UN seeks to sweep away last traces of imperial age

So they can more easily re-write history in the future. Two steps forward, one step back.

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UN seeks to sweep away last traces of imperial age

By ANITA SNOW Associated Press

AP Photo/Remy Moyen

UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- One was Napoleon's last place of exile. Another became home to survivors of the mutiny-stricken Bounty. They are St. Helena and the Pitcairn Islands, flecks of real estate set in vast oceans, each occupying a special place in history.

These and 14 other territories - some would call them colonies - are listed by the U.N. as relics of a vanished age when Europeans ruled large chunks of the globe. The U.N. guided many colonies to independence, and what's left of the former empires are territories, defined by the U.N. Special Committee on Decolonization as "non-self-governing," entitled in many cases to elect local officials but all under the ultimate authority of a distant capital.

The committee is one of the few forums in which colonialism's last remaining subjects can make themselves heard. Its latest annual meeting, in June, featured voices as disparate as lawmakers from Gibraltar and the Falkland Islands, a headman from a cluster of New Zealand-ruled islets, and a spokesman for a Saharan territory that has been fighting for independence for 35 years.

Some may see the U.N. committee as an anachronism, little noticed by anyone other than those who attend its meetings: two dozen ambassadors of countries with a direct interest in the decolonization process, and representatives of the territories in question.

But Ahmed Boukhari of the Polisario Front, which seeks the independence of Moroccan-controlled Western Sahara, says its existence is vital.

"Not only do we need the committee, we need to enhance it," he told The Associated Press. "For the people of the territories, it's an essential element in their struggle for self-determination."

A century ago, before the term "Third World" came into use, colonialism was the norm. The British Empire was the world's largest, covering about a quarter of Earth's land area. Next was France.

But almost everywhere, liberation movements were springing up, and after World War II, decolonization surged ahead under the newly founded United Nations. More than 80 colonies comprising about 750 million people became self-governing.

But the last traces are proving hard to erase.

The U.N. General Assembly had declared 1990-2000 to be the "International Decade for the Eradication of Colonization," and indeed, that was the decade that saw the return of British-ruled Hong Kong and Portuguese Macau to China.

With the job still unfinished, 2000-2010 became the Second International Decade for the Eradication of Colonization, its highlight being East Timor's independence from Indonesia. Now the world is into its third such decade.

It may get to delist New Caledonia, France's "special collectivity" in the southwest Pacific, following an independence referendum for the population of 250,000 expected in 2014. At this year's meeting, it heard from Victor Tutugoro of New Caledonia's Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front about the anthem, currency and motto the islands have chosen.

"If we can get two or three more on that path in the next decade, we can show that the process of decolonization can be achieved," said Saint Lucia's ambassador, Donatus Keith St. Aimee, a committee member and former chairman.

Also at the meeting was Faipule Foua Toloa, titular head of New Zealand's Tokelau islands, whose address included a prayer for guidance in his ancestors' language. The 1,400 Tokelau people fall into the no-thanks category, having voted in a 2006 referendum against breaking with the mother country.

To get off the list, a territory can win independence, be fully integrated into the colonial power as are France's Caribbean islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe, or become a sovereign state "freely associated" with a country, like the Marshall Islands and the U.S.

The U.S., with three territories on the list, and Britain, with 10, don't attend the annual meeting, saying the process is outdated.

The two most contentious possessions are British: Gibraltar, claimed by Spain; and the Falkland Islands, which Argentina invaded in 1982, only to be driven out by a British force that sailed 8,000 miles to recover the territory. London maintains that if the 3,000 Falklanders and 30,000 Gibraltarians want to remain part of Britain, their wishes must be respected.

Argentine President Cristina Fernandez, whose country calls the islands Las Malvinas, has denounced Britain as a "crude colonial power." But Roger Edwards, a Falklands legislator, asked the decolonization committee at this year's review to remove the islands from its list and ignore Argentina's demands.

"We do not feel that we are a downtrodden colony of an old Imperial Britain," he said.

Gibraltarians, perched on their rock at the tip of the Iberian Peninsula, rejected Spanish sovereignty in two referendums - one when Spain was a dictatorship, the other after it became a democracy.

Britain also claims Bermuda and the Caribbean islands of Anguilla, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Montserrat and Turks and Caicos.

And then there are the lonely islands of St. Helena, pop. 7,600, halfway between Brazil and Africa, where the Emperor Napoleon died six years after his defeat in the Battle of Waterloo, and the Pitcairn Islands in the South Pacific, populated by about four dozen people mostly descended from mutineers on the Bounty and their Tahitian companions.

The U.S. territories still listed are the U.S. Virgin Islands in the Caribbean and Guam and American Samoa in the Pacific.

The annual meeting ends with a resolution bundling together most of the territories on its list with a simple acknowledgment that their case has been heard.

That does not satisfy St. Aimee, the ambassador whose island of St. Lucia is a former British possession that used to be on the list. He says too many disparate territories are being lumped together and not getting the attention they deserve.

On the Falklands dispute, the committee goes slightly further, urging Britain and Argentina to negotiate a solution.

And then there's a hardy perennial - Puerto Rico, which has not been on the list since it became a U.S. commonwealth in 1953, and has voted three times to keep that status. There are calls, backed by President Barack Obama, for another vote on the matter by next year.

Annually for the past 12 years Cuba has introduced a resolution asking the U.S. for a process "that would allow Puerto Ricans to fully exercise their inalienable right to self-determination and independence." And this year, as happens every year, the resolution was adopted, with Cuba's ambassador, Pedro Nunez-Mosquera, vowing his country would uphold Puerto Rico's rights, "remaining at its side until the final victory."

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This is partly the reason God destroyed the Earth with the flood in the days of Noah. All flesh became defiled except for Noah and his family.

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First there was the glow-in-the-dark cat... Now meet Tagon, the world's first glowing dog

By day, Tagon looks like any other beagle.

But under the cover of darkness, she can glow an eerie green.

South Korean scientists say they have created a fluorescent dog using a cloning technique that could help find cures for human diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.

Before and after: Tagon's paw is like any other dog's in daylight, but glows bright green under ultraviolet light when she is given a special antibiotic

The breakthrough comes three years after U.S. boffins made a glow-in-the-dark cat by modifying its DNA, also in the hope of treating a range of conditions.

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Tagon, who was born in 2009, was found to beam bright green under ultraviolet light if given a doxycycline antibiotic.

Researchers from Seoul National University (SNU)'s College of Veterinary Medicine, who completed the two-year test, said the ability to glow can be turned on or off by adding a drug to the dog's food.

Glowing with pride: Tagon feeding her puppies at Seoul National University's College of Veterinary Medicine, where she is helping with vital research

Lead researcher Lee Byeong-chun said: 'The creation of Tagon opens new horizons since the gene injected to make the dog glow can be substituted with genes that trigger fatal human diseases.'

He said the dog was created using the somatic cell nuclear transfer technology that the university team used to make the world's first cloned dog, Snuppy, in 2005.

Glowing ginger tom: Mr Green Genes of New Orleans was created by US scientists in 2008 to help find cures for diseases like cystic fibrosis

The scientist said that because there are 268 illnesses that humans and dogs have in common, creating dogs that artificially show such symptoms could aid treatment methods for diseases that afflict humans.

The latest discovery published in Genesis, an international journal, took four years of research costing roughly 3.2 billion won ($3 million) to make the dog and conduct the necessary verification tests, Yonhap news agency said.

In 2008, scientists created Mr Green Genes of New Orleans - the country's first glowing ginger tom.

They adapted the six-month-old's DNA to see if a gene could be introduced harmlessly into an animal's genetic sequence.

The gene in question, known as green fluorescence protein, expressed itself in mucous membranes - causing his mouth and ears to radiate.

Because the fluorescence gene will go alongside the cystic fibrosis gene, it will make it easier for experts to spot the condition. Read more at www.dailymail.co.uk

 

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How could this happen?

How could a guy snorkelling in the ocean get burned to

death?



It happened this way - some 14 years ago.



There was a forest fire raging. A helicopter dipped a

giant bucket into the sea, then flew inland to pour its

watery contents onto the fire. When the fire was put out,

the charred body of the snorkeller was found among the

smouldering trees.



Of course the helicopter pilot had no idea that he had

scooped up a man in the water.



(by the way, someone did claim this to be just an "urban

myth" but further investigation indicated that yes, it

actually happened.)



My point, however, is this. Something in the sea can only

end up far inland by some unusual event.



Here’s something else. What if you were out in the

mountains and you came across a deep sea whale? This

really happened. (I’ll tell you about that soon.)



But we both know that whales don’t walk over land. Only

some gigantic disaster could do it.



SEA AND LAND LIFE MIXED

TOGETHER, FAR INLAND



On all continents, bones of SEA animals and LAND animals

are found together in great melees – on land!



*    East Africa’s Tendaquru dinosaur beds alternate

with seashell beds, just as one would expect if a

catastrophe swept in from different sources.



*    On England’s Channel Coast, sea shales and

limestones cycle with dinosaur-bearing land deposits.



*    In Wyoming, aralia leaves appear with fish in

Cretaceous rocks.



*    In Oklahoma, sea creatures and land plants fill

an asphalt pit near Sulphur.



Frequently, remains of WHALES and other examples of

DEEP-SEA life are found far removed from the sea, MIXED

WITH LAND plants, trees and land animals.



It is common knowledge that the deep floor of the ocean

is so calm as never to have its ooze disturbed by the

most violent surface storm.



Only some violent upheaval such as an inter-continental

(i.e. global) Flood, would explain the MIXTURE of the

deep-sea specimens with those of shore and land, all

covered and preserved by sudden destruction and burial.



SEA LIFE SWEPT ONTO MOUNTAINS



Marine fossils are found on mountain tops hundreds of

miles inland from any sea, or buried under hundreds of

feet of clay, sand, gravel and other debris.



*    In Antarctica, 85 mummified seals were found

on a mountaintop 2,500 feet above sea level.



*    The Himalayas, the world’s highest mountains,

contain skeletons of ocean fish, molluscs and marine

animals. Toward the top of Mount Everest, are petrified

clams in the closed position. When a clam dies, it opens.

The only way to get a petrified clam in the closed

position would be to bury it alive. There are places

where clams are found in the closed position and they

are piled ten feet thick!



*    Fish fossils are found in the Alps of Europe;

and oyster fossils are abundant in the Allegheny

Mountains.



*    Fossil sharks have been found in the Rocky

Mountains, entombed by sudden catastrophe; and in the

tops of the Canadian Rockies, seashells and even whales

– hundreds of miles inland from any seas.



*    The South American Andes and the Urals of Russia

likewise contain sea creatures.



*    In Montreal, Canada, seals have been found far

inland, several hundred feet above sea level.



*    Bones and skeletons of whales have been found in

hills of Vermont, Montreal, New Hampshire and north of

Lake Ontario.



Now for the secret of Lompoc’s quarry.  But first, let me

explain about diatoms. These are tiny sea creatures.



They say it takes about 1,000 years to accumulate one

inch of dead diatoms on the seabed. At Lompoc, the

diatomaceous earth is 1,500 feet thick in places.



At a diatomaceous-earth quarry in Lompoc, in 1976, a

remarkable discovery was made during mining operations.



Workers of the Dicalcite Division of Grefco Corporation

uncovered the fossil skeleton of a baleen whale.  The

whale fossil was STANDING ON END in the quarry and was

being exposed gradually as the diatomite was mined.

Estimates put the whale fossil at about 80 feet long



And please get this.This whale penetrated a diatom

formation that, according to evolutionary theory, is

millions of years thick.



But we all know that a whale simply would not stand up

on its tail for millions of years waiting to get buried

while the diatom deposits were slowly forming.



Here, then, was Lompoc’s bizarre secret.  This baleen

whale was the tragic victim of some enormous catastrophe.

And in this event, diatoms for hundreds of miles around

were scooped up and dumped on top of this whale, while

the whale itself was being tossed on end.



Now glaciers don’t carry whales.  Whales do not stand

on their tails.  Whales do not climb hills.  THE WHALES

WERE CARRIED THERE BY RUSHING WATER.  Then buried

rapidly.



On July 22, 1988, my friend Kent Hovind visited the

quarry. And the foreman told Kent, “One time we were

digging on the night shift. And we had all the spotlights

rigged up. We found a 60-foot wingspan pterodactyl.”



“What happened to it?” asked Kent.



“Oh, we didn’t stop and tell anybody.”



”Why not? That would be big news.”



“We didn’t,” said the workman, “because if you tell some

university, ‘We’ve got a fossil here,’ they’re going to

make you shut down production while they come and dig out

their fossil – and you’re going to lose money.



“We’re here to make money. And so we just dug right

through it.”



So, along with this baleen whale and billions of fish

fossils, was a giant flying reptile – all caught up in

this same huge disaster…and now inside a “mountain”.



And something else. Many mountains on earth show evidence

of wave action.



Here’s my theory. There was the greatest mother of all

global disasters. It brought water over all the

continental land mass.



Then, as the Flood waters subsided, they left behind

seashells and skeletons of small and large sea creatures

scattered over all the present mountain ranges of our

planet,



FOSSILS PROVE AN ENORMOUS FLOOD



Here, then, is the bottom line:  fossils in every part

of the planet testify to a global catastrophe.



Sometimes entombed in sediment a mile deep, land and

sea forms are mixed together.  In America, Europe,

Africa, Asia and Australia – in fact, everywhere – they

all shout one and the same story.



There was SUDDEN, VIOLENT UPHEAVAL, in which LAND and

SEA were mixed up – followed by rapid burial of animals

in water-laid sediment, before organisms could decay.



This occurred from the North Polar region to the South.

It was a catastrophe on a WORLD SCALE.



Only one force known to man is able to perform such a

sudden, wholesale destruction, followed by an immediate

burial.  THAT FORCE IS WATER.



The evolution theory requires that the deposits were

formed over millions of years of slow sedimentation.

However, I believe the universal Flood fits the facts

better, without difficulty.  Judge for yourself.



You might like to know more. If so, here’s a site I’ve

put up where you can go:

http://www.beforeus.com/second.php



Happy swimming.



Your friend,

Jonathan Gray

info@archaeologyanswers.com



If you have any questions, please email me at

questions@ancientfacts.com

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Researchers Expose Cunning Online Tracking Service That Can’t Be Dodged

By Ryan Singel

Researchers at U.C. Berkeley have discovered that some of the net’s most popular sites are using a tracking service that can’t be evaded — even when users block cookies, turn off storage in Flash, or use browsers’ “incognito” functions. The service, called KISSmetrics, is used by sites to track the number of visitors, what the visitors do on the site, and where they come to the site from — and the company says it does a more comprehensive job than its competitors such as Google Analytics. But the researchers say the site is using sneaky techniques to prevent users from opting out of being tracked on popular sites, including the TV streaming site Hulu.com. The discovery of KISSmetrics tracking techniques comes as federal regulators, browser makers, privacy activists and ad tracking companies are trying to define what tracking actually is. The FTC called on browser makers to add a “Do Not Track” setting that essentially lets users tell websites not to leave them alone — though it doesn’t block tracking on its own. It’s more like a “privacy, please” sign on a hotel door. One of the big questions surrounding Do Not Track is about web analytics software, which sites use to determine what’s popular on their site, how many unique visitors a site has a month, where users are coming from, and what pages they leave from. In response to inquiries from Wired.com, Hulu cut ties with KISSmetrics on Friday. UPDATE 5:00 PM Friday: Spotify, another KISSmetrics customer named in the report, said that it was concerned by the story: “We take the privacy of our users incredibly seriously and are concerned by this report,” a spokeswoman said by e-mail. “As a result, we have taken immediate action in suspending our use of KISSmetrics whilst the situation is investigated.” /UPDATE “Hulu has suspended our use of KISSmetrics’ services pending further investigation,” a spokeswoman told Wired.com. “Hulu takes our users’ privacy very seriously. We have no further comment at this time.” KISSmetrics is a 17-person start-up founded in 2008 and based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Founder Hitten Shah confirmed that the research was correct, but told Wired.com Friday morning that there was nothing illegal about the techniques it was using. “We don’t do it for malicious reasons. We don’t do it for tracking people across the web,” Shah said. “I would be having lawyers talk to you if we were doing anything malicious.” Shah says KISSmetrics is used by thousands of sites to track incoming users, and it does not sell or buy data about those visitors, according to Shah. After this story was published, the company tweeted a link that explains how its tracking works. So if a user came to Hulu.com from an ad on Facebook, and then later, using a different browser on the same computer, visited Hulu.com from Google, and then at some point signed up for the premium service, KISSmetrics would be able to tell Hulu all about that user’s path to purchase (without knowing who that person was). That tracking trail would remain in place even if a user deleted her cookies, due to code that stores the unique ID in places other than in a traditional cookie. The research was published Friday by a team UC Berkeley privacy researchers that includes veteran privacy lawyer Chris Hoofnagle and noted privacy researcher Ashkan Soltani. “The stuff works even if you have all cookies blocked and private-browsing mode enabled,” Soltani said. “The code itself is pretty damning.” The researchers were reprising a study from 2009 which discovered that some of the net’s biggest sites were using technology from online ad tracking firms Clearspring and Quantcast to re-create users’ cookies after users deleted them. The technique involved using a little known property of Flash to hold onto unique ID numbers. Then, if a user deleted her cookies, the companies would check in the secondary stash for the user ID, and use it to resurrect the traditional HTML cookies. That finding led to inquiries from regulators and a class action lawsuit alleging that websites and the tracking companies were unfairly monitoring users. That suit was settled for $2.4 million in cash and a promise by Clearspring and Quantcast not to use that method again. One of the sites named in that suit was Hulu, but its part of the settlement only required that the company tell users if it was using Flash to store cookies and provide a link in the policy that would show users how to turn off Flash data storage. However with KISSmetrics running, even knowing how to do that wouldn’t have saved a user from persistent tracking. This go-round the researchers’ report found only two sites that were recreating cookies after users deleted them — and Hulu.com was the only one doing so for tracking users across the entire site. The researchers dug into Hulu.com’s tracking code and discovered the KISSmetrics code. Using it, Hulu was able to track users regardless of which browser they used or whether they deleted their cookies. KISSmetrics used a number of methods to recreate cookies, and the persistent tracking can only be avoided by erasing the browser cache between visits. They also say that Shah’s defense that the system is not used to track people around the web doesn’t hold up. “Both the Hulu and KISSmetrics code is pretty enlightening,” Soltani told Wired.com in an e-mail. “These services are using practically every known method to circumvent user attempts to protect their privacy (Cookies, Flash Cookies, HTML5, CSS, Cache Cookies/Etags…) creating a perpetual game of privacy ‘whack-a-mole’.” “This is yet another example of the continued arms-race that consumers are engaged in when trying to protect their privacy online since advertisers are incentivized to come up with more pervasive tracking mechanisms unless there’s policy restrictions to prevent it.” They point to their research that found that when a user visited Hulu.com, they would get a “third-party” cookie set by KISSmetrics with a tracking ID number. KISSmetrics would pass that number to Hulu, allowing Hulu to use it for its own cookie. Then if a user visited another site that was using KISSmetrics, that site’s cookie would get the exact same number as well.

In this screenshot provided by U.C. Berkeley's Chris Hoofnagle, the IDs numbers for all three cookies are exactly the same.

So that makes it possible, the researchers say, for any two sites using KISSmetrics to compare their databases, and ask things like “Hey, what do you know about user 345627?” and the other site could say “his name is John Smith and his email address is this@somefakedomainname.com and he likes these kinds of things.”

Shah did not respond to a follow-up e-mail seeking clarification on his first answers.

KISSmetrics is used by a number of prominent websites, which Wired.com is not naming until we have time to contact them.

Berkeley researcher Soltani, who consulted for the Wall Street Journal’s reporting on privacy, notes that the code includes function names like “cram cookie.”

One of the techniques used involves using something called ETags in the browser cache, a once-theoretical technique that’s never before been seen in the wild on a major site, according to the researchers.

The research also found that many top websites have adopted new ways to track users using HTML5 and that Google tracking cookies are present on 97 of the top sites, including government sites such as IRS.gov.

A screenshot of a browser cache cookie, which researchers say has never been seen in the wild before.

Further resources:

The actual Flash/HTML5/Cache/Etags respawning code used by KISSmetrics on Hulu: code, pastebin

Hulu’s own code to respawn cookies: code, see it on ShowMyCode by entering http://www.hulu.com/guid.swf?v2

The full report from the Berkeley researchers

An image from Ashkan Soltani showing tracking ID being set in a browser even with cookies blocked and in ‘private’ browsing mode.

See Also: You Deleted Your Cookies? Think Again Privacy Lawsuit Targets Net Giants Over ‘Zombie’ Cookies Ad Firm Sued for Allegedly Re-Creating Deleted Cookies Online Tracking Firm Settles Suit Over Undeletable Cookies Read more at www.wired.com

 

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One million dollars for WHAT?

There are times when I come across an outrage perpetrated by the Homosexual Lobby and I don’t know whether to scream out loud over their obscenity or laugh at their stupidity.



In the midst of the debt ceiling crisis, unbelievable news about the Homosexual Lobby has been revealed.



Because of their influence, one MILLION of your tax-dollars was spent on a study entitled “The Association between Penis Size and Sexual Health among Men Who Have Sex with Men.”



This study, which was pushed by the Homosexual Lobby’s lapdogs in Congress and ran for five years, was subsidized by the National Institute of Health using your tax-dollars.



Their findings are even more ridiculous. In fact it is very hard to believe this was the result of legitimate academic research at all.



WARNING: Obscene Content Below



They found that Homosexuals with smaller genitals are routinely the submissive member in their perverse “relationships”, and that those with larger anatomy were more likely to be “on top.”



And you and I are forced to pay for this nonsense.



You can be sure that your Public Advocate will not let this injustice pass unopposed.



Every day, allies of the Radical Homosexual Agenda use government resources to try to force their perversion upon the public.



At a time when the Liberals are telling us that the Debt Ceiling must be raised, they’re spending one million dollars studying the size of Homosexual genitals...



Please call your congressman and Senators right away and tell them that raising the debt ceiling is absolutely unacceptable while this sort of trash remains in the Budget!



Congressional Switchboard: 202-224-3121 (Tell them your state and zipcode)



Thank you for standing strong with the Family.



For the Family,





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President, Public Advocate of the United States

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U.N. Group Calls for Abortion as Human Right for 10-Year-Olds

U.N. Group Calls for Abortion as Human Right for 10-Year-Olds, Decriminalization of Prostitution and Drug Use.

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U.N. Group Stands Up for Children's Sexual and Reproductive Rights, Including Abortion

By Tierney Smith

Flags of member nations flying at United Nations headquarters in New York City. (U.N. Photo by Eskinder Debebe)

(CNSNews.com) – Y-PEER, a youth initiative of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), says "more needs to be done to ensure young people's sexual and reproductive rights" -- especially "the right to choose," a reference to abortion.

The statement also says all young people globally have the "right to confidentiality" and the right to "be free from judgment."

Tyler Ament of Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute (C-FAM) told CNSNews.com, "The statement doesn't mention the age specifically, but the UN defines youth as those between the ages of 10-24."

The U.N.-affiliated group also issued what U.N. analysts say is a call for the decriminalization of prostitution and drug use.

The “Joint Youth Statement on the Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights of Young People” was released in preparation for the U.N. Youth Conference, which began Monday in New York.

“In order to fully recognise young people’s sexual and reproductive rights, especially the right to choose, we must achieve universal access to safe and youth-friendly sexual and reproductive health care services, including access to evidence-based comprehensive sexuality education, in formal and non-formal settings,” the document states.

The phrase “reproductive health care services” includes abortion, which the statement further underscores.

“Young women’s health is threatened by policies and services that do not provide life-saving access to family planning and contraception," the Y-PEER document said. “It is vital to implement key effective measures in the continuum of care for maternal health, including access to safe abortion.”

It further stated: “The rights of marginalized young people, including those who are living with HIV, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered, young men who have sex with men, sex workers, injecting drug users, disabled youth, young people in crisis situations and other vulnerable youth continue to be violated through policies and programmes that criminalize them and ignore their specific needs.”

Peter Sprigg, senior fellow for policy studies at the Family Research Council in Washington, D.C., said the statement constitutes an endorsement of prostitution. He also said the statements are shocking, especially because they come from a United Nations-affiliated organization.

"I think the plain implication of this statement is that ‘sex workers,’ which is a euphemism for prostitutes, and injecting drug users should not be criminalized, which means, presumably, that their conduct should not be criminalized,” Sprigg told CNSNews.com. “So, yes, I think this is a statement calling for the legalization of prostitution and drugs, and it’s shocking that any -- you know, that any self-respecting international organizations would endorse that idea."

Paul Rondeau, director of communications for the American Life League, said the statement reveals that the United Nations has a pro-abortion agenda for children.

“The United Nations has become the unsupervised playground and laboratory of the sex-industrial complex,” Rondeau told CNSNews.com.

“Organizations like UNESCO, International Planned Parenthood, and now Y-PEERS demand more sexual rights and more abortions as the solutions to more HIV infections and more abortions for the ever-younger victims they pretend to serve," he said.

Y-PEERS did not respond to attempts by CNSNews.com to obtain comment. The organization describes itself as “a network of young people from dozens of countries and hundreds of youth clubs and organizations, with thousands of members around the globe. We work to mobilize youth about issues related to sexual and reproductive health and rights.”

Rondeau said the organization appears to be “one more front group -- wittingly or otherwise -- for sex-based profiteers and cultural revolutionaries posing as concerned global citizens.”

“Within the statement absolutely stuffed with gobbledygook, it calls for disordered sexual behavior, prostitution, and IV drug use to be decriminalized,” he said. “Yet the leading cause of the spread of AIDS is sexual promiscuity followed by sharing needles in IV drug use. So, who benefits from decriminalizing these behaviors:  youth or sexual health agencies, providers, and pharmaceutical companies?”

Ament said these statements show that the U.N. is clearly focused on pushing a sexuality agenda instead of focusing on the real problems that youth face.

“The statement says that the U.N.'s youth agenda isn't really focused on the fundamental needs of youth,” he told CNSNews.com. “Most of the youth they focus on are youth in developing countries, and developing countries still don't have good access to water, basic health care, and jobs. Thousands of children die every day because of malaria, and the majority of maternal deaths occur in developing countries. Shouldn't these be higher priority development items than ‘sex rights’?”

Regarding confidentiality for youth, Ament pointed out that 10-year-olds naturally rely on their parents for most things.

“This has been the way to do things since humans have been around,” Ament said. “If non-governmental sex rights groups can convince a 10-year-old that their parents don't really have what it takes to care for their ‘sexual health needs’ and then have the law to back up their manipulation, the negative consequences are many.”

Rondeau added: “Offering confidentiality to minors not only violates parents’ rights, it protects sex offenders, rapists, molesters, and child sex traffickers.  It also exposes the child to additional exploitation.   This is well documented in the United States where Planned Parenthood has been caught on video ignoring mandatory reporting laws on suspected rape or child abuse and coaching young girls to lie on admission forms.   All this is done under the guise of serving and protecting youth.  Of course, these same girls then come back for contraceptives and abortions all without parental knowledge or law enforcement removing them from high-risk environments.” Read more at cnsnews.com

 

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Global Warming

This website describes evidence from my group’s government-funded research that suggests global warming is mostly natural, and that the climate system is quite insensitive to humanity’s greenhouse gas emissions and aerosol pollution.

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Global Warming

“Global warming” refers to the global-average temperature increase that has been observed over the last one hundred years or more. But to many politicians and the public, the term carries the implication that mankind is responsible for that warming. This website describes evidence from my group’s government-funded research that suggests global warming is mostly natural, and that the climate system is quite insensitive to humanity’s greenhouse gas emissions and aerosol pollution.

Believe it or not, very little research has ever been funded to search for natural mechanisms of warming…it has simply been assumed that global warming is manmade. This assumption is rather easy for scientists since we do not have enough accurate global data for a long enough period of time to see whether there are natural warming mechanisms at work.

The United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) claims that the only way they can get their computerized climate models to produce the observed warming is with anthropogenic (human-caused) pollution. But they’re not going to find something if they don’t search for it. More than one scientist has asked me, “What else COULD it be?” Well, the answer to that takes a little digging… and as I show, one doesn’t have to dig very far.

But first let’s examine the basics of why so many scientists think global warming is manmade. Earth’s atmosphere contains natural greenhouse gases (mostly water vapor, carbon dioxide, and methane) which act to keep the lower layers of the atmosphere warmer than they otherwise would be without those gases. Greenhouse gases trap infrared radiation — the radiant heat energy that the Earth naturally emits to outer space in response to solar heating. Mankind’s burning of fossil fuels (mostly coal, petroleum, and natural gas) releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and this is believed to be enhancing the Earth’s natural greenhouse effect. As of 2008, the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere was about 40% to 45% higher than it was before the start of the industrial revolution in the 1800’s.

It is interesting to note that, even though carbon dioxide is necessary for life on Earth to exist, there is precious little of it in Earth’s atmosphere. As of 2008, only 39 out of every 100,000 molecules of air were CO2, and it will take mankind’s CO2 emissions 5 more years to increase that number by 1, to 40.

The “Holy Grail”: Climate Sensitivity Figuring out how much past warming is due to mankind, and how much more we can expect in the future, depends upon something called “climate sensitivity”. This is the temperature response of the Earth to a given amount of ‘radiative forcing’, of which there are two kinds: a change in either the amount of sunlight absorbed by the Earth, or in the infrared energy the Earth emits to outer space.

The ‘consensus’ of opinion is that the Earth’s climate sensitivity is quite high, and so warming of about 0.25 deg. C to 0.5 deg. C (about 0.5 deg. F to 0.9 deg. F) every 10 years can be expected for as long as mankind continues to use fossil fuels as our primary source of energy. NASA’s James Hansen claims that climate sensitivity is very high, and that we have already put too much extra CO2 in the atmosphere. Presumably this is why he and Al Gore are campaigning for a moratorium on the construction of any more coal-fired power plants in the U.S.

You would think that we’d know the Earth’s ‘climate sensitivity’ by now, but it has been surprisingly difficult to determine. How atmospheric processes like clouds and precipitation systems respond to warming is critical, as they are either amplifying the warming, or reducing it. This website currently concentrates on the response of clouds to warming, an issue which I am now convinced the scientific community has totally misinterpreted when they have measured natural, year-to-year fluctuations in the climate system. As a result of that confusion, they have the mistaken belief that climate sensitivity is high, when in fact the satellite evidence suggests climate sensitivity is low.

The case for natural climate change I also present an analysis of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation which shows that most climate change might well be the result of….the climate system itself! Because small, chaotic fluctuations in atmospheric and oceanic circulation systems can cause small changes in global average cloudiness, this is all that is necessary to cause climate change. You don’t need the sun, or any other ‘external’ influence (although these are also possible…but for now I’ll let others work on that). It is simply what the climate system does. This is actually quite easy for meteorologists to believe, since we understand how complex weather processes are. Your local TV meteorologist is probably a closet ’skeptic’ regarding mankind’s influence on climate.

Climate change — it happens, with or without our help.

Global Warming 101

Research Articles & Simple Climate Model

Global Warming Background

Latest Global Temp. Anomaly (June '11: +0.31 deg. C)

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Genetic Armageddon: Humanity's Greatest Threat

http://www.infowars.com/?p=58728 A Secret That Can Destroy Us... Pandora's Box has surely been opened. A dangerous genetic experiment has come out of the shadows, and the human-animal hybrids, chimeras and other transgenic clones has produced now threaten to endanger and irrevocably alter life as we know it. The controllers of elite-funded science and R&D have wantonly tampered with the genetic code of the planet, ignoring the rather obvious dangers posed by cross-species experimentation and flagrantly jeopardizing the earth's delicately-balanced biodiversity. Fresh revelations about a "secret lab" program in the UK admittedly ongoing 'for the last three years' developing such bestial-hybrids only serves to reinforce our available data concerning the fact that genetically-modified laboratory creations are fast spinning out of control. Now the biotech industry has unleashed these Franken-breeds into the world under the auspices of monopolizing some of the most important and dangerous developments in Agra, Pharma and Medical research for the 21st Century. Their GM "solutions" to life's challenges promise lucrative returns, as we reported earlier today, due to their patented gene-expressions. Transgenic clones, created by deleting-and-replacing DNA sequences to create a cross-species hybrid (xenotransplantation) that is then grown in a host egg, are becoming a pet-project of corporate science that offers 'Pharming's' promise of replacement organs for ailing humans, industrial and pharmaceutical applications of artificial-protein production, and the hope of successful outlets for artificial fertilization in an age of increasing sterility and infertility. However, it is these man-made creations that pose the greatest risks-- including contamination, proven links to sterility in offspring and risks of cancer. Many clones, including the world's famous first-cloned sheep, Dolly, have had conspicuously short lives and bad health. Arthritis, breathing problems and more have plagued their existence, while hundreds of embryos fail in cultivation for each successful clone. Still others die in the womb after only days, yet these entities are trusted to fulfill humanity's betterment. In particular, mixing the human genome with that of various 'useful' animals crosses the extremely risky bridge formerly separating many beast-borne diseases from those that typically affect humans, or plant species for that matter. The contagion of mixing unrelated species like mammals and jellyfish genes gives the opportunity for unforeseen consequences and uncontrollable mutations. Further, many genes which scientists have previously believed to be equivalent have proven to behave differently when transplanted into foreign DNA sequences. Additionally, lack of recognition or compensation for pleiotropic genes (where a single gene gives expression for multiple traits) makes some of the consequences unforeseeable, yet predictably dangerous. Grotesque experimentation iconically portrayed for more than a century in globalist H.G. Wells' The Island of Dr. Moreau has now come to life-- growing human ears on the backs of mice, harvesting human-marked organs from cows, pigs and other host-species, synthesizing strategic proteins in host-milk production and other seemingly-sci-fi applications pave the way to future biotechnology. Creations like spider-goats are raised in contradiction to nature's laws, all in the name of reaching industrial production of a stronger-than-steel protein from spider-silk that can create fibers for items like bullet-proof vests, sold directly to the military-prison-industrial complex, further feeding the total domination of mankind. GMO species have become absolutely invasive, and their Doctors Frankenstein have unleashed them intentionally to wreck and destroy the native competing species. Crop contamination of non-GMO plants, combined with the genocidal effects of Terminator seeds is devastating to ordinary farmers. Consumption of GMO crops have proven ties in mice studies to sterility (shown to be delayed until the second or third generation) as well as cancer and other issues. Powerful globalists have declared themselves God, and seek to limit the complex expression of life with cheap carbon-copy clones that threaten to displace the genuine flora, fauna and other life on this planet. Not long ago, the world's most prestigious scientists considered some 96% of DNA to be throwaway 'junk' with no genetic value. Now, in greater arrogance, they will make far greater mistakes as they pretend to understand the path to 'transhumanism' where man supposedly ascends to godhood and life extension. Humanity must stand up and say no before it is too late.

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