Saturday, December 04, 2010

New Musical-Video Feature:
" I Believe" "I believe in the people of all nations to join and to care for love. I believe in a world where light will guide us, and giving our love, we'll make heaven on earth"...
Psalm 118:24 This Is the Day which The LORD has made, We will
rejoice and be glad in it!

"GerryBlog" Features:
"POLITICAL 'CHOICES' AT "POINT ZERO"

Nasa releases landmark find in search for extra-terrestrial life. Arsenic-Eating Bacteria Opens New Possibilities for Alien Life.

Haiti Needs Our Prayers!!
Haiti's cholera death toll grows, fueling riots.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – An outbreak of cholera has killed more than 1,000 people, the Haitian government said Tuesday as it sent top officials to the country's north in hopes of quelling violent protests against U.N. peacekeepers accused of spreading the disease.

"TELLING IT LIKE IT IS" -
Political News:


Tax Cut Extensions Voted Down In the Senate
Senate Democrats’ attempt to move tax cuts for families making under $250,000 was shot down today by a vote of 53 to 36 (60 votes were needed for passage.

Obama Admin. Ban On Offshore Drilling in the E. Gulf of Mexico Called a Jobs Killer. Republicans and the oil and gas industry say the move will kill jobs and make America even more dependent on foreign oil.

Unemployment Hits a Staggering 9.8% - Highest Level Since April. WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — The U.S. economy added jobs at a much slower pace in November than in October, suggesting that the economy will continue to struggle in coming months. Nonfarm payrolls rose by 39,000 in November, far lower than the 155,000 gain expected by economists surveyed by MarketWatch and the upwardly revised figure of 172,000 jobs gained in Oct.

'The Moment of Truth': President's Debt Commission Releases Final Report.
The plan, according to the panel, would achieve nearly $4 trillion in deficit reduction through 2020, more than any effort in the nation's history reduce the deficit to 2.3 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by 2015; sharply reduce tax rates, abolish the Alternative Minimum Tax and cut backdoor spending in the tax code; cap revenue at 21 percent of GDP and get spending below 22 percent and eventually to 21 percent....

End Of Jobless Benefits To Effect Thousands. Benefits that had been extended up to 99 weeks started running out Wednesday. Unless Congress approves a longer extension, the Labor Department estimates about 2 million people will be cut off by Christmas.

Defense Authorization Bill - amendment allowing military clinics to conduct abortions.
"Sen J. Inhofe said.."they are going to turn our military hospitals into abortion clinics," and called on people to "rally against lawmakers interested in moving the proposal forward." Senate Democrats are angling to end the military's decades old ban on allowing elective abortions on publicly funded facilities - in overseas military hospitals.

U.S. lawmakers outraged over WikiLeaks’ disclosure
U.S. lawmakers expressed their outrage at what they called “illegal” publication of classified American documents by WikiLeaks, and asked the Obama Administration to use all legal means to shut down this whistleblower website.

Global crises overshadow Obama's economic message.
WASHINGTON – Foreign policy challenges are intruding on President Barack Obama's promise to focus on the economy after the Democrats' election debacle and threatening to knock the White House off message altogether.

U N Official: “Climate Policy Is Redistributing The World's Wealth”
Climate policy has almost nothing to do anymore with environmental protection, says the German economist and IPCC official Ottmar Edenhofer. The next world climate summit in Cancun is actually an economy summit during which the distribution of the world's resources will be negotiated.

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