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Tuesday October 13th 2009 6-9pm At Duquesne University

SEPP will sponsor a special Health Care Forum on Privacy and Solutions for Health Care Reform from national experts.

“America’s Health Care Solutions”

Real Reform or Government Takeover?

Tuesday October 13th, 2009 7-9PM

Duquesne University in the Power Center Ballroom

(Located across the Skywalk from the top floor of the Forbes Street Garage)

What Government Run Health Care Means for You!!!

1.  Will a Universal Plan ration care?

2.  Does a competing Public Plan affect your insurance?

3.  What will it do to your doctor relationship?

Sue Blevins will speak on Privacy concerns from “the Institute for Health Freedom”

http://www.forhealthfreedom.org/  

Greg Scandlen will speak on American Solutions from “Consumers for Health Care Choices At the Heartland Institute”

www.chcchoices.org/index.html 

Jerry Bowyer will moderate the event!!

 

Reservations: Provide name & email to cmiller@sepp-online.com or call 724.872.2236

Costs: $5 in advance registration by check due on or before Oct. 9th or $10 at the door

Mail To: SEPP, 5 West Manilla Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15220

Contact: Hans Lessmann, President eudrup3891@verizon.net or call 412.448.6187

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The real threat to America: Godlessness

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World Net Daily Exclusive Commentary     Posted: September 29, 2009
1:00 am Eastern      http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=111312 By Hilmar von Campe © 2009                                                                    

Editor’s note: Hilmar von Campe wrote the following comments in July 2004 – “long before anybody had heard the name of Obama,” as the writer explains. His thoughts are still relevant, perhaps more so, today. Von Campe is the author of “Defeating the Totalitarian Lie: A Former Hitler Youth Warns America”

There is a great deal of confusion regarding the nature of the Nazi movement. Most if not all people who are familiar with the events of those years agree that its leaders were criminals. But quite a number of them, especially in the media, call Nazis fascists. Even though the bloody years of Nazi rule ended 64 years ago, the definition of who they were is of great importance for today. Without it we would be blind to reality.

As a German World War II veteran who grew up under the Nazis and who has studied about everything that has anything to do with their ideology, it is not difficult to define their reality. One principle theme of my 280 radio and television interviews in America has always been the comparison of the moral and ideological basis of the German Nazi society of that time and the American society of today. That theme also enters my books and articles.

Nazi society was based on lies, and lies are in the process of taking over America. I try to clarify for the American people that the ideological attack on America is part of the global attempt to eliminate God everywhere, replace Him with arbitrary rule of (leftist) man and destroy freedom. Godlessness brought Germany down. Godlessness is America’s and freedom’s No. 1 enemy.

Nazi is an abbreviation for Nazional Socialist. Nazis are Socialists. That means they are radical left-wing. Fascists, on the other hand, have to be placed on the right. To put the label of fascism on National Socialism is an invention by the Soviet and East-German Communist leaderships after the war. It is meant to eliminate in the public mind the embarrassing link between the Nazi movement and socialism and hide the deadly threat to free society. After they had launched their antifascist movement, they made the label of fascism stick with the help of leftist media around the world. They also invented the word Nazism, a ridiculous word creation also used in the U.S., for the same reason: to replace the correct definition National Socialism.

Are we headed for a Nazi-style totalitarian abyss? Find out in “Defeating the Totalitarian Lie: A Former Hitler Youth Warns America”

The implication of what I am saying is far-reaching. Fascism, an authoritarian form of government with ugly features, is not an international conspiracy and a global threat to the United States. Global socialism, however, is. There are innumerably different socialist parties and movements. They are all fruits of the same rotten tree and lead inevitably to a totalitarian system. All socialist functionaries use national concepts and language in their different countries, but you can’t argue rationally with them because they have a hidden purpose, which is different from the purpose of their non-socialist opponents. They are committed to transforming the world into a socialist system with them at the top. They are in America, and they are no patriots; they are traitors to their country, to the words and spirit of the Constitution, and to the mission of freedom, given by our Creator to this nation at her birth. The “politically correct” is the American equivalent of the “party line” of the Nazis and the Communists.

Bob Just described his own party as the “Party of Treason.” “Hatred and corruption,” he writes in Whistleblower magazine, “are on the march in America as they have never been before, and leading this march is the Democratic Party.” And the United Nations, I add. Just points out that there seems to be a loyalty to “something other than the American people” and refers very often to the Nazis. “If I am right about the fanatical direction my party is taking, then America has never faced a danger like this, and real Democrats who stand by and watch will be as guilty before history as the actual leaders of this corruption movement. … Carried to its extreme, this corruption movement will destroy us all.” Not many people understand that totalitarian socialism grows out of moral corruption.

Liberals in reality are socialists; they are not true Americans as far as I am concerned. They may not necessarily be a conscious part of the conspiracy, but they are part of the conspirators’ immorality, their concepts and lust for power, which are expressions of hard-core socialism. But the appeaser of treason is no better than the traitor – both are liars who covet other people’s money and property and sponsor all and every immoral cause hostile to our Creator.

Socialist philosophy is rooted in the concepts of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, a French political philosopher in the 18th century: that man is good but exposed to the corruption of society, and that it is the corruption of the political and social environment that is responsible for the evil in society. Therefore, justification for the socialists’ policies is the pretense that they are out for justice and want to change the social and political structures to free mankind. That, of course, is a lie because evil is within every person, and their political praxis is reduced to the brutal fight for power by all means, playing up, lying to and enlisting the underdog. Only the means are different for the various socialist branches, but the principle is the same for all: the end justifies the means. Joseph Goebbels, propaganda minister of Hitler, is quoted in Germany with the statement “… it is not for nothing that we have chosen the name National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP), because at heart we are Communists.” Briefing his generals before the invasion of the Soviet Union in June of 1941, Hitler told them that he wanted to bring them “real socialism.” His declared intention was to destroy the Christian churches after victory.

American socialists are closer to Adolf Hitler than to their Founding Fathers and our Constitution. Remember, the Holocaust is only the consequence of a godless concept of the liars, and so is the philosophy of these socialists, which leads to the mass-murder of abortion. Four times as many unborn human beings have been killed in abortions than people in Nazi camps, among them 6 million Jews and millions of others. I might add those millions who were killed mainly in the socialist Soviet concentration camps, in one of which my father also perished. I have not heard Gorbachev or Putin apologize to anybody for Soviet atrocities.

Finally, it is also important to realize that Islamic terrorism is only a religious subdivision in the battle for global power. The military war has to be fought, as it is being done, but the need for an ideological/moral answer to the vacuum created has to be recognized. Terrorism is based on hatred and class (say religious) warfare and allows murder for power, like Marxist/Communist and National Socialism. The Soviet politburo is responsible for the creation of many of the Middle East intelligence services and terrorist organizations. It also needs to be stated that unchanged Soviet Russia uses military strength for reasons of blackmail but advances its agenda through subversion.

Is there a way out of the mess? Yes there is. God is still waiting for America to change and apply His commandments to all sections of society. That implies that Congress has to make it impossible for socialist judges to change the Constitution to their very limited godless concepts. American society can and should work out solutions, which are valid for the whole of the world. God, not vague religious concepts, is the answer to godlessness. America needs a moral rebirth.

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Hilmar von Campe is listed in the 1992 “International Who’s Who of Intellectuals” of the International Biographical Center in Cambridge, England. He is the author of “Defeating the Totalitarian Lie: A Former Hitler Youth Warns America.” Having grown up under the Nazis, he offers a unique perspective on the rise and fall of Nazi Germany. He warns that there are many similarities between the Nazi society and America of today.

Here’s a Second Opinion By Scott W. Atlas  Ten reasons why America’s health care system is in better condition than you might suppose. By Scott W. Atlas. http://www.hoover.org/publications/digest/49525427.html

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Medical care in the United States is derided as miserable compared to health care systems in the rest of the developed world. Economists, government officials, insurers, and academics beat the drum for a far larger government role in health care. Much of the public assumes that their arguments are sound because the calls for change are so ubiquitous and the topic so complex. Before we turn to government as the solution, however, we should consider some unheralded facts about America’s health care system.

1. Americans have better survival rates than Europeans for common cancers. Breast cancer mortality is 52 percent higher in Germany than in the United States and 88 percent higher in the United Kingdom. Prostate cancer mortality is 604 percent higher in the United Kingdom and 457 percent higher in Norway. The mortality rate for colorectal cancer among British men and women is about 40 percent higher.

2. Americans have lower cancer mortality rates than Canadians. Breast cancer mortality in Canada is 9 percent higher than in the United States, prostate cancer is 184 percent higher, and colon cancer among men is about 10 percent higher.

3. Americans have better access to treatment for chronic diseases than patients in other developed countries. Some 56 percent of Americans who could benefit from statin drugs, which reduce cholesterol and protect against heart disease, are taking them. By comparison, of those patients who could benefit from these drugs, only 36 percent of the Dutch, 29 percent of the Swiss, 26 percent of Germans, 23 percent of Britons, and 17 percent of Italians receive them.

4. Americans have better access to preventive cancer screening than Canadians. Take the proportion of the appropriate-age population groups who have received recommended tests for breast, cervical, prostate, and colon cancer:

• Nine out of ten middle-aged American women (89 percent) have had a mammogram, compared to fewer than three-fourths of Canadians (72 percent).
• Nearly all American women (96 percent) have had a Pap smear, compared to fewer than 90 percent of Canadians.
• More than half of American men (54 percent) have had a prostatespecific antigen (PSA) test, compared to fewer than one in six Canadians (16 percent).
• Nearly one-third of Americans (30 percent) have had a colonoscopy, compared with fewer than one in twenty Canadians (5 percent).

5. Lower-income Americans are in better health than comparable Canadians. Twice as many American seniors with below-median incomes self-report “excellent” health (11.7 percent) compared to Canadian seniors (5.8 percent). Conversely, white, young Canadian adults with below-median incomes are 20 percent more likely than lower-income Americans to describe their health as “fair or poor.”

6. Americans spend less time waiting for care than patients in Canada and the United Kingdom. Canadian and British patients wait about twice as long—sometimes more than a year—to see a specialist, have elective surgery such as hip replacements, or get radiation treatment for cancer. All told, 827,429 people are waiting for some type of procedure in Canada. In Britain, nearly 1.8 million people are waiting for a hospital admission or outpatient treatment.

7. People in countries with more government control of health care are highly dissatisfied and believe reform is needed. More than 70 percent of German, Canadian, Australian, New Zealand, and British adults say their health system needs either “fundamental change” or “complete rebuilding.”

8. Americans are more satisfied with the care they receive than Canadians. When asked about their own health care instead of the “health care system,” more than half of Americans (51.3 percent) are very satisfied with their health care services, compared with only 41.5 percent of Canadians; a lower proportion of Americans are dissatisfied (6.8 percent) than Canadians (8.5 percent).

9. Americans have better access to important new technologies such as medical imaging than do patients in Canada or Britain. An overwhelming majority of leading American physicians identify computerized tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) as the most important medical innovations for improving patient care during the previous decade—even as economists and policy makers unfamiliar with actual medical practice decry these techniques as wasteful. The United States has thirty-four CT scanners per million Americans, compared to twelve in Canada and eight in Britain. The United States has almost twenty-seven MRI machines per million people compared to about six per million in Canada and Britain.

10. Americans are responsible for the vast majority of all health care innovations. The top five U.S. hospitals conduct more clinical trials than all the hospitals in any other developed country. Since the mid- 1970s, the Nobel Prize in medicine or physiology has gone to U.S. residents more often than recipients from all other countries combined. In only five of the past thirty-four years did a scientist living in the United States not win or share in the prize. Most important recent medical innovations were developed in the United States.Despite serious challenges, such as escalating costs and care for the uninsured, the U.S. health care system compares favorably to those in other developed countries.

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This essay appeared on the website of the National Center for Policy Analysis on March 24, 2009. An earlier version was published in the Washington Times.Available from the Hoover Press is Power to the Patient: Selected Health Care Issues and Policy Solutions, edited by Scott W. Atlas. To order, call 800.935.2882 or visit www.hooverpress.org.

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Scott W. Atlas is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and a professor of radiology and chief of neuroradiology at Stanford University Medical School.

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Teach Christians not to covet

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October 03, 2009 By J. Frank Jad   http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=111787Millions of decent, sincere American Christians routinely support, vote for and are responsible for electing politicians who are ardent supporters of abortion, who proudly advance the agenda of homosexual activists, who vote for taxpayer-funded pornography and blasphemy, and who are in general at war with those Christians’ faith and morality. Why? Why do these people, who are committed to advancing the cause of Christ and his Church and who lament the moral state of their country, tip the balance of power toward those who have total contempt for them and their faith?

It is because these depraved politicians have managed to gain the high moral ground in the mind of all too many Christians. Why? How could that possibly be? Do they have countervailing virtues that offset their unrighteous positions on the above issues? Are they righteous on other issues? Ironically enough, paradoxically enough, what manages to offset the depravity is only more sin and unrighteousness. So it is no wonder that this country is in trouble. The wicked are in power because Christians put them there, and they put them there because of their wickedness – because of the wickedness Christians have been told is, and are all too willingly to believe to be, goodness and decency.

It is written, “Thou shall not covet.” And yet our government at all levels has become one colossal machinery of covetousness – and few seem to notice or care. Those same preachers and activists who rightly decry abortion are silent on this issue and are more than likely a part of the problem. It would seem that some sins are a whole lot worse than others, and the worst sins usually seem to be those of others.

Statism’s illogic exposed for all to see in F.A. Hayek’s “The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism”

Thou shall not covet. No ifs or buts. No only whens or excepts. And no unless. Most of today’s Christians have added an ever-growing string of qualifiers, of their own making, to the command of God. Thou shall covet if thy neighbor has more than you think he should. Thou shall covet thy neighbors’ goods to pay for grandma’s prescription drugs and grandpa’ssurgery. Thou shall covet thy neighbors’ goods to pay for your children’s education. Thou shall covet thy neighbors’ goods to feed the hungry on the other side of town and to provide medical care for needy children.

All too many think that it is good to covet thy neighbor’s goods if he is faceless and nameless and it is for a good cause. And you must covet his goods if you think he has too much.

Covetousness is an integral part of the Democratic Party. In these perverse times, evil has become good and good has become evil. The Democrats’ all-coveting-all-the-time has given them moral superiority. Anyone who stands against them is base and downright evil. Millions of Christians have bought this nonsense and have tipped the balance of power. They are willing to accept and support politicians who advance policies and programs they find depraved only because these politicians also promote the sin of covetousness. These millions of Christians think that compounding evil somehow results in righteousness. Very strange theology, that. A multitude of evils most definitely do not make right. (Unfortunately, all too many Republicans have also been getting on the bandwagon so as to pander to what more and more Americans want. They are quickly becoming second-rate Democrats.)

The current state of our national affairs and the balance between the factions of liberty and tyranny reflect the conflicting factions within the Church. The Church is responsible for the condition and course of our nation. As goes the Church, so goes the nation. If you want to effect change in the nation, seek to change the hearts and minds of believers.

In order to change the government monstrosity of covetousness and theft, change the Church’s attitude toward coveting. Educate Christians. If coveting your neighbor’s new car is bad, how much worse is coveting billions and billions, year after year. If coveting is bad, then coveting in the name of righteousness surely compounds the error with dishonesty. Those who are sincere will turn from their errors. Those who are true believers will realize that their ends do not justify the means that have been outlawed by God Himself.

What happens when more and more Christians turn away from government-sponsored coveting? Christians refusing to demand what belongs to their fellow citizens; refusing to accept what was taken from others; and refusing to vote for those who promote covetousness. What happens is fundamental change. Those who support and promote abortion, homosexuality and pornography and who war against traditional morality will find it harder and harder to get elected. Government drastically shrinks. Government budgets at all levels shrink. There is no longer a need for confiscatory taxes.

We become a much freer and prosperous people.