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Due to the significant and often careless human impact on the natural environment, there are serious problems facing the people of today and of future generations. To date, ethical, aesthetic, religious, and economic arguments for the conservation and protection of the natural environment have made relatively little headway. Another approach, one capable of garnering attention and motivating action, would be welcome. There is another approach, one that I will call a rights approach. Speaking generally, this approach is an attempt to address environmental issues via the language and theory of legal and moral rights. Ultimately, it is our duties to our fellow humans that explain why we have duties regarding the natural environment. There are three main contenders among theories that can be called rights approaches to environmental issues. The first identifies the (alleged) human right to a healthful environment as the source of our obligations to conserve and protect nature. The second approach has it that our duties to nature arise from the rights of the constituents of nature themselves, its flora and fauna. The third approach to addressing environmental problems via rights is, I argue, the best path to environmental conservation and protection. This approach—which grounds duties toward nature on the human right to health—has the benefits of being a straightforward, uncontroversial, and simple approach to issues and problems that desperately need to be resolved.
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- Title
- Rights & Nature
- Journal
Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics
Volume 26, Issue 2 , pp 393-408
- Cover Date
- 2013-04-01
- 10.1007/s10806-012-9385-z
- Print ISSN
- 1187-7863
- Online ISSN
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Additional Links
- Topics
- Keywords
- Human rights
- Nature
- Duties
- Environment
- Health
- Authors
- Andrew T. Brei (1)
- Author Affiliations
- 1. Department of Philosophy, St. Mary's University, San Antonio, TX, USA


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Rolls-Royce Motor Cars has reported record sales for 2011, having sold 3,538 cars.
Sales at the BMW-owned luxury marque grew by 31% from the previous year, although the growth rate was weaker than in 2010 when sales jumped by 150%.
Rolls-Royce's £165,000 Ghost model, which is smaller and less ostentatious than the £235,000 Phantom models, has been the main driving force for sales.
Rolls chief Torsten Muller-Otvos said 2011 had been an "outstanding year".
Parent company BMW Group also recorded record sales for its BMW, Mini and Rolls-Royce marques after sales rose 14.2% last year to 1,668,982 vehicles.
Rolls-Royce's strong performance last year was more than matched by rival ultra-luxury car company Bentley, which sold 7,003 cars during 2011, marking a 37% rise that returned it to pre-recession levels.
Further expansionRolls-Royce said last year's sales were the highest in the marque's 107-year history, beating the previous record set in 1978 when 3,347 Rolls-Royce models were sold.
Rolls-Royce has seen sales more than treble since 2009, largely because it has been able to attract new customers who would not traditionally buy its cars.
The Ghost model, an ultra-luxurious alternative to parent company BMW's 7 Series flagship, has proved popular with younger customers as well as with women.
As such, the carmaker has adjusted to a new reality in which more people become very wealthy at a younger age and women are becoming increasingly prominent in the world of business.
Rolls-Royce has also responded to customers' desire for subtlety, given the prevailing downbeat economic mood.
Chief executive Torsten Muller-Otvos says he has seen a "shift from bling to substance".
At the time, the Bentley and Rolls-Royce marques were both parts of the same company.
The two brands went separate ways a decade ago, when the German automotive giant Volkswagen Group took over the Crewe factory in Cheshire, where Bentleys are still being produced.
BMW acquired the right to use the Rolls-Royce brand and built a brand new factory on the edge of the Earl of March's Goodwood estate in West Sussex where it started manufacturing new models.
That factory has been expanded in line with a broadening of the model line-up, which currently includes four Phantom models and one Ghost model.
The expansion is set to continue as the product range is developed further, Mr Muller-Otvos said.
Industry insiders predict that a convertible Ghost could hit the road in a couple of years.
Global marketsThe market for Rolls-Royce models grew particularly fast in Germany and Russia, where sales more than doubled last year.
Sales in the Asia Pacific region rose 47%. In the UK they were up 30%, while in the Middle East they rose 23%.
The US and Chinese markets are the most important ones for the company, though it has not released detailed figures about how many cars it sold in individual markets.
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Workplace, workforce sees changes through decades
This is the second in a series of articles about 21st Century families.
Q: What are changes and challenges in work that affect today's families?
A: A report titled "Futurework: Trends and Challenges for Work in the 21st Century Executive Summary" was published by the U.S. Department of Labor at the turn of the century. Although the American economy is strong, there are some significant concerns about work. Families work harder and longer. Parents constantly are under the pressure of time. According to the Bureau of Labor, wages dropped drastically during the 1980s and the early 1990s. Recently, the value of wages regained the average for 1980, the level before they dropped.
There are three basic necessities in order for workers to achieve stability. The first is a rising, secure income during one's lifetime. A second need is a balance between work and family so workers can have time to meet the needs of their children and their aging parents, and have time available for themselves. Thirdly, workplaces should be safe and fair, safe from health hazards and from discrimination.
Changes needed in the workplace to accommodate workers include accommodating diversity. By 2050, nearly half the population will consist of minority groups. Approximately two-thirds of the increase will come from immigration. Older adults will more than double by 2050. More women and people with disabilities will be working.
A second change in the workplace is the use of the Internet and computers as the hub of the workplace. These technological trends will redefine work skills and jobs for workers.
There are some challenges facing 21st Century workers and workplaces. Globalization and technology will eliminate unskilled and lower-level jobs. Wages in high-tech industries have increased 19 percent since 1990, whereas jobs as a whole in the private sector increased 5 percent on average. The wages of high-tech workers average 78 percent higher than those of workers in non-high-tech jobs.
Other consequences of technology include the decrease of well-paid, low-skill jobs. Globalization enables businesses to relocate in countries in which they can hire low-skill workers for low pay. Therefore, even lower-end skilled jobs, not just unskilled jobs, are decreasing.
Although the gap between the top 10 percent of workers and the bottom 10 percent has stabilized, it remains substantial. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported the bottom 10 percent of workers dropped 22 percent in wages by the end of the 20th century. Older male workers experienced declines in job tenure. Better educated workers fared better than less-educated workers. Workers who want promotions need training and skill development.
The 20 occupations that pay the most require a bachelor's degree. Jobs requiring college educations are increasing twice as fast as those that don't. Less-educated workers of all races, mostly men, are falling behind in earnings. Wages for men without high school diplomas have fallen the most, and wages for high school graduate males are second.
Persons with disabilities have a low rate of graduation from college -- 10 percent. However, in 1997, the high school graduation rate for African-Americans was 86 compared, with whites at 88 percent. Asian-Americans have the highest rate of high school graduation at more than 90 percent. For Hispanics, the high school graduation rate is 62 percent. Regarding college, African-American and Hispanic students are increasing college attendance, but at a much lower rate than white students.
Jobs require cognitive skills such as problem-solving and communication skills. More than 20 percent of American adults read at or below a fifth-grade level. The American Management Association survey in 1996 revealed 19 percent of their applicants in mid-size and large businesses did not have the reading and math skills necessary for the jobs for which they were applying. By 1998, that percentage increased to 36 percent. America has a skills shortage, not a worker shortage.
The challenge for the 21st Century in job progress is to make sure workers do not become "jobsolete." Skills and technology are critical. Companies need to provide workers with the education and training to stay ahead of the challenges and changes in the workplace.
According to the Department of Labor, no worker who is full-time should be living in poverty. Two proposals are significant: raising the minimum wage and expanding the scope of the Earned Income Tax Credits. Workers who belong to unions earned close to one-third more than non-union workers in 1998. They also are more likely to have health and pension benefits.
America's workplaces in the future will include more women, people of color, older adults and people with disabilities. Tapping into new human resources will enable workplaces to maintain growth. America needs to expand diversity workers and use immigrants in order to be competitive in the world market.
Trends that are expanding work opportunities and need to continue growing are narrowing the gap between male and female workers and white and minority workers. There have been anti-discrimination and affirmative action policies put in place in many organizations, but barriers still remain. Many African-Americans and Hispanics are unemployed, even though their employment rates are the highest ever. African-American teens have an unemployment rate of 25 percent, and African-American males have twice the unemployment rate of white males.
* Next week's article will discuss changes, challenges and future trends in the workplace.
Judy Caprez is associate professor of social work at Fort Hays State University. Send your questions in care of the department of sociology and social work, Rarick Hall, FHSU.


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The Bush administration is under scrutiny for its role Â- or nonrole Â- in the on-again, off-again coup in Venezuela.
Much more intriguing, however, is the role it may play in the transition of another Latin country of significance to the US. That country is Cuba, and the transition could well take place in the Bush administration's tenure.
After fainting during a speech in June last year, 75-year-old Fidel Castro indicated his successor in power would be his 70-year-old brother, Raul, who is Cuba's first vice president, minister of defense, and second secretary of the Cuban Communist Party.
Raul has carefully cultivated military leaders, who would play a formidable role in a succession regime. He has also replaced virtually all of the Communist Party's 14 provincial secretaries with new and younger incumbents he favors from the Union of Young Communists.
How this would change the Cuba that has been an irritant to the US for decades is not clear. On the one hand, Raul has argued for economic reforms, badly needed if Cuba is to claw its way out of its present economic distress. But whether these would be accompanied by the political reforms needed for Cubans to gain some measure of freedom is uncertain.
In recent months, Fidel Castro has mounted something of a charm offensive, intended to mellow Washington's hostility to his regime and the ideology it practices. The aim is to persuade the Bush administration to lift the US trade embargo, in existence for four decades. It is a key Castro objective, designed to help his ailing economy. Tourism to Cuba is down since Sept. 11, and so are remittances from Cuban exiles in Miami, many of whom work in Miami hotels and tourism-related industries, and who have lost their jobs in the US economic slowdown. All this, coupled with a cutback in Russian involvement in Cuba, has put a crimp in Cuba's foreign currency holdings.
The upheaval in oil-rich Venezuela must also be giving Fidel Castro some concern. Before the recent coup, President Hugo Chavez, a pro-Castro enthusiast, had been diverting some 53,000 barrels of oil a day to Cuba at very favorable terms, to meet about two-thirds of Cuba's needs. With the overthrow of Mr. Chavez's leftist regime, that supply could have been in jeopardy.


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The 27-year-old's contract at the Weserstadion is due to expire at the end of the season and a number of Premier League clubs have been said to be monitoring his situation.
Stoke City and Southampton have previously been reported to be among those tracking Hunt despite manager Thomas Eichin insisting that he will be staying.
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European Economic and Social Committee
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for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing
the second "Marco Polo" programme for the granting of Community
financial assistance to improve the environmental performance of the
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COM(2004) 478 final - 2004/0157 (COD) _____________ Rapporteur: Mr Levaux _____________ | |
On 15 February 2005 the Council decided to consult the European Economic and Social Committee, under Article 71 of the Treaty establishing the European Community, on the
Proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing the second "Marco Polo" programme for the granting of Community financial assistance to improve the environmental performance of the freight transport system ("Marco Polo II").
COM(2004) 478 final - 2004/0157 (COD).
The Section for Transport, Energy, Infrastructure and the Information Society, which was responsible for preparing the Committee's work on the subject, adopted its opinion on 21 February2005. The rapporteur was Mr Levaux.
At its 415th plenary session of 9 and 10 March 2005 (meeting of 9 March), the European Economic and Social Committee adopted the following opinion by 129 votes, with three abstentions.
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- freight transport is set to double by 2020 and existing networks are inadequate, resulting in road congestion, environmental degradation, accidents, and a loss of competitiveness; and
- sustainable development requirements are to be taken into account, which requires a more energy-efficient transport system.
- motorways of the sea; and
- traffic avoidance action.
- shift more than 140 billion tonne-kilometres of freight off the road (equivalent to 7 million truck journeys of 1,000 kilometres) towards other modes of transport;
- reduce CO2 emissions by 8,400 million kg; and
- produce social and environmental benefits estimated at around EUR 5 billion. (This estimate was reached by a group of independent experts and appended to the Commission proposal, with an evaluation of the harmful effects of pollution on health).
- tighter inspections and more severe penalties in the event of labour law infringements;
- public financing of modal transport infrastructure, such as terminals and access facilities;
- requiring operators to pledge to provide new ongoing services of general interest in order to secure modal shifts; failure to do this will mean that customers will not change their habits;
- procedures should be set out forthwith for extending the Marco Polo programme by two or three years in order to ensure that it continues to operate up to 2010 (there is a need to avoid the hiatus which occurred between the PACT and the Marco Polo programmes);
- the greatest possible benefit should be drawn from the experience gained from the PACT programme by concluding the external evaluation of the programme; the positive effects of the PACT programme have not so far been fully evaluated;
- a timetable should be established for the measures implementing the actions set out in the Marco Polo programme;
- a management committee should be given the task of monitoring actions on an on-going basis with a view to making the necessary mid-term adjustments to the Marco Polo programme;
- provision should be made for including in the projects eligible for support under the Marco Polo programme actions involving air and pipeline transport in a secondary capacity, provided that other modes are also involved;
- financial aid should be approved for projects involving actions taking place in just one Member State, provided that the impact of such projects will benefit all users of international shipments passing through the Member State in question; and
- a "European Guide", covering all multimodal platforms in the EU, describing their respective characteristics and laying down minimum standards, should be drawn up for the benefit of all users.
- in the White Paper of 12 September 2001 on European transport policy for 2010: time to decide, EUR 120 million was earmarked for the Marco Polo I programme for four years, i.e. EUR 30 million per year;
- in its proposal for a regulation on the Marco Polo I programme, in early 2002, the Commission forecast a budget of EUR 115 million over five years, i.e. EUR 23 million per year;
- in the end, however, the Marco Polo I programme was given a budget of EUR 100 million for only five years, i.e. EUR 20 million per year;
- for the first operating year of the Marco Polo I programme, the Community budget provided only EUR 15 million.
· the creation of an Intermodal Rail service between Germany and Italy via Austria, operated by a private company;
· the IKEA-RAIL project, launched in 2002, consisting of a platform in Duisburg (Germany), which receives products sent by rail (1,044 km) from Almhut (Sweden) for distribution to the rest of Europe. In 2002 and 2003, around 400 trains undertook this journey carrying IKEA freight alone;
· the establishment of regular sea crossings, for heavy goods vehicles, between several ports in Italy and Spain.
- modal shift (start-up aid);
- catalyst;
- common learning.
- river transport, by means of a continuous link between the North Sea and the Black Sea, with the mid-point located in Austria, at approximately 1500 km from each end;
- road and rail transport which, through trade platforms, will make it easier to irrigate large areas surrounding the river; and
- maritime and sea-river transport which, in the West extend this river by means of the Rhine-Main-Danube link to the Channel Islands and the North Sea and, in the East, towards Russia (the Volga), Ukraine and Turkey by means of the Black Sea.
- Motorways of the sea, a concept for which the Committee has expressed strong support on several occasions. Wider Europe of course has thousands of kilometres of maritime coastline, hundreds of ports and river estuaries, which are all potential points of access to hinterland regions and to the entire mainland. It is therefore important to encourage and assist transport and freight distribution projects everywhere, by increasing the number of multimodal trade platforms located on coasts or on estuaries.
- Traffic avoidance action, a concept designed to improve production, distribution and supply patterns and eliminate unnecessary journeys. Examples include:
- transporting goods in dehydrated form obviates the need to transport water, which is added once the goods arrive;
- locating component-manufacturing sites near to assembly sites obviates the need for long-distance journeys.
The Committee is in favour of experiments and projects along these lines.
- from EUR 1 million to EUR 500,000 for modal shift actions;
- from EUR 3 million to EUR 1.5 million for catalyst actions;
- from EUR 500,000 to EUR 250,000 for common learning actions.
· the minimum subsidy thresholds to be halved, or reduced:
- from EUR 1 million to EUR 500,000 for modal shift actions;
- from EUR 3 million to EUR 1.5 million for catalyst actions;
- from EUR 4 million to EUR 2 million for motorways of the sea actions;
- from EUR 1 million to EUR 500,000 for traffic avoidance actions;
· the minimal subsidy threshold for common learning actions, to remain at EUR 250,000, as set out in the proposal;
· a specific category to be created for sea-river transport and river transport with a minimum threshold of EUR 500,000. Although the minimum threshold of EUR four million (reduced to EUR two million as the Committee proposes) for motorways of the sea is acceptable for maritime transport, given the size of vessels and the volumes transported, it is not appropriate for inland waterways.
- in order to establish fair competition between the various transport modes, inspections should be strengthened and penalties in the event of infringements of labour laws should be increased;
- operators benefiting from the Marco Polo programmes must, on an ongoing basis, commit themselves to providing services of general interest to secure transfers;
- the Marco Polo programme must provide for the possibility of financing projects involving actions taking place in just one Member State, provided that the impact of such projects will benefit all users of international shipments passing through the Member State in question;
- a European Guide, covering all multimodal platforms in the EU, describing their respective characteristics, should be drawn up for the benefit of all users;
- provision should be made for including in the projects eligible for support under the Marco Polo programme actions involving air and pipeline transport with a break-off terminal located on a multimodal platform.
Brussels, 9 March 2005
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Natalie E. Harper, 35, of 2102 Greene St., and Shawn M. Durham, 34, of 253 Belmont Courts, were each ticketed Thursday at 7:38 a.m. after an accident on State Street, Ogdensburg police said. Ms. Harper was ticketed for moving from lane unsafely, Mr. Durham for passing on the right.
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ROBERT FERRELL, 47, of Renton, Washington, was indicted by a federal grand jury today in connection with a conspiracy to steer a government construction contract in violation of federal procurement laws. The case involves the Federal Aviation Administration's ("FAA") award of a $4.3 million contract to install lighting at Sea-Tac Airport. FERRELL is charged with Conspiracy, three counts of Procurement Fraud, and three counts of Making False Statements to the FAA and Concealing Material facts from the FAA. FERRELL is still employed by the FAA. He is scheduled to be arraigned on the charges next week.
FERRELL's co-conspirator, Vicki Lynn Olson, 51, of Kent, Washington pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Seattle on February 20, 2007, to Conspiracy and Procurement Fraud in connection with the case. OLSON faces up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine when sentenced by U.S. District Judge Marsha Pechman on May 18, 2007. Olson remains an employee of the FAA.
"When government employees provide an unfair competitive advantage to any contractor, the fairness and integrity of the competitive bidding system is undermined, and all taxpayers suffer," said U.S. Attorney Jeffrey C. Sullivan. "If competitive bidders think 'the fix is in,' we don't get the best deal. Criminal violations of procurement law will be aggressively prosecuted."
According to the indictment filed in the case, FERRELL was employed by the FAA as a contracting officer in Renton, Washington. As a contracting officer, Ferrell was responsible for awarding procurement contracts on behalf of the FAA. Olson worked as the Manager of the Acquisition Management Branch of the FAA in Renton, Washington. In April 2002, the FAA began the process of soliciting bids to install a High Intensity Approach Lighting System ("ALSF") at Sea-Tac Airport. Prospective bidders were first to be screened on their qualifications for the job. Following that initial screening, two companies were asked to submit price and technical proposals for the job. PCL Construction Services, Inc. ("PCL") and Donald B. Murphy Contractors, Inc. ("DBM") both submitted bids. Both were judged to be technically acceptable, but DBM's initial bid was $264,000 lower than the PCL bid. In June 2002, the FAA contracting officer on the job asked both companies to submit their "best and final" offers. PCL submitted a new lower bid, but DBM's bid was still lower by $50,700. On June 10, 2002, the FAA contracting officer prepared a memo indicating that DBM would be awarded the contract.
Two days later Olson and FERRELL removed the contracting officer from the project, and installed FERRELL as the new contracting officer who would then ensure that the contract would be awarded to PCL. FERRELL then invited PCL to revise its bid. PCL did in fact submit a lower bid which was $55,000 lower than its best and final offer. This "revised" bid was $4,300 lower than DBM's. DBM was never given a similar chance to revise its bid, and the contract was awarded to PCL, at a price of $4,293,200.
According to the indictment FERRELL had notified PCL that it was not the low bidder and that it needed to lower its bid by $55,000 to get the contract. Olson also contacted PCL and told PCL the price differential between PCL's and DBM's bids. DBM was not provided with the same information. Olson and FERRELL also misled the FAA into believing that PCL's bid was lowered, because a subcontractor was late submitting information to the company. FERRELL falsified a document, giving the "late subcontractor" story for the revised bid. FERRELL also misled an FAA attorney, asking if he could accept the new bid without disclosing to the attorney that he had alerted PCL that the company was not the low bidder on the project and had to lower its bid by $55,000 to be successful. Ultimately, when DBM complained, Olson sent DBM a letter falsely indicating she had investigated and "found no evidence to support DBM's allegation that actions were taken to prevent DBM from successfully bidding on this solicitation and from successfully protesting a wrongful award to PCL."
An indictment contains allegations that have not been proven at trial beyond a reasonable doubt.
PCL has acknowledged that it received and used confidential information from the FAA which gave it an unwarranted competitive advantage over DBM and, in fact, resulted in PCL being awarded the ALSF Contract. PCL has agreed to a civil settlement including the payment of $1 million and the payment of restitution to DBM. PCL has also disciplined the employees who were involved in receiving and using the confidential information. Additionally, PCL has cooperated with Federal investigators and prosecutors during this investigation and has promised to continue to fully cooperate with the investigation. PCL has also agreed to implement a Code of Conduct and a corporate compliance program and associated training to ensure that all PCL employees understand the company's policies and legal obligations when entering into contracts with the United States. The corporation will not face criminal charges.
This case is being prosecuted as part of the Procurement Fraud Task Force at the United States Attorney's Office. The recently formed task force is comprised of officers and agents from over 20 agencies. The task force will investigate allegations of fraud and abuse in government contracting in order to safeguard taxpayer dollars.
This local task force is the result of the National Procurement Fraud Initiative announced by Deputy Attorney General Paul J. McNulty in October, 2006, and is designed to promote the early detection, identification, prevention and prosecution of procurement fraud associated with the increase in contracting activity for national security and other government programs. As part of this initiative, the Deputy Attorney General has created the National Procurement Fraud Task Force, which is chaired by Assistant Attorney General Alice S. Fisher. The Procurement Fraud Task Force includes the United States Attorney's Offices, the FBI, the U.S. Inspectors General Community, and a number of other law enforcement agencies. This case, as well as others brought by members of the Task Force, demonstrate the Department of Justice's commitment to helping ensure the integrity of the government procurement process.
This case was investigated by the Office of Inspector General, Department of Transportation, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Internal Revenue Service. The case is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorneys Carl Blackstone and Peter Winn.
For additional information please contact Emily Langlie, Public Affairs Officer for the United States Attorney's Office, at (206) 553-4110.


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Ironies • 11.01.09
Your feet are forever on a race against each other
Trying to outdo the other, thus bringing you farther and farther.
But… where?
The enormous desert spreads itself before you
Offering you her company, filling you with all that she has.
You can't help feeling sorry.
For all her vastness, she's so empty.
You thought that only in leaving would you find
Not realizing that which you seek
Lies snuggly in the backyard of your mind.
Such is the paradox of the quicksand
The harder you struggle in it, the faster you sink.
The least resistance you make, the better chances you have of getting out of it.


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Hispanic/Latino Student Scholarships
If you know of Hispanic/Latino students who are looking for financial aid or have a college age student yourself, the following web-sites are excellent sources of financial assistance.
ALIANZA 2014-2015 Undergraduate Student Scholarship Application
ALIANZA will sponsor (2) $500 undergraduate student scholarships for the 2014-2015 academic year. Eligible candidates are currently enrolled Hispanic/Latino undergraduates with a 2.5 GPA or higher. Scholarship recipients must attend K-State as an undergraduate student during the 2013-2014 academic year. Previous recipients of this award are not eligible.
A.R.E - Association of Raza Educators
National Hispanic Scholarship Fund
The Hispanic Scholarship Fund (HSF) is the nation's leading organization supporting Hispanic higher education. HSF was founded in 1975 with a vision to strengthen the country by advancing college education among Hispanic Americans-the largest minority segment of the U.S. population.
Scholarships for Portuguese ancestry
Portuguese-American Historical & Research Foundation links to scholarships for students of Portuguese ancestry.
Hispanic College Fund
The Hispanic College Fund is the product of a dedicated group of Hispanic businessmen and women who were inspired to respond to the alarming growth in the number of talented Hispanic students who could not afford a college education.
League of United Latin American Citizens
Since 1932 LULAC Councils have been selling tacos, tamales, having dances, etc., to raise monies for scholarships that are given to Hispanic students meeting certain guidelines. Several years ago the LULAC National Educational Service Centers (LNESC), began the LULAC National Scholarship Fund.
Hispanic Scholarship Fund Institute
Since 1990 the Department of Energy and, more specifically, the Office of Environmental Management, has invested in the talents of promising Latino students through the Environmental Management Scholarship.
Luso-American Education Foundation
The Luso-American Education Foundation was organized by a group of citizens of Portuguese origin in July 1963.
Portuguese Heritage Scholarship Foundation
The Portuguese Heritage Scholarship Foundation (PHSF) is a non-profit educational organization established in 1989 to promote education within the Portuguese-American community.


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Name: Mary C. M. Status: Other Age: 30s Location: N/A Country: N/A Date: July 2004
There has been a continuous debate re: WHO ACTUALLY DETERMINES THE SEX OF A CHILD DURING CONCEPTION" as of late and I would like this answered. Biologically most Scientist reflect that a Man determines the sex of a child during conception as they release BOTH chromosomes during the ejaculation process,thus making him the "determinater".
However, in a few months past Parenting Magazine , the article clearly stated "DO NOT BLAME MEN IF YOU HAVE A BOY INSTEAD OF A GIRL"...as it is the women whose eggs actually grip and stick the chromosome to the egg. According to the article, Men release BOTH chromosomes and the Women are actually the GRABBER AND HOLDER OF THE CHROMOSOME CHOSEN.
Conception is actually a very complicated process. I'm sure that the author was referring to other factors that can influence conception. But the primary determiner of sex is chromosomal. Males are XY and females are XX. Sex cells, also known as gametes contain only one copy of each chromosome. The male gamete is sperm, the female gamete eggs. So each parent contributes one sex chromosome. A boy is conceived when the father contributes a sperm carrying a Y chromosome. The mother can only give X chromosomes. That sounds simple, but there are many other factors the affect conception. The pH of the vagina can be hostile to sperm, sometimes the mother makes antibodies to the father's sperm. Sometimes the father's sperm can't penetrate the wall of the egg. I heard this year that 2/3-3/4 of all conceptions do not end in pregnancy.
According to the article, Men release BOTH chromosomes and the Women are actually the GRABBER AND HOLDER OF THE CHROMOSOME CHOSEN. I have no idea what the author meant by this. The sperm contains representatives of each chromosome type not just the sex chromosome. Men release both types of sperm (X and Y), but as far as eggs being "grabbers and holders", I'm not sure what that means.
Interesting idea, but first of all, ova do not grab chromosomes; if they grab anything, they grab the membrane of sperm cells which fuse with the ovum and release their chromosome payload into the ovum. This theory ,therefore, presupposes that there are differences in the membrane of X-chromosome and Y-chromosome carrying sperm cells, and as far as I know, such differences, if they do exist, have not been demonstrated.
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November 2, 1948 – The Daily Iowan newsroom, alive with reporters, editors and designers awaits the outcome of the presidential. Would they hear it first from the unstable Associated Press (AP) wire machine or the real-time radio reports transmitting over a near constant flow of static?
Thomas E. Dewey? Harry S. Truman? Who will win the election?
The print shop foreman yells through the phone at an undecided Editor-in-Chief, Gail Myers (M.A., 1949), for the front page banner and copy, threatening to run the UI daily newspaper, The Daily Iowan, without either. Myers keeps pushing the deadline further. When he can hold it no longer, Myers decides to run an inconclusive 72-point front page banner announcing Truman was leading and the paper goes to press.
November 2, 2008 - Sixty years later Editor-in-Chief Emileigh Barnes (senior, Oxford, Miss.) sits calmly at her computer, sending Adobe PDF files as pages are finalized. Barnes and staff were notified of the Barack Obama victory before 11 p.m., according to Barnes, making the go to press by the midnight deadline like any other night on the job.
In the 60 years between these two elections, the technology used in newsrooms has gone through a number of changes making the environment vastly different.
When Myers sent his paper to press, it was to be printed by a 1923 Duplex Model E flatbed.
"The press was brand new in 1923 and boasted a speed of 6,000 papers an hour; in 1948 it operated considerably slower," Myers said.
Since then, the DI has changed printing companies along with delivery methods. A time many college students hardly remember - before e-mail - DI truck drivers drove mechanicals (draw ups of the pages) to Cedar Rapids Gazette's press, which they still use to print the daily newspaper today.
After the dawn of computer systems, the DI has gone through around seven to nine different systems, according to Bill Casey, DI publisher, including a two-computer system using type tape and a front-end computer system which could easily house the amount of space six systems take up today.
"You [students] take computers to be pretty solid these days," Casey said. "Well, these weren't."
Now the newsroom is complete with all Macintosh computers and up-to-date software such as NewsEdit to compose stories and QuarkXPress to lie out pages.
Printing has also benefited from improved technology. "It's easier than ever now," Casey said.
Back in the days of mechanicals, a number of steps were involved in the printing process. After the pages were drawn up, they were driven to the press, and then turned into negatives on light sensitive paper, creating something similar to a photographic negative. Then they printed the negative on the page using flashes of light to expose the film, generating a positive print (the final page).
Even without the need for all these steps, deadlines have not changed much, according to Casey. The only difference is they now have the ability to push them a little further back.
Why is it that with so much new technology, newsrooms like the DI are still pushing deadlines? Casey said with all the possibilities new technology offers, newspaper staff members make things more time consuming by utilizing every technological advantage available to them.
"They used to spend hours in the dark room, now they spend hours going through 500 [digital] pictures," Casey said.
During the years of type tape there were no design options, according to Casey. He said what the DI is doing now, thanks to new technology, is amazing.
While technology has aided in making the newsroom what it is today, Myers believes it still comes down to the people involved.
"Professional spirit and talent of the people involved is still the key to effective media and communication," Myers said.
Two editors, separated by 60 years and an immense amount of technology changes, hold similar emotions toward co-workers.
Barnes said working with co-workers was one of the great parts of being the editor-in-chief. When she worked as a writer, there was more seclusion.
Myers was quoted in the Spectator saying his years working at the DI were some of the "most exciting times [he's] ever had" and mentioned the people he worked alongside as great influences on his life.
Since working for the DI, Gail Myers has lived a life full of media and education. After leaving Iowa, he became the technical editor/director of publications at the Colorado School of Mines.
He earned his Ph.D. in communication methodology from the University of Denver. Myers held a number of teaching and administrative positions, including vice president and president of Monticello College and founding president of Lewis and Clark Community College. He also held a variety of positions at Trinity University in San Antonio, Temple University in Philadelphia and the San Antonio Art Institute.
Barnes started at the DI as a Metro reporter then became a Metro editor leading her to the editor-in-chief position where she makes sure everything runs smoothly in the newsroom. In doing so she dabbles in a little bit of everything, whether it be designing a page or fixing the printer when needed.
Before her editor-in-chief position she held numerous internships where she wrote for various beats, designed pages, worked with web teams and completed other general assignment writing. The publications where she accomplished these tasks were The Oxford Eagle, The Novato Advance, the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal and The Bakersfield Californian.
After graduation she plans to get her M.F.A. in poetry, but she doesn't want to leave journalism behind forever.
"I definitely want to go back to journalism," Barnes said. "Ideally, I'd like to go into long form journalism."


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Regulatory background
• Applicable Community Rules:
The Use of Cooling Refrigerants is governed by:
• KYOTO Protocol (HFC)
- The European Regulation n°842/2006 regarding fluorinated greenhouse gas, "F-gas" Regulation.
- Regulation n°303/2008 and n°307/2008 for application of regulation n°842/2006.
• MONTREAL Protocol (CFC, HCFC...)
- Regulation n°1005/2009 regarding ozone-depleting substances.
• Directive for Waste
- Directive 2008/98 CE from 19th November 2008.
• Regulation for Labelling
- Regulation CLP n°1272 /2008/CE.
• European regulation used in the Environmental code and applicable for all services:
A few examples of articles of law taken from the French Environmental code and applicable to cooling refrigerants:
"The Minister in charge of the Environment makes decisions relevant to production, import, export, sale, use and recovery of substances that cause ozone-depletion as specified in Articles 3, 4, and 6 of regulation n° 2037/2000/CEE dated 29th June 2000 regarding substances that cause ozone-depletion."
Meaning of "waste"
Article R541-7
"A unique list of wastes has been established and can be found in annex II of article R541-8. All information regarding waste quoted in this list must be delivered using the codes indicated in this list."
Article R541-8
Changed by decree n°2011-828 11th July 2011 - art. 8
"Dangerous waste: any waste presenting one or more dangerous properties listed in annex I of the present article. They are shown by an asterisk in the list of waste designation in Annex II of the present."
Meaning of "WTD"
Article R541-45
"All those who produce dangerous or radioactive waste, all those who collect small quantities of this waste, ...
and deliver to a third party, must simultaneously deliver a waste transfer document..."
Meaning of "Forbidden emissions"
Article R543-87
"All degassing processes that emit a cooling refrigerant into the atmosphere is strictly forbidden, unless vital for the security of persons. The owner of the equipment must take all necessary steps to avoid a repeat of this operation.
Degassing processes having punctually provoked refrigerant emission of more than 20 kilograms, or having provoked more than 100 kilograms over the calendar year must be brought to the attention of the state representative in the department by the owner of the equipment."
Some comments taken from the Environmental Code applicable to Heat transfer fluids & Process Water:
"Water is part of our nation's common heritage."
This principle written in the article L210-1 of the Environmental code marks the necessity of strong actions to protect the resource "Water".
The European Water Framework Directive (WFD) n°2000/60/EC of 23 October 2000 lays down an objective of good "ecological and chemical" water status before 2015.
When an industrial waste is not acceptable in collective networks, it can be treated (recycling or elimination) as waste in installations authorized to this effect. The owner will ensure proper traceability and in the case of a dangerous waste as described in the Environmental Code, article R541-8 annex II, the c
ompany must fill out the WTD and request a receipt from the company in charge of disposal.
• Mandatory maintenance of High Pressure Equipment
December 1998 regarding the surveillance of safety valves.
Pressure Equipment Directive 97/23/EC (PED).


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Belgium is on its way to becoming a totalitarian state:
Oy Vey!
Belgians and all Europeans wake up. Become nationalistic about your Western Culture and fight back against these muslim radicals.
The Nazis were stopped, at great cost, only after it was almost too late. In fact it was too late for millions of victims. Muslims will make the Nazis look like Boy Scouts. The West must either fight now, or risk living in submission, if still living at all.
Yes ,I am saying that Europeans must get militant and throw these people out. Is there any other solution to dealing with this manifest destiny fanaticism, other than joining them?
David, Thailand
While I agree with your sentiments, facts are facts and democratic politeness is no match for the barbarian. Documents and doctrines, values and principles that we revere such as freedom, Human Rights, the US Constitution and the Geneva Accords, were never designed with an eye on fanatics that understandably regard such virtues as weakness.
Moreover, Western politicians do not have the stomach for a religious war, which is good enough reason for them to deny that we are in one. Note the difference between politically expedient ignorance and denial.
I believe it is already too late for Western civilisation to effectively defend itself against Islam. Best we can hope for is a catalyst that dwarfs 911 and shakes enough out of their complacency for longer than it takes to yawn and roll over.
Europe is fundamentally corrupt, with no moral courage whatsoever. The US is being balkanized by the Left, and the right seems hapless, by any standard. They are still dancing to the tune of political correctness far too much.
It will take a major loss of life to wake people up and convince them that unity is preferable to tribalism, or delusions of self reliance. We may well fail, and if we do, the world will be plunged into darkness.Isn't it ironic that a nation such as this, or Europe for that matter, with all of our military power and technological sophistication, is being defeated by a primitive religion. Our academics look down their noses at religion, but we are gradually losing to people who are still living in the Middle Ages. Maybe they should try to figure out why.
Congratulations to the Belgians for rolling out the red carpet to Fascism. It is ironic that they lost so many during WW2, only to allow their democracy to crumble as they stand by and let it happen. Goodbye Belgium….you will have a slew of other European States enforcing Islam as the ONLY ideology before long. Westerners have NO respect for their culture and do not have a shred of fire inside to PROTECT that which is both PRECIOUS and ever so Vulnerable. They WILL be SLAVES, but they will have become so out of their INDIFFERENCE and PASSIVITY
D S Dunlap
Fully agree! I sometimes wonder what's wrong with us Westerners, and indeed, with sub-Saharan Africans, East Asians, etc., who continually avoid acknowledging the truth about Islam, or worse yet, EMBRACE Islam. Do they not know and understand that Islam is as supremacist an ideology as National Socialism?
It is especially incumbent upon Diaspora Blacks (Those of us who are outside of Africa) to understand that we must not only NOT embrace Islam, but must fight it whenever and wherever possible. We did not fight against enslavement and sacrifice to be free of enslavement and oppression by Europeans simply to roll over to Islam and be put into an even WORSE position, did we? We, the progenitors, inheritors, and beneficiaries of Western Civilization did not sacrifice hundreds of thousands (and in the case of Russia, Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus, Poland, and other Eastern European nations, MILLIONS) of our own lives beating back Nazism and other forms of European Fascism simply to let ourselves be overrun and humiliated by Islamist, did we? Did the peoples of Asia fight Imperial Japanese oppression, and then throw off the shackles of Colonialism simply to let Islam colonize and enslave them?
To all these questions I answer, "NO!" To these questions we must all answer "NO!" For, if we do not act to preserve our freedoms of speech, association, religion (or lack thereof), and choice, then we will watch these freedoms fall away until we have only the freedom to either choose Islam or die.
Peoples of the non-Muslim world, DEMAND that anyone coming to your countries assimilate and conform to your cultural, legal, and societal norms! People of the Muslim world, break the Islamic shackles which bind you and keep you among the most economically, socially, culturally, and educationally depressed people on Earth. DEMAND that your leaders allow you to choose to be, or NOT be, Muslims. DEMAND the right to hear other views; to be able to hear the Gospel and respond or not as you see fit; to be able to say to the Jews of Israel and elsewhere that they have the right to live and to their own land and nation-state and religion.
*climbs down from soap-box*
Shariah is evil. Shariah is Islam. Islam is evil. What part of this truth eludes Europeans and Americans?
Cast off the shroud of political correctness before its suffocation of your survival instincts is irreversible.
Nick Shaw
I shouldn't laugh but, I can't help it! They brought it on themselves as will the whole of Europe if they don't step up. The muslims will not be stopped at the gates of Vienna this time! They're already inside the gates and the Europeans, Belgians in this case, let them walk right in.
All because of political correctness.
Lefty political correctness. You know that group of people in our modern society who have, obviously, never cracked a history book!
It's funny to hear the people who warn of a "muslim majority" in this clip. Majority?? Ten percent is enough to cause real trouble. Twenty five percent and they have already lost. Anywhere close to fifty percent and the liberals will truly find out who their friends are! They'll be the first to be persecuted!
And I will laugh and laugh!
America, you've been warned! Truly, there are no moderate muslims once that ten percent threshold is reached. They will all fall in line. muslims (I refuse to capitalize that word, ever) in general, are incredible cowards (see Israeli attacks on Arab nuke facilities for an example) and the so called moderates are already being cowed in Europe and America.
Ban it. As you would any cult that preaches and carries out murder. Anyone caught preaching it or practicing it, jail or deport them. No appeals.
Start after the next election!
Zero says, "We can't wait!". He's absolutely right if he's talking about dealing with islam (piss be upon it)!-
Time to reverse immigration of Muslims…forget the so called good Muslims who want Democracy as they will be the first to fall into line…This is a Church and State movement and only a true revolution will end it. Its systematic and deliberate and its all over the world…We need a new concept of Democracy because the one we have is working against us.
http://youtube.com/globalfirm Globalfirm
The koran is hate speech and incitement to murder. Sharia is human sacrifice, torture and violence based on cult-scriptures and the abolition of free speech. The islam-cult is sharia. Never sharia-cult again. Never islam-cult again. Police will come. Globalfirm will come.
The children of Satan are using Allah and Sharia as a weapon against common decency…treat this as any plague that strikes civilization….the virus must be irradicated.
Sam Van Rooy is one of the Jorg Haiders of the FPO of the Netherlands, Partij voor de Vreiheid, party of Geert Wilders and rabid socialist and gay rapist of Moroccan youths, Pim Fortuyn. Van Rooy was ostracized by his party for posting and narrating openly racist videos where he harassed women for being Muslim.
http://www.critical-sass.net/2011/07/16/van-rooy-… http://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2011/07/16/pvv-medewerke… -
Sam Van Rooy is one of the Jorg Haiders of the FPO of the Netherlands, Partij voor de Vreiheid, party of Geert Wilders and rabid soc.ialist and gay rapist of Moroccan youths, Pim Fortuyn. Van Rooy was ostracized by his party for posting and narrating openly racist videos where he harassed women for being Muslim and called them "scum."
http://www.critical-sass.net/2011/07/16/van-rooy-… http://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2011/07/16/pvv-medewerke…
Dale Hurd is from CBN, a subsidiary of the 700 Club, which is not a real news source.
Richard Terrell
So. . . all the quotes of the Sharia advocates were concocted by the 700 Club? Wow. That's an easy dismissal! It saves you the trouble of dealing with the actual content. Sleep will, Schlomotion.
Crazy Christian Zionists team up with crazy Zionists and crazy Dutch fascists to interview a crazy Muslim and I am supposed to only see how crazy the Muslim is? I sleep great at night knowing that none of the above live near me. You should check page viii to see if your favorite populist extremist group is on the list:
Western Canadian
Again, you demonstrate that you are incapable of formulating anything resembling an argument, and resort to an extremely vile and vicious smear against anyone who dares reject islam. Anyone ignorant enough to compare any western fad, group or movement (except for nazism) to islam must be trying very hard to maintain that level of ignorance. You are a disgrace to every school you have ever attended, regardless of them being islamic or union/pc corrupted. You probably didn't even view the vid.
Nothing vile about saying what party people belong to. It's just a fact. This trash is reposted from the 700 Club. The author of the video was censured by his party. Sorry the doctoral publication on it is not enough for you.
Western Canadian
Yes, when it is intended as a smear, which is all you are capable of, it is vile. And I am amazed you manage to spell words like 'doctoral' and 'publication' properly… oh wait. You figures out how to use spell check.
Your pretence to being educated, let alone highly educated, is offensive to those of us who actually are. They should be banning your drivel (how many times is that now) fairly soon.
We are at a distinct difference of opinion, which I attribute to the fact that I am from the United States, which banished the Britons, and you are from a country that never liberated itself from British control. That is probably why you are afraid of "Dhimmitude."
Western Canadian
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You must have said something. Try saying it another way.
Islam is a deadly and very dangerous political and totalitarian cult. Please beware that the word "allah" is not the God from Heaven. It is a pagan moon god, whom it is satan.
Islam is a very dangerous political ideological cult. Please do not trust Muslims.
To the governments of the democratic countries of the world.
Please stop Muslim immigrants, before it is too late. Look what is happening in Europe, in USA, and in Canada with those Muslims. They are destroying those countries with their very dangerous political ideological cult.
On the whole Canada`s Muslims are fairly moderate, a large percentage being Sufis and another group whose name I forget.
There are also the extremists for sure, but who to this point have had no impact on Canadian society.
Nonetheless, it remains true that the moderates are unwitting Trojan horses for the bad guys.
When Europe turned its back on Christianity and the Holy Bible they lost contact with the Scriptural WARNINGS. Revelation Chapter SIX Opens the SEALS… The first seal – The White Horse here is ISLAM… Chapter 6:9 reveals the result. There is NO stopping it… It's Judgement time for planet Earth. It will get worse…It won't get better.
a muslim steals something in an islamic country the authorities cut of their hand, so lets go to europe and we can do as we please without losing a hand
Belgium is on its way to becoming a totalitarian state: oh merde.
~ The spread of sharia law to the entire world is part of their jihad.
Belgium's Little Mosque on the Prairie
The Arabic school textbooks which show children how to chop off hands and feet under Sharia law.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2077658/T…
…In Canada and Britain, and Belgium, sharia jihad is advancing.
Sharia law is antithetical to freedom and equality.
Note: Oklahoma is leading the way and has already established a firewall against sharia law. The evidence continues to mount that the Islamists will keep chipping away if we do not push back, and push back hard!
Islam was sheltered under the shadow of the sword….
Sharia Is Islam……….truer words can not be spoken. So why do we import more and more Muslims into our country via endless immigration?
Obama has the answer………………….William
There was a time in Belgium, beginning shortly after the Nazi occupation and lasting for several decades (well through the 1960's), when just sitting on a bus seat with a swastika painted on the window would get you shot in the head…even though you had nothing to do with it. That is how strongly the people of Belgium resented totalitarian regimes.
What has happened to the people of Belgium? How did they become a society that would tolerate the moral equivalent of Nazis hiding behind the mask of religion? Has humanity become so craven that they no longer have the courage to speak the truth and defend their own God given freedom? God forbid!
I exhort the Belgian people to remember the words of Emiliano Zapata… "I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees!"
Yep, Europe is most probably lost to the Muslim hordes. Unless they wake up fast, real fast.
Slightly off point, but what are the odds the Israelis hook up with the Russians? I don't mean they will become bosom buddies. However, it seems Obama is selling Israel down the river by leaking information helpful to Iran and harmful to Israel. Israel seems to have made friends of convenience with Azerbaijan. Is there any reason they can't make a similar arrangement with Russia? I think they can and probably should. The Russians might be interested in the Patriot missile technology, etc. for instance. The Russians might also like access to the Israeli Mediterranean ports even better, since their Syrian friends are not long for this world. Lets not forget all that recently discovered gas. The Russians can help develop and protect it. See what I mean? In return, Israel gains real diplomatic and military protection, economic strength and survival. Obamistan is trying to kill them and they know it.. Russians are nothing if not practical. Further, I wonder out loud if those 20,000 Russian ministry of defense troops in armored vehicles heading into Azerbaijan aren't there to protect those airbases? Why not? It's not like Iran is the most helpful friend in the world for Russia, is it?
Real politic, as they say, is real politic. Go Israel!-
Just for info, from someone that lives in Belgium, these guys of sharia4belgium must be 10-15 max and their leader that you see in the video is in jail for the next 2 years for hate speech against non muslims. Sharia4belgium is only active in Antwerp.
Not to deny that there is a salafi problem in Belgium at all as far as it is a real problem, but Belgium is far away of becoming an islamic state! Very far.-
I forgot to add that I'm from a (shia) muslim background (not arab!) and in the same time I'm very angry that in Belgium you can easily get saudi tv channels on the public tv providers while you can't get both francophone swiss and canadian channels… In the long run it will be a problem.
I don't care what TV channels you watch. I only care if you are right or wrong.
Expose some youth to saudi tv and they will pass from right to wrong in a matter of months! It's 100% obvious pro-jihad broad casted 24/7! that was my point!
I see. Would only add that TV, while a powerful tool for persuasion, probably can't undermine a culture all by itself. Or can it? Sorry to hear Europe still only has a small number of channels. I hope you are right that Belgium is far from sharia rule. But, it seems to me that Europe is undermining itself with foolish immigration rules. The U.S. is doing the same, sharia makes inroads here every day. The only good thing about a sharia take over is that the leftists will be on the chopping block before they can say Jack Robinson. Pardon me, I take solace where I can and Gloria Allred, Nancy Grace and Jane Fonda in Muslim togas is funny.
What is in motion will stay in motion until it hits a brick wall and for Eurpoeans not to have a basket of
bricks on hand is suicide by default. Mass deportation to North Africa or Nation of origin for Islamists
is the only way of avoiding massive blood baths in the upcoming war, a war predicted and a war
that is already begun. It is end the problem now or later when it will be much harder if at all possible,
it could be to late sooner than expected.. Europeans need to return to Church now……….William-
What you said. If not, dithering about will mean death.
What church? The catholic pediphile church. The church that stole north america from the natives?
If you go to a Church that has the Bible and teaches from it and it's tenents are held as
the true Word of God which many did over the centuries in Europe, the truth that is priceless
and redemptive is there. Even you randy have within yourself to come to understanding,
first for your personal salvation through Christ Jesus taking your place on the cross for
your sin, your misdeed as you can not save yourself and then to live as good a life as is
possible with your fellow man and forgive as you have been forgiven. Now here it is a
nice Sunday morning and here you have been preached to with Words from the Gospels.
Have a good day………………………………………..William -
Western Canadian
This loon has forgotten to take his meds again. He is one of many who should be suing the schools/preachers/etc who filled his head with ignorance and hatred.
"Sharia is Islam. " Gasp! SHOCKING!
Did you know that,………
Islam teaches young children How To Chop Off Hands and Feet under Sharia law?
The Arabic school textbooks which show children how to chop off hands and feet under Sharia law"http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2077658/T…
Perspective Check: America's Left is upset about spanking children.
I hate to rain on Dale Hurd's parade, but those few and far between so-called moderate Muslims aren't Muslims at all, but instead blasphemous apostates that per the dictates of mainstream orthodox Islam must be executed. Fortunately for them though they live in a Western country as opposed to an Islamic country where Sharia is much more difficult to enforce.
In addition, the Muslim that Mr. Hurd is interviewing, Abu Imran, which he no doubt regards as a so-called radical Muslim, is openly stating the truth about Islam and Islam's intentions for the future.
As a matter of fact, Sharia, which is the will of Allah (God), is Islam and like Jihad, is intrinsic to Islam. Indeed, the first and foremost tenet of Islam is that all Muslims must submit totally, completely, and unconditionally to the will of Allah (Sharia), where the freedom of conscience is forbidden, and where blasphemy and apostasy in Islam are capital offenses to enforce that first and foremost tenet of Islam. As a matter of fact, the word Islam in Arabic means "submission" and the word Muslim in Arabic means "one who submits."
The only difference between Abu Imran and most Muslims is that most Muslims choose to remain stealth for the purpose of covert and deceptive non-violent jihad. Nonetheless, all Muslims believe the same exact thing that Abu Imran openly states publicly, otherwise they aren't Muslims at all, but instead blasphemous apostates that again per the dictates of mainstream orthodox Islam must be executed. Even Abu Imran in his interview openly admits this reality.
In fact, Abu Imran is exactly like the famous British Muslim, Anjem Choudry, who also speaks out openly about the reality of Islam and the intentions of Islam for the future. Indeed, if the Islamic world is going to facilitate the false PC multicultural myth that the vast overwhelming majority of Muslims in the world are peaceful and moderate people and that only a tiny minority of Muslims are trying to hijack the peaceful religion of Islam, then it also has to put forth Muslims that appear to be radical or violent or both radical and violent.
In other words, you can't import Muslims into your country and not also import Sharia and Jihad into your country at the same time. As Sharia is the will of Allah and Jihad, which is holy fighting in the cause of Allah against non-Muslim unbelievers to make Islam supreme and constitutes total welfare that employs both violent and non-violent means of jihad, is the sixth and most important pillar of Islam, and both – Sharia and Jihad – are intrinsic to Islam, i.e., inseparable. Indeed, without either one of them, there is no Islam.
Moreover, covert and deceptive non-violent means of jihad, such as mass Muslim immigration to the West for the purpose of mass infiltration and stealth demographic conquest, is employed by the Islamic world against the West astronomically far more prevalently and constitutes an exponentially far greater threat to the peace and security of the West as opposed to violent jihad. Nevertheless, thanks to mass Muslim infiltration and leftwing PC multiculturalism, which together controls the discourse in the West, covert and deceptive non-violent means of jihad takes place throughout the West today totally below the radar and completely uncontested and unopposed.
Indeed, look what is happening throughout Europe and anywhere and everywhere mass Muslim immigration is occurring, unlike other immigrant groups, the Muslim immigrants just like clockwork always flat our refuse to assimilate and integrate and instead form Muslim enclaves first that in time morph into Muslim no-go zones ruled by Sharia as fifth columns and tiny sovereign statelets within states, and also in direct contravention to the laws of the states in which they reside.
As a matter of fact, this ubiquitous phenomenon is not only happening throughout Europe, but it is also currently happening throughout the USA as well, as our political elites on both sides of the political spectrum have all for all intents and purposes been rendered incompetent where Islam is concerned thanks to mass Muslim infiltration and leftwing PC multiculturalism that also controls the discourse in America as well.
Hence, unless something drastically changes, it is only a matter of time before the West including America is Islamic. Indeed, what is happening in Belgium today will before long also be happening throughout America as well, and if you complain about it, you'll be arrested for hate speech crimes. It's only a matter of time.
The Left in the interest of Communism hijacked all of the institutions in the West and also throughout America as well. However, when Communism collapsed, it jumped on the Islamic bandwagon, which is why Islam has been able to make so much headway in the West so rapidly. Unless we can figure out how to take back those hijacked institutions from the Left and the Muslim infiltrators, the West is doomed.
Finally, the biggest misconception of all is that Islam is a faith-based religion. However, Islam is not a faith-based religion. In fact, there is no faith in Islam whatsoever, as the freedom of conscience is forbidden and blasphemy and apostasy are capital offenses. Instead, its a supremacist theo-political totalitarian ideology that masquerades as being a religion to dupe the gullible societies it intends to subjugate into a very draconian form of Islamic totalitarianism via the imposition of Sharia. Indeed, Islam is 100 percent totalitarian.
Western Canadian
"Nevertheless, thanks to mass Muslim infiltration and leftwing PC multiculturalism, which together controls the discourse in the West, covert and deceptive non-violent means of jihad takes place throughout the West today totally below the radar and completely uncontested and unopposed. "
Your pedantic stupidity is showing again. It has been brought to your attention (to the degree that you are capable of paying attention, suffering from NPD as you do), that stealth jihad is far from being totally below the radar and completely uncontested and unopposed' as it is being opposed and contested, as well as publicized, in north and south america, europe, oz and new zealand, africa, china, soviet union…. The book 'stealth jihad' by spencer was published in 2008, Geller has had atlas shrugged up for years, In your fantasy world, where you are not a clown and buffoon, things might be different. But that is YOUR world, as lacking in anything worthwhile as the islamic world…
Really? Has mass Muslim immigration to the West with all of its excess baggage, which is really covert and deceptive non-violent jihad for the purpose of mass infiltration and stealth demographic conquest, been banned and reversed?
Are the Middle East Studies Departments of our elite colleges and universities that were hijacked, co-opted, and usurped by the Left, the Saudis, and the Gulf State Emirates no longer hijacked, co-opted, and usurped by the aforementioned?
Seek mental help for your severe problems with delusions and fantasies and stop wasting my time with your adolescent garbage.
The Left in the interest of Communism hijacked all of the institutions in the West and also throughout America as well. However, when Communism collapsed, it jumped on the Islamic bandwagon, which is why Islam has been able to make so much headway in the West so rapidly. Unless we can figure out how to take back those hijacked institutions from the Left and the Muslim infiltrators, the West is doomed.
I remember talking with a resident of Rotterdam that I met in Dublin a few years back. She had a haunted look on her face when I asked her about the Muslim presence in the Netherlands. "Those Muslim," she remarked, with a fearful look of concern on her face, "they breed like mice. We Dutch are a minority in our own city."
This is a declaration of war on the West and freedom of humanity. Let's go march on 'Live Free or Die Hard'!! Any one?
It would be funny if it weren't so sad. These radicals think that to sin here on earth is bad (which it is), and that death, stoning, cutting off your hands is appropriate. But if they commit suicide killing innocent people then they go to heaven to screw themselves silly with virgins! These people are just plain stupid.
Here are some fun facts, folks. See if you can impress your friends!
Did you know, Muslims eat camel dung, and drink their own urine?
It's true. It has been said these cultural dishes have been known to delight even foreigners.And did you know, Muslims prefer to wipe their derriere's with the bare hand?
They consider western habits of hygiene to be morally offensive. Even toilets are offensive. But they have been known to adopt the awkward western way. But in their own lands, they prefer their own traditions.
But that is why it is an insult to wave to a Muslim with the left hand. They clean their fecal matter with the bare left hand. It is similar to the western custom of everyone shaking hands with the right hand. It is easier that way, and helps avoid cultural embarrassment.And did you know, that under Sharia, there is no such thing as martial rape? Or incest? Though this last is known to vary from tribe to tribe. I think this may be why Sharia is so popular in today's modern world.
And finally, did you know, the english word for Sharia is F.U.? Again, it's true! If anyone has any fun facts of their own to add, feel free to do so.
I hope everyone enjoyed this weeks fun facts.
Rick Russell
Have you ever noticed when the "Left" protests here in the U.S., they always do so in the inner core of specific cities. Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Madison, Miami, and of course D.C. Notice they NEVER wander out to the suburbs or rural areas. Ever wonder why? Imagine a Leftist Muslim group protesting in the suburbs of a Midwest city. How long do you think the protest would last? They know better.
Peter J
Well, how does one begin ?That is the question Indeed all being said here is the truth .and it is going too far ..We have been fooled l ong enough and being too lenient on those people and their shennanigans ,,do we have the balls to stop them and their evil cult or are we as spineless as I think we are…I am from Belgium I have seen what is desribed above happening in front of my eyes ..I could not believe it but it's real .
Those people are indeed intent on imposing their evil so called religion and sharia on all of us free people,this blog actually made all this even clearer ..any ideas ?We have won our freedoms at a very high cost over the ages ,the cost of freedom is eternal vigilance it is never a given …Please give suggestions and lets find how to counter this horror show … -
His "you can't be a Christian Jew" comment made me smile since I am a Christian with Jewish ancestry.
david Coddington
If, as Abu Imram says, early on in this clip, that Allah and not man, is the legislator, then how can we be certain that it is Allah, long dead by now, talking and not some small voice (as in Ted Bundy or Jeffrey Dahmer) inside Abu Imrams head. We hear this time and again in all religious arguments that "God talked to me and said……….." This is very weak theologically, anthropormorphising God and using the concept to further ones own egotistical ends. Any one who feigns to call themselves religious or good (the two as we all know, are not the same) should be very wary of being led astray by these demons. In Christianity and also Judaism there is the concept of "do unto others as you would have them do unto you" and "do not do that which you find distasteful to yourself". maybe Abu Imram should cool his heels for a second and ponder this basic human tenet.
I quite like this little gem of wisdom currently doing the rounds on e-mail, which sums up my thoughts about the subject:I am truly perplexed that so many of my friends are against another mosque being built in London.
I think it should be the goal of every Englishman to be tolerant.
Thus the Mosque should be allowed, in an effort to promote tolerance.
That is why I also propose that two nightclubs be opened next door to the mosque, thereby promoting tolerance from within the mosque.
We could call one of the clubs, which would be gay, "The Turban Cowboy ", and the other a topless bar called "You Mecca Me Hot."
Next door should be a butcher's shop that specializes in pork, and adjacent to that an open-pit barbeque pork restaurant, called "Iraq o' Ribs."
Across the street there could be a lingerie store called "Victoria Keeps Nothing Secret ", with sexy mannequins in the window modelling the goods.
Next door to the lingerie shop there would be room for an adult sex toy shop, "Koranal Knowledge ", its name in flashing neon lights, and on the other side a liquor store called "Morehammered."
All of this would encourage the Muslims to demonstrate the tolerance they demand of us, so the mosque problem would be solved.
david Coddington
How you create a Sharia state begs a few questions. You need a Caliph. Ideally this should be a direct descendant of Mohammed, but which one? I don't think Mohammed has many Belgian descendants, although I could be wrong. Perhaps when you have removed every vestige of the infidel government you all wait for a "sign". (Apparently Allah gets to choose, but there isn't a lot of detail about how he does this. Strikes all the rest dead etc.?) Presumably one way or another once you have a Caliph he, for it will be a he, will have to appoint a Grand Vizier or some sort of chief minister followed by more minor, less grand, viziers and a bunch of beys. (If you have a bey in charge of justice do you have to have a dock of the bey? Just wondered.) I wonder what would happen to the EU if Belgium became a sharia state? At least there wouldn't be any shortage of eunuchs.
Clearly you can have a modern state run by religious loonies – Saudi, Iran the USA etc, but keeping it purely theocratic is clearly no mean feat.
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Unfortunately, that destiny is inescapable. It is prophesied in Scripture and must come to pass. The whole world will eventually fall victim to tyranny at the hands of the antiChrist in what is described in the Book of Revelation as the Great Tribulation. We are seeing the run up to that happening right now. The board is being set and the pieces are in motion. This is the generation that will see the return of Christ. Let not your heart be troubled!


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