The Minnesota state Supreme Court blocks the government plan to claim ownership of DNA. It’s easy to see that collecting and storing every newborn’s blood is a violation of the Genetic Privacy Act. Some in the government want to get blood samples from newborns. The Supreme Court has ruled to limit its use. It is wrong for state and federal governments to cry to claim ownership of every newborn baby’s DNA for the reason of genetic research without the consent of the individual citizens. The Minnesota Court ruled Wednesday that the Minnesota Department of Health is violating the law in storing, using, and disseminating newborn screening test results and newborn DNA. The Supreme Court said that the Department must have consent to use, store, or disseminate (or give out) the blood samples. This overruled a lower court’s decision and is a violation of Genetic Information under the State Genetic Privacy Act. Stealing newborn’s DNA has been proven all over the place. The CCHC (I don’t agree with Scientology though) found that the Minnesota Department of Health has indefinitely been storing the blood of newborns in the mid 1980’s. They have used sample for reasons outside of the state’s newborn screening program since 1997. The treaty called the action opts out program. This means that the parents of the newborn infants don’t specifically opt out of the process. The state presumes it has informed consent and that parents have opted in. Minnesota laws have made almost 1 million children’s DNA as been considered government property. The government has sold selling the DNA for genetic research purposes, because of the knowledge or consent of the person or their parents. That is why that in 2008, the state Health Department wanted an exemption for the so-called “DNA Warehouse” from Minnesota privacy law. This causes a goldmine of a genomic biobank where people’s personal business is monitored from employers, insurance companies, medical institutions, and big pharma. This comes after testimony of unethical uses of harvested DNA by the state as shown by Ms. Twila Brase. DNA profiling is wrong. DNA of newborns have been harvested, tested, stored, and experimented by all 50 states. In April 2008, President Bush signed into law a bill which formerly announced the process that the federal government has been engaged in for years, screening the DNA of all newborn babies in the U.S. within six months of birth. It’s called S.1858 that promotes newborn screening. There is already a national DNA database in the UK. I don’t agree with a national DNA database at all as it violates human privacy. DNA harvesting is in the UK. In December of 2009, a Dublin hospital found to have a secret database having the DNA of almost everyone in Ireland since 1984 without their knowledge. Similar acts have been done in New Zealand, Australia, etc. Eugenicists love this DNA situation since the want to use this technology to promote the lie of perfecting the human race via genetic manipulation. Eugenics has been supported by Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger and Hitler. Eugenics is always evil.
Michael Bloomberg used his forces to try to prevent the OWS from spreading in New York City. For years, Bloomberg is acting like his predecessor Rudy Giuliani in using policies that violate human civil liberties. Mayor Bloomberg represents the elite class and the OWS should oppose not only his violations of liberties of people in the OWS rallies, but the stop frisk and search evils as well. Evil forms of cartel capitalism ought to be fought against indeed. It’s hypocritical for Bloomberg in NYC to claim to promote democracy and reason when his policies contradict those 2 concepts. So, in laymen’s terms, the tenets and other materials from Zuccotti Park have been cleared. Bloomberg brought the office of City Hall 3 times since 2001. He is the 12th richest man in America. He was Democrat, then Republican, and claims to be a so-called “Independent.” Many of the elite try to exploit the poor, while their policies benefit the top 1 percent in society. Bloomberg used major cuts; the NYC public library is damaged. There are over 5,000 books destroyed at Zuccotti’s Occupy Wall Street. Nothing has been done to use means to help disabled people or folks using wheelchairs during the hurricane season of 2011. The doors of many shelters were locked without elevators, beds, etc. Even the NY Daily News exposed the corrupt van service for the elderly and disabled, who can’t use public transportation. Nationwide, we have the interests of the rich ruling our political and economic system. The workers and the people are used as servants to the corporate leader of finance capital. The religious establishment is manipulated by the elite class as well. One of the reasons why many black men (like me) don’t trust modern, mainstream ecclesiastical authorities (except independent houses of worship that are authentic) is that the mainstream religious system is heavily made up of a false prosperity gospel, exploitation of people, strong anti-intellectualism, and a sick materialism (in a pop culture type of fashion). It’s sometimes those preacher kids that try to act the rambunctious and rebellious. We can use spirituality to fight imperialism, and other evils in the world. Funding worldly candidates won’t equal to redemption and neither will compromise. Redepemtion is shown by radical actions.
The attack on Medicaid by reactionaries is wrong of course. In the time of November 23, 2011, the Congressional supercomittee will decide to cut the budget by billions of dollars. Many minorities are disproportionately affected. Many of the poor need Medicaid to manage and treat chronic illnesses. A new report proves that African American and Latino children get half of their health care via Medicaid. Medicaid is a state federal program to help the poor. A quarter of both ethnic groups rely on Medicaid. Families USA is an advocacy group for health care consumers. This group said that 40 percent of Latinos with asthma and other chronic lung diseases do and 37 percent of African Americans so afflicted do. So, about 1.4 million African Americans and Latinos rely on Medicaid for lung diseases. So, Medicaid is a life line for numerous human beings also. Now, some state and federal governments want to cut Medicaid. Nearly 25 percent of Latinos who have cancer depend on Medicaid (105,000 people), and 22 percent of African Americans with the life-threatening disease are similarly dependent (141,000 people). A joint super committee has a Nov. 23 deadline to reach agreement on a deficit-reduction package, and Medicaid is one of the programs on the table in those House-Senate negotiations. Cutting Medicaid would have bad consequences to many of the poor in America. Radical Medicaid cuts will not cause the reduction of health care costs. Patients will just make more emergency visits in hospitals and more hospital stays will come about. This will have costs being sent to other people and cause other bad consequences like an increase in lung disease, heart diseases, stroke, diabetes, and cancer.
It’s easily proven that Ron Paul’s Austrian economics will never restore America. There is nothing wrong with opposing torture, ending foreign interventions via wars, having civil liberties, and believing in freedom. Yet, it isn’t representative of authentic freedom to suppress the services that are necessarily to help the poor and the downtrodden in life. Ron Paul wants to end the FED and offer no alternative except for a finite one. There is nothing wrong with ending the FED, but we need some debt free money too and some national system to handle our national money. So, Article I, Section 8 is clear that Congress has the right to coin money and regulate the value of it thereof. Monetarist never worked in America anyway. Also, most the elite banks own most of the gold and silver worldwide, especially those in the Pilgrim Society. If a gold standard occurred, deflation and other issues can arise since there is a finite amount of gold in the world today. Housing is an issue in America as well. So, the building of low cost, affordable housing is in order with the record foreclosures. The OWS movement’s agenda is rather clear. Some want infrastructure building, the reinstitution of Glass Steagall, a real war on poverty, and the fight against corporate greed in the world. A system should serve all of the people not just the very wealthy in society. A lot of people can’t get a job not because of laziness, because of lax opportunities. The real movement for change is never over. It wasn’t over in the past and it will never be over. The economic inequality has reached record level not only in America, but throughout the world. Populists have been marginalized, but the truth is that thousands of protesters are across the nation in every state. They are in NYC, Virginia, Texas, California, Las Vegas, and all over the world. There are thousands of protesters marching in lower Manhattan acting in peaceful protests. Almost 80 protesters were arrested near the base of the Brooklyn Bridge.
A true legacy would be about education, invention, science, technology, engineering, wisdom, history, and other real building of a society (without obsessing with being the best singers and dancers. Yet, real singer and real dancing is fine). You can’t tap dance your way into freedom. You fight your way to freedom by nonviolence and even self defense against oppression. There is one person named Dr. Albert Lockhart of Jamaica. Dr. Lockhart used an eye drop to treat glaucoma. It has given sight to millions of people worldwide from ganja extracts. A Jamaican engineer Joel Sadler has created a new style of prosthetic limb that has been voted one of the top 50 inventions in helping many amputees walk again. Dr Conrad Douglas (engineer) creates the world’s first multi-variant continuous pilot plant which is used to process bauxite and helps with the extraction of Aluminum from the rocks which will benefit millions in the trade of mining for metals. So, we should promote more accomplishments worldwide. We should disagree and oppose the police state that has been going on for centuries. Also, it’s important to give back to our community. It doesn’t matter if you’re doctor, an artist, or a regular people working a 9 to 5. We should help our own people in the poorer communities of America and where we were born at. A wise person (who is a black person) would build a power base in America and expand it to the Caribbean, South America, Africa, and the world to form business interests with blacks globally.
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