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- NHS spending on 'chemical cosh' child-calming drugs soars by 60% [1 Update]
http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/t/168d7d5f4fa14c7c
- The Right Crisis For A New World Order [1 Update]
http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/t/163a95046a5a7d8
- Jupiter Loses One Of Its Stripes And Scientists Are Stumped [1 Update]
http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/t/be9e27304b29012d
- Third Of Plants And Animals 'At Risk Of Extinction' [1 Update]
http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/t/7c16a7aa65423566
- Being Defiled Has Never Been So Easy: New TV Program Allows Young
Women To Sell Virginity To Highest Bidder [1 Update]
http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/t/417239498365ad1c
- US State Department Pledges To Attack Anyone Who Opposes
Monsanto's GMO Agenda [1 Update]
http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/t/3329a5c99cc87c17
- GM Contamination Spreads Across 35 Countries [1 Update]
http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/t/86f315225333f238
- Baby Vaccine Contaminated With Pig Virus [1 Update]
http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/t/713e36e4fe111fc3
- Netanyahu Turns To Bible In Tussle Over Jerusalem [1 Update]
http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/t/235a1846011cc136
- Chief Justice Roberts: Kagan Asked Court To 'Embrace Theory Of
First Amendment That Would Allow Censorship Not Only Of Radio And
Television, But Pamphlets And Posters' [1 Update]
http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/t/12379f579004bf7e
- Hurricane could worsen US oil spill [1 Update]
http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/t/814c21ecd1d4f58b
- Kagan: 'Disappear' Free Speech If The Government Deems It
Offensive [1 Update]
http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/t/48aa8ad68aa9b68
- IDF officers slam Netanyahu's lack of strategy for northern
threats [1 Update]
http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/t/5a8a4a03834b502d

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Topic: NHS spending on 'chemical cosh' child-calming drugs soars by 60%
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/t/168d7d5f4fa14c7c
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From: Heaven soon <heavensoon@gmail.com>
Date: May 12 05:14PM -0400
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/msg/a3f3e245c22d06d3

NHS spending on 'chemical cosh' child-calming drugs soars by 60%
Published on 05-12-2010

Source: Daily Mail

NHS spending on 'chemical cosh' drugs to treat hyperactivity has soared by
two-thirds to £31million in just four years, new figures revealed yesterday.

Nearly 750,000 prescriptions are now being doled out every year for Ritalin
and similar drugs - most of them to children.

The surge triggered concerns that children are being unnecessarily drugged
as poor discipline is increasingly seen as a medical issue.

Teachers warned today that prescribing calming drugs was often cheaper and
easier than 'talking cures' and parenting support.

Over-use: experts claim that prescribing drugs such as Ritalin to children
is an 'easier' option than discipline at schools or parental support

Three drugs are now routinely used to treat Attention Deficit Hyperactivity
Disorder (ADHD), which is characterised by disruptive behaviour,
impulsiveness and difficulties focusing on specific tasks.

These are drugs based on methylphenidate (Ritalin), atomoxetine (Strattera)
and dexamfetamine (Dexedrine).

Figures released under the Freedom of Information Act show that NHS spending
on the three drugs in England alone rose from £18.97million in 2005 to
£31.14million in 2009.

An increase in the cost of the drugs partly accounts for increase. But
statistics also show that, over the same period, the number of prescriptions
issued by doctors surged, from 486,536 to 744,078.

'VIAGRA FOR THE BRAIN'

* Ritalin is from the same drug family as cocaine and amphetamines and
increases levels of the brain chemical dopamine, reducing restlessness and
promoting concentration.
* Children who take ADHD drugs for 36 months are about an inch shorter
and six pounds lighter than their peers, according to US researchers, and
may need a 'drug holiday' to catch up.
* ADHD could be a mark of genius, according to academics in Ireland.
Oscar Wilde, Che Guevara, Walter Raleigh, Picasso, Kurt Cobain and Lord
Byron - all thought to have been ADHD sufferers - may owe their success to
'risk-taking' genes that play a role in the condition.
* Ritalin is a Class B controlled drug and illegal possession is
punishable with a five-year jail sentence or fine.
* Hyperactive children given Ritalin do better in exams than ADHD
youngsters who do not take drugs, according to US research, which studied
600 primary pupils and found they were three months ahead in reading and two
months in maths.
* Ritalin has been described as 'Viagra for the brain' and a 'smart
drug' that can boost brainpower in healthy people by boosting concentration;
critics say there are too many risks in taking it unless for serious cases
of ADHD.
* Doctors have warned that Ritalin tablets are being sold in school
playgrounds for just a few pence a time to pupils in search of an illicit
'high'.
* Growing numbers of Oxford University students are taking Ritalin and
other so-called smart pills to boost performance in exams, according to an
investigation last year. They are buying the tablets online and trading them
in college libraries.
* Doctors have warned that competitive parents are increasingly giving
healthy children Ritalin pills in a bid to boost their exam grades and
university chances.

The figures may underestimate the true scale of spending since private
prescriptions and those handed out by in-house hospital pharmacies are
excluded from the data, which was issued to The Guardian by the NHS Business
Services Authority.

Official NHS guidelines recommend drug treatment for the most severely
affected but some doctors take this more literally than others.

Figures published in 2008 showed that doctors in the Wirral dispensed one
Ritalin prescription for every seven children under 16, although this did
not equate to one in seven children taking Ritalin - since one child could
have repeat prescriptions.

Across England, the average was one for every 23 children, while
Stoke-on-Trent doled out just one prescription for every 159 children.

Experts warned that some doctors and teachers are too keen to pin medical
labels on what would previously have been branded poor discipline.

Dr Gwynedd Lloyd, an education researcher at the University of Edinburgh,
said: 'You can't do a blood test to check whether you've got ADHD - it's
diagnosed through a behavioural checklist.

'Getting out of your seat and running about is an example - half the kids in
a school could qualify under that criterion.

'I know a lot of children have genuine difficulties, and some of these are
biological, but most are social and cultural.'

Meanwhile teachers warned that funding pressures on schools could lead to an
increase in prescribing in future.

Mental health programmes to help children through counselling and parental
support were labour-intensive, they said.

Tim Bown, assistant head of Queen's Park Community School, North London,
said: 'Ideally, schools would prefer to offer intensive one-to-one support,
but if the resources are limited - which they usually are - then we're
pushed into a choice between medication or exclusion.

'Hearing a student say that a drug "takes away his soul" doesn't sit
comfortably with us as a school, but permanent exclusion doesn't either.'

He warned that therapists, counsellors and mentors could be sacrificed as
schools fought to keep teachers.

Professor Frank Furedi, a sociology expert from Kent University and author
of Therapy Culture, said: 'Parents are ambitious for their children and
teachers are at a loss about how to manage classroom behaviour, so they
medicalise it.'

Since ADHD was first recognised as a medical condition in the mid-1980s,
debate has raged over the use of drugs to treat it.

Side-effects can include stunted growth and cardiovascular problems, as well
as insomnia, lethargy and headaches.

But research also shows that youngsters treated with Ritalin and similar
drugs do better in tests.

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Topic: The Right Crisis For A New World Order
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/t/163a95046a5a7d8
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From: Heaven soon <heavensoon@gmail.com>
Date: May 12 05:01PM -0400
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/msg/10d5f7352f9bca14

*The Right Crisis For A New World Order
* <http://www.conspiracyarchive.com/Blog/?p=3747>David Rockefeller said,
"All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New
World Order." Rahm Emanuel said, "You never want a serious crisis to go to
waste. And what I mean by that is an opportunity to do things you think you
could not do before." In the Project for a New American Century
document *Rebuilding
America's Defenses: Strategy, Forces and Resources for a New Century* we
find the following: "Further, the process of transformation, even if it
brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some
catastrophic and catalyzing event – like a new Pearl Harbor." False Flag
(choreographed catastrophes) operations have been used for generations for
various motives: the seizure of additional land and/or natural/mineral
resources (domestic or foreign), the acquisition of cheap labor, economic
destabilization, the military depopulation of indigenous populations, the
destruction of religious or political ideologies, the establishment of
political tyranny or a coup d'état to assist an allegedly threatened ally...

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Topic: Jupiter Loses One Of Its Stripes And Scientists Are Stumped
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/t/be9e27304b29012d
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From: Heaven soon <heavensoon@gmail.com>
Date: May 12 05:00PM -0400
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/msg/7e38ffb4ecc942d0

*Jupiter Loses One Of Its Stripes And Scientists Are
Stumped*<http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1277734/Jupiter-loses-stripes-scientists-idea-why.html?ITO=1490>
Jupiter has lost one of its iconic red stripes and scientists are baffled as
to why. The largest planet in our solar system is usually dominated by two
dark bands in its atmosphere, with one in the northern hemisphere and one in
the southern hemisphere. However, the most recent images taken by amateur
astronomers have revealed the lower stripe known as the Southern Equatorial
Belt has disappeared leaving the southern half of the planet looking
unusually bare. The band was present in at the end of last year before
Jupiter ducked behind the Sun on its orbit. However, when it emerged three
months later the belt had disappeared. Journalist and amateur astronomer Bob
King, also known as Astro_Bob, was one of the first to note the strange
phenomenon. He said: 'Jupiter with only one belt is almost like seeing
Saturn when its rings are edge-on and invisible for a time - it just doesn't
look right.' It is not the first time this unusual phenomenon has been
noticed. Jupiter loses or regains one of its belts every ten of 15 years,
although exactly why this happens is a mystery.

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Topic: Third Of Plants And Animals 'At Risk Of Extinction'
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/t/7c16a7aa65423566
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From: Heaven soon <heavensoon@gmail.com>
Date: May 12 05:00PM -0400
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/msg/d4ee2092f6cd80e1

*Third Of Plants And Animals 'At Risk Of
Extinction'*<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/7700903/Third-of-plants-and-animals-at-risk-of-extinction.html>
The world's biodiversity is threatened by the economic growth of countries
like China, India and Brazil, the study will say. While Western countries
are increasingly aware of the need to protect endangered species, the
developing world's appetite for raw materials is destroying vulnerable
ecosystems, the report's authors will warn. Population growth, pollution and
the spread of Western-style consumption are also blamed for hitting plant
and animal populations. Species at risk include the fishing cat, as its
wetland habitats in India, Pakistan and southeast Asia are converted for
agriculture. Maritime ecosystems are under particular threat, with the south
Asian river dolphin among the species whose numbers have plummeted due to
damming and overfishing. The latest report – the third edition of the UN's
Global Biodiversity Outlook – is based on data obtained from studies in more
than 120 countries across the world.

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Topic: Being Defiled Has Never Been So Easy: New TV Program Allows
Young Women To Sell Virginity To Highest Bidder
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/t/417239498365ad1c
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From: Heaven soon <heavensoon@gmail.com>
Date: May 12 04:59PM -0400
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/msg/1ed58af51cfa8811

*Being Defiled Has Never Been So Easy: New TV Program Allows Young Women To
Sell Virginity To Highest
Bidder*<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/7704737/Anger-over-reality-television-virgin-auction.html>
The virgins will be paid $20,000 (pounds 12,000) each to take part in the
auction and will also receive 90 per cent of their "sale price", according
to a report in the Sydney Daily Telegraph. The remainder of the money will
go to the Nevada brothel which is hosting the event. Initial bids will be
placed online, but bidders will attend the final part of the auction, coming
face to face with the people whose virginity they are bidding for. One
21-year-old woman from Sydney, who used the name Veronica, said she had
signed up for the auction to earn money and challenge traditional
perceptions about sex. "Technically I'm selling my virginity for money,
technically that would be classified as prostitution, but it's not going to
be a regular thing, so in my head I can justify that I'm not going to be a
prostitute," she told the paper. "I don't think I'll regret it."

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Topic: US State Department Pledges To Attack Anyone Who Opposes
Monsanto's GMO Agenda
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/t/3329a5c99cc87c17
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From: Heaven soon <heavensoon@gmail.com>
Date: May 12 04:58PM -0400
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/msg/f009f52aac8a9d2c

*US State Department Pledges To Attack Anyone Who Opposes Monsanto's GMO
Agenda
<http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_20793.cfm>*The U.S. State
Department will aggressively confront critics of agricultural biotechnology
as the United States seeks to mitigate the effects of climate change, Jose
Fernandez, assistant secretary for the Bureau of Economic, Energy and
Business Affairs, told several hundred attendees from around the world at
the Biotechnology Industry Organization's annual convention last week in
Chicago. Nearly 15,000 stakeholders from the medical, agricultural and
industrial sectors crowded the vast McCormick Place conference center, where
it can be a half-mile walk between meeting rooms. Highlights of the May 3-6
meeting were keynote presentations by former Presidents Bill Clinton and
George W. Bush, and former Vice President Al Gore. Lesser-known celebrities
included New Yorker writer Michael Specter, author of the book Denialism:
How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and
Threatens Our Lives. Though he was not the first speaker at an opening
afternoon "Leadership Summit," Fernandez warmed up the crowd when he said
the State Department is ready to take on the naysayers. Agriculture has
greater potential to mitigate climate change than either energy or transport
measures, he said. "There are more people in the world, and the world is
getting warmer. Our challenge is to produce more food with less."

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Topic: GM Contamination Spreads Across 35 Countries
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/t/86f315225333f238
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From: Heaven soon <heavensoon@gmail.com>
Date: May 12 04:58PM -0400
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/msg/4b21188f178f7c00

*GM Contamination Spreads Across 35
Countries*<http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_20791.cfm>
Last September, the Flax Council of Canada (FCC) announced that an
unapproved variety of genetically modified flax was detected in food
products in Europe. The GM flax variety was identified as FP967 or
"Triffid," which had been developed in Canada, but was never commercialized
and has been illegal to grow in Canada since 2001. Since the initial
announcement last September, GM flax contamination has been reported in 35
countries. The contamination has decimated Canada's flax exports to Europe,
which buys 70% of Canada's flax exports worth an estimated $321 million
(Canadian). The European Union has zero tolerance for unapproved GMOs. More
than six months later disturbing questions remain about the GM flax
contamination: No one knows for sure how a GM flax variety that had been
removed from the market eight years earlier ended up contaminating food
products in 35 countries. According to the Canadian Biotechnology Action
Network, by 2001, 40 seed growers were multiplying 200,000 bushels of GM
seed for future demand. One theory is that some flax growers continued to
grow the variety even after the Canadian flax industry decided not to allow
commercial production of GM flax.

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Topic: Baby Vaccine Contaminated With Pig Virus
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/t/713e36e4fe111fc3
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From: Heaven soon <heavensoon@gmail.com>
Date: May 12 04:57PM -0400
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/msg/61d90897569a3e25

*Baby Vaccine Contaminated With Pig
Virus*<http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20627603.100-baby-vaccine-contaminated-with-pig-virus.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news>
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has reported that stocks of
Merck's Rotateq vaccine against rotavirus are contaminated with the pig
viruses PCV1 and PCV2. But the agency has not advised doctors to stop using
it as the pig viruses aren't known to cause disease in humans, and rotavirus
kills roughly half a million infants worldwide each year. An FDA advisory
panel said the vaccine's benefits still outweigh its risks. The FDA plans to
monitor recipients for pig virus-related illness. "There will be quite
careful monitoring of the people that have received the vaccine and I think
that's entirely appropriate," says virologist Stephen Hughes, who advised
the FDA on the issue. Rotavirus vaccines are mainly given to infants in the
developing world, where the virus is most likely to kill. In March, a
separate rotavirus vaccine, Rotarix, made by GlaxoSmithKline was found to
contain PCV1. In that case, the FDA recommended that doctors avoid using
Rotarix while it gathers evidence, but the FDA now says it will issue new
recommendations on both affected vaccines soon

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Topic: Netanyahu Turns To Bible In Tussle Over Jerusalem
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/t/235a1846011cc136
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From: Heaven soon <heavensoon@gmail.com>
Date: May 12 04:56PM -0400
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/msg/278542a1b8fc6763

*Netanyahu Turns To Bible In Tussle Over
Jerusalem*<http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE64B2EY20100512?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FworldNews+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+International%29&utm_content=Google+Reader>
Netanyahu told a parliamentary session commemorating Israel's capture of
East Jerusalem from Jordan in the 1967 war that "Jerusalem" and its
alternative Hebrew name "Zion" appear 850 times in the Old Testament,
Judaism's core canon. "As to how many times Jerusalem is mentioned in the
holy scriptures of other faiths, I recommend you check," he said. Citing
such ancestry, Israel calls all of Jerusalem its "indivisible" capital -- a
designation not recognized abroad, where many powers support Palestinian
claims to East Jerusalem as the capital of a future Palestinian state.
Jerusalem, at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, is also revered
by Muslims because it houses al-Aqsa mosque, Islam's third-holiest shrine
after Mecca and Medina, on a plaza Jews revere as the vestige of two
biblical Jewish temples. Heckled by a lawmaker from Israel's Arab minority,
Netanyahu offered a lesson in comparative religion from the lectern.
"Because you asked: Jerusalem is mentioned 142 times in the New Testament,
and none of the 16 various Arabic names for Jerusalem is mentioned in the
Koran. But in an expanded interpretation of the Koran from the 12th century,
one passage is said to refer to Jerusalem," he said.

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Topic: Chief Justice Roberts: Kagan Asked Court To 'Embrace Theory Of
First Amendment That Would Allow Censorship Not Only Of Radio And
Television, But Pamphlets And Posters'
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/t/12379f579004bf7e
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From: Heaven soon <heavensoon@gmail.com>
Date: May 12 04:55PM -0400
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/msg/c1a884357264059e

*Chief Justice Roberts: Kagan Asked Court
<http://cnsnews.com/news/article/65600>**To 'Embrace Theory Of First
Amendment That Would Allow Censorship Not Only Of Radio And Television, But
Pamphlets And Posters'* <http://cnsnews.com/news/article/65600>
Solicitor General Elena Kagan, nominated Monday to the U.S. Supreme Court by
President Barack Obama, told that court in September that Congress could
constitutionally prohibit political speech such as publishing pamphlets that
advocate the election or defeat of a candidate for federal office.
Kagan's argument was rejected by a 5-4 majority of the Supreme Court in the
case of Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. Justice Anthony
Kennedy wrote the majority opinion in that case, and in a scathing
concurrence Chief Justice John Roberts took direct aim at Kagan's argument
that the government could ban political pamphlets. "The Government urges us
in this case to uphold a direct prohibition on political speech. It asks us
to embrace a theory of the First Amendment that would allow censorship not
only of television and radio broadcasts, but of pamphlets, posters, the
Internet, and virtually any other medium that corporations and unions might
find useful in expressing their views on matters of public concern," wrote
Roberts. "Its theory, if accepted, would empower the Government to prohibit
newspapers from running editorials or opinion pieces supporting or opposing
candidates for office, so long as the newspapers were owned by
corporations—as the major ones are. First Amendment rights could be confined
to individuals, subverting the vibrant public discourse that is at the
foundation of our democracy."
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Topic: Hurricane could worsen US oil spill
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/t/814c21ecd1d4f58b
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From: Heaven soon <heavensoon@gmail.com>
Date: May 12 04:54PM -0400
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/msg/a049ac2647019176

Hurricane could worsen US oil spill

Posted Wed May 12, 2010 6:36pm AEST

The Gulf of Mexico oil spill could grow more disastrous if the looming
hurricane season churns up towering black waves and blasts beaches and
crowded cities with oil-soaked gusts, experts warn.

With just three weeks before the Atlantic hurricane season begins, odds are
more than 40 per cent that a big storm could cross the giant spill gushing
from a ruptured well on the seabed.

An April 20 blast sank the Deepwater Horizon offshore drilling platform,
killing 11 workers and leaving its uncontrolled well to gush millions of
gallons of oil into the gulf waters.

Last month forecasters who issue a closely watched Colorado State University
seasonal forecast said there was a 44 per cent chance a hurricane would
enter the Gulf of Mexico in the next few months, far greater than the 30 per
cent historic average.

"The high winds may distribute oil over a wide area," said National
Hurricane Centre meteorologist Dennis Feltgen.

"Storm surges may carry oil inland, mixed with hurricane debris."

The movement of the oil would depend much on the track of the hurricane,
said Mr Feltgen, who said a hurricane passing to the west of the slick could
drive a large volume of oil to the fragile coastline.

But "high winds and seas will mix and weather the oil, which helps
accelerate the biodegradation process," he said.

Researchers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are
studying how an oil spill interacts with a hurricane in a bid to determine
whether it reliably weakens or strengthens the storm.

Since storms are fuelled in part by evaporation from the sea surface, if a
sufficiently thick layer of oil weakens the process, the slick could
actually help minimise the size of the storm, Mr Feltgen said.

- AFP
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/05/12/2897770.htm?section=justin

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Topic: Kagan: 'Disappear' Free Speech If The Government Deems It Offensive
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/t/48aa8ad68aa9b68
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From: Heaven soon <heavensoon@gmail.com>
Date: May 12 04:52PM -0400
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/msg/73add71206cf2d3d

Kagan: 'Disappear' Free Speech If The Government Deems It Offensive

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Kagan: Disappear Free Speech If The Government Deems It Offensive 110510top2

President Obama's Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan is perfect in every way
– perfect that is if you think the role of the highest judicial body in the
United States is to ban free speech, indefinitely detain Americans without
trial, resurrect command and control socialism, while urinating on
everything the Constitution stands for.

We already discovered Kagan's penchant for treating Americans as guilty
until proven innocent, or in fact just plain guilty without even the chance
to be proven innocent, when she was quoted as saying, "That someone
suspected of helping finance Al Qaeda should be subject to battlefield law —
indefinite detention without a trial — even if he were captured in a place
like the Philippines rather than a physical battle zone."

So under that definition, if you send money to a charity later linked with
some nebulous terrorist group then you are financing Al-Qaeda and could be
thrown in Gitmo or some other CIA black site never to be seen again. And
this is the woman being forwarded to sit on a body that is supposed to
safeguard civil liberties? That would be like hiring Charles Manson to coach
the high school basketball team.

But it gets worse. Now we learn that Kagan thinks certain expressions of
free speech should be 'disappeared' if the government deems them to be
offensive. On the surface that's any opinion on racial, sexuality or gender
issues, but since criticizing Obama is now deemed racist, where will it all
end?

In a 1993 University of Chicago Law review article, Kagan wrote, "I take it
as a given that we live in a society marred by racial and gender inequality,
that certain forms of speech perpetuate and promote this inequality, and
that the uncoerced disappearance of such speech would be cause for great
elation." (emphasis mine).

"In a 1996 paper, "Private Speech, Public Purpose: The Role of Governmental
Motive in First Amendment Doctrine," Kagan argued it may be proper to
suppress speech because it is offensive to society or to the government,"
reports World Net Daily.

Kagan also argued as recently as September that corporations shouldn't be
allowed to engage in free speech, and that the government can censor things
like newspaper editorials, as well as the political opinions of radio talk
show hosts or television reporters.

Chief Justice John Roberts blasted Kagan's argument at the time, reports
Newsmax.

"The government urges us in this case to uphold a direct prohibition on
political speech. It asks us to embrace a theory of the First Amendment that
would allow censorship not only of television and radio broadcasts, but of
pamphlets, posters, the Internet, and virtually any other medium that
corporations and unions might find useful in expressing their views on
matters of public concern," he wrote.

Kagan's standpoint on free speech, that it is subject to regulation and
definition by the government, has no place in America, completely violates
the fundamental premise of the First Amendment, that even unpopular speech
should be protected, and would be better suited for countries like Iran,
Zimbabwe or North Korea.

Little surprise therefore when we learn that in her undergraduate thesis at
Princeton, Kagan lamented the decline of socialism in the U.S. as "sad" for
those who still hope to "change America."

If Kagan is approved she is going to find an eager ally in White House
information czar Cass Sunstein, who in a January 2008 white paper entitled
"Conspiracy Theories," called for the government to tax and outright censor
political viewpoints it deemed unsavory.
http://www.infowars.com/kagan-disappear-free-speech-if-the-government-deems-it-offensive/

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Topic: IDF officers slam Netanyahu's lack of strategy for northern threats
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From: "Goodtiding" <goodtiding@gmail.com>
Date: May 12 08:36AM -0400
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/msg/54d2270e4352335d

IDF officers slam Netanyahu's lack of strategy for northern threats
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report May 12, 2010, 1:21 PM (GMT+02:00)

Attending IDF's northern war game
High officers leading this week's big war game in northern Israel
confronted Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and chief of staff Lt.
Gen. Gaby Ashkenazi with harsh criticism over the lack of a clear
government strategy for dealing with the rising Hizballah threat of
aggression and the uninterrupted flow of advanced weaponry from Syria
to Hizballah. The exercise drilled various war scenarios. debkafile's
military sources report that Wednesday, May 12 at the end of the
exercise, the officers accused the prime minister and chief of staff,
who observed the drill, with doing nothing because they were
over-anxious to "keep Israel's borders with Syria and the Lebanese
Hizballah calm, whatever the cost."
This kept the Israel's military machine waiting in passive mode for
Hizballah to go to war when it was fully armed and ready.
Netanyahu used the occasion to accuse Iran of warmongering and
inciting Syria and Hizballah to attack Israel with the lie that Israel
was on the point of attack.

The IDF critics found this statement beside the point, feeble and
playing into the hands of Syrian ruler Bashar Assad and Hassan
Nasrallah, like many of the lame comments coming from defense minister
Ehud Barak, debkafile's military sources quote one officer as saying:
"Maybe Iran is feeding them false data, but so what? Assad and
Nasrallah don't need an excuse for aggression. We watch them with
large binoculars, but theirs are bigger. And what do they see? That
the IDF has not made the slightest preparation to make good on the
Israeli government's warnings of action if Syria goes through with
transferring missiles and sophisticated weapons systems to Hizballah.
So what conclusions have they drawn?" asked the officer: "That they
can go on supplying Hizballah and preparing for war without fear or
hindrance."

Some of the officers drew comparisons between the current situation
and the run-up to the 2006 Lebanon. Then, too, Israel kept hoping
Hizballah's war preparations would come to nothing if Israel sat on
its hands, but in the end the Lebanese terrorists attacked.
"What happened then is what's happening today," said another officer.
The IDF may have better hardware and improved logistics but,
otherwise, Israel's policy-maker are stuck dangerously in the 2006
time warp.

"Hizballah's war-planners cannot avoid noticing that Israel has
retreated from every warning it issued in the past year," said this
officer, and are therefore paying no heed to new ones."

For instance, Israeli threats to strike Lebanon and Syria held
Damascus back from handing Hizballah M-600 surface-to-surface
missiles, essentially Scuds - but only for a while. Recently, when
they saw nothing happening, Syria went ahead and sent them over the
border.
As a result, Hizballah is now armed with an array of weapons which are
far more destructive in terms of civilian lives, damage to property
and their reach into Israel's major cities than its 2006 arsenal
One officer summed the situation up by saying: "In view of the
Netanyahu government's policy of inertia, this war game should have
been held in Tel Aviv - not just along the northern borders."

Thursday, May 13, 2010

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