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LIFE ISSUES
Abortion killings worldwide overtake WW2 slaughter
https://spuc-director.blogspot.com/2009/09/abortion-killings-worldwide-overtake.html
A consultation on proposals to allow abortion agencies to advertise on British TV has drawn massive public opposition to the proposals – John Smeaton
https://spuc-director.blogspot.com/2009/09/huge-response-to-abortion-advertising.html
Sex, Lies, and Abortion by Dinesh D'Souza
It's time to get to the bottom of the great national tragedy…abortion is the debris of the sexual revolution. We have seen a great shift in the sexual mores of Americans in the past half-century. Today a widespread social understanding persists that if there is going to be sex outside marriage, there will be a considerable number of unwanted pregnancies. Abortion is viewed as a necessary clean-up solution to this social reality.
https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2009/september/17.78.html
Fears of Plot to Reduce Population Seem Less Paranoid in Light of Rockefellers
https://www.spiritdaily.com/populationreduction1.htm
Millennium development goals being hijacked by pro-abortion lobby
https://spuc-director.blogspot.com/2009/09/millennium-development-goals-being.html
Mark Pickup’s Moving Tribute to Terri Schiavo’s Dad, Bob Schindler – Wesley J. Smith
https://www.firstthings.com/blogs/secondhandsmoke/2009/09/12/mark-pickups-moving-tribute-to-terri-schiavos-dad-bob-schindler/
Meddling With Life – When Children Become Instrumentalized
https://www.zenit.org/article-26783?l=english
Ontario Premier McGuinty is on the wrong track with In Vitro Fertilization By Fr. Alphonse de Valk
https://catholicinsight.com/online/editorials/article_926.shtml
Brave New Britain: Using Tissues in Cloning Without Consent – Wesley J. Smith
https://www.firstthings.com/blogs/secondhandsmoke/2009/09/15/brave-new-britain-using-tissues-in-cloning-without-consent/
Operation Rescue says it's broke, may shut down
Operation Rescue has told its supporters it is facing a “major financial crisis” and is very close to shutting down unless emergency help arrives soon.
https://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hRDuszP6tMVu837NzONBFIcm_eywD9ANV8OO5
New report confirms spread of silent euthanasia policy across Britain
https://spuc-director.blogspot.com/2009/09/new-report-confirms-spread-of-silent.html
Signs of depression in preschoolers while teen suicides fourth highest among Western nations
https://www.todaysfamilynews.ca/Health/signs-of-depression-in-preschoolers-while-teen-suicides-top-western-nations.html?utm_source=TFN&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=TFN+2009-09-15%20Article%202%20Signs%20of%20depression%20in%20preschoolers%20while%20teen%20suicides%20top%20Western%20nations
Eight Million A Year Contemplate Suicide in USA and the Assisted Suicide Movement Wesley J. Smith
https://www.firstthings.com/blogs/secondhandsmoke/2009/09/17/eight-million-a-year-contemplate-suicide-in-usa-and-the-assisted-suicide-movement/
RELIGION AND LIFE ISSUES
Now I understand: only pro-lifers are uncivil.
John L. Allen, Jr.'s September 11th piece, “Incivility hurts the pro-life cause” is an outstanding, even superior, example of bad reporting, poor argumentation, and dubious motives. Here's a quick look at four of the flawed techniques used by Allen in the piece:
1. Fill a balloon of empty generalizations with hot air:
2. Go light on the pertinent quotes and facts:
3. Backpeddle and implicitly acknowlege validity of criticisms:
4. Repeat #1:
https://insightscoop.typepad.com/2004/2009/09/now-i-understand-only-prolifers-are-uncivil.html
Pope Benedict XVI urged Catholic pharmacists to stop selling drugs that prevent pregnancy or assist in euthanasia.
https://www.javno.com/en-world/pope-to-doctors—do-not-sell-drugs-that-stop-life_275488
Cardinal Schoenborn Against Pro-Life Rally – Gloria TV report
https://en.gloria.tv/?media=33117
Bishop presents 33,000 signatures against abortion to Peruvian Congress
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=17105
Philippines Catholic Church Backs Pro-Life Candidates
https://www.mb.com.ph/articles/220608/catholic-church-mulls-bloc-voting
Sebelius discusses federal funding of abortion, refuses to say whether she receives Communion
https://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=4026
RELIGION
Wake Up America! Video Fr. John Corapi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTHmn13v7Ts&feature=player_embedded
Pope to bishops: don't pursue self-interest
https://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=4018
Pope: don't blur roles of clergy, laity
https://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=4058
Vatican Denounces Fake Meds for Poor
As many as 50% of medicines sold in Africa could be fake, according to the president of the Vatican's health care council. Notes Most Victims Are Children
https://www.zenit.org/article-26865?l=english
Into Great Silence
Director Philip Gröning discusses life at the Grande Chartreuse monastery, the presence of God in the world, and his award-winning film
https://www.decentfilms.com/sections/articles/groning.html
Pounding the Table
The LCWR leadership continues to voice opposition to Vatican investigations into their activities, claiming to be “misunderstood” by Rome.
https://catholicworldreport.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=135:pounding-the-table&catid=36:cwr2009&Itemid=68
'Journalism Is War': Father James Haley, Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, and the 'sexually-active priest' crisis by Matt C. Abbott
https://www.renewamerica.com/columns/abbott/090915
Catholic Charities and Truth
Misleading “Catholic” organizations such as Catholics United and Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good operated as an arm for pro-abortion Democrats in 2008 and now enjoy an important role in the Obama administration. Bishops cannot possibly dispel such confusion spread by these “Catholic” advocacy organizations without unity amongst themselves. There needs to be at long last a “Bishops United” to match Catholics United.
https://www.catholicworldreport.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=133:the-big-con&catid=36:cwr2009&Itemid=68
6 Christians killed in Pakistan; ‘convert to Islam or die’
https://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=3944
1 million Pakistani Catholics pray for persecutors
https://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=3964
ENVIRONMENTAL EXTREMISM
Greens Promote New Film 'The Age of Stupid'
https://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2009/09/16/greens-promote-new-film-age-stupid
ECONOMIC CRISIS
US Credit Shrinks at Great Depression Rate Prompting Fears of Double-Dip Recession
Both bank credit and the M3 money supply in the United States have been contracting at rates comparable to the onset of the Great Depression since early summer, raising fears of a double-dip recession in 2010 and a slide into debt-deflation.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/recession/6190818/US-credit-shrinks-at-Great-Depression-rate-prompting-fears-of-double-dip-recession.html
Our Massive National Debt is More Than a Financial Threat.
China and India are the two most populous countries in the world; the United States is No. 3. In our diversity and dynamism we resemble India; in our status as a world economic and military power we resemble China. What do their national debts look like? India’s is 61 percent, quite close to our own. China’s is 16 percent, i.e., basically nothing.
https://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MWVkN2JkYTExODM5MjIwNGU5MDA3MjA3OTkyNTBhMDA=
UN wants new global currency to replace dollar
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/currency/6152204/UN-wants-new-global-currency-to-replace-dollar.html
China alarmed by US money printing
The US Federal Reserve's policy of printing money to buy Treasury debt threatens to set off a serious decline of the dollar and compel China to redesign its foreign reserve policy, according to a top member of the Communist hierarchy.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/6146957/China-alarmed-by-US-money-printing.html
Never Reviewed by NYT or WashPost, Mark Levin's 'Liberty and Tyranny' Has Now Sold 1 Million Copies
https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/54079
The puzzle of Norman Borlaug
Why did the father of the Green Revolution remain afraid of the ‘population monster’?
https://www.mercatornet.com/articles/view/the_puzzle_of_norman_borlaug/
Anti-Parent Bill Fails in California; Two Bad Bills Pass
https://www.citizenlink.org/CLtopstories/A000010955.cfm
Open letter to the Honourable Robert Nicholson, Minister of Justice By Fr. Alphonse de Valk
With the rest of the delegates at the last Conservative Convention you voted in support of a policy amendment to delete Section 13.1 of the Canadian Human Rights Act. Therefore, first we expect you not to appeal the Hadjis ruling in an effort to resurrect this oppressive legislation. Second, we look forward to new legislation that will a) define hate literature much more restrictively and b) leave it to federal Courts to interpret that legislation. As we pointed out in an earlier letter, in view of its horrendous anti-Christian bias—self-admitted in its own history published in January 2009—the CHRC and the CHRT should be abolished.
https://catholicinsight.com/online/editorials/article_927.shtml
HOMOSEXUALITY
After Prop. 8 retaliation, federal court blocks release of Washington petition names
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=17097
Legislators Seek Repeal of Federal Marriage Law
https://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/09/16/MN6M19NHTS.DTL
Gay-themed Eevents not scrutinized: Canada's Industry Minister Tony Clement
https://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/09/14/clement-gay-tourism.html
The Insanity of Same-Sex Parenting
It is time to say out loud that every child needs the love of a father and a mother.
https://www.mercatornet.com/articles/view/the_insanity_of_same-sex_parenting/
Gay Activists Push Films in California Schools
https://www.citizenlink.org/CLNews/A000010956.cfm
Marriage: What Matters
Too many Republicans are blind to what is at stake in the marriage-law debate
https://www.cwfa.org/articles/17645/CWA/family/index.htm
Lawmakers trying to circumvent Prop. 8 outcome
https://www.onenewsnow.com/Politics/Default.aspx?id=678904
Schwarzenegger Under Liberal Pressure to Proclaim 'Harvey Milk Day' in California in honor of the first openly gay politician elected to public office.
https://www.newsmax.com/headlines/milk_schwarzenegger_gay/2009/09/15/260537.html
MISCELLANEOUS
Time Magazine Asks 'Is Glenn Beck Bad for America?
As Glenn Beck's popularity and ratings increase, so does the attention he's getting from the Obama-loving media.
https://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2009/09/17/time-magazine-asks-glenn-beck-bad-america
Plan for all-day kindergarten in BC leaves many perplexed
https://www.todaysfamilynews.ca/Education/plan-for-all-day-kindergarten-in-bc-leaves-many-perplexed.html?utm_source=TFN&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=TFN+2009-09-15%20Featured%20Article%20Plan%20for%20all-day%20kindergarten%20in%20BC%20leaves%20many%20perplexed
Your family is being watched 24-7 What’s next in surveillance-happy Britain? Cameras in private homes? Actually, yes by Mark Steyn
https://www2.macleans.ca/2009/09/03/your-family-is-being-watched-24-7/
Families Becoming Own Censors
As films, music and the internet become less and less child friendly many parents are taking over the task of censorship from government bodies.
https://www.mercatornet.com/articles/view/families_becoming_own_censors/
Library porn incident sparks outcry
Some say using Internet filters in libraries is unconstitutional
https://www2.macleans.ca/2009/09/13/library-porn-incident-sparks-outcry/
Two thousand schoolgirls suffer suspected ill-effects from cervical cancer vaccine
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/6178045/Two-thousand-schoolgirls-suffer-suspected-ill-effects-from-cervical-cancer-vaccine.html
Public hearing on appointing immediate interim successor to Ted Kennedy: Huge Democrat dog & pony show, afternoon of hypocrisy
https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen/09c/kennedy_bill/hearing_0909.html
Stephen Lewis to Speak at Christian University (Redeemer College)
https://www.redeemer.ca/clear/conferences.aspx#lewis
Press Accuracy Rating Hits Two Decade Low Public Evaluations of the News Media: 1985-2009
https://people-press.org/report/543/
Hon. Joe Wilson Recieves 2008 Freemasonry's Medal of Freedom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqCltmcBYJk
In Push for 'New World' Is Concern Over Gene-Altered Food Controlled by a Handful of Global Companies
https://www.spiritdaily.com/populationreduction3.htm
Polish PM wouldn't take U.S. calls
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk confirmed today that he declined last night to take a call from the U.S. informing him of the decision to scrap planned missile-defense bases in his country.
https://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0909/Polish_PM_wouldnt_take_US_calls.html?showall
Too hot for iPhone
Why Google Voice is a huge threat to the wireless industry
https://www2.macleans.ca/2009/09/09/too-hot-for-iphone/