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LIFE ISSUES
How The Media Have Mangled The Pro-Life Story
This past year, I found myself chief chronicler of the two of the year's most important stories involving the pro-life movement. One was the inspiring saga of the 2009 March For Life, the largest in its 36-year history. The second was the dispiriting saga of the recently murdered late-term abortionist Dr. George Tiller. What the two stories have in common is that each was consciously and completely mistold by the major media. Our rooftop cameramen estimated about 350,000 marchers in all in the 2009 Washington March for Life, the largest ever.
https://www.americanthinker.com/2010/01/how_the_media_have_mangled_the.html
30,000 expected at 6th Annual Walk for Life West Coast
https://www.calcatholic.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?id=4835bdf5-f3af-47b5-8573-e406d878aca3
Pro-Life forces are sweeping Mexico
https://www.philly.com/inquirer/world_us/81082377.html
California’s Planned Parenthood affiliates pay executives top dollar, with generous benefit packages
https://www.calcatholic.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?id=70c9a572-1010-49bd-82ac-62979393cbab
Vatican newspaper draws attention to ‘hidden epidemic’ of premature births
One of the factors related to the rise of premature births is the increased incidence of postponing of childbearing until after age 35
https://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=5131
US POLITICS
Obama and the Vampire Congress by Michelle Malkin
Meet the Beltway bloodsuckers. They convene in the dead of night, when most ordinary mortals have left work, let their guard down, or are lying asleep in bed. Pale-faced and insatiable, the nocturnal thieves do their nefarious business in backrooms and secret chambers. Their primary victims? Taxpayers, the free market, and deliberative democracy.
https://michellemalkin.com/2010/01/06/darkness-reigns-obama-and-the-vampire-congress/
Fourth Quarter Blackout
Imagine watching the biggest game of the year—the Super Bowl—only to have the broadcast cut off as the fourth quarter begins.
The same outrage should apply to President Obama’s broken promise to have C-SPAN televise the entirety of health care negotiations. Just as we reach the crucial moment–the final resolution between the House, the Senate and the White House–public access goes black.
https://blog.heritage.org/2010/01/07/fourth-quarter-blackout/
NAMBLA-gate: The Strange Case of Kevin Jennings
Education Department official Kevin Jennings says that Hay inspired him
Hay in 1979 issued a call for a “Spiritual Conference for Radical Faeries” that included a poem from the notorious occultist Aleister Crowley. Stuart Timmons, author of The Trouble With Harry Hay, documents Hay's involvement with Crowley, noting that Hay played the organ for the Los Angeles lodge of Crowley's Order of the Eastern Temple, a “notorious anti-Christian spiritual group” where “homosexual sex-magic rituals” took place.
https://www.aim.org/aim-column/nambla-gate-the-strange-case-of-kevin-jennings-part-three/
Palin Stays One Step Ahead of the Political Class
https://townhall.com/columnists/JillianBandes/2010/01/11/palin_stays_one_step_ahead_of_the_political_class
Sarah Palin Joins Fox News
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/01/11/palin-join-fox-news-contributor/
Ron Paul Humiliates Clueless Statists
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaRN6xlpTlI&NR=1
Nancy Pelosi takes swipe at President Obama's campaign promises
https://www.politico.com/news/stories/0110/31180.html
GLOBAL WARMING HOAX
Global Warming Hysteria: Even When It’s Colder, It’s Because the World is Hotter – Wesley J. Smith
The failure of Copenhagen–long may it continue–may allow destitute countries the latitude to develop their economies. Increasing prosperity is the best way to help the poor children of the world.
https://www.firstthings.com/blogs/secondhandsmoke/2010/01/04/global-warming-hysteria-even-when-its-colder-its-because-the-world-is-hotter/
More Spin Will Cause, Not Cure, Public Mistrust of Science – Wesley J. Smith
The central lesson of Climategate was that the scientists involved were not only far from objective, but they were hyper-concerned with communication–most particularly stifling those with whom they disagreed. They wanted a monopoly on what was reported and threatened to punish reporters and professional journals that permitted even a whiff of heterodoxy into the discussion.
https://www.firstthings.com/blogs/secondhandsmoke/2010/01/03/more-spin-will-cause-not-cure-public-mistrust-of-science/
Global Warming Hysteria: UN Scientists Call About Face! – Wesley J. Smith
Some of the same scientists who predicted global warming, now see a coming big chill–because, waddya know–a lot of this is cyclical!
https://www.firstthings.com/blogs/secondhandsmoke/2010/01/10/global-warming-hysteria-un-scientists-call-about-face/
Radical Environmentalism: Love Affair With China Continues – Wesley J. Smith
I am very weary of the Green Crowd extolling China as a model or global responsibility. It really is nauseating that in their zeal and utopianism, effete Greens like Friedman overlook that China is a tyranny.
https://www.firstthings.com/blogs/secondhandsmoke/2010/01/10/radical-environmentalism-love-affair-with-china-continues/
Global Warming Hysteria: Declining U.S. Poll Numbers From a Rational Public – Wesley J. Smith
https://www.firstthings.com/blogs/secondhandsmoke/2010/01/07/global-warming-hysteria-declining-poll-numbers-from-a-rational-public/
However Alternative Media Deprived Canadians Consider Climate Change a Bigger Threat Than Terrorism: Poll
https://www.vancouversun.com/technology/consider+climate+change+bigger+threat+than+terrorism+poll/2427979/story.html
An Inconvenient Truth: The Ice Cap Is Growing
A report from the US National Snow and Ice Data Center in Colorado finds that Arctic summer sea ice has increased by 409,000 square miles, or 26 per cent, since 2007.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/weblogs/watercooler/2010/jan/10/inconvenient-truth-ice-cap-growing/
RELIGION
Notre Dame web site posted job opening for firm that advocates for Planned Parenthood
https://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=5132
The Church of NPR: Mother Teresa's a Destroyer, Radical Feminist an 'Icon'
https://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2010/01/10/church-npr-mother-teresas-destroyer-radical-feminist-icon
Bishops Banning Bishops
Recently, two bishops in two separate dioceses prevented brother bishops from making public appearances on Catholic property in their dioceses. Yes, you read that correctly.
https://www.newoxfordreview.org/note.jsp?did=1209-notes-banning
“Pernicious Appeal for Blind Obedience”
California nun characterizes Vatican visitations as continuation of ongoing struggle between hierarchy and women religious
https://www.calcatholic.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?id=b9d246c1-a51d-40cf-9ec3-c98fe73819cf
European Commission: Catholics Need Not Apply
https://www.zenit.org/article-28013?l=english
The Collapse of the Church in France
https://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2010/01/collapse-of-church-in-france.html
Freedom of Religion? For 5 Billion People, It's a Forbidden Dream
https://chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it/articolo/1341657?eng=y
Czech cardinal warns: Muslims are conquering Europe
https://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=5087
AVATAR
“Avatar” is Cameron’s Long Apologia for Pantheism
It’s fitting that James Cameron’s “Avatar” arrived in theaters at Christmastime. Like the holiday season itself, the science fiction epic is a crass embodiment of capitalistic excess wrapped around a deeply felt religious message. “Avatar” is Cameron’s long apologia for pantheism — a faith that equates God with Nature, and calls humanity into religious communion with the natural world…pantheism has been Hollywood’s religion of choice for a generation now.
It’s the metaphysic woven through Disney cartoons like “The Lion King” and “Pocahontas.” And it’s the dogma of George Lucas’s Jedi, whose mystical Force “surrounds us, penetrates us, and binds the galaxy together.” The threat of global warming, meanwhile, has lent the cult of Nature qualities that every successful religion needs — a crusading spirit, a rigorous set of ‘thou shalt nots,” and a piping-hot apocalypse.
At the same time, pantheism opens a path to numinous experience for people uncomfortable with the literal-mindedness of the monotheistic religions — with their miracle-working deities and holy books, their virgin births and resurrected bodies. Indeed, it represents a form of religion that even atheists can support.
https://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/21/opinion/21douthat1.html?_r=3&ref=opinion
‘Avatar’ sports both stunning graphics and environmentalist Gnosticism
…the plot itself is a thinly-masked push for a very secular environmental agenda…the film will undoubtedly win awards for its spectacular cinematography. However, the reason it will receive much acclaim “is because the film represents Hollywood's official dogma of religion without God or personal moral commitments” despite the relative success of other deeper, more positive films this season, such as “The Blind Side.”
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/avatar_sports_both_stunning_graphics_and_environmentalist_gnosticism/
Audiences Experience 'Avatar' Blues
Some fans who say they have experienced depression and suicidal thoughts after seeing the film because they long to enjoy the beauty of the alien world Pandora. …people experiencing depression. A user named Mike wrote on the fan Web site “Naviblue” that he contemplated suicide after seeing the movie. “Ever since I went to see 'Avatar' I have been depressed. Watching the wonderful world of Pandora and all the Na'vi made me want to be one of them. Other fans have expressed feelings of disgust with the human race and disengagement with reality.
https://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/Movies/01/11/avatar.movie.blues/index.html
Blockbuster film “Avatar” is being embraced by a porn industry notorious for helping new technologies access homes.
https://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100110/lf_afp/usitinternetvideogamesfilmtelecomsex_20100110231932
HOMOSEXUALITY
California Gay Marriage Opponent Fears For His Life
An outspoken gay marriage opponent serving as an official litigant defending the state's ban on same-sex weddings on Friday asked a judge to remove him from the lawsuit because he feared the trial would generate publicity that could endanger him and his family.
https://www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id=846330
Pope slams gay marriage
Pope Benedict XVI on Monday called laws ignoring the difference between the sexes an “attack” on creation just days after Portugal moved to legalise gay marriage.
https://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-world/pope-slams-gay-marriage-20100111-m2t1.html
China's first gay pageant gives glimpse of new acceptance
https://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/10/china-gay-pageant
Do we have a right to know if candidates are gay? – Sandy Rios
https://www.onenewsnow.com/Perspectives/Default.aspx?id=845334
MISCELLANEOUS
The Rising Polyamorous Culture Is Out to Get Your Children by Patrick F. Fagan
The culture of the traditional family is now in intense competition with a very different culture. The defining difference between the two is the sexual ideal each embraces. In all of human history, the culture of monogamy has never encountered the type of competition it faces now. We must engage. We can wait no longer; we need men of courage and energy. We are looking for the first few.
https://www.touchstonemag.com/archives/article.php?id=23-01-042-c
Airport search leaves 85-year-old 'terrified'
Woman asked to unzip her pants so an inspector could poke her abdomen
https://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Airport+search+leaves+year+terrified/2425567/story.html
Body Scanners Can Store, Send Images, Group Says
A privacy group says the Transportation Security Administration is misleading the public with claims that full-body scanners at airports cannot store or send their graphic images…leaves open the possibility the machines—which can see beneath people's clothing—can be abused by TSA insiders and hacked by outsiders
https://www.cnn.com/2010/TRAVEL/01/11/body.scanners/index.html
'Undemocratic system' prompts Alberta Tory MLA to jump to Wildrose
Elected representatives have little say in Stelmach's 'government by fiat'
https://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/Undemocratic+system+prompts+Tory+jump+Wildrose/2407012/story.html
Canada's pharmaceuticals will be coming from China
https://www.torontosun.com/news/columnists/peter_worthington/2010/01/07/12374971-sun.html
EU moves toward military procurement (just don’t mention the EU army)
https://neoconopticon.wordpress.com/2010/01/06/eu-moves-toward-military-procurement-just-dont-mention-the-eu-army/
America Slides Deeper Into Depression as Wall Street Revels
December was the worst month for US unemployment since the Great Recession began.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/6962632/America-slides-deeper-into-depression-as-Wall-Street-revels.html