German Catholic seminarians expelled for Nazi jokes, salute

By Tom Heneghan, Religion Editor

PARIS (Reuters) - An investigation into rumors of neo-Nazi activity at a seminary in Bavaria has resulted in two student priests being expelled for imitating the Nazi salute and making jokes about death camps, two bishops announced.

The commission probing rumors of neo-Nazi activity at the seminary in Wuerzburg also found a third student had said participants in recent anti-racism marches in the southern German state deserved "a smack in the face", the bishops said.

Rumors of a "brown (Nazi) network" at the seminary began circulating in early May, including talk of a party in its basement pub to mark the Nazi leader's April 20 birthday. Using the symbols of Nazism or glorifying it is illegal in Germany.

The independent commission found no proof it had taken place but even the hint of neo-Nazi sympathies was deeply embarrassing for a Church still struggling with the fallout from revelations of sexual abuse of minors by priests in recent years.

"All forms of xenophobia, racism and extremism are incompatible with Christianity," Bamberg Archbishop Ludwig Schick told a news conference in Wuerzburg on Wednesday.

"We have to make more intensive efforts at the seminary to increase the awareness of the special relations between Jews and Christians," Bamberg Bishop Friedhelm Hofmann said.

The seminary serves Bamberg and Wuerzburg dioceses and both posted the two bishops' comments and remarks by the head of the commission on their websites.

Norbert Baumann, a local judge who headed the inquiry into the neo-Nazi rumors, said the probe quizzed 28 people including all 18 seminarians in Wuerzburg. He did not name the two expelled seminarians but recounted what they had done.

NOT YIDDISH WIT

One seminarian, he said, had told at least three jokes that were "not 'Jewish jokes' in the sense of Yiddish or Jewish wit but ... completely unacceptable and unbearable 'concentration camp jokes' that mock the mass murder of countless Jewish children, women and men during the Third Reich".

Down in the seminary pub, he and another seminarian imitated Hitler and gave the Nazi salute, Baumann said.

One of them attended a concert by a controversial far-right rock band on Hitler's birthday, excusing himself from Mass at the seminary without saying why, the judge said. Schick added this seminarian was also fascinated by Nazi uniforms

The other remarked one day after lunch that the seminary cafeteria needed "a Negro to clean up" the tables.

Baumann said the inquiry found the men did not play neo-Nazi music at the seminary but often played the Badenweiler March "in the full knowledge that it is considered to be Hitler's favorite marching song".

The third seminarian mentioned in the report was not expelled for mocking the anti-racism march, Baumann said.

Schick, who is in charge of the German Church's worldwide contacts and brings youth groups to visit the death camp at Auschwitz every year, said he had marched in and addressed an anti-racism protest in Bamberg similar to the one in Wuerzburg.

"What more must we do, where do we have to be more vigilant and resolute against racism, anti-Semitism, nationalism and xenophobia?" he asked.

(Reporting By Tom Heneghan; Editing by Michael Roddy)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/german-catholic-seminarians-expelled-nazi-jokes-salute-160848013.html

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US Military and Monsanto Now Actively Engaged In Tracking Anti-GMO Websites, Activists, Campaigners and Independent Scientists

Marco Torres, Prevent Disease
Waking Times

The word is out and the scientific bodies of manipulation can no longer contain the growing resistance against GMO. The more corrupt studies that attempt to find no harm in the consumption of genetically modified foods, the more an increasingly aware public is growing skeptical. The largest German daily newspaper?Suddeutsche Zeitung?recently published a shocking article that reveals how Monsanto, the US Military and the US government are tracking anti-GMO campaigners, websites, and independent scientists who study the dangers of GMOs.

Does this mean your favortie anti-GMO websites are in danger? Absolutely not, but it does mean controlled opposition and fictitious medical specialists will be scouring the internet to plant fabricated statistics and data with the help of reputable medical journals to sway opinion.

Many politicians and public health officials will then unknowingly use the fabricated information to validate the GMO mandate. For each new GMO, a study will be falsified to justify its effectiveness and requisite belief thereof. It?s one of the reasons?prestigious science journals are rapidly declining in influence. This junk science has allowed government agencies to approve untold numbers of GMOs and drugs, or rubber stamp thousands of chemicals as safe.

Since the public is catching on, Universities and prestigious scientists are losing their credbility. The world is now savvy to the?flawed process at the heart of science?and it no amount of science coming from these fraudulent sources will satisfy the public. As for the independent scientists studying the dangers of GMO, they are being aggressively targeted.

Attacks on Anti-GMO Camps Everywhere

The largest German daily newspaper?Suddeutsche Zeitung?has recently published a shocking article that reveals how Monsanto, the US Military and the US government track both anti-GMO campaigners, websites and independent scientists who study the dangers of GMOs.

The US do not only spy on governments, authorities and private individuals across the world with the help of their secret services; they also understand how to push forward the global interests of their companies with full force.

A glimpse into the world of Monsanto shows that the company which delivered the pesticide ?Agent Orange? to the US military in the Vietnam war had close connections with the central power in Washington, with tough people from the field of the US secret services and with private insurance companies. If you really want to learn about the dark history of Monsanto,?review this website. When you take a moment to reflect on the history of product development at Monsanto, what do you find??See if you can spot the pattern?

Monsanto is a giant in biotechnology: and number one in the controversial field of genetic engineering. For its opponents, many of whom live in Europe, Monsanto is a sinister enemy. Time and again mysterious things happen, which make the enemy seem yet more sinister.

In the previous month, European environmental organization ?Friends of the Earth? and the German Environmental and Nature Protection Association (BUND) wanted to present a study on the pesticide glyphosate in the human body. Weed killers containing glyphosate are the big seller for Monsanto. The company aims for more than two billion dollars turnover for the Roundup product alone. ?Roundup herbicide? has a ?long history of safe use in more than 100 countries?, Monsanto emphasizes.

Counter-Intuitive Findings Contradict Monsanto?s Claims

The promise by Monsanto and producers of genetically modified crops was that farmers could use less chemicals and produce a greater yield. That?s about as true as honesty in politics. A study published by Washington State University research professor Charles Benbrook finds that the use of herbicides in the production of three genetically modified herbicide-tolerant crops ? cotton, soybeans and corn ??has actually increased.

This counterintuitive finding is based on an exhaustive analysis of publicly available data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture?s National Agriculture Statistics Service. Benbrook?s analysis is the first peer-reviewed, published estimate of the impacts of genetically engineered (GE) herbicide-resistant (HT) crops on pesticide use.

It is confirming earlier US government data showing that in the US, GM crops have produced an overall increase, not decrease, in pesticide use compared to conventional crops. Not only that promises of greater yields are also unfounded.

A report that analyzed nearly two decades worth of peer reviewed research on the yield of the primary GM food/feed crops, soybeans and corn (maize), reveals that despite 20 years of research and 13 years of commercialization, genetic engineering has failed to significantly increase US crop yields. The author, former US EPA and US FDA biotech specialist Dr Gurian-Sherman, concludes that when it comes to yield, ?Traditional breeding outperforms genetic engineering hands down.?

Virus Disabling The Computers of Activists?

Two days before the BUND study was set to be published across 18 countries, a virus disabled the computer of the main organizer, Adrian Bepp. There was a threat that press conferences in Vienna, Brussels and Berlin would be cancelled. ?We panicked?, remembers Heike Moldenhauer from BUND. The environmental activists were under extreme time pressure.

Moldenhauer and her colleagues have widely speculated about the motives and identity of the mysterious attacker. The genetic engineering expert at BUND believes the unknown virus suppliers wanted in particular to ?generate confusion?. Nothing is worse for a study than a cancelled press conference: ?we did ask ourselves at the time if we were seeing ghosts?, said Moldenhauer.

There is no evidence that Monsanto was the ghost or had anything to do with the virus. The company does not do things like that. It takes pride in operating ?responsibly?: ?Today, it is very easy to make and spread all kinds of allegations,? Monsanto claims. They say that ?over and over there are also dubious and popular allegations spread, which disparage our work and products and are in no way based on science.?

Critics of the group see things differently. This is due to the wide network Monsanto has developed across the world. There are ties with the US secret services, the US military, with very hard operating private security companies and of course, with the US government.

A conspicuously large number of Monsanto critics report regular attacks by professional hackers. The secret services and military also like to employ hackers and programmers. These specialize in developing Trojans and viruses in order to penetrate foreign computer networks. Whistle-blower Edward Snowden has indicated the connection between intelligence services actions and economic drive. However, this sinister connection has been overshadowed by other monstrosities.

Some powerful Monsanto supporters know a lot about how to carry out a cyber war. ?Imagine the internet as a weapon, sitting on the table. Either you use it or your opponent does, but somebody?s going to get killed? said Jay Byrne, the former head of public relations at Monsanto, back in 2001.

Companies regularly fight with dubious methods to uphold what they see as their right: but friend or foe, him or me ? that is fighting talk and in a war, you need allies. Preferably professionals. Such as those from the secret service milieu, for example.

Monsanto Closely Connected To Central Governments

Monsanto contacts are known to the notorious former secret service agent Joseph Cofer Black, who helped formulate the law of the jungle in the fight against terrorists and other enemies. He is a specialist on dirty work, a total hardliner. He worked for the CIA for almost three decades, among other things as the head of anti-terroism. He later became vice president of the private security company Blackwater, which sent tens of thousands of soldiers to Iraq and Afghanistan under US government orders.

Investigations show how closely connected the management and the central government in Washington are, as well as with diplomatic representatives of the USA across the world. In many instances, Monsanto has operationally powerful assistants. Former Monsanto employees occupy high offices in the USA in government authorities and ministries, industrial associations and in universities; sometimes in almost symbiotic relationships. According to information from the American Anti-Lobby-Organisation, Open Secrets Org, in the past year, 16 Monsanto lobbyists have taken up sometimes high ranking posts in the US administration and even in regulatory authorities.

For the company, it is all about new markets and feeding a rapidly growing world population. Genetic engineering and patents on plants play a big role here. Over 90 % of corn and soya in the USA is genetically modified. In some parts of the rest of the world the percentage is also growing constantly.

Monsanto led the fight to allow the famous genetically engineered corn plant MON810 in Europe with lots of lobbying ? the group completely lost the fight. It was even beaten out of the prestigious French and German markets. An alliance of politicians, farmers and clergy rejected genetic engineering in the fields and the consumers do not want it on their plates. But the battle is not over. The USA is hoping that negotiations started this week for a free-trade agreement between the USA and the EU will also open the markets for genetic engineering.

Lobbying for your own company is a civic duty in the USA. Even the important of the 16 US intelligence services have always understood their work as being a support for American economic interests on the world markets. They spy on not only governments, authorities and citizens in other countries under the name of the fight against terror, they also support American economic interests, in their own special way.

Independent Scientists Targeted

It is already obvious that somebody makes life difficult for Monsanto critics and an invisible hand ends careers. However, who is this somebody? The targets of these attacks are scientists, such as the Australian Judy Carman. Among other things, she has made a name for herself with studies of genetically modified plants. Her publications were questioned by the same professors which also attacked the the studies of other Monsanto critics.

It does not stop at skirmishes in the scientific community. Hackers regularly target various web pages where Carman publishes her studies and the sites are also systematically observed, at least that is the impression Carman has. Evaluations of IP log files show that not only Monsanto visits the pages regularly, but also various organizations of the U.S. government, including the military. These include the Navy Network Information Center, the Federal Aviation Administration and the United States Army Intelligence Center, an institution of the US Army, which trains soldiers with information gathering. Monsanto?s interest in the studies is understandable, even for Carman. ?But I do not understand why the U.S. government and the military are having me observed,? she says.

Ever wonder why those same obnoxious, arrogant and infrequent users just happen to appear on the heels of very controversial posts like clock-work? They monitor, wait and then pounce of the same topics to emotionalize and antagonize legitimate users on social networking and thousands of other websites.?Surging disinformation analysts?are commenting on controversial topics such as GMO on your favorite websites to emotionalize and antagonize.

The organization GM Watch, known to be critical of gene technology, also experiences strange events. Editor Claire Robinson reports continued hacker attacks on the homepage since 2007. ?Every time we increase the page security just a bit, the opposite side increases their tenacity and following are new, worse attacks?, she says. She also cannot believe the coincidences that occur. When the French scientist Gilles Eric Seralini published a controversial study on the health risks of genetically modified maize and glyphosate in 2012, the web site of GM Watch was hacked and blocked. The same repeats when the opinion of the European food inspectorate (EFSA) is added to the site. The timing was skilfully selected in both cases. The attacks took place exactly when the editors wanted to publish their opinion.

About the Author

Marco Torres?is a research specialist, writer and consumer advocate for healthy lifestyles. He holds degrees in Public Health and Environmental Science and is a professional speaker on topics such as disease prevention, environmental toxins and health policy.?

Sources:?
gmo-awareness.com
preventdisease.com
sustainablepulse.com
bestmeal.info

Disclaimer: This article is not intended to provide medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Views expressed here do not necessarily reflect those of WakingTimes or its staff.

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Petron Energy II, Inc. Reports Update on LaNina and Covenant Wells in Its Oklahoma Properties

DALLAS, TX--(Marketwired - Aug 1, 2013) - Petron Energy II, Inc. (OTCBB: PEII) reports update on LaNina #2 and Covenant #5 wells in its Oklahoma properties.

Petron Energy II, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the acquisition and development of properties for the production of crude oil and natural gas, transporting natural gas through its pipeline subsidiary and well servicing through its servicing subsidiary, in the United States.

Floyd Smith, President and CEO of Petron Energy II, Inc. states, "In our July 11, 2013, press release we stated we expected to report production news on the LaNina #2 and Covenant #5 wells in 10 days. We had a temporary setback that has been addressed. This slight delay restarted our adjustment period to determine the optimal production level for each well. Our salt water injection well experienced mechanical problems and shut down. We ordered the parts needed to repair the injection well and took delivery of all parts three days after placing our order and fixed the problem."

Smith goes on to say, "We have placed both wells back online and have begun to make adjustments to both wells which is typical during this period as we seek to determine what will be the most acceptable level of production for each well. We have great expectations for each well, so getting this right is critical to our company and we will leave no stone unturned while working to maximize the production potential for each well."

Smith further states, "As we mentioned in our last press release if each well experiences the type of production results as the Potis and TJS adjacent wells which produced 70 and 50 BO/D respectively, it would make our LaNina and Covenant wells the largest producing wells in Petron II's history. We will report updated production news for the LaNina #2 and Covenant #5 as soon as it is available."

About Petron Energy II, Inc.:
Petron Energy II, Inc. is a Dallas-based, oil and gas exploration and production company. For further information about the Company, please visit our website www.petronenergyii.com.

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Malaysia does not have a Chinese dilemma but a Mahathir dilemma

The author of ?The Malay Dilemma? has tried to coin a new complex, ?The Chinese Dilemma? which he defined as ?whether the Chinese in Malaysia should make a grab for political power while dominating economic power or to adhere to the principle of sharing which has made this country what it is today?.

Former Prime Minister Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad is making history in coining a complex which exists only in his febrile imagination, as it does not afflict any single Chinese in Malaysia ? whether in Pakatan Rakyat or Barisan Nasional!

I will like to know whether there is any Chinese in Malaysia who will stand up and state that Mahathir is right that there is such a ?Chinese dilemma? in Malaysia!

Only an inveterate racist like Mahathir could interpret the 13th general elections as a ?grab for political power? by the Malaysian Chinese, when it was in fact the historic moment when Malaysians regardless of race, religion or region rallied behind the Pakatan Rakyat parties of PKR, PAS and DAP in pursuit of a common Malaysian Dream in an effort to bring about a change of Federal government in Putrajaya, for the first time in the nation?s 55-year history.

I had gone on public record before and during the 13th General Elections that my dream result for the 13GE was PR winning with a good and comfortable majority of at least 125 parliamentary seats ? with a distribution of 45 MPs for PKR and 40 MPs each for DAP and PAS.

Let Mahathir spell out how such a ?dream result? of a PR win of the Federal government in Putrajaya could be interpreted by any stretch of imagination as a ?grab for political power? by the Chinese in Malaysia, ousting Malay political power in Malaysia.

Malay political power was never in danger in the 13GE as what was at stake was whether UMNO/BN political power and their politics of race, corruption, cronyism and abuses of power can withstand the challenge of Pakatan Rakyat and the politics of multi-racialism, good governance, public integrity, freedom and justice.

Malaysia does not have ?the Chinese Dilemma? but only ?the Mahathir Dilemma? ? the spectacle of the 88-year-old former Prime Minister showing utter disrespect to the holy month of Ramadan in spearheading a campaign of lies and falsehoods revolving around his dangerous myth of ?the Chinese Dilemma?, alleging that the Malays are facing a challenge from the Chinese who want to oust them of their political power.

Within 24 hours of Mahathir?s dangerous and provocative lies about ?the Chinese Dilemma? and the dangerous and baseless myth of a Chinese grab for political power of the Malays, Umno cybertroopers have responded with more racist, inflammatory and seditious lies on the social media, including a blog dated today (28th July 2013) which alleged that the DAP had formed a new ?army? of propagandists (over and above the earlier ludicrous allegation of DAP?s ?Red Bean Army? of 3,000 cybertroopers) to promote a Malaysian republic, and to abolish both the system of Malay sultanate as well as the position of Islam as the official religion in the country.

What Malaysia needs today is a Malaysian statesman and not an inveterate and unrepentant Malay racialist ? especially from one who was the longest-serving Prime Minister for 22 years.

This is the real dilemma for Malaysia ? ?the Mahathir dilemma? and not the fictitious ?Chinese dilemma?.

This entry was posted on Sunday, 28 July 2013, 5:13 pm and is filed under Elections, Mahathir, Pakatan Rakyat, UMNO. You can follow any responses to this entry through RSS 2.0. ?

Source: http://blog.limkitsiang.com/2013/07/28/malaysia-does-not-have-a-chinese-dilemma-but-a-mahathir-dilemma/

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Kimberly Wyatt at home in London

London, July 28: The Pussycat Dolls' former member Kimberly Wyatt is so comfortable here that she doesn't think she'll ever go back to the US.

The 31-year-old has been living here for her career and now she doesn't want to leave, reports femalefirst.co.uk.

"I've been here for a while now. And out of anywhere in the world, I feel the most at home when I'm here," Bang Showbiz quoted Wyatt as saying.

"I love the people, the culture, I love that you can walk to the stores. I love the little villages, the good food... and my beautiful man, of course!," she added.

The "Got To Dance" judge, who has found love in male model Max Rogers, met him while she was a special guest at the "Clothes Show Live" in 2011 and their relationship has grown stronger since then.

"We were doing Clothes Show Live together, he was the main model and I was the special guest," she said.

"Nothing really happened at that point but about a month and a half later we were at the wrap party and started having a conversation... and haven't stopped since," added Wyatt.

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Storms produced an EF1 tornado near Wagoner

By STAFF REPORTS on Jul 26, 2013, at 8:15 PM??

The National Weather Service confirmed Friday that an EF1 tornado touched down three miles west of Wagoner and traveled about 3 1/2 miles to the southeast during storms that moved through the Tulsa area late Tuesday and early Wednesday.

The twister was part of a line of thunderstorms that produced 60-80 mph straight line winds. The northeast Oklahoma storms left severe damage in their path.

NWS meteorologist Peter Snyder said the debris path made it evident that a tornado struck the area. A travel trailer was blown 35 yards to the north, northeast, which was the opposite direction damage was found from straight-line winds in the storm, Snyder said.

?A tornado becomes pretty apparent when it?s been on the ground three miles,? he said.

Snyder said the tornadic winds topped out at 90-100 miles per hour. The tornado produced roof and siding damage to homes, snapped trees and destroyed two storage buildings, he said.

?Whether you have tornado winds at 90 mph or straight line winds at 90 mph... basically, they are very, very strong winds,? Snyder said. ?But this did produce a tornado.?

Source: http://www.tulsaworld.com/article.aspx/Storms_produced_an_EF1_tornado_near_Wagoner/20130726_298_0_TheNat127922?rss_lnk=12

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