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Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
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Friday, March 5th, 2010
Since I cant get my foreskin back can I sue the bastards? Maybe have some women sue for deprival of natural stimulation?  honestly my view is that the practice eliminated the increased possibility of bacterial growth , in ancient times. Still being a modern guy I do feel like the medical establishment went too far. It should be an outlawed practice in times where we have the appropriate anti bacterial processes to avoid problems.
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Lawmakers review ‘male mutilation’
Bill before legislature would ban circumcision
Posted: March 05, 2010
12:45 am Eastern
By Michael Carl
© 2010 WorldNetDaily
Lawmakers in Massachusetts are attacking the practice by Jews and other groups of circumcision with a bill to label the process genital mutilation and outlaw it.
The proposal would make Massachusetts the first U.S. state to take such action.
The bill calls for outlawing circumcision of males of any age except in cases of medical necessity and also outlaws all forms of circumcision or alteration of the genitals in females.
The most controversial part of the bill appears to be the provision to outlaw circumcision in infant boys.
Temple Ner Tamid Rabbi David Klatzker told WND very few nations have outlawed circumcision.
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"For the most part it’s legal everywhere. Certainly we’re against the bill. Circumcision is a very important part of our religious ritual, and to be for the bill is to be anti-Semitic," Rabbi Klatzker said.
But bill supporter attorney Georgeann Chapin, executive director of Intact America, discounts the religious argument, saying that most circumcisions are performed for medical reasons.
"Circumcision in the United States is primarily a medical practice. Less than 2 percent of the population performs circumcisions for religious reasons. There are over a million circumcisions done in America … and all but a handful of them are done for medical reasons," Chapin said.
"Our position is that it is a medically unethical procedure, removes healthy, functional tissue from an un-consenting baby. It’s terribly painful and it deprives the child for the rest of his life of healthy, normal erogenous tissue," Chapin said.
Listen to an interview with Georganne Chapin:
Chapin said there already is a federal law outlawing female circumcision, and she believes boys should have the same protection. She also doesn’t believe there should be any exceptions for religious belief.
"All babies should be protected and we believe that people’s faith is in their heart. There are many Jews who are devout with their religion, but there are lots of religious practices that people leave as they become more aware really of the reason for it," Chapin said.
"Human sacrifice is in the Bible, and we don’t do that. Many people practice religion and their customs selectively," she said.
"Religious practices change over time, so Intact America is primarily focused on medical circumcision but no, we don’t believe there should be an exception for religious circumcision," Chapin said.
Laurie Evans is the director of the New York Hudson Valley Chapter of the National Organization of Circumcision Information Resource Centers. She said that as a Jewish woman, it was difficult to stand up to her family.
"Once I witnessed a bris (ritual Jewish circumcision), understood the function of the foreskin and the long, lasting harm of circumcision, I had to follow my conscience and leave my son intact," Evans testified.
"My son is now 20, is grateful, as he understands just what he was spared," Evans said. "When I realized how many parents were uninformed about this surgery, I founded and became director of the New York Hudson Valley Chapter of NOCIRC."
Evans said that she tries to inform parents about circumcision.
"I ask parents what information they were given before being asked to sign a consent form. Usually they were not told about the function of the foreskin. Mothers confide in me that their son’s circumcision was heart-wrenching nightmare that still haunts them," Evans said.
"If they had known what was truly involved, they would have never granted their permission," Evans said.
Ronald Goldman, a writer and researcher and the executive director of the Jewish Circumcision Research Center in Boston, believes that the practice is harmful.
Goldman said people often don’t consider the baby’s position.
"I can guarantee you that the baby doesn’t care what the parents think. How would you respond if people strapped you down and forcibly removed part of your genitals?" said Goldman, author of "Circumcision: The Hidden Trauma" and "Questioning Circumcision: A Jewish Perspective."
Writing on his website, Jewish Circumcision Resource Center, Goldman believes circumcision is a choice and, "Like the American cultural practice of circumcision, Jewish circumcision (bris or brit milah) is dependent on the acceptance of cultural myths."
However, Goldman made clear that his appearance before the joint Judiciary Committee was not necessarily to support the bill. He said his purpose was to inform people about the full range of the issue.
Massachusetts Rabbinical Council Rabbi Abraham Halbsinger disagrees with Goldman’s position that belief in circumcision is because of a belief in a myth. Rabbi Halbsinger says circumcision is deeply rooted.
"I would like the bill to be pigeonholed in committee somewhere because the bill would impact a number of people, not just Jewish people. Many religions believe that circumcision is a religious requirement," Halbsinger said.
"For us it is a biblical requirement, and circumcision is a biblical commandment, and those who follow it believe the Bible and have a right to do so," he said.
Halbsinger said that there are other reasons the bill should be defeated.
"No baby is irrevocably harmed by circumcision. Not only that there are a number of infections and even cancers that are prevented by the practice of circumcision," he said.
Listen to an interview with Rabbi Halbsinger:
Proponents of the bill filed written testimony with the Massachusetts House and Senate Judiciary Committees listing medical benefits of not being circumcised.
The document said the tissue provides protection for the male genitalia as well as defense against certain infections. The document also claims that the tissue serves a useful function during sexual intercourse.
However, not all doctors agree with the claims.
Japan is one of the many countries in the world that does not practice medical circumcision for boys at birth. However, a Japanese physician who asked not to be identified said the claims in the written testimony are mistaken.
The Japanese doctor said when he studied the issue, he discovered that the tissue is responsible for an increase in cervical cancer in women and is a hiding place for a host of disease-causing bacteria.
His individual study on the issue was the factor that convinced him to be circumcised as an adult.
Dr. Christopher Lodowsky, a urologist working in Salem, Mass., also disputes the written testimony’s claims.
"The American Urological Society has neither condemned nor supported circumcisions. They’ve always said to educate the patients on the issue, especially in the area of child circumcisions, about the risks and benefits," he said.
"The medical authorities have said to leave it to the parents to decide ultimately what’s best for their children. In my practice we have an in-depth conversation with the parents and discuss the issue with them about the risks and benefits and ultimately we let the parents decide," Lodowsky said.
Listen to an interview with Dr. Lodowsky:
Lodowsky said the conversation is different with older kids and adults. He said with older children, the decision is for medical reasons.
"Sometimes kids can have real problems; they can have infections and inflammation and that can really be problematic. You have a different conversation with them," Lodowsky said.
"With the older children and adults, you let them know that it may be possible to treat the infection with medication, but always let them know that a circumcision may become necessary," he continued.
Lodowsky said that until recently the data was neutral.
"There’s been some data that has come out of international literature, especially from Africa. That data for the first time shows a real benefit in having a circumcision. Specifically the studies deal the rate of HIV infections. Every study has its own flaws, but what I’ve seen generally speaking is that the data is pretty strong and there’s some consideration about changing the recommendations on circumcisions stating that there is some data that suggest a long-term benefit," Lodowsky said.
Lawmakers review ‘male mutilation’
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Monday, March 1st, 2010
Architects and Engineers for 911 Truth Press Conference Ignored by World Media
by Sterling Allan
Global Research, March 1, 2010
Examiner – 2010-02-17
On Feb. 19, 2010, Architects and Engineers for 911 Truth held a press conference at the Mariner’s Club & Hotel in San Francisco, CA, USA, announced the milestone of having achieved in excess of 1,000 signatures from architects and engineers from around the world, demanding a new, truly independent investigation of the facts regarding the events of Sept. 11, 2001, saying that the conclusions drawn by the 911 Commission reek of cover-up, are not at all supported by the facts.
The 80-minute press conference included presentations by
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Richard Gage, founder of AE911Truth, who summarized how the facts support demolition being the cause of the World Trade Center buildings 1,2 and 7, not fire;
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David Ray Griffin, author of "The Mysterious Collapse of WTC 7", talking about the questionable science of NIST, concluding that they lied and are party to the cover-up;
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Steven E. Jones, professor Emeritus from BYU, who talked about evidence found in the WTC dust that can only be explained by intentional demolition; and
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Eric Lawyer, founder of Firefighters for 911 Truth, who pointed out the many ways in which long-established protocols for handling crime scenes involving fire and building collapse were egregiously violated, consistent with a cover-up.
As a sad commentary on the press corps, not one news agency in the world so far has done any coverage on the Feb. 19 event that was simultaneously broadcast at press conferences being hosted concurrently in cities throughout the US including San Francisco, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Seattle, Portland, Chicago, Austin, Dallas, Madison, Dover, NH, Tulsa, Tucson, Boston, Alexandria, VA (DC), Tampa, Temple Terrace, FL, Denver, Newark; and internationally in Ontario, Vancouver, Brussels, Denmark, Sydney, and Wellington, NZ.
As of Feb. 25, 10:30 am Mountain, nearly a week after the event, a Google News search for "911 truth" "san francisco" came up null. I did find a jeering blog post from someone who attended to mock the event, ignoring the facts being presented.
The silence, no doubt, had a lot to do with the breaking news on the same day that Andrew Stack III flew a plane into the Echelon 1 building in Austin. But zero coverage? Given that Stack may have been a mind control victim used as a stooge to paint patriots as whack jobs, the fact that no one in the world covered the AE911 press conference goes to show just how potent the ridicule element is as a deterrent.
Given how obvious the facts are, and how monumental an event 911 was, I’m astonished at the brazen silence of the press in this case. This story I’m writing now, to post in the Examiner, may be the first coverage this event gets in even the alternative press also picked up by Google News indexing. And I’m having to veer off topic some in order to cover this.
The reason this is relevant to free energy technology is that the faction that is involved in the 911 execution and cover-up is part of a wider conspiracy for whom the emergence of these game-changing free energy technologies and the liberation they would provide would spell disaster to the cabal’s agenda to establish a world Orwellian police state. Likewise, you can see why helping such technologies emerge becomes a heroic endeavor of epic proportions.
In addition to the videos from this press conference, there have been some excellent 911 Truth videos produced recently that deserve your attention, whether you are already convinced that there is a conspiracy and cover-up from elements within the U.S. government, or you have yet to come to that conclusion. Such a criminal cover-up is blatantly obvious if you will consider the evidence that is presented in these videos, which provide some new evidence as well as present the old evidence in power ways.
Visit our PESWiki feature page to view my collection of some of these new 911 videos. My favorites from the AE911 press conference were the presentations by Eric Lawyer (video 6/6), and my friend, Steven E. Jones (videos 4b/6 and 5/6). This was the first I have heard a delineation of the standard investigation protocol used in the case of fires or collapsed buildings, which was completely ignored in the case of the WTC towers. That alone is an act of complicity in the crime and is a classic signature of cover-up.
Watching and propagating these videos is a revolutionary act. Be part of the resistance to tyranny. It’s part of the milieu of defending and advancing freedom.
. http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=17856
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Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
Jeff Jacoby
Boston.com
Sun, 14 Feb 2010 18:51 EST
The Audi motor company’s idea of an environmentally-correct America, to judge from the TV commercial it spent several million dollars to air during the Super Bowl, is one in which homeowners could be arrested for using incandescent light bulbs, customers choosing plastic bags at the supermarket would be manhandled by the Green Police, and anyone tossing an orange peel into the wastebasket could find himself in the beam of a searchlight, hearing a voice bark through a loudspeaker: "Put the rind down, sir! That’s a compost infraction!”
It’s also a place where highway traffic would back up at an "eco-roadblock,” but anyone driving a "green” car like Audi’s A3 TDI would be waved through the checkpoint.
Of course, the notion of an environmental police state terrorizing citizens for not being sufficiently "green” is just parody meant to be laughed at. Or is it? On its website, Audi USA earnestly describes its Green Police as "caricatures” created to "help” consumers "faced with a myriad of decisions in their quest to become more environmentally responsible citizens.” And what better way to "help” them than with scenes of ruthless Greenshirts handcuffing hot-tubbers whose water is too warm, or raiding the home of residents who threw a used battery into the wrong trash bin?
"Green has never felt so right,” proclaims Audi’s dystopian ad. Others agree. David Roberts, who writes for the environmental webzine Grist (and who has called for putting global warming skeptics on trial), says the "thrill” of the ad "turns on satisfying the green police.” The commercial makes sense, he writes, only "if it’s aimed at people who acknowledge the moral authority of the green police – people who may find those [environmental] obligations tiresome and constraining . . . but who recognize that living more sustainably is in fact the moral thing to do.”
On Twitter, San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom expressed his approval more concisely: "That ‘green police’ Audi commercial hits home.” He would know. Under a composting ordinance Newsom signed last year, throwing orange peels, coffee grounds, or greasy pizza boxes in the trash is now illegal in San Francisco, and carries fines of up to $500 per violation.
There was a time when Americans were thought capable of deciding for themselves what to do with their coffee grounds or whether to carry groceries home in paper or plastic bags. It isn’t only in San Francisco, and it isn’t only when it comes to "green” issues, that such mundane or personal choices are being supplanted by government coercion. One thin slice at a time, liberties we used to take for granted are replaced with mandates from above. Rather than leave us free to choose, Big Brother increasingly makes the choice for us: On trans fats. On gambling. On smoking. On bicycle helmets. On health insurance.
In Massachusetts, the Globe reported last week, new regulations will soon require thousands of restaurant workers to undergo state-designed training on handling food allergies, and every restaurant menu will have to be revised to include a new message: "Before placing your order, please inform your server if a person in your party has a food allergy.” In Pennsylvania, the Reading Eagle notes that it is illegal for volunteers to sell pies or cookies at a charity bake sale unless the treats were "prepared in kitchens inspected and licensed by the state Agriculture Department.” In Oregon, an eight-year-old boy was suspended from his public school on Monday because he came to class with a tiny plastic toy gun from his G.I. Joe action figure.
It isn’t to evil dictators with a lust for power that Americans have been slowly surrendering their autonomy. It is to well-intentioned authorities who believe sincerely that our freedoms must be circumscribed for our own good. At the White House on Tuesday, First Lady Michelle Obama announced what The New York Times called "a sweeping initiative . . . aimed at revamping the way American children eat and play – reshaping school lunches, playgrounds, and even medical checkups – with the goal of eliminating childhood obesity.”
Nothing in the Constitution authorizes the federal government to take charge of "revamping the way American children eat and play.” It is only our passivity that makes such an encroachment possible. This used to be the land of the free. Is it still?
http://www.sott.net/articles/show/203535-Big-Brother-out-of-control
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Saturday, February 20th, 2010
US military installations around the World
by Joan Roelofs
Global Research, February 20, 2010
Counterpunch – 2010-02-19
Despite United States economic weakness, although not unrelated to it, our military casts a heavy shadow everywhere on earth, far beyond the major and minor wars it is now conducting. The geographical and functional scope of the US military is cosmic. Formal alliances are an important element, but even such bloated, increasingly un-Atlantic and shockingly un-pacific institutions as NATO are only the tip of the iceberg. Nations generally regarded as “neutral” are now junior partners in NATO: Ireland, Austria, Switzerland, Finland, Malta, and Sweden. “In June 2009, war games ‘Loyal Arrow’ were conducted by 10 countries in Northern Sweden, as a preliminary move to extend US and NATO military presence into Arctic regions—and confronting Russia in that area,” as reported by Rick Rozoff .
Other affiliates are the NATO Mediterranean dialogue states: Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Mauritania, Morocco, and Tunisia, and guests invited to NATO events: Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and South Korea. Whether committed or just coffee dates, NATO nations are required to meet exacting standards. This means, in most cases, not only increased power for their military institutions, but also secret agreements that negate democracy. If our ally’s elected government is military-skeptical, prime ministers and their parliamentary supporters may be kept uninformed of the NATO arrangements, as in the case of the nuclear weapons that were stationed in Greenland in violation of the Danish Constitution. The “normalization” of NATO, its penetration into the European Union, and its effect on civilian life (East and West Europe and Central Asia) are rarely examined.
Another wing of the US military is training, supplied to NATO partners and the military and civilian personnel of over 150 nations. The School of the Americas (now Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation) at Fort Benning, GA, is notorious. However, there are 200 institutions in the US that train foreign military, and many overseas. Any nation that buys US military equipment—there are about 150 such countries–gets trainers with the deal.
The joint exercises with our Special Operations Forces are also “trainings” that provide mentors for foreign troops, so that we can insure “interoperability.”
The scope of operations blurs the distinction between military and civilian functions. Among the problems that may call for a military response, according to the 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review are:
Rising demand for resources, rapid urbanization of littoral regions, the effects of climate change, the emergence of new strains of disease, and profound cultural and demographic tensions in several regions are just some of the trends whose complex interplay may spark or exacerbate future conflicts.
US military serves humanitarian missions everywhere, in disasters as well as routine social service needs. One of its functions, according to the QDR, is “preventing human suffering due to mass atrocities or large-scale natural disasters abroad.” It also tries to win the hearts and minds of the people by operating dental and pet care clinics. The modern missionaries discover the lay of the land, make friends with ambitious, intelligent locals, and rarely leave. All these interactions—alliances, partnerships, training, and humanitarian services– create “networking,” collegial relationships with current and future elites, both civilian and military. Then there are the bases.
The Bases of Empire: The Global Struggle Against U.S. Military Posts, edited by Catherine Lutz (N.Y.: NYU Press, 2009) is a fitting sequel to another excellent book, The Sun Never Sets: Confronting the Network of Foreign U.S. Military Bases, edited by Joseph Gerson and Bruce Birchard (Boston: AFSC/South End Press, 1991). Gerson and Cynthia Enloe are represented in both books.
Lutz is an anthropologist; many activists and anthropologists are contributors to this volume, which bodes well for information about what is really going on, in contrast to foreign policy experts who tell us mostly about elite opinion and their own ideological presuppositions. For information about the size, location, and real estate value of US military bases (domestic and foreign), one can look at the DOD Base Structure Report. This understates the number, omitting the bases in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the forthcoming one in Yemen. Also not listed are foreign bases that grant access rights to the US military. The 2009 BSR claimed 4,742 bases in the US, 121 in our territories, and 716 foreign. Some have estimated the foreign bases as nearer to 1,000, and the cost for those alone at around $250 billion annually.
The Lutz volume describes their effect on host countries and their people, and also reports the extensive activism protesting bases, some of which has been successful. For support and inspiration, there is an International Network for the Abolition of Foreign Military Bases . The current status of anti-base protests can be found on its web site. The anti-base movements have considerable leadership and participation by women, indigenous people, and racial minorities. Ironically, the US military has promoted multicultural democracy in foreign lands.
Lutz tells us what people don’t like about the bases. First of all, there is the sovereignty issue. Status of Forces Agreements often provide that the host countries’ criminal and environmental laws will not be applied to US personnel and bases. Secret agreements, such as those allowing for the presence of nuclear weapons, bypass parliamentary institutions, laws, and constitutions. Aside from formal provisions, a foreign military occupation confers power over the politics and society of the host. Thus the 235 bases currently in Germany are not without function. They have helped to keep the population “in line” with the “American way.” In addition, as everywhere, there is an economic stimulus to the restaurant, entertainment, and real estate industries, filling in the gaps where war and the globalization of manufacturing and agriculture have hollowed out local economies.
Nevertheless, another reason for unhappiness is the purpose of the installations. They are used for making war, spying on other countries, torture, and other activities that violate the host countries’ laws and the will of their people. To moral and legal concerns must be added the potential for “blowback,” as bases may be targeted by nations resentful of being attacked.
Locals are angry at the taking of their land, which may be rendered unfit forever for agriculture or tourism. Vicenza, Italy is a UNESCO heritage city; a second massive military base is being constructed there despite a longstanding protest movement. In all cases, the environmental consequences of base construction and operation are grave for land, sea, and air. The constant noise of overflights, artillery fire, and bombing practice is also a cause for complaint.
A prostitution industry and violent crimes are common followers of base installations.
One of the best-known and vigorous protest movement, that of Okinawa, was catalyzed by the 1995 rape of a 12 year old girl and the US refusal to surrender the suspects to local authorities. However, all of the above reasons motivated the protests. In addition, many Okinawans consider themselves a colonized population of Japan, and resent the placement of 75% of the US Japanese bases on their territory.
The Bases of Empire contains detailed case studies of Latin America and the Caribbean, Iraq, and Diego Garcia; US nuclear weapons bases in Europe; and protest movements in the Philippines, Okinawa, and Turkey. Furthermore, it includes anti-base activism on US territory in Hawaii and Vieques, Puerto Rico, which has served as a worldwide inspiration. The afterword, by Julian Aguon, a Chamoru (indigenous person of Guam), protests that his people are becoming extinct. Filipino and Korean workers were brought to Guam to build the bases, which are now slated for massive enlargement. In addition, Chamorus serve and die in the US armed forces at a disproportionate rate.
The overall picture may be bleak, yet there are signs of hope. The anti-base movements have had some successes. The US military is creating a new basing system for strategic reasons;unpopularity is also a motivator.
As Rumsfeld announced in 2004:
Our first notion is that our troops should be located in places where they are wanted, welcomed, and needed. In some cases, the presence and activities of our forces grate on local populations and have become an irritant for host governments. The best example is our massive headquarters in some of the most valuable downtown real estate in South Korea’s capital city, Seoul – long a sore point for many South Koreans. Under our proposed changes, that headquarters will be dramatically reduced in size and moved to a location well south of the capital.
Now some of the “main operating bases” with permanent structures, family housing, etc., will be closed in favor of "forward operating sites" and “cooperative security locations,” often maintained by contractors to shield the principals from the gaze of the locals.
After many years of protest, spurred by prostitution and ensuing disease as well as the constitutional ban on nuclear weapons, the Philippines bases were closed. This success is somewhat countered by joint military exercises, ship visits, and Special Forces operations, but the activism has not ceased.
Ecuadoran President Rafael Correa refused to extend the contract for the base at Manta, and it is closing. A major movement demands the end to all US bases in Latin America and the Caribbean, and deplores the US quest for new bases in Colombia. Although the Honduran request for the closure of the US base at Palmerola was not a success, it was a serious enough threat to trigger the overthrow squad. In Vieques, Puerto Rico, which was bombed for 180 days in a year, the protest began with environmental and health concerns, and was reinforced in 1999 when a security guard was killed by a stray bomb. Worldwide solidarity activists aided in the base closure, and the international movement continues today.
The environmental and political consequences of bases within the US are also worthy of investigation, yet one rarely sees comprehensive studies by journalists, social scientists, or activists. Political science and environmental studies textbooks mostly ignore them. At the very least, they represent another system of local government. The Military Toxics Project, which expressed serious concerns of military families and civilian base workers, has ceased for lack of funds. We are indebted to Catherine Lutz for authoring an earlier book on the impact of a domestic base: Homefront: A Military City and the American 20th Century (Boston: Beacon Press, 2002), a study of Fayetteville, NC, home of Fort Bragg. Her introduction asserts: “In an important sense, though, we all inhabit an army camp, mobilized to lend support to the permanent state of war readiness that has been with us since World War II.”
Joan Roelofs is Professor Emerita of Political Science, Keene State College, New Hampshire. She is the translator of Victor Considerant’s Principles of Socialism (Maisonneuve Press, 2006), and author of Foundations and Public Policy: The Mask of Pluralism (SUNY Press, 2003) and Greening Cities (Apex-Bootstrap Press, 1996). On her site is the outline of an adult education course on “The Military-Industrial Complex,” with images, citations, and links. Contact: joan.roelofs@myfairpoint.net
Global Research Articles by Joan Roelofs
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=17723
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