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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

   October2009 ARCHIVE

 Obama to Sign Hate Crimes Bill Wednesday abcnews.com 10/27/9 ["Some of the Shepard family will be in attendance at the White House signing on Wednesday. Afterward there will be a reception with gay rights groups as well as civil rights leader to commemorate the occasion. "]
 Abortion Kills More Black Americans Than the Seven Leading Causes of Death Combined, Says CDC Data cnsnews.com 10/27/9 ["According to the CDC, the total of 203,991 blacks killed by abortion in 2005 also does not include those aborted by "private physicians’ procedures.”"]
yellow dot UK: Pensioner questioned by police after complaining about gay pride march telegraph.co.uk 10/27/9 [""A hate incident is any incident that is perceived by the victim or any other person as being motivated by prejudice or hatred. A hate crime is any hate incident that constitutes a criminal offence. "]
 Miliband gives Blair strong backing in contest for European presidency guardian.co.uk 10/27/9 ["Tony Blair won strong backing from Britain to become the first president of the European council when David Miliband declared that the EU needed a big hitter who could stop the traffic in world capitals."]
 First Battle of the 2009 Christmas Culture War over Nativity Displays; Federal Lawsuit Filed lifesitenews.com 10/27/9 [Editor: What a waste of time and money. They have a zeal without knowledge - defending their graven images of their god.]
blue dot 5 Reasons Why Christians Should Abstain From Christmas informedchristians.com 10/27/9 [By Daniel Valles, Editor]
yellow dot Army Working With Obama Administration For US Deployment newswithviews.com 10/27/9 [By Jim Kouri  "Nineteen federal agencies and organizations and 17 states and the District of Columbia have participated in one or more of the seven large-scale exercises that NORTHCOM has conducted since September 2005."]
 Economy Yielding ‘Very Angry’ People, Bankers Told bloomberg.com 10/27/9 ["Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chairman Sheila Bair, in Chicago to speak at the bankers’ conference, told the protesters today she supports the Obama administration’s efforts to create a Consumer Financial Protection Agency. "]
yellow dot How they are turning off the lights in America climatephysics.com 10/27/9 ["We need to look no further than the many environmental groups like the Sierra Club and to America's elected officials who turned their backs on American citizens... These officials bought into the green agenda ...they passed laws and the environmental groups filed lawsuits that began turning off the lights in America. The dominos started to fall."]
yellow dot Grassroots Rebellion Picking Up Steam newswithviews.com 10/27/9 [By Erich Pratt  "The good news is that because homeowner insurance is private (and is still subject to the free market) you can go to another company if one drops you. But what are you going to do under nationalized ObamaCare when the regulations written by Secretary Sebelius suspend the applicability of your government-mandated policy because of your gun ownership?"]

yellow dotstar Swine-flu emergency! What does that mean? wnd.com 10/26/9 ["In fact, the laws enacted by the president's proclamation do little more than clear administrative hurdles for quicker processing of Medicare payments, and the very provisions of the National Emergencies Act that the president cited in his proclamation actually limit the power his administration can take. "]
 Obama declares swine flu a national emergency news.yahoo.com 10/26/9 ["The declaration that Obama signed late Friday authorized Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to bypass federal rules so health officials can respond more quickly to the outbreak, which has killed more than 1,000 people in the United States."]
yellow dot What OTC Drug May Have Killed More People in 1918 Flu Pandemic than Flu Itself? mercola.com 10/26/9 ["The recommendations and projections for the swine flu pandemic are flawed, as many projections for a new pandemic have been based on a worst-case 1918 scenario, in which tens of millions of people would die globally. However, since aspirin overdose may have been a major contributor the death toll would actually be much lower."]
yellow dot CBS Reveals that Swine Flu Cases Seriously Overestimated mercola.com 10/26/9 ["It's interesting to note that at the same time as the CDC decided the H1N1 epidemic warranted no further testing for cases due to its epidemic status, Finnish health authorities actually downgraded the threat of swine flu. "]
blue dot [Free Downloadable Flyer] Swine Flu Vaccination: Know The Facts Before Getting Your Shot mercola.com 10/26/9 [""]
 Asian Leaders Focus on Freer Trade nytimes.com 10/26/9 ["The Thai prime minister, Abhisit Vejjajiva, said a major concern raised by leaders Sunday was finding new avenues for economic growth that were not dependent on the markets of the United States and Europe. “The old growth model where, simply put, we have still to rely on consumption in the West for goods and services produced here, we feel will no longer serve us,” he said."]
 Doctors May 'Fire' Parents Who Don't Vaccinate Children abcnews.go.com 10/26/9 ["Now, more and more doctors are feeling compelled to say "no" back to these parents. The issue was raised Wednesday at the annual American Academy of Pediatrics meeting in Washington, D.C. Dr. Gary Marshall, a presenter at the meeting, said there are some cases when it's ethical and legal to refuse to continue to see, or treat, a child. "]
 US jobless claims climb more than projected ft.com 10/26/9 ["New jobless claims rose by 11,000 to 531,000, the labour department said on Thursday. The figures were worse than economists anticipated, although the less volatile four-week average showed that new claims have been waning in the last month."]
yellow dot Another Citizenship Case Dismissed - What Next? newswithviews.com 10/26/9 [By Devvy Kidd  "It looks like a well coordinated effort to get this guy into the White House as fast as possible. A few months later, Leo Donofrio's case explodes in the headlines. The battle is on to remove this usurper from office. "]
 Preventing the Next Financial Crisis wsj.com 10/26/9 ["Don't be fooled by the bond market. Banks are holding prices down because they can buy Treasurys with free money from the Fed."]

 Congress passes 'Pedophile Protection Act' wnd.com 10/24/9 ["The bill – which creates federal protections and privileges for homosexuals and other alternative lifestyles but denies those protections to other groups of citizens – earlier was approved in the U.S. House.  ..."Such laws not only punish officially disapproved speech and thought, they create two tiers of victims. Under hate crimes laws, some victims get more protections than others, which violates the fundamental American principle of equality under the law,"..."]
yellow dot Last Chance To Kill 'The Hate Crime Bill' newswithviews.com 10/24/9 [By Rev. Ted Pike  "Pres. Obama has repeatedly promised he would veto the 2010 defense authorization bill, with hate bill attached, if the bill has too much military “pork.”  ...Some may object that Obama’s pledge to veto the defense bill cannot be trusted. That may be true. But, like every politician, he is very concerned about a public image of honesty. "]
 European Parliament Opposes Pro-Life Amdts to Stop Forced Abortion Funding lifenews.com 10/24/9 ["Members of the European Parliament voted against amendments to the budget to revoke funding from groups that promote coercive abortions or involuntary sterilizations as part of their family planning programs in other nations. They had been asked by pro-life groups to support them."]
 U.S. bank failures pass 100 mark for 2009 reuters.com 10/24/9 ["The number of U.S. bank failures this year reached 106 on Friday, when regulators closed seven more small banks, marking the highest annual level of failed institutions since 1992 during the savings and loan crisis."]
yellow dotstar The Rising Darkness in Children's Games crossroad.to 10/24/9 [By Berit Kjos  "Training kids to love evil more than good ...Today's entertainment makes such self-empowering rituals seem more normal than prayer. Young players are continually learning, then practicing, a new world view -- one that either twists or rejects Biblical Christianity. It's not surprising that this process matches the Marxist formula for social change: "]
yellow dot ‘Good Without God,’ Atheist Subway Ads Proclaim nytimes.com 10/24/9 ["Starting next Monday, a coalition of local groups will run a monthlong advertising campaign in a dozen Manhattan subway stations with the slogan “A Million New Yorkers Are Good Without God. Are You?”"]
yellow dot One Reason Not To Give Your Kids The H1N1 Flu Vaccine newswithviews.com 10/24/9 [By Shane Ellison M. Sc.  "Ethyl mercury is the by-product of thimerosal, an additive to the flu vaccine. As a source of mercury, it presents a real threat to the nervous system – no matter who is paid to run a study to show otherwise. ...Recently, The New York Times announced that the, “H1N1 vaccine distributed in multi-dose vials will contain about 25ug (micrograms) of ethyl mercury per dose.” That equates to 11 times the safe upper limit for our vulnerable 10lb baby, 2.5 times the safe upper limit for a young child! "]

 Congress extends hate crime protections to gays google.com 10/23/9 ["To assure its passage after years of frustrated efforts, Democratic supporters attached the measure to a must-pass $680 billion defense policy bill the Senate approved 68-29. The House passed the defense bill earlier this month."]
yellow dotstar Let's Try Something Different newswithviews.com 10/23/9 [By Coach Dave Daubenmire  "Now, four decades later, their once marginal far-left views are normal, mainstream, a cultural majority, and the philosophy of the Obama White House. How did they do it? They were more faithful to no god than we were to our God. "]
 Key information missing from U.S. drug labels reuters.com 10/23/9 ["Drug labels in the United States often omit information showing the severity of side effects or that a medicine is not very effective ...The labels are written by the manufacturers and the wording is negotiated with the FDA, which gives final approval."]
 Pfizer to pay $1.3 billion criminal fine for misbranding its drugs naturalnews.com 10/23/9 ["In the settlement, Pfizer admitted to a felony crime and agreed to pay $2.3 billion in fines and other fees. The investigation of Pfizer reportedly turned up evidence that Pfizer engaged in kickback payments to doctors for nine drugs, including Viagra and Lipitor."]
 British PM Gordon Brown Wants Homosexual "Weddings" at Westminster Palace lifesitenews.com 10/23/9 ["Brown has been promoting the homosexual agenda, under the guise of equality, tolerance and fairness, in Britain and abroad since he came into power in 2007 after former Prime Minister Tony Blair stepped down."]
 State launches boycott of 'unconstitutional' federal laws wnd.com 10/23/9 ["Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen signed HJR 108, the State Sovereignty Resolution on June 23. According to the Tenth Amendment Center, the resolution created a committee to form a joint working group between the states to enumerate the abuses of authority by the federal government and seek repeal of imposed mandates. ...She noted that the Constitution does not include a congressional power to override state laws, nor does it give the judicial branch unlimited jurisdiction over all matters. Attempts to include such provisions in the Constitution were rejected by the Founding Fathers. "]
 Ready To Revolt: Oath Keepers pledges to prevent dictatorship in United States lvrj.com 10/23/9 ["Launched in March by Las Vegan Stewart Rhodes, Oath Keepers bills itself as a nonpartisan group of current and retired law enforcement and military personnel who vow to fulfill their oaths to the Constitution. More specifically, the group's members, which number in the thousands, pledge to disobey orders they deem unlawful, including directives to disarm the American people and to blockade American cities."]
 Deserted shopping mall bleak symbol of Fed bailout reuters.com 10/23/9 ["That money was secured by a portfolio of Bear assets. Crossroads Mall is the only bricks and mortar acquired through bailout. The remaining billions are tied up in invisible securities spread across hundreds, if not thousands, of properties."]

yellow dotSpecial Swine Flu Update mercola.com 10/22/9 ["This past Sunday's 60 Minutes segment did ask some hard questions to the Assistant Surgeon General. However, what was missing is that they didn't ask why CDC officials persist in telling the public that this H1N1 strain of influenza is quite dangerous when the experience of those in the southern hemisphere, which just finished their flu season, is in direct conflict with what the CDC is telling the American people."]
yellow dotWashington Health Department Suspends Mercury Restrictions for Swine Flu Vaccine mercola.com 10/22/9 ["A smaller amount of mercury-free vaccine will be produced in single-dose vials. Nasal sprays do not contain mercury but are not recommended for children under the age of 2 and pregnant women, because they contain live, weakened virus."]
grey dot U.S. House Bill Would Coerce States to Allow Homosexual Adoption lifesitenews.com 10/22/9 ["Touted as a measure to help more children find homes, Democratic California Rep. Pete Stark's "Every Child Deserves a Family Act" recommends that states allowing foster care placements only into married heterosexual households be deprived of federal child welfare funds."]
grey dot Obama’s Safe Schools Czar Says Teach Respect for Homosexuality in Kindergarten cnsnews.com 10/22/9 ["Jennings  ...has called for kindergarteners to be taught to respect all sexual orientations, while insisting that “ex-gay messages” and “Christian values” are ‘misused to isolate or denigrate lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people" and have no place in the nation’s public schools."]
grey dot Like it or not, here comes more stimulus cnn.com 10/22/9 ["But there's a good chance lawmakers will decide to extend some of the stimulus measures included in the $787 billion economic recovery package passed in February and possibly create some new ones as well."]
grey dot EU presidency opposes carbon tax threat google.com 10/22/9 ["French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel argue that states that fail to back a deal at a climate summit Copenhagen in December should be held accountable."]
grey dot U.S. sued for gagging free speech at Liberty Bell wnd.com 10/22/9 ["The chief of an evangelical ministry called Repent America has filed a civil lawsuit against the National Park Service for restricting his speech at the Liberty Bell Center in Philadelphia, which houses the artifact from American history that rang to announce the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence and is inscribed with "Proclaim LIBERTY throughout all the Land unto all the inhabitants thereof," a biblical quotation from Leviticus 25:10."]
grey dot Shut up! U.S. sponsors plan to restrict free speech wnd.com 10/22/9 ["It demands that all nations condemn and criminalize "any advocacy of national, racial or religious hatred that constitutes incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence." "]
grey dot Maine Homosexualists Frantically Refute Evidence that Same-Sex "Marriage" Would Affect Schools lifesitenews.com 10/22/9 ["Homosexualist advocates are denying evidence indicating that making same-sex "marriage" legal in Maine would lead to the encroachment of homosexual themes in school classrooms - a claim that pro-family advocates have dismissed as simply untrue and contrary to the experiences of parents in other states where same-sex "marriage" has already been legalized."]
grey dot Balloon boy story and reality TV culture: What are parents thinking? csmonitor.com 10/22/9 ["The Heene case, following on the high-profile entanglements between two other families and reality-TV producers – Jon and Kate Gosselin and their eight children, and Nadya Suleman (dubbed octo-mom) and her 14 children – is the latest to prompt questions about reality TV's role in encouraging irresponsible parent behavior." Editor: What Are Parents Thinking? On the flipside, those watching 'reality' junk are trained to think that reality is what they perceive on 'reality'.]
yellow dot Democratic Tyrants Rule The U.S. newswithviews.com 10/22/9 [By Sheriff Jim R. Schwiesow, Ret.  "Socialism is a means to an end, the mechanism by which a worldwide satanic kingdom will be realized. It is a planned methodology that suppresses human dignity, robs men of their God-given spirit and reduces the human species to an animalistic nature."]

grey dot Fannie, Freddie Tumble, Shares Called ‘Worthless’ bloomberg.com 10/21/9 ["The Congressional Budget Office projects the two will require $389 billion of the $400 billion in taxpayer aid Treasury pledged last year to keep them solvent. "]
yellow dotSerious Vaccine Reactions to Now Be Called 'Coincidence'? mercola.com 10/21/9 ["Nonetheless, wide-scale vaccination is being encouraged -- even though swine flu vaccines have been tested on only a few thousand healthy Americans for a few weeks. There is little or no information about how safe the vaccine is for pregnant women and chronically ill or disabled children."]
grey dot Israel: Government looking to set int'l rules for fighting terror haaretz.com 10/21/9 ["Netanyahu would like to rally Western countries involved in the war on terror in formulating changes to the international law on warfare, so that it would be possible for countries to have enshrined in law their right to defend themselves against acts of terrorism."]
grey dot Florida plan advises hospitals to bar some patients in event of severe flu pandemic sun-sentinel.com 10/21/9 ["The plan, which would guide Florida hospitals on how to ration scarce medical care during a severe flu outbreak, also calls for doctors to remove patients with poor prognoses from ventilators to treat those who have better chances of surviving. That decision would be made by the hospital."]
grey dot In trying times, hunters go after deer to put food on the table indystar.com 10/21/9 ["For hunters, deer meat isn't free -- there's overhead, including a deer hunting license, ammunition, gas for the car -- but it's cheap."]

grey dot Army reviews shows troop use in Samson killing spree violated federal law al.com 10/20/9 ["An Army investigation has found that the use of armed military policemen from Fort Rucker in response to mass murders in the tiny South Alabama town of Samson violated federal law."]
grey dot Thatcher adviser: Copenhagen goal is 1-world government wnd.com 10/20/9 ["A former science adviser to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher says the real purpose of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen on Dec. 7-18 is to use global warming hype as a pretext to lay the foundation for a one-world government. "]
yellow dot Made In China: Importing America To Its Own Death newswithviews.com 10/20/9 [By Frosty Wooldridge  "Each year, China sells the United States $700 billion in goods. Unlike Clinton, we ‘inhale’ that much junk from China! The United States sells China $67 billion in goods annually as reported by Charles Gibson on ABC last week!"]
grey dot What happens if the dollar crashes? msn.com 10/20/9 [""]
grey dot Obama Volunteer Web Site Serve.Gov Promotes Planned Parenthood Abortion Biz lifenews.com 10/20/9 ["President Barack Obama promised when he was a presidential candidate in July 2007 that he would be a lapdog for the Planned Parenthood abortion business. Obama is now making good on that promise by promoting Planned Parenthood on his new volunteerism web site, Serve.gov."]
yellow dot Olympia Snowe, Health Care, And The Seventeenth Amendment newswithviews.com 10/20/9 [By Devvy Kidd  "When the Seventeenth Amendment was announced ratified, which is clearly was not, the states lost their suffrage rights in Congress."]
grey dot Russia Ready to Abandon $ in oil, gas Trade with China oilandgaseurasia.com 10/20/9 ["Russia is ready to consider using the Russian and Chinese national currencies instead of the dollar in bilateral oil and gas dealings, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday. The premier, currently on a visit to Beijing, said a final decision on the issue can only be made after a thorough expert analysis."]
grey dot Canada: Judge Rules that Obstetricians Have a Duty of Care to the Unborn lifesitenews.com 10/20/9 ["The question about the responsibility of healthcare workers towards the unborn arose after Guelph General Hospital had claimed that there was no such responsibility in August, during a preliminary proceeding to a malpractice case brought by a family who claim that hospital staff were negligent in the birth of their son."]

grey dot Russia: We’ll Nuke ‘Aggressors’ First wired.com 10/19/9 ["said the new doctrine offers “different options to allow the use of nuclear weapons, depending on a certain situation and intentions of a would-be enemy. In critical national security situations, one should also not exclude a preventive nuclear strike against the aggressor.”"]
grey dot UN rights council endorses Gaza war crimes report google.com 10/19/9 ["The U.N. Human Rights Council voted Friday to endorse a Gaza war crimes report that calls on Israel and Hamas to carry out credible investigations into alleged abuses — or face possible referral to international war crimes prosecutors."]
grey dot French high court quashes Islamic finance measure expatica.com 10/19/9 ["The National Assembly last month adopted the measure to allow Sharia-compliant financing despite opposition from the Socialists who asked the Constitutional Council to rule on its legality."]
grey dot Ruling could undo thousands of foreclosures bostonherald.com 10/19/9 ["A real estate judge is refusing to reverse a landmark ruling that opens the door to voiding tens of thousands of Bay State foreclosures dating as far back as 1989."]
grey dot Calif. bank becomes 99th in US to be shut in 2009 google.com 10/19/9 ["The 99 bank failures this year compare with 25 last year and three in 2007. It's the highest number in a year since 1992 during the savings-and-loan crisis, when 120 institutions collapsed. Closures peaked during that crisis in 1989, when 534 banks were shuttered."]
grey dot Hollywood programming pursues Obama agenda wnd.com 10/19/9 ["Nolte reported the EIF plan between Oct. 19-25 for "more than 60 network TV shows [to] spotlight the power and personal benefits of service," and it is forecast to be just the first wave of a "multi-year 'I Participate' campaign." "]

grey dot Judge Halts Flu Vaccine Mandate For Health Workers wcbstv.com 10/17/9 ["The order came as the Public Employees Federation sued to reverse a policy requiring vaccination against the seasonal and swine flu viruses, arguing that state Health Commissioner Richard Daines overstepped his authority."]
grey dot Harry Potter and Dumbledore Used to Entice Fans into Activism for Maine Gay "Marriage" Push lifesitenews.com 10/17/9 ["The Harry Potter Alliance is the brain-child of 29-year-old Andrew Slack. The site urges fan to interpret current events in light of the lessons of Harry Potter and sets up Potter's mentor, the wizard Albus Dumbledore, as a moral teacher. Interestingly, the author of the Harry Potter books, J.K. Rowling, had stated in response to a question from a fan in October, 2007, that Dumbledore was homosexual. "]
grey dot Obama loosens missile technology controls to China washingtontimes.com 10/17/9 ["...shifted authority for approving sales to China of missile and space technology from the White House to the Commerce Department ...issued a little-noticed "presidential determination" Sept. 29 that delegated authority for determining whether missile and space exports should be approved for China to Commerce Secretary Gary Locke. "]
grey dot FDA warns against fake online H1N1 remedy claims reuters.com 10/17/9 [""Claims that a dietary supplement can prevent, treat or cure human infection with the H1N1 virus must be supported by well-controlled human clinical studies," the regulatory agencies said in a warning letter to Weil."]
grey dot Summers: banks must accept gov't regulation google.com 10/17/9 [""Financial institutions that have benefited from government support can, should, and must use this moment to think about what they can do for their country — by accepting the necessary regulation to protect the American people," White House chief economic adviser Lawrence Summers..."]
grey dot U.S. troop funds diverted to pet projects washingtontimes.com 10/17/9 ["Among the 778 such projects, known as earmarks, packed into the bill: $25 million for a new World War II museum at the University of New Orleans and $20 million to launch an educational institute named after the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, Massachusetts Democrat. "]
grey dot 2009 federal deficit surges to $1.42 trillion google.com 10/17/9 ["What is $1.42 trillion? It's more than the total national debt for the first 200 years of the Republic, more than the entire economy of India, almost as much as Canada's, and more than $4,700 for every man, woman and child in the United States. It's the federal budget deficit for 2009, more than three times the most red ink ever amassed in a single year."]

yellow dotstar Trusting In Horses newswithviews.com 10/16/9 [By Coach Dave Daubenmire  "It is my opinion that we are trying to replace the wrong parts. Pardon the corny phraseology, but we are putting the chariot before the horse. “Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the LORD our God.” America’s problems are spiritual, they are not mechanical. We can not get out of this problem merely by changing the horses (parts)."]
grey dot Abortionist Reflects on Dismembering One Baby While Feeling Her Own Flutter in Her Womb lifesitenews.com 10/16/9 ["However, she contests the point, arguing that, rather than weakening the argument for abortion, facing abortion with "honesty" can "be the basis for a stronger movement - one that makes it easier for providers and the teams they work with to do all abortions, especially second trimester abortions.""  Editor: II Kings 24:4 tells us what God thinks of shedding innocent blood: "And also for the innocent blood that he shed: for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; which the LORD would not pardon."]
grey dot No Social Security COLA could prod $250 payments google.com 10/16/9 ["Blame it on falling consumer prices. By law, cost-of-living adjustments are pegged to inflation, which is negative this year because of lower energy costs. Social Security payments do not go down, even when prices drop."]
grey dot Foreclosures: 'Worst three months of all time' cnn.com 10/16/9 ["That means one in every 136 U.S. homes were in foreclosure, which is a 5% increase from the second quarter and a 23% jump over the third quarter of 2008."]
grey dot Interpol and U.N. Back ‘Global Policing Doctrine’ nytimes.com 10/16/9 ["It is the first step toward creating what Interpol calls a “global policing doctrine” that would enable Interpol and the United Nations to improve the skills of police peacekeepers, largely by sharing a secure communications network and a vast electronic trove of criminal information, including DNA records, fingerprints, photographs and fugitive notices."]
grey dot 53 Republicans Seek Ouster of Obama Schools Official nytimes.com 10/16/9 ["Fifty-three House Republicans have signed a letter to the Obama administration asking for the ouster of Kevin Jennings, an official charged with promoting school safety, because of his career as an advocate of teaching tolerance of homosexuality."]
grey dot Woman Disabled by Flu Shot Reaction myfoxdc.com 10/16/9 ["Doctors at Fairfax Inova and Johns Hopkins diagnosed her with a rare neurological disorder called dystonia. They think it was caused by a severe reaction to the flu shot."]

grey dot Obama asks Congress to back new payments to elderly reuters.com 10/15/9 [" The funds would extend the one-year $250 "Economic Recovery Payments" program approved this year as part of the $787 billion economic stimulus package, but administration officials said it should not be viewed as the start of a second stimulus plan."]
yellow dot Can Vitamin D Help Prevent H1N1 Swine Flu From Spreading? newswithviews.com 10/15/9 ["While there are many viral illnesses that have been proven to spread from sick to well, such as the measles, the flu is not one of them. In fact, every time scientists try to prove the point, they can’t. Epidemiologists can’t show it either. Rather, science points in the direction that a susceptible population of well people, possibly those deficient in vitamin D, are responsible for the rapid spreading of the flu each year. "]
grey dot Kindle lightens textbook load, but flaws remain google.com 10/15/9 ["It's an experiment that has made back-to-school a little easier on the back: Amazon.com gave more than 200 college students its Kindle e-reading device this fall, loaded with digital versions of their textbooks."]
grey dot Ever Wonder Who Took Those Aborted Baby Pictures? lifesitenews.com 10/15/9 ["The interview has made waves in the pro-life world, due in large part to the fact that, along with the interview, the Times ran a selection of Miller's graphic abortion photos in the online version of the story, becoming one of the only mainstream newspapers in the world to do so."]
grey dot Meet the 'father of world currency' wnd.com 10/15/9 ["Mundell, currently an economic consultant to China, is the originator of the suggestion that the International Monetary Fund should utilize Special Drawing Rights, or SDRs, to replace the dollar as a new standard for holding foreign exchange reserves in international trade transactions. "]
grey dot Mass. House approves bill allowing quarantines boston.com 10/15/9 ["The Senate bill would also allow the government to mandate vaccinations or place into isolation anyone who refused to be vaccinated -- a provision that was eliminated from the House version."]
grey dot Federal judge in Ga. sanctions 'birther' attorney google.com 10/15/9 ["U.S. District Judge Clay D. Land's scathing 43-page order Tuesday said California lawyer and dentist Orly Taitz filed "frivolous" litigation and attempted to misuse the federal courts to push a political agenda."]

grey dot Obama Criticizes People with "Old Attitudes" in Keynote Speech at Homosexualist Dinner lifesitenews.com 10/14/9 [""There are still fellow citizens, perhaps neighbors, even loved ones -- good and decent people -- who hold fast to outworn arguments and old attitudes  ..."My expectation is that when you look back on these years, you will see ... a time in which we as a nation finally recognize relationships between two men or two women as just as real and admirable as relationships between a man and a woman," said Obama. "]
 Report: Unsafe abortions kill 70,000 annually google.com 10/14/9 ["The report, three years in the making, was compiled by the New York-based Guttmacher Institute, which supports abortion rights and is a leading source of data on abortion-related trends. Researchers examined data from individual countries and multinational organizations."]
grey dot New Guttmacher Institute Report on Illegal Abortions Relies on Abortion Advocates lifenews.com 10/14/9 ["Even Guttmacher admits in its report that abortions worldwide are "difficult to document" and note how it is "difficult to obtain detailed, reliable information about the practice of" abortion in many nations where abortions are illegal. As a result, Guttmacher says it relies on "indirect methods for estimating the incidence of abortion.""]
grey dot Alabama GOP candidate for governor proposes abortion ban al.com 10/14/9 ["Exceptions would be allowed if the life of a mother was threatened by a pregnancy or for rape or incest."  Editor: I am posting this to show the fallicy of abortion bans with exceptions. The exception 'legitimizes' the murder of the unwanted. It then follows that there are 'unwanted'. Either you are pro-life all the way, or you are not at all.]
grey dot Deluge of Pro-Life Protest after Chicago Bubble Zone Law Passes lifesitenews.com 10/14/9 ["The Disorderly Conduct Ordinance amendment, introduced by Chicago Alderman Vi Daley on September 9, prohibits pro-life protesters within 50 feet of an abortion mill from approaching within 8 feet of visitors without their consent. Violators of the new law, to go into effect November 17, could be fined up to $500. "]
grey dot CSX earnings fall, says worst of recession is over google.com 10/14/9 ["CSX, which operates its signature blue and yellow locomotives from Canada to Florida and west to the Mississippi River, said overall shipping fell 15 percent from a year ago in the June-to-September period. The biggest drops were in shipments of coal, cars, construction and consumer goods. The company warned that demand for coal, one of its biggest segments, will remain weak well into next year."]
grey dot Swine Flu’s Surge in Intensive Lung Cases Reveals Winter’s Toll bloomberg.com 10/14/9 ["Swine flu drove a 15-fold increase in intensive care admissions for viral lung inflammation in Australia and New Zealand, especially among pregnant women, the obese and people with chronic lung disease, a study found. "]
yellow dot Urgent lawsuit filed against FDA to halt swine flu vaccines; claims FDA violated federal law naturalnews.com 10/14/9 ["If the charges described in the lawsuit are true, it means the FDA has blatantly abandoned medical science and violated its own regulations in approving not only these four vaccines, but the potentially deadly adjuvant chemicals as well."]
grey dot UK: Smart meters could be 'spy in the home' telegraph.co.uk 10/14/9 ["The devices, which the government plans to install in every home by 2020, will also tell energy firms what sort of appliances are being used, allowing companies to target customers who do not reduce their energy consumption. "]

grey dot Plaintiff: Courts must hear eligibility arguments wnd.com 10/13/9 ["A plaintiff in one of the cases challenging Barack Obama's eligibility to be president says federal courts must hear the challenges, because to do otherwise would be treason. "]
grey dot Schwarzenegger signs ammo-regulation bill sfgate.com 10/13/9 ["People buying ammunition in California will soon have to be thumb-printed and dealers will have to keep records of sales, under legislation that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed into law."]
grey dot Associated Press Again Confirms Health Care Bills Include Abortion Funding lifenews.com 10/13/9 ["Top Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs may want to read the article because he wrongly told reporters twice last week that the Hyde Amendment stop the funding."]
grey dot Schwarzenegger approves 'Harvey Milk Day' google.com 10/13/9 ["The designation of each May 22 as "Harvey Milk Day" encourages schools around the state to commemorate the murdered gay politician, whose life was the subject of the Oscar-winning 2008 film "Milk.""]
grey dot Company run by ex-con drops Montana jail plan google.com 10/13/9 ["An obscure California company run by an ex-convict with a history of fraud has dropped its effort to take over a beleaguered Montana jail, days after state officials launched an investigation."]
grey dot FBI delves into DMV photos in search for fugitives google.com 10/13/9 ["In its search for fugitives, the FBI has begun using facial-recognition technology on millions of motorists, comparing driver's license photos with pictures of convicts in a high-tech analysis of chin widths and nose sizes."]
grey dot Bill forces citizens to list guns on taxes? wnd.com 10/13/9 ["...while the bill implements sweeping gun-control measures – including one that would prohibit citizens from owning a gun without a license – the income tax provision doesn't exist. "]
yellow dot Not So Hot wsj.com 10/13/9 ["The new data undermine another frightful talking point from environmentalists, which is that six of the 10 hottest years on record have occurred since 1990. Wrong. NASA now says six of the 10 warmest years were in the 1930s and 1940s, and that was before the bulk of industrial CO2 emissions were released into the atmosphere."]
grey dot FHA may be setting up repeat of housing bubble, lawmakers worry latimes.com 10/13/9 ["The percentage of loans backed by the agency that are delinquent or in foreclosure hit nearly 8% at the end of June. Critics say borrowers don't have enough of a stake in keeping up with payments."]
grey dot Pacific earthquakes rewrite seismic lore theaustralian.news.com.au 10/13/9 ["Weeks of earthquake activity in the Asia-Pacific region have triggered a shift in the view of some seismologists, who are now considering the possibility that the recent devastating cluster of quakes are related."]

grey dot Gay activists call for 'equality,' 'freedom' in US march google.com 10/12/9 ["Tens of thousands of gay activists marched on Washington Sunday to demand civil rights, a day after President Barack Obama vowed to repeal a ban on gays serving openly in the US military.  ...Organizers said the crowd numbered more than 150,000 people"]
grey dot Dollar facing 'power-shift': analysts google.com 10/12/9 ["Even so, the United Nations itself last week called for a new global reserve currency to end dollar supremacy, which had allowed the United States the "privilege" of building up a huge trade deficit."]
grey dot Small banks fail at growing rate, straining FDIC post-gazette.com 10/12/9 ["A year after the federal government rescued the banks considered too big to fail, the ones deemed too small to save are approaching a grim milestone: the 100th bank failure of 2009."]
grey dot UK's Brown plans to announce 3 bln stg asset sale reuters.com 10/12/9 [" The asset sales will be carried out over the next two years, and include betting company the Tote, the cross-channel rail link between Britain and France, a portfolio of student loans and the government's stake in uranium-processing firm Urenco."]
grey dot 2012 Olympic site workers face biometric scans google.com 10/12/9 ["From this week, machines that have hand and iris recognition technology will be deployed at entry points around the 2.5-square-kilometre east London site, The Observer said."]
grey dot What happened to global warming? news.bbc.co.uk 10/12/9 ["This headline may come as a bit of a surprise, so too might that fact that the warmest year recorded globally was not in 2008 or 2007, but in 1998."]

grey dot Obama Wins Nobel Prize, Exported Tax-Funded Abortions at Time of Nomination lifenews.com 10/10/9 ["President Barack Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, but a closer analysis of the award shows his only achievement at the time he was nominated was exporting taxpayer-funded abortions. Obama hadn't accomplished much else in office when the nominations were finalized."]
grey dot Congress acts to extend hate crimes to cover gays google.com 10/10/9 ["A House vote Thursday put Congress on the verge of significantly expanding hate crimes law to make it a federal crime to assault people because of their sexual orientation."]
grey dot Gay Activists Question March On Washington wbur.org 10/10/9 ["Organizers are expecting tens of thousands of people in the nation's capital this weekend for what will be the fifth gay and lesbian March on Washington. "]
grey dot Gold hits new record high for third day telegraph.co.uk 10/10/9 ["Gold has risen about 20pc this year, helped by the dollar's weakness and inflation worries following massive stimulus packages and bailouts by the governments around the world last year. "]
grey dot Obama defends new consumer agency news.bbc.co.uk 10/10/9 ["His administration has proposed a number of regulatory reforms designed to prevent another financial crisis. One of them is to create a new consumer agency to regulate products such as credit cards and mortgages."]
grey dot Obama School Appointee Admired Ardent Promoter of Child Molestation lifesitenews.com 10/10/9 ["Kevin Jennings, the Obama administration's "safe schools czar," is a professed admirer of Harry Hay, radical homosexual rights activist and ardent promoter of pedophilia."]
grey dot Treasuries Fall After Weaker-Than-Average Demand at Bond Sale bloomberg.com 10/10/9 ["Treasuries declined, with 30 year bonds falling the most in two weeks after the government’s $12 billion auction of the debt drew weaker- than-average demand. "]
grey dot California’s Budget Suffers ‘Major Blow’ as Debt Sales Loom bloomberg.com 10/10/9 ["California, already the largest borrower in the municipal market, may offer as much as $4 billion of debt during the week of Oct. 26 to refinance the bonds used by Schwarzenegger to cover previous budget deficits."]

grey dot China calls time on dollar hegemony telegraph.co.uk 10/9/9 [""In the US they have near zero rates, external deficits, and public debt sky-rocketing to 100pc of GDP, and on top of that they are printing money. It is the perfect storm for the dollar,""]
grey dot Whodunit? Sneak attack on U.S. dollar politico.com 10/9/9 ["With the U.S. economy on the ropes and America by far the world’s biggest debtor, investors aren’t feeling as secure about the dollar as they used to. And the notion of second-tier economies ganging up on Uncle Sam didn’t sound so far-fetched."]
yellow dot "Ravenwood" Comes To America newswithviews.com 10/9/9 [By Chuck Baldwin "In the little town of Hardin, Montana (which is about the same size as the fictitious town of Jericho, Kansas, in the TV series), a private security firm, American Police Force (APF), has been contracted to provide all police services and to manage the operation of the town's jail."]
grey dot Swine flu put many hospitalized patients into ICU google.com 10/9/9 ["About three-fourths of hospitalized patients were given Tamiflu or other antiviral medicines, although most did not get these within the two days of first symptoms, as doctors recommend. Survival appeared to be better among those who got treatment quickly."]
blue dot Hepatitis B Vaccine Triples the Risk of Autism in Infant Boys mercola.com 10/9/9 [""]
grey dot Thousands mob Detroit center in hopes of free cash google.com 10/9/9 ["The city distributed more than 50,000 applications for the Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing program over the past several days before running out Wednesday morning. Only 3,500 people who qualify will receive the money — a maximum $3,000 per applicant, Dumas said."]
grey dot Four major quakes strike South Pacific cnn.com 10/9/9 ["For the fourth time in less than 11 hours, a major earthquake rocked the South Pacific Ocean near the island nation of Vanuatu on Thursday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported."]
grey dot US lawmakers extend PATRIOT Act provisions google.com 10/9/9 ["The provisions include the "roving wiretap" clause, used to monitor mobile communications of individuals using multiple telephone lines, and the "lone-wolf" provision, which enables spying on individuals suspected of terrorist activity but with no obvious connection to extremist groups."]

yellow dot Do Not Blame Barack newswithviews.com 10/8/9 ["All right, but I simply note that a Christian nation would actually practice Christianity and that if we are satisfied to be only nominally Christian, it lends weight to the argument that we’re not actually Christian. Of course, we certainly can condemn Obama for attending a pseudo-Christian church and being part of the problem, but he didn’t create our secular age. He is more a creation of it."]
grey dot Hotel defaults, foreclosures rise in California latimes.com 10/8/9 ["Statewide, more than 300 hotels were in foreclosure or default on their loans as of Sept. 30 -- a nearly fivefold increase since the start of the year, according to an industry report released Tuesday."]
grey dot Obama Spokesman Falsely Claims Hyde Amendment Stops Abortion in Health Care lifenews.com 10/8/9 ["However, the fairly well-documented federal law is the Hyde amendment and it only applies to the Medicaid program that provides health care funds for poor Americans. Douglas Johnson, the legislative director for the National Right to Life Committee called any attempt to paint the Hyde Amendment as a way to limit abortion funding in the health care bills a false portrayal."]
grey dot Planned Parenthood Conducts Birth Control Clinical Trials on Underage Girls lifesitenews.com 10/8/9 ["Sedlak pointed out, however, that the nature of the trials brings up questions since, "in most states, minor girls involved in sexual activity is considered sex abuse and is illegal." "]
grey dot French police grab 4 kids on German orders wnd.com 10/8/9 ["Four children of a family that fled Germany to avoid further fines for homeschooling have been snatched from their home in France by police and accused of "being alone," according to a report today on the ongoing war against home education across the continent. "]
yellow dot Now What Do We Do? newswithviews.com 10/8/9 [By Paul Proctor  "Because the dollar has long been the world’s reserve currency, most of it has been in circulation and in storage overseas. Imagine what will happen to its value when all of that unwanted currency comes back home to America from the countries that no longer want it or need it. "]
yellow dot The end of the dollar spells the rise of a new order independent.co.uk 10/8/9 ["It is not hard to see the motivation for oil exporters to move away from the dollar. The value of the US currency has fallen sharply since last year's meltdown. And fears are growing, in the light of a spiralling US government deficit, that a further depreciation is likely. They do not want to sell their wares in return for a currency with an uncertain future."]
grey dot Report: Global Muslim population hits 1.57 billion google.com 10/8/9 ["The global Muslim population stands at 1.57 billion, meaning that nearly 1 in 4 people in the world practice Islam ...The report provides further evidence that while the heart of Islam might beat in the Middle East, its greatest numbers lie in Asia: More than 60 percent of the world's Muslims live in Asia."]
grey dot Asian Central Banks Intervene as Dollar Tumbles wsj.com 10/8/9 ["It was the latest effort by Asian monetary authorities in recent weeks to temper rallies in their currencies, which have been driven higher by investors fleeing the U.S. dollar and placing bets that Asia will lead the global economic recovery. While stronger Asian currencies could help to contain inflation as the region's economy gathers steam, exports could suffer, leaving countries vulnerable when fiscal stimulus measures are eventually withdrawn."]

grey dot UN calls for new reserve currency breitbart.com 10/7/9 [" China had called in March for a new dominant world reserve currency instead of the dollar, in a system within the framework of the Washington-based IMF. "]
grey dot Gold price hits record high on report to ditch dollar google.com 10/7/9 ["Barclays Capital precious metals analyst Suki Cooper said dollar weakness appeared to be related to reported secret talks about oil being priced in a basket of currencies including gold rather than the dollar,"]
grey dot New York to fight terrorism with more street-corner cameras csmonitor.com 10/7/9 ["Mayor Michael Bloomberg, announcing the program Sunday, said the goal is to detect terrorism threats and deter pre-operational surveillance. Sensors will try to detect chemical, biological, and radiological threats. "]
grey dot Explosion of bank overdraft fees in US: study google.com 10/7/9 ["...a 35 percent increase over the previous year, a study has found."]
grey dot New York State: Be Vaccinated Or Be Fired injuryboard.com 10/7/9 ["Workers in New York State say they will fight a mandate that health care professionals be vaccinated against influenza, both seasonal and the swine flu, by November 30th."]
grey dot Twitter user who helped G20 protestors facing charges google.com 10/7/9 [""The observed 'Twitter' communications were noted to be relevant to the direction of the movement of protestors, and protest groups, in order to avoid apprehension," the complaint said. Madison was hit with three charges including helping protestors "avoid apprehension after a lawful order to disperse.""]
grey dot Proportion of 8-year-olds diagnosed with autism is up 50% in 2 years, CDC says latimes.com 10/7/9 ["About 1 in 100 of America's 8-year-olds have been diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder, according to U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention researchers, who will be releasing details of their study later this year. That's a 50% increase from two years ago, when the government estimated the rate at 1 in 150."]

grey dot Obama to give keynote address at gay rights dinner csmonitor.com 10/6/9 ["...Human Rights Campaign, a leading gay rights organization. This will be the second time a US president has addressed the HRC. The first was Bill Clinton in 1997."]
 The demise of the dollar independent.co.uk 10/6/9 ["In the most profound financial change in recent Middle East history, Gulf Arabs are planning – along with China, Russia, Japan and France – to end dollar dealings for oil, moving instead to a basket of currencies including the Japanese yen and Chinese yuan, the euro, gold and a new, unified currency planned for nations in the Gulf Co-operation Council, including Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi, Kuwait and Qatar."]
 Gulf in talks on replacing U.S.$ for oil: report reuters.com 10/6/9 ["While ending the use of the dollar as the currency used to settle oil trades between counterparties -- as Iran has already done -- would be relatively easy, replacing the currency in which oil is priced would require a massive effort, analysts said. The report did not make clear how the change would work, and many analysts doubted it would occur any time soon, despite mounting speculation about the dominant role of the U.S. dollar in global commodity trade and as the world's main reserve currency."]
grey dot Texas Judge Declares State Marriage Law, DOMA Unconstitutional lifesitenews.com 10/6/9 ["A Dallas judge ruled last Thursday to hear a "divorce" lawsuit between two men whose same-sex "marriage" was performed in Massachusetts, declaring the state marriage amendment and the state's Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional."]
grey dot Dollar skids on Gulf oil report; stocks up reuters.com 10/6/9 [" "This is U.S. dollar negative news which is moving markets and shows that central banks not just in Asia are looking to diversify away from the dollar," said Jonathan Cavenagh, currency analyst at Westpac."]
grey dot Ireland changes mind, backs E.U. accord marketwatch.com 10/6/9 ["The Lisbon Treaty still cannot be implemented until all of the 27 E.U. member nations have ratified it. Ireland was the only E.U. country to hold a referendum to vote on it, with other countries ratifying it through their parliaments. Poland and the Czech Republic have yet to ratify the treaty. "]

grey dot Obama's 'safe schools' chief praised child-sex promoter wnd.com 10/5/9 ["A transcript from a 1997 speech shows Office of Safe Schools chief Kevin Jennings in the U.S. Department of Education expressed his admiration for Harry Hay, one of the nation's first homosexual activists who launched the Mattachine Society in 1948, founded the Radical Faeries and was a longtime advocate for the North American Man-Boy Love Association, NAMBLA. "]
grey dot Clinton Issues Holiday Greetings to Muslims, Not Jews israelnationalnews.com 10/5/9 ["Both Jews and Muslims celebrated holidays in September 2009. However, the United States Consulate in Jerusalem – America's representative in Israel's capital – chose to focus entirely on Islam this year, while ignoring the Jewish holidays of Rosh HaShana and Yom Kippur completely."]
grey dot Waves of new fund cuts imperil US nursing homes google.com 10/5/9 ["A Medicare rate adjustment that cuts an estimated $16 billion in nursing home funding over the next 10 years was enacted at week's end by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services — on top of state-level cuts or flat-funding that already had the industry reeling. And Congress is debating slashing billions more in Medicare funding as part of health care reform."]
grey dot US Military Helping in Four Pacific Disasters voanews.com 10/5/9 ["U.S. forces in the Pacific have been deployed to help with disaster relief in Indonesia, the Philippines, American Samoa and Guam and neighboring islands. "]
grey dot U.S. FDIC chief: "too big to fail" must end for all reuters.com 10/5/9 [" FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair, speaking to the Institute of International Finance meeting here, said a proposal to create authority to shut down failing systemically important financial firms may need to be extended to insurers and hedge funds."]
grey dot 'Huge threat to power grid' wnd.com 10/5/9 ["The disclosure reveals the government's familiarity with a report released more than six months ago, in which Jian-Wei Wang used publicly available data to explain exactly how the United States' West Coast grid was connected and how the computers that control the grid could be easily sabotaged. "]
grey dot Devices locate kids, parents find peace of mind google.com 10/5/9 ["Ever since Dugard's recovery in August after nearly two decades of allegedly being held in a Northern California backyard, parents and others have written on blogs and commented online to articles about ways to protect kids."]
grey dot Baptist, Brethren, Lutheran, Methodist Clergy Ask Senate for Abortion Funds lifenews.com 10/5/9 ["A coalition of mainline Protestant church clergy have authored a letter to members of Congress asking them to make certain the health care bills they are considering contain taxpayer funding for abortions. The letter comes from a group of church clergy who have long advocated the pro-abortion position. Under the umbrella of the Religious Institute, the more than 1,100 pastors and church staff from the denominations endorsed the letter."]
yellow dot The Colorful History Of Colloidal Silver & Other Silver Compounds newswithviews.com 10/5/9 [By Byron J. Richards, CCN  "The high efficacy in the use of silver to kill bacteria and fungus is not in question by anyone. This does not mean it kills every type of bacteria or fungus. And in the ones it does kill it does not mean it kills all of them. It simply means that the antibiotic properties of silver are quite potent – and the risk to human health in terms of toxicity is negligible. This is a far better risk/benefit profile than commonly used antibiotics."]

grey dot US begins rolling out swine flu vaccine google.com 10/3/9 ["Schuchat expects that many of the first people receiving the vaccine will be health care workers on the front lines of the battle against a virus that has claimed more than 3,900 lives worldwide since it was uncovered in April."]
grey dot First swine flu vaccine given UK go-ahead independent.co.uk 10/3/9 ["However, US regulators have rejected the use of adjuvants for swine flu vaccine. Jesse Goodman, chief scientist at the US Food and Drug Administration, told the New York Times: “These are products that potentially can be given to millions of healthy people. There is not a known, specific safety danger or issue. There's just more uncertainty.” "]
grey dot Swine Flu Tests Could Swamp Diagnostic Labs usnews.com 10/3/9 ["According to several laboratory professionals affiliated with the American Society for Clinical Pathology, a large spike in swine flu screenings could clog a lab system already struggling with a shortage of workers. Such swine flu screenings, they said, could slow down testing for other diseases, potentially putting some patients at risk."]
grey dot IMF unveils newfound strength forged in crisis google.com 10/3/9 ["Strauss-Kahn said the IMF needed bigger reserves to provide a more stable international monetary system and build its credibility as the lender of last resort."]
grey dot Arab world on guard against swine flu ahead of hajj google.com 10/3/9 [Some two million foreigners and possibly as many Saudis are expected to descend on Mecca and Medina for the hajj, which takes place in the middle of the northern hemisphere's winter flu season in November.""]
yellow dot Assuming The Position newswithviews.com 10/3/9 [By Sheriff Jim R. Schwiesow, Ret.  "The message of those drills however is timely and current, the people of this nation should assume the position and prepare to kiss their fannies goodbye and they should do so expeditiously and with due diligence, because this nation’s days are numbered."]
grey dot House Members Working on Second Phony Compromise on Abortion in Health Care lifenews.com 10/3/9 ["...pro-life groups and leading pro-life lawmakers such as Democratic Rep. Bart Stupak of Michigan have exposed the Capps language as a fraud by noting that it allows massive abortion subsidies and mandates."]
grey dot DHS helps local police buy military-style sonic devices washingtontimes.com 10/3/9 ["With the help of Homeland Security grants, police departments nationwide looking to subdue unruly crowds and political protesters are purchasing a high-tech device originally used by the military ....American Technology spokesman Robert Putnam said the company's LRAD system was "successfully deployed" by Pittsburgh law enforcement agencies to "support their peacekeeping efforts at the G-20 summit," but he denied that the devices are weapons. "]
blue dot Martial Law Is Their Business – and Business Sure Is Swell prisonplanet.com 10/3/9 [The “it” in question is a large jail facility outside Hardin, Montana, that was built several years ago but thus far remains unused. “They” refers to prisoners to fill said jail – a 114,000 square foot, 464-bed facility. APF has yet to become firmly established in Hardin (pop. 3,400), but the company’s representatives are confident “the place [meaning the jail] would start filling up by 2010.”""]
blue dot Investigation Could Sink American Police Force prisonplanet.com 10/3/9 ["The plans of American Police Force to boss the $27 million dollar detention center in Hardin Montana as well as expand their presence across the country while training foreign troops inside the U.S. could be mothballed after Montana’s Attorney General launched an investigation and demanded the organization turn over all its records."]

grey dot Earthquakes across Asia Pacific cause two disasters in under 24 hours telegraph.co.uk 10/2/9 ["In Indonesia, at least 450 are confirmed dead and thousands more missing or trapped in rubble after two earthquakes that hit less than 24 hours later. Officials have said the death toll on the island of Sumatra will "definitely" rise. "]
grey dot Military to get mandatory swine flu shots soon breitbart.com 10/2/9 ["The Pentagon has bought 2.7 million vaccines, and 1.4 million of those will go to active duty military. National Guard troops on active duty are also required to receive the vaccine, as are civilian Defense Department employees who are in critical jobs. "]
grey dot Unprecedented U.S. corp. defaults seen for '09 reuters.com 10/2/9 ["The forecast for the 2009 corporate default rate has risen to 12 percent to 14 percent, from a May forecast of 11 percent to 13 percent, according to Bain's corporate default outlook. That suggests a total of about 180 to 210 companies could default on their debt this year."]
grey dot Layoffs, lost cruisers: Problems grow for sheriff msnbc.msn.com 10/2/9 [""We will be a lawless society," worries Angela Greenwell, a county board member, fearing the latest trouble "basically has neutered the sheriff's department.""]
grey dot Irish hold crunch EU treaty vote 10/2/9 ["Polling opens shortly in Ireland's second referendum on the EU's Lisbon Treaty - a vote that could be decisive for long-delayed changes in the EU."]
yellow dot U.S. Dollar Crashes Against Yen! Time to Act! themarketoracle.biz 10/2/9 ["On August 30, in a landslide election victory that shook the world, the left-of-center Democratic Party of Japan derailed the ruling party and swept a new leader to power, Yukio Hatoyama. It was the most significant tipping point in that country’s politics since 1955. Now, 30 days later, we are starting to see the repercussions for the U.S. dollar: For the first time in decades, the new Japanese regime is effectively giving up supporting the greenback in the currency markets! "]
grey dot Blair in line for EU presidency: report google.com 10/2/9 ["Blair could be ushered into the European Union's top post at a summit on October 29 if the Lisbon Treaty passes, the London-based newspaper said."]
grey dot Sept. US auto sales fall amid clunkers letdown google.com 10/2/9 ["Now automakers are starting to feel the effect. Ford sales of cars and light truck fell 5.1 percent from a year ago to 114,241. The decline followed two straight months of rising sales."]
grey dot UK: Doctors feared saving suicidal young woman smh.com.au 10/2/9 ["It is thought to be the first time someone has used a living will to commit suicide. The documents are more commonly associated with patients who are terminally ill and want to refuse treatment."]
grey dot 183 Congressional Reps Tell Speaker Pelosi: No Abortion Coverage, or No Health-Care Bill lifesitenews.com 10/2/9 ["demanding that Congress be allowed a free vote on bipartisan pro-life measures that would truly prohibit government funding of abortion in health care. The House representatives warn that if they do not have their way, they will do everything in their power to make sure that H.R. 3200 "America's Affordable Health Choices Act" does not even reach the House floor for a vote."]

grey dot Gays, lesbians getting better showcase on U.S. TV reuters.com 10/1/9 ["Some 44 lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) characters make regular appearances in scripted shows on network and mainstream cable TV in the new 2009-10 television season, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), said in its annual "Where We Are on TV" report."]
grey dot Down the Hatch: Senate Committee Torpedoes Pro-Life Amendments to Healthcare lifesitenews.com 10/1/9 ["The Senate Finance Committee torpedoed two key pro-life amendments on Wednesday designed to prevent government-subsidies of abortion and guarantee conscience protections for health-care providers in the health-care reform bill."]
grey dot 'Safe schools' chief encouraged child sex with older man wnd.com 10/1/9 ["Kevin Jennings, the radical homosexual activist who founded one of the biggest organizations in the nation to promote "gay" activities in public schools, needs to "come clean," according to the Washington Times. "]
grey dot Obama official regrets advice to gay student google.com 10/1/9 ["The official, Kevin Jennings, says he should have handled the situation differently when he told the boy he hoped he had used a condom during a sexual encounter with an older man. Jennings, who now heads the department's Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools, has been under fire from conservatives and right-wing groups for not reporting the incident to authorities or to the boy's parents."]
grey dot Holdren: Seize babies born to unwed women wnd.com 10/1/9 ["Obama science czar John Holdren stated in a college textbook that "illegitimate children" born to unwed mothers could be taken by the government and put up for adoption if the mother refused to have an abortion. "]
grey dot US dollar set to be eclipsed, World Bank president predicts guardian.co.uk 10/1/9 ["Speaking ahead of the World Bank/IMF annual meetings in Istanbul, he said it was time for a "responsible globalisation", in which decision-making was shared between the old powers and developing countries such as China and India."]
grey dot U.S. dollar seen caught in G20 meeting's crosshairs reuters.com 10/1/9 ["...the dollar is seen as most susceptible to damage after some at the G20 meeting questioned the stability of the dollar in light of its status as the world's reserve currency."]
grey dot IMF backing for Bank could signal more quantitative easing guardian.co.uk 10/1/9 ["The International Monetary Fund today gave the all-clear for the Bank of England to step up its electronic money-creation programme as a leading Threadneedle Street policy maker said the benefits of "quantitative easing" were being felt in factories and high streets across the UK."]
grey dot Many swine flu deaths linked with second infection reuters.com 10/1/9 ["A study of 77 patients who died of the new pandemic H1N1 virus showed 29 percent of them had so called bacterial co-infections, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported. About half of these had Streptococcus pneumoniae..."]
grey dot Work begins on national e-health record network google.com 10/1/9 ["Dr. David Blumenthal, the Obama administration's health information technology director, acknowledged that a national system for sharing records is far off. He said federal officials hope to issue regulations controlling how medical information is shared by the middle of next year and plan to provide about $300 million in stimulus funds to develop regional and local information exchanges."]
grey dot Ban handguns? Supreme Court taking a new look google.com 10/1/9 ["If the court rules that the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms doesn't allow the city's outright handgun ban, it could lead to legal challenges to less-restrictive laws that limit who may own guns, whether firearms must be registered and even how they must be stored."]
grey dot U.S. large-loan bank losses triple to $53 billion reuters.com 10/1/9 ["U.S. regulators say that the level of losses from syndicated loans facing banks and other financial institutions tripled to $53 billion in 2009, due to poor underwriting standards and the continuing weakness in economic conditions."]
grey dot Indonesian quake kills at least 200 smh.com.au 10/1/9 ["Rescue workers are racing against time to assist victims of a huge earthquake in the flattened Indonesian city of Padang with upwards of 1,000 people feared dead and many more trapped in rubble."]
grey dot Clinton thrilled to be president ....of the UN Security Council google.com 10/1/9 [""]
grey dot Washington [State] OKs mercury in swine flu vaccine komonews.com 10/1/9 ["The state Health Department will allow more mercury than usual in some of the swine flu vaccine to make sure shots are available to pregnant women and children under age three."]
grey dot US panic at China's new ship killer smh.com.au 10/1/9 ["The institute's report said the Dong Feng missile was thought to have a range of about 2000 kilometres and a speed of Mach 10: "The size of the missile enables it to carry a warhead big enough to inflict significant damage on a large vessel, providing the Chinese the capability of destroying a US supercarrier in one strike.""]