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Sunday, 11 January 2015

Study links between circumcision and autism in boys under 10


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Circumcised boys have a much higher chance of developing attention-deficit disorder and autism by age 10, the hotly debated research from Denmark says. But not all experts are comfortable with the "extremely speculative findings."

The risk is doubled if a boy is circumcised before five, the Statens Serum Institut study also claims. The link, they say, is in the stress caused by the pain of being snipped.


Scientists based their findings on results they received from examining 340,000 boys between 1994 and 2003.


Boys from non-Muslims backgrounds were also more likely to develop attention-deficit-hyperactive-disorder (ADHD).


Explaining the rationale behind the study, Professor Morton Frisch of the Copenhagen-based institute says it was "prompted by the combination of recent animal findings linking a single painful injury to lifelong deficits in stress response and a study showing a strong, positive correlation between a country's neonatal male circumcision and its prevalence of ASD [autism] in boys."


This means that the boy's perception of pain may become skewed for life. This characteristic is often found among children with autism.


Almost 5,000 boys, whose health was tracked specifically for the study, have been diagnosed with autism by age nine.


Frisch added that "today it is considered unacceptable practice to circumcise boys without proper pain relief."


"But none of the most common interventions used to reduce circumcision pain completely eliminates it and some boys will endure strongly painful circumcisions," he said.


The professor believes that the findings, published in the , should prompt other scientists to pick up where Frisch left off in order to stem the "increased risk of serious neurodevelopmental and psychological consequences."


However, Frisch's findings have caused mixed feedback. Thus, Professor Jeremy Turk, Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist at Southwark Child & Adolescent Mental Health Neurodevelopmental Service, believes the findings to be of interest, but adds that they "need to be considered carefully - one cannot draw very strong conclusions from the data," according to the .


The weakness of the study, in Turk's view, is its reliance on correlations between data sets, and therefore is open to more wild implications. "For example, many cases of autism are missed until children are older and as there are relatively few cases of autism this could easily skew the data."


He also added that taking the factors in the study in sets creates de-facto connections and removes the possibility of ASD and other disorders caused by other variables.


Finally, Turk takes issue with the very notion on which the science is predicated - the childhood physical trauma approach, which he believes to be "highly speculative."


Others joined in with Turk: Professor David Katz of University College London, chairman of Milah UK, an organization dedicated to the issue of circumcision and its discussion on behalf of the Jewish community, likewise said "the report is far from convincing: correlation does not equal causation."


"There is a long history of attempts to link autistic spectrum disorders to unrelated practices, such as the measles/mumps/rubella association, which proved to be fraudulent," he also says, as cited by .




He goes on to say that there are various abnormalities in the brains of people suffering from ASD that warrant closer examination. Especially, he says that "there is a strong genetic component, which may be a factor within the faith communities studied here, and which does not appear to have been explored amongst them."

This is also a problem, according to Katz, in that even when modern studies do account for genetic impairments, they may miss out on other, external factors, like the environment, and how it changes over time, presenting new toxins into the air, which in turn affect health.




Getting back to what Turk was saying, Katz's argument is similar - when taken in sets, data might ignore what causes what, as well as the influence of variables not previously considered within the framework.

On the other hand, the Centers for Disease Control in early December pointed to findings in favor of circumcision, whose benefits they say outweigh the risks.


Their science was based on a five-year study of sub-Saharan Africa, whose subjects were found to have an added layer of protection from HIV, as well as the human papilloma virus (HPV) and a host of urinary tract infections, when circumcised.


Although the draft paper notes that social, cultural, ethical and religious factors play a part in deciding whether or not an infant male should have their foreskin removed, CDC officials now believe that doing such can decrease the risk of contracting HIV by 60 percent over time, and reduces the odds of testing positive for certain cancers by a third.


The debate rages on everywhere, with political and religious factors all playing a role. Israel has called the EU racist for attacking the practice medically, while places like Norway may ban non-medical circumcision altogether.


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Operation Mockingbird is alive and well and living in your t.v.

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Most Americans are under the influence of TV and radio sources for the daily dose of propaganda. Not understanding they are being lied to and made to believe a lie It becomes a formidable task to get folks to see the light. They want to see, it's just the lie is so big, so pervasive at this point it is hard for people to grasp the size of the depth and breadth the lie has reached. For me, and you may disagree, propaganda is nothing more than a lie that has been presented as truth and is intended to influence how people live and think. As you read you will see that I use the words "lie" and "propaganda" interchangeably - they are the same thing for the purposes of this article and my life.

While researching another article I came across an article that came straight out of minds of the CIA and Operation Mockingbird. If you are unaware of Operation Mockingbird or question whether the mainstream media - think CNN, Fox, CBS, NBC, ABC and "newspapers" like The Tribune, LA Times, NY Times, Reuters and so many others, are manipulated by the CIA and Operation Mockingbird please explain this,



Former Washington Post publisher Philip Graham "believing that the function of the press was more often than not to mobilize consent for the policies of the government, was one of the architects of what became a widespread practice: the use and manipulation of journalists by the CIA". This scandal was known by its code name Operation MOCKINGBIRD. Former Washington Post reporter Carl Bernstein cites a former CIA deputy director as saying, "It was widely known that Phil Graham was someone you could get help from". More recently the Post provided cover for CIA personality Joseph Fernandez by "refusing to print his name for over a year up until the day his indictment was announced ...for crimes committed in his official capacity as CIA station chief in Costa Rica". [Source]



That one paragraph should be enough to terrify most people, unfortunately, most people will not be reading this article, as much as I would like for this information to be in every home across the country.

Brian Williams

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Brian Williams, member CFR



If that doesn't do it, how about this jewel

You could get a journalist cheaper than a good call girl, for a couple hundred dollars a month." - CIA operative discussing with Philip Graham, editor Washington Post, on the availability and prices of journalists willing to peddle CIA propaganda and cover stories. "Katherine The Great," by Deborah Davis (New York: Sheridan Square Press, 1991)



Let's take a closer look at how the mainstream media and Operation Mockingbird set policy, distract people and use word-play to create rainbow spewing unicorns in a world that is falling apart and on the brink of economic collapse.

Starting with social media. This article was shared on FB over 1,700 times and tweeted over 100 times. It was also shared through other social media networks over 330 times. This is a new key element in spreading lies and making lies into truth. If you have several social networks spreading lies as truth it is going to be extremely difficult to break the cycle; due to the fact that all of their "friends" believe the same lie. This lie is now growing and will continue to grow for some time - it will never go away on these networks and there is always an opportunity for it begin spreading again even after it has gone through it's first cycle.


The examples that follow were all taken from the same article, as it presents a classic example of CIA propaganda.


Here is an example of how the lie begins, start with an emotional charge, sprinkle in what appears to be a reputable source and throw in a survey to tie it all together.



"There's a gross misconception, and extreme environmentalist groups have been able to get ahold of people's emotions and twist facts and present false evidence. That's what it's all about."


A recent study by researchers at Oregon State, George Mason and Yale universities revealed that more than half of the 1,000-plus people surveyed across the nation had no idea what fracking was, and almost 60 percent had no opinion on it.



This portion of the article begins with the emotional charge "extreme environmentalist". Unless you are an environmentalist, this is going to evoke a reaction, consciously or sub consciously. Notice there are three fairly well known colleges/universities along with stats from the survey. Note the survey is only 1,000 people and provides no links or source material for the survey. Why? There are over 310 MILLION people in this country. 1,000 people doesn't even register as a percentage. A grain of sand on the beach. Ok, two grains.

Drilling stops initially below the water table so the well can be encased in cement to prevent anything from the well leaking into the water table.



Sounds perfectly normal and natural. Drill a hole, fill it with cement. If you drill a hole through something that contains a fluid, doesn't the fluid typically flow out of the drill hole? But it's encased in cement, right? Is this why faucets catch fire in the areas where fracking is allowed?

Throughout the drilling process, drilling mud is pumped in to cool the drill bit and act as a means for the resulting debris to leave the well.



Once again, sounds perfectly natural and normal. Unless you happen to be concerned about what "drilling mud" is made of; or where it is being pumped. Very vague, happy talk. Let's not focus on those pesky details. No source material is provided, no links to explain any of the details.

Now we come to the portion of this article that moved me to the point of writing this article.



The actual fracking process uses a lot of machinery capable of driving the fluid down more than a mile, and a lot of science to calculate the exact mixtures of everything from chemicals and water and sand to the pressure it takes to crack tiny little fissures into rocks, more than a mile beneath the surface.


Sand, water and chemical additives are pumped into the well at high pressures, so as to crack the rock in different stages in the horizontal (parallel to the surface) portion of the well.



Don't you just love when professionals use "a lot of science to calculate"? Pretty special, must be important and way above my understanding. Well, they are discussing "science". Once again, no source material, very vague language that is being used as a weapon. Using the word science in this context makes it appear more important than it is. It is merely a calculation that most any middle or high school student could figure out on their cell phone calculator.

Katie Couric

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Katie Couric, member CFR



This is how it's done folks. This is what it actually looks like, sounds like and is running rampant throughout the land. This is a very, very small example of how the media is used to perpetuate a lie and set policy against the citizens. It seems a shame that our society has been dumbed-down to the point where the above few passages are acceptable as investigative reporting.

One last question. If you pump a high pressure chemical slurry into the ground and it is designed to crack rocks, wouldn't it crack a cement encasement as well that is located in the same bed rock? For the last time, vague information, no source materials, links or any references provided. Operation Mockingbird is alive and well, just tune into Anderson Cooper tonight to see just how well it is working.


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German newspaper that reprinted Hebdo cartoons attacked by arsonists


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Members of a television crew are seen beside burned files and documents in front of a building of German newspaper Hamburger Morgenpost in Hamburg January 11, 2015



A Hamburg daily that reprinted satirical cartoons from French newspaper was hit by arsonists at the weekend, raising security concerns in Germany on the eve of a planned mass rally against Islam in the city of Dresden.

Islamist militant attacks on and a kosher deli in Paris this week that killed 17 people have fuelled fears of similar assaults in other European countries and prompted a warning from German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere.


"I am very concerned about well-prepared perpetrators like those in Paris, Brussels, Australia or Canada," he told the newspaper Bild am Sonntag. There were about 260 people in Germany regarded as dangerous Islamists, he said.


Bild am Sonntag said U.S. intelligence agencies had tapped conversations of senior Islamic State (IS) members in which they said the Paris attacks were the start of a series in Europe.


In Hamburg, two people were arrested after an incendiary device was thrown into a building of the Hamburger Morgenpost daily, setting some documents on fire, police said.


The had reprinted cartoons from Charlie Hebdo in a show of solidarity with the French weekly known for its mocking broadsides against Islam and other religions, and with the principle of freedom of expression overall.


The Hamburg newspaper said there were no people in the building at the time of the attack, and investigators were checking for any connection with the cartoons.


While Chancellor Angela Merkel took part in the silent march in Paris, around 18,000 people attended a rally in front of the French embassy in Berlin, police said, with people holding up slogans like "JE SUIS CHARLIE" and "NO TO RACISM, NO TO PEGIDA".


The Paris attacks have also raised fears of a boost to anti-immigration movements such as Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West (PEGIDA). It holds weekly rallies in Dresden with around 18,000 people attending last Monday.


However, that was dwarfed on Saturday by an anti-racism demonstration in the same east German city which attracted 35,000 people.


Elsewhere, German police arrested a suspected supporter of the Islamic State (IS) insurgent group and raided his home in the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia.


The 24-year-old German is suspected of having joined IS during a stay in civil war-torn Syria from October 2013 until November 2014, a federal prosecutor's spokeswoman said.


There were no indications that the man had concrete plans for an attack and there was also no connection to the Paris bloodshed, she added.


As with other west European countries, Germany is struggling to stop the radicalisation of disaffected young Muslims, some of whom want to become jihadist insurgents in Syria or Iraq.


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Chechen leader Kadyrov 'threatens' Radio Echo, Moscow, after poll support for Charlie Hebdo

Alexei Venediktov



Alexei Venediktov, chief editor of Radio Echo, Moscow



An editor asks listeners if it's OK to publish Muhammad Cartoons and the Chechen responds with threats of violence. Is this how it works now?
Kadyrov

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Chechen leader, Ramzan Kadyrov, otherwise known as Imam Ramzan.



The fallout from the murderous rampage against Charlie Hebdo spilled over the North Caucuses and Moscow on Friday. The leader of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, threatened Radio Echo of Moscow after it ran a poll, asking its listeners whether media, in reaction to Wednesday's murders of the Charlie Hebdo journalists, should publish cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad. A majority of Echo's listeners, 68 percent, said "yes," the cartoons should be published and 30 percent said "no."

Less than an hour later, Kadyrov posted on Twitter that that Echo's editor-in-chief, Aleksei Venediktov, had insulted Muslims and said, "There are those who will bring Venediktov to account."


"Venediktov has long ago converted Echo of Moscow into the main anti-Islamic horn," Kadyrov wrote next to his own portrait, which shows him pointing at the sky, muscles bulging, and rings on his fingers. If authorities did not restrict the radio that "incites animosity and hatred among people and nations," Kadyrov went on, "There will be people to make Venediktov responsible." A dangerous statement in the country where a number of journalists, including Anna Politkovskaya and Natalya Estemirova, have been assassinated by Chechen nationals.




That is not the first death threat Venediktov has received in his 25 years at Echo. One morning in 2009, the radio's editor opened the door of his apartment and saw a block of wood with an ax sticking out of it. Since then, Venediktov does not walk around without security. But who can protect Echo's more than 100 employees?

One of Russia's most shameful statistics is the number of journalists assassinated for their work. a report from the Committee to Project Journalist, described the unsolved slayings of 17 journalists in Russia since 2000. They were killed, the CPJ said, because of their work.

Venediktov and his reporters responded to Kadyrov's threat by donning white T-shirts with "Je suis Charlie," and said that Echo's reporting was balanced, professional and representative for various religious and political groups.

But clearly, balanced and professional were not the approach the Chechen leader had been using lately. Kadyrov began his Friday morning by tweeting a picture of himself in a black uniform speaking before a group of Muslims. In the caption, Kadyrov declared the former boss of Yukos Oil Company his "personal enemy" and "enemy of all Muslims" for calling on media to publish cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. Kadyrov said that in Europe, where Khodorkovsky currently lives, there would be people able to call the oilman to account.

Last month, also on Twitter, Kadyrov promised to burn the houses of the families of terrorists without any investigation. At his annual press conference, Putin was asked what he thought of these calls for violence. "Nobody, including the leader of Chechnya, has the right to engage in extrajudicial reprisals," Putin said about his loyal appointee, Kadyrov, also known in Chechnya as Imam Ramzan.

Cartoons mocking religious symbols are nothing unusual for Russia, where anti-religious propaganda was official policy in the Soviet Union for decades. Magazines and newspapers regularly published caricatures of Jehovah, Jesus Christ, and Allah. But things have changed in the past two decades in Russia, a country with about 20 million Muslims.


The calls to re-publish cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad split the Russian journalistic community. Dmitry Muratov, editor-in-chief of , one of the few independent newspapers left in Russia, wrote: "I have doubts that this decision (to republish) would be ethically correct. It looks like a collective punishment: a group of murderers committed a terrorist attack and we try millions of believers. I think one of the terrorists' agendas is to provoke a fateful conflict, a collision of different beliefs." Nevertheless, republished the last cover of Charlie Hebdo featuring a generic Muslim passionately kissing on the lips a man with a pencil behind his ear.


Kadyrov and other North Caucuses leaders threatening journalists in Russia should realize that they live in civic society and obey the law and "if they don't like that, they should go live in a monastery or leave for a religious state," a prominent Russian journalist, Ksenia Sobchak, said on Echo of Moscow. Meanwhile, crowds of Russians came out on a freezing day to put flowers and express their support and respect for the 12 victims of Wednesday's terrorist attack. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said he would travel to Paris to join an anti-terror march on Sunday.


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While world mourns Charlie Hedbo journalists, U.S. state-sponsored terrorism remains number one killer of journalists


Before exploring the broader issue, it should be noted that while the Paris attacks bear the hallmarks of a possible false flag, such as the ID card left in the car by one terrorist, an examination of the false flag hypothesis is excluded outright, completely ignored by the mainstream media. Moreover, one of the alleged terrorists, Cherif Kouachi told a French news outlet he had been financed by former Al Qaeda leader Anwar Al Awlaki, an American cleric who dined at the Pentagon a few months after 9/11 and «worked as a triple agent and an FBI asset well before 9/11», according to U.S. Lt.Col. Anthony Shaffer. (Kurt Nimmo, FBI Admits Pentagon Dinner Guest Al-Awlaki Worked for Them, Infowars, August 2, 2012)


Since the deadly attacks on January 7, 2015, the Western media, especially the French Canadian media, claim in a very ethnocentric manner that "the planet is mourning" the death of the French journalists. This tragic event which needs to be condemned must be examined in an appropriate context. People in countries where France has been bombing civilians, through NATO and U.S.-led military invasions, and where Western-backed terrorists kill innocent civilians (Libya, Syria) are routinely mourning the death of their own people. These deaths remain unreported. The Western world is not "the planet" and not "everyone is Charlie", contrary to what the media leads us to believe.


During the latest assault on Gaza, 13 Palestinian journalists were killed by the Israeli army.These journalists were killed to suppress the truth pertaining to Israeli atrocities. Western journalists holding signs of solidarity were nowhere to be found.


Before the James Foley and Steven Sotloff beheadings dozens of journalists were killed in Syria by terrorists armed, trained and financed by NATO countries and their antidemocratic allies such as Saudi Arabia. Hundreds of civilians had also been beheaded long before them, around 200 in one single village, according to a Human Rights Watch report. (See Julie Lévesque, The History of ISIS Beheadings: Part of the "Training Manual" of US Sponsored Syria "Pro-Democracy" Terrorists, Global Research, September 19, 2014)


The outrage and indignation, however, was reserved for the Western beheaded journalists. The war in Syria has been deadly for journalists, with 153 killed according to some estimates, thanks to NATO-sponsored terrorism. No Western journalist holding signs of compassion for Syrian journalists has been seen.


But the deadliest country in the world for journalists has been Iraq during the US occupation. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ):



The U.S.-led war in Iraq claimed the lives of a record number of journalists and challenged some commonly held perceptions about the risks of covering conflict. Far more journalists, for example, were murdered in targeted killings in Iraq than died in combat-related circumstances...


At least 150 journalists and 54 media support workers were killed in Iraq from the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003 to the declared end of the war in December 2011, according to CPJ research.


Fatalities in Iraq far surpass any other documented war-time death toll for the press. CPJ, founded in 1981, recorded the deaths of 58 journalists during the Algerian civil war from 1993 through 1996, another 54 fatalities in the undeclared civil conflict in Colombia, which began in 1986; and 36 deaths in the conflict in the Balkans from 1991 to 1995....


Insurgent forces of one kind or another were responsible for the deaths of 110 journalists and 47 media workers. The actions of U.S. forces, including checkpoint shootings and airstrikes, were responsible for the deaths of 16 journalists and six media workers. (Frank Smyth, Iraq war and news media: A look inside the death toll, Committee to Protect Journalists, March 18 2013)



The BRussells tribunal numbers for Iraq are much higher:

In Iraq, at least 404 media professionals have been killed since the US invasion in 2003, among them 374 Iraqis, according to The BRussells Tribunal statistics. The impunity in Iraq is far worse than anywhere else in the world. (Dirk Adriaensens,The Killing of Journalists in Iraq, January 4, 2014)



Among the dead, two journalists - one Iraqi, Yasser Salihee, and one American, Steven Vincent - who had been investigating the US-backed death squads in Iraq.

On June 24, Yasser Salihee, an Iraqi special correspondent for the news agency Knight Ridder, was killed by a single bullet to the head as he approached a checkpoint that had been thrown up near his home in western Baghdad by US and Iraqi troops. It is believed that the shot was fired by an American sniper. According to eyewitnesses, no warning shots were fired.


The US military has announced it is conducting an investigation into Salihee's killing. Knight Ridder has already declared, however, that "there's no reason to think that the shooting had anything to do with his reporting work". In fact, his last assignment gives reason to suspect that it was.


Over the past month, Salihee had been gathering evidence that US-backed Iraqi forces have been carrying out extra-judicial killings of alleged members and supporters of the anti-occupation resistance. His investigation followed a feature in the New York Times magazine in May, detailing how the US military had modeled the Iraqi interior ministry police commandos, known as the Wolf Brigade, on the death squads unleashed in the 1980s to crush the left-wing insurgency in El Salvador. (James Cogan, Journalist killed after investigating US-backed death squads in Iraq, World Socialist Web Site, July 1, 2005 )


American journalist Steven Vincent was kidnapped and murdered August 2 in Basra, the southern Iraqi city where he had been working as a freelance writer and blogger. Suspicion for this killing, the first of an American reporter in Iraq, focuses not on Al Qaeda or Sunni-based insurgents, but on the police of the Shiite-based administration installed in Basra with the support of US and British occupation forces.(Patrick Martin, US journalist who exposed Shiite death squads murdered in Basra, August 5, 2005)



For unknown reasons the Iraqi journalist Dr Yasser Salihee, was not included in the CPJ list.

The BRussels Tribunal further reports that numerous deaths go unreported by CPJ and Reporters without Borders. The explanation reflects the opposite of what is happening with the biased and emotional coverage of the Charlie Hebdo murders, namely downplaying the Iraqi journalists deaths.



It is a well-established fact that since the invasion of 2003 the corporate media have consistently downplayed mortality figures. The killing of media professionals is no exception. It's obvious that the journalist advocacy groups in the West are reluctant to give the real casualty figures of their colleagues who lost their lives under the ruthless occupation of the US/UK, an occupation that is still ongoing. So they narrow their criteria of who should be included in their lists. This is an objectionable attitude, especially because it concerns professional colleagues....




Almost 400 dead Iraqi journalists and yet our compassionate media professionals never held signs of solidarity.

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Camel tramples 2 people to death at Texas farm


A camel trampled two people to death over the weekend at a farm in Texas, authorities said.

Peggye McNair, 72, the owner of the farm and a well-known camel breeder, was one of the victims of the attack Saturday, police told CNN affiliate KFDX.


The incident at Camel Kisses Farm in Wichita Falls happened after Mark Mere, 53, got into a pen with three camels - one male and two females.


Mere apparently went into the holding pen because the animals' water trough had frozen over.


The male camel was in rut and became very aggressive, Wichita County Sheriff David Duke said. Rut is a male animal's peak period of fertility and sexual excitement.


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It charged Mere and he tried to get out of the pen, according to authorities.

Owner McNair tried to close the gate, but the male camel came after both of them and trampled them to death, police said.


The sheriff said when deputies arrived at the scene, all three camels were acting aggressive toward them.


Relatives of the farm's owner gave Texas game wardens permission to kill the male camel, police said.


In a 2009 interview with the , McNair said "camels have gotten a bad rap."


The article goes on to say that "like dogs, if they are raised with cruelty, they will be dangerous. ... But, also like dogs, if they are raised with love, affection, attention, treats and companionship - as hers are - they will be tame and enjoyable."


"Of course, there are some caveats," she said.


In the interview, she said she always takes extra precautions when the animals are in rut.


She told the newspaper about two women who raised camels as pets, who were killed when a male camel knocked them down and planted his front feet on them, common mating behavior.


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Pastor led kid 'to the Lord' by punching him 'as hard as I could'


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Pastor Eric Dammann



A pastor at the Bible Baptist Church in Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey is coming under fire after his church posted a video of him claiming to have converted a "smart aleck" youth by "punching him in the chest as hard as I could."

Pastor Eric Dammann begins by saying that he met a young man in Calgary named "Ben," who was "a nice kid, but one of those - he was a real smart aleck. He was a kid, which didn't help things - made him more dangerous."


"We were outside one day at youth group," Dammann continues, "and he was just trying to push my buttons. He was just kind of not taking the Lord serious []."


"So I walked over to him and went Punched him in the chest as hard as I could. I crumpled the kid. I just crumpled him."


"Then I leaned over and said, 'Ben, when are you going to stop playing games with God?' I led that man to the Lord right there," he concludes.


According to the church's official history, Bible Baptist is a "family-focused body of multi-cultural believers...founded by a group of five ladies during the early part of the 1920′s."


Watch Dammann recount his meeting with "Ben" below via YouTube.


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