Roman Catholic priest Roy Bourgeois calling for the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI

U.S. Catholic Priest Rev. Roy Bourgeois is calling for Pope Benedict XVI to resign, saying the Pope either knew or should have known about the growing sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic Church.

“Cardinal Bernard Law of Boston was in a similar situation,” Bourgeois recently wrote. “Rather than protecting children from predatory priests, he tried to protect the Catholic Church from scandal. Cardinal Law was forced to resign.

“Silence is the voice of complicity,” Bourgeois continued. “As a Catholic priest for 38 years, I believe that, for the sake of the Church, Pope Benedict should resign as well.”

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Roy is the founder of SOA Watch, an organization that protests the existence and teachings of the School of the Americas and its successor, the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation located on Fort Benning.

U.S. School District to Begin Microchipping Students

(NaturalNews) A Rhode Island school district has announced a pilot program to monitor student movements by means of radio frequency identification (RFID) chips implanted in their schoolbags.

The Middletown School District, in partnership with MAP Information Technology Corp., has launched a pilot program to implant RFID chips into the schoolbags of 80 children at the Aquidneck School. Each chip would be programmed with a student identification number, and would be read by an external device installed in one of two school buses. The buses would also be fitted with global positioning system (GPS) devices.

Parents or school officials could log onto a school web site to see whether and when specific children had entered or exited which bus, and to look up the bus’s current location as provided by the GPS device.

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has criticized the plan as an invasion of children’s privacy and a potential risk to their safety.

“There’s absolutely no need to be tagging children,” said Stephen Brown, executive director of the ACLU’s Rhode Island chapter. According to Brown, the school district should already know where its students are.

“[This program is] a solution in search of a problem,” Brown said.

The school district says that its current plan is no different than other programs already in place for parents to monitor their children’s school experience. For example, parents can already check on their children’s attendance records and what they have for lunch, said district Superintendent Rosemary Kraeger.

Brown disputed this argument. The school is perfectly entitled to track its buses, he said, but “it’s a quantitative leap to monitor children themselves.” He raised the question of whether unauthorized individuals could use easily available RFID readers to find out students’ private information and monitor their movements.

Because the pilot program is being provided to the school district at no cost, it did not require approval from the Rhode Island ethics commission.

Collateral Murder – Wikileaks – Iraq

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Act now to help bring the truth of war to light.

On April 5, 2010, WikiLeaks released a classified U.S. military video depicting the indiscriminate slaying of over a dozen people in the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad on July 12, 2007 — including two Reuters news staff. The video, which became news worldwide, is the product of countless volunteer hours, help from military sources, and monetary donations. As part of a process of its meticulous reporting, Wikileaks sent reporters to the Baghdad neighborhood where the attack took place, tracking down two children who were injured in the gunfight which killed their father.  The investigation and production of the video cost WikiLeaks almost $50,000.

There is more. Concerned individuals have also given WikiLeaks an encrypted military video from a May 2009 attack in western Afghanistan which killed over 100 civilians, including many women and children, through bombing. The U.S. Military has said it would release the video, but it has not.

But you can help release that video to the public. WikiLeaks, which has successfully decrypted the footage, is currently devoting intensive resources to provide context to the footage, including tracking down witnesses and military experts. But this is expensive.

WikiLeaks needs your help to fund that work and the press conference to release the footage to the world. WikiLeaks did not Web-cast the Baghdad attack video press conference because it could not afford the $5,000 price tag at the National Press Club. Help fund the press conference and next time, let the world watch as the video is released for the first time.

Take action. Donate now and support the military whistleblowers who were brave enough to take action against what they knew was wrong.

Remember: Courage is contagious.

For One Tiny Instant, Physicists May Have Broken a Law of Nature

For a brief instant, it appears, scientists at Brook haven National Laboratory on Long Island recently discovered a law of nature had been broken.

Action still resulted in an equal and opposite reaction, gravity kept the Earth circling the Sun, and conservation of energy remained intact. But for the tiniest fraction of a second at the Relativistic Heavy (RHIC), physicists created a symmetry-breaking bubble of space where parity no longer existed.

Parity was long thought to be a fundamental law of nature. It essentially states that the universe is neither right- nor left-handed — that the laws of physics remain unchanged when expressed in inverted coordinates. In the early 1950s it was found that the so-called , which is responsible for nuclear radioactivity, breaks the parity law. However, the strong force, which holds together , was thought to adhere to the law of parity, at least under normal circumstances.

Now this law appears to have been broken by a team of about a dozen particle physicists, including Jack Sandweiss, Yale’s Donner Professor of Physics. Since 2000, Sandweiss has been smashing the nuclei of gold together as part of the STAR experiment at RHIC, a 2.4-mile-circumference , to study the law of parity under the resulting extreme conditions.

The team created something called a quark-gluon plasma — a kind of “soup” that results when energies reach high enough levels to break up protons and neutrons into their constituent quarks and , the fundamental building blocks of matter.

Theorists believe this kind of quark-gluon plasma, which has a temperature of four trillion degrees Celsius, existed just after the Big Bang, when the universe was only a microsecond old. The plasma “bubble” created in the collisions at RHIC lasted for a mere millionth of a billionth of a billionth of a second, yet the team hopes to use it to learn more about how structure in the universe — from black holes to galaxies — may have formed out of the soup.
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When the gold nuclei, traveling at 99.999% of the speed of light, smashed together, the plasma that resulted was so energetic that a tiny cube of it with sides measuring about a quarter of the width of a human hair would contain enough energy to power the entire United States for a year.

It was the equally gargantuan magnetic field produced by the plasma — the strongest ever created — that alerted the physicists that one of nature’s laws might have been broken.

“A very interesting thing happened in these extreme conditions,” Sandweiss says. “Parity violation is very difficult to detect, but the magnetic field in conjunction with parity violation gave rise to a secondary effect that we could detect.”

Sandweiss and the team — which includes Yale physics research scientists Evan Finch, Alexei Chikanian and Richard Majka — found that quarks of a like sign moved together: Up quarks moved along the lines, while down quarks traveled against them. That the could tell the difference in directions suggested to the researchers that symmetry had been broken.

The results were so unexpected that Sandweiss and his colleagues waited more than a year to publish them, spending that time searching for an alternative explanation. The physicist is still quick to point out that the effect only suggests parity violation — it doesn’t prove it — but the STAR collaboration has decided to open up the research to scrutiny by other physicists.

“I think it’s a real effect, but we’ll know more in the upcoming years,” Sandweiss says.

Next, the team wants to test the result by running the experiment at lower collision energies to see if the apparent violation disappears when there is not enough energy to create the necessary extreme conditions.

If the effect proves to be real, it could help scientists understand a similar asymmetry that led to one of physics’ most fundamental mysteries — namely, why the universe is dominated by ordinary matter today when equal amounts of matter and antimatter were created by the Big Bang.

Sandweiss, for one, is looking forward to some answers. “I’d really like to see this evolve and find out exactly what’s going on,” he says.

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Scientist: FDA suppressed imaging safety concerns

WASHINGTON — A former Food and Drug Administration scientist said Tuesday his job was eliminated after he raised concerns about the risks of radiation exposure from high-grade medical scanning.

Dr. Julian Nicholas told an audience of imaging specialists that he and other FDA staffers “were pressured to change their scientific opinion,” by managers in the agency’s medical device division.

Nicholas, now a physician at the Scripps Clinic in San Diego, said he and eight other staffers raised their concerns with the division’s top director Dr. Jeffrey Shuren last September.

“Scientific and regulatory review process for medical devices was being distorted by managers who were not following the laws,” Nicholas said. A month later Nicholas’ position was “terminated,” he said.

The allegations about suppression of scientific dissent within FDA are not the first, and come at an inopportune time for the agency.

Tuesday’s meeting was designed to kick off FDA’s campaign to reduce radiation exposure from medical scanning. The agency is seeking input from physicians and manufacturers on additional safety controls and training to improve CT scanners and other medical imaging devices.

Hundreds of studies have linked certain types of radiation, including the type used in medical imaging, to cancer that can surface decades later.

FDA medical reviewer Dr. Robert Smith, a colleague of Nicholas who also presented at Tuesday’s public meeting, said he hoped the FDA would learn a lesson from Nicholas’ testimony.

“Science must not be ignored, suppressed or distorted as that endangers the public,” Smith told the audience.

Agency spokesman Dick Thompson said in a statement the FDA’s inspector general looked into Nicholas’ allegations of retaliation against agency scientists and did not pursue further action or investigation. The agency’s policies do not allow staffers to be penalized for expressing scientific views, he added.

“It is not uncommon for scientists, both internal and external to the agency, to disagree on the safety and effectiveness of products under review or on the steps needed to achieve public health goals,” said the FDA statement.

Nicholas, an Oxford University-trained intestinal specialist, raised specific concerns about the safety and effectiveness of CT screening for colon cancer.

CT scans provide detailed, three-dimensional images of the body, but at a cost: one CT chest scan carries as much radiation as nearly 400 chest X-rays, according to the FDA.

As a reviewer of medical device applications, Nicholas repeatedly rejected a manufacturers’ request to market a CT scanner specifically for colon cancer screening. Nicholas said he is legally barred from naming the manufacturer or discussing the details of its application.

In a June 2009 letter to senior managers, Nicholas stressed that patients should be warned of the radiation risks of CT scanning.

“I hope you understand that the failure to include a warning on the label will mean that patients will undoubtedly develop abdominal cancer and leukemia,” Nicholas wrote “It may not happen tomorrow, but yes, sadly it will happen.”

Nicholas said he was ridiculed by agency managers for “raising the bugaboo of radiation.”

Medical experts are somewhat divided over the usefulness of the so-called virtual colonoscopy, which was designed as a less-invasive alternative to colonoscopy.

The American Cancer Society and the American College of Radiology endorse the procedure for its potential to boost screening for colon cancer, the country’s second leading cancer killer.

But some insurers and the government’s own Medicare program refuse to pay for the procedure, questioning its effectiveness and the rationale of exposing healthy patients to radiation.

Supporters of the procedure say that virtual colonoscopies use low levels of radiation that don’t threaten older patients who get colonoscopies. Radiation exposure that causes cancer accumulates over a lifetime, making younger people the most at-risk population for screening.

“When we look at virtual colonoscopy, the benefits of detecting polyps far outweigh the theoretical risk the low amounts of radiation would have on people of that age,” said Dr. Michael Macari of New York University’s Langone Medical Center.

CT scans became popular because they offer a quick, relatively cheap way to get an almost surgical view of the body. Doctors are free to use them as they choose, but FDA approval for specific indications allows companies to tout those uses in marketing materials.

The average American’s radiation exposure has nearly doubled in the last three decades, largely due to CT tests, according to the FDA.

The FDA announced an effort to improve scanning safety after three California hospitals reported hundreds of acute radiation overdoses last year, with many patients reporting lost hair and skin redness.

ST.GERMAIN's Message of March 23 2010

St. Germain’s Message of March 23, 2010 “Good Evening! It is I, St. Germain. And I come to you to facilitate the great changes which are so needed in this world. I have a unique overview of the banks and the businesses. I have told you before, as have others, that I do myself own for you, because you are really the owners, the largest, richest bank on Planet Earth. “And all of us at the Bank of St. Germain are so excited, because the abundance that you have so patiently waited for, Beloved Ones, is ready to flow to you. Oh yes, there are a few details, a few more papers to sign, messages to get out, arrangements to triple check, and so on, but the time is so close, we ask that you just spend your days remaining in glorious visions of all that is about to come to you, because it has your name on it. “So, as to those details, there are still some programs running, particularly in the largest institutions that you call the banks, and in the corporations. Everyone is scrambling trying to wring the last ounce of gold out of each and every one of you, trying to take as many of your dollars. When a law is passed they immediately have an entire room full, or an entire floor in one of their skyscrapers, of attorneys, whose sole purpose and mission is to figure out ways around the law. “How can they make more money? What loopholes can they find? How long can they ignore it without having to start paying fines; and that’s the only thing that matters to them. They will continue to break the law for as long as they can get away with it. What will make them stop will be when it is no longer profitable to do so, when it costs them more than they make by breaking the law. “And this extends not only to the stealing of money, dollars, but to the flim-flam schemes, these derivatives, and the Ponzies, and all of these different ways that these very, very rich, very powerful people have stolen from everyone else. This includes the corporations who have been manufacturing. And first they’ve polluted the waterways, and the earth, and the air in this country of the United States and in Canada, and now they’re moving into other countries. “Think about all of those who have lost their jobs, honest hard working people, who have suddenly been fired from their jobs, because their job has moved south or east. Think about those who are doing those jobs now, working in sweat shops, making enough to feed themselves, but just barely; working long hard hours, because there are no laws there to help them to have decent working conditions, and living conditions. “Think about the corporations who manufacture products that are not safe to use, the GMO, the toxic chemicals, the drugs, which the traditional medical profession uses, because that is all that they are given, that is all that they know. There are situations in which not only does the government shut down someone who has a humane and high dimensional answer for an illness, or a situation, but, they have even been known to terminate the lives of those inventors and gifted ones, who bring forth solutions which are healthy for all individuals, and for Mother Earth as a whole. “So now we have painted the picture. And yet what we’re saying is that they need Peace; they need reconciliation; they need resolution; they need to get those programs turned off. The banks and the companies need people of high integrity, heart-based people, to come in and fill the spaces where those who would not give up the dark programs have left, or shall we say more accurately, been removed from those positions. “And so we are asking us, as Family, all of those who come in their Spirit bodies, all of those of you who are in your human bodies, and all of the Kingdoms, because this affects every kingdom upon Planet Earth, to join with us in holy Oneness, in sacred mission, and we shall be sending Peace. And when we are complete with this, let us just stay in the silence for a few moments, and then you’ll hear more about the mission that Ashtar has proposed. “And so let us begin, Beloved Ones, let us begin. Breathe, breathe in the Love. Breathe in the Oneness of who we are. Breathe in your own Divinity, Beloved Ones, and as you do so, as you fill yourselves with it, let your brains relax into the messaging state, into the meditative state, if you wish to call it that, where you can travel and send messages around Planet Earth everywhere. “And so we are going to ask that we fly together on this journey. And so how you fly, or what method you use, is up to you. For some of you, you may wish to step into your own ship. Imagine it, gleaming there in the sunlight. You are the pilot; you are in charge. Step up and into the ship, and walk forward into your comfortable captain’s chair. Do whatever you need to do to get the ship ready for take off. “Some of you may wish to simply unfold your wings, your beautiful, beautiful crystalline wings, and as you do so stand ready for take off. Some of you may wish to fly in the mothership. You are welcome to come aboard. Come aboard the ‘New Jerusalem,’ and let’s have a hug as you pass by and find your place. All of these are open and available to you, Beloved Ones. And some of you may wish to just rise up, and fly with your own energy fields, spinning and rotating, and carrying you at warp speed. “So let us all take off together. And we are going to visit some of the centers of banking, corporations, and yes, capitalism in the world. So fly up and over the nearest city to you, first of all. That is an individual kind of a thing, but we shall name some. Let us name New York City. See the buildings, see the river, the rivers, the bridges, the autos, the great park, see it all, and see those buildings. Send them loving outpourings of Peace. All is well. “These changes will bring Joy into these buildings, into these offices, and board rooms. These changes will beam Joy at the windows of the tellers, and those who give service in the banks. These changes will bring Joy to the board rooms of all of these places. “And now having sent Peace, this joyful Peace, this change to Peace to those places in New York City, let us fly over some of the other major centers of business and commerce. Those would be your large cities, first in the United States of America, places like: Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Kansas City, yes, Kansas City is a banking center. “All up and down the Pacific Coast are major cities. All up and down the East Coast are major cities. See them. You may be in one, or you may have been to one. Fly over it, all of these cities, and send this wondrous Peace throughout the entire land, to all of these corporate headquarters, to all of these additional corporate locations, to all of the headquarters of the banks, and spreading out, and be sure to send this Peace, this Love, to the offices, the headquarters of the Federal Reserve. “So spread it all over the United States, and then go north to Canada to the great cities there: Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, and all of the places. And just fly over all of those buildings, all of those corporate headquarters, all of the corporate offices, and yes, the banks. And send this Peace to all who are there. “And say, ‘Stay in the Peace that is coming, that is now. And if you choose to leave, we can help you with that too. Go in Grace. Go with our thanks for showing us what needs to change, that we may implement it as the one we all are, as Family, and as Lightworkers.’ “And go south to Mexico, Mexico City, a great center of business and banking, and go further south down through Central America, all of the cities there with the buildings. And let us remember that there are corporate headquarters in rural locations as well, particularly in the countries which are called ‘Third World.’ And let us remember that the corporations often go into those countries and destroy villages and crops, and lifestyles for all. “They literally invade, make war upon all who resist, and take over in order to access the resources of that country, its people, and the treasures of its land. Peace now, Peace to all of tho
se, and go down to South America to the great cities, and to the rural locations where these corporations have taken over: Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Santiago, and all of those places, and the places in the countryside. “Now, for those of you who have seen the movie ‘Avatar,’ you know what that looks like do you not? When the invaders come with their machines, and their armies, and they take over, unlike in ‘Avatar,’ this has been going on for a long time, and it is to stop now, and come to a peaceful conclusion. “So send the Peace out in all directions of South America, Central America, North America, and move across the ocean, sending the Peace to every island, and yes, sending the Peace to the oceans where the oil drilling is going on, or where it is envisioned to start. “And go across what you call the Atlantic Ocean to the continent of Europe, and again see the tall buildings, the Bank of London, Deutsch Bank, with its many branches, the corporations there, the companies, and all that is going on in the name of greed and conquest and power. “And send the Peace there to literally transform and transmute all into Joy. I accompany you, by the way, and many of you have already seen that the Violet Ray is everywhere, as we spread Peace to these institutions – transmutation and transformation, bringing Peace, bringing honor, bringing integrity, into these worlds. Notify those who remain of the thirteen families, that it’s done. The Central Bank of Europe is ready to go into an entirely different phase of operation. It will make a great distribution point for the Bank of St. Germain! “Rejoice, see the Violet Flame spreading even more beyond the continent of Europe, as it spreads across Eastern Europe to Asia. Oh, there are so many centers now in what you call the Far East, in what you call India, the city of Mumbai, full, full of the corporate greed and the banks’ empowerment. Send the Peace there. Send the Peace throughout the entire country of India. “And move east – Singapore, another great financial center. Send the Peace everywhere, Hong Kong, Beijing, and all the cities of the East Asian continent, and all of the rural areas where the corporations have polluted and taken over – send the Peace, the peaceful resolution, the Peace of reparation, the Peace of Oneness. “And now go across the ocean a bit to that great country of Japan, to Tokyo, and the other great cities there. And yes, the corporations reach out into the countryside as well. Land is scarce there, and it is somewhat difficult to find new places to build, so they keep going up higher and higher, and there is pollution from the industry. The Peace, the honor, the integrity is back – in honesty, and in service. Spread the word – spread the Peace. “And to all of the islands of the Pacific, spread the Peace. And to Australia and New Zealand – yes, there are great centers in Australia too, particularly along the seacoast: Sydney, Melbourne, Darwin and in New Zealand, Auckland, and there are other centers there too. “And there are those of great integrity who are ready to step forward into the positions of responsibility for the corporations, and for the banking institutions, and the financial brokers. So send the Peace there, and send it strongly – the messages of Peace, the Violet Ray of Transmutation, to change it. To prepare for Ascension, there must be Peace in all corporations, in all banks, and financial institutions who keep their doors open. It is a new day. “No, Beloveds, we have not forgotten Africa. Why do we go to Africa at this moment? Because Africa, more than any other continent, has suffered from colonialism, imperialism, corporate greed, financial robbery, plundering of its resources, killing by the millions of its children and men and women, wars, starvation – and for what? – for greed, for power, for control. “Let your Love Lights shine there, Beloved Ones. Let the Peace flow forth from you to change forever the situations that exist there. Be generous with your Love Lights, be generous with this Peace, and help to fan the Violet Ray everywhere on this continent. “Yes, there are great cities there as well. There is Cape Town, a great center of business and finance, and there are many, many, other places in Africa on the African Continent, for instance in the country of Egypt, so known for its ancient treasures, but at the same time full of business. “To all the islands of the world, and yes, even to Antarctica, it has been touched by this greed. There are operations there to discover, and find ways to access, the riches that lie under what is left of the ice there. So complete your world tour Beloved Ones. Perhaps return to a place you want to emphasize, or that you feel as though you might have passed by too quickly. “Get this Peace out and everywhere worldwide. Let the Planet shine with it. See the Lights of Gold. See the White Lights of the Christ, the silver platinum, the pink crystalline heart, and Violet Ray of transformation, transmutation and change. Spend some time within yourselves now, Beloved Ones. Take these final moments of this exercise to share the Peace even more. “Literally let it blow out upon your breath. Push it to all, all places in the world, with Joy and Love and Gratitude, with which you are participating in such grand changes. Thank yourselves, Beloved Ones, for having the courage to be there, to stand forth and to bring the Peace to the institutions of this Planet. “And I, St. Germain shall stand back and give you some moments to finish in what ever manner you choose. I thank you, and with me this entire company, thank you for your participation. And so we say unto you, ‘Well done, and Mission accomplished!’ We can already see the results. “We Love you beyond words. Keep your Lights shining, Beloved Ones, and know that on this day, and in this time, you have made a difference to the world and the Universe beyond. And so it is! Namaste!” Many thanks to Arnold Troeh for this transcription. © Susan Leland 2010.

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