Joel Thornton of the International Human Rights Group told WND the government in Salzkotten, Germany, is SENDING THE FATHERS OF THE CHILDREN TO JAIL for terms of one week because they have refused to turn their children over to school officials for mandated sex classes.

Sex education classes in Germany are explicit, and the issue is one of the major reasons why families – and not just Christian families – choose to homeschool their children even though the government has maintained its illegality since the days of Hitler. The students who are being held out of sex education classes also are not being allowed by their parents to participate in a play-acting program called "My Body Belongs to Me," which essentially teaches children how to engage in sex, the report said.

The government's determination is evident, Thornton said, whether parents are objecting to an explicit sex class or whether the family chooses to homeschool their children. "Unlike American officials, German officials do not recognize the right of parents to opt their children out of offensive classes such as sex education which overrides the parent's beliefs or desires for their own children," Thornton said. "One of the reasons for this is that GERMAN OFFICIALS VIEW THE CHILDREN AS BELONGING TO THE STATE, particularly during the time they are in school," he said.

The Bank adds that investors may be demanding 'additional compensation' for purchasing UK gilts, which are the main way the Government finances the gap between tax receipts and public spending. That could drive up its cost of borrowing, making it harder for the Treasury to finance the growing deficit, which was forecast in last week's Pre-Budget Report to be on course to hit £1.5trillion.

Last month the Bank's Governor Mervyn King infuriated Gordon Brown by openly calling for the Treasury to publish 'credible' deficit-reduction plans or risk losing Britain's triple-A credit rating. This top rating enables the Government to borrow more cheaply than less creditworthy nations, but ratings agencies have also warned it could be at risk unless Alistair Darling lays out tougher plans to reduce it.

THE NAME CHANGE FROM "GLOBAL WARMING," came about when the earth did not cooperate with the "global" part of the name, and especially with the "warming" categorization. THE NEW NAME BECAME "CLIMATE CHANGE." Even with the name change, THE EARTH IS STILL IN NON-COMPLIANCE WITH THE SCIENTIFIC AGENDA. It has stubbornly kept to its own schedule of changes of season, instead of warming according to a man-made hockey puck, stick, whatever.

In the interests of brevity, the manipulators of climate will be henceforth known as the GWCC. As the GWCC preached the "religion" of global warming, they got a huge number of world leaders to jump on the "We are all going to die. The earth is warming at an alarming rate" bandwagon! Preparations went very smoothly for the parting of the ocean, and THE FLEECING OF THE SO-CALLED RICH NATIONS. I am still looking for those rich nations. The US is certainly not among those, is it? The US is owned primarily by China and Japan.

Then, in the midst of the lavish preparations, an enterprising hacker or other industrious sort, spilled the e-mails. He, she or they, downloaded tons of e-mails, that purported to show less than honest data in support of the GWCC's contentions. The e-mails apparently show GWCC scientists fudging data that does not fall neatly into their "thesis," of the earth heating up, and attempting to punish/silence their fellow scientists who disagree with them. Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned? Forget that. Hell hath no fury like a scientist about to be debunked!

If we do not find support for human induced climate change, we say so. In fact, the first NIPCC report, of which I was a lead author, was called 'Nature, Not Human Activity, Rules the Climate'. WE SEE NO EVIDENCE IN THE CLIMATE RECORD that the increase in CO2, which is real, has any appreciable effect on the global temperature. IPCC relies heavily on the surface temperature data, WHICH IS DISTORTED BY A DELETION OF A NUMBER OF SURFACE STATIONS. The 'best' stations were kept – the ones around temperature islands and by airports.

Now the Climategate leak has shown that the surface temperature data that IPCC relies on is based on distorted raw data and algorithms that they will not share with the science community. The scientists implicated in Climategate have misused peer review and pressured journal editors to prevent publication of research that questions their research. They have taken control of the IPCC process and they have smeared opponents personally, rather than critiquing the research.

THE TEMPERATURE TRENDS ARE HEADING DOWNWARDS, even as greenhouse gasses like CO2 are increasing in the atmosphere. This negative correlation contradicts the results of the models that IPCC relies on and indicates that anthropogenic global warming is quite small. We are winning the science battle over climate change, because IPCC's fabrication is unraveling, but we have not yet won the war. This will take just a bit more time.

The notes, from Iran's most sensitive military nuclear project, describe a four-year plan to test a neutron initiator, the component of a nuclear bomb that triggers an explosion. Foreign intelligence agencies date them to early 2007, four years after Iran was thought to have suspended its weapons programme. An Asian intelligence source last week confirmed to The Times that his country also believed that weapons work was being carried out as recently as 2007 — specifically, work on a neutron initiator.

The technical document describes the use of a neutron source, uranium deuteride, which independent experts confirm has no possible civilian or military use other than in a nuclear weapon. URANIUM DEUTERIDE IS THE MATERIAL USED IN PAKISTAN'S BOMB, FROM WHERE IRAN OBTAINED ITS BLUEPRINT.

Experts say that, if the 2007 date is correct, the documents are the strongest indicator yet of a continuing nuclear weapons programme in Iran. Iran has long denied a military dimension to its nuclear programme, claiming its nuclear activities are solely focused on the production of energy for civilian use.

The enormous mine they're digging here must be one of the biggest man-made holes in the planet. The mine is big enough to fit a small town into. All around diggers claw at the earth, giant trucks growl to and fro. If you want to know where many of today's carbon emissions come from, this is one place to look.

China's massive use of coal is what makes it THE WORLD'S BIGGEST EMITTER OF CARBON. Coal supplies over two thirds of China's energy needs. Some 40% of the coal mined on the planet is dug out of the ground in China. "We have enough coal here to last 90 years," Mr Huang, a supervisor at the mine tells me as we bump along the rough road cut into the side of the pit.

And that's the real question. What will happen to China's coal industry in the next 20 to 30 years, because China's use of coal could double or even triple. If that's the case, THEN WHAT EVERY OTHER NATION DOES ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE MAY NOT MATTER IF CHINA DOESN'T CLEAN UP ITS ACT. The nearby power station burns 20,000 tonnes of coal a day. It was built from a Czech design dating back to the 1970s.

Their key demand - separate talks on the Kyoto Protocol - was met. Some delegates talked forlornly of the vast amount of negotiating left to be done before the summit concludes. Earlier, the G77-China bloc, speaking for developing countries, said the Danish hosts had violated democratic process.

But Ms Hedegaard, who will take up the new post of EU climate commissioner after this meeting, said she had told developing countries repeatedly that the Kyoto Protocol was not being sidelined. "They have been assured all the way," she told BBC News. "Yesterday I met with 48 delegations, the main part of those coming from G77 countries."

"I consulted with them on the way forward today, and I heard no objections. That's why it's a bit surprising that we had to spend almost one day on these procedural issues." The G77-China bloc negotiates on behalf of 130 countries - ranging from wealthy nations such as Saudi Arabia, to some of the poorest states - in the UN climate negotiations.

"It's a 'calm spot' where scientists, decision-makers, nonprofit workers, and officials can find all the latest research," says Dan Irwin of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. "We unveiled the site at this week's United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen."

A group of US and international organizations, including NASA, USAID1, the National Science Foundation, the Institute for the Application of Geospatial Technology, the University of Alabama-Huntsville, and CATHALAC2 in Panama, developed the site as a "one-stop shop" for the low-down on Earth with a particular emphasis on international development applications.

"Right now, there's so much climate information scattered out there - it's a real challenge to find exactly what you're looking for by just Googling it," says IAGT's Jessica Coughlin. "Climate One-Stop is the place to go for all the information."

Jordan is among the first people in the US to report developing the potentially life-threatening muscle disorder after receiving the H1N1 vaccine this fall. Increased cases of GBS were found in patients who received a 1976 swine flu vaccine. Likewise, a young woman in France has also been diagnosed with GBS after a swine flu shot. The woman, identified only as a health worker, was diagnosed with GBS six days after she received the swine flu shot, according to the French health ministry

Swedish, Japanese, and Chinese health officials have also reported a number of serious side effects, including deaths of people who received the H1N1 vaccine. In China, the Ministry of Health announced that the two people, including one teacher from Hunan province, died hours after receiving their inoculations. Chinese health officials have pulled all vaccines manufactured in the same batch used to inoculate the teacher.

Fifty-four percent of Chinese residents reported in a China Daily survey that they would not get the H1N1 vaccine because of concerns about the shot's safety. Among those inoculated so far in China, more than 1,200 have complained of side effects ranging from sore arms, rashes, and headaches, to anaphylactic shock and sudden drops in blood pressure.

Can we relax? Not yet. Chief medical officer Sir Liam Donaldson says there could be another peak in January or February and, more worrying, THE VIRUS COULD MUTATE. But suppose it does not? Will the WHO have to redefine the term "pandemic virus"? THE ONLY PANDEMIC WE HAVE SEEN SO FAR IS THE ONE AT THE END OF THE VIROLOGISTS' MICROSCOPES. Ok, so it is a completely new flu virus of a kind never seen before – hence its title "Novel H1N1 influenza".

BUT THERE HAS BEEN NO "PANDEMIC", in any clinically relevant sense of the term, anywhere in the world since swine flu first broke out in Mexico last April. We knew it was mild from the beginning but we thought that because it was novel it would spread widely and, even though mild, kill a lot of people by virtue of the sheer numbers infected.

THAT HAS NOT HAPPENED. Estimates of the population potentially infected have been reduced from 30 per cent to 10 per cent – the same as for seasonal flu. It has emerged that people aged over 50 have some immunity because, although the virus itself is novel, proteins on its surface are similar in some respects to those on H1N1 viruses circulating up to the 1960s. If it turns out that we have used a sledgehammer to crack a nut, my question is this: HOW DID THE VIROLOGISTS GET THE SCALE OF THE THREAT SO WRONG?

What's become known as "Climate-Gate" may be about to explode on this side of the pond as well. Chris Horner, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, has threatened a lawsuit against NASA if by year-end the agency doesn't honor his FOI requests for information on how and why its climate numbers have been consistently adjusted for errors. "I ASSUME THAT WHAT IS THERE IS HIGHLY DAMAGING," says Horner, who suspects, based on the public record, the same type of data fudging, manipulation and suppression that has occurred at Britain's East Anglia Climate Research Unit. "THESE GUYS (NASA) ARE QUITE CLEARLY DETERMINED NOT TO REVEAL THEIR INTERNAL DISCUSSIONS ABOUT THIS."

They may have good reason. NASA was caught with its thermometers down when James Hansen, head of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, announced that 1998 was the country's hottest year on record, with 2006 the third hottest. NASA AND GODDARD WERE FORCED TO CORRECT THE RECORD IN 2007 to show that 1934, decades before the advent of the SUV, was in fact the warmest. In fact, the new numbers showed that four of the country's 10 warmest years were in the 1930s.

HANSEN, WHO BEGAN THE CLIMATE SCARE SOME TWO DECADES AGO, was caught fudging the numbers again in declaring October 2008 the warmest on record. This despite the fact that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration had registered 63 local snowfall records and 115 lowest-ever temperatures for the month, and ranked it as only the 70th-warmest October in 114 years.

The three leaders are listed in a line-up of more than 180 government officials published in a United Nations schedule of speakers. Each head of state will have up to three minutes to address roughly 700 delegates, reporters, observers and civil society groups.

The assistant president of Sudan, Nafie Ali Nafie kicks off the speeches at noon on Wednesday. Nafie chairs the G-77 group, a block of developing nations pushing hard for more money and stricter emissions cuts from rich countries. Mostapha Zaher, director-general of Afghanistan's Environmental Protection Agency, is listed as the final speaker. He'll take the podium slightly before 2 am next Friday.

ROUGHLY 110 WORLD LEADERS PLAN TO ATTEND THE TALKS, AN UNPRECEDENTED NUMBER FOR A CLIMATE CONFERENCE. Typically, only a handful of top leaders attend the negotiations. President Barack Obama is expected at the meeting on Friday.

The record increase in the so-called debt limit - the legal cap on the amount of money the government can borrow - IS LIKELY TO BE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF $1.8 TRILLION TO $1.9 TRILLION, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, Democrat for Maryland, said Friday. That eye-popping figure is making Democrats woozy but is what is needed to make sure they don't have to vote again before next year's midterm elections. The GOVERNMENT'S TOTAL DEBT HAS NEARLY DOUBLED IN THE PAST SEVEN YEARS and is expected to exceed the current ceiling of $12.1 trillion before January 1.

If a deal can't be found, Democrats might have to move on to Plan B, which would be to have the Senate pass a smaller, $925 billion increase that's already available to them. That bill passed the House because of a quirky rule that automatically passes debt limit legislation - without an up-or-down vote - when Congress ratifies its annual budget blueprint. That was done last April.

Under the second scenario, the House would adjourn, leaving the Senate no choice but to pass the $925 billion increase in order to avoid a first-ever default on US government obligations. "WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO FACE THE MOMENT OF TRUTH AT SOME POINT," said Senator Evan Bayh, Democrat for Indiana, who is one of about a dozen Senate Democrats pressing for the special deficit task force as the price for voting for an increase in the debt limit.

The Swiss decision has shocked Europe and the world because its ramifications go far beyond the building of minarets -- they also concern the identity of an entire continent. THIS WAS A REFERENDUM ON WESTERN SOCIETY'S PERCEPTION OF ISLAM AS A THREAT. The issue is generating intense debate: Just how much of Islam is predominantly Christian Europe prepared to accept? The decision by the otherwise so tolerant Alpine country reveals THE DEEP-SEATED FEAR OF AN ISLAM that is becoming increasingly visible.

Are Muslim immigrants threatening European values? This is a concern shared by many Europeans across the continent. Surveys last week revealed that 44 percent of Germans oppose the construction of minarets, followed by 41 percent of the French. FIFTY-FIVE PERCENT OF ALL EUROPEANS SEE ISLAM AS AN INTOLERANT RELIGION. Does the Swiss vote reveal an attitude that a majority in Europe would also support if given the opportunity?

THERE ARE WIDESPREAD FEARS IN GERMANY, as illustrated by the example of a church in Duisburg that was recently converted into a mosque. Members of the old church congregation ceremoniously handed over the house of worship to its new owners, "but in the pubs and in private conversations everyone complained that the Muslims were seizing power in Germany," says Rauf Ceylan, a religious studies professor at the University of Osnabrück. HE SAYS THAT MANY GERMANS HAVE A LATENT FEAR OF ISLAM.

The article reports that EU Monetary Affairs Commissioner Joaquin Almunia is now clearly saying that the Commission will only help when there is a "consolidation and reform programme." Eurointelligence reports that the Greek bond spread against German bonds has now reached 250 basis points and cites German Central Bank President Axel Weber saying that there is a risk that Greek bonds might no longer be acceptable collateral at the ECB. It further reports that Greek PM George Papandreou yesterday held an open Cabinet meeting at which he said that the situation threatened Greek sovereignty.

Bloomberg quotes former Bank of England official Willem Buiter warning that GREECE MAY BE THE FIRST EU-15 SOVEREIGN DEBT DEFAULT SINCE THE SECOND WORLD WAR, adding "IT'S FIVE MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT FOR GREECE". The Guardian reports that the ratings agency Standard & Poor's REVISED ITS OUTLOOK ON SPAIN TO negative and warned that the country faced a risk of a debt downgrade in two years if the government did not take tough action.

Economist Edward Hugh comments on the Fistful of Euros blog: "Rather than acting as a stimulus to deep economic reform, Euro membership has RATHER ACTED TO REWARD THOSE COUNTRIES WHO WOULD GET INTO MORE AND MORE DEBT, with ever less sustainable economic models, by supplying them with funding at far cheaper rates of interest than the markets would otherwise make available."