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The major gold sink has been announced for Mists of Panderia. MMO-Champion broke the news that some of the vendors will have "black market" items to bid on. With little information other than what is on the beta this will become an interesting idea as it starts to develop.
On this black market AH will be past discontinued mounts, pets and other items. Included in this is the Tier 3 armor sets that were removed when Naxxramas was moved from Easter Plaguelands in Azeroth to the barren wasteland of Dragonblight in Northrend. These will most definitely be Bind on Pickup items. The biggest question will be whether the pets and mounts on the Black Market AH will also be BOP. If they become BOE it might end up being a big opportunity to resell. Currently the market has it set at 12 hour auctions so bidding at night when there is less population could cause deals to become more readily available. Parking an unused character at the Black market site and bidding occasional could reap a large amount of rewards.
One of the downsides of this blizzard idea will be that many of the armor sets and mounts that players have become proud of "earning" will be just as available for the right amount of gold. Already on the boards there is squabbling about how it's unfair to those that had gained the Tier 3 armor set through dedication and hard work. While others will be able to just drop a large (or even small) amount of stored gold to gain the same elite status in the eyes of some.
Will this diminish the investment quality of some of the hard to get items in the game? Big questions of just how much this will go to evening out the gold playing field. There is already an expected low value set on many items (10,000g for pets, 10,000g for armor, 20,000g for Mounts). Looking at the list of some of the items you can see the current cost on the AH for many of these pets and there is an expectation that they will go unbidded on. The Elwynn Lamb for example is easily obtainable on both the Horde and Alliance side for 4k to 6k. So bidding 10k on one on the BMAH would be giving money away. But mounts like the Ashes of Al'ar are beyond rare to see, and will cost a large amount of gold to bid upon.
So this might be a stroke of genius by Blizzard developers, or come back to just be another forgotten idea with MOP. The new expansion will have an influx of players both returning and new. Having little or no money to start, and many not armed with the tools of making gold other than questing, there will continue to be a divide between the haves and the have nots.
Hopefully those that read this journal want to continue to be part of the Haves.
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Gold: It makes a player better
Get thee to an Engineer
Darkmoon Faire Returns.... Much rejoicing
Prepping for MOP: Dinner Improbable
Random Dungeons: A Concert of Errors
Save the children.. Save Azeroth

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The Case Against Religion
(originally, "Superior Men")
a book by James Hervey Johnson, 1949
Chapter XXI
The God of the Bible is a
Murderous viciousness, treachery, cruelty, deceitfulness, and arrogance are common characteristics of the Biblical God. No man of ordinary good morals could be even a fraction as vicious, murderous, or vengeful as the Christian God, according to the book reputed to be His divine revelation.
Consider the story of Adam and Eve, in which God made each and deliberately made them weak so that they would be tempted by a snake made by God, and cursed forever by the God who made them, for doing something which he had developed their desire to do.
Men are better than this. They forgive their children for mistakes they make and try to point out better ways of doing things.
God cursed woman and said, in Genesis 16: "I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband and he shall rule over thee."
17: "And unto Adam he said: Because thou hast harkened unto the voice of thy wife and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake: in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;"
18: "Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth; to the end thou shalt eat the herb of the field;"
19: "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread 'til thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken, for dust thou art and unto dust shalt thou return."
Here is a God who has made a man as a plaything and then cursed him forever for having eaten an apple. Could any more revengeful spirit be imagined? From then on, starting with the God-created Cain who murdered his brother Abel, God punished men and threatened them with "seven-fold vengeance."
From then on, instead of changing the minds of men, God permitted them to do the things that were wrong, then in revenge he told Noah that he would destroy all, except a few, by the horrible method of drowning. It would have been much easier for a supreme intelligence to change the people so they would follow the regulations prescribed by their master.
But in the destruction of the violent people, God also destroyed all animals and all the innocent babies, children, women, who had either done nothing wrong or if they violated rituals or regulations, did so unknowingly. Can this be the God of loving kindness that we hear preachers talk about?
Of course, the fable of the destruction of all of the animals by the flood is in conflict with science, as is also the story of the earth being flooded at one time and, as a matter of fact, the fable is a tradition of a primitive people with childlike minds.
Another evidence of the revengeful spirit of God is the confounding languages of the people set forth in the story of the Tower of Babel. An intelligent being would have preserved one language, if there ever was one, so that all people would understand each other better and with the better understanding, and the freer ability to communicate one with another there would be less opportunity for war and bloodshed; much of which comes from a lack of understanding caused by the defects of language, race, and religion. One of the greatest ideals of those who wish to see mankind reach perfection is a universal language; yet here we have a God, all powerful, vengefully causing just the opposite. Of course, according to science the reason for the thousands of languages is the wide dispersion and the great diversion of the various races, clans, and tribes of mankind. With little intercommunication and with the gradual dispersion from centers of origin, the tribes lost contact with one another and languages became different; people became less able to understand each other; until after many centuries, with the development of writing and civilization, languages tended to become more universally used and some dialects were consolidated.
Almost invariably wars are between peoples who speak different languages, and had the God manufactured by the ancient primitive peoples had the intelligence of the modern, well educated man, instead of confounding the languages he would have simplified them to avoid wars and bloodshed down through the ages.
What would one think of a man who showed special favoritism to the Jews, being but one tribe of the many nations and tribes he had created? And, by the way, this promise of favoritism to the Jews has not been fulfilled for they have been persecuted more than any other race on earth. The second book of the Bible is a history of their having been driven out of Egypt; and they have been driven out of country after country, exiled, killed in pogroms, forced to live in ghettos and maligned down all the pages of history, from the time of the Book of Exodus.
God's instructions to the Jews to take the land away from the Canaanites who had not done them any harm, and to murder all men women, and children, is one of the most sordid stories of viciousness and cruelty in all the pages of history. And as is reported in Deuteronomy 3:33, "And the Lord, our God, delivered him before us; and we smote him and his sons, and all his people."
34: "And we took all his cities at that time and utterly destroyed the men and the women and the little ones of every city. We left none to remain." How can any person worship a God who would order the destruction of innocent women and children?
In Deuteronomy 3:6, under God's orders the writer boasts, "And we utterly destroyed them as we did unto Sihon King Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children of every city." Only a monster could order such destruction.
The intolerance of the Biblical God is the extreme of jealousy, and in the 13th Chap. of Deuteronomy he gives express orders as to the method of murdering any worshiper of other gods as follows:
10, "And thou shalt stone him with stones that he die." And further, verse 15, "And thou surely shalt smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly and all that is therein, and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword."
There are some human beings who become insanely jealous and murder other human beings, but seldom is the peak of vengeful jealousy reached where they would kill the innocent cattle or animals of the men they hated. And again in Deuteronomy 17:5 is the further order that worshipers of other gods are to be stoned to death.
The peak of the vicious orders of the murderous Biblical God is reached in Chapter 21, verses 17 and 18: "But of the cities of these people which the Lord, thy God, doth give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth"
17, "But thou shalt utterly destroy them: The Hittites and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, as the Lord, thy God hath commanded thee."
Here we have this God creating people, ordering them to increase and multiply, and then taking of people like the Ancient Jews who have a Biblical history of suspicion, greed, murder, and internal dissension, violations of their own God's command, and ordering them to go in and cruelly exterminate another race of people created by the same God: murder men, women, and innocent children,
And then in Chapter 21, verse 13, God orders other certain cities to be treated as follows: "Thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword:"
14, "But the women and the little ones and the cattle and all that is in the city, even all the spoils thereof, shalt thou take unto thyself and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies which the Lord, thy God, has given thee."
15, "Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations."
Here we have the God of the creations ordering the murder of all of the men and the enslavement for obvious purposes of the women, and the captivity of the children.
Is it any wonder, then, that Thomas Paine says: "When we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than one-half of the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent if we would call it the word of a demon instead of a god. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind; and for my own part, I sincerely detest it, as I detest everything that is cruel.
It is no wonder, then, that for thousands of years the Jewish and Christian religions have activated men, rulers and church leaders to engage in the most frightful and bloody wars between Christian nations and between various sects and branches of the Christian church. Whole countries, tribes, cities, have been destroyed. They have exterminated, persecuted, and tortured all those who opposed their doctrines. It made no difference whether there was a difference of opinion the basis of which, in both cases involved in the dispute, was claimed by the proponents to be founded on the exact command and wording of the Bible.
All of those responsible for the wars, murders, persecutions, tortures, or burnings of those who differed with the religious leaders in power could readily be excused by quoting some part of the Bible, like Moses and Joshua's extermination of the Canaanites and the peoples nearby. They could all claim they had God's word for their cruelties, treacherous murders, and wars.
Had the Bible or a book with the same influence been filled with the stories of justice and fairness and the commands of a god who showed no favoritism, no cruelty, no intolerance, no hatred and no vengeance such as fills to overflowing the present Bible, mankind would have been thousands of years advanced. Had the Bible followed the thoughts and plans of the foremost thinkers of modern times, it is hard to say how much greater the advance of civilization would have been.
If the Bible were filled with stories of purity and the highest morality, and if there were no conflicts in it, no discrepancies, and if its predictions were exact and easily understood, then we might consider it as having been divinely revealed.
During all this history of the destruction of the Canaanites, the Jews made no converts, they made no efforts to convert the so-called sinful people, whose lands they took to their religion. They cruelly and mercilessly and boastfully exterminated everyone, men, women, and innocent children, reserving only, for their own use, some of the virgins.
A god with supreme power would seem to have better carried out his objectives by changing the minds of the people to follow his commandments, rather than by exterminating them. Or, if he found that the extermination was essential, why could he not have painlessly put them to sleep instead of forcing them to undergo the cruelties of ancient warfare?
The morality of any so-called supreme being is open to question if he subjects innocent children to torture and death. The Biblical admonishment that "the sins of the fathers will be visited upon the children unto the third generation" is contrary to all justice and right. No intelligent person with modern, ethical ideals could possibly conceive of any justice in the innocent being forced to suffer by reason of the action of someone else.
In the book of Judges, the story of the murder of the people of Laish by the Danites, under the express orders of the Biblical God, is another case of extreme cruelty. This is a story of sending spies to the City of Laish, finding that the people were quiet and secure, then smiting them with the edge of the sword. Let us give a parallel example: At the present time there is a New York negro calling himself Father Divine, who, according to Maurice S. White, in his booklet "Religions of the World," was born George Baker. Father Divine claims to have several million followers -- negro and white. Suppose that he discovered that there was another city, for example, Philadelphia, in which the people were largely Quakers, and that he would order his followers treacherously to murder and exterminate all of the inhabitants of Philadelphia and to steal the property and land of the people who lived there. Here was a people who had done no damage or harm to Father Divine's New York followers, who believed him to be God.
These are exactly the kind of commands that the Biblical God gave the Jews; that is, they were to fall upon, murder, and exterminate whole cities, towns, and tribes of people whom they hardly knew and who had never done them any harm. Then they were to walk in and take the lands and the cattle and the property of the people they had murdered.
Let us continue our examination of the cruelties of God's chosen people.
In the second book of Kings, tenth chapter, is the story of how Jehu murdered the seventy sons of Ahab by beheading them, and then followed the history of cruelties:
"Lay them in two heaps at the entering of the gate."
"So Jehu stew all that remained of the house of Ahab in Jezreal, and all his great men and his kinfolks, and his priests, until he left him none remaining."
Later, "And he took them alive and slew them at the pit of the shearing house, two and sixty men; neither left he any of them."
17. "And when he came to Samaria he slew all that remained unto Ahab in Samaria, till he had destroyed him according to the saying of the Lord."
20. "And Jehu said, 'Proclaim a solemn assembly for Baal.'"
24. "And when they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings Jehu appointed four score men without and said, 'If any of the men whom I have brought into your hands escape, he that letteth him go, his life shall be for the life of him.'"
The twenty fifth verse tells how this treacherous fiend, acting under God's command, murdered these worshipers who had been invited to appear at their temple, and then in verse thirty we have the Lord's commendation for this heinous crime:
"And the Lord said unto Jehu, 'Because thou hast done well in executing that which is right in mine eyes and hast done unto the house of Ahab according to all that was in mine heart, thine children of the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel.'"
And on through all of the books of the Old Testament are these stories of murder, killing treachery, debauchery, robbery, and the destruction of innocent people, the murder of children and the capture of virgins for use of the Jews -- all under the express command of the Biblical God.
In the fifteenth chapter of the second book of Kings is the story of how Manahem smote Tiphsah and, "All the women therein that were with child he ripped up." And we are asked to believe that the Biblical god ordered such inexcusable and unparalleled cruelty and barbarism. The so-called prophet Elisah was supposed to be a man of God, and he is typical of the reflection of God's mentality. Because some children referred to Elisah as "bald-headed," as children will, "He turned back and cursed them in the name of the Lord, and there came forth two she-bears out of the wood, and tare sixty and two children of them."
Is this not a fine example of God's treatment of his children? And of the unparalleled vindictiveness of one of his "men of God."
From this extreme of cruelty and murder of innocent people, other parts of the Bible, written by different men and at different times, swing to the other extreme and Jesus Christ is quoted as having told his followers to "love thine enemies," and "whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain."
Verse 44, Matthew, Chapter 6:
"Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you and pray for them which despitefully use you and persecute you."
Here we have two conflicting systems of philosophy: one, the murder of innocent people at God's command, and two, the docile submission and prostration before one's enemies. Christ is supposed to be a part of God, and he gives opinions different from those given by the Holy Ghost or the other indivisible part of the Trinity.
But that is not all. At no time is there any mercy shown the innocent bystanders. Consider the case of Christ's casting the devils out of a man and putting them into a whole herd of swine, causing them to run over a cliff, with consequent death to the whole herd. What harm had the swine done to Christ or the man who was reported to be full of devils? The owner of the swine is not considered at all. Why should he be forced to lose his hogs because someone he probably never knew had fits?
Of course, during the time that the Bible was written people knew nothing of psychology or psychiatry, and they believed that any man who showed signs of insanity or epilepsy was possessed with devils or foreign evil spirits. They did not know that this was a mental condition.
But here, again, we have a conflict with Christ's own so-called philosophy, which has been the cause of the shedding of the blood of untold thousands of innocent people.
For in Matthew, chapter 10, verse 34, he says:
"Think not that I am come to send peace on earth. I come not to send peace but a sword."
35. "For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law."
36. "And a man's foes shall be they of his own household."
37. "He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me."
Here we have again the intolerance and the cruelty and the persecution of the Biblical God. Christ has ordered sons to be against fathers and has boasted about bringing a sword instead of peace. And perhaps this is one of the prophecies that is better fulfilled than any of the others, for down through the nearly twenty centuries since Christ is supposed to have been born, the sword, murder, and persecution have been instruments by which Christianity has been spread. We have the early four hundred years of war between the various Christian sects. We have the spread of the Catholic church by means of the sword and we have the burning of those who did not agree with the priests in power; burning at the stake, the murder of old women who were called "witches," the destruction and slaughter of the Mexicans and South Americans by the conquistadors who carried a sword in one hand and a cross in the other. We have the history of the Inquisition and the persecution and destruction of millions of innocent people, the extirpation of the Huguenots of France, and the war between various parts of the so-called Holy Roman Empire; and the leaders of each one of these groups could always quote Jesus Christ for an excuse to carry on the warfare, persecutions, and cruelties that have set the world back thousands and thousands of years.
Take, for example, the Biblical command in Exodus, chapter 22, verse 18: "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live."
Thousands of innocent women have been tortured and burned at the stake to satisfy the sadistic enjoyment of priests, preachers, and even the Puritans of America. It was probably an easy way for gossips to get rid of old women who knew too much, or for men to get rid of their mothers in-law, or even possibly for the county to get rid of taking care of old women who were not able to work any more; and possibly children and in laws who were supposed to support their elderly mothers could pass the word around and have them accused of being a witch and eliminate them. Even during these times, the Eskimos leave their aged parents on the ice to freeze after their period of usefulness has passed, when the old women's teeth have worn down so they can't chew seal skins any more to soften them. What a wonderful spirit of loving kindness we have set before us by these Biblical stories and commands!
Chapter XXII
The Churches Must Have
Political Support
in Order to Prosper
The churches are continually asking for more aid from the State -- they want the children carried to their schools in publicly paid buses. They fear public education, and want the state to support wholly or partially their parochial schools. Every effort is made to keep a hold on the children, to restrict by law the teaching of modern scientific theories such as evolution.
Most churches try by law, and they have succeeded in backward states, to make people live up to their doctrines, such as observing Sunday. Most states declare documents illegal if drawn on Sunday. In others, it is a crime to attend certain recreational games or visit theaters or movies on the "Lord's" day.
Always they decry the atheist, the unbeliever, and the freethinker and even bar anti-religious periodicals from the mails in Canada.
They boycott newspapers, magazines and bookstores where freethought literature is sold and officials who discuss freethought.
Their representatives are hired to serve at public expense in the legislatures, in Congress, and in the armed forces. No atheist can have a paid representative in these places and men are sometimes forced to go to church in the Navy and some of the military branches.
If religion was not compulsory, and not subsidized, it would not grow so strong. Place reason and religion on an equal footing and religion would fall by the way; that is if atheists were permitted to have freedom from taxes, representatives in the armed forces and the legislatures and to pass laws providing for no favors toward church doctrines (such as the Sunday laws), and the arguments against atheism were permitted, as religious programs are, to be broadcast over the radio, then religion would lose, in spite of the low mentality of the people.
Religion depends upon the sheathed sword of political power and the suppression of opposition, for success. Exposing it to the light of truth destroys its power and influence.
Chapter XXIII
A Sensible God
A sensible god, all-powerful and all-good, would have made a world for human beings with no wars, no sickness, no dishonesty, no killing, no crime, no noxious insects, no sorrow, no trouble, no worries, no earth quakes, no poison snakes, no animals nor men tearing one another to pieces. All would have been peace and quiet, happiness, and enjoyment.
The priests have built up a fabulous monster who delights in making men sinful, and then punishing them by eternal torment in hell for their so-called wrong doing. What man would want to punish his enemies forever and ever? Of course, the truth is that the original priests or religious leaders knew that there was no such thing as a god, and they built their monster on the basis of their own imaginations. The god they talk about is a god who will send to hell anyone who has the intelligence and courage not to believe in the priests' fables.
Naturally the priests want people to do as they say and the way to get them to do it is to threaten them with eternal torment after death. The priests could not demonstrate their God by having him strike unbelievers dead, so they had to reserve punishment for the atheists until after death. No one returned to say that they had not been punished, so many people were impressed by the claim that they had been sent to hell.
Any of the moronic church followers can see that good men suffer and criminals prosper on earth. So the only thing the priest could say was, "Just wait until they die, then they will suffer."
Good men can only look forward to happiness in heaven, be cause often they are robbed while alive. And the priest fills his pockets at the expense of the believing fools who want to stand on the right side of their religious leaders while alive, and of the God Demon after death.
Chapter XXIV
Daniel Being in the lion's Den,
If True, Was No Miracle
Religionists make much of the story, in the book of Daniel, about his having been thrown into a den of lions and having escaped unhurt. If the story is true, there is nothing unusual about such a thing. There are, in every circus, men, women, and even young girls who are lion tamers, and not only stay in the cage with these savage beasts, but actually make the animal perform at their command.
Chapter XXV
Miracles of Healing and Magic
The proponents of the Christian religion profess to prove the truth of their doctrine by citing the miracles of healing and other so-called miracles as evidence.
But all religions, Jewish, Christian, Mohammedan, the ancient Greek and Roman religions, the Japanese, Buddhist, all of the Hindu religions, also, claim miracles and claim more than the Christians do. They usually refer to miracles that have happened in far away places and at far away times, but also demonstrate magical miracles in front of the eyes of the spectators, such as walking on fire, putting skewers through their flesh which does not bleed, and practicing self hypnotism which gives them extra strength for similar acts. The Christians can no more prove the veracity of their religion by the recitation of miracles and the appearance of gods and spirits and the voices of such beings than the other religions can prove their case. The difficulty of discerning the with the average Christian, is that he does not read, and has not the opportunity to read of the methods of other religions. It is safer to report a miracle that happened thousands of years ago and a long way off, than it is to tell of something that can be investigated by the listener.
If he could read all the stories and hear the priests of all religions, and see the rituals of each, as well as understand the exposé of the so-called miracles, he would conclude that all were believed because of the still low mentality of men.
Many so-called miracles -- healing of minor mental and physical ailments -- are the direct result of hypnotism. Psychiatrists and alienists often understand how to talk to a patient suffering from mental ills and remove depressing mental aberrations from his mind. Others, experts at hypnotism and suggestion, can make people do strong things. This often may account for the so-called miracles of ancient and present times. All races and all religions claim to have God power, but the truth is that these things are done by mental suggestion.
Hypnotized men can be made to act like animals, stick pins in their flesh, stiffen themselves like boards, and do other strange things they are told to do by the man who has them under his spell.
There is nothing divine about this. There are many well written books on the abnormal behavior of men, which explain the phenomena.
But in ancient times, neither hypnotism nor insanity was understood, and crazy people were thought to be possessed of devils. They had complexes and sometimes, by properly talking to them, they could be shocked out of their insanity. Those who had heard of miraculous cures already had given themselves autosuggestive assistance when they went to be cured of a mental ailment.
Christ is reported time and time again to have shown his "power," which may have been hypnotic power. Those insane who were not violent, and those able to hypnotize, were considered divine -- unless they interfered with the priest's or rabbi's business, in which case the established religious leaders of early times strove then, as they do now, to eliminate competition and opposition, and called the men "false prophets" and the women "witches."
All of this so-called "miracle working" was and is practiced by charlatans on ignorant peoples of low mentality.
Chapter XXVI
The Bible Incites Men to Crime
The Bible tells a long history of vengeance, bloodshed, dishonesty, threats, hatred, murder, violence, rape, slavery, and misery.
The New Testament is full of a morbid, conflicting philosophy of resignation, animosity, intolerance, threats of hell fire, unhappiness, opposition to natural enjoyment, and self imposed poverty.
The promise of redemption from sin, and the practice, of the Catholic Church, of relieving those who have committed crimes from suffering from their acts, is conducive to crime.
Satan, a perfect angel turned criminal, was ejected from heaven, but is still powerful enough to give God a good tussle, and he leads man to a life of crime. If God were all powerful he could put the devil in hell and stop all this nonsense.
For eating a forbidden apple, the God-Monster condemned Adam and all his descendants to a life of unhappiness and eternal hell fire and torture.
The Christians claim that only after Christ had been murdered could people be saved, and then only by accepting the Church ritual without question.
What criminals God created! Satan, then Adam and Eve who were disobedient. Then Cain who killed Abel. Then later, because men were criminals, God drowned them all except Noah and his family, apparently venting his wrath upon all animals too, drowning the innocent with the guilty. Chapter 7, Verse 21, Genesis: "All flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl and of cattle, and of beast and creeping things and the fowl of heaven, and they were destroyed from the earth, and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark."
All innocent children, innocent women and old people, all kittens and puppies and little animals, all doves and birds and bees and butterflies were exterminated to satisfy the blood lust of the god who had created them as they were. Is this kindness, justice, love, righteousness? What harm could these creatures have done that they should be cruelly drowned?
But that was not enough. After the extermination Noah still sacrificed his few remaining precious animals. He "burned every clean beast and every clean fowl -- and the Lord smelled a sweet savour" and said to himself he would not destroy man again. Only a fiend could be happy by the burning of animals for the odor of their cooking flesh. What crime had the clean beasts committed that they should be roasted?
But God was not long satisfied with the men he had promised to spare. Torture and punishment were again in his mind. The people spoke one language. But he confused them at the tower of Babel, with the result that forever after there has been confusion, misunderstanding, war, conquest, extermination, slavery, rape and robbery. Had God left his handicraft with but one language, how much easier it would have been for him to have had the Gospel preached to them. There might not have been so many religions.
Then in the story of Lot, his wife was turned into a pillar of salt just because she looked back on the city where she had lived. What an act of kindness!
In the 17th Chapter of Genesis the rite of circumcision was ordered -- a form of torture, like the customs of savages in making holes in their ears and lips. There was no known medical advantage to the ignorant tribesmen of those ancient days. It was simply a sacrifice or torture for the benefit of God.
What a delightful person Abraham was to have received God's blessing. When his wife, Sarah, had passed the age of childbearing, he used her handmaiden, Hagar, and she bore a son. When later Sarah recovered her powers and bore a son, she was jealous of Hagar and God ordered Abraham to kick Hagar out into the wilderness. This is a fine example of domestic faithfulness.
Then God ordered Abraham to burn his son as a sacrifice -- releasing him at the last minute. What a fiend! But the blood hungry God still demanded the blood of something, so Abraham was ordered to take "a ram caught in the thicket by his horns, and Abraham went and took the ram and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son." An innocent animal tortured and burned for the pleasure of a monstrous God. No wonder the Jews were a cruel, heartless people with such a God as their ideal.
Then we have Jacob gaining Isaac's blessing by deceit. Trickery is looked upon as cleverness by the Biblical God and the men who were favored by him. By deceit did Simeon and Levi kill men of Hamor and Schechem and steal their cattle. Moses and God together are reputed to have brought the seven plagues and pestilences to Egypt, on young and old, innocent and guilty alike. Revenge, punishment, rapine, murder and thievery fill all the history of Moses. But why should God punish bad men by killing innocent children? They always suffer the most from famine and pestilence. Why not kill the guilty and let the innocent live? That would have been the way to a better world.
God's jealousy is well shown in the ten or sixteen commandments, "visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children of the third and fourth generation of them that hate me." What a revengeful hatred! Not satisfied with ruining his enemies, he is like the Italian and Kentucky feudists who murder whole generations of the families of those against whom they have a real or fancied grievance. They have the commandments as an example. If God could exact revenge on the third and fourth unborn, innocent generations for failure to worship him, what blame can we attach to feudists who follow his example?
How could God tell the Jews they should not steal, kill, commit adultery, bear false witness, and then order them to sacrifice innocent animals, murder the peaceful Canaanites, rob them of their land and cattle and rape their virgin daughters?
For in the Book of Joshua, God ordered spies sent into Canaan, and ordered Joshua to kill the inhabitants thereof, "and they smote all the souls that were therein with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying them; there were not any left to breathe -- "
But still God demands murder crime, bloodshed. The Jews who were his chosen people were enslaved, and as related in the book of Judges, were delivered to cruel masters.
Samson is betrayed by his wife, and murders her people, being in turn killed himself.
Then we have the beautiful story of David, God's chosen beneficiary and a man classed as exceedingly wise by the Jews. What kind of man is he? In the second Chapter of II Samuel the sordid story is told of his walking on the roof at night and seeing a beautiful naked woman bathing. He found that she was the wife of Uriah, "And David sent messengers and took her; and she came in unto him and he lay with her, for she was purified from her uncleanness; and she returned unto her house; and the woman conceived; and sent and told David, and said I am with child. And David sent to Joab, saying send me Uriah the Hittite. And Joab sent Uriah to David, and when Uriah was come unto him, David demanded of him how Joab did, and how the people did, and how the war prospered." The childish, tedious Biblical language need not be repeated here, but in Chapter II, Verse 15, he tells Joab to "Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle and retire ye from him that he may be smitten and die," and Joab carried out the sordid crime. Uriah was killed and thus David, the elect of God, covered the adultery and wife stealing by a cleverly concealed murder. Uriah the only decent one of the group was killed. God showed him no mercy. The wife was a party to the crime, so was Joab, David the instigator and God a silent partner, and the Jewish rabbis who wrote the tale did so in such a fashion as to give David credit for being a smart man. The example and the lack of punishment has probably instigated many similar crimes. No wonder that David continually praised God, because he believed that God helped him in his schemes and crimes. David says, "I have kept the ways of the Lord -- therefore the Lord has recompensed me according to my righteousness."
So David killed animals or burnt them alive to please God and by doing these things, "So the Lord was entreated for the land the plague (another threat of God) was stayed from Israel." The blood-hungry God threatened famine, pestilence and trouble but was appeased by the killing and burning of innocent animals.
Just as it was with all of humanity, they were declared guilty by God, condemned to eternal hell fire, then redeemed by killing, in a horrible manner, God's own son. Blood, crime, murder seemed to please God above all else, even the murder of his own son who was supposed to be the best man that ever lived and whose death has been advertised as the most pleasing sacrifice God ever had made to him.
The promise of life after death and the examples of these crimes and the ability of Catholics to "purchase" by penitence (and cash offering) relief from crime have been some of the most prominent factors in the continuous crime wave which has followed Christianity since its beginning.
These stories taught to children must have a bad effect on their subconscious minds.
David, the elect of God, was a sensual old man. "When he was stricken with years" they sought a virgin to lie with him. A disgusting proceeding for a young virgin to have to be a concubine for this old reprobate who had extinguished his sex ability by excesses. She was not consulted, of course.
Solomon, the wisest man who ever lived, was another rascal of the same breed, having inherited his ability from his father, David.
The Jews and Christians have touted Solomon's wisdom for thousands of years. The Bible says of him "And King Solomon shall be blessed and the throne of David shall be established before the Lord forever." (Remember, David, the seducer and murderer, was the alleged ancestor of Jesus Christ.)
God "appeared to Solomon the second time" and promised him protection and prosperity. And Solomon "loved many strange women and he had 700 wives, princesses and 300 concubines."
"And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, even as the sand that is on the sea shore." What a magnificent God! "For he (Solomon) was wiser than all men" with 700 wives and 300 concubines? Certainly an inspiring example for preachers who seduce their choir girls and secretaries and the sextons' wives.
Jehu, another of God's elect massacred whole families. The two tribes of Israel waged war against each other. Amaziah slew 10,000. The two tribes fought until they were so weakened they became an easy prey to the Assyrians, all under the supervision of the sadistic monster-God who must have enjoyed such entertainment.
In II Chron., Chapter 21, Jehoram murders his brothers, and the Lord smote Jehoahas with an incurable bowel disease. This was a magnanimous act for an omnipotent God to do, "and it came to pass, that in process of time, after the end of two years, his bowels fell out by reason of his sickness, so he died of sore diseases." No wonder the Catholic Church had the pretext for the cruelties and tortures of the Inquisition from the Bible itself. Poor Jehoahas was only 32.
"Uziah did that which was right in the sight of the Lord." But the Lord could not control him and he objected to something the priests did and the Lord smote him with leprosy -- a high degree of torture in revenge.
These stories are probably for the purposes of showing that those who do as the priests want will prosper and that those who disobey will suffer. Ethics, morality, honesty, and fairness have no bearing on the success or prosperity of the Jewish rulers of the Old Testament.
God played with poor Job like a cat with a mouse -- he tortured him with worries, even descending to torture him with boils, testing his ability to bear pain. Here we have omnipotence, with millions of people to look after on this earth alone, to say nothing of other worlds and all the other animals, besides the dead in hell and the dead in heaven, amusing himself by plaguing a poor old man with boils to see how much he could stand. This record in the Holy Bible is said to be a divine revelation from God! Job was a good man. He appealed to God, and finally God let him live 140 years after his years of torture and plague.
In all the Bible, during the centuries it is reported to be giving the history of the world, are these tales of wars, slavery, misery, pestilence, and plagues visited on God's chosen people. The best evidence is in the books of Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, and other prophets, but it is in every book and on every page. To repeat them all would be almost to reproduce the Bible, so we will mention the headlines of the Biblical chapters:
How could God expect the people to believe in him when they suffered all these disasters, when at the same time they were praying to him to help them?
If the prophets who had talked with God did not believe in his doctrines, how could those of us who have not had the benefit of personal instruction be expected to believe in him? And if God treats the Jews, his chosen people who had been persecuted from the beginning of history, as he does, what can the rest of humanity expect from him?
Any psychologist will explain that the reading of books and stories on crime, and the glorification of the criminals cannot but help develop a crime complex in the young and lower classes of men.
Dr. Rufus King Noyes, in a brilliant address some years ago in Boston, said, "God killed prematurely 5,000,000 witches. Whom could those alleged witches blame? They could only blame God for God made them." Nowadays people do not believe in witches. But the Biblical record is full of them, the Witch of Endor even having had royal customers. "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live," the Bible commands us, and millions of innocent old ladies have been not only killed as a result of this commandment but burned alive in Europe and tortured, even in the United States.
It is possible that the Jewish rabbis did not want any competition from witches, who were supposed to be female wizards. But with the murder of innocent old ladies, only crime and hatred could be engendered in the hearts of the families of those so exterminated.
Dr. Noyes reminds us that God is the arch criminal of all time. He caused to be murdered millions of Jews, Gentiles, the Canaanites, many tribes, nations, and all the people and animals of the world in the flood. He has used fire, earthquake, volcanic eruption, floods, cold, heat, and tidal waves to destroy millions and millions of innocent victims who have tried to exist as created by God. He could have made them right, or changed them after they were created -- instead of murdering them. Thus God, with his criminal instinct, has created man in his own image, hence man could not be expected to be anything but a criminal. All the wicked murderous men of the Bible were exalted. "Exalt Solomon, call him the wisest of men, yet polygamy is wrong and criminal."
"Jesus was undoubtedly daft -- his own brother and neighbors held that he was beside himself. Insanity was, has been, and is still worshiped. Then, "moon struck" people were not common. The people were too homogenous. Insanity was not understood. And they concluded narrowly, that inordinate ambition, extravagant pretenses and unaccountable conduct was a sign of inspiration and indicative of kinship with God. Such traits called for worship. Hence a mistaken diagnosis led to lunatic worship. And we have it today in the Christ worship, God worship, and Ghost worship of Christianity. Such demoralizing worship and mental associations count much for crime."
Most religions are based on the mental confusion of their founders. Take an insane man from an asylum, try to follow his mental procedure today, and we would have another religion -- a mental mess.
Jesus may have gone insane over disappointment in a love affair. The insanity came upon him suddenly as is to be deduced from the story of his first claiming to be the elect of god. It is told in the 4th Chapter of Luke.
In the town of Nazareth where Jesus had grown up in obscurity, and after his baptism, when he started his career, his townfolk rejected him. He had been preaching in the synagogues and came to his own in Nazareth and reading from the Jewish writings, claimed to be the Savior sent to redeem the people. He excused his lack of ability to his home town by saying that a prophet is not honored in his own country and that the prophet Elias had not saved the people of his land from famine for three years, nor had Eliseus been able to cure any of the lepers of Israel save Naaman.
But these excuses, and his claim to divinity, did not satisfy his townspeople, "And all they in the synagogue when they heard these things were filled with wrath, and rose up and thrust him out of the city and led him unto the brow of the hill whereon their city was built, that they might cast him down headlong." But he escaped. Evidently his family and his neighbors considered him insane when he claimed to be God or God's son. "Religion and war are almost synonymous," says Dr. Noyes, "All wars are criminal and nearly all have been provoked by religion. Why are religious nations so criminal, vicious, and miserable? Because war and religious hate has killed off the best men and women and left the worst.
"War degenerates the brain and leads to low estimates of life, and reckless uses of life. After war many generations rise before its demoralizing and criminalizing influence is obliterated. Carrying guns in war leads to carrying pistols in civil life. And what does a man think who carries a pistol? He imagines how he would act in given cases, and kills a hundred times over imagined assailants. A brain thus wrought may lead to homicide and murder."
Any criminal, any murderer, any bloodthirsty dictator like Hitler or Mussolini or Stalin can find an excuse and an example for his crimes in the Bible. God's orders to the Jews to exterminate the Canaanites is a perfect example of a murderous, selfish race of people using God as a pretext to descend upon an innocent nation and cruelly murder the inhabitants and spoil them of their lands, cattle, other possessions, and virgins.
"David was impelled by God, and had God's approval for killing people with saws, harrows of iron, axes of iron and by burning them in brick kilns. (Think of sawing people in two.) Persecutors of heretics were impelled by God and had God's approval for wholesale killing with more refined but no less terrible instruments of death."
"Centuries of religion killed the sense of right and wrong, centuries of blood and war killed the sense of conscience and made justice in high places so crude that the stealing of 12¢ got a man hung within this century ( 1800 to 1899)."
Italian Christians worship a spear pointed God, and adore the image of his poniard pierced heart and by brain impressions thus produced they employ the stiletto to murder their fellow country men. Italy is one of the most criminal nations on earth. Yet it is also 99.90 percent religious and Catholic.
"Rich churches and monopolies make poverty and poverty makes crime."
Erroneous knowledge of sexual physiology and the scientific relation of the sexes cause estrangement, brutality, disease, and crime. The Christian suppression of free and open discussion and understanding of sex problems, and of the approval of normal sex relations, has been a major cause of insanity and abnormal sex complexes, which are factors in the cause of crime.
"Had not religion everywhere been identified with crime, would the holy office of the inquisition ever have been established? Had Ferdinand and Isabella, Pope Sextus IV, and Torquemada been infidels, atheists, free-speakers and scientists, 10,000 men and women 10,000 times better than they, would not have been burnt alive." It is in the Latin American countries and in Spain where freethinkers and atheists have been unknown until recently, that the cruel, bloody custom of pub. kc bull fights has been practiced as an amusement for centuries.
All of the Bible is full of hypocrisy, such as David and Solomon praising God and at the same time conducting lives of moral depravity, crime, murder, and adultery. "You see all down through the ages how religion and crime have gone hand in hand."
"Where religion has triumphed nations have fallen, lapsed into barbarism. Pseudo-philosophy, metaphysical speculation, literary vagaries, scholastic subtleties, poetic fictions, allegorical mysteries, and mythological falsehoods endanger the brain and unbalance the reason, and a symmetrical use of the mental faculties resulting therefrom develop disease, insanity, and crime.
"The Biblical idea of master, servant, and slave has made de. gradation, stupidity, cupidity, and crime. The first judges were clerics.
"The real sin, -- of solemnly teaching the drinking of the blood of gods, tends to make man brutal and blood-thirsty.
"Priests and preachers play upon the emotions of the young and old alike and develop unstable personalities. If the young were trained to reason instead of to give way to the emotion, there would be less crime and poverty.
"Any ordinary man must be a hypocrite to believe all of the obvious falsehoods of the Bible. If his mind is that of a moron he would believe anything. Ministers are lie defenders. They get everything wrong end to, even to a neck collar. Their main business is to confuse truth and falsehood, and declare a lie the truth. Theology is the art of lying, and the ablest minister is the ablest defender of the lies of religion. And the defense of any lie, however ancient or often told, makes immorality and crime.
"The word sacred, by the way, comes from the word sarco, which means flesh. Sarco-ceremonies helped Jewish priests to get fresh meat, which they could not otherwise be sure of doing in a hot climate. They established a system of sacrifice, or flesh-feast, feast, which allowed them to be sure of fresh meat. They (the priests) saw the animal butchered. It was sarco, sacrifice, flesh-feast, or sacred to them because they were hungry and knew how to eat fresh meat and sell the stale to strangers."
Eliminate religion, and one of the greatest causes of crime and war will have been destroyed.
Let the searcher for truth read in II Samuel of the story of Amnon, who by trickery and deceit enticed his half sister into his bedroom, and raped her. Then like the low-down criminal that he was, he kicked her out, a ruined woman. Amnon was the son of David, the elect of God, and an ancestor of Christ. The brother of the half sister, Absalom, then swore vengeance and by a cowardly trick killed his half brother. That displeased David, but he was later reconciled by a trick and the deceit of one of his ministers and allowed Absalom to return home.
Absalom returned his father's forgiveness by trying to kill him and run him out of his kingdom. He was finally hanged as he ran under a tree, hurrying to destroy his fleeing father. This is one of the most degrading stories ever written of the incestuous lust of a degenerate, the merciless revenge of a half brother and the villainous endeavor by a criminal son to commit parricide. If God's chosen people, and his elect, David and his outfit, can act like this, and be set up as an example, there is nothing strange that Christians and Jews have had a criminal history for thousands of years.


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"Argo" chronicles the life-or-death covert operation to rescue six Americans, which unfolded behind the scenes of the Iran hostage crisis-the truth of which was unknown by the public for decades. On November 4, 1979, as the Iranian revolution reaches its boiling point, militants storm the U.S. embassy in Tehran, taking 52 Americans hostage. But, in the midst of the chaos, six Americans manage to slip away and find refuge in the home of the Canadian ambassador. Knowing it is only a matter of time before the six are found out and likely killed, a CIA "exfiltration" specialist named Tony Mendez comes up with a risky plan to get them safely out of the country.
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HAYTER Lewis married Agnes SCOTT 1909
Information & Research Journal.
Lewis HAYTER and Agnes Roy SCOTT were married in Victoria in 1909.
Lewis died 1937 in Horsham, Victoria, aged 62 years. Parents recorded as George Phillip HAYTER and Angelina LEWIS.
Agnes died 1950 in South Melbourne, Victoria, aged 61 years. Parents recorded as Joseph SCOTT and Catherine MUNRO.
Four children located Victorian records for Lewis and Agnes.
James Phillip HAYTER.
Born: 1910 Warracknabeal, Victoria.
Died: 1974 Horsham, Victoria, aged 64 years.
Lewis HAYTER.
Born: 1912 Warracknabeal, Victoria.
Died: -
Married: Pearl Evelyn CLARK.
Year: 1931.
Place: Victoria.
Catherine Angelina HAYTER.
Born: 1915 Warracknabeal, Victoria.
Died: -
Married: John James WALTERS.
Year: 1939.
Place: Victoria.
Donald HAYTER.
Born: 1918 Warracknabeal, Victoria.
Died: 1972 Horsham, Victoria, aged 54 years.
Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria.
Corrections and further details to help complete this family record would be appreciated. Thank you.
on 2011-07-07 05:07:45
TONKIN lives in Victoria, Australia.
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Journals are intended to assist new researchers locate family lines in Australia and should only be used as a guide for follow up research and record searches as intended. Due to spelling and informant errors appearing in the records, typo errors and my misreading of the records mistakes must be expected. Errors will be corrected when detected.


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With a 72-percent sell-through rate, including all 26 vehicles from the Tony Parella Corvette Collection, Auctions America by RM enjoyed $17 million in sales at its 10th annual Collector Cars of Fort Lauderdale event.
The Auctions America event continued a strong season on the Florida peninsula, where Mecum did $60 million in late January at Kissimmee, RM did $38.3 at the Milhouse museum and then $23 million more on Amelia Island, where Gooding & Company took in $36 million.
And the Florida season isn't over yet; Barrett-Jackson's annual sale at Palm Beach is scheduled April 5-7.
'33 Chrysler tops Lauderdale auction
One of 36 1933 Chrysler CL Phaeton sold for $341,000 to lead all sales at Auctions America's event at Fort Lauderdale, where the second-high sale was $198,000 for what is believed to be the only red-and-black 1970 Chevrolet Chevelle LS6 convertible ever built.
Another highlight of the auction was the sale of the Tony Parella Corvette Collection, 26 cars representing every model year from 1953 through 1969 as well as others from the '70s, '80s and '90s. Top sale among the Parella 'Vettes was one of the 300 1953 cars, which brought $176,000.
Auctions America's next event is April 26-27 at Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
Branson auction on as scheduled
Although the Branson auto museum was damaged and the host hotel is being changed in the aftermath of the Leap Day tornado, the 32nd annual Branson Collector Car Auction will take place as scheduled, April 20-21 in the Missouri resort community.
Damage to the Hilton will make Hilton Promenade, located just across the street, the official host hotel for the event, which will be held at the Branson Convention Center.
Meanwhile, the Branson Auto Museum is closed pending repairs to the building.
Monterey reunion draws 800-plus entries
More than 800 vintage racing car owners have turned in entries for the annual Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, where Ford Motor Company is preparing a special display to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Ford-powered Shelby Cobra.
Among the more than 800 entries are 56 Cobras, of which only 45 will be selected for on-track participation August 17-19 at Laguna Seca.
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I know that $$|A \cap B| = |A| + |B| - |A \cup B|$$
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Because approximately 5.5 percent of Miami's population is Haitian, Miami-Dade County has a close relationship with the Haitian community. Haiti has the sad ranking of having more children die before they reach five years old than anywhere else in the Americas. One reason for this is the pervasive lack of childhood immunizations.
Haiti is trying to remedy this situation with a campaign to immunize as many children as possible. Focusing on vaccinations against measles, rubella, and polio, the Haiti effort coincides with a global effort to desseminate information on vaccines--the World Health Organization's Immunization Week.
Fewer than 60 percent of the children in Haiti have full vaccination protection. Haiti's minister of health is hoping to increase the percentage of vaccinated children to 90 percent. Her focus is to make sure that children under five receive vaccinations against polio and measles.
Recently, Kathleen Sebelius, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, visited Haiti. She toured the Germain Hospital in Port-au-Prince. She applauds the effort that Haiti is making in the area of vaccinations and commented when she later toured Miami's Borinquen Health Center, "It's important to make sure that children have these immunities going forward." Borinquen, a federally-funded facility, provides medical services to the community, and 40 percent of its patients are Haitian.
Haiti's vaccine campaign will begin next month. The cost of the vaccine is about $9 for each child. Haiti is receiving the vaccine through the GAVI Alliance. The public-private health initiative has earmarked $2.15 million towards this program.


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Lloyd Mudiwa concludes his Special Report on brave campaigners for health, this time shifting his gaze to the prairies of Canada, where the government reportedly targets campaigners for health equality for First Nations children.
Some 146 years after Canada's independence, its Aboriginal peoples are still suffering from the health effects of social and economic inequities.
On virtually every measure, the health of Canada's Aboriginal people, also known as the First Nations, ranks well below that of the general Canadian population.
Canada is one of the wealthiest countries in the world, but the benefits of that wealth are far from equally distributed.
These long-standing disparities in health outcomes between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Canadians are a powerful fundamental impact of the broad determinants of health.
Aboriginal people are overrepresented among those living in historical poverty in the North American country, and many First Nations, Inuit and Métis communities are struggling with high unemployment, low incomes and overcrowded housing.
Today, these determinants continue to take a significant toll on the health and life expectancy of Canada's indigenous people, with Aboriginal people suffering from chronic diseases, obesity, diabetes, HIV/AIDS, mental health problems, suicide and infectious diseases in much greater proportions than Euro-Canadians (their rate of tuberculosis is six times greater than for the overall Canadian population).
A 2009 UNICEF report noted that children from Aboriginal communities are seven times more likely to die in infancy than others, and 50 times more likely to be hospitalised with preventable illnesses, such as chicken pox.
Hero for health
Dr Cindy Blackstock, a Gitxsan activist for child welfare and Executive Director of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada, has taken the Canadian government to court because of its neglect of Aboriginal children's health and welfare services.
Campaigning to end the institutional bias that is in part responsible for this inequality, her organisation filed a human rights complaint against the government in 2007, arguing that First Nations children do not receive the same health, education and welfare services as other children.
In 2011, she got hold of records which showed the government had been systematically monitoring her professional life and her personal online activity to try to "dig up dirt" to use against her. It is unclear whether the government has stopped its surveillance.
Dr Blackstock was among the heroes of health movements from around the world recently in Ireland at the behest of Dublin-based organisation Front Line Defenders, which is dedicated to the protection of human rights defenders at risk, to attend Dublin Platform 2013, one of the largest gatherings of human rights defenders in the world.
She told IMT there are 633 First Nations in Canada speaking 50 different languages and since the time of colonisation and then the evolution of Canada, there has been a very difficult relationship between indigenous peoples and the government.
Originally, Canada started a policy of assimilation of First Nations into wider society and they primarily targeted children.
Dr Blackstock said the government would forcibly remove these children from their families at age five years and place them in Christian-run residential schools where they were told that their own culture and language and ways of living were something to be ashamed of and were indoctrinated with a new approach.
Residential houses
Describing this as a rather recent phenomenon, Dr Blackstock said the last residential school closed in her country in 1996 and the Prime Minister apologised for them in 2008. Now, she said, there is a lot of talk about reconciliation between First Nation people and the government.
"To me, reconciliation means not having to say sorry twice so what really counts is, how is the Canadian government treating this generation of children?"
Dr Blackstock outlined that on Crown Lands set aside as reserves where First Nations can live, provincial child welfare, health and educational laws will apply, replacing traditional laws, which the government does not recognise.
But unlike for other Can-adians who get the funding for these services at provincial level, the federal government funds education, health and welfare services on reserves.
For decades, funding has been at a far lesser level than for all other Canadian children, despite the fact that these First Nationals' children have higher needs owing to the multigenerational impact of the residential homes, charges Dr Blackstock.
"Even though Canada is one of the eight richest nations in the world, there are First Nations communities where there is no access to water, sanitation, and there are people living in tents in our northern climate," she commented.
"So the things we take for granted in other parts of Canada are simply not available there and on top of that regardless of where your reserve may be and some of them are actually right next to urban centres like Montreal and Vancouver. The lack of funding, for example, means one child will get Canadian dollars (CAD)$2,000-CAD$3,000 (€1,341.86-€2,013.10) less for elementary and secondary education this year than other children just across the street."
In addition, the child welfare system on a reserve is underfunded in a range of about 20 per cent and the cuts are made in services to keep the children in their families and resolve family issues, according to Dr Blackstock. Consequently, many of the First Nation's children are dramatically over-represented in child welfare care.
They are 12 times more likely to end up in social care than a non-Aborigine child purely through neglect driven by poverty, poor housing and caregiver substance misuse relating to the residential school abuses, she said.
Health issues
Lumped on top of this is the health issue. There is inadequate healthcare. First Nations children can often be denied or delayed receipt of healthcare available to all other Canadian children because the provincial and federal governments will argue over who should pay because it is a First Nations child, claimed Dr Blackstock.
She said these problems have existed on these reserves for about 30 to 40 years, plus the residential schools themselves were underfunded so there was inequality for much longer than that.
Dr Blackstock said in their case against the government, First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada did not believe in just criticising but in also finding a solution.
"So we worked as experts on First Nations with the government for over a decade to develop evidence-based solutions that would not only have dealt with the inequality but guided us all in spending those monies for the best impact for the children themselves."
The government in both cases lauded these studies but allegedly never implemented them.
Her small non-governmental organisation (NGO) —comprising two part-time and two full-time staff — had considered whether to invest more time talking with the government "knowing that there would be no impact for the children, if not more hardship for the children", or to try something different.
"We were alive to the fact that when we started this campaign 10 years ago, a baby was born and that child really lost their childhood in this inequality," Dr Blackstock commented.
She added: "I always say to the bureaucrats that a year or two may not be long to them but in the medical world, that can be the lifetime for a child in terms of their developmental outcomes. So we filed a human rights complaint against the government."
Dr Blackstock said: "We alleged that the government's provision of child welfare services to First Nations children was discriminatory and within 30 days we lost all of our federal government funding — at the time 30 to 40 per cent of our budget — that much we had predicted."
The NGO was, however, able to survive on a very modest budget from other fundraising sources.
Currently working on a budget of CAD$400,000, Dr Blackstock estimates the NGO lost about CAD$250,000 in funding.
"But we wanted to press on with the case; the most important thing to us was the children… "
Also, the government immediately tried to derail the court case based on technicalities as opposed to merits, because even its own reports had documented the inequalities, Dr Blackstock claimed.
The government would reportedly spend the next six years and at least CAD$3 million unsuccessfully trying to derail it on these legal loopholes.
Government espionage
In December 2009, two years after filing the complaint, Dr Blackstock was invited as an expert by a First Nations group to a meeting in the government offices, meant to discuss the welfare of First Nations children.
Despite clearing all the security staff and conducting herself peacefully and professionally, she says a government official told the First Nations group the meeting would not go ahead if Dr Blackstock entered the room.
This was regardless of assurances by the First Nations' leaders and Dr Blackstock that she was not there to talk about the tribunal, but simply to provide support for the meetings.
Eventually, the activist voluntarily sat aside while the meeting went ahead because "it was about the kids" and she was guarded by a security guard the entire time.
Dr Blackstock said: "So I am standing there in the Minister's office considering why I was being guarded by a security guard; I am a size 6 and I don't even have a parking ticket, let alone a criminal record, and I am wondering, what is it about me that gives this kind of a response?"
There is a Privacy Act in Canada, which is its form of a Freedom of Information Act, where citizens can apply to government departments to get information about themselves, so Dr Blackstock did that. It took her a year-and-a-half, but she finally got a DVD in the post.
"I will never forget opening that DVD because on the one hand you hope that there is nothing there other than just correspondence you might have sent in a professional capacity to the government, but there were literally hundreds and hundreds of pages talking about what event I was attending and what I was saying."
There were notes about when she was not at an event. There were also snapshots of her personal Facebook page, or they had somebody copy and paste the material and send that along to other government officials.
There was mention of a human rights case in the mail correspondence but nothing explicit, so Dr Blackstock went on a national radio programme to talk about the content of that DVD publicly.
As she had suspected, it created some conversation within the government when they heard the programme so she then requested the documents that were produced during the time of the radio programme and that was when she found out about their agenda.
The agenda
Dr Blackstock got email correspondence between the Department of Aboriginal Affairs and the Department of Justice, with Aboriginal Affairs owning up that they had been on her personal Facebook page for six months, but gave up when they realised the Department of Justice was also on there collecting data and they could just share the information.
There was some correspondence by a lawyer in the Department of Aboriginal Affairs, saying the reason they were doing this was to try and find other motives for their child welfare case, and prove that it was filed on frivolous and vexatious grounds.
There was a whole other series of monitoring of her movements — even her personal events.
One of the events that was shocking to her was that when the Australian Aborigines invited her in 2010 to their conference in Alice Springs in the desert of Australia, the Canadian government had notes of her talk given there.
On her Facebook page, Dr Blackstock was disturbed by an entry where she was discussing the baking of cookies with friends. Some of them, based internationally, commented and the government copied their URLs and comments and passed them to other government departments of justice and Aboriginal affairs.
A message by a 12-year-old child who had seen Dr Blackstock's video about First Nations children in her class and just wanted to thank the campaigner was also copied and passed on to about 10 or 11 lawyers at the Department of Justice without that child's/child's parents' consent.
Dr Blackstock updated the media, prompting Canada's Privacy Commissioner, an independent body supposed to protect the privacy of Canadians, to seek her consent to pursue the case.
Vulnerable people
"Of course I said 'yeah' because my primary concern at the time was I am an indigenous woman and expect these kinds of things to come at me, but I worry about the deterrent effect it would have on more vulnerable people."
There were many citizens of other cultural groups in Canada who were experiencing violations and should not have the government trying to dig up dirt on them as part of its defence, she said.
In April, the Privacy Commissioner found that the government of Canada had violated privacy law.
When asked what he was doing about it, the Minister of Aboriginal Affairs responded that they take the privacy of Canadians very seriously and have already implemented the recommendations of the Act, hence they did not need to take any further action.
But he had not bothered to contact her to apologise and pledge it would not recur, so she wrote to him demanding a public apology and commitment to implement the recommendations for the protection of all Canadians and she did not get a response back until many months later, which was a non-response.
Dr Blackstock then applied to the Tribunal that the complaint be amended and the Tribunal agreed, despite the government's protestations. So in July for two weeks they had a hearing on whether or not the government espionage amounted to retaliation for their case.
Eight-to-10 government employees, including civil servants, were called to testify. It was revealed that they have a one-page form which they got signed by their supervisors, allowing them to 'log in' as personal citizens to collect information for government purposes.
"The period of access does not terminate," Dr Blackstock said. "They also could not explain about notes taken in the Australian desert, with the Canadian government saying they had just happened to be in Australia because, 'like her', they also had an interest in Aboriginal affairs."
Dr Blackstock sought assurance that they were no longer on her Facebook page, but her government was reportedly unwilling to do so. So she suspects it is ongoing.


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The owners of gay nightclub Cube in Canberra are being sued by the partner of a 23 year old man who was stabbed to death in a fight outside the venue three years ago.
The Canberra Times report that Patricia Soledad Gaete is taking action over the death of David Nato Seuala, her partner and father of her two children, who died August 4, 2006.
Seuala died from stab wounds in Canberra Hospital three weeks after a fight broke out with him and four friends against Cube owner Maurizio Rao and bouncer Adam Street outside the venue.
The fight broke out at 4.30am on July 15, 2006 when Seuala and four of his friends were refused entry to Cube because of their heavily intoxicated state. According to witnesses the five men threatened to "bash poofs" if they weren't let in. When they eventually agreed to leave the area, it is alleged that Rao said a racist remark. One witness told the court that they thought Rao would die from the beating. He eventually produced a knife and stabbed Seuala.
Rao was eventually cleared of murder charges because it was proven that he acted in self-defence.
Gaete's lawyers are claiming that Cube was responsible for Seuala's death for allowing their security guards to fight with patrons and to carry weapons. Lawyers for the security company XL deny any liability or negligence.
Gaete is seeking more than $850,000 in damages. The case is due to be heard later this month.


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The Results
After four days, we have finally come to a decision. All the entries submitted were remarkable. The judges had praises to sing for all the entries. I am so glad that the second contest has been such a success. To all the participants, thank you for entering!
Without further ado, may I present the BATTLE OF THE BEST WINNER!
CONGRATULATIONS TO desude!!!
After all the judges have imputed their opinion, I really think she deserves to be the winner for her creativity. Her piece really expressed the emotions in the song and she added her own interpretation of the girls when she drew them. Overall, it was a well rounded piece and all the judges loved it.
What judges had to say:
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"You can really tell she spent alot of time on her piece- the coloring, the drawing, everything looks perfect."
"The emotions through the drawings express the theme perfectly."
"Very beautiful and very talented."
And there you have it! For the prizes, desude would receive:
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For winning 2nd place, Hailoez would receive:
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And last but not least, the second runner up goes to……
For winning 3rd place, ZheVickmeister would receive:
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