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Spiritual Madness 10-07-09

Israel vs the masturbating world

 

 

Toys R Us linked to
'not rape-rape' Whoopi


''I don't know what the people at Toys R Us were thinking when choosing Goldberg to showcase their program for "differently-abled kids." I walked into a Toys R U s store the other day to be greeted by a large photo of Goldberg hugging a child with Down syndrome and was repulsed. I'm sure Goldberg would have been OK with aborting that beautiful little girl.''I didn't know the potato heads at Toys R Us were featuring Whoopi Goldberg on the cover of their 2009 "Differently-Abled Kids" catalog and ad campaign until she defended pedophile rapist/sodomist Roman Polanski on "The View" last week, after which bloggers quickly took note of the paradox.
I could have told Toys R Us Goldberg was a poor fit, certainly not the "child advocate" it boasted her to be in a press release. She's had multiple abortions – between four and seven, depending on the account. Serial-killing one's own children is about as child-unfriendly as one can be.
In early stand-up routines and in the book "The Choices We Made: 25 Women and Men Speak Out About Abortion," Goldberg stated her first abortion was self-inflicted in a park at age 14, after being impregnated at 13.
That one happened because, "Whoopi led a bohemian lifestyle … and engaged in promiscuous activities," according to biographer Ellesse Chow.
Which brings us to Polanski. Most now know that in 1977 the famous film director at age 43 primed a 13-year-old with drugs and alcohol before raping and sodomizing her, after which he fled the country to escape prosecution.
Don't miss David Kupelian's culture-war classic, "The Marketing of Evil: How Radicals, Elitists, and Pseudo-Experts Sell Us Corruption Disguised as Freedom"
Now 76, Polanski was apprehended in Copenhagen almost two weeks ago and faces extradition to the U.S., to the consternation of certain Hollywood liberals, including Goldberg.
On Sept. 28 Goldberg jaw-droppingly defended Polanski on "The View" stating, "What I'm saying is he did not rape her, because she was aware and the family apparently was aware. ... I know it wasn't rape-rape. ... It was something else but I don't believe it was rape-rape."
There is no explanation for those shocking statements except to recall Goldberg herself had consensual sex at age 13, which apparently was only the beginning. She bragged on "The View" in 2008 she had gone on to nail "about 50" lovers in her lifetime...So Goldberg is messed up, dangerously projecting her own sordid past on others.

 
Because liberalism is a mental disorder

 
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How social justice leads to mass murder


  • The Perfect Storm
  • Now what do we do?
  • Rape, Rape and Rope a Dope
  • Chicago war tactics are all Obama knows
  • Teaching what to 9-year-olds?
  • Because liberalism is a mental disorder
  • Toys R Us linked to 'not rape-rape' Whoopi
  • Israel vs the masturbating world
  • Climate czar has it down cold
  • How 'social justice' leads to mass murder
  • Your health records available to millions
  • A Teachable Moment on Communist China
  • I believe Barack Obama is an evil man
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    The Doctrine of Apparent Free Will

    The Doctrine of Apparent Free Will - Miguel Diocuore

    God is omniscient, omnipotent and omnipresent. That means that, not only has God always known what choices individuals will make tomorrow, but has actually determined those choices.

    Ephesians 1:4 "For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight" and also 2:8 "For it is by grace you are saved, through faith, and this not of yourselves, it is the gift of God."

    Therefor the free will that we experience is only apparent, apparently true from our perspective only. We cannot subvert God's will with our own.

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    Walter Cronkite, ''I'm glad to sit here at the right hand of Satan."

    The Real, Anti-American Walter Cronkite


    Cronkite added, "Pat Robertson has written in a book a few years ago that we should have a world government, but only when the Messiah arrives. He wrote, literally, any attempt to achieve world order before that time must be the work of the devil. Well, join me. I'm glad to sit here at the right hand of Satan."


    At a dinner organized by People for the American Way, a group founded by Norman Lear...
    "I know liberalism isn't dead in this country," he said. "It simply has, temporarily we hope, lost its voice."
    "About the Democratic loss in this election ... it was not just a campaign strategy built on a defensive philosophy. It was not just an opposition that conducted one of the most sophisticated and cynical campaigns ever. ... It was the fault of too many who found their voices stilled by subtle ideological intimidation."
    "We know that unilateral action in Grenada and Tripoli was wrong. We know that Star Wars means uncontrollable escalation of the arms race. We know that the real threat to democracy is half a nation in poverty. ... We know that religious beliefs cannot define patriotism. ... God Almighty, we've got to shout these truths in which we believe from the housetops. Like that scene in the movie 'Network,' we've got to throw open our windows and shout these truths to the streets and the heavens. And I bet we'll find more windows are thrown open to join the chorus than we'd ever dreamed possible."
    "It seems to many of us that if we are to avoid the eventual catastrophic world conflict we must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a world government patterned after our own government with a legislature, executive and judiciary, and police to enforce its international laws and keep the peace," he said. "To do that, of course, we Americans will have to yield up some of our sovereignty. That would be a bitter pill. It would take a lot of courage, a lot of faith in the new order."
    "American people are going to begin to realize they are going to have to yield some sovereignty to an international body to enforce world law, and I think that's going to come to other people as well," he said. "It's a fair distance to get there, but we are not ever going to get there unless we keep trying to push ourselves onto the road."
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    King: 'We don't need low-life Michael Jackson'

    AP

    New York Rep. Peter King rips America's obsession with Jackson's death, declaring 'no one wants to stand up and say, 'We don't need Michael Jackson.''
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    How Christians Will Change the Future

    Worldview conference presents how-to approach on winning culture war


    American Vision's Worldview Super Conference III

    If the term "conservative" means to conserve society the way it is, then don't call the Worldview Super Conference III a gathering of conservatives, because these people are out to rock the world.

    The conference's theme, "The Great Reversal: How Christians Will Change the Future," reflects the mission of the organization planning the event, American Vision, which states its purpose is to "restore America to its biblical foundation."

    "Most conferences that deal with worldview issues concentrate on how bad things are. It's time we had conferences that outline what people can do," said American Vision President Gary Damar. "We have spent too much time whining about what's wrong when there are tens of millions of us who could make a difference overnight."

    DeMar told WND he expects roughly 1,000 people to attend the conference, American Vision's third such event focusing on practical ways of winning the culture war. "The Great Reversal" conference will be held on the campus of Midway Presbyterian Church in Powder Springs 

    , Ga., from July 22-25. 

    One of the speakers at the conference will be WND's founder, Joseph Farah.

    "American Christians need to get serious about saving their country," Farah told WND. "There are some very practical steps that need to be taken to do this. I addressed them in depth in my book 'Taking America Back.' I'm looking forward to doing the same at this conference – this time, with an eye specifically toward the media, a subject I know best.

    http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=102971

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    The late great United States

    Ah, the glorious Fourth of July. The best possible time for a national day of mourning.

    I mean, really … what better day could you choose to lament the loss of what this nation once was? We led the world in nearly everything: independence, liberty, freedom, industry, wealth. We rose beyond the stain of slavery and Jim Crow laws. We embraced all nationalities of legal immigrants with remarkable smoothness and out of many, became one.

    But no more.

    Now we are fragmenting. We are reversing the motto of our country and out of one, becoming many.

    Some feel this persistent destruction of America is intentional. Whether or not you concur, the one thing you must agree is that the Nancy Pelosis and the Harry Reids of our government loath and despite everything Thomas Jefferson and John Adams ever stood for. That's because our Founding Fathers "remov[ed] the shackles from the people and plac[ed] them on the government," to quote Joseph Farah. Government hates that. In the past 70 years or so, it's been dismantling those shackles with increasing speed and placing them back on the citizens.

    Award-winning historian Rod Gragg brings to life the drama of 1776 like no other: Get his "Declaration of Independence: A Museum in a Book"

    Walter Williams wisely noted, "Why did the founders of our nation give us the Bill of Rights? The answer is easy. They knew Congress could not be trusted with our God-given rights." He points out that specific rights – freedom of speech and press, the right to own firearms, our rights to property, the right to a fair trial – could and would be usurped by a greedy and power-hungry government unless specifically told not to. "The Bill of Rights should serve as a constant reminder of the deep distrust our founders had of government … they rightfully saw government as the enemy of the people. ..." And sure enough, the fears of the Founding Fathers are coming to pass with sickening speed. "Americans have developed a level of naive trust for Congress, the White House and the U.S. Supreme Court that would have astonished the founders, a trust that will lead to our undoing as a great nation."

    Part of our collective problem is the two extremes of how people think our country should be run.

    On the right extreme are those (like me) who think our Founding Fathers were pretty smart guys, and we should keep our government within the constraints they so brilliantly laid out.

    On the left extreme are those who think the Founding Fathers were a quaint bunch of pansies in funny wigs whose writing no longer applies to us, and that the Constitution and Bill of Rights are "living documents" that should be modified whenever they wish.

    And never the twain shall meet.

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    Welcoming sodomites at the White House

      

    Memo to prez: My 'old attitude' was pro-'gay'
     At a meeting this week with homosexual activists invited to the White House for a "gay pride" celebration (read: Founding Fathers rolling over in graves), our president, Barack Obama, reassured the discouraged sexual outlaws that he will eventually champion all the items on their wish list.  

    He said, however, that a little time is needed, because some basically good people (read: stupid, but who maybe voted for him) still cling to "worn arguments and old attitudes." They just aren't quite on board with really important and vital legislative priorities like forcing all Americans to recognize two men as husband and husband, federally blessing the employment of pre-school transvestite teachers, and permitting Bruce the female impersonator to get that long-awaited promotion as your son's drill sergeant.

    I wonder if the president has run into anyone like me. There are quite a few of us. We used to be in favor of "gay rights." We once believed sodomy was probably OK for those harmless few who are born that way. It really didn't affect "my" marriage, and everybody just needed to lighten up and let them have their little relationships.

    Yes, the "gay" pride parades were questionable, even gross, but who was I to judge? I didn't really keep up with what was happening much anyway, unless it involved celebrity marriage or death, or maybe some natural disaster. Like AIDS. But that's a heterosexual disease all of us share, isn't it?

    Don't miss David Kupelian's culture-war classic, "The Marketing of Evil: How Radicals, Elitists, and Pseudo-Experts Sell Us Corruption Disguised as Freedom"

    Then one day, someone came into my life, a big Someone. And opened my eyes. And as I read Scripture, and history, and the daily news, I reacted in shock: America is in major trouble. We are imploding from within – I probably contributed through my complacency – and the actors of this anarchy are some of those writhing drag queens on the parade floats. Oh, and the multi-million dollar activist groups propping them up. Sad people, but still causing great harm.

    My "old attitudes" and "worn arguments" were based on little information and a lot of secular progressive (read: self-centered and shallow) values. It was when I opened my mind, looked at the broader spectrum of history, probed deeper than the journalism intern headlines and did my own research that I discovered a very troubling reality.

    http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=102857

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    Obama: Wrong, wrong, wrong again

     

    Obama: Wrong again

    It took the Obama administration eight days to figure out whether Iranians being gunned down for protesting a fraudulent election and demanding basic civil liberties deserved to be acknowledged by the president of the United States. It took the O-Team less than eight hours to side with Cuba's Fidel Castro, Venezuela's Hugo Chavez and Nicaragua's Daniel Ortega over the ouster of Manuel Zelaya in Honduras.

    As we now have come to expect, Mr. Obama got it wrong again, but this time, nobody noticed. The U.S. news media, preoccupied with the sudden demise of Michael Jackson  

    , ignored the event in Central America. For those who care about things more important than the passing of a "pop music legend," here's the rest of the story:  

    Manuel Zelaya, a wealthy rancher and agribusiness executive and a self-described "poor farmer," won a four-year term as Honduran president in November 2005, with 49.8 percent of the vote. Article 374 of the Honduran Constitution bars the nation's chief executive from serving consecutive terms. Apparently, one term wasn't enough for Zelaya, a protégé of Venezuela's strongman, Hugo Chavez and Nicaragua's phobic anti-American leader, Daniel Ortega.

    Late last year, as the Honduran economy tanked and unemployment grew to nearly 28 percent, Zelaya forced Elvin Santos, the country's elected vice president, to resign and began holding conversations with Chavez and Ortega on how to hold on to power. In lengthy Chavez-like populist speeches, he denounced the U.S. and wealthy landowners and linked himself with leftists in the Honduran labor movement. On March 23, he issued an executive decree directing a national referendum on a Venezuela-style constituent assembly to rewrite the country's constitution in time for presidential and legislative elections in November. The Obama-Clinton State Department was mute about all of this.

    Trapped in Castro's gulag and lived to tell about it – check out Armando Valladares' story of 20 years under dictator's thumb: "Against All Hope"

    Unfortunately for Zelaya's aspirations, the Honduran Constitution requires that amendments be passed by a two-thirds vote of the country's unicameral Congress during two consecutive sessions. By late May, the Honduran Congress, the Honduran Supreme Court, the commissioner for human rights and the Honduran electoral tribunal all had overwhelmingly declared the referendum unconstitutional. Zelaya ignored the people's representatives, had ballots printed in Venezuela, and announced that the vote would take place June 28. Again, the O-Team was silent.

    http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=102909

    Hands off Honduras!
    Pat Buchanan drubs Obama for siding with 'the international left' in power transfer

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    Pastor Rick Warren goes stupid again

    between the lines Joseph Farah

    Rick Warren goes stupid again

    While millions of other Americans will be celebrating Independence Day weekend, Rick Warren, often called "America's Pastor," will be serving as the keynote speaker for a Saudi-backed Muslim group that promotes a radical strain of Wahhabi Islam in about 80 percent of U.S. mosques.

    I don't know about you, but I'm getting tired of Rick Warren's bad judgments.

    This time Warren will be schmoozing with the Islamic Society of North America, an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood – just as are al-Qaida, Hamas and most other Muslim terrorist organizations.

    ISNA puts on a façade of moderation, yet, according to terrorism expert Steven Emerson, it "convenes annual conferences where Islamist militants have been given a platform to incite violence and promote hatred."

    After Hamas leader Mousa Marzook was arrested in 1997, ISNA raised money for his defense. He was eventually deported.

    ISNA condemned the U.S. government's seizure of the financial assets of Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad after Sept. 11.

    Brigitte Gabriel combats politically correct notions about the "religion of peace" in "They Must be Stopped: Why We Must Defeat Radical Islam and How we Can Do It"

    "I think ISNA has been an umbrella, also a promoter of groups that have been involved in terrorism," explains Emerson. "I am not going to accuse the ISNA of being directly involved in terrorism. I will say ISNA has sponsored extremists, racists, people who call for jihadagainst the United States."

    I could go on with many more details about ISNA. Suffice it to say it is no friend of Christianity and no friend of America.

    So what is Rick Warren doing speaking at the group's national conference?

    I don't know what Warren's agenda is. He would probably say he doesn't have one. But I can tell you the effect of his appearance – it is designed to disinfect and rehabilitate a group that is dangerous and subversive to U.S. national security.

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    Selling 'alien conversion kits'

    U.S. citizenship for sale in Tucson

    A Tucson hospital’s health-care package promises affluent Mexican women the chance to have their babies in posh surroundings with access to the latest medical equipment.

    But the marketing materials leave out a key draw in the arrangement: U.S. citizenship for the newborn.

    Tucson Medical Center’s “birth package” gives an official nod to a generations-old practice of wealthy Mexican women coming to U.S. hospitals to give birth. Mexican families do the same thing at all local hospitals, but Tucson Medical Center is the only one actively recruiting their business.

    The practice is legal, but offensive to some advocates of tougher U.S. immigration standards.

    “What it really amounts to,” said Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, “is buying U.S. citizenship.”

    http://www.svherald.com/articles/2009/06/28/news/doc4a47089c8edf5734984799.txt

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    One Earth, One United States of America, One Hope

    The Last Best Hope of Planet Earth


    "My dream is of a place and a time where America will be seen as the last best hope of earth." ~ Abraham Lincoln


    ''The struggle continues today. Terrorists and dictators hate the United States for its founding principles. They prefer to rob people of liberty, subjugate women, and spread their power by the sword.''


    'I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence." This statement from Abraham Lincoln in Philadelphia in 1861 was no staff-manufactured line. It was an expression from a man filled with deep emotion at finding himself standing in the hall where a courageous band of rebels pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor to a high and dangerous purpose -- American independence. We celebrate them on July Fourth.
    Lincoln revered the Declaration and its ideals of liberty and equality. In an 1858 speech in Chicago, he said it was "the father of all moral principle" in the American republic, and its spirit "the electric cord . . . that links the hearts of patriotic and liberty-loving men together."
    He spent much time pondering the hardships endured by those who had fought for independence. In that speech he called them "iron men." As a boy, he read accounts of the patriots' battlefield struggles in Parson Weems's "Life of Washington" and thought, as he told the New Jersey state Senate in 1861, that "there must have been something more than common that those men struggled for."
    Yet in Lincoln's time, the Declaration and its spirit was under attack. Proponents of slavery insisted that the Founders did not intend for the God-given right to liberty in the Declaration to apply to all people. The notion that "all men are created equal" was belittled by John C. Calhoun in 1848 as "the most false and dangerous of all political error."
    The Declaration had its detractors abroad as well. Across Europe, members of privileged classes sneered at the thought of people ruling themselves. Many a nobleman viewed the Civil War as proof that the American democratic experiment would fail.
    British statesman John Bright took them to task: "Privilege thinks it has a great interest in this contest, and every morning, with blatant voice, it . . . curses the American Republic. Privilege has beheld an afflicting spectacle for many years past. It has beheld thirty millions of men, happy and prosperous, without emperor, without king . . . Privilege has shuddered at what might happen to old Europe if this grand experiment should succeed."
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    How 'bout a black firefighter?

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    Obama belittles God's 'old attitudes'

    Obama Says Foes of Homosexuality Hold to ‘Worn Arguments and Old Attitudes’

    obama_gay_benefits_homosexual_activists.jpg‘Worn Arguments, Old Attitudes’: That’s how President Obama describes the thinking of millions upon millions of Americans who oppose homosexual behavior [watch his elitist “gay pride” speech HERE.] At a recent Oval Office ceremony, President Obama shakes the hand of Frank Kameny — a hero to homosexual activists but a bigoted extremist to pro-family activists on the receiving end of his intemperate letters. Kameny smears Christian conservatives as “Christianofascists” and says “gay is godly,” even though he’s an atheist. (Kameny also wrote AFTAH that bestiality is OK “as long as the animal doesn’t mind.”) Christians, Jews, Muslims, and all moral-minded Americans must resist Obama’s use of the bully pulpit to undermine timeless truths by advancing the “gay” agenda of turning aberrant and unhealthy sex and gender confusion into “civil rights.”  Click on White House photo to enlarge.

    _________________________

    So (President) Barack Obama is going to teach us (and by extension, God) a few things about the supposed morality of homosexual relationships? “Audacity” suddenly seems like too small a word for Mr. Obama. A few years ago this fellow was a back-bencher in Springfield, Illinois, unable to summon up the strength of character to vote for a bill designed to protect babies “born alive” through botched abortions. Now he’s President of the greatest and most blessed nation on earth and is so sure of his moral rectitude (or, conversely, cynical of divine absolutes) that he dismisses those “worn arguments and old attitudes” against homosexual behavior — you know, the ones rooted in Genesis in the Old Testament and Romans in the New.

    Go HERE to watch the president’s elitist slap at faith-motivated Americans; start watching at the 1:00 minute mark of the speech to homosexual activists celebrating “gay pride month.” A transcript of the speech accompanies the Youtube video.

    Who can quantify the arrogance of politicians, whose gargantuan egos lead them to make moral pronouncements that are, theologically and philosophically speaking, way “beyond their pay grade” (to paraphrase the strategically humble Obama)? This is not the first time Obama has played God: in the Democratic primary both he and Hillary Clinton — faced with the comment by Gen. Peter Pace that homosexual acts are immoral and incompatible with miliary service — simply declared that Gen. Pace was wrong because homosexuality is not immoral. Who knew that overturning five millennia of Judeo-Christian teachings was so simple?

    http://americansfortruth.com/news/obama-says-foes-of-homosexuality-hold-to-worn-arguments-and-old-attitudes.html

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    The curse of comfortable Christians

    Jane Chastain

    The curse of comfortable Christians

    July 2 marks the 233rd anniversary of our legal separation from Great Britain. It was on this day in 1776, that the Second Continental Congress voted to approve a resolution of independence.

    The next day, John Adams, the man who would become our second president, wrote to his wife Abigail:

    I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward for evermore.

    As it turned out, Adams' timing was off by a couple of days. July 4, the day the formal document was approved, became the nation's official birthday, but the die was cast on the day our Founding Fathers, "with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence," mutually pledged to each other their "Lives, Fortunes and sacred Honor" to establish and defend the United States of America.

    Are you and your church being decieved? Take defensive action – read "Seduction of the Saints: Staying Pure in a World of Deception"

    Adams proudly put his name on that document. He was a Christian, as were the overwhelming majority of the signers of Declaration of Independence, and for some 200 years, the laws of our nation were a reflection of the moral laws God set forth in the Bible. As a result, the hand of Providence remained over this country, allowing us to become the most affluent, influential and powerful nation on earth.

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    The high cost of 'green jobs'

    Spain learns the hard way – more employment lost than gained


    WASHINGTON – Next week, U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu will visit Ringgold, Va., on a mission to develop so-called "green jobs" based on renewable energy sources.

    President Obama's administration is spending massive amounts of taxpayer money on subsidizing the new jobs with the assumption they will more than replace employment sure to be eliminated by carbon taxes, cap-and-trade legislation and other limits on traditional industry.

    But Washington might want to examine an ominous warning from Spain, an early pioneer in pursuing the theory of "green jobs."

    According to economics professor Gabriel Calzada of King Juan Carlos University in Madrid, the Spanish government's renewable energy initiatives have destroyed 2.2 jobs for every new "green" job created.

    Calzada even projects, for the benefit of Americans, that the same formula will apply in the United States if it pursues renewable energy at the expense of conventional energy sources.

    "As President Obama correctly remarked, Spain provides a reference for the establishment of government aid to renewable energy," Calzaza wrote in "Study of the Effects on Employment of Public Aid to Renewable Energy Sources." "No other country has given such broad support to the construction and production of electricity through renewable sources. The arguments for Spain's and Europe's 'green jobs' schemes are the same arguments now made in the U.S., principally that massive public support would produce large numbers of green jobs. The question that this paper answers is 'at what price?'"

    That turned out to be a faulty premise, continues Calzada. In fact, he writes nine jobs have been lost for every four created under such initiatives.

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