Sunday, February 10, 2008

LOZADA CONNECTS PALACE TO COVER-UP,...


Lozada being comforted by a nun during a break in yesterday’s day-long hearing. SONNY ESPIRITU

Lozada connects Palace to cover-up, ‘abduction’

SENATE witness Rodolfo Noel Lozada Jr. yesterday narrated on live national television a fixating tale of abduction and cover-up, whose trail leads, he claimed, all the way to Malacañang.

Lozada, with tears streaming from his eyes, said he sought and was given assistance by Deputy Executive Secretary Manuel Gaite, upon the advice of Environment Secretary Joselito Atienza—whose department supervises Philippine Forest Corp., where Lozada is president—to fabricate official travel documents to London so he could dodge a Senate summon to testify on the controversial national broadband deal.

But Lozada only flew to Hong Kong and, on Atienza’s reading of the situation that the controversy had already died down, returned a few days later on Feb. 5, into the arms of trouble.

Atienza, by Lozada’s account, had failed to advise him that a group of security men would pick up Lozada at the airport to prevent a waiting Senate team to arrest him.

Lozada, who until that day had refused to appear before the Senate, said he protested at being whisked away, explaining to his armed escorts that family members were also waiting for him at the airport.

“Hindi, hindi, ipinapakuha ka sa amin, (No, no, we are under orders to fetch you),” was what his “abductors” had told him in answer, as he was fetched from the tube to a restricted hallway and elevator that led down to the tarmac. “Basta sir, relax lang, relax lang. Wala kaming gagawin sa iyo (Just relax, sir, we will not harm you).’’

A 1984 electronics and communications engineering graduate of the University of Santo Tomas, Lozada said he was whisked away in a Toyota Corolla Altis, with a driver and one officer riding in front, and him on the back seat.

He said he was brought around the airport complex and onto the adjacent Villamor Air Base while his abductors listened to communication equipment that, he claimed, allowed them to even eavesdrop on the radio transmissions made by the Senate team.

“They [abductors] told me they were going to bring me to Dasmariñas, Cavite, so I put my cell phone on silent mode and sent my brother a text message saying someone had abducted me,” he told a spell-bound Senate in Tagalog. “So naturally, my family was really, really alarmed.”

Lozada said he told his brother to do his best to triangulate his radio signal as the Altis neared Southwoods Golf and Country Club.

“I suddenly remembered [the fate of publicist Salvador “Bubby”] Dacer,” Lozada said, referring to the murdered publicist who was found near the area dead along with his driver in November 2000.

The Dacer family later accused then police chief, now Senator Panfilo Lacson of having masterminded the abduction.

After that text message, Lozada said, the armed escorts told him to stop sending text messages because they, too, were being intercepted by them. They continued driving around until they reached Los Baños, Laguna, where his armed guards received another phone call.

“Bring him back, bring him back. The media is too hot’,” Lozada recalled the front seat escort ordering the driver in Tagalog.

On their way back, Lozada said their group stopped twice so Lozada could draft a letter, making it appear that he had requested for security assistance at the airport. Having accomplished what Lozada said was asked of him, the escorts then said: “Sir, we’re turning you over to the police.”

Lozada recalled Atienza having called him twice during the three-hour ride to assure him: “Jun, stop worrying, just relax. The people you’re with are our people. Just relax.”

Atienza, in a subsequent statement to the press, admitted having asked the police to provide security for Lozada, but denied discouraging Lozada from testifying before the Senate on the controversial national broadband network deal.

Lozada recalled, after having briefed Atienza about the national broadband network agreement between the government and China’s ZTE Corp., that Atienza had warned him to keep his lips sealed, lest “the government fall to the opposition.”

“There’s a lot of distortion of genuine facts,” Atienza protested. “There’s no kidnapping at all. At this point, I’m really worried that the public is getting a wrong impression because of the repeated claims that there [was] kidnapping.”

Atienza likewise rejected allegations that Lozada’s trip to Hong Kong was arranged to evade the Senate hearing on the broadband deal.

“He [Lozada] had requested for that trip. He asked for help before he even came home,” Atienza said.

Lozada said his long-time friend and former boss, Commission on Higher Education chairman Romulo Neri, also called him while Lozada was being driven around by the armed men.

“Jun, calm your wife down,” Lozada recalled Neri as advising him. “She’s panicking in front of media. Call her.”

He, in turn, told Neri that his wife Violeta could not do so until she sees him.

Lozada said his armed escorts dropped him around 9 p.m. at the Outback steak house in Libis, Quezon City where he was turned over to Supt. Paul Mascariñas and Neri’s lawyer Antonio Bautista.

After dinner, Lozada said he asked Bautista if he could go home, but the lawyer advised against it because reporters may still be waiting. So Lozada asked that he be brought to La Salle Greenhills instead, where, unknown to his escorts, his children and wife had already sought sanctuary.

The following day, Lozada said his armed escorts, who kept vigil in La Salle as well, brought him to Bautista’s office where he filled out blanks in an affidavit before signing the document. He said he had some reservations about the affidavit, but was told by Bautista to just sign it “for the comfort of Malacañang.”

He was then brought back to Greenhills, where Mascariñas returned later that night with a ready-made letter addressed to the National Police, with Lozada asking for police protection.

Mascariñas returned a second time with another letter, this time asking Lozada’s sister Carmen, to sign it, which she refused with much protestation.

“I did not reach the age of 60 just so I could sully my own name,” Lozada said, quoting his sister.

Source: http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/?page=news1_feb9_2008

Saturday, February 09, 2008

NBN WITNESS: US$65-M OVERPRICE ACCEPT...

NBN Witness: US$65-M Overprice Acceptable

Written by Lala Rimando

Friday, 08 February 2008
Rodolfo Lozada in the Senate hearing on ZTE (photo by Buck Pago)

IT expert Rodolfo Noel Lozada Jr., who had attended meetings where the alleged overprice in the government’s national broadband network (NBN) contract was structured, on Friday told a Senate hearing that the project with the Chinese firm could have pushed through if a government official agreed to limit kickbacks to only US$65 million.

He said that then Commission on Elections chair Benjamin Abalos insisted on a commission of $130 million. The original contract price was $132 million, but the one eventually approved by the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) involved $329 million. Lozada didn’t say what accounted for the difference of $67 million.

In the course of his testimony before the blue ribbon committee, Lozada indicated that in the government’s contracts with Chinese companies, commissions that ranged from $65 million to $70 million have so far been “the norm.”

A personal consultant of former NEDA chief Romulo Neri, Lozada said his role was to check the financial viability and technical details of the government’s contract with China’s ZTE Corporation.

In a January 2007 lunch meeting, however, Neri, who had to leave early, also tasked him to “moderate the greed,” apparently referring to how much Abalos was asking for. He had to minimize the commissions to an “acceptable level.”

In that meeting, Abalos reportedly told ZTE officials that the project and the loan that would finance it were pushing through. Lozada said Neri was uncomfortable with the discussions because he preferred it as a Build-Operate-Transfer project since it was the arrangement preferred by President Arroyo.

Opposition Senator Panfilo Lacson asked what Lozada thought was Neri’s standards of greed: “How do you quantify a modified greed versus excessive greed?”

Lozada said that if Abalos agreed to an overprice of only $65 million, the project could have pushed through without much fanfare. The $65 million, he said, was only equivalent to 35 percent of the project cost, and would be therefore easier on the finances of the proponents.

Lozada said this was the case with the Southrail project, which he also helped NEDA to analyze. The Southrail was another government undertaking with China that became controversial for its overprice and technical inferiority, and from which ousted Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr. reportedly benefited. It became the subject of an earlier Senate investigation.

He said the overprice in the Southrail project was “only $70 million,” or equivalent to 22 percent of the project cost.

Lacson said this $70-million overprice would be equivalent to about P3.5 billion because the exchange rate at the time the project was approved was about P50 to a dollar.

Lozada said his work as president of Philippine Forest Corporation, a government corporation created only in 2006, required him to go to upland communities, where poverty is very apparent. He says this made it difficult for him to reconcile the million-dollar kickbacks on government projects.

"I don’t feel it (kickback) is right. I hope it just gets reduced,” he said.

Rodolfo Lozada in the Senate hearing on ZTE (photo by Buck Pago)Two administration senators, however, questioned Lozada’s “morality.”

Senator Juan Ponce Enrile asked why, if Lozada was really upright and knew early on how unreasonable the overprice that taxpayers would be made to bear, he didn’t immediately disengage from the project.

The witness said that when it comes to morality, his “framework” is that there is a “permissible zone” and a “forbidden zone.” The $65-million overprice fell within the permissible zone.

Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago, on the other hand, raised issues of conflict of interest against Lozada. She said that as Philippine Forest Corporation president, Lozada has entered into business transactions with enterprises that he owns or is affiliated with.

Santiago said Gabriel Multimedia, a company where Lozada is a signatory, bagged projects from Philippine Forest, such as an education series on jathropa and a team-building event.

Santiago also asked Lozada about the importation of 35 goats worth P700,000 from Australia that were supposedly used to check if they could eat jathropa leaves.

Lozada admitted that these projects did not go through any bidding, as required of government purchases. But, he said, these involved amounts that are small compared to Abalos’s $130-million commission.

“I have done things that have me lose respect for myself,” he admitted. “I don’t want to lose my soul.”

LENTEN THOUGHTS




Lenten thoughts

By Teodoro Bacani Jr.

We have now entered the season of Lent. Last Wednesday was Ash Wednesday, the first day of the Lenten season. All the Catholic churches overflowed with people who wanted to be signed with ash on their foreheads. One of the two formulas the ministers who imposed the ashes were supposed to say was, “Repent and believe in the Gospel.” Lent is the penitential season of the Church. It is meant to be a time of repentance, a time of turning our hearts away from sin, resolving not to commit them again in order that we may live for God and for our fellow human beings.

God has given us very strong signals to urge us to repent. Two events have happened, outwardly very different, yet inwardly delivering the same message to our public officials and to all of us: Repent or you perish. As Moses told the Israelites before they crossed the Jordan: Choose! Life and prosperity, or death and doom.

The two events are the ouster of Speaker Jose de Venecia and the homecoming, abduction, and surfacing of Rodolfo Lozada Jr.

De Venecia, known to be capable of wiggling himself out of difficult situations, failed to avert disaster to his political career this time. He was dislodged from the post of speaker. He did not go silently, like a lamb silent before those who slaughter it. He went down whining, splattering dirt on the occupant of Malacañang as his dreaded hour approached. The nation witnessed his downfall, but there were few who lamented it. Many felt pity for the man, but thought that he deserved his downfall nevertheless.

Unless our politicians are so drunk with power or sedated by Malacañang largesse, the lesson cannot be lost to them. Those in power will use you. You can return the compliment and use those in power as well. But there is an end—there must be an end—to mutual support in evil. It is just a matter of who goes first. But whoever survives will survive only temporarily. The time of reckoning will come to the surviving partner also.

It is De Venecia today. It will be Gloria Macapagal Arroyo not long from now.

As if to signal the death knell of this administration, which the pambobola (deception) of Secretaries Ignacio Bunye and Ronaldo Puno cannot hide, there soon followed the homecoming, abduction and surfacing of Rodolfo Lozano Jr. It is now clear to the people that the National Police abducted Lozano, even though his sister Carmen was belatedly asked to sign a request to the National Police to secure him (kuno), and though Lozano himself admitted he was made to sign some documents which he apologized having signed, implying he was pressured to do so. It is also clear now that the administration is hiding something about the ZTE deal, and that the First Gentleman may likely have dipped his hand into the honey (though now he is nowhere to be found, it seems). The Empress is now exposed, and she does not know it yet. The people are starting to get angry again (thank God!), and she better know it now.

How pathetic! Her father was known as the poor boy from Lubao. The daughter is known now as the rich President in Malacañang. (At dinner, on Chinese New Year, I commented that she looked pitiful. One woman retorted: “But she has a lot of money!”). Her father enunciated the doctrine of command responsibility. But she has not admitted responsibility for the many evils happening under her administration. The only exception was her lame apology about the “Hello Garci” incident. How unlike the father the daughter is!

Both events—De Venecia’s downfall and Lozano’s return—are a call to the President and her people, as well as to all of us to recognize the futility of living according to the lie. You can only go so far with lying and pretenses. Sooner or later, the truth will out. And in her case, it seems it is sooner.

***

I was invited to celebrate mass at the Bureau of Customs on the celebration of its 106th anniversary. I was happy to have celebrated that mass and met Commissioner Napoleon Morales and some of his fellow officials and staff. The commissioner briefed me about the efforts, successes, and difficulties of the bureau. Commissioner Morales is a man who rose from the ranks, intends to improve the bureau, and has already gone a long way in doing so. He proudly says that they had a record collection of P210.5 billion in 2007, P12.3 billion higher than in 2006. He explained that for every P1 appreciation of our currency in relation to the US dollar, the bureau stands to lose P3 billion annually. So, he said, if the peso had not appreciated in value so much in 2007, they could have collected P27 billion more, and would have even surpassed the target set for the bureau. He was also very happy to report about the highly sophisticated detection system they have set in place which enables them to detect misdeclared or undervalued cargo.

Needless to say, Commissioner Morales has made many enemies. I would not be surprised either if many bad eggs still remain in Customs. But at least here is one commissioner who is trying to beat the odds and trying to lead his bureau to new heights. Good, too, that there are still many good Customs employees. I pray that you succeed, commissioner!


Source: http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/?page=teodoroBacani_feb9_2008

GRAIN WORRIES ON SUPPLY AND DROUGHT

Grain Worries on Low Supplies and Expected Drought



February 8, 2008
By Madelene Pearson
Bloomberg

Wheat, the best performing commodity this year, surged to a record on three U.S. futures exchanges on concern that supplies of spring grain will fall short of demand.

U.S. inventories of hard red spring wheat, used to make bread and pasta, will fall 25 percent from a year earlier by May 31, according to the Department of Agriculture. Canadian wheat supplies tumbled 30 percent last year, Statistics Canada said this week.

Wheat has more than doubled in the past year, raising costs for food makers including Kellogg Co., Sara Lee Corp. and Japan's Nissin Food Products Co. Prices have soared as adverse weather cut production in Australia, Canada and the U.S., pushing wheat to a record in Chicago, Minneapolis and Kansas.

``There's desperation and there's the situation where they are not worried about the price, they just have to buy it,'' Ben Barber, commodity broker with Bell Commodities Ltd. said by phone from Melbourne today. ``It's in uncharted territory now and how far it goes is anyone's guess.''

Wheat futures for March delivery on the Chicago Board of Trade rose the daily limit of 30 cents, or 2.8 percent, to a record $10.93 a bushel in after hours electronic trading in Sydney. Prices have advanced the limit for five straight sessions.

The commodity is heading for its biggest weekly gain in more than 32 years, rising 16 percent in Chicago. That's the largest advance since a 19 percent gain in the week ended July 11, 1975.

CORN, SOYBEANS

Corn and soybeans, which both reached records this week on concern rising global demand would erode U.S. inventories before the next harvests, also gained today.

Analysts surveyed by Bloomberg expect stockpiles of both crops will be down from January forecasts when the U.S. Department of Agriculture updates its estimates today in the U.S.

Corn for March delivery rose as much as 16 cents, or 3.2 percent, to $5.155 a bushel on the Chicago Board of Trade in after-hours electronic trading and were at $5.135 at 2:21 p.m. in Sydney. The commodity has gained 28 percent in the past year, and reached a record $5.2875 on Feb. 6.

Soybeans for March delivery rose as much as 35 cents, or 2.6 percent, to $13.665 a bushel in Sydney. Prices reached a record $13.73 this week and are up 84 percent in the past year as farmers in the U.S. planted the fewest acres in 12 years. The U.S. is the biggest producer and exporter of soybeans.

MINNEAPOLIS, KANSAS

In Minneapolis, where spring wheat is traded, the March contract also rose the 30-cent limit, gaining 2 percent, to $15.53 a bushel. The contract breached $15 yesterday, the first time any U.S. contract for the grain has done so. The price has advanced the daily limit 11 of the past 12 days of trading.

Wheat for March delivery jumped the 30-cent limit to add 2.7 percent, to $11.4025 a bushel on the Kansas City Board of Trade in after-hours trading in Sydney. It's the fifth day the contract rose its daily limit.

U.S. inventories of high-protein hard red-spring wheat will fall to 88 million bushels at the end of the marketing year, according to the USDA. Global wheat stockpiles will fall to 110.9 million tons, the lowest since 1978, the USDA said on Jan. 11.

``People are starting to become a little more urgent about just where supplies in the near term are going to come from,'' Justin Smirk, senior economist at Westpac Banking Corp. said from Sydney. Prices are likely to be ``volatile'' in the near term and will spur farmers to lift plantings, he said.

``If everyone gets really optimistic and starts putting in big crops and locking in prices at these levels, that can set the tone on when you can get a correction in prices,'' he said.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601091&sid=ac6jJRKhQgTs&refer=india

JESUITS, HILLARY CLINTON, AND NIN...?


Jesuits, Hillary Clinton, and NIN... whats not to love?
« on: January 20, 2008, 08:52:03 AM »

capital G, the hillary clinton jesuit mix
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bX_BNiGsnvc

There is more where that came from.
Sorry I havent posted some of this info in word format, but theres more.
Much more.

Those were just primarily the Jesuits that graduated from the Jesuit Walsh School, theres a lot more in the picture.

Did anyone catch that NAACP President Nelson Linder from Austin vouch for Ron Paul not being a racist on the Alex Jones show?
Turns out Linder is Catholic and gave a big speech along with a Bishop Emeritus of the Austin Diocese.

http://talbot.mrp.txstate.edu/currents/fullstory.jsp?sid=969

The big speech just happened to have been titled "Protest and Dissent".

Plus like someone pointed out earlier, there are Jesuits backing Ron Paul and making suggestions of which Catholic VP he should have.

Author
Orwells Ghost Watcher


Source: http://www.nwowatcher.com/smf/index.php?topic=9179.msg34199#msg34199

SMOM GRAND MASTER FRA BERTIE EXPIRES

Malta Mourns its Master
The 78th Grand Master of the Knights of Malta,
Fra Andrew Bertie, died late last night in a Roman hospital. He was 78.
Bertie was elected to lead the order in a secret conclave in 1988. He is credited with modernizing the group's humanitarian programs, increasing membership and extending its reach in troubled and far-flung regions, the statement said.

Officially known as the Sovereign Military Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes and of Malta, the group was founded with a pilgrims' hospice in 11th century Jerusalem and has the status of an independent state. It maintains diplomatic relations with 100 nations, increased from 49 at the start of Bertie's tenure.

The Knights of Malta has 12,500 members and operates in 120 countries, providing medical and social services, particularly in war zones and impoverished areas.

The grand commander of the order, Fra Giacomo della Torre, was sworn in as interim head of the group until a new grand master is elected, the statement said.

Elected for life, the grand master carries the title of prince and the position is equal in rank to a cardinal. The grand master must have 200 years of nobility on both parents' sides and must have followed vows of poverty, obedience and chastity.
Lying in state begins today at the order's headquarters on the Aventine Hill.

PHOTO: Sovereign Military Order of Malta

PRESENT TRUTH

PRESENT TRUTH

Question: "What is present truth?
Answer: 1.) Present truth is that Sin is Sin! Being established in the present truth [2 Peter 1:12]. Which is also making your calling and election sure [verse 10] and having the more sure word of prophecy [verse 19].
2.) Present truth is that Protestantism and Roman Catholics do no longer know what sin is, and therefore cannot preach repentance from sin!
3.) Present truth is that sin is the violation of the Ten Commandments of GOD [1 John 3:4;Rom 7:7]

Official Roman Catholic statement: "Because by keeping Sunday, they [all others] acknowledge the Church's power to ordain feasts, and to command them under sin: and not keeping the rest by her commanded, they again deny, in fact, the same power."---An Abridgment of the Christian Doctrine [R.C.C.],p.58

Here we have the people that claim responsibility for leading the world into sin. Besides this, they also give special dispensations and licences to sin. The sale of indulgences into sin was very popular in the 1520's whilst still claiming to follow Christ.

Romans chapter six tells us that baptism is ending sin by dying with Christ and walking in a new life with Christ. The apostle Paul died to self and sin daily [Gal.2:20].

On forums, when we mention the cessation of sinning, they immediately pounce and ask, are you sinless and perfect? No, we are not, but we are striving towards the mark and Jesus asks us to be perfect like the Father in heaven. If it was not possible, GOD would never suggest it.

So what is the answer? Laodicea! Not the kind suggested above where the changed the Sabbath and causes all to sin, but the counsel to Laodicea JESUS Himself gives: " Buy of Me gold tried in the fire and white raiment and eye salve that you may see [Revelation 3:18]

The Mother has led all her daughters astray into sin and false hope. Her false doctrines originated with 1 Timothy 4:1-4.

4.) Demons have transformed themselves into angels of light
5.) The man of sin [anti-christ] stands revealed in theses last days we are living in and before the return of CHRIST! [2 Thess 2] (This is present truth according to prophecy).

JESUS condemned the Jews for making of non effect the commandments of GOD by their traditions for just one single commandment. But Rome changed two commandments of GOD, removed the second which forbids false worship, changed the fourth, the day of worship, and split the last into two to make up the numbers again. The Bishop calls himself by the title of GOD, namely "Holy Father" showing himself that he is god [2 Thess 2:4]

The Bible prophesied it, that this man of sin would think himself above GOD and able to change divine laws [Daniel 7:26].
The new testament teaches that when you only violate one of the 10 Commandments, than you are guilty of having transgressed all ten [James 2:10-12]. He that is faithful in which that is least is faithful also in much; and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much [Luke 16:10

When we quote James 2:10-12, those who wish to continue in sin, tell us that these verses speak of the O.T., but James only mentions two of the Ten. Jesus makes a difference between the law of Moses and the Commandments of GOD [Luke 16:16] and so does the apostle Paul [1. Cor.7:19].

Satan says, follow me. he says, you cannot keep the moral law, you are a Christian sinner. So one more sin won't hurt you.

JESUS CHRIST says, I am your sinless saviour from sin, follow me, resist the Devil and he will flee from you. Resist sin by My power and every sin resisted makes you stronger to resist the next temptation. Become a Victor and not a Victim. This is present truth indeed!

JESUS said to the woman caught in adultery, go and sin no more [John 8:32], but at present, there are a huge number of Christians that say to the woman, go and sin a little less.


6.) Protestant America is no longer Protestant and stopped protesting long ago!
7.) Fallen Protestants in America make no secret of supporting the U.S. military in a bid for world dominion in the New World Order.
U.S. President George W. Bush and running mate Kerry belong to the "Skull and Bones", a branch of occultism, and at the same time trying to tell us that they are practicing Christianity.
His closest religious advisers include Billy Graham [now a Roman Catholic], Jerry Falwell and Hal Lindsey the false prophet.
They maintain that Armageddon will be precipitated by an attack on Israel from the "North" by a mighty army of nations occupying what is now Russian and neighbouring territory, based on an obscure prophecy in Ezekiel ch.38,39.
The roots of this type of prophecies go back to 1830's Darby and his dispensationalism and the secret rapture added on by the false prophetess Miss Margaret McDonald and her visions.

The early new apostolic church scanned the future in anticipation of the coming antichrist who was depicted so strikingly by Daniel, Paul, and John the Revelator.. It was generally thought he would appear on the scene after the fall of the Roman Empire.

The Counter Reformation and the Origin of Futurism
Not only did the Reformers proclaim the mighty present truth of justification by faith for the liberation of men's souls, but they nerved thousands to break from the tyranny of the dark ages of the papacy by clearly identifying the man of sin and antichrist of Bible prophecy.

The realisation that the incriminating finger of prophecy rested squarely on Rome, aroused the consciousness of Europe. In alarm Rome saw that she must successfully counteract this identification of antichrist with the papacy or lose the battle. She must present plausible arguments which would cause men to look outside the medieval period for the development of antichrist.

Jesuit scholars rallied to the Roman cause from Spain by providing two plausible alternatives to the historical interpretation of the Protestants.

1.) Luis de Alcazar (1554-1613) of Seville, Spain, devised what became known as the "preterist" system of prophetic interpretations. Pre, meaning before, pointing into the distant past away from papal Rome to an antichrist before CHRIST came to earth and therefore contradicting JESUS in Matthew 24:15 as we have already pointed out in the 2300 days page.

2.) Far more successful tack was taken by Francisco Ribera (1537-1591) of Salamanca, Spain. He was the founder of the "futurist" system of prophetic interpretation. Instead of placing antichrist way in the past as did Alcazar, Ribera argued that antichrist would appear far in the distant future.

And here is where Protestant America gets its present truth from! this is why they look to a rebuilding of the earthly Temple that was destroyed in 70 A.D. instead of the heavenly Temple or sanctuary present truth, where JESUS CHRIST is officiating as Christianitiy's great high Priest of intercession.

Here is what the Roman Catholic author G.S.Hitchcock had to write: "The Futuristic School, founded by the Jesuit Ribera in 1591, looks for Antichrist, Babylon, and a rebuilt Temple in Jerusalem, at the end of the Christian dispensation. The Preaterist School, founded by the Jesuit Alcazar in 1614, explains the Revelation by the Fall of Jerusalem, or by the fall of Pagan Rome in 410 A.D."----G. S. Hitchcock, The Beasts and the Little Horn,p.7,

Futurism Enters English Protestantism
Futurism first entered Protestantism in 19th century England by two seemingly widely separated developments.
1.) The first was the appearance of a Romanizing tendency in the Church of England. Briefly, the development was as follows:

a.) Dr. Samuel R. Maitland (1792-1866), curate of Christ Church at Gloucester and later Librarian to the Archbishop of Canterbury, was the first notable Protestant Scholar to accept the Riberan interpretation of antichrist as present truth!

b.) James H. Todd, professor of Hebrew at the University of Dublin, studied and accepted Maitland's futuristic views.

c.) John Henry Newman, famous High Church Anglican who was converted to Rome and became a Cardinal, was a leading spirit in the renowned Oxford tractarian movement.

Ladies usually know what a remnant is, especially if they are into dress making, sewing etc.. and they go to a remnant sale. Here they can get leftovers of the original. The Bible speaks of a 'Remnant' in the last days that is recognizable by two things. Firstly, it resembles the original worshippers of God and has the original teachings as well. So in Revelation 12:17 it says: 'And the Dragon (a description working through Rome vv.3-8) was wrath with the woman (or Church see Rev.19:7) , and went to make war with the remnant of her seed which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ'.

These are not the two new commands of Jesus some will tell you about, in fact they are the same, and the second is like unto it. The first table of the Ten Commandments have the first 4 which are summed up by how to love God with all your heart, soul and strength. The second command is a summery of how to love our fellow man on the second table of stone with the last six commandments.
Jesus said that it would be easier for the whole universe to disappear than one tiniest dot or comma of the Ten Commandments (Matthew 5:17-19) and one wonders why both Protestants and Catholics take no notice of it!!! Christianity discontinued the papal Sunday Sabbath as a day to worship in, in the mid 1800's and the fall is still on a slide until the world and Christianity is in corrupt harmony. The brothel is complete as soon as all the Protestant daughters have come home to Rome again.(Rev.17)

My Mother pleaded with me to return to the oldest Church again, sorry Mum, I found an older one, the original new testament church people who follow Jesus all the way according to Mathew 5:17-19 (as quoted above). The 10 Commandments, the Dragon (Satan) wars against, includes Christ's Seventh-Day Sabbath (Matthew 12:8; Mark 2:28) and the N.T. Gentiles (non Jews) did not ask Paul to come and preach on the Sunday (see Acts 13:42) because it was pagan then as now, but on their own Sabbath day. Yet we can go even further back to Adam and Eve and claim that they were also 'Seventh Day Adventists' because God gave them the Sabbath (Genesis 2:1-3) 2500 years before the first Jew was born and before they sinned which means that the Sabbath day is not mosaic. Soon as our first parents sinned, they were forgiven again and looked for the advent of Jesus and became Adventists. God also gave our first parents the vegetarian diet. He tried again to give it to the newly formed church in the wilderness and in the endtime book of Daniel 1.

The second test or I.D. of the Remnant is the 'the testimony of Jesus Christ' which according to Revelation 19:10 interprets as being the 'spirit of prophecy'. Protestant Adventists were the only ones able to explain the prophetic books of Daniel and the Revelation of Jesus Christ to me. Prophecy seminars have been held all over the world since their beginning in 1863 A.D. Admit tingly they sprung out of the Millerite movement which folded and are their leftovers or remnants as well. Miller was a Protestant Baptist preacher and his movement an interdenominational affair. So widely spread in Protestant USA because the country was then full of Puritans and Miller's sermons made front pages of major Newspapers. Millerites came out of the great Protestant Advent awakening but were first day Adventists more or less. The 'Remnants' saw the Sanctuary of God in heaven which contain all the original Ten Commandments of which Moses was given only a copy (Hebr.8:1-5).

A Church of Christ minister told us, that if we put people on an island who knew nothing about GOD and gave them a Bible, they would become members of his church. We were able to tell him that this is exactly what happened when the ship "The BOUNTY" was wrecked and stranded on Pitcairn Island after the mutiny.
They found one Bible they found on the wreckage and studied it together. They found in its opening pages the Sabbath of GOD and that in the New Testament none other topic stood out so prominent as CHRIST'S Sabbath.

Unfortunately, some are interpreting the sanctuary temple of God to mean Jesus Himself. Therefore I like to ask the question, does our Lord Jesus Christ need cleansing (Daniel 8:14) ? Does the ark of God's testament seen on judgment day (Rev.11:18) containing both tables of the 'Decalogue'

coming out of Jesus? I can only conclude that those are sincerely mistaken and need to have a closer look of what the Bible really has to say.

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Source: http://www.come2jesus.info/presenttruth.htm

READY TO ANSWER



Ready to Answer

Sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear. 1 Peter 3:15.


I have been shown that many who profess to have a knowledge of present truth know not what they believe. They do not understand the evidences of their faith. They have no just appreciation of the work for the present time. When the time of trial shall come, there are men now preaching to others who will find, upon examining the positions they hold, that there are many things for which they can give no satisfactory reason. Until thus tested they know not their great ignorance. And there are many in the church who take it for granted that they understand what they believe; but, until controversy arises, they do not know their own weakness. When separated from those of like faith and compelled to stand singly and alone to explain their belief, they will be surprised to see how confused are their ideas of what they had accepted as truth. . . . {Mar 45.1}

God will arouse His people; if other means fail, heresies will come in among them, which will sift them, separating the chaff from the wheat. The Lord calls upon all who believe His word to awake out of sleep. Precious light has come, appropriate for this time. . . . Believers are not to rest in suppositions and ill-defined ideas of what constitutes truth. Their faith must be firmly founded upon the word of God so that when the testing time shall come and they are brought before councils to answer for their faith they may be able to give a reason for the hope that is in them, with meekness and fear. {Mar 45.2}

The servants of Christ are to prepare no set speech to present when brought to trial for their faith. Their preparation is to be made day by day, in treasuring up in their hearts the precious truths of God's word, in feeding upon the teaching of Christ, and through prayer strengthening their faith; then, when brought into trial, the Holy Spirit will bring to their remembrance the very truths that will reach the hearts of those who shall come to hear. {Mar 45.3}

God will flash the knowledge obtained by diligent searching of the Scriptures, into their memory at the very time when it is needed. {Mar 45.4}

Maranatha, Ellen G. White, p.45.

HIS LAST WORDS


And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power.

But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.

Acts 1:8,9.

CALLING THE PRODIGAL

CALLING THE PRODIGAL

God is calling the prodigal, come without delay,
Hear, O hear Him calling, calling now for thee.
Tho’ you’ve wandered so far from His presence, come today,
Hear His loving voice calling still.

Refrain

Calling now for thee, O weary prodigal, come;
Calling now for thee, O weary prodigal, come.

Patient, loving and tenderly still the Father pleads,
Hear, O hear Him calling, calling now for thee;
Oh! return while the Spirit in mercy intercedes,
Hear His loving voice calling still.

Refrain

Come, there’s bread in the house of the Father, and to spare,
Hear, O hear Him calling, calling now for thee;
Lo! the table is spread and the feast is waiting there,
Hear His loving voice calling still.

Refrain

Words & Music:
Charles H. Gab­ri­el, 1889
(MI­DI, score).

Source: http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/c/a/callprod.htm

Friday, February 08, 2008

'PROJECT WHITECOAT'

bilogical research for viruses

Project Whitecoat

The Adventist Contribution to Biowarfare

A U.S. Army project that ended over 25 years ago is once again the subject of scrutiny. Project Whitecoat was the Army's code name for a series of germ warfare studies conducted on about 2,300 Seventh-day Adventist servicemen from 1954 to 1973. Now the Army is investigating the long-term effects the project may have had on participants. Whitecoat veterans gathered recently for a reunion in Frederick, Maryland.

Please click on link below for complete article:

Source: http://www.apfn.org/thewinds/1998/11/project_whitecoat.html ==============Here^

HILLARY HOPES YOU'VE FORGOTTEN - ...

Hillary Hopes You've
Forgotten - Have You?

From Diane Rigali
2-6-8
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Hillary Clinton has been telling America that she is the most qualified candidate for president based on her "record," which she says includes her eight years in the White House as First Lady - or "co-president" - and her seven years in the Senate. Here is a reminder of what that record includes:
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HILLARY, As First Lady, assumed authority over Health Care Reform, a process that cost the taxpayers over $13 million. She told both Bill Bradley and Pat Moynahan, key votes were needed to pass her legislation, that she would "demonize "anyone who opposed it. But it was opposed; she couldn't even get it to a vote in a Congress controlled by her own party. (And in the next election, her party lost control of both the House and Senate.)
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HILLARY assumed authority over selecting a female Attorney General. Her first two recommendations (Zoe Baird and Kimba Wood) were forced to withdraw their names from consideration, and then she chose Janet Reno. Janet Reno has since been described by Bill himself as "my worst mistake."
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HILLARY recommended Lani Guanier for head of the Civil Rights Commission. When Guanier's radical views became known, her name had to be withdrawn.
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HILLARY recommended her former law partners, Web Hubbell, Vince Foster, and William Kennedy for positions in the Justice Department, White House staff, and the Treasury, respectively. Hubbell was later imprisoned, Foster committed suicide, and Kennedy was forced to resign.
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HILLARY also recommended a close friend of the Clintons, Craig Livingstone, for the position of director of White House security. When Livingstone was investigated for the improper access of up to 900 FBI files of Clinton enemies (Filegate) and the widespread use of drugs by White House staff, both Hillary and her husband denied knowing him. (FBI agent Dennis Sculimbrene confirmed in a Senate Judiciary Committee in 1996 both the drug use and Hillary's involvement in hiring Livingstone. After that, the FBI closed its White House Liaison Office, after serving seven presidents for over thirty years.)

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HILLARY, in order to open "slots" in the White House for her friends the Harry Thomasons (to whom millions of dollars in travel contracts could be awarded), had the entire staff of the White House Travel Office fired. They were reported to the FBI for "gross mismanagement" and their reputations ruined. After a thirty-month investigation, only one, Billy Dale, was charged with a crime - mixing personal money with White House funds when he cashed checks. The jury acquitted him in less than two hours.

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HILLARY also assumed the duty of directing the "bimbo eruption squad" and scandal defense:
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...She urged her husband not to settle the Paula Jones lawsuit.

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...She refused to release the Whitewater documents, which led to the appointment of Ken Starr as Special Prosecutor. After $80 million dollars of taxpayer money was spent, Starr's investigation led to Monica Lewinsky, which led to Bill lying about and later admitting his affairs.

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...Then they had to settle with Paula Jones after all.

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...And Bill lost his law license for lying to the grand jury.

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...And Bill was impeached by the House.

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...And Hillary almost got herself indicted for perjury and obstruction of justice (she avoided it mostly because she repeated, "I do not recall," "I have no recollection," and "I don't know" 56 times under oath).

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HILLARY accepted the traditional First Lady's role of decorator of the White House at Christmas, but in a unique Hillary way. In 1994, for example, The First Lady's Tree in the Blue Room (the focal point each year) was Decorated with drug paraphernalia, sex toys, and pornographic ornaments, all personally approved by Hillary as the invited artists' depictions of the theme, "The Twelve Days of Christmas."

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HILLARY wrote "It Takes a Village," demonstrating her socialist viewpoint.
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HILLARY decided to seek election to the Senate in a state she had never lived in. Her husband pardoned FALN terrorists in order to get Latino support and the New Square Hassidim to get Jewish support. Hillary also had Bill pardon her brother's clients, for a small fee, to get financial support.

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HILLARY then left the White House, but later had to return $200,000 in White House furniture, china, and artwork she had stolen.

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HILLARY played the "woman card" in the campaign for the Senate, by portraying her opponent (Lazio) as a bully picking on her.
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HILLARY'S husband further protected her by asking the National Archives to withhold from the public until 2012 many records of their time in the White House, including much of Hillary's correspondence and her calendars. (There are ongoing lawsuits to force the release of those records.)

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HILLARY, as the junior Senator from New York , passed no major legislation. She has deferred to the senior Senator (Schumer) to tend to the needs of New Yorkers, even on the hot issue of medical problems of workers involved in the cleanup of Ground Zero after 9/11.
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Quite a resume, isn't it? Sounds more like an organized crime family.

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minimaxmall@yahoo.com




P.S. It would sure seem like Deja Vu , if the Chappaqua Hill-Billies and their Secret Service (2 each: Hillary's and Bill's own) details return to the White House.


There is so much talent between those two...Some just can't get enough of them!


How about those New York Giants???


They're the Empire State's, New York's Finest.



Blogman.

BOMB BLAST DAMAGES COURT BUILDING

Bomb blast damages Basque court building: report
Thu Feb 7, 9:27 PM ET

Graffiti, showing the word Spain in a target, is seen on the wall of a house in a northern Basque village in December 2007. A bomb explosion Friday caused considerable damage to a court building in the northern Basque town of Bergera but no injuries, Spanish media reported.     The explosion shortly after midnight was preceded by an anonymous call to firefighters, the Europa Press news agency reported.(AFP/File/Rafa Rivas)

AFP/File Photo: Graffiti, showing the word Spain in a target, is seen on the wall of a...

MADRID (AFP) - A bomb explosion Friday caused considerable damage to a court building in the northern Basque town of Bergera but no injuries, Spanish media reported.

The explosion shortly after midnight was preceded by an anonymous call to firefighters, the Europa Press news agency reported.

ETA is suspected of being behind the blast, but the call did not claim responsibility on behalf of the Basque separatist group, as was the case in a December bombing of the court building in the Basque town of Sestao.

Friday's explosion follows the detention on Thursday of two leaders of ETA's political wing, Batasuna, on the orders of Spain's top anti-terrorist judge, Baltasar Garzon.

Batasuna has been banned since 2003 for refusing to condemn violence and cut its links to ETA, which has killed 819 people during almost four decades of fighting for Basque independence.

Batasuna and ETA are considered terrorist organisations by the European Union and the United States.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080208/wl_afp/spainbasqueetaattack;_ylt=A9G_R3bgwqtH7CgBWRZvaA8F

Thursday, February 07, 2008

MCCAIN SAYS HUSH!

HUSH YOU GUYS: LIMBAUGH, HANNITY, ET AL.
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I'M REALLY A CONSERVATIVE.
I'M THE MAN WITH THE PLAN.
IT'S IN THE BAG.
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(MCCAIN SPEAKING PRE-CATHEDRA)
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P.S. FOR UNITY'S SAKE AND ESPRIT DE CORPS, ROMMNEY BOWED OUT TODAY.
HOW OPPORTUNE, SOMEBODY JUST MOVED ONE GIANT STEP CLOSER TO 1600.
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Arsenio.

IRS PUTS BROWN'S PROPERTY UP FOR BID

Published: February 07, 2008 06:06 am

IRS puts N.H. tax evaders' belongings up for bid

By Jill Harmacinski
Staff Writer

LAWRENCE — The highest bidders are driving around in Ed and Elaine Brown's old pickup truck, dump truck and sport utility vehicle today. Others are waiting for a nice day to use the tax-evading couple's lawn tractor or take a spin on their former Gold Wing motorcycle.

Dozens jammed into Coady's Towing and Repairs on Marston Street yesterday morning as the Internal Revenue Service started auctioning off property seized last year from the Browns of Plainfield, N.H.

The IRS auction continues today in Nashua, N.H. A gold bar, coins, a diamond stickpin and a hyperbaric chamber are among the items up for the highest bid today.

The Browns, who believe federal tax laws are fiction, made national headlines after exiling themselves in their home for six months last year. They surrendered to U.S. marshals in October and husband and wife are now serving jail time, in separate prisons, for concealing $1.9 million in income to avoid paying taxes.

Items auctioned yesterday included a red 2000 Ford F-150 pickup truck, 1999 Chevy Silverado 2500 pickup truck, a 2002 onyx Oldsmobile Bravada SUV, a 1985 Chevy dump truck, a 1985 Honda Gold Wing motorcycle, Sears Craftsman lawn mower and a Southworth Milton CAT power system.

During their exile, officials cut power and telephone service to the Browns' home in an effort to ratchet up pressure on the couple. But the Browns said they didn't notice and told investigators they had generators to rely on and 103 wooded acres to keep warm during winter.

The Browns' home is on an isolated dirt road and includes a room in a turret that offers a 360-degree view of the property. The driveway was often barricaded with SUVs.

Starting at 10 yesterday morning, the prospective buyers started rolling into Coady's for the auction. They parked in Coady's lot, along Marston Street, and even as far away as Commonwealth Avenue.

"They were all over the place," said owner Frank Coady.

How much the IRS recouped at the auction yesterday remained unclear. But Coady said those he spoke with "were thrilled."

"The auction brought in top dollar," he said. "They did very well."

Coady's occasionally serves as the backdrop for IRS auctions. Approximately 40 items, seized by the IRS in other cases, are now stored at the tow yard and awaiting auction, he said.

Edward Brown is incarcerated at a federal prison in Fairton, N.J. His wife is in a federal prison in Danbury, Conn. They are each serving five years and three months in prison.

Source: http://www.eagletribune.com/punews/local_story_038060647.html

VIDEOS HINT AT PUBLIC DISCONTENT IN CUBA

Videos hint at public discontent in Cuba



By Shasta Darlington
CNN

HAVANA, Cuba (CNN) -- In a rare public expression of discontent, a video obtained by CNN shows Cuban students grilling a top official about low wages and why Cubans are barred from tourist hotels and from traveling abroad.

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Ricardo Alarcon, the president of Cuba's National Assembly, was grilled about government policies.

During a meeting between Ricardo Alarcon -- the president of the National Assembly -- and students at the University of Computer Science, the young people voiced some of the concerns many Cubans share in private, but don't often air publicly.

"It seems to us a revolution cannot advance without a plan," Eliecer Avila said, standing at a microphone. "I'm sure it exists, we just want to know what it is."

He asked about restrictions to Internet access and why workers are paid in Cuban pesos but have to buy many basic goods in another currency that is 25 times as expensive -- the "convertible peso" that foreign tourists are required to use.

"That means a worker has to work two or three days to buy a toothbrush," he said.

In the video of the recent meeting with students, Alarcon said he didn't have the expertise to address all of the questions, but he devotes 30 minutes to responding to Avila's queries. CNN obtained the video from students who asked to remain anonymous. Video Watch the confrontation »

While acting President Raul Castro last year publicly called on Cubans to tell officials what they think is wrong with the country, the forums that followed have been controlled in where they've taken place and in what issues are open for discussion.

The university video opens a rare window on public debate in Cuba, as students pressed Alarcon for answers on government policies.

When asked why there are restrictions on Cubans traveling abroad, Alarcon said: "I wish all the Cubans could go out and get to know the world outside."

"I think it would be the end of the ideological battle in this country. When the people see how things really are, what's real, how other people live," he said.

Asked why Cubans aren't allowed to enter the island's tourist hotels freely, Alarcon told students about his times in New York, as Cuba's ambassador to the United Nations.

"How many times did they kick us out of a store?" he asked. "Because by the Latino accent and the color of our hair they realized we weren't Anglo-Saxons and shouldn't be in the store?"

Another video obtained by CNN shows a recent meeting held to explain a new tax on Cubans working for foreign companies.

The unpopular proposal drew open jeers and mocking laughter, something officials here aren't used to. While the questions and complaints on the video are nothing new, it is unusual to hear them voiced so openly.

The unusually aggressive questions come ahead of what could be a decisive meeting of Cuba's National Assembly on February 24. Recently elected deputies will meet for the first time to select the new Council of State and its president -- a position held by Fidel Castro for decades.

But the ailing 81-year-old leader -- who handed over day-to-day control of the government 18 months ago -- has suggested that he may be ready to throw in the towel, permanently passing the reins of power to Raul, his younger brother, and to a "younger generation" of leaders

Source: http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/02/07/cuba.videos/index.html

FEBRUARY: BLACK HISTORY MONTH

Destinations of Enslaved Africans in
the Atlantic Slave Trade, c.1450—1870

a map of the destinations of enslaved Africans in the Atlantic Slave Trade, c.1450-1870

Courtesy: http://www.tea.state.tx.us/student.assessment/resources/online/2003/grade10/socialstudies.htm


February 7, 1926

"Negro History Week" was observed for the first time, conceived by Dr. Carter G. Woodson as an opportunity to study the history and accomplishments of African Americans.
Dr. Woodson was the founder, in 1915 Chicago, of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History. There he first published the Journal of Negro History — a publication still in existence.

L-R: Frederick Douglass, former slave and abolitionist leader; Muhammad Ali, poet, World Champion, the greatest; Maya Angelou, poet, novelist, voice of wisdom; Malcolm X, strong and clear-eyed brother seeking freedom and honor and dignity ; Harriet Tubman, liberator and conductor on the Underground Railroad.
Below: Jimi Hendrix, prolific guitar genius, rock ‘n’ roll writer; Nat “King” Cole, jazz composer, pianist and singer; Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., pastor, scholar and author, leader of a people, inspiration to peacemakers.

Source: http://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/thisweek.htm#thursday

'THE WRATH OF GOD'

Tornado damage in Lawrence County, Alabama
QUOTATION OF THE DAY
"The wrath of God is the only way I can describe it. I’m used to seeing roofs off houses, houses blown over. These houses were down to their foundations, stripped clean."
GOV. PHIL BREDESEN of Tennessee, after surveying tornado damage there.

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/todaysheadlines

Must see interactive photo & audio: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/02/06/us/20080206_TORNADO_MAP.html?th&emc=th#

Wednesday, February 06, 2008

A.S. MILLER, E. BERNAYS, MAYER ROTHSCHILD

Arthur S. Miller, Edward Bernays, Mayer Amschel Rothschild

Date: Feb 6, 2008 1:39 AM


"Those who formally rule take their signals and commands not from the electorate as a body, but from a small group of men. This group will be called the Establishment. It exists even though that existence is stoutly denied. It is one of the secrets of the American social order... A second secret is the fact that the existence of the Establishment - the ruling class - is not supposed to be discussed.''
-- Arthur S. Miller
George Washington University Professor of Law
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Arthur.Miller.Quote.4FAE


"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the [public] is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country.''
-- Edward Bernays
(1891-1995) "Father" of modern public relations (PR) and director of the U.S. Committee on Public Information during World War I, on government propaganda
Source: writing in "Propaganda" from "Food & Water Journal'' (1928)
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Edward.Bernays.Quote.4FAD


"Give me control of a nation's money
and I care not who makes the laws."
-- Mayer Amschel Rothschild
[Mayer Amschel Bauer] (1744 -1812), Godfather of the Rothschild Banking Cartel of Europe
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Mayer.Amschel.Rothschild.Quote.8BED


Source: http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote

IT BOILS DOWN TO THE LESSER OF "2" EVILS


It boils down to the lesser of two evils, again. It's deja vu, all over again!
It's either 'the insatiable' Madamme HRC
or
The Manchurian Candidate.
Arsenio

Tuesday, February 05, 2008

ASH WEDNESDAY

ASH WEDNESDAY


We hope you joined us for our Ash Wednesday Service on Wednesday, March 1st at 7 pm in the sanctuary. Ash Wednesday is the first day of the Lent season, and its name derives from the custom of marking the foreheads of worshippers with ashes that have been previously blessed. In the Old Testament, ashes were a sign of mourning and of penitence, and as we begin the season of Lent, the ashes remind us of our need to mourn our sin, and of our great need for God’s grace and for the cross.



Ash Wednesday image.

Source: http://www.peacechurch.net/programs/accomplished2006.html

NOTE: This is an article of a Presbyterian Church.

HILLARY WILL WEAR THE PANTSUITS

Hillary, Not Bill, will "Wear The Pantsuits" In The White House

In one last push to carry the Super Tuesday primaries -- at least the one in New York -- a visibly-tired but upbeat Hillary Clinton visited The Late Show with David Letterman last night and talked football (she's happy for the Giants), policy (she really is stealing Edwards' platform on helping the poor!) and Poppa Bill. Letterman was lighter on Clinton than he's been on other recent guests -- read: Paris Hilton -- but he did press her on the insane amount of campaign contributions required to compete for the presidency and her husband's at-times over the top defense of her. Clip above.


Clinton Appears On Letterman On Eve Of Super Tuesday [Reuters]

Source: http://jezebel.com/tag/david-letterman/

WHO WEARS "THE PANTS SUIT"?

NOW
HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON
THEN
FIRST LADY HILLARY CLINTON
LAST NIGHT ON DAVID LETTERMAN'S TV SHOW, HILLARY USED THE "WHO WEARS THE PANT SUIT" LINE.
ALLUDING TO WHO WOULD BE IN CHARGE WHEN SHE IS PRESIDENT(BILL OR HER).
I HATE TO SAY IT. BUT, I TOLD YOU SO! THE PANT SUIT IS ANOTHER FACET OF THE EVER EVOLVING CHAMELEON-LIKE TRANSFORMATION OF AN UNPARALLELED POLITICALLY AMBITIOUS WOMAN.
HILLARY THE GREAT.
The hair dyes, the carpet-bagging, the adoption of New York as her state, the name changes, the pant-suits, etc.
Truly, Hillary is a piece of "work", in progress!
When will her rise to the top end? When she's Queen of the Hill?
Arsenio

THE NEW WORLD ORDER BY GEORGE ORWELL

THE NEW WORLD ORDER:
George Orwell Quotes
Presented by Whale.to Web Hosting



To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle." (George Orwell)

Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. (George Orwell)

In some ways she was far more acute than Winston, and far less susceptible to Party propaganda. Once when he happened in some connection to mention the war against Eurasia, she startled him by saying casually that in her opinion the war was not happening. The rocket bombs which fell daily on London were probably fired by the Government of Oceania itself, "just to keep the people frightened." -- George Orwell, 1984

We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men: George Orwell

They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening : George Orwell

The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them: George Orwell

He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him. ---George Orwell

"All propaganda is a lie even when its telling the truth."--G Orwell

"The essence of oligarchical rule is not father-to-son inheritance, but the persistence of a certain world-view and a certain way of life ... A ruling group is a ruling group so long as it can nominate its successors... Who wields power is not important, provided that the hierarchical structure remains always the same.": George Orwell, 1984

"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past."--George Orwell (O'Brien in 1984) [For a good example of controlling the past, see Vaccine "Lymph"]

"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." - George Orwell

"Political language ....is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."--George Orwell

"Newspeak was the official language ... The purpose of Newspeak was not only to provide a medium of expression for the world-view and mental habits ... but to make all other modes of thought impossible. It was intended that when Newspeak had been adopted once and for all and Oldspeak forgotten, a heretical thought should be literally unthinkable." Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell. (Taken from Martin Walker article)

Double think means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously and accepting both of them. The party intellectual knows in which direction his memories must be altered, therefore he knows that he is playing tricks with reality; but by the exercise of DOUBLE THINK, he also satisfies himself that reality is not violated." Orwell

George Orwell once pointed out that the first job of a leader is to create an enemy that could strike fear into the hearts of the electorate

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle. --George Orwell

There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them. George Orwell

Political language...is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

On the whole human beings want to be good, but not to good and not quite all the time.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

While the Pobble was in the water some unidentified creatures came and ate his toes off, and when he got home his aunt remarked: It's a fact the whole world knows, That Pobbles are happier without their toes, which is funny because it has a meaning, and one might even say a political significance. For the whole theory of authoritarian government is summed up in the statement that Pobbles are happier without their toes.

Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.

Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

"In George Orwell's 1984 one of EngSoc's three "truths" was "Ignorance Is Strength." Have you ever noticed how ignorant people have a great deal of strength in their convictions? Not being able to think is, at least subconsciously, terrifying. Unable to arrive at ideas and understandings on one's own, every idea must be held onto like a life preserver in the sea beside a sinking ship. Every idea is as important as every other idea because there is no mechanism to judge between them. "Authority" (the Church-School-State Establishment) is strengthened by ignorance as well. The ignorant must rely on Authority for opinions. This keeps Authority on top. The "conspiracy" has a vested interest in maintaining this druggie-like dependence on Authority. It is a very short "hokey-pokey" little step from authoritarianism to totalitarianism."----Jerry E. Smith


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