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News Wednesday afternoon that an armed gunman had entered the cable TV headquarters of Discovery Communications in Silver Spring, Maryland and begun taking hostages alarmed people throughout the Washington, D.C. area and around the country. As law enforcement officials negotiated with the suspect, posts on social media outlets inevitably began arguing over the ideological motivations of the hostage-taker, James J. Lee. Conservatives were quick to point out the suspect’s radical environmentalist manifesto, while left-leaning sources disclaimed any connection. News a few hours later that the suspect had been shot and killed by police spawned a round of smug black humor, concluding that he had been successful in accomplishing one of his chief demands, a smaller world population.

The immediate verdict from the online world seems to be that Lee was simply insane, even as differently motivated voices tried to pin the source of his insanity on each other. If we take a step back, though, we can look at the demands he made — which law enforcement officials said “mirrored” those in his online manifesto — and see the wider context of Lee’s beliefs.

His focus on population control is clear from the beginning. Lee demands that the Discovery Channel and its affiliates must “Focus…on how people can live WITHOUT giving birth to more filthy human children since those new additions continue pollution and are pollution.” On the topic of immigration, he recommends that we “find solutions to stopping ALL immigration pollution and the anchor baby filth that follows that” and in order to safeguard the future of wildlife, he writes that doing so “means stopping the human race from breeding any more disgusting human babies!”

While his rhetoric is crude and offensive, that doesn’t mean his ideas don’t have wider currency. From the time of Paul Ehrlich’s infamous 1968 manifesto The Population Bomb to the work of groups like Zero Population Growth (first re-branded as simply “ZPG” and currently known as “Population Connection”), the specter of unsupportable population growth has been one of the environmental movement’s greatest scare stories. It’s the kind of all-encompassing disaster that was supposed to be hard to ignore — even if you didn’t care about the environment, the pitch goes, you have to be worried about overpopulation! You don’t want millions of people to starve to death or see wars spawned by a fight over food and scarce natural resources, do you?

But how does a concern over famines and resources depletion translate into the vicious anti-human ideology of a James Lee? The answer is clear — combine one old theory about the inherent limitations of mankind with one new theory about the alienation of human beings from the rest of the natural world. Lee provides us with all of the leads we need when he demands that the Discovery Channel “develop shows that mention the Malthusian sciences.”

Read more at American Spectator

The Malthusian Delusion and the Origins of Population Control

James Lee Discovery Channel bomber – Al Gore disciple

My Ishmael by Daniel Quinn – James Jay Lee’s bible

John Holdren, Obama’s Science Czar, says: Forced abortions and mass sterilization needed to save the planet

Call for two-child limit on families from the Government’s leading green adviser

Fewer Children to Save the Planet?

Environmentalism Is the New Religion

Inhofe: Some Senators Share Holdren’s View That Born Babies Are Not ‘Human Beings’

People asks: How many kids are too many?

Author and blogger Barbara Curtis is raising the alarm for parents:

My daughter Samantha went through this last year in our neighboring Clarke County – writing letters to the principle, school board, newspapers. She went door to door with a petition and when people would look at her like she was a crazy book banner – she would ask them to listen a minute while she read aloud something from one of the questionable books.

They listened. They signed.

Many parents have their heads in the sand. Even if they look at their children’s reading lists, recommended reading has changed so radically since you and I were in school – even considering the generations – that you would be appalled to find out what kids are required to read.

Citizen Magazine reports:

“Some of the material being recommended for use in schools by national gay-activist groups includes what I would consider Triple X-type material,” said Candi Cushman, education analyst for CitizenLink. “These depictions are so extreme that you wouldn’t expect to find them anywhere but a porn store.”

Students may be forced to confront these texts as mandatory reading in a literature or socialstudies class. Or they may be suggested by teachers, or available as options. Sometimes, such material appears on summer reading lists either as required or available reading.

Often, objectionable books simply occupy shelf space in school libraries. In any event, the insistence of many public educators to bring brazenly sexual, often homosexual-themed, books and stories into the mainstream is a growing threat to the moral maturation of American highschool students.

This material doesn’t just yield the relatively harmless peccadilloes of a previous generation of scandalizing literature, such as the occasional profanity in Catcher in the Rye. Much of the modern variety appears to have no other purpose than to centralize homosexuality or to sensationalize edgy heterosexual practice in ways that young readers can’t easily forget.

“Parents have the right to object to sexually explicit material that their child isn’t emotionally or psychologically ready to handle, and many students are being inundated by this stuff,” Cushman said. Urging parents to intervene against such assignments isn’t a common message these days. “Parents are told that they have no control over their kids in the public schools, that states will decide these things,” said Phil Burress, president of Citizens for Community Values, a Cincinnati-based affiliate of Focus on the Family. “And that kind of thinking is gaining even more speed.”

Read more at Citizen Magazine

‘Safe Schools’ Czar Recommends Child Porn For Classroom Reading

Graphic booklet sent home with Portland schoolkids shocks parents

A Report on the U.N.’s Shocking Sexuality Guidelines

School condom distribution program includes first graders, denies parental notification

U.N. Agency Calls for Teaching Children 5-to-8 Years of Age about Masturbation

The New Jersey Real-Times reports:

Saying “the state simply cannot fund every worthy program,” Gov. Chris Christie today vetoed a bill that would have restored $7.5 million for family planning clinics that provide birth control and health screenings to thousands of uninsured women.

Christie said the tight budget hit “worthwhile programs” and it was important to cut spending “to levels that the taxpayers can afford. Unchecked spending and out of control budget shortfalls of the past will not make it past the governor’s desk.”

Although Christie said he opposed family planning bill purely on budgetary grounds, his decision is likely to stoke an ongoing ideological debate among conservative Republicans on whether the state ought to financially support clinics run by Planned Parenthood, which provides abortions and birth control — an issue brought up several times by Assemblyman Jay Webber (R-Morris), the Republican state Committee chairman.

“The taxpayers of New Jersey are under no obligation to fund the radical and failed social agenda of Planned Parenthood,’’ said Marie Tasy, executive director for New Jersey Right to Life. “We commend Governor Christie for his steadfast opposition to restoring these funds.”

Blogger Cubachi calls it “a win for the pro-life movement and fiscal conservatism“:

As I’ve noted a few days ago, Governor Chris Christie was attacked by two liberal, pro-abortion legislators in Trenton, Sen. Loretta Weinberg (D-Bergen) and Assemblywoman Linda Stender (D-Union) calling on Governor Christie to restore $7.5 million of funding to 58 “family planning centers” Christie made cuts to.

Governor Christie made it clear that the state had to make cuts, including Planned Parenthood. As we all know, Planned Parenthood has shady operations, including abortions among young girls without the consent of the parents.

Governor Christie today vetoed $7.5 million in grants to 58 Planned Parenthood clinics all around New Jersey. Governor Christie is pro-life, but according to the governor, this is a decision based upon the economic circumstances of this state.

Taxpayers shouldn’t be funding the abortion industry

Gov. Christie sets tone for US

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In spite of President Obama’s executive order – that he said would assure that no federal funds would be pay for abortions under the new health care law – the federal government is now paying for abortions.
 
CitizenLink and its pro-life allies issued repeated warnings about the possibility. Obama took issue with those claims in a 2009 speech to a joint session of Congress:

“And one more misunderstanding I want to clear up,” he said, “under our plan, no federal dollars will be used to fund abortions.”

But, the Obama Administration is now quietly subsidizing nearly all forms of abortions in Pennsylvania, according to a recently uncovered plan – referred to as the ‘Rendell-Sebelius plan’ – designed to circumvent public scrutiny and Obama’s executive order.

Read more at CitizenLink

Obama Administration Approves First Direct Taxpayer Funding of Abortion Through New High-Risk Insurance Pools

Obamacare Is the Next Roe v. Wade

Stupak Sells Out Unborn: Flips Vote to ‘Yes’ on Health Care Bill

If the American people want the health-care world Dr. Berwick wishes to give them, that’s their choice. But they must be given that choice.

Barack Obama’s incredible “recess appointment” of Dr. Donald Berwick to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is probably the most significant domestic-policy personnel decision in a generation. It is more important to the direction of the country than Elena Kagan’s nomination to the Supreme Court.

The court’s decisions are subject to the tempering influence of nine competing minds. Dr. Berwick would direct an agency that has a budget bigger than the Pentagon. Decisions by the CMS shape American medicine.

Dr. Berwick’s ideas on the design and purpose of the U.S. system of medicine aren’t merely about “change.” They would be revolutionary.

One may agree with these views or not, but for the president to tell the American people they have to simply accept this through anything so flaccid as a recess appointment is beyond outrageous. It isn’t acceptable.

The Democratic chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Max Baucus, was taken aback at the end-around: “Senate confirmation of presidential appointees is an essential process prescribed by the Constitution that serves as a check on executive power.”

Let’s look, then, at what President Obama won’t let the American electorate hear Dr. Berwick say in front of a committee of Congress.

Read more at the Wall Street Journal

Rationing health care is now official Obama policy

Obama Fills Medicare and Medicaid Post Without Senate Approval

Berwick: ‘Excellent health care is, by definition, redistribution’ rather than ‘darkness of private enterprise’

Mark Levin: Obama Health Care Nominee Is Radical Redistributionist

If you want proof that President Obama’s Executive Order on taxpayer-funded abortion was a sham, look no further than Pennsylvania, says House Republican Leader John Boehner (Ohio).
 
Boehner and other Republicans point to reports that the Health and Human Services Department is giving Pennsylvania $160 million to set up a new high-risk insurance pool that will cover any abortion that is legal in the state.
 
“The fact that the high-risk pool insurance program in Pennsylvania will use federal taxpayer dollars to fund abortions is unconscionable,” Boehner said in a statement on Tuesday.
 
“Just last month at the White House, I asked President Obama to provide the American people with a progress report on the implementation of his Executive Order, which purports to ban taxpayer-funding of abortions. Unfortunately, the President provided no information, and the American people are still waiting for answers.”
 
President Obama pledged that under his health care plan “no federal dollars will be used to fund abortions, and federal conscience laws will remain in place.” 

Read more at CNS News

Anti-Abortion Groups Slam Administration Over Federal Funding for Pa. Health Plan

Life News: Obama Administration OKs First Tax-Funded Abortions Under Health Care Law

Time for Americans to pull out of the radical leftist farce known as the ”United Nations”.

The U.S. will subsidize a new $500-million United Nations agency that conservatives say will likely promote an abortion agenda.
 
In what the United Nations deemed as a historic move, the U.N. General Assembly unanimously voted on July 2 to approve “U.N. Women,” an agency intended to accelerate progress in achieving gender equality and women’s empowerment.

Currently, the United States pays for 22 percent of the U.N.’s core budget.
 
The new agency is drawing negative reaction from conservative leaders concerned that the U.N. will use taxpayer dollars to take a step toward a worldwide right to abortion.
 
“This will be a massive waste of taxpayer funds,” Wendy Wright, president of Concerned Women for America, told CNSNews.com. “It’s a jobs program for women with elitist views and, like every other U.N. agency, will be plagued by waste, fraud and abuse. To help women who really need it, funding should go straight to the people and programs doing the work, not a bureaucratic middle-man that will host expensive conferences and lavish salaries.”
 
She called the agency’s workings a “surreptitious” effort, believing that the agency’s agenda extends much further than promoting abortion.
 
“The priority of the leaders who orchestrated the development of this ‘uber-agency’ is sexual and reproductive rights. That means abortion and sexual license — homosexual, lesbian, prostitution, etc.,” she told CNSNews.com.
 
Furthermore, she said that the agency would move to forcefully impose its views on the rest of society.
 
“This agency would use power and money to coerce countries to accept their policy and legal demands. With a high-level position of Under-Secretary-General and offices within countries, it can work top-down and bottom-up to pressure governments to do what it wants,” she said.

Read more at CNS News

UN and Planned Parenthood Support Forced Abortions and Sterilizations in China

United Nations Shuts Out Pro-Life Groups at Mexican World Conference of Youth

Shame On All Who Stood Silent: Iran Voted In as Member of UN Women’s Rights Commission

A Report on the UN’s Shocking Sexuality Guidelines

UN Agency Calls for Teaching Children 5-to-8 Years of Age about Masturbation

Politically correct counter-terrorism: The UN protects terrorists by pandering to the unusual

Obama  is offering incentives to Kenya to approve a controversial new constitution that would legalize abortion for the first time…even though our laws forbid the government to promote abortion abroad.

The Obama administration is offering incentives to Kenya to approve a controversial new constitution that would legalize abortion for the first time, promising that passage will “allow money to flow” into the nation’s coffers, including U.S. aid.

But there’s a hitch to that pledge. A federal law known as the Siljander Amendment passed in 2006 makes it illegal for the U.S. government to lobby on abortion in other countries — and three U.S. lawmakers say they want a federal investigation into the promises made by the administration.

Read more at Fox News

Congressional Probe Sought on Obama Backing Kenya’s Pro-Abortion Constitution

“The decision is not whether or not we will ration care–the decision is whether we will ration with our eyes open.”
                                                              - New Medicare Czar, Donald Berwick

President Obama on Wednesday bypassed Congress and appointed Dr. Donald Berwick to head Medicare and Medicaid — filling the job while Congress is in recess to get around Republican opposition that threatened to derail Berwick’s confirmation.

Berwick’s supporters say he is the right man in the right place at the right time. Obama said in a written statement Wednesday that the recess appointment would allow Berwick and two other “extremely qualified candidates” to get to work “right away.”

“It’s unfortunate that at a time when our nation is facing enormous challenges, many in Congress have decided to delay critical nominations for political purposes,” Obama said.

But his opponents have lined up against him. They say that while he may be a the highly respected doctor, he is also an outspoken proponent of the British health care system, which they say is all wrong for Americans.

“This recess appointment is an insult to the American people,” Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., said Tuesday night. “Dr. Berwick is a self-professed supporter of rationing health care, and he won’t even have to explain his views to the American people in a Congressional hearing.”

Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, accused the administration of showing “arrogance of power” with the move.

“This demonstrates a troubling pattern by this administration to force a dangerous agenda on the American people by whatever means necessary,” he said. 

Read more at Fox News

Obama Medicare Czar: ‘Excellent health care is, by definition, redistribution’ rather than ‘darkness of private enterprise’

Mark Levin: Obama Health Care Nominee Is Radical Redistributionist

Sebelius: Rationing Advocate is ‘Absolutely Right Leader At This Time’ to Run Medicare

Focused on what President Obama insists is the worst environmental disaster the country has ever seen, many Americans perhaps haven’t noticed the nastiness spewing from Obamacare’s two thousand pages. But the impact of the new healthcare law will be at least as disastrous as that of the oil gushing from the Deepwater Horizon oil leak, and even more hazardous to our health.

The Obama administration’s inept handling of the oil leak foreshadows what will happen when hapless government bureaucrats begin administering our healthcare. 

One of Obamacare’s major selling points was that nobody would be forced to change their insurance policies or doctors. “If you like your health care plan,” Obama told the American Medical Association, “you’ll be able to keep your health care plan, period. No one will take it away, no matter what.”

But as Obama’s team drafts the regulations for implementing this massive government takeover of the healthcare industry, it’s becoming evident that the president and his supporters misled the American people.

It was recently reported that 1.5 million Americans may lose their health coverage this year due to Obamacare regulations. Now we’re learning that new regulations may force tens of millions to lose their employer-provided healthcare plans.

Read more at Human Events

Millions losing health coverage due to Obamacare

Louisiana women will now be required to face the reality of the life they are about to destroy before aborting, giving them an opportunity to be fully informed before making a life-altering decision.

Liberals claim that it’s hypocritical for conservatives to support this kind of “government intrusion”. I may be opposed to government sticking its nose in places where it doesn’t belong, but murder happens to be one of the few areas within their jurisdiction! What are liberals whining about? They’ve still managed to keep abortion as the only form of legal murder in this country! Should a killer not be at least required to face their potential victim?

If liberals really believed that it’s just a “blob of tissue,” they would have no problem because the ultrasound would prove it and give the woman peace of mind, right? The truth is, they KNOW it’s a baby, and don’t want women to recognize the truth of what abortion REALLY does! Hopefully this will empower more women to finally recognize the pro-death movement’s lies for what they really are!

The Louisiana state House unanimously approved an ultrasound bill today that will help women get a view of their unborn child before deciding to have an abortion. The state Senate has already passed the measure, which now heads to pro-life Governor Bobby Jindal and will be signed into law shortly.

The measure would give women something abortion centers don’t normally provide: a chance to see an ultrasound of their unborn child before the abortion.

When used in pregnancy centers, women considering an abortion who see the ultrasound change their mind about the abortion about 80 percent of the time.

The House voted 79-0 for Senate Bill 528 sponsored by pro-life Democratic Sen. Sharon Broome of Baton Rouge

The House voted 79-0 for Senate Bill 528 sponsored by pro-life Democratic Sen. Sharon Broome of Baton Rouge

“This is a bill that empowers women,” Broome said in committee.

The measure originally required anyone seeking an abortion to listen to a detailed description of the ultrasound of the unborn baby and to receive a photograph of the ultrasound but those requirements were changed in the committee process to make them optional and giving women a chance to sign a document saying they were offered the chance to view the ultrasound.

Read more at Life News

This is disturbing, but necessarily so!   We can no longer afford to be naive about the enemy that we face.  Islam teaches that the entire world is destined to submit to Allah and Sharia Law, and make no mistake – that is their goal!

Contrary to what CAIR and the politically correct media want you believe, these are NOT RARE OCCURANCES!    If this is how Muslims worldwide are willing to treat their own wives, sisters, daughters – believing it is right and holy – how much more so when dealing with “infidels”? 

Iran was recently voted in as a member of the UN Women’s Rights Commission, and THIS IS HOW THEY TREAT WOMEN!   

I think of my three daughters and how their lives would be made a living hell by these radicals.  American feminists, your hypocrisy and silence on this issue is deafening and shameful!   WE CANNOT STAY SILENT! 

WARNING: This video shows disturbing images of a violent and sexual nature.

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Shame On All Who Stood Silent: Iran Voted In as Member of UN Women’s Rights Commission

Hillary Clinton mum on Islam’s treatment of women

‘Enshrinement’ of sharia a major threat

For more info on how the treatment of women differs specifically from country to country, I highly recommend “Voices Behind the Veil: Islam Through The Eyes Of Women”

And for info on how often Islamic clerics in the west deceptively change their tune between what they say in English and what they actually teach in Arabic (among friends), click here.

Women who refuse requests from their husbands or boyfriends to have abortions are often finding themselves subject to violent attacks that sometimes result in their deaths. That’s the finding of a new report from the Elliot Institute, which calls the problem a “widespread epidemic.”

The new report, Forced Abortion in America, is drawing attention to attacks on pregnant women and girls in order to prevent them from continuing their pregnancies.

It points out a “widespread epidemic of unwanted, coerced and forced abortions taking place in the United States.”

The report notes how research suggests most abortions are likely unwanted or coerced, with one survey of women who had abortions finding that 64 percent said they felt pressured by others to abort.

The same survey found 80 percent of women said they did not receive the counseling they needed to make a decision — even though more than half said they felt rushed or uncertain about the abortion.

The consequences for those who refuse abortion can be dangerous and even deadly, according to the report, which details cases of women and girls facing violent attacks or murder for resisting abortion.

Studies of death rates among pregnant women in the U.S. have found that homicide is the leading cause of death among pregnant women, the authors say.

Read more at Life News

Can you imagine what kind of moral relativist poison they’ll pump your kids heads full of once they’ve sequestered your parental rights via the UNCRC treaty? There’s always been a spiritual battle for the minds of the next generation, but now it’s going global, and the Secular Humanist agenda is to do away with Judeo-Christian values entirely.

The United Nations (UN) is now preparing to kick off the International Year of Youth. The Government of Mexico will host a world conference on youth in August that will produce a ministerial declaration on youth and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

Conference organizers hope that the document will influence the high-level review on the Millennium Development Goals that takes place in September at the UN General Assembly.

While the Mexican World Conference on Youth (WCY) is not an official UN conference, it is being supported by several UN agencies, including: the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), as well as other multilateral organizations.

Sources close to the conference have expressed concern over UNFPA’s involvement in the planning process and “support” to the organizing committee after the Mexican government asked the UN for help. UNFPA is said to be paying for the flights of select non-governmental organization (NGO) participants. As part of its “vision for youth,” UNFPA has increasingly pushed for young people’s access to “sexual and reproductive health information, education, commodities and services.”

Read more at Life News

Threat to Parents’ Rights a Bigger Issue than Rights of a Child

Pro-life proponents are using a provision in the new health reform law to limit abortion coverage by private insurers.

An obscure part of the law allows states to restrict abortion coverage by private plans operating in new insurance markets. Capitalizing on that language, abortion foes have succeeded in passing bans that, in some cases, go beyond federal statutes.

“We don’t consider elective abortion to be health care, so we don’t think it’s a bad thing for fewer private insurance companies to cover it,” said Mary Harned, attorney for Americans United for Life, a national organization that wrote a model law for the states.

Abortion rights supporters are dismayed.

Read more at One News Now