Monday, December 24, 2007

DEADLY STORM LEAVES DANGEROUS ROADWAYS



Deadly Storm Leaves Dangerous Roadways


Monday, December 24, 2007


MILWAUKEE - Highways were treacherous for holiday travelers Monday in the upper Midwest in the aftermath of a blustery snowstorm that blacked out thousands of homes and businesses and snarled air travel.


At least 11 deaths were blamed on the weekend-long storm, which led to multi-car pileups that closed parts of several major highways on the Plains.


Strong wind blew snow into whiteout conditions during the weekend, but conditions had eased Monday.


That wouldn't necessarily mean safer roads, authorities cautioned.


"The roads aren't quite as ice-covered but we're still telling people not to drive unless they have to," Sgt. Tim Elve of the Dane County Sheriff's Office said early Monday. "The interstate is still slick and the rural roads are really bad."


Authorities had issued urgent pleas for travelers to stay home Sunday but officials worried that people would insist on driving Monday, regardless of the weather, to get to Christmas Eve destinations.


"I know it's the holidays but we hope people use some common sense when traveling," said Sgt. Chad Breuer of the Grant County Sheriff's Department in southwest Wisconsin. "There are a lot of people saying, 'I'll just leave that much earlier' but still, the roads are not favorable for traveling."


The storm rolled through Colorado and Wyoming on Friday, then spread snow and ice on Saturday from the Texas Panhandle to Wisconsin. On Sunday, snow fell across much of Wisconsin and eastern Minnesota and parts of Michigan and Indiana.


Up to 6 inches of snow fell on western Michigan, and freezing drizzle glazed some highways Monday morning in counties along Lake Michigan. The area of Madison, Wis., got three to four hours of freezing rain early Sunday, making driving treacherous.


The storm system had blown out to sea Monday morning, but in its wake wind blowing at 25 mph picked up moisture from Lake Erie to create lake-effect snow in Buffalo, N.Y. Five to 10 inches of snow was possible there and in other parts of western New York by Tuesday morning, the weather service said.


Wind was measured at 88 mph over Lake Michigan, with gusts of 50 to 68 mph across the Chicago region, according to the National Weather Service.


Because of the wind, airlines canceled more than 300 flights Sunday at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport, the city Aviation Department said. Municipal officials said the wind had knocked out nearly 170 traffic signals, and there were more than 500 reports of fallen trees and limbs.


More than 11,000 homes and businesses were without power at some point Saturday in Wisconsin because of the freezing rain, ice, gusty wind and heavy snow, utilities said. Michigan utilities reported some 31,000 customers were still without power Monday morning, and in Illinois about 15,000 customers had been blacked out.


At least three people in Minnesota, three in Wyoming, three in Wisconsin and one person each in Texas and Kansas were killed in traffic accidents that authorities blamed on the storm.


The fatality in Texas came in a chain-reaction pileup involving more than 50 vehicles, including several tractor-trailer rigs, on Interstate 40, police said. At least 16 people were taken to hospitals, police said.


Authorities believe the pileup, which shut down the highway for most of the day, was caused by near zero visibility in blowing snow and slippery pavement. Multi-vehicle wrecks on Saturday also temporarily blocked sections of I-70 in Kansas and I-29 in Missouri.


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Associated Press writer Caryn Rousseau in Chicago contributed to this report.


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P.S. Might this be the result of 'Global Warming'? Blogman.

US INFANT JESUS STATUE TO GET GPS

Last Updated: Sunday, 23 December 2007, 22:47 GMT
US infant Jesus statue to get GPS
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Nativity scene
The statue was stolen from a nativity scene like the one above

A statue of the infant Jesus on display near Miami in Florida is being fitted with a Global Positioning System device after the original figurine was stolen.

The near-life-size figure forms part of a nativity scene in Bal Harbour.

The original vanished three weeks ago, despite being bolted to the ground.

Dina Cellini, who oversees the display, says the statues of Mary and Joseph will also be fitted with a satellite tracking device to deter thieves.

She said: "I don't anticipate this will ever happen again, but we may need to rely on technology to save our saviour."

A Jewish lawyer, Jeffrey Harris, from Cincinnati, who read about the theft on the internet, has donated the new Jesus figurine in the Founders Circle area of the city.

Mr Harris, who celebrates Hanukkah, not Christmas, told the Miami Herald: ''I felt bad. How could someone steal a baby Jesus? Even though I am Jewish, I like the Christmas spirit.''


Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7158698.stm

NOTE: Exodus 20:3-6. The First Commandment:

Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.

Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;

And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.

What a story? Baby Jesus 'Statue' to get GPS in BAL (BAAL) Harbor, Florida? Arsenio.

COP WHO LIED ABOUT CITIZENSHIP DEPORTED

Cop Who Lied About Citizenship Deported

December 23, 2007



A man who took a dead cousin's identity to pose as a U.S. citizen in order to become a police officer was deported from the United States on Sunday.

Oscar Ayala-Cornejo, 25, was arrested May 31 after an anonymous tip and was charged with falsely representing himself as an American citizen.

He accepted a plea deal, agreeing to be deported, and resigned from the Milwaukee police force. A judge sentenced Ayala last month to a year of probation.

Darryl Morin, special projects coordinator for the League of United Latin American Citizens, said Ayala left on a flight out of Milwaukee on Sunday morning. Dense fog had forced the cancellation of Ayala's flight on Saturday.

He was flown to Guadalajara, Mexico, where his family moved from in 1992.

In a cell phone interview as he arrived at the Milwaukee airport on Saturday, Ayala said he was sad to leave his family and friends but was optimistic. He plans to stay with relatives in Guadalajara and study computer engineering.

'I enjoyed my time here and I have no regrets,' he said.

Being a police officer was his dream job.

'I love this country,' he said Saturday. 'I love everything it has to offer.'

Ayala said in November that his father helped him change his identity to Jose Morales, a cousin who was a U.S. citizen but who died as a child of stomach cancer.

He had told his father he wanted to become a police officer after the department recruited at his high school.

He said he would have had to go back to Mexico when he became an adult to wait years before becoming a citizen, and his father didn't want to separate the family. His sister was married to a citizen, his brother was born in this country and his parents were on their way to becoming permanent residents.

His father died of leukemia in 2004, before he could see his son become a police officer that December.

Ayala doesn't hold his father responsible.

'The cards that we were dealt just weren't the best ones,' he has said. 'If I wouldn't have done this, I would still be in Mexico waiting to see if I could ever see my family.'

His 27-year-old brother, Alex, was fired from the police department in September for lying about his brother's identity, but he won his job back this month, with a 10-day suspension without pay.

Source: http://www.topix.net/content/ap/2007/12/cop-who-lied-about-citizenship-deported

Sunday, December 23, 2007

THE HOLYDAY TREE

THE SANTA TREE
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Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:

Galatians 3:13

1929 MAY LOOK LIKE A 'WALK IN THE PARK'

Crisis may make 1929 look a 'walk in the park'


Last Updated: 11:29pm GMT 22/12/2007
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As central banks continue to splash their cash over the system, so far to little effect, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard argues things are rapidly spiralling out of their control

Twenty billion dollars here, $20bn there, and a lush half-trillion from the European Central Bank at give-away rates for Christmas. Buckets of liquidity are being splashed over the North Atlantic banking system, so far with meagre or fleeting effects.

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    As the credit paralysis stretches through its fifth month, a chorus of economists has begun to warn that the world's central banks are fighting the wrong war, and perhaps risk a policy error of epochal proportions.

    The Fed's Ben Bernanke, the BoE's Mervyn King, the ECB's Jean-Claude Trichet
    Faces of power: The Fed’s Ben Bernanke, the BoE’s Mervyn King, the ECB’s Jean-Claude Trichet

    "Liquidity doesn't do anything in this situation," says Anna Schwartz, the doyenne of US monetarism and life-time student (with Milton Friedman) of the Great Depression.

    "It cannot deal with the underlying fear that lots of firms are going bankrupt. The banks and the hedge funds have not fully acknowledged who is in trouble. That is the critical issue," she adds.

    Lenders are hoarding the cash, shunning peers as if all were sub-prime lepers. Spreads on three-month Euribor and Libor - the interbank rates used to price contracts and Club Med mortgages - are stuck at 80 basis points even after the latest blitz. The monetary screw has tightened by default.

    York professor Peter Spencer, chief economist for the ITEM Club, says the global authorities have just weeks to get this right, or trigger disaster.

    "The central banks are rapidly losing control. By not cutting interest rates nearly far enough or fast enough, they are allowing the money markets to dictate policy. We are long past worrying about moral hazard," he says.

    "They still have another couple of months before this starts imploding. Things are very unstable and can move incredibly fast. I don't think the central banks are going to make a major policy error, but if they do, this could make 1929 look like a walk in the park," he adds.

    The Bank of England knows the risk. Markets director Paul Tucker says the crisis has moved beyond the collapse of mortgage securities, and is now eating into the bedrock of banking capital. "We must try to avoid the vicious circle in which tighter liquidity conditions, lower asset values, impaired capital resources, reduced credit supply, and slower aggregate demand feed back on each other," he says.

    New York's Federal Reserve chief Tim Geithner echoed the words, warning of an "adverse self-reinforcing dynamic", banker-speak for a downward spiral. The Fed has broken decades of practice by inviting all US depositary banks to its lending window, bringing dodgy mortgage securities as collateral.

    Quietly, insiders are perusing an obscure paper by Fed staffers David Small and Jim Clouse. It explores what can be done under the Federal Reserve Act when all else fails.

    Section 13 (3) allows the Fed to take emergency action when banks become "unwilling or very reluctant to provide credit". A vote by five governors can - in "exigent circumstances" - authorise the bank to lend money to anybody, and take upon itself the credit risk. This clause has not been evoked since the Slump.

    Yet still the central banks shrink from seriously grasping the rate-cut nettle. Understandably so. They are caught between the Scylla of the debt crunch and the Charybdis of inflation. It is not yet certain which is the more powerful force.

    America's headline CPI screamed to 4.3 per cent in November. This may be a rogue figure, the tail effects of an oil, commodity, and food price spike. If so, the Fed missed its chance months ago to prepare the markets for such a case. It is now stymied.

    This has eerie echoes of Japan in late-1990, when inflation rose to 4 per cent on a mini price-surge across Asia. As the Bank of Japan fretted about an inflation scare, the country's financial system tipped into the abyss.


  • BRITAIN HAS BECOME A 'CATHOLIC COUNTRY'

    Britain has become a 'Catholic country'


    By Jonathan Wynne-Jones
    Last Updated: 2:30am GMT 23/12/2007

    Roman Catholics have overtaken Anglicans as the country's dominant religious group. More people attend Mass every Sunday than worship with the Church of England, figures seen by The Sunday Telegraph show.

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    This means that the established Church has lost its place as the nation's most popular Christian denomination after more than four centuries of unrivalled influence following the Reformation.

    Girls from the Salisbury Cathedral Choire School rehearsing
    Girls from the Salisbury Cathedral Choir School rehearsing. While church-going declines, cathedrals fare better

    Last night, leading figures gave warning that the Church of England could become a minority faith and that the findings should act as a wake-up call.

    The statistics show that attendance at Anglican Sunday services has dropped by 20 per cent since 2000. A survey of 37,000 churches, to be published in the new year, shows the number of people going to Sunday Mass in England last year averaged 861,000, compared with 852,000 Anglicans ­worshipping.

    The rise of Catholicism has been bolstered by an influx of immigrants from eastern Europe and Africa, who have packed the pews of Catholic parishes that had previously been dwindling.

    It is part of the changing face of churchgoing across Britain in the 21st century which has also seen a boom in the growth of Pentecostal churches, which have surpassed the Methodist Church as the country's third largest Christian denomination.

    Worshipping habits have changed dramatically with a significant rise in attendance at mid-week services and at special occasions - the Church of England expects three million people to go to a parish church over Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.

    In an attempt to combat the declining interest in traditional religion, the Anglican Church has launched radical new forms of evangelism that include nightclub chaplains, a floating church on a barge and internet congregations.

    The Rev Alister McGrath, prof­essor of historical theology at Oxford University, said that the church attendance findings from the organisation Christian Research should act as a wake-up call to the Church of England.

    "While it can rightly point to the weight of history, the importance of cultural memory, the largest number of church buildings and nominal church members in defence of its continued status as the established church, there is clearly a problem emerging," said Prof McGrath, one of Anglicanism's most respected figures.

    "What happens if the established church becomes a minority church?"

    The Catholic Church has also suffered a serious fall in the size of its congregations, but the expansion of the European Union in 2004 resulted in its numbers being bolstered by the arrival of hundreds of thousands of Poles and Lithuanians.

    Attendance at Mass in 1991 was recorded as 1.3 million, a drop of 40 per cent since 1963. But over the past six years it has fallen by only 13 per cent, with the rate of decline slowed by immigrants from Catholic countries.

    The Rt Rev Crispian Hollis, the Bishop of Portsmouth, said that the Roman Church had been active in trying to win back lapsed worshippers, but conceded that mass immigration had been a significant factor in swelling its numbers.

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    "The number of Catholics attending church has been catching the Anglicans over a number of years," he said.

    "We don't want to be seen to be scoring points over the Anglican Church as we are in no way jealous of its position as the national church, but of course these figures are encouraging. It shows that the Church is no longer seen as on the fringes of society, but in fact is now at the heart of British life."

    Danny Sriskandarajah, the head of migration, equalities and citizenship for the Institute for Public Policy Research, said that its research indicated that pews would not stay packed for long.

    "We are already seeing numbers from eastern Europe dropping and many of them have already returned home," he said. "It is an important phenomenon, but it is likely to be temporary. I doubt we'll be seeing this level of attendance in another 10 years."

    Churchgoing in Anglican and Catholic parishes had stood at about a million each for the past 10 years, though the relative equality in their numbers over recent years is surprising considering that there are 25 million people who regard themselves as Anglicans, and only 4.2 million Catholics.

    "It isn't a competition. I'm delighted to see all Christian denominations flourishing," said the Rt Rev Graham Cray, the chairman of the Church of England's report on evangelism.

    "Large numbers of eastern Europeans have come in to the country, which has certainly strengthened them as has happened with non-whites in central London churches."

  • Additional reporting: Vikki Miller.
  • Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/12/23/nchurch123.xml&CMP=ILC-mostviewedbox

    TONY BLAIR TURNS CATHOLIC IN PRIVATE

    Tony Blair turns Catholic in private ceremony


    By Patrick Hennessy and Jonathan Wynne-Jones
    Last Updated: 2:30am GMT 23/12/2007

    Tony Blair has caused fresh controversy by converting to Roman Catholicism less than six months after leaving office.

    Tony Blair turns Catholic in private ceremony
    Tony Blair had declined to discuss his faith while he was prime minister

    The former prime minister ended years of speculation by being received into the Church in a private ceremony celebrated by Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor at Westminster.

    His wife Cherie, who, like the couple's four children, is already a Catholic, was her husband's sponsor on Friday night.

    The timing and manner of Mr Blair's conversion attracted criticism.

    Anti-abortion campaigners said they would contact Mr Blair, now the West's Middle East peace envoy, to demand whether he had repented of his "anti-life" position.

    Mr Blair has voted in the Commons in favour of allowing abortion - contrary to the declared position of the Catholic Church. He has also backed Sunday trading - again in opposition to the Church.

    Mr Blair approached Cardinal Murphy-O'Connor in the spring with a view to joining the Church, The Sunday Telegraph has learned.

    Catholic sources said Mr Blair would have had to attend confession in the days leading up to his reception into the Church, in order to seek pardon for his sins.

    That may have involved decisions in his 10 years in power, such as leading Britain into war with Iraq in 2003.

    Ann Widdecombe, the Tory MP who converted to Catholicism in 1993, spoke out about Mr Blair's "delay" in following the same path.

    Commentators claim he would have converted years earlier were it not for his position as prime minister.



    Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/12/23/nchurch223.xml

    WALL STREET AND THE BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION



    PREFACE



    Since the early 1920s, numerous pamphlets and articles, even a few books, have sought to forge a link between "international bankers" and "Bolshevik revolutionaries." Rarely have these attempts been supported by hard evidence, and never have such attempts been argued within the framework of a scientific methodology. Indeed, some of the "evidence" used in these efforts has been fraudulent, some has been irrelevant, much cannot be checked. Examination of the topic by academic writers has been studiously avoided; probably because the hypothesis offends the neat dichotomy of capitalists versus Communists (and everyone knows, of course, that these are bitter enemies). Moreover, because a great deal that has been written borders on the absurd, a sound academic reputation could easily be wrecked on the shoals of ridicule. Reason enough to avoid the topic.


    Fortunately, the State Department Decimal File, particularly the 861.00 section, contains extensive documentation on the hypothesized link. When the evidence in these official papers is merged with nonofficial evidence from biographies, personal papers, and conventional histories, a truly fascinating story emerges.


    We find there was a link between some New York international bankers and many revolutionaries, including Bolsheviks. These banking gentlemen — who are here identified — had a financial stake in, and were rooting for, the success of the Bolshevik Revolution.


    Who, why — and for how much — is the story in this book.


    Antony C. Sutton


    March 1974


    Chapter I

    THE ACTORS ON THE REVOLUTIONARY STAGE




    Dear Mr. President:


    I am in sympathy with the Soviet form of government as that best suited for the Russian people...


    Letter to President Woodrow Wilson (October 17, 1918) from William Lawrence Saunders, chairman, Ingersoll-Rand Corp.; director, American International Corp.; and deputy chairman, Federal Reserve Bank of New York.




    The frontispiece in this book was drawn by cartoonist Robert Minor in 1911 for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Minor was a talented artist and writer who doubled as a Bolshevik revolutionary, got himself arrested in Russia in 1915 for alleged subversion, and was later bank-rolled by prominent Wall Street financiers. Minor's cartoon portrays a bearded, beaming Karl Marx standing in Wall Street with Socialism tucked under his arm and accepting the congratulations of financial luminaries J.P. Morgan, Morgan partner George W. Perkins, a smug John D. Rockefeller, John D. Ryan of National City Bank, and Teddy Roosevelt — prominently identified by his famous teeth — in the background. Wall Street is decorated by Red flags. The cheering crowd and the airborne hats suggest that Karl Marx must have been a fairly popular sort of fellow in the New York financial district.

    Was Robert Minor dreaming? On the contrary, we shall see that Minor was on firm ground in depicting an enthusiastic alliance of Wall Street and Marxist socialism. The characters in Minor's cartoon — Karl Marx (symbolizing the future revolutionaries Lenin and Trotsky), J. P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller — and indeed Robert Minor himself, are also prominent characters in this book.


    The contradictions suggested by Minor's cartoon have been brushed under the rug of history because they do not fit the accepted conceptual spectrum of political left and political right. Bolsheviks are at the left end of the political spectrum and Wall Street financiers are at the right end; therefore, we implicitly reason, the two groups have nothing in common and any alliance between the two is absurd. Factors contrary to this neat conceptual arrangement are usually rejected as bizarre observations or unfortunate errors. Modern history possesses such a built-in duality and certainly if too many uncomfortable facts have been rejected and brushed under the rug, it is an inaccurate history.


    On the other hand, it may be observed that both the extreme right and the extreme left of the conventional political spectrum are absolutely collectivist. The national socialist (for example, the fascist) and the international socialist (for example, the Communist) both recommend totalitarian politico-economic systems based on naked, unfettered political power and individual coercion. Both systems require monopoly control of society. While monopoly control of industries was once the objective of J. P. Morgan and J. D. Rockefeller, by the late nineteenth century the inner sanctums of Wall Street understood that the most efficient way to gain an unchallenged monopoly was to "go political" and make society go to work for the monopolists — under the name of the public good and the public interest. This strategy was detailed in 1906 by Frederick C. Howe in his Confessions of a Monopolist.1 Howe, by the way, is also a figure in the story of the Bolshevik Revolution.


    Therefore, an alternative conceptual packaging of political ideas and politico-economic systems would be that of ranking the degree of individual freedom versus the degree of centralized political control. Under such an ordering the corporate welfare state and socialism are at the same end of the spectrum. Hence we see that attempts at monopoly control of society can have different labels while owning common features.


    Consequently, one barrier to mature understanding of recent history is the notion that all capitalists are the bitter and unswerving enemies of all Marxists and socialists. This erroneous idea originated with Karl Marx and was undoubtedly useful to his purposes. In fact, the idea is nonsense. There has been a continuing, albeit concealed, alliance between international political capitalists and international revolutionary socialists — to their mutual benefit. This alliance has gone unobserved largely because historians — with a few notable exceptions — have an unconscious Marxian bias and are thus locked into the impossibility of any such alliance existing. The open-minded reader should bear two clues in mind: monopoly capitalists are the bitter enemies of laissez-faire entrepreneurs; and, given the weaknesses of socialist central planning, the totalitarian socialist state is a perfect captive market for monopoly capitalists, if an alliance can be made with the socialist powerbrokers. Suppose — and it is only hypothesis at this point — that American monopoly capitalists were able to reduce a planned socialist Russia to the status of a captive technical colony? Would not this be the logical twentieth-century internationalist extension of the Morgan railroad monopolies and the Rockefeller petroleum trust of the late nineteenth century?


    Apart from Gabriel Kolko, Murray Rothbard, and the revisionists, historians have not been alert for such a combination of events. Historical reporting, with rare exceptions, has been forced into a dichotomy of capitalists versus socialists. George Kennan's monumental and readable study of the Russian Revolution consistently maintains this fiction of a Wall Street-Bolshevik dichotomy.2 Russia Leaves the War has a single incidental reference to the J.P. Morgan firm and no reference at all to Guaranty Trust Company. Yet both organizations are prominently mentioned in the State Department files, to which frequent reference is made in this book, and both are part of the core of the evidence presented here. Neither self-admitted "Bolshevik banker" Olof Aschberg nor Nya Banken in Stockholm is mentioned in Kennan yet both were central to Bolshevik funding. Moreover, in minor yet crucial circumstances, at least crucial for our argument, Kennan is factually in error. For example, Kennan cites Federal Reserve Bank director William Boyce Thompson as leaving Russia on November 27, 1917. This departure date would make it physically impossible for Thompson to be in Petrograd on December 2, 1917, to transmit a cable request for $1 million to Morgan in New York. Thompson in fact left Petrograd on December 4, 1918, two days after sending the cable to New York. Then again, Kennan states that on November 30, 1917, Trotsky delivered a speech before the Petrograd Soviet in which he observed, "Today I had here in the Smolny Institute two Americans closely connected with American Capitalist elements "According to Kennan, it "is difficult to imagine" who these two Americans "could have been, if not Robins and Gumberg." But in [act Alexander Gumberg was Russian, not American. Further, as Thompson was still in Russia on November 30, 1917, then the two Americans who visited Trotsky were more than likely Raymond Robins, a mining promoter turned do-gooder, and Thompson, of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.


    The Bolshevization of Wall Street was known among well informed circles as early as 1919. The financial journalist Barron recorded a conversation with oil magnate E. H. Doheny in 1919 and specifically named three prominent financiers, William Boyce Thompson, Thomas Lamont and Charles R. Crane:



    Aboard S.S. Aquitania, Friday Evening, February 1, 1919.


    Spent the evening with the Dohenys in their suite. Mr. Doheny said: If you believe in democracy you cannot believe in Socialism. Socialism is the poison that destroys democracy. Democracy means opportunity for all. Socialism holds out the hope that a man can quit work and be better off. Bolshevism is the true fruit of socialism and if you will read the interesting testimony before the Senate Committee about the middle of January that showed up all these pacifists and peace-makers as German sympathizers, Socialists, and Bolsheviks, you will see that a majority of the college professors in the United States are teaching socialism and Bolshevism and that fifty-two college professors were on so-called peace committees in 1914. President Eliot of Harvard is teaching Bolshevism. The worst Bolshevists in the United States are not only college professors, of whom President Wilson is one, but capitalists and the wives of capitalists and neither seem to know what they are talking about. William Boyce Thompson is teaching Bolshevism and he may yet convert Lamont of J.P. Morgan & Company. Vanderlip is a Bolshevist, so is Charles R. Crane. Many women are joining the movement and neither they, nor their husbands, know what it is, or what it leads to. Henry Ford is another and so are most of those one hundred historians Wilson took abroad with him in the foolish idea that history can teach youth proper demarcations of races, peoples, and nations geographically.3


    In brief, this is a story of the Bolshevik Revolution and its aftermath, but a story that departs from the usual conceptual straitjacket approach of capitalists versus Communists. Our story postulates a partnership between international monopoly capitalism and international revolutionary socialism for their mutual benefit. The final human cost of this alliance has fallen upon the shoulders of the individual Russian and the individual American. Entrepreneurship has been brought into disrepute and the world has been propelled toward inefficient socialist planning as a result of these monopoly maneuverings in the world of politics and revolution.


    This is also a story reflecting the betrayal of the Russian Revolution. The tsars and their corrupt political system were ejected only to be replaced by the new powerbrokers of another corrupt political system. Where the United States could have exerted its dominant influence to bring about a free Russia it truckled to the ambitions of a few Wall Street financiers who, for their own purposes, could accept a centralized tsarist Russia or a centralized Marxist Russia but not a decentralized free Russia. And the reasons for these assertions will unfold as we develop the underlying and, so far, untold history of the Russian Revolution and its aftermath.4




    Footnotes:


    1"These are the rules of big business. They have superseded the teachings of our parents and are reducible to a simple maxim: Get a monopoly; let Society work for you: and remember that the best of all business is politics, for a legislative grant, franchise, subsidy or tax exemption is worth more than a Kimberly or Comstock lode, since it does not require any labor, either mental or physical, lot its exploitation" (Chicago: Public Publishing, 1906), p. 157.


    2George F. Kennan, Russia Leaves the War (New York: Atheneum, 1967); and Decision to Intervene.. Soviet-American Relations, 1917-1920 (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1958).


    3Arthur Pound and Samuel Taylor Moore, They Told Barron (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1930), pp. 13-14.


    4There is a parallel, and also unknown, history with respect to the Makhanovite movement that fought both the "Whites" and the "Reds" in the Civil War of 1919-20 (see Voline, The Unknown Revolution [New York: Libertarian Book Club, 1953]). There was also the "Green" movement, which fought both Whites and Reds. The author has never seen even one isolated mention of the Greens in any history of the Bolshevik Revolution. Yet the Green Army was at least 700,000 strong!


    Source: http://reformed-theology.org/html/books/bolshevik_revolution/index.html


    (The entire book is "free" for reading online at link above). Blogman.

    Saturday, December 22, 2007

    MOODY RADIO = GOSPEL 'LIGHT'




    Recently, while listening through the morning talk programs on Moody Radio, it occurred to me that what I was hearing was Gospel 'Light'. As in, Miller Lite: Less filling, but still intoxicating if you drink enough of it. What dawned on me was that all the mentioning of St. Augustine, C. S. Lewis, and the rest of these latter-day, new-found 'authorities', is not a coincidence. But, a calculated and intended, falsification of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. These 'post-modern' spiritualist are trying to pass off their quasi-Christian, neo-spiritualism, as if were the Eternal Gospel. This "knock-off" is less filling, it leaves you feeling like you just drank a 6 pack of Yoo-hoo, instead of eating a square meal; And, it's lethally intoxicating because you may think this is the Gospel 'Truth', when what you are really hearing is adulterated, dressed-up, sentimental, fallacies.

    Moody Radio morning programing consist of many Christian sounding programs such as, The Urban Alternative with "Doctor" Tony Evans, the "hollering Preacher", and BreakPoint with Chuck Colson (of Watergate fame). Here's the weekday Program schedule on WKES Lakeland, Florida (a Moody Affiliate):

    7:30 am Morning Manna ~ Bill Caldwell
    8:11 am Haven Now ~ Charles Morris
    8:38 am Insights ~ Chuck Swindol
    8:50 am BreakPoint Commentary ~ Chuck Colson
    9:00 am Proclaim! ~ Michael Easley
    9:15 am Running to Win ~ Erwin Lutzer
    9:30 am Key Life ~ Steve Brown
    9:44 am The Legal Alert ~ David Gibbs III
    9:45 am Just Thinking ~ Ravi Zacharias
    10:00 am Turning Point ~ David Jeremiah
    10:30 am Insight for Living ~ Chuck Swindoll
    11:00 am The Alternative ~ Tony Evans
    11:25 am A Quick Word ~ Beth Moore
    11:30 am Truth for Life ~ Alistair Begg
    12:00 pm Focus on the Family ~ James Dobson
    12:30 pm Revive Our Hearts ~ Nancy Leigh DeMoss
    1:00 pm Midday Connection ~ Anita Lustrea / Melinda Schmidt
    2:00 pm Family Life Today ~ Dennis Rainey
    2:25 pm Lighten Up ~ Ken Davis
    2:30 pm Money Matters ~ Howard Dayton / Steve Moore
    2:57 pm World Vision Report ~ Peggy Wehmeyer
    3:00 pm Prime Time Florida ~ John Blok (thru 5:00pm) Inspirational music and information updates for your afternoon commute

    Out of all the above programs the ones that stand out are Key Life with Steve Brown; This man doesn't sound anything like a 'Christian', instead he sounds like a person with a hang-over, ranting about coffee and donuts, and fussing and cussing. Another one is Just Thinking with Ravi Zacharias, Ravi constantly mentions a "Malcolm Muggeridge" -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_Muggeridge. There are two programs that are the closest thing to the 'Truth': A Quick Word with Beth Moore, she knows her Bible, and regularly expounds sound doctrine. I consider her 5 minutes of broadcasting as the redeeming highlight of this MBN 'Christian' Programming. She is the proverbial breath of fresh air in this MBN world of 'Global Warming'. There is one more program that is highlighted by Scripture readings, and bible commentary: Morning Manna with Bill Caldwell. However, he sometimes strays off the context of Scripture and, embellishes a little too much with his bass tone voice.

    These are just a few examples of how much you can alianate the Gospel from its original character and still claim it's the real thing. There is something called Running to win with Erwin Lutzer, where story telling is the norm. Not Scripture story telling, more like the Reader's Digest type (Humor is the best Medicine). Truth for Life with Alistair Begg, is a program about a preaching apologist, hermeneutics, scientific sounding guy that couldn't give a straight answer if his life depended on it.

    With all the social gospel preaching and exposition of neo-liberal theology ideas, there is yet, name dropping of Catholic saints, of philosophers, Mother Teresa, and all types of worldly heroes. Things have really fallen away when you can't find anywhere where the Gospel rings true and clear. Only falsifications and deception.

    Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD: Amos 8:11.
    Arsenio

    Friday, December 21, 2007

    ADVENTIST JOIN INTERNATIONAL UNITY TALKS

    Seventh-Day Adventist Join International Unity Talks

    World's Most Diverse Gathering of Christians Kicks Off Unity Talks



    An international gathering of the broadest range of Christian traditions ever met for a four-day conference beginning Tuesday.

    High level church leaders met near Nairobi, Kenya, in an unprecedented ecumenical showcase to discuss what Christians are called to do – and if possible together – in the world. The Global Christian Forum in Limuru convenes about 250 high level representatives of all the main Christian traditions and their global organizations. Evangelicals and Pentecostal make up about half of the participants.

    Under the theme of “Our Journey with Jesus Christ, the Reconciler,” participants will discuss how best to promote dialogue and cooperation on issues of Christian unity and common witness to the world. Attendees will also debate proposals for the future of the forum.

    The stated purpose of the forum is to create a new, open space in which a broad range of Christian churches and interchurch organizations can gather in a multilateral setting to foster mutual respect and explore and address together common challenges. It aims to include all streams of Christianity, including those which have not been in conversation with one another.

    The idea for the forum was first proposed in the mid-1990s by then World Council of Churches general secretary the Rev. Konrad Raiser with the recognition that the ecumenical movement was broader than the WCC, which represents 560 million Christians in 110 countries.

    Although WCC helped initiate the process, the ecumenical body sees itself as a participating organization alongside others.

    The faith groups represented at the meeting in Limuru are: African Instituted, Anglican, Baptist, Evangelical, (Roman) Catholic, Disciples (Churches of Christ), Friends, Holiness, Lutheran, Mennonite, Methodist, Moravian, Old Catholic, Eastern and Oriental Orthodox, Pentecostal, Reformed, Salvation Army, Seventh-Day Adventist, United and Uniting Churches.

    In addition to these denominations or “families,” a number of Christian organizations are also represented: regional ecumenical organizations, youth and student international movements, YMCA and YWCA, United Bible Societies, World Vision International, the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization, the World Council of Churches and a number of forum-type organizations.


    Go To This Article

    From www.Christianpost.com Nov. 6, 2007

    By Ethan Cole Christian Post Reporter

    Source: http://mountainmediaministries.org/end-times/end-time-articles/seventh-day-adventist-join-internation-unity.html


    Note: Highlights and Bolds added for emphasis. Blogman.

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    .11.07 09:33

    Let's take risks, Kobia tells Global Christian Forum

    The Nairobi Girls Chorale helped the Global Christian Forum to kick off in an atmosphere of joyful celebration.
    Photo: Juan Michel/WCC
    Click here for high resolution version.

    "Some would have said that this event was not possible, but here we are - and the world wonders what will come next," said the World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Dr Samuel Kobia at the opening of the Global Christian Forum taking place in Limuru, near Nairobi, Kenya, from 6-9 November.

    Stressing the "unprecedented breadth" of the event in his address to a room packed with some 240 high level representatives from Protestant, Anglican, Orthodox, Catholic, Evangelical, Pentecostal and other churches from around the world, Kobia challenged the group to take some risks.

    What many are saying is the broadest range of Christian traditions ever gathered at a global meeting, the forum's stated purpose is to create an open space for Christian churches and interchurch organizations to foster mutual respect and explore common challenges. In Limuru about half of the participants are Evangelicals and Pentecostals.

    "I am stunned we have here what might be described as a new Pentecost," said Rev. Dr Cecil "Mel" Robeck, an Assemblies of God minister from the US and a member of the Global Christian Forum continuation committee.

    The challenge today is to look "beyond our peculiarities and distinctions, divisions and conflicts, mistrusts and all apprehensions which divide us and set us up against one another," said Rev. Canon Peter Karanja, general secretary of the National Council of Churches of Kenya in delivering the reflection of the opening worship.

    "I hope that we will take the risk of working together," and to forge "new relations among ourselves and between our churches" so that "Christian unity may be strengthened, quite apart from the self-interest of any one institution," Kobia said.

    In a personal testimony, in line with the forum's methodology and style, Kobia spoke of his own faith journey, which started as he was raised as a second generation Christian in rural Kenya and continued through different stages of increasing ecumenical awareness.

    "It is only by lowering barriers, by coming fully into each other's presence and confronting our prejudices, that we may come to understand each other significantly better," he said.

    "There is already a lot of cooperation across boundaries at the grassroot level, be it on advocacy issues, fighting HIV and AIDS or other contemporary challenges," affirmed Rev. Dr Judy Mbugua, team leader of the Association of Evangelicals in Africa, in welcoming the participants to the meeting, which she defined as "one of its kind".

    According to Rev. Dr Mvume Dandala, who in turn welcomed participants as general secretary of the All Africa Conference of Churches, "to show signs of unity in diversity is essential if Christians are to contribute to healing the fractures of the African continent".

    Robeck briefed participants about the history of the Forum, acknowledging it had been born out of an idea of former WCC general secretary Rev. Dr Konrad Raiser. While affirming the Forum's independence from any organization, he affirmed the WCC deserves gratitude for having contributed to create this new space, which "is not intended to replace any existing organization".

    Leading the gathering in prayer, Fr. Jan Lenssen, from the secretary of ecumenism of the Catholic Bishops Conference of Kenya, prayed that those present may experience a "conversion of heart" and be "moved and engaged in open dialogue" out of the "desire to be in communion".

    Greek Orthodox Metropolitan of Kenya Makarios prayed for the Holy Spirit "to humble" the meeting participants so they may understand that "every and each of us have been made in God's image," and in so doing been able to feel "brotherly love".

    In a written greeting to the gathering, the Forum was saluted as a "significant and timely initiative" by the Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams. "The call to unity and common witness requires us to develop new conversations as well as to build on the fellowship we already enjoy," he wrote.

    The Global Christian Forum aims to create a new and open space in which a broad range of Christian churches and interchurch organizations can gather in a multilateral setting, to discuss how best to promote dialogue and co-operation on issues of Christian unity and common witness to the world. As the Forum tries to include all streams of Christianity, including those which have not been in conversation with one another, in Limuru about half of the participants are Evangelicals and Pentecostals.

    Media contact in Limuru: Juan Michel (+254) 7 3516 8676

    Additional information on the Global Christian Forum meeting

    Global Christian Forum website [in English, French and Spanish]

    Source: http://www.oikoumene.org/de/nachrichten/news-management/a/ger/article/1722/lets-take-risks-kobia-t.html?tx_ttnews%5Bcat%5D=79&cHash=6e71bdc30b

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    Global Christian leaders announce hope for Christian unity

    LIMURU, Kenya (CNS) -- Top Christian leaders -- including evangelical and Pentecostal representatives -- recommitted themselves to working for Christian unity after an international meeting that had been planned for nine years. The Global Christian Forum brought a broad spectrum of Christians from diverse churches to Limuru, 30 miles northwest of Nairobi, in early November. The 245 participants represented the traditional Protestant, Orthodox and Anglican churches and included a large Catholic delegation led by Bishop Brian Farrell, secretary of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity. Top evangelical and Pentecostal leaders from every continent and representatives of Bible societies, the YMCA and YWCA also participated. Evangelical and Pentecostal churches generally had declined to take part in previous ecumenical gatherings, but they produced almost half the participants at the forum, which included discussions on what God is doing in Christian churches and new trends in Christianity.


    Source: http://www.catholicnews.com/data/briefs/cns/20071114.htm

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    Saturday, November 10, 2007

    A vision of CHRISTIAN UNITY

    It is reported today from Nairobi, Kenya, by Ecumenical News International (ENI) that Pentecostal and Evangelical leaders are looking to new forms of unity. Christians are different in their backgrounds, traditions, cultures, etc. It is a fact that we have to admit. However, this diversity has to be perceived as a beauty of Christianity. Unity in diversity is a biblical concept (see Eph. 4).

    Evangelical, Pentecostal and Charismatic leaders attending a world Christian forum in Kenya that has brought together many of Christianity's diverse strands, say it offers new opportunities, but they also warn of possible difficulties ahead.

    "When you share your journey and discover how others people have travelled and find similarities in the journey, that helps you to travel together," commented the Rev.
    Richard Howell of the Evangelical Fellowship of India.

    About 240 leaders from Protestant, Anglican, Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Evangelical, Pentecostal and other churches and international organizations attended the forum in Limuru near Nairobi.

    Organizers say the gathering aimed to bring together the various streams of Christianity that have traditionally not been "in conversation" with each other.

    The World Council of Churches groups many of the world's Anglican, Protestant and Orthodox denominations but the
    Roman Catholic Church does not belong to the Geneva-based WCC, nor do many Evangelical, Pentecostal or Charismatic churches.

    In many parts of the world, Pentecostal and so-called non-mainline Protestant churches are growing, while mainstream churches continue to lose membership.

    "A new form of ecumenism is needed that is able to embrace the challenges of world-wide Christianity," Pentecostal theologian and scholar Cheryl Bridges-Johns said in an 8 November address to participants.

    She added that, "the old 'mainstream' ecumenical paradigm" was dying and the structures built to create and sustain the visible unity of the church were no longer viable.

    "The achievement of unity will involve nothing less than a death and rebirth of many forms of church life as we have known them," Bridges-Johns said.

    David R. Wells of the
    Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada said he welcomed the opportunities the forum offered to bring Christians of different traditions into contact with each other.

    Still, he cautioned in an interview with Ecumenical News International, "When we get into the areas of real serious disagreement, we will have to see how one another respond to the willingness to agree to disagree."

    And Pentecostal leader the Rev. Peter Sleebos of the Assemblies of God in the Netherlands warned about the use of the term "ecumenism", a word that has described the central task of the
    World Council of Churches since its foundation in 1948.

    "Almost all our constituencies at home are very allergic to that word," he told participants on 8 November. "Forum, dialogue or 'exploring for unity' is easy to explain."

    Leaders at the Kenya event said they want to continue the global forum as an open space where Christians from different traditions are able to work together in areas of common interest, and undertake individual actions when they differ.

    WCC general secretary the Rev.
    Samuel Kobia welcomed the involvement of Pentecostal and Evangelical leaders in the forum, and said it had helped to overcome prejudices that existed.

    In the past, Kobia suggested, Evangelicals had been wary of what has been called the "
    social gospel", or the kind of commitment to changing society with which the WCC has often been identified.

    In recent years, however, Pentecostals and Evangelicals had become increasingly active in campaigns such as those warning of the dangers of climate change, Kobia noted.

    "It is time for Pentecostal and Evangelicals to clarify where they stand on issues of social engagement," the WCC leader told journalists at the gathering.

    The Rev. Ndaba Mazabane, a South African cleric who is chairperson of the World
    Evangelical Alliance, welcomed the Global Christian Forum.

    "My idea of coming here is to start to deliberate on issues that are more common to us than are those that divide us," he said. "It is the beginning, but I don't know where this journey is going to take us."
    I grew up in Ambon, eastern Indonesia, a town where mainline churches persecute their pentecostal brothers and sisters due to some theological disagreements. They stone pentecostal churches, they beat pentecostal pastors severely, they do all kind of things to stop these crazy pentecostal religious activities. An influential Reformed leader in Indonesia, by the name of Stephen Tong, even said blatantly that pentecostal experiences, especially speaking in tongues, are all demonic. This is, of course, a provocative and "irrational" statement. Why should we accuse other Christians as demonic? This kind of attitude is very destructive.

    When i read this news from ENI, suddenly i remember my home town. Today Pentecostal movement in Ambon has grown so fast. My hope is that the church leaders will see the vision of unity. They have to stop encouraging their adherents to hate other Christian brothers and sisters from other traditions. Rather than condemning one another, let us work together hand in hand to establish God's kingdom on earth.

    ADVENTISTS HOPE TO SEE JESUS IN 2008

    Adventists Hope to see Jesus in the New Year

    Members also hope to minister more, do more in the community



    The beginning of a New Year is seldom without new hopes and dreams. For Seventh-day Adventists, 2008 is no different as they hope for the ordinary such as health, financial wellbeing and safety, but also for more passion to share and tell the world about Jesus. [Rajmund Dabrowski/ANN]


    Church and community are on the minds of many Seventh-day Adventist Church members looking forward to the New Year. When Adventist News Network asked what some church members hope for most in the New Year the theme of Advent was also common and not surprising for a movement built on the hope of Christ's soon return.

    Maike Stepanek, in Koyang City, Kyonggi-do, South Korea, reflects the hopes of church of more than 15 million members. She hopes that the "Lord can come so we can get out of here."

    Pastor Dan Pabone in Silver Spring, Maryland hopes that Jesus will "give us more faith to be patient and wait for Him and the patience to deal with those who do not understand the hope of His coming."

    While others also looked forward to Christ's coming, they hoped to spend more time in the New Year introducing Christ to those who do not know him.

    Alexander Douglas, a London-based musician said he hoped that "more and more people in the world will recognize that it really is pointless to have Christian morality without the Christian God."

    Ganoune Diop, also in Silver Spring, Maryland, says that in his position as director of the church's Global Mission Study Centers he hopes to help the "Church develop ways to get to know our neighbors from other world religions and philosophies and in a meaningful way share the ever lasting gospel."

    Others see the New Year as another opportunity to truly embrace God's calling for them to minister to others.

    "I will try my best not to turn down any invitations to preach in any churches or conduct a week of prayer for the school (which I rejected this year because I felt that I was not competent)," said Caroline Tobing in Bandung, Indonesia.

    While there is a deep love for the Adventist Church and its future, church members also recognize that the church faces challenges and hope for improvements.

    Stepanek hopes "our church [would] move away from the big numbers and see souls instead, we are called to be missionaries and witnesses, not accountants."

    Gina Wahlen in Silang, Cavite, Philippines wanted more unity in the church. "My hope for our world church in the coming year is that we will focus less on our differences and more on what draws us together as a worldwide community of believers who love Jesus," she said.

    Several church members also shared their passion for the community outside the church's doors.

    Joy Mliswa, in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe hopes community starts in the church. "Most people are wondering if God is still in control with all that is happening [in the world]. I hope our church would reach out to the community and be able to show and tell them that God is still in control. I would like to see a more loving church, a church that is concerned about the welfare of others," she says.

    Despite the upbeat theme of these thoughts essential to the idea of hope, church members hopes are tempered in reality. Wahlen says, "I wish that in this coming year there would be an end to poverty, to hunger, to disasters and sorrow, but the more I see, the more I realize that while temporary relief may happen from time to time, the only permanent solution comes with eternity."

    "Source: Adventist News Network"

    Source: http://news.adventist.org/data/2007/1197992910/index.html.en

    JESUS AND THE WAILING WALL

    
    
    And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple.
    And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down. Matthew 24:1,2.

    And as he went out of the temple, one of his disciples saith unto him, Master, see what manner of stones and what buildings are here!
    And Jesus answering said unto him, Seest thou these great buildings? there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down. Mark 13:1,2.

    And as some spake of the temple, how it was adorned with goodly stones and gifts, he said,
    As for these things which ye behold, the days will come, in the which there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down. Luke 21:5,6.
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    Above there are three different Gospels, yet similar references to Jesus' statements concerning the much revered Jewish "Temple".  Jesus stated that not one stone would remain upon another; This fact was fulfilled in A.D 70, when the Romans utterly destroyed the Temple, along with the City of Jerusalem. Yet, many to this day refuse to recognize His authority, or His love.
    Which brings to mind the words of Jesus:
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    23And he said unto them, Ye are from beneath; I am from above: ye are of this world; I am not of this world.
    24I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins.
    25Then said they unto him, Who art thou? And Jesus saith unto them, Even the same that I said unto you from the beginning.
    26I have many things to say and to judge of you: but he that sent me is true; and I speak to the world those things which I have heard of him.
    27They understood not that he spake to them of the Father.
    28Then said Jesus unto them, When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things.
    29And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone; for I do always those things that please him.
    30As he spake these words, many believed on him.
    31Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;
    32And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
    33They answered him, We be Abraham's seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free?
    34Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.
    35And the servant abideth not in the house for ever: but the Son abideth ever.
    36If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.
    37I know that ye are Abraham's seed; but ye seek to kill me, because my word hath no place in you.
    38I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and ye do that which ye have seen with your father.
    39They answered and said unto him, Abraham is our father. Jesus saith unto them, If ye were Abraham's children, ye would do the works of Abraham.
    40But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God: this did not Abraham.
    41Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.
    42Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.
    43Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.
    44Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
    45And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.
    46Which of you convinceth me of sin? And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe me?
    47He that is of God heareth God's words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God.
    48Then answered the Jews, and said unto him, Say we not well that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a devil?
    49Jesus answered, I have not a devil; but I honour my Father, and ye do dishonour me.
    50And I seek not mine own glory: there is one that seeketh and judgeth.
    51Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death.
    52Then said the Jews unto him, Now we know that thou hast a devil. Abraham is dead, and the prophets; and thou sayest, If a man keep my saying, he shall never taste of death.
    53Art thou greater than our father Abraham, which is dead? and the prophets are dead: whom makest thou thyself?
    54Jesus answered, If I honour myself, my honour is nothing: it is my Father that honoureth me; of whom ye say, that he is your God:
    55Yet ye have not known him; but I know him: and if I should say, I know him not, I shall be a liar like unto you: but I know him, and keep his saying.
    56Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad.
    57Then said the Jews unto him, Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham?
    58Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.
    59Then took they up stones to cast at him: but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by.
    John 8:25-59.
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    Matthew's account of Jesus condemnation of the Scribes and Pharisees:
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    27Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.
    28Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
    29Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous,
    30And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.
    31Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.
    32Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.
    33Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?
    34Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city:
    35That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.
    36Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.
    37O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!
    38Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.
    39For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.

    Matthew 23:27-39.