THE GOLDEN DAWN - GOLDEN DAWN

THE GOLDEN DAWN - GOLDEN DAWN 

translated from French to English

At the end of the nineteenth century, Europe is an incredible fever initiation. Hermetic orders and secret societies flourish everywhere. In England, a society devoted to the occult and magic includes many writers. Many of the "old" Golden Dawn become famous.
Has there been any relationship between this secret society and the first companions of Hitler?
Golden Dawn (Golden Dawn): This name clutched a sign is not esoteric additional suspected not certain insiders of the Hermetic Order of having contacts with the initiates of the secret societies that prepared Germany's National Socialism. It may be that the Golden Dawn has announced dark days for Europe ...

It starts with a joke, a kind insiders with the secret societies which pre-hoax lingered for students. In the second half of the nineteenth century to 1860, England, as throughout Europe shaken by a long shudder irrational. The spiritualist movement seizes a part of the elite.The other part is mixed Freemasonry and esotericism. Experiences of spiritualism multiply. This is the heyday of psychics and visionaries.
those who are tempted by the occult and who intend to spend a minimum of serious swell the ranks of the Rosicrucian society. Among them, three friends: William Wynn Westcott (1848-1925), who is a magistrate, Samuel Liddell Mathers (1854-1918), a Scottish adventurer, and Dr. William Robert Woodman, a retired physician.Whereas the Theosophical Society and Rosicrucian society that wants to recruit join William Westcott feels much more elitist. He prefers the secret to the crowd. It intends to limit the number of members of the secret society that dream form.

Around 1887, Westcott comes into the possession of a manuscript encrypted, apparently very old. In fact, it is an old fifteen years. No matter: Westcott, who is fond of Hermetic literature, not long to break the code, despite written in an unknown alphabet. In fact, the paper describes a series of ceremonies performed by a mysterious Golden Dawn. Freemason since 1871 and recognizes the strength that comes from a tradition, Westcott will then seek to "invent" a past and its corresponding European Golden Dawn. Mathers is his friend who is going to do. We do know that the deception 50aine years later, finding an old batch of documents of the time.
Westcott and Mathers start by finding a source of authority in Germany. They consist in the alphabet of the manuscript encrypted a message to authenticate the source: "The Sage Master Star is a leader among the members of the Golden Dawn. This is a famous sister. His name is Fraulein Sprengel. Send letters which are intended to Herr J.Enger, Marquardt Hotel, Stuttgart. It is 7 = 4, or a chief proponent. "
This is the least tight. But suffice it to applicants of the new secret society, which will translate, as an exercise and occult training, the entire script code.
With the help of Mina Bergson, sister of the famous philosopher Henri Bergson Mathers also produces a document that awarded custody of the temple of Isis-Urania # 3 "in the" Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. " Voila. Applications for membership tributary. They come from respectable bourgeois, with a strong contingent of doctors and writers.They are offered very respectable work program and access to grades reminiscent of those of Freemasonry.
these grades table is known to us. It has ten degrees after stage neophyte Zelator, Theoricus, Practicus, Philosophus, Adeptus Minor, Adeptus Major, Adeptus Exemptus, Magister Magus. Ipsissimus. The last three levels correspond to the dignity of secret leaders of the Order. They were none other than Mathers, Dr. Woodman and "Fraulein Sprengel."

During its first years of existence. Golden Dawn works as a sort of evening classes for occultomanes. theater accessories needed for passage from one grade to another are also widely studied Mathers has reconstituted a full vault with frescoes complicated symbolic colors . Studied too, according to some! Mathers, if he had been an amateur and a forger. certainly would not have had access to such knowledge ...
At the end of the "University of hermeticism," the insider was in possession of everything he needed to know - or almost occult traditions of European . These extensive knowledge partly explain the important role played by the Golden Dawn in the British esotericism.Today, several circles claim to this secret society. However, there must be something else. Behind the rituals a bit outdated, we saw that there was a genuine teaching. What was so behind this teaching?
If the Golden Dawn had been a kind loving stuffing bourgeois science secret, she would not have hired many writers: Arthur Machen , author of Grand god Pan, Bulwer-Lytton , who wrote The Last Days of Pompeii, Algernon Blackwood , the famous writer fantastic, Bram Stoker , Dracula's father, Sax Rohmer , with its series of Fu Manchu,Yeats himself, who was Nobel Prize for literature, were members of the strange secret society ... The Golden Dawn also counted among its members Florence Farr, the famous theater director and mistress of George Bernard Shaw, several academics and renowned scientists. In short, dozens of quality spirits. The admission of all who had the opportunity to talk about their introduction to the Golden Dawn, their view of the world was changed after passage in this Order .

In 1903, Waite Yeats succeeded as Grand Master. The first act of the latter under the new statute was a reform of the fundamental principles of the Order: he proclaimed the primacy of spiritual fulfillment (emphasis on esoteric knowledge and the quest for Truth) on completion equipment (which presupposes the occult in general and magic in particular). Seeing this act of negation of the very basis of the Golden Dawn (ie the practice of the occult) the outright annihilation of the Order, the former Grand Master Yeats strongly opposed Waite.Both sides then formed: one involving supporters of reform and represented by William Alexander Ayton (relatively shy in terms of operability), right arm Waite, and other gathering alongside the former Grand Master Yeats Conservatives. The quarrel lasted two years, after which the camp Yeats ended up founding his own order (The Stella Matutina, the "Morning Star") - complete transposition of the Golden Dawn before the reform Waite seceding what took the name of Holy Order of the Golden Dawn ("Holy Order of the Golden Dawn", the expression "holy order" further illustrating the new mystical tendencies instilled by Waite) and the rest went to be shaken by infighting until its dissolution in 1915, following the departure of Waite. After this "schism of 1905", which was the real coup de grace to the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, some insiders remained neutral in the struggle between the camp and the camp Ayton Yeats preferred to found alone or in groups, their own fraternity.

Several branches then saw the day:
- The Stella Matutina ("branch Yeats") - above-mentioned; traditionalist group scissioniste that disapproving reform Waite, founded this order to perpetuate the original Golden Dawn.
- The Holy Order of 'Golden Dawn ("branch Waite") - also mentioned, took the name Golden Dawn after the reform, self-dissolved in 1915.
- The Rosicrucian Order Alpha & Omega ("branch Mathers") - arrested in 1939.
- The Astrum Argentum ("branch Aleister Crowley ").
- The Solar Order ("branch Brodie-Innes").
- The Order of the Light ("branch Pattinson")
- Builders Of The Adytum ("branch Paul Foster Case ").

Arthur Machen can guide us through his writings on the nature of the true message of the Golden Dawn. In a letter to the writer Jean-Paul Toulet, he states: "When I wrote Pan and The White powder, I do not believe that such strange events had arrived in real life, or even ever been capable of occur. But since then, most recently, it has happened in my own life experiences that have completely changed my perspective on this subject. I am now convinced that there is nothing impossible on Earth. I think we live in a world of great mysteries, things really unexpected and amazing. "
One of the dominant themes of the work of Arthur Machen's focus on Europe before Christianity. In it. at least, it remains faithful to the commitment néopaïen insiders of the Golden Dawn. This writer was born in a place predestined: Caerlson-on-Usk, in Wales, a tiny village where King Arthur \ \ has its courtyard where the Knights of the Round Table went to fetch the Grail.
Following neo-paganism, Wagnerism! Machen curious! And now, the esoteric: in 1914, two months after the declaration of war, he published "The Archers" fantastic news that he imagines the arrival of the archers of St. George, came to the battlefield to assist the infantry English. He will receive dozens of letters from soldiers who have seen, as in the new Machen, Angels rout the Germans!
could find other coincidences troubling for: Foundation in Berlin prénazis, a secret society for the study of a book by Bulwer-Lytton, Race overtake us; membership of the first members of the National Socialist Party to companies like Thule or Vril Society, founded by former Pink cross, the myth of the "Great Unknown Superior" common to mystics of the SS and initiates of the Golden Dawn ...

What knowledge, "forbidden" to the rest of mortals may well have passed between British occultist and future National Socialists? What strange ideas, which, perhaps. Horbiger theories, the "wizard" of Hitler, who believed that the Earth was hollow?

In the absence of precise answers, we must be satisfied assumptions.There are too many coincidences for there is nothing. One thing is certain though: the fantastic worrying writers of the Golden Dawn is carrying too many essential truths for not being inspired. And not to have, in turn, "inspired" practices even more disturbing!

Sources: Keen.com + + Unexplained Wikipedia

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AIDS-Like Disease Mysteriously Appears Where Merck Conducted Vaccine Trials

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In Southeast Asia, specifically Thailand, an AIDS-like “virus” has been found in people that are not infected with HIV. Those infected have their immune-system compromised. Health officials say that this new AIDS “virus” is not contagious, which begs the question: how did these people come down with this new strain of AIDS?This infection does not spread the same as AIDS does, according to Dr. Sarah Browne, scientist with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Browne led the team of researchers in Thailand and Taiwan where the disease made its first appearance.The disease appears to be directed at people of Asian descent; even those living in the US.

 

AmNote on Israeli Bio-Weapons Program: The Ethnic Bullet  

Jews are quick to denounce the persecution of Jews during World War II. However, Jews themselves are as guilty of racism as any Nazi. Israeli military aggression and subjugation of Palestinians in the Middle East is evidences of their racism. Proof of a Jewish racial conspiracy against Arabs and Blacks is Israel’s “ethnic bullet”— a bio-weapons program for genetically targeting and killing Arabs and South African Blacks.

 

The design of a bioweapon works on a similar principle to gene therapy, but instead of replacing faulty genes that don’t work it exploits genetic variations to target its victims. Bio-weapons can either be genetically engineered viruses, bacteria, or toxins that are lethal to the humans being targeted. The bio-weapons could be spread by spraying the organisms into the air or putting them in water supplies. The Israeli bio-weapons program is based at the biological institute in Nes Tziyona, the main research facility for Israel’s clandestine arsenal of chemical and biological weapons, and manufacturing of chemical and biological weapons is based in Ness Ziona.

 

Avner CBWart Israel and Chemical/Biological Weapons: History, Deterrence, and Arms Control

It’s a “Brave New World”, and so Jews best be careful of what they plan to do to others, less they have it done onto them. Because of intense inbreeding, Jews have many unique, recessive genetic markers that make them an excellent target for genetic bio-weapons. Are the Israeli bio-weapons possible? Yes they are! For example, the Jews are developing a bio-weapon against the Arabs using a site-directed mutagenesis techniques to fine tune cell receptor binding sites on the hepatitis C virus to specifically target cell surface receptors, and then by cloning a toxin gene, like the diphtheria toxin gene, into the HCV genome, a genetically engineered bio-weapon can be created to eradicate an ethnic group of people. However, this genocide strategy can be turned on the Jews as well!

Browne has concluded that the new AIDS causes those infected to produce autoantibodies that block interferon-gamma, a chemical signal that assists the human body in fighting infections. The new AIDS targets this chemical and leaves the victim unable to fight off any infection – leaving the person vulnerable to developing deadly sicknesses from even the common cold.

Browne is touting this new AIDS as “adult-onset” because “we do not know what’s causing [people] to make these antibodies.”

 

In 1962, the US Senate received a report concerning chemical andbiological warfare.  MORE

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Confederate flag may be removed from ‘Dukes of Hazzard’ General Lee toys

Report: Confederate flag may be removed from

‘Dukes of Hazzard’ General Lee toys

The 1969 Dodge Charger from “The Dukes of Hazzard,” known to the world as the General Lee, prominently features the Confederate flag on its roof in the popular 1970s-1980s TV show. Some reports now say the flag will be removed from certain toy versions of the car, and at least one former “Dukes” cast member tells TODAY he’s furious.

No clarification was offered on whether products other than die-cast versions of the car would be altered.

Although the report still hasn’t been confirmed,  HobbyTalk readers had no trouble believing it. Wrote one, “Not surprising. They have been removing the image from the model boxes for years. I have one that was a giveaway from the Kansas City Royals that has the Royals logo on the trunk and no roof flag.”

Another wrote, “Was at a Hobby Lobby today. In the model kit section was a 1/25th scale General Lee … without the Confederate flag on the roof!!! It looked strange, to say the least! It’s like the Batmobile without the bat logo.”

But another reader took a different stance. “I am from the West and yes to me the Confederate flag does not (represent) anything positive,” he wrote. “We don’t see Germans flying around the swastika flags (because) it’s their history.”

And yet another wrote that rather than produce a General Lee without the flag, he believed that toymakers would just stop making reproductions of the car. “Warner Bros. will no longer endorse the license for anything that has the Confederate flag on it,” he wrote. ”Therefore, if you are a die-cast manufacturer, your license will not be approved if your sample has a Confederate flag on it, (such as the General Lee, Hazzard County Patrol cars, Cooter’s tow truck and so on) if the sample is produced without a flag then it will be issued, but no one is going to do a General Lee with just the 01s and General Lee lettering, it would look silly.”

Warner Bros. says it’s not

taking Confederate Flag

off the General Lee

A Warner Brothers Consumer Products spokesperson says they “were not, and are not planning to change the design of the General Lee on merchandise.”

Reports on the Internet had claimed that Warner planned to remove the Confederate Flag from the roof of toy versons of the General Lee. Fans started an online petition asking Warner to change its mind. And Ben Jones, who played Cooter on the show, issued a statement opposing the plan.

What We’ve Come to: About Half of Retired People in the U.S. Die with Less Than $10,000 in Financial Assets

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Rachel Corrie: Court rules Israel not at fault for death

An Israeli court has ruled that the state of Israel was not at fault for the death of US activist Rachel Corrie, who was killed in the Gaza Strip by an Israeli army bulldozer in 2003.

Ms Corrie’s family had brought a civil claim for negligence against the Israeli ministry of defence.

The judge said the 23-year-old’s death was a “regrettable accident” and that the state was not responsible.

She had been trying to stop Palestinian homes being pulled down in Gaza.

Judge Oded Gershon, presiding at the Haifa District Court, said Ms Corrie had been protecting terrorists in a designated combat zone.

He said the bulldozer driver had not seen her, adding the soldiers had done their utmost to keep people away from the site. “She [Corrie] did not distance herself from the area, as any thinking person would have done.”

He ruled the state of Israel did not have to pay any damages. The Corries had requested a symbolic $1 in damages and legal expenses.

They had accused Israel of intentionally and unlawfully killing their daughter, and failing to conduct a full and credible investigation.

An Israeli army investigation in 2003 concluded its forces were not to blame for Ms Corrie’s death.  MORE FROM BBC

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Human Rights Groups Unite to Support Non-Judicial Methods to Combat Racist Hate Speech

New York City – Today, as the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination gathers in Geneva to host a discussion on racist hate speech, Human Rights First and a number of other organizations have issued a joint statement that details the importance of fighting hatred in the public discourse through non-legal methods. The statement notes that “the debate over how to regulate hate speech is a distraction from immediate, effective and practical non-legal options for addressing racist hate speech.”

“There is a trend to constantly identify new legal means to fight hatred, but instead states should assess how to make existing commitments more effective,” said Human Rights First’s Joelle Fiss. “This discussion is an important opportunity for states and those with a shared interest in ending racist hate speech to come together and access best practices moving forward.”

The committee’s agenda today includes a focus on the concept of racist hate speech and its evolution over time, combating racist hate speech, the work of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, racist hate speech and freedom of opinion and expression, and racist hate speech in political life, as well as in the media including the internet.

United Nations bodies, specialized agencies, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations, as well as academic experts will participate in today’s discussion. The statement signed by Human Rights First – as well as the American Civil Liberties Union, American Jewish Committee, Anti-Defamation League, Human Rights Campaign, Jacob Blaustein Institute for the Advancement of Human Rights, and the Leadership Conference on Civil – will be part of that dialogue.

STATEMENT TO THE

COMMITTEE ON THE ELIMINATION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION

THEMATIC DISCUSSION ON “RACIST HATE SPEECH”

August 28, 2012

As organizations dedicated to combating racism and bigotry in all forms, we have worked for decades to counter the propagation of racism, anti-Semitism, xenophobia, homophobia, anti- Muslim bigotry, and all forms of prejudice in public discourse, including on the Internet.

There is no question that the fomenting of hate in the public discourse impairs the ability of members of targeted communities to be treated equally, with dignity and free from harassment. Hate speech also increases the overall level of fear of the targeted community, as a whole.

However, the debate over how to regulate hate speech is a distraction from immediate, effective and practical non-legal options for addressing racist hate speech.

Unfortunately, racism, discrimination and hate crimes are a fact of everyday life across Member States, even where robust laws banning hate speech are in place.  Therefore, the value of penalizing hate speech as a means to effectively reduce violence targeted against victims of that hate speech, is highly questionable.

At the same time, there is much that governments, political leaders and other public figures can do to counter and marginalize hate speech.  In fact, such actions can have far more reach and effectiveness in actually transforming and shaping attitudes than a legal focus on punishing and limiting speech.

Political leaders have the most immediate and significant opportunity to set a national tone against racist incitement and to promote values of respect for diversity. Indeed, nothing gives a greater sense of security to vulnerable communities than seeing the unequivocal public rejection of racism.  This signals that the government takes seriously all people’s right to live free of harassment.  Even without hate speech or even hate crimes laws, where there is political will, when local and national officials marginalize and reject hate, people are more secure.

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Defendant; George Thomas in Christian-Newsom case seeks U.S. Supreme Court review

Defense attorneys Tom Dillard and Stephen Ross Johnson are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hear an appeal on behalf of their client, George Thomas, to decide whether a doped-up judge can deliver a constitutionally sound trial.

Thomas is one of four defendants convicted in the January 2007 torture-slayings of Channon Christian, 21, and Christopher Newsom, 23. Those convictions were upended last year after a Tennessee Bureau of Investigation probe revealed the judge who presided over their trials — Knox County Criminal Court Judge Richard Baumgartner — was himself a criminal, doctor shopping for pills, using a felon on probation in his court to get pills and using a graduate of the Drug Court program he helped found for both sex and pills. A News Sentinel investigation also showed Baumgartner was a longtime alcoholic with a history of failed rehabilitation efforts who also demanded pills from employees.

Baumgartner, spared jail on a state case and allowed to keep his state pension, now faces federal charges.

The Tennessee Supreme Court has ruled that Baumgartner’s misdeeds are not cause for new trials in the Christian-Newsom case, rejecting the defendants’ claim of “structural” or constitutional error.

However, the court did approve Senior Judge Jon Kerry Blackwood’s decision that new trials are in order because he cannot step into Baumgartner’s shoes as so-called “13th juror” in approving the verdicts in the wake of pending motions for new trials.

Thomas, through Dillard and Johnson, believes the state high court was wrong to reject the “structural error” argument and is asking the nation’s top court to weigh in.  MORE

Tattoo infections in U.S. linked to contaminated ink

Mycobacterium chelonae is a rapidly growing mycobacterium, that is found all throughout the environment including sewage and tap water. It can occasionally cause opportunistic infections of humans.

- Contaminated tattoo ink caused at least 22 skin and soft tissue infections last fall in four U.S. states, according to an analysis released on Wednesday.

The infections prompted an investigation by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that uncovered 22 confirmed cases, 4 probable cases and 27 possible cases of contamination-related infections in New York, Washington, Iowa and Colorado.

Products from four companies were implicated during the probe. None of the companies is identified in a CDC report, released in conjunction with a New England Journal of Medicine study of the New York cases.

“People who get tattoos must be made aware of this risk and seek medical attention” if they get a rash or other abnormalities at the site, according to a commentary in the journal from a team led by Pamela LeBlanc of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

The bacteria got into the containers when the manufacturer used distilled or reverse-osmosis water, which is not necessarily sterile.

 

The New York cases involved infection with a bug called Mycobacterium chelonae, which caused reddish or purple raised bumps in the areas tattooed with gray. The infection can mimic an allergic reaction and be difficult to treat.

“They were not getting better” with standard care, said Dr. Byron Kennedy of the Monroe County Department of Public Health in New York, the chief author of the New England Journal of Medicine study. “You had some folks who were on treatment for 6 months or more.”

The FDA does not directly regulate tattoo ink because it is regarded as a cosmetic, but it can intervene when a product has been adulterated or is regarded as unsafe.

Currently, no FDA regulation specifically requires tattoo ink to be sterile, but some local jurisdictions, such as Los Angeles County, do require that sterile water be used when inks are diluted, according to the CDC report.

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“Let’s Build a Goddamn Tesla Museum,”

(CNN) – At the dawn of the 20th century, Nikola Tesla wanted to save the world from fuel dependency. Now, an Internet cartoonist wants to save Tesla’s last remaining laboratory as a tribute to the futurist inventor.

The structure, a 94-by-94-foot building, was the location where Tesla hoped to develop wireless communications and clean, free energy for everyone in the early 1900s. He moved his operation to the Wardenclyffe Tower in Shoreham, New York, in 1902 — so named because of a 187-foot tower rising from the ground (as well as being sunk 120 feet below it) that was to be one of the great transmitters for his wireless energy dream.The facility was lost a few years later due to debts Tesla racked up, and the huge tower was demolished in 1917. The site would ultimately become a Superfund location because of silver and cadmium toxicity in the ground after a photographic film company used it for nearly 48 years. It has now been cleaned up and is no longer harmful.

Tesla died penniless and in debt in 1943.

The site of inventor Nikola Tesla’s former laboratory sits idle and boarded up in Shoreham, New York.

Matthew Inman, the creator of Web cartoon “The Oatmeal,” is joining forces with a nonprofit group, The Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe, to help preserve the facility as a science center and museum honoring “the father of the electric age.”

 

“Tesla is an unsung hero, and there are very few monuments to him in the United States. I feel like that’s something we need to fix,” Inman said. “I made a comic about Tesla on my site. It got the most ‘likes’ on Facebook that I’ve ever seen in my career. Combine (the fact) that I’ve got this army of Tesla fans and the experience and success with my other fund-raiser, I felt like I was the ideal person to step in to control.”

This current effort, bluntly titled “Let’s Build a Goddamn Tesla Museum,” exploded after it was launched, raising more than $750,000 within five days. It had topped $792,000 as of Tuesday morning.

 

The goal was to raise enough money to buy the property and begin efforts to restore the facility. The asking price is $1.6 million, and Inman’s goal of $850,000 would be matched by a New York state grant for the same amount, raising a total of $1.7 million.

 

Inman used the power of social media and drew from his 700,000 fans on Facebook, 300,000 followers on Twitter and over 1 million followers on Google+ to get his campaign rolling. He’s also asked the General Electric Company, co-founded by Tesla rival Thomas Edison, to contribute, and received a “modest amount” from Elon Musk, co-founder of PayPal and Tesla Motors.

 

The site quickly sold out of donation perks, items people could receive for their gift. So the campaign created new perks, using Tesla’s love of the number 3 in the amount.

 

“Tesla, for the past year or two on the Internet, has risen as a cult hero to geek people,” Inman said. “I think a lot of people are donating, not to say how noble they are, but are willing to support him.

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The UN Refugee Agency; Campaign under way to increase refugee resettlement places in Europe

Most refugees are resettled in the US, Canada and Australia, but the EU will help raise places in Europe to 20,000 by 2020

The large number of asylum seekers who independently make their way to Europe has reduced support for resettlement there, said Torsten Moritz, chief executive of the Churches’ Commission for Migrants in Europe, which is leading a campaign to increase the number of refugee resettlement places available in the EU to 20,000 by the year 2020. “The perception is Europe does asylum and the US does resettlement,” he said. “We’re saying: we can do more. Europe is one of the richest regions, despite the [economic] crisis, and we’re doing very little.”

The EU council recently agreed to promote a policy of increased resettlement by offering co-ordinated support and financial incentives to member states that accept refugees. “Most of the countries would be keen to get some of the EU funding, but it’s a completely voluntary thing; it’s nothing the EU can enforce,” said Mortiz. “That’s one of the reasons we felt we needed to put a quota on the table.”

Resettlement is one of three durable solutions for refugees promoted by the UN and plays a key role in the international community’s response to the needs of refugees. It gives them immediate protection and a long-lasting solution.

UNHCR, the UN refugee agency, estimates that 172, 196 people are in need of resettlement for 2012 alone.  The total number of resettlement places actually being offered by governments is approximately 80,000 per year. This means that only around half of those in need of resettlement will benefit from this life-changing solution.

 

European Union countries currently offer between 4,000 and 5,000 places each year, compared to over 50,000 places offered by the USA, 7,000 places by Canada and 6,000 by Australia in recent years.  more

 

Even within UNHCR, resettlement has its champions and its detractors, according to Amy Slaughter, chief operating officer of RefugePoint, a US-based refugee rights organisation that deploys its staff to UNHCR offices throughout sub-Saharan Africa to boost their capacity to refer refugees for resettlement. “One argument is that it’s a solution for so few and takes up a lot of resources,” she said. “In situations where the needs are vast, [resettlement] is pushed to the bottom of the priority list because they’re busy taking care of emergency needs. But it’s a vital long-term solution and it has benefits for families in terms of assets gained in countries of resettlement, such as education and finances.”

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U.S. Rep. Todd Akin; ‘legitimate rape’ rarely results in pregnancy. Seems like many through out the years have said the same; as seen in ‘The Official Guide to Legitimate Rape’

HOW MANY PREGNANCIES ARE CAUSED BY RAPE?

A pregnancy conceived by forcible rape would probably head the list as the most often unwanted, but it is such an unlikely event that it is not really relevant to an understanding of the reasons why women define certain pregnancies as unwanted.

                                                                                    Pro-abortion writer N. Lee.[5]

Introduction.

From an ethical and logical standpoint, the number of pregnancies caused by rape and incest in this country is an issue that simply is not relevant to the moral case against these exceptions. Either all unborn babies are worth saving, or none of them are.

(CNN) – U.S. Rep. Todd Akin, who won Missouri’s GOP Senate primary earlier this month and will face incumbent Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill in November’s general election, said Sunday that he misspoke when he claimed “legitimate rape” rarely resulted in pregnancy.

“First of all, from what I understand from doctors, that’s really rare,” Akin said of rape-induced pregnancy in an interview with KTVI. A clip of the interview was posted online by the liberal super PAC American Bridge.

“If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down,” Akin continued. He did not provide an explanation for what constituted “legitimate rape.”

He added: “But let’s assume that maybe that didn’t work or something. You know I think there should be some punishment, but the punishment ought to be on the rapist and not attacking the child.”

A spokeswoman for Mitt Romney wrote that the presumptive GOP presidential nominee and his running mate, U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, did not share Akin’s sentiments on rape.

“Governor Romney and Congressman Ryan disagree with Mr. Akin’s statement, and a Romney-Ryan administration would not oppose abortion in instances of rape,” Romney campaign spokeswoman Amanda Henneberg wrote.

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The Official Guide to Legitimate Rape

If you’re unfamiliar with the exciting concept that your uterus can pick and choose between various kinds of rape, don’t fret. We have just the guide for you.

Non-Pregnancy Rape

For decades, conservatives have claimed that women can’t get pregnant from “legitimate” rape thanks to their wise, all-knowing uteri, psychic “juices” and Spidey Sense-like “secretions.” (Hmm, if legislators can applaud our vaginas for being so omniscient, how come they can’t let us control them?)

In 1988, Republican Pennsylvania Rep. Stephen Freind said the odds that a woman who is raped will get knocked up are “one in millions and millions and millions” because rape causes a woman to “secrete a certain secretion” that kills evil sperm.

In 1995, North Carolina state Rep. Henry Aldridge told the House Appropriations Committee that “The facts show that people who are raped — who are truly raped — the juices don’t flow, the body functions don’t work and they don’t get pregnant.

Then, there’s this famous 1999 Christian Life Resources piece from John C. Willke, a physician who was once president of the National Right to Life Committee, in which he basically just makes shit up:

Finally, factor in what is is certainly one of the most important reasons why a rape victim rarely gets pregnant, and that’s physical trauma. Every woman is aware that stress and emotional factors can alter her menstrual cycle. To get and stay pregnant a woman’s body must produce a very sophisticated mix of hormones. Hormone production is controlled by a part of the brain that is easily influenced by emotions. There’s no greater emotional trauma that can be experienced by a woman than an assault rape. This can radically upset her possibility of ovulation, fertilization, implantation and even nurturing of a pregnancy. So what further percentage reduction in pregnancy will this cause? No one knows, but this factor certainly cuts this last figure by at least 50 percent and probably more.

Bad Weather Rape

In 1990, Texas Republican gubernatorial nominee Clayton Williams told ranchers that victims should take rape in stride and try to enjoy it — like when you have picnic plans but then there’s a huge thunderstorm so you decide to see a movie instead and it turns out to be a pretty enjoyable afternoon after all.

in 1997, Bush appointee Federal Judge James Leon Holmes said in an article that “concern for rape victims is a red herring because conceptions from rape occur with approximately the same frequency as snowfall in Miami.” Because of the juices! And the secretions! And SCIENCE.   thank you Richard

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