Rep. Matt Gaetz Slams Taxpayer-Funded Testing Using Aborted Fetuses and Laboratory Animals Republican Representative Matt Gaetz has responded to a new report from taxpayer watchdog group White Coat Waste Project and Pro-Life San Francisco that found millions of dollars are being spent on disturbing tests combining live animals and aborted fetus remains. Rep. Gaetz told the Gateway Pundit that the findings have bolstered his commitment to fighting against these “unnecessary” and “inhumane” experiments. “As a staunch pro-life advocate and animal welfare supporter, I’m disgusted that taxpayers are still being forced to pay for sick and twisted experiments in which human baby parts from elective abortions are crudely implanted into lab animals that are then also killed and dissected. These disturbing new revelations about NIH-funded human fetal tissue research on animals have bolstered my commitment to fighting against this unnecessary and inhumane practice that harms the most vulnerable among us in society.” While the Trump administration has stopped funding the Internal National Institutes of Health (NIH) experimentation that used aborted human fetal tissue, White Coat Waste and Pro-Life San Francisco uncovered $115 million in taxpayer funds being used for another 200 projects by other groups using aborted fetuses for their testing. “In other bizarre Frankenstein study funded by taxpayers, UCSF implanted intact reproductive tracts from 9.5 to 22-week-old human fetuses, including from a pair of aborted twins, into mice dosed with synthetic estrogen,” the groups wrote in a joint op-ed for the Washington Examiner. Also responding to the findings, Senator Rand Paul’s Chief Strategist Doug Stafford told the Gateway Pundit that taxpayers should not be funding these horrors. “This is important work by White Coat Waste and Pro-Life San Francisco to shine a light on the expensive and gross experimentation being done with animals and fetuses. Taxpayers should not have to fund these types of tests that sound like something out of a Mary Shelley novel,” Stafford said. The aborted fetuses are taken from university-affiliated hospitals and harvested for research. While the experiments sound like something out of a horror movie, there is huge money in the bizarre and cruel tests. “At the University of California-San Diego (UCSD), faculty received nearly $400,000 in taxpayer funds this year for experiments that involve implanting thymus glands from aborted human babies into mice. The mice with human fetal glands were also injected with human fetal liver cells from 17-20-week-old human fetuses. The mice were then killed and dissected. This project has received $2.7 million in taxpayer largesse since 2012 and is scheduled to run through late 2020,” their exposé continued. In another example of their testing uncovered by the two groups, the USC took kidney tissue from 8 to 18-week-old human fetuses and spent $2.3 million in federal grants comparing it to kidney tissue of fetuses cut from mice. According to a PEW Research poll, 52% of Americans oppose animal testing, and a Fox News poll found that 49% oppose testing using aborted fetuses. “Most Americans oppose animal testing as well as human fetal tissue research. Nobody wants to be forced to pay for this any longer. In a time of such divisiveness in Washington, it’s refreshing that Republicans and Democrats, animal-lovers and pro-lifers, can agree that Uncle Sam should not be wasting tens of millions in taxpayer dollars on disgusting human fetal tissue experiments on animals that we don’t like, want or need,” Anthony Bellotti, founder and president of taxpayer watchdog White Coat Waste Project told the Gateway Pundit. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/20...using-aborted-fetuses-and-laboratory-animals/
Brazil's Amazon rainforest is burning at a record rate, research center says https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/21/americas/amazon-rainforest-fire-intl-hnk-trnd/index.html (CNN)Fires are raging at a record rate in Brazil's Amazon rainforest, and scientists warn that it could strike a devastating blow to the fight against climate change. The fires are burning at the highest rate since the country's space research center, the National Institute for Space Research (known by the abbreviation INPE), began tracking them in 2013, the center said Tuesday. There have been 72,843 fires in Brazil this year, with more than half in the Amazon region, INPE said. That's more than an 80% increase compared with the same period last year. The Amazon is often referred to as the planet's lungs, producing 20% of the oxygen in the Earth's atmosphere. It is considered vital in slowing global warming, and it is home to uncountable species of fauna and flora. Roughly half the size of the United States, it is the largest rainforest on the planet. Dramatic images and videos on social media show giant plumes of smoke rising from the greenery and lines of fire leaving blackened waste in their wake. The smoke has reached all the way to Sao Paulo, more than 1,700 miles away. Images from the city show the sky pitch-black in the middle of the afternoon, the sun blanketed by smoke and ash. The European Union's satellite program, Copernicus, released a map showing smoke from the fires spreading all along Brazil to the east Atlantic coast. The smoke has covered nearly half of the country and is even spilling over into neighboring Peru, Bolivia and Paraguay. Continue in the link.
Archdiocese to break ground for Bl. Stanley Rother shrine in November CNA).- The shy and unassuming Blessed Father Stanley Rother, a missionary priest and martyr from a farming family, would likely be surprised to learn that the largest Catholic Church in Oklahoma will bear his name. On Tuesday, the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City announced that it will be breaking ground for the Blessed Stanley Rother shrine in November. The $40 million shrine will seat 2,000 and be the largest Catholic church in the state once it is complete. The project is the “signature element” of the archdiocese’s first-ever capital campaign, the archdiocese told Oklahoma News 4. Besides the main church, the shrine site will include a prayer chapel devoted to Bl. Stanley Rother, where he will be buried, religious education and ministry classrooms, and a museum and pilgrim center with artifacts and stories about Rother’s life. “Padre Francisco”, as Rother was affectionately called at the mission in Santiago Atitlan, Guatemala where he served, was shot and killed by masked gunman early in the morning on July 28, 1981, in the midst of the country’s civil war. Rother had refused to call for help, not wanting to endanger anyone else at the mission. The five-foot-ten, red-bearded missionary priest was from the unassuming town of Okarche, Okla., where the parish, school and farm were the pillars of community life. He went to the same school his whole life and lived with his family until he left for seminary. In June 2015, the Theological Commission of the Vatican’s Congregation for the Causes of Saints voted to recognize Fr. Stanley Rother as a martyr. Pope Francis recognized his martyrdom in early December 2016, and on Sept. 23, 2017, Rother was beatified at a Mass in Oklahoma City. “The groundbreaking for the shrine will be a significant moment in the life of the Church in Oklahoma and for the broader community,” Archbishop Paul S. Coakley of Oklahoma City told News 4. “The shrine is being built to honor Blessed Stanley Rother, an Oklahoma original and the first U.S.-born priest and martyr ever beatified. It will be a place of pilgrimage where the faithful will come from near and far to honor Blessed Stanley at his final resting place and to seek his intercession for their many needs. It will be a place of welcome, serving all people.” The groundbreaking for the shrine is set to take place at 3 p.m. on November 3 in Oklahoma City. https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/...or-bl-stanley-rother-shrine-in-november-49992
Yellowstone 'supervolcano' eruption would be catastrophic, NYT op-ed says The eruption of a “supervolcano” underneath Yellowstone National Park would be like nothing humanity has ever seen, according to an op-ed from The New York Times. There are 20 supervolcanoes on Earth that represent that greatest natural threat to human life, writes 'End Times' author Bryan Walsh. The Yellowstone supervolcano is an eight out of eight on the Volcanic Explosivity Index but has only erupted three times in the last 2.1 million years. The last eruption was 640,000 years ago. Volcanologists predict an explosion could spread toxic gas all the way to the Midwest, ruining crops and knocking out power, according to Walsh. He adds that a toxic cloud blocking the sun could cause much colder temperatures in the United States for years. The European Science Foundation said it would be ''the greatest catastrophe since the dawn of civilization,” according to Walsh. He says that supervolcanoes represent an “ultra-catastrophe” that could lead to human extinction. Other examples are an asteroid, and nuclear or biological warfare. He suggests that although an eruption in our lifetime is unlikely, one could decimate the planet. “There will probably never be a year in which no one dies in an aviation accident, but there will definitely never be a year in which 10 percent of the global population dies in a single plane crash,” Walsh writes for comparison, arguing that the government should spend more on volcano hazard programs. The Federal Aviation Administration spends more than $7 billion each year on aviation safety compared to $22 million on volcano programs, “even though supervolcanoes, viewed over the longest of the long term, will kill far more people than plane crashes,” he writes. Walsh closes by saying that we have the power to help prevent these catastrophic disasters but "because we remain confined to the brief human time horizons of our own experience, we treat them as unreal. In doing so, we leave ourselves vulnerable to what we can't imagine." https://www.foxnews.com/science/yel...like-nothing-humanity-has-ever-seen-nyt-op-ed
I was thinking, isn't it interesting that the Amazon is burning? I mean, the big Amazonian Synod is just around the corner. Quite a coincidence.
You raise a good question. Padre Pio once said, “can’t you see the world catching fire?” And in the Amazon!
My wise mother used to say sometimes in a somber tone "God will not be mocked." I think this is one of those moments.
Reminds me of writings in Leviticus (which are always a bit challenging to me) about how the land will vomit you out if you defile the commandments. I'd never really made the connection between natural disasters and human morality.
Satanists to Rally for More Abortions in Pro-Trump State The Satanic Temple believes in the goodness of abortions at any stage of the baby’s development. Photo via Satanic Temple Detroit The satanists will hold the march in one of the following states: Indiana, Missouri, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, North Dakota, Ohio, and Utah. The Satanic Temple (TST) will be staging a rally for religious reproductive rights and women’s health at the capital of one of the states with the most egregiously restrictive abortion laws. These states include Indiana, Missouri, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, North Dakota, Ohio, and Utah. Supporters will donate in the name of the state of their choice, and the location that has received the most donations will be selected for the rally to take place. To view the campaign that will determine where The Satanic Temple will rally, visit: https://reproductiverightsrally.com The fundraiser and rally are being held to support TST’s ongoing battle against the erosion of reproductive rights and to address the religious and cultural prejudice rooted in the challenges women face when seeking proper healthcare, including abortion, that affect the bodily autonomy of all, including the LGBTQ+ community. As a religious organization, TST insists that its members are exempt from obstacles to abortion access in accordance with their beliefs under both the First Amendment and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA). TST’s religious belief that people should live in accordance with the best scientific knowledge available, and its belief in bodily autonomy, inform their opposition to laws that restrict abortion access. Some of the laws that force TST members to violate their religious beliefs include required provision of reading material with content that does not conform to science and/or that promotes a religious agenda, requiring how human tissue be disposed, mandating unnecessary and unwanted procedures that do not promote health and safety, requiring doctors withhold medical information, and restricting access to abortifacients. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/08/satanists-to-rally-for-more-abortions-in-pro-trump-state/
This is just too insane to believe.....but then again in this time of "beserkness" maybe not. THE LEFT IS INSANE… NBC NEWS Report: “Heterosexuality Is Just Not Working” https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/20...s-report-heterosexuality-is-just-not-working/
Now it is proven it started intentionally "In Brazil itself, federal prosecutors have launched an investigation into the massive wildfires in the Amazon region. The probe will look into why a "day of fire," announced by farmers in the region last week, was not barred from taking place in the state of Para, prosecutors said on Thursday. While prosecutors may punish those responsible for environmental crimes, Carlos Nobre said the potential impact of the investigation was unclear amid a climate of impunity for those pushing agricultural frontiers into the Amazon. https://www.dw.com/en/amazon-fires-can-international-pressure-help-put-them-out/a-50141043 "With a record number of fires raging in the Amazon rainforest, international leaders are joining forces to call for action to stop them. The situation is an "acute emergency," German Chancellor Angela Merkel's Spokesman Steffen Seibert said on Friday, adding that Merkel backs French President Emmanuel Macron's call on the G7 to address the issue at its summit this weekend." Those fires that every year clear more and more rainforest, will lead to very serious consequences. Only this time it was too much for too short time period, to darken even Sao Paulo. In a moment when the world tries to battle the Climate change that sees Greenland ice melting at increasing rate. It is a crime at such moment to just burn the forest for more land for cattle... 20% of the oxygen on the planet comes from the Amazon. Besides the other long term consequences for the CO2 cycle, and over a million species living in the rainforest... I hope the Catholic Church in Brazil and elsewhere will also speak unequivocally soon. There is no politics in preserving the forests, it is a matter of survival. God created them for our use, not for their and our own destruction.
I often wonder how the people that write these oped pieces get them approved. It's good for ratings for a failing company at least for a few days though I'm sure.
The murder of innocents is how they keep their power. To lose abortion is to have their power broken. They are deadly serious.
