"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
State Of The Republic 2009 newswithviews.com 12/31/9 [By Marilyn M. Barnewall "The bubble created by government bailout borrowing will likely burst this spring. The pin that pricks that bubble will likely be the mortgage mess and foreclosures expected from the next round of Adjusted Rate Mortgage (ARMs). The failure of government’s financing programs for already foreclosed homes and homeowners in danger of foreclosure will also be a factor."]
Treasury to dole out $3.8 bln to GMAC, raise stake reuters.com 12/31/9 ["The Obama administration said on Wednesday it would provide GMAC Financial Services an additional $3.8 billion of government aid, and said it was raising the government's stake in the company to 56 percent from 35 percent."]
Sarkozy scrambles to salvage carbon tax google.com 12/31/9 ["The constitutional court ruled that too many exemptions to the tax on carbon dioxide emissions created inequalities and unfairly placed the burden of cutting down wasteful energy use on a minority of consumers."]
The next economic perfect storm - should start mid February investment-blog.net 12/31/9 ["these are all pending events, many listed on MW as individual events, but no one looks at them all together - but that is how we will feel them in our wallets"]
Scientists: Embryonic Stem Cell Research Showing Little Progress 28 Years Later lifenews.com 12/31/9 ["In a new interview with NPR, Len Zon, a stem cell researcher at Children's Hospital in Boston, admits that any hope of treating patients with embryonic stem cells is not forthcoming."]
Senator: Pro-Abortion Democrats Will Dominate Health Care Conference Committee lifenews.com 12/31/9 ["Senator Charles Grassley is confirming the expectation that the conference committee that will meet to reconcile the differences in the congressional health care bills will be dominated by abortion advocates. If so, the Senate language funding abortions may emerge in the final legislation."]
Vt. judge: Birth mom must transfer custody of 7-year-old daughter to former lesbian partner latimes.com 12/30/9 ["The birth mother of a 7-year-old Virginia girl must transfer custody of the child to the woman's former lesbian partner, a Vermont judge ruled, adding that it seems the woman has "disappeared" with her daughter."]
Detroit scare sparks debate on full-body scanners reuters.com 12/30/9 [""Some passengers are reassured that there's new technology there and are prepared to give up some measure of their privacy for it, and others have been outraged by it.""]
New call for faster, more thorough airport body scans usatoday.com 12/30/9 ["The machines could be a central part of a security review President Obama ordered Monday. The review will cover "all screening policies, technologies and procedures related to air travel," Obama said in Hawaii."]
Argentina hosts first gay marriage in Latin America google.com 12/30/9 ["The wedding came one week after Mexico City's lawmakers voted to allow gay marriages, in another first for Latin America."]
Mexico City Sees 34K Abortions Since Legalization in 2007, Network Pays for More lifenews.com 12/30/9 ["The legislative assembly, in April 2007, approved a bill that legalized abortion within the first 14 weeks of pregnancy. ...has led to 17 Mexican states passing laws or state constitutional amendments affirming their abortion bans or noting the unborn child's right to life."]
Survivalism Lite: Rise of the Preppers newsweek.com 12/30/9 ["...many preppers go out of their way to avoid the stereotypes that come along with the "survivalist" label—they've made a clear-eyed calculation about the risks at hand and aren't waiting around for anybody else to fix them. "I consider it more of a reaction than a movement..."]
Strictly Personal newswithviews.com 12/30/9 [By Chuck Baldwin "...the recession of 2009 has hit Crossroad hard. Our church is comprised mostly of hard-working regular Joes, many of whom are associated with the construction industry. And as you know, the construction industry was among the hardest hit in the economic downturn of the last year or so. The result is my church is ending 2009 with a deficit of some $25,000. " Editor: Part of being an informed Christian is knowing what areas of the body of Christ need help in bearing their burdens. Pastor Chuck Baldwin's ministry is one of them.]
Obama Spokesman: He Prefers Senate Health Care Bill With Abortion Funding lifenews.com 12/29/9 ["President Barack Obama promised Americans in a speech to Congress that his version of a government-run health care bill would not contain abortion funding. Now his top spokesman confirms that Obama favors the Senate bill that funds abortions over the House bill that bans abortion funding."]
House Delays Patriot Act Spy Vote wired.com 12/29/9 ["The move automatically extends provisions of the Patriot Act that would otherwise expire at year’s end. The Senate is likewise expected to delay the matter. "]
Putin launches new Russia oil route to Asia google.com 12/29/9 [""This is the completion of one of the largest projects in modern Russia. And not only modern Russia. It would be a grandiose project for the former Soviet Union too.""]
Flight 253 passenger: Sharp-dressed man aided terror suspect Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab onto plane without passport mlive.com 12/29/9 ["While Mutallab was poorly dressed, his friend was dressed in an expensive suit, Haskell said. He says the suited man asked ticket agents whether Mutallab could board without a passport. “The guy said, 'He's from Sudan and we do this all the time.'”"]
Congress: Expansion Of Global Governance, Interpool, and Obama newswithviews.com 12/28/9 ["On the same day that the expansion of cooperation of this international police organization President Obama signed an Executive Order to amend Executive Order 12425 granting INTERPOL expanded privileges, exemptions and immunities."]
Obama grants Interpol immunity as foreign ‘assets’ assigned to U.S. homeland prisonplanet.com 12/28/9 ["Alex Jones covers some recent aspects of diplomatic immunity, as extended to Interpol and other foreign agencies, by way of President Obama’s Executive Order 12425. They, along with foreign troops & assets have been increasingly used throughout the United States to for ‘Homeland’ control over the populace."]
Interpol Given Immunity in U.S. - Why? aim.org 12/28/9 ["Underneath it all, a White House executive order was signed that gives Interpol complete immunity from American law - something not even our own law enforcement officials receive, nor should they - everyone should be answerable to the law."]
Refinery struggles bruise N.J. communities app.com 12/28/9 ["So far, the most drastic refining cutbacks in the U.S. have come in Delaware and southern New Jersey. But Anne Kohler, an analyst at Caris & Co., expects more plants to be idled in the East, on the Gulf Coast, and in Europe. ...even if the economy turns around, refineries that are shuttered will probably stay closed, partly because it's so hard to reopen one once it's closed entirely."]
Michigan: Prosecutors fear cutbacks may spur early prison releases freep.com 12/28/9 ["Some of Michigan's county prosecutors are worried the state's budget woes could lead to more crime by spurring earlier releases of prison inmates."]
First Case of Highly Drug-Resistant TB Found in US abcnews.go.com 12/28/9 ["It can cost $100,000 a year or more to cure drug-resistant TB, which is described as multi-drug-resistant (MDR), extensively drug-resistant (XDR) and XXDR. There are now about 500,000 cases of MDR tuberculosis a year worldwide. XDR tuberculosis killed 52 of the first 53 people diagnosed with it in South Africa three years ago."]
One-child policy a rights disaster taipeitimes.com 12/28/9 ["The one-child policy is enforced with the most ruthless measures, which have not abated in recent years, as the Chinese government would have us believe. ...Thus the WHO reports more than 500 female suicides per day in China. It is the only country in the world where the female suicide rate is higher than the male — and it is three times higher."]
Legislators Ask Attorney General To Seek Protection From Healthcare Bill legalnewsline.com 12/26/9 [""We see this as a violation of the equal protection of the law, an affront to our sovereignty, and a breach of the U.S. Constitution," the letter, sent Monday, said."]
Report: Schwarzenegger to seek federal bailout on threat of deep cuts thehill.com 12/26/9 ["if the federal government does not provide $8 billion in aid, Schwarzenegger will threaten to make deep cuts in or eliminate the state's main welfare program, a large healthcare program for the disabled and elderly poor and two tax breaks for large corporations recently approved by the State Legislature."]
National Irish moves to cashless banking irishtimes.com 12/26/9 ["An NIB spokesman said the changes followed the model used by NIB’s parent, Danish-owned Danske Bank. Cashless banking is far more common in Scandinavia. while Irish dependence on cash is among the highest in Europe."]
FDIC's need for cash squeezes small banks nj.com 12/26/9 ["The FDIC needs more money in case any large institutions fail next year. So it is requiring banks to prepay three years of insurance premiums by the end of this month."]
Antichrist Sabotage of America! lasttrumpetnewsletter.org 12/25/9 [By Pastor David Meyer "The answer to the second question of why America is being sabotaged is because it must be brought down to a leveling off point so it becomes interdependent on other nations. America is to become just an integral part in a one-world global government."]
US extends guarantees on Fannie, Freddie google.com 12/25/9 ["Thursday's announcement by the US Treasury allows the government to postpone an exit strategy for aid to the two firms that underpin trillions of dollars in mortgages and play a key role in the global financial system."]
Congress Raises Debt Ceiling to Allow Borrowing Through February wsj.com 12/25/9 ["An increase in the debt ceiling is largely symbolic as it represents money already spent by the federal government. In the unlikely scenario where it was ever breached, however, there would be significant consequences for the financial markets. The federal government would be forced to default on its obligations, and could lose its top credit rating, having to pay much higher interest rates as a result."]
Senate OKs health-care measure, reaching milestone seattletimes.nwsource.com 12/25/9 ["Despite all the compromises — and more to come as the Senate and House try to reconcile their versions of the legislation — Obama put a positive spin on the effort. If the changes become law, he said, they would be the biggest social change since the creation of Social Security in the 1930s."]
Muslim group asks Obama for protection wnd.com 12/25/9 ["Citing the impact of the WND Books expose "Muslim Mafia" as an example of rampant "anti-Islam hate in our nation," the Council on American-Islamic Relations called on President Obama yesterday to address what it calls an "alarming" problem. "]
Obamacare Income Tax Surcharge Unconstitutional newswithviews.com 12/25/9 ["Any tax on wages or salaries, when that tax is paid by the paycheck’s recipient (and not by the employer) is a direct tax. In fact, it is a “capitation tax.” As such, the Constitution requires that such a tax be apportioned among the several States (see Art. I, sec. 2, cl. 3; and Art. I, sec. 9, cl. 4). "]
What Are Kids Searching? YouTube, Facebook, Porn pcmag.com 12/24/9 ["YouTube, Google, and Facebook topped the list for most-searched terms among kids in 2009, but there's also something else on junior's mind. Rounding out the top five search terms were "sex" and "porn," according to data from Norton."]
Sagging tourism forces "fiscal crisis" for Hawaii reuters.com 12/24/9 ["For the current fiscal year, Hawaii's budget is seen suffering a $721 million gap, followed by a projected $509.5 million deficit in the coming fiscal year."]
Swedish Government Seizes Child from Home Schooling Family lifesitenews.com 12/24/9 ["On Dec. 17, a Swedish court ruled in Johansson v. Gotland Social Services that the government was within its rights to seize the child. They cited the fact that Dominic had not been vaccinated as a reason to remove him permanently from his parents and also claimed that home-schoolers do not perform well academically and are not well socialized."]
Sarah Palin: Death Panels in Senate Health Care Bill Worse Than We Thought lifenews.com 12/24/9 ["Apparently Reid and friends have changed the rules of the Senate so that the section of the bill dealing with this board can't be repealed or amended without a 2/3 supermajority vote."]
Senate changes 'rules' to protect 'death panels' wnd.com 12/24/9 ["Majority Democrats in the U.S. Senate pushing for President Obama's vision of a government takeover of health care have inserted in the fine print of the 2,000-plus page legislation a provision that it would take a supermajority of 67 votes in the Senate for future legislative bodies to even consider amendments to its provisions for "death panels." "]
Arrow Trucking suspends operations leaves Hundreds of Drivers stranded examiner.com 12/24/9 ["Tulsa, Oklahoma based trucking company Arrow Trucking Company suspended operations last night. But, in doing so also stranded hundreds of its drivers out on the road."]
Kathleen Sebelius Admits, Covers Up Abortion Funding in Health Care Measure lifenews.com 12/23/9 ["HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is getting attention for an interview yesterday in which she essentially admits that the American public would be forced to pay for abortions under the Senate health are bill and then relies on accounting gimmicks to suggests that's not the case."]
Senate OKs Manager's Amendment to Health Care Bill Funding Abortions lifenews.com 12/23/9 ["The changes allow the federal government to subsidize private insurance plans that cover abortion on demand, to oversee multi-state plans that cover elective abortions, and to empower federal officials to mandate that private health plans cover abortions even if they do not accept subsidized enrollees."]
Unemployment funds going ‘absolutely broke’ msn.com 12/23/9 ["The recession's jobless toll is draining unemployment-compensation funds so fast that according to federal projections, 40 state programs will go broke within two years and need $90 billion in loans to keep issuing the benefit checks. "]
Shocker! Detroit unemployment approaching 50% wnd.com 12/23/9 ["The mayor of Detroit, Mich., has hit the nation with an unemployment shocker. Despite an official rate of 27 percent, the city's actual unemployment rate is closer to 50 percent, according to Detroit Mayor Dave Bing. He said the higher rate is more accurate after taking into account those who have given up finding a job and those working fewer hours than they want"]
Calif. county orders religious symbols removed google.com 12/23/9 ["Thomas' order followed a complaint by Santa Rosa resident Irv Sutley, an atheist who heads the county's socialist Peace and Freedom Party. He says the government should not show favoritism to any religion. Sutley has previously been successful in stopping prayers at government meetings in several cities."]
'Invisible bracelet' for emergency health alerts? google.com 12/22/9 ["The nation's ambulance crews are pushing a virtual medical ID system to rapidly learn a patient's health history during a crisis — and which can immediately text-message loved ones that the person is headed for a hospital."]
Virginia Mother Gets Away with Infanticide Due to 'Loophole' in the Law lifesitenews.com 12/22/9 ["A mother who suffocated her newborn baby earlier this month in Campbell County, Virginia cannot be prosecuted, say investigators, because the umbilical cord was still attached."]
Mexico City approves gay marriage google.com 12/22/9 ["the first such law passed anywhere in Latin America."]
Major volcanic eruption feared in Philippines google.com 12/21/9 ["The Philippines' most active volcano could have a huge eruption within days, officials warned Sunday after detecting a drastic surge in earthquakes and eerie rumbling sounds in surrounding foothills. Tens of thousands of villagers have been evacuated as a precaution."]
Snow Storms Cause Death and Chaos in Europe dw-world.de12/21/9 ["In London, which experienced some of the worst snow in 20 years, most flights at Heathrow airport were grounded, buses were taken off the roads, subway services suspended and schools were closed, bringing traffic in the British capital to a virtual standstill."]
Okla. judge extends block on controversial abortion law kansas.com 12/21/9 ["House Bill 1595, which was to have gone into effect Nov. 1, requires doctors to report personal information about women who seek abortions, and also requires that information to be posted on a public Web site. It also bars abortions based on the gender of the fetus, redefines several abortion-related terms and creates new reporting responsibilities for several state agencies."]
US blizzard puts crimp in holiday sales, travel google.com 12/21/9 ["Just days before the December 25 holiday, the eastern seaboard from North Carolina to New England was digging out Sunday from the worst blizzard in years, which closed train and bus service, paralyzed air traffic and left hundreds of thousands of residents without power in some areas."]
States get more time to comply with Real ID washingtonpost.com 12/19/9 ["The Obama administration will abandon a Dec. 31 deadline for states to tighten security requirements for driver's licenses, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced Friday. "]
Regulators shutter 2 big Calif. banks, 5 others google.com 12/19/9 ["Regulators on Friday shut down two big California banks, as well as banks in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Michigan and Illinois, bringing to 140 the number of U.S. banks brought down this year by the weak economy and mounting loan defaults."]
U.S. food stamp chief wants California to boost use reuters.com 12/19/9 ["Government research shows that about a third of the people eligible for food stamps in the United States were not receiving them in 2007, the latest year for which data is available. And the situation was worse in California, Florida and Texas, where only about half of eligible people were getting help through the program..."]
Penny Wong jeered, Hugo Chavez cheered theaustralian.com.au 12/19/9 ["When he said the process in Copenhagen was “not democratic, it is not inclusive, but isn’t that the reality of our world, the world is really and imperial dictatorship…down with imperial dictatorships” he got a rousing round of applause. When he said there was a “silent and terrible ghost in the room” and that ghost was called capitalism, the applause was deafening."]
Anger With Federal Government Not Enough newswithviews.com 12/18/9 [By Chuck Baldwin "It means awakening to the fact that Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, and Bill O'Reilly (and the rest of Big Media's talking heads) are, for the most part, irrelevant to providing real solutions to the continuing loss of liberty. And, in truth, they are, more often than not, part of the problem, because they continue to focus our attention on Washington, D.C., and off the source of genuine solution, which lies with the states drawing a constitutional line in the sand for freedom."]
Minority Leader Fumes: No One Has Been Allowed to See Health Care Bill lifesitenews.com 12/18/9 ["As even more new language continues to pile up in Sen. Harry Reid's massive manager's amendment to the health care bill, which is being constructed behind closed doors, the leader of the Senate Republicans slammed the Democrats for planning to hold a vote on a bill no one has seen yet."]
One World Currency On The Horizon? newswithviews.com 12/18/9 [By Betty Freauf "I’m reminded we’ve been taught the Civil War was fought to free the slaves but an ulterior motive of centralized government in Washington, D.C. was overlooked in our history books. Our Founding Fathers clearly understood that only a citizenry educated in morality and willingly bound by the self-forced chains of virtue can remain free of the chains of tyranny."]
Moody’s warns of 'social unrest’ as sovereign debt spirals telegraph.co.uk 12/18/9 ["Britain and other countries with fast-rising government debts must steel themselves for a year in which “social and political cohesiveness” is tested, Moody’s warned. "]
Israeli organ donors to get transplant priority news.bbc.co.uk 12/18/9 ["Israel is to become the first country to give donor card carriers a legal right to priority treatment if they should require an organ transplant."]
Judge urged to reverse ruling over ACORN funding google.com 12/18/9 ["ACORN lawyers say they want Gershon to make sure the government knows that the judge's ruling applies to a budget bill signed this week."]
Mexico Whacked With Second Debt Downgrade nytimes.com 12/18/9 ["...reflecting the country's battle with a severe recession, sliding crude oil output and a failure to overhaul its clunky economy. Standard & Poor's cut its credit rating on Mexico by one notch to BBB from BBB-plus, exactly three weeks after Fitch became the first ratings agency to downgrade the country in more than a decade."]
NY Gov. Orders State Agencies to Recognize "Transgender" Civil Rights lifesitenews.com 12/18/9 ["Gov. David Paterson signed an executive order Wednesday that prohibits state agencies from refusing to hire transsexuals and transvestites. Although state agencies cannot discriminate based on "sexual orientation," Paterson's order goes further to ban discrimination based on "gender identity and expression in any matter pertaining to employment by the State.""]
Gulf petro-powers to launch currency in latest threat to dollar hegemony telegraph.co.uk 12/17/9 ["The Arab states of the Gulf region have agreed to launch a single currency modelled on the euro, hoping to blaze a trail towards a pan-Arab monetary union swelling to the ancient borders of the Ummayad Caliphate. "]
Poll Reveals Trauma of Joblessness in U.S. nytimes.com 12/17/9 ["More than half of the nation’s unemployed workers have borrowed money from friends or relatives since losing their jobs. An equal number have cut back on doctor visits or medical treatments because they are out of work."]
Michele Bachmann Warns: "Financial Bill Worse Than Healthcare Measure” newswithviews.com 12/17/9 [By Sarah Foster "This will all now be controlled by government, and government will ration credit. You can’t have capitalism without capital, and government will decide who gets capital and who doesn’t.” "]
Britain bounces checks after 300 years uk.reuters.com 12/17/9 ["The board of the UK Payments Council, the body for setting payment strategy in Britain, agreed on Wednesday to set a target date of October 31, 2018 for winding up the check clearing system. The board is largely made up of Britain's leading banks."]
DC City Council votes to legalize gay marriage google.com 12/16/9 ["Gay couples could begin tying the knot in the district as early as March. The only hurdles left to clear are the city's mayor, who has promised to sign the bill, and Congress, which has final say over laws in the nation's capital."]
District of Columbia Officials Ready to Pay for Abortions Once Obama Signs Bill lifenews.com 12/16/9 ["The House and Senate have approved a bill that will overturn the 13-year-long ban on paying for abortions in the nation's capital. Once President Barack Obama signs the bill, which he is expected to do, officials in the District of Columbia say they are ready to move ahead with taxpayer-funded abortions."]
Bankruptcy of U.S. now certain wnd.com 12/16/9 ["Put the two numbers together. Then ask yourself, how in the world can the Treasury borrow $3.5 trillion in only one year? That's an amount equal to nearly 30 percent of our entire GDP. And we're the world's biggest economy. Where will the money come from? "]
Bill would give undocumented legal status google.com 12/16/9 ["House lawmakers backing immigration overhaul called Tuesday for legalizing illegal immigrants in the U.S., despite a weakened economy and joblessness. ..."Illegal immigrants currently occupy 8 million jobs. Those stolen jobs rightfully belong to citizens and legal immigrants. We could cut the unemployment rate in half simply by enforcing immigration laws!" said Texas Rep. Lamar Smith"]
Democrats plan nearly $2 trillion debt limit hike apnews.myway.com 12/16/9 ["Democrats plan to allow the government's debt to swell by nearly $2 trillion as part of a bill next week to pay for wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The amount pretty much equals the total of a year-end spending spree by lawmakers and is big enough to ensure that Congress doesn't have to vote again on going further into debt until after the 2010 elections."]
New TARP? Only this bypasses even Congress wnd.com 12/16/9 ["This plan, likewise, would enable the government to hand out billions of dollars to companies it chooses. It also would establish government oversight over even minutiae of those corporate operations; and further it would allow the collection of taxes – or "fees" – to fund operations. "]
Tamiflu anti-viral drug revealed as complete hoax; Roche studies based on scientific fraud naturalnews.com 12/16/9 [By Mike Adams "But Tamiflu is no herb. It's a potentially fatal concentration of isolated chemical components that have essentially been bio-pirated from Chinese medicine. And when you isolate and concentrate specific chemicals in these herbs, you lose the value (and safety) of full-spectrum herbal medicine."]
AU: Government pushes forward with internet filtering news.com.au 12/16/9 [" THE Federal Government is pushing ahead with its controversial plan to filter the internet, saying illegal material can be blocked "with 100 per cent accuracy and negligible impact on internet speed". It has just released results of its latest live filtering trials, used as proof that a national internet filter will work."]
Copenhagen climate summit: Tony Blair calls on world leaders to ‘get moving’ telegraph.co.uk 12/16/9 ["The world must take action on climate change at Copenhagen even if the science is not correct, Tony Blair, the former Prime Minister has suggested. "]
A Suggested Survival List newswithviews.com 12/16/9 [By Chuck Baldwin "One does not have to be a prophet to know that we are on the precipice of some potentially catastrophic—or at the very least, challenging—days. In fact, most of us are already in challenging days, and some are already enduring catastrophic events. That is, if one would call being out of work, losing one's home, facing life-threatening medical conditions without any prospect of medical insurance, several families being forced to live in one house due to homes being foreclosed, etc., catastrophic."]
Duggar's 19th Child Born Prematurely lifesitenews.com 12/16/9 ["Josie is currently in stable condition in UAMS' Neonatal Intensive Care Unit; she weighs 1 pound and 6 ounces. Babies born at 25 weeks have a 4 out of 5 chance of survival. ...Through such media they have spread their belief that "children are a heritage of the Lord," as their website proclaims. "]
The Duggar Family Website duggarfamily.com 12/16/9 ["Our prayer is that all who view this site will realize that we are ordinary people with our individual weaknesses and imperfections but we serve an extraordinary GOD who delights in demonstrating His great power! "]
Congress Approves Funding for D.C. Abortions, Overseas Providers lifesitenews.com 12/15/9 ["The US Senate has voted to approve a must-pass spending bill that lifts the ban on the District of Columbia using its budget to subsidize abortions. The bill also funnels hundreds of millions of dollars to abortion-advocacy groups overseas, including the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)."]
Copenhagen climate summit: arrests follow riots as 30,000 gather for demo telegraph.co.uk 12/15/9 ["The protests to mark the halfway point of crunch UN climate talks in the Danish capital include a mass rally outside the country's parliament and a march to the conference centre where negotiations on a new global warming deal are taking place. "]
Dubai to pay debt with $10 bln Abu Dhabi handout google.com 12/15/9 ["The Dubai government said Monday it will pay 4.1 billion dollars to cover maturing Islamic bonds issued by its Nakheel property developer after receiving a 10-billion-dollar handout from oil-rich Abu Dhabi."]
African-Americans and Abortion: Navigating the Mine-Field of the Black Woman's Womb lifenews.com 12/15/9 ["Folks get fidgety and indignant because you may be attempting to trample on their “rights” and “choices” with this kind of talk. But when a soldier in Iraq has an 80% higher chance of making it home from war than a Black baby has of making it alive out of his mother’s womb, I have to speak on it. " Editor: Contains strong language, but true.]
Senate passes $1.1-trillion spending bill latimes.com 12/15/9 ["The final one, a $626-billion defense bill, will be used as the basis for another catchall package of measures that Congress must deal with in the coming days. Those include action to raise the $12.1-trillion debt ceiling and proposals to stimulate the job market."]
Venezuela-Led Plan To Launch Regional Currency Criticized wsj.com 12/15/9 [" At a summit in Cuba over the weekend, members of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas, or ALBA, a regional trade group set up by Venezuela and Cuba, said usage of the "sucre" currency would begin early next year. No sucre currency would actually be printed. Instead, ALBA member nations including Bolivia, Cuba, Ecuador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and Venezuela would use the "virtual" currency for managing debt as they buy and sell different products from each other. "]
Beating A Dead Horse newswithviews.com 12/14/9 [By Sheriff Jim R. Schwiesow, Ret. "A righteous rebellion by justified dissidents will inevitably draw into the fray the millions of maladapted criminal elements in this nation that live to maim, murder and destroy. This then will hand the tyrants who rule a reason to declare martial law and will give them an excuse to turn the guns of their enforcers loose upon society to brutally suppress a rebellion of their own making. ...The secular line of reasoning for a restoration of the nation by secular means is already foreclosed, and otherwise resolved, any attempt to continue with that line of reasoning is futile. In plain words those who advocate for such are beating a dead horse. "]
Gay advocates cheer Houston election usatoday.com 12/14/9 ["Saturday's election made Houston the largest city in the USA to choose a gay mayor. ...the nation's fourth-largest city"]
D-Day nears for Dubai's $3.5 billion debt hurdle reuters.com 12/14/9 ["Fund managers and bankers regard Monday's outcome as the litmus test for Dubai World's planned $26 billion restructuring and Dubai as a whole for resolving its debt burden. But the odds of Nakheel, the developer of palm-shaped islands, repaying are low."]
Market jitters as Spain joins Dubai on danger list guardian.co.uk 12/14/9 ["A day after Greece's credit rating was cut amid rising concern about the state of its finances, the ratings agency Standard & Poor's revised its outlook on Spain to negative and warned that the country faced a risk of a debt downgrade in two years if the government did not take tough action."]
Germany to sell H1N1 vaccines due to weak demand reuters.com 12/14/9 ["Only about five percent of the public has been vaccinated, according to Health Minister Philip Roesler."]
Three bank failures take year's tally to 133 marketwatch.com 12/14/9 ["Three U.S. banks in Florida, Arizona and Kansas failed on Friday, bringing the year's tally to 133 and taking a $250 million bite out of the federal deposit-insurance fund..."]
Preparations for Sufferings crossroad.to 12/14/9 ["There are those who still hold out that we can change America (legislation) back to a Christian nation, and that this will somehow change the Church at large. But this is a Dominionist pipe dream, born of the hope that by changing externals it will change the hearts of men. This is neither Scriptural nor facing reality."]
Venezuela Debt Holders Rush For Exits As Banks Woes Surface wsj.com 12/14/9 ["President Hugo Chavez's nationalization of four small banks and threats to seize more have spurred investors to offload Venezuela's sovereign debt, pushing risk premiums on the bonds to their highest levels in six months. Worries are growing fast that Venezuela may be facing a liquidity crisis in its banking sector, sparking runs by depositors in some of the smaller, ostensibly less sound banks. "]
Appeals Court Hears Lisa Miller Case as Custody Transfer Looms lifesitenews.com 12/14/9 ["The critical time has arrived in this case. The law is clear that same-sex unions and any right arising from such unions are void and unenforceable in Virginia."]
8 arrested in attack on home of UC Berkeley chancellor latimes.com 12/14/9 ["...were protesting state funding cutbacks and a steep increase in student fees throughout the University of California system. ...To resort to life-endangering violence is never acceptable."]
Obama administration 'assures Jewish evacuation' wnd.com 12/12/9 ["Members of the Obama administration recently assured the Palestinian Authority that most Jewish communities in the strategic West Bank will be evacuated, a top PA official told WND yesterday. "]
Soldiers get mass swine flu shots before holidays google.com 12/12/9 ["Overall, the Department of Defense purchased 2.7 million doses of the H1N1 vaccine, which it is trying to deliver to soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines around the globe before the end of the year, department spokesman Col. Wayne Hachey said. ...Flu shots are mandatory for all active duty men and women..."]
Germany Jails Eight Christian Fathers for Removing Children from Sex-Ed Class lifesitenews.com 12/12/9 ["...in addition to refusing to allow their children to attend sex-ed classes, the families also resisted having their children enlisted in a theatre production of "Mein Körper gehört mir" or "My Body Belongs to Me," which informs young children in how to engage in sexual intercourse."]
Move to cut ACORN funding ruled unconstitutional google.com 12/12/9 ["U.S. District Judge Nina Gershon issued the preliminary injunction against the government, saying it's in the public's interest for the organization to continue receiving federal funding. ACORN claimed in its lawsuit that Congress' decision to cut off its funding was unconstitutional because it punitively targeted an individual organization."]
Au: Joyce warns of 'economic Armageddon' investsmart.com.au 12/12/9 ["In an interview with The Age, Senator Joyce said he did not want to alarm the public, but there needed to be a debate about Australia's "contingency plan" for a sovereign debt default by the US or even by an Australian state government."]
Is Obama Really Preparing For Civil War? newswithviews.com 12/11/9 [By Chuck Baldwin "Has the American people's disgust with these crooks and thieves within the federal government and Wall Street reached a boiling point?"]
Lord Monckton Warns Obama Will Attempt Use of Executive Authority to Commit US to Copenhagen Agreement lifesitenews.com 12/11/9 ["...Monkton however notes, is that an Executive Agreement can be repealed by a following president, but a treaty cannot be repealed. Therefore, The British Lord and science adviser to former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher noted, "one power that President Obama does not have is to commit the United States unilaterally to measures of a scale and horror envisaged in this treaty or agreement...""]
Turkey warns IAF against using airspace jpost.com 12/11/9 ["If Israel were to violate Turkish airspace in order to conduct reconnaissance operations on Iran, Ankara's reaction would resemble an "earthquake," Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said..."]
Gay "Marriage" Vote Killed in NJ Senate lifesitenews.com 12/11/9 ["Homosexual advocates in New Jersey snatched a same-sex "marriage" bill from the jaws of defeat on Wednesday, cancelling Thursday's scheduled vote in the state Senate after realizing that they lacked the votes for the measure's successful passage."]
Official Chinese paper calls for more gold reserves reuters.com 12/11/9 ["...to ensure the safety of its overall portfolio, an official Chinese newspaper said on Tuesday. The commentary, which was written by an academic and appeared in the overseas edition of the People's Daily, also said that a bigger holding of gold was a crucial building block for the yuan to become an international currency. "]
SF official pushes to implement sanctuary law mercurynews.com 12/11/9 ["A San Francisco supervisor is asking the city attorney to weigh in on a controversial law that keeps police from immediately reporting illegal immigrant youths to authorities. "]
Sarkozy and Brown call for global market changes news.bbc.co.uk 12/10/9 ["In it, Mr Sarkozy and Mr Brown say the financial crisis has made them "recognise that we are now in an economy which is no longer national but global, so financial standards must also be global". "]
Swine-flu bribe fever! wnd.com 12/10/9 ["One expert in a WHO H1N1 advisory group, Dr. Albert Osterhaus, has been subject to a Dutch government investigation. The government convened a crisis meeting after an article in Science magazine indicated that Osterhaus has financial interests in several pharmaceutical companies. "]
Anti-Gay Rhetoric Rises in Race for Houston Mayor abcnews.go.com 12/10/9 ["If Parker wins the Dec. 12 runoff election, Houston would become what's believed to be the largest U.S. city ever to have an openly gay mayor — and that has catapulted Parker's sexual orientation into the center of the race."]
Taxpayers lose $61B on AIG, auto bailouts but gain on bank bailouts usatoday.com 12/10/9 ["...also criticized Treasury for using the Troubled Asset Relief Program as a slush fund to support programs that Congress never intended — including bailouts of automakers and failing insurance giant American International Group."]
Survey: Americans mix and match religions washingtonpost.com 12/10/9 ["Though the U.S. is an overwhelmingly Christian country, significant minorities say they hold beliefs of the sort found at Buddhist temples or New Age bookstores. Twenty-four percent of those surveyed overall and 22 percent of Christians say they believe in reincarnation, the idea that people will be reborn in this world again and again. "]
Drum-Runners.com drum-runners.com 12/10/9 [" The purpose of this website is to provide a collection of information sources on pandemic preparedness in a simple library format. "]
Obama in new push to end 'tragedy' of unemployment google.com 12/9/9 ["Obama rolled out a package of tax breaks, infrastructure investment and spending on energy efficiency intended to bite into the crisis which has seen millions of Americans thrown out of work and the jobless rate hit 10 percent."]
Copenhagen climate summit: Barack Obama given power to cut greenhouse gases telegraph.co.uk 12/9/9 ["His administration formally declared that the gases "endanger the public health and welfare of the America people" empowering its Environment Protection Agency to regulate them across the country under the country's Clean Air Act, without having to get a hotly-contested climate bill through the US Congress. "]
The Waste Of Tax Dollars Never Ends newswithviews.com 12/9/9 [By Tom DeWeese "This past Fall, turning in our clunkers for cash was all the rage. Obama even took credit for “stimulating” the auto industry back to health. Well, here’s the real financial result of the program. "]
EU backs off from East Jerusalem plan ft.com 12/9/9 ["EU foreign ministers, meeting in Brussels, called instead for negotiations to settle Jerusalem's status and said they envisaged the city as the capital of two countries: Israel and any future Palestinian state."]
Health Bill Has Biggest Abortion Funding Since Roe, Pro-Life Groups Urge No Vote lifenews.com 12/9/9 ["After Roe, during the 1970s and before the Hyde amendment was exacted, the federal government paid for as many as 300,000 abortions annually -- and abortion numbers sharply declined once that funding was revoked."]
Israel: Internet Campaign: 'No Gilad, No Mosque' israelnationalnews.com 12/9/9 ["A petition has been making the rounds, calling on the Israeli police to close the Temple Mount to Muslims until Shalit is released without preconditions. The campaign, which is being carried out under the banner, "Without Gilad, There is No Mosque" was initiated by Temple Mount activist Yehuda Glick..."]
US agency suggests Christmas gifts for the disaster age google.com 12/9/9 [""What we're saying is that the holidays are the only time families really get together. So it's the ideal time to talk about a family communication plan in the event of a disaster," Fugate said."]
Report: Over Two-Thirds of All Abortion Clinics Have Closed Since 1991 lifesitenews.com 12/9/9 [""We now have an accurate listing of every open abortion clinic in the country," said Operation Rescue President Troy Newman. "In 1991, it was estimated that there were nearly 2,200 abortion clinics in the country, today there are just 713.""]
Israel: Knesset Approves 'Biometric Law' israelnationalnews.com 12/9/9 ["On the same day that the Knesset approved the law, there news from Tokyo that appeared to show that this system, too, was not foolproof. Police in the Japanese capital said that they arrested a 27-year-old Chinese woman suspected of illegally entering the country after surgically altering her fingerprints to deceive a biometric recognition system operated by immigration officials."]
Government official: Dubai World may sell assets google.com 12/8/9 ["Many lenders at home and abroad lent Dubai World money on the assumption that, as a company controlled by the government, it had implicit state backing. Al-Saleh, however, reiterated the Dubai government's position that there is no state guarantee in Dubai World."]
Dubai won't sell assets for Dubai World debt reuters.com 12/8/9 ["Dubai's government will not sell any assets to meet the obligations of state-owned Dubai World, but the conglomerate itself might sell some of its foreign assets, Dubai's finance chief told Al Jazeera television."]
Banks meet with Dubai World: report reuters.com 12/8/9 ["A group of international and regional banks met Dubai World for the first time on Monday as talks began on the company's efforts to restructure $26 billion of debt"]
Congress urged to extend emergency jobless benefits miamiherald.com 12/8/9 ["State labor officials on Monday urged Congress to renew emergency jobless benefits that have been available through economic stimulus funds, but are due to expire this month. One million workers could lose their benefits in January without the extension"]
Obama cuts back on White House Hanukkah bash ynetnews.com 12/8/9 ["US President Barack Obama is expected, like his predecessors Bill Clinton and George Bush, to throw the traditional White House Hanukkah party, but unlike Clinton and Bush, he has decided to scale back on the festivities – only 400 people were invited, compared with 800 last year. "]
Green Acres Is the Place to Be wsj.com 12/8/9 ["In June, 40-year-old Shane Dawley and his 36-year-old wife, Rhonda, uprooted themselves and their four boys from their suburban Atlanta rental home and bought an old five-acre farm in Ogdensburg, Wisc. Their goal: Flee the rat race and adopt a more self-reliant lifestyle amid the troubled economy."]
No Escape From TARP for U.S. Banks Choking on Real Estate Loans bloomberg.com 12/8/9 ["Unpaid loans on malls, hotels, apartments and home developments stood at a 16-year high of 3.4 percent in the third quarter and may reach 5.3 percent in two years..."]
Pearl Harbor survivor back for 1st time since war google.com 12/7/9 ["The attack sank four U.S. battleships and destroyed 188 U.S. planes. Another four battleships were damaged, along with three cruisers and three destroyers. More than 2,200 sailors, Marines and soldiers were killed."]
Lesbian awarded custody of Christian's only child wnd.com 12/7/9 ["A Vermont court ordered a Christian child taken away from her mother and given to a lesbian ex-partner, setting up, according to a lawyer for the Christian family, a dispute that the U.S. Supreme Court likely will have to resolve. "]
Chinese official slams banks over derivatives ft.com 12/7/9 ["A senior Chinese official who oversees the country’s largest state-owned enterprises has publicly slammed western investment banks for “maliciously” peddling complicated derivative products that caused huge losses for Chinese companies over the last year."]
Dubai market shows signs of life as UK creditors circle guardian.co.uk 12/7/9 ["Dubai World, whose assets include P&O ports and the QE2, has asked lenders, among them Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), for a debt standstill till 2010; a move which raised fears the global economy could be entering a dangerous new phase and triggered a wider global share sell-off."]
24 States Borrow Money To Pay Unemployment Benefits globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com 12/7/9 ["Let's do the math. The state budget is $19 billion. Potentially $4 billion will be borrowed to pay unemployment benefits. In other words the state is borrowing an amount equal to 21% of its total budget just to pay unemployment benefits. Wow."]
Climate change: this is the worst scientific scandal of our generation telegraph.co.uk 12/7/9 ["...their authors are not just any old bunch of academics. Their importance cannot be overestimated, What we are looking at here is the small group of scientists who have for years been more influential in driving the worldwide alarm over global warming than any others, not least through the role they play at the heart of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). "]
'Safe schools' chief recommends child porn for classroom reading wnd.com12/7/9 ["A new report is raising alarms that the Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network, a homosexual advocacy organization founded by Kevin Jennings, now head of the U.S. Office of Safe Schools for the Obama administration, is recommending XXX-rated sex writings for children as young as preschoolers. "]
California Junior High Principal Apologizes For Not Warning Parents About Pro-Homosexual Program for 8th Graders cnsnews.com 12/7/9 ["for not following school district policy relating to a pro-homosexual workshop given to 8th grade students in a leadership class at the school."]
Copenhagen climate change summit poised to open news.bbc.co.uk 12/7/9 [""Never in 17 years of climate negotiations have so many different countries made so many pledges. It's unprecedented," he said. "]
Regulators shut AmTrust Bank in Ohio, 5 others google.com 12/5/9 ["Regulators on Friday shut down Ohio's AmTrust Bank, the fourth-largest bank to fail this year."]
Google adds translation to main search engine google.com 12/5/9 ["A new "translated search" tool lets people direct Google to seek results from Web pages written in an array of languages and then deliver results in a searcher's preferred tongue. The feature has been available at the Google Translate service, but is becoming part of the California-based Internet firm's popular main search engine."]
Pastor Boissoin Exonerated: Judge Rules Letter on Homosexuality Not "Hate" Speech lifesitenews.com 12/5/9 [""In spite of today's court ruling, Albertans need to continue to exercise extreme caution when speaking about public policy issues, lest they offend someone who then files a human rights complaint. No citizen is safe from being subjected to a taxpayer-funded prosecution for having spoken or written something that a fellow citizen finds offensive," Carpay concluded."]
Obama Shifts His Visit to Last Day of Climate Conference nytimes.com 12/5/9 ["In a written statement, it said the president believed that he could have a more decisive impact by appearing at the end of the 12-day conference, when as many as 100 other heads of state are scheduled to show up, rather than next Wednesday as originally planned."]
Abortionist Carhart Abandons Plans for Late-term Abortion Facility in Kansas lifesitenews.com 12/5/9 ["Operation Rescue has confirmed that abortionist LeRoy Cahart will not open a late-term abortion facility to replace the one that closed in Wichita after abortionist George Tiller's death."]
European Banks Growing Bigger ‘Sowing the Seeds’ of Next Crisis bloomberg.com 12/4/9 ["Fifteen European banks now have assets larger than their home economies, compared with 10 lenders three years ago. "]
Where Dubai leads, Britain could soon follow telegraph.co.uk 12/4/9 ["Since foreign borrowing by governments increased dramatically in the 1970s, there has been a steady stream of sovereign debt problems, including the Latin American debt crisis of the 1980s, the Asian crisis in 1997, Russia's default in 1998 and Argentina's, the biggest in history, as recently as 2002. "]
Feds ‘Pinged’ Sprint GPS Data 8 Million Times Over a Year wired.com 12/4/9 ["Sprint Nextel provided law enforcement agencies with customer location data more than 8 million times between September 2008 and October 2009, according to a company manager who disclosed the statistic at a non-public interception and wiretapping conference in October."]
Yahoo, Verizon: Our Spy Capabilities Would ‘Shock’, ‘Confuse’ Consumers wired.com 12/4/9 ["...asked all agencies within the Department of Justice, under a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed a few months ago. But before the agencies could provide the data, Verizon and Yahoo intervened and filed an objection on grounds that, among other things, they would be ridiculed and publicly shamed were their surveillance price sheets made public."]
Pro-Life Groups Disappointed Obama Admin Funding Embryonic Stem Cell Lines lifenews.com 12/4/9 ["The Obama administration's announcement yesterday that it will force taxpayers to spend $12 million to fund embryonic stem cell research isn't going over well with pro-life groups. They say the decision funds the destruction of human life and takes away from successful adult stem cell studies."]
EU draft document on division of Jerusalem haaretz.com 12/4/9 [" The current holder of the rotating European Union presidency, Sweden, has put together a draft document calling for the division of Jerusalem between Israel and a future Palestinian state and implying that the EU would recognize a unilateral Palestinian declaration of statehood. "]
US approves 13 embryonic stem cell lines for research news.bbc.co.uk 12/3/9 ["The move comes after President Barack Obama eased restrictions on federally funded embryonic stem cell research. Another 96 lines could soon be approved if they meet the ethical guidelines unveiled in July, US scientists said. "]
ACLU Sues to Block Alaska Personhood Initiative lifesitenews.com 12/3/9 ["The proposed ballot measure states: "All human beings, from the beginning of their biological development as human organisms, including the single-cell embryo ... shall be recognized as legal persons in the state of Alaska.""]
New York state lawmakers reject gay marriage bill google.com 12/3/9 ["The Assembly had earlier approved the bill, and Gov. David Paterson, perhaps the bill's strongest advocate, had pledged to sign it. After the vote, Paterson called Wednesday one of his saddest days in 20 years of public service and he criticized senators who he said support gay marriage but "didn't have the intestinal fortitude to vote for it. ..."When I walk through these doors, my Bible stays out," Adams said. "That's the wrong statement," Diaz countered later. "You should carry your Bible all the time.""]
PSU investigates 'Climategate' collegian.psu.edu 12/3/9 ["Penn State is conducting an inquiry into the controversy surrounding a Penn State professor whose illegally leaked e-mails have sparked an international debate over whether he and his colleagues distorted data on global warming."]
Virginia Borrows $1.26 billion To Pay Unemployment Benefits; Detroit Loses $400 Million on $800 Million of Bonds; Detroit's Easy Solution globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com 12/3/9 ["Virginia is robbing Peter to pay Paul because it is plain flat out broke. Bankrupt is probably a better word. To pay unemployment benefits, Virginia will borrow $1.26 billion and pay it back plus interest by jacking up unemployment taxes."]
Morgan Stanley fears UK sovereign debt crisis in 2010 telegraph.co.uk 12/3/9 ["The US investment bank said there is a danger Britain’s toxic mix of problems will come to a head as soon as next year, triggered by fears that Westminster may prove unable to restore fiscal credibility."]
More consumers late on auto loan payments in 3Q google.com 12/3/9 ["It's common for late payments to rise as the year progresses. Borrowers tend to fall behind as they focus on other spending, often getting back on track in the first and second quarters, when they can use income tax returns to bring their payments current."]
UAE central bank guarantees Dubai banks' debt to head off crash guardian.co.uk 12/2/9 ["The UAE central bank said it would guarantee the loans made by both local Arab banks and crucially, western institutions on reasonably generous terms."]
Dubai creditors fight for their money guardian.co.uk 12/2/9 ["The Dubai government has said it will not stand behind Dubai World, the holding company that asked for a delay in the payment of a $3.5bn (£2.1bn) bond due on 14 December. But it may be forced to change its position since it is the ultimate investor in the company, the source said. "It looks pretty complicated; it won't be sorted soon," the source said."]
Australia's Parliament defeats global warming bill google.com 12/2/9 ["Australia's Parliament defeated legislation to set up a greenhouse gas emissions trading system on Wednesday, throwing a central plank of the government's plans to combat global warming into disarray."]
WHO approves Glaxo's swine flu shot google.com 12/2/9 ["In a statement issued Tuesday, GlaxoSmithKline PLC said WHO had approved its Canadian vaccine after examining its quality and safety data. The vaccine contains an adjuvant, a chemical compound to boost the immune system."]
With glitz, EU marks start of Lisbon Treaty rules google.com 12/2/9 ["Top European Union officials attended a ceremony Tuesday to mark the coming into force of the Lisbon Treaty, which is designed to ensure the bloc has a more influential say in world affairs. ...The treaty features new rules to accelerate decision-making so that the EU can respond more swiftly to global issues such as defense, energy security, climate change and migration."]
EU Lisbon Treaty comes into force news.bbc.co.uk 12/2/9 ["One of the treaty's key areas is the removal of national vetoes in a number of areas. These include the fight against climate change, energy security and emergency aid. Unanimity will still be needed in tax, foreign policy, defence and social security. "]
Obama Makes History: Thanksgiving Proclamation First Ever to Omit Direct Mention of God lifesitenews.com 12/1/9 ["But Obama's historic decision to avoid directly mentioning God in the Thanksgiving proclamation doesn't necessarily come as a surprise. Earlier this year Obama similarly made history on Inaguration Day by explicitly referencing "non-believers" in his speech, which, according to USA Today, was the first time in history that a President had done so. Obama has also said on more than one occasion that the United States is "not a Christian nation." "]
Appeals briefs scheduled in Obama eligibility challenge wnd.com 12/1/9 ["A briefing schedule has been announced by the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in a case alleging Congress failed in its constitutional duties by refusing to investigate the eligibility of Barack Obama to be president, according to an attorney handling the challenge. "]
Supreme Court rejects case of valedictorian who mentioned Jesus csmonitor.com 12/1/9 ["A high school valedictorian argued that her free-speech rights were violated when she was forced to apologize to the student body for talking about Jesus in her graduation speech. The Supreme Court refused to hear the case Monday. "]
Benign neglect may turn the dollar from a safe haven to a dangerous place to be telegraph.co.uk 12/1/9 ["Last week, America's currency fell to a 15-month low against the euro, cutting through $1.5050."]
Tuck into some soggy pork, straight out of the test tube smh.com.au 12/1/9 [" Researchers in Holland have created what was described as ''soggy pork'' and are investigating ways to improve the muscle tissue in the hope that people will one day want to eat it."]