Bluf: [Breitbart] While the mothers may not be receiving direct compensation, the undercover investigative videos documenting Planned Parenthood affiliates show what appears to be financial dealings between these abortion providers and medical waste procurement dealers such as Stem Express. "Mothers may not be receiving direction compensation"...... When will this shoe drop ?
Ethical questions over these experiments have also arisen over creating a potential incentive to induce a pregnant woman to choose abortion.
After Center for Medical Progress videos began hitting the media, StemExpress promptly acquired a restraining order against CMP regarding further release of videos that involve StemExpress.
CMP released the fifth undercover video Tuesday in which a Planned Parenthood research director appears speaking with undercover investigators about selling whole intact aborted babies for resale to medical researchers. Related: New Hampshire defunds Planned Parenthood Facilities.
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i like family planning. I think contraception is a social good. Empowering women to use contraception is the only reliable cure for poverty.
With time to get an education and to educate fewer children, it lifts the floor of the entire village in poverty struck third world conditions.
Having 3 kids instead of 11 is a world of difference. Women don't usually want to be kept permanently pregnant like breeder cows, given a choice they usually prefer fewer kids.
the best form of contraception is the implanon stick - inject it in the arm for 3 years of guaranteed no pregnancy.
and stem cell research is terrific. It will lead to cures for many diseases and problems, perhaps even regrow spinal cords for quadriplegics.
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Having 3 kids instead of 11 is a world of difference.
Back before social security, medicare, et al, your family was the old age pension system (as in honor thy father and mother). With high infancy mortality rates, the only way to make that insurance system work was to insure you have enough kids to survive to adulthood to care for you in old age. That's why the actuarial table reflected a time when men outlived women on the average. Complication of child birth coupled with that high infant mortality rate meant shorter life spans. They face the same problem today in third world countries. Introduce modern medical practices, as a sonogram, and they start aborting females by the bucketful for that very reason, to have someone to take care of them in their old age.
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Abortion should never be used as a form of contraception.
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The total fertility rate around the world, according to the CIA World Factbook -- a wonderful resource -- is already considerably closer to three than eleven, anon1. The highest is Niger at 6.89 children per woman, while about half the countries listed are below the replacement number of 2.1, a terrifying thought.
Agreed that stem cell research is terrific. But subcutaneous fat is full of stem cells, it turns out. There's plenty of that available in the industrialized countries, and there would be plenty of willing donors, if asked -- no need to kill born-alive babies in order to acquire the valuable cells, which at any rate are no longer stem cells once they've differentiated into organs.
Separately, in response to Besoeker's link about New Hampshire, a native writes about the situation there, which I found illuminating:
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>below the replacement number of 2.1, a terrifying thought.
Why terrifying? It's people deciding what the rate should be that's terrifying. Population marxists should be dismissed as soundly as economic marxists are.
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Bright Pebbles: you are right, women should choose for themselves how many kids they want, not governments. But they should also have the social freedom to be able to choose, access to contraception and the power to use it - three things often missing. especially when religion and tribalism come into it
ahh Procopius - v. interesting i recall The Dictator (sascha baron cohen) - so, is it a boy or an abortion?
trailing wife - I am not sure those factbook figures are very accurate, having travelled a bit in africa and the middle east... In the West many women don't have kids. Many are picky and choose no husband rather than a poor choice. But in say, Oman, the picky women who don't want kids/husband are forced to marry. So one man has 4 wives. And then they are forced to breed. 9 kids per wife. So measuring per woman (the number comes down a bit with miscarriages/stillbirths factored in) you get say 5 per woman but that is from 4 women - and every woman has to pretty much. Social coercion. It's not unusual for one man to have 27 children from 4 wives there, and with medical and education paid for by the gas industry, they all survive to adulthood unlike africa.
Deacon Blues: Good point, abortion should never be used as contraception. That's what the pill, implanon and IUDs and condoms are for.
I have no problem with first trimester abortions for women who were raped, for genetic deformities and for emergencies where clearly the woman will be a completely unfit parent and may self-harm (eg: teenagers or chronic drug abusers).
But this is not the same thing as using it as a contraceptive.
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Forgive my plain speak, but wymen were made to have babies, not have big pharma chemicals impede the natural order of things. Negative impacts appear to take their toll on replenishment rates, culture, and yes, the female psyche. Been watching this process for a very long time. It's just my untrained observation of nature.
By the way, men are supposed to be hunters, gatherers, and family providers. Not all is well there either, and chemicals are also to blame.
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Just keep the frickin' government out of it. The government screws up everything and taxes me to do it. Let people do what they are going to do. DO NOT tax me to pay for anybody's abortion. I don't want the blood on my hands. I don't want to pay for poor women to have birth control pills and I don't want to pay to support their fatherless children either. What ever happened to people being responsible for themselves and suffering the consequences if they don't?
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Stem cells? I'm all for it. FETAL stem cells? No. Consider the source. Autologous stem cells is where the best results come from. Fetal, not so useful on top of the huge moral problems with their use.
[FOXNEWS] A gunman also armed with a hatchet and pepper spray opened fire in a movie theater in suburban Nashville, Tenn. Wednesday before dying in a shootout with police as he tried to escape out a back door.
Fire department front man Brian Haas said three people were treated for exposure to pepper spray, and one of those had a superficial wound that could have been caused by a hatchet. No one was taken to a hospital.
There reportedly were eight people in the theater, including the gunman, who was wearing a backpack on his chest and carrying another. Police later detonated the pack he was wearing and said it contained a "hoax device" configured to look like an explosive. The other was determined to contain nothing dangerous.
The gunman was reportedly identified as a 29-year-old man from the Nashville area. Police earlier said he was 51.Police front man Don Aaron said he was wearing a surgical mask when he unleashed pepper spray inside the theater showing "Mad Max."
Aaron said an officer came into the theater and was fired upon by the suspect. The officer shot back, then backed off. After that, a SWAT team came in, and there was another exchange of gunfire as the man tried to flee through a back door. The suspect was then found dead.
Metro Nashville Police Chief Steve Anderson said Sherlocks need to fingerprint the man and do other analyses before releasing his identity. He also said Sherlocks had not yet found the gun the attacker used to shoot at police.
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He wasn't a gunman - it was an airsoft pistol.
He was mentally ill. This MAY have been 'suicide by cop.'
[Forbes] There are rumours Yevgeniy Bogachev - widely known as Slavik, the creator of uber money-making malware Zeus -- spends much of his time on a boat in the Black Sea. He's avoiding contact with others, largely because the FBI has a $3 million reward for anyone who can help expedite his capture. But intelligence agencies in the US and those closer to Moscow might soon be after him too; researchers today claimed there are links between Slavik and Russia's espionage activity, including its work in the US.
Slavik ran the now defunct Gameover Zeus operation, which saw a vast network of up to 1 million infected machines connected over a peer-to-peer network maintained by Bogachev and his lackeys. The malware was largely used to steal bank logins and disseminate other malicious software. Bogachev's own operations and those of his underground partners resulted in the theft of more than $100 million from global banks. Gameover Zeus hackers were also responsible for the Cryptolocker ransomware that had acquired its users $27 million in ransom payments after infecting and locking up more than 234,000 PCs. Both were shut down in June last year.
In the aftermath of that huge law enforcement operation, analysis of the tools has indicated Slavik or one of his customers was seeking out data about foreign governments that would have been of interest to the Putin regime, says Michael Sandee, principal security expert at Fox -IT, a Dutch digital forensics firm that worked with the FBI on the investigation. In particular, Sandee dug up search commands that looked for files related to foreign intelligence agencies in Georgia, Turkey and Ukraine.
Yesterday it wasn't... [DAWN] Experts have confirmed that the debris found on Reunion Island last week was that of Malaysian Airlines flight 370 that went missing last year, Malaysia's prime minister said Wednesday.
"It is with a very heavy heart that I must tell you that an international team of experts has conclusively confirmed that the aircraft debris ... is indeed MH370," Prime Minister Najib Razak told news hounds.
The Boeing 777 jetliner disappeared 515 days ago on March 8 while on a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board. It is believed to have crashed in the Indian Ocean, but the reason remains one of aviation's biggest mysteries.
The first ever physical evidence of the aircraft was found on the French territory of Reunion Island in the Indian ocean, thousands of miles (kilometres) from the site near Australia where the plane is believed to have gone down.
"We now have physical evidence that, as I announced on 24th March last year, flight MH370 tragically ended in the southern Indian Ocean," Najib said.
"The burden and uncertainty faced by the families during this time has been unspeakable. It is my hope that this confirmation, however tragic and painful, will at least bring certainty to the families and loved ones of the 239 people onboard MH370. They have our deepest sympathy and prayers," he said.
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So the Phrench, who said it was some other airliner, were wrong?
What was their basis? What is Malaysia's rationale? Serial numbers? Metallurgical analysis? Or a burning desire to stamp the case "CLOSED"?
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Mullah Nawab, the director or Hajj and Religious Affairs of southern Zabul province has been accused of corruption.
Haji Mangal, head of a department in the directorate of Hajj and Religious Affairs of Zabul, and Mullah Abdul Hakim, head of the province’s Ulema Council, claim that the director is abusing his power.
Mullah Abdul Hakim said that he has evidences on hand showing that the director has registered the names of some shop keepers and drivers as the Ulemas (religious clerics) and pocketing their salaries.
Mullah Hakim said that the issue has been reported to the provincial administration and central government but has not received a response back.
Haji Mangal and Mullah Abdul Hakim were representing a group of workers and Ulemas (religious clerics) during a gathering to voice their concerns over the issue.
They threatened to quit their jobs and take to the streets if the issue is not resolved.
However, Mullah Nawab turned all allegations as baseless and conspiracy against him. Mullah Nawab said that all of his activities are legitimate.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A young man opened fire on his sisters leaving one dead and two others maimed in an apparent honor killing case in northern Parwan province of Afghanistan.
According to the local security officials, the incident took place in Bagram district in Mahiger area.
The district police chief Mohammad Masoom Farzaye confirmed that the man opened fire on his sisters because they had participated in a wedding party.
No further details were given regarding the identity of the man who has reportedly beat feet from the area following the attack.
Parwan is among the relatively volatile provinces in northern Afghanistan where numerous cases involving honor killings have been reported during the recent years.
This comes as a man sprayed bullets at his in-laws in Sayed Khel district earlier this year in which his wife has was killed.
According to the officials the killer's wife, father in-law, mother in-law and two other persons were driving in a vehicle when they came under fire.
Mohammad Zaman Mamozai, Provincial Police Chief of Parwan, the killer's father in-law, mother in-law and two other persons who were driving in the same vehicle sustained injuries during the attack that were shifted to the hospital.
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"'Celebrate' comes on the DJ's speakers and you danced like Infidel Whores!"
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Personally, as dangerous and as fragmented as Libya is with the innumerable factions shooting at each other, I hope the Italians give them a break and settles them in Sicily.
There are a lot people in the line of fire in that nuthouse and I don't wish it on anyone.
Syria is almost a coherent AO compared to Libya.
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Saudi Arabia is returning to the bond market with a plan to raise $27bn by the end of the year, in the starkest sign yet of the strain lower oil prices are putting on the finances of the world's largest oil exporter....
Saudi Arabia's resort to further domestic borrowing highlights the challenges facing the region's largest economy amid one of the steepest falls in the oil price in recent decades. Brent, the international benchmark, has dropped from $115 a barrel in June last year to about $50 this week.
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Greater strain ahead for Saudi Arabia and other oil producers if Congress does not, with a veto-proof majority, reject President Obama's Iran arrangement. Iran is ready to flood the market with previously-embargoed oil, which will depress prices still further.
Still, it would also reduce the value of ISIS' surreptitious oil sales, so there is a small silver lining in that very dark cloud,
although the amount that iran can pump is not known very well -- estimates are that in 12 months after the end of sanctions they could increase production by 300,000 (low estimate) to 1,200,000 (high estimate). If it were close to the high estimate it would definitely put pressure on the world oil price.
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[DAWN] Former Pakistain cricket captain Wasim Akram escaped unhurt when bullets fired near his car grazed the vehicle following a traffic accident on Wednesday.
"A car crashed into my vehicle and when I asked him [the driver] to pull over, he stepped out and opened fire. His appearance resembled that of an official," Akram told local media.
Akram's manager also confirmed that a car had intercepted the former captain's Mercedes.
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[Rudaw] The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) exported 16,019,090 barrels of crude oil, for an average of 516,745 barrels per day (bpd), in the month of July through the Kurdistan pipeline network to the port of Ceyhan in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , the Ministry of Oil and Natural Resources said Wednesday in its monthly report.
"Of this amount, fields operated by the KRG contributed 12,020,683 barrels, or 387,764 bpd on average, while fields operated by the North Oil Company contributed 3,998,407 barrels, or an average of 128,981 bpd," read the report.
The monthly report continued: "In July, the KRG supplied SOMO [Iraq's State Organization for marketing of Oil] in Ceyhan with 2,201,540 barrels, an average of 71,017 bpd. The KRG intended to deliver to SOMO a further 2 million barrels at the end of July but was unable to do so because of the interruption in the export pipeline."
Due to unforeseen circumstances, during July there were 111 hours of downtime for the export pipeline, occurring mostly occurred at the end of the month.
"At the time of writing, the pipeline was still down," the report said.
In July, the KRG continued to increase its direct oil sales in Ceyhan to compensate the for the budget shortfalls from the federal government in Baghdad and to continue to pay down debts accumulated in 2014 from pre-payments for direct oil sales.
The KRG will continue to work with its counterparts in Iraq's federal government to reach a resolution on all the outstanding issues of oil and gas as described in the joint statement of June 17 by the KRG's Regional Council for Oil and Gas Affairs and the five political parties in the KRG.
Kurdish and Iraqi officials signed an agreement last year by which Erbil would sell 550,000 barrels of oil per day and in return for its 17 percent share of the national budget.
Even so, Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani claimed after a June 17 meeting with Kurdish political parties, that the KRG can directly export its oil to world markets without going through Baghdad.
[TIME] The Catholic church should be more welcoming to Catholics who divorce and remarry, Pope Francis said on Wednesday.
Catholics who do so are not allowed to receive Communion and are considered by the church's teachings to be living in sin, the News Agency that Dare Not be Named reports. (Besides being widowed, Catholics who want to remarry in a church-sanctioned fashion must first receive an annulment.) While the Pope has not yet called for the ban to be lifted, he did tell churches not to treat remarried Catholics as if they were "excommunicated."
"People who started a new union after the defeat of their sacramental marriage are not at all excommunicated, and they absolutely must not be treated that way," Francis said during his first general audience following his summer break. "They always belong to the church."
Francis also acknowledged the children of divorce, asking pastors "not to add additional weight beyond what the children in this situation have to bear." How can these children practice faith, Francis wondered, "if we keep [the parents] far from the community as if they were excommunicated?"
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Skating close to the edge of the theological cliff, you South American populist Jesuit Peronista.
"Texas' first-ever online sale of oil and gas leases quickly became the biggest state lease sale in the nation to be held on EnergyNet, earning public schools nearly $20 million Tuesday morning. "
"When private oil and gas companies develop minerals managed by the GLO, it creates high-paying jobs and earns hundreds of millions of dollars a year for public education in Texas," George P. Bush, Texas' land commissioner, said. "With today's online energy lease sale I've delivered on my promise to make the bidding process more accessible and more efficient, while earning even more money for Texas schools."
Previously, Texas used a dated process to bid on land that involved private sealed bidding. But this week when the state allowed companies to bid competitively against one another for the right to develop oil and gas reserves on state land, the state brought in seven times the amount than the last lease sale in January. In addition to raising money, the Permanent School Fund will also earn 20-25% royalties on the sales.
"Even in a soft oil and gas market, we made more money today by opening up the bidding process to more producers and investors," Bush said after the sale. "The 21st Century economy is online. We sell on eBay, buy from Amazon and catch a ride through Uber. Putting these energy lease sales online just makes sense. Texans demand a more efficient, effective government and we are delivering it at the General Land Office."
I met George P. Bush in 2004 and was impressed with the young man. Using modern tools to streamline a process and reduce bureaucracy is something not seen in government almost anywhere. Good on him and Texas for bringing this into the 21st century.
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competitive bidding brings higher bids? Who da thunk it?
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Now, multiply what Texas is making by a factor of about 100 and you might have some idea what 'off shore' drilling licenses could bring in for the federal government.
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OToneH parents should be paying for schools, this money should be returned to Texan citizens as a dividend.
OTOH this is the best form of taxation (and Texas raises most of it's money from capitalist land taxes which is why it's economy isn't FUBARed).
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
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[FOXNEWS] A gunman also armed with a hatchet and pepper spray opened fire in a movie theater in suburban Nashville, Tenn. Wednesday before dying in a shootout with police as he tried to escape out a back door.
[DAWN] Experts have confirmed that the debris found on Reunion Island last week was that of Malaysian Airlines flight 370 that went missing last year, Malaysia's prime minister said Wednesday.
[TIME] The Catholic church should be more welcoming to Catholics who divorce and remarry, Pope Francis said on Wednesday.
"Texas' first-ever online sale of oil and gas leases quickly became the biggest state lease sale in the nation to be held on EnergyNet, earning public schools nearly $20 million Tuesday morning. "
