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"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

   August2009 ARCHIVE

yellow dotstar America - A Nation Dying in Her Sleep! lasttrumpetnewsletter.org 8/31/9 [By Pastor David Meyer "It never ceases to amaze me how so many things can be obvious, and yet the masses of people remain in a condition of indifference and abject apathy. I have come to realize that the people of this world, especially those of the United States of America, are in a spiritual slumber. Satan and his powers of antichrist governance have used various devices and methods to induce this spiritual slumber, and it is a deep and deadly sleep that has come upon America."]
grey dot Judge puts Fed's bailout revelations on hold reuters.com 8/31/9 ["The U.S. Federal Reserve won a delay of a federal judge's order that it reveal the names of the banks that have participated in its emergency lending programs and the sums they received."]
grey dot Barney Frank says Ron Paul bill will pass  washingtontimes.com 8/31/9 ["House Financial Services Chairman Rep. Barney Frank, Massachusetts Democrat, said he expects former GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul's legislation to audit the Fed to pass out of his committee in October as part of a larger regulatory package."]
grey dot State fairs offer many people badly needed jobs google.com 8/31/9 ["A crippled economy has sent droves of unemployed and underemployed people to fairs nationwide, with many reporting record numbers of applicants to tear tickets, serve food and clean up after crowds."]
grey dot 500 groups urge Obama to halt immigration police program latimes.com 8/31/9 ["A coalition of advocacy groups sent a letter to President Obama last week demanding that the administration end a program that allows local police to enforce federal immigration law. The program, known as 287(g), deputizes police to turn over suspects or criminals to immigration authorities for possible deportation. Immigrant rights groups said the program has led to civil rights violations and racial profiling."]
yellow dot Lyme/Autism Group Blasts GM Foods As Dangerous newswithviews.com 8/31/9 [By Jeffrey Smith  "Like the American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) earlier this year, the LIA Foundation says there is more than enough evidence of harm in GM animal feeding studies for them to “urge doctors to prescribe non-GMO diets” and for “individuals, especially those with autism, Lyme disease, and associated conditions, to avoid” GM foods."]
grey dot UAE Seizes North Korean Weapons Shipment to Iran bloomberg.com 8/31/9 ["The United Arab Emirates has seized a ship carrying North Korean-manufactured munitions, detonators, explosives and rocket-propelled grenades bound for Iran in violation of United Nations sanctions, diplomats said. "]

grey dot Regulators shut banks in Calif, Md, Minn google.com 8/29/9 ["Regulators on Friday shut down banks in California, Maryland and Minnesota, pushing to 84 the number of bank failures this year amid the soured economy and rising loan defaults."]
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grey dot Bill would give president emergency control of Internet cnet.com 8/29/9 ["...a revised version that aides to Sen. Jay Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat, have spent months drafting behind closed doors. CNET News has obtained a copy of the 55-page draft of S.773 (excerpt), which still appears to permit the president to seize temporary control of private-sector networks during a so-called cybersecurity emergency."]
grey dot Swine flu rises at US colleges as students return google.com 8/29/9 ["Colleges across the country are seeing spikes in the number of students with suspected cases of swine flu as dorms fill up and classes begin for the fall semester."]
grey dot Asian oil exports threaten U.S. refineries upi.com 8/29/9 ["Some small European refineries have already closed, while many in the United States are struggling to stay afloat. Bloomberg reported at the end of July that refineries from Germany to Hawaii, foreseeing 25 percent idle capacity in North America and 30 percent in Europe within five years, are weighing plans to shut or sell plants."]
grey dot Speaker Nancy Pelosi Releases Misleading Factsheet on Abortion, Health Care lifenews.com 8/29/9 ["Pelosi issued a factsheet that, ironically, contains few facts about HR 3200 and the various ways in which the bill will allow government-funded abortions."]

grey dot World faces hi-tech crunch as China eyes ban on rare metal exports telegraph.co.uk 8/28/9 ["Beijing is drawing up plans to prohibit or restrict exports of rare earth metals that are produced only in China and play a vital role in cutting edge technology, from hybrid cars and catalytic converters, to superconductors, and precision-guided weapons. "]
grey dot Persecuted German Homeschool Family Facing September Custody Hearing lifesitenews.com 8/28/9 ["Hans and Petra Schmidt have been teaching their children, Josua, 16, and Aaron, 14, for more than nine years in an attempt to shield them from what they hold to be a hostile moral and heavily secularised environment in German public schools. To date the Schmidts have been forced to pay nearly 13,000 Euros (US $18,300) in home schooling fines and have had a lien placed on their home by the government."]
grey dot NH Court Orders Homeschooler into Public School to Expose Her to Different Faith Views lifesitenews.com 8/28/9 ["Marital Master Michael Garner reasoned that the girl's "vigorous defense of her religious beliefs to [her] counselor suggests strongly that she has not had the opportunity to seriously consider any other point of view," and then recommended that the girl be ordered to enroll in a government school instead of being home-schooled. "]
grey dot Power is shut off as bills pile up usatoday.com 8/28/9 ["ComEd, which supplies electricity to 3.8 million customers in northern Illinois, says it has disconnected more this year than last but declined to provide specifics. The utility saw a 14% increase in bills 60 days late in the first half of this year compared with the same period last year, spokeswoman Kim Johnson says."]
grey dot FDIC Problem Bank List Hits 416, but Recovery Eyed abcnews.go.com 8/28/9 ["Problem U.S. banks and thrifts on an official watchlist rose more than a third to 416 in the second quarter of 2009, as bad loans continued to bite..."]
grey dot Toyota to end California plant production reuters.com 8/28/9 ["The move to cease operations at the plant in Fremont by March 31 puts at risk more than 4,500 jobs and highlights significant overcapacity global carmakers are facing as they try to shake a recession-fueled sales downturn.s"]
grey dot Real US unemployment rate at 16 pct: Fed official breitbart.com 8/28/9 [" "If one considers the people who would like a job but have stopped looking -- so-called discouraged workers -- and those who are working fewer hours than they want, the unemployment rate would move from the official 9.4 percent to 16 percent, said Atlanta Fed chief Dennis Lockhart. "]

grey dot Kentucky court nixes law's God' reference newsobserver.com 8/27/9 ["A Kentucky judge on Wednesday struck down a 2006 state law that required the Kentucky Office of Homeland Security to stress "dependence on Almighty God as being vital to the security of the commonwealth." Franklin, Ky., Circuit Judge Thomas Wingate ruled the law violated the First Amendment's protection against the establishment of a state religion."]
yellow dotWhat's the Danger of Swine Flu Vaccinations? globalresearch.ca 8/27/9 ["A Mock-up vaccine is a vaccine with all the adjuvants of the pandemic vaccine – but without the killed or attenuated pandemic virus. (1) This virus is – until the pandemic virus is known – a different, attenuated known potentially pandemic virus, in the case of the Pandemrix vaccine for the EU it is an attenuated H5N1 bird flu virus. This is the mock-up vaccine. When the nature of the pandemic swine flu virus (H1N1) is known, it replaces the H5N1 virus in an attenuated form, the adjuvants being left unchanged. "]
grey dot AIDS Rate 50 Times Higher in Homosexual Men: Center for Disease Control lifesitenews.com 8/27/9 ["The CDC had already revealed last year that approximately 53% of the estimated 56,300 new HIV cases in 2006 were in homosexual men, with the African American population being particularly affected. The new statistics, however, estimate the prevalence of HIV/AIDS relative to the homosexual population, which allows comparisons to other groups in the wider population"]
grey dot Agency that insures bank deposits may need help google.com 8/27/9 ["The coffers of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. have been so depleted by the epidemic of collapsing financial institutions that analysts warn it could sink into the red by the end of this year. That has happened only once before — during the savings-and-loan crisis of the early 1990s, when the FDIC was forced to borrow $15 billion from the Treasury and repay it later with interest."]
grey dot U.S. Court Rules 'Sexual Orientation' Laws Include Former Homosexuals lifesitenews.com 8/27/9 ["In a case that is the first of its kind, a federal court has ruled that laws prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation in the District of Columbia must also include former homosexuals as a protected class. The Superior Court of the District of Columbia has ruled that under the D.C. Human Rights Act, a former homosexual must have the same protections as an active homosexual against discrimination based on sexual orientation."]
grey dot Nonprofits skipping payments, cutting staff because of Pa. budget impasse bizjournals.com 8/27/9 ["An informal survey of 585 social-services nonprofits in southeastern Pennsylvania found they are short $114 million they were expecting from the state and their local governments due to the state budget deadlock"]
grey dot Obamacare sparks warning to seniors wnd.com 8/27/9 ["The American Family Association says that while the AARP claims it does not "officially" endorse Obama's plan to offer government-sponsored insurance, the lobby group has launched a "huge and costly" television ad campaign in support of the effort. "]
grey dot Sarkozy Threat to Shun Banks on Pay Draws U.S. Alarm bloomberg.com 8/27/9 ["France won’t hire financial firms unless they apply rules agreed to by French bankers that include a three-year deferral on two-thirds of bonus payments, Sarkozy said yesterday. He aims to bring his proposals to the Group of 20 summit in Pittsburgh next month, which President Barack Obama is scheduled to attend. "]
grey dot Farmers warm to community agriculture model reuters.com 8/27/9 ["Tangerini's is one of a growing number of mostly small-scale U.S. farm operations that have turned to community-supported agriculture as a new business model. The 74-acre (30-hectare) farm sells shares of its crop of vegetable and fruit crop in winter and early spring. Its 230 customers pick up their share of the produce every week at the farm, starting in June and running through the growing season."]

grey dot 'In the Womb' is Now on the Net: Amazing 4-D Footage of Growing Baby lifesitenews.com 8/26/9 ["The two-hour National Geographic documentary 'In the Womb' is now available on YouTube in 9 parts. Originally aired in 2005, the documentary used revolutionary techniques in computer imaging and 4-D ultrasounds to present stunning images of the developing embryo, taking viewers through the amazing journey of the unborn baby from conception to birth."]
grey dot ACLU’s Request to Jail Lisa Miller Fails in Virginia Court lc.org 8/26/9 ["The ACLU asked the judge to order Lisa to jail for not delivering her own daughter, Isabella, to Vermont for unsupervised visitation with Janet. The ACLU also requested Lisa to pay attorneys fees and costs. No jail time was ordered and the court rejected the ACLU’s request for money."]
grey dot Half of Health Workers Reject Swine Flu Shot nytimes.com 8/26/9 ["About half of Hong Kong's health workers would refuse the swine flu vaccine, new research says, a trend that experts say would likely apply worldwide. In a study that polled 2,255 Hong Kong health workers this year, researchers found even during the height of global swine flu panic in May, less than half were willing to get vaccinated. Most said they would pass on the swine flu shot, which is not yet available, because they were afraid of side effects and doubted how safe and effective it would be."]
grey dot RI gov to shut down state government for 12 days myway.com 8/26/9 ["Rhode Island will shut down its state government for 12 days and hopes to trim millions of dollars in funding for local governments under a plan Gov. Don Carcieri outlined Monday to balance a budget hammered by surging unemployment and plummeting tax revenue. The shutdown will force 81 percent of the roughly 13,550-member state work force"]
grey dot China overtakes top exporter Germany: WTO google.com 8/26/9 ["China's goods exports edged ahead those of the world's largest exporter, Germany, for the first time ever during the first half of 2009, according to World Trade Organisation data given on Tuesday."]
yellow dot Dirty secret No. 3 in Obamacare wnd.com 8/26/9 [By Chuck Norris  "In 1,000+ pages, there's surprisingly sparse coverage or complete avoidance of a host of necessary issues. I would cite pages in the bill as I've done in my other articles, but there aren't any covering them. These are questions that need specific answers by the Obama administration as well each of our representatives. "]
grey dot Speed up Flu Drugs, Says White House Panel abcnews.go.com 8/26/9 ["U.S. officials should help drug companies speed up the supply of swine flu drugs and vaccines, making at least some shots available by mid-September, White House science advisers said on Monday."]
grey dot US Postal Service seeks 30,000 job cuts via buyouts reuters.com 8/26/9 ["The U.S. Postal Service, the nation's second-largest employer, offered buyouts on Tuesday to quickly slash up to 30,000 jobs as it grapples with decli

grey dot FactCheck.org: Abortion Coverage in ObamaCare is No 'Fabrication' lifesitenews.com 8/25/9 ["an organization that analyzes the accuracy of statements made by American political leaders, confirmed the assertion of pro-life organizations that the legislation would indeed open the door to government-funded abortion.  ...it's equally true that House and Senate legislation would allow a new 'public' insurance plan to cover abortions, despite language added to the House bill that technically forbids using public funds to pay for them.""]
grey dot Obama Continues Saying Pro-Life Advocates Lying About Health Care, Abortion lifenews.com 8/25/9 ["Obama said Saturday in his weekly radio and Internet address that pro-life advocates are making "phony claims" about the legislation. "]
grey dot Time Magazine Confirms Health Care Bills Include Taxpayer-Funded Abortions lifenews.com 8/25/9 ["Time Magazine Confirms Health Care Bills Include Taxpayer-Funded Abortions"]
grey dot Abuse of ADHD Drugs on the Rise ajc.com 8/25/9 ["...ADHD medication abuse was up 76 percent from 1998 to 2005, and at the same time, the rates of prescriptions for these medications rose about 80 percent.  ...What's more, Setlik said, is that this study is "not an estimate of the total problem" because it looks only at data from poison control centers"]
grey dot PDF: Remarks of President Barack Obama Ramadan Message whitehouse.gov 8/25/9 ["These rituals remind us of the principles that we hold in common, and Islam’s role in advancing justice, progress, tolerance, and the dignity of all human beings."]
yellow dotHas The Church Become Irrelevant? newswithviews.com 8/25/9 [By Chuck Baldwin  "But what do we see today? We see pastors and church congregations who are, for the most part, totally ignorant of their own heritage and history. They have little or no understanding of the principles of Natural Law--something America's founders knew almost by second nature (no pun intended). They seem to know next to nothing of the Biblical principles of liberty and government. All they seem to be able to do is regurgitate some mindless interpretation of Romans 13--an interpretation that could have been written by King George III or even Adolf Hitler."]
grey dot The Appendix: Useful and in Fact Promising usnews.com 8/25/9 ["The body's appendix has long been thought of as nothing more than a worthless evolutionary artifact, good for nothing... Not only was it recently proposed to actually possess a critical function, but scientists now find it appears in nature a lot more often than before thought."  Editor: The rest of the article beggars belief as they try to explain it in light of evolution, not that it was created and designed that way...]
green dotSchool Official Cleared of Contempt Charge in Prayer Case lifesitenews.com 8/25/9 ["...Liberty Counsel will be back in court defending Principal Frank Lay and Athletic Director Robert Freeman on charges of criminal contempt over a blessing of the meal at a separate luncheon to honor private contributors to the athletic program"]
grey dot Pepsi Cola Forms Gay Pride Organization - Boycott Pepsi Drinks, Frito-Lay, Quaker lifesitenews.com 8/25/9 ["The American Family Association (AFA) has revealed that according to a PepsiCo representative, Philene Frazar, PepsiCo is a founding member in establishing a homosexual activist group in Chicago called "Citywide Pride.""]
yellow dot Mandatory Vaccinations? Tell Feds And States To 'Stick It' newswithviews.com 8/25/9 [By Devvy Kidd  "There are three questions that everyone must consider: 1. Is a vaccine necessary for this so called swine flu? 2. Is a vaccine that is already being used for this H1N1 flu safe? 3. Does the federal or your state government have a legal right under the U.S. Constitution to sic their dragoons on any American who refuses a flu vaccine?"]
grey dot Federal Reserve loses suit demanding transparency reuters.com 8/25/9 ["A federal judge on Monday ruled against an effort by the U.S. Federal Reserve to block disclosure of companies that participated in and securities covered by a series of emergency funding programs as the global credit crisis began to intensify."]
grey dot Consumer strain: Pens and notebooks put on layaway breitbart.com 8/25/9 [" A record number of shoppers, shut off from credit and short on cash, are relying on Kmart's layaway program to pay for all of their kids' school needs, said Tom Aiello, a spokesman for Kmart's parent Sears Holdings Corp. Layaway allows shoppers to pay over time, interest- free, and pick up their merchandise when it's paid in full. "]

grey dot Judge requires statement that abortion ends life wnd.com 8/24/9 ["A judge in South Dakota has concluded Planned Parenthood must tell potential abortion customers that the procedure will "terminate the life of a whole, separate, unique, living human being." U.S. District Judge Karen Schreier ruled this week in the case that was launched in 2005 when state lawmakers approved the new consent law and Planned Parenthood filed a lawsuit. "]
grey dot Millions face shrinking Social Security payments google.com 8/24/9 ["The trustees who oversee Social Security are projecting there won't be a cost of living adjustment (COLA) for the next two years. That hasn't happened since automatic increases were adopted in 1975."]
grey dot Most UK companies already hit by swine flu: survey reuters.com 8/24/9 ["More than two-thirds of British businesses have already suffered temporary staff losses because of H1N1 swine flu and many managers fear they will lose revenue due to the pandemic, according to a survey Wednesday."]
yellow dot His Strength in My Weakness crossroad.to 8/24/9 ["It is possible for people to be so blind that they don't recognize that what they are doing is destructive. People can become so mesmerized by a utopian ideal that they become incapable of recognizing the real-life destruction that results from attempting to impose that ideal on other people."]
grey dot Swine Flu Pandemic Paradox Kills Few, Overwhelms ICUs bloomberg.com 8/24/9 ["Swine flu filled up Geoff Shaw’s intensive care unit in Christchurch, New Zealand, last month, forcing some surgeries to be canceled as the hospital struggled to cope. As winter moves to the Northern Hemisphere, health officials from Chicago to London brace for a similar overload. "]
grey dot More shoppers thinking twice in the checkout line google.com 8/24/9 ["It means more lost sales for stores at a time when there are already fewer customers because of the recession. For bricks-and-mortar shops already working with fewer staff, it also means higher labor costs because orphaned items have to be restocked. Hard numbers are difficult to come by, but Burt P. Flickinger III, a retail consultant, estimates that in 25 percent of shoppers' trips to the store, they're ditching at least one item"]
grey dot China reduces holdings in US debt bbc.co.uk 8/24/9 ["China holds more US government debt than any other country and cut its holdings of US securities by more that 3% in June, said the BBC's Chris Hogg. "]

grey dot Obama wishes Muslims a blessed Ramadan washingtontimes.com 8/22/9 ["The president used a few Arabic words and described in the video the origin of the holiday and its importance, noting it is a time of festivity but also of devotion and reflection. "]
grey dot Guaranty Bank shuttered, assets sold to BBVA reuters.com 8/22/9 ["Guaranty, a unit of Guaranty Financial Group Inc (GFG.N), is the 81st U.S. bank failure this year and represents another sizable hit to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp's fund used to protect customer accounts."]
yellow dot Turning Uncle Sam into Peeping Tom nationalreview.com 8/22/9 [By Diana Furchtgott-Roth "According to section 163, the standards will “enable the real-time (or near real-time) determination of an individual’s financial responsibility at the point of service . . . ” In addition, they will “enable electronic funds transfers, in order to allow automated reconciliation with related health care payment and remittance advice.”"]
grey dot FDIC Sees Ag Banks As The Next Big Crisis cornandsoybeandigest.com 8/22/9 ["For the most part, lending examinations of institutions loaning to agriculture are intensifying, particularly as bank failures in rural areas increase. The fallout from one institution with large ag credits under the eye of examiners was the shot heard around the country in lending circles."]
grey dot Obama to raise 10-year deficit to $9 trillion reuters.com 8/22/9 ["The higher deficit figure, based on updated economic data, brings the White House budget office into line with outside estimates and gives further fuel to President Barack Obama's opponents, who say his spending plans are too expensive in light of budget shortfalls."]
grey dot Infectious disease risk in swine flu jabs theage.com.au 8/22/9 ["The letter, written by the Society's president, Associate Professor Tom Gottlieb, says multi-dose vials - bottles containing many doses of the vaccine - had been shown on many occasions to transmit infectious diseases, ''resulting in considerable morbidity and mortality''."]
grey dot U.S. to Start Testing H1N1 Vaccines in Kids foxnews.com 8/22/9 ["The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases said it would soon start two trials of Sanofi-Aventis' vaccine in children aged 6 months to 17 years old. "The safety monitoring committee reviewed data from more than 500 healthy adult and elderly volunteers enrolled in three ... trials of candidate H1N1 vaccines that began Aug. 7, 2009..."]

grey dot Attorney: FBI trained NJ blogger to incite others breitbart.com 8/21/9 [" Prosecutors have acknowledged that Turner was an informant who spied on radical right-wing organizations, but the defense has said Turner was not working for the FBI when he allegedly made threats against Connecticut legislators and wrote that three federal judges in Illinois deserved to die. "]
grey dot The Death Book for Veterans wsj.com 8/21/9 ["Last year, bureaucrats at the VA's National Center for Ethics in Health Care advocated a 52-page end-of-life planning document, "Your Life, Your Choices." It was first published in 1997 and later promoted as the VA's preferred living will throughout its vast network of hospitals and nursing homes. After the Bush White House took a look at how this document was treating complex health and moral issues, the VA suspended its use. Unfortunately, under President Obama, the VA has now resuscitated "Your Life, Your Choices."  ...only one organization was listed in the new version as a resource on advance directives: the Hemlock Society"]
grey dot Obamacare to be 1 big 'death panel' wnd.com 8/21/9 ["In Europe, governments already ration health care, just as Obama plans to do here. The older and sicker people are, the less care they get. In England, for example, bureaucrats determine a patient's eligibility for health care using the QALY system (quality-adjusted life years). They divide the cost of treatment by the number of "quality" years the patient is expected to live."]
grey dot Biden Announces Grants to Spur Electronic Medical-Record Use bloomberg.com 8/21/9 ["Biden made the health-records announcement at a Chicago hospital during an appearance today with Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. "]
grey dot Obama's parents didn't live at newspaper birth address wnd.com 8/21/9 ["Additional documents uncovered by WND support a previous report that President Obama's parents did not live together as husband and wife at the Honolulu address listed in birth announcements in two local newspapers. "]
grey dot US jobless claims in surprise jump for second week google.com 8/21/9 ["The Labor Department said that initial jobless claims increased by 15,000 to 576,000 in the week to August 15, which happens to be the survey week for the monthly non-farm payrolls report, seen as one of the best indicators of economic momentum."]
grey dot FDIC May Add to Special Fees as Mounting Failures Drain Reserve bloomberg.com 8/21/9 ["The FDIC board might act sooner than expected after the Aug. 14 failure of Alabama-based Colonial cost the agency’s insurance fund $2.8 billion, and as banks such as Chicago-based Corus Bankshares Inc. report dwindling capital and Guaranty Financial Group Inc. of Austin, Texas, says it may fail. The fund fell to the lowest level since 1992 in the first quarter. "]
grey dot President Barack Obama: "Fabrication" to Say Health Care Bills Fund Abortions lifenews.com 8/21/9 ["In a late Wednesday conference call with several left-wing faith groups that supported his presidential bid, President Barack Obama claimed it is a "fabrication" and "distraction" to say abortion funding is included in the health care reform plans pending in Congress."]

red dot Lutherans move toward more open view on gays google.com 8/20/9 ["Wednesday's debate was interrupted briefly in the afternoon when severe storms and a possible tornado passed through downtown Minneapolis, damaging the steeple of an ELCA church across the street from the convention center. Delegates were allowed to remain in the convention hall, but a few jokes about God's wrath proved inevitable. "We trust that the weather is not a commentary on our work," said the Rev. Steven Loy, who was helping oversee the convention."]
grey dot Tornado, storms cause heavy damage in Midwest google.com 8/20/9 ["the Central Lutheran Church in Minneapolis when he saw "a wall cloud from the south coming across the parking lot." Then a "very loud roar" came through as he saw signs being blown around in the wind. The wind tore off part of the church's 90-year-old metal steeple around 2 p.m. while about 120 people were inside, said church spokesman Joe Bjordal."]
grey dot OK judge tosses abortion law requiring ultrasound google.com 8/20/9 ["Stephanie Toti, an attorney for the New York-based Center for Reproductive Rights that represented Nova, said Oklahoma is the only state in the nation that mandated a physician to both conduct an ultrasound and describe the images to the patient."]
grey dot Amish see the recession as a challenge and a blessing msnbc.msn.com 8/20/9 ["Factory work is “not conducive to the family life,” said Chris Miller ...“It takes away from our values.” The recession also is forcing many to rediscover a tradition of living simply and frugally, which some say had fallen away in recent years as people here grew used to the high salaries of factory work. "]

grey dot Muslims must unite for Islam's savior: Iran alarabiya.net 8/19/9 ["The spokesman of Iran's Supreme Leader called on neighboring countries to mobilize their forces in preparation for the coming of the savior of Islam and to unite with the Islamic Republic in paving the way for his arrival, an Iranian news agency reported Sunday. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's spokesman, Ali Saeedi, said countries like Turkey, Iraq, Lebanon, Pakistan and Afghanistan should gather together all their forces in order to make drastic changes to prepare for the coming of al-Mahdi al-Montazar, Arabic for "the awaited guided one.""]
grey dot Text of H.R. 645: National Emergency Centers Establishment Act govtrack.us 8/19/9 ["To direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish national emergency centers on military installations."]
grey dot Florida High School Officials Face Criminal Charges Over Luncheon Prayer lifesitenews.com 8/19/9 ["The principal of Pace High School, Frank Lay, and Athletic Director Robert Freeman are facing fines and imprisonment on criminal contempt charges after violating a court injunction that forbids prayers by administrators at school functions."]
grey dot Polio surge in Nigeria after vaccine virus mutates google.com 8/19/9 ["In 2007, health experts reported that amid Nigeria's ongoing outbreak of wild polio viruses, 69 children had also been paralyzed in a new outbreak caused by the mutation of a vaccine's virus."]
grey dot Feds shut down Hill District S&L pittsburghpostgazette.com8/19/9 ["Depositors will continue to be insured by the FDIC, which estimates the transaction will cost its fund $6.8 million"]
grey dot Major depression common in foreclosed homeowners google.com 8/19/9 ["More than half of those losing their homes -- 60 percent -- reported they had skipped meals or delayed eating because they could not afford food, and 48 percent had avoided buying prescription medication because of the cost. Pollack warned that the findings show foreclosures can seriously affect health, exacerbating existing problems and allowing new ones to develop."]

grey dot Saviors or conquerors? UN mulls “responsibility to protect” reuters.com 8/18/9 ["At issue is a declaration issued four years ago by a summit of more than 150 world leaders asserting the “responsibility to protect” — R2P in U.N. jargon — populations threatened with genocide or other mass atrocities. It was a somewhat belated response to widespread criticism of the United Nations for failing to stop massacres in Rwanda and Bosnia in the 1990s."]
yellow dotstar Did The Federal Gov't. Hide A Flu Epidemic In 1993 And Why? newswithviews.com 8/18/9 [By Bill Sardi "But federal government documents reveal a sudden unexplained increase in the US death rate in 1993, so severe as to cause a decline in US life expectancy for the first time in over 8 decades."]
grey dot Health Care Reform Bill Would Allow Abortion Business in Public School Clinics lifenews.com 8/18/9 ["In Title V of H.R. 3200, Subtitle B, called School-Based Health Clinics, outlines a new federal program where the government would fund health clinics near or in the nation's public schools."]
grey dot Man carrying assault weapon attends Obama protest google.com 8/18/9 ["Gun-rights advocates say they're exercising their constitutional right to bear arms and protest, while those who argue for more gun control say it could be a disaster waiting to happen."]
yellow dot Dirty secret No. 2 in Obamacare wnd.com 8/18/9 [By Chuck Norris "Dirty secret No. 2 in Obamacare is that Obama is not the leader of Obamacare. And neither is Congress. The one who has been spearheading the initiative behind the scenes is one who goes under the misnomer "adviser" to the Obama administration, Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, a bioethicist and breast oncologist and brother of White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. And "his bible" for health care reform is his book, "Healthcare Guaranteed." "]
grey dot Consumer confidence falls unexpectedly in August csmonitor.com 8/18/9 ["Consumers are less optimistic about their own personal finances than at any time in the past 60 years, according to an index of consumer sentiment released Friday."]
grey dot China's war games unnerve neighbors atimes.com 8/18/9 ["For the first time, forces from the four major regional military commands - stationed in the cities of Shenyang, Lanzhou, Jinan and Guangzhou - will all be engaged in live-fire drills at least 1,200 kilometers from their bases. Some soldiers will reportedly be involved in maneuvers as far as 1,600 kilometers from home."]
grey dot Vaccine-resistant swine flu strain documented in U.S. haaretz.com 8/18/9 ["Two cases of swine flu resistant to the drug Tamiflu were diagnosed over the weekend, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Saturday. Tamiflu and Relenza were the only two medications that had thusfar proven effective in treating the virus (also known as H1N1), which already proved resistant to other seasonal flu remedies. "]
yellow dot Federal Reserve SECRETLY Buying Treasuries At Auctions gold-eagle.com 8/18/9 [By Jeff Nielson "during the previous week's Treasury auctions that the Federal Reserve secretly bought nearly half of the Treasuries which were auctioned."]
yellow dot Obama Care Passed In Stimuls Bill; More Treachery In Sept. newswithviews.com 8/18/9 [By Devvy Kidd "If you are not aware of it yet, ObamaCare as it's being called - Part One was actually buried in the phony stimulus bill. That massive rape was signed into law by the usurper president in February. As Dr. Dave Janda writes, what is being debated now is Part Two. What, you say? Yes, your member of Congress (and mine) pulled another fast one and deceived all of us. Again. "]

grey dot Failed Banks Weighing on FDIC  wsj.com 8/17/9 ["At three of the five banks that failed Friday, increasing the total to 77 so far this year, the financial hit to the agency's deposit-insurance fund is expected by the FDIC to be about 50% of their assets."]
grey dot National Guard drill at high school to prepare for possible H1N1 riot sunjournal.com 8/17/9 ["Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School will be the site of a National Guard riot control drill Thursday morning to prepare in the event of a panic over distribution of serum to treat the swine flu. "]
grey dot Swine flu vaccine linked to deadly nerve disease? wnd.com 8/17/9 ["Two letters from the U.K.'s Health Protection Agency to top neurologists, sent on the eve of a massive vaccination program against the H1N1, or swine flu, virus and leaked to a British newspaper, warn doctors to watch for an increase in cases of a fatal brain disorder which could be triggered by the vaccine. ...cite the use of a similar swine flu vaccine in the U.S. in 1976 that caused more fatalities than the influenza. "]
yellow dot The Ultimate Control newswithviews.com 8/17/9 [By Mary Starrett  "What is particularly concerning is the World Health Organization’s "recommendations" which would impact citizens of the United States in case a pandemic emergency is declared and this. Essentially, those who refuse the live virus swine flu vaccination may be held indefinitely in quarantine camps because the so-called swine flu pandemic has been, (by many accounts unnecessarily) classified as a Level 6 Pandemic allowing international law to override the United States Constitution to justify American martial law and detention for those who refuse the vaccine. "]
grey dot Japanese sales climb in 'clunkers' program detnews.com 8/17/9 ["General Motors Co., Ford Motor Co. and Chrysler Group LLC saw a dropoff in sales while those of foreign rivals rose in the latest tally of "cash for clunkers" sales, as Toyota Motor Corp. dethroned GM as the top seller. "]
grey dot Toxic Loans Topping 5% May Push 150 Banks to Point of No Return bloomberg.com 8/17/9 ["More than 150 publicly traded U.S. lenders own nonperforming loans that equal 5 percent or more of their holdings, a level that former regulators say can wipe out a bank’s equity and threaten its survival. "]
grey dot UK: Preacher threatened with arrest for reading out extracts from the Bible in public telegraph.co.uk 8/17/9 ["Some passages in the Bible are regarded as homophobic. For example, sections read out by Mr Hayworth in St Ann's Square included Romans Chapter 1 Verse 27, from the King James Bible, which says: "And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly..." "]

grey dot Colonial BancGroup, 4 other banks shut google.com 8/15/9 ["Colonial BancGroup Inc., a lender in real estate development, in the biggest U.S. bank failure this year, and also closed four banks in Arizona, Nevada and Pennsylvania. The closures boosted to 77 the number of federally insured banks that have failed in 2009."]
grey dot South Ossetia Tries to Disarm Its Citizens nytimes.com 8/15/9 ["Now, with Russia guaranteeing its security, South Ossetia is asking residents to turn in their weapons voluntarily. The police have opened 50 criminal prosecutions for illegal weapons and plan to offer $300 to $400 for each Kalashnikov rifle, a top official said."]
grey dot What Parents Don’t Know About How Their Kids Use Facebook, MySpace usnews.com 8/15/9 ["The survey, which polled 1,013 kids in the seventh to 12th grades and 1,002 parents, also found that 39 percent of the teenagers had posted something they later regretted and that 28 percent shared personal information online they normally wouldn't have shared publicly."]
grey dot Gays, Bisexuals Seek More Psych Services ajc.com 8/15/9 ["Gays, lesbians and bisexuals are about twice as likely as heterosexuals to seek treatment for mental health issues or substance abuse, a U.S. study finds."]

blue dot Some of the Horrors in this Healthcare Bill crossroad.to 8/14/9 ["Three lists (similar but from different sources) of sections most dangerous to your health, privacy and freedom: "]
grey dot Senate Committee to Drop Controversial "Death Panel" Provision From Health Bill lifenews.com 8/14/9 ["A Senate committee will drop a controversial provision that detractors have said will set up "death panels" for elderly Americans. Though the committee may remove the controversial language, the House health care bill has wording in its legislation that presents more concerns. The provisions in question concern end-of-life counseling and they have been derided because they provide financial incentives for physicians to promote various options."]
grey dot Sarah Palin Strikes Back Against Obama on "Death Panels" lifesitenews.com 8/14/9 ["On top of these concerns, Palin emphasize that her "original comments concerned statements made by Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, a health policy advisor to President Obama … who also advocated basing medical decisions on a system which 'produces a priority curve on which individuals aged between roughly 15 and 40 years get the most chance, whereas the youngest and oldest people get chances that are attenuated.'""]
grey dot U.S. Economy: Sales Unexpectedly Fall on Job Losses bloomberg.com 8/14/9 ["sales fell 0.6 percent, also worse than anticipated and the biggest drop since March. They were forecast to increase 0.1 percent, according to the survey. "]
yellow dot None dare call it totalitarianism wnd.com 8/14/9 [By Joseph Farah  "What do you call it when the government asks its supporters to "snitch" on opponents of its policies? What do you call it when the government wants to monitor broadcasts and establish itself as the guardian of "fairness" on the airwaves? What do you call it when the government seeks to take over the private and personal health-care decisions of the people – establishing bureaucracies to make life-and-death decisions and banning unapproved transactions between doctors and patients?"]
grey dot Mom and Pop used-car dealers left without clunkers google.com 8/14/9 ["About 60 percent of the cars traded in under the clunkers program would have ended up resold on used lots or at auctions, Whann said. If, as expected, 750,000 vehicles are traded in under Cash for Clunkers, that's 450,000 cars and trucks won't make it to the used-car market."]
grey dot IMF provides $250 bln cushion against global crisis google.com 8/14/9 ["...Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) equivalent to 250 billion dollars...  An SDR is an interest-bearing IMF asset based on a basket of international currencies -- the dollar, yen, euro and pound -- that is calculated daily and which members can convert into other currencies."]

grey dot Cat out of the Bag: Dem Congresswoman Admits ObamaCare Covers Elective Abortions lifesitenews.com 8/13/9 [""Abortion will be covered as a benefit by one or more of the healthcare plans available to Americans, and I think it should be," said Logren, eliciting jeers and protests from the crowd."]
grey dot President Obama’s “Senior” Moment? abcnews.com 8/13/9 ["The AARP hasn't endorsed any plan yet. The country's largest advocacy group for Americans over 50 issued a statement after the event saying, "While the President was correct that AARP will not endorse a health care reform bill that would reduce Medicare benefits, indications that we have endorsed any of the major health care reform bills currently under consideration in Congress are inaccurate.""]
grey dot Will Americans follow orders to take flu shots? wnd.com 8/13/9 ["Citing the Fourth Amendment, which says, "The right of the people to be secure in their persons … shall not be violated," Constitution Party National Committee Chairman Jim Clymer said the issue isn't that complex. "It comes down to the most fundamental of all freedoms. If government can force potentially dangerous substances into our bodies what, then, can't government do to us?" he said. "]
grey dot US deficit forecast to be four times last year’s record csmonitor.com 8/13/9 ["To put some context on a new estimate that puts this year’s federal deficit at $1.8 trillion, consider this: That amount had never been spent by the federal government in a single year until 2000, let alone borrowed.  ...The Treasury released the latest figures Wednesday, showing spending of about $3 trillion in the past 10 months, and revenues of only $1.74 trillion."]
grey dot Obama Admin Used Pro-Abortion, Conspiracy Sites to Say Pro-Lifers Extremists lifenews.com 8/13/9 ["The group calls the DHS response "stunning" because officials admit that they relied on a range of web sites, including mainstream media web pages, to compile the report. "As it turns out, Janet Napolitano’s DHS did not conduct even the most rudimentary research or investigation. It did no statistical analysis."]
grey dot Kremlin bill on using army abroad bbc.co.uk 8/13/9 ["Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has introduced a bill to parliament that would allow the country's armed forces to intervene beyond Russia's borders."]
grey dot Earthquake Strikes South of Tokyo; Third in Four Days bloomberg.com 8/13/9 ["A magnitude-6.5 earthquake to the southwest of Tokyo two days ago left one person dead, 123 people injured and damaged 5,192 houses, according to Japan’s Fire and Disaster Management Agency. A magnitude-6.9 quake struck to the west of today’s quake on Aug. 9. "]
grey dot Traders Brace For September Collapse businessinsider.com 8/13/9 ["Options traders are increasing bets that the steepest rally in the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index since the 1930s won’t survive September, historically the worst month for U.S. equities."]

yellow dotstar Are You A Church Worshipper? newswithviews.com 8/12/9 ["What I am saying is that we need to stop putting our hope and faith in people and their self-exalting, self-justifying, self-serving organizations and institutions, local or otherwise. It’s time to start reading, learning, obeying and proclaiming God’s Word – all of it – instead of snappy slogans, corny clichés, vain visions and the silly strategies of men. "]
grey dot Iran leaders pave way for messianic 'Mahdi' wnd.com 8/12/9 [""The Bible abounds with proofs that the Antichrist's empire will consist only of nations that are, today, Islamic," says Richardson. "Despite the numerous prevailing arguments for the emergence of a revived European Roman empire as the Antichrist's power base, the specific nations the Bible identifies as comprising his empire are today all Muslim." "  Editor: Food for thought...]
grey dot Death Panels Already Exist, Health Care Bill Makes Current Rationing Even Worse lifenews.com 8/12/9 ["Government already comprises 46 cents of the health care dollar through Medicaid and Medicare. (Insurance companies spend 42 cents and individuals spend 12 cents of every dollar). Physicians groups are increasingly tempted to jettison autonomy and free market ideas for higher government reimbursement rates."]
grey dot Iran bans Ramadan umra pilgrimage as swine flu spreads reuters.com 8/12/9 ["Around 3 million Muslim pilgrims from over 160 countries head for the holy city of Mecca in western Saudi Arabia each year in one of the world's biggest religious gatherings."]
yellow dot Why Are Internment Camps Being Built? newswithviews.com 8/12/9 [By Chuck Baldwin  "Furthermore, I have had military personnel tell me that many of the US military bases that have been recently "closed" are also being prepared as large-scale "holding areas." Obviously, the question that begs to be asked is, "Who is the US government planning to intern and resettle?" And another question is, "How many people are they planning to intern that would require the massive number of camps that are apparently being constructed?""]
grey dot Quebec Government Has Begun Same-Sex Parenting Inclusiveness Training for Primary School Teachers lifesitenews.com 8/12/9 ["She stated further that the number of same-sex families continues to grow, stemming from the 2002 legislative changes that allowed same-sex adoption and artificial insemination (). "In Quebec, there are thousands of children living in a same-sex family," she says. "We are more and more numerous. The Coalition has 1,000 member families in Quebec.""]
grey dot 10 online textbooks ready for use in California classrooms latimes.com 8/12/9 ["“This is a groundbreaking initiative,” he told more than 100 representatives of schools, technology companies and others gathered at the Orange County Department of Education. “We think that technology is one of the ways to reform and improve education.”"]
grey dot Socialist Sweden Moves to Ban Homeschooling for Religious or Philosophical Reasons lifesitenews.com 8/12/9 ["The new legislation argues that because a child's education should be "comprehensive and objective" it must be "designed so that all pupils can participate, regardless of what religious or philosophical" views of parents or children. The government's explanation of the draft law says, "there is no need for the law to offer the possibility of homeschooling because of religious or philosophical reasons in the family." "]
grey dot College e-textbooks go to class in iPhones google.com 8/12/9 ["Students that buy "eTextbooks" from CourseSmart can view them from any Internet-linked computers and are able to print out pages or copy sections into custom study guides."]
grey dot Czech Republic Refuses Baxter Swine Flu Vaccine On Safety Grounds prisonplanet.com 8/12/9 ["As reported by multiple sources last March, including the Times of India, vaccines contaminated with deadly live H5N1 avian flu virus were distributed to 18 countries in December 2008 by a lab at an Austrian branch of Baxter."]

grey dot Lawmakers Urged to Raise Nation's Debt Limit  wsj.com 8/11/9 ["The Treasury estimates that the $12.1 trillion current limit could be reached as soon as mid-October, Mr. Geithner wrote."]
grey dot House Health Care Bill Gives Doctors Financial Incentive to Push Euthanasia lifenews.com 8/11/9 [""Though not mandatory, as some on the right have claimed, the consultations envisioned in Section 1233 aren't quite 'purely voluntary,'" as backers of the bill assert, Lane adds. "To me, 'purely voluntary' means 'not unless the patient requests one.' Section 1233, however, lets doctors initiate the chat and gives them an incentive -- money -- to do so. Indeed, that's an incentive to insist. "]
yellow dot Dirty secret No. 1 in Obamacare  wnd.com 8/11/9 [By Chuck Norris  "Dirty secret No. 1 in Obamacare is about the government coming into homes and usurping parental rights over child care development. It's outlined in passages like Section 440 and Section 1904 of the House bill (page 838) under the heading: "Home visitation programs for families with young children and families expecting children," which would provide (via grants to states) for home visitation programs to educate parents on child behavior and parenting skills. "]
grey dot Speaker Nancy Pelosi Calls Opponents of Pro-Abortion Health Care "Un-American" lifenews.com 8/11/9 ["Pelosi complains about the Americans who have voiced their opinions in town halls and forums. Pelosi, who writes along with pro-abortion Democratic leader Steny Hoyer, complains about what she calls "an ugly campaign" by people opposed to the bills."]

grey dot National Guard asked to explain 'internment' jobs wnd.com 8/10/9 ["An ad campaign featured on a U.S. Army website seeking those who would be interested in being an "Internment/Resettlement" specialist is raising alarms across the country, generating concerns that there is some truth in those theories about domestic detention camps, a roundup of dissidents and a crackdown on "threatening" conservatives. "]
grey dot Trade, security focus at "Three amigos" summit reuters.com 8/10/9 ["Leaders of the United States, Mexico and Canada -- also known as "the three amigos" -- began a summit on Sunday in Mexico to talk about simmering trade issues and the threat of drug gangs."]
grey dot Nearly one million people flee China typhoon google.com 8/10/9 ["China rushed nearly one million people out of harm's away as Typhoon Morakot slammed into its coast Sunday after triggering Taiwan's worst flooding in 50 years, leaving at least four people dead."]
grey dot Meltdown 101: Unemployment by the Numbers google.com 8/10/9 ["Employers are laying off fewer workers, the government reported Friday, but widespread cuts are still happening — only about 30 percent of industries are adding jobs or holding steady."  Editor: Don't go entirely by the 'numbers'. Many employers have trimmed a large bulk of their 'extra' employees, and are now cut to bare minimum employees, hence the laying off lull.]
grey dot Climate change to challenge US military: report google.com 8/10/9 ["Climate change will pose profound strategic challenges to the United States in coming decades, raising the prospect of military intervention to deal with the effects of violent storms, drought, mass migration and pandemics"]
grey dot Bank of England surprises markets with move to increase 'printing money' plan telegraph.co.uk 8/10/9 ["The decision by the Bank's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) to increase the scale of the unprecedented programme from £125bn to £175bn..."]
grey dot Progressives Think The Protests Are Manufactured newswithviews.com 8/10/9 ["Even though the Tea Party protests earlier this year were spontaneous, Boxer insisted that the healthcare protests were "...all planned. It's to hurt our president," she said, "and it's to change the Congress." For once a liberal may have actually got something right. The American people are boiling mad."  Editor: The pot is slowly starting to boil...]
grey dot Sonia Sotomayor Sworn In as Supreme Court Justice bloomberg.com 8/10/9 ["Later in its 2009-10 term, which formally starts in October, the court will consider the ability of private citizens to sue over religious monuments on public property, determine the constitutionality of a government agency that oversees the accounting industry and consider whether youths can be sentenced to life in prison for crimes other than murder."]

grey dot Regulators close 3 banks in Fla., Ore.; total 72 google.com 8/8/9 ["There were 25 bank failures nationwide last year and three the year before."]
grey dot China Warns Developed Nations of Inflation, Currency Threats bloomberg.com 8/8/9 ["“The discussion about quantitative easing and the reversal of it is going to capture the market’s attention for the rest of this year,” said Tai Hui, head of Southeast Asian economic research at Standard Chartered Plc in Singapore. “The fact that China is talking about it, again, is reflecting its concern about its holdings of U.S. Treasuries.” "]
grey dot So-Called Common Ground Abortion Bill Requires Tax-Funded Abortions Nationwide lifenews.com 8/8/9 ["AUL informed LifeNews.com today that, tucked into the Ryan-DeLauro bill (HR 3312) is a little-noticed provision that mandates that states provide abortion in state medical assistance programs."]
yellow dot Weekly Unemployment Claims Portend Disaster globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com 8/8/9 [By Mike Shedlock  "On July 19, I noted 500,000 Will Exhaust Unemployment Benefits by September, 1.5 Million by Year-end. Unemployment benefits plus extension last 79 weeks in New York, over 1.5 years. Yet, in June alone, for New York alone, 47,000 used up 72 of those weeks, and count on the extra 7."]
grey dot Goldman Sachs, Foreign Banks Cut 1,100 Jobs in Japan bloomberg.com 8/8/9 ["Goldman, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Bank of America Corp., Credit Suisse Group AG, Citigroup Inc., BNP Paribas SA, Morgan Stanley and Deutsche Bank AG cut their combined workforce in the world’s second-largest economy to 7,846 as of March 31, from 8,937 a year earlier..."]
grey dot JAL Hits Swine Flu Turbulence forbes.com 8/8/9 ["The combination of the swine flu pandemic hitting during a global recession dragged Japan Airlines to a record quarterly loss,and is proving a more severe crisis than that it faced during the SARS epidemic six years ago."]

grey dot Obama team mulls new quarantine regulations politico.com 8/7/9 ["The Obama administration is quietly dusting off an effort to impose new federal quarantine regulations, which were vigorously resisted by civil liberties organizations and the airline industry when the rules were first proposed by the Bush administration nearly four years ago."]
grey dot U.S., Mexican, Canadian leaders to address H1N1 flu reuters.com 8/7/9 ["Leaders of the United States, Mexico and Canada will address ways to deal with an expected spreading of the H1N1 influenza virus this fall at a summit next week and issue a statement"]
yellow dot I Fear For President Obama newswithviews.com 8/7/9 ["Over ninety percent of black-Americans voted for a “black” president and have invested much in their worship of their “savior.” I believe his removal would cause our cities to experience the greatest urban unrest this nation has even seen."  Editor: Food for thought...]
grey dot Senate confirms Sonia Sotomayor for Supreme Court bostonherald.com 8/7/9 ["A number of GOP senators argued Sotomayor’s speeches and record made her unacceptable. They pointed to rulings in which they said she showed disregard for gun rights, property rights and job discrimination claims by white employees. And they repeatedly cited comments she had made about the role that a judge’s background and perspective can play..."]
grey dot Fannie Mae suffers massive loss, seeks more aid google.com 8/7/9 ["Troubled state-backed mortgage firm Fannie Mae took a massive 14.8-billion-dollar loss in the second quarter, and asked the US Treasury for another 10.7 billion dollars in aid, the company said Thursday."]
grey dot U.S. food stamp list tops 34 million for first time reuters.com 8/7/9 ["It was the sixth month in a row that enrollment set a record."]
yellow dot Blatant Monetization Uncovered denninger.net 8/7/9 ["The upshot: The Fed bought nearly half of LAST WEEK'S 7 year Treasury Issuance..."]
grey dot Obama administration withholds data on clunkers breitbart.com 8/7/9 ["But the limited information released so far shows most buyers are not picking Ford, Chrysler or General Motors vehicles, and six of the top 10 vehicles purchased are Honda, Toyota and Hyundai. LaHood has called the popular rebates to car buyers "the lifeline that will bring back the automobile industry in America.""]

grey dot White House: Snitch on People Who Oppose Pro-Abortion Health Care Bills lifenews.com 8/6/9 [""There is a lot of disinformation about health insurance reform out there, spanning from control of personal finances to end-of-life care," the White House says. "These rumors often travel just below the surface via chain e-mails or through casual conversation.""]
grey dot Antidepressant use doubles in US, study finds alertnet.org 8/6/9 ["About 6 percent of people were prescribed an antidepressant in 1996 -- 13 million people. This rose to more than 10 percent or 27 million people by 2005, the researchers found."]
grey dot Associated Press Reverses Itself, Admits Health Care Bills Include Abortion Funding lifenews.com 8/6/9 ["AP admitted that the Capps amendment a House committee adopted last week "would allow the public plan to cover abortion" with "dollars from beneficiary premiums." It added, "Likewise, private plans in the new insurance exchange could opt to cover abortion.""]
grey dot Obama Advisor, Health Care Architect, Criticized as Backing Rationing for Disabled lifenews.com 8/6/9 ["...the brother of White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, is an Obama advisor and a chief architect of the Congressional health care plan. ...was quoted in 1996 saying medical benefits of a government-controlled healthcare plan would not be given to “individuals who are irreversibly prevented from being or becoming participating citizens.” "]
grey dot Big Brother is Watching Britain: Government Announces 24-Hour CCTV Surveillance for Bad Parents lifesitenews.com 8/6/9 ["A recent report found that Britain has a staggering 4.2 million CCTV cameras - representing 20 percent of cameras globally - watching its citizens in the name of safety. However, police have admitted that the cameras do little to cut back on the increasing rates of violent crime. "]
grey dot Psychologists repudiate gay-to-straight therapy google.com 8/6/9 ["Instead of seeking such change, the APA urged therapists to consider multiple options — that could range from celibacy to switching churches — for helping clients live spiritually rewarding lives in instances where their sexual orientation and religious faith conflict."]
grey dot ADP Says U.S. Companies Decreased Payrolls by 371,000 bloomberg.com 8/6/9 ["The estimated 371,000 drop, higher than economists had forecast, followed a revised 463,000 decline the prior month, figures from ADP Employer Services showed today. "]
grey dot Lack of funds and space frees suspects chron.com 8/6/9 ["U.S. immigration officials have released from federal custody hundreds of suspected illegal immigrants accused or convicted of crimes, including homicide and sexual assault, because of a lack of space and funds, according to internal records."]
grey dot Cathay Pacific to Park 6 Passenger Planes After 27% Sales Slump bloomberg.com 8/6/9 ["Hong Kong’s biggest carrier, intends to park six passenger planes by the end of the year after first-half sales slumped 27 percent. “We still cannot see any signs of any pickup in business,” Chairman Christopher Pratt told reporters in Hong Kong today."]

grey dot Alabama's Jefferson County makes massive job cuts reuters.com 8/5/9 ["Alabama's debt-ridden Jefferson County laid off about two-thirds of its 3,600 employees on Monday because of plummeting revenues, a move that will sharply curtail services in areas ranging from roads to courthouses."]
grey dot Layoff notices go to 1,100 Hawaii state workers bizjournals.com 8/5/9 ["She also said she will furlough 900 non-unionized state employees for three days per month beginning Sept. 1, and will decide if there are other employees not covered by a judicial order barring her from unilaterally furloughing workers covered by collective bargaining."]
grey dot California told to prepare massive prisoner release reuters.com 8/5/9 ["U.S. judges on Tuesday told California to prepare to release more than 40,000 of its 150,000 inmates to reduce overcrowding in state prisons, which suffer from massive healthcare problems."]
grey dot Watching TV: Even Worse for Kids Than You Think time.com 8/5/9 ["Previous studies have found that watching television lulls people, especially young children, into a low-energy state that is akin to sleeping — that's about as sedentary as a person can get. "Some studies suggest that the metabolic rate can fall even below that of sleeping," he says. "They suggest that children are getting into some deep hypnotic state at times.""]
grey dot American Bar Association Champions Same-Sex "Marriage" Benefits lifesitenews.com 8/5/9 ["Policymakers at the American Bar Association (ABA) overwhelmingly passed a resolution calling for the abolition of Section 3 in the national Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which reserves federal marital benefits for marriages between a man and a woman."]
grey dot AP sources: Russian subs patrolling off East Coast google.com 8/5/9 ["the submarines had been patrolling several hundred miles off the coast and so far had done nothing to provoke U.S. military concerns."]
grey dot Common insect repellent affects nervous system: study google.com 8/5/9 ["Moderate use of the chemical compound, called deet, is most likely safe, the researchers say. But experiments on insects, as well as on enzymes extracted from mice and human neurons, showed for the first time that it can interfere with the proper functioning of the nervous system."]

yellow dot Cash For Clunckers: More Stealing, More Debt newswithviews.com 8/4/9 [By Devvy Kidd "If you purchased a vehicle using this program, you have stolen my the fruits of my daughter's labor. She will be taxed even more to pay for your new car. When she needed to trade in her old one two years ago, she didn't ask you to make the down payment. Nor would she, because my daughter understands it's not your responsibility, yet you have no problem fleecing her earnings to pay for your new car. The sad truth is you don't realize that you will also pay for that 'cash for clunkers' many times over."]
grey dot Cost to meet emissions goal could double sfgate.com 8/4/9 ["Without nuclear power and "clean coal," the cost of cutting greenhouse gas emissions from the electricity industry could almost double, according to a study released today..."]
grey dot Federal tax revenues plummeting google.com 8/4/9 ["Individual income tax receipts are down 22 percent from a year ago. Corporate income taxes are down 57 percent. Social Security tax receipts could drop for only the second time since 1940, and Medicare taxes are on pace to drop for only the third time ever. The last time the government's revenues were this bleak, the year was 1932 in the midst of the Depression."]
grey dot Regulators shut down five banks in Florida, New Jersey, Ohio, Oklahoma and Illinois latimes.com 8/4/9 ["...boosting to 69 the number of federally insured banks to fail this year."]
blue The Model State Emergency Health Powers Act (MSEHPA) 8/4/9 [""]
grey dot Temple Institute to Build Sacrificial Altar on Tisha B'av israelnationalnews.com 8/4/9 [“Unfortunately, we cannot currently build the altar in its proper place, on the Temple Mount,” Temple Institute director Yehudah Glick said. “We are building an altar of the minimum possible size so that we will be able to transport it to the Temple when it is rebuilt."]

yellow dotstar America the Unclean! lasttrumpetnewsletter.org 8/3/9 [By Pastor David Meyer  "In this issue of the Last Trumpet Newsletter, we will deeply consider a serious condition that exists in America, which is of the utmost urgency. What happens when a nation goes too far in resisting the one true God and His Holy Word? The above verses tell us that Old Testament Israel fell into this very condition, and the consequences were severe. Even a simple study of the Old Testament reveals that Israel fell into severe forms of idolatry, dishonesty, fraud, homosexuality, and baby killing as they lusted after the heathen societies around them. The first verse above goes so far as to use the word conspiracy in regard to the religious leaders, which brought forth the wrath of the Almighty in great measure."]
yellow dotstar The Second Most Important Event In The Bible newswithviews.com 8/3/9 [By Bill Sizemore  "I suggest that the second most important event in the Bible and in fact all of human history, above the discovery of fire, the invention of the wheel, and the splitting of the atom - was the flood of Noah."]
grey dot Obama's revealing body language americanthinker.com 8/3/9 ["Sergeant Crowley, the sole class act in this trio, helps the handicapped Professor Gates down the stairs, while Barack Obama, heedless of the infirmities of his friend and fellow victim of self-defined racial profiling, strides ahead on his own. So who is compassionate? And who is so self-involved and arrogant that he is oblivious?"  Editor: A picture is worth a thousand words... The comments are worth reading...]
grey dot Will changing name of document fix problem? wnd.com 8/3/9 ["The report confirmed that the state in recent days has dropped the "Certification of Live Birth" that it has used for a number of years to headline abbreviated computer-generated documents citing birth information in the state's database, and the documents now are being called a "Certificate of Live Birth." "]
grey dot Obama officials eye more jobless aid, weigh taxes reuters.com 8/3/9 ["The New York Times reported on Sunday that up to 1.5 million Americans will exhaust their unemployment benefits in coming months, pushing more into home foreclosures and destitution."]
grey dot Military-civilian terror prison eyed google.com 8/3/9 ["The Obama administration is looking at creating a courtroom-within-a-prison complex in the U.S. to house suspected terrorists, combining military and civilian detention facilities at a single maximum-security prison."]

dot How Many Control Tentacles Will Obama Have Before People Wake Up? newswithviews.com 8/1/9 [By Dr. Laurie Roth  "Here are just some of the numerous extensions of Obama’s control hammer………WHO ARE ACCOUNTABLE ONLY TO HIM. Energy czar Urban czar InfoTech czar Faith-based czar Health reform czar New TARP czar Stimulus accountability czar Non-proliferation czar Terrorism czar Regulatory czar Drug czar..."]
grey dot House Cmte Defeats Amendment to Stop Abortion Mandate in Health Care Plan lifenews.com 8/1/9 ["The House committee that is considering the main House health care restructuring plan defeated a pro-life amendment Thursday night that would stop any mandate for abortion coverage. The vote saw Tennessee Rep. Bart Gordon change his vote, allowing for its defeat."]
grey dot Town halls gone wild reuters.com 8/1/9 ["On the eve of the August recess, members are reporting meetings that have gone terribly awry, marked by angry, sign-carrying mobs and disruptive behavior. In at least one case, a congressman has stopped holding town hall events because the situation has spiraled so far out of control."]
grey dot Obamacare called 'euthanasia bill' wnd.com 8/1/9 ["In the Liberty Counsel analysis, Staver notes that under Section 163, the government would be allowed to have real-time access to individuals' finances, including direct access to bank accounts for electronic funds transfers. Under Section 1308, the analysis finds, the government will dictate marriage and family therapy as well as mental health services, including the definitions of those treatments. "]
grey dot UK: Half of children taking Tamiflu have side-effects guardian.co.uk 8/1/9 ["Of the 45 children who suffered side-effects, 40% reported gastrointestinal problems including nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea, stomach pain and cramps, while 18% reported a "neuropsychiatric side-effect" such as poor concentration, inability to think clearly, problems sleeping, feeling dazed or confused, bad dreams or nightmares and "behaving strangely"."]
dot Obama Administration To Impose Liberal UN Curriculum crossroad.to 8/1/9 ["According to the announcement, this federal curriculum will consist of "internationally benchmarked" standards. The only extant comprehensive "internationally benchmarked" education standards are those developed by UNESCO, the UN's education arm. The UNESCO website clarifies that its education standards conform to the treaties and agreements of the UN. This means that its curriculum includes, for example, the requirements of the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) which says, "Education shall . . . further the activities of the United Nations" (Art. 26:2). "]
grey dot Lawmakers to weigh postal overhaul seattletimes.nwsource.com 8/1/9 ["Confronting a sharp decline in mail volume tied to the recession and the continuing migration to e-mail and online payment options, the Postal Service projects a net loss of $7 billion this fiscal year and debt to exceed $10 billion, leading to a cash shortfall of approximately $1 billion. Losses are expected to continue next year."]
grey dot Power Shifts in Plan for Capital Calamity nytimes.com 8/1/9 ["Under the revamped structure, the White House Military Office, which reports to the office of the White House chief of staff, has assumed a more central role in setting up a temporary “shadow government” in a crisis. "]
dot Why the Founding Fathers Were “Birthers” canadafreepress.com 8/1/9 [By JB Williams "For the record, the following Obama records remain under lock and key, more than two years into public demands for Obama “transparency"… and Obama has spent a reported $1 Million in legal fees to keep them SEALED! "]