Monday, February 19, 2007

'WORD'

Beliefwatch 'Word'
By Lilit Marcus and Patton Dodd

Jul 31, 2006

Popular Christian music styles have always paralleled the sound of secular hits, from grunge to techno. Now hip-hop is finding its way into the liturgies of traditional churches. The white, middle-aged Rev. Timothy (Poppa T) Holder doesn't look like someone who would shout "Holla back!" in his priestly blessing. But, noticing the power and ubiquity of rap in his South Bronx neighborhood, Holder created a hip-hop mass in his Trinity Episcopal Church of Morrisania. Now he wants to help other churches get in the act, and has devised a hip-hop service for the more buttoned-up St. Paul's Chapel of Trinity Church.
Hip-hop services are popping up all over. Lawndale Community Church in Chicago packs the house with its rap-inspired version. The leaders of Minneapolis's Sanctuary Covenant Church do hip-hop services six times a year to boost youth attendance. In Tampa, the Rev. Tommy Kyllonen's Crossover Community Church gained 10 times as many congregants when it started using hip-hop in youth outreach programs. Holder has developed "The Hip Hop Prayer Book," inspired by the Book of Common Prayer, which he wrote with help from dozens of rappers, musicians and poets.

Here's their version of the 23rd Psalm:


The Lord is all that, I need for nothing. / He allows me to chill. /He keeps me from being heated /and allows me to breathe easy. /He guides my life so that I can /represent and give shout outs in His name. / And even though I walk through the hood of death, /I don't back down, for You have my back. / The fact that He has me /covered allows me to chill. / He provides me with back-up/In front of player-haters, / and I know that I am a baller and life will be phat. / I fall back in the Lord's crib for the rest of my life.

Not surprisingly, plenty of bloggers, columnists and fellow priests have criticized the approach. Eric Turner, the assistant pastor at Bible Baptist Church in Creedmoor, N.C., says that when you alter Biblical passages, "you take the author of those writings down. God is completely different from us, and trying to make him like us is incorrect ... Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever." But proponents argue that using vernacular language in services is a way to draw young people to church. Everyone's down with that.

Newsweek U.S. Edition

HUMAN TEST SUBJECTS



Your Life as a Human Test Subject Anonymous,

Vendredi, Juin 4, 2004 - 11:12 (Analyses Ecologie)


YOU ARE NOW ELECTRO-SENSITIVE
The spraying of powdered materials throughout the skies of the world is happening on a daily basis everywhere. This has been going on with increasing frequency since the so-called "Election" of the bush crime family to leadership positions in America. Hardly a day goes by now where jets do not lay down chemical trails in grids and canopies. This is support for technology being used against the population of the world. Its main goal is control of food and water through weather modification, but the vast vast expense of this program, as well as the classified technology of corporations such as Time Domain Corporation, suggest even greater goals are being obtained in conjunction with the attempt to lock down food and water. Monsanto Corporation is also deeply involved in this illegal take-over, and many others. Electro-sensitivity of the soil itself will only allow GM crops to crow eventually. Get it? I knew you would.
Ionization of these sprayed particles also causes many forms of radiation to rain down upon the as yet unsuspecting populace of the world, as well as lensing programs to dehydrate land and dry up water sources. The first lie of the NWO animals is that a shield is needed because the atmosphere has been depleted -- it is too bad that THEY themselves can now deplete the atmosphere at any time and thus CREATE THAT NEED.
The true crux of the program is to create conductivity within all life on the surface of the planet, by spraying conductive materials which inevitably end up in the soil, the water, the air, and the food. Great inroads have been made in the last few decades concerning electronic coercion through thought entrainment and other electronic stimulus; some examples of this include Paperclip, MK-ULTRA, Pandora, and the work of the so-called Doctor Delgado.
Spraying of conductive materials was preceded just slightly with the widespread use of cell phones, and it is a fair and reasonable contention that the cell phones are just a cover for the deployment of broadcast towers everywhere, a necessary adjunct to electronic mind control and automated law enforcement. Look around yourselves, the evidence is before your eyes. Towers everywhere and daily spraying of chemicals in American skies, as well as all over the world, will give you a fair clue of just what the new world order with its nazi connections is all about.
Electro-sensitivity is being created so that the populace will respond in a predictable way to various forms of broadcast energy being used for control and coercion. There are also implants being used on a broad scale, in places such as veterans hospitals, and dental labs, and these are used also for coercion, and act as tracking devices too. Finally, the two bush gulf wars were nothing but testing fields for biotech infections that react to electronic broadcast fields. Now, enemies of the State in the US are systematically targeted by The Brethren Operation within the bush CIA for coercion through direct pain. It is more than unfortunate that most of the medical records pertaining to the first bush gulf war have now been destroyed. They were stored in the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, when it was demolished by individuals possessing all the symptoms of advanced nazi mind control science.
Broadcast towers are simply the means to control the mass. The hard cases are targeted with handheld and airborn fields which cause accelerated growth of funguses and cancers these freedom fighters have been intentionallly infected with.
No one can escape this attack on the world by a few degraded non-human animals, and only mass awareness and violent removal will end this depredation against humanity.
And remember this: Russia perfected and used this Tesla-Like technology long before the United States. It was in fact that happening which caused Reagan to go into an orgy of spending once that fact was discovered.
Visit:http://www.chemtrailcentral.com/http://www.carnicom.com/
AgriTerrorism, Atmospheric Engineering, and the bush crime family
“...HAARP is designed to duplicate (And Manipulate...ed.) solar phenomena within the ionosphere...Since the sun's radiation creates and maintains the ionosphere, sudden variations in this radiation can affect the performance of radio systems. Sometimes the changes are sufficient to induce large transient currents in electric power transmission grids, causing widespread power outages...”
HAARP: The Ultimate Weapon Of The ConspiracyJerry E. Smith
Bernard Eastlund, Inventor of HAARP (High Frequency Active AURORAL Research program), from his Patent # 4,686,605: “...By altering solar absorption...weather modification is possible... for example, altering upper atmosphere wind patterns by constructing one or more plumes of atmospheric particles which will act as a lens or focusing device...A moving plume could also serve as a means for focusing a vast amount of sunlight on selected portions of the Earth...Still further, plumes in accordance with the present invention can be formed to simulate and/or perform the same functions as performed by detonation of a “Heave” type nuclear device without actually having to detonate such a device...”
Control of food and water AT ALL COSTS is the goal of the NWO. This is the only strategy that will eventually ensure America can be made to give up its rights to own firearms. Starving people can be made to do many things they would not normally do. This plan is well entrenched and in place here. The servants of world banking (Israel), the bush crime family, have taken over the government and military of America, for their masters. Chemtrailing daily is rife and the population is being bombarded with many forms of invisible but highly detrimental radiation.
Destruction of crops is but one aspect of this weather control and radiation technology. That technology is being tested here in New Mexico on a regular basis already, all across the state, but particularly near Playas in southern New Mexico, future home of a supposed Office of Homeland Security installation, which is believed by some local intelligence sources to be a cover for even more nefarious activities by the nazi sympathizers bush, and their world banking cohorts. Because the OHS cover facility is unfinished, the gnomes of control have been using local populations to test these destructive weapons of control. Certain experimentation by myself and others has proven atmospheric manipulations detrimental to many kinds of plant life. The local populations here are beginning to notice this, and this is well, because these are the people most removed from the facts of just who has taken over their government. Their mind control is thorough and many are more israeli than American, by virtue of their religion.
The farm being planned for Playas is to be used to grow GM crops that are being tailored to survive a radioactive environment. This is one of the stated aims of the new OHS facility according to local sources, and the evidence indicates that the radiation supply is to be provided through atmospheric engineering, and is, in fact, already being provided on a vast scale.

Chemical Aurora Keyhole Surveillance
“.....The morning messages from Langley Operations Center highlighting occurences overnight came in a separate folder. Another folder contained the embassy and station reports routed for his (CIA Director Casey) attention. He received a nice crisp copy of the beautifully printed Presidents Daily Brief (PDB), ten pages of the best intelligence that went each morning to Reagan, Haig, and Weinberger. The National Intelligence Daily (NID), a less sensitive but none-the-less Top Secret code word document was circulated to hundreds in the government -- and Casey. Occasional blue-border human source reports were hand carried to him throughout the day. Big red folders marked TOP SECRET TALENT KEYHOLE -- the code words for overhead surveillance -- arrived, containing reports of satellite and other reconnaisance photography...”
VEIL: The Secret Wars Of The CIABob Woodward
Bernard Eastlund, Inventor of HAARP (High Frequency Active AURORAL Research program), from his Patent # 4,686,605 “...This invention relates to a method and apparatus for altering at least one selected region normally existing above the Earth’s surface...by initially transmitting electromagnetic radiation from the Earth’s surface... ...By altering solar absorption...weather modification is possible... for example, altering upper atmosphere wind patterns by constructing one or more plumes of atmospheric particles which will act as a lens or focusing device...A moving plume could also serve as a means for focusing a vast amount of sunlight on selected portions of the Earth...HIGH INTENSITY, WELL CONTROLLED ELECTRICAL FIELDS CAN BE PROVIDED IN SELECTED LOCATIONS FOR VARIOUS PURPOSES...(caps ours, ed.)”
The existance and exercise of chemtrail spraying in the United States and the world has become well known in the last three years or so. Its kind of hard to miss. The vast expense of the program indicates that there are many different aspects to it, as well as a total disregard for human health, welfare, and privacy. Chemtrailing is adjunct to many other systems of technology, not least of which are the HAARP antennae technologies. In their entirety, these individual aspects of chemtrailing amount to one thing though, and one thing only, and that is WEAPONRY. This weaponry is invisible, and though the effects can be felt and experienced, they are used more for their cumulative effects, causing deterioration of the mind and body over long periods of time, thereby “Sensitizing” the subject population to this type of control. This makes the weapons extremely effective, and virtually undetectable by the vast majority of people being coerced by them. It rather grows on you, and that statement takes on further aspects of the horrific with the realization that many times biological technology is deployed in conjunction with the energy technology. This stuff was all tested in the bush gulf wars, and then brought back here to be used on us. Gulf War Syndrome is a reaction to the electronically stimulated biotechnology illegally tested over there by the bush cia/pharmaceutical interests.
Another main aspect of this chemtrailing/energy technology is surveillance. Complete lack of privacy is the goal of those who wish to take over America for international interests. The goal has been reached, and though most of the technology is still classified, the Time Domain Corporations patent concerning Through Wall Radar has been made public, and though literally the tip of the iceberg, this patent is enough to clue us to the fact that there is no privacy any more in America. Your home is your prison, or so these animals wish.
One of the first HAARP projects was an attempt to convert the Aurora Borealis into a gigantic transmitting antenna, to be used in conjunction with ground based antennae “Farms”, so that a vast multitude of frequencys and stations could be transmitted around the Earth, and specifically Extremely Low Frequencies, the very same frequencies the human brain operates at. These frequencies are STILL prime objectives of all airborne antennae. The given reason is that they have great carrying power and penetration even to the depths of the ocean. And human health be damned. The results of the conversion of the aurora borealis into an antenna are unavailable, but we know the experiment opened up another use for chemtrailing within the atmosphere, as smaller auroras could be created at will, anywhere, by simply spraying reflective particles from jets. These aurora KEYHOLES are just that, keyholes through which the government can peep, anytime, and anywhere it pleases, including underground, or THROUGH WALLS. The tempest electronic keystroke registrar is employed with this aurora surveillance technology also, so that there are literally NO secure computer activities, no matter the encryption employed. The cable from the keyboard to the tower unit acts as a mini-transmitting antenna, and can be monitored from great distance if aurora Keyholes are used to observe an individual. It is supposed that other Time Domain Patents allow long range access to hard drives, though this information, like so much else, is not forthcoming from the world government which is attempting to squeeze Americans into a covert situation of Total Control. In fact, the lies by the bush crime family concerning this technology are becoming ludicrous in the extreme, and are easily seen to be tailored for the ignorant.

YOUR LIFE AS A HUMAN TEST SUBJECT. All Articles by Bill Gallagher, Hachita, New Mexico.




All Pix by Bill Gallagher except desert storm satellite image, and lifting event/irradiation tunnel from Melbourne, Florida.


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Sunday, February 18, 2007

THE CHARADE CONTINUES




A "TIERED INTERNET"


February 19, 2007

Commercialization and Future Access to the Internet Highway

by Rodrigue Tremblay[http://www.thenewamericanempire.com/author.html]


"Perhaps the most obvious political effect ofcontrolled news is the advantage it gives powerful people in getting their issues on the political agenda and defining those issues in ways likely to influence their resolution." W. Lance Bennett


"The Bush majority on the FCC has bowed to the interests of the big cable and telephone companies to strip away, or undo, the Internet’s basic DNA of openness and non-discrimination.” Bill Moyers American Telegraph neutrality law;"...messages received from any individual, company, or corporation, or from any telegraph lines connecting with this line at either of its termini, shall be impartially transmitted in the order of their reception, excepting that the dispatches of the government shall have priority."—An act to facilitate communication between theAtlantic and Pacific states by electric telegraph., June 16, 1860.


On January 3, 2007, the New York Times[http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/03/opinion/03wed1.html?_r=1&oref=slogin] ran an editorial entitled "Protecting InternetDemocracy". What the Times was referring to, was the need to uphold the "principle of Net Neutrality" [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_neutrality], the principle according to which Internet service providers (ISPs—essentially mega cable and telephone companies, such as AT&T, Verizon, Bell South, Comcast and other phone and cable giants which own physical infrastructures), should not be able to favor some users over others, because such a power would inevitably lead to censorship.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship] Indeed, what the giant telecommunications companies would like to obtain from politicians and from the five-person Federal Communications Commission (FCC) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship] is the right to filter content and commercialize the Internet, using broadband lines, and to price-discriminate between users. They would like to obtain the right to charge websites to deliver their content to consumers and to give preferential service to favored clients by setting up special toll booths on the information superhighway. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_superhighway]Their purpose is to be able to establish a two-tiered Internet system, with fast high fare lanes and slower lower fare lanes. Net-accessing users who pay hefty fees would have their Web pages delivered on the Internet in the current speedy fashion; other users who do not fork over a ton of cash to the service providers would be relegated to the slow lanes and would be placed at a big disadvantage. In such asystem, the big Internet users would have access to exclusive deals and would become bigger, while the individuals, the creators, the innovators and theother small users would remain small or disappear.—Only the richest corporations would have access to the prime bandwidth opened by telecommunications corporations, while other smaller Internet users would be left behind. Mind you, Internet users already pay more depending on the volume of data they ask servers to carry, just as trucks pay higher license fees than cars on public highways. What the service providers would like to dois different: they would like to divide the Internet into many different speed lanes and charge a different fee for each lane. It would be as if a public highway were charging different fees depending on whether one car happens to be on the 50-mile lane, the 60-mile lane, the 70-mile lane, etc. It is easy to understand why such a system, if implemented in a quasi monopoly environment, would be a money-grabbing scheme. These are the stakes for the Internet information superhighway. The welfare and freedom of hundreds of millions of Internet[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet] users are pitted against the financial interests of a few greedy and very rich Internet providers. Will thepoliticians side with the people and the principle of free speech and the spirit of anti-monopoly laws by passing a 'net neutrality law' enjoining the FCC to require cable and telephone companies to continueproviding Web sites to Internet users on an equal andnondiscriminatory basis, —or, will they buckle under the pressure of the cable and phone lobbies, and allow the exploitation of the many by the few? Net neutrality laws for common Net carriers have been adopted in many countries, including the UnitedKingdom, South Korea, and Japan, but not yet in theUnited States[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_neutrality_in_the_US]. In non-democratic countries, such as in Communist China, governments have implemented a digital divide by establishing countrywide content filters.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_filter] To understand what is at stake here, we have to consider that the Internet has been an unprecedented technological innovation that has democratized access to unfiltered information worldwide and has allowed creative new content provider companies, like Google,Microsoft,[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft]Yahoo, eBay,Wikipedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia] and others, to start small and grow larger. Just reflect that there are more than 100 million WEB sites in theworld today. Therefore, it is not surprising that governments and corporations alike are following this explosion of free information with some trepidation,but for different reasons.The reason people must be vigilant and act appropriately is that, in the past, powerful money interests have succeeded in persuading distracted or venal politicians to pass bad laws that turn up to be very much against the public interest. For instance, probably one of the worst laws ever adopted in the U.S. was the 1996 Telecom Act,[http://www.customtoolbarbuttons.com/en_google_toolbar_buttons/Telecom_Reform_Act] passed by a Republican Congress but signed by Democrat President Bill Clinton. This law has opened wide the door to media ownership concentration in the U.S. and placed American consumers at the mercy of a handful huge conglomerates, most of them far-right conservative Republicans, which exercise near complete monopoly power over local electronic information channels, such as radio, TV or cable services. The predictable effect of this law has been more ownership concentration, less competition, less choice for the consumers and higher prices for reduced services. In other words, this was a law designed to promote special economic interests at the expense of the general public good. The end result of the law is there for everyone to see today. Nearly all broadcast news in the U.S. originates from one of six huge media conglomerates[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_conglomerate]:Viacom(CBS), General Electric's NBC, Time Warner(CNN), Disney (ABC), Fox News Corp, and Clear ChannelCommunications. The principle that airwaves and cyberspace belong to all the people and are public property needs to be reaffirmed, as the above mentioned 1860 U.S. law establishing freedom of access to the big invention of the time, the telegraph.[http://nostalgia.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_telegraphhttp://nostalgia.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_telegraph] A law guaranteeing freedom of access to the Internet[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_World_Wide_Web] is as much required as the law guaranteeing access tothe telegraph one hundred and fifty years ago. A“tiered Internet” would be a terrible blow to consumer choice and to freedom of information. It should be opposed by all who value freedom and fairness. In the future, democratic governments should consider favoring the creation of not-for-profit Internet service providers [not-for-profit Internet service providers] as they already exist in some large cities. Indeed, the Internet is a basic economic and social infrastructure and should be viewed as a public utility, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilities] on the same level as electricity and the telephone._______________________________________


Rodrigue Tremblay lives in Montreal and can be reached at rodrigue.tremblay@yahoo.com


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Check Dr. Tremblay's coming book at:http://www.moralitywithoutreligion.com


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Posted, February 19, 2007, at 5:30 am

Saturday, February 17, 2007

THE STATE OF ISRAEL

Revelations on the State of Israel (2/7/2007)

The Zionist "State Of Israel" was created by the Jesuits-Vatican craftsmanship. Because, of it's strategic location where Jerusalem is located. The Jesuits-Vatican wishes to protect that zone in theMiddle East, and they will destroy the Al-Aqsa Mosque "Dome Of The Rock" where the Roman Temple of Herod is buried. When the Jesuits successfully destroyed the Dome Of The Rock, a Masonic Satanic Temple will be built where the final pope "Anti-Christ" will sit and wishes to be worshiped like GOD. By the way, Edmund A.Walsh, S.J. according to historical articles established a Jesuit school in Iraq. I can't remember for a while if it is in Baghdad. Some Zionist-Jew leaders are high-level freemasons, some Freemasons pretend to be Muslims like the late Yasser Arafat who is a 33rd degree freemason and believed Saddam Hussein too is a 33rd degree freemason. They work together controlled by the Jesuits to initiate a path for there-building of the Satanic Temple intended for the Anti-Christ. There are Freemason H.Q. in Egypt and Turkey as well, pretending to be Muslims, like in the UK and US and France and other places where they pretend to be Christians.
Historian.


U.S. BELIEF IN PSEUDO-SCIENCE




U.S. Beliefs in Pseudoscience Worry Experts
By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID
AP
SAN FRANCISCO (Feb. 17) - People in the U.S. know more about basic science today than they did two decades ago, good news that researchers say is tempered by an unsettling growth in the belief in pseudoscience such as astrology and visits by extraterrestrial aliens. In 1988 only about 10 percent knew enough about science to understand reports in major newspapers, a figure that grew to 28 percent by 2005, according to Jon D. Miller, a Michigan State University professor. He presented his findings Saturday at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The improvement largely reflects the requirement that all college students have at least some science courses, Miller said. This way, they can better keep up with new developments through the media. A panel of researchers expressed concern that people are giving increasing credence to pseudoscience such as the visits of space aliens, lucky numbers and horoscopes. In addition, these researchers noted an increase in college students who report they are "unsure" about creationism as compared with evolution. More recent generations know more factual material about science, said Carol Susan Losh, an associate professor at Florida State University. But, she said, when it comes to pseudoscience, "the news is not good." One problem, she said, is that pseudoscience can speak to the meaning of life in ways that science does not. For example, for many women having a good life still depends on whom they marry, she said. "What does astrology speak to? Love relationships," Losh said, noting that belief in horoscopes is much higher among women than men. The disclosure that former first lady Nancy Reagan consulted an astrologer resulted in widespread derision in the media, but few younger people remember that episode today, she said. Miller said most readers of horoscopes are women, contributing to the listing of "female" as a leading negative factor in science literacy. Women also tended to take fewer college science courses, he said. Belief in abduction by space aliens is also on the rise, Losh said. "It's not surprising that the generation that grew up on `Twilight Zone' and early `Star Trek' television endorsed a link between UFOs and alien spacecraft," she said. Pseudoscience discussion is often absent from the classroom, Losh said, so "we have basically left it up to the media." Raymond Eve of the University of Texas at Arlington had mixed news in surveys of students at an unnamed Midwestern university. The share that believed aliens had visited Earth fell from 25 percent in 1983 to 15 percent in 2006. There was also a decline in belief in "Bigfoot" and in whether psychics can predict the future. But there also has been a drop in the number of people who believe evolution correctly explains the development of life on Earth and an increase in those who believe mankind was created about 10,000 years ago. Miller said a second major negative factor to scientific literacy was religious fundamentalism and aging. Having taken college science courses was a strong positive influence, followed by overall education and informal science learning through the media. Having children at home also resulted in adults being more scientifically informed, he said. Nick Allum of the University of Surry in England suggested belief in astrology might be a simple misunderstanding of the question, with people confusing astrology with astronomy. In one European study about 25 percent of people said they thought astrology was very scientific. But when the question was rephrased to horoscopes that fell to about 7 percent.
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02/17/07 16:20 EST

MISSION OF THE DISCIPLES

Matthew 10
1And when he had called unto him his twelve disciples, he gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease.
2Now the names of the twelve apostles are these; The first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother;
3Philip, and Bartholomew; Thomas, and Matthew the publican; James the son of Alphaeus, and Lebbaeus, whose surname was Thaddaeus;
4Simon the Canaanite, and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him.
5These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not:
6But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
7And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand.
8Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give.
9Provide neither gold, nor silver, nor brass in your purses,
10Nor scrip for your journey, neither two coats, neither shoes, nor yet staves: for the workman is worthy of his meat.
11And into whatsoever city or town ye shall enter, enquire who in it is worthy; and there abide till ye go thence.
12And when ye come into an house, salute it.
13And if the house be worthy, let your peace come upon it: but if it be not worthy, let your peace return to you.
14And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, when ye depart out of that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet.
15Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that city.
16Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
17But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to the councils, and they will scourge you in their synagogues;
18And ye shall be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them and the Gentiles.
19But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what ye shall speak: for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak.
20For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you.
21And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.
22And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.
23But when they persecute you in this city, flee ye into another: for verily I say unto you, Ye shall not have gone over the cities of Israel, till the Son of man be come.
24The disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his lord.
25It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more shall they call them of his household?
26Fear them not therefore: for there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known.
27What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light: and what ye hear in the ear, that preach ye upon the housetops.
28And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
29Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father.
30But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.
31Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows.
32Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven.
33But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven.
34Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
35For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
36And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
37He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
38And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me.
39He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.
40He that receiveth you receiveth me, and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me.
41He that receiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet's reward; and he that receiveth a righteous man in the name of a righteous man shall receive a righteous man's reward.
42And whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these little ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a disciple, verily I say unto you, he shall in no wise lose his reward.

Thursday, February 15, 2007

DEATH OF A SYMBOL

DEATH OF A SYMBOL

YESTERDAY, I SAW A DEAD BALD EAGLE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD. IT HAD BEEN RUN OVER.

ON SEVERAL INSTANCES, I HAVE SEEN THEM IN MY AREA. ON ONE OCCASSION (WHILE DRIVING), I SAW ONE SWOOP DOWN TOWARD THE ONCOMING VEHICLES. APPARENTLY THIS TIME THIS EAGLE CAME TOO CLOSE AND WAS KILLED.


ISN'T IT IRONIC? THE AMERICAN FREEDOMS SYMBOLIZED BY THE FREE SPIRITED BALD EAGLE, HAVE LATELY BEEN KILLED ALSO. THE IMAGE OF OUR LIBERTIES HAS BEEN DASHED TO THE GROUND, AND IS CONSTANTLY TRAMPLED BY "UNCONSTITUTIONAL MEASURES". THE SPIRIT OF FEAR AND SUSPICION THAT HAS REPLACED OUR LONG HELD BELIEFS, NOW JUSTIFY ALL TYPES OF DICTATORIAL DISMISSAL OF CIVIL RIGHTS.


THE GRACEFUL BALD EAGLE HAS NOW BEEN REPLACED BY AN OLD BUZZARD........FLYING AROUND LOOKING TO FEED UPON THE DEAD AND DYING. AMERICA'S FUTURE IS GRIM, AND FINALLY CAUGHT UP TO THE REST OF THE WORLD; THANKS TO GLOBALISM: WE MUST ALL SUFFER EQUALLY TO BE "GLOBAL". THIS ISN'T ABOUT DOOM AND GLOOM. THE BALD EAGLE IS DEAD IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD, AND NOT MANY HAVE NOTICED!

NO KING PLEASE, WE'RE AMERICANS


No King Please, We're Americans

If you read the Constitution, Mr. Bush, you'll see you're just the president

By Frederick A.O. Schwarz Jr. and Aziz Huq
Legal Times
February 12, 2007


Before 9/11, who would have imagined that the vice president of the United States would publicly endorse the use of waterboarding in interrogating suspects as a “no-brainer”? Or that the administration would exploit the political opportunity of a tight election to ram immunity for government torturers through Congress? Who would have imagined that America would be condemned around the world for “disappearing” suspects, sweeping them off into secret prisons for brutal interrogations? That only five years after 9/11 the sympathy expressed around the world for America’s tragic losses would have frayed? Or that Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib would become, for much of the world, more potent symbols of America than the Statue of Liberty?

It has not been terrorism alone that has changed the nation, but our response to it. A telltale sign: At one time, the New York Daily News’ recent revelation that the president asserts open-ended power to read our mail would have shocked us. Today, it’s almost old hat. What once would have been dismissed as outlandish speculation is today the inevitable consequence of an executive branch that purports to stand above the checks and balances of the Constitution.

The president asserts the power once claimed by British kings to set aside the laws of the land. He uses that power to ignore laws banning torture and warrantless wiretapping. But this monarchical presidency makes the nation no safer and breaks faith with foundational constitutional traditions.

The theory of a monarchical presidency, decried by The New York Times last month as a return to the “imperial presidency” condemned by Arthur Schlesinger Jr. during the Nixon years, has been used to undergird precisely those policies that the American people would not countenance as open laws. The president thus claims unilateral power to use interrogation practices that amount to torture, to consign citizens to indefinite detention, and to sift through Americans’ mail and telephone calls unchecked by any judge.

Contrary to popular belief, though, the monarchical presidency is not a response to 9/11, but a long-nursed ideological project of a small clique. Vice President Dick Cheney drew from Watergate and its aftermath the lesson that checks on an imperial presidency should be cast aside. In the 1987 minority report on the Iran-Contra scandals, which he authored, Cheney made a remarkable call for “monarchical notions of prerogatives for the presidency.” Nearly 15 years later, as the nation reeled from 9/11, Cheney and his allies seized their chance.

BAD POLICY

Neither the original understanding of the Constitution nor present-day need, however, licenses the unprecedented concentration of power in one branch of government sought by the Bush administration. Leave aside for the moment the fact that a theory of unchecked presidential power breaks faith with our deepest constitutional traditions of limited government under law. It is also dangerously ill-suited to making counterterrorism policy.

Consider first the practical consequences of the policies justified by this theory of executive power, such as the use of coercive interrogation and “extraordinary rendition” to torturers in Syria or Egypt. These practices have yielded international opprobrium. “The world,” former Secretary of State Colin Powell has warned, “is beginning to doubt the moral basis of our fight against terrorism.”

This reputational hit has immense consequences for the nation’s safety. As surveys conducted by the Pew Global Attitudes Project and others have shown, attitudes toward the United States in Muslim countries, the primary recruiting grounds for al Qaeda, have nose-dived. As then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld lucidly explained, it does us no good if our counterterrorism policies create more terrorists than they stop. Powerful symbols of American hypocrisy — including Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib, bitter fruit of the theory of a monarchical presidency — do precisely this.

Hypocrisy takes its toll among our allies, too. The British House of Lords, the highest court in the land of our closest ally, noted recently in relation to American counterterrorism policy that “the use of torture is dishonorable. It corrupts and degrades the state that uses it and the legal system which accepts it.” Such official condemnation not only signals a much deeper public disdain, but in practical terms makes it more difficult for Prime Minister Tony Blair and company to cooperate with their White House counterparts.

BAD ASSUMPTION

Executive-power mavens often argue that the president and his colleagues have better information than the rest of us, and they should therefore be trusted to make decisions. But policies that flow from presidential unilateralism too often lead to dramatically flawed decisions based on wildly wrong facts or flights of ideological fancy.

Drumming up support for the Iraq War, the president, the vice president, Powell, and Rumsfeld claimed that Iraq and al Qaeda were linked. The evidence, Rumsfeld told the nation, was “bulletproof.” But the evidence came from a senior al Qaeda operative who had been rendered to Egypt for torture. The Defense Intelligence Agency later advised the administration that the suspect’s statement was unreliable. Indeed, we know now that it was untrue.

Executive unilateralism thus allowed the administration to use tools such as coercive interrogation and rendition to generate the evidence it wanted. Then the executive branch used the same unilateralism to limit public and congressional scrutiny of its claims.

Unchecked executive power, in other words, is based on a false assumption that an unchecked executive will govern judiciously. It assumes that bureaucrats and politicians, freed from the need to account for their conduct, will be effective and just. History abundantly proves this wrong. Power without accountability lurches too easily into the loss of innocent lives.

BAD READING

The nation’s Founding Fathers were well aware of this aspect of human nature, that even the best-intentioned men and women can be seduced into error by the allure of being the “decider” in a moment of high tension. It should not be surprising, then, that the theory that the president can break the law flies in the face of America’s founding covenant to be a government of laws, not men. The Revolution was fought to rid America of monarchical powers of the sort the president and vice president have sought to resurrect.

The language and structure of the Constitution makes this clear. In contrast to the terse offices allotted the president, Congress is given the lion’s share of power, including power over military matters. The Constitution even authorizes Congress to “make Rules for Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces.” The debates at the Constitutional Convention and in the state ratifying conventions that followed also undercut the current administration’s position. Perhaps most harmful to the administration’s claims is Alexander Hamilton’s Federalist No. 69, which sketches an executive with limited authority, neither omnipotent nor invulnerable to check by judiciary and legislature.

Professor John Yoo, formerly with the Bush Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, has argued that the Framers of the Constitution silently intended to adopt the “unwritten British Constitution’s allocation of powers between Parliament and Crown,” giving the president the British king’s powers to cast aside congressional laws. Set aside the small problem that the American Revolution repudiated the abusive structures of royal rule; the British monarchy had, in fact, been stripped of power to suspend parliamentary laws in the Glorious Revolution of 1688 — almost exactly 100 years before the Constitutional Convention.

Nor has the U.S. Supreme Court, starting with Chief Justice John Marshall, been hospitable to the resurrection of monarchical power in America. From Marshall’s time through to Justice Robert Jackson’s canonical opinion on presidential power in the steel-seizure case (endorsed as “very important” by Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. in his Senate confirmation hearing), there has been no doubt, at least at the high court, that the Founders rejected the model of the British king.

The Bush administration lawyers who concluded that the Constitution gave us a king were relying on internal processes of deliberation and debate that failed. Pivotal memos did not mention key Supreme Court precedents. Political appointees did not seek insight from seasoned professionals in the military and the State Department. And the legal analysis did not account for its inevitable consequence, the handicapping of America’s moral leadership in the world.

BAD LAW

The Constitution’s system of checks and balances, however, ought not to rest on the shoulders of executive-branch lawyers alone. It is up to all three branches to play their constitutionally assigned role.

The Supreme Court has risen to the task in decisions such as Rasul v. Bush (2004) and Hamdi v. Rumsfeld (2004). In June 2006, it delivered a clear rebuke to the administration in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, which invalidated the military-commission system established by presidential fiat in 2001. But the response to Hamdan shows Congress’ performance still leaves much to be desired.

In September 2006, President George W. Bush and his allies on Capitol Hill stampeded the Military Commissions Act into law. The legislation delegated to the executive unwarranted powers to detain and interrogate suspects outside the rule of law. Rather than acting on the basis of considered debate and a full understanding of the facts, legislators fell over themselves to sign off on a “tough on terror” agenda that broke with our nation’s historically enshrined liberties, most importantly habeas corpus. Congress may have the power and responsibility to rein in an overweening executive branch, but that doesn’t mean it will act wisely.

Throughout history, the task of keeping this republic has fallen not just to the three branches of government, but also to “We the People of the United States.”

The Framers knew that maintaining the Constitution’s system of checks and balances would not be easy. Stepping into Philadelphia sunlight in 1787, Benjamin Franklin was asked by an eager passerby what he and his fellow delegates had wrought — a republic or a monarchy. “A republic,” replied Franklin, “if you can keep it.”


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Frederick A.O. Schwarz Jr. and Aziz Huq are co-authors of Unchecked and Unbalanced: Presidential Power in a Time of Terror, to be published by the New Press in March. Both work at the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law. Schwarz served as chief counsel for the Church Committee, a Senate panel that investigated intelligence-gathering operations in the mid-1970s. He was also chief lawyer for New York City and a partner at Cravath, Swaine & Moore. Huq is a 2006 Carnegie Scholars Fellow and clerked at the Supreme Court for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. This article first appeared in The American Lawyer, an ALM publication.

Source: http://www.law.com/jsp/dc/PubArticleDC.jsp?id=1170756162214&rss=dc

Tuesday, February 13, 2007

GLOBAL (WARMING) WARNING



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PASTOR STOLE THE CHURCH


California Pastor Stole the Whole Church
By GARANCE BURKE
AP
RIPON, Calif. (Feb. 12) - For nearly a decade, members of Ripon's First Congregational Church bared their souls to Pastor Randall Radic. But clearly it didn't work both ways. There were certain things he wasn't telling them.


A Pernicious Pastor?
Former Pastor Randall Radic used his ill-gotten gains to buy a brand-new black BMW and a laptop.


That became obvious a year ago, when Radic pleaded guilty to betraying his flock and secretly selling the church and its rectory out from under them. He used the money to buy himself a brand-new black BMW and a laptop - exploits he later chronicled in a cheeky, almost gleeful blog about his double life as a sinner.

"We didn't know anything until we got a call from the bank that he had bought a BMW," said David Prater, who led the church board during Radic's tenure. "He drove that car right down Main Street."

Irate parishioners had been rooting for a long prison term of up to 16 months at his sentencing, set for Thursday.

But Radic's lawyer said last week that the 54-year-old former pastor, who spent six months in jail awaiting trial, will not have to serve any more time behind bars because he agreed to testify about the alleged murder confession of a jailmate.



"Most of the congregation, being a good Christian congregation, has forgiven him. But there are still things happening to the church that we can't understand," said Judy Edwards, who took over as pastor last year. "If the parsonage was stolen, why isn't it being returned?"

Radic was a respected figure in Ripon, population 14,000, a quiet town of 1940s-era homes and tree-lined streets just off California's Highway 99, where 18-wheelers thunder down the San Joaquin Valley.

"The church was basically senior citizens, people in their 80s, 90s and close to 100," Prater said. "He was their favorite son."

Radic's pulpit was in a wooden, 90-year-old chapel, and he lived in a church-owned house a few blocks away.

"This is a town with a lot of faith," said Navid Fardanesh, president of the Ripon Chamber of Commerce. "People had a lot of trust in him, and unfortunately he took advantage of the situation."

First, Radic faked documents giving him possession of the parsonage, and used the property to take out about $200,000 in personal loans, prosecutors said. Then he forged papers saying he had the power to sell the church, and sold it to a couple for $525,000.

After investigators began inquiring about the $102,000 BMW, Radic fled to Denver. Prosecutors coaxed him back, and he was arrested in 2005.

It was in jail that Radic met Roy Gerald Smith, a sex offender awaiting trial in the 2005 slaying of a woman in a death penalty case. In Radic's blog on a now-defunct Internet site, the former pastor suggested that as he gained Smith's confidence, Smith confessed.

Radic soon struck a deal: He would plead guilty to embezzlement and be released from prison. And prosecutors would drop nine other felony charges in exchange for Radic's testimony.


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Friday, February 09, 2007

MIRANDA RIGHTS




Miranda RightsSpanish from the Drudge Report:



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You have the right to keep silence. Caulquier thing that You say you can be used against You in a law cut.
You have the right to speak with a lawyer, and to have a present lawyer during neustras questions.
If You love a lawyer before or during our questions, but she does not have means to use a lawyer, assigned one to him, without cost, before beginning the questions.

Thursday, February 08, 2007

DEATH OF A TRAGEDY


Model, Reality TV Star Anna Nicole Smith Dies
Collapsed While Staying at Hard Rock Hotel in Florida
By SUZETTE LABOY, AP
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (Feb. 8) - Anna Nicole Smith, the pneumatic blonde whose life played out as an extraordinary tabloid tale - Playboy centerfold, jeans model, bride of an octogenarian oil tycoon, reality-show subject, tragic mother - died Thursday after collapsing at a hotel. She was 39.

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She was stricken while staying at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino and was rushed to a hospital. Edwina Johnson, chief investigator for the Broward County Medical Examiner's Office, said the cause of death was under investigation and an autopsy would be done on Friday.Just five months ago, Smith's 20-year-old son, Daniel, died suddenly in the Bahamas in what was believed to be a drug-related death.Seminole Police Chief Charlie Tiger said a private nurse called 911 after finding Smith unresponsive in her sixth-floor room at the hotel, which is on an Indian reservation. He said Smith's bodyguard administered CPR, but she was declared dead at a hospital.Dr. Joshua Perper, the chief Broward County medical examiner who will perform the autopsy, said if her death was from natural causes, the findings would likely be announced quickly. He cautioned, however, that definitive results could take weeks.


"I am not a prophet, and I cannot tell you before the autopsy what I am going to find," he said.Through the '90s and into the new century, Smith was famous for being famous, a pop-culture punchline because of her up-and-down weight, her Marilyn Monroe looks, her exaggerated curves, her little-girl voice, her ditzy-blonde persona, and her over-the-top revealing outfits.Recently, she lost a reported 69 pounds and became a spokeswoman for TrimSpa, a weight-loss supplement. On her reality show and other recent TV appearances, her speech was often slurred and she seemed out of it. Some critics said she seemed drugged-out."Undoubtedly it will be found at the end of the day that drugs featured in her death as they did in the death of poor Daniel," said a former attorney for Smith in the Bahamas, Michael Scott.


Another former Smith attorney, Lenard Leeds, told the celebrity gossip Web site TMZ that Smith "always had problems with her weight going up and down, and there's no question she used alcohol." Leeds said it was no secret that "she had a very troubled life" and had "so many, many problems.""She wanted to be like Marilyn her whole life and ironically died in a similar manner," Leeds said. Monroe died of a drug overdose at age 36 in 1962.Smith attorney Ron Rale told The Associated Press that he had talked to her on Tuesday or Wednesday, and she had flu symptoms and a fever and was still grieving over her son."Poor Anna Nicole," he said. "She's been the underdog. She's been besieged ... and she's been trying her best and nobody should have to endure what she's endured."The Texas-born Smith was a topless dancer at strip club before she entered her photos in a search contest and made the cover of Playboy magazine in 1992. She became Playboy's playmate of the year in 1993. She was also signed to a contract with Guess jeans, appearing in TV commercials, billboards and magazine ads.In 1994, she married 89-year-old oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II, owner of Great Northern Oil Co. In 1992, Forbes magazine estimated his wealth at $550 million.In a 2005 interview with ABC, Smith recalled meeting Marshall at what she called a "gentleman's club' in Houston. "He had no will to live and I went over to see him," she said. "He got a little twinkle in his eyes, and he asked me to dance for him. And I did."Marshall died in 1995 at age 90, setting off a feud with Smith's former stepson, E. Pierce Marshall, over his estate. A federal court in California awarded Smith $474 million. That was later overturned. But in May, the U.S. Supreme Court revived her case, ruling that she deserved another day in court.The stepson died June 20 at age 67. But the family said the court fight would continue.Smith starred in her own reality TV series, "The Anna Nicole Show," in 2002-04. Cameras followed her around as she sparred with her lawyer, hung out with her personal assistant and interior decorator, and cooed at her poodle, Sugar Pie. She also appeared in movies, performing a bit part in "The Hudsucker Proxy" in 1994.After news came of Smith's death, G. Eric Brunstad Jr., the lawyer who represented Marshall, said in a statement: "We're very shocked by the news and extend the deepest condolences to her family."In a statement, Playboy founder Hugh Hefner said: "I am very saddened to learn about Anna Nicole's passing. She was a dear friend who meant a great deal to the Playboy family and to me personally."Smith's son died Sept. 10 in his mother's hospital room in the Bahamas, just days after she gave birth to a daughter.An American medical examiner hired by the family, Cyril Wecht, said he died accidentally of a combination of methadone and two antidepressants. Last month, a Bahamas magistrate scheduled a formal inquiry into the death for March 27.Meanwhile, the paternity of Smith's now 5-month-old daughter remained a matter of dispute. The birth certificate lists Dannielynn's father as attorney Howard K. Stern, Smith's most recent companion. Smith's ex-boyfriend Larry Birkhead was waging a legal challenge, saying he was the father.Debra Opri, the attorney who filed his paternity suit, said Birkhead "is devastated. He is inconsolable, and we are taking steps now to protect the DNA testing of the child. The child is our No. 1 priority."Smith was born Vickie Lynn Hogan on Nov. 28, 1967, in Houston, one of six children. Her parents split up when she was a toddler, and she was raised by her mother, a deputy sheriff.She dropped out after 11th grade after she was expelled for fighting, and worked as a waitress and then a cook at Jim's Krispy Fried Chicken restaurant in Mexia.She married 16-year-old fry cook Bill Smith in 1985, giving birth to Daniel before divorcing two years later.(Associated Press Writers Sarah Larimer in Hollywood, Fla., and Ana Cholo in Los Angeles contributed to this story.)
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THE PRICE OF EMPIRE

Nemesis
by Charley Reese

It's axiomatic, based on history, that no nation can maintain an empire abroad and a democracy at home. We are now about to pay for our empire, and the price is American freedom.
This is the message of a new book by Chalmers Johnson, a historian. His latest book is titled Nemesis and is the third work in what has turned out to be a trilogy on the American Empire. The first two were Blowback and The Sorrows of Empire.
No American president in my memory has shown more disdain for the Constitution and its limits on power than George W. Bush. His ridiculous claim that his "signing statements" can alter the laws passed by Congress and his latest claim to alter the rule-making of various government agencies are just two examples.
The outrageous claims by his attorney general that the U.S. could conduct warrantless wiretaps and Internet intercepts and that the Constitution does not guarantee the right of habeas corpus are about as stark a warning that freedom is in grave danger as you could ask for. The Bush administration has politicized science and intelligence and taken this country to war based on lies. It has condoned torture and scoffed at international law by using secret prisons where people are tortured and denied the most basic rights.
The federal authorities can break into your home and plant surveillance devices without notifying you. They can get a list of books you buy or check out of a library and put the bookseller or librarian in prison if the person tells you about it. If you are an alien, perfectly legal, you can still be picked up and held indefinitely.
Of course, it is all done in the name of protecting the American people. That is the standard excuse that has been used since the earliest empires. We're only trying to make sure you're safe, they claim. Well, one should remember that there were no safer streets than Moscow under Stalin or Berlin under Hitler – unless, of course, it was the government that wanted to do you harm.
Given a choice between government security and freedom with risks, always choose freedom. Criminals, including terrorists, don't have much power, but government possesses crushing power. Of course, we Americans are conditioned to view our government as friendly and protective, but that is a mistake.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn made an interesting point in his "Gulag Archipelago." He said the reason so few Russians resisted when the secret police came to get them was because they were innocent. They had done nothing wrong, they were loyal, and they expected their government to realize that their arrest was a mistake. The government didn't, of course, because they were victims of a dictator's paranoia.
Unfortunately, Americans have virtually no control over their government between elections. President Bush has two years to go and can do anything he wants to, including taking us to war with Iran. Government propaganda against Iran is following the exact same pattern as propaganda against Iraq. It is accusing Iran of seeking nuclear weapons in the face of evidence to the contrary. Now it is accusing Iran of making improvised explosive devices for the Iraqi insurgents. That strikes me as a lie. The IED is just a bureaucratic name for a booby trap, and you don't need to be an explosives expert or an electronic wizard to make them.
Congress really has only two choices. It could initiate impeachment proceedings against Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, or it could cut off the funds for the war. I doubt there is enough sand to do either.
February 3, 2007
Charley Reese [send him mail] has been a journalist for 49 years.
© 2007 by King Features Syndicate, Inc.
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Wednesday, February 07, 2007

CHRIST AND MASONS


Monday, January 08, 2007




Christ and masons




First. Christ, our Master, neither instituted nor countenanced these orders. Reviewing his whole earthly ministry, he said (John xviii: 20): "I spake openly to the world;" and "in secret have I said nothing." By this double affirmation he strongly suggested his preference for open, unsecret ways and proceedings.Secondly. In those rites, proceedings, and regalia which do appear, these orders are frivolous, belittling, and unworthy of respect. If the revealed are such, what must the unrevealed be?Thirdly. These orders stand convicted of deceit and falsehood. They profess secrets and mysteries worth buying. Hundreds of high-minded men, of irreproachable character and integrity, who have, therefore, "renounced these hidden things of dishonesty," testify over their own signatures, that their secrets are but signs, pass-words, ceremonies, etc., covering nothing but emptiness and vanity.Fourthly. These orders are unfriendly to domestic happiness and well-being, breaking in upon the sacred confidence and unity of husband and wife, pledging him to conceal from her the proceedings of perhaps fifty nights yearly, thus often sowing seeds of distrust, filling his breast with what must not be divulged to her, involving him in affairs and habits not unfrequently injurious to the best interests and state of the family.Fifthly. These orders are hostile to the heavenly-mindedness, the spirituality of those who join them. We speak from much testimony. "Let him that thinketh he standeth take heed." The prudent man foreseeth the evil, but the foolish pass on and are punished. This voice of one is that of many concurring wise, faithful, and godly men, viz.: "I am afraid of these secret societies; they have sucked the spirituality out of all the members in our church who have joined them." Young, promising Christians have often been blighted by them. The fervor of piety, interest in the church and its work, interest in Christ and his people, interest in God's Word and Spirit, all the various elements of an earnest life of faith and heavenly-mindedness have been blighted in these lodges. And in urging this, we appeal to so many witnesses, and cover so wide a field of observation, as to make it certain that this is not the exceptional but the ordinary result.Sixthly. These orders tend to destroy Christian fellowship. Let them grow until a given church is broken into squads, each pledged to secrets from the other, but bound within itself by special ties; give to each its own weekly meeting, mysteries, rites, signs, grips, pass-words; let each be sworn to provide for, protect, shield, and love its own adherents above others, and is not "church fellowship" annihilated? Can the Spirit of Christ flow freely from member to member through such partitions? Is this "one body in Christ, and every one members one of another?"Seventhly. These orders tend to subject the church to "the world" in some of its dearest interests. For example: When a few leading members join a neighboring lodge, and make vows to the "strange" brotherhood, how easy for that lodge to interfere secretly but controllingly in its discipline of members, or in its selection or dismission of a pastor! These suggestions are not merely imaginary. Subjection of the church, in this way, to the cunning craftiness of evil and designing men is no mere dream.Eighthly. These orders dishonor Christ. Those claims which he makes for himself are disallowed. He is required to disappear or find a place amidst other objects for worship. There is a necessity, because these orders are designed for adherents of all religions. Were they on the footing of an insurance company or a merchants' exchange, or any similar body, this fact would not be so. But they profess to include religion among their elements, and its services, in whole or in part, among their ceremonies. They have prayers and solemn religious rites. And in these Christ is dishonored. His exclusive claims are disallowed or ignored, and this not by accident, but of set purpose. Out of twenty-three forms of prayer in the "New Masonic Trestle-Board," (Boston edition, 1850,) only one even alludes to him, and that one in a non-committal way. These secret orders are under bonds not to honor Christ as he claims, lest the Jew, or the Deist, or the Mohammedan, all of whom they seek to enroll in equal membership, should be offended. When the higher "degrees" of Masonry allude to Christ and Christianity, it is but as one amidst many equals. We repeat it: Did these orders stand on the same footing with mercantile or other bodies in this matter, this objection might go for nothing; but they do not. Unlike them, they profess to have religious services. Indeed, they often boast of their religiousness, and avow their full equality in this with the church of God itself! Yet, if you join them, their "constitutions" prohibit you acknowledging, in their boasted religious services, what Christ, your Lord, not only claims for himself, but commands you to give unto him: that glory which is due to his holy name. Are they, then, not Anti-christ in this thing? And can you, without sin, consent to it, or uphold institutions which forbid you and others, in religious services, to honor him as your God and Savior, and which thus place him on the same level with Zoroaster, Confucius, or Mohammed?Ninthly. These orders--the things now alleged being true--impede the cause and kingdom of God, and are, therefore, hostile to the largest, best, and deepest interests of mankind. Recognizing this, churches, conferences, associations, synods, and many eminently godly men, living and dead, have put forth their solemn testimony against them. Great lawyers, like Samuel Dexter; great patriots and statesmen, like Adams, and Webster, and Everett; great communities, like the American people from 1826 to 1830, have united to declare them not only "wrong in their very principles," but "noxious to mankind." But many Christians, rising higher and standing on "a more sure word of prophecy," have discovered in them the enemies of the Gospel and of the cross of Christ. Following him, their great exemplar in philanthropy as in godliness, who did nothing in secret, they refuse to have fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, choosing rather to reprove them.

Source: http://secretsociety-freemason.blogspot.com/2007/01/christ-and-masons.html

BLACK HAWK DOWN DEJA-VU.


First, a Black Hawk was shot down recently.

Then, it was an Apache Helicopter;

Now, it's a Chinook Chopper.




What and when is it enough?


That's right you didn't go to Viet-Nam to learn the lessons of that failed "Police Action".


Yet, you so willingly went to Ho-Chi-Min City, recently to receive The Keys to the City.


Now that's courage
When the citizenry is inebriated and obsessed with "Superbowls and Tatoos"; Yet, oblivious to recent history.
Anyone can re-write it, or act as if it never occured! Thereby, govern by decree. Nobody will notice the ironies.

Tuesday, February 06, 2007

PROPHECY AND WORLD HISTORY

Today the signs of the times tell us that we are standing on the threshold of grave and controversial events. It seems that the entire world is in an uproar. Before our eyes, the prophecy of Jesus in reference to the events just before His second coming are being fulfilled:
"And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars…. For nation will rise against nation... And there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places. All these are the beginning of sorrows" Matt. 24:6-8.
The present and future are of great interest for all mankind. More and more people realize that something great and decisive is about to take place; that the world is on the brink of an overwhelming crisis. The daily news is filled with catastrophes and violence of every kind. Jesus Himself prophesied that during the time of the end there would be
"on the earth distress of nations, with perplexity…" and "Men's hearts failing them from fear and the expectation of those things which are coming on the earth..." Luke 21:25-26.


The Amazing Prophecy of the Great World Empires
In the Bible, especially in the books of Daniel (Dan.) and in Revelation (Rev.), many events both historical and present-day are clearly prophesied. A careful study of these books helps us to see God's purpose in the history of nations. It helps us to understand the true meaning and purpose of life and the plan of salvation for mankind through God's Son Jesus Christ.
Over 2600 years ago, the prophet Daniel foretold the rise of the great world empires, namely Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, Rome, and what is known in the present-day as Europe. In a dream, Daniel saw a great image whose body parts symbolized the exact sequence of those world empires:
"This image's head was of fine gold, its chest and arms of silver, its belly and thighs of bronze, its legs of iron, its feet partly of iron and partly of clay" Dan. 2:32-33.
Those great world empires and their unique characteristics were revealed to the prophet, this time symbolized as beasts.
"Those great beasts, which are four, are four kings which arise..." Dan. 7:17,
as "...the four winds of heaven were stirring up the great sea" Dan. 7:2.
Rev. 17:15 explains that "water" represents "peoples, multitudes, nations, and tongues", while "winds" symbolize wars Jeremiah 4:11-16. The four winds of heaven, which strove upon the great sea, represent the terrible conquests by which those kingdoms came to power.
In the pages linked to the image of Daniel 2 (on this page) you will find a brief account of the secular history of these various eras. This will give you the evidence you need to place these prophecies where they belong in the fulfillment of Bible prophecy and the confidence in God that will lead you in a closer walk with Him.
Mysterious Babylon Beast Of Daniel 7 Seal Of God Mark Of The BeastJudgement Time U.S. In Bible Prophecy Who Changed Gods' Law?
Prophecy and World History is part of the Earth's Final Warning Website - Updated October 2, 2005

NATIONAL "ID" BACKLASH


States challenge nat‘l driver‘s license 2007/2


By LESLIE MILLER, Associated Press Writer Sun Feb 4, 10:36 PM ET



WASHINGTON - A revolt against a national driver‘s license, begun in Maine last month, is quickly spreading to other states.
Within a week of Maine‘s action, lawmakers in Georgia, Wyoming, Montana, New Mexico, Vermont and Washington state also balked at Real ID. They are expected soon to pass laws or adopt resolutions declining to participate in the federal identification network.
The law‘s supporters say it is needed to prevent terrorists and illegal immigrants from getting fake identification cards.
About a dozen states have active legislation against Real ID, including Arizona, Georgia, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Missouri, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, Utah and Wyoming.
"This is almost a frontal assault on the freedoms of America when they require us to carry a national ID to monitor where we are," Guest said in an interview Saturday. "That‘s going too far."
Though most states oppose the law, some such as Indiana and Maryland are looking to comply with Real ID, Sundeen said.
Republic, , ) of New Hampshire, , , ) of Hawaii, filed a bill last year to repeal the law. Sununu expects similar legislation will be introduced soon.
Privacy advocates say a national driver‘s license will promote identity theft.
Barry Steinhardt, a lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union , said the Real ID ordered by Congress would require a digital photo and probably a fingerprint on each driver‘s license or state-issued ID card. That, he said, will make it more valuable to identity thieves because the ID card will be accepted as much more than a driving credential.
An identity thief, he said, could buy a Real ID from a rogue motor vehicle department employee with is own photo and fingerprint on it.
"The victim is never going to be able to undo this," Steinhardt said.
Other criticisms include:
_Some states will have to invest millions in new computer systems that can communicate with federal databases. That is something they probably will not accomplish by the deadline.
_It will be difficult to comply with the requirement that license applicants prove they are in the country legally. There are more than 100 different immigration statutes, Steinhardt said, which will pose problems for motor vehicle clerks unfamiliar with immigration law.
_It does not solve the problem of terrorism. Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh and some of the hijackers from the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, had legitimate driver‘s licenses.
_Even the requirement that applicants‘ full legal names appear on licenses will pose problems because some states limit the number of characters on the face of the card.
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On the Net:
Background on Real ID Act: http://www.ncsl.org/standcomm/sctran/realidsummary05.htm
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Monday, February 05, 2007

MEATLESS PUPPETS


Meatless Puppets

Eat your greens: chewing over the history and politics of vegetarianism

by Lenora Todaro

February 2nd, 2007 4:34 PM

Two announcements regarding food sailed quietly by in December 2006: The FDA endorsed meat and milk from cloned cows, ignoring concerns raised about its safety by scientists; and the U.S. Department of Agriculture appointed representatives from General Mills and Campbell's Soup, among others, to fill seats on the National Organic Standards Board—seats meant for a scientist, consumer advocate, and environmentalist.


Whether you're a vegetarian or carnivore, these pieces of information up the ante on the age-old dilemma: What should we eat? Once you get past the basics, the questions get thorny. How much pollution from large-scale agribusiness can the environment (and thus our bodies) absorb? What type of farming yields healthier food for more people? How much animal suffering, if any, are we willing to accept?


Historically, one solution to these dilemmas was to become vegetarian. Tristram Stuart, a Cambridge-educated deer hunter and veteran dumpster-diver, makes an ecological argument in The Bloodless Revolution: A Cultural History of Vegetarianism from 1600 to Modern Times. Stuart argues that the affluent West (and increasingly China) must reduce consumption of meat to conserve resources for future generations—in particular to preserve forests and water and emit fewer greenhouse gases.


It's a strong argument for eating more vegetables with your fresh venison. Stuart devotes most of his book, however, to meticulously detailing the varieties of vegetarian experience in Europe over the last 400 years. War made 17th- and 18th-century Europeans question the necessity of meat-eating in the face of oppression and food shortages. And when travelers to India returned with accounts of a nation of pacifist vegetarians, the European belief in human dominance came under scrutiny. When Sir Isaac Newton saw that gravity united the universe, he wondered if there might be a moral law to unite creatures as well. As Stuart notes throughout the book, the battle lines were drawn and are still more or less in place today. Scholarly and at times colorful, The Bloodless Revolution follows the tides of vegetarian thought as one generation influences the next, but it also gets at what it means to be human, part of something larger than oneself.


The book sometimes reads like a cross between the New York Review of Books —pinpointing the intellectual fissures of the vegetarians versus meat-eaters debate—and a People magazine for the 17th and 18th centuries. It's a vegetarian "Who's Who" of the last 400 years (Stuart stops at 1945): Descartes, Benjamin Franklin, Voltaire, Gandhi, Hitler, Kafka. Colorful evangelizers made influential arguments on behalf of vegetarianism: 17th-century Roger Crab, a hat-maker/soldier turned hermit made the economic argument (meat-eating equals wealth equals inequality) and the religious one (at the time of Adam and Eve, God provided a fruit, herb, and vegetable diet; after Noah's flood meat-eating plunged mankind into violence; to purify oneself meant returning to the diet of Eden). 18th-century George Cheyne, "a drunken fatso" who had a falling-out with Newton, embraced vegetarianism and slimmed down. A "celebrity doctor," he prescribed a form of bulimia and then mercury, poisoning his clients until they adopted a milk-and-vegetable diet.


Bloodless Revolution chronicles a European veggie history over an American one and fortunately for Stuart, the latest wrinkle in the eater's dilemma—genetically modified (GM) foods—has been mostly banned by the European Union, where they have been dubbed "Frankenfoods." In the U.S., GM products entered the food chain circa 1994, having been altered genetically by scientists to have desirable features— say an internal pesticide. About 80 percent of American supermarket foods now contain GM ingredients. But what happens when a laboratory-created gene for antibiotic resistance enters the human gut?


Heralded as safe by agrichemical corporations like Monsanto—makers, once upon a time, of Agent Orange and DDT—GM foods are not required to be labeled, despite a 2003 ABC News poll in which 92 percent of Americans said they desired such information. "The motivation of biotechnology companies for opposing labeling is obvious," writes nutritionist and NYU professor Marion Nestle in her recent book What To Eat. "You might choose not to buy them." The medical argument in support of vegetarianism, as Nestle puts it, is "the meat industry's big public relations problem" because vegetarians have a lower risk of heart disease and certain cancers. But today some staple foods in a vegetarian diet—like soy and corn—are large-scale GM crops. And with the jury still out (or silenced depending upon your perspective), their safety remains questionable.


Jeffrey M. Smith, director of the Institute for Responsible Technology, makes one of the stronger cases against GM foods in his book Seeds of Deception. He points out that in one study, rats fed GM tomatoes developed stomach lesions; cows, when given a choice to eat GM or non-GM grain, choose non; in the early '90s when documents were submitted to the FDA urging long-term safety tests on rBGH (a synthetic hormone) in milk, the request was rejected by Michael Taylor, the FDA's deputy commissioner for policy and a former attorney for Monsanto, who later became one of its vice presidents.


The long-running bloodless revolution Stuart details continues, fueled by figures like Jeffrey M. Smith, an evangelizer against GM foods who stands on a soapbox decrying the toxins that course through our veins, invisible until they take the form of cancer or some as yet unnamed disease.