News Updates, 5/13

Sweden Says Gender Based Abortion Is Legal
Swedish health authorities have ruled that under the current law, a woman is allowed to have an abortion, solely for the purpose of ending a pregnancy when the gender of the fetus is not what a woman wants. Health officials also decided that requests by pregnant women for gender testing, without a specific medical reason are allowed under the country’s laws....

Obama adviser accuses the Catholic Church
A homosexual-rights activist whom President Obama appointed last month to a White House advisory council had--just three weeks before his appointment--posted a statement on the Web site of the Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s most prominent homosexual-rights organization, accusing Pope Benedict XVI, leader of the Roman Catholic Church, of “hurting people in the name of Jesus.”
Needs repeating again & again!

Vatican defends Benedict from Israeli criticism
Pope 'can't mention everything every time he speaks'

Pope visits holiest sites of Judaism and Islam
Benedict XVI due to say Mass in Garden of Gethsemane

Diocese threatens to excommunicate former deacon
Bishop Martino warns against out-of-Church ordination

Ave Maria, a Florida town without democracy
Land owners, not voters, have ultimate authority
[Owning property SHOULD be a requirement for some, if not most, elections.]

Miss California keeps her crown, her opinions
Beauty queen stands by her opposition to gay marriage

Some ND students to forego Obama commencement
Will hold prayer demonstration on university grounds

Africa's bishops back Pope on condom stance
'He was only reaffirming the Church's position'

Nazi row puts spotlight on Pope's PR
Papal spokesman fans flames over 'Hitler Youth' claim

Orissa gov't disputes anti-Christian death-toll
Authorities reject list of dead submitted by diocese

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Bankers Told by Paulson to Accept U.S. Aid or Be ‘Vulnerable’
Former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said nine U.S. banks would have to accept $125 billion in government investments or be forced to by regulators, according to a memo prepared for a meeting with the lenders’ chief executive officers in October....

Judicial Watch Forces Release of Bank Bailout Documents
Documents Detail Historic Treasury/Bankers Meeting – but Geithner Input on Key Document Withheld from the Public...

Brazil to start taxing savings accounts in 2010
Brazil will begin charging income tax in 2010 on returns from savings accounts with deposits of more than 50,000 reais (about $24,000) to avoid a flight from government bonds and enable interest rates to fall further, Finance Minister Guido Mantega said on Wednesday.

GM, Chrysler to cut up to 3,000 dealers
General Motors Corp and Chrysler aim to drop as many as 3,000 U.S. dealers and are expected to begin sending notifications as early as Thursday, three people briefed on the still developing plans said.

Bill unveiled to punish China for undervalued yuan
A bipartisan group of 40 lawmakers unveiled new legislation in Congress on Wednesday that would punish China and other countries that manipulate the value of their currency to subsidize their exports.

Holding GM Debt? Gubbermint Is Robbing You!
If you hold this debt [GM bonds] you are about to be wiped out by our government, who has decreed by fiat, without even a vote in Congress, that:

1. You don't matter.
2. You don't have a right to rely on anything in the prospectus printed when these bonds issued, or even common and statutory law.
3.Your rights do not exist. Your government has literally declared economic war on you....

[The time for revolution gets closer and closer with each passing day as continued lawlessness spews forth from that cesspool in DC...Secession from the Republik may be the only option for citizens to retake their liberty and reject the chains of slavery imposed by the criminals in DC.]

Swine Flu May Be Human Error, Scientist Says; WHO Probes Claim
The World Health Organization is investigating an Australian researcher’s claim that the swine flu virus circling the globe may have been created as a result of human error. Adrian Gibbs, 75, who collaborated on research that led to the development of Roche Holding AG’s Tamiflu drug, said in an interview today that he intends to publish a report suggesting the new strain may have accidentally evolved in eggs scientists use to grow viruses and drugmakers use to make vaccines.