- The Supreme Court ruled today local governments may seize people's homes and businesses against their will for private development. This is another victory for commercial interests over the rights of individuals and their property.
Pray your house would not make a good location for another strip mall or high-end condos, because you could be displaced, and your home of many years demolished. Just ask the woman in Boston who fought this all the way to the Supreme Court--and lost.
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- From CBS/AP, The Defense Department, faced with enlistment shortfalls, has reportedly begun assembling a database of young people as a recruiting aid.
The Pentagon is working with a private company to collect information on your high school sons and daughters ages 16-to-18 and all college students.
The database will be managed by BeNow Inc. of Wakefield, Mass. and will include birth dates, Social Security numbers, e-mail addresses, grade-point averages, ethnicity and what subjects the students are studying.
Recruiters have already angered parents and some school districts by using available information to contact students at home based on information on high school students already given to military recruiters under provisions of the 2002 No Child Left Behind Act.
School systems could lose federal funds if they don't give up the information.
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- Corporate influence peddling (this time by the International Formula Council) over our government representatives has won another victory. The government's promotion for breast feeding as the best possible for newborns has been watered down (no pun intended) by baby formula manufacturers.
As has been shown, mother's milk is effective in preventing leukemia, diabetes, preventing obesity, and in infants ear infections, diarrhea, etc. It also serves as a vital process in mother-child bonding. Incredibly, it appears God's plan was well thought out and intentioned, but profit driven interests have taken issue with God's design.
Said the International Formula Council, while they support breast-feeding, they felt the government's commercials were too negative in tone and inaccurate. Once more economics trumps Nature.
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People, people. If you're not alarmed by this, you're still snoozing. Time to wake up!
2 comments:
You forgot to mention the MERCURY in the vaccinations. They keep denying it causes autism and yet the spike in autism in children happened right after mercury was added as a preservative to vaccinations.
It would be easy to prove or disprove a link, but I suspect big pharma wouldn't be happy about that kind of study.
Meanwhile our cat has kidney disease and our vet believes in was caused by something in her vaccinations.
Oh, and the feds just raided two medical marijuana facilities in San Francisco after the Supremes gave them the okay. I'm sure big pharmas don't want seriously ill patients finding alternatives to their drugs.
You're absolutely right. Thanks, Nona! I hope to make Wake-up Call a recurring topic. And, honestly, the first appearance of it disappointed me some. Not the examples so much as their gravitas.
The three examples I cited were just from yesterday's news. But I knew they were minor in comparison to past atrocities committed on citizens that escaped me at the moment--there's been so many in the past 4 1/2 years.
Things like the horriffic spike in autism you cite in which the government reaffirms its committment to the pharmaceutical interests over those of the children's lives their vaccines have destroyed. Or, the partisan budget cuts of public television and radio stations across the nation. If passed, we stand in danger of losing two local TV AND radio stations.
Oh well, "It's what the people want!" I keep telling myself, but "It's what the people want!" I am incapable of believing. Hence, the return of "Wake-up Call" again.....and again.....until, hopefully, we begin to.
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