In a win for those who favor the life of a child over that of scientific research, a District Court has put a preliminary injuction on the Obama administration's new guidelines because it would violate an existing law banning the use of public money to destroy human embryos. via Reuters:
(Reuters) - A U.S. district court issued a preliminary injunction on Monday stopping federal funding of human embryonic stem cell research, in a slap to the Obama administration's new guidelines on the sensitive issue.
The court ruled in favor of a suit filed in June by researchers who said human embryonic stem cell research involved the destruction of human embryos.
Judge Royce Lamberth granted the injunction after finding the lawsuit would likely succeed because the guidelines violated law banning the use of federal funds to destroy human embryos.
"(Embryonic stem cell) research is clearly research in which an embryo is destroyed," Lamberth wrote in a 15-page ruling. The Obama administration could appeal his decision or try to rewrite the guidelines to comply with U.S. law.
The suit against the National Institutes of Health, backed by some Christian groups opposed to embryo research, argued the NIH policy violated U.S. law and took funds from researchers seeking to work with adult stem cells.
The U.S. Department of Justice, White House and NIH had no immediate comment.
Key to the case is the so-called Dickey-Wicker Amendment, which Congress adds to budget legislation every year. It bans the use of federal funds to destroy human embryos.
Interesting. I suppose in a bid to take over the planet, it helps to have synchronized watches.
[T]he supremacy of Greenwich Mean Time is being challenged by a gargantuan new clock being built in Mecca, by which the world’s 1.5 billion Muslims could soon be setting their watches.
Residents of Mecca will also be reminded that it is time to pray when 21,000 green and white lights, visible at a distance of 18 miles, flash five times a day.
But Islamic scholars hope the clock’s influence will stretch far further than the sands of Saudi Arabia, as part of a plan for Mecca to eclipse the Greenwich Observatory as the “true centre of the earth”.
For the past 125 years, the international community has accepted that the start of each day should be measured from the prime meridian, representing 0 degrees longitude, which passes through the Greenwich Observatory.
A standard time by which other clocks were set was needed to organise global travel and communications, but in the Islamic world the idea that it should be centred on a part of London is seen as a colonial anachronism.
As Mohammed al-Arkubi, manager of one of the hotels in the complex, put it: "Putting Mecca time in the face of Greenwich Mean Time. This is the goal."
As a followup, here is a fairly short but informational video on three things you probably didn't know about Islam.
In doing some poking around about this topic, I ran across an older post at Faultline USA. Although not exactly the same focus, it does have more information about how the U.N. relates to Christianity and traditional American values. Worth reading along with the rest. Here is an exerpt from the above article:
Would you knowingly join, attend, support, or allow your children to be indoctrinated in a Christian church that . . .
*Promotes the moral equivalency of all forms of global spirituality *Focuses on the creation of an earthly Utopia as opposed to “outmoded” notions of the Kingdom of Heaven *Stresses “consensus” Christianity over sound theological foundations and Biblical authority. *Teaches that all war is contrary to God’s will *Is critical of capitalism and democracy *Fosters the notion that American patriotism and sovereignty is akin to racism *Accuses the U.S. of being the source of international poverty and unjust warfare *Promotes a revolutionary leftist/Marxist social agenda often referred to as Liberation Theology *Promotes multilateralism through international institutions where the UN and the International Court would overrule the U.S. Constitution *Is actively working towards the implementation of a Global church and Global government overseen by the UN
The U.N. apparently wants to start them young with the "plan." Traditional American ideals, such as of free speech, individualism, personal property, and Christianity are gone. New economic, environmental, and social guidelines take their place.
The agenda of the United-Nations-funded and -run International Baccalaureate Curriculum is making massive inroads into America's public schools, with operations already established in more than 1,000 locations.
"This U.N. curriculum is extremely hostile to Christians. It's hostile to American values and ideas and very big on humanism, redistribution of wealth, and very big on pluralism and that all religions are equal," Howse told WND.
"The man wrote me an e-mail, and he said, 'It's crazy how we're not informed and how so many parents, Christian parents, are shuffling their kids into these programs thinking it's a good thing, a positive thing," Howse said.
Howse points to the program's objectives that say the entire curriculum is shaped by the U.N.
According to a report at EdNews.org, the program should overrule any "parochial" values or beliefs, with a heavy focus on a social agenda throughout classes.
"Math Studies curriculum explores problems concerning the weather, environmental protection, conservation and energy. … The statistics unit will examine a variety of problems from a global perspective, such as the disparity of wealth distribution between first- and third-world countries."
The answer he gives the moderator might surprise you. The greatest threat in his opinion is that we have not passed on what it means to be American to this generation. This is about nine minutes long and well worth watching. Watch it. Do it now.
Since the government has so much extra cash these days, a $434,000 grant from the Department of Health and Human Services goes to... video game development. Not just any game, this one is geared toward Hispanic kids age 12-15 years. It will place them in a virtual world of sexual situations. The ultimate goal, they say, is to reduce pregnancy and disease among that segment of the population.
As if real-life pressures for young girls to have sex were not bothersome enough, now the federal government is spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to develop a video game simulating situations where preteens are thrust into sexual situations.
The National Institutes of Health, an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, has awarded a $434,000 grant to the University of Central Florida to develop a video game for Hispanic children ages 12 to 15 that will use avatars to simulate sexy situations.
University nursing professor Anne Norris and university computer-science professor Charles Hughes will work with the university's Institute for Simulation and Training for two years on the project.
"A boy similar in age might approach the person playing the game and ask her to make out or there might be some sexual innuendo," Norris told Fox 35 News.
Players will wear a motion-capture suit to control movement of the life-size avatars.
"It's a place to practice where there aren't any social consequences," Norris said.
No social consequences, eh? Riiiiiight. Consequences don't always materialize just in the physical realm. The mental, emotional, and spiritual aspects can't be ignored. Also, who's to say this will not be abused by some teenager who wants to "practice" with ulterior motives? Hey, at least there won't be pole dancing class.
LONDON — Perhaps the only consistent thing about Britain’s socialized health care system is that it is in a perpetual state of flux, its structure constantly changing as governments search for the elusive formula that will deliver the best care for the cheapest price while costs and demand escalate.
Even as the new coalition government said it would make enormous cuts in the public sector, it initially promised to leave health care alone. But in one of its most surprising moves so far, it has done the opposite, proposing what would be the most radical reorganization of the National Health Service, as the system is called, since its inception in 1948.
Practical details of the plan are still sketchy. But its aim is clear: to shift control of England’s $160 billion annual health budget from a centralized bureaucracy to doctors at the local level. Under the plan, $100 billion to $125 billion a year would be meted out to general practitioners, who would use the money to buy services from hospitals and other health care providers.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is “the mother of health care,” Vice President Joe Biden proclaimed Monday.
Speaking at a campaign event in Philadelphia for congressional candidate Bryan Lentz, Biden reworked a line of praise from Rep. Allyson Schwartz, who said Pelosi was the most powerful woman in American politics.
“I would rephrase that: the most powerful person in American politics with the exception of the President of the United States,” Biden said, according to the pool report. “The single most successful, the single most persuasive, the single most strategic leader I have ever worked with is Nancy Pelosi.”
Consequences don't always materialize just in the physical realm. The mental, emotional, and spiritual aspects can't be ignored. Also, who's to say this will not be abused by some teenager who wants to "practice" with ulterior motives? Hey, at least there won't be 
