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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

   June2006 ARCHIVE

 

 The UN Plan For Global Migration.  Part II newswithviews.com 6/30/6 [By Berit Kjos ""All we need is the right major crisis," said David Rockefeller, "and the nations will accept the New World Order."[1]  Former President Bush echoed that assurance. "Out of these troubled times... a new world order can emerge,"[4] he told Congress in a 1990 message aptly titled "Toward a New World Order." Back then, the opportune crisis was the Gulf War. It helped build public acceptance for a global management system, which had already begun to replace American "rights" with global rules.  The pace of change has quickened since then. "]
 EU Calls for Elimination of National Boundaries and State Veto on Criminal Matters lifesite.net 6/30/6 ["The Times Online reports that the Commission said that it wanted to create a single pan-state “judicial area” by eliminating the right of member states to a veto on criminal matters. It proposes transferring decision-making powers to Brussels. The proposal would also govern the training of judges.
The Commission’s proposal would “lay down EU-wide rules on jurisdiction, procedural guarantees, presumption of innocence and on minimum standards for gathering of evidence,” and introduce “concrete measures to improve judicial training and the efficiency of justice systems.”"]
 Russia Test-Fires Ballistic Missile chron.com 6/30/6 ["Last week, Russia summoned North Korea's ambassador to express alarm that Pyongyang was apparently planning to launch a long-range missile, warning him of Moscow's opposition to any steps that would destabilize the region."]
 South Dakota Indian Tribe Impeaches President Over Abortion Center lifenews.com 6/30/6 ["The impeachment vote came after a day of testimony on both sides and a two hour private meeting of members of the council. This was the third attempt to impeach Fire Thunder, as she upset council members on other issues previously."]
 

 Israel holds Hamas leaders amid crisis ft.com 6/29/6 ["Mr Abbas asked the UN’s help in obtaining the release of dozens of lawmakers and cabinet ministers of the ruling Hamas movement who had been seized by the Israeli army earlier in the day."]
 UN rights forum adopts ban on "disappearances" reuters.com 6/29/6 ["The United Nations Human Rights Council on Thursday unanimously approved an international treaty that would ban states from abducting perceived enemies and hiding them in secret prisons or killing them.  ...It still has to be adopted in the U.N. General Assembly, and then individual governments would need to approve it. "]
 I'm On A Man Hunt newswithviews.com 6/29/6 ["We’re not looking for the mega-church pastors. They’re too busy selling books. We’re looking for those who have wandered in the wilderness and are shepherding a flock of 50, 100 or 300. For the men of God who care about this nation, who have not bought in to the lie of separation of church and state, men who don’t believe Romans 13 compels us to follow ungodly leaders or laws."]
 Supreme Court blocks Bush, Gitmo war trials news.yahoo.com 6/29/6 ["The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that President Bush overstepped his authority in ordering military war crimes trials for Guantanamo Bay detainees, saying in a strong rebuke that the trials were illegal under U.S. and international law."]
 Lawsuit Challenges Medicaid Requirement guardian.co.uk 6/29/6 ["A law that requires Medicaid beneficiaries to prove their citizenship before obtaining health benefits is unconstitutional and should not be allowed to take effect July 1, according to a class-action lawsuit filed Wednesday."]
 Ark. high court backs gay foster parents news.yahoo.com 6/29/6 ["because there is no link between their sexual orientation and a child's well-being, the state's high court ruled Thursday."]
 Mideast investors switching money from US turkishpress.com 6/29/6 ["Political tensions have encouraged Arab investors to shift from depositing oil profits in US investments to Europe, India and China, the head of Citigroup's emerging market bank said."]
 

 What To Do When Your Church Hits A Pothole newswithviews.com 6/28/6 ["Unfortunately, these promoters are now found in pulpits, in conferences, in bookstores and on big screens and stages encouraging Christians to, in effect, avoid "the old paths" their parents and grandparents walked; to instead fill their eyes and the eyes of others with all that the brave new world has to offer from the right and left, and call it "evangelism."  ...we're talking about a renowned Christian leader talking to brothers and sisters in Christ about the expendability of OTHER brothers and sisters in Christ who refuse to cooperate; as if his arrogant agenda is more important than their concerns, convictions, ministries and even their lives! This is the same person that told the Philadelphia Inquirer only weeks ago that Christian fundamentalism will be one of the big enemies of the 21st century!"]
 Russia 'to kill Iraq kidnappers' news.bbc.co.uk 6/28/6 ["the lower house of the Russian parliament approved a statement condemning the killings, and appearing to blame Iraq's "occupying powers".  "The whole responsibility for the situation in Iraq, including guaranteeing the security of its citizens, and also foreign specialists, as before lies on the occupying powers," the statement said "]
 Colorado Planned Parenthood to Give Away Free Morning After Pills lifenews.com 6/28/6 ["this Friday to mark its opposition to a measure Gov. Bill Owens vetoed that would have allowed women to get the Plan B drug without a prescription. Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains will give away the drug free at its 25 locations across the state."]
 Switzerland ready to order 'pre-pandemic' bird flu vaccine news.yahoo.com 6/28/6 ["Switzerland will order eight million doses of a new type of "pre-pandemic" vaccine designed to tackle the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu and other related variants, the government has said."]
 California Senate Committee Rejects Measure to Legalize Assisted Suicide lifenews.com 6/28/6 ["The measure would have allowed doctors to prescribe lethal barbiturates for patients who are declared terminally ill and have less than six months to live. Patients would have had to undergo psychological examinations and waited two weeks after the request to take the drugs.  Dunn said he opposed the bill because he worried lawmakers would come back in future legislative sessions and expand assisted suicide by allowing patients who are not terminally ill to kill themselves as well."]
 Thousands attend Chicago's 'Gay Pride Parade' abclocal.go.com 6/28/6 [""The Gay Pride Parade" is Chicago's second largest parade with 250 units and over 400,000 people on the street."]
 

 Canadians to Create “Fresh” Human Embryos for Research Purposes lifesite.net 6/27/6 ["he National Post reports that the project has been approved with a $523,000 budget. It will be led by researchers in Toronto and will involve teams in Vancouver and Hamilton. The goal is to cultivate embryonic stem cells both from embryos ‘left over’ and frozen after IVF treatments and to create in vitro embryos specifically to be killed for their cells."]
 Israel masses forces near Gaza news.yahoo.com 6/27/6 ["At Nizmit Hill, just across from northern Gaza, around 100 Israeli tanks and armored personnel carriers faced the coastal strip. Officials have not said when thousands of troops on standby might go in.  Israel has shut Gaza's crossings and rejected militant demands to free Palestinian prisoners in exchange for information about Shalit."]
 Singing To The Choir newswithviews.com 6/27/6 [by Nancy Levant  "The proof positive that Americans could care less is most prominently demonstrated by the fact that most parents still send their children into public education camps to ensure their children’s social-global re-engineering.  ...For what can they possibly say besides, “I did nothing, whatsoever, for the future of my children.”"]
 US capital first to try to test entire city for HIV news.yahoo.com 6/27/6 ["The six-month effort was expected to cost some eight million dollars to test as many of Washington's 560,000 residents as possible."]
 Controversial Organ Donation Method Begins in Canada lifesite.net 6/27/6 ["Organs Extracted 5 Minutes after Heart Stops  ...One of the major ethical problems with the procedure is that there are cases where the heart has recommenced beating and circulation after five minutes of stoppage; another is that the stoppage of the heart is caused by the removal or the ventilator."]
 Bush Ignores Laws He Inks, Vexing Congress abcnews.go.com 6/27/6 ["President Bush's frequent use of special statements that claim authority to limit the effects of bills he signs, saying the statements help him uphold the Constitution and defend national security.  ...Some 110 statements have challenged about 750 statutes passed by Congress, according to numbers combined from White House and the Senate committee. They include documents revising or disregarding parts of legislation to ban torture of detainees and to renew the Patriot Act.  ...In his presidency's sixth year, Bush has yet to issue a single veto"]
 

 Serving Two Masters newswithviews.com 6/26/6 ["National Guard troops serve two masters, and both have been very demanding. The Pentagon tasks guardsmen to meet national force requirements. The Governor tasks guardsmen in the event of statewide emergency (earthquakes, floods, fires, civil disturbance etc.).  ...The Bush plan, which called for putting Guardsmen on border duty instead of their annual two- and three-week training exercises, was, and is, counter-intuitive, and a flat out bad idea.  Mission oriented training is imperative to all reserve component units."]
 Gay Pride Parades Held Across Nation abcnews.go.com 6/26/6 [Isa 3:9 "The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves. "]
 Bars make for rough neighborhoods reuters.com 6/26/6 ["A six-year study of hospital admissions in California shows that the more bars there are in a neighborhood, the higher the rates of assault."  Editor: Image that. Surprise, surprise. "Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?  They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine."  Proverbs 23:29-30]
 Top court upholds Kansas death penalty law reuters.com 6/26/6 ["The justices by a 5-4 vote overturned a Kansas Supreme Court ruling that declared the state's death-penalty law unconstitutional for violating protections against cruel and unusual punishment."  Gen 9:6 "Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man. "]
 Supreme Court to Hear Key Environment Case nytimes.com 6/26/6 ["The Supreme Court agreed Monday to consider whether the Bush administration must regulate carbon dioxide to combat global warming, setting up what could be one of the court's most important decisions on the environment.  The decision means the court will address whether the administration's decision to rely on voluntary measures to combat climate change are legal under federal clean air laws."]
 U.S. firefighters in Mexico as American West burns worldnetdaily.com 6/26/6 ["the state of California sent more than four dozen firefighters 300 miles south of the U.S. border to battle blazes in Mexico.  ...Under longstanding agreements through the Border Agency Fire Council response agreements are in place for assistance for one mile over each side of the border.  ...again, it's the good ol' USA taxpayer footing the bill for Mexicans in their own country."]
 Don't Fall For The Bunkum Of "Emergency Powers" newswithviews.com 6/26/6 ["The modern doctrine of “emergency powers” is striking because—unlike the authority of the ancient Roman Senate to appoint a dictator—“emergency powers” lack both a specific source in the Constitution and a definition. Obviously, if the Constitution contained a clause explicitly delegating to Congress “emergency powers,” delineating the content of such powers, and setting out specific conditions under which they could be exercised, by whom, and for what purposes, no one could complain.  ...First, the modern doctrine of “emergency powers” negates constitutionalism in general. By definition, a “constitution” is a charter of defined and therefore limited government . In contrast, the doctrine of “emergency powers” is an apology for undefined and therefore unlimited government."]
 Malaysia to ban "designer babies", minister says news.yahoo.com 6/26/6 ["except for medical reasons as it fears the selection method may disrupt the ratio of males and females in the country.  ...Sex selection is, however, allowed if a particular sex predisposes a serious genetic condition."]
 China Will Not Ban Sex-Selection Abortions Despite Gender Imbalance lifenews.com 6/26/6 ["ven though sex-selection abortions have contributed to a stark gender imbalance that is creating a host of social problems. The nation's state-owned media reported the plan to scrap the idea.  China now has 119 boys for ever 100 girls, a gender imbalance that is far from the normal 103-100 ratio seen in industrialized nations across the globe. The imbalance has given rise to a culture of massive sex-trafficking and the kidnapping of teenagers and young adults to be forced into marriage."]
 

 'Pink Saturday' draws crowds on Europe's streets mg.co.za 6/25/6 ["Gay and lesbian people took to the streets of European cities on Saturday in a mass demonstration of pride, in numbers varying from a couple of hundred in Zagreb to hundreds of thousands in Paris."]
 Rain Can't Dim N.Y. Gay Pride Parade guardian.co.uk 6/25/6 ["Tens of thousands of raucous parade-goers braved a steady downpour and lined Fifth Avenue on Sunday for the annual gay pride parade  ...It was one of several gay pride parades around the country this weekend, including a similar-size one in San Francisco."]
 Philippines abolishes death penalty abc.net.au 6/25/6 ["The Philippines is plagued by violent crime with guns readily available and used in even minor disputes."]
 Brussels: Children to be given electronic identity cards gulfnews.com 6/25/6 ["Electronic identity cards for all children under 12 are to be introduced in Belgium. They will bear a code designed to allow parents of missing children to be traced instantly."]
 


 Would God The Son Contradict The Father? newswithviews.com 6/24/6 ["Most people, including some Christians, don’t have a clue what Jesus did or did not say on any given subject, let alone what he thought about same-sex practices, so they fall for the “Jesus never mentioned homosexuality” lie, hook, line and sinker."]
 GOP Candidate's Call for Labor Camp Rebuked abcnews.go.com 6/24/6 ["he wanted to hold undocumented immigrants in camps to use them "as labor in the construction of a wall and to clean the areas of the Arizona desert that they're polluting."  ...Goldwater, a candidate for governor in Arizona"]
 Bush executive order limits property seizure worldnetdaily.com 6/24/6 ["President Bush issued an executive order preventing federal agencies from seizing private property except for public projects such as hospitals or roads.  ...Doug Kendall, executive director of the Community Rights Counsel, said he's not aware of any federal government agency that takes property for economic development.  "It's an effort to appease the property rights base, while ignoring the difficult question of when eminent domain should be used to help  downtrodden communities"]
 US scientists back autism link to MMR telegraph.co.uk 6/24/6 ["The findings will spark fresh concern about MMR, because they back theories of a causal link between the jab, autism and painful gut disorders suffered by a number of autistic children."]
 

 Pre-1991 Iraqi weapons said a threat to US troops alertnet.org 6/23/6 ["intelligence officials denied Republican suggestions that 500 chemical munitions found since May 2004 are the elusive weapons of mass destruction the Bush administration used to justify the 2003 Iraq invasion."]
 Miss. mayor declares emergency over crime news.yahoo.com 6/23/6 ["said he would institute the emergency conditions for at least 30 days, until "the community tells me they feel they are safe and secure."  State law only lets mayors declare an emergency for five days, and City Council members have questioned whether Melton can declare an emergency and require new curfews without their approval.  ...said last week that he wanted to declare a state of emergency and bring in the Mississippi National Guard, similar to what New Orleans"]
 U.S. Senate votes to fully back U.N. peacekeeping news.yahoo.com 6/23/6 ["An amendment tucked into a defense policy bill that the Senate passed on Thursday would raise the cap for U.S. dues from the current 25-percent share of the U.N. peacekeeping budget set by Congress to the 27 percent the United Nations has said Washington owes."]
 Treasury defends secret surveillance program reuters.com 6/23/6 ["For nearly five years since the Sept. 11 2001 terror attacks, Treasury has been tapping into records of the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications (SWIFT) for evidence of potential activity by terror groups."]
 Study: 25% of Americans have no one to confide in usatoday.com 6/23/6 ["The chief suspects: More people live in the suburbs and spend more time at work, Putnam says, leaving less time to socialize or join groups.  Also, people have more entertainment tools such as TV, iPods and computers, so they can stay home and tune out."]
 Border-area health conditions 'a crisis,' medical experts say chron.com 6/23/6 ["If the 24 U.S. counties along the Mexican border were combined into the nation's 51st state, it would be among the poorest and least healthy in the United States, according to lawmakers and health experts who spoke at a border health conference on Thursday."]
 

 First Bill Restricting Abortion Tabled in Canada Under Conservative Government lifesite.net 6/22/6 ["noting that Canada was one of the only countries in the world with absolutely no protection for the unborn in law whatsoever. The bill would restrict abortion after twenty weeks gestation; currently in Canada abortions are performed at tax-payer expense up to birth."]
 China Pleased After Watching U.S. Wargames forbes.com 6/22/6 ["Chinese military observers said Thursday that observing U.S. military exercises in the Pacific this week gave them a better understanding of U.S. weapons and tactics.  ...It was the first time a delegation from China had been invited to officially observe U.S. maneuvers in the Pacific  ...Dubbed "Valiant Shield," the exercises brought three carriers together in the Pacific for the first time since the Vietnam War. Some 30 ships, 280 aircraft and 22,000 troops participated in the five-day war games"]
 Economist: Chinese One-Child Policy Killing the Country Economically lifesite.net 6/22/6 ["The country’s one-child policy, initiated in 1979 to offset what was seen as an overpopulation problem, will reduce the country’s labour force by 10 percent by 2030.  ...will put the country at a disadvantage when compared to other Asian countries that still have normal population growth rates."]
 Hundreds of WMDs discovered in Iraq worldnetdaily.com 6/22/6 ["does not reflect a capacity that was built up after 1991"  Editor: red herring.  These are leftovers from the Iran war.  I'm sure we could find 'weapons' caches in Vietnam leftover from the wars if we looked hard enough.]
 Arizona to vote on official language news.yahoo.com 6/22/6 ["The two measures approved late Wednesday, at the close of a 164-day session, will go on the November ballot.  One would bar illegal immigrants from receiving state-funded child care assistance, attending adult education classes and getting cheaper in-state tuition and financial assistance at the state's public universities and community colleges."]
 Schwarzenegger to help raise money for gay Republicans group nctimes.com 6/22/6 ["The June 29 fundraiser for Log Cabin Republicans comes as Schwarzenegger considers whether to veto a bill that would require chapters from gay history to be added to public school text books in California. The governor already has indicated he opposes the measure."]
 

 Global trade deal still possible, say Bush and EU reuters.com 6/21/6 ["Negotiators from around the world will meet in Geneva from June 29 to seek a deal on two pillars of the round -- lowering barriers to trade for agricultural and industrial goods.  ...The EU says it could go further than previously announced with its agricultural import tariff cuts and the onus is now on the United States to further slash subsidies it pays farmers."]
 US House clears $427.6 billion for Pentagon abcnews.go.com 6/21/6 ["after rejecting a bid by Democrats to force the Bush administration to get court orders for its domestic surveillance program."]
 Summer solstice greeted at Stonehenge news.yahoo.com 6/21/6 ["About 19,000 New Agers, present-day druids and partygoers gathered inside and around the ancient circle of towering stones to greet the longest day in the northern hemisphere as the sun struggled to peek out against a smoky gray sky."]
 Gay Games add sponsors chicagotribune.com 6/21/6 [" ESPN and Gatorade have signed on as sponsors  ...About 11,500 people have registered to compete in the weeklong sports and cultural event-which takes place every four years-and organizers expect up to 100,000 people to attend.  ...[mayor] Daley praised Chicago's gay community for its accomplishments and showed his political solidarity with the gay cause, vowing to "come back with a candidate to bring the White House to where we want it in the future."  Daley said the Gay Games will be "a time when we can really show what Chicago is all about.""]
 Dropout rates dwarf exit exam failures mercurynews.com 6/21/6 ["Nearly a third of students in California and across the country walk away from high school without a diploma, according to a new report published by Education Week. That dwarfs the 2 to 5 percent who failed to graduate this year statewide because they failed the exit exam."]
 Three million babies born after fertility treatment reuters.com 6/21/6 ["since the birth of the first IVF child nearly three decades ago  ...fertility clinics are moving toward transferring only one embryo into the womb during treatment to reduce the number of multiple births."  Flashback: About 170,000 IVF Embryo Deaths Per Year In U.S. lifesite.net "The statistics from the Centers for Disease Control indicate that in 1999, some 21,501 children were born using assisted reproductive techniques (ART). In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) accounts for 73.5% of the ART methods. In order to achieve the 21,501 births, 86,822 ART cycles were reported wherein on average 3 embryos are transferred per cycle."]
 S.F. unveils universal health care plan news.yahoo.com 6/21/6 ["offer health care to any adult resident, regardless of immigration or employment status, under a plan announced Tuesday.  The plan, which still needs be approved..."]
 

 Sudan rules out UN force as S.Africa's Mbeki visits reuters.com 6/20/6 ["Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir ruled out letting U.N. troops into the Darfur region, saying he would not permit such a deployment as long as he was in power, the state news agency said on Tuesday."]
 South Dakota Abortion Ban Delayed: Will Go to Public Vote lifesite.net 6/20/6 ["Voters in South Dakota will decide if the law banning almost all abortions in the state will stand or be overturned, after opponents of the legislation gathered enough signatures to force a public vote on the issue."]
 Bush 'super-state' documents sought worldnetdaily.com 6/20/6 ["request yesterday asking for full disclosure of the activities of an office implementing a trilateral agreement with Mexico and Canada that apparently could lead to a North American union, despite having no authorization from Congress."]
 The Zero Tolerance Militarized Police State infowars.com 6/20/6 ["Curfews are also to be enforced in addition to the militarized patrols, a flagrant abuse of posse comitatus and a frothing over-reaction to a handful of murders."]
 National Guard arrives in New Orleans news.yahoo.com 6/20/6 ["The troops, dressed in full camouflage fatigues, carried M-16s, handguns and belt clips of ammunition as they arrived in a convoy of 75 vehicles. They parked their Humvees and tanker trucks in formation in front of the Convention Center, drawing waves and thumbs-up from onlookers.  Up to 200 more Guardsmen will be sent in later, bringing the total in the city to 300. In addition, 60 state police officers were sent to help keep the peace.  ...People down here didn't want us to leave — they felt very safe."]
Tech creates a bubble for kids usatoday.com 6/20/6 [""They seem to have a lot of trouble with the concept of putting your best foot forward," she says.  ...If you grow up in a culture that says it's all about you, it's hard to think it isn't." "]
 


 La. governor to summon National Guard news.yahoo.com 6/19/6 ["It was the first time the National Guard has been used for law enforcement in the United States since the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina."]
 SAO PAULO, Brazil: Gay parade draws 2.4 million cnn.com 6/19/6 ["Some dressed as Batman. Others turned themselves into Elvis Presley, Cinderella, U.S. Marines, Marie Antoinette and the lead characters of the movie "Brokeback Mountain" about two gay cowboys.  ...The march came two days after police said about 3 million people joined an evangelical Protestant rally on the same Sao Paulo avenue, demonstrating their growing influence in the world's largest Roman Catholic country.  The evangelicals and the Catholic church strongly oppose calls for a nationwide law permitting civil unions between same-sex couples."]
 Eugenic Abortion Explosion Feared as New Test Will Screen Embryos for 6,000 Diseases lifesite.net 6/19/6 ["Researchers are hailing the study as a breakthrough, saying it will allow parents to ensure they bear a healthy child. But religious leaders and life advocates have condemned the technology as immoral since it leads to the death of thousands of “discarded” embryos. Although the technology could conceivably lead to increasingly advanced in-utero treatments for children conceived with treatable diseases, similar technology is rarely used for this purpose. The vast majority of detectable diseases are untreatable in the womb, and instead the detection procedures usually lead to the abortion of the potentially unhealthy unborn child."]
 A green light for blasphemy usatoday.com 6/19/6 ["The Da Vinci Code  ...And, true, I almost was seduced by the evangelical leaders who said that I should go see this movie because it would be a convenient way into a discussion of Christianity with non-believers who also had seen it.  But instead, I ended up being much more impressed by the spine displayed by the Catholic Church on this issue: Don't go see it because it is blasphemy  ...It's "a flaming contradiction to what the Gospels say about Jesus, undermining his deity and his ministry, relegating his significance to the earthbound"]
 Scotland to Indoctrinate School Children with Anti-Homophobia Education lifesite.net 6/19/6 ["Scotland’s government is considering recommendations that primary school children should be given “anti-homophobia” classes, and a buddy system set up to offer protection against bullying for children who say they are gay."]
 

 Proposal for UN Standing Army Would See UN Head Trumping Security Council lifesite.net 6/18/6 ["A book launched at the United Nations headquarters today proposes a permanent standing UN army with "rapid reaction capability" under the sole direct command of the UN. The proposals stem from A United Nations Emergency Peace Service to Prevent Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity, envisioning a standing UN army that would "take action to prevent war and dire threats to human security and human rights" within 48 hours of UN authorization."]
 Police launch eye-in-the-sky technology above Los Angeles news.yahoo.com 6/18/6 ["Sam De La Torre, designer of the drone at Octatron Industries, has been working on the project for two years and has seen demand from other police forces. "The Los Angeles Police Department has signed on as well," he said. "It's the wave of the future." ...But police say that such privacy concerns are unwarranted because surveillance is already ubiquitous. "You shouldn't be worried about being spied on by your government," said Heal. "These days you can't go anywhere without a camera watching you whether you're in a grocery store or walking down the street.""]
Schoolhouse Philosophy newswithviews.com 6/18/6 ["Sex education has become 95% instruction and 5% abstinence. The “how to” instruction only desensitizes young students to immediately want to experiment with their newly found knowledge. But, they are not equipped with the knowledge of the dangers of adolescent sex and their morals are at risk of being totally destroyed.  Laptop computers are destined to be in the hands of every 7th and 8th grader. This will prevent mom and dad from snooping through their books to see what Johnny is reading….or to know if he even can read at this level.  ...Technology is the only knowledge some students have. They know every video game, all about computers, MP3 and Ipod gadgets, but if you shut off the electricity they are in big trouble and would have no idea how to entertain themselves unless they went to the mall."]
 Carl Jung: Psychologist Or Sorcerer? newswithviews.com 6/18/6 ["Carl Jung was a “spiritual thinker” who offered Western culture a way back to religion that places no shame on being human. Spiritual teacher, codependency therapist and author, Robert Burney, agrees with Jung: “We are not sinful, shameful human creatures who have to somehow earn Spirituality. We are Spiritual Beings having a human experience."  ...Jung was considered a “spiritual thinker,” albeit his lofty ideas came from Eastern mysticism, not Christianity or Judaism. The man was no ordinary psychologist by any stretch. Actually, he thought of himself as a “spiritist.”  ...Carl Jung has been called the “Father of Neo-Gnosticism and the New Age Movement” and rightly so. Dr. Satinover comments, "One of the most powerful modern forms of Gnosticism is without question Jungian psychology, both within or without the Church.""]
 Japan warns N.Korea amid signs missile test imminent reuters.com 6/18/6 ["The Yonhap news agency quoted him as saying that Monday marks the 42nd anniversary of the start of leader Kim Jong-il's career at the central committee of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea, and people were urged to watch television on June 18 last year."]
 Ark.: Gay foster parents ban protects kids news.yahoo.com 6/18/6 [""]
 Canada: Gay guarantee for provincial curriculum canada.com 6/18/6 ["British Columbia is giving a same-sex couple an unprecedented role in a review of the provincial curriculum to ensure respectful teachings about sexual orientation from kindergarten to Grade 12.  ...guarantees Peter and Murray Corren a significant voice in the revision of classroom lessons to recognize gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered people and the creation of a new social-justice course -- to include teachings about sexual orientation -- for Grade 12 students."]
 Brainwashing The Children: A Global Effort. Part 2 newswithviews.com 6/18/6 ["What’s happening to our young people down to the smallest member of a nursery school class is part of the most diabolical plan ever created by the ruling elites. Our children are not just part of a systematic plan to destroy their minds; they’re part of a plan to steal their souls for eternity. "]
 New Jersey Looking to Harvest More Organs by Easing "Brain Death" Criteria lifesite.net 6/18/6 ["The New Jersey State Board of Medical Examiners wants to change the rules to allow just one physician to declare brain death. In addition, the rule that currently requires at least one of the two required physicians declaring “brain death” to be a neurologist or neurosurgeon would also be eliminated. The New Jersey Star Ledger reports that under the proposed rules any doctor given the privileges by a hospital could declare a patient brain dead."]
 

 European Union Approves Funding Embryonic Stem Cell Research lifenews.com 6/14/6 ["The vote means small share of the EU funding for science projects in their 2007-2013 budget will be allocated to embryonic stem cell research. It spends $64.3 billion on various scientific projects and programs as well as health-related issues."]
 Denmark proposes transatlantic marketplace ahead of EU-US summit euobserver.com 6/14/6 [" Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the Danish liberal prime minister, has unveiled an ambitious proposal for the world's two biggest economies to form a free trade zone.  During a visit to the US, where he addressed the Berkeley, University of California, Mr Fogh Rasmussen suggested the creation of a "transatlantic marketplace without barriers to trade and investment."]
 Baptist leaders reject school-exit plan seattletimes.nwsource.com 6/14/6 ["came as many of the nation's 16.2 million Southern Baptists are concerned about how classrooms are handling topics such as homosexuality and intelligent design."  Proverbs 13:20 He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed. ]
 Officials sued over phone records access news.yahoo.com 6/14/6 ["The unusual filing in U.S. District Court in Trenton, N.J., is the latest effort by federal authorities to halt legal proceedings aimed at revealing whether and how often AT&T, Verizon and other phone companies have provided customer records to the NSA without a court order."]
 Bush Administration Quietly Plans NAFTA Super Highway humaneventsonline.com 6/14/6 ["North America SuperCorridor Coalition Inc.,  ...has received $2.5 million in earmarks from the U.S. Department of Transportation to plan the NAFTA Super Highway as a 10-lane limited-access road (five lanes in each direction) plus passenger and freight rail lines running alongside pipelines laid for oil and natural gas. One glance at the map of the NAFTA Super Highway on the front page of the NASCO website will make clear that the design is to connect Mexico, Canada, and the U.S. into one transportation system."]
 

 Wealthy go to U.S. to choose baby's sex news.yahoo.com 6/13/6 ["The United States' lack of regulation means a growing global market for a few fertility clinics. These businesses advertise in airline magazines or post Web sites aimed at luring clients worldwide.  ...Foes call it "consumer eugenics" and say it opens the door to a future where parents will choose their babies' hair color, eye color and potential to grow tall enough to play basketball. U.S. doctors are catering to the same gender bias that has led to female infanticide in China and India, opponents said.  ...The client decides whether unused embryos will be frozen, donated for research or destroyed."]
 California Bill to Legalize Assisted Suicide Gets Hearing Next Week lifenews.com 6/13/6 ["It is based on the Oregon law, which would allow physicians to prescribe lethal narcotics that would kill patients. Two doctors must certify the patient has six months or less left to live.  Berg, a former Planned Parenthood abortion business founder, says the measure is needed because terminally ill people should be allow to kill themselves if they no longer want to live.  Last year a measure to legalize the grisly practice never made it out of committee as some Democrats joined Republicans in opposing the measure."]
 Poland Strikes Back Against Homosexual Education: Fires Teacher Responsible lifesite.net 6/13/6 ["On June 9th, the Polish Minister of Education, Roman Giertych, officially dismissed the Director of Polish In-Service Teachers, Miroslaw Sielatycki, for publishing Compass: a manual on human rights education with young people, and is now considering banning its distribution and sale."]
 There Is A Dark Cloud Over America newswithviews.com 6/13/6 ["Two engineered world wars, the Great Depression that brought about cries for socialistic government "reforms" and the obliteration of a free market society have steadily pinched America into a place of incalculable debt, loss of personal freedom, a service-oriented economy for most workers, and a false sense of confidence in our ability to bounce back from short periods of recession.  ...no one owns their home as their property, free and clear. The mortgage may be paid off, but property taxes, assessments for roads and other government fees and taxes turn into a form of rental to remain in one's own home or lose it to the taxing authority!"]
 

 House passes $94.5 billion for wars, hurricanes reuters.com 6/12/6 ["U.S. border security agencies also would get more money this year to control illegal immigration along the southwest border, as would government planning for a possible avian flu pandemic."]
 Iraq tells UN it wants multinational force to stay news.yahoo.com 6/12/6 ["wants the U.S.-led multinational force to remain in place for now as Iraqi troops and police are not yet ready to ensure security on their own."]
 Violent Crime on Rise in Big U.S. Cities abcnews.go.com 6/12/6 ["Nationally, murders rose 4.8 percent, meaning there were more than 16,900 victims in 2005. That would be the most since 1998 and the largest percentage increase in 15 years."]
 The UN Plan For Global Migration newswithviews.com 6/12/6 ["It took the Second World War to make the new system acceptable to the people. In the wake of that useful crisis, the masses willingly embraced the UN promise of "economic and social advancement of all" under the guiding hand of the new "international machinery."  In the decades that followed, most people seemed to dismiss UN treaties and declarations as "soft laws" and policies with little effect on national sovereignty. They didn't know the many ways UN declarations would permeate national laws and policies. The mainstream media didn't tell us. So when the "The Global Commission on International Migration was launched by the United Nations Secretary-General and a number of governments on December 9, 2003," few saw the red lights."]
 FDA Rejects Abortion Group Petition to Have Morning After Pill Over the Counter lifesite.net 6/12/6 ["For five years, the radically pro-abortion lobby group, the Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR), has been petitioning the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to allow the abortifacient morning after pill, Plan B, to be dispensed as an over-the-counter drug without a doctor’s prescription or supervision. Now the FDA has announced that the petition has been rejected."]
 Australia Strikes Down Law Recognizing Same-Sex Unions lifesite.net 6/12/6 ["The ACT voted last month to grant civil union status to same-sex couples, effectively giving them access to all of the rights and benefits granted to married couples, but stopping just short of bestowing the term "marriage."  The Prime Minister said last week that the ACT's law was an attempt to undermine the 2004 Federal Marriage Act that formally defined marriage as a union between a man and a woman."]
 Mayo Clinic Tells Women No Link Between Abortion and Breast Cancer lifenews.com 6/12/6 ["The Mayo Clinic response also ignored the results of the most recent study, where researchers at the German Cancer Research Center found a woman's risk of contracting breast cancer is lowered and the decrease is more substantial the more pregnancies a woman has had. "]
 

 Truly Inconvenient Truth newswithviews.com 6/12/6 ["He referenced the UN report. The summary doesn’t say ‘Jack’ about weather satellites collecting data about the atmosphere. One would think that weather satellites are the most important data gathering instruments we have. It is the only thing that collects data on a worldwide basis. The fact that satellites are collecting data is not even mentioned. You know why? Because the satellite data shows that the atmosphere is NOT warming. THAT is why is not even mentioned. And yes, that is a for real empirical ‘inconvenient truth.’"]
 Missouri Black Leaders Back Human Cloning, Embryonic Research Initiative lifenews.com 6/12/6 ["Hundreds of African American medical, community and religious leaders have banded together to support a November ballot initiative that would have the state back human cloning and embryonic stem cell research. However the use of adult stem cells has shown the most success in treating conditions that affect black Americans.  ...One in every 400 African American babies has sickle cell disease, which decreases life expectancy by 25 to 30 years. Yet, adult stem cells have proven successful in treating sickle cell disease, for example."]
 New wars swell ranks of lost vets thestate.com 6/12/6 ["Like the Vietnam vets before them, many suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder. But this time, it's not just the front line troops who are fighting demons.  "In Iraq, everyone was susceptible to roadside bombs, not just the combat troops," said J.B. White, an Iraq vet who runs the HOPE for New Veterans program for the Manhattan-based social service agency Common Ground. "Everybody is exposed to trauma there.""]
 Ohio Bill Banning Abortions Gets State Legislative Hearing on Tuesday lifenews.com 6/12/6 ["a measure sponsored by State Rep. Tom Brinkman, a Cincinnati Republican, which would prohibit all abortions there.  The measure, which has 17 co-sponsors, goes further than abortions bans in South Dakota and Louisiana, by prohibiting abortions in every circumstance -- including those in very rare situations to save the life of the mother.  The bill would also make it a crime to take someone to another state for a legal abortion."]
 Abortion raises question of what might have been kansascity.com 6/12/6 ["Since abortion was legalized in 1973, estimates are that about 50 million of them have been performed in the United States.  Of that number, relatively few have been owing to fetal defects as compared to lifestyle concerns, according to an Alan Guttmacher Institute study.  ...If we don’t want to grant life to those afflicted with small deformities, where do we set the bar for “good enough”?"]
 Supreme Court allows appeal of death by injection news.yahoo.com 6/12/6 ["in a move that could slow the pace of capital punishment in the United States.  ...is challenging death by injection on the grounds that this method of execution can cause excruciating pain and suffering, thereby violating the constitutional prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment.  ...The death penalty is currently on the books in 38 US states. Statistics show a 50 percent decline in the number of death sentences since the late 1990s and a drop of 40 percent in executions since they peaked at 98 in 1999."]
 Global Integration newswithviews.com 6/12/6 ["the goal of global "integration" on the part of the Bush administration. This was also the goal of the Clinton administration and of the power elite in general. Their plan has been globally to integrate regional economic arrangements and then advocate their management by a World Socialist Government."]
 

 Judge may decide if eavesdropping is legal reuters.com 6/11/6 [""It is very clear that when the framers (of the Constitution) set up the three branches of government they gave Congress the power to regulate what the president can do even during wartime and emergencies."]
 California College Doing Human Cloning, Embryonic Research Gets $16M Gift lifenews.com 6/11/6 ["The center will be renamed and called the Institute for Regeneration Medicine to get away from the politically charged term stem cell research. ...This is the second time Dolby has fronted funds for the controversial research. Last year he gave the state's stem cell research agency $5 million to pay its bills. "]
 LA Pride Parade Draws Thousands nbc4.tv 6/11/6 ["Tens of thousands of people jammed Santa Monica Boulevard on Sunday for the 36th annual LA Pride Parade celebrating the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender communities."]
 

 FDA Task Force Releases RFID Recommendations news.yahoo.com 6/10/6 ["The report recommends that the FDA remove its "hold" on its so-called pedigree act, reinstating the 2007 deadline for those in the pharmaceutical supply chain to implement some form of electronic tracking technology, be that RFID, bar codes or a combination of both."]
 Brainwashing The Children: A Global Effort newswithviews.com 6/10/6 ["It also explains the CFR choice of the Clintons for White House occupancy for eight long and demoralizing years. Their role was to drag this nation into the same abyss that Ahab and Jezebel succeeded in doing to the ancient Hebrews—moral and sexual squalor.  ...Indeed, New World Orderism—or call it communism, liberalism, fascism, totalitarianism, Satanism—is the antithesis of godliness; and if we don’t stop those who want to destroy and/or corrupt the children, two generations will be stolen from us. When they grow up, they will become the most depraved leaders this nation has ever suffered."]
 Gay pair celebrate landmark decision thestar.com 6/10/6 ["It was three years ago today when the Ontario Court of Appeal ordered marriage licences be issued to same-sex couples, paving the way for the rest of the country to do the same.  Since then, more than 10,000 same-sex marriages have taken place across the country, in every province and territory."]
 Survey: 24 percent between 18-50 tattooed news.yahoo.com 6/10/6 ["The results suggest that 24 percent of Americans between 18 and 50 are tattooed; that's almost one in four. Two surveys from 2003 suggested just 15 percent to 16 percent of U.S. adults had a tattoo.  "Really, nowadays, the people who don't have them are becoming the unique ones,"  ...About one in seven people surveyed reported having a piercing anywhere other than in the soft lobe of the ear  ..The survey also found that what your mother may have told you about who has tattoos is true: People who drink, do drugs, have been jailed or forgo religion are more likely to be tattooed."]
 

 South Dakota Churches Must Be Careful on Abortion Vote, IRS Says lifenews.com 6/9/6 ["warning churches in South Dakota not to overstep their bounds when it comes to a campaign against a likely November ballot initiative to overturn the state's abortion ban."]
 New York County First to Order Recognition of Gay “Marriages” lifesite.net 6/9/6 ["Under the county order, only couples married in a state or country where homosexual marriages are legal will be recognized. Villages and towns within the county will not be forced to recognize same-sex marriages, and the order will have no bearing on state or federal policies toward homosexual couples."]
 Tucson Schools Considering RFID BusPass rfidjournal.com 6/9/6 ["In the Tucson Unified School District (TUSD), one of the nation's largest school systems, some students might be carrying RFID-enabled ID cards as soon as next fall. The TUSD is testing a system called BusPass. Designed by Tucson-based Gateway Communications, BusPass combines RFID and a global positioning system (GPS) to track when and where students board each school bus, and where and when they get off. "]
 'Islamic indoctrination' taken to Supreme Court worldnetdaily.com 6/9/6 ["A public-interest legal group is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review a decision by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals allowing a California public school to engage in a three-week intensive course for 7th graders on how to "become Muslims.""]
 $63M in 'Profit' Not Enough for Planned Parenthood; It Wants More from Feds agapepress.org 6/9/6 ["...since 1987, PPFA has received a total of $3.9 billion in taxpayers' money -- and has ended the lives of more than 3.8 million babies. "It is absolutely incredible that, in these days of natural disasters and homeland security threats, our federal, state, and local governments would fund this controversial organization to the tune of nearly $4 billion  ...they put more and more money into their brand of sex education and vehemently fight against abstinence sex education."  ...Planned Parenthood only benefits financially from youth who are sexually active."]
 

 Dead Faith newswithviews.com 6/8/6 [by Coach Dave Daubenmire  "Spiritual welfare, living off of the efforts of others. That is how most Christians live out their faith. Church is the one place you can be a member and never have to do anything. It is sort of like a Greyhound bus. Get your ticket to Heaven, and “leave the driving to us.”  ...Stephen, the nameless Saints of Hebrews 11, and those martyred for their stand for Christ will all look your way.  So, tell us your story. What did you do when you were on earth?"]
 Hague call for Euro-US trade zone bbc.co.uk 6/8/6 [" But he warned Europe's prosperity "depends on free trade", and that while globalisation creates understandable fears among member states, "protectionists are undermining the EU's prime purpose".  "I have been surprised by the breadth of support across Europe for a transatlantic free trade area," he said.  "It is a logical extension to the single market. If we think that removing barriers to trade within Europe is a good thing - removing the transatlantic barriers would be even better." "]
 Harry Potter author voted best British writer news.yahoo.com 6/8/6 ["named as the greatest living British author, beating weighty talents such as Salman Rushdie and playwright Harold Pinter.  ...A poll by The Book Magazine collected three times as many votes for Rowling than the second-placed name"]
 States looking to cash in assets news.yahoo.com 6/8/6 ["foreign investors like government assets in this country  ...Government watchdogs say they support many of the asset sales but worry that some states plan to use the money to start expensive programs that will need money long after the original cash is gone."]
 

 Gay-marriage amendment fails in Senate news.yahoo.com 6/7/6 ["but Republicans planned a vote in the House of Representatives to keep a national spotlight on the hot-button issue."]
 Scientists at California University Also Engaging in Human Cloning for Research lifenews.com 6/7/6 ["Like researchers at Harvard, the UCSF scientists will use private funding to obtain human eggs from fertility clinics for their studies. Led by Renee Reijo Pera, the research team will attempt to clone a human embryo from the eggs and destroy the days-old unborn children they may create for their stem cells."]
 Philippine lawmakers abolish death penalty news.ft.com 6/7/6 ["Philippine lawmakers have abolished the death penalty but elation among human rights advocates has been muted by the rise in extra-judicial killings of anti-government activists, journalists and suspected criminals."]
 Informed consent waived in public crisis news.yahoo.com 6/7/6 ["In a public health emergency, suspected victims would no longer have to give permission before experimental tests could be run to determine why they're sick, under a federal rule published Wednesday. Privacy experts called the exception unnecessary, ripe for abuse and an override of state informed-consent laws.  Health care workers will be free to run experimental tests on blood and other samples taken from people who have fallen sick as a result of a bioterrorist attack, bird flu outbreak, detonation of a dirty bomb or any other life-threatening public health emergency, according to the rule issued by the Food and Drug Administration."]
 EU Again Set to Fund Embryo Research lifesite.net 6/7/6 ["For at least four years, the European Union has been seeking to fund the creation of cloned human embryos and their use to obtain human stem cells. The practice is allowed in some member states such as Britain, but in Germany and in Catholic countries such as Poland there is still strong public opposition."]
 

 Betraying Country, Self, And Children newswithviews.com 6/6/6 [" What’s wrong with this picture is that we, as American people, are 1) governmentally ignorant, 2) prefer denial to truth like all good addicts (television, drugs, genetically modified food and water additives, etc.), and 3) remain locked in a prescribed televised loyalty to partisanship."]
 Insurance Discount for Women Who Refuse Abortion in Switzerland lifesite.net 6/6/6 ["A program aimed to decrease abortions in Switzerland offers health insurance discounts to women who refuse abortions, in vitro fertilization and prenatal diagnosis, Zenit News Service reported yesterday."]
 Scientists trying to clone human embryos news.yahoo.com 6/6/6 ["Harvard-affiliated researchers said Tuesday they have begun efforts to create stem cells by cloning human embryos, joining the race among a small group of scientists in this controversial pursuit."]
 Back To The Bunker washingtonpost.com 6/6/6 ["On Monday, June 19, about 4,000 government workers representing more than 50 federal agencies  ...set off for dozens of classified emergency facilities  ...in an "evacuation" that my sources describe as the largest "continuity of government" exercise ever conducted, a drill intended to prepare the U.S. government for an event even more catastrophic than the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks."]
 Iraq's PM gives the order to free 2500 US-held prisoners news.scotsman.com 6/6/6 ["held by the US with no clear evidence against them."]
 Pentagon's interrogation manual dodges Geneva ban guardian.co.uk 6/6/6 ["The Pentagon is drafting a new rulebook for military interrogators which omits the Geneva convention ban on "humiliating and degrading treatment", it was reported yesterday.  According to the Los Angeles Times, the army field manual on interrogation has not been finalised, and state department lawyers are fighting to have the convention protections restored."]
 IBM to triple investments in India to six billion dollars news.yahoo.com 6/6/6 ["over the next three years, recognising India's dominance in the global outsourcing industry."]
 

 Bar group will review Bush's legal challenges boston.com 6/5/6 ["The board of governors of the American Bar Association voted unanimously yesterday to investigate whether President Bush has exceeded his constitutional authority in reserving the right to ignore more than 750 laws that have been enacted since he took office."]
 Germans still plan a push for Euronext iht.com 6/5/6 ["The NYSE Euronext merger would also be a disappointment to some European financial market operators and commentators, some of whom have long called for a combination of Euronext and Deutsche Börse to make it easier for investors to trade across borders, and for start-ups to raise capital."]
 Australian State Gov't Pushing Gay Curriculum Saying Drop Terms "Mother", "Father" lifesite.net 6/5/6 ["The Learn to Include program, including children's books and a teachers' training manual, are funded and promoted directly by the New South Wales Attorney General's crime prevention department and the Tasmanian Department of Education Equity Standards Branch.  The books and the manual were written and edited, respectively, by Vicki Harding a lesbian activist who, with her "partner" Jackie Braw and daughter Brenna, appeared recently on a children's television program to promote the idea of "normal" homosexual couples with children."]
 The UN Plan for Global Migration crossroad.to 6/5/6 ["In the decades that followed, most people seemed to dismiss UN treaties and declarations as "soft laws" and policies with little affect on national sovereignty. They didn't know the many ways UN declarations would permeate national laws and policies. [See Trading U.S. Rights for UN Rules] The mainstream media didn't tell us. So when the "The Global Commission on International Migration was launched by the United Nations Secretary-General and a number of governments on December 9, 2003," few saw the red lights.["]
 

 First troops in Bush's border plan arrive boston.com 6/4/6 ["Under the president's plan, troops will perform support duties to allow federal authorities to focus on border security. They won't perform law enforcement duties.  The Utah troops, who will not carry weapons, will be in Yuma for two weeks to install improved lighting at a border crossing, extend an existing border fence and build a road, McIntire said."]
 China's Tiananmen secure on June 4 anniversary alertnet.org 6/4/6 ["in Hong Kong tens of thousands of people turned out for a competing ritual -- a mass candlelight vigil to remember the hundreds, perhaps thousands, who were killed."]
 Canada to hold vote on future of gay marriage law reuters.co.uk 6/4/6 ["The Canadian Parliament will hold a free vote later this year on whether to start the process of scrapping a law that allows gay marriages  ...Surveys of parliamentarians suggest most are unwilling to reopen the debate on gay marriage."]
 

 American Babylon – Gathering Place of Evil Spirits! lasttrumpetministries.org 6/3/6 ["This nation is now being run by computers and cannot operate without them. If every computer was suddenly disabled in this country and the flow of information stopped, we would be a nation that is blind, deaf, dumb, and quadriplegic. The forces of antichrist know this and have been conditioning people to receive it as a fact as they prepare to interface humanity with their antichrist program."]
 Pope Benedict Calls For True Religious Freedom voanews.com 6/3/6 ["A colorful and enthusiastic crowd made up of members of more than 100 religious movements welcomed the pope in Saint Peter's Square waving flags and chanting."]
 Where in the world am I? Your phone might know usatoday.com 6/3/6 ["The $10-a-month Sprint service, and most other emerging LBS technologies that work on wireless phones, use the same Global Positioning System satellites that keep car navigation systems on course. Fahrnow says Family Locator has been accurate within 11 yards.  ...many cellphones, mostly those that work with Sprint Nextel and Verizon networks, now incorporate GPS chips, partly as a response by carriers to a government-mandated Enhanced 911 program that was phased in at the end of last year. Uncle Sam wanted emergency workers to find folks who dial 911 from their cells.  (Other companies met the E911 mandate through "triangulation" methods that measure the time it takes signals to bounce off cell towers, or the angle of those signals.) "]
 US gay-rights groups claim victory after US switches vote in UN cwnews.com 6/3/6 ["A coalition of radical homosexual groups put heavy pressure on the Bush administration to change its vote to allow accreditation of homosexual groups seeking UN recognition  ....Although they were unsuccessful in gaining accreditation for the groups, the gay-rights groups are claiming credit on their web sites for getting the US to change what was a No vote to a Yes."]
 A quarter of a century on, AIDS is at the crossroads theage.com.au 6/3/6 ["has been responsible for the deaths of more than 25 million people.   This week it is 25 years since the first cases of unusual immune-system failures began to be identified among gay men, women and injecting drug users. In 1983, a virus was isolated which, the following year, was identified as HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) and the cause of AIDS.  ...at the end of 2005, an estimated 38.6 million people world-wide were living with HIV; an estimated 4.1 million became newly infected with HIV; and an estimated 2.8 million died of AIDS-related causes."]
 UN AIDS Conference Ends With Groundbreaking Declaration voanews.com 6/3/6 ["U.S. first lady Laura Bush and more than one hundred government minister Friday, Secretary-General Annan spoke the painful truth. The billions of dollars spent on fighting AIDS have failed to stop the spread of the deadly disease. "The epidemic continues to outpace us. Last year, globally, there were more new infections than ever before  ...A non-binding declaration presented to the meeting Friday calls for more than doubling funds to fight AIDS over the next five years"]
Romanian anti-gay protesters clash with police reuters.com 6/3/6 ["the parade was disrupted by more than a thousand protesters, who threw eggs, stones and plastic bottles at the activists, who were shielded by police in trucks.  ...Homosexuality is legal in Romania  ...but the public largely accepts the powerful Orthodox church's view that it is a sin and a disease."]
 Going Against God, "Just For Fun" newswithviews.com 6/3/6 ["One of the major tenets of Spiritism is reincarnation.  ...The big deal is that reincarnation rejects the Christian belief of the soul’s final judgment by a holy God, with the possible result of being condemned to hell for eternity. Nowhere in the Bible does God give us the option of working off our karma."]
 Do Not Eat The Bread of Idleness breadbeckers.com 6/3/6 ["This wise woman that builds her house does so by looking ahead to see what lasting effect today's activities may have on her future and the future of her family. She ponders each step she must take in her walk with the Lord and in serving her family. As she peers into the distance she is considering the future and outcome of her children. She trains them accordingly. She does not worry about tomorrow but certainly plans her steps as she observes and waits on the Lord's direction."]
 Honey And Other Sweeteners breadbeckers.com 6/3/6 ["There are many reasons why refined white sugar is harmful for you. It tends to promote the growth of disease causing bacteria and is so devoid of nutritional value of its own, it actually robs your body of valuable nutrients to even metabolize it. It promotes the production of adrenaline, which explains the affect of hyperactivity it causes in many children. The health of our family has greatly improved with the significant reduction of white sugar in our diets. Brown sugar has no more nutritional value than white."]
 

 Firms wary about holding customer records news.yahoo.com 6/2/6 ["Top U.S. law enforcement officials have told Internet companies they must retain customer records longer to help in child pornography and terrorism investigations, and they are considering asking Congress to require preservation of records."]
 Professor: Children Born After Abortion Banned Had Better Lives, Education lifenews.com 6/2/6 ["points to Romania, which, as a communist nation, saw dictator Nicolae Ceausescu issue an executive order banning abortions and contraception. Previously abortions were a part of the nation's socialized health care plan and done at no cost.  ...next year after the ban was in place, the birth rate doubled.  ...found that children born after the ban were more likely to finish high school and to work in a more highly-skilled job."]
 Preparedness for hurricanes becomes law orlandosentinel.com 6/2/6 ["Hundreds of gas stations will have to be equipped with generators and be able to quickly get the pumps, freezers and credit-card machines running after a hurricane under legislation Gov. Jeb Bush signed Thursday.  ...Many of the requirements, however, won't go fully into effect until 2007."]
 Louisiana Governor Blanco Will Sign Abortion Ban lifesite.net 6/2/6 ["The law would only take effect if Roe vs. Wade were overturned. Under the new legislation, doctors convicted of performing abortions could receive up to a 10-year jail sentence and fines of $100,000. The measure stipulates that women undergoing abortions would not be charged with any crime, and it excludes the prohibition of abortifacient drugs."]
 Cooling US economy adds just 75,000 jobs politicalgateway.com 6/2/6 ["was well below expectations of 170,000 new jobs."]
 Wristbands planned for big storms mysanantonio.com 6/2/6 [" Jack Colley, chief of the state Division of Emergency Management, told about 1,300 participants at the state's annual hurricane conference here Tuesday that emergency workers will place high-tech wristbands on everyone who is evacuated to a shelter."  Picture of wristband]