors are now aware of the volatility that has gripped Wall Street over the past few weeks."]
New York City maintains "radiological threat" alert reuters.com 8/12/7 ["Uniformed police officers lined the streets by the entrance to the Holland Tunnel, scanning passing vehicles and questioning some drivers, most of whom seemed to find their presence reassuring."]
NYC police operations returning to normal after unsubstantiated threat iht.com 8/12/7 ["The NYPD had increased radiological monitoring and established checkpoints to examine vehicles in lower Manhattan and at other locations around the city Friday night."]
New immigration rules will force illegal workers to be fired sfgate.com 8/12/7 [" The rule that will require employers to fire employees unable to clear up problems with their Social Security numbers 90 days after they've been notified or face sanctions and a fine of at least $2,200 for a first offense. Up until now, employers have routinely ignored what are called no-match letters.  ...About 12 million people are estimated to be in the country illegally, and about half a million more have been arriving each year. They have moved beyond traditional immigrant states like California and Texas and into the South and Midwest"]
 

Shots assist in aborting fetuses boston.com 8/11/7 ["In response to the Supreme Court decision upholding the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act, many abortion providers in Boston and around the country have adopted a defensive tactic. To avoid any chance of partially delivering a live fetus, they are injecting fetuses with lethal drugs before procedures.  That clinical shift in late-term abortions goes deeply against the grain, some doctors say: It poses a slight risk to the woman and offers her no medical benefit."]
Bush's war adviser says a return to the military draft is worth considering iht.com 8/11/7 ["Bush picked Lute in mid-May as a deputy national security adviser with responsibility for ensuring efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan are coordinated with policymakers in Washington. Lute, an active-duty general, was chosen after several retired generals turned down the job."]
U.N. Security Council unanimously approves expansion of U.N. role in Iraq iht.com 8/11/7 ["The United States and Britain, co-sponsors of the resolution, believe the world body, which is viewed by many as a more neutral party, should be doing more to help Iraq, especially in facilitating talks."]
Dow Sinks 387 on Renewed Credit Concerns apnews.myway.com 8/11/7 ["A move by the European Central Bank to provide more cash to money markets intensified Wall Street's angst. Although the bank's loan of more than $130 billion in overnight funds to banks at a low rate of 4 percent was intended to calm investors, Wall Street saw it as confirmation of the credit markets' problems. It was the ECB's biggest injection ever.  The Federal Reserve added a larger-than-normal $24 billion in temporary reserves to the U.S. banking system."]
Infections spread as toll from Asian monsoon hits 2,000 guardian.co.uk 8/11/7 ["Authorities across south Asia fought outbreaks of diarrhoea and cholera yesterday as international aid began to flow into the region after the worst floods in decades."]
 

Romans Chapter 13 newswithviews.com 8/10/7 [By Pastor Chuck Baldwin  "a civil magistrate has authority in civil matters, but his authority is limited and defined. Observe that Romans Chapter 13 clearly limits the authority of civil government by strictly defining its purpose: "For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil . . . For he is the minister of God to thee for good . . . for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil."  Notice that civil government must not be a "terror to good works." It has no power or authority to terrorize good works or good people. God never gave it that authority. And any government that oversteps that divine boundary has no divine authority or protection. "]
Saudis might take Bibles from tourists jpost.com 8/10/7 ["...the Web site of Saudi Arabian Airlines, the country's national carrier.  After informing would-be visitors that items such as narcotics, firearms and pornography may not be transported into the country, the Web site adds: "Items and articles belonging to religions other than Islam are also prohibited. These may include Bibles, crucifixes, statues, carvings, items with religious symbols such as the Star of David, and others." "]
Britain begins ID card procurement process sciam.com 8/10/7 ["Britain launched on Thursday the selection process to choose companies to run its multi-billion pound national identity card scheme, the world's most ambitious biometric project."]
I'll Have To Pray On It newswithviews.com 8/10/7 [By Coach Dave Daubenmire  ""]
Russian bombers resuming Cold War patrols iht.com 8/10/7 ["The flight to the Pacific island was part of a three-day exercise that saw Russian strategic bombers making 40 sorties and launching eight cruise missiles, said Androsov, who commands Russia's long-range bomber force.  The incident coincided with a weeklong exercise by the U.S. military off Guam involving more than 22,000 troops, dozens of ships and hundreds of aircraft."]
Europe slammed by U.S. credit crisis iht.com 8/10/7 ["BNP Paribas, the large French bank, said it had suspended operations of three funds because the deterioration of the U.S. mortgage market had made it impossible to value their underlying assets. It was the latest in a string of disclosures of losses or potential losses by funds and banks in Germany, France, and the Netherlands. And it confirms that the crisis, which began in the subprime segment of American home-loan market, has spread to the heart of Europe's financial markets."]
ECB injects €95bn to help markets ft.com 8/10/7 ["The cash injection was the biggest in the ECB’s history, exceeding the €69bn provided the day after the terrorist attacks of September 11 2001. The ECB also made an unprecedented one-day pledge to meet 100 per cent of all funding requests from financial institutions.  ...The Federal Reserve did not implement any emergency steps, but put an unusually large $24bn into US markets in scheduled open market operations."]
States feel left out of disaster planning msnbc.msn.com 8/10/7 ["The national plan is supposed to guide how federal, state and local governments, along with private and nonprofit groups, work together during emergencies. Critics contend that a unilateral approach by Washington produced an ill-advised response plan at the end of 2004 -- an unwieldy, 427-page document that emphasized stopping terrorism at the expense of safeguarding against natural disasters."]
'Hate crimes' charge doesn't require 'hate' worldnetdaily.com 8/10/7 ["A judge in New York has ruled evidence of "hatred" is unnecessary for a prosecutor to pursue a "hate crimes" case against three men arrested for the death of a homosexual man."]
 

Democratic Candidates Address Gay Rights washingtonpost.com 8/9/7 ["The gay-rights movement reaches a milestone Thursday when its agenda is the subject of a televised Democratic presidential forum. Yet many activists _ craving bolder support for same-sex couples _ view the unprecedented event with mixed emotions."]
'Simple Church' Or Another Smoke Screen? newswithviews.com 8/9/7 [By Paul Proctor  "Whatever you might think of the Simple Church concept, this Lifeway article by Mrs. Shrout says nothing about preaching Christ crucified or feeding the Lord's sheep, but only promotes another book, program..."]
We are close very close to a major war thegoldenreport.com 8/9/7 [By Jerry Golden  "...It also puts the Russians in a very close proximity to the US 6th fleet that often bases itself in Mersin Turkey not that far from the Syrian border. It certainly makes me wonder what is really going on, with the great friendship of Bush and Putin, and at this very time the aircraft carrier Enterprise with its group of battle ships are playing war games with the French navy in the Mediterranean. At the same time the US 5th fleet is grouping in or around the Indian Ocean near the Persian Gulf. With deployment of three carriers and their air and naval strike groups: USS Stennis, USS Nimitz and USS Kitty Hawk, altogether 30 warships, 280 warplanes and 22,000 soldiers and sailors. If that don’t sound like war on the horizon I have missed something."]
Pakistani TVs say Musharraf to declare emergency reuters.com 8/9/7 ["...U.S. ally Musharraf was considering the option, which could allow him to extend the tenure of the national and provincial assemblies by 12 months and delay elections due by the turn of the year.  The government could explain such a step by citing growing insecurity because of the threat posed by Islamist militants allied to the Taliban and al Qaeda after a series of attacks, many of them by suicide bombers, in the past month."]
US should consider gas tax: Ford chief brisbanetimes.com.au 8/9/7 ["The United States should consider imposing a European-style gasoline tax if it hopes to improve energy security and tackle global warming, the head of Ford Motor Co. said Wednesday.  "The way to get at is to make an economic decision just like in Europe where the fuel prices are seven or eight US dollars a gallon," Ford chief executive officer Allan Mulally said. "Then our behavior would change dramatically.""]
 

China threatens 'nuclear option' of dollar sales telegraph.co.uk 8/8/7 ["The Chinese government has begun a concerted campaign of economic threats against the United States, hinting that it may liquidate its vast holding of US treasuries if Washington imposes trade sanctions to force a yuan revaluation.  ...The threats play into the presidential electoral campaign of Hillary Clinton, who has called for restrictive legislation to prevent America being "held hostage to economic decicions being made in Beijing, Shanghai, or Tokyo".  She said foreign control over 44pc of the US national debt had left America acutely vulnerable."]
U.S. troop level in Iraq reaches record high reuters.com 8/8/7 ["The United States has more troops in Iraq now than at any previous time in the war, with around 162,000 members of the military in the country, the Pentagon said on Tuesday."]
Two Canadian Provinces to Offer HPV Vaccination to Grade-School Girls lifesite.net 8/8/7 ["Nova Scotia became the first province to accept the HPV vaccination last month. Since then the governments of Ontario and Newfoundland and Labrador have announced their commitment to providing the new drug that is heralded as a protection from cervical cancer caused by the sexually transmitted virus.  ...of the thousands of women who were tested with the new vaccine, only a mere 1,200 were sampled from the main target group of girls aged 9 to 15. In a recipe for biased results, the tests were either partially or completely funded by the company that manufactures Gardasil."]
The Bush Family America Doesn't Know newswithviews.com 8/8/7 [By Lynn Stuter  "And if the reins of power are passed from George Walker Bush, which many at this point have serious doubts will happen, given Bush’s ability to wage war on the American people through terrorism and the American people’s willingness to blame the same on foreign born terrorists, that power will be passed, by corrupted balloting if necessary, to Hillary Rodham Clinton, protégé of self-avowed Marxist Saul Alinsky..."]
Analysis: New Law Gives Government Six Months to Turn Internet and Phone Systems into Permanent Spying Architecture wired.com 8/8/7 ["A new law expanding the government's spying powers gives the Bush Administration a six-month window to install possibly permanent back doors in the nation's communication networks. The legislation was passed hurriedly by Congress over the weekend and signed into law Sunday by President Bush.  The bill, known as the Protect America Act, removes the prohibition on warrantless spying on Americans abroad and gives the government wide powers to order communication service providers such as cell phone companies and ISPs to make their networks available to government eavesdroppers."]
Spock.com aims to list world on Internet news.com.au 8/8/7 ["An Internet company in the US is preparing to launch an ambitious search engine it hopes will eventually track down the names of the world's six billion people.  Spock.com says it already has indexed 100 million people and is adding a million names a day  ...The emergence of people search engines has led to concerns about privacy rights."]
Why Are Christians So Gullible? newswithviews.com 8/8/7 ["Of all people, Christians should understand the fallen nature of man: that man in a sinful state is capable of anything (unless they attend a "Purpose Driven" church, of course). How is it, then, that they cannot seem to comprehend the evil machinations of people in high office? Are they totally taken in by the "I am a Christian" façade so many politicians use? Perhaps."]
Judge blocks California's violent video game law reuters.com 8/8/7 ["A federal judge ruled on Monday a California law to label violent video games and bar their sale to minors was unconstitutional, prompting Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to say he would appeal the ruling."]
UK foot-and-mouth vaccines ordered ft.com 8/8/7 ["Britain was on Monday night drawing up contingency plans to vaccinate thousands of farm animals against foot-and-mouth disease in a move that if implemented could see meat exports suspended for up to six months."]
Consumer Credit Up More Than Expected forbes.com 8/8/7 ["Consumers boosted their borrowing by a bigger-than-expected amount in June, reflecting another hefty jump in credit card debt."]
 

Russia making a comeback ynetnews.com 8/7/7 ["A Russian flag on Syrian soil has significant strategic implications. Firstly, it challenges the US and the dominance of the Sixth Fleet stationed in the Mediterranean. Secondly, with its actual presence in Syria, Russia is announcing that it is actively participating in any process and conflict in the Middle East, that it has a stance of its own, and that it must be reckoned with."]
China Fines for One-Child Violations Will Increase Despite Slogan Changes lifenews.com 8/7/7 ["Hunan provincial People's Congress is discussing new local family planning regulations that would fine couples who violate the one-child rule to the amount equal to eight times the offenders' incomes for the previous year.  That could produce a strong response from the citizens there as inordinate family planning fines caused violent protests in Bobai county in the southwestern portion of the Asian nation.  Last month, Chinese courts there sentenced two men to prison who were involved in a protest against forced abortions that involved thousands of people."]
Young adults aren't sticking with church usatoday.com 8/7/7 ["Few of those surveyed had kind words for fellow Christians when they reflected on how they saw church life in the four years after high school.  Just over half (51%) of Protestant young people surveyed (both the church dropouts and those who stayed on in church after age 22) saw church members as "caring" or had other positive descriptions, such as "welcoming" (48%) or "authentic" (42%). "]
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US military holding massive war games ndtv.com 8/7/7 ["The US military expects to amass more than 22,000 troops off the coast of Guam starting on Tuesday for a weeklong exercise involving dozens of ships and hundreds of aircraft."]
Spain now proposes Mediterranean Union todayszaman.com 8/7/7 ["A union comprising EU states and Mediterranean countries should have a council of heads of state and government that would set strategic policy guidelines, ministerial councils, a Permanent Commission to act as a secretariat, a reinforced parliamentary assembly and even its own bank, he said. "The organization would help the region tackle challenges ranging from environmental issues to immigration.""]
Do Americans Care About An Atlantic Union? newswithviews.com 8/7/7 [By Dennis L. Cuddy, Ph.D.  "On July 20, 2007, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Zalmay Khalilzad wrote in THE NEW YORK TIMES that "In Iraq, the United States supports a larger U.N. role. . . . The influence that the U.N. has over the release of any assistance will give its envoy significant leverage to encourage compromises among Iraqi leaders. The U.N. is also uniquely suited to work out a regional framework to stabilize Iraq."]
Secret memo: One-world agenda dominates SPP summit worldnetdaily.com 8/7/7 ["A multinational business agenda is driving the upcoming summit meeting of the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America, according to a document obtained through an Access to Information Act request in Canada.  The memo shows a secondary focus of the leaders' meeting in Montebello, Quebec, Aug. 20-21, will be to prepare for a continental avian flu or human pandemic and establish a permanent continental emergency management coordinating body to deal not only with health emergencies but other unspecified emergencies as well. "]
AHM Files for Bankruptcy forbes.com 8/7/7 ["American Home Mortgage joins more than 50 lenders in bankruptcy this year. It is bigger than most of the other lenders to go out of business so far, second only to New Century Financial Corp.  But unlike New Century and most other bankrupt lenders, American Home Mortgage was not a "subprime" lender. Subprime lenders cater to home buyers with spotty credit. Almost none of American Home Mortgage's $58.9 billion in home loans last year were to subprime borrowers."]
Signs of faltering US economy surface csmonitor.com 8/7/7 ["...Mr. Kasriel sees signs the downturn in housing is now spreading.  He cites slow car and truck sales, a weakening recreational boat market, and slowing domestic sales of Harley-Davidson motorcycles. "It's spreading to freight haulers who are reporting weaker volumes. Caterpillar is reporting weaker domestic sales because of a slowdown in construction, and ad revenue is down for newspapers in part because of diminished real estate advertising," he says. "]
A lifetime of saving evaporates with bank's collapse post-gazette.com 8/7/7 ["...on Feb. 2 as state banking regulators seized Metropolitan Savings Bank in Lawrenceville, citing "unsafe and unsound" operations.  ...But as unexpected events carried out with no forewarning, the closings highlight dangers to consumers who are unaware of the insurance limits set by the federal government."]
Failed Bank Information fdic.gov 8/7/7 ["No advance notice is given to the public when a financial institution is closed."]

NAFTA Superhighway traffic tied to bridge collapse worldnetdaily.com 8/6/7 ["...a Federal Highway Administration report dating back to 1998 that warned increasing NAFTA truck traffic was expected to create a safety concern with bridges in states along the I-35 NAFTA Superhighway, including Minnesota."]
UK: Police may be given power to take DNA samples in the street guardian.co.uk 8/6/7 ["The Home Office is considering giving the police the power to take a DNA sample on the street, without taking the suspect to a police station, as well as taking samples from suspects in relatively minor offences such as littering, speeding or not wearing a seat belt.  The move comes as an official genetics watchdog prepares a public inquiry into the police national DNA database, following concern over the retention of samples from people acquitted of any offence..."]
Russia Starts Production of Ballistic Missile to Counter U.S. bloomberg.com 8/6/7 ["...Russia ordered production of components for the Bulava-M missile after successfully test firing it June 29 from a submarine in the White Sea..."]
Battling the "MSG Myth" msgmyth.com 8/6/7 ["...most of us are suffering needlessly because of so-called "safe" food additives, namely excitatory neuro-transmitters (nicknamed excitotoxins). The main ones are monosodium glutamate (MSG), aspartame, and L-cysteine. You may think that you are actually avoiding MSG if you avoid Chinese restaurants, but this factory created flavor enhancer is in almost every bottled, bagged, frozen, or canned processed food on super market shelves. But since MSG is often a component of a formulation, it is not labeled as such."]
Your Family Could be Eating Organic Food for the Same Price as Processed Foods -- or Less mercola.com 8/6/7 [By Colleen Huber  "A significant difference is that the processed food eating family gets a dessert of an ice cream bar, while the whole food eating family gets no dessert. The whole food eating family, however, generally gets much bigger meal portions. The reason behind this is partly demographic realism: those who eat denatured food are missing nutrients that they seek in desserts and other denatured foods, whereas whole food eaters feel completely full when eating in proper proportions for their metabolic types."]
Foot and Mouth Virus Released From Government Lab prisonplanet.com 8/6/7 ["Russian news agency ITAR-TASS is reporting that the release of the virus came after an "international drill" last month that was held at Pirbright Laboratory, in which live virus was used. Real attacks are always shadowed by drills to provide culpable deniability."]
British lab suspected in case of foot-and-mouth disease iht.com 8/6/7 ["Prime Minister Gordon Brown vowed to work "night and day" to avoid a repeat of the 2001 epidemic. "Our first priority has been to act quickly and decisively," he said."]
 

RFID in the Food Chain: From Seed to Shelf aimglobal.org 8/5/7 ["...a week after this recall hit the news (TV, radio, print), some smaller stores in Georgia still had the products on the shelves because, reportedly, the stores' managers and employees hadn't heard about the recall.  Could RFID have helped by tracking those products to the store shelf to ensure removal? Absolutely. But RFID has so much more to offer in protecting the safety of food supplies."]
Islamic creationist group launches glitzy, global blitz csmonitor.com 8/5/7 ["the increasing European activity of the BAV, as well as of Christian creationist groups, recently prompted a committee of the Council of Europe – a 47-nation group that acts as a kind of continental watchdog – to issue a report strongly warning about its dangers to education.  "Today, creationists of all faiths are trying to get their ideas accepted in Europe. As a result, we have seen several initiatives from these various movements on the Eurasian continent in the last few years, with schools apparently the main target," the report, released in June, said. "]
 

Russian navy chief calls for permanent presence in Mediterranean iht.com 8/4/7 ["Soviet navy ships used to be based at Syria's Mediterranean port of Tartus, and Russia still maintains a technical base there to serve its military vessels that regularly go into the Mediterranean."]
Harry, Yoda and Yoga newswithviews.com 8/4/7 [By Marsha West  "Who knew HP would be such a phenomenal success? Satan, of course. He knows human nature -- that humans desire to be like God. The sly ol' serpent knew that a neglected and badly treated orphan, who just happened to be a wizard, would win the minds and hearts of children."]
Senate Passes Bush Terrorism Spy Bill guardian.co.uk 8/4/7 ["The Senate, in a high-stakes showdown over national security, voted late Friday to temporarily give President Bush expanded authority to eavesdrop on suspected foreign terrorists without court warrants.  The House, meanwhile, rejected a Democratic version of the bill. "]
Illinois Pharmacist Wins Battle vs. Wal-Mart in Morning After Pill Lawsuit lifenews.com 8/4/7 ["The lawsuit has gone before U.S. District Judge Jeanne Scott and she issued a statement this week saying that state pharmacists should have the right to refuse to dispense the Plan B drug on moral or religious grounds.  She also denied a request by Wal-Mart to dismiss the lawsuit. Scott also said she agreed with Vandersand that he is legally protected by the Illinois Health Care Right of Conscience Act which protects the conscience rights of medical professionals."]
Hope in the Midst of a Culture of Fear: Parents of Family of Fourteen Reveal Their Secret lifesite.net 8/4/7 ["what people do not seem to understand, says James, is that, "the child doesn't just come in to sap the family's or the world's resources, but comes into the world to contribute his or her life and talents and, God-willing, productivity, if that child is blessed with good health." The world, on the other hand, "will tell you that that child is going to be demanding, is going to have a lot of needs."  In the eyes of Jim and Kathleen, the additional time and money that are invested in an additional child are a small price to pay for what that child will eventually give back to the world through his or her own talents and personality. "]
Experts raise worries about HPV vaccine ctv.ca 8/4/7 ["And they note that relatively few girls aged 9 to 15 years were enrolled in the clinical trials of Gardasil and the youngest of whom were followed for only 18 months. Yet girls in this age group represent the priority target population for mass vaccination.  And, they note, all of the reported HPV vaccine trials, whether of Gardasil or its potential competitor Cervarix, were funded in whole or in part by the vaccine's manufacturer.  Noting that Gardasil is the most expensive childhood vaccine proposed for mass use"]
 

Who Let The Dogs Out? newswithviews.com 8/3/7 [By Coach Dave Daubenmire  "If the image of dogs fighting could have such a powerful impact on our nation can you image what would happen if America were ever permitted to look at an abortion? If Americans are still sensitive enough to be moved by the images of dogs fighting to the death, what would be the impact of watching an innocent unborn child being ripped apart? Why won’t they show us those pictures?"]
United Nations tells Hondurans that Abortion Ban is “A Crime” lifesite.net 8/3/7 ["In response to the statements, a Honduran representative reminded the CEDAW committee that under article 67 of the country’s constitution unborn children have the same rights as born children. The head of the Honduran delegation acknowledged recommendations had been submitted to her government by other UN human rights commissions regarding the termination of pregnancy and that these were being considered as possible reform issues."]
New Haven & Hazelton: A Tale Of Two Cities newswithviews.com 8/3/7 [By Devvy Kidd  "Now, the tale of the other city. New Haven, Connecticut has decided to blatantly violate federal laws by issuing ID cards to illegal aliens to obtain bank accounts and tax funded city services. The city fathers are obviously victims of the mental disease called political correctness."]
The ‘Gay’ Presidential Debate Is a Sham americansfortruth.com 8/3/7 ["...we ask: when is the follow-up debate for those advocating sex outside marriage? (After all, people once said to be “living in sin” are now a sizeable minority in America.) How about one tailored specifically to the pro-drug legalization crowd? Is a Planned Parenthood-sponsored debate, complete with Gloria Steinem as lead questioner, around the corner?"]
Saudis buy major supplier to U.S. military worldtribune.com 8/3/7 [" The state-owned Saudi Basic Industries Corp. has purchased GE Plastics from General Electric for $11.6 billion. Based in Pittsfield, Mass., GE Plastics, with 11,000 employees, develops and manufactures plastic polymers, composites and polycarbonates used in U.S. military platforms, including fighter-jets, submarines and engines."]
 

Who Dies in Harry Potter? God time.com 8/2/7 ["Harry Potter lives in a world free of any religion or spirituality of any kind. He lives surrounded by ghosts but has no one to pray to, even if he were so inclined, which he isn't. Rowling has more in common with celebrity atheists like Christopher Hitchens than she has with Tolkien and Lewis.  ...In the new millennium, magic comes not from God or nature or anything grander or more mystical than a mere human emotion. "]
British Columbia Government Releases Overview of Controversial Pro-Gay School Curriculum lifesite.net 8/2/7 ["A new course that defends homosexuality and teaches students about the evils of discrimination based on sexual orientation is being piloted in BC high schools this fall. The course, a draft overview of which was released today, is part of a comprehensive pro-gay revamp of the entire BC curriculum."]
Proposal expands U.N. mandate in Iraq mercurynews.com 8/2/7 ["The draft resolution, circulated by Britain, would authorize the U.N. mission to help plan, fund and implement reintegration programs for former combatants, assist the return of refugees and displaced people, and promote economic reform and the development of an effective civil service and social service