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September 21 - Swedish daycare to test GPS for tracking kids
Article: Miscellaneous
A daycare centre in the
southern Swedish city of Malmoe said Wednesday
it planned to test GPS devices for tracking
children when they are out on excursions.
"We will test this system on 10
children for a week in October. We will have 10 GPS transmitters
attached to their reflective vests when we're outside the nursery
school," explained Karin Werholt, who runs the
Kronprinsen (Crown Prince) centre that cares for 36 children between the
ages of one and six.
"We will test if the transmitters are robust, if
they work well and if they affect the children's playing in any way,"
she told AFP, adding that the centre did not have any problem
keeping track of kids and it remained unclear whether it would purchase
the system if the test went well.
According to the
Malmoe company Purple Scout that provides the system,
the GPS transmitters all report the positions of the children to one
mobile phone, which sounds an alert if a transmitter moves beyond a
certain distance from the phone.
"It is meant to complement their work, but it
cannot stop a child from running off. It only makes it possible to
discover they're gone at an earlier stage and find them quicker,"
he explained.
Purple Scout is
planning an official launch of the system on October 18 and aims to have
its first orders by the end of the year, according to Hoff.
"The daycares we have talked to are very positive
to the idea," he said.
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September 25 - CDC now calling U.S. households and demanding child immunization records as part of vaccine surveillance and tracking program
Article: One World Government
The U.S. Centers for Disease
Control, which has been comprehensively exposed as a vaccine
propaganda organization promoting the interests of drug
companies, is now engaged in a
household surveillance program that involves calling U.S.
households and intimidating parents into producing child
immunization records. As part of what it
deems a National Immunization Survey (NIS),
the CDC is sending letters to U.S.
households, alerting them that they will be called by "NORC at
the University of Chicago" and that households should "have your
child's immunization records handy when answering our
questions."
Now the CDC is bullying parents
across the USA to comply with
child immunization surveillance programs by calling their home
phones and asking them to produce child immunization records.
"Your phone number was chosen
randomly by computer," explains the letter, which goes on to say
that the CDC will use your
information to generate a map of vaccine compliance
-- no doubt to later target low-compliance
areas with increased vaccination propaganda or even
court-ordered immunization mandates like the one we witnessed in
Maryland.
"It is important for us to
interview every household we call to get a complete picture of
your area's immunization rates," the CDC
letter explains. "Your answers to the NIS
will provide information to help improve the nation's health now
and in the years ahead," it continues. Which means, of
course, that this information will be used
to push more vaccines onto more infants by targeting
areas with low vaccine compliance rates, such as African
American neighborhoods which are rightly skeptical of
government's claims about vaccines.
Note that in this letter,
the CDC admits it is
using this information to track vaccine compliance at the local
level. On top of that, the NORC.org website openly admits this
is all about public health surveillance, saying: "the NIS is one
of the largest telephone surveys in the nation and its data are
considered the gold standard for public health surveillance on
immunization rates."
"Respondents are asked a series of
questions about the vaccinations received by selected children
(including recommended seasonal flu vaccines)," says NORC.
And after that, NORC will request
permission to acquire your child's immunization records from
your doctor!
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September 23 - Pope calls on Catholics, Muslims to improve society
Article: Ecumenical Movement - Other Religions Uniting With Roman Catholics
Catholics and Muslims can work together for the
common good, Pope Benedict said on the second day of
his state visit to Germany.
"As believers, setting out from our respective
convictions, we can offer an important witness in many key areas of life
in society," said the Pope at a Sept. 23 gathering
of Catholic and Muslim leaders in Berlin. "I am thinking, for example,
of the protection of the family based on marriage, respect for life in
every phase of its natural course or the promotion
of greater social justice."
The Pope said that
since the beginning of large-scale Muslim immigration to Germany in the
1970s, "a climate of respect and trust
has grown up between the Catholic Church and the Muslim communities."
This friendship, though, has to go further than mere "peaceful
co-existence" towards a recognition of "the contribution that each can
make towards building up the common good."
On his previous trip
to Germany, in 2006, Pope Benedict offended some elements within the
Muslim community after they construed to a speech he delivered at
Regensburg as linking Islam to violence. Since then,
the Pope has been eager to build a more
substantial dialogue and understanding between Catholics and Muslims.
He concluded his
meeting today by looking forward to his meeting
with other world religions - including Muslims leaders - in the Italian
town of Assisi next month.
"Through this
gathering, we wish to express, with simplicity,
that we believers have a special contribution to
make towards building a better world, while acknowledging that if our
actions are to be effective, we need to grow in dialogue and mutual
esteem."
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September 27 - Franklin church mixes yoga and Christian spirituality
Article: Unbiblical Christianity
About 60 women rolled out their mats in a
dimly lit carpeted room for an hour of
connecting to God through Scripture meditation, prayer and
downward-facing dog. They do this each Sunday. But
this yoga class isn't in a studio - it
goes on alongside children's choir practice and Sunday night Bible study
at The People's Church in Franklin.
Holy
Yoga, led by instructor Keleah Anderson, is going
into its third year at the church and has almost
doubled its number of participants since the free program started.
To the Baptist-affiliated
church, yoga is just one more way to reach out.
To some Christians,
yoga represents Hinduism and/or New Age thinking.
Last year at this time, Albert Mohler Jr., president of the Southern
Baptist Theological Seminary, stirred up national attention when he
blasted yoga in his blog on AlbertMohler.com. He contended that
Christians should not practice yoga.
"Holy Yoga creates
a safe place for Christians to do yoga," she said.
Boon, who was raised Jewish, dove into
yoga, logging 2,500 hours of training. After becoming a Christian, she
dropped the practice. "Like most Christians, I was unsure about it," she
said. But she got back on the mat, played Christian music and prayed.
Boon said God gave her the idea to teach
again, but with a new focus.
"If God is
sovereign over all things," she said, "then I have to know yoga falls
into that."
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September 23 - Iran asks Russia about building more nuke reactors
Article: Miscellaneous
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said
Friday that Tehran is talking to Russia
about building additional nuclear power reactors. He
also invited other countries and
companies to bid to build new nuclear power plants.
The $1 billion Bushehr reactor was built by the
Russian company Atomstroyexport and commissioned in a ceremony on
Sept. 13. Ahmadinejad said Iran needs an
additional 19,000 megawatts of energy beyond the 1,000 now coming from
Bushehr.
"There
are currently conversations ongoing with the Russians to provide that,"
Ahmadinejad told a news conference at a New York
hotel, a day after he addressed the General Assembly.
"But it is only a general proposal," he
said. "And from here today I want to
officially invite other firms and other entities to come and bid and
propose their participation for building these power plants."
Ahmadinejad said
Iran's relations with Russia were as a neighbor,
"and neighbors must be friends with one another. There are efforts on
both sides in order to have a mutually beneficial ongoing relationship,"
he said.
Bushehr increased operations this month
after more than a decade of delays, pumping out electricity at up to 40
percent capacity. Iranian officials say the plant
could begin full-power operations in December.
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September 26 - European Shrine Directors Gather in England
Article: Roman Catholic Church And The :Last Days
Shrine directors from across
Europe converged on one of England's oldest Marian shrines today
to discuss the present popularity in religious
pilgrimage sites. Directors from Germany, Slovenia, Romania, England,
Poland, France, Ireland and Portugal will meet through Friday at the
National Shrine of Walsingham, in Norfolk County. The
theme of the gathering is "Evangelization and Gestures of Popular Piety."
This year, the shrine is
celebrating its 950th anniversary, and has had one of
its busiest pilgrimage seasons ever, having received approximately 100,000
pilgrims.
Father Alan Williams,
Walsingham's shrine director, commented on the popularity of shrines in
statement sent to ZENIT, "Many people visit
Catholic shrines who are either not Christian or rarely attend church. They
have an interest in spirituality and are willing to travel as part of that
search.
"Our task, as shrine directors, is to make that experience as fulfilling and
rewarding as we can and that's what we'll be discussing this week, as well
as sharing news and information."
Given the
ecumenical nature of Walsingham, which is home to both Anglican and Catholic
shrines, Bishop Lindsay Urwin, administrator of the Anglican shrine, will be
joining the conference. The delegates will pray Evensong at the Anglican
Cathedral in Norwich.
Increasing numbers of Anglicans also made their way to
Walsingham, and an Anglican Shrine was initially
established in St. Marys Parish Church before the move to a newly
reconstructed holy house in 1931. The village also houses Orthodox and
Methodist chapels.
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September 27 - Thousands of Youngsters to Offer Mary a Golden Rose
Article: Roman Catholic Church And The Last Days
Thousands of children will gather
at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in
Washington, D.C., next month to offer Our
Lady a "Golden Rose" and to pray before the Holy Eucharist.
The youngsters will represent children from 140 nations who will
participate Oct. 7 in the 9th annual Worldwide Children's
Eucharistic Holy Hour, which will be broadcast live around the world on
Eternal World Television Network (EWTN), and translated for Spanish-speaking
countries. Archbishop Gregory Aymond of New Orleans will preside at
the main event in the basilica, which is co-sponsored by Children of the
Eucharist, the children's program of the World Apostolate of Fatima, and the
Holy Childhood Association.
According to a press
statement sent to ZENIT, the "Holy Hour
unites children around the world before the Blessed Sacrament to console the
Eucharistic Heart of Jesus and to pray for the families of the world, a
mission entrusted to them by Blessed John Paul II in his
Christmas Letter to the World's Children, in 1994, at the close of the
International Year of the Family."
A growing number of dioceses, parishes and schools on
every continent are participating in the event every year,
according to Connie Schneider, founder and international chairwoman.
She added,
"This global Holy Hour gathers our children before the
Eucharistic Heart of Jesus to console him, as requested by the Angel of
Peace at Fatima, and to pray for our own families and the families of the
world."
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September 30 - Scores die in worst Mekong flooding since 2000
Article: Signs Of The Last Times
At least 150 people in
Cambodia and southern Vietnam have died in the worst flooding along the
Mekong River in 11 years after heavy rain swamped homes,
washed away bridges and forced thousands of people to evacuate.
Worse could be in
store if Typhoon Nesat, which killed at least 39 people in China this
week and plowed into northern Vietnam on Friday, dumps rain
deep enough inland to further swell the Mekong.
Flooding across the fertile Mekong Delta
helped drive rice prices to a three-year high in
Vietnam this week, traders said, which will add to
inflation problems. The delta produces more than half of Vietnam's rice
and 90 percent of its exportable grain.
"Now, more than 200,000 hectares (494,200 acres)
of our rice paddies are under water but we don't yet know the full
extent of the damage," said Keo Vy, deputy information director
at the National Disaster Management Committee. Cambodia is a minor rice
exporter, but Vietnam is the world's
second-biggest exporter behind Thailand.
Some 150,000
families had been affected by the flooding in Cambodia this year and
another 15,000 evacuated to higher ground, said Men Neary
Sopheak, deputy secretary general of Cambodia's Red Cross.
The
region has planted nearly 600,000 hectares (1.58 million acres) for the
current crop, which is mainly for domestic consumption, and
only 5 percent has been harvested, the
agriculture ministry said.
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September 29 - Obama's bomb deal with Israel raises the spectre of war
Article: Wars And Rumors Of Wars
Barack Obama may be
widely regarded at home as the least pro-Israeli president in decades,
but he has secretly okayed giving the Jewish state
a bunch of special bunker-busting bombs
- ideal for destroying Tehran's ruling mullahs' nuclear ambitions and so
powerful that George W. Bush blocked handing them over.
Capable
of penetrating deep beneath the surface, the bunker-busters would be
crucial for any air strikes at Iran nuclear sites. Mr. Netanyahu has
wanted the bunker-busters for years and, as first reported by Newsweek,
Mr. Obama agreed to hand over 55 of the sophisticated and powerful
weapons.
Given Israel's track
record of pre-emptive bombing strikes to destroy nuclear sites in
neighbouring nations and Iran's ambitious and suspicious nuclear
program, the American bunker-busters
may increase the chance of another Middle East war. Iran's unpredictable
and bellicose President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has vowed to wipe Israel off
the map. Iran continues to defy international sanctions with a
clandestine nuclear program. Meanwhile, Mr. Netanyahu now has the means
to carry out his threat that "Iran will not acquire nuclear arms, and
this implies everything necessary to carry this out."
Israel also has
twice launched pre-emptive and devastating air
strikes to destroy Arab nuclear reactors before they could produce
weapons-grade bomb stock. In 1981, a daring long-distance strike
destroyed an Iraqi reactor, ending Saddam Hussein's pursuit of nuclear
weapons.
In 2007, Israeli
warplanes bombed a Syrian reactor of North Korean design. Striking Iran,
both further away and further along the nuclear-weapons development path
and with widely dispersed and deeply-buried sites, would be more
challenging militarily. The
bunker-busters may be a hammer Israel can't use unless it has the tacit
approval of Washington. It's not clear if Mr. Obama retained the right
to approve any use of the bunker-busters.
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September 29 - Vatican supports two-state solution in Israel-Palestine conflict
Article: Israel And The Last Days
Archbishop Dominique Mamberti,
the Vatican's number two State Department official, called Sept. 27 for
a two-state solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in remarks
delivered in New York. He insisted that "if we want peace, courageous
decisions have to be made."
Archbishop Mamberti, whose official title
is Secretary for Relations with States,
encouraged "the realization of the right of
Palestinians to have their own independent and sovereign state, and the
right of Israelis to guarantee their security." He also insisted that
both states be "provided with internationally recognized borders."
Archbishop Mamberti
expressed hope "that the bodies of the United
Nations will take a commitment to helping the effective implementation
of the ultimate objective" of ensuring security, sovereignty and
independence for both Palestinians and Israelis.
"The U.N. response
will not constitute a complete solution and we will not achieve lasting
peace without negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians, avoiding
actions or conditions that contradict the statements of goodwill,"
the archbishop acknowledged.
"The Holy See, therefore, urges the
parties to resume negotiations with determination and addresses an
urgent appeal to the international community to increase its commitment
and to stimulate its creativity and its initiative,
so that we can arrive at a lasting peace,
respecting the rights of Israelis and Palestinians."
Israel has also opposed Palestinian
statehood, arguing that a unilateral
recognition of a Palestinian state by the United Nations would
effectively "delegitimize" the statehood of Israel.
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September 29 - Catholic Church's communications day to focus on silence
Article: Roman Catholic Church And The Last Days
The new theme for the Catholic Church's
World Social Communications Day is
"Silence and Word: Path of Evangelization," a
Vatican pontifical council has announced.
Silence is not
simply "an antidote to the constant and unstoppable flow of information"
characteristic of modern society. Rather, it is necessary for the
integration of that information, the Pontifical Council for
Social Communications said on Sept. 29. The
event's focus on silence is needed in light of the "extraordinarily
varied nature" of modern communications.
"Silence, precisely because it favors habits of discernment and
reflection, can in fact be seen primarily as a means of welcoming the
word," the council said.
Silence and communication are complementary and
can be key factors in "the new evangelization."
This year's theme was "Truth,
Proclamation and Authenticity of Life in the Digital Age." Pope Benedict
XVI's 2011 message called for a Christian presence on social networking
sites.
He said that new
technologies are "giving birth to a new way learning and thinking, with
unprecedented opportunities for establishing relationships
and building fellowship." While he warned about the
dangers of creating a "parallel existence" and falsifying one's online
persona, he said the wise use of
technologies can help satisfy "the desire for meaning, truth and unity."
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September 28 - Christians Reaching Out to Muslims in Tanzania
Article: Ecumenical Movement - Other Religions Uniting With Roman Catholics
The Catholic Church is
helping to transform life on an island off the west coast of Africa through
its interreligious and educational work -- with the help of charities in
Britain and Ireland. The expansion of the Church's work, aided by the
construction of a new church and pastoral center on Pemba -- the second
largest island in Tanzania's Zanzibar archipelago -- will have a significant
impact on society in the predominantly Muslim country.
The Pastoral Centre in
Chake-Chake, near the centre of the island,
will help the whole society and encourage good
inter-faith relations with the Church's Muslim neighbors according to the
missionary priest. Father Msaky said: "The construction
of the center, which has been going on for three years now,
is of really great value for the people of Pemba --
not only for Christians but Muslims as well.
The priest told ACN:
"We see interreligious dialogue as part of our
life, not only the question of religious affairs, but also social
activities, like health, like education, like improving the social services
at large. We call that
a dialogue of life, whereby we come together, we share our joys, we share
our sorrows, we cooperate too to work together for the improvement of our
society.
He went on to say:
"So this center apart Fatherom providing a
place for prayer and worship, will be used as a kind of interreligious
dialogue centre -- that was the original idea of the building."
Father Masky said:
"The agenda is to build relationships, when we go out we don't go out to
convert people it is to build relations -- although those who are willing
convert of their own decision, they make up their mind.
"We see ourselves as people of God, created
to serve God irrespective of the various Faiths."
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Sincerely,
Roger Oakland
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