NEWS SHORTS FOR FRIDAY

NEWS SHORTS FOR FRIDAY Bill Gates funds covert vaccine nanotechnology      The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is gaining a reputation for funding technologies designed to roll out mass sterilization and vaccination programs around the world. One of the programs recently funded by the foundation is a sterilization program that would use sharp blasts of ultrasound directed against a man's scrotum to render him infertile for six months. It might accurately be called a "temporary castration" technology. Now, the foundation has funded a new "sweat-triggered vaccine delivery" program based on nanoparticles penetrating human skin. These are both part of the Gates Foundation's involvement in the "Grand Challenges Explorations" program which claims to be working to "achieve major breakthroughs in global health." ...breakthroughs like mass sterilization and nanoparticle vaccines that could be covertly administered even without your knowledge, it turns out. These nanoparticles could be used in a spray mist that's sprayed on to every person who walks through an airport security checkpoint, for example. Or it could be unleashed through the ventilation systems of corporate office buildings or public schools to vaccinate the masses. You wouldn't even know you were being vaccinated. Click here for the entire article. Corrupting Science in Law and Politics: Korean Court Rules Embryo is Not A Life Form      Science capabilities are taking us into ethical conflicts because we are at the place where the most helpless human beings are being coveted for use as objects to be exploited like any other natural recourse.  Adding insult to injury, many justify this approach by resorting to junk biology–redefining scientific terms, for example, in order to justify doing to human life what many would otherwise consider to be unacceptable. Example: Arguing that people in a persistent unconscious state are really dead so their organs can be taken. Click here for the entire article. City of Pittsburgh Told to Pay Legal Fees to Abortion Protester      The city of Pittsburgh could be on the hook for $338,000 in legal fees resulting from an Indiana Township woman's successful challenge of a city ordinance limiting protests at abortion clinics. U.S. District Judge Nora Barry Fischer on Thursday granted a request from Mary Kathryn Brown and ordered the city to pay $209,276 in attorney fees and costs, mostly to attorneys from The Alliance Defense Fund, for representing Brown in federal court. The Alliance Defense Fund is a Christian legal organization. Fisher reduced the amount requested from Brown's attorneys by $48,272. Click here for the entire article. Embryonic Neural Development      How the Brain Forms During the Earliest Days of Development -- Scientists have wondered for centuries at what point in human development does the person develop its mind. While neuroscience is still a relatively young science, its discoveries have already shed light on the development of the human nervous system. As an embryo develops, it forms distinct cells that become neurons that then form a complete system. By the eighteenth day of development, the gastrula has formed. This refers to the three basic cell layers (or germ layers) that serve as the basis for further development. Click here for the entire article. Mexico Upholds Bush's Plan B Abortion Pill For Rape Victims      Mexico's Supreme Court has upheld a law requiring hospitals to offer rape victims a morning-after birth control pill, rejecting an appeal that argued the pill's effect constitutes the equivalent of an abortion. Abortion is regulated under state laws in Mexico, and most of the 31 states outlaw elective abortions. An appeal filed by the Jalisco state government says the federal morning-after law is an intrusion on states' rights. But justices disagreed in an 10-1 vote Thursday. The majority ruled that use of the pill is not the equivalent of abortion, but rather is part of a public health policy. Click here for the entire article. Austrian Abortion Museum (glorifying baby killing) Wins European Prize      A Vienna museum dealing with contraception and abortion received a special prize from a European body Thursday for raising public awareness of both issues. The Museum of Contraception and Abortion, the only one of its kind in the world, was given the European Museum Forum's new Kenneth Hudson award, named after the forum's founder. "This shows a strong recognition for the prevention of unwanted pregnancies, which are still scandalously ignored in Austria," said Christian Fiala, a gynaecologist who set up the museum. Click here for the entire article.