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Detroit Newspaper Calls For Birth Control Sterilants To Be Added To Public Water Supply

By Jonathan Benson

(NaturalNews) Why would you forcibly medicate the population with fluoride chemicals via the water supply when you could instead forcibly medicate them with birth control drugs? That seems to be the opinion of Nolan Finley, the editorial page editor at The Detroit News, who says that too many people on welfare are having babies in Detroit, Mich., and that adding birth control sterilants to the water supply just might be a good solution to the problem.

While seemingly intended to be a commentary on the immense burden that excessive pregnancies are on the social welfare system in the city — his focus seems to be on the city’s poor whose wombs are a “poverty factory”, his own words — Finley’s strongly-worded diatribe reads more like a page out of a eugenics manual. Seething with disgust over the dismal state of affairs in Detroit, Finley’s column makes some very drastic recommendations about how he thinks the state should handle the city’s higher-than-he-would-like birth rate.

In all reality, Detroit is the new poster child city for what happens when globalists take over a nation and destroy its industrial base. Rapidly decaying infrastructure, out-of-control crime, decimated industry, and a resultant mass exodus of middle and upper-class families are all the result of America’s deindustrialization, which is something for which the city’s poor were obviously not directly responsible.

And yet Finley seems to suggest that the city’s poor are a cause, rather than a consequence, of this raping and pillaging of the American economy. He goes on to suggest that the very same government responsible for causing the debacle in the first place became directly involved in “fixing it” by embracing a philosophy of “reproductive responsibility.” And one of his suggestions for doing this appears to be lacing the city’s water supply with contraceptive drugs.

He could be speaking tongue-in-cheek, of course. But he could also be dead serious. Based on his apparent belief that the government needs to get involved in regulating how many children a person can have, Finley seems to embrace a philosophy of reproductive responsibility that looks more like government-mandated population control.

n a recent analysis of Finley’s piece, Aaron Dykes over at InfoWars.com explains how such eugenicist ideas are rooted in corrupt, collectivist governments who want complete control over the population. The poor that are having too many babies, in other words, are a scapegoat for implementing outlandish public policy initiatives like adding chemicals to the water supply for the “greater good.”

This is exactly the argument that has long been used to support adding fluoride chemicals to the water supply. Poor families and their children, we are told, are all losing their teeth because of a lack of proper dental care, and the only way to fix it is to dump toxic fluoride waste into the water supply, 99 percent of which ends up going down the drain anyway (http://www.naturalnews.com/034499_fluoride_vans_water_supply.html).

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/034977_water_supply_birth_control_Detroit.html

Jonathan Benson is staff writer at Natural News.

Ronald Reagan’s Argument for Personhood Amendment

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See Ron Paul’s Pledge to Uphold the Right of Personhood.

Austria’s UAV Amendment Supports WPAFB and Local Universities

By Congressman Steve Austria

The advancement of modern technology with Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) continues to play a critical role in our nation’s defense and homeland security. Wright-Patterson Air Force Base along with the University of Dayton Research Institute (UDRI), Wright State University Research Institute (WSURI) and Sinclair Community College continue to produce cutting edge technology and development of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV). However, Ohio lacks the sufficient airspace to meet the demand for testing new systems and to enable manufacturers to test fly the aircraft being built. Bringing manufacturers and defense businesses to our region to build UAV aircrafts could potentially bring new businesses and jobs to support missions at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, the Springfield Air National Guard Base and Department of Defense. Having the necessary airspace to test fly UAVs in our region is critically important to support the research and development that takes place around the Miami Valley region for the Air Force, numerous private sector employers, and our local universities – all which are leaders in UAS technology.

In an effort to meet our region’s needs, I included language in the FAA Re-authorization bill, which establishes six new test areas for integrating unmanned aircraft systems with the necessary airspace to support the UAV research for five years. The FAA Re-authorization bill recently passed Congress and now awaits the President’s signature. Ohio and our region have already begun its work to contend for one of these new pilot programs.

In addition, Ohio has applied for temporary airspace known as a certificate of authorization (COA) with the FAA. Wilmington was recently granted a COA and the Ohio National Guard has applied with the FAA for a second COA. COAs are temporary conditions granted up to one year while the new pilot programs, in which I included in the FAA Reauthorization, allow test sites to fly up to five years.

I am confident that our region will remain at the forefront of UAS development and can competitively pursue one of these new pilot programs. If selected, it would allow areas near Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and the Springfield Air National Guard Base the much needed airspace and certainty for industry development, training, and commercial manufacturing of UAV’s to provide incentive to relocate and invest in Ohio, potentially bringing hundreds of new jobs to our area.

Department of Defense Faces Tough Budget Constraints

Last month, Defense Secretary Panetta provided a preview to the FY2013 Defense Budget, which included a request for military base closures. I know many of you have expressed to my office your anxieties about base closures in our area. Wright-Patterson, the largest single-site employer in the state, remains critical to the Air Force and to the economic success of our region. Along with Wright-Patterson, other military facilities located in Ohio’s 7th Congressional District include the Springfield Air National Guard Base, the Air and Army National Guard Bases and the Navy Reserve Center at Rickenbacker International Airport, and Defense Supply Center Columbus (DSCC).

In the next two weeks we will receive more details from the Defense Department on its proposed FY2013 budget, specifically with regard to any potential Base Realignment and Closure Commission (BRAC) series as it directly affects our region. Some consolidations may be an opportunity for the consolidation of additional jobs at Wright-Patterson and our region. As the sole member from the Ohio delegation on the House Appropriations Military Construction (MILCON) Subcommittee, which oversees all funding for BRAC, I intend to work very closely with the Defense Department to strongly advocate for Wright-Patterson, the Springfield Air National Guard Base, Rickenbacker and the DSCC to assess the impact of BRAC closures on our region.

(Note: For perspective, see Attorney John Whitehead’s article Dawn of the Drones on the development and use of unmaned drones in America.]

Ohio House Votes Against the Obama Mandate

(COLUMBUS) – The Ohio House of Representatives passed House Concurrent Resolution 35, calling on President Obama to reverse the HHS mandate requiring employers to pay for abortion-causing drugs.

“Requiring religious-based organizations to cover such drugs blatantly violates the conscience rights of individuals,” said Stephanie Krider, Director of Legislative Affairs for Ohio Right to Life. “If an employer has a moral objection to such coverage, this new federal mandate will force them to comply. This completely contradicts our rights of religious liberty.”

The “Obama mandate” requires health plans to cover all FDA-approved forms of contraception which include both Plan B and Ella, more commonly known as “emergency contraception” or “the morning-after pill”. There is significant evidence that these drugs can cause an abortion by preventing a human embryo from implanting in the womb.

Even with the so-called “compromise” offered last week, Ohio Right to Life and other pro-life groups will continue to protest this overreaching mandate.This resolution manifests that Ohioans will not stand for the outright denial of freedom by any version of the mandate.

Ohio Right to Life is grateful to Representative Barbara Sears and Representative Peter Stautberg for sponsoring this life-affirming resolution.

“People of all faiths, including Catholicism, Judaism, Christian Science, Jehovah’s Witnesses and others, should be very concerned that the government is forcing its will upon the conscience of its congregates,” said Representative Sears. “This is a critical issue and a clear overreach of the federal government’s power into an area they should not be meddling.”

“The federal government should not force employers to offer a product that violates their conscience or force religious leaders to act against their own teachings,” said Representative Stautberg. “We are sending a message to President Obama and Washington that here in the state of Ohio, we believe that religious freedom is worth defending.”

The Nextedge Story: “Lipstick On A Pig”

By John Mitchel

RE: Dayton Daily News, February 11, 2012, “Millions spent, hopes remain for more jobs”

The Nextedge Applied Research and Technology Park in Springfield offers yet another sad commentary on malfeasant government intervention in the private sector. Beginning in 2005, Nextedge received at least $13.7 million, all of that taxpayer funded. Nextedge, a subsidiary of the Turner Foundation, is now bankrupt, but taxpayers are left holding the bag. The Turner Foundation simply walked away from their obligation to repay a loan funded by local, state and federal taxpayers. The Turner Foundation has lost nothing except their reputation, but even that is spun by the media and others to attempt to make non-profit Turner Foundation a “white knight” whose only sin was a bad business decision, but there’s more than meets the eye.

Take for example QBase, Mills Morgan, SAIC and Avetec, who received virtually all the Nextedge taxpayer subsidies along with the Turner Foundation. These private corporations have one thing in common; their managers and employees have contributed tens of thousands of dollars to former Congressman Dave Hobson and his successor, Steve Austria (Source: www.fec.gov), not a bad return on the $13.7 million received from the taxpayers. And then there’s Steve Austria’s failing to mention on his Federal Financial Disclosure Statement Mrs. Austria’s employment with Avetec, which she began less than a week after leaving her job as Dave Hobson’s District Director.

This is pay-to-play politics at its worst, but the real tragedy is the career politicians and their corporate cronies who continue to bankrupt America but are never held accountable. You can put lipstick on a pig to divert attention away from harsh reality, but at the end of the day a pig is still a pig, and no matter how you spin it, Nextedge is (was) still an ATM machine for Hobson, Austria, other career politicians and those who supply the campaign cash to keep them in office.

Ohio Voters Support ‘Right-To-Work’ Law

Despite the overwhelming victory by organized labor and its allies in repealing SB 5 in this past election, by 54 to 40 percent Ohio voters favor the idea of passing a “right-to-work” law that would ban workers from being required to join a union as a condition of employment, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today.

“Given the assumption that the SB 5 referendum was a demonstration of union strength in Ohio, the 54 – 40 percent support for making Ohio a ‘right-to-work’ state does make one take notice,” said Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute. “In the SB 5 referendum independent voters, who are generally the key to Ohio elections, voted with the pro-union folks to repeal the law many viewed as an effort to handicap unions. The data indicates that many of those same independents who stood up for unions this past November on SB 5 are standing up to unions by backing ‘right-to-work’ legislation.”

Support for “right-to-work” is 77 – 20 percent among Republicans and 55 – 39 percent among independent voters. Democrats are opposed 61- 31 percent.

A majority of men and women, those with and without college degrees and all age groups like the idea of Ohio becoming a “right-to-work” state. Support rises with income, from 48 – 44 percent among those making less than $30,000 per year to 59 – 39 percent among those making more than $100,000 per year. Voters in union households oppose such a law 65 – 32 percent.

Kasich Administration To Invest $350k To Better Coordinate Prenatal Care

The Governor’s Office of Health Transformation announced yesterday that it would partner with Nationwide Children’s Hospital’s Partners for Kids to replicate in Southeastern Ohio a Mansfield program that has show great strides in improving the health of at-risk mothers and their babies. (see Mansfield Journal News, DFeb. 3 2012)

Founded in 1999, the Community Health Access Project (CHAP) has achieved a 30-percent reduction in the risk for low-weight births in Richland County. The project uses a Community Pathway Model to improve health and preventative care for high-risk mothers and children in difficult-to-serve areas. It coordinates care for individuals within targeted medical “pathways,” such as medication assessment, smoking cessation and pregnancy and postpartum care.

OHT will join with Partners for Kids to use community liaisons to check on at-risk pregnant women to ensure that they are getting the preventive care they need and also help with non-medical needs such as transportation or housing.

In announcing OHT’s $350,000 investment to replicate the program for Medicaid beneficiaries in Appalachia, Director Greg Moody said the model was selected because it has improved outcomes and reduced costs.

“This initiative fits perfectly with the governor’s objectives to improve care coordination for vulnerable Ohioans and to pay for value, not volume, in health care,” Moody said.

Source: Health Policy Review Feb. 3, 2012

Court Rules Against Dayton-Based Investment Firm In Fraud Case

An agreed preliminary and permanent injunction was approved yesterday between the Division of Securities and Wayne T. Essex and his companies (Essex and Associates, Inc. in Dayton, Essex HR & Associates, Inc. in Beavercreek, and HR Reconciliation, LLC in Dayton.) The injunction prohibits Essex and his companies from:

– selling or offering to sell securities in violation of the Ohio Securities Act
– selling or offering to sell securities without prior approval of the court
– engaging in any deceptive, fraudulent or manipulative act.

Montgomery County Common Pleas Court Judge Mary Wiseman signed the injunction. In December 2011, Judge Wiseman issued a temporary restraining order against Essex and his companies. The judge also appointed as receiver James Swaim of the Dayton law firm of Flanagan, Lieberman, Hoffman & Swaim. The receiver is working to recover Essex’s business assets for distribution as approved by the court.

The Division of Securities initiated the action based on allegations that Essex sold promissory notes in the Dayton Small Business Capital Fund, which he told investors would be invested in Dayton-area small businesses. Twenty investors purchased approximately $1.1 million in the fraudulent investment from July 6, 2010 – November 23, 2011. Essex never made loans to or investments in small businesses with the money, the State charged.

The Division’s investigation found that Essex sold securities without a license, sold unregistered securities and engaged in securities fraud. The Division also found that Essex commingled investor funds with his business and were used to support his personal lifestyle, including out-of-state travel.

Essex did not tell investors that he was not licensed to sell securities and that the securities were not properly registered. Essex told investors that their funds were guaranteed and that they would receive annual returns of five, seven or 10 percent – with higher rates to those who invested larger dollar amounts.

Two Initiatives Pushing For Medical Marijuana In Ohio

Two separate groups have been given the go-ahead by the state ballot board to begin collecting the signatures needed to put a constitutional amendment that would legalize medical marijuana on the November ballot.

The Ohio Medical Cannabis Amendment of 2012 is backed primarily by patients, advocates and business people and would leave most decisions on regulating the drug to a state commission.

The Ohio Alternative Treatment Amendment is backed primarily by the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, which advocates nationally for the complete legalization of the drug, and includes much more detail about regulations on how much marijuana could be obtained, who could grow it and where it could be distributed.

Supporters of both amendments have indicated that they expect the two versions to be reconciled into a single amendment before being placed on the ballot.

originally published in the Ohio Health Policy Review, January 27, 2012.

Tune-Up Your Car And Driving Skills For Winter Weather

(Xenia, OH) – You drive over a patch of black ice. Do you know what to do? Your tires are bald, it’s icy outside. Is it safe to drive? Your car breaks down in a desolate area. Do you have the proper items in your vehicle to survive? Being prepared for winter weather also pertains to your vehicle and knowing how to drive in blustery weather.

“Winter weather has definitely arrived in Greene County. If you must be out during severe winter weather, knowing how to operate your vehicle can help you arrive safely at your destination,” said Laurie Fox, Greene County Safe Communities Coordinator. “Make sure your vehicle is in proper working order before heading out, and have a safety kit in the vehicle in the event of an emergency.”

Make sure you get a car winter tune-up now, prior to severe winter weather if possible. Tune-ups should include:
* Tire check – consider snow- or all-season tires if tread is worn
* Battery test – you don’t want to be stranded in severe weather
* Wiper blades check and replacement, if needed
* Radiator, engine and all fluid levels check
* Brake line and pad inspection
* Headlight, brake light and turn signal inspections

Prepare a winter emergency kit for each vehicle and keep it in the trunk. Kits should include:
* Two blankets or sleeping bags
* Waterproof matches and candles
* Extra clothing – especially boots, mittens and hats
* Dry food rations, like raisins, nuts and candy
* Flashlight with spare batteries
* First-aid kit and a supply of necessary medications
* Emergency flares
* An extra gallon of window washer fluid in the trunk
* An extra cell phone battery and vehicle charger, or
* Keep pocket change for pay phone use
* A brightly colored cloth for use as a signal for assistance
* A steel shovel and rope to use as a lifeline
* A few large plastic garbage bags for insulation against wind

Some tips to keep in mind while traveling in winter:
* Check weather reports prior to departing.
* Allow extra travel time for weather and/or traffic delays.
* Know how your vehicle reacts on slick road.
* If your vehicle is equipped with Anti-lock Brakes (ABS), be sure to
STOMP (firmly depress brake pedal), STAY (on the brakes – don’t
pump brakes) and STEER (where you want the vehicle to go).
* Clear all windows, lights and turn signals.
* Allow ample stopping distance between you and the car ahead.
* Stay alert for “black ice” and slippery road surfaces on bridges.
* If severe weather is possible, it’s best to stay off the roads. If you must
leave, be sure to advise those at your destination of a departure time,
anticipated arrival time, and the planned travel route. Also provide a
cell phone number in case they need to contact you.

Enjoy the snow and winter season by being prepared for snow and ice. Drive safely and always remember to buckle up.

For further information on ways you can stay safe on the roads this winter, visit the Ohio Department of Transportation at www.ohio.gov.