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 SCRIPTURE STUDY - Biblical Prophecies Being Perfectly
Fulfilled
 Never
in history has more Biblical prophecies been so perfectly visible.
It is like the whole Bible is a drama on the stage before us.
How can this generation that has more preachers than ever in
history be so unaware of the perfect preparation for the close
of time? Nature is screaming, the One World Order is meeting,
Jerusalem is under siege and the religionists are muttering their
mindless call for unity. At the same time, Bible scholars are
saying, "Where is the promise of His coming?"
- Eight Breathtaking Broadcasts:
- The Major Effort To Stop
the Rapture - January
10, 2009
Turning Demons Loose On the World - January 17, 2009
The One World Order Is Here Full Government Control and the Mark
- "666"
- January 31, 2009
Preparing Babylon to be a World Capitol - February 7, 2009
All Religions and a One World Church - February 14, 2009
The War of Gog and Magog - February 21, 2009
The Underlying Hunger for God - February 28, 2009
The first thought - the effort to stop the Rapture - will be
highlighted as we watch these broadcasts unfold. Do not miss
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- THE VIRTUOUS WOMAN (Proverbs 31:10-31)
- January 8, 2009 David Cloud, wayoflife.org - This book, which
has warned frequently of the danger of the strange woman and
the foolish wife (e.g. Prov. 2:16-19; 5:3-14; 6:24-35; 7:5-27;
9:13-18; 11:22; 14:1; 21:9; 23:27-28; 25:24), concludes with
the glory of the virtuous wife. It is a wonderful token of grace
that this description of the virtuous woman was written by Bathsheba
(assuming, as we do, that it was). She writes that the husband
of the virtuous woman can safely trust in her, yet she betrayed
the trust of her first husband by responding to David’s
sinful invitation. Of course she might have put herself and her
husband in jeopardy by refusing David’s lust, but she would
have kept God’s Law and maintained her honor. Yet God forgave
her sin and she became a prophetess of truth and righteousness
and a spokeswoman for virtue!
- Bathsheba exhorts her son to find a virtuous woman. This
was probably taught to him as he was growing up. That he disobeyed
his mother’s counsel resulted in his terrible backsliding
and the loss of most of the kingdom (1 Kings 11:1-13). This lengthy
description of the virtuous woman teaches us the immense importance
of the godly wife. She is mentioned in many passages of the New
Testament as well (Ephesians 5:22-33; Colossians 3:18; 1 Timothy
2:9-15; 3:11; Titus 2:3-5; 1 Peter 3:1-6). “And with good
reason is so much stress laid upon it, since it contributes as
much as any one thing to the keeping up of religion in families,
and the entail of it upon posterity, that the mothers be wise
and good; and of what consequence it is to the wealth and outward
prosperity of a house every one is sensible. He that will thrive
must ask his wife leave” (Matthew Henry). “In choosing
a wife, fools will follow their fancy, and the wise will act
according to reason and the word of God” (George Lawson).Continued:
- http://www.cephas-library.com/gospel_the_virtuous_woman.html
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- FELLOWSHIP OF THE BRETHREN
By Steven Ray - January 7, 2009 4:57 AM - Fellowship comes from
the Greek word, KOINONIA, which means “to share in common.”
Christian fellowship is more than attending worship — it
is “assimilating” into the body of believers, becoming
“one” with a like mind and heart in worshipping, loving,
caring and sharing. According to the scripture, fellowship is
not an optional matter for believers. It says, “if walk
in the light [in fellowship with God]... this causes us to have
fellowship with one another.” And from the outcome of this
fellowship, “the blood of Jesus, His Son, cleanses us from
all sin” (1 John 1:7). Therefore it is within the body of
Christ, the Church (1 Cor. 12:27). For the blood of Jesus Christ
to have its continual cleansing effect over our sins, we must
remain attached to a genuine body of believers where the Holy
Spirit is evident. If we sever fellowship with His body, we risk
cutting off the circulation of the cleansing blood!
- Our relationship with Jesus Christ is obviously the basis
for the forgiveness of our sins, but the Bible indicates that
we cannot have a proper relationship with Christ without a proper
relationship with His people. For example, the scriptures indicate
that our worship to God is unacceptable unless we make things
right with an offended brother and sister, even if we are not
the cause of offense. “Therefore if you bring your gift
to the altar, and there remember that your brother has something
against you, “leave your gift there before the altar, and
go your way. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come
and offer your gift” (Matt. 5:23-24). God will not accept
our worship when strife or unresolved issues remain within a
family, His Spirit cannot reside or pass through a heart(s) burdened
with unforgiveness and judgment.
- Not only does the Bible say that “fellowship” is
the evidence of walking in the light (1 John 1:7), but it also
says that “loving the brethren” is evidence of that
walk. “He who loves his brother abides in the light, and
there is no cause for stumbling in him” (1 John 2:10). If
we are walking in wholeness with Christ, our path will not be
marked by hurting others, it cannot. There is a strong, inseparable
relationship between “fellowship” and “loving
the brethren.” Consequently, that fellowship is intended
to be the practice of loving the brethren, which helps keep us
in a right relationship with Christ so that His shed blood can
continue its full cleansing effect. Continued:
- http://www.cephas-library.com/bible_fellowship_of_the_brethren.html
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- THE BEGINNING OF SORROWS HAS BEGUN
- It is impossible to look at the recent events occurring around
the world and not know that the “beginning of sorrows”
has begun. The preachers loved or at least tolerated on television
are actually walking over truth and denying any connection between
present events and the Bible. They could not be more wrong or
more foolish in their drive to be politically correct. How could
any man of this Blessed Book not connect such apparent Divine
reckoning as evidence of Bible prophecy? Jesus wrote about this
period just before the Seven Years of the Great Tribulation.
He said, “For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ;
and shall deceive many. And ye shall hear of wars and rumours
of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must
come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against
nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines,
and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. All these
are the beginning of sorrows.” (Matthew 24:5-8)
- Continued: http://www.pawcreek.org/articles_pcm/prophetic_news_alerts/beginning_sorrows.htm
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- THE LAND WHERE GOD WALKED AS A MAN
- By Nicholas Stivers: A scroll about his trip to Israel in
November 2008 - hreat read - Part One - ".. The flight to
Amman, Jordan was long and flying coach is not so easy on a crowded
plane with little leg room but who can afford first class seating
anymore? Renee and I did some reading and a lot of sleeping in
flight to make the time pass more smoothly. As we were flying
over the eastern part of the Mediterranean Sea on approach to
the Israeli coastline, the Captain makes the announcement that
all passengers must put their seats in an upright position and
fasten their seat belts as we were heading into restricted air
space. I suppose there is always a chance that one's plane could
be targeted by anti-aircraft missiles launched by terrorists
but my faith in God was sufficient to settle my worries about
such possibility. As we began our slow descent from 35,000 feet
we could begin to see the stark contrasts of the vivid blue green
Mediterranean Sea meeting with the coastline of Israel. I suppose
it was for safety's sake that we flew over Israel into Amman,
Jordan because anywhere else might have got us shot down with
Lebanon and Syria to the north and Egypt to the south. We landed
safely in Amman and after extensive security and customs clearing
we boarded our bus and headed for the Radisson SAS Hotel for
dinner and a time of refreshment and relaxation. Renee and I
traveled with Dr. Noah Hutchings from Southwest Radio Church
Ministry and with 46 persons in our group we felt safer than
we would have otherwise traveling alone. This was my second tour
with Noah but it was Noah's 52nd tour to Jordan and Israel and
he has conducted many such Christian tours all over the world
to countries including Turkey, Egypt, Greece and China just to
name a few. Noah likes to boast that he has never lost a tour
member on any of his excursions and all return home safely. Continued:
- http://nicholas-scrolls.com/archive_volume_4_number_7.html
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- RABBIS OVER THE VATICAN
- Pope Benedict XVI Cedes Keys of Kingdom to Zionist Interlopers,
Leaving One Billion Catholics Swallowed Up in a Thick Cloud of
Jewish Deceit: In an amazing turn-about, the new Pope, Benedict
XVI, has turned over the reigns of power at the Vatican to Zionist
agents. Recently, a Chief Rabbi came to Rome and taught a special
conclave of Catholic Cardinals and Bishops. Invited by the Pope,
this rabbi instructed the Catholic clergy on how they were to
interpret the Old and New Testaments. Meanwhile, a high-level
rabbinical council is secretly overseeing all Vatican operations,
including the pre-screening of all church literature and papal
encyclicals, to insure that Zionist preferences and tradition
are preserved. The Holy See has fallen totally to the Judaizers.
For your friends and relatives who are in the Catholic Church
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- PASTOR 'TED HAGGARD' IN GAY SCANDAL: I'M BACK FROM 'WILDERNESS'
 By ERIC GORSKI (AP Religion Writer)
- From Associated Press - January 09, 2009 - Speaking out two
years after being embroiled in a gay sex scandal, former evangelical
pastor Ted Haggard said Friday his sexual identity is complex
and can't be put into "stereotypical boxes," but that
his relationship with his wife is stronger than ever. In an interview
with The Associated Press, Haggard did not rule out a return
to public life or the pulpit. He spoke before he appeared before
TV critics in Los Angeles to promote "The Trials of Ted
Haggard," an HBO documentary on Haggard's exile after his
confession to "sexual immorality" and fall as a top
evangelical leader. "I am guilty. I am responsible,"
Haggard, 52, said Friday in a phone interview. "I got off
track, and I am deeply sorry and I repent ... I'm moving along
in a positive direction." Haggard resigned as president
of the 30 million-member National Association of Evangelicals
and was fired from the 14,000-member New Life Church in Colorado
Springs, Colo., in November 2006 amid allegations that he paid
a male prostitute for sex and used methamphetamine. Continued:
http://www.cephas-library.com/evangelists_ted_haggard_back_from_homosexual_wilderness.html
- TED HAGGARD STORY WILL RAISE SERIOUS QUESTIONS FOR ALL
- http://www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com/blog/index.php?p=329&more=1&c=1
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- DISGRACED PASTOR FACES MORE GAY SEX ACCUSATIONS
This image taken from video, supplied by Magnolia Pictures, shows
the Rev. Ted Haggard preaching in the documentary film "Jesus
Camp". By ERIC GORSKI (AP Religion Writer) From Associated
Press
January 23, 2009 - DENVER - Disgraced evangelical leader Ted
Haggard's former church disclosed Friday that the gay sex scandal
that caused his downfall extends to a young male church volunteer
who reported having a sexual relationship with Haggard - a revelation
that comes as Haggard tries to repair his public image.
- Brady Boyd, who succeeded Haggard as senior pastor of the
10,000-member New Life Church in Colorado Springs, told The Associated
Press that the man came forward to church officials in late 2006
shortly after a Denver male prostitute claimed to have had a
three-year cash-for-sex relationship with Haggard.
- Boyd said an "overwhelming pool of evidence" pointed
to an "inappropriate, consensual sexual relationship"
that "went on for a long period of time ... it wasn't a
one-time act." Boyd said the man was in his early 20s at
the time. He said he was certain the man was of legal age when
it began. Reached Friday night, Haggard declined to comment and
said all interviews would have to be arranged through a publicist
for HBO, which is airing a documentary about him this month.
Boyd said the church reached a legal settlement to pay the man
for counseling and college tuition, with one condition being
that none of the parties involved discuss the matter publicly.
- Thursday to say the young man was planning to provide a detailed
report of his relationship with Haggard to the station. Boyd
said the church preferred to keep the matter private, but it
was the man's decision to go public.
Boyd said a Colorado Springs TV station reached him Thursday
to say the young man was planning to provide a detailed report
of his relationship with Haggard to the station. Boyd said the
church preferred to keep the matter private, but it was the man's
decision to go public. The disclosure comes as Haggard, 52, is
about to give a series of high-profile interviews to promote
the cable documentary about his time in exile. He is scheduled
to appear on CNN's Larry King Live on Thursday, the date of the
documentary's premiere, and already has taped "The Oprah
Winfrey Show." Cont'd: http://enews.earthlink.net/article/top?guid=20090123/49795ce0_3ca6_15526200901231759124866
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- CURRENT PASTOR TO DISCUES NEW HAGGARD ANGLE
By Greg Griffin - The Denver Post - 01/24/2009 - Members of the
New Life Church are learning new details about the scandal involving
former pastor Ted Haggard. Current New Life Rev. Brady Boyd informed
New Life congregants in a letter Friday that a young man involved
in the church claims he had a relationship with Haggard prior
to the pastor's departure in late 2006. Boyd will discuss the
issue during services at the church Sunday morning. In published
reports, Boyd said the man, who was in his 20s and a church volunteer
at the time, said he had a sexual relationship with Haggard that
"went on for a long period of time." Colorado Springs
TV station KRDO channel 13 plans to air an interview with the
man Monday night. "I'm confident that New Life is moving
forward in a healthy new direction," Boyd said Saturday
night in a statement.
- "Mr. Haggard has been gone from New Life for two years
and now I am so sorry that this wound, that was almost healed,
has been reopened. I will have to go back to the beginning with
a lot of people in our church and take them through the process
of healing." Haggard was fired from the 10,000-member church
in November 2006 after confessing to "sexually immoral conduct."
That confession came after a Denver male prostitute claimed to
have had a three-year cash-for-sex relationship with Haggard.
Continued: http://www.denverpost.com/ci_11547270
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- CHRISTIAN ROCK EVANGELISM
- January 9, 2009, David Cloud - www.wayoflife.org - Defenders
of Christian rock claim that it is a necessary tool for evangelism.
The book Reaching a Generation for Christ, edited by Richard
Dunn and Mark Senter, describes this philosophy: “Contemporary
music is still one of the best tools to build bridges with Christian
kids and one of the best hooks to go fishing for the unsaved.”
I have been investigating Contemporary Christian Music off and
on for 30 years. I have listened to and read the lyrics to hundreds
of songs, visited at least 300 web sites produced by CCM musicians
and their fans, listened to CCM radio stations in various parts
of the country, etc. While there is some gospel preaching done
by CCM artists, this is definitely not the main emphasis. In
fact, evangelism comes across as a very low priority. Consider
the SONGS themselves. Only a very tiny percentage of present
a clear gospel message. Furthermore, in a large number of cases,
the message, whatever it might be, is drowned out by the raucous
music. The large majority of WEBSITES produced by CCM artists
or fans do not contain a gospel message or a challenge to the
unsaved. Most BIOGRAPHIES or interviews of CCM artists do not
contain a clear testimony of salvation or any challenge to the
unsaved. Consider, finally, the CONCERTS. It is rare for a clear
gospel message to be given at Christian rock concerts. In reality,
it’s all about the sensual music. The bottom line is that
CCMers are in love with rock & roll.
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- POPE BENEDICT XVI IS CLEVERLY POSITIONING THE VATICAN TO
BE THE LEGAL STANDARD FOR EUROPEAN LAW
- January 8, 2009, sender: JDC tempest@shasta.com - In a move
that has taken the Italian government by surprise, the pope has
divorced the Vatican State from Italian national law, effective
from January 1. With this move the Vatican State immediately
reverts to its pre-1929 status, meaning that the pope now becomes
the supreme authority on judging which of those laws enacted
by the Italian government the Vatican State will choose to abide
by and which it will reject. This is a clever ploy with tremendous
consequences for the future. As Newsweek observed in its most
recent edition, the pope firmly believes that "his is the
one true church" (January 5). To underline this, the pope
declared last year that the only way for man to gain salvation
is through conversion to the Catholic faith. Twice during the
last quarter of 2008, Benedict referred to the need for the masses
to prepare for the return of Christ . His influence was behind
a failed effort during 2008 to write the celebration of Sunday,
the renowned sign of global Catholicism, into EU law as a compulsory
day of rest. Further, observing the current worldwide economic
chaos, he indicated that the only way to establish a sound foundation
for a global economy is through attachment to a religion, the
implication being his “one true church." In addition
to undertaking these initiatives, the pope has, from the earliest
days of his pontificate, strengthened Pope John Paul IIs cry
for Europe to return to its religious and cultural roots, inferring
that is the only way that Europe will regain the unity that it
once knew under the old Holy Roman Empire . Students of biblical
prophecy ought to really make a strong connection between all
of these papal pronouncements, in particular the most recent
decision to become judge and jury over Italian law. These acts
are all part of a masterful plan—one that European elites
have been committed to since the close of World War II: to indeed
resurrect that ancient, ever-reviving institution of the Holy
Roman Empire .
With a goodly number of committed Roman Catholics embedded within
the legal and policy formulation echelons of the European Union,
it is guaranteed that the EU legislative body, the European Parliament,
will now increasingly take note of papal judgments on not only
Italian law, but also, more significantly, EU law.
This latest move by Benedict sets a highly dangerous precedent
for Europe . It is one more step toward the Vatican encouraging
the imposition of a legal system that is destined to not only
control the practice of religion throughout Europe , but also
to control the lives of the masses to the point of life-and-death
issues. Source: Email
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- THE WORLD’S SMALLEST COMPUTER
- January 9, 2009, David Cloud - www.wayoflife.org - The following
is excerpted from Creation Moments, http://www.creationmoments.net/radio/transcript.php?t=2271
: “The cells of all living things are filled with highly
detailed information. The incredible system that is used for
storing this information makes our best computer information
systems look like a child’s simple slate board! Believe
it or not, it takes more information to make a complete human
being than can be stored in the average city library. And all
of this information is stored in less than a few thousand millionths
of a gram of material within each of our cells. You have literally
billions of copies of it! Our most sophisticated computer system
cannot even come close to being able to store information like
that. It is estimated that one billion species of plants and
animals have existed since creation. The information storage
system within the cell is so compact that all of the information
to make every one of those one billion species could be held
in a teaspoon--with room left over to hold all the books ever
written if they, too, were stored with the same efficient system.
Even more amazing is that this information storage system is
not only able to store information like a computer but, unlike
a computer, it can also copy itself and correct errors if any
creep into the information! How could anyone believe that this
brilliant information storage, copying and correction system
could have come about by chance? To believe that this could be
created by no one is certainly an act of faith. But it is clearly
the wrong faith! And that highlights what the origins debate
is really all about.”
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- THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT: CREATING A NEW & OMINOUS STRATEGY
AGAINST THE LEFT
- [The "Yes" on Proposition 8 Campaign Against Gay
Marriage in California Points the Way in this New Effort]
- By: S.R. Shearer - January 6, 2009 - "Many will say
to me in THAT day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy
name? and in thy name have cast out devils [demons]? and in thy
name done many wonderful works? "And then will I profess
unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity."
(Matthew 7:22-23) INTRODUCTION - In our last article, "The
Men Who Gathered Themselves Together at Clint Murchison?s Dallas
Home Forty-Five Years Ago," we spent a good deal of time
describing the character and temperament of the core elements
that make up the so-called Christian Right: People who "HAVE
A FORM OF GODLINESS" but whose "Christianity"
is a vain and empty affair (2 Timothy 3:5); "Christian"
businessmen and politicians such as H.L. Hunt, Howard F. Ahmanson
Jr., Theodore Olson, Kenneth Starr, ad infinitum; and so-called
"Christian leaders" such as Rick Joyner, Francis Frangipane,
C. Peter Wagner, ad nauseum; steely-eyed, Bible-toting, hyper-critical,
censorious, disapproving men and women who believe that "The
poor deserve to be poor," and that the "Pursuit of
wealth and the preservation of property is," as John Calvin
insisted, "a Christian duty;" people about whom Jesus
said:
- "Woe unto you ... hypocrites! FOR YE DEVOUR WIDOW?S
HOUSES, AND FOR A PRETENSE MAKE A LONG PRAYER." (Matthew
23:14) Continued http://www.antipasministries.com/html/file0000297.htm
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- ADVENTIST THEOLOGY ATTRACTIVE TO DISENCHANTED CATHOLICS
Commentl Dear Power of Pride, I so much appreciate your real-life
views from out-of-the-closet gays who are still active in communities
of faith.
- LONGTIME DREAM CRUSHED
- I grew up in a Roman Catholic home, and had always dreamed
of becoming a priest. I was CRUSHED when the pope said, No more
gays can enter the priesthood! For the first time, I began to
look seriously at other religions. Just recently, I stumbled
across the Adventists. Do you think that might be something for
me?
- Todd
- !!YOUR ANSWERS FROM POWER OF PRIDE - GAY ADVENTIST NEWS!!
- Dear Aspiring Priest,
- WHERE GAYS FIND A SPIRITUAL HOME
- Absolutely. The Adventists have a large number of gays in
their ranks, and their leadership (both in and out of the closet)
is positive towards the Community! Mr. Cliff Goldstein fills
a key position at their world HQ. This important Adventist leader
has The Power of PrideFront Page About ? Progressive Adventist
Tupperware Evangelist brings Gay Couple Together! Eminent Adventist
Scholar Speaks to Gay Love ?
Adventist Theology Attractive to Disenchanted Catholics
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Dear Power of Pride,
- I so much appreciate your real-life views from out-of-the-closet
gays who are still active in communities of faith.
- LONGTIME DREAM CRUSHED
- I grew up in a Roman Catholic home, and had always dreamed
of becoming a priest. I was CRUSHED when the pope said, No more
gays can enter the priesthood!
- For the first time, I began to look seriously at other religions.
Just recently, I stumbled across the Adventists. Do you think
that might be something for me?
- Todd
- !!YOUR ANSWERS FROM POWER OF PRIDE - GAY ADVENTIST NEWS!!
- Dear Aspiring Priest,
- WHERE GAYS FIND A SPIRITUAL HOME
- Absolutely. The Adventists have a large number of gays in
their ranks, and their leadership (both in and out of the closet)
is positive towards the Community!
- Mr. Cliff Goldstein fills a key position at their world HQ.
This important Adventist leader has come right out and said:
“I’m sure Jesus looks approvingly on ‘loving,
monoganamous, and committed’ homosexual sodomy, don’t
you?” Continued: http://powerofpride.wordpress.com/2009/01/01/adventist-theology-attractive-to-disenchanted-catholics/
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- ADVENTIST LEADERS PROCLAIM STUNNINGLY POPULAR THEOLOGY
- The Power of PrideFront Page About 'Mission San Francisco
- Reaching Bay Area Gays with Prog. Adventist Gospel Progressive
Adventist Dreams: Queer Eye for the GC Guy '
Adventist Leaders Proclaim Stunningly Popular Theology
MAKING DISCIPLES
- We learned here about Mission San Francisco, an evangelistic
thrust to reach Bay Area gays with progressive Adventist discipleship
opportunities.
- “Making disciples might require us to do strange things:
eat or drink strange mixtures and be all things to all people
so we can win some. This is the call and challenge of discipleship,
especially as the gospel goes around the world and into cultures
sometimes radically different from our own.”
http://ssnet.org/qrtrly/eng/08a/less06.html
- OUTREACH WITH GAY-ORIENTED PUBLICATION
- “Charles Scriven is president of Kettering College of
the Medical Arts and chairs the Adventist Forum/SPECTRUM board.”
Alexander Carpenter, Reconstructing Seventh-day Adventism - Charles
Scriven, 26 June 2008, http://www.spectrummagazine.org/podcast/2008/06/24/test
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- BILL RITCHIE, CROSSROADS CHURCH: Ritchie is pastor of a large
Calvary Chapel church in Washington state. The church has begun
what is called the "2009 Scripture Meditation Program."
In the January 4th Sunday bulletin, there was an explanation
of the new program, giving a description of lectio divina where
a passage of Scripture is isolated leading eventually to the
isolation of a small phrase or a single word. This word or phrase
is then "meditated" upon. This is classic lectio divina,
a contemplative practice that is often a gateway to "deeper"
meditation. (See an article on this please.) Note: Someone attending
Crossroads contacted Lighthouse Trails about the bulletin; we
then read the bulletin ourselves when it was posted online last
week and confirmed what we were told. In view of the fact that
Bill Ritchie calls The Shack (a book with New Age implications)
"one of the most remarkable books I've read in years"
and is introducing his large congregation to lectio divina, we
believe our warning is warranted. Continued by Lighthousetrails.com
http://campaign.constantcontact.com/render?v=001er4Hq1YdLKjIvGGAJLBT2eZsR1kgOqKyB0BxfzoQXHKv-
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- CHUCK BALDWIN:
- In Baldwin's "Recommended Reading for 2009" Baldwin
does something interesting. He not only lists Madame Guyon as
someone he "strongly" recommends and whose writings
are "fantastic," but he challenges those who would
suggest she is a mystic. Thus, we feel we must list his recommendation
as well. We emailed Baldwin this past week and offered him a
copy of A Time of Departing but have not yet heard back.
- A particular statement made by Guyon is very indicative of
what contemplatives believe, and quoting it here can give a good
example of the nature of mysticism. Guyon stated: "May I
hasten to say that the kind of prayer I am speaking of is not
a prayer that comes from your mind. It is a prayer that begins
in the heart.... Prayer that comes out of the heart is not interrupted
by thinking!"
This prayer of the heart that contemplatives such as Richard
Foster teach is a "prayer" that eliminates distractions
(thoughts) through meditative practices such as lectio divina,
centering, etc. If a word or phrase is repeated or the breath
focused upon, a type of self-hypnosis is achieved and the mind
is rendered to a neutral state (the alpha state). But no where
in Scripture are we instructed to produce a mystical state in
order to hear God's voice. On the contrary, divination (seeking
to contact the spirit world through self-induced mystical means)is
strictly warned against.
- Keep in mind that the "fruit" of practicing contemplative
prayer is a change in spiritual outlook. That change comes in
the form of believing that God is in all things. All the "great"
mystics have believed this. It is the heart of Satan's lie because
if he can convince man that he is divine, then he can convince
him he needs no Savior.
- In a small obscure booklet Lighthouse Trails was given, written
by Mrs. Jessie Penn-Lewis titled Life out of Death: A Brief Summary
of Madame Guyon's "Spiritual Torrents," the last section
of the book, after laying out the various stages of contemplative
spirituality, is called "God All in All." Here Mrs.
Penn-Lewis tells readers that this "Divine Union" is
the outcome of Guyon's "contemplative prayer." Penn-Lewis
states: "Here all is God; God is everywhere, and in all
things." The Appendix following examines in further detail
the "God in all." Continued by Lighthousetrails.com:
http://campaign.constantcontact.com/render?v=001er4Hq1YdLKjIvGGAJLBT2eZsR1kgOqKyB0BxfzoQXHKv-
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- WARREN AND OBAMA WALK HAND IN HAND
- By Paul Proctor - January 2, 2009 - NewsWithViews.com - American
Family Association’s news editor, Ed Vitagliano, ended 2008
with a curious column at their affiliated OneNewsNow.com website
titled, Praying for the new president, where he chastised WorldNetDaily.com’s
founder and editor Joseph Farah for taking Pastor Rick Warren
to task for accepting President-elect Barack Obama’s invitation
to lead the invocation at his upcoming inauguration. In Farah’s
open
letter to Rick Warren, published at WND, he wrote: "I'm
sure you would not want to invoke God's blessing on the inauguration
of a figure like Adolf Hitler, whose rise to power brought the
destruction of millions of lives.” Calling it a “non
sequitur,” Vitagliano countered Farah in his article, saying:
“Just because one prays for Adolph Hitler does not mean
the prayer is meant to ‘invoke God's blessing.’ One
could, conceivably, pray for Hitler's conversion, or for God
to prevent the man from carrying out his wicked plans.”
- Yeah, but at a Nazi Party rally?
- Sure, if they wanted to incite a riot. Unless Vitagliano
is expecting Pastor Warren to publicly pray for Obama’s
conversion at the inauguration, or that God would thwart his
“wicked plans,” Ed’s argument is the one containing
a non sequitur. Come on – we’re talking about Huggy
Bear Rick in Washington D.C – not Jonah at Nineveh.
- He’s the life of the party – not the party pooper!
Continued: http://www.newswithviews.com/PaulProctor/proctor170.htm
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- RAVI ZACHARIAS MINISTRIES DEFENDS BUDDHIST SYMPATHIZER, HENRI
NOUWEN
December 23, 2008 - LTRP Note: The letter spoken of in this posting
was also sent to LTRP with the Zacharias letterhead. by Ingrid
Schlueter - Slice of Laodicea - Margaret Manning at Ravi Zacharias
Ministries identifies as part of Ravi's Speaking Team and an
Associate Writer for the ministry. Yesterday, a reader sent me
a copy of a letter sent out over her signature that is downright
shocking. The letter was in response to a listener to Ravi's
show who was concerned after hearing Ravi refer to Universalist
and quasi-Buddhist, Henri Nouwen, as one of the "greatest
Christian saints." Click here to read more and also for
contact information for Ravi Zacharias and Margaret Manning.
Continued: http://www.sliceoflaodicea.com/false-teaching/ravi-zacharias-ministries-defends-buddhist-sympathizer-henri-nouwen/
- Also see our reports at Lighthousetrails.com:
- Crystal
Cathedral Postpones Rethink 2009 - Ravi Zacharias and Dan
Kimball Will Have to Wait Until 2010
- Ravi
Zacharias Ministries Points to Nouwen, Merton, and Foster
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- TYRANNICAL FTC THREATENS CHRISTIAN CHURCH WITH IMPRISONMENT
FOR SELLING DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS
- January 13, 2009 - by: Mike Adams, NaturalNews Editor - Key
concepts: The FTC, Health and Dietary supplement - (NaturalNews)
The FTC has unleashed a new assault against both dietary supplements
and religious freedoms by targeting a Christian church for termination.
Through exclusive interviews and conversations with health freedom
attorney Jim Turner (http://www.naturalnews.com/Index-Podcas...
), NaturalNews has learned that the church Daniel Chapter One
(www.DanielChapterOne.com ) has been targeted by the FTC for
destruction.
- Throughout 2008, the FTC has been on a free speech rampage,
sending threatening demands to 130 companies selling dietary
supplements. It has specifically targeted organizations selling
anti-cancer dietary supplements. The typical FTC legal assault
involves the sending of a threatening letter to the company or
church being targeted, where FTC demands to:
- o Confiscate customer records.
o Confiscate all banking and financial records.
o Drag the church or business into court for refusing to comply.
- Organizations that refuse to meet the FTC's demands are threatened
with the following:
- o Arrest and imprisonment.
o Complete confiscation of their inventory.
o Being charged with crimes by the FTC. Such crimes are heard
in the FTC's own kangaroo court, which is subject to no law.
Continue: http://www.cephas-library.com/nwo_tyrannical_FTC_forbids_selling_dietary_supplements.html
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- LIBERTY COUNSEL HAS JUST LAUNCHED A MAJOR, NATIONWIDE PETITION
OPPOSING FOCA [Freedom of Choice Act] AND THIS RADICAL ABORTION
AGENDA
- http://www.libertyaction.org/r.asp?u=15210&RID=17737314
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- LAWMAKERS CONSIDER IMPLANTED CHIPS FOR TRACKING SEX OFFENDERS
January 15, 2009- Seattle, Washington - Problem SolversLawmakers
consider implanted chips for tracking sex offenders. YouNews™Story
Published: Jan 14, 2009 By Luke Duecy Watch the story OLYMPIA,
Wash. -- Lawmakers are considering a controversial bill that
would outfit sex offenders with a surgically-implanted device
that tracks their movement. The devices would replace the ankle
bracelets that are currently used to track offenders. The bracelets
have been criticized as a lacking device as offenders have successfully
removed them in the past before disappearing off of the radar.
"(The devices would) be a little more difficult to take
off," said Rep. Maralyn Chase, D-Edmonds. Chase is among
a handful of lawmakers are looking into radio chips that can
be planted under the skin. Some of the designs are no larger
than a grain of rice. Continued:
- http://www.komonews.com/news/37623484.html
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- MORE THAN HALF SAY OTHER FAITHS CAN LEAD TO SALVATION
- AMERICAN INDIVIDUALISM HAS MADE ITS IMPRINT ON CHRISTIANITY
- Most US Christians define own theology, Jane Lampman, Christian
Science Monitor, Jan. 14, 2008 - A sizable majority of the country’s
faithful no longer hew closely to orthodox
teachings, and look more to themselves than to churches or
denominations
to define their religious convictions, according to two recent
surveys. More than half of all Christians also believe that some
non-Christians can get into heaven.
- “Growing numbers of people now serve as their own theologian-in-residence,”
said George Barna, president of Barna Group, on releasing findings
of one of the polls on Jan. 12.
The Bible teaches that there are sound and unsound doctrines.
It also warns that there will come a time when people reject
sound doctrine and instead choose only teachings they desire.
Those who reject the essential doctrines of the Christian faith
attempt to make Christianity into something it is not. In following
and promoting heresy they place themselves outside of the Christian
faith.
Christianity is not a ’salad bar’ or ‘cafeteria’
religion, where people pick and choose your own beliefs, doctrines
and practices.
Why
does doctrine matter?
The
need for spiritual discernment
- In the Barna survey, 71 percent of American adults say they
are more likely to develop their own set of religious beliefs
than to accept a defined set of teachings from a particular church.
Even among born-again Christians, 61 percent pick and choose
from the beliefs of different denominations. For people under
the age of 25, the number rises to 82 percent.
- Many “cafeteria Christians” go beyond the teachings
of Christian denominations to embrace parts of other world religions.
- Half of Americans also believe that Christianity is now just
one of many faith options people can choose from (44 percent
disagree with that perception). Residents of the Northeast and
West were more likely than those in the South and Midwest to
say Christianity has lost its status as the favored American
religion. Continued:
- http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23162/religion-trends-7
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 AS ATHEISTS ROLL OUT LONDON ADS,
BELIEVERS UNRUFFLED
Billboard campaign promotes atheist beliefs on buses.
By Robert Marquand | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
from the January 16, 2009 edition
- Reporter Robert Marquand talks with CSMonitor.com's Pat Murphy
about an atheist advertising campaign in Great Britain that uses
buses.
- Paris - It's the first mass marketing of atheism in Britain
– and many in the community of faith say that's just fine.
- On Jan. 6 some 800 British red "bendy" buses carried
the sign: "There is probably no God. Now stop worrying and
enjoy your life."
- The Atheist Bus Campaign organizer, a young comedienne named
Ariane Sherine, took exception last June to several London buses
swathed with biblical quotes, placed by Christian fundamentalists.
- Her idea to fund a few challenge ads took off; donors sent
in $200,000 in two days. Ms. Sherine was joined by Oxford zoologist
Richard Dawkins, a leading British atheist and author of "The
God Delusion." He predicted anger from believers. "They
have to take offense, it is the only weapons they've got,"
Mr. Dawkins said as the first bus rolled through the streets
of London. "They've got no arguments." But the response
by most faith leaders isn't quite what was expected.
- Religious institutes, church pastors, and divinity school
professors have not treated the ads with Old Testament wrath,
but with a relatively open mind and even embrace of so important
an issue.
- If Socrates said the unexamined life is not worth living,
they say, the ads remind that an unexamined faith is not a real
faith, and people need to think, and even pray, more deeply.
"The campaign will be a good thing if it gets people to
engage with the deepest questions of life," says the Rev.
Jenny Ellis, Spirituality and Discipleship Officer of Britain's
Methodist church. "Many people simply never think about
God or religion as a serious question, and if this prods them
a little bit, then that's great," says the Rev. Stephen
Wang, of the Westminster diocese of the Roman Catholic church.
Moreover, in a secular post-cold-war world, where godless communism
is said to be replaced by godless consumerism, a declaration
of atheism is hardly a renegade position, some theologians say.
Continued:
- http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0116/p01s04-woeu.html
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- WHAT'S ALL THIS ANTI PRE TRIB STUFF?..
January 17, 2009 - EMAIL - Dear J.et al,
- I don't know why I am getting all these emails about pre-tribbers
as I am one of those believers. God bless that poor girl who
is so full of vitriol twords her fellow brothers and sisters
in Christ. Has she forgotten what the second commandment says?
We are supposed to be known by our love one for another. But
Satan has been working through Christians for 2,000 years. Plus
ca change. I have a BSc. and an MA in Business. I also have a
degree in Theology and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Christian
Literature a couple of years ago because of the research in my
last book , "The Nephilim and the Pyramid of the Apocalypse".
I have written 3 books two of which were bestsellers. My books
are designed to win souls for the Lord. I also am Managing Director
of my own company which has been quite successful here in Dublin.
I had an epipheny 33 years ago when Jesus revealed Himself to
me. Since then I have won quite a few people to the Lord and
the Word in my latest book continues to do that (see email below
received today).
I find it patronising in the extreme to have fellow believers
tell me I cannot read the Scriptures and do not know how to rightly
divide the Word. And I have no interest in debating the topic.
My job is to win souls for the Lord. I don't have time to waste
with folks whose minds are already made up on whatever subject.
So start loving one another and find a soul to win for Jesus
and we will see in due course who is right and who is wrong on
the timing of the gathering together of the saints.
About 12 years ago I did believe that we were to go through the
Tribulation. For about three weeks I couldn't sleep and was full
of fear for my wife and three daughters. But I was challenged
by those scriptures which insist "we are saved from the
coming wrath" and by the words of Jesus himself in John
14, so I lost my fear and my heart is now comforted. I think
I finally understand what the parable of the ten wise and ten
unwise virgins means. There is going to be a brutal torture and
slaughter of Christians during the coming Apocalypse. I recently
copied the whole of the Book of Revelation out long hand in order
to get a better feel for the book. In doing so I got an insight
to the horror these saints will go through. These, I believe,
are the unwise virgins.
I am half way through my fourth book called "The Return
of the Antichrist", and no, it's not Barack Obama. He is
named nine times in Revelation as "the beast that ascends
out of the bottomless pit" and his name and present whereabouts
are given in Revelation 9, if people are bothered to find out
and believe what the Word says rather than what they themselves
think.
I will leave you with the words of Jesus Himself. Please note
his opening phrase: "Do not let your hearts be troubled.
Trust in God; trust also in me. In my Father's house are many
rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there
to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a
place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me
that you also may be where I am..."
Your brother in Christ,
Patrick Heron www.neph.ie
- RESPONSE: Dear Dr. Patrick Heron,
First of all I thank God that your book was sent my way. I'm
searching for God and I'm glad that your book has come way in
these critical times. I have received your book from my neighbor,
I could not put your book down. Even though it scared me at first
, it opened my eyes in so many things I didn't understand or
paid attention to before. I would like to say that I'm left with
great hope that it might not me to late for me to become saved,
that I'm searching and praying to God to open my eyes and ears.
Your book left me thinking, and reading the bible. You have written
this book in 2004, I wonder with all the events that have happened
so far, and the election of Obama, what are your views on the
Situation now. I would like to tell you, that I was a great Obama
Supporter until very shortly. (I'm German married to an US Soldier,
living currently in the US) While I was reading your book, chills
came over me, and a oice in my head stated that Obama is the
Anti-Christ. I wasn't even finished reading your book, while
more and more Information regarding Obama being the Anti-Christ
came my way without me even searching. So I thought while I'm
sitting here having these thoughts, why not write you an email,
and share my thoughts with you. I know that these things can't
be changed and need to happen, still it is scaring me. Your interpretation
of the New World Order he will try to bring over Amerika..it
is in the news..he said that himself, the mark of the beats (microchips)
it is in the news..I know you are probably a real busy man, I
would appreciate to hear back from you, if you have scripture
or other things I should read that you can think of, please send
it my way.
- God bless you and your Family!
- In Jesus Name Amen - Your Sister - KB
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- PEACE PROCESS OR WAR PROCESS, POLITICS BY ATTRITION.
Prof. Narrett’s site at http://israelendtimes.com
2009-01-15-Israel-Update-Dr-Eugene-Narrett-1.mp3
2009-01-15-Israel-Update-Dr-Eugene-Narrett-2.mp3
- Hatikva Israel Update with Moshe Kempinski of Shorashim
2009-01-06-Israel-Update-1.mp3
2009-01-06-Israel-Update-2.mp3
Transcript: 2009-01-06-Israel-Update-transcript.pdf
http://hatikva.arba4.net/israel-update/audio/2009-01-06-Israel-Update-transcript.pdf
- Source: http://arba4.com/category/israel-update
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- "Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day
shall not come, except there come a falling away first,
and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;"
(2 Thessalonians 2:3)
- STUDY SHOWS AMERICANS ABANDON CHRISTIANITY
- Study Shows more than 50% of Americans no longer consider
Christianity as the nation's main religion while 33% Christians
say "Jesus sinned while He was on earth," those calling
themselves Christians no longer accept Christian teachings, 25%
of American Christians "dismiss" the idea that the
Bible is accurate, almost 50% agree that satan does not exist.
Source: http://www.bethgoyim.org
- "TESTING THE FAITH - 1 in 3 'Christians' says 'Jesus
sinned'. Barna poll shows adults develop their own beliefs"
- http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=86312
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- MOROCCAN-BORN MUSLIM BECOMES MAYOR OF ROTTERDAM
- January 5, 2009 - Aboutaleb told Amsterdam Muslims: integrate
or leave - THE HAGUE, Netherlands — A Moroccan immigrant
was installed Monday as mayor of Rotterdam, the Netherlands’
second largest city, in a move hailed as a significant step for
the integration of minorities in the European Union nation. Ahmed
Aboutaleb, who has dual Dutch-Moroccan citizenship, is the first
Moroccan-born immigrant to be appointed a Dutch mayor. Some have
compared his achievement to that of U.S. President-elect Barack
Obama. “Obama on the Maas … is maybe going a bit far,”
said Jan Franssen, the Dutch queen’s representative for
South Holland province, referring to the river that runs through
Rotterdam. “But the significance is great. This proves that
there is no glass ceiling for immigrants in the Netherlands.”
Accepting his new position, Aboutaleb immediately signaled he
would work to tackle tensions between the city’s historically
white Christian population and its growing Islamic immigrant
community. Continued: http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23128/ahmed-aboutaleb-rotterdam-mayor
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- OBAMA TO RE-VISIT "DON'T ASK, DON'T TELL"
- http://www.worldnewspaperpublishing.com/news/FullStory.asp?loc=TCW&id=1710
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GAY BISHOP PRAYS AT PRE-INAUGURATION EVENT
http://www.worldnewspaperpublishing.com/news/FullStory.asp?loc=TCW&id=1707
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TANTRA SEX: EVANGELICALS CATCHING UP WITH NEW AGERS?
- TANTRA AND "SPIRITUAL SEX"?
- By Caryl Matrisciana: http://lighthousetrailsresearch.com/blog/index.php?p=1349&more=1&c=1
- http://carylmatrisciana.com/x2/
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- BERLIN DISTRICT POSTS WARNING ABOUT SCIENTOLOGY
 A poster denouncing Scientology
has gone up on a public kiosk outside the Scientology headquarters
in Berlin. Local officials warn that Scientology may be “undemocratic”
— part of an ongoing battle between Berlin and the guardians
of L. Ron Hubbard’s belief system. A public kiosk on the
sidewalk in Charlottenburg bears a poster with a big stop sign
and a printed message: The district of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf
“expresses its opposition to the activities of the Scientology
sect in this district and in Berlin, and hopes that responsible
parties in Berlin will watch the Scientology sect with a critical
eye in the near future, and that any new information will be
made public.”
- Continued: http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,603188,00.html
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- RICK WARREN PRAYS IN THE NAME OF A FALSE CHRIST
January 23, 2009 - By David Cloud - www.wayoflife.org - The following
is excerpted from Daniel Cordell, Praying in the Name of Isa,
Loveforthetruth.com, Jan. 20, 2009: "Today, in his Presidential
Inauguration prayer, Rick Warren prayed in the name of ‘Yeshua,
Isa, and Jesus." It seems the three names Warren used were
to imply the three ‘Abrahamic Faiths’ (as they are
so- called), Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. What’s significant
is the name ‘Isa’ being prayed by the ‘evangelical’
Warren. ‘Isa’ is strictly Koranic and used by Arab
Muslims. Even Arab Christians don’t refer to ‘Isa,’
but to ‘Yesua.’ I’ve lived and studied Arabic
in one of the same Muslim countries that Warren has visited,
and I think he probably knows that the Arab Christian communities
only refer to Jesus as ‘Yesua’ and not ‘Isa’
as the Muslims. ‘Isa’ was not Jewish, but Palestinian.
‘Isa’ did not die on the cross but instead had someone
die in his place. ‘Isa’ is a Muslim prophet. ‘Isa’
is only found in the Koran. The name ‘Isa’ doesn’t
have any Biblical support or any meaning found in Biblical scholarship.
Yet, Rick prayed in the name of ‘Isa.’ www.wayoflife.org
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- ENTERTAINERS AGOG OVER OBAMA
January 23, 2009, By David Cloud - www.wayoflife.org - The filthy
entertainment industry is absolutely agog over President Barack
Obama. Actor George Clooney said, "He walks into a room
and YOU WANT TO FOLLOW HIM SOMEWHERE, ANYWHERE," and actress
Halle Berry agreed, "I’LL DO WHATEVER HE SAYS to do.
I’ll collect paper cups off the ground to make his pathway
clear " (Politico, Feb. 20, 2008). When New Age billionaire
Oprah Winfrey introduced Obama on December 11, 2007, in Columbia,
South Carolina, she called him AN "EVOLVED LEADER"
and said, "We’re here to evolve to a higher plane.
She also said he is a “force for peace who can break down
everything that divides, including race and politics and religion."
Pop singer/actress Jennifer Lopez gushed, "WASHINGTON NEVER
HAD A BIGGER ROCK STAR AT THE HELM; he is just too good."
(The Himalayan Times, Jan. 21, 2009, p. 14). She is right. Obama
is a rock star because he represents moral relativism, corrupt
Christianity and anti-Biblicism (he denies the infallibility
of Scripture, hates dogma, rejects the doctrine of hell and salvation
through Christ alone), and New Age mysticism (we can create a
new world through our own divine-tinged initiative and the power
of positive thinking). We are rushing on to the end of the age,
but it is not time to hide in a hole and stockpile food; it’s
not time to doubt and fear; it is time to awake out of spiritual
lethargy, trust in God, walk in obedience and holiness, and try
to win souls to Christ before it is too late. "And that,
knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep:
for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. The night
is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the
works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light."
(Romans 13:11-12). www.wayoflife.org
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- EPISCOPAL BISHOP DENIES HELL, SAYS PEOPLE DON’T NEED
TO BE BORN AGAIN
January 23, 2009, www.wayoflife.org - Retired Episcopalian Bishop
John Spong says that "Hell is an invention of the church."
In an interview with Keith Morrison of Dateline NBC, August 13,
2006, the deeply confused bishop said: "I don’t think
Hell exists. I happen to believe in life after death, but I don’t
think it has a thing to do with reward and punishment. Religion
is always in the control business. ... The church doesn’t
like for people to grow up, because you can’t control grownups.
That’s why we talk about being born again. When you’re
born again, you’re still a child. People don’t need
to be born again; they need to grow up. They need to accept their
responsibility for themselves and the world." In his 1991
book "Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism, Spong said:
Am I suggesting that these stories of the virgin birth are not
literally true? The answer is a simple and direct ‘Yes.’
Of course these narratives are not literally true. Stars do not
wander, angels do not sing, virgins do not give birth, magi do
not travel to a distant land to present gifts to a baby, and
shepherds do not go in search of a newborn savior." A denomination
that allows even one preacher to hold heresies and blasphemies
like this without discipline doesn’t deserve to be called
Christian, and the Episcopal Church in America has been allowing
such things since the early twentieth century. No wonder they
ordain homosexuals. A "church" that is liberal in theology
will also be immoral in practice. www.wayoflife.org
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- RICK WARREN APPLAUDED OBAMA’S INVITATION TO HOMOSEXUAL
BISHOP
January 23, 2009, www.wayoflife.org - "Rick Warren applauded
Barack Obama’s invitation to homosexual Episcopal Bishop
V. Gene Robinson to pray at the presidential inauguration on
Tuesday " (Christianity Today Blog, Jan. 13, 2009). "Warren
said, President-elect Obama has again demonstrated his genuine
commitment to bringing all Americans of goodwill together in
search of common ground. I applaud his desire to be the president
of every citizen. For his part, Robinson, who was more candid,
said that the God that Warren prays to is not the God that I
know and that he would pray in the name of an idol he calls the
God of our many understandings "(All Things Considered,
National Public Radio, Jan. 13, 2009). This is further evidence
of Rick Warren’s deep spiritual compromise. It might be
Barack Obama’s job to be the president of every citizen
(which tells me he shouldn’t have chosen one of the most
polarizing men in America, a man who is helping to destroy an
entire denomination, to lead in prayer), but as a preacher, Rick
Warren’s job is to preach God’s Word in the midst of
an evil and an adulterous generation, not to speak politically-correct
gobbledygook. He should have spoken out plainly that V. Gene
Robinson is not qualified to be a bishop. In fact, as an unrepentant
moral pervert who broke his marriage vows to live carnally with
a man, he isn’t qualified even to be a church member. The
members of the church at Corinth had been all sorts of sinners
before they were saved, but they had repented and been converted.
"Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the
kingdom of God? "Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor
idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves
with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers,
nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. And such
WERE some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but
ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit
of our God." (1 Corinthians 6:9-11). www.wayoflife.org
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- A WARNING ABOUT THE GROWTH OF CALVINISM
January 23, 2009, www.wayoflife.org - The following is from a
reader in California: "I am thankful to our Lord for your
distinct Biblical opposition to Calvinism. I am even now re-reading
a piece of yours titled ‘Calvinism’s Proof Text Examined.’
I thought that you might appreciate any information which further
confirms your views that Calvinism is a threat to Biblical churches.
To whit, my family and I just left a church which we attended
for a year having only recently discovered that it was Calvinist.
The pastor at this church is from Master’s Seminary. Master’s
is cranking out Calvinists faster than even the SBC. John MacArthur
has become increasingly Reformed notwithstanding his eschatology,
and more worldly I may add. I cite the ‘Resolved Conference’
for youth as evidence of both. The conference is hosted by Grace
Community Church, in Palm Springs. It features Mr. MacArthur,
John Piper and C.J. Mahaney, etc. Succinctly, it is a Reformed
rock concert, a sanitized equivalent of your average collegiate
spring break. ... It has a following of thousands of young, and
not too young, people." www.wayoflife.org
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- OZZY OSBOURNE’S FAMILY TO GO BACK ON TELEVISION
January 23, 2009, www.wayoflife.org - An announcement about a
new television show featuring rocker Ozzy Osbourne and his dysfunctional
family says,"The family of Black Sabbath frontman Ozzy Osbourne,
who shocked and delighted audiences for four years on their Emmy-award
winning MTV reality show ‘The Osbournes,’ are up to
no good again in a variety-style show featuring skits, impersonations,
audience games--and a liberal sprinkling of four-letter words."
(Yahoo News, Jan. 14, 2009). There will even be a pair of mini-Osbournes--child
actors who dress, behave and talk as outrageously as Ozzy and
wife Sharon themselves. How rock & roll has coarsened and
cheapened and corrupted modern society over the past half decade!
To think that such a filthy, rebellious medium could be acceptable
to a holy God is beyond my ability to comprehend. "I beseech
you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present
your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which
is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world:
but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may
prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of
God." (Romans 12:1-2). www.wayoflife.org
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- THE MYSTICAL POWER OF ROCK & ROLL
January 23, 2009, www.wayoflife.org - Rock & roll is not
just music. It is a philosophy. It is a way of life. It is a
religion. It is a mystical power that captures hearts and souls.
It is the background music of end-time apostasy. The book Rock
Facts, published by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum
in Cleveland, Ohio, says that "rock and roll refers to an
attitude, a feeling, a style, a way of life" (Rock Facts,
1996, p. 7). I was reminded of this from an article called "Eight
Commonly Misinterpreted Songs" by Vicki Santillano. The
author gives examples of how listeners often misinterpret the
message of pop songs, being so influenced by the powerful rhythm,
the emotional impact, and the social context that they ignore
the actual meaning of the words and in fact give the songs a
meaning in their hearts that is the opposite of what the authors
intended. She says, "Because many of us use music as an
outlet for our deepest feelings, we are often shocked when the
meanings that we have given to certain songs prove false. ...
All too often, we find out that the songs we put on mix tapes
for our crushes, or those we listen to on repeat in the midst
of bad breakups, were written from a completely different view."
For example, the song "Born in the U.S.A." by Bruce
Springsteen has often been used in patriotic contexts, but in
reality it was a protest against the Vietnam War. The Police’s
song "Every Breath You Take" and the Dave Matthews
Band’s "Crash into Me" aren’t about romance;
they’re about stalkers and peeping toms. Santillano says
that pop music is "an outlet for our deepest feelings."
As B.J. Thomas sang in 1969, rock music is about being "hooked
on a feeling." To live by one’s feelings rather than
objective truth is the heart of mysticism. It is also a recipe
for spiritual deception. "Be sober, be vigilant; because
your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking
whom he may devour." (1 Peter 5:8). www.wayoflife.org
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- BAPTISTS DIALOGUING WITH MUSLIMS
January 23, 2009, www.wayoflife.org - Representatives of the
Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, the American Baptist Churches
USA, and other liberal groups conducted a dialogue with Muslims
at the Islamic Center of Boston January 9-11. The participants
wanted to correct the 'false' thinking of Baptist leaders such
as Franklin Graham who called Islam 'an evil and wicked religion'
and past SBC President Jerry Vines who called Mohammed 'a demon-
possessed pedophile' (Associated Baptist Press, Jan. 13, 2009).
Sayyid Syeed, national interfaith director of the Islamic Society
of North America said that 'well-meaning Muslims and Baptists'
can work together and contribute to injustice and tyranny around
the globe.' It is not those few who are preaching God’s
Word faithfully that are giving Baptists a bad name. It is the
unconverted compromisers who don’t have enough biblical
conviction and personal salvation to care about the fact that
Muslims and all others are going to hell if they die without
Christ. If they preached that, you can be sure that their dialogue
agenda would collapse. God has called His people to preach the
light, not dialogue with darkness. "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? And what agreement hath the temple
of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as
God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I
will be their God, and they shall be my people" (2 Corinthians
6:14-16). www.wayoflife.org
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- KEPT FROM THE HOUR OF TEMPTATION
January 23, 2009, www.wayoflife.org - "Because thou hast
kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the
hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try
them that dwell upon the earth. Behold, I come quickly: hold
that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown. Him that
overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and
he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of
my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem,
which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write
upon him my new name" (Revelation 3:10-12). www.wayoflife.org
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- RELIGIOUS HARMONY: BUILDING THE NEW TOWER OF BABEL
November 28, 2008, www.wayoflife.org - Another New Age project
to promote world peace through religious harmony has been launched.
This one is called The Charter for Compassion. The centerpiece
of the program is a web site where "people of all faiths"
are invited to "contribute their words and stories."
These will be crafted into the final version of the Charter by
a "council of sages" composed of New Agers such as
the Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Catholic mystic nun Joan
Chittister (who says we must get "in tune with the cosmic
voice of God"), and Joan Brown Campbell, former general
secretary of the National Council of Churches in America. The
resulting Charter will then be signed by religious leaders of
all faiths at an inaugural event. You can be sure that they will
ignore any “stories” by born-again, Bible-believing
Christians! The myriad of interfaith projects like the Charter
for Compassion that are operating around the world are not harmless.
Eventually they will bring persecution to Bible believers who
are looked upon as harmful to the cause of world peace because
of their "intolerance." www.wayoflife.org
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- CREMATION GAINING IN FAVOR
November 28, 2008, www.wayoflife.org - An article in the Associated
Baptist Press in 2001 observed that "as cremation becomes
more popular in the United States, fewer people are asking serious
theological questions about the practice." The article cited
Baptist ministers Bob Beck and Leroy Summers of the Dallas-Fort
Worth, Texas, area, who said they hear no theological objections
to cremation these days. This reflects a dramatic change in American
society. As recently as World War II, people were excommunicated
from the Roman Catholic Church for cremation. In 1913, the year
the Cremation Association of America was formed, there were only
10,000 cremations. By 1999, the number had risen to 595,000 cremations
or 25% of deaths, and by 2005 it was 778,000 or 31%. Our article
"Cremation: What Does God Think" lists 10 biblical
reasons to reject cremation: (1) Cremation has a heathen origin
and purpose. (2) God’s people have always practiced burial
(Gen. 23:1-4; 25:8-10; 35:19-20; 49:33; 50:26, etc.). (3) Even
when burial was difficult God’s people practiced it (Gen.
50:24-25; Ex. 13:19; Josh. 24:32). (4) Burial looks forward to
resurrection (Rom. 8:22-23; 1 Cor. 15:20-23, 51-57). (5) God
practices burial (Deut. 34:5-6). (6) Cremation is a sign of God’s
curse (Num. 16:35, etc.). (7) For a person not to have proper
burial was a dishonor (1 Ki. 21:23-24; Psa. 83:9-10). (8) The
Christian’s body belongs to God (1 Cor. 6:19-20). (9) God
calls cremation wickedness (Amos 2:1). (10) Jesus was buried
(Jn. 19:38-42). This article can be found at the Way of Life
web site. www.wayoflife.org
GLOBAL / LOCAL
POLITICS
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- HENRY KISSINGER: OBAMA CAN CREATE A "NEW WORLD ORDER"
Henry Kissinger appeared on yesterday's Morning Call with Mark
Haines on CNBC and was asked "What do you think the most
important thing is for Barack Obama?" The response: "....His
task will be to develop an overall strategy for America in this
period, when really a "New World Order" can be created
. It's a great opportunity. It isn't such a crisis."  http://24ahead.com/henry-kissinger-obama-can-create-new-world-order
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- HENRY KISSINGER CALLS ON OBAMA TO CREATE NEW WORLD ORDER
January 23, 2009, www.wayoflife.org - "Influential U.S.
statesman Henry Kissinger is calling on Barack Obama to use the
'financial' and 'climate change' crises as an opportunity to
help create a new world order. Kissinger, who served as national
security adviser and secretary of state under Presidents Richard
Nixon and Gerald Ford, says: The alternative to a new international
order is chaos. ... America and its potential partners have a
unique opportunity to transform a moment of crisis into a vision
of hope." (The Chance for a New World Order, International
Herald Tribune, Jan. 12, 2009). Internationalism is a sign of
the times. Under the antichrist there will be a one-world political
system and religion. ... "power was given him over all kindreds,
and tongues, and nations." (Revelation 13:7). "On pain
of death, no one anywhere will be able to carry out commercial
transactions without permission of the government" (Revelation
13:16-17). The antichrist’s government will be the revived
Roman Empire, but its reach will be even more extensive.
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- OBAMA PITCHES HIS PLAN TO REVERSE ECONOMIC SLIDE
- http://www.cephas-library.com/soc_Obama pitches his
plan to reverse economic slide.html
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- CHANGE? OBAMA'S INNER CIRCLE FILLED WITH BILDERBERGERS?
- http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/obama_bilderbergers_160.html
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- PANDERING TO THE JEWISH LOBBY
Obama seeks to appease his Jewish haters. He even journeyed to
a recent AIPAC (the powerful Jewish lobby) convention to pander
and to lick the illuminists' boots. But according to an article
in the Jewish online publication www.ynet.com, the Zionist zealots
say that his displays of support for Israel are "insincere."
They demand assurances from Obama that he's an ardent Israeli-first
man who will always be their obedient Jewish Watchdog and Golem.
According to Haaretz.com, the top news site for Jews around the
world, Jews are "obsessively occupied" with Obama.
They fear that Obama, once in office, will not loyally perform
as their warmongering lap dog. Also, they suspect he will not
permit the Jewish billionaires on Wall Street to continue their
outrageously sinister price fixing of oil, food, and other commodities.
Most of all, the Jews despise Obama because he can't be depended
on to put Israel's interests ahead of America's. As Shirley Weitzman,
a wealthy Jew living in Jewish-dominated Boynton Beach, Florida,
explains, "The people here, liberal people, will not vote
for Obama because of his attitude toward Israel. They're going
to vote for McCain" (International Herald Tribune, May 22,
2008). Justin Raimondo (www.antiwar.com), writes, "Poor
Obama. No matter how often he tries to placate the Israel lobby,
he just can't grovel enough."
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=033gCiurxbg
- HOW OBAMA LEARNED TO LOVE ISRAEL
- Ali Abunimah, The Electronic Intifada, 4 March 2007
- http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article6619.shtml
- SOUND BITES OF OBAMA AND HILLARY AT AIPAC
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- SILENCE IS BETRAYAL
- http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/536.html
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- KEN-WELCH.COM - PROJECT CENTRAL
- http://www.ken-welch.com/Central.html
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- OBAMA REVERSES BUSH ABORTION-FUNDS POLICY
By MATTHEW LEE and LIZ SIDOTI (Associated Press Writers) AP -
January 23, 2009 - WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama on Friday
struck down the Bush administration's ban on giving federal money
to international groups that perform abortions or provide abortion
information - an inflammatory policy that has bounced in and
out of law for the past quarter-century. Obama's move, the latest
in an aggressive first week reversing contentious Bush policies,
was warmly welcomed by liberal groups and denounced by abortion
rights foes. The ban has been a political football between Democratic
and Republican administrations since GOP President Ronald Reagan
first adopted it 1984. Democrat Bill Clinton ended the ban in
1993, but Republican George W. Bush re-instituted it in 2001
as one of his first acts in office. .. The Bush policy had banned
U.S. taxpayer money, usually in the form of Agency for International
Development funds, from going to international family planning
groups that either offer abortions or provide information, counseling
or referrals about abortion as a family planning method. Critics
have long held that the rule unfairly discriminates against the
world's poor by denying U.S. aid to groups that may be involved
in abortion but also work on other aspects of reproductive health
care and HIV/AIDS, leading to the closure of free and low-cost
rural clinics. Continued:
- http://enews.earthlink.net/article/top?guid=20090123/49795ce0_3ca6_1552620090123-243717512
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- TRANSITIONING U S PRESIDENTS
- http://www.flixxy.com:80/presidents-morphing.htm
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- BIG NEWS DAY - IS THE TTC DEAD? ... REALLY?
- We are busy with Tuesday's announcements and resulting activities.
Watch for us to post our own comments on TxDOT's claims to be
abandoning the Trans Texas Corridor.
- Stay tuned - CorridorWatch members will receive a bulletin
as the postings occur.
- http://www.corridorwatch.org/ttc/index.htm
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- TEXAS KILLS ROAD PLAN AT HEART OF NORTH AMERICAN CONSPIRACY
TALK
- January 6, 2009 - AUSTIN - The Trans-Texas Corridor is dead.
Amadeo Saenz Jr., executive director of the Texas Department
of Transportation, admitted as much on Tuesday when he unveiled
a new plan for handling future cross-state traffic in Texas.
The new plan is known as Innovative Connectivity in Texas/Vision
2009. It's like a much leaner, more restricted version of the
Trans-Texas Corridor plan, which was originally unveiled by Gov.
Rick Perry in 2001. The Trans-Texas Corridor became a magnet
for controversy during the 2006 governor's race. Opponents accused
Perry and state transportation officials of planning to ram tolls
down Texans' throats, seize private property for the profit of
foreign corporations and even use the road to undermine U.S.
sovereignty by creating a North American Union with Mexico and
Canada. So, in making their announcement Tuesday state transportation
officials are closing that chapter in Texas history. They really
didn't have much choice. State legislators have been warning
them for two years that the Trans-Texas Corridor plan was all
but dead, and it would be foolish to pursue it. http://www.mcclatchydc.com/256/story/59071.html
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- A 'MUST READ' SYNOPSIS OF OUR CRUCIAL TIMES
- 1. The reason why the "elite" dropped the world
price of oil down below $50.00 a barrel was to wage economic
warfare against the Arab/ OPEC countries. "They" seek
to bankrupt OPEC countries., especially the Iranians by cutting
their revenues more than 75%. (Do you think that is why Mr. Chavez
is so belligerent towards the USA?) Why would they do that? Because
Iran and the other OPEC states are getting too strong and too
wealthy. The Iranians are running an oil bourse, that effectively
sidesteps the oil markets of New York and London. (My note. Even
worse they are trading oil not for dollars but for other currencies
such as the Euro. This is a direct threat to the western banking
system.) According to Williams, this will not be allowed to continue.
This is about control!! "What is happening today has been
planned for years and there are other more nefarious motives,
which will be outlined below. Continued: http://www.cephas-library.com/nwo_crucial_times.html
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- SECOND PLACE
- By Todd Heisler The Rocky Mountain News - The night before
the burial of her husband's body, Katherine Cathey refused to
leave the casket, asking to sleep next t o his body for the last
time. The Marines made a bed for her, tucking in the sheets below
the flag. Before she fell asleep, she opened her laptop computer
and played songs that reminded her of 'Cat,' and one of the Marines
asked if she wanted them to continue standing watch as she slept.
'I think it would be kind of nice if you kept doing it,' she
said. 'I think that's what he would have wanted.'
- http://www.rockymountainnews.com/
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- OBAMA'S BAY OF PIGS
- By Michael Carmichael - Obama pensiveThe volcano is erupting,
and the lava pouring forth is a bold and deliberate challenge
metaphorically slapping the face of President-Elect Barack Obama.
The architect of Obama’s challenge is, of course, Lame Duck
President George W. Bush. During the US presidential campaign,
Vice-President-Elect Joseph Biden predicted that Obama would
be tested. “Mark my words. It will not be six months before
the world tests Barack Obama . . . Gird your loins,” Biden
said while addressing a fundraiser in Seattle. Today, Biden seems
like the proverbial prophets of the Old Testament uttering their
dire predictions of imminent catastrophe for the people of Israel
precipitated by the troubling policies of their monarchs. Even
Biden did not conceive that Obama’s challenge would be the
Parthian shot of a disgraced lame duck that could be morphing
into Obama’s Bay of Pigs.
- JFK bay of pigsHistory appears to be repeating itself. In
1960 during the presidential campaign, JFK received top secret
briefings from the CIA and Secret Service that informed him about
US plans to back a counter-attack against Fidel Castro’s
forces in Cuba manned by anti-Castro Cuban exiles marshaled into
guerilla forces based in Florida and Guatemala. The plan for
the attack was the product of the Director of Central Intelligence,
Allen Dulles, and Eisenhower’s designated White House liaison
for the CIA, then Vice-President Richard Nixon. The Top Secret
briefings presented the anti-Castro invasion to JFK as a fait
accompli, and as a candidate for the presidency, he had no power
to veto it. Continued:
- http://www.planetarymovement.org/go/world-news/obama%27s-bay-of-pigs-by-mich
ael-carmichael/
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- CAROLINE'S CONSUMMATE QUALIFICATIONS BY MICHAEL CARMICHAEL
 America is transfixed. The world
is transfixed. The Kennedy legend promises to open another chapter.
For days, Chinese whispers in the corridors of power trickled
through the grapevines of political gossip that, Caroline, the
sole surviving child of JFK and Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy might
be interested in serving in the US Senate. Fueled by the knowledge
that her uncle Edward Kennedy is nearing the limits of his service
in the Senate, the rumor that Caroline Kennedy might be stepping
into her family's niche of history by following in the footsteps
of her father and her uncles seemed remote, a pipedream, a fantasy,
a paradox of wishful thinking for those nostalgic enough to recall
the glamor and momentum of Camelot.
- Regarded by many as pure speculation and discounted as highly
improbable that Caroline Kennedy could have any conceivable interest
whatsoever in subjecting herself and her family to the slings
and arrows of outrageous fortune concomitant on the position
of US Senator, the rumors ended abruptly when Governor Paterson
received a telephone call from JFK's daughter stating that she
would be interested in the Senate seat soon to be vacated by
Hillary Clinton when she is confirmed as Secretary of State in
February. Given the received opinion in the form of contrarian
rumors, Governor David Paterson may have been mildly shocked
when he told reporters that Caroline Kennedy had telephoned to
confirm her intention to seek his appointment with the promise
to present her qualifications to the Governor. Sounding just
the slightest bit dumbfounded, the Governor told a hastily assembled
press conference, "She told me she was interested in the
position. She'd like at some point to sit down and tell me what
she thinks her qualifications are." Echoing the thunderstruck
Governor, the headline in the New York Times proclaimed, "Kennedy
Seeks to Prove Qualifications for Senate Bid." Continued:
http://www.planetarymovement.org/go/american-politics/caroline%27s-consummate-qualifications-by-michael-carmichael/
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- CAROLINE KENNEDY REALLY WITHDRAWS FROM CLINTON SEAT RACE
- Stefan Friedman, a spokesman for Caroline Kennedy, confirmed
late Wednesday evening that she has, in fact, withdrawn her name
from consideration to fill the vacant Senate seat of Hillary
Clinton. She cited "personal reasons." ... But the
removal of the 51-year-old big-name family name, whose assassinated
uncle Robert once held the seat, would make life a whole lot
easier for Paterson, who has many fellow Democrats with much
longer public service records in line competing quietly for the
coveted high-profile seat.
- Kennedy has made several stumbles once she basically announced
she wanted the job. Her interviews were stumbling, often uninformed,
inarticulate. It came out that she has not been a regular voter,
let alone regular Democratic donor in her life as an attorney
life. The daughter of the late President John F. Kennedy had
been encouraged to seek the seat by her ailing uncle, Ted, now
suffering from a malignant brain tumor.
- She's said to have listed concern over her uncle's health
as the reason to give up, and the leak comes one day after he
had seizures during an inaugural lunch in the Capitol. Sen. Kennedy
has been very ill since May, though, long before she made her
announced autumn entrance into the nomination race. Continued:
- http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2009/01/ny-post-carolin.html
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- ENGLAND GUN BAN UPDATE
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGVAQOUi6ec
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- NOW IT IS HERE IN THE U.S. AS WELL. THE CONGRESS LIKES THIS
IDEA.
- TEN TO FIFTEEN TRILLION DOLLARS WILL HAVE TO DISAPPEAR (BAD
DEBT = Bad Bank)
- Bloomberg January 28, 2009 WHY THERE IS MORE TO COME:
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- SUMERS WARNS THAT STIMULUS BATTLE NOT YET OVER
[The American flag flies at the U.S. Capitol, Sunday, Feb. 8,
2009, in Washington. One of President Barack Obama's top economic
advisers forecast Sunday a difficult struggle with Congress over
Senate cuts of $40 billion for state and local governments from
the administration's massive spending and tax cut package to
stimulate the failing economy. Manuel Balce CenetaBy STEVEN R.
HURST (AP Writer)]
Associated Press - February 08, 2009 - WASHINGTON - One of President
Barack Obama's top economic advisers forecast Sunday a difficult
struggle with Congress over Senate cuts of $40 billion for state
and local governments from the administration's massive spending
and tax cut package to stimulate the failing economy. The $827
billion Senate version of the plan - designed to bring the economy
out of the worst downward spiral since the Great Depression -
was expected to pass the Senate on Tuesday. The House had already
passed its $819 billion version of the measure. Continued:
- http://enews.earthlink.net/article/top?guid=20090208/498e74e0_3ca6_1552620090208-1750648562
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- VISIT THE GREEN DRAGON RING: WHAT'S HAPPENING TO THE SHIPPING
INDUSTRY
- http://thegreendragon.ning.com/video/vital-critical-you-must
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- THE BDI INDEX POINTS TO WORLDWIDE DISASTER
- 2-7-9 - By James Wickstrom - Please be made aware that I
am not interested in your feedback .. to me on the information
you are about to read. Just understand and ponder the information
and how it is going to relate to you, your family, your loved
ones, your friends, and to your Nation as a whole...
- Continued: http://rense.com/general85/des.htm
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- HCR 6 – AS INTRODUCED
- 2009 SESSION - 09-0274 - 09/01 - HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
6
- A RESOLUTION affirming States’ rights based on Jeffersonian
principles.
- SPONSORS: Rep. Itse, Rock 9; Rep. Ingbretson, Graf 5; Rep.
Comerford, Rock 9; Sen. Denley, Dist 3
- COMMITTEE: State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs
- ANALYSIS
- This house concurrent resolution affirms States’ rights
based on Jeffersonian principles.
- 09-0274
- 09/01
- STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
- In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Nine
- A RESOLUTION affirming States’ rights based on Jeffersonian
principles.
- Whereas the Constitution of the State of New Hampshire, Part
1, Article 7 declares that the people of this State have the
sole and exclusive right of governing themselves as a free, sovereign,
and independent State; and do, and forever hereafter shall, exercise
and enjoy every power, jurisdiction, and right, pertaining thereto,
which is not, or may not hereafter be, by them expressly delegated
to the United States of America in congress assembled; and
- Whereas the Constitution of the State of New Hampshire, Part
2, Article 1 declares that the people inhabiting the territory
formerly called the province of New Hampshire, do hereby solemnly
and mutually agree with each other, to form themselves into a
free, sovereign and independent body-politic, or State, by the
name of The State of New Hampshire; and
- Whereas the State of New Hampshire when ratifying the Constitution
for the United States of America recommended as a change, “First
That it be Explicitly declared that all Powers not expressly
& particularly Delegated by the aforesaid are reserved to
the several States to be, by them Exercised;” and
- Whereas the other States that included recommendations, to
wit Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, Rhode Island and
Virginia, included an identical or similar recommended change;
Continued:
- http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/legislation/2009/HCR0006.html
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- JEREMY WARNER STERLING CRISIS THREATENS BROWN'S REFLATIONARY
PLANS
- 12 November 2008 - Outlook As Gordon Brown plans his reflationary
strategy, an old bogey has returned to haunt the Government's
ambitions – the possibility of a sterling crisis. With the
pound falling to a new 12-year low against a trade-weighted basket
of currencies and an all-time low against the euro, it might
be argued that it has already arrived. The pound has always been
an issue for Labour governments. So terrified was the current
Labour regime of having its agenda once again frustrated by the
foreign exchange markets that when it came to power it ceded
control of monetary policy to an independent Bank of England
and put in place strict fiscal rules to govern the public finances.
Up until quite recently, it seemed to work. The markets learned
to love New Labour and foreign capital flowed into Britain as
if it were Switzerland by the sea. In the process, it helped
fund an explosion of credit, and pretty soon Britons became the
most indebted individuals in the world. After a few years of
hair-shirted self restraint, the Government caught the habit
too, and turned the public spending taps to full on.
- http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/comment/jeremy-warner/jeremy-warner-sterling-crisis-threatens-browns-
- reflationary-plans-1012719.html
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- CHINA LOSING TASTE FOR DEBT FROM U.S
- January 8, 2009 - By KEITH BRADSHER HONG KONG ­ China
has bought more than $1 trillion of American debt, but as the
global downturn has intensified, Beijing is starting to keep
more of its money at home, a move that could have painful effects
for American borrowers. The declining Chinese appetite for United
States debt, apparent in a series of hints from Chinese policy
makers over the last two weeks, with official statistics due
for release in the next few days, comes at an inconvenient time.
On Tuesday, President-elect Barack Obama predicted the possibility
of trillion-dollar deficits “for years to come,” even
after an $800 billion stimulus package. Normally, China would
be the most avid taker of the debt required to pay for those
deficits, mainly short-term Treasuries, which are government
i.o.u.’s. In the last five years, China has spent as much
as one-seventh of its entire economic output buying foreign debt,
mostly American. In September, it surpassed Japan as the largest
overseas holder of Treasuries.Continued: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/08/business/worldbusiness/08yuan.html
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- FIGHT BUILDING OVER JUDGES REDOING MORTGAGES
By LARRY MARGASAK (AP) January 25, 2009 WASHINGTON - Most congressional
Democrats say the quickest way to save homeowners like Troy Butler
of Saginaw, Mich., is to let them declare bankruptcy and allow
judges to dictate new mortgage terms. Easy, except the lenders
that would absorb the pain - and lose control of any deals to
ease the terms - do not want to get dragged into bankruptcy court
by millions of overextended borrowers.Butler, 40, is a laid-off
General Motors worker who has filed for bankruptcy. But the bankruptcy
court has no authority to change the terms of his $90,000-plus
mortgage that is more than double the value of his home.A bill
to give judges authority to alter loan terms for primary residences
may be the quickest way to arrest the housing market's collapse.
Most Democrats in the House and Senate support that plan. President
Barack Obama told Democratic leaders Friday he also backs it,
according to a Senate aide who was not authorized to be quoted
by name. Continued: http://www.cephas-library.com/Fight
building over judges redoing mortgages.html
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- TEXAS KILLS ROAD PLAN AT HEART OF NORTH AMERICAN CONSPIRACY
TALK
- January 6, 2009 - AUSTIN - The Trans-Texas Corridor is dead.
Amadeo Saenz Jr., executive director of the Texas Department
of Transportation, admitted as much on Tuesday when he unveiled
a new plan for handling future cross-state traffic in Texas.
The new plan is known as Innovative Connectivity in Texas/Vision
2009. It's like a much leaner, more restricted version of the
Trans-Texas Corridor plan, which was originally unveiled by Gov.
Rick Perry in 2001. The Trans-Texas Corridor became a magnet
for controversy during the 2006 governor's race. Opponents accused
Perry and state transportation officials of planning to ram tolls
down Texans' throats, seize private property for the profit of
foreign corporations and even use the road to undermine U.S.
sovereignty by creating a North American Union with Mexico and
Canada. So, in making their announcement Tuesday state transportation
officials are closing that chapter in Texas history. They really
didn't have much choice. State legislators have been warning
them for two years that the Trans-Texas Corridor plan was all
but dead, and it would be foolish to pursue it. http://www.mcclatchydc.com/256/story/59071.html
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- SPINTRONICS TO HAVE PROFOUND IMPACT ON FUTURE OF ELECTRONICS
SCIENTIST
9 Jan 2009 IST, STANLEY G PINTO, TNN - MANGALORE: Spintronics
is a rapidly emerging field of science and technology that will
have a pronounced impact on the future of all aspects of electronics,
said Dr K V Rao, scientist, the Royal Institute of Technology,
Sweden. Talking to the Times of India, the physicist said conventional
electronics are based on the charge of the electron. Attempts
to use the other fundamental property of an electron, its spin,
have given rise to a new, rapidly evolving field, known as Spintronics,
an acronym for spin transport electronics. He said conventional
electronics is exploitation of electrons in a conducting material.
"For the same number of electrons, if you exploit the spin
of each electron the same unit becomes multipurpose. And that
is the basics. Say, if you have eight electrons and have control
over its spin, then each has two states. This opens up huge number
of possibilities in terms of permutation and combinations. If
you can read them and write them it is your super computer,''
he said. Regarding exploiting the full capabilities of Spintronics,
Rao said it might take 10 years before its full potential is
unlocked. "These type of numbers are difficult to say. All
you need is one breakthrough and you have reduced the growth
period by many years,'' he observed.
- Regarding the research in nano particles, Rao said advances
have been made in the sense that we know how to use nano particles
for a given application and learn better methods of combining
nano, organizing them to give meaningful properties and so on.
"In some areas, the progress of nano is fast like in the
case of Light Emitting Diode (LED),'' he said. "That's one
major commercial project. In another 10 years LED is supposed
to replace incandescent bulbs. That means no losses in heating,
which means more efficiency and conservation of power,'' he added.
He noted that nano has not created new technologies but only
improved performance. "Currently the focus is on medical
applications. As in coating (painting etc) technology it has
had far greater applications. In the thin film and electronic
area, it has been in a continuous process of flow. Growth rate
is supposed to doubling every 18 months,'' he noted adding that
rapid strides in nano had made storage of information on a chip
much cheaper than on paper. Regarding the next big thing in science,
Rao said it all depends upon supply and demand. "Science
it is per se nano. It is a versatile subject. Its impact on bio-applications
like implants, memory devices will be huge,'' he added. But,
at the same time, he says that no nano machine is better than
a good operating human -- but as far as efficiency is concerned
nano machines will play a greater role.
- http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Mangalore/
- TNN2-scienctimSpintronics_to_have_profound_impact_on_future_of_electronics_scientist/articleshow/3953453.cms
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- AMERICA ON THE BRINK
- By Paul Walter - December 22, 2008 - NewsWithViews. com -
PREDICTIONS - Political Correctness and Freedom of Speech - The
first thing that Socialists do when they gain power is try to
silence free speech. Conservative Talk radio hosts such as Rush
Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Glen Beck, Laura Ingram, Lou Dobbs, etc.
are already being criticized by ?Progressives? in Congress. There
is a serious effort underway right now to bring back a failed
law, the oxymoronic "Fairness Doctrine," in a bold,
open attempt to silence opposing political views. Internet news
sites such as WorldNetDaily. com, NewsWithViews. com, DrudgeReport.
com, InfoWars.com and many others will be silenced along with
talk radio. In order for darkness (lies) to prevail, light (truth)
has to be snuffed out. Continued: http://www.cephas-library.com/nwo_america_on_the_brink.html
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- SPREADING THE VIRUS - HOW ACORN AND ITS DEM ALLIES BUILT
THE MORTGAGE DISASTER
 October 14, 2008 - Stanley Kurtz
- To discover the roots of to day’s economic crisis, consider
a tale from 1995.
- That March, House Speaker Newt Gingrich was scheduled to
address a meeting of county commissioners at the Washington Hilton.
But, first, some 500 protesters from the Association of Community
Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) poured into the ballroom
from both the kitchen and the main entrance.
- Hotel staffers who tried to block them were quickly overwhelmed
by demonstrators chanting, “Nuke Newt!” and “We
want Newt!” Jamming the aisles, carrying bullhorns and taunting
the assembled county commissioners, demonstrators swiftly took
over the head table and commandeered the microphone, sending
two members of Congress scurrying.
- Continued: http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.1455/pub_detail.asp
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- EYE OF THE PHOENIX
- January 11, 2009 - Reveals the occult connections surrounding
the FDR administration. Demonstrates the influence of a Russian
guru over the placement of the Great Seal on the Dollar Bill.
Exposes the Luciferian design of the Dollar Bill. New Documentary
- Adullam Films’ director, Christian J. Pinto has just completed
work on the new film, “Eye of the Phoenix: Secrets of the
Dollar Bill,” which is the third volume in the “Secret
Mysteries of America’s Beginnings” series. With our
crashing economy, the big question is: what is the future of
American currency? As with the rest of our series, we believe
the past will help us to understand the future. “Eye of
the Phoenix” documents the bizarre history of the design
of the dollar bill, exposing the occult activity surrounding
the FDR administration. There is perhaps no other period in U.S.
history when so many people were so deeply involved in the occult,
and held positions of power that reached all the way to the White
House. Phoenix focuses specifically on the years prior to World
War II leading up to 1935, when the Great Seal was taken out
of obscurity and placed on the foundation of America’s currency.
- According to official records from the State Department,
FDR and his Secretary of Agriculture, Henry Wallace, specifically
chose to use the Great Seal because, as Freemasons, they believed
the “Novus Ordo Seclorum” (which they equated with
the New Deal) could only be fulfilled under “the eye”
of the Great Architect of the Universe (the god of Masonry).
Two heavily influential occultists during the FDR era were Manly
P. Hall and a Russian mystic named Nicholas Roerich. Manly Hall’s
writings influenced Freemasonic presidents FDR and Harry S. Truman.
It is even said that Hall was responsible for the number of stones
on the pyramid of the Great Seal, and for the identification
of the eagle as a phoenix. Meanwhile, Nicholas Roerich was an
international figure and Theosophist. His quest for Shambhala
and the Stone of Destiny (symbols of the New World Order) captivated
Henry Wallace. According to a variety of sources, it was Roerich’s
influence over Wallace (and ultimately FDR) that led to the placement
of the Great Seal on America’s currency. As American Heritage
writes: “The State Department grew very nervous about Roerich,
but he had influence in the Oval Office.”
- Some Christian leaders continue to downplay the occult nature
of the dollar bill; but once you understand the beliefs and influence
of Roerich, Wallace and Manly Hall, you will clearly recognize
the Luciferian nature of its design.
- Also discussed in this documentary are: the Bohemian Grove,
the Illuminati past and present, Theosophical Society, Benjamin
Crème and the Maitreya (i.e. Antichrist); along with a
prediction for how the dollar will be used to establish the New
World Order. http://www.adullamfilms.org/
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- DOCU CLIPS - DAVE HUNT, PRESIDENT G W BUSH, PASTOR JOE SCHIMMEL,
CARYL MATRISCIANA, DR I D E THOMAS, WILLIAM STILL, DR KENT HOVIND,
LYNN A MARZULLI
- http://www.adullamfilms.com/DocuClips.html
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- KISSINGER: OBAMA PRIMED TO CREATE 'NEW WORLD ORDER. '
 While many of us have seen this
coming, it is still worth noting to hear it out loud from somebody
like Henry Kissinger, who said of President Elect, Barack Obama
that: “His task will be to develop an overall strategy for
America in this period when, really, a new world order can be
created.”
- To read the full article from World Net Daily. Policy guru
says global upheaval presents 'great opportunity' January 06,
2009 -
- By Drew Zahn - WorldNetDaily - Henry Kissinger - Conflicts
across the globe and an international respect for Barack Obama
have created the perfect setting for establishment of "a
New World Order," according to Henry Kissinger, the Nobel
Peace Prize winner and former secretary of state under President
Nixon.
- Kissinger has long been an integral figure in U.S. foreign
policy, holding positions in the Nixon, Ford and Reagan administrations.
Author of over a dozen books on foreign policy, Kissinger was
also named by President Bush as the chairman of the Sept. 11
investigatory commission. Kissinger made the remark in an interview
with CNBC's "Squawk on the Street" hosts Mark Haines
and Erin Burnett at the New York Stock Exchange, after Burnett
asked him what international conflict would define the Obama
administration's foreign policy. Read "Hope of the Wicked,"
where author Ted Flynn reveals the greatest deception in modern
history – corporations, foundations and governments converging
to bring about a New World Order. "The president-elect is
coming into office at a moment when there is upheaval in many
parts of the world simultaneously," Kissinger responded.
"You have India, Pakistan; you have the jihadist movement.
So he can't really say there is one problem, that it's the most
important one. But he can give new impetus to American foreign
policy partly because the reception of him is so extraordinary
around the world. His task will be to develop an overall strategy
for America in this period when, really, a new world order can
be created. It's a great opportunity, it isn't just a crisis."
Kissinger's comments are captured at roughly the two-minute mark
of the following video: Editor's note: The video includes a balloon
in the first several seconds promoting a MySpace page that includes
profane language and music and is not endorsed in any way by
WND.
- http://www.worldnetdaily.com/?pageId=85442
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- BIRDS OF A FEATHER FLY TOGETHER
- http://www.youtube.com/swf/l.swf?swf=http%3A//s.ytimg.com/yt/swf/cps-vfl73532.swf&video_id=
- 3xFleGrsl1Y&rel=0&eurl=http%3A//webmail.earthlink.net/wam/msg.jsp%3Fmsgid%3D75232%26folder%
- 3DINBOX%26isSeen%3Dfalse%26x%3D-573748981&iurl=http%3A//i4.ytimg.com/vi/3xFleGrsl1Y/
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- PALM BEACHERS CALL BERNIE MADOFF ARREST 'KNIFE IN THE HEART'
- By SHANNON DONNELLY - Daily News Society Editor - December
15, 2008 - Bernie Madoff was the son Carl Shapiro never had.
When they first met 48 years ago, "he was 22 years old,
a smart young guy," Shapiro said Monday. "A friend
asked me to meet him, maybe throw him a little business. I had
plenty of irons in the fire, so I declined. But my friend insisted."
At the time, Shapiro, now 95, was doing a lot of arbitrage. "In
those days, it took three weeks to complete a sale," Shapiro
said. "This kid stood in front of me and said 'I can do
it in three days.' And he did." Shapiro gave him a check
for $100,000, "and he did very well with it. That was the
beginning."
- http://www.palmbeachdailynews.com/news/content/business/2008/12/15/Madoff1216.html
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- MADOFF, GREAT NAME: "MADE OFF" WITH THE MONEY
PALM BEACH DAILY NEWS
- Foundation closing in Madoff fallout The Picower Foundation,
based in Palm Beach, has announced that its assets were wiped
out in the alleged Madoff scheme. The foundation has been major
contributor to local causes like Boundless Playgrounds (above)
which have ramps instead of steps to allow children of all abilities
to play together.
Madoff collapse closes second-largest foundation in Florida
By KATHLEEN CHAPMAN - Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
- December 21, 2008 - PALM BEACH — The Picower Foundation,
one of the largest philanthropic organizations in the nation
and a major contributor to a host of local causes, has announced
that its assets once totaling nearly $1 billion were wiped out
in the alleged investment scheme run by Bernard Madoff. Barbara
Picower, who started the foundation in 1989 with her investor
husband, Jeffry Picower, on Friday e-mailed the many charities
she supported to tell them she has no money left to give. The
foundation, which was based in Palm Beach, will stop writing
grants immediately and will soon shut down. The Picower Foundation
appears to be the largest group to date ruined by an alleged
Ponzi scheme that went on for decades and may total $50 billion
in losses. It was one of the wealthiest foundations in Florida
and the 71st largest in the nation, according to the Council
on Foundations. The money was invested with Madoff, Barbara Picower
said in a statement, and his "act of fraud has had a devastating
impact on tens of thousands of lives as well as numerous philanthropic
foundations and nonprofit organizations."Cont'd: http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/content/local_news/epaper/2008/12/20/picower20.html
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- 10 ABSURD CONSERVATIVE MYTHS ABOUT ABOUT OBAMA'S RECOVERY
PLAN
- By Sara Robinson, Campaign for America's Future. Posted January
9, 2009.
- Instead of taking accountability for this mess, conservatives
are firing off the latest B.S. storm. Here's what you need to
know to fire back. Here it is: our moment of economic truth.
We're standing at that historic fork in the road where the nation
decides, now and for the foreseeable future, whether it's going
to hang on to the catastrophic assumptions of the free-market
fundamentalists and rely once more on the nostrums that have
so far failed to fix the mess, or take a bold step down a new,
more progressive path that will finally re-empower the American
people to build an economy that works for us all. As usual, the
conservatives have absolutely no conscience about what they did
to create this mess. If they did, they'd all be holed up in their
gated communities or on their private islands, embarrassed into
silence at best and terrified of peasant uprisings at worst.
Instead, they're jetting into D.C. en masse in a last-ditch attempt
to head the country off -- or at least make sure that any money
that does get spent ends up, as it always has, in their pockets.
To that end, the self-serving myths are starting to fly so thick
and fast that the staff here at CAF has been working full-time
to keep ahead of them. Here's some of what they're flinging in
this latest B.S. storm -- and what you need to know to fire back.
- 1. The proposed recovery package is too big.
- False. Most progressive economists agree (and Paul Krugman
is downright emphatic) that it's going to take a minimum of a
trillion dollars of well-placed investment to pull our economy
out of this ditch. This is no time for half-measures, blue-ribbon
committees, pilot projects, or trial balloons: this is a life-or-death
crisis that requires immediate and massive intervention. Continued:
- http://www.alternet.org/workplace/118405/10_absurd_conservative_myths_about_
obama%27s_recovery_plan/?page=entire
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- THE SOUND OF SILENCE
- http://www.wariscrime.com/2008/12/15/news/digital-tv-mind-control-by-the-sound-of-silence/
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- IMPEACH OBAMA?
- By: Devvy - January 5, 2009 - NewsWithViews.com
- http://www.newswithviews.com/Devvy/kidd425.htm
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- WORLD ACCORDING TO MONSANTO - DVD
World According to Monsanto Marie-Monique Robin
- Monsanto's controversial past combines some of the most toxic
products ever sold with misleading reports, pressure tactics,
collusion, and attempted corruption. They now race to genetically
engineer (and patent) the world's food supply, which profoundly
threatens our health, environment, and economy. Combining secret
documents with first-hand accounts by victims, scientists, and
politicians, this widely praised film exposes why Monsanto has
become the world's poster child for malignant corporate influence
in government and technology.
- How much outrage can a single multinational corporation inspire?
How much damage can they inflict? The breathtaking new film,
The World According to Monsanto, features a company that sets
the new standard. From Iowa to Paraguay, from England to India,
Monsanto is uprooting our food supply and replacing it with their
patented genetically engineered creations. And along the way,
farmers, communities, and nature become collateral damage. "Devastating
exposé... Will freeze the blood in your veins" ~The
Gazette "Extraordinary documentary" ~LeMonde "Scrupulous,
thorough, and damning" ~Montreal Mirror
- http://www.newswithviewsstore.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_
- Code=NWVS&Product_Code=DV37&Category_Code=DVD
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- BUY LOCAL
-
- Are you interested in developing a “buy local”
campaign in your community? This CD contains 130 slides synched
with audio from a presentation given by Stacy Mitchell, senior
researcher with the New Rules Project, at the National Main Streets
Conference in Philadelphia on April 1, 2008. The presentation
shows how "buy local" campaigns around the country
are changing shopping patterns and influencing government decision-making.
It provides tips for launching a campaign, as well as strategies
for articulating the economic, environmental, and consumer benefits
of choosing locally owned independent businesses over chains.
The CD includes two versions of the 75-minute, self-playing presentation,
one for Mac and one for PC, along with supporting resource materials.
- http://www.ilsr.org/mm5/merchant.mvc
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 BIG-BOX SWINDLE
- Paperback. In less than two decades, large retail chains
have become the most powerful corporations in America. In this
deft and revealing book, Stacy Mitchell illustrates how mega-retailers
are fueling many of our most pressing problems, from the shrinking
middle class to rising pollution and diminished civic engagement.
She then shows how a growing number of communities and independent
businesses are effectively fighting back. Mitchell traces the
dramatic growth of mega-retailers - from big boxes like Wal-Mart
and Home Depot to chains like Starbucks and Old Navy - and the
precipitous decline of independent businesses. Drawing on examples
from virtually every state in the country, she unearths the extraordinary
impact of these stores and the big-box mentality on everything
from soaring gasoline consumption to rising poverty rates, failing
family farms, and declining voting levels. Along the way, Mitchell
exposes the shocking role government policy has played in the
expansion of mega-retailers and builds a compelling case that
communities composed of many small, locally owned businesses
are healthier and more prosperous than those dominated by a few
large chains.
- http://www.ilsr.org/mm5/merchant.mvc
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- CATTLE IDENTIFICATION.
January 7, 2009 - Brazil-Traceability implants in cattle.Micro
chip implants, are to replace ear tagging that caused the recent
problems with the European Union, in regards to cattle identification
in Brazil, it appears the problems will soon be over. Its an
ill wind that blows no good, the time of the ban on Brazilian
beef into Europe since January of last year, has allowed Brazil
to develop a product, that will be the envy of the world. The
new micro chip, that is already used in racehorses and domestic
pets, will be implanted into calves at birth, giving the full
history and trace-ability from birth to point of slaughter.
The revolutionary device that was developed by Ceitic Semiconductor
Systems, along with the Ministry of Science and Technology of
Brazil, will be placed into one million calves this year. One
never knows what the future holds, the rights to the revolutionary
system, may even be sold to European farmers, to improve their
own trace-ability in the EU, at some time in the future http://www.farminguk.com/news/Brazil-Traceability-implants-in-cattle.9796.asp
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- NANOTECHNOLOGY IN GOOD HEALTH?
- by Hilda Coulsey and Alan Smith - Chemistry Internaional
Vol .31 No. 1 January / February 2009 - The business environment
for large pharmaceutical companies is changing. Profits from
blockbuster drugs are under threat due to expiring patents. Healthcare
will change because of the ever-increasing cost to develop drugs.
The only way forward, to become more efficient in cost and patient
care, will be through nanotechnology. For those not familiar
with nanometres (nm), they are one millionth of a millimetre.
To appreciate this more easily, a human hair is about 80 000
nanometres in diameter; red blood cells are about 5 000-nm across;
the AIDS virus is approximately 100-nm long; and DNA is less
than 3 nm. At the nano-scale, properties change and the reason
for this can be understood if one considers a cube of just about
any substance, which would have one in 10 million of the atoms
on the surface. However, for a one-nanometre cube, 80 percent
of the atoms are on the surface. This increased surface area
can be beneficial for many technologies and products. For several
years now, car exhaust catalysts have relied on nanotechnology
and the increased surface area it provides to breakdown exhaust
fumes. Continued:
- http://www.iupac.org/publications/ci/2009/3101/4_coulsey.html
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- WHERE HAVE ALL THE LEADERS GONE?
- 'Remember Lee Iacocca, the man who rescued Chrysler Corporation
from its death throes? He's now 82 years old and has a new book,
'Where Have All The Leaders Gone?'. Lee Iacocca Says: "Am
I the only guy in this country who's fed up with what's happening?
Where the hell is our outrage? We should be screaming bloody
murder! We've got a gang of clueless bozos steering our ship
of state right over a cliff, we've got corporate gangsters stealing
us blind, and we can't even clean up after a hurricane much less
build a hybrid car. But instead of getting mad, everyone sits
around and nods their heads when the politicians say, 'Stay the
course.' Stay the course? You've got to be kidding. This is America
, not the damned 'Titanic'. I'll give you a sound bite: 'Throw
all the bums out!' You might think I'm getting senile, that I've
gone off my rocker, and maybe I have. But someone has to speak
up. I hardly recognize this country anymore. The most famous
business leaders are not the innovators but the guys in handcuffs.
While we're fiddling in Iraq , the Middle East is burning and
nobody seems to know what to do. And the press is waving 'pom-poms'
instead of asking hard questions. That's not the promise of the
' America ' my parents and yours traveled across the ocean for.
I've had enough. How about you? I'll go a step further. You can't
call yourself a patriot if you're not outraged. This is a fight
I'm ready and willing to have. The Biggest 'C' is Crisis! Continued:
nwo_where_have_all_the_leaders_gone.html
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- WHY ARE WE BANKRUPT?
- 1. $11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal
aliens each year by state governments.
- Verify at: http://tinyurl.com/zob77
- 2. $2.2 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance
programs such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for
illegal aliens.
- Verify at: http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html
- 3. $2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal
aliens.
- Verify at: http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html
- 4. $12 Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and secondary
school education for children here illegally and they cannot
speak a word of English!
- Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.0.html
- 5. $17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for
the American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor
babies.
- Verify at http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
- 6. $3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal
aliens.
- Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
- Continued: http://www.cephas-library.com/nwo_why_are_we_bankrupt.html
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- OBAMA TALKED ABOUT WAR AND ADDING PAKISTAN TO AFGHANISTAN
ON CNN 1.14.2009 HIS CABINET CONSISTS OF 15 OUT OF 22 WHO ARE
MEMBERS OF THE CFR, BILDERBERGERS & TRILATERALS. FIGHTING
THE LAST WAR
- One of the toughest criticisms leveled at our military leadership,
commander-and-chief on down, is that we are always fighting the
last war. I believe the critics, and I can see why this mindset
is tempting. We all want to learn from our mistakes and replicate
our successes. Unfortunately, modern warfare is so complex, often
without clearly defined enemies or goals, that adapting a solution
that worked in one conflict to another is often fruitless.
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