Food Safety Bill Celebrates Win, but Faces New Battle From the People

by Angie Ress - Staff Writer, Restore the Republic
Contact: press@restoretherepublic.com

CHICAGO, IL | The battle for "food safety" celebrated a win in Tuesday night but the real losers were the American people. The bill known as the "Food Safety Modernization Act" S.510 swept the Senate floor by a 48 vote margin. Of the most notable votes whose outcomes were most unexpected were maverick John McCain and Tea Partier Scott Brown. McCain voted against the big government bill in a likely effort to avoid explaining himself on the campaign trail in 2012, while Brown clearly deviated once again from his claimed "Tea Party" roots by voting to squash the rights of Farmers and the inevitable rise of food prices for the poor.

The Natural Solutions Foundation released this statement, "Sen Coburn said the bill will raise food prices; add 1.5 billion to deficit; add unfunded state mandates. It will not increase food safety one bite."

The voices echoing off the walls of the Senate chambers were not the only ones in DC that night. Organizations from across the political landscape mobilized the grassroots in a unifying call to oppose the Bill. Among the national action groups who rallied the troops were Downsize DC, Campaign for Liberty, American Policy Center and Restore the Republic.

Blogs and youtubes set modems ablaze and caused increased internet traffic across the web as websites like Natural News and Health Freedom Foundation pumped out the facts.

In response to the call to action a flurry of phones calls, emails and FAXes flooded Washington DC and inundated the Senate Staffers. Most notably was the volume of hard paper FAXes delivered by Restore the Republic's new FAX Blast service at PatriotResponse.com

In a interview, Ali Rizvi, CEO of GripeGenine, the technology partner for PatriotResponse.com reported, "We've delivered 904 FAXes, so far, for the Patriot Response Oppose S. 510 campaign."

Gary Franchi the Campaign Manager and Founder of PatriotResponse.com stated, "The Opposition Campaign to S.510 has dominated our actions thus far, showing how important this issue is to the American people."

Rizvi continued, "Since the site launch we have delivered a total of 1743 FAXes for Patriot Responders."

Understanding, but not accepting the defeat in the Senate, Franchi declared, "We will not let this pass, it's moving to the House now, and we're prepared to fight it there too, the new Campaign has already been created."

Referring to the new opposition campaign at http://PatriotResponse.com/blast_away/oppose-s510-food-safety-bill Franchi continued, "If it passes the house we're left with no choice but to take it to the State Legislatures for nullification."

Rizvi spoke of the next phase of the Patriot Response website plan, "The GripeGenie team is committed to doing whatever it takes to deliver on our promise to provide the same FAX Blast access to State Legislative bodies."

"Nullification is the key once all remedies are exhausted at the Federal level, and we're very close to taking our fight there," Franchi remarked between productions of his weekly show the Reality Report.

Rizvi concluded, "The numbers of activists participating, and faxes getting to Congress in just a month's time are very encouraging. We are proud to be a partner with Restore the Republic and its members of the Freedom Movement."

The total Senate Roll Call vote for S. 510 is below. To take action now against the House version of S. 510 please visit http://PatriotResponse.com/blast_away/oppose-s510-food-safety-bill
 

YEAs ---73
Akaka (D-HI) Alexander (R-TN) Baucus (D-MT) Bayh (D-IN) Begich (D-AK) Bennet (D-CO) Bingaman (D-NM) Boxer (D-CA) Brown (D-OH) Brown (R-MA) Burr (R-NC) Cantwell (D-WA) Cardin (D-MD) Carper (D-DE) Casey (D-PA) Collins (R-ME) Conrad (D-ND) Coons (D-DE) Dodd (D-CT) Dorgan (D-ND) Durbin (D-IL) Enzi (R-WY) Feingold (D-WI) Feinstein (D-CA) Franken (D-MN)	Gillibrand (D-NY) Grassley (R-IA) Gregg (R-NH) Hagan (D-NC) Harkin (D-IA) Inouye (D-HI) Johanns (R-NE) Johnson (D-SD) Kerry (D-MA) Kirk (R-IL) Klobuchar (D-MN) Kohl (D-WI) Landrieu (D-LA) Lautenberg (D-NJ) LeMieux (R-FL) Leahy (D-VT) Levin (D-MI) Lieberman (ID-CT) Lincoln (D-AR) Lugar (R-IN) Manchin (D-WV) McCaskill (D-MO) Menendez (D-NJ) Merkley (D-OR) Mikulski (D-MD)	Murkowski (R-AK) Murray (D-WA) Nelson (D-FL) Nelson (D-NE) Pryor (D-AR) Reed (D-RI) Reid (D-NV) Rockefeller (D-WV) Sanders (I-VT) Schumer (D-NY) Shaheen (D-NH) Snowe (R-ME) Specter (D-PA) Stabenow (D-MI) Tester (D-MT) Udall (D-CO) Udall (D-NM) Vitter (R-LA) Voinovich (R-OH) Warner (D-VA) Webb (D-VA) Whitehouse (D-RI) Wyden (D-OR)

NAYs ---25
Barrasso (R-WY) Bennett (R-UT) Bunning (R-KY) Chambliss (R-GA) Coburn (R-OK) Cochran (R-MS) Corker (R-TN) Cornyn (R-TX) Crapo (R-ID)	DeMint (R-SC) Ensign (R-NV) Graham (R-SC) Hatch (R-UT) Hutchison (R-TX) Inhofe (R-OK) Isakson (R-GA) Kyl (R-AZ) McCain (R-AZ)	McConnell (R-KY) Risch (R-ID) Roberts (R-KS) Sessions (R-AL) Shelby (R-AL) Thune (R-SD) Wicker (R-MS)

Not Voting - 2
Bond (R-MO)	Brownback (R-KS)

Top ten lies about Senate Bill 510

 

Wednesday, December 01, 2010
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
Editor of NaturalNews.com

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/030587_Senate_Bill_510_Food_Safety.html#ixzz16tST6vPP

 

(NaturalNews) The Food Safety Modernization Act looks like it's headed to become law. It's being hailed as a "breakthrough" achievement in food safety, and it would hand vast new powers and funding to the FDA so that it can clean up the food supply and protect all Americans from food-borne pathogens.

There's just one problem with all this: It's all a big lie.

Here are the ten biggest lies that have been promoted about S.510 by the U.S. Congress, the food industry giants and the mainstream media:

Lie #1 - Most deaths from food poisoning are caused by fresh produce

Here's a whopper the mainstream media won't dare report: Out of the 1,809 people who die in America every year from food-borne pathogens (CDC estimate), only a fraction die from the manufacturer's contamination of fresh produce. By far the majority of food poisoning is caused by the consumption of spoiled processed foods, dead foods and animal-human transmission of pathogens.

For example, one of the largest food-borne killers according to the CDC is Toxoplasma gondii, a disease that people acquire from cat feces coming into contact with their food, which can happen right in their own homes (http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/Vol5n...). Salmonella poisoning accounts for 553 deaths a year. As a reference for relative risk, over 42,000 people die each year from road accidents in the USA, meaning driving a car has a roughly 7600% higher chance of killing you than eating fresh produce. (http://www.driveandstayalive.com/in...)

In terms of food-borne illness, many of the deaths come from things like spoiled tomato sauce, spoiled canned foods and spoiled pasteurized milk. S 510, of course, does absolutely nothing to address these food contamination deaths, since those foods are considered "sterilized" at the time of sale.

Lie #2 - Under S.510, the FDA would only recall products it knows to be contaminated

Not true. S.510 merely requires the FDA to have "reason to believe" a food is contaminated. So right there, that means all raw milk will be targeted by the FDA because even without conducting any scientific tests at all, the FDA can say it has "reason to believe" the milk is contaminated merely because it is raw.

In other words, the FDA no longer needs science to outlaw a food product. It merely needs an opinion.

Is this "reason to believe" section really true? Yep, and here's how it was amended:

SEC. 208. ADMINISTRATIVE DETENTION OF FOOD.
23 (a) IN GENERAL. - Section 304(h)(1)(A) (21 U.S.C.24 334(h)(1)(A)) is amended by
(1) striking ''credible evidence or information indicating'' and inserting ''reason to believe'';
(http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi...)

In other words, in negotiating this bill, the U.S. Senate removed the requirement that the FDA needed "credible evidence" in order to recall a product and, instead, replaced that with the FDA only needing "reason to believe."

It is utterly amazing that the U.S. Congress would give the FDA to conduct large-scale product recalls and even imprison people based entirely on what the agency "has reason to believe."

Last time I checked, the FDA held some pretty bizarre (if not downright moronic) beliefs, including this jaw-dropping whopper: The FDA literally believes that there is no food, no herb, no vitamin or supplement that has any ability to prevent disease of any kind. They don't even believe limes can prevent scurvy, and you'd have to nutritionally illiterate to believe that.

The FDA believes foods are inert and that all the amazing phytonutrients in those foods (carotenoids, antioxidants, therapeutic fats like omega-3 and so on) are utterly useless for human biology.

This belief, held by the FDA that has now been put in charge of the food supply, is the belief system of an insane government agency that has completely lost touch with reality while abandoning nutritional science.

Lie #3 - They didn't tell you that nearly 70% of grocery store chickens are contaminated with salmonella every day

Yep, it's true: Amid all the fear-mongering over salmonella, everybody forgot to notice that the vast majority of fresh chickens sold at grocery stores every single day are widely contaminated with salmonella (http://www.naturalnews.com/028661_c...). Yet S 510 does absolutely nothing to address this. It's not even mentioned in the bill.

In fact, it is these contaminated chickens that end up cross-contaminating the fresh produce in many kitchens across America. So the so-called "food poisoning" that's often blamed on spinach or onions often originates with the contaminated chicken meat people bring home and slice on their kitchen cutting boards.

Lie #4 - S.510 will exclude and protect small farmers

The Tester Amendment, which was finally included in S.510, excludes farmers who sell less than $500,000 worth of food each year from the more onerous paperwork and compliance burdens described in the bill. But this dollar amount is not indexed to inflation, meaning that as the U.S. dollar continues to lose value due to the Federal Reserve counterfeiting machine running at full speed (more "quantitative easing," anyone?), food prices will continue to skyrocket -- and this will shift even small family farms into the $500,000 sales range within just a few years.

In fact, a single-family farm with just four people could easily sell $500,000 worth of fresh produce a year right now, even before inflation. Remember, $500,000 is not their profit, but rather the gross sales amount. The profits on that might be only $50,000 or even less.

Furthermore, this $500,000 threshold means that small, successful farms that are doing well and would like to expand will refuse to hire more people or expand their operations. To avoid the tyranny of S 510, small farms will try to stay small, and that means avoiding the kind of business expansion that would create new jobs.

Lie #5 - The FDA needs more power to enforce food safety

The FDA already has the power to effectively recall foods by publicly announcing a product has been found to be contaminated. The FDA already has the power to confiscate "misbranded" products, too, and it could easily use this power to halt the sale of contaminated food items.

But the FDA simply refuses to enforce the laws already on the books and, instead, has sought to expand its power by hyping up the e.coli food scares. The ploy apparently worked: Now in a reaction to the food scare-mongering, the FDA is being handed not just new powers, but more funding, too! And you can bet it will find creative new ways to put this power to work suppressing the health freedoms and food freedoms of the American people.

Lie #6 - Fresh produce is contaminated because of a lack of paperwork

There is no evidence that requiring farms to fill out more paperwork will make their food safer. The real cause of produce contamination is the existence of factory animal farms whose effluent output (huge rivers of cow feces, basically), end up in the water supply, soils and equipment that comes into contact with fresh produce.

The food contamination problem is an UPSTREAM problem where you've got to reform the factory animal operations that now dominate the American meat industry. S.510, however, does absolutely nothing to address this. Factory animal farms aren't even addressed in the bill!

Lie #7 - The American people are dying in droves from unsafe fresh food

The truth is that Americans are dying from processed food laced with toxic chemical additives, not from fresh, raw produce. Partially-hydrogenated oils, white sugar, aspartame, MSG and artificial food colors almost certainly kill far more people than bacterial contaminations.

The American public is also dying from pharmaceuticals -- anywhere from 100,000 to 240,000 people a year are killed by FDA-approved drugs (http://www.naturalnews.com/001894.html), most of which have been approved under the guise of blatantly fraudulent science and drug company trickery. The FDA doesn't seem to mind. In fact, it has been a willful co-conspirator in the scientific fraud carried out by Big Pharma in the name of "medicine." (http://www.naturalnews.com/027851_h...)

To think that the FDA -- the very same agency responsible for the Big Pharma death machine -- is now going to "save us" by controlling food safety is highly irrational.

Lie #8 - The FDA just wants to make food "safer"

Actually, the FDA wants to make the food more DEAD. Both the FDA and the USDA are vocal opponents of live food. They think that the only safe food is sterilized food, which is why they've supported the fumigation, pasteurization and irradiation efforts that have been pushed over the last few years.

California almond growers, for example, must now either chemically fumigate or pasteurize their almonds before selling them (http://www.naturalnews.com/021776.html). This has destroyed the incomes of U.S. almond farmers and forced U.S. food companies to buy raw almonds from Spain and other countries.

Lie #9 - Food smuggling is a huge problem in America

One of the main sections of S.510 addresses "food smuggling." Yep -- people smuggling food across the country. If you've never heard of this problem that's because it's not actually a problem.

Not yet anyway.

But there's a reason why they put this into the bill: Because they're probably planning on criminalizing fresh produce and then arresting people for transporting broccoli with the "intent to distribute."

Yep, farmers bringing fresh produce to sell at the weekend farmer's market could soon be arrested and imprisoned as if they were drug smugglers. Hence the need for the "food smuggling" provisions of S.510.

Soon, we will all have to meet in secret locations just to trade carrots for cash.

Lie #10 - S.510 will make America's food supply the safest in the world

Actually, even with S.510 in place, America's food supply is among the most chemically contaminated in the world, second only to China. You can find mercury in the seafood, BPA in the canned soup, yeast extract (MSG) in the "natural" potato chips, and artificial petrochemical coloring agents in children's foods.

Eating the "Standard American Diet" is probably the single most harmful thing a person can do for their health. It's the fastest way to get cancer, diabetes and heart disease. Every nation in the world that begins to consume the American diet starts to show record rates of degenerative disease within one generation. This is the "safe food" that the U.S. Senate is now pushing on everyone.

Remember, with S.510, SAFE = DEAD. And the FDA says it wants to keep everybody safe.

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Thank you for your support.

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Sheriff Mack Pamphlet

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Sheriff Mack Is Coming To Maine

Richard Mack is a powerful and experienced speaker, and a strong advocate of states' rights and individual freedoms. 

He has been a tireless crusader for the Bill of Rights, working for various groups including Gun Owners of America, the Libertarian Party, the Second Amendment Foundation, presidential candidates Pat Buchanan and Ron Paul, and many others to further individual rights. He has been the guest speaker at numerous events nationally and has worked hard for the rights of Americans everywhere.

Richard Mack is available and willing to travel to do presentations for your group for a nominal fee.

He will be giving a seminar at the Elks Club, 37 Fourth St. in Old Town at 1-3PM for ALL law enforcement officer/official ONLY and then a public meeting (anyone who is not a law enforcement officer/official) at 5-7PM on Dec 18, 2010.

December 18, 2010

  Elks Club

37 Fourth St.

Old Town, Maine

Read more here.



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"One died for your soul, the other for your freedom!"
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S 510 Food Safety Act

List of U.S. Senators who voted for S 510 Food Safety Act

Senate Bill S 510 - the "Food Safety Modernization Act" - was passed by the U.S. Senate today (http://www.naturalnews.com/030576_F...). If signed into law, it would unleash a new era of FDA tyranny over farmers, food producers and even small family farms, many of which already exceed the "small farms exclusion" written into the bill.

The difference between Republicans and Democrats is that Republicans will take away your rights and money as an excuse to take care of the rich people. Democrats, on the other hand, will take away your rights and money as an excuse to take care of everybody.

Remember: Republicans gave us the Patriot Act. And now Democrats have given us the Food Safety bill. Both laws are unconstitutional expansions of government power that the American people will come to regret.

 Click here to Read more and view the list.

Three New Power Hitters For Maine

Charlie Summers for Seretary of State, Bruce Poliquin for State Treasurer and Bill Schneider for Attorney General as they are the Republican nominees for these positions

Here Come The Feds, To A Garden Near You,, S 510 Passed

Snowe and Collins supported.

For the Complete vote results, click here.

Senate Bill S 510 "Don't Let Them Vote It In, Then Find Out What Is In It"

"CALL AGAIN THIS MORNING!!! 

The Vote was postponed yesterday because so many calls came in to them. 

Don't Stop, Call again today. 

We the People, Need to Wake Up, Them the Politicians, in Washington.

http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s510/text

Senator Snowe: 202-224-5344

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Senator Collins: 202-224-2523

U. S. Capitol Switchboard: 202-224-3121

In part thanks to a barrage of phone calls and emails that hammered U.S. Senate offices all day Monday, the vote on S.510 has been pushed to Tuesday.

On the good news side, the Tester Amendment has been incorporated, and the 10-year prison sentences that could have been used against raw milk farmers have been eliminated.

But S.510 is still a food tyranny monster and we're pushing hard to defeat it. Here's the latest update:
http://www.naturalnews.com/030565_Food_Safety_S_510.html

Something To Think About

I would like to take this opportunity to wish all a Happy Thanksgiving. I hope everyone was able to relax and
enjoy time with those who mean the most in their lives. I was so fortunate to be able to travel to Florida with
my family over the holiday period. I would like to say that traveling through both the Portland Jetport and the Orlando Airport
was nothing less than professional and easy. The Orlando Airport had large crowds, but overall the employees
that are trying to make a living doing an underappreciated job in these turbulent times, were very friendly and
accommodating. Things went very smoothly from my point of view as a Navy Veteran who has traveled quite
a bit over the last 30 years. I think that sometimes we get caught up in our everyday life and little things become bigger
things and get blown out of proportion. That is not to say that security is not important, on the contrary it is very important,
and we as Americans need to remember that and not take it for granted. With that said, security is sometimes an inconvience
but is that so much to pay for security? Maybe if we weren't so wrapped up in ourselves an how important we
think we and our time is we wouldn't be so impatient. I think it is time for us all to take a step back and take stock
of what is going on in the world and think about how we can help those around us and each other rather than
continually find fault with everyone and every little thing that doesn't go our personal way.

My obeservations,

Tom Whitney
United States Navy, Retired
Lisbon Falls, Maine

Poll Shows Most Americans New Airline Screening Procedures

Majority of Americans Now Oppose Body Scanners and TSA Pat Downs

A new poll by Zogby International finds that 61% of Americans polled between Nov. 19 and Nov. 22 oppose the use of full body scans and TSA pat downs.  Of those polled, 52% believe the enhanced security measures will not prevent terrorist activity, almost half (48%) say it is a violation of privacy rights, 33% say they should not have to go through enhanced security methods to get on an airplane, and 32% believe the full body scans and TSA pat downs to be sexual harassment.

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Controversial Food Bill S 510 Vote Delayed Until Tuesday

(NaturalNews) Slammed by a barrage of phone calls and emails today that the mainstream media isn't even reporting, the U.S. Senate today has decided to postpone their vote on S.510 -- the Food Safety Modernization Act -- until Tuesday morning.

Internet reports that S.510 has already passed are incorrect. The final bill has not yet been voted on (only a motion to move forward was voted on).

The Tester Amendment has been passed (see below for more details) which would exclude the smaller farm operations from the more onerous provisions of the bill.

Still up for debate are two amendments to the bill from Sen. Tom Coburn, who is seeking to scale down the bill and make it smaller and less expensive. A second proposed amendment would end Congressional "earmarks" -- a tool of financial corruption that lawmakers use to hand out government money to the corporations and special interest groups that got them elected in the first place. I watched a live C-SPAN video tonight of a pathetic-sounding Senator from Hawaii arguing that earmarks should stay in place because it gives Congress more power (seriously).

The vote on the amendment that would repeal the 1099 IRS reporting requirement for small businesses failed, leaving America's small business owners frantically looking for ways to move their businesses offshore before this outrageous new paperwork requirement kicks in by early 2011. (http://www.naturalnews.com/028854_1...)

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/030565_Food_Safety_S_510.html#ixzz16kbcoGoE

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HELP YOU MAKE IT TO YOUR FLIGHT - Buck Howdy

Food Tyranny Senate Bill S 510

This is it -- it's our last chance to halt S.510, the proposed "Food Tyranny Act" that would hand over new powers to the FDA to regulate and criminalize raw milk, food farming and seed saving.

S 510 is to the U.S. food supply what the Patriot Act is to the Bill of Rights.

 Call your senators today before 5:00pm and voice your opinion.

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Share these with your friends so they may join our grassroots opposition to food tyranny by calling our U.S. Senators today, before 5PM Eastern time.

The U.S. Capitol switchboard phone number is 202-224-3121 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              202-224-3121      end_of_the_skype_highlighting. Call that number and ask for the office of each of your Senators. Then voice your opinion to your Senators to oppose S.510.

Every call counts! Senators know that each call represents about 50,000 people. So call them now right now and join our grassroots opposition to this food tyranny bill that would put the FDA in charge of our farms!

(P.S. To all those NaturalNews readers outside the USA, thanks for putting up with all this domestic nonsense here in the USA. We will return to more traditional news coverage as soon as this S 510 saga is concluded...)

Also today: American icon Willie Nelson has been busted for pot possession at an immigration checkpoint in Texas. So now our immigration enforcement officers are being used to incarcerate a 77-year-old Country Western singer who posed a threat to no one?

Read my take on the ludicrousness of the War on Drugs and why the arrest of Willie Nelson may be the last straw:
http://www.naturalnews.com/030551_Willie_Nelson_marijuana.html

On the good news side of things, Europe is banning BPA in baby bottles (http://www.naturalnews.com/030558_BPA_baby_bottles.html), and more evidence supports chocolate as a truly healthy food: http://www.naturalnews.com/030554_chocolate_health.html

P.S. Stay tuned to NaturalNews.com for follow-up reporting on the fate of Senate Bill 510. We'll be posting an update Monday evening on the site.

A Great Message From Our Neighbor to the North, Canada's Leader

Canadian PM: I Will Defend Israel 'whatever the cost' 

http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Politics/20...

Ottawa, Canada - Prime Minister Stephen Harper says he is prepared to suffer any political backlash that comes his way for speaking out against anti-Israel rhetoric.

Harper told an audience Monday that while Israel is receptive to fair criticism, Canada is obligated to stand up for its ally when it comes under attack from others.

"Not just because it is the right thing to do, but because history shows us, and the ideology of the anti-Israel mob tell us all too well, that those who threaten the existence of the Jewish people are in the longer term a threat to all of us."

The prime minister acknowledged that his position is not popular with all governments and organizations, including members of the United Nations and the Francophonie.

"And I know, by the way, because I have the bruises to show for it, that whether it is at the United Nations or any other international forum, the easiest thing to do is simply to just get along and go along with this anti-Israel rhetoric, to pretend it is just about being even-handed, and to excuse oneself with the label of honest broker.

"There are, after all, a lot more votes—a lot more—in being anti-Israeli than in taking a stand. But as long as I am prime minister, whether it is at the United Nations, the Francophonie or anywhere else, Canada will take that stand, whatever the cost."

The prime minister's use of the phrase "honest broker" is an apparent reference to a recent speech made by Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff.

Ignatieff criticized the Harper government for using Israel as a wedge issue with his political opponents in Canada, at the expense of the country's influence on peace in the Middle East. The Liberal leader called for a return to a time when Canada was perceived to be an honest broker in the global community.

Harper made his remarks at the start of a two-day conference on anti-Semitism that is being held on Parliament Hill during Holocaust Education Week.

 

 

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The Powers, Prestige and Responsibilities of elected Peace Officers, The Sheriff.

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Go to http://www.libertyandjusticeforall.tv for details. 

Get involved to help stop your chief local law enforcement officer from further violation of your Rights. 

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Free Women’s Advent Seminar Studies The Book of Ruth

 Janice Settlemoir, retreat leader and Navy chaplain’s wife, will give a free seminar for women on Saturday, December 4 from 9:30 until noon at St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church in Lisbon. 

Free women’s Advent seminar studies The Book of Ruth

  St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church in Lisbon is offering a free women’s Advent seminar in the Book of Ruth, led by Janice Settlemoir on Saturday, December 4 from 9:30 until noon.  Child care is available upon request.

“Through our study in Ruth, we will see God’s plan of redemption even in the darkest of times,” said Janice.
 
A free lunch is also included and reservations can be made by contacting the church at 207-353-8453 or debwagner@gwi.net.

Janice was born in Southern California and has lived in Arkansas, Kentucky, North Carolina, Oklahoma, and Tennessee. She is married to United States Navy Chaplain Jon Settlemoir and has three children: Joshua (17), Justin (15), and Joel (13). She enjoys writing and teaching ladies’ Bible studies and has worked alongside Jon in his pastoral ministry in Southern Baptist churches for several years. She has also taught reading and social studies in the public school system.  Janice is now privileged to be serving God in her role as a chaplain’s wife ministering to our military. The Settlemoir family is currently stationed at NAS Brunswick.

St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church, founded in 1906, brings together contemporary worship with ancient ritual, Bible-based preaching, expressions of the Holy Spirit, and loving service to others.  The church is located on the hill off Route 196. 

St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church
496 Lisbon Street (Route 196)
Lisbon, ME  04250   207-353-8453
  The Rev. W. Beau Wagner, Rector

For more information, visit www.StMatthewsLisbon.org

~~ Here is a heart warming photo.~~

A  Nativity Scene was erected in a church yard. 
During the night the folks came across this scene.
An abandoned dog was looking for a comfortable, protected place to sleep. He chose baby Jesus as his comfort.  No one had the heart to send  him away so he was there all  night.

 

We  should all have the good sense of this dog and curl up in Jesus' lap  from time to  time.

This is too sweet not to share.
No one mentioned that the dog breed is a "shepherd!" 

Submitted by: Rufus Hamm

Christ is The Reason for the CHRIST-mas Season!

T’was the month before Christmas*

*When all through our land,*

*Not a Christian was praying*

*Nor taking a stand.*

*See the PC Police had taken away,*

*The reason for Christmas - no one could say.*

*The children were told by their schools not to sing,*

*About Shepherds and Wise Men and Angels and things.*

*It might hurt people's feelings, the teachers would say*

* December 25th is just a ' Holiday '..*

*Yet the shoppers were ready with cash, checks and credit*

*Pushing folks down to the floor just to get it!*

*CDs from Madonna, an X BOX, an I-pod*

*Something was changing, something quite odd! *

*Retailers promoted Ramadan and Kwanzaa*

*In hopes to sell books by Franken & Fonda.*

*As Targets were hanging their trees upside down*

* At Lowe's the word Christmas - was no where to be found.*

*At K-Mart and Staples and Penny's and Sears*

*You won't hear the word Christmas; it won't touch your ears.*

*Inclusive, sensitive, Di-ver-si-ty*

*Are words that were used to intimidate me.*

*Now Daschle, Now Darden, Now Sharpton, Wolf Blitzen*

*On Boxer, on Rather, on Kerry, on Clinton !*

*At the top of the Senate, there arose such a clatter*

*To eliminate Jesus, in all public matter.*

*And we spoke not a word, as they took away our faith*

* Forbidden to speak of salvation and grace*

*The true Gift of Christmas was exchanged and discarded*

*The reason for the season, stopped before it started.*

*So as you celebrate 'Winter Break' under your 'Dream Tree'*

*Sipping your Starbucks, listen to me.*

*Choose your words carefully, choose what you say*

*Shout

MERRY CHRISTMAS ,

not Happy Holiday !*

Please, all Christians join together and

wish everyone you meet during the

holidays a

MERRY CHRISTMAS

Christ is The Reason for the CHRIST-mas Season!

Diabolical Diversions Of Destruction.... DeadF007

This is just incredible, and after some quick searching it is credible also.  WOW!

Mystery Surrounds Cyber Missile That Crippled Iran's Nuclear Weapons Ambitions

By Ed Barnes

Published November 26, 2010

| FoxNews.com

In the 20th century, this would have been a job for James Bond.

The mission: Infiltrate the highly advanced, securely guarded enemy headquarters where scientists in the clutches of an evil master are secretly building a weapon that can destroy the world. Then render that weapon harmless and escape undetected.

But in the 21st century, Bond doesn't get the call. Instead, the job is handled by a suave and very sophisticated secret computer worm, a jumble of code called Stuxnet, which in the last year has not only crippled Iran's nuclear program but has caused a major rethinking of computer security around the globe.

Intelligence agencies, computer security companies and the nuclear industry have been trying to analyze the worm since it was discovered in June by a Belarus-based company that was doing business in Iran. And what they've all found, says Sean McGurk, the Homeland Security Department's acting director of national cyber security and communications integration, is a “game changer.”

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/11/26/secret-agent-crippled-irans-nuclear-ambitions/#ixzz16VPMZnec

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/11/26/secret-agent-crippled-irans-nuclear-ambitions/#ixzz16VP5TJZY

Follow Another Incredibly Interesting Story here.

Guilt

Att: Lisbon Reporter---A Middlesex county Massachusetts committed
suicide in Wells Maine today. Question felt guilty for double
dipping-pension and collecting a sheriff  salary. Does this sound
familiar on a local lisbon level???!! Do the local employees feel just
as guilty?
 
                                                            DEEP
THROAT

http://www.pressherald.com/news/Police-Mass-sheriff-under-investigation.html

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Maine Wreaths Heading To Arlington National Cemetery For The 19th Year

Wreaths to leave Maine for Arlington

By Sharon Kiley Mack
BDN Staff 

MACHIAS, Maine — A week of celebrations and honorariums for the Wreaths Across America campaign will kick off on Dec. 3 with a special wreath-laying event at the Machias Veterans’ Home. The campaign will end a week later, on Dec. 11, when more than 150,000 wreaths will be laid on veterans’ graves at Arlington National Cemetery in Washington, D.C., and 350 at other veterans’ cemeteries and monuments across the country.

At least 20,000 of those wreaths will be donated by Worcester Wreath Company of Harrington. This is the 19th year of the annual Worcester Christmas tradition and the fourth year of the national Wreaths Across America campaign.

The original placement of the Maine wreaths began in 1992 when Morrill and Karen Worcester found themselves with a surplus of wreaths and brought them to Arlington. Morrill Worcester said that as a young paperboy for the Bangor Daily News, he had won a contest that included a trip to Washington, D.C. He said he never forgot the sight of the white crosses at Arlington.

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