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		<title>Every night&#8230;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A piece of history! The Christian refugees Lee Joo-Chan recalled how his parents went out to retrieve his Bible. &#8220;Every night they went out into the garden and dug up a jar. They took out a black book and read it. Not so loud, they whispered. They said that we never had to tell something about the book to other people. I knew they not fooled us, and that we would all be killed if people found out about this forbidden book. Sometimes my mother would say that God lives and that we must obey him. But she never mentioned Jesus. she could not. It would have been too dangerous. &#8221; Not so long ago received the Open Doors, a 80-year-old Bible for the help we had given to a North Korean Christian family. It was printed in Seoul in 1930 and had then been passed on from one generation to the next. After Kim Il-Sung came to power in 1945 the Bible had to be hidden. At a moment in time the family was taken for an unknown reason and sent to a labor camp. They spent several years under horrific conditions, whereas the Bible remained in hiding. After [...]]]></description>
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<h2>The Christian refugees Lee Joo-Chan recalled how his parents went out to retrieve his Bible. &#8220;Every night they went out into the garden and dug up a jar. They took out a black book and read it. Not so loud, they whispered. They said that we never had to tell something about the book to other people. I knew they not fooled us, and that we would all be killed if people found out about this forbidden book. Sometimes my mother would say that God lives and that we must obey him. But she never mentioned Jesus. she could not. It would have been too dangerous. &#8221;</p>
<p>Not so long ago received the Open Doors, a 80-year-old Bible for the help we had given to a North Korean Christian family. It was printed in Seoul in 1930 and had then been passed on from one generation to the next. After Kim Il-Sung came to power in 1945 the Bible had to be hidden. At a moment in time the family was taken for an unknown reason and sent to a labor camp. They spent several years under horrific conditions, whereas the Bible remained in hiding. After the family was finally released, the Open Doors in a position to help them get back on its feet through our contacts.</h2>
<h2>&#8220;They were so grateful that they gave us the Bible&#8217;s,&#8221; says brother Simon, Open Doors&#8217; main contact for the persecuted Christians in North Korea. &#8220;Of course we assured them so that they got a new Bible.&#8221;</p>
<p>One day, Bibles, hymn books and other Christian materials such as Open Doors has received in recent years, will be brought back to North Korea. Simon says:</h2>
<h2>&#8220;Then we can show the North Korean people the endless and indestructible power of the Word of God.&#8221;</h2>
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		<title>Obama &amp; Oprah</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; http://www.networkedblogs.com/blog/women_explode *** BHO  &#8216;He&#8217; mocks the Bible, Jesus Christ and Christianity&#8221; He is where he is in part because Oprah had him on her show to &#8216;promote&#8217; his book then &#8216;suggested&#8217; that he &#8216;run for president&#8217;&#8230; because he was &#8216;the one&#8217;. &#8216;Her show&#8217; that panders to, mocks, insults, talks down to and exploits America, Christianity, whites and everything American for her profit. Obama and Oprah attended Rev.Wright&#8217;s church of &#8216;hate&#8217; America (Wright matches up gays) and &#8216;hate the white race&#8217;, for years. Oprah &#8216;promotes&#8217; that there are &#8216;many ways&#8217; to Heaven (as if this woman knows, or is an authority on anything. Ha!) She holds herself out as a &#8216;new age guru&#8217;. She &#8216;promoted&#8217; homosexuality on her show and had every &#8216;freak circumstance&#8217; that exists to bring her audience and revenue to promote &#8216;her agenda&#8217;. She appeals to the lowest denominator and the common. She coined the phrase referring to &#8216;Obama as the one&#8217;. Ha! The one what? The most evil one that America has ever seen&#8230;the one to deceive&#8230;the great deceiver. Oprah helped create Obama&#8217;s media image and the NWO uses her for her influence on the common, easily brainwashed and led masses. Obama tries to use and justify his misguided policy, by quoting Jesus in Luke 12:48: &#8220;From [...]]]></description>
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<h2>BHO  &#8216;He&#8217; mocks the Bible, Jesus Christ and Christianity&#8221;</h2>
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<h2>He  is where he is in part because Oprah had him on her show to &#8216;promote&#8217;  his book then &#8216;suggested&#8217; that he &#8216;run for president&#8217;&#8230; because he was  &#8216;the one&#8217;. &#8216;Her show&#8217; that panders to, mocks, insults, talks down to and  exploits America, Christianity, whites and everything American for her  profit.</h2>
<h2><strong>Obama and Oprah attended Rev.Wright&#8217;s church of &#8216;hate&#8217; America</strong> (Wright matches up gays) <strong>and &#8216;hate the white race&#8217;, for years</strong>.  Oprah &#8216;promotes&#8217; that there are &#8216;many ways&#8217; to Heaven (as if this woman  knows, or is an authority on anything. Ha!) She holds herself out as a  &#8216;new age guru&#8217;. She &#8216;promoted&#8217; homosexuality on her show and had every  &#8216;freak circumstance&#8217; that exists to bring her audience and revenue to  promote <strong>&#8216;her agenda&#8217;</strong>. She appeals to the lowest  denominator and the common. She coined the phrase referring to &#8216;Obama as  the one&#8217;. Ha! The one what? The most evil one that America has ever  seen&#8230;the one to deceive&#8230;<strong>the great deceiver.  Oprah helped create Obama&#8217;s media image and the NWO uses her for her  influence on the common, easily brainwashed and led masses.<br />
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Obama tries to use and justify his misguided policy, by quoting Jesus in Luke 12:48: <strong>&#8220;From  everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the  one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked.&#8221;</strong></h2>
<h2>You do not have to have a seminary degree to know and anyone who reads the Bible knows that <strong>Jesus is talking about individual stewardship in an individual&#8217;s relationship with God.</strong></h2>
<h2><strong>For it is God who gives each  person different portions of gifts, talents, and treasure to manage  according to His sovereign will. It is God who entrusts people with what  they have, not the government. We are each born with our genetics, our  personality, our intellect, our talents, our gifts, our lack and into  our individual circumstances.</strong></h2>
<h2><strong>God is the One who will judge the faithfulness of each individual&#8217;s stewardship and blessing, or lack thereof</strong>. (not Obama/Oprah, or the government) <strong>In Luke 12:48, Jesus, God the Son, is exhorting individuals to be faithful and give generously without regret.</strong></h2>
<h2><strong>One has to wonder if Obama has  replaced God with his administration&#8230; &#8216;the government&#8217;. He must  believe that when he says, &#8220;much is given,&#8221; he refers to what is given  by the government; and &#8220;much is demanded,&#8221; as that which is &#8216;demanded&#8217;  by the government. This is 180 degrees opposite to the truth.</strong></h2>
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<h2><strong>We  have had egotistical presidents before, from both political spectrums,  but never have we had one who saw himself as replacing God, or one who  views his administration as acting on God&#8217;s behalf, or instead of God.</strong></h2>
<h2><strong>Misquoting the Scripture is a practice by some politicians to advance their cause</strong>. <strong>But  this abuse of the Scripture and viewing one&#8217;s administration as the  judge and executioner &#8212; not for crimes, but for personal stewardship &#8212;  has reached a new level of egotism.</strong></h2>
<h2><strong> </strong><strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">Sharia Law is a political ideology with goals to take over America and the world. </span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">They &#8216;sanction lying&#8217;, <strong>taqiyya, </strong>to achieve their goals. They use <strong>tactics</strong> to infiltrate, propagandize, &#8216;elect Muslims to office&#8217;, and convert  Americans to Islam, in order to establish Sharia law as the law of the  land, and make the country an Islamic nation, ruled by a  Sharia-compliant </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>caliph.</strong></span></h2>
<h2><strong> </strong><strong>Muslims think that</strong> <strong>they are superior to all others&#8230; and clearly Obama thinks he is &#8216;superior&#8217; to all others</strong>&#8230;</h2>
<h2><strong>When Obama reads from and quotes the Bible</strong> <strong>it rings so false that it reeks</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>evil.</strong> Nothing about Obama is honest, true, or of the good&#8230; he is only about his agenda and <strong>he will do anything to achieve it</strong>. The Obama Regime indebts and sucks money from the American people and launders it to his causes and friends. <strong>It is Mafia-like nothing about it is Christ-like&#8230; Obama&#8217;s Regime is anti-Christ&#8230;<br />
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But  Obama is doing, saying and will do whatever he needs to and can, to get  four more years to further his agenda of the destruction of America.  Should he succeed&#8230; God only knows what evil he and his backers will  unleash. He, his backers and supporters are an example of total  corruption and evil&#8230;</h2>
<h2>Obama is without boundaries, respect,  conscience and is full of conceit, lies, arrogance and usury. It seems  the man will stop at nothing to try and win a second term. He wrote in  his book that he &#8216;promoted&#8217; on Oprah&#8217;s show, should the winds shift that  he will stand with the Muslims&#8230;and now, he quotes the Bible to  further his evil agenda&#8230;It&#8217;s laughable were it not so sick, twisted,  corrupt and evil.<br />
<img id="ibafSlideshowImg" src="http://www.ghostofaflea.com/archives/ObamaAntichrist.jpg" alt="" /></h2>
<h2>He also stated in his 1st book,&#8221;My father&#8217;s dreams, are my dreams&#8221;. And his father was quoted as saying<strong>,&#8221;American  people could be taxed 100% of their income and it would be legal.They  then can receive all they need from the Government&#8221;&#8230;&#8221;<br />
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Obama stated that we &#8216;are not a Christian nation&#8217; and now uses, &#8216;<strong>mis</strong>s-uses&#8217;  the Bible as a tool to  &#8216;campaign&#8217; <strong>his agenda which is to ultimately exploit and enslave America.<br />
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<strong>The Obama Regime is clearly anti-Christ and pro-Muslim.</strong> The duplicity and agenda of the Obama Regime is pure evil&#8230; Obama and  Oprah have mocked America for their gain and agenda long enough.  Deception, corruption, lies and evil are what they promote and stand  for&#8230;<strong>It&#8217;s all Leviathan spin! </strong>These people are socialists, Marxists, communists and worse and are against everything America is and stands for&#8230; <strong>Enough of them, their corruption and lies!!!</strong></h2>
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<h2>Posted by Ann at <a href="http://blog.womenexplode.com/2012/02/06/where-we-are-in-life-is-where-we-are-supposed-to-be.aspx">2/6/2012 11:31 AM</a> <a target="_blank"><img src="http://blog.womenexplode.com/ThemeFiles/8%5C7%5C6%5C3%5C5%5C262906-253678%5C/images/printicon.gif" border="0" alt="" align="absbottom" /></a><br />
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		<title>Flesh or Spirit?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:28:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is only two states of existence and available knowledge: 1) The world &#8221; flesh&#8221; system of the five senses is our original state of existence.  But this is limited  by both time and space!  Each and every human begins in this earthly existence&#8230; When you live in the flesh world you live in sin originated existence; because people have their eyes upon themselves, not not God!   The more you are in the flesh the more you will sin {trespass or separate yourself} from God!   Which is where most of the people in the world exist today! 2) The Spirit existence; which is Eternal as Truth, Love and Peace all found in the Holy Spirit of God. But when you either preach or have the Full Blown Grace of God; then you will help people {especially Christians} to walk by the spirit!   Because when people come to accept Christ and walk in the spirit; they will discover all that is available to them through the spirit! Then you will not have to try to manipulate them with Blessing and or curses to get them to serve God &#8211; Plus once they come to recognize the truth in their life; you [...]]]></description>
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<h2>There is only two states of existence and available knowledge:</p>
<p>1) The world &#8221; flesh&#8221; system of the five senses is our original state of existence.  But this is limited  by both time and space!  Each and every human begins in this earthly existence&#8230;</p>
<p>When you live in the flesh world you live in sin originated  existence; because people have their eyes upon themselves, not not God!     The more you are in the flesh the more you will sin {trespass or  separate yourself} from God!   Which is where most of the people in the world exist today!</h2>
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<p>2) The Spirit existence; which is Eternal as Truth, Love and Peace all found in the Holy Spirit of God.</p>
<p>But when you either preach or have the Full Blown Grace of God; then you will help  people {especially Christians} to walk by the spirit!    Because when  people come to accept Christ and walk in the spirit; they will discover  all that is available to them through the spirit!   Then you will not have  to try to manipulate them with Blessing and or curses to get them to  serve God  &#8211;  Plus once they come to recognize the truth in their life;  you will not be able to stop them from serving God in their life!   Because once the learn and accept the Grace  through Faith; it will be written in their soul; it is  that simple!</p>
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We need to get people&#8217;s eyes off  themselves and onto Christ by the ministering the Holy Spirit to them  and not enforcing the letter of the {as 10 commandments} law!</h2>
<h2>This is life changing  process&#8230;     We all started out living in the flesh, but hopefully  sooner than later, you should see the limit and consider the  alternative&#8230;                                                                          The  problem has been that most churches &amp; religions have brought many  rules or regulations into contemporary teachings&#8230;       Then many pastors  try to whip their members into shape by holding laws {like the 10  Commandments} over their heads&#8230;  (which is not the full gospel)!</h2>
<h2>This is where most of the  Christian Church has preached a limited gospel and is not preparing us {the people} with the complete truth!</h2>
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<h2>***    More info on this at:</h2>
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<h2>AWMI.net,</h2>
<h2>wisdomministries.org,</h2>
<h2>sidroth.org,</h2>
<h2>surprisesithole.com,</h2>
<h2>Many other on the net!</h2>
<h2>&#8230;    It is a learning and trust process!</h2>
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		<title>Muslims want to change everything back&#8230;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; Ya, it is a shame that this is a common fact that most of the Muslim people are misled and do not understand the truth! They have not experienced making free choices or being able to decide their own destiny&#8230; The Muslims are not happy! They&#8217;re not happy in Gaza . They&#8217;re not happy in Egypt . They&#8217;re not happy in Libya . They&#8217;re not happy in Morocco . They&#8217;re not happy in Iran . They&#8217;re not happy in Iraq . They&#8217;re not happy in Yemen . They&#8217;re not happy in Afghanistan . They&#8217;re not happy in Pakistan . They&#8217;re not happy in Syria . They&#8217;re not happy in Lebanon . So, where are they happy? They&#8217;re happy in Australia . They&#8217;re happy in England They&#8217;re happy in France . They&#8217;re happy in Italy . They&#8217;re happy in Germany . They&#8217;re happy in Sweden . They&#8217;re happy in the USA . They&#8217;re happy in Norway . They&#8217;re happy in Canada . They&#8217;re happy in every country that is not Muslim. And who do they blame? &#8230; Not Islam. &#8230; Not their leadership. &#8230; Not themselves. THEY BLAME THE NON MUSLIM COUNTRIES THEY ARE HAPPY IN! AND NOW THEY [...]]]></description>
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<div>Ya, it is a shame  that this is a common fact that most of the Muslim people are misled and  do not understand the truth!  They have not experienced  making free  choices or being able to decide their own destiny&#8230;</div>
<p>The Muslims are not happy!</p>
<p>They&#8217;re not happy in Gaza .<br />
They&#8217;re not happy in Egypt .<br />
They&#8217;re not happy in Libya .<br />
They&#8217;re not happy in Morocco .<br />
They&#8217;re not happy in Iran .<br />
They&#8217;re not happy in Iraq .<br />
They&#8217;re not happy in Yemen .<br />
They&#8217;re not happy in Afghanistan .<br />
They&#8217;re not happy in Pakistan .<br />
They&#8217;re not happy in Syria .<br />
They&#8217;re not happy in Lebanon .</p>
<p>So, where are they happy?</p>
<p>They&#8217;re happy in Australia .<br />
They&#8217;re happy in England<br />
They&#8217;re happy in France .<br />
They&#8217;re happy in Italy .<br />
They&#8217;re happy in Germany .<br />
They&#8217;re happy in Sweden .<br />
They&#8217;re happy in the USA .<br />
They&#8217;re happy in Norway .<br />
They&#8217;re happy in Canada .</p>
<p>They&#8217;re happy in every country that is not Muslim.</p>
<p>And who do they blame?</p>
<p>&#8230; Not Islam.<br />
&#8230; Not their leadership.<br />
&#8230; Not themselves.</p>
<p>THEY BLAME THE NON MUSLIM COUNTRIES THEY ARE HAPPY IN!</p>
<p>AND NOW THEY WANT TO CHANGE THE NON ISLAMIC  COUNTRIES THEY ARE IN TO BE JUST LIKE THE MUSLIN COUNTRY THEY CAME FROM;  WHERE THEY WERE SO UNHAPPY.  <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em> WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE? </em></span></p>
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		<title>Morning message &#8211; # 1</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is another day given with opportunities to use! I awoke this morning with a message in my mind {as often I do now} that I should write on how we as people have a &#8220;God-given&#8221; desire that is etched in our soul! This is part of who and what we are&#8230; It is this &#8220;Desire&#8221; that make us seek and want things&#8230; God placed it there so what we would tend or want to seek Him&#8230;&#160; Yet the world or the Devil has used it since Adam &#38; Eve to temp or divert us with various and sundry things which takes our attention off God!    Many of these things are not necessarily bad, but they do tend to engross and totally occupied our lives with other things!! This is the message that I felt I had to post today, so may you stop and think of the needs and wants in your life and where it has gotten you? This a wake up call or an evaluation that you need to decide:  where will you spend Eternity? Because if you do not come to realize what and who you are in this creation, then all is lost!   While this [...]]]></description>
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<h2>This is another day given with opportunities to use!</h2>
<h2>I awoke this morning with a message in my mind {as often I do now} that  I should write on how we as people have a &#8220;God-given&#8221; desire that is  etched in our soul!  This is part of who and what we are&#8230;   It is this  &#8220;Desire&#8221; that make us seek and want things&#8230;  God placed it there so  what we would tend or want to seek Him&#8230;&nbsp;</p>
<p>Yet the world or the Devil has used it since Adam &amp; Eve to temp or divert us with  various and sundry things which takes our attention off God!    Many of these things are not  necessarily bad, but they do tend to  engross and totally occupied our lives with other things!!</p>
<p>This is the message that I felt I had to post today, so may you stop  and think of the needs and wants in your  life and where it has gotten  you?  This a wake up call or an evaluation that you need to decide:  where will you spend  Eternity?</p>
<p>Because if you do not come to realize what and who  you are in this creation, then all is lost!    While this world requires  much of our time it does not or should not make you a zombie to the world  system&#8230;   You have been given a God created intelligence plus the ability to  communicate with the Lord Jesus then seek the Face of God!</p>
<p>BTW: The orig. word for prayer means to  &#8221; know&#8221; or &#8221; touch the face &#8221;   as it were to become very personal&#8230;  Have you stopped to seek the face  of God lately?</h2>
<h2><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em>This article is meant to be a help and guidance for you! </em></span></h2>
<h2>If you can come to understand the Eternal importance of seeking then accepting the  &#8221; Grace of God &#8221; which comes from the word of God as found to in the Holy Bible!   Then you will be able to move forward in your quest or progression into the Kingdom of heaven!</h2>
<h2>Prayer is a two-way communication, if you are willing to stop and listen to the &#8220;still small voice of God&#8221; in you pursuit of His purpose for your eternal development!</h2>
<h2>This as with all things in life requires effort and belief to succeed or carry out it!</h2>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released its estimated causes of death for 2010. The 10 leading causes of death in the U.S. accounted for 75% of the nearly 2.5 million deaths in 2010. Overall costs for the top 10 causes of death topped $1.1 trillion in 2007, the last fully reported year for all causes. 24/7 Wall St. reviewed the causes to determine how much they cost and to reflect how efficiently they are being treated. The overall cost for the top 10 causes of death, which includes direct medical care and the indirect loss of productivity, is far greater when the lost wages of family members are taken into account. Since 2000, the overall cost of the top 10 causes of death has increased by an estimated 35%. During this same time, the death rate from these diseases and injuries has decreased by 13.5%. In some of the areas, spending to treat the disease has been very efficient. For example, the costs attributable to heart disease and stroke (two closely related diseases) have declined both due to decreasing deaths and improvements in the efficiency of care. In other areas, however, costs have gone [...]]]></description>
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<p>Last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)  released its estimated causes of death for 2010. The 10 leading causes  of death in the U.S. accounted for 75% of the nearly 2.5 million deaths  in 2010. Overall costs for the top 10 causes of death topped $1.1  trillion in 2007, the last fully reported year for all causes. 24/7 Wall  St. reviewed the causes to determine how much they cost and to reflect  how efficiently they are being treated.</p>
<p>The overall cost for the top 10 causes of death, which includes  direct medical care and the indirect loss of productivity, is far  greater when the lost wages of family members are taken into account.  Since 2000, the overall cost of the top 10 causes of death has increased  by an estimated 35%. During this same time, the death rate from these  diseases and injuries has decreased by 13.5%.</p>
<p>In some of the areas, spending to treat the disease has been very  efficient. For example, the costs attributable to heart disease and  stroke (two closely related diseases) have declined both due to  decreasing deaths and improvements in the efficiency of care.</p>
<p>In other areas, however, costs have gone up disproportionately  compared to the decreases in death rate. For example, while the cost to  treat diabetes has risen by 30%, the death rate dropped by only 11%. Of  course, when taking lives saved into account, it is tough to decide how  much is too much to spend.</p>
<p>Finally, some areas continue to increase in both cost and rate of  death. Alzheimer’s disease deaths have increased by more than 50% over  the past decade, and total costs have more than doubled. This is likely a  function of an aging population and very limited success in treatment.</p>
<p>24/7 Wall St. reviewed the 10 leading causes of death to determine  how much they cost and how effectively they’re being treated. We used  yearly estimates from the CDC to examine changes in death rates between  2000 and 2010. We also examined data from the National Institutes of  Health (NIH), CDC and several national health organizations focused on  individual diseases to determine the direct costs for medical care and  procedures and the indirect cost of death and lost productivity, as well  as to reflect how the leading causes of death individually affect the  U.S. economy. The costs for each cause of death are based on the last  fully reported year for all causes, 2007. More recent estimates on costs  were also referenced when available.</p>
<p>These are the 10 leading causes of death and what they cost the American economy.</p>
<div>Read more:  <a href="http://247wallst.com/2012/01/18/1-1-trillion-what-the-10-leading-causes-of-death-cost-the-u-s-economy/#ixzz1lMQwHotg">$1.1 Trillion: What the 10 Leading Causes of Death Cost the U.S. Economy &#8211; 24/7 Wall St.</a> <a href="http://247wallst.com/2012/01/18/1-1-trillion-what-the-10-leading-causes-of-death-cost-the-u-s-economy/#ixzz1lMQwHotg">http://247wallst.com/2012/01/18/1-1-trillion-what-the-10-leading-causes-of-death-cost-the-u-s-economy/#ixzz1lMQwHotg</a></div>
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<p>10. Suicide<br />
&gt; No. of deaths: 37,793<br />
&gt; Change since 2000: 15% increase in death rate<br />
&gt; Total cost: $36 billion</p>
<p>The age-adjusted suicide rate in America has been steadily increasing  over the past decade, and the costs associated with successful and  unsuccessful suicide attempts continue to rise. In successful suicide  attempts, more than 99.6% of the costs are due to lost wages and work  productivity.<strong> </strong>In 2010, the most recent available  estimate, successful suicides cost the economy approximately $34  billion. The overall cost is even higher when all intentionally  inflicted self-harm is included. In 2010, there were more than 450,000  injuries in this category, which cost the economy an additional $3  billion in direct medical care costs and $5.1 billion in indirect costs  due to lost wages and productivity. The rate of self-inflicted injuries  increased by 36% since 2000, a greater increase than suicide itself.</p>
<p>9. Pneumonia and the Flu<br />
&gt; No. of deaths: 50,003<br />
&gt; Change since 2000: 32% decrease in death rate<br />
&gt; Total cost: $40 billion</p>
<p>Despite widespread use of vaccinations, influenza continues to be a  major cause of death in the United States. While the death rate due to  both pneumonia and flu has fallen by 32% over the past decade, the  impact of the flu itself varies widely from year to year. In 2000, flu  directly accounted for 1,765 of the 65,313 deaths in the category,  compared to 494 of 50,003 in 2010. Much of this variation is due to the  differing severity of the flu strains each year, as well as the success  of the yearly flu vaccine. Until a better flu vaccine is invented, this  wide variation is likely to continue. Pneumonia and the flu cost $6  billion in direct medical care and another $34.2 billion in projected  lost earnings in 2007, according to the American Lung Association. This  represented an increase of nearly 50% from 2003, the previously reported  year.</p>
<p>8. Renal Disease<br />
&gt; No. of deaths: 50,472<br />
&gt; Change since 2000: 21% increase in death rate<br />
&gt; Total cost: $61 billion</p>
<p>Not only do kidney diseases cause an increasing number of deaths  every year, their total cost has also been rising at an even faster  pace. Dialysis, the process of filtering the blood of a patient with  failing kidneys, is an enormously expensive medical procedure. In 2007,  direct medical treatments cost the U.S. economy $54 billion<strong>.</strong> Between 2000 and 2009, the direct costs of kidney diseases doubled in  the Medicare budget, from $12 billion to $24 billion, according to the  U.S. Renal Data System. As diabetes and obesity rates continue to rise,  the costs of damaged kidneys will continue to skyrocket.</p>
<p>7. Diabetes Mellitus<br />
&gt; No. of deaths: 68,905<br />
&gt; Change since 2000: 11% decrease in death rate<br />
&gt; Total cost: $112 billion</p>
<p>Deaths attributable to diabetes have been falling because of  increased awareness and treatment of the disease complications. But even  as deaths from the disease decline, more and more Americans are  diagnosed and the costs of the disease continue to rise. In 2002, the  American Diabetes Association (ADA) estimated that the 12.1 million  Americans diagnosed with the disease cost twice as much per person in  direct medical expenses compared to otherwise similar people without  diabetes. That same year, they estimated $92 billion in direct costs and  an additional $40 billion in losses to the U.S. economy. By 2007, there  were 17.5 million Americans diagnosed with diabetes. That year,  according to the ADA, costs jumped to $116 billion in direct costs and  $58 billion in lost wages and productivity, for an inflation-adjusted  increase of $21 billion over five years. According to the World Diabetes  Foundation, 80% of type 2 diabetes, which represents roughly 90% of all  cases, is preventable by changing eating habits, increasing physical  activity, and improving living situations. Unless people start living a  healthier lifestyle, this disease will continue to be a major drain on  the U.S. economy.</p>
<p>6. Alzheimer’s Disease<br />
&gt; No. of deaths: 83,308<br />
&gt; Change since 2000: 50% increase in death rate<br />
&gt; Total cost: $70 billion</p>
<p>As of 2011, an estimated 5.4 million Americans are living with  Alzheimer’s disease. This number is projected to hit 13.2 million by  2050, according to the Alzheimer’s Association. Alzheimer’s is a very  expensive disease with high direct medical costs, as well as lost  productivity from patients and unpaid care given by the family and  friends. This last category is not counted in government reports as part  of the disease’s cost, but was estimated at more than $200 billion in  2010 for over 17 billion hours of unpaid care. As of 2004, total medical  costs for Medicare beneficiaries with Alzheimer’s disease were three  times the cost of similarly aged people without the disease. From 2005  to 2011, the total direct costs of Alzheimer’s disease increased from  $91 billion to $183 billion, according to the Alzheimer’s Association.  By 2050, this is projected to increase to $1.1 trillion (in 2011  dollars).</p>
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<p>5. Accidents<br />
&gt; No. of deaths: 118,043<br />
&gt; Change since 2000: 7.6% increase in death rate<br />
&gt; Total cost: $308 billion</p>
<p>The rate of accidental injury and death has remained fairly constant  over the past decade. It has also remained incredibly expensive.  Accidental deaths alone accounted for $91 billion in lost earnings and  productivity in 2010. The direct medical costs of all accidental  injuries, fatal and nonfatal, accounted for $78 billion. Additional  costs due to death, disability and lost productivity accounted for  another $233 billion. Despite rather stable costs, accidental death,  injury and poisoning account for a greater share of medical spending and  indirect losses than all other diseases on the list.</p>
<p>4. Strokes<br />
&gt; No. of deaths: 129,180<br />
&gt; Change since 2000: 31% decrease in death rate<br />
&gt; Total cost: $34 billion</p>
<p>While the total costs of all cardiovascular disease have declined  slightly over the past decade, costs attributable to stroke have  decreased an impressive inflation-adjusted 46%, according to data from  the American Heart Association. Direct and indirect costs have both  dropped significantly. These declines have been linked to increased  awareness and treatment of major risk factors, including high blood  pressure, diabetes and smoking, as well as to improvements in acute  stroke care, which appears to decrease both death and long-term  disability from stroke. Despite these improvements, stroke remains the  leading cause of serious long-term disability in the United States.</p>
<p>3. Chronic Lung Disease (Chronic Lower Respiratory Diseases)<br />
&gt; No. of deaths: 137,789<br />
&gt; Change since 2000: &lt;1% increase in death rate<br />
&gt; Total cost: $65 billion</p>
<p>Chronic lung disease is the third leading cause of death in the U.S.,  but unlike the top two causes of death, heart disease and cancer, it is  not seeing any significant improvement in the death rate. The main  contributors to this category of disease are asthma and chronic  obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). As of 2008, there were 23.3  million Americans with asthma, which cost approximately $14.7 billion in  direct health care and $5 billion in lost productivity, according to  the American Lung Association. Prescription drugs constituted $6.2  billion alone. Another 12.1 million adults have COPD. COPD cost the U.S.  economy $42.6 billion in 2007, including $26.7 billion in direct health  care expenditures, $8 billion in decreased productivity and $7.9  billion in costs related to death. Smoking remains the number one cause  of COPD.</p>
<p>2. Cancer<br />
&gt; No. of deaths: 573,855<br />
&gt; Change since 2000: 7.5% decrease in death rate<br />
&gt; Total cost: $227 billion</p>
<p>In the next five years, cancer is likely to become the number one  killer of Americans, if current trends continue. Despite major advances  in treatments and increases in the number of people who survive for five  years or more, few true “cures” have been found. Real progress is being  made, but there is still a long way to go. Direct costs of medical  treatments will continue to rise, more than offsetting any gains due to  decreased mortality rates. In 2004, direct medical costs to the U.S.  economy were $69.4 billion. By 2007, costs were $104 billion, and by  2020, they are projected to range between $160 billion to $200 billion,  according to the American Cancer Society. The vast majority of these  increases in cost are driven by new medical treatments, usually highly  tailored and difficult-to-manufacture drugs that cost $5,000/month on  average. One such drug, Gleevec, increased five-year survival rates to  95% (from 70%) for one blood cancer and has been used to varying degrees  of success in a different cancers since.</p>
<p>1. Heart Disease<br />
&gt; No. of deaths: 595,444<br />
&gt; Change since 2000: 25% decrease in death rate<br />
&gt; Total cost: $190 billion</p>
<p>Heart disease remains the number one killer of Americans. But deaths  due to the disease have been declining at a rapid rate over the past  several decades, despite the ever-increasing issues of obesity and  diabetes in America. The indirect costs of heart disease due to death  have declined from an inflation-adjusted $114 billion in 2000 to $94.8  billion in 2008. Over the same time period, direct costs of medical  interventions and care have decreased from an inflation adjusted $129  billion to $96 billion. These declining costs are likely due to major  improvements in care. For example, in 2001, only 43% of heart disease  patients were counseled on smoking cessation compared to 99% in 2010,  according to the American Heart Association. Similarly, only 60% to 85%  of patients were discharged from the hospital on all recommended  medications in 2001, compared to 92% to 99% in 2010. Additionally, there  was a decrease in the number of bypass surgeries, stent placements,  angioplasties and diagnostic cardiac catheterizations between 2002 and  2009, likely contributing to the decrease in direct medical costs.  Despite the recent trends, total costs are likely to rise over the next  couple decades due to an aging population and increased rates of obesity  and diabetes.</p>
<p>Baxter B. Allen, MD</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; U.N. leaders consider world tax to fund social protection, services By Susan Roylance Deseret News Published: Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012 1:25 p.m. MST NEW YORK — Outside the United Nations headquarters, hundreds of people were shouting and waving banners Tuesday that read &#8220;China and Russia – No Veto.&#8221; These people wanted support from the Security Council of the U.N. to oust the President of Syria, Bashar al-Assad. Inside the U.N., another group of civil society leaders demanded a basic level of social security as they promoted a &#8220;social protection floor&#8221; at a preparatory forum for the Commission on Social Development, which began Feb. 1. The focus of the forum was &#8220;universal access to basic social protection and social services.&#8221; &#8220;No one should live below a certain income level,&#8221; stated Milos Koterec, President of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. &#8220;Everyone should be able to access at least basic health services, primary education, housing, water, sanitation and other essential services.&#8221; These services were presented at the forum as basic human rights equal to the rights of &#8220;life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.&#8221; The money to fund these services may come from a new world tax. &#8220;We [...]]]></description>
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<div>Published: Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012 1:25 p.m. MST</div>
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<p>NEW YORK — Outside the United  Nations headquarters, hundreds of people were shouting and waving  banners Tuesday that read &#8220;China and Russia – No Veto.&#8221; These people  wanted support from the Security Council of the U.N. to oust the  President of Syria, Bashar al-Assad.</p>
<p>Inside the U.N., another group of civil  society leaders demanded a basic level of social security as they  promoted a &#8220;social protection floor&#8221; at a preparatory forum for the  Commission on Social Development, which began Feb. 1.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/ngo/docs/2012/CSocD-2012CSF.pdf" target="_blank">focus of the forum</a> was &#8220;universal access to basic social protection and social services.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;No one should live below a certain  income level,&#8221; stated Milos Koterec, President of the Economic and  Social Council of the United Nations. &#8220;Everyone should be able to access  at least basic health services, primary education, housing, water,  sanitation and other essential services.&#8221;</p>
<p>These services were presented at the  forum as basic human rights equal to the rights of &#8220;life, liberty and  the pursuit of happiness.&#8221;</p>
<p>The money to fund these services may come from a new world tax.</p>
<p>&#8220;We will need a modest but long-term way to finance this transformation,&#8221; stated <a href="http://www.unece.org/fileadmin/DAM/env/SustainableDevelopment/RPM2011/first/Item1_UNDP_e.pdf" target="_blank">Jens Wandel, Deputy Director of the United Nations Development Program</a>.  &#8220;One idea which we could consider is a minimal financial transaction  tax (of .005 percent). This will create $40 billion in revenue.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;It is absolutely essential to establish  controls on capital movements and financial speculation,&#8221; said  Ambassador Jorge Valero, the current Chairman of the Commission on  Social Development. He called for &#8220;progressive policies of taxation&#8221;  that would require &#8220;those who earn more to pay more taxes.&#8221;</p>
<p>Valero&#8217;s speech to the forum focused on capitalism as the source of the world financial problems.</p>
<p>When asked where she expected the money  to provide all needy people with a basic income, healthcare, education  and housing would come from, Fatima Rodrigo, one of the presenters at  the forum, mentioned the &#8220;very small tax of .005 percent.&#8221;</p>
<p>She added, &#8220;There is plenty of money, we just need to stop spending it on militaries and wars.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Military spending is the problem,&#8221;  claimed Winifred Doherty, chairman of the NGO Committee on Social  Development and organizer for the CSD Forum.</p>
<p>&#8220;There is no scarcity of resources. Where do we put our resources? Destroying people and the planet,&#8221; said Doherty.</p>
<p>This movement for a social protection  floor is becoming solidly entrenched in the United Nations&#8217; agencies and  programs. Some U.N. leaders are calling for the SPF to become the new  focus for the U.N., when the Millennium Development Goals are finished —  after 2015.</p>
<p>&#8220;Despite the global  exhortations of the United Nations, the most successful development  efforts clearly arise from grass-roots initiatives, often at the  individual or family level,&#8221; claims Vincenzina Santoro, an international  economist, in a new book on the family and the Millennium Development  Goals.</p>
<p>A <a href="http://daccess-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N11/590/98/PDF/N1159098.pdf?OpenElement" target="_blank">report</a> by the secretary-general on poverty eradication includes other methods  for helping rural farmers increase their profit margin and their ability  to be more self-reliant. The report says, &#8220;key among these is improving  yields by ensuring that farmers have better access to high-yielding  crop varieties, fertilizers, credit, markets and rural infrastructure.&#8221;</p>
<p>Susan Roylance is  the International Policy and Social Development Coordinator for the  Howard Center for Family, Religion and Society.</p>
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<h2>Despite the  seemingly endless stream of news stories focusing on violence, crime and  death that are splashed across the world&#8217;s front pages, humans are now  living in one of the most peaceful periods of our existence. That&#8217;s  according to a new book by Steven Pinker, a Harvard Psychology professor  and one of the &#8220;World&#8217;s Top 100 Public Intellectuals&#8221; according to<em> Time</em> magazine.</h2>
<h2><em>The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined</em>,  published in 2011, discusses the various transitions in human history  that led to more peaceful societies. One of the most influential  transitions was the move from hunter-gatherer societies to organized  states &#8211; a process Pinker refers to as &#8220;the pacification process&#8221;.</h2>
<h2>That transition led to a major decrease in violence because the state  stepped in during conflicts as the arbiter of &#8220;justice&#8221; as opposed to  the tribal process of retaliatory attacks and revenge murders, he  argues.</h2>
<h2>&#8220;The civlising process&#8221;, describes the decline of violence in Europe  throughout the Middle Ages. As Pinker puts it, &#8220;a contemporary  Englishman has a 50-fold less chance of being murdered than his  compatriot in the Middle Ages&#8221;.</h2>
<h2>Critics of Pinker&#8217;s historical argument say he focuses too much on  Western Europe, while generally ignoring trends of  violence in Asia,  Africa or South America, allowing the psychologist to &#8220;gloss over&#8221; other  episodes that don&#8217;t fit into his narrative.</h2>
<h2>To that, Pinker would most likely answer that the downward trend in  violence has not necessarily been smooth, but nonetheles it has &#8220;gone  bumpily, but dramatically, down&#8221;.</h2>
<h2><strong>Were things really so much worse 5,000 years ago?<br />
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<h2>Before the spread of settled agricultural civilisations and  governments, starting around 5,000 years ago, feuding was a recurring  feature of people&#8217;s lives, and they had to worry about raids in which an  enemy village or tribe would shoot the men with arrows or spears and  abduct the women as wives.</h2>
<h2>Many sources of evidence testify to the violence of non-state life,  including forensic analyses of violent trauma on skeletons, the  prevalence of fortifications and shock weapons and contemporary  estimates of rates of violence among the last surviving peoples living  in anarchy &#8211; namely hunter-gatherer and hunter-horticultural bands and  tribes.</h2>
<h2><strong>What did the transition from tribal life to kingdoms, empires and now states have to do with the decline in violence?</strong></h2>
<h2>The first kings and emperors did not have a benevolent interest in  the welfare of their subjects. Instead, tribal raiding and feuding were a  nuisance to imperial overlords &#8211; who would just as soon keep the people  alive to provide them with soldiers, taxes and slaves.</h2>
<h2><strong>How do you explain the genocides and mass murders of the 20th  century within the context of a decline in violence? What indications  do we have that another Hitler, Stalin, Mao won&#8217;t find a similar way to  slaughter millions?</strong></h2>
<h2>There were plenty of genocides and mass murders in other centuries as  well, and as a proportion of the population, they did comparable  damage. World War II was certainly the worst event in human history, but  it was not part of a trend of increasingly destructive wars &#8211; on the  contrary, the rate of death in warfare has gone bumpily, but  dramatically, down since 1946.</h2>
<h2>As for genocidal maniacs, there is no guarantee that another one  won&#8217;t arise, but it&#8217;s far harder for a Mao or a Stalin to commit  genocides within a democracy, and the world has far more democracies now  &#8211; indeed, more than it has autocracies.</h2>
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<h2><strong>&#8220;</strong><strong>Ideologies,  particularly ones that demonise some group of people as the only thing  standing in the way of utopia are the causes of the most murderous  events in human history.</strong><strong>&#8220;</strong></h2>
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<h2><strong>How do the numbers of people killed from so-called terrorism compare with those killed from homicide, war or genocide?<br />
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<h2>There&#8217;s no comparison. 9/11 was the worst terrorist attack in  history, and it killed fewer than 3,000 people, which is a fraction of  those killed in most wars, genocides or homicides.</h2>
<h2>Other than the prospect of nuclear terrorism, terrorism seeks to work  by the fear it causes &#8211; the &#8220;terror&#8221; in terrorism &#8211; rather than by the  damage it does. In any case, terrorism is a provably stupid tactic &#8211; 97  per cent of terrorist movements fail to attain any of their strategic  objectives.</h2>
<h2><strong>Israel has taken Ahmadinejad&#8217;s apparent wish to &#8220;wipe Israel  off the map&#8221; as an existential threat, and in return has threatened war.  Do you see any likelihood of Iran using nuclear weapons, if it were to  acquire them, against Israel?</strong></h2>
<h2>I think it is extremely unlikely that [President Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad  will attack Israel with nuclear weapons. On the other hand, the  Israelis are not crazy to worry about a low-probability yet catastrophic  possibility, and Ahmadinejad&#8217;s destructive fantasy, together with his  other reckless statements (such as denying the Holocaust), are cause for  legitimate worry. Calling for the destruction of a member state of the  United Nations is extraordinarily provocative &#8211; no member state of the  UN has ever gone out of existence through the use of force.</h2>
<h2><strong>What is the connection between ideology and mass atrocities?<br />
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<h2>Ideologies, particularly ones that demonise some group of people as  the only thing standing in the way of utopia (heretics, infidels, the  bourgeoisie, Jews, Tutsis, rich peasants) are the causes of the most  murderous events in human history.</h2>
<h2>Such belief systems justify violence by a toxic means &#8211; ends  analysis: If a Messianic Age will be infinitely good, then any amount of  violence may be perpetrated to attain it, and those who oppose it are  infinitely evil and deserving of arbitrarily harsh punishment.</h2>
<h2><strong>What is the relation between what you consider a general  decline in violence and the increased attention and protection of  children, ethnic minorities, women, and homosexuals in some societies?<br />
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<h2>The rights revolutions that have protected these vulnerable groups  against lynching, rape, domestic violence, gay-bashing, physical and  sexual abuse, harsh physical punishments and cruel practices have been  driven, by the same repugnance to violence, driven by the  same humanitarian concerns.</h2>
<h2><strong>In terms of psychology, is there an innate drive towards  violence and aggression within us? Or conversely, an innate drive to be  &#8220;good&#8221;?</strong></h2>
<h2>Neither and both. Humans harbour a number of distinct motives that  can result in violence: including greed, vengeance, dominance, sadism  and destructive ideologies. They also harbour a number of distinct  motives that can inhibit violence &#8211; what [US president Abraham] Lincoln  called <em><span style="text-decoration: underline;">&#8220;the better angels of our nature&#8221;</span></em>: including self-control,  empathy, reason and a sense of fairness.</h2>
<h2>The amount of violence in a society depends on which of these motives prevail.</h2>
<h2><strong>What does international trade/commerce have to do with the decline of violence?</strong></h2>
<h2>In general, societies that engage in trade and are open to the  world&#8217;s economy have lower rates of interstate war, civil war and  genocide. This is consistent with the Enlightenment theory of &#8220;gentle  commerce&#8221; and the evolutionary theory of &#8220;reciprocal altruism&#8221; &#8211; it&#8217;s  better for both sides if one tries to get ahead by trading things rather  than by stealing them.</h2>
<h2><strong>How would our collective psychology be affected if we knew that we are living in a relatively peaceful era of human history?</strong></h2>
<h2>We could try to identify the causes that brought violence down &#8211;  including commerce, democracy, cosmopolitanism, education, good  government, sound institutions and freedom of speech &#8211; and try to  implement them widely and robustly.</h2>
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		<title>*Devaluing Sexuality Equals Immorality&#8230;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a post by Ann Dillard on http://www.womenexplode.com/ Devaluing Sexuality Equals Immorality&#8230; Sexuality is precious. It is a gift. It is part of the essence of an individual. It is a magnificent connection. But today, by many, it is being taken down to the level of a hand shake, or a blow job. Immorality, regarding sexuality, is promoted almost everywhere. &#160; If some woman will spread her legs, some man will stick it in. Not to be gross, but anyone doing this, in this casual manner, is gross. The women who are like this, as well, as the men, are lowly and disgusting and they are diminishing themselves along with society&#8230; You can&#8217;t separate yourself, your body, mind, heart and spirit, from the sexual act&#8230; as you exchange bodily fluids and energy with another. If you think that you can, you are dead inside, or so cut off from yourself that you are a walking needy zombie, or possibly addicted. Some think that when you exchange sexual energy with another that it makes an imprint on you that you carry in your energy&#8230;and this may very well be true. Playboys, playgirls, those never married, or committed, but who have sex one after another, are nothing, but [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is a post by Ann Dillard on http://www.womenexplode.com/</p>
<h2 id="post-123">Devaluing Sexuality Equals Immorality&#8230;</h2>
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<div><strong>Sexuality is precious.</strong> It is a gift. It is part of the essence of an individual. It is a  magnificent connection. But today, by many, it is being taken down to  the level of a hand shake, or a blow job. Immorality, regarding  sexuality, is promoted almost everywhere.</div>
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<p>If  some woman will spread her legs, some man will stick it in. Not to be  gross, but anyone doing this, in this casual manner, is gross. <strong>The  women who are like this, as well, as the men, are lowly and disgusting  and they are diminishing themselves along with society&#8230;</strong></p>
<p><strong> </strong><strong> </strong>You  can&#8217;t separate yourself, your body, mind, heart and spirit, from the  sexual act&#8230; as you exchange bodily fluids and energy with another. If  you think that you can, you are dead inside, or so cut off from yourself  that you are a walking needy zombie, or possibly addicted.</p>
<p><strong>Some  think that when you exchange sexual energy with another that it makes  an imprint on you that you carry in your energy&#8230;and this may very well  be true.<br />
</strong><br />
Playboys,  playgirls, those never married, or committed, but who have sex one  after another, are nothing, but lost, promiscuous, searching and  many are down and out immoral. Most have little to no connection to  body, mind, heart, and spirit&#8230; They are only looking to &#8216;escape&#8217; and  to feel some &#8216;momentary&#8217; pleasure that takes them out of their  loneliness, torment, or lack in self. And if anything feels too real, in  that, it&#8217;s time to commit, be responsible, or in tune with who they  really are, being that, they &#8216;grow&#8217;, they are off to their next prey and  escape. <strong>Their denial and escape of emotional growth pushes them along their sexually demented path.<br />
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If  a person does this too often, they may very well lose all capability to  love, if they even had it in the first place. They don&#8217;t love, or  respect themselves as reflected in their behavior, so of course, don&#8217;t  have the ability to love, respect and commit to another.</p>
<p>We are rearing a large part of society in this manner today and it is going to destroy our country. <strong>The family unit, the commitment, the responsibility are the foundation of a strong, healthy, moral and prosperous society.<br />
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Good  and responsible men are often propelled to higher level of success as  they are compelled to care and provide for their wife and children&#8230;.</p>
<p><strong>Dictators,  socialists, communists, marxists, know that to destroy the morality of a  society will break it down. Tear down the family unit and people will  be more easily led and controlled. Selfish, single, non-attached people  usually care little about the needs of others. They just wanna screw and  screw themselves and others they do&#8230;<br />
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<strong>Marriage is being promoted and diminished as to be too bothersome to do.</strong> Children are born out of wedlock and it is accepted as the norm. &#8221;Baby Daddy&#8221; is replacing &#8220;Father&#8221;&#8230; and this I find disgusting&#8230;</p>
<p>How did we sink so low and why?</p>
<p>It&#8217;s better that a child be brought into this world with a <strong>married Mother and Father</strong>.  This gives the child the basis for strength and security, a unit,  an identity to grow and to learn from. Now sure, not all parents are  &#8216;great&#8217;&#8230; but, at least, a child born into a marriage has a foundation,  a sense of security and belonging.</p>
<p>These kids with a &#8216;Baby  Daddy&#8217; and a Mother who have had several children by other &#8216;Baby  Daddies&#8217;&#8230; well, what is this BS? How lost and convoluted will these  children become? We can see the effects of this casual,  ill-responsible  lifestyle in society, daily.</p>
<p>I am having men complain that women  are promiscuous and it is turning them off. Then I have women complain  that all men are interested in is sex and that men email and text them  photos of their penises&#8230;  Now how insecure, needy and gross can some  men get?</p>
<p>Rape can be also telling a woman you love her  just to  have sex with her&#8230; it&#8217;s not by physical force alone and behind lying,  manipulative words can be the same aggression and violence against  women.</p>
<p>We are having a major male/female/sexual disconnect&#8230; I  say be true to yourself, your morality and your body, mind, heart,  spirit connection&#8230;or you will be lost. Listen to your connection to  yourself, not society, others and certainly not the media and  entertainment field&#8230; they have a stake and benefit in your corruption.</p>
<p>Some  people show no respect for the sexual act, or what comes from it &#8230; So  how will these children grow up to be secure and responsible to self  and others when no one was, or is responsible to, or for them? Most will  be worse off than their parents with little direction and few, if any  morals&#8230; a burden on society&#8230; <strong>a burden to themselves&#8230; lost searching and easily led astray.<br />
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<strong>The break down of society can be based on the break down of the importance placed on the sexual act</strong>&#8230;whether it be held in value, or no different than relieving yourself. <strong>The  respect that women are held in and the respect that women show and give  to themselves is a reflection of the quality of a society.<br />
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The  sex act is an act of creation and an expression of love and caring  between two people. It&#8217;s isn&#8217;t just an orgasm, getting off, seduction,  or notches on a belt.<br />
Sure, it&#8217;s muscles and nerves being  stimulated&#8230; but without the intellect, the emotional connection, it is  nothing, but mutual masturbation.</p>
<p><strong>You will find that the more exclusive and selective people are regarding sexual partners, the more sensual and sexual they are.</strong> Because  they know and understand what &#8216;really great sex&#8217; is, so they &#8216;value&#8217;  it&#8230;they have and understand the body, mind, heart, spiritual  connection&#8230; Where a promiscuous person just screws&#8230;an ordinary,  banal, common and empty act&#8230;</p>
<p>An emotionally healthy woman becomes attached to man when she has sex. Her hormones create this attachment. <strong>So,  she should be VERY CAREFUL whom she has sex with. And men who toy and  exploit these emotions with ill-intent are the lowest of the low.</strong></p>
<p><strong> </strong><strong> </strong>Men who go around sticking their neediness in women are nothing, but NEEDY.<br />
<strong>Not a man, but a lost little animal, who can&#8217;t connect past his penis</strong>.  He has no respect for himself, or the women. Women who allow themselves to be used in this manner are ignorant fools who are betraying the very nature of their being.</p>
<p>We are creating an immoral society that values little. <strong>Sexuality is a person&#8217;s motor and someone who abuses their self, and others have little, if nothing to offer.</strong></p>
<p>There are &#8216;basic rules&#8217; that work to create a healthy society and a responsible, respectful sexuality is its basis&#8230;</p>
<p>I  am certainly no prude as I have lived long enough to have made mistakes  and to know what I share here is the truth of my living wisdom.</p>
<p>I  have made the mistake of sex with someone I cared little for and it  made me feel sick inside. I have had the deep connection with a man I  loved dearly and never felt more fulfilled, or cared for.  I have had a  &#8216;Hollywood star&#8217;, playboy type come onto me and and turned him down flat  with no regret&#8230;</p>
<p>With experience, living, and age comes wisdom&#8230; and that wisdom leads us back to the basic truths that <strong>love and sex go together&#8230; Marriage first &#8211; children after</strong> <strong>marriage&#8230;playboys are lost boys and nothing is glamorous about them.</strong></p>
<p><strong>As  a society, we can strive to lift ourselves up to morality, love,  commitment, respect, sexual exclusivity, or we can let Hollywood, the  media, the rock and rappers, &#8216;popular&#8217; opinion, etc. tear us down to  promiscuity, perversions, anything goes, into a totally demented hell.</strong></p>
<p><strong> </strong><strong> </strong><strong>Immorality is just that&#8230;Immoral&#8230;</strong></p>
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		<title>Evening with two Saudi Princes&#8230;  Part 1</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is another true story that shows how &#8220;Wonderful&#8221;  Islam is!  Just maybe this will help you understand the truth! ***  This is a post by Ann Dillard from:    http://www.womenexplode.com/ &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;- My Evening with Two Saudi Princes&#8230; &#160; Many, many years ago, before I even actually knew what a Muslim was, or even thought about it (remember the good old days?)&#8230; My husband and I were at a business dinner to entertain two Saudi Princes. My father was the owner of a construction and oil related company and in a joint venture. There were eight other people besides myself and my husband then the Saudi Princes&#8230; One Prince, the older brother, sat at the end of the table, I sat to his left, with my husband to the left of me. The President of the company doing the joint venture was at the other end of the table and the younger Prince sat across the table. This was an oxford-cloth-traditional group, except, for the Saudi Princes who wore multiple chains of gold around their necks, flashy bracelets and watches on their wrists, many rings on their fingers, silk shirts and shiny, slick suits&#8230;and, of course, with their dark skin and they both had mustaches, or some sort of facial hair&#8230; in other [...]]]></description>
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<h2 id="post-123">My Evening with Two Saudi Princes&#8230;</h2>
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<p><span style="font-family: Arial;">Many, many years ago, before I even actually knew what a Muslim was, or even thought about it (remember the good old days?)&#8230;</span></p>
<p>My  husband and I were at a business dinner to entertain two Saudi Princes.  My father was the owner of a construction and oil related company and  in a joint venture.</p>
<p>There were eight other people besides  myself and my husband then the Saudi Princes&#8230; One Prince, the older  brother, sat at the end of the table, I sat to his left, with my husband  to the left of me. The President of the company doing the joint  venture was at the other end of the table and the younger Prince sat  across the table.</p>
<p>This was an oxford-cloth-traditional group,  except, for the Saudi Princes who wore multiple chains of gold around  their necks, flashy bracelets and watches on their wrists, many rings on  their fingers, silk shirts and shiny, slick suits&#8230;and, of course,  with their dark skin and they both had mustaches, or some sort of facial  hair&#8230; in other words, they looked like pimps&#8230;</p>
<p>It was the  usual business dinner with a bit of personal conversation. It was  obvious the Princes had no interest in talking with the wives.</p>
<p>But  for some reason, the Prince sitting next to me, took an interest in me  and asked what I like to do. I told him that I like to dance. His  eyebrows raised. &#8220;I dance ballet.&#8221; From his reaction, I don&#8217;t think that  he knew what ballet was, as I go on, &#8221;I am a ballet teacher. Ballet?  France? The Bolshoi?&#8221;</p>
<p>He nodded acknowledgment then flashed a look at my husband and exclaimed. &#8220;You allow her to work!?&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I like to work. Why wouldn&#8217;t I work?&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;A woman such as yourself should not work.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I like to teach and I have danced all my life.&#8221; I answer as I thought, what a jerk, &#8216;allow me&#8217;. Is he kidding or what?</p>
<p>I  don&#8217;t recall the rest of the evening&#8217;s conversation, except, that the  Prince  took a liking to me. Maybe, it was my dark hair and olive  skin&#8230;and my speaking up and challenging him at every turn.</p>
<p>These  gold encrusted Princes were on a tour of America and to do some  business and when they returned to Saudi Arabia, they were both to be  married. I found them to be boastful and arrogant, but the one sitting  next to me, not entirely unpleasant. I found him interesting to  observe.</p>
<p>At the end of the dinner, the President, at the other  end of the table, was given the check and paid it. When the Prince next  to me realized this, he stood up in an explosion, practically lifting up  the table, shouting angrily, I guess in Arabic. The younger Prince  stood up in preparation to leave.</p>
<p>That  President&#8217;s mis-step concerning &#8216;custom&#8217; was about to blow up the whole  deal&#8230;Quickly my womanly instincts took over. I reached up,  patted the Prince&#8217;s arm, pulling him down to his seat and said. &#8220;How  about the next time, we are in Saudi Arabia, you can pick up the check.  Deal?&#8221; Then I smiled really big.</p>
<p>He chuckled. &#8220;You won&#8217;t come to Saudi Arabia.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Don&#8217;t be too sure about that.&#8221; I smiled.</p>
<p>The  Prince paused in contemplation, (I could see the wheels turning in his  head) as I continued. &#8220;We&#8217;ve had such a nice time. I have enjoyed  talking with you so much. He didn&#8217;t mean to offend you. Now, why would  he do that? He wanted to create a lovely evening for you and he did.&#8221;</p>
<p>With that, tension begin to leave the Prince.</p>
<p>&#8220;And we will be in Saudia Arabia to collect. Really, we will. You can count on it.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Prince chuckled, the tension was released, as he sat down and all was well&#8230;. (It was all about his ego.)</p>
<p>After  dinner, we ended up at a Disco (remember those?) because the Princes  wanted to party&#8230; My husband informed me on the drive over that the  Princes wanted to meet some girls. &#8220;But I thought they were engaged to  marry?&#8221; I inquired.<br />
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<p>His reply.</p>
<p>&#8220;Yes, and one reason they are in America is to party. Their  wives &#8216;to be&#8217; must be virgins, but the men sleep with everything in  sight.  A non-Muslim woman is nothing to them. Saudi women cover  themselves from head to toe, while in their own country, but when they  go to France or England, they wear the finest designer clothing. Their  women are meticulously groomed, in the Royal family, that is. I heard  that they take their robes off as soon as they get on their jets and  look like well-dressed socialites.&#8221;</p>
<p>I replied. &#8220;How disgusting and what hypocrites.&#8221;</p>
<p>At  the Disco, we were dancing and having &#8216;fun&#8217;. I danced lots with the  younger Prince who was a wiry little freak show unto himself. But, oh  well! I was just getting through this business evening.</p>
<p>When I  sat down at our table, I began to sneeze and the older Prince gave the  waitress a hundred dollar bill to get me a box of Kleenex. The hundred  dollar bills were flying around as fast as the waitresses could pick  them up.(and this was when $100 was $100, remember those days?)</p>
<p>After  getting our car and as we were leaving, my husband pulled back around  to the front of the Disco then got out. He walked over to the Prince&#8217;s  Limo, as I noticed several waitresses walk out of the club. My husband  spoke to the waitresses then they got into Princes&#8217; Limo.</p>
<p>When my husband got back into the car, he said, &#8220;Don&#8217;t even ask.&#8221;</p>
<p>But of course, I did&#8230;</p>
<p>So,  these ego-driven, arrogant, braggadocios Saudi Princes were going  through America buying women such as these waitresses&#8230; then going back  to marry their virgins.</p>
<p>I hadn&#8217;t thought about this  experience in years&#8230; but the other night while out with some friends,  we were talking about how Muslims treat women and I recalled it&#8230;</p>
<p>Later  the President of the company doing the joint venture told my Dad that I  had saved the day&#8230;by my calming down of the Prince.</p>
<p><em>Info:</em></p>
<p><em> </em><em>&#8220;Women  in our (Islamic) culture are nothing. They are equal to the goat or the  rug. Her purpose is to be married to her husband to give him pleasure.  When a husband marries a wife, he purchases her sexual organs,&#8221;<br />
Kamal Saleem, When Allah Doesn&#8217;t Answer</em></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial;"><em>“when I want a sex-slave, I go to the market and pick whichever female I desire and buy her<br />
Abu Ishaq al-Huwaini from Raped and Ransacked in the Muslim World</em></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial;"><em>I could not remain a  Muslim because Islam hates women. I think I always knew this, but as I  got older that knowledge became more acute, Islam wants women to cover  themselves, to stay indoors, to obey men, however stupid those men are.  Islam says that women are inferior in every way. Islam distorted my  father’s feelings. He did not want us, his own daughters, to be happy or  fulfilled. He only wanted us to be good Muslims and for daughters this  means to be suffering Muslims. What sort of religion forces fathers to  make their daughters suffer? What sort of father thinks that his  daughter’s hair is shameful? What sort of father tells her she cannot  sing and dance when she is happy? A Muslim father.</em></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial;"><em>This is why I am not a  Muslim. My children, boys and girls, will be able to feel the wind in  their hair. They will not be ashamed. They can sing and dance as much as  they like. Nothing they do will shame me, as long as it is done with  life and joy. Islam has no joy. Islam is a cult of tears and death.<br />
Testimony submitted to the web site of the Institute for the Secularization of Islamic Society </em></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial;"><em>A man is never alone with a woman without Satan also being present.<br />
Hadith Al-Albani, Sahih al-Jami, vol. 1, p. 234.]</em></span></p>
<h2><span style="font-family: Arial;"><em>A woman&#8217;s rape is frequently the last act that precedes her execution.<br />
This is explained by the rule in Iranian political prisons that the<br />
sentence of execution cannot be carried out if the woman is a virgin.<br />
Since  there is a theological belief that if a woman dies a virgin she will go  to heaven, the politically active virgin is forced to &#8220;marry&#8221; before  her execution and thus to insure she will go to hell.<br />
She is forced to &#8220;marry&#8221; the hangman who will carry out her execution.<br />
Le Nouvel Homme Islamiste: La Prison Politique en Iran<br />
(The New Islamist Man: The Political Prison in Iran)<br />
By Chahla Chafiq&nbsp;</p>
<p></em><em> </em><em> </em><em> </em><strong>&#8230;.  And we are allowing &#8216;this&#8217; into America and being told that we can&#8217;t  talk badly about Muslims&#8230;because they are so peaceful.. blah blah,  blah!</strong></p>
<p><strong>These Saudi Princes were beyond arrogant and it was  apparent that they could easily snap to do real harm to someone&#8230;  hot-tempered &#8211; ego-controlled and impressed with themselves and  their wealth and they want  everyone to know it and to bow down.</strong></p>
<p><strong>It is interesting that, &#8217;I', a &#8216;mere woman&#8217;, was able to soothe the situation&#8230;</strong></p>
<p><strong>Which  goes to show, even as these men want total control over a woman  that her attention and allure can &#8216;guide&#8217; or &#8216;manipulate&#8217; them. Is this  their real fear?</p>
<p>Their culture has this angel/whore thing going  on, as many men do, not just Muslim&#8230; but in the Muslim practice this  ignorance plays out in the most extreme ways&#8230;</p>
<p>There are so many complex insights in and to this experience&#8230;</p>
<p>What are your thoughts&#8230;?</p>
<p></strong><strong> </strong><strong> </strong><strong>And stay tuned&#8230; there&#8217;s a second part to this story&#8230;</strong></p>
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<h2><span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong> **  Watch for part 2 and now you know!<br />
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