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Over A Third of Foster Parent Molestations Homosexual
It is fashionable these days to be in favor of allowing homosexuals to become adoptive or foster parents. A typical argument is that kids need homes and that a homosexual household is better than nothing. But a new study, based on analyzing stories in the media about the sexual abuse of children, suggests that placing such children in such a situation increases the risk of them being sexually abused.
An article in the publication "Psychological Reports" presented data analyzed by Dr. Paul Cameron. A six-year study of sexual abuse committed by foster parents in Illinois found a highly disproportionate percentage of the cases were homosexual in nature.
About one-third were same-sex while estimates are that no more than 3 percent of people in the general population say they engage in homosexual acts.
From 1980-1994, 57% of the victims were girls, after 1994 56% were boys.
In 21 group homes, the molestation was homosexual in 71% and 31 of the 32+ perpetrators were male and at least 334 of 349+ victims were boys.
He reported that he found 30 stories about molestation of foster children. In 22 of the cases, foster children were sexually abused by their foster parents. Of those, 15, or 68 percent, involved homosexual molestation. Cameron explained, "For example the Washington Post reported that an unmarried man who had had boys placed in his home for 10 years was charged with engaging in sex with one of his foster sons… The San Diego Tribune reported on an openly homosexual foster father whose live-in partner was a convicted homosexual child molester. Not only did the foster father rape his 11-year-old foster son, but offered him to others interested in sex with little boys. At least three took him up on the offer."
Accordingly, 50% of foster parent abuse in a general population survey and 34% of abuse as determined by the Illinois DCFS was homosexual. In news stories in the 50 largest newspapers and wire services 1980-2003, 175 foster parents sexually abused 351+ charges. For the 169 whose sex of victim could be determined: 149 (88%) were men; 76 (53%) victimized homosexually; and 85 (50%) were unmarried. Men assaulted 319 (91%) victims, homosexual practitioners 222 (63%), and the unmarried 164 (47%).
Including the addendum, an oversized homosexual footprint in the molestation of foster children has appeared in 4 different empirical databases. An Illinois bureaucracy put it at 34%, a general population survey at 50%, the news story 1980-2003 database at 63%, and the news story 2004 database at 66%.
"Professional societies are so taken with gay rights they are ignoring the evidence," said Cameron. "Just last year, the American Psychological Association [APA] declared opposition to 'discrimination against lesbian or gay parents adoption, child custody and visitation, foster care and reproductive health services.'"
Cameron added, "How does the APA answer this new evidence?"
The information was acquired from Illinois Department of Children & Family (DCFS) through the Freedom of Information Act indicating most sexual abuse of children was by foster fathers, but that foster mothers were responsible for over three-fourths of physical abuse.
This disproportionate homosexual footprint is consistent with what one might expect given the history of sodomy in general, the history of sodomy in the legal systems of Great Britain and the U.S., and what we know about teacher-pupil molestation. It is also consistent with the responses of homosexuals to studies that inquired about their involvement with and desires toward children -- carried out and reported by pro-gay investigators.
http://www.aim.org/media-monitor/sex-abuse-and-homosexu...
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Red Cross discrimination
The Red Cross, although a humanitarian organization, continues to openly discriminate against homosexuals and men who sleep with men in their effort to keep the blood supply "safe". Although the guidelines tend to appear quite outdated in today's society, there doesn't seem to be any effort to change or update the current system of blood screening.
Anyone who actively gives blood knows about the barrage of questions that the Red Cross nurses ask during the screening process. These safety measures are delegated by the Food and Drug Administration. Since safety of our blood supply is paramount, this is a necessary precaution. But, out of these questions, one question in particular stands out: "have you had sexual contact with a male, even once, since 1977?"
If you answer "yes" to this question, you will be refused the opportunity to give blood.
The American Red Cross, on their website (under "donor eligibility guidelines") describes these guidelines as "intended to protect the health and safety of the donor as well as the patient who will receive the transfusion". The guidelines go on to classify men who sleep with men in the same category of intravenous drug users and people who exchange money for sex, under the heading "HIV/AIDS". This representation alludes to the rumor that gay men and men who sleep with men, along with intravenous drug users and prostitutes are the only persons who can become infected with HIV/AIDS. This is false representation of a safety measure, and propagates the rumor that people in this classification are the only individuals who can contract or spread HIV/AIDS.
These guidelines can be found at: http://www.redcross.org/services/biomed/0,1082,0_557_,0...
It does not matter to the Red Cross if you are a monogamous gay male in a healthy relationship. It doesn't matter to the Red Cross if you've cheated on your spouse (straight or gay), it doesn't even matter if you've contracted syphilis or gonorrhea (as long as you wait 12 months before donating!)...but it does matter if you have "sex with men", or even fooled around with a man, even once in 30 years.
With all of our scientific knowledge about the spread of HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, it seems surprising that the Red Cross would continue to perpetrate false information about Homosexuals and the spread of HIV/AIDS in the name of safety. The Red Cross blames the Food and Drug Administration for this policy, and the FDA blames the Red Cross for not being discriminatory enough in protecting the blood supply. So we are left in a bind of open discrimination by our government and a world health organization.
The Red Cross and the FDA also fail to acknowledge that men (and women) who sleep with many partners are also at a high risk of becoming infected with HIV/AIDS. There is no question in the guidelines reflective of persons who have sexual contact with multiple partners, or persons who have unprotected sexual contact with others, or persons who engage in unsafe sexual practices. These persons, as long as they do not use intravenous drugs, charge for sex, or have sexual contact with men can still donate, and be a "hero".
Although our blood supply organizations should continue to carry out the highest standards of blood safety, the current guidelines must be revised to reflect our modern culture if organizations like the Red Cross intend to promote safety and well being. The truth about HIV/AIDS and other diseases must be reflective of scientific fact, and not old rumors. The truth about the safety of our blood supply is, if you look closely, a half truth riddled with discrimination.
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Californians are climate trendsetters
More current news on sustainable energy science and policy from TouchArt's friend Bill Brown up in Taos at New Mexico Global Warming and The Climate Change Project.
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Greetings, All -- The article below describes poll results recognizing California's policy innovations and citizen's attitudes about fighting atmospheric pollution and climate change.
The poll "...shows broad public understanding that fixing climate change goes hand in hand with energy stability and economic prosperity."
"Californians understand that clean energy combined with energy efficiency measures, which the state has pioneered for decades, mean their total energy bill will go down..."
Note the reference to California Assembly Bill (AB) 32, the Global Warming Solutions Act.
According to Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ab-32], "The Bill (AB 32), authored by Assembly Speaker Fabian Nuñez (D-Los Angeles) and Assembly Member Fran Pavley (D-Agoura Hills), was agreed between Schwarzenegger and Democratic legislators on August 30, 2006. It requires that by 2020 the state's greenhouse gas emissions be reduced to 1990 levels, a roughly 25% reduction under business as usual estimates. The California Air Resources Board, under the California Environmental Protection Agency, is to prepare plans to achieve the objectives stated in the Act."
-- Bill Brown
www.nmglobalwarming.org
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From TouchArt.net and One Earth Blog at www.OneEarthBlog.Blogspot.com More current news on sustainable energy science and policy from TouchArt's friend Bill Brown up in Taos at New Mexico Global Warming a... more -
McCain debates himself on Bush policy
and he loses. To himself!
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Calls for immediate action on energy crisis
As gasoline prices in the U.S. approach $4.50 a gallon, some in congress continue to call for nationalization of the country’s oil resources. As gasoline prices in the U.S. approach $4.50 a gallon, some in congress continue to call for nationalization of the country’s oil res... more
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A new day is dawning
It is beginning to take hold. Honesty. On Good Morning America Thursday, ABC News' Chief Washington Correspondent George Stephanopoulos reported "the Democratic National Committee will no longer accept contributions from federal lobbyists, will no longer take contributions from PACs" in keeping with Obama's well-publicized policy. It is beginning to take hold. Honesty. On Good Morning America Thursday, ABC News' Chief Washington Correspondent George Stephanopoulo... more
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Obama addresses rumors at pro-Israel conference
Presumptive Democratic nominee Barack Hussein Obama addressed rumors and laid out his policy on Israel. Among the rumors he addressed was the far fetched rumor that he is a Muslim, and the rumor that he will negotiated with terrorists. Obama also payed tribute to Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, who was also at the conference that day.
Obama was quoted saying,
"I want to say that I know some provocative e-mails have been circulating throughout Jewish communities across the country," Obama said.
"They're filled with tall tales and dire warnings about a certain candidate for president. And all I want to say is -- let me know if you see this guy named Barack Obama, because he sounds pretty scary." Presumptive Democratic nominee Barack Hussein Obama addressed rumors and laid out his policy on Israel. Among the rumors he addressed ... more -
What does Hillary want? She doesn't know
"As Hillary Clinton found her last slender hopes of winning the Democratic presidential nomination dashed, she finally herself asked the question pundits had been posing: “What does Hillary want?” But the vanquished lady who like victor Obama wanted to script her own history as the first woman occupant of the White House did not really answer her own question, as she addressed a crowd of supporters Tuesday in New York.
Instead she replied with a cryptic “what I have always fought for,” as she listed some policy goals and asked her supporters to tell her by e-mail on what she should do next.
“I want to end the war in Iraq,” she said. “I want to turn this economy around. I want health care for every American. I want every child to live up to his or her God-given potential, and I want for the nearly 18 million Americans who voted for me to be respected and heard and to no longer be invisible.”
The crowd outside chanted “Denver, Denver” urging her to go all the way to the party’s convention in August, where the party candidate will be formally chosen. Clinton’s supporters inside responded with shouts of “Yes, she will! Yes, she will!”
“In the coming days, I’ll be consulting with supporters and party leaders to determine how to move forward with the best interests of our party and our country guiding my way,” Clinton said.
But she did not concede. In fact to the surprise of many her campaign chairman, Terry McAuliffe, introduced her to the roaring crowd as “the next president of the United States of America!”
Clinton herself went on to repeat her argument to the super delegates about her greater electability saying she had won nearly 18 million votes and carried “the popular vote with more votes than any primary candidate in history.”
“Even when the pundits and naysayers proclaimed week after week that this campaign was over, you kept on voting,” she said, adding that she won most of the swing states that would be needed to push a Democratic ticket to the 270 electoral votes to win the presidential election.
“I am committed to uniting our party so we move forward stronger and more ready than ever to take back the White House this November,” she said.
She came out holding the hands of her daughter, Chelsea, and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, and spoke nostalgically about a campaign that had taken her “from the hills of New Hampshire to the hollows of West Virginia and Kentucky.”
“So many people said this race was over five months ago in Iowa, but we had faith in each other,” she said. “I will carry your stories and your dreams with me every day for the rest of my life.”
“We are resilient, we are courageous, we embrace all of our people,” she said in a combative speech not far from the Statue of Liberty and the site of the World Trade Centre.
“When we face our challenges together, there is no barrier we can’t overcome, no dream we can’t realize, nothing we can’t do if we just start acting like Americans again.”
Throughout the crowd, small knots of women with “Hillary” buttons furiously recounted what they deemed the sexism and slights of the campaign, some still angry at Obama for dismissing Clinton in an early debate as “likable enough.”
One man waved a homemade “Hillary or Nobody” sign. One supporter interrupted her speech by shouting, “You’re an amazing woman!”
Her supporters may not have read the writing on the wall, but for the woman who had famously said, “It aint over till it is over”, it seemed to be finally over."
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Richard A. Clarke redeems himself in his expose’.
Clarke became the only administration official to open his testimony on the 9/11 tragedy with a heartfelt apology to the victims and their families. Clarke became the only administration official to open his testimony on the 9/11 tragedy with a heartfelt apology to the victims and t... more
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Twenty-five reasons to legalize drugs
Our drug war has been a failure comparable to prohibition. It's time to rethink our policies.
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Bicyclists, It Is Time To Be Heard | Transit Miami
Are you frustrated with your bicycle commute? Is there a location sorely in need of bicycling parking? Are you discouraged by even the idea of bicycling in Miami? Do you want to know what the City and County are doing to become more bicycle-friendly?
If you answered yes to any of those questions, by all means come out on June 3rd or June 7 and raise your voice!
Two public workshops are being organized for early June to help update Miami-Dade County’s 2001 bicycle and pedestrian plans. You’ll find maps and experts on hand to inform you about the paths and other facilities already in place or in various stages of design. The planners want public input, so mark one of these dates and make your own arrangements to be there:
* June 3, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Miami City Hall in Coconut Grove.
* June 7, 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. at the South Dade Regional Library, 10750 SW 211th St.
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The number 350 is "civilization's last chance"
"There's a number -- a new number -- that may now be the most important number on Earth: 350. As in parts per million of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
"A few weeks ago, NASA's chief climatologist, James Hansen, submitted a paper to Science magazine with several coauthors. The abstract attached to it argued -- and I have never read stronger language in a scientific paper -- that "if humanity wishes to preserve a planet similar to that on which civilization developed and to which life on Earth is adapted, paleoclimate evidence and ongoing climate change suggest that CO2 will need to be reduced from its current 385 ppm to at most 350 ppm."
(read the article for more)
A new organization, www.350.org is taking the creative approach and asking everyone and their mother to publicize this magic/tragic number. And demand our governments act now to reach it.
350.
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The "O" Team: sit back, relax, get ready to rumble
He's taken everything in his stride, it seems. How will Obama and his team battle the GOP onslaught? How do you know if Barack Obama is unhappy with what you're saying — or not saying? At meetings with his closest advisers, he likes to lean back, put his feet on the table and close his eyes. If he doesn't like how the conversation is going, he will lean forward, put his feet on the floor and "adjust his socks, kind of start tugging at them", says Michael Strautmanis, a counselor to the campaign. Obama wants people to talk, but he doesn't want to intimidate them. "If you haven't said anything, he'll call on you", says Strautmanis. "He's never said it, but he usually thinks if somebody is very quiet it's because they disagree with what everybody is saying… so Barack will call on you and say, 'you've been awfully quiet'". There are no screamers on Team Obama; one senior Obama aide says he's heard him yell only twice in four years. Obama was explicit from the beginning: there was to be "no drama", he told his aides. "I don't want elbowing or finger-pointing. We're going to rise or fall together". Obama wanted steady, calm, focused leadership; he wanted to keep out the grandstanders and make sure the quiet dissenters spoke up. A good formula for running a campaign — or a presidency. He's taken everything in his stride, it seems. How will Obama and his team battle the GOP onslaught? How do you know if Barack Obama... more
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Is nuclear energy a clean solution for global warming?
Nuclear power: a cure for cheap electricity without greenhouse gases? Institute for Policy Studies: reports - NO
"By Nuclear Policy
Author(s): Robert Alvarez
The Global Nuclear Partnership (GNEP) is a major element of the Bush Administration’s energy policy. Its principal goal is to expand the world-wide growth of nuclear energy as a means of reducing greenhouse gas emissions and fostering economic development. Under Bush's plan, the United States and its nuclear partners would sell power reactors to developing nations who agree not to pursue technologies that would aid nuclear weapons production, notably reprocessing and uranium enrichment.
To sweeten the deal, the United States would take highly radioactive spent fuel rods to a recycling center in this country. The foreign reactor wastes, along with spent fuel from the U.S. reactor fleet, would be reprocessed to reduce the amount that would go deep underground. Nuclear explosive materials, such as plutonium, would also also be separated and converted to less troublesome isotopes in a new generation reactors operated in the United States.
However, our investigation found that:
* GNEP is a rushed, ill-conceived, poorly supported and technically and economically risky expansion and redirection of the nuclear industry. None of the technologies and processes proposed for GNEP current exist in commercially viable applications and only a few have been demonstrated in large, engineering scale projects.
* Even if its unproven technologies are shown to be viable, GNEP also has the potential to inhibit the adoption of more reasonable solutions to global climate change by diverting resources into an unproven and, most likely, a prohibitively expensive nuclear option.
* GNEP also would increase the danger of nuclear proliferation and the potential for weapons grade materials falling into the hands of hostile or unstable nations and terrorist groups.
* GNEP will likely worsen the radioactive waste disposal problem and would also make the United States the dumping ground for nuclear wastes from the other participating nations...."
Follow the link to read the pdf of the full report.
Photo of U.S. Nuclear Power Plant Towers by Andre Jenny
Montpelier Vermont, USA
http://www.andrejenny.com/
Andre Jenny wrote, "Nuclear power plant cooling towers, in Limerick, Pennsylvania.
Steam rising from the cooling towers at Philadelphia Electric Company Nuclear Power generating station in Limerick in the State of Pennsylvania.
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from your friends at TouchArt.net and OneEarthBlog.blogspot.com in New Mexico where our backyard has been designated a nuclear energy sacrifice area, even though there is already too much natural as well as military and corporate produced radiation. Nuclear power: a cure for cheap electricity without greenhouse gases? Institute for Policy Studies: reports - NO ... more -
Institute for Policy Studies: Ideas into Action
Ideas into Action Since 1963
About the Institute -
Richard Barnet and Marcus Raskin founded the Institute in 1963. Reeling from the shock of the Cuban Missile crisis and wary of the looming disaster in Vietnam, they saw their country losing its way, increasingly unable to give human needs priority over an insatiable and permanent national security state. The nation’s capital needed an independent source of policy alternatives.
As Washington’s first progressive multi-issue “think tank,” IPS has served as a policy and research resource for visionary social justice movements for four decades: from the anti-war and civil rights movements in the 1960’s to the peace and global justice movements of the last decade.
In September 1976, the Institute’s destiny became irrevocably linked with the international human rights struggle when agents of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet murdered two IPS colleagues on Embassy Row. Since then, our annual Letelier-Moffitt human rights awards ceremony has celebrated heroes of human rights in the U.S and Latin America.
A Better World: Peace, Justice, and a Sustainable Environment Ideas into Action Since 1963 About the Institute - ... more -
First town in US to become 100% wind powered
Rock Port Missouri, population 1,300, is the first 100% wind powered city in the US. Loess Hill Wind Farm, with four 1.25-MW wind turbines, is estimated to generate 16 gigawatt hours (16 million kilowatt hours) of electricity annually. 13 gigawatts hours of electricity have historically been consumed annually by the residents and businesses of this town. Rock Port Missouri, population 1,300, is the first 100% wind powered city in the US. Loess Hill Wind Farm, with four 1.25-MW wind turb... more
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A Science Advisor is Necessary for the Executive Branch to Effectively Approach Gl...
"President Dwight D. Eisenhower appointed James Killian, the president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to become the first special assistant to the president for science and technology. Ever since, the relationship between the nation’s chief executive and the White House’s resident authority on nuclear fission, the workings of DNA and the greenhouse effect, among an array of topics, has had its highs and lows...
the new chief executive should hire a leading scientist. In collaboration with the rest of the community, the official should be allowed to assume a prominent, unimpeded role in helping to influence the crafting of policies that address climate change, missile defense and stem cells. The war on cancer—and a host of other research initiatives—should once again take precedence over the war on science."
And guess who abolished this progressive and formerly influential position?
None other than Richard Nixon...
George Bush restored the position, but like many of his other half-assed attempts to look progressive, the power of the position paled in comparison to the influence it had during the Eisenhower and Kennedy years. "President Dwight D. Eisenhower appointed James Killian, the president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to become the fir... more -
Cap & Betrayed
I admit that, like many Virginians, I follow the Washington Post, but every once in a while, because I lived in DC for a bit, I like to check out The Hill. The Hill is an interesting rag, and often has little newsy bits about developments that may impact policy but weren't considered important enough to make it into the big papers. It's a slow day, so I surfed over to the site to find out what they considered front-page news.
Oh, the betrayal! The Environmental Defense Fund has come out in favor of cap & trade! < Dramatic roll of eyes, limp hand-waving, fake swoon... >
Seriously, their own recommendations in their own words (available at http://www.edf.org/article.cfm?contentID=5405 ) are much more certain and less dry than The Hill's cover article. "The cost of capping global warming pollution over the next two decades is almost too small to measure."
If cap & trade will cost us virtually nothing, then why isn't EDF recommending we go further?
This is going to be unpalatable to some people, but why aren't we swinging the grassroots momentum for a carbon tipping fee? Think of it this way: Every municipality I know of has littering fees. Most localities have fees for garbage pick-up. If you dump your garbage on the side of the road and get caught, you will be fined. Why? Because rotting garbage is unsightly, smelly, and poses health risks. Polluting in that sense has had fines, fees, costs and criminal charges associated with it for decades.
Carbon pollution is still garbage--it's unsightly, smelly, and poses health risks. Cap & trade does nothing to target transportation; it affects refineries, factories, power plants and other industry carbon sources. A carbon tipping fee would encourage individuals to take more personal responsibility as carbon consumers, as well as hitting the industrial/business sector.
I know it was a countermove in a fight over a particular bill, I feel just a tad betrayed by EDF because, given their findings, I would have liked them to swung the bat for something more. I admit that, like many Virginians, I follow the Washington Post, but every once in a while, because I lived in DC for a bit, I like t... more -
Clinton adviser quits over China rhetoric
Hillary Clinton is taking swings at China in Pennsylvania, but her panda punching has cost her a key adviser on Asia policy. Richard Baum quit after the New York senator said she's impose punitive sanctions against China a week ago.
“I will get tough on China,” she said on Wednesday during the speech in Washington, the Politico reported. “Because right now, China’s steel comes here, our jobs go there. China’s exports, our jobs across the economy are sent there. We play by the rules, they manipulate their currency. We get tainted fish, lead-based toys, polluted pharmaceuticals.”
Clinton recently called for President George W. Bush to boycott the opening ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics on Aug. 8 to protest China's response to riots in Tibet, which the Chinese say is an integral part of their territory.
Baum, a UCLA professor, told ESPN on April 9 he favors a softer approach.
"I happen to think that shaming China and sticking our fingers in its eye is a bad idea. The more you humiliate them, the angrier they are going to get. They're not going to treat Tibetans any better through protests," he said.
- Lisa Lerer - Politico.com Hillary Clinton is taking swings at China in Pennsylvania, but her panda punching has cost her a key adviser on Asia policy. Richard B... more -
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