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Signs of the Time

Cloned Humans may be used for research
Culture continues to Deteriorate
Runaway genes
Selling, trading, and killing for Body Parts
Clones and Body Parts
Killer Cells
Noah's Ark
Homosexuality being Pushed on children
Human Clones
Biometrics as ID
Test-tube Baby: No Parents?
Boy Scouts must admit gays?
Clinton and Strange Deaths

The culture has continued to deteriorate. Today, the old rules of conduct are not merely broken, they are scorned. The ideology we know as political correctness -- it is really Marxism translated from economic into cultural terms -- proclaims the old virtues to be vices and the old vices to be virtues. Not only does this ideology now rule in our schools and universities, it is pumped daily into every living room in America with a television set. It is
rapidly becoming the official ideology of the state, and if the dismal history of the 20th century teaches us nothing else, it should teach us the danger of official ideologies. (By Paul M. Weyrich, Sunday, March 7, 1999)

Are genetically modified crops promiscuous?

There is much public concern about genetically modified organisms, based
on fears that the modified genes might 'escape' into related species through
sexual reproduction. A report in the 3 September 1998 issue of Nature
suggests that this problem might be exacerbated by an unexplained
increase in promiscuity of certain genetically modified plants.

Dying to Tell: The Mysterious Deaths of Clinton Colleagues

April 14, 1998

The mysterious deaths of a number of people, linked in one way or another to Bill Clinton, have generated numerous conspiracy theories. But are these deaths part of an actual conspiracy ... or just coincidence? CBN News reporter Gary Lane attempts to unravel the mysteries.

Gary Lane, reporter

July 6, 1997 -- A quiet Georgetown neighborhood in the nation's capital is stunned by a gangland-style murder at the Starbucks' café. One of the three victims, assistant manager Mary "Caity" Mahoney, an avowed lesbian, had served as an intern at the White House. Was it robbery ... or a hit?

November 1996, The U.S. Commerce Department -- The partially nude body of 14-year employee Barbara Wise is found in a fourth floor office following Thanksgiving weekend.

"She worked in the same section as John Huang," says Larry Klayman of Judicial Watch. "She was found naked in an office after a long weekend at the Commerce Department. Does one die naked in a government office? You don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure out something's being covered up."

District of Columbia police say the Commerce Department death is no mystery at all: the DC medical examiner determined that 48-year-old Barbara Wise died of natural causes. DC homicide detectives refused to talk to CBN News about the Mahoney case, saying the Starbucks murders are still under investigation.

But from Arkansas to Washington, DC, unanswered questions surrounding the mysterious deaths of people connected to Bill Clinton continue to cast a cloud over the White House.

"I can't think of any other President that this has happened to," says conservative analyst James Dale Davidson. "It may be that we know more about people in the nether reaches of his association than we do about some other Presidents, but I don't think that Jimmy Carter had a lot of associates that died mysteriously."

The most notable in the Clinton administration? The deaths of Commerce Secretary Ron Brown and White House Deputy Counsel Vince Foster.

Foster's body was found in Ft. Marcy Park in July 1993. Investigators for Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr concluded that Foster committed suicide. Davidson is unconvinced.

"The fact that the photographs are disappearing, the x-rays were allegedly taken and disappeared, the fact that all the things that you would do if you were trying to cover up and disguise the evidence have been done in this case, where the testimony of the witnesses was changed in the FBI reports -- it doesn't add up," says Davidson. "The Hardy Boys would laugh at this report; it's totally ridiculous."

A majority of Americans apparently also have their doubts. A recent poll conducted for the Western Journalism Center by Zogby International found that 68 percent of those polled were either not sure that Foster committed suicide or believe he was murdered. And 77 percent of those questioned would not disagree that a cover-up of Foster's death had taken place.

In the death of former Commerce Secretary Ron Brown, the former head of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology photography unit, Kathleen Janoski, alleges that evidence of a possible homicide was intentionally destroyed.

Brown was on a trade mission to Croatia when his military plane slammed into the side of a mountain. Although military pathologists noticed a possible bullet hole in Brown's skull, no autopsy was ever performed.

"Surely he should be given as much attention as any Joe Blow would get if he were on the streets of Washington found dead," says radio talk show host Alan Keyes. "An autopsy would be performed. So, we have a cabinet officer die, and we don't want to do him the courtesy of making sure what the truth is."

Nolanda Hill, Brown's former business partner and confidante says that Brown met with the President just days before he was sent on the trade mission to Croatia. She alleges that Brown told the President that he was going to cut a deal with the independent counsel who was investigating him.

Hill testified in court that First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton decided that Commerce Department trade missions would be used to raise money for the Democratic party. She alleges that business executives were required to pay $50,000 to join the trips.

The deaths of Ron Brown and Vince Foster have been the most publicized, but there are others. The internet is abuzz with a long list of the so-called "Whitewater body count." Among those on the list is Victor Raisner, the national finance co-chair for Clinton for President. He died in an airplane crash in July 1992. Then there's Paul Tulley, who was on the Democratic National Committee. He was found dead of unknown causes in his hotel room in September 1992. And then there is John Parnel Walker. An investigator for the RTC, he was looking into the Whitewater scandal. He fell from the top of the Lincoln Towers building.

Also on the list:

Jim Wilhite, former vice chairman of Arkla, Inc., the Arkansas/Louisiana gas company, a friend of President Clinton and a former chief of staff Mac McClarty. He was killed in a 1992 skiing accident.

Stanley Heard, a Hot Springs, Arkansas, chiropractor was killed in a plane crash in 1993. He reportedly treated members of Clinton's family.

Paul Wilcher, a Washington attorney who was investigating federal corruption and drug running in Mena, Arkansas. He was found dead in his Capitol Hill apartment in July 1993.

The body of Kathy Ferguson was found near Little Rock in May 1994. She was the ex-wife of trooper Danny Ferguson. He was named as a defendant in the Paula Jones lawsuit five days after his ex-wife's death. Ferguson's death was ruled a suicide, but friends who worked with her at the Baptist Memorial Hospital say they believe she was murdered because she knew about Clinton's alleged sexual infidelities.

About a month after Ferguson's death, the body of her boyfriend, Sherwood police officer Bill Shelton, was found on Ferguson's grave. It was ruled another suicide.

And then there's the story of Jerry Parks, who was gunned down gangland-style while returning from church in September 1993. Parks worked security for the Clinton campaign in 1992. His son Gary says his dad was investigating Mr. Clinton's sex life; Little Rock police have yet to solve the Parks murder.

Coincidence or deliberate? No one really knows for sure, but unanswered questions and incomplete investigations only seem to help perpetuate conspiracy theories.

When the Monica Lewinsky scandal broke last January, First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton lashed out against the so-called right wing conspiracy. But some of those who fear the capabilities of the Clinton administration are not right-wingers. Take Monica Lewinsky, for example -- she's hardly considered a conservative.

Lewinsky reportedly told Linda Tripp that Tripp and her children were in danger if Tripp did not give testimony favorable to the President concerning the Kathleen Willey episode.

And Nolanda Hill was a liberal Democratic insider.

"She told me and a colleague at Judicial Watch that in her view, based on statements that were made by Brown, Ron believed that this administration was capable of killing people," says Klayman.

From sexual misconduct to unexplained deaths, Alan Keyes says all these allegations erode the confidence Americans need in their leaders and institutions.

"Liberty cannot survive on lies," he says. "It cannot survive on deceit, and if we tolerate it, then we will lose our liberty for sure."

At least in the case of Ron Brown, why aren't Americans aggressively pushing Congress and the Justice Department to get at the truth? James Dale Davidson has a theory:

"We're in the point of a hillbilly song, and the line was, 'We really don't want to know.' I really don't want to know. People sometimes shy away from unhappy truths."

Gays in the Boy Scouts?
T R E N T O N, N.J., March 2 —The Boy Scouts of
America’s ban on admitting gays violates New
Jersey’s laws against discrimination, a state appeals
court ruled today.

Test-tube baby who is 'nobody's child'
By James Langton in New York

A BLUE-eyed infant known as "nobody's child" has no parents because she was conceived in an infertility clinic and born to a surrogate
mother, a Californian court has decided.

The case of two-year-old Jaycee Buzzanca has created a legal storm in America, where it has underlined the growing complexity of the
rights of children born through infertility treatment.

A judge has declared her to be without a mother or father because doctors used both donor sperm and eggs, then transferred the embryo
into the womb of a surrogate mother recruited by a San Francisco couple, John and Luanne Buzzanca, who paid her a fee of almost
$10,000 (£6,250).

But while the pregnancy thrived, the Buzzancas' marriage did not. By the time Jacyee was born in April 1995, Mr Buzzanca had filed for
divorce. After his wife sought child-maintenance payments, he successfully argued that the baby could not be his in any legal sense.

An appeal judge later backed Mr Buzzanca but, to the astonishment of legal experts, also ruled that Mrs Buzzanca "was not entitled to be
called the legal mother of Jaycee at this time".

Robert Monarch, the Orange County Superior Court judge, said the child had no biological tie to the couple or the surrogate, Pamela Snell,
defined under Californian law as her "gestational" mother. Furthermore, in American law, donors cannot be regarded as natural parents.

Lawyers for the child began giving evidence last week to seek a fresh appeal which might allow her to remain with Mrs Buzzanca, who
has temporary custody and is seeking to establish that Jaycee is her daughter. One of the judges hearing the appeal said: "This is the most
extraordinary surrogate case to date."

Biometrics is leaving its fingerprints on the market with
low-cost devices

By Lawrence Aragon
01.12.98


In a current television commercial, Secret
Agent 007 passes through a maze of security
devices that scrutinize his palm print, voice
pattern and retina. The slick production
makes the technology look futuristic. But the
truth is, biometric security has been around
for some time. And--here's the key--the price
of these products is getting low enough so
that they're not just for James Bond anymore.

A plethora of new, lower-cost products is
coming to market, and IT managers are giving
them a close look. A year ago, fingerprint
scanners cost more than $1,000. But, in six to
nine months, Key Tronic Corp. will ship a
keyboard with an embedded fingerprint
scanner for less than $100, says Norm
Morse, senior product manager for the
Spokane, Wash., company.

"That's a price that will make this technology
prosper," predicts Dick Tribble, director of
systems operations and networks for Scott and White Memorial Hospital
and Clinic, in Temple, Texas. He recently started a pilot project using
fingerprint scanners to replace passwords on the hospital's PCs.

Human Clones

W A S H I N G T O N, Jan. 6 — A
Chicago-area scientist is poised to
start experiments on cloning human
beings to create babies for infertile
couples, National Public Radio
reported today.

It said Richard Seed, a physicist who
has done fertility research in the past, was
proposing setting up a clinic that would clone
babies for would-be parents.
"It is my objective to set up a Human
Clone Clinic in greater Chicago, here, make
it a profitable fertility clinic, and when it is
profitable, to duplicate it in 10 or 20 other
locations around the country and maybe five
or six international," Seed told NPR.
John Eppig, a developmental biologist at
the Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor,
Maine, said no one had done this in a
human.

"If the egg is not activated with the
proper signaling mechanisms, then the
embryo might not reach an implantation
stage, or it might not have the proper
proportions of cells in order to support
normal development," he told NPR.
"I would be very concerned about the
health of the fetus and the health of the baby
that would come from this."

Lessons on homosexuality
taking hold in U.S. schools

By Carol Innerst
THE WASHINGTON TIMES

   As the video camera captured the lively classroom
discussion, a third-grade teacher at New York City's P.S.
87 asks her charges to decide if it's OK to let "gays"
marry.
   "How would you feel if homosexuals were the majority and
the law said you had to be homosexual to get married?" argues
one child, her mind already made up.
   Nearly a decade ago, state-mandated AIDS instruction
opened the door to teaching about homosexuality in schools, as
teachers found it impossible to talk about how AIDS is
transmitted without discussing homosexual practices. At first,
discussions of the topic were largely confined to high school, but
that is changing.
   The Clinton administration recently endorsed grade-school
"diversity" training to encourage students to be tolerant of
minorities, homosexuals and the disabled.
   The National Education Association, the nation's largest
teachers union and a powerful voice in American education,
adopted a resolution urging schools to develop activities and
programs that "increase acceptance of and sensitivity to" diverse
groups, including homosexuals.

CIA spy photos
sharpen focus on
'Ararat Anomaly'

By Bill Gertz
THE WASHINGTON TIMES

n the secret world of intelligence, it goes
by the bland name of the "Ararat
Anomaly." But former intelligence officials
say soon-to-be-released U.S. spy photographs
of the odd formation high on Turkey's Mount
Ararat could reveal something far more
explosive: the remnants of Noah's Ark, the
ancient vessel from the Bible that safely
preserved a pair of every creature on Earth in
the midst of a global flood.
"The pictures are real clear. You see the
whole summit and lots of rock formations,"
said Dino A. Brugioni, a retired CIA
photographic specialist who was directed to
study the high-resolution photographs of the
unusual Mount Ararat site two decades ago.

Killer cells invade North Sea
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Kidneys for Sale
October 20, 1997, 12:01 AM PT

Every 18 minutes, another name is added
to the organ recipient waiting list in the
United States; and every year, 3,000
Americans die waiting for organ
transplants. The rates are comparable, if
not worse, in many other countries. So,
what happens when the demand for
life-saving hearts, kidneys and other
human organs exceeds the supply?

The shortage creates a booming trade in
human body parts. Because it is illegal to
sell one’s organs in the United States,
countries without similar stringent rules
have become international centers of
organ transplantation and the black
market that accompanies it. The sale of
kidneys by destitute donors to rich
recipients has become so common in
India, the country has earned a reputation
as the "great organ bazaar."

Even more shocking is the report by ABC
News Prime Time Live that the kidneys of
executed Chinese prisoners are being
stolen and sold on the international black
market. Although the Chinese
government denies the practice, Human
Rights Watch USA estimates that
anywhere from 2,000 to 3,000 organs
have been taken from the bodies of
Chinese prisoners.

10/18/1997 18:40 EST

Report: Headless Embryo Created


LONDON (AP) -- British scientists have created a frog embryo without a head, a technique that may lead to the production of headless human clones to grow organs and tissue for transplant, The Sunday Times reported.

None of the embryos grown by scientists at Bath University were allowed to live longer than a week, the newspaper reported in its early edition Saturday.

But the scientists believe the technique could be adapted to grow human organs such as hearts, kidneys, and livers in an embryonic sac living in an artificial womb.

Many scientists believe human cloning is inevitable following the birth of the sheep Dolly, the world's first cloned mammal, at a laboratory in Scotland. Scientists at The Roslin Institute in Edinburgh created Dolly using cells from the udder of a dead sheep.

The Sunday Times said the two techniques could be combined so that people needing transplants could have organs ``grown to order'' from their own cloned cells.

The genetic composition of grown organs would exactly match those of the patient, eliminating the threat of rejection. It would also ease the shortage of organs for transplant.

Growing partial embryos to cultivate customized organs could bypass legal restrictions and ethical concerns, because without a brain or central nervous system, the organisms may not technically qualify as embryos.

``Instead of growing an intact embryo, you could genetically reprogram the embryo to suppress growth in all the parts of the body except the bits you want, plus a heart and blood circulation,'' said embryologist Jonathan Slack, professor at Bath University.

Some scientists accuse Slack of meddling with nature.

``It's scientific fascism because we would be creating other beings whose very existence would be to serve the dominant group,'' Oxford University animal ethicist Professor Andrew Linzey said.

``It is morally regressive to create a mutant form of life,'' he said.

But Lewis Wolpert, professor at University College London, said Slack's suggestions did not raise ethical issues ``because you are not doing any harm to anyone.''

Headless frog embryos can be created with relative ease by manipulating certain genes, suppressing development of a tadpole's head, trunk and tail.

Slack believes the breakthrough could be applied to human embryos because the same genes perform similar functions in both frogs and humans.

Under current government rules, Slack's embryos are not considered animals until they are a week-old, when they have to be destroyed.

October 19 1997
BRITAIN



Headless frog opens way for
human organ factory

by Steve Connor and Deborah Cadbury


SCIENTISTS have created an embryo of a frog without a
head, raising the prospect of engineering headless human
clones which could be used to grow organs and tissues for
transplant surgery.

The headless frog embryos have not been allowed to live
longer than a week, but the scientists believe the technique
could be adapted to grow human organs such as hearts,
kidneys, livers and the pancreas in an embryonic sac living in
an artificial womb.

If human cloning becomes possible ­ and many scientists
believe it is inevitable following the birth of Dolly, the first
adult sheep clone ­ the two breakthroughs could be combined
so that people requiring transplants could have organs grown
to order from their own cloned cells.