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"But
while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the
wheat, and went his way. But when the blade was sprung up,
and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also. So the
servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst
not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it
tares? He said unto them, An enemy hath done this. The servants
said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up?
But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root
up also the wheat with them. Let both grow together until the
harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers,
Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles
to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn."
(Matthew 13:25-30 kjv)
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- : MORE GREETINGS to all and the newcomers to this list. We'd
like to introduce ourselves. George and Rita Williams founded
this ministry. We were Mormons (Temple Mormons) for 20 years.
We prayed to God in 1992 to allow us to do a ministry speaking
out against Scientology. Six months later God led us to the truth:
out of the cult of Mormonism. We did not know at the time we
were in a cult. No-one had witnessed to us in 20 years. [George
passed away to heaven in March 2003 and Nicholas Stivers joined
the ministry as Vice President.]
- The Holy Spirit brought us to information about all the cults
and the present development of the New World Order. We began
bringing our research to you. Because all the research was already
done, we decided to build a library within Cephas Ministry. Our
newsletters are not designed to provoke
anger or resistance to evil which is strictly prohibited in Scripture.
It is to shed light on activities by those who would deceive
the elect by devious methods and systematic plans.
- We appreciate and thank researchers
for submitting findings relative to our library:
- Deborah Dromboski, Dave Hunt, Bud
Press, Kathy Camatara, Richard Hopper +, Mike, Anton Hein, Dean
Taffel, Simantov Allalouf, and others.
We try to get as much published as we can. It is becoming more
and more difficult to deal with all the information we receive
since there is a lack of manpower.
- We are Bible students and have left all worldly organizations.
- The focus of these newsletters is to prove why we had
to leave the world system. We are called 'Watchmen on the
Wall' which God always had during the Old / New Testament Times.
- To understand what is happening, one has to know the Bible
to compare notes.
- The first section is about the church.
The news about churches is unedited unless indicated by Ednotes.
The church as we knew it, is undergoing disintegration. This
began on a fast track in the early nineteen sixties when the
Catholic Church produced liberal Vatican II to replace Vatican
I.
- The trend since then has been ecumenical which is truly what
the word 'Catholicism' means: a universal religion all
inclusive and multicultural. The Bible calls for a final church
which doesn't resemble what Jesus taught. The Word of God has
undergone many changes to fit the present mode. The Bible calls
for a falling away from the truth before Jesus
comes back for His Bride, the true believers called 'Ekklesia.'
Our newsletters prove this fact and prove that the Bible is true
from beginning to end.
- The second section is about globalism
where we bring your attention to the social, political and global
trend, so called democratizing what is left. One third of the
world still remains to be taken over. It again proves that we
are moving to closure of the times of the Gentiles prophesied
in the Bible.
- The third section compliments End Time
teachings with what is happening in Israel. We describe and watch
for signs of the coming Tribulation to confirm that we are moving
into that space and time.
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spilled His blood on the cross for our sins and rose again to
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as their righteousness. They are those who accept Jesus Christ
as their Lord and Savior, Jews first and then Gentiles. We expect
to be raptured in a pretribulation Rapture to live with God the
Father, God His Son Jesus Christ and God the Holy Spirit, who
are ONE GOD in three persons, forever. Revelation 3:20
"Behold, I stand at the door,
and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will
come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me."
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- Luke 12:20,21 "But
God said unto him, "Thou fool,
this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall
those things be, which thou hast provided? So is he that layeth
up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God."
We pray the Lord will bless you with a thirst for truth and a
desire to serve Him exclusively, in Christ Jesus, Nicholas A.
Stivers, NicholasScrolls and Rita Williams, Cephas Ministry /
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- GOD IS CALLING BELIEVERS HOME -
- Prophet Martin Young's Health - by Mrs. Marie Young - Dec
30, 2005
- TO THOSE CALLED TO BE SAINTS WE NEED YOUR PRAYERS:
- Many have written, asking why they haven't heard from Prophet
Young for the past week. Here is why…
- December 23rd, 6 P.M., the 911 operator was called and Prophet
Young was rushed to the Emergency Room at Florida Hospital South,
in Orlando, Florida, complaining severe shortness of breath.
Upon arriving at the E.R., x-rays, blood work and a barrage of
other tests quickly determined that Prophet Young was in the
thralls of Congestive Heart Failure. His lungs were filling with
fluid and it made it almost impossible for him to breathe on
his own. Seeing that he would soon be unable to breathe, he was
placed of a breathing machine. Further tests revealed other problems,
Asthma and pneumonia. I cannot tell you what fear and sadness
raced through my heart as my husband grasped my arm and through
gasps for breath said, "If I die tonight, I want you and
the children to know I love you!" Through a flood of tears,
I let him know that we did. My husband was placed on the eighth
floor Cardiac Unit. For the past seven days he has undergone
several more tests and many antibiotics. His arms and hands a
black and blue from all the sticks, pokes and prodding. The fluid
was removed from his lungs and he has been stabilized to the
place that I could bring him home from the hospital TODAY. He
isn't out of the woods yet, but, we have him home. He is still
very weak, but he wanted me to inform you about his prayer needs.
- Keep him in your prayers, Mrs. Marie Young
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- IN MEMORY OF RICHARD HOPPER, WE ARE SAD TO HAVE TO REPORT
HIS PASSING WHO CONTRIBUTED TO CEPHAS MINISTRY MUCH MATERIAL,
PAINSTAKINGLY SENDING PHOTOS OF OLD BOOKS, MAGAZINES AND NEWSPAPER
ARTICLES. ABOVE ALL HE WAS A STRONG SPIRITUAL SUPPORTER TO OUR
CAUSE. HE WILL BE MISSED. OUR PRAYERS AND SYMPATHY ARE WITH HIS
FAMILY IN AMARILLO, TEXAS WHERE THE BURIAL TOOK PLACE. GOD BE
WITH THE FAMILY DURING THIS TIME AND COMFORT THEM.
- Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 - From: "RICHARD HOPPER"
hoptrac1@msn.com Subject:
Richard Hopper (Death)
His wife Linda informed us of the following: "I want to
inform all of Richard's friends and family members, who don't
already know, that Richard has died on 12/30/05 at 9 PM in Greensboro,
N.C. I will be flying his body back to Amarillo for funeral service
and burial but arrangements are incomplete at time. There will
be a notice in the
Amarillo paper. Thanks, Linda Hopper
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- A PRAISE REPORT: Jamma of Rapture Watch sent the following
message a few days ago. ".. The devastating onset of my
cancer was so sudden and totally unexpected. Acts of selfless
kindness such as you have shown can only be recognized by myself
as miraculous encouragement from sovereign Lord during such trying
times. I have now completed what they anticipate to be my last
round of chemo therapy and the news was good so far. The cancer
that had saturated my lymph system and had filled my liver with
tumors has been found in remission... I completed the bone marrow
biopsy and it came back free from cancer. The Lord has been gentle
with me through all my treatments. I am now just waiting on the
final healing of this body from the Chemo-toxins..." Halleluja
to God for hearing our prayers to give Jamma more time for his
ministry. He has been actively engaged in teaching the great
Gospel for twenty plus years, submitted to our glorious God the
Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, and set free from Islam.
We thank our Lord for His healing of Jamma and pray that God
will watch over his recuperation to reestablish him fully to
his place in ministry to Christians, as a husband to Sharon and
father of four God loving children. Amen
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- 'JEWS FOR JESUS' SUES GOOGLE OVER BLOG
- Reuters, via XTRAMSN, UK - Dec. 23, 2005 - "Christian
evangelical group Jews for Jesus is suing Google Inc, saying
a Web log hosted through the Internet search leader's Blogspot
service infringes its trademark. The suit, filed in US District
Court in New York on Wednesday, seeks to force Google to give
Jews for Jesus control of the site as well as unspecified monetary
damages. "We have a right to our own name and Google has
allowed the use of our name on Blogspot without our permission,"
said Susan Perlman, associate executive director with Jews for
Jesus.
- "Our reputation is at stake," Perlman told Reuters.
Google's Blogspot and Blogger services allow people to set up
Web logs, or online journals known as "blogs" for short,
for free. A Google spokesman was not immediately available for
comment on the lawsuit. The disputed blog, http://jewsforjesus.blogspot.com,
was started in January 2005 by someone taking the name &
'Whistle Blower' and airing critical views of the San Francisco-based
organization, which seeks to convert Jews to Christianity. The
site has only three entries, the last of which was made on May
9. Comments on the blog showed that Jews for Jesus attempted
to persuade Whistle Blower to transfer the domain to the group
but was rebuffed... " [ http://www.xtramsn.co.nz
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- POLYGAMIST TRIAL DEFENDANT LOSES CHALLENGE TO CONSTITUTIONAL
BAN ON POLYGAMY - AP, via the Daily Herald, USA - Dec. 24, 2005
- KINGMAN, Ariz. (AP) -- An accused Colorado City polygamist
lost his bid to have the state's constitutional ban on the practice
overturned when state prosecutors dropped one of three charges
he was facing. Randolph J. Barlow, 32, had been charged with
two counts of sexual assault and one charge of sexual conduct
with a minor. The underage-sex charge was dropped Thursday and
a Mohave County judge then denied several motions his lawyer
had filed, including one challenging the constitutional ban.
Dropping the underage-sex charge makes the case solely one of
sexual assault and guts the defense strategy to mount a religious
defense, defense lawyer Bruce Griffen said.
- "The state's strategic maneuver ... has ruined the vast
majority of what we were going to do today," Griffen said.
- Barlow and seven other Colorado City men face sex charges
related to their marriages with girls younger than 18. They were
already legally married to other women when they married the
underaged girls.
- All are members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ
of Latter Day Saints, centered in Colorado City and nearby Hildale,
Utah. The sect splintered from the mainstream church and believes
that polygamy is a protected and sacred aspect of their religion.
County prosecutor Matt Smith said the victim in Barlow's case
is reluctant to testify.
- A second man set for a court hearing Thursday, David Romaine
Bateman, didn't show up, and Griffen told Judge James Chavez
he had mistakenly told his client he wasn't due in court. FLDS
The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
is a sect of Mormonism. Mormonism in turn is a cult of Christianity.
The FLDS is also considered to be a cult of Christianity. Sociologically,the
group is a high-control cult.
- Chavez set a new court date for Bateman and set trial for
Barlow for March 13. The other six defendants are being tried
before another Mohave County judge. The eight men were indicted
in June and July. The Arizona attorney general's office worked
with Mohave County prosecutors to obtain the indictments. The
church's leader, Warren Jeffs, 49, was also indicted in Arizona
in early June on counts including conspiracy to commit sexual
conduct with a minor. He remains a fugitive. Capturing Jeffs
is considered to be a key in ending the turmoil in the two towns,
where polygamist men marry one wife legally and then take other
women as so-called spiritual wives.
- When Jeffs was indicted, he was believed to have been at
a compound near Eldorado, Texas, where a four-story temple is
being built by his sect. Since then, the FBI has been trying
to track him down, and the agency has said he could also be in
Colorado or another sect town in British Colombia. In November,
Jeffs' brother, Seth Steed Jeffs, 32, of Hildale was charged
with one federal count of concealing his brother. [http://www.newutah.com
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- CRUCIFIED NUN DIED OF 'ADRENALIN OVERDOSE'
AFP, via IOL.co.za, France - Dec. 24, 2005 - BUCHAREST - A Romanian
nun crucified by a priest and other nuns in an exorcism rite
was still alive when she was rescued, but died of an overdose
of adrenalin mistakenly administered by a medic, press reports
said Saturday. The revelations emerged from a new autopsy carried
out at the demand of priest Daniel Corogeanu, who has been charged
with four nuns, from a monastery at Tanacu in north-eastern Romania,
with the illegal confinement and murder of Irina Cornici, 23.
The five have pleaded not guilty and allegedly told police that
Cornici was possessed of the devil.
- The latest development dominated Saturday's press, with the
mass circulation Libertatea headlining the story "killed
by the doctors." Cornici was chained to a cross, gagged
and deprived of food and water for several days at the remote
monastery in June. Authorities had maintained the treatment proved
fatal and she was already dead when other nuns called for an
ambulance. But the new autopsy, carried out after the nun's body
was exhumed in September, showed that she died after a medic
in the ambulance injected her with six doses of adrenalin which
over-stimulated her heart, causing it to fail. The five were
expelled from their order following their arrest, but the case
sparked an outcry in Romania against "mediaeval" practices
tolerated by the Orthodox Church. Corogeanu, 29, was unrepentant,
telling an AFP reporter at the monastery before celebrating a
funeral mass for Cornici in June, "God has performed a miracle
for her, finally Irina is delivered from evil." [
http://www.int.iol.co.za ]
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- BORN 200 YEARS AGO, MORMON FOUNDER SMITH IS SCRUTINIZED ANEW
- Denver Post, USA - Dec. 26, 2005 - Eric Gorski, Denver Post
Staff Writer
 200th anniversary of his birth,
Joseph Smith remains an extraordinary figure with the most ordinary
of names. Revered by members of the church he founded, enigmatic
to outsiders, Smith is America's homegrown prophet, a New York
farm boy of modest roots whose visions gave birth to one of the
world's fastest-growing religions. The life of the founder of
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or the Mormon
Church, has been scrutinized and celebrated in the buildup to
the milestone anniversary, which was marked Friday with a televised
tribute from Smith's hometown of Sharon, Vt.
- To the world's 12 million Mormons, Smith was a prophet of
God who restored the one true Christian church. Beyond those
constants, present-day believers talk about relating on a more
personal level to Smith as a persecuted martyr, leadership guru
or spiritual
- seeker... Mark McConkey of Colorado Springs is an attorney,
former Mormon stake president and great-great-grandson of Hyrum
Smith, the prophet's brother.
- Book: Is Mormonism
Christian? - by Richard John Neuhaus (Catholic)
- He acknowledges Joseph Smith's complexity and "mortal
moments." But McConkey said he focuses on Smith's straightforward
and simple aspects. He singles out Smith's "principle of
love" underlying a key church doctrine, a teaching that
is one reason Mormonism remains controversial: the belief that
humans can become perfect beings, like God, after death... A
growing number of Mormon and non-Mormon scholars, meantime, are
moving beyond the two extremes that dominated early portrayals
of Smith as either a charlatan huckster of a phony religion or
a fault-free superhero idealized by followers...
- http://www.mormon_200th_birthday.html - http://www.denverpost.com
- More at: http://www.cephas-library.com/mormon/mormon_200th_birthday.html
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- POPE BENEDICT IN FIRST CHRISTMAS ADDRESS
- December 25, 2005 - ITN - Pope Benedict, in his first Christmas
address, has urged humanity to unite against terrorism, poverty
and environmental blight. He called for a
"new world order" to correct economic
imbalances. The Pope made his comments to tens of thousands
of pilgrims gathered under umbrellas in a rainy St Peter square
for his "Urbi et Orbi" (to the city and the world)
message and blessing.
In his address, telecast live from the central balcony of St
Peter's Basilica to tens of millions of people in nearly 40 countries,
he also urged his listeners not to let technological achievements
blind them to true human values. He said humanity should look
to the Christ child for encouragement in times of difficulty
and fear. "A united humanity will be able to confront the
many troubling problems of the present time: from the menace
of terrorism to the humiliating poverty in which millions of
human beings live, from the proliferation of weapons to the pandemics
and the environmental destruction which threatens the future
of our planet," he said.
- "Do not fear; put your trust in him! The life-giving
power of his light is an incentive for building a new world order
based on just ethical and economic relationships," he
said, speaking in Italian. Marching bands of the Swiss Guard
and Italian police played for the crowd near a larger-than-life
nativity scene, making for a festive atmosphere despite the rain.
The address by the leader of the world's some 1.1 billion Roman
Catholics was different in style than those of his predecessor
John Paul, who died last April. John Paul wrote his Christmas
addresses in free-style verse and resembled poetry, whereas Benedict's
was in prose like a normal homily or speech. After the address,
Benedict wished the world a Happy Christmas in 33 languages,
including Arabic, Hebrew, Swahili, Japanese and Latin. His predecessor
sometimes used twice as many languages on Christmas. http://www.channel4.com/news/content/news-storypage.jsp?id=1497316
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- ITALIAN PROTESTANT SAYS POPE'S 'INDULGENCES' A SETBACK TO
UNITY
Rome (ENI) 12.1.2005. A top Italian Protestant has accused Pope
Benedict XVI of setting back Christian unity by granting indulgences
to Roman Catholics who carry out acts of devotion to the Virgin
Mary to mark the 40th anniversary of the end of the Second Vatican
Council. "The Catholic Church is free to decree all the
indulgences it likes but stressing the things that divide [churches]
crushes the hopes of those who are working for
Christian unity," said Professor Paolo Ricca of the Protestant
Waldensian theology faculty in Rome. [ENI-12.1.2005]
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- THE CATHOLIC CHURCH INFALLIBLY TEACHES::
 Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus
- [Translation: Outside of the Church there is no salvation.]
- Pray that the willful blindness of the Jews ceases and they
will convert
to the only means of salvation for mankind, the Roman Catholic
Church.
[ Ednote, no wonder one of the title's of the Pope is "Melchizedek
Priest" which compares him to Christ Jesus, when there is
only ONE such Priesthood that only ONE can bear because it is
an everlasting Priesthood (Numbers
25:13), brings forth bread and wine (Jesus Christ) and
is God's Priesthood (Genesis 14:18).
<<A Psalm of David.>> The LORD
said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine
enemies thy footstool. The LORD shall send the rod of
thy strength out of Zion: rule thou in the
midst of thine enemies. Thy people shall be willing in the day
of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the
morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth. The LORD hath sworn,
and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the
order of Melchizedek. The Lord at thy right hand shall
strike through kings in the day of his wrath. He shall judge
among the heathen, he shall fill the places with the dead bodies;
he shall wound the heads over many countries. He shall drink
of the brook in the way: therefore shall he lift up the head. (Psalms 110:1-7)
- (For those priests were made without an oath;
but this with an oath by him that said unto him, The Lord sware
and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the
order of Melchisedec:) By so much was Jesus made a surety
of a better testament. And they truly were many priests,
because they were not suffered to continue by reason of
death: But this man, because he continueth ever,
hath an unchangeable priesthood. Wherefore he is
able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto
God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession
for them. For such an high priest became us, who is holy,
harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher
than the heavens; Who needeth not daily, as those high
priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then
for the people's: for this he did once, when he offered up himself.
For the law maketh men high priests which have infirmity; but
the word of the oath, which was since the law, maketh the Son,
who is consecrated for evermore. ( Hebrews 7:21-28
) end of note] http://www.opusdeialert.com/opus-deis-rabbis.htm#fahey
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- BENNY HINN'S PRESENTATION IN JERUSALEM WAS INCORRECT ACCORDING
TO ISRAELIS
- http://www.cephas-library.com/israel/israel_hinns_presentation_was_incorrect.html
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- TBN DROPS HAL LINDSEY, NOW HAL LINDSEY DROPS TBN
- God is separating His sheep from the goats [CMI]. Would you
believe it, christmas tinsel is what started it all. God has
a sense of humor. Full story: http://www.cephas-library.com/tbn/tbn_drops_hal_lindsey_now_lindsey_drops_tbn.html
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- CAN YOU WITHSTAND A FAKE RAPTURE ASKS CUTTING EDGE MINISTRY
- "Are You Prepared To Spiritually Withstand A Fake Rapture?"
The Illuminati now claims to have the technical capability to
stage the Rapture. They might just carry it out in order to throw
extreme panic, confusion, and despair into the hearts of genuine
Christians just before the Illuminati's beloved Masonic Christ
arises. God just may allow it as a final test of His saints.
Would you be Biblically knowledgeable enough to spot the deception
and stand firmly in your faith? Full story: http://cuttingedge.org:80/news/n2101.cfm
- We offer a CD with video that is off the market which explains
what might be ahead of us.
- CD: [V] 316 Globalism, Iron Mountain and UFOs $5 +
s/h (160 min) (highly
recommended). located in the NWO section.
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SUSPECTED LESBIAN STUDENTS SUE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL FOR EXPULSION
- FOX NEWS, December 29, 2005 - RIVERSIDE, Calif. - Two 16-year-olds
who were expelled from a Lutheran high school because they were
suspected of being lesbians have sued the school for invasion
of privacy and discrimination. The lawsuit, filed last week in
Riverside County Superior Court, seeks the girls' re-enrollment
at the small California Lutheran High School, unspecified damages
and an injunction barring the school from excluding gays and
lesbians. Kirk D. Hanson, an attorney for the girls, said the
expulsion traumatized and humiliated them.
- "Their entire support network was pulled out from under
them because of suspicions about their sexual orientation,"
said Hanson, who declined to say whether his clients are lesbians...
The lawsuit alleges that the school's principal, Gregory Bork,
called the girls into his office, grilled them on their sexual
orientation and "coerced" one girl into saying she
loved the other. http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,180146,00.html
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- WARREN ADDRESSES FUNDAMENTALISM OF ALL FAITHS
- After Denouncing the Five Fundamentals of the Faith .. January
10, 2006: According to a news story in the January 8th edition
of the Philadelphia Inquirer, "[Rick] Warren predicts that
fundamentalism, of all varieties, will be 'one of the big enemies
of the 21st century.' 'Muslim fundamentalism, Christian fundamentalism,
Jewish fundamentalism, secular fundamentalism - they're all motivated
by fear. Fear of each other.'" In a May 2005 interview between
Rick Warren and the Pew Forum on Religion, Warren stated: "Today
there really aren't that many Fundamentalists left; I don't know
if you know that or not, but they are such a minority; there
aren't that many Fundamentalists left in America ... Now the
word 'fundamentalist' actually comes from a document in the 1920s
called the Five Fundamentals of the Faith . And it is a very
legalistic, narrow view of Christianity." Quote by Rick
Warren, May 2005 http://www.lighthousetrails.com
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- RELIGIOUS MCDONALD'S SIGN DRAWS ATTENTION IN RALEIGH
Jewish Woman Asks Restaurant To Remove Sign, 'Jesus Is The Reason
For The Season'
- RALEIGH, N.C. December 14, 2005 - Everyone celebrates religion
and holidays in their own individual ways, but currently there
are questions about whether the two should be more connected.
One of the latest places involved in the controversy is a McDonald's
restaurant in Raleigh. The sign at McDonald's on the corner of
Falls of Neuse and Spring Forest Road reads: "Merry Christmas,
Jesus is the Reason for the Season." It is a holiday message
that Amanda Alpert thinks comes on a little too strongly. "It
offends me because it specifically talks about Jesus, Merry Christmas.
It doesn't give credit to anyone else," Alpert said. Alpert
called the McDonald's corporate office in Atlanta and requested
that the sign be changed to the politically correct Happy Holidays.
The response was the owner has the right to do what she wants
with the sign. "I care because I'm Jewish, and the reason
for the season is upsetting to me," Alpert said: see full
story. http://www.wral.com/news/5532271/detail.html
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- PAUL CROUCH RECOVERS FROM SURGERY
- [Editor's note: I happen to hear that Paul Crouch was in
the hospital and interestingly his son announced that Hal Lindsey
would be coming back to his program. I had not heard that he
had been taken off TBN. Could it be that Paul's fall encouraged
them to undo their decision? I know Hal Lindsey has his enemies
but we never did find any problems with him nor did any of the
researchers write about him. Was Hal Lindsey simply too Scriptural
for TBN?
- Last I listened to Hal he had discovered the problems with
the Christian Right Movement and shared it. That was encouraging.
The issue that got him zeroed out was about Muslims. From an
email: "Hal was one of the few who stood up against Muslims
in his speeches and told it like it is. His unyielding support
for Israel was noteworthy and TBN PULLED HIM off their station.
The article: http://www.cephas-library.com/tbn/tbn_restores_hal_lindsey.html
TAKEN FROM THE TBN WEBSITE: "We at TBN want to thank everyone
for their kind words, thoughts and prayers for dad during this
difficult time. He went into surgery on Friday the 23rd of December
for repair of some internal bleeding as the result of a fall.
Dad broke four ribs and fluid was building up inside his chest
cavity. All of that has been repaired and he is now on the road
to recovery. The old adage is very true that you heal faster
when you're young, so it will take a few more days in the hospital
before he's released, but God is good and his family has been
with him every step of the way. Please feel free to e-mail any
and all messages of encouragement and they will all be printed
out and forwarded to him immediately. Blessings, Paul Crouch,
Jr. http://www.tbn.org/index.php/7.html?nid=80
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- NBC CONSIDERS NEW SHOW FEATURING A COMPLETELY DYSFUNCTIONAL
FAMILY A POSITIIVE PORTRAYAL OF CHRIST AND CHRISTIANS [Ednote:The
program was deleted as far as I know.] Email: Dear Bob, - On
January 6, NBC will begin a new series entitled The Book
of Daniel.
- While the public has not seen the program, NBC is promoting
"The Book of Daniel" as a serious drama about Christian
people and the Christian faith. The main character is Daniel
Webster, a drug-addicted Episcopal priest whose wife depends
heavily on her mid-day martinis.
- Webster regularly sees and talks with a very unconventional
white-robed, bearded Jesus. The Webster family
is rounded out by a 23-year-old homosexual Republican son,
a 16-year-old daughter who is a drug dealer, and
a 16-year-old adopted son who is having sex with the bishop's
daughter. At the office, his lesbian secretary
is sleeping with his sister-in-law.
- NBC and the mainstream media call it "edgy,"
"challenging" and "courageous." The
series is written by Jack Kenny, a practicing homosexual
who describes himself as being "in Catholic recovery,"
and is interested in Buddhist teachings about reincarnation
and isn't sure exactly how he defines God and/or
Jesus. "I don't necessarily know that all the myth
surrounding him (Jesus) is true," he said.
- NBC considers The Book of Daniel a positive portrayal
of Christ and Christians.
- NBC http://www.nbc.com/nbc/header/Local_Stations/
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- THE COUNTERFEIT KINGDOM
- By S. H. Venour - While the majority of people go about their
daily business completely ignorant, not only of what is going
on now, but of what is to come upon the world shortly, preparations
are being made for the greatest social and political changes
that the world has seen in centuries. As the New World Order
is being established, a trap is being set for the true Church
by the agents of Rome. The majority of Christians do not know,
or it would seem do not want to know, preferring to trust in
the soothing words of preachers who speak of revival, when there
is no revival.
This web site has been published to warn people of what is about
to happen. I wish to make it clear that I am not against Roman
Catholic people in any way. I am only against the religious-political
system of Roman Catholicism and the evil which it perpetrates.
The vast majority of Roman Catholics are unaware of the true
nature of the Roman Catholic organisation, or the religion which
it promotes, and I am sure they would be horrified to discover
what that nature is.It is my sincere hope that any Christian
who visits this site will not ignore the warnings but will take
heed, will stand in the day of testing, and will obey the command
of the Lord to: For full story:
- http://www.cephas-library.com/nwo/nwo_the_counterfeit_kingdom.html
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- THE WITCHCRAFT OF THE NARNIA CHRONICLES
- http://www.lasttrumpetministries.org/tracts/narnia_chronicles.html
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- SERVING GOD AND MAMMON: THE MERGING OF EVANGELICAL AMERICA
AND CORPORATE AMERICA. Friday Church News Notes, December 23,
2005 - www.wayoflife.org - An article in The Economist for December
3, 2005, analyzed "the reconciliation between religious
America and corporate America." This merger has
occurred because of the weakness and deep compromise of American
Christianity and the vast amount of money that is spent today
on "religious products," an estimated $6.8 billion
in 2003. The "Left Behind" novels alone have raked
in $650 million ("Onward, Christian Shoppers," The
Economist, Dec. 3, 2005). Rick Warren's "Purpose Driven
Life" is the best-selling hardcover book in American history,
with 25 million copies sold. The secular world has not been slow
to cash in on this bonanza, beginning in the late 1980s with
the purchase of Zondervan by Rupert Murdoch's HarperCollins.
(Zondervan thus became a part the same publishing house as Regan
books, the publisher of "How to Make Love Like a Porn Star,"
and Avon books, publisher of "The Satanic Bible.")
- Other secular corporations have followed suit. The same trend
has occurred in Christian music. For example, Warner Music Group,
a division of AOL Time Warner, owns Myrrh Records. Time Warner,
who also owns Atlantic, Elektra, London-Sire, Reprise, and Warner
Bros. Records, and has on its roster such vile secular rock artists
as Green Day, Madonna, and Red Hot Chili Peppers. Zomba Music
owns Brentwood-Benson Music, which has the world's largest Christian
music publishing catalog. Thus, a large percentage of the money
paid to license Christian music today goes into the coffers of
a large secular corporation. Zomba also owns such sensual acts
as Britney Spears, 'N Sync, and the Backstreet Boys, and others
whose names alone are too vile to mention. That great lover of
God, Chevrolet, sponsored one of Michael W. Smith's worship tours,
and those giants of the Christian faith, Ford, Coca-Cola,
and Bank of America, sponsored T.D. Jakes' megafest this summer.
- The trend is being repeated now in Hollywood, following the
breakaway success of Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ"
movie. The Disney Corporation, which has organized "gay
days" at Disney World, has jumped on the religion bandwagon
by producing C.S. Lewis's "The Lion, the Witch, and the
Wardrobe," and gullible evangelicals are thrilled. The
Word of God is very clear about these unholy
alliances. Can you imagine Paul and Barnabas seeking
the world's sponsorship for their missionary journey! "Be
ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship
hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath
light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial?
or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?" (2 Cor. 6:14-15).
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- ORTHODOX CHURCH BREAKS TIES WITH SWEDISH LUTHERANS OVER GAY
UNIONS
- ECUMENICAL NEWS - 04 January 2006 - Warsaw/Stockholm (ENI).
The Russian Orthodox Church has suspended its contacts with the
(Lutheran) Church of Sweden after a vote by the Swedish church
to introduce a service of blessing for same-sex civil partnerships.
"It is with great disappointment and sorrow that we learned
that the Lutheran church of Sweden not only failed to oppose
the so-called same-sex marriages, but also issued a decree to
establish an official blessing rite for those marriages,"
the Russian church's Holy Synod said in a statement. The assembly
of the Church of Sweden, which accounts for about 7 million of
Sweden's 9 million people, voted on 27 October to establish a
blessing in churches for same-sex couples who have signed a civil
partnership agreement, although the ceremony is not called marriage.
[ENI-January 4, 2006]
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- FAITH-BASED ORGANIZATIONS FACE SUITS
Chicago Tribune, USA - Jan. 2, 2005 - Frank James, Washington
Bureau - www.chicagotribune.com
- Groups using federal funds are accused of proselytizing.
WASHINGTON -- Faith-based groups are barred from proselytizing
or engaging in other obvious religious activity when using
federal funds to encourage teenagers to abstain from premarital
sex or help substance abusers fight addictions. But some groups
may have run afoul of that federal prohibition. Lawsuits by the
American Civil Liberties Union, Americans United for Separation
of Church and State, and the Freedom from Religion Foundation
accuse the faith-based organizations and the government of violating
the constitutional separation of church and state. Meanwhile,
experts say the Bush administration is doing too little to monitor
religious groups receiving federal money. Critics cite the 'Silver
Ring Thing' program that preaches sexual abstinence to teens.
It is known for pulsing, high-tech, multimedia shows at which
teenagers can buy silver rings to symbolize their pledge to avoid
sex until marriage. In the past year, the Health and Human Services
Department suspended a grant of more than $1 million to Silver
Ring Thing after the ACLU of Massachusetts sued the department,
accusing it of mixing religion with the sexual abstinence message.
At the shows, Silver Ring Thing openly urged teenagers to commit
their lives to Jesus Christ, and the rings it sold were inscribed
with a New Testament verse. "When the government looked
into the situation in our case, they obviously came to the same
conclusion, that in fact their grant was not being used properly
and consistently with the Constitution," said Daniel Mach,
a 1st Amendment expert at the Jenner & Block law firm that
has represented the Massachusetts ACLU in the case. Experts on
faith-based groups that receive federal funds say vague government
rules have contributed to the situation, as has a lack of government
monitoring. Although Catholic Charities, Lutheran Social Services
and Jewish Family Services long ago learned to clearly separate
religion from the government-funded social services they provide,
experts say some new recipients of federal funding--often groups
operating out of churches, synagogues, mosques and storefronts--are
less careful. And critics say the monitoring of these groups
has not kept pace with the increase in applicants for money since
President Bush began lowering their barriers to federal funding
in 2001.
- "There is little to no monitoring of faith content of
services," Fredrica Kramer, a scholar at the Urban Institute,
a research organization here, said at a recent panel discussion
on faith-based groups.
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- ROBERT SCHULLER: YOUNGER SCHULLER PLANS 'NEXT LEVEL' FOR
MINISTRY
Los Angeles Times, USA - Jan. 2, 2005 - By Dan Weikel and William
Lobdell, Times Staff Writers
www.latimes.com - Pushing ahead with his father's brand of unfettered
optimism, the Rev. Robert A. Schuller plans to attract more young
people to the Crystal Cathedral and recruit a million new members
around the globe.
- The handsome pastor assumes the post of his father, the Rev.
Robert H. Schuller, a charismatic figure who built the nation's
first megachurch and influenced religious leaders worldwide.
Groomed for decades to head Crystal Cathedral Ministries, the
younger Schuller has experienced firsthand the ideas and leadership
style of his father...
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- JIM BAKKER BACK IN PULPIT AFTER PRISON
- AP, via The Sun News, USA - Jan. 2, 2005 - Jason Foster -
www.myrtlebeachonline.com
FORT MILL - The three-word sermon title summed up Jim Bakker's
life as the leader of the fallen PTL ministry: Something went
wrong. Speaking to a packed house Friday night at MorningStar
Fellowship Church - located on the site where Bakker's famed
PTL ministry and resort rose and fell in scandal - the former
televangelist delivered a fiery and blunt message of restoration
and redemption, while also challenging his listeners to prepare
for the trials they are sure to face living in what he says are
the last days of the Earth. Though he frequently made mention
of his time at PTL, the crux of his message Friday was the future.
"Most of you are so young you don't know who I am, and that's
good," Bakker said in one of several good-natured self-deprecating
references.
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- CATHOLIC CHURCH & CHARITIES ILLEGALLY AID AND ABET' ALIENS
- http://www.cephas-library.com/church_n_state/church_n_state_catholic_charities.html
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- VATICAN WRONG TO PIN CRISIS ON HOMOSEXUALITY (NOT WHAT THEY
SHOULD FOCUS ON?)
- http://www.cephas-library.com/catholic/catholic_vatican_wrong_to_pin_crisis_on_homosexuality.html
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- NBC AFFILIATE SAYS "NO" TO THE BOOK OF DANIEL [
phone calls do make a difference ]
- Other local affiliates bombarded with phone calls, having
second thoughts about carrying the program.
- Terre Haute, Indiana, NBC affiliate WTWO has become the first
station to announce that it will not carry the anti-Christian
program The Book of Daniel. We urge you to call your local NBC
affiliate and ask them to join WTWO in not carrying the program.
Please call today and ask others to call. The phone calls do
make a difference!
- Here to read a review of the show by AFA's Ed Vitagliano,
who has viewed the entire premiere episode of NBC's The Book
of Daniel. AFA has also learned that NBC is having trouble securing
sponsors for the program. It appears that NBC will be forced
to fill the available ad spots with "distressed merchandise"
ads which are sold at pennies on the dollar of the going rate,
and with "make good" ads which bring in no money to
the network.
- Please call local companies which advertise on your NBC affiliate
and ask the local advertisers in a nice way to cancel their advertising
on the local affiliate if it carries the program. It is time
to make our voice heard at NBC that we will not long remain silent
about their anti-Christian bigotry. Here is what NBC considers
to be a positive portrayal of Christians and Christianity: [Ednote:
The program was described earlier in this newsletter.]
- Finally, join nearly 500,000 individuals who have already
emailed NBC about their anti-Christian bigotry.
- Sincerely, Don - American Family Association - http://www.afa.com/
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- VERY IMPORTANT EMAIL: THE DEVELOPMENT OF ISLAM IN THE LAST
CENTURY
- http://www.cephas-library.com/islam/islam_the_development_of_iIslam_in_the_last_century.html
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- THE TWO QUR'ANIC SERMONS OF THE JINN
- http://www.cephas-library.com/allnations/allnations_the_two_quranic_sermons_of_the_jinn.html
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- HEAVEN AND HELL IN THE QUR'AN AND GOSPEL
- http://www.cephas-library.com/allnations/allnations_heaven_and_hell_in_the_quran_and_gospel.html
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- THE FILM CHRONICLES OF NARNIA IS A TSUNAMI TO CHRISTIANITY
- http://www.freeinthelordministries.com/27.htm
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- RICK WARREN PREDICTS A "NEW REFORMATION"
- In his appearance before the Pew Forum in May 2005, Rick
Warren predicted a "New Reformation" or a "Third
Great Awakening" for America. He said: "You know, 500
years ago, the first Reformation with Luther and then Calvin,
was about beliefs. I think a new reformation is going to be about
behavior. The first Reformation was about creeds; I think this
one will be about deeds. ... The first Reformation actually split
Christianity into dozens and then hundreds of different segments.
I think this one is actually going to bring them together. Now,
you're never going to get Christians, of all their stripes and
varieties, to agree on all of the different doctrinal disputes
and things like that, but what I am seeing them agree on are
the purposes of the church. ... Last week I spoke to 4,000 pastors
at my church who came from over 100 denominations in over 50
countries. Now, that's wide spread. We had Catholic priests,
we had Pentecostal ministers, we had Lutheran bishops, we had
Anglican bishops, we had Baptist preachers. They're all there
together and you know what? I'd never get them to agree on communion
or baptism or a bunch of stuff like that, but I could get them
to agree on what the church should be doing in the world"
("Myths of the Modern Mega-Church," May 23, 2005, transcript
of the Pew Forum's biannual Faith Angle conference on religion,
politics and public life). Warren's New Reformation is not
about beliefs or creeds or doctrinal purity; it is rather
about "the purpose of the church." Let me see if I
understand this. It is not important that a church be biblical
or that it hold biblical doctrine or even that it preach a biblical
gospel (e.g., Catholic priests). It is only important that "churches"
agree on their purpose? How can a church have a biblical purpose
when it does not have biblical doctrine? How can it have a biblical
purpose when it preaches a false sacramental gospel? If sound
doctrine is not a foundational issue, I wonder why Paul instructed
Timothy to "charge some that they teach NO OTHER DOCTRINE"
(1 Tim. 1:3)? I wonder why he didn't rather instruct Timothy
to go easy on the doctrine thing? Could it be that the apostle
Paul's teaching is contrary to Rick Warren's? I, for one, am
certain of it! [http:\\www.wayoflife.org ]
- http://www.cephas-library.com/purposedriven/purposedriven_rick_warrens_dangerous_judge_not_ecumenism.html
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- FARAKHAN SUGGESTED THAT THE LEVEES IN NEW ORLEANS WERE BLOWN
UP AND WAS PLANNING AN INVESTIGATION. DID YOU KNOW FARAKHAN IS
GOING TO BE A CANDIDATE FOR THE HIGH OFFICE OF PRESIDENT OF THE
UNITED STATES? HE HAS BEEN WOOING THE BLACK COMMUNITY FOR YEARS
AND NEW ORLEANS PLAYED INTO HIS HANDS. GUESS WHAT? EYE WITNESSES
LIVING NEAR 17TH ST LEVEE SAY LOUD EXPLOSION HEARD JUST PRIOR
TO RAGING WATERS FLOODING THE 9TH WARD by Greg Szymanski January
9, 2006
- For full story go to http://www.rense.com/general69/blown.htm
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- VALEDICTORIAN AT CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL FAILS TO CITE "THE
PURPOSE DRIVEN LIFE" SCHOOL OFFICIALS SAY OMISSION RISES
TO THE LEVEL OF PLAGIARISM, WEIGH PUNISHMENTS FOR PLAGIARIZER
- BATTLE CREEK, MI – The graduation speech of 2004 Battle
Creek Christian School Valedictorian Crystal Finn, delivered
earlier this month, sent shockwaves through the audience, not
for what she said, but for what she didn't say. "We all
loved and trusted Crystal, so we didn't demand a copy of her
speech like we've done with past valedictorians," BCCC Principal
Donald Roop told THO. "We saw that her title was 'God's
Perfect Plan,' so we put it in the program, and we figured we
all knew what was coming. But we were wrong. And we don't like
surprises." The surprise of which Roop speaks came at the
end of Finn's speech. It wasn't a shocking statement, but rather
an omission that school officials are now saying rises to the
level of plagiarism. The problem: although Finn talked at length
about how God has a plan and purpose for each of us, she failed
to make mention of Rick Warren's best-selling book, "The
Purpose Driven Life," which school officials say was obviously
the source behind the address. "I was sitting there listening
to the speech, just waiting for her to start talking about how
Rick Warren is a genius, and how his prophetic words inspired
her speech," said Vice Principal Kenneth Dyer. "Before
I knew what was happening, she was saying, 'God bless all of
you' and turning around to take her seat. I was absolutely speechless."
Finn maintains that any similarities between her speech and Rick
Warren's book are entirely coincidental. "The only thing
I know about that book is that my church was doing some big 40
day study with it or something," Finn told THO. "I
clearly cited the only source I used for that speech. It's called
the Bible." But BCCC officials aren't buying that explanation
for a minute. "Right. Her speech is basically an outline
of a book that's been on the New York Times bestseller list for
months, and we're all supposed to just accept that this was just
a coincidence," Roop said. "I suppose someone giving
a speech on the prayer of Jabez a couple of years ago without
mentioning Bruce Wilkinson would have been just fine. That's
in the Bible, too. Give me a break." Despite their outrage,
officials at BCCC are at a loss for a way to discipline Finn
since she has already graduated from the school. "Revoking
her diploma would be unprecedented, but we are seriously considering
it," Dyer said. "We know that God will be the ultimate
judge, but if we can throw a little judgment in for good measure,
we're happy to do it." Finn doesn't seem concerned about
any potential punishments from BCCC. "They can do whatever
they want with my diploma," she said. "I've already
been accepted to Bob Jones University, so I am no longer beholden
to the legalistic culture of BCCC. Freedom, here I come!"
http://www.holyobserver.com/detail.php?isu=v02i02&art=graduation
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GLOBAL / LOCAL
POLITICS
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- FBI MONITORED RADIATION AT MUSLIM SITES
AP, via The Guardian, USA - Dec. 23, 2005 - Larry Margasak -
www.guardian.co.uk (whole story)
- WASHINGTON (AP) - "A classified radiation monitoring
program, conducted without warrants, has targeted private U.S.
property in an effort to prevent an al-Qaida attack, federal
law enforcement officials confirmed Friday.
- While declining to provide details including the number of
cities and sites monitored, the officials said the air monitoring
took place since the Sept. 11 attacks and from publicly accessible
areas - which they said made warrants and court orders unnecessary.
U.S. News and World Report first reported the program on Friday.
The magazine said the monitoring was conducted at more than 100
Muslim sites in the Washington, D.C. area - including Maryland
and Virginia suburbs - and at least five other cities when threat
levels had risen: Chicago, Detroit, Las Vegas, New York and Seattle.
- The magazine said that at its peak, three vehicles in Washington
monitored 120 sites a day, nearly all of them Muslim targets
identified by the FBI. Targets included mosques, homes and businesses,
the magazine said. The revelation of the surveillance program
came just days after The New York Times disclosed that the Bush
administration spied on suspected terrorist targets in the United
States without court orders. President Bush has said he approved
the program to protect Americans from attack. Ibrahim Hooper,
spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a Washington-based
civil rights group, said Friday the program ``comes as a complete
shock to us and everyone in the Muslim community.''
- ``This creates the appearance that Muslims are targeted simply
for being Muslims. I don't think this is the message the government
wants to send at this time,'' he said. Hooper said his organization
has serious concerns about the constitutionality of monitoring
on private property without a court order. Brian Roehrkasse,
a Justice Department spokesman, said Friday that the administration
``is very concerned with a growing body of sensitive reporting
that continues to show al-Qaida has a clear intention to obtain
and ultimately use chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear''
weapons or high energy explosives. To meet that threat, the government
``monitors the air for imminent threats to health and safety,''
but acts only on specific information about a potential attack
without targeting any individual or group, he said. ``FBI agents
do not intrude across any constitutionally protected areas without
the proper legal authority,'' the spokesman said. In a 2001 decision,
the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that police must get warrants before
using devices that search through walls for criminal activity.
That decision struck down the use without a warrant of a heat-sensing
device that led to marijuana charges against an Oregon man.
- Roehrkasse said the Justice Department believes that case
does not apply to air monitoring in publicly accessible areas.
Two federal law enforcement officials, speaking on condition
of anonymity because the program is classified, said the monitoring
did not occur only at Muslim-related sites..."
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- MICROCHIPS FOR PEOPLE
HEALTHY LIVING Dec 26, 2005 US/Mountain -You’ve heard of
implantable chips to track your pets, but now people are getting
them for medical purposes. In this Healthy Living report learn
why some believe they could save lives. It sounds like science
fiction, but Nick Minicucci is getting a microchip implanted
in his arm. “When you pulled it out, that's the only time
I actually felt it leaving,” said Nick. The chip is smaller
than a thumbnail, but allows doctors access to his entire medical
records with only the swipe of a scan. “There are days I
forget I even have it. It's part of me, like taking insulin,”
said Molly Phillips who suffers from diabetes. Molly she had
the chip implanted in her arm after a medical scare landed her
in the hospital. Doctor’s didn't know what medication she
was on. “If I’m in that circumstance again, they would
scan my arm, pull up my info and have it right there within seconds,”
she said. It was originally used for tracking lost pets, but
the FDA approved VeriChip implants in humans last year. Each
chip contains a unique 16 digit number that when scanned, connects
doctors to an internet database that retrieves medical records
instantly. “Patients in our emergency trauma come in very
sick and it's the sickest patients that you need accurate information,
medical information up front. In a very timely fashion,”
said Dr. Joseph Feldman. Privacy advocates are concerned the
personal medical records could be abused. But Molly says for
her, there's no downside.
- “There's really nothing but what kind of medication
I’m on. A doctor would want to know what meds I’m on
but no one else would care,” Molly said. http://kutv.com/seenon/local_story_360161010.html
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 COMPUTER CHIP IMPLANTS MAY BECOME
A REALITY TO GET ONLINE WITH YOUR ISP
Jan 7, 2006 - It just might become a reality, when you'll need
a computer chip implant to login to your Microsoft Windows PC.
- You are at your desk and for some reason you forgot your
Windows PC login password. This is a common thing, but there
might be a solution in the future to never use passwords again.
With a wave of his hand, Amal Graafstra, a 29-year-old entrepreneur
based in Vancouver, Canada, opens his front door. With another,
he logs onto his computer. Tiny radio frequency identification
(RFID) computer chips inserted into Graafstra's hands make it
all possible.
- "I just don't want to be without access to the things
that I need to get access to. In the worst case scenario, if
I'm in the alley naked, I want to still be able to get in (my
house)," Graafstra said in an interview in New York, where
he is promoting the technology. "RFID is for me." The
computer chips, which cost about $2, interact with a device installed
in computers and other electronics. The chips are activated when
they come within 3 inches of a so-called reader, which scans
the data on the chips. The "reader" devices are available
for as little as $50 dollars.
- Graafstra said at least 20 of his tech-savvy pals have RFID
implants. Mikey Sklar, a 28-year-old Brooklyn resident, said,
"It does give you some sort of power of 'Abracadabra,'
of making doors open and passwords enter just by a wave of your
hand." .... http://www.gameshout.com/news/012006/article2418.htm
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- SCHWARZENEGGER NAMES DEMOCRATIC CHIEF OF STAFF
- AP Breaking News, December 1, 2005 - "SACRAMENTO, Calif.
(AP) -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wednesday took the first
step to shaking up his administration after his resounding special
election failure, appointing a longtime Democratic activist as
his chief of staff ... But the announcement of state Public Utilities
Commissioner Susan Kennedy as Clarey's replacement caught many
Republicans and Democrats off guard. Kennedy, 45, was Cabinet
secretary to former Gov. Gray Davis, who was ousted in the 2003
recall election that brought Schwarzenegger to power. She also
is a former director of an abortion rights group and one of the
highest-profile gays in state politics, making her appointment
a risky one for the Republican governor.:"
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- CIA CHIEF TELLS TURKS TO PREPARE FOR ATTACK ON IRAN
By Kurt Nimmo - kurtnimmo.com - 12-26-5 - "You'd think the
fact Porter Goss, head broom sweeper at the CIA, recently told
the Turkish government the United States plans to attack Iran
and Syria would be headline splashing news in the New York Times
and the Washington Post. But although the news was carried in
the Turkish press, it elicited hardly a murmur here in America,
with the exception of United Press International and Reuters.
As for the latter, only Goss' meeting with Turkish officials
on the "separatist terrorist organization" known as
the Kurdistan Workers Party was mentioned and nothing about the
impending attack, while the UPI mentioned it in the fourth paragraph,
stating: "Goss said that Iran sees Turkey as an enemy and
will 'export its regime,' warning Ankara to be ready for a possible
U.S. aerial operation against Iran and Syria."
PHX News was more specific and noted the lack of attention to
the story: "In an overlooked story, the Turkish press reported
last week that CIA Director Porter Goss went to Ankara recently
and informed the Turkish government that Iran already has nuclear
weapons and they should be ready for 'a possible US air operation
against Iran and Syria.'" The Turkish Press added more details:
During his recent visit to Ankara, CIA Director Porter Goss reportedly
brought three dossiers on Iran to Ankara. Goss is said to have
asked for Turkey's support for Washington's policy against Iran's
nuclear activities, charging that Tehran had supported terrorism
and taken part in activities against Turkey. Goss also asked
Ankara to be ready for a possible US air operation against Iran
and Syria. Goss, who came to Ankara just after FBI Director Robert
Mueller's visit, brought up Iran's alleged attempts to develop
nuclear weapons. It was said that Goss first told Ankara that
Iran has nuclear weapons and this situation was creating a huge
threat for both Turkey and other states in the region. Diplomatic
sources say that Washington wants Turkey to coordinate with its
Iran policies. The second dossier is about Iran's stance on terrorism.
The CIA argued that Iran was supporting terrorism, the PKK and
al-Qaeda.
In short, Goss and Mueller were sent by the neocons to shop around
an "air operation against Iran and Syria" in Turkey
in exchange for a hardline against the Kurds and using the unestablished
"fact" the Iranians have nukes and the desire to use
them as enticement...." Kurt Nimmo, kurtnimmo.com, 2005
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- WHITE HOUSE: PRAYING FOR SHARON
- YNet News.com January 5, 2006 -
- President Bush briefed on Sharon's condition; Rabbi Ovadia
Yosef calls on Israelis to recite Psalms, pray for PM's recovery
by Attila Somfalvi. (Excerpt): President Bush briefed on Sharon's
condition; Rabbi Ovadia Yosef calls on Israelis to recite Psalms,
pray for PM's recovery Attila Somfalvi Well-wishes and expressions
of concern from across the world have been pouring in Wednesday
night following reports that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon suffered
a serious stroke and was clinging to life at hospital. U.S. President
George W. Bush said in a written statement that "Laura and
I share the concerns of the Israeli people about Prime Minister
Ariel Sharon's health, and we are praying for his recovery."
"Prime Minister Sharon is a man of courage and peace. On
behalf of all Americans, we send our best wishes and hopes to
the prime minister and his family," Bush added... Sharon
suffers cerebral hemorrhage / Ronny Sofer. Sharon undergoes emergency
surgery at Jerusalem's Hadassah Ein Kerem hospital; medical official
says PM suffered 'significant stroke' and is being ventilated
and anesthetized. Olmert designated as temporary replacement
[Reuters and Roee Nahmias contributed to the report] http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3195290,00.html
- http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3195215,00.html
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- ELIMINATING BIRD FLU FEARS
- by Dr. Sherri Tenpenny, DO
http://www.newswithviews.com/Tenpenny/sherri4.htm
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- WHAT IS THE FED UP TO WITH THE MONEY SUPPLY?
- [M-3 means money stock measures / currency converter] by
Robert McHugh - http://www.safehaven.com/showarticle.cfm?id=4331&pv=1
 Over the past two
days, December 21st - when our first Hindenburg Omen (of whatever
cluster is coming) - and Thursday December 22nd, the Federal
Reserve has conducted one of the largest two-day Repo injections
of money into the system since back in September 2001. On Wednesday
they added $18.0 billion in reserves and on Thursday they added
another $20.0 billion. Is this a coincidence, coming right as
we get another Hindenburg Omen? Probably not. Is something high-risk
going on behind the scenes here? Let's review some facts at the
Fed. On November 10th, 2005, shortly after appointing Bernanke
to replace Greenbackspan, the Fed mysteriously announced with
little comment and no palatable justification that they will
hide M-3 effective March 2006. M-3 has been the main staple of
money supply measurement and transparent disclosure since the
Fed was founded back in 1913. It is the key monetary aggregate
that includes Fed Repo transactions, that mechanism whereby the
Fed increases reserves. The date when M-3 will start being hidden
also happens to be the exact month that Iran will declare economic
war against the U.S. Dollar by trading its oil in Petro-Euros
on its new bourse. But there is more. The Federal Reserve currently
has three vacancies within the 19 top Regional Bank and Board
of Governor spots. Why? Part of ongoing wholesale resignations.
The latest is from the Philly Fed. Fed President and Open Market
Committee member Anthony Santomero has announced his resignation
after only a brief year and a half tenure. Very unusual. Hey,
Fed Presidents are treated like gods. They have enormous power,
prestige, and presence. Why quit? He is far from alone. Over
the past few years no less than six Federal Reserve Regional
Bank Presidents have resigned. This is highly unusual.
An immediate impact is that we are about to have a largely inexperienced
batch of individuals conducting monetary policy in the United
States. So of course, the first thing they will do is hide the
key money figures. Two positions for the Board of Governors (there
are 7)have been open for quite a while. Plus six of the 12 Regional
Head spots have turned over during the past few years.
If a substantial amount of oil transactions will suddenly be
conducted in Euros instead of Dollars, this should put pressure
on the Dollar as folks exchange Dollars for Euros, jeopardizing
the Dollar's status as the world's reserve currency, making
it more difficult to print all the dollars the Fed wants to without
driving the Dollar into the ground. Iraq threatened to do what
Iran has threatened to do just before we went in looking for
weapons of mass disappearance. If the Dollar tanks, Treasuries
might not be far behind. If Treasuries tank, kiss the Housing-driven
boom goodbye. Could the Master Planners be hiding M-3 because
they anticipate they may have to monetize the Federal debt, buy
our own Treasury Bonds during the coming economic attack against
the Dollar? That would require a ton of new fresh money creation
- too much to disclose. Could it be some folks at the top of
the Fed do not have the stomach to be part of what is about to
go down? M-3 has a direct but lagging impact on financial markets..
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- POOR FUNDING OF RICH SEEN AS UNSUSTAINABLE, RISK
- DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) - January 28 2006 - By Stella
Dawson and Natsuko Waki - Massive flows of capital from the emerging
to the developed world are unsustainable and risk damaging both
poor and rich countries, some of the world's top finance officials
said on Saturday. Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos,
European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet said that
the current global investment pattern was "profoundly abnormal"
and in no country's interest. "It is not sustainable in
the long run that the emerging world would finance the industrial
world. It doesn't correspond to the interest of the emerging
world, neither to the interest of the industrialised world,"
he said.
- In a similar vein, Indian Finance Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram
said countries like his, one of the emerging stars on the global
economic scene, were under threat. "Global imbalances are
deepening and that has serious consequences for developing countries
like India," he said.
- The United States is currently seeing huge inflows of capital
from the developing world, notably China, that are financing
its current account deficit, bolstering the dollar and keeping
long-term interest rates low through U.S. bond purchases. The
U.S. absorbs roughly 70 percent of excess global savings. The
danger to the world economy is that when the inflows eventually
slow or dry up, there could be sharp economic and market dislocations
worldwide. "There are potential triggers that could create
serious consequences for the global economy. The first is a southward
movement of the dollar, the second is an unexpected increase
in U.S. interest rates ... Thirdly, (a spiral in) energy prices...
will lead to inflationary expectations," Chidambaram said.
Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Larry Summers warned the problems
were worsening and time could be running out to fix them. But
if policymakers delayed further, he said, "the correction
must be that much larger."
- CHANGE COMING? - U.S. Deputy Treasury Secretary Robert Kimmitt
said his country needed to play its part by relying less on foreign
capital. "The U.S. needs to increase savings, starting with
a reduction of the budget deficit," he said... There are
some concerns on the bond market, however, that China is losing
some of its appetite for Treasuries...
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- POLICE HIT GRANDMOTHER WITH TASER GUN FIVE TIMES
- Officer Said Woman Resisted Arrest - FRANKLIN, Ohio - December
7, 2005 - A 68-year-old woman was hit with a Taser gun by police
in an Ohio city five times. The police officer in the case, a
lieutenant with the Franklin Police Department, claims he is
the victim in the case, NBC 4's Mike Bowersock reported. Beverly
Kidwell, 68, was in the waiting room of the police department
in suburban Dayton when the incident occurred.
- Watch The Report - SLIDESHOW: Surveillance Images - http://www.nbc4i.com/news/5486903/detail.html
According to police, she came into the station to be arrested
for hitting her granddaughter. Kidwell said she waited a long
time in the lobby and, when she got up to leave, the officer
hit her with the Taser gun. "I don't know if he thought
I was going to get up and leave or what, but he pulled his gun.
I thought it was a gun. I'd never seen a Taser gun in my life
and I thought, 'Oh my God. He's going to shoot me. He's going
to kill me," Kidwell said.
- The police lieutenant said she was resisting arrest, Bowersock
reported. Kidwell said she was in a fetal position and unable
to move when the lieutenant ordered her to get up and continued
to shock her. The woman survived five jolts and had to be taken
to an area hospital. Watch NBC 4 and refresh nbc4i.com for additional
information.
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- ANOTHER NASA PLUTONUM LAUNCH
- By KARL GROSSMAN - NASA is again threatening the lives of
people on Earth. On January 11, the window opens for a launch
from Cape Canaveral of a rocket lofting a space probe with 24
pounds of plutonium fuel on board. Plutonium is considered the
most deadly radioactive substance. Once it separates from the
rocket, the probe, on what NASA calls its New Horizons mission,
would move through space powered by conventional chemical fuel.
- The plutonium is in a Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator
(RTG) that is to provide on-board electricity for the probe's
instruments--a mere 180 watts when it gets to its destination
of Pluto.
- Until after the probe leaves the rocket and breaks from the
Earth's gravitational pull, the plutonium endangers life on Earth.
Because a fatal dose of plutonium is just a millionth of a gram,
anyone breathing just the tiniest particle of plutonium dispersed
in an accident could die... An "enormous disaster"
could result with the spread of the plutonium, says Dr. Ernest
Sternglass, professor emeritus of radiological physics at the
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. The issue is how
much plutonium is released in respirable particles, he explains.
"The problem is, it takes so little plutonium," says
Dr. Sternglass.
- The NASA EIS acknowledges that in the event of plutonium
release "costs may include: temporary or longer term relocation
of residents; temporary or longer term loss of employment;
destruction or quarantine of agricultural productsland use restrictions
which could affect real estate values, tourism and recreational
activities; restrictions or bans on commercial fishing; and public
health effects and medical care." The EIS says the cost
to decontaminate land on which the plutonium falls would range
from "about $241 million to $1.3 billion per square mile."
http://www.cyberspaceorbit.com/plutonium_launch.htm
- http://www.counterpunch.org/grossman12132005.html
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- ALASKA BRACES FOR POSSIBLE VOLCANIC ERUPTION
Reuters Alert Net - Anchorage, December 22, 2005 – St. Augustine
Volcano, an island peak 175 miles (280 km) southwest of Anchorage
in Cook Inlet, has produced a series of steam explosions, releases
of sulfur gas and signs that there may be an eruption similar
to events in 1986 and 1976 which sent ash clouds as high as 40,000
feet (12,000 m) . . . It is also possible that there will be
a landslide from the volcano into the waters of Cook Inlet, causing
a tsunami. . . Full story: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N22182402.htm
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- THREE WORLD WARS' NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS FOR 2006! AND 2005
IN REVIEW:
- Topics covered: Worsening Middle East, Bird Flu, Man-made
Hurricanes, Forced Gaza Withdrawal, Escalating North Korean Tension,
Escalating China-Taiwan Tension, Euthanasia, Record US Debt,
Pope Dies and Replaced, Record Oil Prices, Police State Implemented
in US, EU Constitution Rejected, Islamic Revolution Declared,
London & Egypt Bombings, Increasing Calls for Bush Impeachment.
- http://www.threeworldwars.com/archive/news/news039.htm
http://www.threeworldwars.com/world-war-3/yir/2005.htm
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- GERMANY STILL IN JURIDICAL LIMBO
Potsdam, December 15, 2005 – The Allied occupation of Germany
began 58 years ago this month, and in the eyes of many Germans
has not yet ended. Foreign armies are still based on German soil
and Europe's largest and most prosperous "democracy"
still lacks a constitution and a peace treaty putting a formal
end to the Second World War. .
- The illegal German government in Berlin is so worried about
the publicity, it has leaned heavily on newspapers not to report
on such matters and it has instructed judges to dismiss cases
where a defendant is likely to prove that his citizenship of
the German Reich permits him not to recognize the BRD and its
courts as legitimate administrative constructs. They are horrified
at the publicity each of these cases brings. . .
- "The German government is illegal," Ebel told AFP,
"and what they do has no basis in law." Asked how it
could be that the German people are unaware of this situation,
Ebel said: "The German media is still under the control
of the Allies. The entire media is controlled. . . German sovereignty
is compromised. "Until we have a peace treaty, Germany is
a colony of the United States." Full story: http://www.rense.com/general69/germany.htm
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- HOLOCAUST IN THE CLASSROOM
Indiana high schools would have to teach about the Holocaust
under a bill proposed in the House of Representatives.
Rep. Clyde Kersey, D-Terre Haute, is backing the proposal for
the second straight year. The bill failed to receive a hearing
last session, but Kersey is hopeful the House Education Committee
will take it up in 2006.
Kersey said the bill was inspired by Eva Kor, a Holocaust survivor
who runs the CANDLES Holocaust Museum in Terre Haute. "Eva
Kor feels that as time goes on, we tend to forget about the Holocaust
and the horrible things that happened," Kersey said. "She's
hoping that if we can make it a requirement in the classroom,
students will know what Jewish people like Mrs. Kor went through."
If adopted into law, House Bill 1072 would require the Holocaust
to be taught to high school students for one semester.
- http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060109/NEWS02/601090382/1008
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 MENORAH RAISED ON WHITE HOUSE
LAWN
- While Jewish individuals and organized groups alike wage
relentless war on the public celebration of Christmas, ostentatious
displays of Jewish symbols are not only permitted, but the obvious
hypocrisy is barely, if ever, even commented upon. In the latest
outrage, a massive menorah was erected on the lawn of the White
House to celebrate Chanukah (various spellings), a Jewish "festival
of lights" that was only a minor holiday until fairly recent
Jewish campaigns to neutralize Christmas and other European-American
celebrations. According to reports, the religious candelabra
lighting was honored with a military color guard.
- The event was organized by Chabad, an extreme Jewish Hasidic
"outreach" program aiming to strengthen Jewish identity
and ward off Christian missionaries, who, many Jews are convinced,
are hell-bent on converting Jews. (Proseletization -- an article
of Christian faith and practice -- is illegal in Israel, a human
rights violation that goes unmentioned by the United States or
so-called "Christian Zionist" Last Days fanatics, who
have pledged not to witness to Jews.)
- Chabad is part of the Lubavitch school of Hasidism, whose
late leader, Mendel Schneerson, was revered as akin to a prophet.
Some Lubavitchers are convinced that he was in fact the Messiah.
Unlike many Hasidim, the Lubavitchers are hard-core Zionists
and are intent on publicly touting Jewish interests. According
to reports, Chabad will be erecting Chanukah candelabras in public
spaces world-wide. The campaign has provoked some resistance
in Jewish circles, fearful of setting precedents for religious
expressions in public, and wary of drawing Gentile attention
to the grotesque double standard, but the resistance has been
declining.
- The menorah is not the only inroad Judaism as a religion
(as opposed to politically) has made presidentially. In California,
the Chabad will host a spectacle the day after Christmas at the
Ronald Reagan Library, named “The Triumph of Freedom: Chanukah
at the Reagan Presidential Library.” Chabad's soiree will
include "a magical bird show, the building of a Lego menorah...and
guest dignitaries." Naturally, "patriotic songs"
and donuts will also be provided. Back at the White House, Jewish
neo-con policy-makers in the Oval Office have been joined by
kosher chefs in the (taxpayer-funded) kitchen. In mid-December
(2005) the first "kosherization" of the White House
kitchen took place, involving a rabbi muttering incantations,
prior to the annual Chanukah White House dinner. At the dinner
celebration, President Bush lit religious candles and linked
the holiday to his Zionist-inspired war on Iraq.
- Chanukah is a remembrance of a supposed Jewish uprising against
Antiochus IV Epiphanes, a Greek King hated for his civilizing
influence, still denounced by radical Zionists as "Hellenization."
- http://www.nationalvanguard.org/story.php?id=7232
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UNIX ENGINEER TAKES RFID IMPLANT IN HAND
TECHWEB NEWS Jan 3, 2006 - By K.C. Jones - A small, but apparently
growing, group of hobbyists has voluntarily received RFID implants.
One explains why. Mikey Sklar opposed RFID. Then, he requested
that the technology be implanted in his hand. He's now among
a small, but apparently growing, group of hobbyists who have
voluntarily implanted themselves with RFID chips.
"I guess a lot of people like to go home and watch TV,"
he said during an interview Saturday. "I like to make stuff."
Sklar, who designs and makes electronic clothing and gadgets
for fun, will explain at a monthly dorkbot-nyc meeting this week
how and why he put a tiny chip between his thumb and forefinger.
The high performance computing and UNIX engineer underwent the
procedure in November. He planned to keep his presentation low-key,
but he is already drawing media attention from several Web postings.
A physician friend swabbed Sklar's hand with an iodine-based
antiseptic, applied a local anesthetic and sliced into his skin.
The doctor then placed an injector gun with a hollow metal tube
into the incision, pulled the trigger, removed the gun and stitched
and dressed the wound. The physician couldn't be reached in time
for this story.
Sklar said the procedure didn't hurt. The scar healed, but the
reinforced glass tube can be felt near the skin's surface.
Sklar said he chose a read-only device that serves as an identifier.
Using a microcontroller, open source tools and a circuit board,
he wrote a program to pull down Internet content email, RSS feeds,
favorite Web sites - and send them via Bluetooth to a small display
chandelier, which will light up in his apartment, like a miniature
version of Times Square's electronic tickers...
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 EDITORIAL: 2006 --THE
YEAR OF RFID LEGISLATION?
- January 05, 2006 - AIM Global by Bert Moore: For those familiar
with the general political sentiments of residents of New Hampshire
(which has the state motto "Live Free or Die"), it's
not surprising that privacy concerns prompted legislation restricting
RFID use. What is significant, however, is that the wording of
the original draft of the bill (HB 203) has been replaced by
amended text that is specific to tracking and takes a more measured
view of RFID in general. According to an article in the Manchester,
NH ”Union Leader," Curtis J. Barry, who lobbies for
the Retail Merchants Association of New Hampshire, said, “Many
of the proposals made in the (original) bill that were onerous
and burdensome on retailers were not included in the bill as
it now reads, but we still have some concerns about the wording
and continue to question the necessity” for the bill. With
all the prognostications about the coming year, perhaps what
will be the hallmark of 2006 will be a flurry of state legislation
pertaining to RFID. The original HB 203 wording seemed to be
based on some of the more fantastical assertions about the potential
for RFID to covertly identify and track people. In fact, one
of the primary issues seemed to have been a concern that RFID
chips might be surreptitiously implanted in people for tracking
purposes. This provision still exists in the current wording
and there are few, if any, who would argue in favor of individuals
being implanted with an RFID chip without prior consent.
- The full story at http://www.cephas-library.com/nwo/nwo_the_year_of_rfid_legislation.html
- [EDNOTE: Note the Masonic logo of AIM: 3 pyramids, sun, obelisk
and more].
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- DOES THE INDUSTRY OF PSYCHOLOGY MANUFACTURE VICTIMS WHO NEED
THERAPY?
- Dineen's main thesis of her book, for which she provides
extensive support is this: "With degrees in psychology,
medicine, social work, nursing or with no academic qualifications
at all, the expanding work force of the Psychology Industry relies
for its survival and growth on its ability to manufacture victims.
Dineen relates in detail how the psychological manufacturing
of victims takes place. She differentiates between real victims
and the ones manufactured by the Psychology Industry, which involves
a blurring between the two and spreads a net to include virtually
everyone. She concludes her book by saying: The Psychology Industry
can neither reform itself from within nor should it be allowed
to try. It should be stopped from doing what it is doing to people,
from manufacturing victims. And while the Psychology Industry
is being dismantled, people can boycott psychological treatment,
protest the influence of the Psychology Industry and resist being
manufactured into victims (http://www.pamweb.org/manvictims.html).
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- THE TIES THAT BIND: LAUNDERING CASINO CASH FOR NEO-CON POLITICIANS
- January 12, 2006 -- Abramoff scandal could end Netanyahu's
and Cheney's plans for Likud takeover in Israel. Informed
sources in Washington report that Vice President Dick Cheney
and his advisers David Addington and John Hannah are working
behind the scenes to ensure that former Prime Minister Binyamin
Netanyahu succeeds acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. With elections
scheduled for March 28, Cheney and his neo-con cabal are hoping
that Olmert's Kadima Party -- formed by Ariel Sharon and his
more moderate ex-Likud allies -- is defeated in the elections....
What investigators are quickly discovering is a global Abramoff
network involving Russian-Israeli criminal syndicates that were
involved in laundering money through Sun Cruz casino boats in
Florida, casinos on Indian tribal lands in the United States,
West Bank of Palestine, the Greek isle of Patroclos (which involved
Israeli land developer David Appel and Gilad Sharon), a Sun Cruz
casino ship in Saipan, an Internet gambling and lottery venture
in Guam, and casinos in the Philippines, Sharm el Sheikh in the
Sinai, pachinko slot machines and casinos in Japan, the Turkish
Republic of Northern Cyprus, Canada, Virgin Islands, South Africa,
and Abramoff's hometown of Atlantic City, New Jersey.
- The pattern that is emerging is that Abramoff and his criminal
associates not only used various casinos around the world to
enrich themselves but also used them to launder money into right-wing/neo-con
political campaign coffers in the United States, Israel, and
other countries. Prominent recipients included Tom DeLay's Political
Action Committees and Netanyahu's allies in the settler's movement.
- Former Cheney security aide, Leandro Aragoncillo, an ex-Marine
who was arrested while working for the FBI in Fort Monmouth,
New Jersey, is tied to Michael Ray Aquino and former Philippine
President Joseph Estrada. Aquino and Estrada, who were working
with Aragoncillo in transmitting classified documents on Philippine
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo from Cheney's office to Estrada
in order to help in his bid to oust Macapagal-Arroyo from office,
are also linked to Abramoff. A return of Estrada to power in
Manila would have not only benefit Abramoff's casino deals in
the Philippines but would have returned to country to the pro-U.S.
camp in Iraq and other military initiatives.
- Having failed to unseat Macapagal-Arroyo in the Philippines
with the assistance of Abramoff's confederates, Cheney's shadow
foreign policy is now directed at assuring a Netanyahu win in
Israel.
- http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/
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- AMERICA'S SUPERPOWER DAYS ARE OVER
By Paul Craig Roberts - January 9. 2006 - The American Dream
has become a nightmare for college graduates who cannot find
meaningful work. This fact is made abundantly clear from the
payroll jobs data over the past five years. December’s numbers,
released on January 6, show the same pattern that I have reported
each month for years. Under pressure from offshore outsourcing,
the US economy only creates low productivity jobs in low-pay
domestic services. Only a paltry number of private sector jobs
were created—94,000. Of these 94,000 jobs, 35,800 or 38%
are for waitresses and bartenders. Health care and social assistance
account for 28% of the new jobs and temporary workers account
for 10%. These three categories of low tech, nontradable
domestic services account for 76% of the new jobs. This is
the jobs pattern of a poor third world economy that consumes
more than it produces.
- America’s so-called first world superpower economy was
only able to create in December a measly 12,000 jobs in goods
producing industries, of which 77% are accounted for by wood
products and fabricated metal products—the furniture and
roofing metal of the housing boom that has now come to an end.
US employment declined in machinery, electronic instruments,
and motor vehicles and parts. 2,600 jobs were created in computer
systems design and related services, depressing news for the
several hundred thousand unemployed American computer and software
engineers. The whole story: http://www.vdare.com/roberts/060109_america.htm
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- ENRON - THE SMOKIN' CANNON OF 9/11?
By: Devvy - January 16, 2006 - NewsWithViews.com - The information
below represents the content of e-mails sent by a gentleman who
has done a lot of research on Enron and possible connections
to 9/11 to a member of Congress. I have received permission to
share this information without disclosing his identity; please
feel free to forward. January 5, 2006 - Today it was reported
on CNNMoney.com that former Enron CEO Jeff Skilling tried to
sell 200,000 shares of Enron stock on Sept. 6, 2001. - Sept.
6 is but a few days prior to 9/11. More importantly, Sept. 6
is only 1 day prior to Friday, Sept. 7 (2001). Sept. 7 is very
important in context and substance, because on this day, the
October Fed Funds Futures (which is a hedge mechanism for interest
rates) as mentioned before, exploded upward, and made new seasonal/contract
highs.
- This portended that such would continue, and interest rates
would go sharply down (there is an inverse correlation; i.e.
if fed funds futures go up, interest rates go down and vice-versa).
This is exactly what happened, and is strongly indicative that
someone(s) in the Federal Reserve knew the attacks against America
were in the offing.
- Jeff Skilling was also on the Houston branch of the Dallas
Federal Reserve Board. All of this simply further substantiates
the fact that the "smoking cannon" of 9/11 is Enron.
As a corollary of this, the purported off sheet "debts"
of Enron, as also stated previously, were in fact income, generated
in large part through "Federal" Reserve bank trading
programs, which 9/11, I believe was orchestrated to try to cover-up
and keep Enron from imploding by evil doers. Please share with
them too, if you will, the other backdrop communiqués
to you to enlighten them about the cold reality of this, particularly
one Thomas E. (Enron) White. White, if you recall, came from
the top hierarchy of the Pentagon, went to work for many years
at Enron, in charge of their trading department where all the
financial games were largely played, in the first half of 2001
left Enron to become Army Secretary. (Isn't it most interesting
that he headed the most corrupt component of Enron but was not
charged with anything?)
- One week after 9/11 letters were sent to dominant media entities
about Anthrax. White then wore another hat as head of Homeland
Security. Do you remember the great fear about Anthrax then?
Not knowing all of this, I faxed to the NY Times, the Pentagon,
and Ted Koppell of ABC News in Washington a scientific narrative
as to how Anthrax could quickly be negated by low cost Ozone
(O3) machines. Story at: http://www.newswithviews.com/Devvy/kidd155.htm
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- THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING
- By Ashley Mote - January 12, 2006 - NewsWithViews.com - If
you thought Britain was overcrowded and already had an immigration
problem, get ready for the bad news. As we all know, since May
2004 we have seen the arrival in the UK of tens of thousands
from Eastern Europe, and they are still coming. But that, it
seems, is only the start. .. But next year everything changes,
and for the worse. For eastern Europeans, the words ‘free
movement’ will take on a completely new meaning.
- The Schengen Agreement has been signed by most but not all
European countries, including independent sovereign states like
Norway and Switzerland. It is already in effect. It allows the
free movement of people across borders. No passport checks, no
visas. Nothing.
- Next year, 2007, the Schengen Agreement will apply to Lithuania,
Poland, Hungary, Latvia, Estonia, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic
- all previously part of the Soviet Union, and all now with inadequate
frontier controls with other former Communist countries.
- So, next year, if a Russian or a Ukrainian or a Belarusian
gets across their border into any of those countries they gain
access to the rest of Western Europe. They will have little trouble
getting anywhere they choose.
- These former Soviet republics are not prison camps any more.
They issue passports valid for international travel. Internal
passports are a thing of the past. Indeed, the Russians have
just reached agreement with the west to ease visa regulations,
although they recently refused a visa for the Estonian foreign
minister, no less, to visit St Petersburg for a ministerial meeting.
Full story: http://www.newswithviews.com/guest_opinion/guest80.htm
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- DO NOT CALL REGISTRY
To avoid receiving sales calls from telemarketing companies you
may call 888-382-1222 from your phone. It applies to cell phones
as well as regular phones. It is the "National Do Not Call
Registry" for phones. It blocks your number for 5 years.
You must call from the phone you wish to block. It only takes
a minute to do that.
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- GROUP TRIES TO EVICT SUPREME COURT JUSTICE SOUTER FROM HIS
HOME
 By Kathy McCormack, AP - CONCORD,
N.H. (Jan. 21) - Angered by a Supreme Court ruling that gave
local governments more power to seize people's homes for economic
development, a group of activists is trying to get one of the
court's justices evicted from his own home. Justice David Souter
supported property seizures for development. Logan Darrow Clements
of Los Angeles is an organizer of the efforts to seize Souter's
home. Opponents of the Supreme Court's ruling of eminent domain
collected signatures door to door in Souter's hometown. Organizers
of the seizure efforts prepare to canvass neighborhoods at townhall
at Weare N.H.. Winnie Ilsley, who watched Justice David Souter
grow up here, said it wouldn't bother her a bit if Souter's home
was taken. A modest 200-year-old farmhouse on eight acres, in
retaliation for his vote approving the seizure of homes in connection
with the case.
- Clements plans to create on Souter's land the "Lost
Liberty Hotel," a kind of museum commemorating the lost
right to private property in America. Because the Board of Selectmen
of Weare has rejected Clements' request to condemn the property,
Darrow hopes to use a ballot initiative to do the job. The decision,
handed down June 23, allows the New London, Conn., government
to seize the homes and businesses of residents to facilitate
the building of an office complex that would provide economic
benefits to the area and more tax revenue to the city. The activist
says he'll meet with residents Monday, hoping to begin the process
to place a measure on the ballot in March. He says only 25 signatures
are needed to put the initiative before the voters. The town's
website notes there are 5,552 registered voters in Weare, while
2,038 showed up to vote in the last election. "Whoever said
this project 'will never happen' might find themselves sitting
in the Just Desserts Café eating crow pie next to David
Souter," Clements said in a statement. The Just Desserts
Café is a restaurant planned to be part of the Lost Liberty
Hotel complex. Full story: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=45810
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- EXPERIMENTAL WEATHER MODIFICATION BILL ON FAST TRACK
- By Rosalind Peterson - January 16, 2006 - NewsWithViews.com
- U.S. Senate Bill 517 and U.S. House Bill 2995, a bill that
would allow experimental weather modification by artificial methods
and implement a national weather modification policy, does not
include agriculture or public oversight, is on the “fast
track” to be passed early in 2006.
- This bill is designed to implement experimental weather modification.
The appointed Board of Directors established by this bill does
not include any agricultural, water, EPA, or public representatives,
and has no provisions for Congressional, State, County, or public
oversight of their actions or expenditures.
- Weather Modification may adversely impact agricultural crops
and water supplies. If the weather is changed in one state, region
or county it may have severe consequences in another region,
state or county. And who is going to decide the type of weather
modification experimentation and who it will benefit or adversely
impact?
- This experimental weather modification bill will impact residents
across the United States, not just in California. Many current
and ongoing weather modification programs (47 listed by NOAA
in 2005), including the one in Wyoming that is designed to increase
the snowpack, may be diverting rainwater away from Oklahoma and
Texas, two states that are currently fighting fires caused by
a lack of rainfall. We have no idea what the unintended consequences
of the Wyoming action or other experimental weather modification
programs might be now or in the future.
- Full story: http://www.newswithviews.com/guest_opinion/guest81.htm
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- IRAN'S NUCLEAR TEAM FAILS TO KEEP DATE WITH THE U.N.
- New York Times - January 6, 2006 By ELAINE SCIOLINO (NYT);
Foreign Desk - Late Edition - Final, Section A, Page 3, Column
1, 987 words - http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F30B10FD35540C758CDDA80894DE404482
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- IRAN DECLARES ITS NUCLEAR PLAN NONNEGOTIABLE
January 5, 2006, Thursday - By ELAINE SCIOLINO (NYT); Foreign
Desk - Late Edition - Final, Section A, Page 8, Column 1, 524
words - http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F70813F63A540C768CDDA80894DE404482
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- OFFICER NEEDS ASSISTANCE - AN EXEMPLARY POLICE DEPARTMENT
UNDER ATTACK
www.NewsWithViews.com - January 4, 2006 - Gold Hill, OR -- Becoming
known as the town where a Judge maligns his city's police officers
and the whole city council refuses to back the police department,
Gold Hill is a site of a true injustice. This US~Observer exposé
outlines the whole story of this police department that needs
your help.
http://www.usobserver.com/archive/jan06/police-assistance-010406.html
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- REID ORDERED TO BUILD MORE JAILS
By GEORGE PASCOE-WATSON - THE SUN UK - December 26, 2006
HOME Secretary John Reid has been told he has to make concrete
moves to build more jails BEFORE he is given any extra cash.
Chancellor Gordon Brown made the order, angry at claims HE is
blocking plans to provide 8,000 extra prison places. A minister
close to the Treasury said funds were handed to Mr Reid’s
predecessor Charles Clarke but they were diverted to other projects.
He added: “There has been a history of the Home Office getting
money to build prisons but the cash going on other things. “When
the Treasury comes to check what happened, they find nothing
was done and the money was spent elsewhere. Gordon wants to make
sure the prisons this country needs are being built. So he wants
to see evidence.” ... Ministers must act fast after an explosive
report warned of a staggering 20,000 rise in the prison population
over the next ten years — during which Mr Brown hopes to
be Prime Minister. The confidential dossier drawn up for Tony
Blair suggests a series of radical measures. They include chemical
castration for rapists and the most serious child sex attackers,
booze rationing to keep a lid on drunken anti-social behaviour
and ID chip implants for all. .... and it warns the
UK is struggling to cope with an explosion in illegal immigration
which is destroying hopes of an intergrated society.
- http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2006590653,00.html
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 SECRETARY
OF STATE, RICE BELIEVES U.S. IS READY TO ELECT A BLACK PRESIDENT
By: ANNE GEARAN, Associated Press - 12/22/2006 - Washington -
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told The Associated Press
on Thursday that Iraq is "worth the investment" in
American lives and dollars and said the U.S. can still win a
conflict that has been more difficult than she expected.
In an interview at the State Department, the nation's highest-ranking
black government official also said the United States is ready
to elect a black president.
Rice was asked whether an additional $100 billion the Pentagon
wants for the Iraq and Afghan wars might amount to throwing good
money after bad in Iraq. President Bush and Congress have already
provided more than $500 billion for the two conflicts and worldwide
efforts against terrorism, including more than $350 billion for
Iraq. "I don't think it's a matter of money," Rice
said. "Along the way there have been plenty of markers that
show that this is a country that is worth the investment, because
once it emerges as a country that is a stabilizing factor you
will have a very different kind of Middle East."
The top U.S. diplomat made the remarks as Bush faces mounting
pressure from the public and members of Congress to find a fresh
course in the long-running war. More than three-and-half years
after the U.S. invasion that deposed Saddam Hussein, the conflict
shows no signs of nearing an end and has cost the lives of more
than 2,950 American troops... Rice has repeatedly said she will
not run for president, despite high popularity ratings and measurable
support in opinion polls. Rice declined to say whether she would
like to see her predecessor, Colin Powell, become a candidate.
Powell is a fellow black Republican. Democratic Sen. Barack Obama,
D-Ill., is the most prominent black politician to emerge as a
potential candidate for the 2008 presidential race. Rice was
asked whether, watching Obama's rise, she thinks Americans are
willing to put a black in the White House. "Yes, I think
a black person can be elected president," Rice said. http://www.thebulletin.us/site/news.cfm?newsid=17624727&BRD=2737&PAG=461&dept_id=576361&rfi=6
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