[Breitbart] A simple new blood test that greatly facilitates the detection of Down Syndrome in unborn children may spell the "extinction" of Down Syndrome people, an article in the Telegraph suggests, since around 90 per cent of those performing the test end up aborting their babies.
In the article, writer Tim Stanley notes that the selective abortion of Down babies jumped by 34 per cent between 2011 and 2014, due to "increased access to blood tests via private clinics," and the simplification of the detection procedure will only increase the phenomenon.
Stanley cites the head of a midwife association in Denmark, who declared: "When you can discover almost all the foetuses with Down Syndrome, then we are approaching a situation in which almost all of them will be aborted."
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So it's "Down Syndrome people" now? Which, would make the selective abortion genocide?
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It's already a "genocide" to which the holocaust pales in comparison. But it's all voluntary [unless you drink Flint River tap water], and subsidized. Think of the cost savings to the Disability Insurance Fund, not to mention the inconvenience to working mums.
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"When you can discover almost all the foetuses with Down Syndrome, then we are approaching a situation in which almost all of them will be aborted."
How very Asian.
An African-American woman is almost five times likelier to have an abortion than a white woman, and a Latina more than twice as likely, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The rate of abortion among American women is currently at its lowest point since Roe v. Wade, according to a recent report by the Guttmacher Institute. About 1.1 million abortions were performed in 2011, at a rate of 16.9 abortions for every 1,000 women of childbearing age, down from a peak of 29.3 per 1,000 in 1981. Since the reportâs release in February, the reason why has been the subject of much debate. Its authors and abortion-rights supporters point to the increase in contraceptive use and sexual education, while anti-abortion activists counter that the decrease is a result of abstinence-only teachings and state restrictions.
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An African-American woman is almost five times likelier to have an abortion than a white woman, and a Latina more than twice as likely, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Single parenting be hard. It's not for nothing that most Planned Parenthood centers are strategically located in urban centers. Big Government meeting the needs of the people.
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Come to the March for Life this Friday in Washington. You will hear speakers from many religions, races and walks of life.
Of course, the MSM will ignore it (again). I mean, there will probably only be 400-500 THOUSAND people there, if previous years are any example. If they mention it all, they will concentrate on the handful of counter protesters from Planned Parenthood.
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Margaret Sanger Approved™
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As pro-lifers pull on their waders
To reason and pray with the gators,
The nice people, rowing,
Throw lumps of flesh, crowing,
"Ignore those insane baby-haters!"
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I have a theory that DS folks occupy a niche in our civilization. Expensive yes, exasperating at times, but usually very kindly and nice. They rarely fight hard. I think they are here to bring our best instincts forward.
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I have a daughter with Down syndrome, and it's not an exaggeration to say what is happening is genocide. But it's been going on for a while now. Somewhere between 88% and 92% of children like mine are murdered before birth.
It's one of the reasons that, when Liberals accuse this particular conservatarian of being a "traitor," I agree with them. It's hard to have a lot of loyalty to a society that treats the one you love most like trash to be discarded.
[National Defense University Press] As the defense attach'e tasked with reopening the U.S. Defense Attach'e Office in Kabul, Afghanistan, beginning in late 2014, I had the opportunity to watch "fighting season 2015" unfold from a proximate vantage point.
Certainly no questions about where this fellow is coming from, or where he is going.
He's certainly a "half-full glass" kind of guy. I'd appreciate some independent assessment of the situation. If he's right then another year or three of steady support and no-drawdown should make some difference.
"Not only has the network been further discredited by having to defend increasingly-obvious Kremlin deceptions, RT's claims about its importance and reach have also been undermined. Despite their boasts that they have the largest online audience of any news agency in the world, leaked documents and independent analysis of RT's own content show that the Kremlin-run news outlet is misrepresenting its viewership and in fact has a minuscule audience in the West. Not only are "its most-watched segments are on 'metrosexuals, bums,' and earthquakes," but its most popular content are video reposted from other news agencies. Many Youtube videos which feature RT's original content average between 200 and 300 views -- hardly comparable to the BBC or private networks like CNN or Fox."
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CNN who is that?
BBC is nothing like what they once were.
FOX is losing viewership now because of bias.
News as with politics is a con game.
I learned that back in the Vietnam days of news. Flip the station and its word for word or nearly so.
[DAWN] The other day, my brother had an animated argument with a relative of ours who thinks that Tashfeen Malik was innocent, and that she had been "set up" and just happened to be in the "wrong place at the wrong time".
My relative, who holds a Master's degree and resides in the US, believes that Tashfeen was not even a religious person and did not wear the hijab, as "photoshopped" pictures in the media inform us.
Soon after this incident, I received a forwarded WhatsApp message that had a similar crux: There is a conspiracy afoot to target Muslims in the US.
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she had been "set up" and just happened to be in the "wrong place at the wrong time"
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I love how all of these "theories" make no mention of the USSR and other competing interests.
Is the US blame free at all times? Of course not. But the whole picture is much more complex. Probably too complex for them to even begin to understand.
[DAWN] A MILITANT attack claimed by the banned TTP on the Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. -Khyber Agency ... the place to go if you've got an Indiana Jones hat and whip. Chock full of high adventure and treacherous Pathans. You should really train up to it, though... boundary, a separatist attack in Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... -- the new year has continued with grim reminders of a troubling reality: the country still has a long way to go before victory can be declared in the fight against militancy.
While it was never expected that a year and a half of sustained counter-insurgency operations in Fata and intensive counterterrorism actions across the rest of Pakistain would eliminate militancy, the worry is that the state may have reached the point of diminishing returns.
Past counter-insurgency operations, like the several iterations in Khyber Agency, have yielded a worrying pattern.
While the military is able to reclaim territory and ensure turbans do not return en masse, the turbans adapt their tactics to new realities. The occasional suicide kaboom against security targets and frequent IED attacks have prevented the return of true normality.
Vastly improved as the situation on the ground may be, small-scale attacks continue with disturbing frequency. Meanwhile, ...back at the game, the Babe was wondering why the baseball kept getting bigger and bigger. Finally it hit him... in Balochistan, two years of outreach by the previous civilian governments to separatist elements have not been able to offset the continuing realities of a province where politics and security have effectively been militarised.
The Bolan attack on FC personnel and the claim of responsibility by the BLA suggest that a decade of trying to militarily crush the separatists has not worked.
Could NAP be the answer to both problems in areas abutting Fata and in Balochistan? On paper, yes. But in reality, patchy implementation and the lack of meaningful coordination between the centre and the provinces and the civilian and military arms of the state continue to impede long-term success.
The attack on Khasadar personnel stationed at a Khyber-Peshawar check post embodies the dizzying array of challenges -- border control with Afghanistan; normalising Fata; and protecting the provinces.
Neither the success of Khyber I and Khyber II, nor high-level attempts to improve border management prevented the turbans from being able to kill personnel right on Peshawar's doorstep.
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[DAWN] IN any Muslim society, the Friday sermon is a powerful platform from which to disseminate views. Most mosques are filled to capacity and preachers use the pulpit to communicate various concerns.
Sadly, in Pakistain, as well as other Muslim states, some holy mans have used the pulpit -- particularly during Friday prayers -- to promote obscurantism and militancy.
There are cases on record in Pakistain where the mosque loudspeaker has been misused to stir up sectarian hatred, demonise other religions and communities, and promote extremism. In view of these concerns, the Sindh government has reportedly decided to table a bill in the provincial assembly designed to regulate Friday sermons.
On Monday, the adviser to the Sindh chief minister on religious affairs said the move was aimed at promoting "sectarian harmony" and bringing an "end to hatred and extremism".
There can be little argument with the need to counter the poison of sectarianism and extremism in society. However, a good lie finds more believers than a bad truth... we must ask if government-issued sermons are the best way to approach the problem.
First, this method has been tried in other Muslim countries, with less than commendable results. For example, in Egypt, Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... and the UAE, the state gives 'themes' and 'guidelines' to preachers to incorporate in Friday sermons.
This is primarily designed to exercise political control and ensure holy mans toe the official line. Further, for the military in Egypt and the royal family in Saudi Arabia, these measures are designed to stamp out criticism.
Yet despite the strict controls over religious activity in these states, they have failed to snuff out militancy. Second, we must ask whether the action suggested by Sindh would not breach the principle of freedom of expression -- although the state must ensure that preachers do not egg on the people to break the law.
Monitoring what preachers have to say in these tense times and punishing them for attempting to incite violence may be acceptable, but to assume that all of them will actually do so is unreasonable.
Finally, there is the issue of practicality. There are hundreds, if not thousands, of mosques in Sindh where the Friday sermon is delivered. Does the state have the wherewithal to bring all these under its control and issue them uniform sermons?
Rather than dictating the content of sermons, the state needs to keep an eye on what is being said by preachers. There must be simple guidelines: promotion of militancy and hate speech, rebellion against the state etc must be strictly off limits.
The state has a relatively effective intelligence apparatus at its disposal. This -- together with the involvement of communities and Learned Elders of Islam -- must be employed to keep an eye on rabble-rousing holy mans who misuse the pulpit to encourage militancy and fan hatred.
Citizens also have a responsibility to stop frequenting mosques which host hate-mongering holy mans.
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[DAWN] IT took yet another murderous Moslem attack across the border and increasing pressure from outside powers for us to finally act against Masood Azhar and his murderous Moslem network -- although one is not sure how serious we are in cleaning out the stables this time. Although proscribed some 14 years ago, his organization continued to operate freely despite the evidence of its being involved in murderous Moslem activities at home and outside.
How come a banned murderous Moslem outfit was allowed to operate its offices across Punjab, that the security agencies now claimed to have closed down? Has the province been in a state of denial, or is there something more sinister? The Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
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Demon- a smart person does not become a puppet and kill for the inbred people and destroy their own country heritage etc. etc,
h/t Gates of Vienna
[WattsUpWithThat] This article is intended mostly for American audiences. Today, it seems almost normal that the IPCC, UNFCCC and CAN (Climate Action Network International) interfere in American internal affairs, deciding who are scientists and who are not, telling us how much energy to use and from what sources, and generally sowing discord and polarizing society (with enormous success, I must admit). For more than 30 years, their claims of dangerous global warming caused by CO2 emissions have served as an excuse for this invasion. If there is a "problem," and the "problem" is global and America is its main cause, they reason, why not gang up on America?
But the "problem" is imaginary, and has always been imaginary. The readers of this site know that. Serious scientific assessments have never come to alarming conclusions, even when assuming exaggerated climate sensitivity to CO2. So what happened? To answer this question, we need to clearly understand three historical facts:
1) Almost all climate science between 1970 and 1992 was conducted in the USA.
2) Almost all climate politics in the same period originated elsewhere.
3) Climate politics led to climate pseudo-science, not the other way around.
[DeutscheWelle] Researchers have found that the plume of cold water released from massive icebergs increases carbon storage in the seas - far more than previously thought. This negative feedback loop significantly slows climate change.
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"We still don't fully understand the climate system - I wouldn't be surprised if there were further both negative and positive feedback that could possibly accelerate or slow down global warming," Bigg concluded [study author Grant Bigg, an Earth systems professor at the University of Sheffield in England].
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Lots of negative feedbacks none of which are not well understood by our "settled science" alarmists. For example, cloud formation. While clouds can trap heat (positive feedback) they also reflect sun light (negative feedback). Any excess of heat at the surface leads to, you guessed it, more evaporation. Evaporation transfers latent heat to the top of the atmosphere where when clouds form that latent heat is released and radiated out into space.
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none of which are not well understand --> none of which are well understood.
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Lizard People at Denver International want warmer weather.
[NewsRadio WHAM 180] It's unfathomable. The account of two U. S. Navy vessels being seized by the Iranian navy earlier this week seems completely implausible. No part of it makes any sense.
The story is that two river patrol boats -- bristling modern-day incarnations of the Vietnam swift boats -- were navigating south from Kuwait to Bahrain. At some point, via some means, the two boats, with their contingent of five sailors each, surrendered to the Iranians.
Two accounts have been offered as to how that happened. The first was that one of the vessels lost its engine and that they both then drifted into Iranian waters. The other was that the two boats had been operating fine, but inadvertently navigated into Iranian territory.
Simply put, they got lost. Neither account seems possible.
Finally, someone has said in the media what I've been wondering these last couple of days. How on earth did this happen other than someone high up ordered the sailors to surrender and endure humiliation?
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IIUC, the US-N-Only-the-US is to be seemingly humiliated or debased on the world stage by POTUS OBama + any similar follow-on Anti-US US POTUS until such time the US is suborned under permanent + irrevocable US-led Anti-US OWG-NWO - WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG!?
Lest we fergit, the Globies STILL have N-O-T answered the Maha-RUshuan Questionne' as to HOW MUCH IS "TOO MUCH", + HOW FAR IS "TOO FAR", ETC. for the US to unlaterally voluntarily - BUT OHHH SO PCORRECTLY-DENIABLY - give up post-Cold War/9-11 "Sole" Superpower Power-n-Influence + [self]retreat geopol across the World WIDOUT BEING DEEMED DE FACTO "WEAK/DECLINING" + HENCE WIDOUT BEING EXISTENTIALLY THREATENED BY ANYONE???
* E.G. FREEREPUBLIC, WORLD NEWS > JOE BIDEN: "WE DON'T NEED SOCIALISM".
Officially = "No", Un-Officially = "Yes", espec iff the former "American DReam" is now the "AMerikan Dream" andor "North AMerican/Amerikan Dream" where ordinary or mainstream Americans = Amerikans are all MEXICANS + CANADIANS + GREENLANDERS NOW, IN OWG GLOBALIST NATIONALIST + GEOPOL "PARITY", NOT "INFERIORITY" TO EACH OTHER.
How is Washington going to maintain sovereign Federalist-Nationalist control over a USA formally and firmly suborned under OWG NAU + Related???
Whats that you say - Under OWG + NAU the USA will still be the stronger andor dominating Nation-State widin the NAU Global Federal/Federalist Union? SORRY TO BUST YOUR BUBBLE, BUT THE GLOBIES + ALIGNED HAVE NOT AFFIRMED THIS EITHER.
* 1990'S CLINTONISM > FASCISM = NATIONAL SOCIALISM = AKIN TO MERE "LIMITED" COMMUNISM AKA ANTI-NATIONAL SOCIALISM OR ANTI-NATIONALIST SOCIALISM.
THERE IS NO US-LED PRO-US "NATIONALISM" IN US-LED ANTI-US "GLOBALISM".
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Breitbart] A simple new blood test that greatly facilitates the detection of Down Syndrome in unborn children may spell the "extinction" of Down Syndrome people, an article in the Telegraph suggests, since around 90 per cent of those performing the test end up aborting their babies.
[DAWN] IN any Muslim society, the Friday sermon is a powerful platform from which to disseminate views. Most mosques are filled to capacity and preachers use the pulpit to communicate various concerns.
How come a banned
