Haiti



Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Haiti
The 7.0 Earthquake striking Haiti has destroyed much of The Haitian National Palace and most of Haiti as well. With most people living well under the poverty line on $2 a day and one of four living with mud floors, one can only imagine the devastation to a country that was barely hanging on after being hit with four hurricanes. The rich in the stable cement homes were crushed to death while the poor survived in unstable tents. The earthquake struck January 12th at 5pm EST in a highly populated region 17km from the capital city of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The death toll is estimated to be between 250,000 and 300,000 with over 3 million people displaced. We must not only rebuild the country. ... We also have to rebuild its children-Shaquille O’Neil. By 24 January, at least 52 aftershocks measuring 4.5 or greater had been recorded. They also estimated that 250,000 residences and 30,000 commercial buildings had collapsed or were highly damaged. The International Rescue Committee continues to deliver help to the devastated city of Port-au-Prince and surrounding areas. Is it nature communicating to Haiti or is it some manmade force of destruction that has by some estimates killed half a million people?
January 12, 2010 the day of the earthquake numerous celestial events were occurring, including the recent announcement of an unknown approaching object in earth atmosphere that science believes is an asteroid. What was HAARP up to on January 12, 1010? The official HAARP facility is located in Gakuna, Alaska. The conspiracy theory claims that HAARP could be used as directed-energy weapon, weather control, an earthquake induction device and/or for mind control. HAARP (High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program) is a joint scientific research project of the US Air Force and Navy. In the US, the technology is being perfected under the High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) as part of the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI). Recent scientific evidence suggests that HAARP is fully operational and has the ability of potentially triggering floods, droughts, hurricanes and earthquakes.
HAARP IS A MASS DESTRUCTIVE WEAPON - NOT PART OF ANY NEGOTIATIONS.
From a military standpoint, HAARP is a weapon of mass destruction. Potentially, it constitutes an instrument of conquest capable of selectively destabilizing agricultural and ecological systems of entire regions. The military implications of combining these projects are alarming. The ability of the HAARP / Spacelab/ rocket combination to deliver very large amount of energy, comparable to a nuclear bomb, anywhere on earth using a pin point laser and particle beams, are frightening. The project is likely to be "sold" to the public as a space shield against incoming weapons, or, for the more gullible, a device for repairing the ozone layer. In addition to weather manipulation, HAARP has a number of related uses: "HAARP could contribute to climate change by intensively bombarding the atmosphere with high-frequency rays. Returning low-frequency waves at high intensity could also affect people's brains, and effects on tectonic movements cannot be ruled out.
Overall, it seems to me that HAARP could of easily organized this Earthquake in Haiti, and if so it was a horrible thing to do and they should of never done it.

Friday, April 30, 2010

Test Tube Babies

The world's first successful "test-tube" baby was born in Great Britain by in vitro fertilization (IVF) revolutionized medical treatments for infertility. On July 25, 1978, five-pound 12-ounce baby girl was born; her name was Louise Joy Brown. Dr. Patrick Steptoe and Dr. Robert Edwards had been working on finding an alternative solution for conception since 1966. Drs. Steptoe and Edwards had successfully found a way to fertilize an egg outside a woman's body but they were both concerned by problems after replacing the fertilized egg back into the woman's uterus. By the late seventies all of the pregnancies resulting from their procedure (about 80) had lasted only a few, short weeks. Lesley Brown’s (mother of Louise Brown) pregnancy gave hope to hundreds of thousands of couples not able to conceive. But there was many raised questions, whether this baby was going to be healthy, if the baby has medical problems, did the parents and doctors have a right to play with nature and thus bring it into the world? Doctors also worried that if the baby wasn't normal, would the process be blamed whether or not it was the cause? In a few cases, laboratory mix-ups (misidentified gametes, transfer of wrong embryos) have occurred, leading to legal action against the IVF provider and complex paternity suits. An example is the case of a woman in California who received the embryo of another couple and was notified of this mistake after the birth of her son.
The term "in vitro" is Latin for "in glass," because conception takes place in a laboratory dish. Louise Brown's birth caused an international sensation, with some critics denouncing conception outside the body as immoral. Defects Study in the US found that certain birth defects were significantly more common in infants conceived with IVF, notably septal heart defects, cleft lip with or without cleft palate, esophageal atresia, and anorectal atresia; the mechanism of causality is unclear. The major complication of IVF is the risk of multiple births. This is directly related to the practice of transferring multiple embryos at embryo transfer. Multiple births are related to increased risk of pregnancy loss, obstetrical complications, prematurity, and neonatal morbidity with the potential for long term damage. Strict limits on the number of embryos that may be transferred have been enacted in some countries (e.g. England) to reduce the risk of high-order multiples (triplets or more), but are not universally followed or accepted. Spontaneous splitting of embryos in the womb after transfer can occur, but this is rare and would lead to identical twins. Making test tube babies costs the nation's health care system an average of $60,000 to $110,000 for each successful pregnancy. Typically a single attempt at in vitro fertilization costs $8,000. So even if couples have to go through the process several times, they are unlikely to spend as much as $60,000. But most attempts do not produce children. So researchers set out to find the average cost to society when the occasional successes are balanced against the many failures.
Even though test tube babies was a major scientific breakthrough, some still question whether or not it is good to scientifically mess with nature.
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Thursday, April 1, 2010

Did FDR (Franklin Delano Roosevelt) know of, but do nothing to stop the Japanese attacking Pearl Harbor because he wanted the United States to enter WWII? FDR emphatically wanted the United States to enter the war, but knew that he would need the public’s support. To get the public’s support he knew that a crisis like Pearl Harbor would unite the country in an act of revenge and war. Even though to do this he would be sacrificing thousands of men. Some say that FDR, one of the greatest presidents of the United States would never do such a thing, he must not have known about it. And if he did know about it, wouldn’t he try to prevent thousands of deaths from happening?
FDR, the thirty second president, was the only president ever to serve more than two terms in office. He served four terms in office consecutively, but during his fourth term, died at the age of sixty-three of a cerebral hemorrhage (a stroke). He was elected for four terms for a couple of reasons. One reason is because back when FDR was president, it was allowed to run for more than twice for office. And another reason was because he was doing such a great job lifting the United States out of the Great Depression, and through WWII. After FDR died, they pushed through a constitutional Amendment limiting the President to a maximum of two terms.
On October 7, 1940, Lieutenant Commander Arthur H. McCollum, wrote an eight-step action memo which outlined eight different steps the United states could do that he expected would lead to a Japanese attack on the United States. FDR applied these steps directly after receiving them. After all these steps had taken place, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. McCollum also suggested having two divisions of submarines and another division of long-range cruisers deployed to the orient. Pearl Harbor lacked many crucial military needs, such as lack of training facilities, lack of fuel supplies, large-scale ammunition, lack of repair ships, dry-docking and machine shops. With this absence of supplies, Commander in Chief Admiral James O. Richardson, was furious when he was told by President Roosevelt of his plans on keeping the fleet in Hawaiian Waters. Richardson was so furious because he knew the United States vulnerability and problems at Pearl Harbor. The safety of his men and fleet were in danger. A little while after his discussion with President Roosevelt, the president removes him as Commander in Chief. President Roosevelt then appointed Admiral Husband Kimmel. Kimmel was looked down upon because he didn’t consider the safety of his fleet; he simply just took orders from President Roosevelt. Some say that this shows that President Roosevelt knew when and where the Japanese were attacking and that it was his back door into the European war.
Another raised question is, why would President Roosevelt want to enter another World War? This is because he wanted to stop the tyranny of Hitler. President Roosevelt knew that Hitler would not come to the United States and wage war, so in some way he needed to take action.
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Thursday, March 4, 2010

How did Hitler get into power without being elected in? Hitler and the Nazis lost several elections by more than sixty five percent to Hindenburg (other candidate) and still found a way to become president. Between the elections Hitler gained more voters through clever propaganda and extensive violence, but it still wasn’t enough to lead him to victory. After Hitler’s losses, he insisted that president Hindenburg appoint him chancellor of Germany. Hindenburg didn’t, he believed that Nazis wouldn’t be well suited because they didn’t get the majority of the vote and because the Nazis where intolerant, undisciplined and violent. Hindenburg then decides to appoint a man named Kurt von Schleicher. To get back at Hindenburg Hitler was offered a deal to over through Schleicher and to become co-chancellors, but Hitler wants that title all for himself and declines the offer. And fifty seven days of miserably failing to attempt to form a coalition government, President Hindenburg forced Schleicher resignation. Hindenburg’s next choice for chancellor is Adolf Hitler. Even though Hitler and the Nazis never secured no more than 37 percent of the vote he becomes chancellor and sets out to consolidate their power. After an attack on the Reichstag (legislative assembly), which it was burned down, was blamed on the communist: it was said that this was the beginning of a communist revolt, Hitler requests the Reichstag to temporarily delegate its power to him so that he could deal with the crisis. To become dictator, Hitler needed to secure the vote to suspend the German constitution. Hitler, getting the two-thirds majority became dictator of Germany, this is known as the “Enabling Act”. Shortly after Hindenburg died, and Hitler’s title became Fuehrer and Reich chancellor. However, the Enabling act allowed Hitler to pass any law that he wanted. With this special ability, he banned all opposing parties so that the Nazis where the only political party In Germany. Using the temporary grant of emergency powers, from the Enabling act, Hitler took control of the entire country.

One theory of how Hitler eventually became dictator is that Hitler and the National Socialist (Nazis) started the fire on the Reichstag, this ended up becoming true. The only logical reason for Hitler and the Nazis to attack the Reichstag was because they knew that during extreme national emergencies, people are more willing to surrender their power for security because they are more scared in time of emergencies. And to make people believe it wasn’t the Nazis, they blame it on the communist for trying to take over Germany. This leads some to believe that this has been Hitler’s Idea from day one. He knew that he would never be elected in, so he had to form some kind of scheme to become dictator. It was the result of the great depression to turn Nazism into a genuine solid movement, but that still wasn’t enough to take control. Almost two thirds of Germany was opposed to Hitler, he was more appealing towards the lower classes. But somehow Adolf Hitler and the Nazis eventually rose to power!

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links:
http://www2.dsu.nodak.edu/users/dmeier/Holocaust/hitler.html
http://www.fff.org/freedom/fd0403a.asp
http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/L-hitlerdemo.htm