Wednesday, December 02, 2015

2 Dec - The View

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We should all celebrate the end of one of the most overreaching domestic surveillance programs ever revealed. And then we should keep fighting.
Late Saturday night, something extraordinary happened: The NSA stopped forcing U.S. telecommunications companies to hand over the phone records of millions of…
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A new national report into homelessness in this country tells a grim story — at least 200,000 Canadians experience homelessness in any given year and least 30,000 Canadians are homeless on any given night.
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Beautiful vintage photos that capture Iran in the 60s and 70s.
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 *Care Net is an evangelical Christian crisis pregnancy center organization operating primarily in the United States. As an anti-abortion organization its centers seek to persuade a person not to have an abortion. Headquartered in Northern Virginia, it is the nation's largest affiliation network of pregnancy centers.
In the wake of the Planned Parenthood shooting in Colorado Springs, the findings of a survey just released by LifeWay, a Christian research group, reveal some interesting facts about a seemingly hidden culture within the Christian community. The survey explores the true relationship of religion and abortion and was co-sponsored by the pregnancy support organization Care Net*. These are some of their findings.
- 70 percent of the women they surveyed considered themselves Christians.
- Over 50 percent of the surveyed women who attend church regularly have kept their abortions secret from their church community.
- 40 percent of women surveyed feel that churches are not equipped to help them make decisions about unwanted pregnancies.
While these findings may be surprising, even more surprising is one of the main reasons these women seek abortions. Anti-abortion culture often lays the blame on the women who terminate pregnancies, citing their callousness, promiscuity, and sinful nature. However, it turns out the opposite is true. Roughly a third of women, regardless of their religious beliefs, cite the father of the unborn baby as the most influential person in their decision to terminate their pregnancy.
Many of the results of this survey are particularly damning of church culture, which shames women during these difficult times, rather than offering any guidance.
Roughly two thirds of the women surveyed agree that their pastors’ teachings on forgiveness do not apply to women who have terminated pregnancies. Over half of women believe that their Church is out-of-touch when it comes to helping them make decisions about pregnancy options.
Regardless of the choices the women in these communities make, they face judgment on all sides, and have to choose between secrecy and being ostracized, in which no ‘right’ decision can be made. This is why over half of women who regularly attend church keep their terminated pregnancy secret and only 7 percent of women say they’ve discussed their options with fellow churchgoers.
It is interesting to note that this survey was conducted by a Christian organization. Given results like these, many conservatives would say that the study is skewed to make the Christian hard-right look bad, but considering the direction the abortion debate has taken of late, they don’t really need any help in that area.

Article Via: Dead State http://deadstate.org/christian-group-conducts-study-finds-…/
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The signature of a scientist was used, without his agreement, to argue that Séralini and his co-workers were wrong in their studies on Monsanto products, including GM corn.
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'Christians' ? Are you mad ? Nobody committed to violence understands the morality tale of a healing teacher tortured and murdered by the state because that is how it deals with dangerous exposers of its corrupt nature. They are no more 'Christian' than IS is Islamic or Muslim. Walking the Walk does not mean slaying the Samaritan.
British Prime Minister David Cameron has promised to deploy ten thousand military troops to the streets of Britain in order to support the police in defending Britain against ISIS terrorist attacks.
British Prime Minister David Cameron has promised to deploy ten thousand…
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BY GLENN GREENWALD | The reality is that, on U.S. soil, George W. Bush perpetrated a wide array of radical abuses aimed at Muslims in the wake of 9/11. In the weeks after the attack, more than 1,000 Muslims and Arabs were swept up by the FBI and detained without charge, often by abusing the powers allowing for detention of “material witnesses.” Thousands of Muslim immigrants were deported from the U.S. in the months following the attack. Bush quickly and secretly implemented an illegal scheme of warrantless domestic eavesdropping aimed largely at Muslims.
'Hasan's op-ed argues that Bush and his top advisers (such as Karl Rove and Michael Gerson) 'understood that demonizing Muslims and depicting Islam as 'the…
READERSUPPORTEDNEWS.ORG|BY GLENN GREENWALD, THE INTERCEPT
And the beat goes on...

Trump, Carson and company are fanning the flames of hatred and, as we now see, violence.
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Originally published in March 2007: "We're going to take out seven countries in 5 years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran" -- General Wesl...
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STEPHEN LENDMAN: Erdogan is an international outlaw, He’s supporting ISIS, US proxy foot soldiers in Syria, Iraq and elsewhere, directly involved in their oil smuggling, refining and sales worth hundreds of millions of dollars on the black market.
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The Guardian is counting the people killed by US law enforcement agencies this year. Read their stories and contribute to our ongoing, crowdsourced project
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RUTH GLEDHILL: The world leader of Syria’s besieged Christians has issued a heartfelt plea to the West to “stop arming and supporting terrorist groups that are destroying our countries and massacring our people.”

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"History will not be and should not be kind with that decision."
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The central concern of the United States, with regard to the Third World, is to defend its right to rob, exploit and "protect" raw materials, says Noam Chomsky.
The lessons of 1954 and 1973 are very clear, and the victims of US violence will ignore them at their peril.
TRUTH-OUT.ORG|BY NOAM CHOMSKY

Just in case anyone needed reminding of the magnitude of the problem world leaders are tackling in Paris for the next few weeks: a severe pollution cloud roughly the size of Spain is currently turning northern China into a very unhealthy place to breathe. Quartz reports.
Pollution levels 17 times higher than the World Health Organization's guidelines for healthy air.
QZ.COM|BY ZHEPING HUANG

Meanwhile, U.S. banking criminals were rewarded for their fraud and market manipulation with an enormous bailout at the taxpayer’s expense
REDICECREATIONS.COM|BY HENRIK PALMGREN
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Medical marijuana patients will now be able to consume marijuana — and not just smoke it — as well as use other extracts and derivatives, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled today.
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Canada's second-biggest bank is being criticized for part of its Visa cardholder agreement that allows TD Canada Trust to access and collect information on all of…
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The units are spacious, have solar panels, and can last an average of three years.Refugee camps across Iraq are about to get a Swedish touch.The United Nations’ refugee agency just ordered 10,000 shelters designed by Ikea, its largest…
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If carbon dioxide is so bad for the planet, why do greenhouse growers buy CO2 generators to double…
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