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Ninth CIRCUS Rules Vatican Can Be Sued Over Abuse
A federal appeals court says the Vatican can be sued for abuse committed by its priests. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that victims of sexual abuse by Roman Catholic priests can sue the Vatican even though it is considered a sovereign nation...
[Coming from the most overturned court of clowns in history]

"Gravely concerned"
Obama Administration’s plan to revoke ‘conscience rights’ for health care workers provokes response from U.S. bishops

SSPX distances itself from Bishop Williamson
Bishop's apology is 'step in the right direction'

Italians told to give up texting for Lent
Bishop urges young people to 'detox' from virtual world

New Yorkers continue hoping for Latino archbishop
Timothy Dolan is great, they say, but too Irish?

The "twin fascisms" that dominate the Arab world - Islamism & pan-Arabism
All minorities living within the Arab world are under siege. Tunisian human rights activist Muhammad Bechri has traced this to the "twin fascisms" - his term - that dominate the Arab world, Islamism and pan-Arabism. The first promotes murderous intolerance of religious minorities. It helps explain why Christians are under siege across the Arab world and why Sudan enjoyed broad Arab support as it killed some two million non-Muslim blacks in the south of the country. Pan-Arabism translates into endorsement of murderous policies toward Muslim but non-Arab groups and accounts for Arab support for Saddam Hussein as he slaughtered 200,000 Kurds in northern Iraq, as well as backing for Sudanese policies toward the Muslim but black population of Darfur.

Catholic League targets Da Vinci Code prequel
Bill Donohue leads drive against 'Angels and Demons'

UK Catholic schools to promote Islam, gay sex?
Under new legally-binding code of conduct for teachers

Papal encyclical on financial crisis forthcoming
Pope to outline principles of just and stable economy

NY subway ads draw Franciscan friar recruits
Lost faith in economy, putting faith in God

Spokane bishop submits resignation
William Skylstad is former president of U.S. bishops
[Buh-bye...]

Catholic website protests Sebelius' nomination
Petitioners decry her 'extremist support for abortion'
[Where's the interdict or excommunication?]

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Six Minutes with the Renegade Economist - Michael Hudson Special


Some Mexicans fear threat to way of life with rapid growth of American residents
Not everyone is rolling out the welcome mat to Americans. Many Mexicans complain about the rapid growth of the American population in their neighborhoods, the threat they see to Mexican culture and language, and the possible drain on Mexico's inexpensive health care...
[Say what???]

ADP: Private Sector Sheds 697,000 Jobs
Private sector jobs fell 697,000 in the U.S. in February, according to a national employment report published Wednesday by payroll giant Automatic Data Processing Inc. and consultancy Macroeconomic Advisers. That's higher than the 630,000 loss forecast in a Dow Jones Newswires survey, and would be the largest number of jobs lost in one month during this recession.
[Obama/Soetoro policies for the Destruction of America are on a roll!]

Tax Hikes Threaten Main Street
The Fraud Usurper Soetoro/Obama's big-spending 2010 budget is filled with tax provisions that will stunt economic growth, job creation and new-business formation. It's bad enough that his soak-the-rich tax increases will have a negative impact on ordinary workers, but worst of all, he'll raise them when the U.S. economy will still be in a recession or in the difficult process of attempting to climb out of one.

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"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered."
--Thomas Jefferson

"The strongest reason for people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government."
--Thomas Jefferson