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July 2011

Has the normalizing of pedophilia begun? “'James Cantor, a homosexual psychologist and scientist at the Sexual Behaviors Clinic of the Center for Addiction and Mental Health... continued, 'Cases of child molestation that involve long strings of victims over the course of years illustrate what can happen when someone gives in to, or outright indulges, his sexual interests, regardless of its potential damage on others. It is those cases that dominate headlines and provoke revulsion toward pedophiles. ...a CNN anchor chimed in to express sympathy for Sandusky, who was found guilty on 45 of 48 child sex-abuse charges after he molested at least 10 boys over a period of 15 years." See Depravity

February 2011

Planned Parenthood Aids Pimp's Underage Sex Ring: Video exposes pimp's under-age sex ring." See Moral Corruption

January 2011

Atlanta emerging as a human trafficking hub: "...victims often fear beatings from traffickers or arrest and deportation by authorities if they try to escape. ...two troubling new trends are that victims are getting younger, some as young as 14, and traffickers are increasingly using violence to control victims." See Depravity


July 2010

Oakland could go to pot in a big way with four proposed factory farms: "Oakland [CA] could approve a plan Tuesday to set up four marijuana factory farms, a step that could usher in the era of Big Pot. The proposal is a testament to just how fast the marijuana counterculture is transforming into a corporate culture....What caught the City Council's attention was... at least $1.5 million a year in taxes. Oakland faces severe budget deficits and has already let go of 80 police officers." See Conforming to the culture, not to truth

15 dead in Love Parade stampede: “'The tunnel was dark, it was full. Something happened - whether someone tripped or someone fell I don’t know. But there was a stampede to get to the other end and those who fell… well, many of them never got up again.' Another witness...said he tried to warn police before the stampede occurred that a catastrophe was building. 'A friend and I got out as hundreds more poured in,' he said. 'We tried to tell them to close it down, but they didn’t listen.'" Remember Orwell's upside-down message: "War is PEACE.  Freedom is SLAVERY. Ignorance is STRENGTH."

January 2010

 'Gay' plan for bathrooms called 'moral insanity': "A Christian organization in Maine is asking its constituents to protest a state proposal that would give boys who call themselves girls full access to girls' restrooms, locker rooms and cheerleading squads. The Christian Civic League of Maine said in a statement the 'latest demand by the homosexual lobby is quite intolerable, having sunk to the level of an impossible absurdity.' 'Gay activists are now demanding that young girls believe and publicly acknowledge that a biological boy in their locker room is, in fact, a girl.'" See Paradigm Shift: Total transformation

Planned Parenthood Trains Ecuadorean Children to Inject Each Other with Contraceptives: "An article in Global Health magazine by Planned Parenthood vice president of international programs, Veena Siddharth, states that the world's biggest abortion promoter is now training children as young as 11 to inject their fellows with the abortifacient injectable birth-control drug Depo-Provera....

     '“It’s absolutely outrageous and, of course, this would be totally illegal here in the United States,' Sedlak said....

     "Planned Parenthood's use of children with only minimal training to administer this program, which would violate FDA regulations if attempted in the US, raises the questions not only of the safety of giving youngsters syringes containing a dangerous drug in order to inject other children, but of the effect of the drug.... Depo-Provera has been shown have to have negative effects upon those who take it, and especially upon young women, including massive and partially irreversible bone loss." See Mine is the Power

Drugging the West: "Venezuela supports the Marxist narco-terrorist group called the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, commonly referred to as FARC. This group has been found to be working with Al-Qaeda drug traffickers in West Africa

     " Venezuela has become the number one supplier of cocaine to the U.S., Spain, and Colombia, with the amount increasing by four times between 2004 and 2007. Over half of the cocaine in the United Kingdom, and possibly as high as two-thirds, arrives via Venezuela....

     "The Venezuelan also uses FARC and its drug networks to support other forces friendly to their anti-American cause. As Iran and Chavez have gotten closer, so has Hezbollah with the FARC and Venezuelan officials. After Jose Manuel Zelaya was ousted from power in Honduras, it was claimed by the Honduran Foreign Minister that Zelaya and Chavez had been collaborating in sending cocaine to the U.S.  ...it allows for the penetration of enemy institutions, and is a great fundraiser for covert activities and terrorists" See Cultural Corruption


December 2008

Narco violence is exploding -- just as oil prices are plunging and Mexico is bracing for a deep U.S. recession: "This year, through mid-November, there have been 4,300-plus drug-related deaths in Mexico, compared with 2,500 in 2007. Edgar Millán Gómez, who oversaw the joint efforts of the army and federal police, was assassinated in May in his home in Mexico City. Roberto Velasco Bravo, a federal chief of criminal investigations, was shot in the head a week earlier. The narco-traficantes have infiltrated the highest levels of law enforcement....

      "Washington, D.C. is fretting, too. 'The consequences for both our countries in the near future and the not-so-near future could not be greater,' says [U.S. drug czar] John Walters.... '[W]e worry about ungoverned spaces far away from the U.S., and this is right next door.'" See next link:

November 2008

Lesbians, condoms go wild in attack on Christian church: "Worshippers at a Bible-teaching church in Lansing, Mich., were stunned Sunday when members of a pro-homosexual, pro-anarchy organization named Bash Back interrupted their service to fling propaganda and condoms around the sanctuary, drape a profane banner from the balcony.... Printed material protesters distributed said, 'We specialize in confronting homophobia, transphobia and every and all other forms of oppression.'...

     "The church's response? After... the blasphemy ended... the pastor took the stage and led the congregation in one more prayer ... not for retribution... but instead that the troubled individuals... so full of anger and hate, would know Jesus' love in their lives and God's peace that exceeds human understanding." See God's Mercy

March 2008

STD Data Come as No Surprise... Teenagers Say: "Lorena Granados, a junior at W.T. Woodson High School in Fairfax County, was not the least bit surprised. 'A lot of girls fall in love, and it doesn't seem they care about protection,' she said yesterday. 'It's 'What am I going to enjoy right now?' Or they'll say, 'I know he hasn't been with anybody. . . . He's clean.' Or, 'He'll stop before we go too far.' '...

     '"It's to fit in, peer pressure,' Christine said, noting that virgins are often mocked. Also, 'sex sells on TV.' ...some young girls found their inspiration in the popular R&B singer Rihanna, whose latest album is titled 'Good Girl Gone Bad.'"  See Resisting Immorality

January 2008

 S.F. gay community an epicenter for new strain of virulent staph: "The study... found the highest concentrations of infection by the drug-resistant bug in and around San Francisco's Castro district and among patients who visit health clinics that treat HIV infections in gay men in San Francisco and Boston. The culprit is a form of MRSA, or methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, a bug that was once confined to hospitalized patients but, since the late 1990s, has been circulating outside medical settings, afflicting anyone from injection-drug users to elementary school students....'This is a national problem, and San Francisco is at the epicenter.'...

     "The germ typically causes boils and other skin and soft-tissue infections.... According to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, various forms of MRSA are causing 95,000 of these more costly and potentially life-threatening infections - and 19,000 deaths - annually in the United States. Until last year, staph infections had never been linked to sexual activity.....The new variant of USA300 is resistant to the antibiotics erythromycin, clindamycin, tetracycline, Cipro-like antibiotics..." See Signs of the times

 

Drug-resistant staph found to be passed in gay sex: "A drug-resistant strain of potentially deadly bacteria has moved beyond the borders of U.S. hospitals and is being transmitted among gay men during sex, researchers said on Monday. They said methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, is beginning to appear outside hospitals in San Francisco, Boston, New York and Los Angeles. Sexually active gay men in San Francisco are 13 times more likely to be infected than their heterosexual neighbors, the researchers reported in the Annals of Internal Medicine.....This superbug can cause life-threatening and disfiguring infections and can often only be treated with expensive, intravenous antibiotics. It killed about 19,000 Americans in 2005, most of them in hospitals..."

      Yet educators across the country are promoting the gay lifestyle. See Gay Sex Ed for kids and Human nature apart from God


May 2007

Strawberry meth didn't take long to arrive in the Ozarks: "A new twist to an old drug may make it more appealing to children. It's called strawberry quick -- strawberry flavoring added to methamphetamine to make it taste more like candy.... It looks like rock candy, the kind someone might buy as a treat, but there's nothing sweet about these crystals." See Spiritual Warfare

March 2007

Feds asked to investigate 'obscenity' in school curriculum: "'No one is ridiculous enough to cry 'censorship' or 'book-burning' when school officials refuse to select Penthouse or Playboy as reading material for 15-year-olds,' Fyke says. Yet the five books mentioned in LOVE's complaint, she asserts, 'contain similarly graphic material in written form [and] are equally inappropriate.'

     "...one of the main issues under consideration in the case is whether the books cited in LOVE's complaint meet the legal definition of pornography. That definition, he noted, includes books that have no literary or educational value and appeal solely to readers’ prurient interest in sex."

October 2006

Pornography Comes To The Mall: "Traditional Values Coalition’s Executive Director Andrea Lafferty is taking on Victoria’s Secret at the Tyson’s Corner Mall in Virginia. The lingerie store has just put on a display of half-naked and sexually suggestive mannequins. The theme of the display is sadomasochism and lesbianism."

September

Hitting the books: "Objections of Arkansas parents to graphic descriptions of sexual acts in books offered to students in their school libraries have fueled a feud in the Ozarks. ... The school superintendent compares the protests of parents to 'cancer.'...

     "One book for children in kindergarten through fourth grade, "'It's So Amazing,' raised parents' ire with its narrative and illustrations portraying, with a positive tone, masturbation, homosexual relationships and abortion. A book for ninth-graders called 'The Teenage Guy's Survival Guide' describes pornography as 'natural and fine.' ....

     "'They're beyond vile,' Mrs. Taylor said of the 53 novels her group has asked the school board to sequester.... 'They're not informational, they're not sex education. They're just pandering sex to young people."

June

Are Campus Pornography Courses Sexual Abuse? "More and more campuses are offering 'academic' courses on pornography, in which boys and girls must jointly watch X-rated films, view Internet porn and visit sex shops. At Wesleyan University, Prof. Hope Weissman requires students to do a pornography performance, make a sex film, or write a pornographic story. 'Sexprofs' often have sex 'stars' visit the classroom as credible 'lecturers.' ...

      "New York University, UMass-Amherst, Penn State, Vanderbilt, Northwestern, San Francisco State, UCLA, UC Berkeley, UC Santa Barbara and Arizona State are among the schools luring our children into pornography—which sometimes becomes a 'career move.'...

      "Pornography not only coarsens viewers’ feelings, it endangers others on whom users act out their delusions. Pornography literally reshapes the human brain.... University of Pennsylvania psychologist Mary Ann Layden warns that pornography is often 'a permanently implanted addictive substance' and that 'it’s even harder for the porn addict to go into remission than the cocaine addict.'

      "In 1950, pornographers were jailed. Today, X-rated films crowd your cable TV channels and neighborhood video stores. In 1950 children freely wandered almost anywhere. In 1999, 58,200 children were abducted by people outside the family. Many were raped and some murdered. Who’s responsible for this devastation?

 

Britain at sex disease crisis point: "...syphilis rates in Britain have increased by 500 per cent in the past six years and rates for gonorrhoea have doubled. Rates for teenage pregnancy remain the highest in Europe. At the same time, poor adherence to HIV treatments is promoting the development and transmission of resistant strains of HIV." Charts: Total transformation

AIDS Begins to Widen Its Reach in India: "On a packed-earth lane known as Bangaraman Temple Street, a resident leads a macabre house tour, ticking off the names of the dead and the doomed. Here is the tiny concrete hovel where Beeraka, the tea seller, died of AIDS last Saturday, leaving behind an 8-year-old son and a wife who almost certainly is infected with the disease...." Matthew 24:7 Let's pray that this suffering will turn many hearts to the true God for eternal hope and comfort. Christianity is spreading in India, but so is persecution for those who turn from Hinduism. 2 Cor 4:16

April

Iraqi prostitutes back on the streets after Saddam: "Prostitutes face new dangers in a city ravaged by looting and lawlessness, but most are keen to take advantage of the power vacuum.... 'They are all over the place now -- I see them everywhere,' said Ahmed Sabri, a taxi driver. 'I could always spot them before, but now it's so obvious. They are not afraid and do it far more openly.'" Jeremiah 6:13-15

March

Church anger over ice-cream sins: "The release of a new range of ice-creams named after the seven deadly sins has left some European Church leaders veering towards wrath....  Unilever, meanwhile, said that the flavours did not endorse sin but were just harmless fun....

    "'Lust' is a vanilla ice-cream covered with a layer of strawberry chocolate, while 'gluttony' replaces the coating with chocolate-covered nuts. The flavours will be replaced in two months with two more, out of the remaining sins of vanity, greed, sloth, wrath and envy."

     Such "harmless fun" has a way of mocking God's standards, desensitizing our conscience and prompting ridicule toward those who won't laugh with the crowd. Isaiah 5:20

February

 It’s worse than you imagined: "There are a lot of myths about why Aids is widespread in Africa. But the facts, says Hugh Russell, are more bizarre ...

      "We are not more gay than you. I know it’s politically incorrect to speak of Aids as having links with homosexuality, but of course in Europe and the US it does....  Is it, then, that Africans are simply more immoral, that African society is just too casual? No, of course not. Society here is a complex web of tradition, custom, superstition and folklore, and the average Zambian sticks rigidly to the tribal code. But perhaps that’s part of the problem."

    Contrary to multicultural correctness, the fact is that some cultures are better than others. Psalm 52:3

 

"Stimulating images, damaged minds by Dr. Judith Reisman: "On May 31, 2002, the Appeals Court legalized the 'right' of library patrons to assault children and other non-consenting folks by viewing, and then leaving on the computer screen, pathological acts of bestiality and sexual torture of adults and children – paid for with our tax dollars. ....These 'rational' judicial verdicts treat as legitimate 'speech' images that create, in viewers young as well as old, physical changes in the brain and that imbed irrational states of intense sexual and fear arousal. Children and illiterate alike rapidly decode sexual pictures....

       "Even pornography advocates freely admit that these stimuli create emotional excitation (experienced as a state of lust overlapped with fear, shame and confusion)."

      Our Maker knew that well. That's one reason why He tells us to "flee sexual immorality." (1 Corinthians 6:18)

Crafting “Gay” Children  ("An Inquiry Into the Abuse of Vulnerable Youth via Government Schooling & Mainstream Media" by Judith A. Reisman, Ph.D.)  "This paper will focus upon three related issues. First, a brief comment on the role of mainstream media in shaping public opinion by suppressing truth in the service of special sexual interests. Second, an overview of Alfred Kinsey’s role in promoting the current cultural advances in pedophilia and homosexuality. Lastly, the schoolroom initiation of children into heterosexual and bi/homosexual sex, as feeding child prostitution, chiefly 'tightly run organizations' that traffic in roughly half-a million boy prostitutes." Romans 1:22-32

Dance freaks school officials: "Students at Palo Alto High are about to learn that ``freaking'' -- a popular way of dancing that simulates sex -- will get them kicked out of school dances. It's just too nasty, school officials say.... 'Freak dancing, to me, is like pornography,' Pearson said. 'I may not be able to define it, but I sure know it when I see it.''' Jeremiah 6:13-15   

January

Watch Out for ‘Adult’ Ads: "The typical American child today cannot escape the bombardment of sexuality, in every medium, at every moment, day or night.... It certainly happens in advertising. Ad critics used to be outraged about 'subliminal seduction.' In these randy times, almost nobody’s subliminal about seduction...

      "But not enough are asking: what are the children seeing? Miller suggests this ad isn’t any worse than the hundreds of steamy scenes seen in prime time. But Miller knows full well there are probably a lot more pre-teen boys watching NFL football games on weekend afternoons than watch adult-themed prime-time shows....

      "Too few people really take the time to think about how these thirty-second scenarios are processed by the young. It’s just another reason why many parents feel assaulted by popular culture, even in its tiniest fractions." Sex-ed in government schools is even worse. See Sex Ed and Global Values

 

Britain Is a Pagan Country: "Britain has become a pagan nation over the past 50 years, creating a vacuum in which people will believe in anything and everything, says Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor." Interesting how well paganism fits postmodernity.

Teen magazine under fire for explicit sex guide: "...the pull-out sex guide in the new issue is more explicit than anything that comes in her women's magazines. ...  Natacha Brisson, editor-in-chief of the magazine, says...  she doesn't understand what all the fuss is about. 'It's girl talk,' she said. 'It's what you talk about with your girlfriend. It's the same thing with this guide." 


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