Secretary of State clamps down on public statements by Vatican bureaus

The Vatican wants to keep their call for a New World Order under wraps!



Cardinal Bertone was dismayed by the public reaction to a recent statement from the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace on the world’s financial system. The statement’s call for a world financial authority drew heavy criticism from some economic analysts.



Officials at the Secretariat of State said that they were caught by surprise by its content.



To prevent such problems in the future, Cardinal Bertone said that all Vatican statements should be cleared for publication through his Secretariat.



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Rerum Novarum



http://inquisitionnews.blogspot.com/p/rerum-novarum.html



Centesimus Annus



http://inquisitionnews.blogspot.com/p/centesimus-annus.html



Caritas In Veritate



http://inquisitionnews.blogspot.com/p/caritas-in-veritate_05.html



The Popes Plans On Organizing Political, Economic And Religious Activities Worldwide



http://www.scribd.com/doc/22319643/Pope-Plans



Vatican Calls For World Government



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Secretary of State clamps down on public statements by Vatican bureaus

Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone has announced that Vatican offices cannot issue public statements without clearance from the Secretariat of State, reports Sandro Magister of L’Espresso.

The veteran Italian journalist reports that Cardinal Bertone was dismayed by the public reaction to a recent statement from the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace on the world’s financial system. The statement’s call for a world financial authority drew heavy criticism from some economic analysts—and also, according to Magister, from officials within the Secretariat of State.

Although the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace announced the statement and scheduled a press conference well in advance, and copies of the document were in circulation before its official promulgation, officials at the Secretariat of State said that they were caught by surprise by its content. To prevent such problems in the future, Cardinal Bertone said that all Vatican statements should be cleared for publication through his Secretariat.

Too Much Confusion. Bertone Puts the Curia Under Lock and Key (L'Espresso) Vatican issues call for world financial authority [News/Analysis] (CWN, 10/24) Read more at www.catholicculture.org

 

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Ireland’s closure of the Vatican embassy was the correct decision



Embassy closure sparks debate



By Irish Voice Editorial,



The Irish government decision last week to close its Vatican Embassy in Rome was the correct one.



It has ignited some controversy in Ireland, where many have claimed it is payback time for the Vatican interfering in the church abuse scandals in Ireland.



Taoiseach (Prime Minster) Enda Kenny has stated that the closure was no such thing, but that might be taken with more than a grain of salt.



So what if it is? Someone needed to make clear to the Vatican that their action in blocking a legal Irish investigation into pedophile priests was criminal activity in itself.



The Vatican, because of its lofty role in the world, has tried to portray itself as above any such considerations, but it is a tale being retold far too often around the world.



The church as an institution is still on the back foot on this one, unable or unwilling to recognize the damage done and act accordingly.



Only in recent times, and thanks to inspirational figures like Archbishop Diarmuid Martin in Dublin and Cardinal Sean O’Malley in Boston, have we seen church elders stand up and take responsibility for the horrific acts that were done by professed priests.



The lives of thousands of children were destroyed by sexual predators, and many in the Vatican saw no evil.



Amazingly, it was this current Irish government that spoke up loudly and clearly soon after they took office.



Kenny’s speech in the Dail on the matter has already gone down in history as one of the most important he will ever make.



It established a marker that such behavior would not be tolerated in the future, and that the Irish government was no longer prepared to turn a blind eye to Vatican complicity in a cover-up.



The fact that Ireland is the Vatican’s longest standing satellite and where the church had by far the greatest influence makes that move all that more courageous.



Now the Irish government has taken the next obvious step. The closure of the Vatican Embassy is, no doubt, a direct result of the child abuse cover-ups.



The backlash made such a closure possible, and there has been remarkably little negative comment apart from the usual hierarchy suspects to it in Ireland.



The Vatican has no one to blame but its own institutional rules and determination to protect the privileged at all costs.



We are seeing the corrosive effects of that child abuse across Irish society where, in times of economic hardship, the church had a major role as bulwark of the community and society.



A recent opinion poll showed that barely 50% of the Irish people had any faith anymore in church institutions.



Currently we are witnessing the church making superfluous changes to the language of the Mass, and portraying the move as some kind of major initiative.



Would it not be better to get its house in order on issues like sex abuse, deeply consider why such a catastrophe befell the church, and try and find a new way in the future to become more open and responsive?



Nero, Rome and fiddling come to mind when reading about the new language for the Mass, which seems right now to be the church’s greatest priority.



Read more: http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Irelands-close-of-the-Vatican-embassy-was-the-correct-one--133560718.html#ixzz1dNe71IPQ

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Vacating the Vatican

Sir, – The Conference of Religious of Ireland (Cori) is surprised and disappointed with the Government’s decision to close the embassy to the Holy See. We ask the Government to reconsider this decision, for which no reasonable justification has been offered.

An embassy exists in the first place, not for economic or market reasons, but to keep the Government in the home country informed on issues and secondly to cultivate good relations with the host country and other serving diplomats stationed in that country.

There are close to 80 ambassadors accredited to the Holy See and based in Rome with a further 100 located elsewhere. This extensive network provides unparalleled opportunities for exchanges on a range of issues. In addition to this the Vatican has over 200 embassies worldwide.

Last week, Russia raised its embassy to the Vatican to ambassadorial level. We need every possible international connection and good relationship in these difficult times – and closing an embassy, which has served us well over the decades, seems like a retrograde and unnecessary step. – Yours, etc,

MARIANNE O’CONNOR OSU,

Director General,

Cori, Bloomfield Avenue,

Donnybrook, Dublin 4.

Sir, – Vincent Twomey (Opinion, November 10th) seems confused about the difference between Church and State, both in Ireland and the Vatican. The Pope, unique among religious leaders, is both a head of state (or should I say statelet) and head of the Roman Catholic Church. The International Eucharistic Congress in 2012 is an Irish Catholic Church event and the bishops can invite to it anyone they want to. The Pope can attend it as head of the Catholic Church as the previous Pope did in Scotland in 1982 where he made a pastoral visit. The Government can make it a State visit if it wants to, but I doubt if there is a public appetite for that.

By the way, now that we have closed the embassy to the Vatican, will the Angelus on RTÉ be the next thing to go? I certainly hope so. – Yours, etc,

TOM FULLER, Old Finglas Road, Glasnevin, Dublin 11. Read more at www.irishtimes.com

 

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Vatican Calls For World Government

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Rerum Novarum



http://inquisitionnews.blogspot.com/p/rerum-novarum.html



Centesimus Annus



http://inquisitionnews.blogspot.com/p/centesimus-annus.html



Caritas In Veritate



http://inquisitionnews.blogspot.com/p/caritas-in-veritate_05.html



The Popes Plans On Organizing Political, Economic And Religious Activities Worldwide



http://www.scribd.com/doc/22319643/Pope-Plans

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Vatican Calls For World Government

November 2011

The current global economic crisis has pushed world leaders to begin recommending a world government. The Vatican is now calling for a “global public authority,” including a world central bank controlling global financial affairs. An 18-page document released by the Vatican’s Justice and Peace department was entitled, “Towards Reforming the International Financial and Monetary Systems in the Context of a Global Public Authority.” It condemned the “idolatry of the market” and called for an in-depth examination of “the principles and the cultural and moral values at the basis of social coexistence.” “Selfishness, collective greed and hoarding of goods,” is blamed for the economic crisis which, it predicted, would lead to “a climate of growing hostility and even violence, and ultimately undermine the very foundations of democratic institutions, even the ones considered most solid.”

France’s top financial regulator, Jean-Pierre Jouyet, was quick to agree that, “the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace is right to emphasize in its latest report the need to strengthen global governance.” He pointed out that the “states have increasingly fallen under the control of markets….States, politics, must regain control of things.” As a first step, Jouyet emphasized the need to “strengthen” the powers of the new European banking and insurance regulators.

Of course, this also fits neatly with the U.S. President’s stated goal to “share the wealth around.” The world is succumbing to the false idea that more laws and regulations by the government is the solution to the “selfishness, collective greed and hoarding of goods.” Lost in all this is the biblical concept that the basic problem is the human heart and only when it is changed by the Holy Spirit will social, economic, cultural and political problems be solved.

Part of the government’s job is to suppress evil, but it cannot do it alone. That is why America’s founding fathers made sure that we were free to promote biblical truth. Churches, Bible schools, and charities were given tax favor so the government would not hamper the dissemination of the gospel. In this level playing field the church’s job was to counter Satan’s strategies at the most basic level, the condition of the human heart. None of the devil’s lies of evolution, humanism, Islam, Catholicism, atheism, socialism, etc. can stand against a robust and dynamic soul winning and discipleship effort.

Unfortunately today, the church finds itself playing catch-up. And Satan has hobbled the churches with defective bibles leaving pastors doubting the word of God and the people in confusion. Using that doubt, the Devil has convinced us that hell may not be so bad, homosexuality is not really a sin, evolution may be part of God’s creation process, worldly music and entertainment is okay, marriage vows don’t really mean what they say, and whoever dies with the most toys wins.

Institutions such as Harvard and Yale that were established to train pastors have become hotbeds of anti-Christ philosophies: humanism, naturalism, atheism, Marxism and evolution. Their graduates have firmly planted these godless viewpoints in our public schools and government institutions, driving out the Ten Commandments and forbidding any reference to our Creator.

The crises we are facing are designed by God to shock us awake. But once awake, people need to know the truth and that is not always where they are likely to find it. But, over the years, thousands of people have told us that a no-nonsense gospel tract is where they first discovered the Truth. From it, they eventually found their way to their Creator, committed their lives to Him, and began to stand in righteousness against Satan’s whispers of doubt. Only the gospel can forestall the chaos prophesied for the end times and allow a few more into the Kingdom. We need to saturate our communities with biblical truth. The easiest way that anyone can do that is with gospel tracts. Read more at www.chick.com

 

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Benedict XVI meets with the Israeli Religious Council

Offense of Marriage Act (S.598)

I can’t believe what I am seeing.



The back and forth on the Senate floor right now sickens my soul.



It’s unbelievable that such disgusting acts are freely spoken about and even openly supported in our nation’s highest legislative body -- it sullies the dignity of the United States Senate.



And I fear we are about to lose.



I am truly afraid of what is in store for our nation if the Offense of Marriage Act passes...



...and that’s why even at this late hour, I cannot surrender!



All this week, pro-Family Americans have flooded Capitol Hill with phone calls as Public Advocate has led the charge to protect the Defense of Marriage Act.



And I am seeing the powerful effect that you and I had the past few days.



Though outnumbered, there are Senators standing up for Family Values in this debate.



But by themselves it will not be enough.



This fight needs one last push!



That’s why I am asking you to intervene right now. It’s never too late to fight.



Please call your Senators right now and help me defeat the Offense of Marriage Act (S.598).



Sen. Bob Casey, Jr.

(202) 224-6324



Sen. Pat Toomey

(202) 224-4254



We do not have a moment to spare.



Thank you,





Eugene Delgaudio

President, Public Advocate of the United States

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U.N. prepares for urgent battle to extract $100 billion from U.S.

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Global warming showdown: And skeptics are winning

U.N. prepares for urgent battle to extract $100 billion from U.S.

Michael F. Haverluck

The U.S. and other developed nations are reconsidering their commitments to fight global warming before the upcoming 17th Climate Change Conference in Durban, South Africa. The United Nations wants representatives of world governments and international organizations to advance its agenda to fight climate change at Durban 2011. But despite Barack Obama's full-fledged support for the green agenda early in his presidency, he has become increasingly hesitant to engage in some of the U.N.'s costly climate programs. A major topic on the Durban agenda, Nov. 28 through Dec. 9, is the extension of the Kyoto Protocol. The agreement binds 37 developed nations to reduce greenhouse emissions from 1997 to 2012 through implementing regulations. But doubts about global warming science, as well as the declining world economy, have contributed to many developed countries getting cold feet.

"Of the major players in the Kyoto Protocol, my sense is that the EU is the only one still considering signing up in some fashion to a second commitment period," said U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern while discussing Durban 2011 at a meeting on global warming in Mexico City. "Japan is clearly not, Russia is not, Canada is not and Australia appears unlikely."

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Yet the organizers of the Durban Conference continue to promote global warming agreements, insisting man-made pollutants are causing an environmental apocalypse.

Despite questions raised about the science behind the theory of man-made global warming – questions intensified by reports of inflated temperature readings exposed during the Climategate scandal – organizers will still call for international adherence to prescribed green policies.

Obama and other leaders have not yet fully committed to pay the high price of going green into the future, and the host nation knows the stakes are high.

"It is clear that Durban is the end of the line for some of these pressing climate change issues, and we cannot delay it any longer," said South African Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, the incoming president of Durban's 17th Climate Change Conference.

Nkoana-Mashabane's dire plea for action at a press conference in Stellenbauch, South Africa, signaled tough times for the green agenda. It followed pre-Durban talks amongst representatives of 42 nations.

As the conference approaches, the U.N. will assume a role in the global redistribution of wealth, expecting the United States to provide generous contributions. The U.N. is banding with global leaders to point the finger at whom and what to blame for climate change. Portrayed as the victims of global warming caused by industrialized nations, poorer countries are seeking significant gifts labeled as "reparations."

"The impact of climate change is already evident globally in the increased frequency and intensity of extreme weather events, coastal erosion and flooding as a result of rising sea levels, increase of the occurrence of certain diseases, loss of biodiversity and economic impacts and an increase in the number of environmental refugees," South African President Jacob Zuma said before ministers at Tshwane, South Africa, in a pre-Durban meeting.

"Adapting to climate change is a key priority for many developing countries, particularly small island developing states, least developed countries and Africa," said Zuma. "Ministers, you will agree that finance remains an issue of critical importance, not only for a comprehensive climate deal, but also to place the global community on a path that will allow us to build resilient societies."

The greatest pressure for funds so far this year has been placed on the U.S. and China.

Last year, at the 16th Annual Climate Change Conference in Cancun, Mexico, negotiators from 194 nations agreed that billions would be disbursed to dozens of poorer nations every year. Since then, the Obama Administration has been reminded of its obligation to submit funds.

"In Cancun, a [Green Climate Fund] package that included a collective commitment by developed countries to provide new and additional Fast Start Financing through international institutions in the amount of 30 billion U.S. dollars between 2010 and 2012, as well as setting a goal of mobilizing jointly 100 billion U.S. dollars by 2020, was agreed," Zuma said.

Commitments to the Green Climate Fund are scheduled to be ironed out at Durban 2011.The goal is for $100 billion to be collected yearly by 2020. The U.S. is expected to be a major contributor.

But many nations are asking the U.S. and others to give more, sooner.

"The scientific evidence available to us says we have to act now," Samoan Prime Minister Tuilaepa Malielegaoi urged at a news conference before last week's Commonwealth Heads of Government Summit in Perth, Australia.

For Malielegaoi and leaders of developing nations, that action begins with Obama and the world's major leaders paying out astronomical sums.

The late October meeting of 48 developing and small island nations was organized Down Under to set the stage for Durban by equipping them with convincing arguments to solicit the anticipated funds.

Neither recent scandals in climate change science nor the signatures of more than 31,000 scientists rejecting climate change have deterred the U.N.'s marketing campaign, which repackaged its pleas for Durban. Instead of selling images of drowning polar bears, claiming that glaciers are rapidly melting, or highlighting the undocumented disappearance of low-lying tropical islands under rising sea levels, a different approach leads the rally for funds: Promoters insist that untold tens of billions of dollars must be collected yearly to pay off nations and implement environmental policies to keep global temperatures from rising four degrees over the next 10 years.

But disappearing islands haven't lost their appeal with those on board with the climate change agenda. They insist that developed nations' negligence to surrender billions will reduce island nations to sunken cities.

"If we fail to do so, we can kiss goodbye to some small island states," Australian Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd warned at a pre-summit news conference to justify the need for the Green Climate Fund.

Global corporations are also on board with the U.N. and developing nations, as the Corporate Leaders Group on Climate Change garnered support through The 2⁰C Challenge Communiqué. It calls businesses to back the U.N.'s assertion that if $100 billion a year isn't collected by 2020 to assist developing nations, the Earth will heat up by two degrees Celsius (four degrees Fahrenheit) within a decade, destroying the lesser nations.

The communiqué was developed with 38 corporations, including Nestlē, Shell and Ricoh. So far, 278 companies have signed on, including Coca-Cola, eBay and Yahoo.

But despite the pressure from governments and corporations worldwide, the Obama administration is unlikely to buckle. Obama has shown a dwindling commitment to environmentalists due to climate change skepticism, the failing economy and criticism of the administration's deficit spending.

Not taking kindly to this change of heart, nations looking to capitalize on climate change claims are putting pressure on Obama and the world's fastest-growing economy, China.

"Two of the biggest countries … which are responsible for about 40 percent of emissions, do not seem to be forthcoming in their commitments," Malielegaoi stressed before the Australian summit.

The Samoan leader spoke up for undeveloped nations, urging that "the funds that have been mobilized need to be released speedily to the most disadvantaged and most affected countries … to ensure countries that have promised funds to own up, to provide help to countries."

The impact of presidential politics

With Obama's growing unpopularity just a year out from the next presidential election, the chances of the U.S. jumping on board to contribute to the Green Climate Fund are looking slim. The odds look even bleaker for the future, as most major GOP presidential candidates take a hard stance against climate-change alarmism.

Even former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, one of the top Republican presidential candidates and a former supporter of fighting climate change, has recently joined his GOP competitors as a global warming skeptic.

"My view is that we don't know what's causing climate change on this planet," Romney said last week at a fundraising speech in Pittsburgh. "And the idea of spending trillions and trillions of dollars to try to reduce CO₂ emissions is not the right course for us."

Texas Gov. Rick Perry, an early frontrunner in GOP polls, has taken a long-standing hard line against global warming, which he calls "one contrived phony mess" in his recently published book, "Fed Up!"

Another leading candidate for the presidency, Herman Cain, is no fan of climate change science.

"We have a path to energy independence in this country and it just baffles me as to why the leadership … doesn't pursue it," Cain told The Hill earlier this year. "We simply need to remove the regulatory barriers and stop overreacting to the concerns of the environmentalists."

Ron Paul has been anything but shy to bash the green agenda, especially after the Climategate scandal of 2009. He had much to say about the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen that year.

"[The Copenhagen Treaty] cannot help the economy," Paul told the Alex Jones Show. "It has to hurt the economy, and it can't possibly help the environment, because they're totally off track on that. It might turn out to be one of the biggest hoaxes of all history, this whole global warming terrorism that they've been using."

GOP presidential hopeful Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., has no allegiance to global warming orthodoxy either and has strongly spoken out against it to her colleagues for years.

"Carbon dioxide, Mr. Speaker, is a natural byproduct of nature," Bachman declared while taking the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives in 2009. "As a matter of fact, carbon dioxide is portrayed as harmful. But there isn't even one study that can be produced that shows that carbon dioxide is a harmful gas."

Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich also has no kind words for global warming alarmists. He got some flack a few months ago for appearing in a 2008 TV ad with then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for Al Gore's Alliance for Climate Protection, but he has since revised his stance.

"I don't think we're faced with a crisis of global warming," Gingrich said in an interview with Human Events last year. "I think, in fact, that the scientific data is very unclear."

In his bid for the presidency, former Senator Rick Santorum told WND earlier this year that human-induced global warming simply defies logic.

"I believe the Earth gets warmer, and I also believe the Earth gets cooler, and I think history points out that it does that," Santorum said. "The idea that man … is somehow responsible for climate change is, I think, patently absurd."

With the changing political and economic climate, the U.N. and developing countries are coming to a hard realization: Persuading Obama and representatives of other developed nations to commit to extending the Kyoto Protocol and contribute to the Green Climate Fund will be a hard sell at Durban. Read more at www.wnd.com

 

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Alert! YU55 Update - NASA and Vandenburg Air Force Base

Something is going on with NASA and Vandenberg Air Force Base regarding asteroid YU55.

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Something is going on with NASA and Vandenberg Air Force Base regarding asteroid YU55.

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US State Department agent on assignment in Honolulu charged with murder in McDonald's

A US State Department agent on assignment in Honolulu has been charged with murder after allegedly shooting a man dead in a late night row in a McDonald's restaurant.

State Department special agent Christopher Deedy (pictured) is charged with second-degree murder Photo: AP

By Nick Allen

Christopher Deedy was tasked with "supporting protection of dignitaries" for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit which will be attended by President Barack Obama and a host of other leaders later this week.

Deedy, 27, is accused of fatally shooting Kollin Elderts, 23, who he did not know, at 3am in the tourist district of Waikiki. He has been charged with second degree murder and released on $250,000 bail. He was off duty at the time of the alleged shooting.

Michael Green, a lawyer for the victim's family, said it followed an altercation in a Waikiki club. Later, at the McDonald's, Mr Elderts was said to have told Deedy he looked "pretty serious" and jokingly asked him, "Hey, are you going to shoot me or something?" According to Mr Green the federal agent replied "How would you like to get shot tonight?" then pulled out a gun, knocked Mr Elderts to the floor and fired three times. The sequence of events was captured on security cameras, he said.

State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland confirmed Deedy had been in Honolulu to beef up security ahead of the APEC conference, and has now been put on paid administrative leave.

She said: "This was a tragic incident in Hawaii over the weekend," adding that the State Department would co-operate fully with local police.

President Obama and other leaders from 21 economies in the Asia-Pacific region are scheduled to attend the summit, which is being hosted by the US for the first time since 1993. Read more at www.telegraph.co.uk

 

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Cross to bare: Topless Vatican protest (VIDEO)

Women Demand Freedom At The Vatican

A naked female activist from Ukraine’s Femen movement staged a short, but vivid, protest demanding “Freedom for women” in the Vatican’s St. Peter’s Square.

­Appearing in the square in a see-through blouse immediately following the Pope’s regular Sunday address, the activist, Aleksandra Shevchenko, waved her banner and started pulling her clothes off. She was detained by Italian police in the space of minutes.

The Italian police were expecting their visit, and Shevchenko’s two associates were captured as they tried to make their way to the square. Femen says an Australian journalist who accompanied them was also detained for questioning.

The activists spent about four hours in detention.

According to a statement, Femen were protesting against the anti-feminist policies of the Vatican that “impose patriarchal, medieval concepts of social and cultural positioning of women.”

Short, but vivid, protest

“Condemning the usage of contraceptives, worldwide anti-abortion lobby, attempts to restrict the attire and the appearance of women, and prohibition from acquiring church ranks is nothing more than a foul-smelling belch of the witch hunt,” the statement said.

The anti-Pope protest completed Femen’s naked tour of Italy. A day earlier, another topless rally in Rome saw activists painted green, red and white demand the resignation of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.

“Women really hate Berlusconi. We are trying to show our opinion to all people who are here today. We came to support them and to say that politicians like Berlusconi and Yanukovich cannot protect people who live in their own country,” one Femen protester is quoted as saying by Associated Press.

Femen’s naked protest tour was supported by Italian former porn star and Member of Parliament Ilona Staller. Known by her stage name la Cicciolina, she is famous for delivering political speeches with one breast exposed.

According to Ukrainian Ridus news agency, it was Staller, 59, who invited Femen to Italy in the first place.

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Nude protest at the Vatican

A integral Ukrainian movement Femen whose militants usually manifest topless, got undressing partially in Piazza San Pedro Vatican just after recitation of angelus Sunday. Activists wanted draw attention their cause on moment Benedict XVI pronounced the tradition ...

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Riot Police Shoot Camera Man For Filming - Occupy Oakland

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Riot Police Shoot Camera Man For Filming - Occupy Oakland

Riot Police Shoot Camera Man For Filming - Occupy Oakland Full Credits to: http://www.youtube.com/user/antiprocon Please subscribe this channel. While filming a police line at Occupy Oakland after midnight on Nov. 3 following the Nov. 2 general strike, an officer opens fire and shoots me with a rubber bullet. I was standing well back. There was no violence or confrontations of any kind underway. At 0:31 seconds you can see a tall officer in the front raise his weapon and then fire. This is the full clip of the incident. In a video published to YouTube, an unidentified protester holding a video camera, filming a police line during the early hours of Thursday, Nov. 3, is apparently shot with a rubber bullet even after repeatedly asking officers, "Is this okay?" Rubber bullets, though considered non-lethal, have killed people before. They can also cause serious internal injuries and even break bones. Despite their name, rubber bullets are small metal cylinders merely coated with a layer of rubber, and can be launched from traditional firearms. (Update: There's been some speculation that this person may have been shot by a beanbag round instead, but it remains unclear.) The incident took place following Thursday's call to general strike, which saw tens of thousands of protesters shut down one of the city's major highway overpasses. Though the event was largely peaceful, police said they made 103 arrests, mostly for protesters who failed to disperse after being told to leave public spaces. There were also reports of some vandalism and broken windows, although it was not widespread. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------­--------------------------------------------------------------------------------­-------------------- Police were heavily criticized for their alleged role in beating Iraq veteran Kayvan Sabehgi with nightsticks as he was walking home from the protest. Although he suffered a ruptured spleen and was in extreme pain pleading for medical attention, none was given, and officers allegedly accused him of being a drug addict. Sabehgi was finally allowed to see doctors 18 hours later, when paramedics had to physically remove him from his cell because he was in too much pain to walk. Authorities said they were investigating the incident. He was the second Iraq veteran to be seriously injured by riot police in Oakland amid recent protests. On Wednesday, Oct. 26, Marine veteran Scott Olsen, 24, suffered a fractured skull and minor brain damage that has impaired his ability to speak after he was hit in the face with what protesters claim was a police tear gas canister. This video was published to YouTube on Nov. 5, 2011.

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How to Spot the Huge Asteroid 2005 YU55's Close Encounter With Earth

In April 2010, this radar image of the near-Earth asteroid 2005 YU55 was taken by the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico. On Nov. 8, 2011, this large space rock zips by Earth again and will be surveyed by radar, visual and infrared equipment. CREDIT: NASA/Cornell/Arecibo View full size image Skywatchers hoping to glimpse a huge asteroid as it flies close by Earth Tuesday (Nov. 8) will need the right equipment — and a little bit of luck — to spot the faint and fast-moving space rock in telescopes, scientists say. The interloping space rock, called asteroid 2005 YU55, will pass between Earth and the orbit of the moon on Tuesday (Nov. 8), but does not pose a threat to our planet, NASA scientists have said. The asteroid is about the size of an aircraft carrier, spanning approximately 1,300 feet (400 meters), and is the largest space rock to have a close encounter with Earth with advance notice in 35 years. Asteroid 2005 YU55 is expected to pass closest to Earth at a range of about 201,700 miles (324,600 kilometers) on Tuesday at 6:28 p.m. EST (2328 GMT). The average distance between the moon and Earth is about 238,854 miles (384,399 km). Skywatchers around the world are gearing up for the event, but actually spotting the asteroid as it flies by Earth could be tricky, said Scott Fisher, program director of the National Science Foundation's Division of Astronomical Sciences. Still, the asteroid flyby will be visible from the northern hemisphere, and Fisher offered some helpful tips in an NSF webchat on Nov. 3 organized by ScienceNow. [Photos: Flyby of Giant Asteroid 2005 YU55]

Hunting for a giant asteroid

During its closest approach to Earth, asteroid 2005 YU55 will not be visible to the naked eye, and Fisher said that skywatchers will need a telescope with at least a 6-inch mirror to see it.

"It turns out that YU55 is going to be pretty faint when it flies by," he explained. "To make it even more difficult to observe … it will be moving VERY quickly across the sky as it passes."

"The best time to observe it would be in the early evening on November 8th from the east coast of the US," Fisher said. "However! It is going to be VERY faint, even at its closest approach. You will need a decent sized telescope to be able to actually see the object as it flies by."

The event marks the first time since 1976 that an object as large as asteroid 2005 YU55 has passed this close to Earth, Fisher said. The next time an asteroid of similar size will approach close to Earth will be in 2028.

This means it will be a unique opportunity to capture images of the space rock using ground-based telescopes.

"Thousands of amateur and professional astronomers will observe this object near [its] closest approach to Earth," said Don Yeomans, manager of NASA's Near-Earth Object Office at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. "However, it is moving too fast on the sky for Hubble to observe it."

The asteroid's coordinates for any given time are available at the JPL Solar System Dynamics website here: http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/.

Astronomers will use the huge Arecibo Observatory, a radio telescope in Puerto Rico, to study the close flyby of Earth by the huge asteroid 2005 YU55 on Nov. 8, 2011. CREDIT: Arecibo Observatory/NSF View full size image

Radar (asteroid) love

Astronomers intend to use telescopes to collect detailed radar images of asteroid 2005 YU55 as it makes its closest approach. Observatories in Hawaii will also try to analyze the space rock's composition, researchers said.

"It turns out that this close approach gives us a great chance to study this kind of object," Fisher said. "One thing we are going to do is obtain radar images of the object as it flies by. I've read that we will be able to see details down to a size of about 15 feet [4.6 meters] across on the surface of the asteroid."

Fisher, Yeomans and other astronomers have repeatedly assured the public that asteroid 2005 YU55 will not crash into Earth or the moon, and will not cause any gravitational effects on our planet as it flies by.

"There is no reason to worry about YU55 getting caught up in the gravity of the Earth," Fisher said. "Through our observations of the object, we know that there is NO chance of it impacting either the Earth or the moon for at least the next 100 years."

If you snap a photo of asteroid 2005 YU55 during its Nov. 8 flyby of Earth and would like to share it with SPACE.com, send the image and your observing comments to SPACE.com managing editor Tariq Malik at tmalik@space.com.

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Smart Meter Removal has begun in California!

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Smart Meter Removal has begun in California!

California’s Investor Owned Utilities (IOUs) has quietly begun replacing Smart Meters with analog meters for citizens reporting adverse health effects. Consumer rights and other groups demanded immediately that their wireless devices be removed from their homes. Joshua Hart of stopsmartmeters.org reported the good news just as PG&E deploys the last phase of its smart meters in California. The Department of Energy’s promise that the smart grid and smart meters will lower electricity costs has proven incorrect; on the contrary, the utility costs have skyrocketed. Millions of customers were unhappy with their Smart Meters. They are surveillance devices in homes, without a search warrant, which is a violation of privacy. Fires, explosions, and health issues ranging from nausea, dizziness, heart palpitations, headaches, tinnitus, insomnia, and radiation exposure associated with powerful wireless devices that transmit information 6-8 per minute constantly, have plagued the stealthy and deceptive installation. California’s counties and cities have demanded a stop to smart meter installation and some local governments passed laws prohibiting wireless meters. Nevada’s Pacific Utilities Company (PUC) called for investigation into the adverse health effects and other smart meter issues. Recently, the California Public Utilities Commission President Michael Peevey assured customers that the utility “will provide for you to go back to the analog meter if that’s your choice.” The problem is that most Americans have no idea how damaging these smart meters are and an even larger group of Americans have never heard of it or see it as a contribution to “save” the planet because that is how these meters were sold to the public. The tired rhetoric said that the smart grid and smart meters save the planet from doom and gloom, reduce waste by cutting your electricity at peak usage, eliminates the reader who must go to each home to calculate their monthly consumption, reduces your carbon footprint, and it will make the planet “green.” The reality is very far from the disingenuous promises. Californians’ electric bills have almost tripled and lawsuits ensued. Marylanders swelter without electricity six hours at the peak of summer and almost freeze six hours in the dead of winter.  An analog meter user who insisted on keeping it has to pay $35 each month to have his meter read by the power company. Thousands of customers across the country are having severe health issues from radiation that are not being addressed. Millions are having issues with the power company selling wireless data collected from their homes via smart meters to third parties. Anybody with a handheld device can capture information from your home and sell it to a third party. The utility company knows if you are home, if you are away, if you are on vacation, which lights are turned on, which appliances, which computers, TVs, and other devices in your home. Caitlin Phillips of Santa Cruz, Ca, who had suffered severe headaches and other symptoms from her smart meter, became the first person for whom PG&E re-installed on October 28, 2011 the classic analog meter. Caitlin Phillips had told the Wellington Energy installer, a subcontractor of PG&E, that she did not want a smart meter. “When I returned home later, I discovered a smart meter on my house. That night I awoke to severe anxiety, headache, and buzzing in my teeth, and realized the new smart meter was on the other side of the wall from my bed.” Caitlin received help from “Stop Smart Meters” group who referred her to sources to obtain an analog meter and a person to install it. Her symptoms disappeared immediately after the analog meter was installed. Caitlin spoke to a commission meeting in San Francisco about her ordeal and, a week later PG&E crews replaced her temporary analog meter with an official PG&E analog meter. Her frustration, pain, and suffering were finally over. An “opt-out” proceeding is currently overseen by an Administrative Law Judge at the California Public Utilities Commission. “There are hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people suffering in their homes from forced ‘smart’ meter radiation,” said Joshua Hart, Director of the grassroots organization Stop Smart Meters! PG&E and other utilities have responded to health complaints by replacing wireless ‘smart’ meters with digital meters that are “wireless-ready.” These digital meters have been associated with health problems from “dirty electricity” frequencies that pass into a home via the electrical wiring.  Digital meters have been rejected by customers who still report health issues after installation. (Joshua Hart) Susan Brinchman, Director of the San Diego based Center for Electrosmog Prevention, said, “At this point, the burden of responsibility is on the utilities to demonstrate that any new meter they want to install on our homes is safe.  Communities have the right to retain analog meters at no extra charge.” While California is pushing back the not so smart wireless technology, places like northern Virginia are going full steam ahead with the installation. Dominion Power has completed placing 100,000 smart meters in a pilot phase in three counties. “There are hundreds of thousands- if not millions- of people suffering in their homes from forced ‘smart’ meter radiation,” said Joshua Hart, Director of the grassroots organization Stop Smart Meters!  “The utilities must respond promptly to all requests that analogs be returned. The alternative is that people will increasingly turn to independent professionals to remove unwanted ‘smart’ meters from their homes, a reasonable action we assert is within our legal rights. Protecting your family’s health is not tampering.”

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