Monday, April 09, 2012

Know Your Enemy: The New World Order From a Christian Perspective

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“From a cosmic/federal perspective there are only two people on this planet: the first Adam and his seed and the Second, or Last Adam, and His. And as Augustine pointed out, there are ultimately only two metropolises: the city of man and the City of God. Mark does an incredible job of dusting history for the signs. symbols and detritus of the first, which the Bible calls 'mystery Babylon .'” Eric Holmberg, The Apologetics Group; R3FORMATION MEDIA



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The name Babylon occurs in the Bible almost three-hundred times. The majority of those references are in the Old Testament - and with good reason. It was the first great city of the world and the capital of the first kingdom. In fact, it may well have been the greatest empire of all time. However, Babylon is much more than this. The Bible clearly and intriguingly states that "Mystery Babylon" is also the source of all abominations of the Earth (Rev. 17:5) – a fountainhead of evil that began flowing through history thousands of years ago and which profoundly impacts the world today… in ways most don't realize. Indeed, Revelation tells us that Mystery Babylon will survive until the end of time when God finally judges it with terminal violence.

This series is a walk-through history that follows the threads, exposes the idolatry, the symbolism and the perverted thought-processes that originated in Babylon. We discover its influence in all false religions including Catholicism and Islam, astrology, freemasonry, world-famous landmarks, the theory of evolution, philosophy, the United Nations, the European Union and much, much more. We discover that ever since God scattered the Babylonians back in Genesis 11, it has been Satan's intention to reverse the process and bring the whole world back together again under a single world system, ruled by the Antichrist. Above all we learn how to recognize our enemy so that we will not be deceived and instead live with faith, hope, love and courage in the face of Babylon’s demonic schemes.


Product Details

Format: Color, NTSC, Full-Frame
Rated: NR
Studio: The Fuel Project
Video Release Date: Aug. 24, 2011
World-Wide Distribution: The Apologetics Group
DVDs – 4, Region Free (will play anywhere in the world)
Runtime: 10 Hours, 45 Minutes

Chapters:

1. Introduction

2. Lucifer

3. Adam to Nimrod

4. Babylon

5. Semiramis

6. Tower of Babel: The Mountain

7. Tower of Babel: Heaven

8. The Mysteries

9. The Birth of Tammuz & Polytheism

10. The Scattering

11. God's Masterplan

12. The Plagues

13. The Desert Years

14. Plan A & Plan B

15. Ahab & Jezebel

16. God v Baal

17. The Jezebel Spirit

18. Neo-Babylon

19. The Four Kingdoms

20. The Pergamos

21. Caesar

22. Jesus

23. Roman Catholicism

24. Catholic Symbols I

25. Catholic Symbols II

26. Islam & Muhammad

27. Allah

28. The Kabah

29. The Islamic - Catholic Connection

30. The Dark Ages

31. The Information War I

32. The Information War II

33. The Jesuits

34. The Spiritual Exercises

35. The Jesuit Oath

36. Jesuit Deception

37. The Rise & Fall of the Jesuits

38. The Enlightenment

39. Deism

40. Freemasons

41. The Illuminati

42. Illuminati Themes

43. Masonic Symbols I

44. Masonic Symbols II

45. Republics

46. Science Dictatorships

47. Evolution

48. Population Control

49. The Hegelian Principle

50. The French Revolution

51. The American Revolution

52. The Hidden Hand

53. The Capitol

54. American Symbols

55. Lilith

56. Bohemian Grove

57. The Rothschild Era - Usury

58. The Rothschild Era - 19th Century Timeline

59. The Fed, The Jews & Three World Wars

60. Are The Jews To Blame?

61. The European Union - Rome Reborn

62. European Symbols

63. The United Nations Background

64. The Spiritual United Nations

65. The World Core Curriculum

66. Alice A Bailey

67. The War on Parents

68. Truth v Unity

69. Tolerance

70. The United Religions

71. Israeli Supreme Court

72. Mormonism

73. Jehovah's Witnesses

74. The Emerging Church - Christianity + Postmodernism

75. The Emerging Church - Road to Rome

76. The Emerging Church - Road to the One World Religion

77. God Wins

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A croatian call for respect of workers and ban of Sunday work

CROATIA/ 29 February 2012


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Call for Action from the Justitia et Pax Commission of the Croatian Conference of Bishops


The Commission urges believers and all citizens of good will in the Republic of Croatia to participate in the widespread campaign of the European Sunday Alliance.


The Justitia et Pax Commission of the Croatian Conference of Bishops urges believers and all citizens of good will in the Republic of Croatia to participate, starting on Sunday, March 4, 2012, in the widespread campaign of the European Sunday Alliance, which unites labor unions, political parties, civic associations and Churches in the demand for respecting Sunday as day of rest for all, a day for families to be together, a day for voluntary, cultural and social activities and as the Day of the Lord that Christians celebrate and glorify.

1. The Commission urges Croatian citizens, especially Christians, to refrain as of that day from shopping on Sundays and, thus, at least show that they want to respect all those workers who, due to the weaknesses of Croatian legal safeguards, are subjected to pressure and forced to work without Sunday as a day of rest, remaining outside the circle of their families, loved ones and children. These employees, especially female workers—the mothers, sisters and daughters of many—on this day of rest will not be with their families. Due to their absence, their homes will be empty, grey and gloomy. Therefore, shopping on Sundays is a form of hypocrisy and insensitivity toward the disenfranchised.

2. The human being, whom a democratic government has no right to scorn, and even businessmen in the "social market economy" of the European Union [have no right] to exploit, is not merely a producer and consumer of goods and services. A person affirms and supports himself through work but he is more than a worker and much more valuable than a consumer. A person is a spiritual being, turned toward transcendence but also to culture and art, sports, recreation and, generally, social and political engagement. However, people can only fulfill these needs by being and acting together with others, at the same time and on the same day. If this opportunity is taken away from some people, it deprives them of their basic rights as citizens, parents and, simply, integral persons, and in society there is a reduction in social cohesion and the will to live together. In all of this is the meaning and value of a day when one does not have to work. Until recent times, Sunday was respected in our country, even somewhat during the era of communist dictatorship, which, unfortunately, did much in order to distance people, especially the young, from celebrating the Day of the Lord.

3. With the coming of democracy, it is justifiable to expect that respect for Sundays would become the rule. However, we are witnesses to the onslaught of neoliberal greed that also destroys Sundays, even in our country where 91% of the citizens declare themselves to be Christians. Thus, even the Constitutional Court, under pressure from the chain stores, has deviated from European tradition and practice, allowing employers to set the working hours of stores and places of production, thereby jeopardizing the rights as well as the physical and mental health of Croatian citizens. Thus, the legislators—the Croatian Parliament and its censor, the Constitutional Court—already in 2006 allowed the private interests of the minority to prevail over public benefits—health, social, family and spiritual—of the majority of citizens. Those who have imposed their position throughout Croatia certainly do not want to understand that Croatian citizens are not going spend more than they already do on their needs if stores are open on Sundays. Citizens will spend the same amount of money from Monday to Saturday, since Saturday for the majority of employees is already a work-free day.

4. Why then are tens of thousands of people, especially women who are the least protected group in our country among the employed, still placed in a position of slavery every Sunday and holiday? Finally, we ask ourselves, have not traditional working hours, from Monday through Friday, always been coordinated with the time that students spend in school? After all, we know that Article 31 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union from the Lisbon Treaty of the EU enacts a worker's rights "to daily and weekly rest periods" and "to working conditions which respect his or her health, safety and dignity." Does not Article 33 of the same Charter impose the duty on everyone "to reconcile family and professional life"? Is not, therefore, Sunday the only day that no one should permitted to interfere with or endanger? Research conducted by the International Labor Organization (ILO) and other institutions has shown that work at unusual times, especially during weekends, is dangerous for safety, health, wellbeing and work-life balance, and is the cause of many accidents at work and illnesses.

5. We know, understand and accept that there are services of general and public interest that must be provided—healthcare, safety, traffic etc.—even on Sundays and holidays. We know that it is necessary to accept some flexibility in tourism areas, although there are countries with strong tourism activity that, nevertheless, succeed in observing Sundays. However, in our country we see the spread of aggressive and exploitive tendencies in private services that do not have to be offered on Sundays and holidays, directed toward thousands of women employed in stores who, otherwise, work overtime—very often unpaid—not only every day but also on Sundays and holidays, for a minimum wage of 2,500 HRK, often without a single free day or they have a day off when their children are in school and their families are at work or not home. Finally, we do not shy away from the fact that with this appeal we are also fighting for the rights of all Christians—not only Catholics—to celebrate the Day of the Lord by attending Sunday Mass because Sunday was made for man, not man for Sunday.

6. A year ago, the initiative European Sunday Alliance (ESA) was launched as a network of the civil society throughout Europe, with the goal of protecting Sundays and holidays as work-free days for all on the national levels and on the level of the European Union. In the EU, this initiative has not succeeded everywhere because the Union has hesitated over this issue. It is expected that the ESA will establish a European Commission to initiate the legal protection of work-free Sundays everywhere. The network of the European Sunday Alliance, which has already brought together 55 major participants and 23 supporting institutions, reminds people that Sunday in the EU has already been recognized as a weekly day of rest but only in the Directive on the Protection of Young People at Work. The initiative for work-free Sundays for all is strongly supported by the Commission of the Bishops' Conferences of the European Community. The ESA again urges everyone to stand "Together for Decent Working Hours," for fair and equitable working conditions and to express their will in various ways in their countries.

7. The Justitia et Pax Commission of the Croatian Conference of Bishops recalls that on two occasions, June 2000 and November 2004, it has strongly expressed its support for the preservation of the culture of work-free Sundays and the legalization of work-free Sundays in Croatia. In this sense and spirit, the Commission urges Christians and all people of good will in Croatia to join this noble—civil, humane and Christian—European campaign of solidarity and as of March 4 to bring to life its initiatives by refraining from shopping and visiting stores on Sundays, and to report to the European Sunday Alliance and the Croatian media about this. Finally, the Commission urges, particularly Christian and Catholic alliances and associations, as well as unions and political parties, to join the European Sunday Alliance, www.europeansundayalliance.eu, and support the initiatives of this great movement for a free and more humane Sunday. We are confident that this will be a powerful witness to solidarity with the victims of the dictatorship of profits and at the same time for the faithful an effective and authentic sign of Lenten sacrifice. "And your Father who sees what is hidden will repay you" (Mt, 6:18).

In Zagreb, February 29, 2012
Vlado Košić, Ph.D., President of the Commission
Bishop of Sisak



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Freedom of Religion: The EU should set the standard on this central Human Right

In every country where the people’s rights of freedom of religion has been violated -and even threatened -, the society itself is at risk. Freedom of Religion is actually an important indicator for assessing the implementation of Fundamental Rights as a whole. The EU should therefore more clearly monitor violations of Freedom of Religion both within the EU and throughout the world. This was the main request put forward by the Church and Society Commission of CEC and COMECE to the European Commission and the European External Action Service on the occasion of the Dialogue Seminar held in Brussels on 30 March.

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During a day-long session, the Churches presented their assessment of the recent violations of Religious Freedom. Mgr Coutts, the Archbishop of Karachi and Paul Bhatti, the brother of the assassinated Minister, presented a vibrant report on the situation of Christians and other minorities in Pakistan. Like in a number of other countries, although Religious Freedom is officially granted in Pakistan, the facts show that religious minorities suffer from violence and the exercise of pressure.

Christians and other religious minorities do not claim a special status or protection, but simply access to ‘common citizenship’, the Bishop emphasized: “they are full citizens of their countries and should simply be granted their legitimate rights as citizens”.

The representatives from the European External Action Service shared their intention to enhance the monitoring of Religious Freedom violations through a more systematic and coordinated strategy at the EU level. The Churches fully supported the increase of the EEAS potential in this regard and encouraged the EEAS to develop a ‘Toolkit’ containing measures and instruments to counter Religious Freedom violations in the world and offered their expertise in the field. To this effect, Canon Dr Gary Wilton from the Church of England offered several best practices such as ranging from human rights education inside and outside the churches to common seminars with police, judiciary and religious representatives from specific conflict zones. He also added that in Trade agreements concluded by the EU with third-countries, the insertion of conditionality clauses relating to respect for human rights are a good tool but that these clauses need to be made more effective, especially with regard to religious freedom.

Concerning countries which intend to join the EU, the European Commission should scrutinise with particular attention the respect for the fundamental right to freedom of religion and its related aspects (property rights, implementation of the rule of law). Clear and unequivocal steps towards the implementation of freedom of religion shall be present before a country is allowed to join the EU.

When it comes to the internal dimension, the main reference point for EU policies on human rights is Article 2 TEU. The right to religious freedom within the EU is based on Article 10 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights. The EU institutions should ensure that it is not simply an individualistic interpretation of this fundamental right which is promoted but that this is also broadened out so as to fully include its social and institutional dimension. Dr Peter Krömer, from the Protestant Church AB in Austria, and of Rev Anthony Peck, Secretary General of the European Baptist Federation, emphasized in their presentations the need to pay special attention to the implementation of the rights of minority Churches and religious communities under the anti-discrimination provisions.

The Churches asked the Fundamental Rights Agency to produce a survey on discrimination based on the grounds of freedom of religion in EU Member States and in applicant countries. To this end, the EU should also encourage the Member States to collect this kind of data at national level and provide the FRA with the relevant information on a yearly basis.

Recent attacks based on religious hatred make it clear that respect for freedom of religion is at the very heart of our living together in Europe and allows the promotion of ‘Unity in Diversity’. The role of religion in the public square must be protected from attacks, which constitute a violation of religious freedom. It is important, in this regard, to acknowledge the positive role that religion plays in public life and in society.


Contributions to Download:

Speech of Prof. Feliciani in FR

Contribution by Canon Dr Gary Wilton FROB

Power point presentation by Canon Dr Gary Wilton FROB

Contribution by His Eminence Bishop of Backa FROB

Contribution by Rev. Tony Peck


Video of the Interview with Paul Bhatti:




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An Easter sermon at Mother Bethel gets contemporary

Posted: Mon, Apr. 9, 2012, 8:07 AM




By Melissa Dribben

Inquirer Staff Writer



A worshiper arrives for sunrise Easter service at Mother Bethel A.M.E. Church in Philadelphia. (David Maialetti / Staff Photographer)



They woke up early - very, very early - to put on their Easter Sunday best. They traveled from Yeadon and Haverford and Camden and West Philadelphia, retired teachers and young professionals, grandfathers and children rubbing sleep from their eyes. At 6 a.m., while the sun, still moon-cool and pearly, backlit the stained-glass windows, they filled the pews of Mother Bethel A.M.E. Church in Philadelphia and turned to the altar.

The Rev. Mark Kelly Tyler, wearing gold-embroidered white robes, greeted the nearly 100 worshippers in the hallowed church, one of the first African American churches in the nation.

"My brothers and my sisters, it is preaching time," Tyler announced to a chorus of "Amens."

Massive curved wooden beams crisscross above. Scrolled columns support the gallery. And in the arch above the organ pipes, gold letters spell out "God Our Father, Christ Our Redeemer, Man Our Brother."

Dedicated in 1794, it is a place steeped in history and faith.

For Jillian Wright, 8, however, it was most memorable for the snacks. "I like when we have the crackers and the drink," she said after receiving communion.

Jillian, her little sister, Lauren, 6, Lauren's stuffed pink pig, Whopper, and the girls' parents, Ernest and Miriam, awoke at 4:40 a.m. to prepare for the sunrise Easter service. It was the first they had attended as a family. Ernest Wright, senior budget analyst at the University of Pennsylvania, and Miriam Wright, director of enrollment management at the university's College of Liberal and Professional Studies, were married in Mother Bethel 12 years ago.

"We've always felt comfortable here," Miriam Wright said. "I always feel we get a message that can relate to our lives."

Sunday's break-of-day sermon was delivered by the retired Rev. Alexander Stephans, who offered an impassioned delivery of the story of Jesus Christ's resurrection.

"The Devil thought he had check-mated Jesus," Stephans said. "But God had one more move."

It has become a tradition, Tyler said, to invite the beloved Stephans to return for the Easter Sunday sunrise service since his retirement in 2005.

Nettie Davis, a retired nurse, and her daughter, Michelle, drove in from their home in Bucks County to hear Stephans speak. "He's an excellent pastor," Davis said. And her ties to him, she said, go beyond the spiritual. The delicate wide-brimmed organdy hat she wore was sold to her by Stephans' daughter.

About half the women wore Easter bonnets, sequined white, pink flowered, glossy black. But Madeline Shikomba, one of the church greeters, chose a purple tie-dyed Senegalese skirt, blouse, and head wrap.

Shikomba, 70, a retired Philadelphia public schoolteacher, had lived in Africa for many years, and her late husband was from Namibia.

Getting up before dawn, she said, was not easy, but she didn't mind sacrificing a few hours of sleep. "It's a beautiful service to recognize Christ's resurrection, which was discovered early in the morning," she said. "I think it's worth it. It's only one Sunday in the year, and I'm free the rest of the day."

At the 11 a.m. service, Tyler, who has become known among congregants as "the hip-hop preacher" for his topical sermons, was to speak about the Trayvon Martin shooting in Florida, tying it to Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Telltale Heart."

"For me, racism is the ghost that won't go away," he said, "until we pull off the plank boards and pull out what's hidden."

Authorities have not yet determined whether racism played a role in the shooting of the unarmed 17-year-old Martin by a Neighborhood Watch volunteer who has alternately been described as white, Hispanic, and Peruvian.

But that kind of thought-provoking discussion, Miriam Wright said, and the church's social activism is what keeps her family connected to Mother Bethel. "My dad always said the church needs to do more in the black community."

Mother Bethel's congregation has built bicycles for city children, provides feeding programs, runs a voter-registration program, and is part of Philadelphians Organized to Witness, Empower and Rebuild (POWER), a faith-based, nonpartisan group that advocates for job growth, public education, and other community issues.

"There's more to a church," Miriam Wright said, "than just giving on Sunday."


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Mr Gay World Comes to Africa

By DONNA BRYSON Associated Press

JOHANNESBURG April 8, 2012 (AP)



After Mr. Gay Ethiopia entered the Mr. Gay World contest, his father cut off all communications. Mr. Gay Zimbabwe withdrew, fearing the publicity was making life difficult for his mother.

But Mr. Gay Namibia's family accompanied him to the airport for a warm send-off when he left for the competition, which culminated for him and 21 other men late Sunday in the finals at a Johannesburg casino.

"Bring the trophy home," Namibia's Wendelinus Hamutenya said his mother told him.

In the end, New Zealand's Andreas Derleth, a 32-year-old manager for a chain of
stationery stores, was named Mr. Gay World. A disappointed Hamutenya said he would nonetheless return to Namibia to fight "for gay rights and human rights."

Hamutenya said his experience shows that Africans and Africa can change. On the continent, gay rights activists have been vilified, threatened and killed. Laws in dozens of African countries ban homosexual acts. Prominent African politicians ridicule gays and minor politicians grab headlines by proposing even tougher anti-gay laws.

"I hope and I believe that Namibia will be the second country in Africa to recognize the rights" of gays, Hamutenya said in an interview.

The first country is South Africa, also the first African country to host Mr. Gay World, which debuted in 2009 in Canada. The bill of rights adopted after apartheid ended in South Africa in 1994 explicitly bans discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation. Same-sex couples can marry and adopt children in South Africa.

Teboha Maitse, acting chairman of South Africa's Commission for Gender Equality, said she fought white racist rule alongside openly gay comrades, and that experience made her and others aware of the need to enact legal protections for gays. But she said when she travels farther north, "people say, 'You South Africans, you don't behave like Africans.'"

Maitse, whose government-appointed commission regularly speaks out in support of gay and lesbian rights, acknowledged in an interview that even in South Africa gays, lesbians and others who don't fit a traditional definition of the sexual norm do face discrimination and worse.

Of particular concern in recent years have been attacks on lesbians sometimes called "corrective rapes." Maitse said gay men often suffer in silence, sometimes committing suicide to escape taunts. She said poor, black gays and lesbians are particularly vulnerable because the communities in which they live are conservative.

South Africa's Mr. Gay World contestant, Lance Weyer, is white. Weyer, a psychologist who recently won office on a city council in southeastern South Africa, said gays like him have the education and money to fight back when their rights are violated. That makes it all the more important, he said, for successful gays and lesbians to speak out, both to be role models for others and to shake up conservative attitudes.

Weyer was named first runner up Sunday. Neither of the black African contestants made it to the final 10.

"We look for the best man, whether he's white or black or any other color," said Tore Aasheim, one of the Mr. Gay World organizers, adding he hoped more contestants from Africa would participate in future contests.

It isn't just African gays who face difficulties. The Chinese contestant was unable to come to Johannesburg because of anti-gay pressure there, organizers said. Representation was thin from Asia, Eastern Europe and the Middle East — all regions where gay rights are under threat.

In the United States, projects like It Gets Better reach out to young homosexual to help them cope with harassment, a reminder that even in the West, gays are vulnerable. The American Mr. Gay World contestant, Kevin Scott Power, is an elementary school teacher who said even young children experience anti-gay bullying.

Power, who finished fourth on Sunday, said he was not nervous at coming to Africa, despite its homophobic reputation.

"We're all representing the people that don't have the power to stand up," Power told reporters in Johannesburg.

Coenie Kukkuk, Africa's director for Mr. Gay World, said the contest produces a spokesman and role model for gays, particularly in Africa. Previous winners of the contest have gone to schools and universities to speak out about human rights. Prizes include $25,000 in travel vouchers to enable the winner to spread his message around the world.

Kukkuk said he has struggled to get more black South African and other African contestants. Mr. Namibia's story helps illustrate why that has been difficult, but also gives reason for hope.

Hamutenya, who herded cows as a young boy in remote northern Namibian, realized when he was in his teens that he was attracted to men. He confided to his father when he was 16. His father called the police and had them take his son to a mental hospital.

Hamutenya escaped from the institution and lived with friends. Eventually, he and his father reconciled. Hamutenya went on to study nursing in South Africa, and returned to work as a midwife in his home region.

Hamutenya said villagers respect him because of his work, and because his family is prominent and known for its piety. Hamutenya himself once considered becoming a priest.

Since becoming Mr. Gay Namibia, Hamutenya has lobbied for a repeal of his country's anti-sodomy law. And he says politicians have been receptive to his arguments.

Hamutenya was badly beaten in Windhoek, Namibia's capital, after winning the Mr. Gay Namibia contest last year. He believes the attack was a mugging, not a hate crime.

Organizer Kukkuk insisted that Mr. Gay World is not a beauty pageant.

Mr. Gay World includes an essay test on the history of the gay rights movement. But the swim suit competition counts for more, according to the judges' handbook. The seven judges are from around the world and include journalists and an actor.

Cary Alan Johnson, executive director of the New York-based International Gay & Lesbian Human Rights Commission, worries such glitzy contests feed stereotypes that could cement the view, often heard in Africa, that homosexuality is un-African.

"Most of us are of color, poor, don't look like we go to the gym regularly," Johnson said in a telephone interview. "Class does matter. It is poor men who experience the most oppression."

He gave Mr. Gay World credit for drawing attention to discrimination against gays, particularly in Africa. But Johnson said that during a recent visit to Johannesburg, he was dismayed to find the advertising featured two white men — the South Africans who won Mr. Gay World in 2011 and 2010.

"The one thing they ought to do is change that poster," Johnson said. "Have one black guy up there with no shirt on. Cater to a diverse audience."


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Sunday, April 08, 2012

Obama says we have 100's of National Parks, except we only have 58.

Read the full text of Obama's speech on the GOP budget

5:00 p.m. CDT, April 3, 2012


"If this budget becomes law and the cuts were applied evenly, starting in 2014, over 200,000 children would lose their chance to get an early education in the Head Start program. Two million mothers and young children would be cut from a program that gives them access to healthy food. There would be 4,500 fewer federal grants at the Department of Justice and the FBI to combat violent crime, financial crime, and help secure our borders. Hundreds of
national parks would be forced to close for part or all of the year.
We wouldn't have the capacity to enforce the laws that protect the air we breathe, the water we drink, or the food that we eat.

"Cuts to the FAA would likely result in more flight cancellations, delays, and the complete elimination of air traffic control services in parts of the country. Over time, our weather forecasts would become less accurate because we wouldn't be able to afford to launch new satellites. And that means governors and mayors would have to wait longer to order evacuations in the event of a hurricane.



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Hollywood's Satanic Agenda



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Hollywood Unmasked Talk About Eye Opening..Kids ask your parent to screen before watching this. Due to the fact that this is an expose it shows some very wicked stuff that has been fed to the masses for years on screen. PARENTAL GUIDANCE IS SUGGESTED!!!

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The pagan roots of Easter

Note: The article below is posted here for the sake of providing this fascinating information; It is from a Pagan (British) perspective.

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From Ishtar to Eostre, the roots of the resurrection story go deep. We should embrace the pagan symbolism of Easter

Heather McDougall

guardian.co.uk, Saturday 3 April 2010 09.00 EDT




Hot cross buns: pagan symbols? Photograph: Alamy


Easter is a pagan festival. If Easter isn't really about Jesus, then what is it about? Today, we see a secular culture celebrating the spring equinox, whilst religious culture celebrates the resurrection. However, early Christianity made a pragmatic acceptance of ancient pagan practises, most of which we enjoy today at Easter. The general symbolic story of the death of the son (sun) on a cross (the constellation of the Southern Cross) and his rebirth, overcoming the powers of darkness, was a well worn story in the ancient world. There were plenty of parallel, rival resurrected saviours too.

The Sumerian goddess Inanna, or Ishtar, was hung naked on a stake, and was subsequently resurrected and ascended from the underworld. One of the oldest resurrection myths is Egyptian Horus. Born on 25 December, Horus and his damaged eye became symbols of life and rebirth. Mithras was born on what we now call Christmas day, and his followers celebrated the spring equinox. Even as late as the 4th century AD, the sol invictus, associated with Mithras, was the last great pagan cult the church had to overcome. Dionysus was a divine child, resurrected by his grandmother. Dionysus also brought his mum, Semele, back to life.

In an ironic twist, the Cybele cult flourished on today's Vatican Hill. Cybele's lover Attis, was born of a virgin, died and was reborn annually. This spring festival began as a day of blood on Black Friday, rising to a crescendo after three days, in rejoicing over the resurrection. There was violent conflict on Vatican Hill in the early days of Christianity between the Jesus worshippers and pagans who quarrelled over whose God was the true, and whose the imitation. What is interesting to note here is that in the ancient world, wherever you had popular resurrected god myths, Christianity found lots of converts. So, eventually Christianity came to an accommodation with the pagan Spring festival. Although we see no celebration of Easter in the New Testament, early church fathers celebrated it, and today many churches are offering "sunrise services" at Easter – an obvious pagan solar celebration. The date of Easter is not fixed, but instead is governed by the phases of the moon – how pagan is that?

All the fun things about Easter are pagan. Bunnies are a leftover from the pagan festival of Eostre, a great northern goddess whose symbol was a rabbit or hare. Exchange of eggs is an ancient custom, celebrated by many cultures. Hot cross buns are very ancient too. In the Old Testament we see the Israelites baking sweet buns for an idol, and religious leaders trying to put a stop to it. The early church clergy also tried to put a stop to sacred cakes being baked at Easter. In the end, in the face of defiant cake-baking pagan women, they gave up and blessed the cake instead.

Easter is essentially a pagan festival which is celebrated with cards, gifts and novelty Easter products, because it's fun and the ancient symbolism still works. It's always struck me that the power of nature and the longer days are often most felt in modern towns and cities, where we set off to work without putting on our car headlights and when our alarm clock goes off in the mornings, the streetlights outside are not still on because of the darkness.

What better way to celebrate, than to bite the head off the bunny goddess, go to a "sunrise service", get yourself a sticky-footed fluffy chick and stick it on your TV, whilst helping yourself to a hefty slice of pagan simnel cake? Happy Easter everyone!
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The Lord Will Be The Shepherd Of His Flock


1And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

2Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto the shepherds; Woe be to the shepherds of Israel that do feed themselves! should not the shepherds feed the flocks?

3Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill them that are fed: but ye feed not the flock.

4The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up that which was broken, neither have ye brought again that which was driven away, neither have ye sought that which was lost; but with force and with cruelty have ye ruled them.

5And they were scattered, because there is no shepherd: and they became meat to all the beasts of the field, when they were scattered.

6My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and upon every high hill: yea, my flock was scattered upon all the face of the earth, and none did search or seek after them.


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Saturday, April 07, 2012

Hitler's Pope (Abridged)



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by John Cornwell
Published in Vanity Fair, October 1999

With comments by Jared Israel
Editor, www.tenc.net

[21 April 2005]

After the publication of Hitler's Pope, the Vatican went on a virtual crusade to discredit John Cornwell; the Internet is flooded with attacks on him. In an effort to present Cornwell's side of the argument, Emperor's Clothes has posted the abridged pre-publication version of Hitler's Pope, which appeared in 1999 in the magazine, Vanity Fair. The unabridged book is of course much richer; below I have posted links to online stores where you can buy it, new and used, and as an e-book.

- Jared Israel
Emperor's Clothes


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Are We Called To Compromise?

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Jesus Himself never purchased peace by compromise. His heart overflowed with love for the whole human race, but He was never indulgent to their sins. He was too much their friend to remain silent while they were pursuing a course that would ruin their souls,--the souls He had purchased with His own blood. He laboured that man should be true to himself, true to his higher and eternal interest. The servants of Christ are called to the same work, and they should beware lest, in seeking to prevent discord, they surrender the truth. They are to "follow after the things which make for peace" (Rom. 14:19); but real peace can never be secured by compromising principle. And no man can be true to principle without exciting opposition. A Christianity that is spiritual will be opposed by the children of disobedience. But Jesus bade His disciples, "Fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul." Those who are true to God need not fear the power of men nor the enmity of Satan. In Christ their eternal life is secure. Their only fear should be lest they surrender the truth, and thus betray the trust with which God has honoured them.


Desire of Ages
Chap. 37 - The First Evangelists - p.356.

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If thy brother trespass against thee, ..


Then said he unto the disciples, It is impossible but that offences will come: but woe unto him, through whom they come!

It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.

Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him.

And if he trespass against thee seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to thee, saying, I repent; thou shalt forgive him.
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Luke 17:1-4.
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Friday, April 06, 2012

Home Bible Study Illegal Without Permit?

Wednesday, February 22, 2012


Last year, California Christians were fined $600 for holding a home Bible study in San Juan Capistrano, a city founded on belief in Jesus Christ.

The city slapped the Christians, Chuck Fromm and Stephanie Fromm, with a $300 fine --- twice --- for not having a government permit to pray in their home with guests.

The City of San Juan Capistrano saw a group of believers gathered in the Lord's name as a church in need of a permit to operate.

The Fromm family appealed the fine but was told that future fines would be $500 per violation if they continued praying in their home without approval and a government permit.

The City of San Juan Capistrano coldly rejected the Fromm family's appeal.

The Fromm Family was expected to go through the same expenses, permits and approvals as a church full of worshipers would, including engineering and traffic studies, architectural designs, seismic retrofits and public hearings regarding the need for such a prayer meeting.

Without the permit, the Fromm residence was marked by government officials as an illegal church to be shut down.


People of faith across America became outraged, and many of the Fromms' neighbors wrote letters of support for the Christians guilty of praying for the very leaders who had publicly branded them as outlaws.

The Pacific Justice Institute, a Sacramento-based nonprofit legal defense organization had taken on the Fromm case - pro bono - as a religious freedom case.

Attorney Brad Dacus, the PJI president, acted as the Fromms' spokesperson and was "committed to defending this family's home Bible study all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court."

Dacus expressed the shock that was felt in 2011 by people of faith in California, across the nation and overseas.

"An informal gathering in a home cannot be treated with suspicion by the government, or worse than any other gathering of friends, just because it is religious. We cannot allow this to happen in America."

The Pacific Justice Institute took the religious freedom case to the next level by appealing the decision to the California Superior Court in Orange County.

The City of San Juan Capistrano was hit with a tsunami of letters, phone calls and emails accusing municipal government officials of levying fines for the study of religion.

The public outcry, condemnation and international publicity created a public relations nightmare for Orange County's oldest city.

What was the result?

Chuck and Stephanie Fromm dropped the lawsuit in November 2011 after the city returned their money and offered to re-examine the municipal code.

The Planning Commission met a few days later and formally petitioned the city to change the ordinance, declaring the outdated law "unclear and archaic."

The code mandates that religious, fraternal or nonprofit organizations apply for conditional use permits, which could be broadly interpreted to include gatherings of many different sizes and frequencies.

Draft language of an amendment presented at the meeting proposed creating a new definition called "routine assembly uses," or regular gatherings of 25 or more individuals.

Commissioners flatly rejected the language. They said it did not properly address variations in property sizes and that a 25 person limit was arbitrary.

In January 2012, the San Juan Capistrano City Council voted unanimously to begin revising the code.

A draft amendment could be presented to the Planning Commission in April 2012.





Teaching from House to House


April 6

I kept back nothing that was profitable unto you, but have shewed you, and have taught you publickly, and from house to house. Acts 20:20.


Among the members of our churches there should be more house-to-house labor in giving Bible readings and distributing literature.... As we sow beside all waters we shall realize that “he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.”

Christ’s example must be followed by those who claim to be His children. Relieve the physical necessities of your fellow men, and their gratitude will break down the barriers and enable you to reach their hearts.... Women as well as men can engage in the work.... They can do in families a work that men cannot do, a work that reaches the inner life. They can come close to the hearts of those whom men cannot reach. Their work is needed. Discreet and humble women can do a good work in explaining the truth to the people in their homes. The word of God thus explained will do its leavening work, and ... whole families will be converted....

In the home circle, at your neighbor’s fireside, at the bedside of the sick, in a quiet way you may read the Scriptures and speak a word for Jesus and the truth. Precious seed may thus be sown that will spring up and bring forth fruit....

There is missionary work to be done in many unpromising places. The missionary spirit needs to take hold of our souls, inspiring us to reach classes for whom we had not planned to labor and in ways and places that we had no idea of working. The Lord has His plan for the sowing of the gospel seed. In sowing according to His will, we shall so multiply the seed that His word may reach thousands who have never heard the truth.

Thousands upon thousands, and ten thousand times ten thousand angels are waiting to co-operate with members of our churches in communicating the light that God has generously given, that a people may be prepared for the coming of Christ.

Our sisters, the youth, the middle-aged, and those of advanced years, may act a part in the closing work for this time; and in doing this as they have opportunity, they will obtain an experience of the highest value to themselves. In forgetfulness of self, they will grow in grace.

Maranatha, p.104.
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Thursday, April 05, 2012

EXCITOTOXINS: The Taste That Kills



EXCITOTOXINS: The Taste That Kills
1:06:41 - 5 years ago

Discover the many and hazards of chemicals added to processed foods and how they damage your health.
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America's Last Chance!

"The Constitution of the United States guarantees liberty of conscience. Nothing is dearer or more fundamental. E. G. White, The Great Controversy, p. 564, 1911.

The greatest want of the world is the want of men—men who will not be bought or sold; men who are true and honest in their inmost souls; men who will not fear to call sin by its right name, and to condemn it, in themselves or in others; men whose conscience is as true to duty as the needle to the pole; men who will stand for the right, though the heavens fall. E. G. White, Education, p. 57, 1903.

Justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter. Isaiah 59:14.



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Carney: Obama Attacking Supreme Court Is "The Reverse Of Intimidation"

Posted on April 4, 2012

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/04/04/carney_obama_attacking_the_supreme_court_is_the_reverse_of_intimidation.html

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White House press secretary Jay Carney is asked why President Obama is "putting pressure" on the Supreme Court ahead of their decision on the healthcare law.

Carney says what Obama is doing is actually "the reverse of intimidation." In fact, Carney says you could argue that judges in the Circuit Courts who ruled on the law were the ones intimidating or trying to influence the Supreme Court when they issued their opinions. Transcript below.

QUESTION: The president's remarks about the healthcare case in the Supreme Court has been interpreted as challenging or putting pressure on the Court ahead of their decision. Can you speak to that and why not just allow the Court to reach a decision?

JAY CARNEY: First of all, the president was asked a question and then responded to it. Secondly, as I just said, he made an observation about why he believes that -- well, first of all, he believes the Affordable Care Act is constitutional. Why he believes it is constitutional and why he believes that the Supreme Court will, in keeping with 80+ years of judicial precedent and Supreme Court precedent, will defer to Congress on its authority to pass regulation on issues of national economic importance like our healthcare system.

It's the reverse of intimidation. He's simply making an observation about precedent and the fact that he expects the Court to adhere to that precedent. It's obviously, as he made clear yesterday, up to the Court to make its determination and we will wait and see what the Court does.

But, you know, I guess you could argue that Circuit Court judges who ruled on this were trying to intimidate or influence the Court when they issued their opinions, including very prominent conservative judges on the Court of Appeals, rather, when they issued opinions that the Affordable Care Act was constitutional and that it is entirely constitutional in keeping with 80+ years of judicial precedent.


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Asked Why Gas Prices Are Going Up, Biden Gives 11 Minute Answer...



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During an event in Norfolk, VA: VP Joe Biden spends over 11 minutes blaming high gas prices on Iran, Oil Fields, speculation and various other reasons (April 3, 2012)
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Wednesday, April 04, 2012

Jesuit Uses Philosophy to Explore Universal Principles of Society

March 29th, 2012 | Author: Kaitlyn McCarthy Schnieders


How do we make sense of life? How should we treat others? When human life is at stake, are there reasonable principles we can rely on to guide our actions? What kind of society should be built?

Many people rely on their religious beliefs to answer these questions. But not everyone accepts the same religious premises or recognizes the same spiritual authorities. In an effort to understand this balance, Jesuit Father Robert Spitzer wrote the book “Ten Universal Principles: A Brief Philosophy of the Life Issues” to explore the ten basic principles that must govern the reasonable person’s thinking and acting about life issues.

The 10 universal principles discussed in the book are broken down into four sections under the topics of reason, ethics, justice and natural rights, and identity and culture.

Fr. Spitzer – former president of Washington’s Gonzaga University and founder of the California-based Magis Institute – said that he wanted the work to be “very accessible” and help everyday Catholics learn how to oppose issues such as euthanasia by using philosophy.

A highly-regarded philosopher, Fr. Spitzer appeared on EWTN’s Bookmark to discuss the book in depth:




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Conscience concerns could prove decisive in health care ruling

The current U.S. Supreme Court Justices. Courtesy of the U.S. Supreme Court.


By Benjamin Mann

Washington D.C., Mar 29, 2012 / 04:51 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Inadequate conscience protections may lead the Supreme Court to reject the 2010 health care law, a Jesuit priest and legal scholar predicted after three days of arguments in the historic case.

“I think there are sufficient problems with the bill, as passed, that the justices could say: 'This is unconstitutional,'” Father Robert J. Araujo, S.J., told CNA on March 29.

“There are certainly those problems that have been in the news, and I think there are some other ones. For example – the question of conscience, and conscience protection.”

“This is a very complicated law, and the more we examine it, we see more problems and concerns,” noted Fr. Araujo, who holds the John Courtney Murray Professorship at the Loyola University Chicago School of Law.

“I tend to think that's on the minds of the lawyers and the justices: 'Are we going to see more litigation, if we don't resolve these conscience-protection and other issues?'”

“That's why I see an opportunity for the court to say: 'Look, there are some serious problems with this legislation. Congress has done a lot of work, (but) it's their responsibility to write a law that will pass constitutional muster and judicial review.”

The court's March 26-28 period of questioning focused on the law's “individual mandate,” which requires virtually all citizens to obtain health insurance.

Most observers believe the law's fate will hinge upon whether the requirement is judged to be a means of regulating interstate commerce – as the Obama administration maintains – or an unconstitutional overtaking of states' power by the federal government.

Fr. Araujo thinks the law is unlikely to be upheld either fully or in part.

“Having followed the arguments and the questions, I don't think the likelihood of a complete vindication is very strong,” the Loyola University professor predicted on March 29.

He also has doubts about the law being upheld with some portions removed – because legislators did not include a “severability” provision that would allow some parts to stand if others, such as the individual mandate, were struck down.

Although the main issue before the court is the individual insurance mandate, the Jesuit professor thinks other aspects of the law will factor into the court's decision as well – including the widely-criticized contraception and sterilization mandate, a federal rule made as part of the health care law's implementation.

The Supreme Court justices, he said, realize that there are constitutional concerns surrounding “who exactly is going to be paying for what” under the law, and “how that might affect their own moral concerns, which are constitutionally protected.”

If the law is upheld, the justices could reasonably expect challenges to continue on different constitutional grounds – including the free exercise of religion, a factor in eight states' current lawsuits against the law's contraception mandate.

The result could be “a repetition of what we've seen so far,” with various lawsuits advancing in federal court seeking “review of the legality of certain provisions” in the health care law.

“There are lots of concerns with this legislation,” Fr. Araujo said. “Do we want to have another 'go-around' in the not-too-distant future, on other elements?”

Health care, the priest and professor noted, is a pressing issue that seriously affects millions of people.

But the Obama administration, he suggested, should not have attempted to solve it in a manner that was both constitutionally questionable and morally provocative.

Although the Church regards health care as a right that should be secured for all members of society, opinions differ as to how this should be achieved in practice. The Catholic notion of “subsidiarity” requires that problems be solved by the lowest level of competent authority.

Some Catholic critics of the health care law have invoked this concept as a criticism of the federal health care reform, which they say could have been better handled by the individual states.

“I think in its own way, the U.S. Constitution – under the Tenth Amendment – in part addresses this important concept of subsidiarity,” Fr. Araujo said, citing the provision by which the powers not given to the federal government by the constitution “are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.”

“What might be proper for Florida may not work in California,” the Loyola University professor noted. “The states do have a proper, lawful role in determining what is good and what is not for their citizenry. That's how I see the subsidiarity rule playing out in the U.S. Constitution.”

“The program Massachusetts legislated a few years ago is not without its problems or faults,” Fr. Araujo observed, recalling legislation signed by then-Governor Mitt Romney. “But the state was addressing the issue of health care for its citizens.”

CNA also spoke on March 29 with Professor Michael Scaperlanda, who teaches at the University of Oklahoma and contributes to the Catholic law blog “Mirror of Justice.”

Scaperlanda has criticized the federal government's individual insurance mandate as unconstitutional. On Thursday, however, he held off from making any predictions as to whether the health care law would be upheld in part or in full by the Supreme Court.

But he noted that there were good reasons for Catholics to prefer state-level solutions to the problem of securing health care for all.

At the state level, he noted, a requirement for individuals to purchase insurance could be squared with both the Constitution and Catholic social teaching.

If the federal health care law is overturned, Scaperlanda is hopeful that solutions for the uninsured, and those with preexisting conditions, can be found at a lower level of authority.

“One reason would be, that our state legislators are much more accessible to us than our federal legislators,” he explained.

“I'm Facebook friends with several of my state legislators; I can have conversations with them. They're much more in tune to the values of people in the community than people in Washington.”

Similarly, individual states would have greater freedom to experiment to see which policies best solve the complex problems of health care reform. Other states could adopt policies that are shown to work, and more local control would make it easier to change those that do not achieve results.

“Multiple heads are better than one,” Scaperlanda said.

“Having different proposals and solutions, and watching to see what works, leads to a better solution than having a small group of policy experts tell us what's going to work and then hoping for the best.”




Fatal crane collapse in NYC under investigation

By DEEPTI HAJELA, Associated Press – 12 minutes ago


NEW YORK (AP) — New York City's transit agency began inspecting cranes at its construction sites throughout the city the day after one collapsed in Manhattan, killing one worker and seriously injuring another.

The collapse happened Tuesday evening in a huge pit where the Metropolitan Transportation Authority is building an extension of the No. 7 subway line beyond Times Square. It was the city's third fatal accident of its kind in four years.

The MTA said Wednesday that it had suspended all work at the site until further notice and was inspecting other cranes.

Police identified the killed worker as Michael Simermeyer, of Burlington, N.J. He was 30 and was working at the site for a subcontractor, J & E Industries. The crane was owned and operated by Yonkers Contracting Co., the MTA said.

One other person was hospitalized with a leg injury after the accident, according to the MTA.

Three other people were treated for minor injuries.

The crane was set up on the second of three levels on the construction site on Manhattan's West Side, city officials said. Fire Department officials said the boom came apart in two pieces — one 80 feet long and the other 40 feet long.

The MTA said the investigation would be conducted by the city Department of Buildings and the police department.

Jack Sullivan, a deputy chief for the fire department's emergency medical services division, said it was possible one of the workers had been struck by the crane's boom. The crane operator and someone who worked with him were among those who were injured.

He described the removal of the workers from the construction site, about 60 feet below street level, as "extremely dangerous."

"We had construction material that wasn't stable," he said.

Dozens of first responders came to the accident site.

Standing on a sidewalk, one construction laborer collapsed in tears into the arms of another worker. One laborer said, "I can't take it."

Thomas Rushkin, a retired city police officer and private investigator, said he was on his way home when he saw emergency vehicles heading over and got a glance at the pieces of the crane.
"The arm is broken in half," he said, adding that it appeared that one part of the crane was on a level below the street.

Another witness, Kennon Murphy, of Charlotte, N.C., said he was on his way to the nearby Javits Convention Center when he heard "a big boom." He said of the crane: "We noticed it was down."
Crane safety came under close scrutiny in New York in 2008, when nine people were killed in two separate catastrophic collapses in Manhattan. The owner of one of those cranes is standing trial on manslaughter charges.

Associated Press writer David B. Caruso contributed to this report.




Dutch inventors present: the flying car

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It could be the stuff of science fiction, or at least something that looks straight out of a James Bond film but one of the world’s first flying cars has just completed several test flights.

The personal air and land vehicle or PAL-V for short, has been developed in the Netherlands.
Its designers hope to put the machine into production very soon and stress how easy it will be to learn how to handle.

“A normal drivers licence. And for flying a personal or private pilot’s licence and that’s something you get in around 20 to 30 hours lessons. So it’s pretty easy in a gyrocopter. It’s a gyrocopter and that’s the easiest way of flying, also the safest way of flying,” explained PAL-V CEO Robert Dingemanse.

It has a top speed of around 180 kilometres an hour whether in the air or on the ground and it only needs a 165 metre stretch of tarmac or grass to take to the skies.

Although it will be a while before its commercially available, the fly/drive car looks set to make traffic jams a thing of the past for fortunate high fliers.

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Drifting away to sea


"The solemn question should come home to every member of our churches, how are we standing before God, as the professed followers of Jesus Christ?...Spiritual death has come upon the people that should be manifesting life and zeal, purity and consecration, by the most earnest devotion to the cause of truth. The facts concerning the real condition of the professed people of God, speak more loudly than their profession, and make it evident that some power has cut the cable that anchored them to the Eternal Rock, and that they are drifting away to sea, without chart or compass." 2RH 231, col 1 (7-24-1888)

Tuesday, April 03, 2012

ATTENTION: Council Bluffs, Iowa and Mountain View, California are constantly scanning this blog



Just who are these people and what do they want?

Are they looking for incriminating information?

I am not a terrorist and I am a pacifist; So, what do they want? Is this the kindler and gentler New World Order treatment? Looking for those that oppose their advances?

I'm just thinking out loud, but now you know.

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Cell Phone Location Tracking Public Records Request


March 31, 2012


Of all of the recent technological developments that have expanded the surveillance capabilities of law enforcement agencies at the expense of individual privacy, perhaps the most powerful is cell phone location tracking. And now, after an unprecedented records request by ACLU affiliates around the country, we know that this method is widespread and often used without adequate regard for constitutional protections, judicial oversight, or accountability.


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