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New York's oldest Catholic cathedral wins new honor: St. Patrick's Old Cathedral becomes a basilica

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New York's oldest Catholic cathedral wins new honor: St. Patrick's Old Cathedral becomes a basilica

BY Lore Croghan
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Monday, December 6th 2010, 4:00 AM

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Archbishop Timothy Dolan at the inauguation for the basilica of St. Patrick's Old Cathedral.



The city's oldest Catholic cathedral won a new honor yesterday: It's now a basilica.

Pope Benedict directed that St. Patrick's Old Cathedral be designated a basilica - an honor given only to churches of major historic and spiritual significance.

The 201-year-old church in Little Italy was a spiritual home in the 19th Century for Irish immigrants seeking refuge against Protestant persecution. In recent decades, it has welcomed Dominican and Chinese immigrants.

"This is not a museum. This is still a living, breathing, loving, embracing parish," Archbishop Timothy Dolan told a standing-room-only crowd at a solemn vespers service in the old cathedral to celebrate its new status.



For some parishioners, pride and joy were tinged with sadness because its 188-year old school was shuttered last summer.

Xanthos/NewsThe newly-crowned basilica.

"Going to Catholic school gives a good foundation for your faith," said neighborhood resident Elva Ugarte, 70, whose daughter attended the defunct school.

Parishioner Rafael Grullon, 78, called the new designation "a triumph" for his beloved church, which is now led by the Rev. Donald Sokano.

"I have dreamed of this day," said Grulon, of Little Italy.

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How did animals travel from all over the world to get to the Ark?

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How did animals travel from all over the world to get to the Ark?


Dr. Kent Hovind

This question assumes that the world before the flood was like the world is today with animals specialized for certain areas. Today the world is 70% water and the oceans separate the continents. Also, some animals only live in a few selected locations. The Bible teaches that before the flood the water was gathered into one place (Genesis 1:9). There was probably one ocean and much more landmass. Also, if the climate was more temperate, animals could live in all types of places, which means Noah did not have to go gather animals from all over the world. In fact, the Bible says that the animals came to Noah (Genesis 6:20).

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Rome's Learning Against Learning- Overview


Rome's Learning Against Learning- Overview


The invention and popularization of the printing press broke Rome's monopoly allowing Protestantism to flourish- so Rome fought back.

Rome fought back with coercion

Rome also fought back via confusion

Institutions of Learning- Schools and Publishing

Institutions of Entertainment - Rome's expansion of the concept of its coliseums filled with 1000s of spectators

Publishing - Media Consolidation - Vatican Media Control - William Randolph Hearst

Media Defragmentation- Internet Breaks Monopoly

Internet Era Media Counter Reformation- adopting to the new modes of publishing, along with technological and other means to continue to thwart the spread of dangerous to the ancient regime ideas.

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Ad Campaign Promoting Atheism Across U.S. Draws Ire and Protest - ABC News


Hunt for Ronni Chasen's Killer: Starting From Scratch After Harold Smith's Suicide - ABC News


Are Pedophiles Behind the Cartoon Character Facebook Campaign?

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Moments in Idiocy: Are Pedophiles Behind the Cartoon Character Facebook Campaign?This weekend, we all eradicated child abuse by changing our Facebook profile pictures to cartoon characters. Or did we? According to the stupidest rumor I have ever heard, pedophiles are behind the useless campaign, for some idiotic made-up reason.

Did you change your Facebook profile picture to Strawberry Shortcake or Optimus Prime or whatever, to show the whole world your bold, courageous stance against beating up kids? Good for you! Too bad that, according to stupid people on the internet, as cited in The Daily Mail, the whole campaign was begun by pedophiles:


What's more, rumours are now sweeping the net claiming the campaign is actually a smokescreen for paedophiles hoping to identify young children.


One Facebooker asked: ‘How is this gonna help stop child abuse? Sounds like something a paedophile would do!'


Another user posted the following warning: ‘The paedophiles have it easy finding the kids this way from a cartoon in your past! Obviously if someone posts Spongebob Square Pants it's probably a kid, now Betty Boop an adult!'


If you need corroboration, a quick search for "pedophile" or "pedo" on youropenbook.org will turn up a lot of status updates reading something like this:


ATTN:The group asking everyone to change their profile pictures to their favorite cartoon character is actually a group of pedophiles . They are doing it because kids will accept their friend request faster if they see a cartoon picture. It has nothing to do with supporting child abuse and violence, IT'S ON TONIGHT'S NEWS. Copy and paste this to your status, let everyone know now !!!


Well, we were skeptical about this rumor at first, because, uh, it doesn't make any fucking sense, at all, if you give it even one second of thought, but apparently, "IT'S ON TONIGHT'S NEWS," so it must be legit!

But, okay, for real, since some people are having trouble with this: "Pedophiles" are not "behind" this campaign, which is just a moronic way to make everyone feel better about themselves while also participating in the kind of sickening nostalgia for art-murdering pop culture ephemera that represents the nauseating, decadent end of western "civilization." Really! Just... take my word for it, okay? (Know Your Meme says it began as a joke in Greece and Cyprus.)

So: If you need to do the thing with the cartoon character, because you are one of those people, go ahead and do it. Don't be worried because you heard from the internet that pedophiles started that trend. Okay? Because, look, this campaign is already as sad and silly as this kind of thing gets, and tacking another, even dumber rumor on top of it will create an event horizon of internet idiocy (useless "awareness-raising" campaigns! Disgusting show-off nostalgia! Heightened fear of pedophile menace! Utterly unfounded rumors!) that I'm not sure even Facebook can handle.

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Park Service: Dissing Christians: Federal agency brushes off mistakes about historical record of founders

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Park Service: Dissing Christians just dandy

Federal agency brushes off mistakes about historical record of founders

FAITH UNDER FIRE

By Bob Unruh




© 2010 WorldNetDaily


Independence Hall in Philadelphia

The National Park Service is suggesting apparent mistakes about the historical record of the Founding Fathers presented by a tour guide to visitors to the Independence Hall National Historical Park in Philadelphia are just part of the "multiple points of view" that are designed to let visitors "draw their own conclusions."

That apparently includes the performance of a guide who "mimicked and mocked [a Christian] carrying and swinging an oversized Bible ... ."

"Even if I said the founders were Christians, how could we really know? Just because people carry a big ol' Bible in their hand, they can still be atheists!" said the guide.

"Each ranger leads a tour in his or her own way, weaving stories and information around core topics such as the drafting of the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution. Our staff is taught to present tours from multiple points of view and allow visitors to draw their own conclusions or, hopefully, be inspired enough to seek out more information on their own," the agency responded to a chaplain who challenged the accuracy of some of the information.

DuBord for years has worked with tours of patriotic citizens who have visited Washington and other locations to see the markers of America's Christian heritage. He previously exposed when tour guides at the U.S. Supreme Court building were denying the multiple representations there of the Ten Commandments.

He also exposed the agenda at work in the District of Columbia when the replica of the Washington Monument capstone, which is engraved with "Laus Deo," or "Praise be to God," was positioned in the visitors' center so observers were not able to see the inscription and the signs had been altered to remove any reference to the "Laus Deo" on the capstone.

During a recent visit to Philadelphia, he took a tour of the Independence Hall site, and noticed a problem when a question was raised about the religious beliefs of the Founders. Accompanying DuBord were Pastor Jim Garlow of Renewing America Leadership and history expert David Barton of Wallbuilders.


"The NPS guide went from being an expert on the Founders to someone who was fumbling to formulate his words and get even a coherent and accurate sentence about our Founders' religion," DuBord wrote. "It struck me from his initial utterances on their religious views that he knew very little if anything about the real issues at all – and that made me wonder how many presentations he had done over the years to school children and guests from all over the country and world without ever discussing the Founders' religious nature with any accuracy."

Among the guide's statements that DuBord challenged:


  • "George Washington didn't even attend church!"



  • "While the NPS guide physically hunched over, mimicked and mocked one carrying and swinging an oversized Bible in his hand, he said to the crowd: 'Even if I said the founders were Christians, how could we really know? Just because people carry a big ol' Bible in their hand, they can still be atheists!"



  • "Most of these men owned slaves. How could good Christians do that?"



  • "We know that Benjamin Franklin was a deist."



  • "We don't really know for sure about their religion. It's open for interpretation. You'll have to do your own study on that."

DuBord wrote to the facility that the statements simply are wrong.

Liberty Bell, with biblical quote: Leviticus 25:10

"Washington attended Christ Church (the first Episcopal Church) just a few blocks away from Independence Hall with Betsy Ross, John Adams (our 2nd president), Benjamin Franklin, Benjamin Rush, Robert Morris and many other signers of our founding documents," he wrote. "He also had reserved pews at two churches in Virginia, at Pohick Church near Mount Vernon and one at Christ Church in Alexandria.

"The NPS guide could have cited any of a number of examples in Washington's life and even presidency," DuBord explained, citing Washington's reference as he took the oath of office in 1789 that, "we ought to be no less persuaded that the propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the external rules of order and right, which Heaven itself has ordained."



MacLeod did not respond to a request from WND for comment, but the park's media relations officer, Jane Cowley, said the letter was not intended to address the issue of historical facts.

She told WND the park "of course would try to correct" any misinformation.

She also confirmed the park would not stand by the statement, "George Washington didn't even attend church."

"We do take steps to ensure that all information provided by our rangers is historically verifiable. There are historical records out there. We expect the rangers to know those."

Regarding other statements reported by DuBord, she said she park's historical experts would not talk to a reporter, but she would ask them for comment.

In MacLeod's letter to DuBord, she suggested there are just too many good stories to include them all.

Failing to address the issue of accuracy, her letter said, "The number, scope and complexity of the stories that could be told on a tour of Independence Hall are enormous. Each guided tour can be only 30 minutes long, which does not afford the opportunity to cover all potential material adequately."

She explained that each ranger chooses how to give information to visitors.

"We regret that your guide may not have handled himself as deftly as we would prefer and that he was not able to get his point across in a clear and successful manner," she wrote.

DuBord, in a letter prepared for delivery to MacLeod, said the deftness was not the issues, but the accuracy of the information, as he detailed in an analysis at his National Treasures website.

George Washington statue outside Independence Hall

"His sentiment was bad enough that he retorted with only, and I mean only, negative comments on the Founders' religious views and practice, but that they were also lies or half-truths clearly used to attack and undermine their faiths," DuBord said. "In the very house in which our founders adopted a Creator-filled Declaration of Independence, should we not have expected at least one positive comment was made about any one of the founders' Christian faiths?"

He said it was sad to get a Park Service response that "sidestepped the NPS ranger's culpability by brushing over the blatant historical lies taught by him."

The chaplain also noted that he'd requested copies of the training materials for guides, and specifically how it deals with the religion and faith of the Founders, but has not seen it yet.

"The problem isn't how many stories were told, but that all of them discussed about our founders Judeo-Christian belief and practice were negative, misleading and/or flat out lies and biased distortions of history," he said.

He suggested there was either a gap in the training for guides, "or your guides are taking liberty to invoke their own bias, despite it being false – something I fear now is not only being allowed but condoned."

In fact, DuBord noted a Presbyterian minister (John Witherspoon) was among the signers of the Declaration. Two others previously had been ministers and others were the sons of clergy.

"Virtually all were Protestant Christians," the chaplain noted. And Christian confessions or affirmations of faith easily can be found among the historical records for Samuel Adams, Josiah Bartlett, Benjamin Franklin, Elbridge Gerry, John Hancock, Samuel Huntington, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas McKean, John Morton, Robert Treat Paine, Benjamin Rush, Roger Sherman, Richard Stockton, Thomas Stone and others.

"M.E. Bradford, late history professor at the University of Dallas, discovered that at least 50, perhaps 52, of the 55 delegates to the Constitutional Convention professed to be orthodox, Trinitarian believers who were in good standing at various Christian churches. Bradford found that there were 28 Episcopalians, 8 Presbyterians, 7 Congregationalists, 2 Lutherans, 2 Dutch Reformed, 2 Methodists, 2 Roman Catholics, and only 3 Deists," he wrote.

Such information is "straightforward biography" and not subject to conjecture or private interpretation, he suggested.

"Teaching on multiple points of view is fine, but when those points of view are false and misleading histories, how else are visitors to 'draw their own conclusions' about what was true? Is that really the way the tours should be conducted at what you even admit in your letter is 'the most important sites related to the founding of the United States'? If it wouldn't be tolerated in any of the thousands of universities across the country, should it be tolerated in one of the 'most important sites related to the founding of the United States'?" he wondered.



WND has reported on a series of other efforts to remove mention of God and references to the religious faith and influences of the Founding Fathers from government grounds.

In 2008, an "oversight" at the nation's $600-million-plus Capitol Visitor Center in Washington, D.C., left the national motto "In God We Trust" absent from the historical displays and at one point prompted WND columnist and veteran actor Chuck Norris to ask if he could help correct the situation.

That "oversight" was fixed in 2009 after U.S. Rep. Randy Forbes, R-Va., and 108 members of Congress expressed concern the historical content was inaccurate, prompting the committee's determination to make changes.

Also, WND reported in 2006 when DuBord told WND he was more than startled during his visits to the U.S. Supreme Court and two other historic locations to discover the stories of the nation's heritage had been sterilized of Christian references.

He visited the courthouse and was surprised that what the tour guides were telling him wasn't what he was seeing.

"Having done some research (before the trip), I absolutely was not expecting to hear those remarks," which, he had told WND, "denied history."

DuBord wrote to the Supreme Court and several other groups, asking them to restore the historic Christian influences to their presentations. He said he was most disturbed by what appeared to be revisionism in the presentations given to visitors at the Supreme Court.

There, he said, his tour guide was describing the marble frieze directly above the justices' bench: "Between the images of the people depicting the Majesty of the Law and Power of Government, there is a tablet with 10 Roman numerals, the first five down the left side and the last five down the right. This tablet represents the first 10 amendments of the Bill of Rights," she said.

"The 10 what?" was DuBord's thought.

Dubord began researching and found a 1975 official U.S. Supreme Court handbook, prepared under the direction of Mark Cannon, administrative assistant to the chief justice. It said, "Directly above the Bench are two central figures, depicting Majesty of the Law and Power of Government. Between them is a tableau of the Ten Commandments."

Further research produced information that in 1987 the building was designated a National Historic Landmark and came under control of the U.S. Department of the Interior. Under the new management the handbook was rewritten in 1988. The Ten Commandments reference was left out of that edition, and nothing replaced it.

The next reference found said only that the frieze "symbolizes early written laws." Then in 1999, the handbook referred to the depiction as the "Ten Amendments to the Bill of Rights."

"The more I got into [his research], the more I saw Christianity had been abandoned from history,"  DuBord said at the time.



DuBord encourages Americans to sound off to the National Park Service at Independence National Historical Park by contacting them by e-mail, phone or letter via the information at the Park Service's website.



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WikiLeaks sold classified intel, claims website's co-founder

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WikiLeaks sold classified intel, claims website's co-founder

Selling secrets 'lucrative,' but 'usually cloaked in some kind of public benefit'


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John Young

One of the early members and co-founders of the tight-knit, secretive WikiLeaks operation charged today that the website and its co-founder, Julian Assange, sold intelligence information the site had obtained.

John Young, whose name was listed as the public face of WikiLeaks in the site's original domain registration, also alleged that the website is a lucrative business.

Young said he left the site in 2007 due to concerns over its finances and that WikiLeaks was engaged in the selling of documents.

Young was speaking today to WND senior reporter Aaron Klein on Klein's radio program on New York's WABC Radio.

"I think it is a money-making operation, no doubt," Young said of WikiLeaks.

"It follows the model of a number of other business intelligence operations. Selling intelligence information is a very lucrative field, and so they are following that model, usually cloaked in some kind of public benefit," he told Klein.

"But they are far from being the only one that does that," Young added. "It's a well-known business model.

Asked specifically whether he was charging WikiLeaks with selling classified information and documents, Young replied, "Yes."

Klein then asked, "When you were at WikiLeaks initially, was your impression they were trying to sell information?"

Young responded, "Well, it only came up in the topic of raising $5 million the first year. That was the first red flag that I heard about. I thought that they were actually a public interest group up until then, but as soon as I heard that, I know that they were a criminal organization."

Audio of the interview can be heard below:












Young said he doubted the validity of rumors the Open Society Institute, funded by philanthropist George Soros, was previously in talks with WikiLeaks about a possible donation.

"I assume that that was just a tease, a fundraising tease that Julian is known to use," he said. "He's a bragger and talks about these possibilities as though they are in the works, but I don't think there is much to it."

Young stated Assange was a "narcissistic personality. He craves attention and he'll do about anything to get it."

Young claimed the main goal of WikiLeaks was to exaggerate their own importance and that Assange wasn't really anti-American.

Assange's seemingly anti-U.S. intentions were "just a crowd pleaser," said Young.

"That's a very popular one around the world," he said. "And so he's picking easy targets again for publicity purposes for maximum exposure. The effect of this, though, remains to be seen."

Continued Young: "There are lots of other things that WikiLeaks is ignoring in favor of this high profile material they are putting out now. They pretty much abandoned putting out useful material to release bombshells and picking easy targets. Banks are an easy target. The U.S. is an easy target. So these are no-brainer targets."

Young is a 74-year-old Manhattan-based architect who publishes a document-leaking website of his own called Cryptome.org that predates Wikileaks by over a decade. Cryptome famously posted online a review of security measures at the Democratic National Convention, it released documents that disclosed the names of alleged U.K. spies and it also published leaked internal documents about police requests inside Microsoft.

Young says it was his work with Cryptome that led WikiLeaks to recruit him early on to be the public face of registering their website, even listing his name on WikiLeak's original domain-name registration.

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Lithium Batteries Pose Deadly Threat to Kids - ABC News


Senator Schumer To Introduce Bill Making It Illegal To Distribute or Record Images From Airport Body-Scan Machine

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Senator Schumer To Introduce Bill Making It Illegal To Distribute or Record Images From Airport Body-Scan Machines

Chucky: "You need to balance security and privacy"

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Sen. Charles Schumer is seeking to make it illegal for anyone to distribute or record the revealing images produced by full-body scanners at airports.

The Democrat introduced such a bill today. Penalties could include up to a year in prison and fines up to $100,000, or both
.

"Anyone who would try to use these images for purposes other than security should be severely punished," Schumer told The Associated Press.

Sen. Charles Schumer will introduce a bill making it illegal to distribute or record images from airport body-scan machines
Passengers can opt instead for a new pat-down that includes the crotch and chest.

But privacy advocates say current safeguards fail to ensure that the images produced by the machines can't be misused by TSA employees or other workers. Groups like the American Civil Liberties Union and the Electronic Privacy Information Center have argued that the machines are too invasive.

Asked what he thought about the scanners, Schumer said he didn't oppose their use. "You need to balance security and privacy," he said
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HotAirPundit: Time Magazine Editor on Publishing WikiLeaks: "Our Job is Not to Protect the U.S."


"Wall Street ought to be singing this president praises"

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"Wall Street ought to be singing this president praises"

On Sunday December 5, 2010, Senator John Kerry from Massachusetts, told David Gregory the host of Meet The Press, while referring to the current economic conditions during the Obama Administration:
"Wall Street ought to be singing this president praises".



I wonder what song that should be?



Ooh, Ooh, child things are gonna get easier, ooh, ooh child things will brighter... Someday, yeah, we'll get it together and we'll get it all done...



maybe:



My eyes adore you though I never laid a hand on you, my eyes adore you...



or perhaps:

And nobody seems to like him, they can tell what he wants to do, and he never shows his feelings,



But the fool on the hill, Sees the sun going down, And the eyes in his head, See the world spinning 'round.



Ooh, ooh, Round and round and round.





Arsenio.
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Week #1 at the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change: Conference of the Parties 16

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Week #1 at the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change: Conference of the Parties 16

Cathie Adams reporting from Cancun, MX -- Discussions the first week of the two-week UNFCCC COP 16 centered around a global taxing scheme and continuation of greenhouse gas commitments beyond the Kyoto Protocol’s expiration in 2012.

Japan fired the first shot across the U.N. bow announcing it “will not inscribe its target in a second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol under any conditions or circumstances.” As a result, it received the infamous “Fossil of the Day” recognition from Climate Action Network, a coalition of 500+ radical environmental organizations. Russia and Canada joined Japan, and others are rumored to be considering that option.

Poor nations are demanding the Kyoto extension claiming that rich nations caused “global warming,” therefore they owe reparations to the poor nations. Rich countries on the other hand, 37 of 192 U.N. member states, know that Kyoto’s legally binding greenhouse gas emission limits would devastate their economies.

While wealth redistribution has been somewhat successful through the Kyoto Protocol, it has failed to adequately fulfill the Marxist demand. So, following last year’s grandiose announcement of a $30 billion Fast Start Fund by 2012 and a $100 billion Green Fund by 2020, the U.N. seized the opportunity in Cancun to call for a global tax.

Radical environmentalists at the World Wildlife Fund are pushing the taxing scheme calling for “wealthy and poor governments [to] unite on [a] new source of funding to fight climate change” because it is a key component that would “unlock the financing puzzle at the center of the negotiations” by unlocking “major flows of climate finance.”

The U.N.’s taxing scheme would be unlimited in scope and unlinked from national treasuries. Last month the U.N. Secretary General’s High Level Advisory Group confirmed taxes on international shipping and aviation could raise at least $100 billion. The International Maritime Organization would be the tax assessor-collector charging for emission permits and/or fuel taxes. The revenue would be channeled through a fund under the UNFCCC, a scheme the IMO and the UNFCCC are already discussing.

Only the rich nations would pay the taxes; poor nations would receive rebates for their portion of goods shipped.

The bottom line is that the UNFCCC COP 16 has nothing to do with the environment, but everything to do with global taxation. U.N. created Marxist class warfare has succeeded in pitting poor nations against rich nations, now it must convince both that a global tax is the only solution.

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Global Warming… no Global Cooling… no Global Warming…NO, IT’S COOLING!!

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Global Warming… no Global Cooling… no Global Warming…NO, IT’S COOLING!!

By Doug Bronson

I don’t know about the rest of you, but I’m totally confused. Our president speaks of global warming and the need to act, and to act now, before our planet ceases to exist. According to another planet savior, Al Gore, “the Obama administration has taken huge strides towards tackling climate change. Within one month of taking office Obama had secured $80 billion for renewable energy and green infrastructure.” Gore himself claims “urgent action is needed for a problem not faced before.” Or has it? Read on and see if you become as confused as I am?

Global Cooling:



The discoveries of changes in the sun’s heat and the southward advance of glaciers in recent years have given rise to conjectures of the possible advent of a new ice age.” Time Magazine, September 10, 1924.



“MacMillan Reports Signs of New Ice Age” The New York Times, September 18, 1923



“The possibility of another Ice age already having started… is admitted by men of first rank in the scientific world, men specifically qualified to speak.” The Los Angeles Times, June 28, 1923



Global Warming:



“Gaffers who claim that winters were harder when they were boys are quite right… weather men have no doubt that the world at least for the time being is growing warmer.” Time Magazine, Jan. 2, 1939



“America in Longest Warm Spell Since 1776; Temperature Line Records a 25-Year Rise” The New York Times, March 27, 1933



“Permafrost in Russia is receding northward up to 100 yards per year.” Time Magazine, 1951



“Winters are getting milder, summers drier. Glaciers are receding, deserts growing.” U.S. News and World Report, Jan. 8, 1954



Global Cooling…. Again?



“Scientists Ponder Why World’s Climate is Changing; A Major Cooling Widely Considered to Be Inevitable” The New York Times, May 21, 1975



“Climatological Cassandras are becoming increasingly apprehensive, for the weather aberrations they are studying may be the harbinger of another Ice Age.” Time Magazine, June 24, 1974



“North Atlantic sea temperatures declined, and shipping routes were cluttered with ice. Furthermore, the permafrost in Russia and Canada was advancing southward.” The New York Times, December 29, 1974



“There is very important climatic change going on right now… It is something that, if it continues, will affect the whole human occupation of the earth—- like a billion people starving. Fortune Magazine, from Reid Bryson, February 1974



Back to Global Warming…..Confused Yet??



“About 10 million residents of Bangladesh will lose their homes and means of sustenance because of the rising sea level, due to global warming, in the next few decades.” Al Gore, from ‘Earth in Balance” 1992



“Billions will die,” says Lovelock, who tells us he is not normally a gloomy type. Human civilization will be reduced to a “broken rabble ruled by brutal warlords”, and the plague-ridden remainder of the species will flee the cracked and broken earth to the Arctic, the last temperate spot, where a few breeding couples will survive. The Daily Telegraph, February 2, 2006



“Scientists no longer doubt that global warming is happening, and almost nobody questions the fact that humans are at least partly responsible.” Time Magazine, April 9, 2001



“Past Hot Times Hold Few Reasons to Relax About New Warming” The New York Times, December 27, 2005



The above facts and dates can be found at: businessandmedia.org



So you see, the media has written on the dangers of global warming or cooling for almost a century. Guess what? The sun still rises in the east and sets in the west. The moon still goes through its phases from full-moon to new-moon and back again as always. Since Reid Bryson predicting “a billion people starving in 1974,” the earth’s population has increased by 2.5 billion. So, as you see, amid the steady proclamation of doom by the media, the politicians, and the scientists, life does in fact go on. Unfortunately the gloom and doom prophecies do so as well.



John Holdren is President Obama’s new Science Advisor. Holdren has spoken of tinkering with the Earth’s climate to chill runaway global warming, and it’s being discussed in the White House as a potential emergency option.



This man is talking about “tinkering with the earth’s climate to chill runaway global warming?” Who are these people, anyway? This sounds like Science Fiction Theater. I’m a pretty simple guy, but even I can see the potential for tremendous repercussions caused by such arrogance. And it truly is arrogance on their part. I honestly believe the academics in this administration, and heck they’re all academics, feel that we’re all a “few fries short of a Happy Meal” (a special thanks goes out to soon to be ex-Representative Alan Grayson, D-Fl. for this description, as according to a Fox News reporter interviewing Grayson, claimed his own colleagues once described him in this way). The problems we face today with these “academics” is that they feel they alone, are capable of making the decisions that impact our lives, good or bad. They’re the power, and by that statement, it is their right to rule us as they see fit. They lead, we follow.



¬†I’ve read, that in the Obama administration, of the people hired or appointed by the White House only 10 % had ever worked in private business. Ten percent! They don’t even know how to make a payroll, much less run General Motors, plus take over health care? We’ve got to wake up people.



¬†I mean we’ve just seen example after example of people predicting global cooling, then, global warming, and now we’ve got a science advisor telling us of an option of his to “fix” the global warming problem. Does anyone in our present administration even remotely consider the possibility that all this warming and cooling must be a regular cycle the earth goes through?? Some years, even decades may be worse than others? I believe since the earth’s inception it’s gone through four Ice Ages…but that too has been determined by an academic.



Holdren goes on to explain that global warming is happening so rapidly is the reason behind his “tinkering with the environment” theory.



One option raised by Holdren and a Nobel Prize winning scientist, Paul Crutzen, includes shooting pollution particles, sulfur particles like those produced by volcanoes, to mimic the effect of volcanoes in screening out the incoming sunlight.



These people are in theory considering blocking out the sun’s rays to cool the earth. They talk about it. It’s discussed in the White House. These people are dangerous, really. Holdren himself has said there could be grave side effects. YOU RECKON??



One of the possible side effects they’ve studied suggests the eating away of a large portion of the ozone layer above the poles causing the Mediterranean and the Mideast to become drier.



One thing that bothers other scientists is the side effects of such measures that they don’t anticipate. Quite frankly, and I’m no scholar, it bothers me as well, a lot! Honestly, who could possibly know for sure the chain of events that might follow such theories if acted on…how about…God?



The amazing thing about all this global warming talk we’re being pounded with is the fact they don’t know, yet daily there is more and more scientific findings that totally debunk their theories. This is all about redistribution of wealth, is there ANY policy anymore which isn’t?



As global levels of sea ice declined last year, many experts said this was evidence of man-made global warming. Since September, however, the increase in sea ice has been the fastest change, either up or down, since 1979, when satellite record keeping began. According to the University of Illinois’ Arctic Climate Research Center, global sea ice levels now equal those of 1979.



The above was taken from The New York Post article by George Will, on February 28, 2009 titled “Warming: A Panic Whose Time Has Passed.”



So, now you can see why I’m confused on the whole climate change issue. This is not an inevitable event calling for immediate action by the Holdren’s, the Erhlich’s, the Gore’s, or the Obama’s to save our planet from immediate destruction. It’s just one other way to control people and their lives, as well as redistributing OUR wealth, not theirs! If this were in fact about redistributing their wealth, I’m betting the urgency declared by our progressive “friends” on this issue would suddenly become far less urgent.



At the “climate talks” in Cancun, Mexico, taking place from Nov. 29 until Dec. 10th, host Mexico has focused on jump-starting the talks with an eye to restoring faith in the multilateral system for tackling climate change. Is it me, or do most of you feel Mexico just might have other more pressing issues…like the murders of over ten thousand of its own citizens over the past year by the cartels, many, many of whom were decapitated?



Then we have Bolivian President Evo Morales fingering, what else, capitalism as the root of many of the problems facing the world, starting to sound pretty familiar now isn’t it?



The main problems I see that capitalism presents, is that it absolutely torments our socialist, dang it, I mean progressive friends, and the reasons of which are very simple. It provides a country’s citizens, through the workplace, to better the quality of life for themselves and their families. It provides us with the opportunity to elect our leaders through a legitimate voting process. Most importantly though, it provides the population to have the right to bear and keep arms, and it presents the opportunity of the liberties and freedoms enjoyed by democracies such as ours, to be able to state loudly and clearly, STICK-IT,” in regards to bad policy pushed by our politicians.



I don’t imagine the people of say, North Korea tell ole Kim Jong that very often, do you? I also doubt ole Kim loses much sleep frettin over global warming either! There ya go again, it ain’t warmin, dang-it, it’s coolin….No It Ain’t!...



God Bless!

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Priest Accuses Fellow Clergy Of His Kidnapping

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Priest Accuses Fellow Clergy Of His Kidnapping



By Francis Maria Britto

A Catholic priest, missing for 14 months, has accused a group of priests of kidnapping him as revenge for disobeying his bishop.





But doubt has been cast on his story by Catholic laypeople who have reportedly said that they had seen the priest at liberty three months before he resurfaced.

Father Suman Xaxa of Ambikapur diocese, central India, told the police and media on Nov. 30 that unknown abductors had taken him blindfolded from his room in the bishop’s residence.

They left him in a far away cave where he has remained since Sept. 14, 2009.

Two days earlier, the priest appeared in a prayer center with “unruly beard, soiled clothes, apparently very sick and unable to speak.” The police admitted him to a government hospital.

Other reports, however has quoted laypeople as saying they had seen a healthy Father Xaxa in Ambikapur town months earlier.

The priest had managed the prayer center with another priest, Father Vijay Bara, since its inception in 2005.

Jesuit Bishop Patras Minj started the center at the initiative of a tribal schoolteacher. The prelate deputed the two priests to develop it. Some lay people joined them.

“It went on well for about a year,” Father Gyan Prakash Lakra, a diocesan official, told ucanews.com on Dec 1.

Trouble started after the schoolteacher wanted to build a house in a plot the bishop had donated to his driver.

The two priests objected to that and, to resolve the matter, the bishop closed the prayer center and transferred the priests. But they refused to leave.

The priests accused the bishop of acting on revenge. They also allegedly leaked diocesan secrets to anti-Christian groups and the local media.

The bishops suspended the priests, a move that divided the clergy.

In June 2009, some Catholic youths forcibly took Father Xaxa to his appointed mission. However, he soon returned to the prayer center with his followers and filed a case against Church people, including the bishop.

The local court ordered the prayer center residents to vacate it and a government official brought Father Xaxa to the bishop’s residence.

Father Xavier Ekka, vicar general and one of the alleged kidnappers, told ucanews.com, “The case is in the High Court. Everything will be clear after the verdict.” He claimed all priests now support the bishop.

The distressed bishop told ucanews.com on Dec 2, “I am very much disturbed. I don’t want to make any comments now. Keep me in your prayers.”

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