Robin Roberts (Good Morning America) and the Tuskegee Experiment

http://academic.udayton.edu/health/syllabi/bioterrorism/00intro02.htm
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http://www.emedicinehealth.com/smallpox/article_em.htm
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• History of smallpox: For centuries, smallpox affected political and social agendas. Smallpox epidemics plagued Europe and Asia until 1796, when Edward Jenner tested his theory of disease protection. He did this by inoculating a young boy with material obtained from a milkmaid who was infected with the milder cowpox virus. The success of that experiment led to the development of a vaccine (from vacca, the Latin word for cow). Afterward, the incidence of smallpox infection in Europe steadily declined.

• In the Americas, smallpox severely weakened the native population. They had never been exposed to smallpox, which the European explorers brought with them to the Americas in the 1600s. The British forces at Fort Pitt (later to become Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) purposefully gave smallpox-contaminated blankets and goods to Native Americans during the French and Indian Wars in an attempt to weaken the Native American resistance to colonial expansion. Due to this and through natural spread, the epidemic that followed killed half of the Native American population.

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/robin-roberts-biography/story?id=128237
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In 2001, Roberts was named a "Louisiana Legend" by Louisiana Public Broadcasting. She was also named to the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup Advisory Board in January 1998, a board that includes Henry Kissinger, William Simon, Christine Whitman and Lamar Hunt. In 1994, she was inducted in the Women's Institute on Sport and the Education Foundation's Hall of Fame. She is also active as a speaker for charity and civic functions.

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/scientology-screenwriter-director-paul-haggis-speaks-time-leaving/story?id=12854858
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By LEEZEL TANGLAO

Feb. 7, 2011

Academy award-winning, screenwriter-director Paul Haggis now calls his former church a "cult" whose stance on a dispute about the issue of same-sex marriage triggered his decision to leave the Church of Scientology, according to an interview in the latest New Yorker magazine.
Speaking publicly for first time since leaving the church in 2009, Haggis also provides a glimpse into the controversial church.
"I was in a cult for 34 years," he told the New Yorker of his time in the church. "Everyone else could see it. I don't know why I couldn't."

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Entertainment/story?id=2651598&page=1
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Though there have been reports that the wedding -- whatever form it takes -- won't be legal because it'll be in Italy, sources tell ABC News that's simply not true.
Both actors took care of the legal paperwork at home in California before traveling to Italy.
After Saturday's wedding, they'll be married in the eyes of Scientology and the eyes of the state.

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/25576538/ns/today-entertainment/t/why-sunday-urban-kidman-have-reasons/
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Another source said the name is her last jab at Scientology. “Nicole is a Catholic, and Sunday was an important religious day for her until she was involved in Scientology,” said the source. “She’s still bitter about her experience with Scientology and the fact her baby’s name could be perceived as one last jab doesn’t exactly upset her.”

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1350846/Nicole-Kidman-Why-new-baby-wont-end-family-heartache.html
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Why a new baby won't end Nicole Kidman's family heartache

By Alison Boshoff
Last updated at 11:36 AM on 27th January 2011

There is nothing ­commonplace about the house that baby Faith Margaret ­Kidman Urban will call home. It is a seven-­bedroom, eight-bathroom mansion in Nashville that is fit for a pair of princesses.

The gigantic, grey stone pile has a tennis court, swimming pool and home theatre and is known locally as the Queen of Northumberland, such is its magnificence.
Mummy Nicole Kidman has for some time hosted weekly 10am baby groups there for Faith’s big ­sister ­Sunday Rose and you can imagine the place must knock the socks off the other yummy mummies.

Healing experience: Having daughter Sunday Rose (pictured) and new baby Faith with husband Keith Urban has bought Nicole happiness

But creating this young family — a couple of freshly married parents with a newborn and a two-and-a-half-year-old — has come at an extraordinary cost which the gilded exterior will never disguise. For it has taken Kidman two decades to fulfil her hopes of motherhood.
And there is a further sadness, which her young daughters are ­helping to heal. Her two children whom she adopted with Tom Cruise haven’t called her Mom for years. Her efforts to share more in their lives come to almost nothing. They live with Tom Cruise and his family, and rarely mix with anyone outside it.
She suspects that Scientology may be involved, as the ­religion frowns upon close relationships between its members and non-­Scientologists, and since their divorce she has returned to her Catholic faith.
People who know her say that Nicole sighs and worries in private, particularly over daughter Bella, who has turned 18, because she seems to be enmeshed in the Cruise machine to such an extent that she spends much of her time acting as a ­companion for little Suri.

http://celebrities.ninemsn.com.au/?blogentryid=411610&showcomments=true
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John Travolta to adopt another child?

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Less than six months after the tragic death of their son Jett, John Travolta and wife Kelly Preston are reportedly thinking of adopting a young boy. Star report that the couple are thinking of adopting a child a few years younger than their nine-year-old daughter Ella, after friends suggested it could be a good way to help the grieving family move on.
“Ella said it would make Jett happy to see Mom and Dad smiling again," said their source.
"They really believe another child will benefit the whole family, and it will be a beautiful tribute to Jett.”
John and Kelly are devoted Scientologists and are said to be considering the same adoption agency that Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman went to when adopting kids Isabella and Connor.
“The church has access to adoptable Scientology children,” the source said.
“Members encouraged John and Kelly, telling them that bringing another child into their home is the right thing to do.
The Travoltas are still "shell-shocked" after 16-year-old Jett died following a seizure.
“Their grief is beyond words," said the source.
"John feels like his heart has been ripped out. He shuts himself in a room for hours, while Kelly grieves alone.”

http://biography.jrank.org/pages/2878/Roberts-Robin.html
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Inspired by Talented Family Members

Roberts's string of broadcasting "firsts" are only the latest phase in her family's history as modern pioneers. Her father, Lawrence Roberts, was a member of the famed Tuskegee Airmen unit during World War II, and her mother, Lucimarian, served for years on the Mississippi State Board of Education. "I had a father and a mother who were the first to do this and the first to do that and always getting this award or that award, so I figured, well, shoot, I guess I should be a physicist on the weekend," Roberts joked in Sports Illustrated.

http://www.freedommag.org/special-reports/cnn/cooper-speak-how-terrorists-become-protesters.html
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CooperSpeak:
How Terrorists Become “Protesters”

If a task force of federal law enforcement authorities is conducting an ongoing investigation into this self-professed hate group, officially labeling it a terrorist organization, why, by any measure of rationality, would a news organization advance and, implicitly, endorse
such a criminal group?

“The Church says [he] is lying and is out to destroy the religion. He supports a group called Anonymous which promotes an anti-Scientology movement.” —Anderson Cooper
But what Cooper very well knew and chose to ignore, much less inform his viewers, is that Anonymous is neither a “merry prankster” protest group nor anything that would remotely touch the style of a peaceful civil disobedience organization.
Moreover, by merely referencing Anonymous and televising the group's so-called logo, Cooper and CNN were tacitly endorsing a coordinated organization that the U.S. Department of Justice has identified as a terrorist group—with members engaged in hate crimes and convicted of other federal criminal offenses.
Church of Scientology letters and documents sent to Jonathan Klein, president of CNN/US, before the program aired, established three salient facts:
1) The top CNN executive and his chief legal counsel knew all about Anonymous' violent perpetration of hate crimes well in advance of the week-long broadcast.
2) Cooper himself was personally advised as to the true nature of the organization that he benignly called a "protest" group.
3) CNN brass knew that Cooper’s principal sources, besides being in league with each other, were allied with and, indeed, some are members of Anonymous.

Point of fact, Cooper's “Kingpin” source is more than just connected to this mob; he is actively furthering their hate-filled agenda, stating in an on-line conversation with Anonymous, “I have your back,” and referring to members as “pals.”

Another one of Cooper's sources has personally participated in Anonymous demonstrations in front of Churches of Scientology and has publicly endorsed this cyberterrorist hate group in the media and on the Internet.
Any viewer who knew the true nature of Anonymous would find it ironic—as well as disturbing and dishonest—that in the same programs where AC360 spewed the false charges by his anti-Scientologist sources who had joined this hate group, Cooper also reported on the arrest of an automatic weapons-armed Michigan militia group that had been infiltrated by an FBI agent. The group's alleged aim: to ambush and kill police officers.
Federal indictments and subsequent convictions of members of Anonymous speak volumes.
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How the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) became aware of Anonymous.
It all began in January 2008 with Anonymous attacks on Church websites, followed by a statement of intent to sabotage the Scientology presence on the Internet.
Threats soon escalated with a video posted on the web in February, in which Anonymous threatened violence against Scientology Churches and parishioners. In the video, Anonymous members were encouraged to read Mein Kampf to prepare for their assault.
That assault included death threats against Scientology leaders, glutting Church phones and fax machines with threats of violence, and engaging in hate speech designed to incite others to violence. Again, documentation of all this and more was provided to AC360 long before the broadcast.
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Results of a DOJ/FBI investigation.
Soon after the initial cyberattacks, federal agencies began to bring Anonymous members to justice.
In November 2009, 19-year-old Anonymous member Dmitriy Guzner was sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison after pleading guilty to participating in the attack against the Church’s websites. He was further ordered to pay $37,500 in restitution.
Then in May 2010, Brian Thomas Mettenbrink, 20, received a 12-month federal prison sentence and was ordered to pay $20,000 restitution for his part. During the sentencing, the U.S. District Judge categorized the cyber-assaults against Scientology as a “hate crime.”
The gravity of the terrorist activities by Anonymous is evidenced by the scope of the federal investigation, which stands in stark contrast to Cooper's superficial reference to the group as "protesters." It also pierces the veracity of information provided by Cooper’s anti-Scientology sources who are members of this hate-mongering group.
According to the U.S. Attorney's Office, the Anonymous cases are "part of an ongoing investigation by the U.S. Secret Service Electronic Crimes Task Force in Los Angeles. The agencies involved in the investigation are the U.S. Secret Service, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Los Angeles Police Department and the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office Bureau of Investigation.”
So the obvious question in all of this: If a task force of federal law enforcement authorities is conducting an ongoing investigation into this self-professed hate group, officially labeling it a terrorist organization, why, by any measure of rationality, would a news organization advance and, implicitly, endorse such a criminal group? How could Anderson Cooper posture himself an Anonymous apologist?
The only logical explanation is that Cooper’s intentions were to stir up more hate-speak so that he might yet have a follow-up story to counter his precipitous fall in the ratings. And CNN’s corporate hierarchy condoned it all.

http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2010/03/25/scientology-a-history-of-violence/
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Scientology: A history of violence

Note to readers and viewers: The Anderson Cooper 360 series "Scientology: A History of Violence," which reported competing claims and denials about violence at the top of the Church of Scientology has attracted a number of complaints from senior members of the Church of Scientology (including Mr. Miscavige) and the Church of Scientology itself.

The series is now the subject of a letter of legal complaint in the United Kingdom. The complainants strongly dispute the allegations and the assertions made against them and covered in the course of the series by former members of the Church of Scientology.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unethical_human_experimentation_in_the_United_States
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Human radiation experiments
Researchers in the United States have performed thousands of human radiation experiments to determine the effects of atomic radiation and radioactive contamination on the human body, generally on people who were poor, sick, or powerless.^[51] Most of these tests were performed, funded, or supervised by the United States military, Atomic Energy Commission, or various other US federal government agencies.
The experiments included a wide array of studies, involving things like feeding radioactive food to mentally disabled children or conscientious objectors, inserting radium rods into the noses of soldiers, deliberately releasing radioactive chemicals over U.S. and Canadian cities, measuring the health effects of radioactive fallout from nuclear bomb tests, injecting pregnant women and babies with radioactive chemicals, and irradiating the testicles of prison inmates, amongst other things.
Ultimately, public outcry over the experiments led to the 1994 Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb3577/is_n5_30/ai_n28695173/
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FindArticles / Reference / Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law / Nov, 1997

Defining religious tolerance: German policy toward the Church of Scientology

by Emily A. Moseley

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I. INTRODUCTION: GERMANY'S SCIENTOLOGY PROBLEM II. A BRIEF HISTORY OF GERMAN CHURCH-STATE RELATIONS
A. The Protestant and Catholic Churches:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probably_(South_Park)  (I see no mention of Scientology in this but thought the reference to JonBenet Ramsey 'interesting'.)  ...cal
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Meanwhile, in the real Hell, Satan sleeps with Saddam. He then tells Chris about what happened. Chris forgives Satan, which actually upsets Satan more (presumably because he feels Chris is restraining himself to avoid confrontation). Satan screams at Chris saying that he wishes that he would at least be angry at what happened. Then, Chris and Saddam keep getting into fights, which lead to the two murdering each other; nevertheless, they keep reappearing in Hell to kill each other again (since they cannot go to Detroit, as Saddam already pointed out), and Satan wonders if he should be with Saddam, whom he finds sexually attractive, or Chris, who is kinder and nicer. JonBenét Ramsey, who is in hell, then suggests that he ask God for help.