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TIME Nov. 26,1984 art. ETHIOPIA The Land of the Dead ..at
least 6 million people live at the brink of starvation. Relief workers expect that almost a million
Ethiopians may die this year alone in what could become "the
worst human disaster in recent history." After ten years of
drought and civil war, twelve of the country's 14 provinces have
been laid waste by a famine of biblical proportions. More than 40%
of the country's 42 million people are malnourished, and 2.2 million have left
their homes to wander in search of food.
TIME Jan.
22,1990 art. AFRICA Death
by Starvation In Ethiopia upwards of 4.5
million people,
more than four times the number wiped out by the great famine of
1984-85, may starve this year if food relief is not provided--and
soon. In Sudan, where as many as a quarter of a million people died of
hunger in 1987-88, the most dire estimates suggest that 3 million could
suffer the same fate by the middle of this decade. Once again the
world may see those sickening images: skeletal children too
weak to swat away the flies that swarm around their eyes; old people slumped
against herding sticks, too weary to take another step.
Daily Southtown
August 10, 1991 p. A3 DAUGHTER TESTIFIES SLAIN MOTHER
BEGGED FOR LIFE ...Kelly Doyle testified she was
awakened by a loud noise, which prosecutors believe was Sheila Doyle's car
lurching forward and striking a red children's wagon that struck
the garage wall, as Tyler (her killer) struggled to get her out of the
car that night... She heard her mother say "Please don't
hurt me," She got up and walked into the family's living room and
again heard her mother say "Please don't hurt me," and
then heard a car door slam... "I heard the man say in an
ordering sound... something about a car," Kelly Doyle said. "I
heard my mother scream. I heard a big bang." Prosecutors
said the second slamming door was the sound of Tyler closing the
car's trunk on Doyle, whom he allegedly forced into the trunk and
ordered to remain quiet, but shot her in the head after she screamed. Kelly Doyle
said she "went back to her room, put her headset back on and
lay down". A short time later, she again got up and
found her father, William Doyle, on the telephone with police, reporting that
his wife was missing. William Doyle, another daughter
and a son also had been asleep.
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U.S. News and
World Report, in it's March 16, 1992 issue, reports: THREE
nuclear weapons from Azerbaijan, the Muslim state of
the Soviet Union, had "disappeared"? Russian nuclear specialists had shown up in
Teheran, and those three missing nuclear weapons had actually
been sold by the cash- starved Soviets to IRAN! U.S. News
and World Report, Covering a meeting of NATO leaders, Reported
that THREE MORE nuclear weapons had disappeared from Soviet
arsenals... and they knew that they had also been sold to third
world countries!
John
Lennon's song "Imagine" piped in to start global UN
meeting Jan 1 1993 (This song depicts a
world with "No God above us... ...no hell below us...")
February
1993 ~Europe "Euthanasia (Doctor assisted Suicide)
legalized"
April/May 1993
The Teaching Home p. 37 UN law (Article 28) To jail parents practicing spanking
U.S. News and
World Report focuses on "Kids
who Kill," saying there's so much violence on
television that even kids with guns become extremely dangerous.
Disputes once settled with fists between kids are now settled
with guns. Every 100 hours more youth die on the streets than
were killed in the Persian Gulf Warfare"
Jan. 30 1994
-Reported on... Chicago Television News Chan. 2,5,7, & 9 "Presbyterian
Church "backs" Jack Kevorkian"
Time Magazine
art. "When
Kids go Bad"
9/19/94 p. 62 Manuel Sanchez and John Duncan, both 12, were
arrested last month for the murder of a migrant worker in Wenatchee, Washington.
Police say the boys shot the man, a transient, after he threw rocks at them for
firing guns too close to him.
Time Magazine
art. "When
Kids go Bad" 9/19/94
p. 63 Tried
as an adult in Bath, New York, Eric Smith, 14, was found guilty
last month of murder for bludgeoning and strangling a
preschooler.
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"Losing
their minds in Bogota" -Anne Proenza World Press Review, Oct 1994 (Vol 41. No 10). pp.
20,21 Topic Columbia Last year Bogota reported an average of
four cases of poisoning by burundanga, a drug with side-effects that include
hallucinations, memory loss, and loss of will. Criminals find it
ideal for their purposes. They can get a victim to do their
bidding, then they can rest easy knowing the victim will remember nothing. In one
instance, a couple under the influence of burundanga spent the
evening withdrawing money from cash machines and handing it over
to thieves. In other cases, victims have been raped, kidnapped, used as drug
couriers---yet they remembered nothing once the drug wore off. The name
burundanga actually refers to either of two drugs---scopolamine
or benzodiazpine. The drugs act directly on the central
nervous system, blocking neurotransmission and preventing memorization.
"The effect of the drug on the brain is comparable to that
of a power cut on a computer." It leaves the victim "totally
suggestible" but fully awake and calm. Burundanga is
administered orally, in powder form, and is soluble, odorless,
and tasteless. This makes it perfect for criminal use. The only protection it to
watch what you eat or drink.
Dec. 1994 Daily
Southtown Minneapolis "Couple's suicide means $10
million for charity" "They were taking the high
road to death," said their former pastor, Charles Heuser.
...their will specified their money to go to the United Church of
Christ Organizations.
Sunday April 9
1995 Daily Southtown Opinion section p.1 / Article By ~ANDREW M.
GREELEY "Bernardin and the Jews" Cardinal
Bernardin's (Catholic) lecture at Hebrew University: RE:
Statements on the verse, John 8:44 Bernardin remarks:
"These statements can no longer be taught as authentic
doctrine or used as catechesis by contemporary Christianity
and can no longer be regarded as definitive teaching. Christians no longer may
believe that the words that the Jews are the children of the
devil are words Jesus actually said or are the revealed word
of God."
Aug 11 1994
Daily Southtown
Your Town section p.1 "OakLawn Bed Racers a
nightmare to riders" "The fund-raising event,
sponsored by the Catholic organization, Knights of Columbus in OakLawn, drew
participants from local bars, businesses and
organizations"
Southtown
Economist Jan. 1, 1995 Section Back Page p. D-10 Police
searching for a stolen Virgin Mary statue in McMinnville, Tenn., found it amid a shrine to serial killers Charles
Manson, Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy and "Son of Sam"
David Berkowitz at the home of two teenage boys. Inside a garage
converted into a bedroom, officers said they found a makeshift
altar with
occult items and photos of the killers.
Aug 16 1995
Danville Commercial News p. 1 "Small town mourns 10 year
olds death"
(this child was murdered) Rev. Richard White a United
Methodist pastor said; "There may be things that even God
can't control" A man of God saying there is some things God can't
control???
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TV News - Channel 15, 27, 55 Danville,
Urbana/Champaign IL. March 10, 1996 Televised News Broadcasts on all
channels across the nation reported and filmed stone carvings of Hindu
Religious Icons actually drinking milk from spoons placed under the nose of
the stone image.
Chicago Suntimes
Monday, September 30, 1996 p. 23 Jack Kevorkian attended another suicide Sunday
evening, that of a
71-year old psychiatrist who was suffering from colon cancer, said
Geoffrey Fieger, Kevorkian's attorney... ...Kevorkian has acknowledged
attending 41 deaths, including Sunday's, since he began his
assisted-suicide crusade in 1990.
Champaign News
Gazzette Sept. 29, 1996 p. A-12 Six-year-old motion alleged
crack, CIA tie Los Angeles (AP) A court motion filed
six years ago alleged that sheriff's deputies turned up a link between the
CIA and drug dealers in Los Angeles... However, evidence of that
link mysteriously disappeared from the Los Angeles County
Sheriff's Department... ...although the motion was
publicly reported at the time, a judge placed a gag order on the
case and
ordered lawyers not to discuss the alleged CIA connection... the
CIA funneled profits from domestic sales of crack cocaine to a group of
Nicaraguan Contra rebels... Officers discovered... that drug
money was
being used to purchase military equipment for Central America...
The deputies booked property they had seized as evidence, but federal
agents later removed it. Mysteriously, all records of the
search, seizure and property also "disappeared" from
the Sheriff's
Department.
-CBN News
10/18/96 4000 Earthquakes of all sizes reported in Tokyo in past
3 days.
10-24-96 Channel
18 News and every other channel or newspaper on the planet! Pope
John Paul II states that evolution is scientifically sound
Feb. 20 1996
Danville Commercial News - Ocean Isle Beach, N.C. (AP) "Bible
group gets to the naked truth"
"Living up to
the Genesis verse... naked and not ashamed Christian nudists are
planning a weekend retreat of hot-tubbing, karaoke, and reading
Bibles in the buff... Jerry Love (Methodist) and his wife Carol
(Baptist) have already booked 60 reservations from around the
country"
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9-26-96 House of
Representatives: Partial
Birth Abortion voted to continue on as an accepted normal procedure for
time being.
Champaign News
Gazzette Sept. 29, 1996 p. A-12 Dad pushes child at train for
wife CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - A 7 year-old boy emerged from
a coma Saturday after he lost both legs when his father pushed him under a
moving train to please his second wife, police said. Omar Mohei
Eddin survived when a passersby rushed him to a hospital late
Friday. His father, Ibrahim Mohei Eddin, 40, had abandoned
him thinking he was dead, police said. Police quoted the elder Mohei
Eddin, who divorced Omar's mother and remarried, as saying his 23-year-old
second wife could not live with the son.
10-04-96
Channel 15 News Reports... Moderate drinking will help you
live longer than non-drinkers
Medical
Trivial pursuit playing cards from Christ Community Hospital,
OakLawn IL. ANSWER: Alcohol is now considered one of
the five basic food groups!
10-08-96
CNN News, Arizona & Chgo Tribune Oct. 13, 1996 Section 1.
p.3 ... Thanks to Proposition #215, If you have a Municipal Tax Sticker on your
cellophane bag of marijuana you can
openly and
legally smoke or sell it!
10-27-96
CBN News Four
sisters ages 12 thru 24, hanged themselves because they didn't have enough money
in their dowry's!
10-14-96
CBN News... Mandatory seminar in a Boston Mass. High School on
Sexual education. The
homework assignment was to go home and masturbate!
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12-04-96
every News channel!... Judge Kevin Chang of the Hawaii Circuit
Court, legalizes
same sex marriages!
TIPS TO PREVENT STRESS WHEN
FAMILY VISIT'S DURING HOLIDAY 12-20-96 NBC (ch 15) News Can you imagine?
Years ago it was considered a treat to visit with family. Now?
They have tips on how to avoid stress!
MEET THE PRESS
1-26-97 The question asked: "What does Clinton & the
Pope have in common?" Watergate Author Carl Bernstein replies:
"Power, Great
Power!"
REAL TV 1-28-97
Reports: The appearance of the albino buffalo is as important as the second coming of Jesus
Christ.
NBC News (ch 15)
2-26-97 Ron Fitzimmons admits he lied about the amount
of "Partial birth abortions" it wasn't 500 babies killed, it was more
like 5000! By the way... has anyone else noticed this??? Before
Moses, the babies are killed. Before Jesus the babies are killed.
Before his second coming, the babies are killed!
NBC News 4-29-97 "Religious
schools" are now allowed Government dollars. Voting in a few days to reverse ban in
1985
CBN News 5-1-97 Canibalism
in North Korea:
Dead children are now being hidden for days before burial to
prevent people from digging up the child and EATING IT! It is
also reported that if the governmet of North Korea would reroute
a mere 5% of their arms budget they would have enough money to
feed all of the citizens.
MOB RULE
IN MEXICO NBC News (ch 15) 5-5-97 One man is beaten
and burned to death by an angry mob for the rape of a young girl.
Plus 2 more men beaten by a mob for 5 hours for stealing tires.
DNA FROM
A NEANDERTHAL PROVES EVOLUTION FALSE WBGL News 7-16-97 The DNA from a
neanderthal proves that it is a COMPLETE different species from
humans!
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WBGL News
7-23-97 Pastor Jack Hayford of the "Living way"
program announces that Jesus
is no longer omnipresent
CBN News 7-23-97
Reports: 78 Countries are now persecuting Christians! Not Muslems, Buddhists, or any other
religion. Just Christians. It has gotten so bad that the USA has
drafted a "Freedom from religious persecutions act"
NBC News (ch 15)
7-27-97 reports: No formal charges against senior
FBI official in charge of the Ruby Ridge fiasco.
CNN News 9-19-97
reports: Ted Turner donates 1 Billion dollars to
"U.N. causes"
CNN News 9-19-97
Reports: Mysterious virus is causing the oceans and
inland waters to appear to be "blood" and it's also causing boils to appear on
fish and men.
CNN News 10-1-97
reports: Roman Catholic church states that homosexuals
should not be condemned. The RCC says their sexual orientation is not freely
chosen. (Did God create them gay???)
20/20 10-9-97
(ch 17) reports: A woman after being healed by
God is now expierencing violent movements of her head in a left
to right motion. (As if saying NO) When she is in prayer, her head reacts.
When in church, her head reacts. When asked if Jesus healed her,
she replies "Yes" but her head violnetly says NO!
CNN News
10-22-97 reports: Bible is placed in schools to teach
history. Jay Secula wants this used to remove seperation of church and
state.
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NBC News (ch 15)
10-29-97 Reports: People with "Temporal Lobe
Epilepsy" were tested with "words" on a computer
screen. When the
word "God" appeared they reacted in a very graphic way.
CBN News 11-7-97
reports: "Our Lady of Loretta" had a fund raising
dinner. Menu = Ham and trimmings. After saying "grace"
they ate the food. Result
= 2 dead, dozens hospitalized.
NBC News (ch 15)
12-11-97 reports: "Santa Clause" drives
a 16 ton steam roller over hundreds of fruitcakes in Manhatten.
CBN News
12-12-97 reports: Cambridge New York Schools: Magic,
death, Grave, Satanism, Crystal healing, Tarot cards, Aztec
rituals, Pagan gods, and Astrology is being taught. Assignment: Write poem about "How God
messed up." (Should we be teaching our children to
"think on these things?")
NBC News (ch 15)
1-6-98 reports: Blood red water! Oceans turning
to blood! "Red Tides"
NBC News (ch 15)
1-8-98 reports: Rockfor illinois Roman Catholic Diocese
is running 30 second commercials advertising for
"priests". They
are spending $55.000.00 to see if anyone wants to become a priest
in the RCC.
CNN News
-1-24-98 reports: Pope john paul II
"crowns" Cuba's most religious ICON in a show of
"acceptance"
The Bakersfield
Californian, 2/19/98 Ministerial
group allows witch to join. "The Bakersfield Interfaith Ministerial
Association, meeting for 90 minutes at the Unitarian-Universalist
Church agreed to open its membership to Terry Cheeseman, a Wiccan
priest. ...accepting the witches represented a step toward
promoting greater understanding and tolerance. "There was a
guilt trip that Christians,escpecially baptists, lay on you... I
would bot be persecuted by any God."-Terry Cheeseman
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This article speaks of a
Methodist church Pastor in trouble for marrying a lesbian
couple... http://cnn.com/US/9803/12/homosexual.marriage/index.html
links are informative as well
This article speaks of the same
Methodist Pastor getting away with marrying the lesbian couple!
PLUS, The
"church" failed to find that he did wrong!?!?!? http://www.cnn.com/US/9803/13/church.trial/index.html
This article speaks of a cult
leader admitting he was wrong in saying God would appear on TV. http://cnn.com/US/9803/25/saucer.cult.folo/
It is now LEGAL to commit
suicide in the USA! (Death with dignity act)
http://cnn.com/US/9803/25/assisted.suicide.ap/
That's right folks... Another
molesting priest http://cnn.com/US/9803/28/priest.sexual.abuse.ap/index.html
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And yes... The Roman Catholic
Church tried to COVER UP the actions of another molesting priest! Dallas diocese
"covered up" molesting priests actions! A 119 Million
dollar mistake! http://cnn.com/US/9707/24/priest.lawsuit/
The Roman Catholic Church
looses 102 MILLION DOLLARS thanks to this molesting priest http://www.wfaa.com/news/24/kos_trial.shtml
El~Nino is now being used to
herald a possiblity of "Plagues"? That's right. They
are again using SCIENCE to cover up God's prophecied will. http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/9804/12/elnino.plague/
Vatican chief of security, his
wife, and another gaurd are shot to death IN the Vatican.
http://cnn.com/WORLD/europe/9805/04/vatican.murder/
The Pope embraces yet another
ANTIChristian organization
http://cnn.com/WORLD/americas/9805/06/pope.rabbi.ap/index.html
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A Catholic Bishop BREAKS the
6th Commandment to protest the breaking of the 6th commandment
http://cnn.com/WORLD/asiapcf/9805/07/pakistan.reut/index.html
Is this not TOTAL CoNfUsIoN? Yet...
"God is not the author of confusion..." 1Cor 14:33
Clinton wants to have an openly
GAY Ambassador to Luxembourg. Is this how we want people to think
of the USA?
http://pathfinder.com/AllPolitics/Latest/story.cgi/1998Apr20/27
Doctors looking to legalize
SUICIDE?
http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/9804/22/assisted.suicide/
Teenager opens fire at school
dance, kills teacher
http://cnn.com/US/9804/25/teacher.killed/
GOP Promotes bill to punish
religious persecutors
http://allpolitics.com/1998/05/09/gop.radio/
CHARGE DISMISSED AGAINST FBI
SHARPSHOOTER AT RUBY RIDGE
http://cnn.com/US/9805/14/ruby.ridge.ap/
FIRST the "boss" is cleared... now the pawn as well?
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HOSPITAL CHANGES POLICY AFTER
WOUNDED TEEN DIES
http://cnn.com/US/9805/18/unhelpful.hospital/
Can you believe it? The Doctors refused to help
the kid because he was laying OUTSIDE the door!
GINGRICH ACCUSES CLINTON OF
DEGRADING THE PRESIDENCY
http://allpolitics.com/1998/05/18/gingrich.clinton/
STUDENT SHOT AND KILLED AT HIGH
SCHOOL
.....More U.S. stories at http://cnn.com/US
TEEN JAILED AFTER OREGON HIGH
SCHOOL SHOOTING SPREE
http://cnn.com/US/9805/21/school.shooting.pm.2/
POLICE FOIL MISSOURI TEENS'
SNIPER PLOT
http://cnn.com/US/9805/22/missouri.plot.ap/index.html
GEORGIA LAWMAKER: LET TEACHERS
CARRY GUNS
http://cnn.com/US/9805/21/teacher.guns/
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> 33 INJURED IN
BLAST DURING SERVICE AT ILLINOIS CHURCH
Agents from the federal
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms are
investigating an explosion at a Danville, Illinois, church during
Sunday
morning services that injured 33 people. About 300 people were in
the church
when the blast tore a hole in the side of the First Assembly of
God Church.
Danville Police spokesman Larry Thomason said the blast occurred
about 10:40 a.m. CDT against a wall outside the church. Police do
not know the cause of the explosion yet, but ATF agents are
helping in the investigation, he said.
HOUSE REJECTS
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM AMENDMENT
The House on Thursday fell
62 votes short of approving a controversial
amendment to the Constitution that would allow prayer in public
schools. The
so-called Religious Freedom Amendment would have prevented the
government from establishing an official religion or requiring
people to participate in religious activity but, in specific
language, recognized "the people's right to pray and to
recognize their religious beliefs . . . on public property,
including schools, shall not be infringed."
-->Two-thirds vote required for constitutional change
..... http://allpolitics.com/1998/06/04/religious.freedom/
-->Explosion investigated as an "isolated incident"
..... http://cnn.com/US/9805/24/church.explosion/
An explosion
killed one person in a garage in Danville, Illinois, on Thursday,
four days after a bomb exploded at a church in the eastern
Illinois city,
injuring 33 people. A senior law enforcement official told CNN
the explosion
occurred at the residence of a figure wanted for questioning in
the church
bombing, just as police were knocking at the person's door. The
explosion
destroyed a garage in a residential area on the city's south
side.
-->Sounded like "big firecracker"
..... http://cnn.com/US/9805/28/illinois.explosion/
Clinton want's
religious freedom in public schools???
http://cnn.com/US/9805/30/clinton.radio.reut/index.html
An openly gay
musician will sing for hope and peace?
ELTON JOHN SINGS FOR HOPE AND PEACE IN NORTHERN IRELAND
British rock star Elton
John sang for peace in Northern Ireland on Wednesday
night in Belfast. He told 15,000 cheering fans: "I don't
think there is a
musician in the world who wouldn't be happy about what is going
on here." It
was the second time in one historic week that Northern Ireland
discovered the
power of pop music to heal. Irish supergroup U2 took the stage
last week to
back the peace accord.
-->"Extremists have had their day"
..... http://cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/Music/9805/28/elton.john/index.html
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First India? Now
Pakistan?
> PAKISTAN DETONATES 2 MORE NUCLEAR DEVICES
Pakistan detonated two more
nuclear devices Saturday in the remote southwest, defying
international calls to halt further testing. The tests come on
the heels of five nuclear detonations Thursday, which officials
said were in
response to India's nuclear tests earlier this month. There was
no official
comment from Pakistani leaders Saturday, but defense officials
confirmed the
tests. Rival India has yet to comment on Saturday's developments.
-->"By the grace of God"
..... http://cnn.com/WORLD/asiapcf/9805/30/pakistan.test.one/
NO FEDERAL
CHALLENGE TO OREGON ASSISTED SUICIDE LAW
The Justice Department does
not plan to challenge Oregon's assisted-suicide
law, Attorney General Janet Reno has decided. In an interview
with CNN, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) said Friday Reno has told him
the federal government will respect the will of Oregon voters and
allow the physician-suicide measure to go forward. Wyden said
Reno concluded the federal government could not "take away a
physician's right to practice just for complying with Oregon
law."
-->Wyden: "A victory for democracy"
..... http://allpolitics.com/1998/06/05/assisted.suicide/
Suicide? Or
gaurantee them HELL? No chance for a death bed conversion here
folks. Imagine the "thief on the cross" meeting
"Jack the dripper?"
3 SUSPECTS
ARRAIGNED IN 'RACIAL' KILLING
Three white men, two of
them parolees, were charged with murder on Tuesday in the
"racially motivated" killing of a black man who was
beaten and dragged by a truck -- his injuries so severe he was
decapitated. Two of the suspects have racist tattoos and
authorities said they were investigating a possible link to white
supremacist groups. The battered body of James Byrd Jr., 49, was
found Sunday, the day after he was last seen apparently hitching
a ride home from a party.
-->"The body came apart"
..... http://cnn.com/US/9806/09/texas.decapitation/
What's this world
coming too?! "An
end!"
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POLICE: PARENTS
PUT INFANT'S BODY IN BATTERY ACID
A Chicago couple has been
charged with killing their 16-month-old daughter,
then putting her remains in a pot of battery acid and hiding her
body parts
that did not disintegrate. The crime is so heinous even police
are calling it
one of the most "horrific" they've ever come across.
"No one can recall parents inflicting such horrific,
unspeakable acts on their child," one policeman said. Joan
Tribblet, 27, and Everett Johnson, 29, were charged with
first-degree murder and concealing homicide in the December
murder.
It's going to get
worse than this... believe it!
PRESIDENT PUSHES
FOR MORE POLICE OFFICERS IN SCHOOLS
President Clinton pushed
for more police officers in schools while signing
legislation Tuesday providing funds to police agencies. The bills
authorize $75 million worth of grants over three years to help
local police purchase
bulletproof vests and release $27 million to help 73 local and
state law
enforcement agencies fund the hiring of 369 full-time and 29
part-time officers through the Community Oriented Policing
Services program.
-->Money funded Richmond officer
..... http://allpolitics.com/1998/06/16/clinton.police/
did someone say "A
DICTATORSHIP?" Or was that "A POLICE STATE?"
CUBA GETS OK TO
FLY DIRECTLY OVER U.S.
Starting Friday, Cuban
jetliners will be able to fly over much of the United
States en route to Canada under a policy change the Clinton
administration says it made reluctantly. The administration
agreed to the change this week after it became apparent that the
U.S. would lose a complaint Cuban officials filed in 1996 with
the U.N.'s civil aviation arm, said a State Department official
who spoke on condition of anonymity.
-->'I think it's a travesty'
..... http://cnn.com/WORLD/americas/9806/18/cuba.usa.aviation.ap/
COURT CLEARS
SCHOOL IN SEX-HARASSMENT LAWSUIT
The nation's school
districts cannot be held responsible when teachers sexually
harass or abuse students if administrators did not know about the
misconduct, a divided Supreme Court ruled on Monday. The ruling
makes it far more difficult for harassed students to hold a
wayward teacher's supervisors accountable and therefore collect
more money in damages. The vote killed a sexual-harassment
lawsuit against a Texas public school district over a teacher's
sexual relationship with a ninth-grade student.
-->Based on a 1972 anti-bias law
..... http://cnn.com/US/9806/22/scotus.teacher.harassment/
Now they can Teach
AND touch!
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POLL SHOWS
CATHOLIC PARTY AHEAD IN N. IRELAND VOTE
Parties favoring the
Northern Ireland peace accord appeared to be leading in a
historic election, based on an exit poll conducted three hours
before voting
stations closed on Thursday. According to the Irish broadcasting
network RTE, the Social Democratic and Labor Party, the chief
Roman Catholic party, emerged as the front-runner -- with 25
percent of the first-preference votes -- in an election for a new
Northern Ireland Assembly. The main Protestant group, the Ulster
Unionists, was second with 20 percent.
-->Results to be confirmed on Friday or Saturday
..... http://cnn.com/WORLD/europe/9806/25/n.ireland.elex.02/
Surprised? Not if
you believe prophecy.
IS EL NINO OUT AND
LA NINA IN?
El Nino is slowly waning
away, according to satellite images that show the warm waters in
the Pacific receding as colder temperatures emerge. Scientists,
however, say it is too early to determine if a counter effect, La
Nina, is on the way. La Nina occurs as warm conditions of El Nino
return west and chilly trade winds roll strongly back into the
Pacific Ocean, possible disrupting weather patterns.
-->"There's no need to panic yet"
..... http://cnn.com/WEATHER/9806/27/la.nina.ap/
They call it
El'Nino... the Word of God calls it THE LAST DAYS.
CDC: CALIFORNIA
TOPS NATIONS IN NUMBER OF ABORTIONS
The number of abortions
performed in California is down, but overall the state still has
the highest number of abortions and the highest abortion rate in
the nation, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
said. In the CDC's latest state-by-state statistics for 1995,
released on Thursday, California recorded 289,987 abortions, for
an average of 40 per 1,000 women.
-->Which state had the lowest rate?
..... http://cnn.com/US/9807/03/abortionrates/index.html
The Messiah
"type" Moses saw many baby's die before his arrival.
The Lord Jesus saw many baby's die before His first arrival. And
now, just before His second coming... THEY ARE KILLING THE BABIES
AGAIN! Satan is so easy to expose! TOO easy!
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GENDER IDENTITY
MAY DEVELOP AFTER BIRTH
A study released Monday in
the July issue of the journal Pediatrics suggests a
child's gender identity develops after birth. It looks at the
case of a
Canadian boy raised as a girl after his penis was irreparably
damaged during
circumcision. A Northwestern University psychology professor
said, "If you
reassign a child early enough and tell them that they are
whatever sex, then
they probably believe you and tend to accept themselves."
-->No clear answers
..... http://cnn.com/HEALTH/9807/06/gender.identity.ap/index.html
ROM 9:20 Nay
but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the
thing formed say to him that formed [it], Why hast thou made me
thus?
According to
mankind, they CAN decide to say tho God, "Why have you made
me this way... I wanna be this way!"
FAMINE-STRICKEN N.
KOREA HIT HARD BY BAD WEATHER
The planting season in
North Korea has suffered from extreme weather, limiting crop
production in the famine-stricken country, the Korean Central
News Agency reported Thursday. The early planting season was
marked by drought, while tidal wives and a cold spell damaged
crops along the eastern coast and in the interior in June. This
week, the Catholic relief group Caritas reported that a lack of
food has forced many North Koreans to scrounge for anything to
eat, including grass, bark and roots.
-->500,000 more tons of food aid needed this year
..... http://cnn.com/WORLD/asiapcf/9807/09/nkorea.ap/index.html
They're eating
tree bark people! In todays world of immense wealth and
technology there are people eating grass and bark!
FOOD POISONING
OUTBREAKS HIT HARD NATIONWIDE
E. coli, salmonella,
various bacterial microorganisms -- it may be that summer is
shaping up to include a disturbing number of food poisoning
outbreaks across the country. "I think overall we're seeing
better surveillance and better detection of outbreaks," said
Mike Doyle, a food scientist at the University of Georgia.
"We don't know for sure if it's because there are more
pathogens in our food supply. That's an unanswered
question."
-->A rundown of major outbreaks
..... http://cnn.com/HEALTH/9807/10/summer.bad.food/
Just think... It's
going to get a LOT worse in the coming months. Are you saved from
all this? Want to be?
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DEATH TOLL COULD
TOP 3,000 IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA
Rescue crews intensified
their search for possible survivors Monday, after a
massive tidal waved devastated entire villages in the Pacific
nation of Papua
New Guinea Friday. But what rescuers mainly found were bloated
bodies, and officials said the death toll could top 3,000. Papua
New Guinea Prime Minister Bill Skate appealed for urgent medical
help for injured victims of Friday's Tsunami that sent a wall of
water 23 feet (7 meters) high over an area of about 10,000 people
without warning.
-->Premier appeals for international aid
..... http://cnn.com/WORLD/asiapcf/9807/20/papua.new.guinea.01/
PENTAGON CONSIDERS
SOFTENING PENALTIES FOR ADULTERY
Top Pentagon officials have
proposed changing the military's criminal code to
soften the consequences of adultery by service members. An
anonymous official said the changes marked an effort to bring
military's strict approach on the subject more in line with
attitudes of contemporary America. The proposed changes now will
be considered by Defense Secretary William Cohen, and President
Clinton must give final approval.
-->Adultery would remain a crime
..... http://cnn.com/US/9807/19/military.adultery.ap/
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CLINTON
ADMINISTRATION PLANS TO CREATE HEALTH DATABASE
A health care proposal from
the Clinton Administration that would track
individuals' medical histories has drawn skeptics concerned about
the loss of
privacy. The national database proposed by the administration was
to be debated in a series of hearings beginning Monday. To create
the database, each American would be assigned a computer code
called a "unique health identifier" that would be used
to track individual medical histories, The New York Times
reported.
Do you really want them
knowing absolutely EVERYTHING about you? EVERYTHING??
CLINTON PROMOTES
STRICTER SCHOOL DISCIPLINE
President Bill Clinton said
Monday a lack of discipline in the nation's schools
represents "a threat to the strength and vitality of
America." In a talk to the
American Federation of Teachers union's annual convention,
Clinton called for wider use of school uniforms, curfews and
anti-gun policies to help restore "order in our children's
lives."
-->School safety summit announced
..... http://allpolitics.com/1998/07/20/clinton.education/
Not for the
teachers of course... Read a few articles up and you will see the
teachers can get off scott free on most anything now, especially
if they MOLEST or even RAPE your child!
DEADLY HEAT
CONTINUES AS TEXAS HITS RECORD
There's no relief from the
heat in Texas, even at night. The temperature barely cooled to an
overnight low of 82 degrees in Dallas on Sunday, giving the city
a record run of 24 consecutive days when it hasn't dropped below
80. During the day, the mercury has topped the 100 mark for three
weeks straight. Nationwide, the heat had been blamed for 141
deaths, including at least 93 in Texas. There have been at least
15 heat-related deaths in neighboring Oklahoma.
If your not
saved... the plague of heat will make this look like a trip to
the North Pole!
VILLAGERS FLEE HEAVY SHELLING
ON INDIA-PAKISTAN BORDER
Indian and Pakistani troops launched artillery shells at each
other for the seventhstraight day Wednesday, forcing tens of
thousands of villagers in the disputedHimalayan state of Kashmir
from their homes. At least 120 people have diedsince fighting
began last Thursday, and each side has blamed the other for
theheightened violence. "Overall, what one can say is that
the Pakistani shellingis continuing with Indian
retaliation," said Indian Defense Minister GeorgeFernandes.
India charges Pakistan is training rebels
.... http://cnn.com/WORLD/asiapcf/9808/05/kashmir/
Didn't these two just start
testing nuclear warheads? Hmmmm
VILLAGERS FLEE HEAVY SHELLING
ON INDIA-PAKISTAN BORDER
Indian and Pakistani troops launched artillery shells at each
other for the
seventhstraight day Wednesday, forcing tens of thousands of
villagers in the
disputedHimalayan state of Kashmir from their homes. At least 120
people have diedsince fighting began last Thursday, and each side
has blamed the other for theheightened violence. "Overall,
what one can say is that the Pakistani shellingis continuing with
Indian retaliation," said Indian Defense Minister
GeorgeFernandes.
India charges Pakistan is training rebels
.... http://cnn.com/WORLD/asiapcf/9808/05/kashmir/
> BOYS
AGED 7 AND 8 ARRESTED ON FIRST-DEGREE MURDER CHARGE
Two boys, ages 7 and 8, have been arrested in Chicago on
first-degree murder chargesin connection with the beating death
of an 11-year-old girl. A
spokeswomanfor the Cook County State's Attorney's office said the
two boys
werescheduled to appear in court later Monday. Ryan Harris was
staying at her grandparentson Chicago's South Side when she
disappeared July 27 after
borrowinga bike. She was found beaten to death a day later.
> EXPOSURE
TO TOXIC PFIESTERIA COULD CAUSE MEMORY LOSS
The Aug. 15 issue of the medical journal Lancet reports research
that suggests
a toxic microorganism deadly to fish also can cause memory and
attention loss in humans. The report says doctors have examined
people who complained of medical problems after coming into
contact with the toxic organism Pfiesteria on the Pocomoke River.
Pfiesteria is a harmless one-celled organism unless something
triggers it to change form and emit a poison that eventually
kills fish.
First in-depth study into Pfiesteria problem
.... http://cnn.com/HEALTH/9808/14/pfiesteria.report.ap/
>
MARILYN MANSON TAKES A STAND
Marilyn Manson is not exactly the just-say-no poster boy. The
shock rocker has a new album, "Mechanical Animals,"
coming this year and some of its lyrics deal with drugs, like
"The Dope Show." "I advocate the use of drugs but
have always looked down on the abuse of drugs," Manson told
the Los Angeles Times. "The people who misuse them give the
rest of us a bad name and I'm not only talking about street
drugs."
*** Global
meltdown poses nightmare scenario for U.S.
As Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin enjoys a last week of summer
vacation, a nightmare scenario is threatening to unfold for the
global economy that could be beyond the reach of U.S.
policymakers.
The financial crisis that started in Asia last year once looked
manageable, but analysts warned Monday it may turn into a global
epidemic. Billions of dollars in international emergency aid have
failed to contain the turmoil. There is hardly an emerging market
left that has been spared. Russia's economy is crumbling fast,
and
now Latin America threatens to become the next victim. "This
is a
serious global emergency," said Greg Mastel of the Economic
Strategy
Institute, a Washington-based think tank. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2555711309-938
*** Boys
aged 8, 9 charged with raping girl
Delaware brothers aged 8 and 9 have been arrested for the rape of
a
9-year-old girl, police said Tuesday. Another 9-year-old girl,
who
allegedly helped the boys hold the victim down, was arrested last
week. All three have been charged with rape and kidnaping.
Wilmington
police described it as the only sexual assault case on record to
involve suspects so young. The case followed another in Chicago
earlier this month in which to boys aged 7 and 8 were charged
with
the murder of an 11-year-old girl. Police believe they could be
the
youngest murder suspects in U.S. history. In the Delaware case,
the
two boys were taken into custody this week concerning the July 9
assault, which occurred during daylight in a city park. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2555730913-3be
Big Brother Is Alive and Well
By Glenn McDonald, PC World
This week's Terrifying Idea Award goes to University of Reading
professor Kevin Warwick, who recently had a silicon chip
transponder
implanted into his arm as an experiment. Computers in his
university
building recognize the chip wirelessly, so when he walks inside,
doors
open, computers say "Hello, Professor Warwick," and his
favorite Web
sites automatically start downloading. Warwick suggests that the
system would be good for tracking employees: "The company
would know
when they come into the building and when they leave the
building.
They would know when employees went to the toilet and how long
they
stayed," he said. Crikey! Mommas, don't let your babies grow
up to be
tenured professors....
http://www.pcworld.com/pcwtoday/article/0,1510,7954,00.html
June 22, 1996
Web posted at: 11:55 p.m. EDT
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton held
imaginary conversations with Eleanor Roosevelt and Mahatma Gandhi
as a therapeutic release, according to a new book written by Bob
Woodward, says a report in Sunday's edition of The Chicago
Sun-Times.
http://www2.cnn.com/US/9606/22/hillary.book/
> FDA APPROVES 'MORNING
AFTER PILL'
The Food and Drug Administration has, for the first time,
approved the sale and marketing of a "morning after
pill," PREVEN, to prevent pregnancy. The
so-called "morning after pill" must be taken within
three days of unprotected
sex to prevent pregnancy. The decision allows the pharmaceutical
company,
Gynetics Inc. of Somerville, New Jersey, to advertise and to sell
special
morning-after packets that women can keep in their medicine
cabinets.
Limited side effects
.... http://cnn.com/HEALTH/9809/02/morning.after.pill/
> WOMAN
ARRESTED IN DEATHS OF HER 6 CHILDREN
Police in St. Paul, Minnesota, are holding a woman suspected of
killing her six
children. Responding to a suicide call Thursday night, police
found her lying
outside her apartment and her three boys and three girls, ages 5
to 11, dead
inside. Their father was questioned, but not detained. Neighbors
said the
couple was estranged and had been involved in many domestic
disturbances.
Police wouldn't respond to a newspaper report that the children
were strangled.
-CNN
18 DEAD IN EXECUTION-STYLE
SHOOTING IN MEXICO
Gunmen in northern Mexico pulled 21 men, women and children from
their bedsearly Thursday, lined them up against the wall of a
farmhouse and shot them.Police say 18 were killed and three were
seriously wounded. Police reportedlyhave as a witness in
protective custody a 15-year-old girl who hid under a bedduring
the slaughter. Police said the attack took place about 4:30 a.m.
(7:30a.m. EDT) in a suburb of the resort town of Ensenada, which
is about 60 miles (100 kilometers) from San Diego.
May have been drug related
.... http://cnn.com/WORLD/americas/9809/17/mexico.massacre.03/
> PLAY
ABOUT GAY CHRIST FIGURE HIT BY PROTEST
New York theater patrons had to go through metal detectors
Tuesday, and the
tight security was more than just theatrics. Death threats and
prayer vigils
marked the first preview performance of the play "Corpus
Christi" that depicts a gay Christlike figure who has sex
with his disciples. About 150 demonstrators held the outdoor
prayer vigil before the curtain rose on Tony-winning playwright
Terrence McNally's latest work.
Catholic League brands play "sick beyond words."
.... http://cnn.com/US/9809/23/gay.jesus/index.html
Laos: Christians forced to
renounce their faith
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Weekend News Today
Source: Religion News Today
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Mon Sep 21 , 1998 -- Soldiers in Luangprabang province, Laos, are
forcing Christians to renounce their faith. Believers are forced
to sign documents renouncing their beliefs, and those who refuse
are threatened, chased from their land, or separated from their
families, Advance newsletter said. Luangprabang, the ancient
royal capital of Laos, has been declared a World Heritage Site by
an agency of the United Nations. Laotian authorities are using
the declaration as a pretext to remove Christians and restore the
province to its historic Buddhist state, the newsletter said
22 September 1998
Four U.S. denominations
will celebrate their new relationship of
"full communion" at a worship
service at Chicago's Rockefeller
Chapel Oct. 4. The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America,
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), Reformed Church in America, and
United Church of Christ agreed in March to enter into full
communion after a yearlong series of votes.
...Liturgy and music for the service will include elements from
each of the traditions. The service will begin with a ritual of
four processions moving from four directions and meeting at a
central baptismal font. Participants in the ceremony will affirm
their mutual recognition of baptism, confess the divisions of the
past, and pledge "to live under the gospel in mutual
affirmation
and admonition," ELCA News said. The churches will share
their
resources for ministry, including allowing clergy to serve as
pastors in each others' congregations.
SOURCE : http://www.religiontoday.com/
> RARE METEOR STORM MAY BE
ON TAP
Sky-watchers may get a once-in-a-generation chance to see a
spectacular show of shooting stars next month. The Leonid stream
of meteors, which the Earth passes through around November 17
each year, is predicted to be at its 33-year peak this time
around. The stream originates from Comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle, which
circles the sun every 33 years. As with all comets, it leaves a
trail of debris in its path. When the Earth passes through one of
those streams, a meteor shower results.
Thousands of meteors per hour seen in last storm
.... http://cnn.com/TECH/space/9810/06/space.meteors/index.html
> JEWS
ANGRY OVER SAINTHOOD FOR JEW-TURNED-CATHOLIC NUN
A ceremony Sunday in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome will elevate to
sainthood a German-born Jew who converted to Catholicism.
Controversy over the canonization of Edith Stein, an Orthodox Jew
who became a Roman Catholic nun and later died at Auschwitz,
comes as Pope John Paul II tries to move the Vatican toward
reconciliation with Jews. The father of a girl saved by a miracle
credited to Stein has urged the Catholic Church to mark the
canonization with a full admission of wrongs it did Jews in the
Holocaust.
A remarkable woman
.... http://cnn.com/WORLD/europe/9810/10/italy.saint/index.html
UNITED METHODISTS PUSH TO END
BAN ON GAY MARRIAGES
A letter signed by 363 clergy and laity urges bishops of the
United Methodist
Church to lift the church's ban on gay and lesbian marriages. The
letter, with
signatures from people in 37 states and Washington D.C., was
released Sunday by Rev. Jimmy Creech of Raleigh, North Carolina,
who is on voluntary leave of absence from the church after
performing a blessing ceremony for two women in September 1997.
Ministers performing ceremonies can be defrocked
.... http://cnn.com/US/9810/11/methodist.gays.ap/index.html
> SURVIVALISTS
TRY TO PREVENT MILLENNIUM-BUG BITE
It's just over a year until the year 2000, and some people
already are
preparing for the possibility of a computer-generated disaster by
stocking up
on groceries and other supplies. Driven by fear that computer
malfunctions will shut off power, transportation systems and
automated teller machines, some California communities are
banding together to educate themselves about how to survive the
potential calamities.
It's possible nothing will happen
.... http://cnn.com/US/9810/10/y2k.survivalists/
>
CONTROVERSIAL 'GAY CHRIST' PLAY OPENS IN NEW YORK
Religious protesters and free speech advocates gathered outside
the Manhattan Theatre Club for the opening performance of
"Corpus Christi," Terrence McNally's controversial play
about a modern, gay Christ-like figure. Holding aloft signs that
read "Stop the hate speech" and "Respect one
another's beliefs" alongside others that read "Sodomy
is evil" and "Homosexual practice: a sin!,"
protesters clutched rosary beads and crucifixes as they sang
hymns, prayed and chanted "Hey hey, ho ho, Terrence
McNally's got to go."
'Scary' religious demonstration
.... http://cnn.com/US/9810/14/corpus.christi.01.reut/
*** Update:
Pilgrims hear 'message' from Virgin Mary in Ga.
CONYERS, Ga. (Reuters) - More than 100,000 pilgrims massed on a
farm
in Georgia Tuesday to clutch rosaries, sing and scan the skies
for
heavenly signs while listening to what they believed was a final
message from the Virgin Mary. Nancy Fowler, 47, a former nurse,
slipped into what doctors have described as a state near coma as
the
faithful - including pilgrims from Brazil and elsewhere in Latin
America, Australia, Canada and Japan - waited. In a halting voice
sent through loudspeakers, she slowly repeated what she said was
the
last of seven years of messages to the public she has received
from
Mary, believed by Christians to be the mother of Jesus. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2556570155-760
> ALABAMA
PROPOSES BROAD MEASURE FOR RELIGIOUS EXPRESSION
Alabama could become the first state to enact a broadly worded
constitutional
amendment to protect religious expression. A proposed amendment
on the
November. 3 ballot would bar the state from "burdening the
freedom of religion unless the government demonstrates that it
has a compelling reason to do so and that the interest is
achieved by the least restrictive means."
Critics: Gives religion "far-reaching powers"
.... http://cnn.com/US/9810/15/briefs.on/alabama.amendment.ap/
FCC plan would aid digital
wiretapping
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Communications Commission
proposed requiring telephone companies Thursday to alter their
networks to
give law enforcement agencies additional wiretapping
capabilities.
Much to the chagrin of privacy groups, the FCC's preliminary
proposal
includes requiring wireless telephone carriers turn over to law
enforcers the location of a mobile phone user at the beginning
and
end of a tapped call. The proposal, which was issued for comment
and
could be changed, seeks to resolve the long-running dispute
between
the telephone industry, privacy advocates and the FBI over terms
of
the 1994 Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2556718063-7cc
> FEDERAL
COURT RULES CITY COUNCILS MAY BAN SOME PRAYERS
A U.S. federal appeals court ruling will allow cities to bar
citizens from
reciting prayers at the opening of city council meetings if the
prayer
disparages other faiths or is otherwise not
"tolerable." The 11-2 ruling by the
10th Circuit Court of Appeals came in the case of Tom Snyder, who
sued after he was not allowed to pray at a city council meeting
in Murray City, Utah.
City attorney says ruling provides "common sense"
.... http://cnn.com/US/9810/28/prayer.court.reut/
> U.S.
MILITARY BRACES FOR METEOR ATTACK
On Tuesday, the Earth will experience the most intense meteor
shower in 30
years as the planet passes though a trail of comet debris. While
civilians
around the world are waiting to enjoy the show put on by the
shooting stars,
the U.S. military is bracing for star wars. That's because while
the Earth's
atmosphere protects the planet itself from the flying debris,
satellites in
orbit are vulnerable to the cloud of sand-sized meteors traveling
100 times
faster than speeding bullets.
Potentially a serious threat
.... http://cnn.com/TECH/space/9811/13/leonids.military/-
METEOR SHOWER MAY EXPOSE HOW
LIFE ON EARTH BEGAN
NASA plans to follow a trail of dust for clues to how
extraterrestrial material
helped create a suitable environment for life on Earth. On
Tuesday, the Earth
will cross the trail of the Tempel-Tuttle comet, which orbits the
sun about
every three decades and will produce the most intense meteor
shower here in 33 years. Many people around the world will be
watching the heavens for the
spectacular light show. And NASA will have its eyes on two
research aircraft it
is sending up on an astrobiology mission.
NASA says aircraft has three-dimensional view
.... http://cnn.com/TECH/space/9811/14/meteors/index.html
Hmmmm taking a prophetic
event and tagging it "an evolution study"? How ironic?
*** News
program shows Kevorkian killing patient
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The CBS News program "60 Minutes"
aired a
videotape Sunday of euthanasia advocate Dr. Jack Kevorkian giving
a
lethal injection to a patient suffering from a terminal disease.
Kevorkian, 70, a retired pathologist, had previously acknowledged
assisting the suicides of as many as 130 people, but said this
was
the first time he inserted the needles and killed a patient
himself.
Kevorkian has been tried and acquitted three times on charges of
assisting suicides and took the videotape to CBS News in an
attempt
to force a legal showdown and move the public debate to mercy
killing
from doctor-assisted suicide. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2557252295-c52
Maybe the following article
is the reason for Jack's motive?
>
DEATH: A GREAT INVESTMENT?
Death might be a depressing prospect but it can really inject
some life into
your stock portfolio. Analysts say the death-care business is
sailing ahead on
solid earnings, rising funeral costs and a generation of aging
Baby Boomers
willing to pay almost anything for a personalized tombstone.
"Death is one of
the great things everybody can rely on," said Abraham Karp,
a death-care
analyst at Karp Financial Group in Tarrytown, N.Y. "All of
the things in this
industry point up."
Everlasting supply and demand
.... http://cnnfn.com/quickenonfn/life/9811/19/q_deathbiz/
> GEORGIA
SUPREME COURT OVERTURNS SODOMY LAW
Georgia's anti-sodomy law was overturned Monday when the state's
Supreme Court
ruled that it violates the Georgia Constitution's guarantee of a
right to
privacy. The court voted 6-1 to overturn the sodomy conviction of
Anthony
Powell, who was convicted of sodomizing his 17-year-old niece in
1996. Powell's
lawyers had argued that the sex was consensual. The law has been
the subject of
previous challenges but was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in a
landmark
decision in 1986.
> MITCH
MAY HAVE BLOWN AWAY U.S. HURRICANE SCALE
The catastrophic wrath of Hurricane Mitch has prompted
forecasters at the
National Hurricane Center to reconsider the way it issues
hurricane warnings.
The center has classified hurricanes since the 1970s using the
Saffir/Simpson
scale, which divides storms into categories that estimate
potential damage from
high winds and coastal storm surge flooding. But Mitch, now
considered the
deadliest Atlantic storm in two centuries, is prompting the
center to create a
different, additional scale.
New scale considers direction of storm
.... http://cnn.com/WEATHER/9811/23/hurricane.scale.reut/
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