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Hate Bill Fast Forwarding To Vote In House
(April 24, 2007)
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The House version of the federal
"anti-hate" bill, H.R. 1592, is scheduled for a last hearing in the
Subcommittee on Crime on Tuesday, April 24. The next day the entire
House Judiciary Committee will consider the marked-up version,
making its own changes. If approved, the bill will be sent forward
to the House to be voted on, perhaps immediately. Those who love
free speech must respond NOW with unprecedented calling, not only to
the member of the House from your district but to as many members of
the House of Representatives as possible. All House members are
listed at www.truthtellers.org.
The toll-free number is 1-877-851-6437, or call toll 1-202-224-3121.
Tell them: "Please don't vote for any hate crimes legislation. Hate
laws have taken away free speech in Canada and many European
Countries." Most persons who are concerned about imminent passage of
the federal "anti-hate" bill don't realize that S. 1105 in the
Senate and H.R. 1592 in the House are actually amendments to a
federal hate law passed in 1969. During the height of the civil
rights movement, "Title 18, U.S.C., Sec. 245" stipulated that no one
could verbally "…attempt to…intimidate" another person (chiefly
black) away from enjoyment of their federally protected right to
equal employment, public services, housing, voting rights, jury
privileges, etc. If the government finds such verbal "intimidation"
in a state and state officials are not enforcing these guarantees,
the federal government can invade states' rights in local law
enforcement, upholding Title 18. Title 18 is considered a "hate
crimes" law because it criminalizes bias-motivated, verbal attempts
to "intimidate" blacks by persuading them that they are
intellectually, hygienically, or morally inferior -- unfit to eat at
the same lunch counter, attend the same church, work in the same
business, get the same education, live in the same apartment
complex, or serve on the same jury with whites. Fast forward from
1969 to 2007. Instead of guaranteeing such protection just for
religion, race and gender, the present hate bill grants it to
homosexuals, transvestites, and transsexuals. If the House passes
H.R. 1592 this week, it will include not just the language of the
present bills posted at the government website but also that of
Title 18, making it federally indictable to "…attempt to…intimidate"
a homosexual from believing that he (even if he has AIDS or
hepatitis) has the right to work in a restaurant, be employed as a
police officer or summer camp counselor, or has equal rights to
housing and employment anywhere he wishes. A pastor, Christian
broadcaster or publisher who verbally attempts to "intimidate"
homosexuals by describing homosexuality as an abomination (Leviticus
18:22) are thus
high-profile targets for indictment under this legislation.
The federal hate bill, incorporating Title 18, is clearly much more
than an attempt to put down violent hate crimes in the states. It is
a speech crime bill that, if passed, could immediately outlaw not
only discrimination against homosexuals in employment or housing but
also public criticism of sodomy.
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America
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Hamas: Truce with Israel at end
(April 24, 2007)
- Hamas militants fired a barrage of rockets and mortar shells
toward Israel
on its independence day Tuesday, and said they considered it the end
of a five-month truce with Israel. Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail
Haniyeh, whose Hamas-led government negotiated the cease-fire with
its militant wing, blamed Israel: "We made great efforts at keeping
the truce and there was a positive Palestinian position, but
unfortunately this position was met by expanding the aggression and
escalating it against the Palestinian people," he said. "It's not a
Palestinian problem, it is an Israeli problem." Nine Palestinians
were killed in fighting with Israel over the weekend, most of them
militants, but also two civilians. The barrage, which came on
Israel's 59th independence day, did not cause any damage or injury,
but it marked the first time Hamas acknowledged firing shells toward
Israel since agreeing to a cease-fire along the Gaza-Israel border
in November. Hamas is tightly organized, and Israel says attacks
from Gaza have the tacit approval from the militant group's
political leaders. Israel Radio, citing military officials, said the
rocket attack appeared to be an unsuccessful attempt to create a
diversion in order to capture an Israeli soldier posted at the Gaza
border. In June, Hamas-allied militants had tunneled from Gaza into
Israel and seized an Israeli soldier, Cpl. Gilad Shalit, who is
still being held. In Israel, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and his
defense minister discussed a possible response. More security
consultations were planned for Wednesday, government officials said.
The Israeli military has warned of a Hamas arms buildup in Gaza, and
has readied contingency plans for a large-scale invasion of the
territory. However, Olmert said earlier this month that the time is
not ripe for a major ground campaign. Hamas had held back attacks on
Israel for months, especially during power-sharing talks with the
Fatah
movement of moderate President Mahmoud Abbas. A spokesman for the
Islamic group's armed wing said the group considered the truce over.
"The cease-fire has been over for a long time, and Israel is
responsible for that," the spokesman, Abu Obeida, told the Voice of
Palestine radio station. "We are ready to kidnap more and more, and
kill more and more of your soldiers." Hamas-allied militants have
demanded hundreds of Palestinian prisoners for the release of Shalit,
the captured Israeli soldier. On Monday, Olmert said freeing
soldiers is important to the government, but that it would not
repeat "mistakes made in the past" by releasing violent prisoners
who then carried out more attacks against Israelis. But Olmert said
there would be "no escape in the end from making a difficult
decision" on trading prisoners for the captured troops.
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The marketers have your ear: Beam of sound aims its messages (April 24, 2007)
- Advertisers
have a new way to get into your head. Marketers around the world are
using innovative audio technology that sends sound in a narrow beam,
just like light, making it possible to direct messages right into
consumers' ears while they shop or sit in waiting rooms. The audio
spotlight device, created by Watertown firm Holosonic Research Labs
Inc., has been used to hawk everything from cereals in supermarket
aisles to glasses at doctor's offices. The messages are often quick
and targeted -- and a little creepy to the uninitiated. Court TV
recently installed the audio spotlight in ceilings of bookstores to
promote the network's new murder-mystery show. A voice, whispering,
"Hey, you, can you hear me? Do you ever think about murder?" was
beamed toward customers as they browsed the mystery section in
several independent bookstores in New York. Unlike traditional
speakers, which broadcast sound in every direction, sound from an
audio spotlight speaker can be focused directly at one spot, so no
one else can hear it, or projected against a surface so that sound
appears to come from the surface itself. For example, a box of
Fruity Pebbles can advertise its nutritional content, heard by
shoppers only as they walk by boxes in the cereal aisle. The audio
spotlight uses ultrasound to stimulate the air into making sound,
which is emitted in focused, laser-like beams.
more...
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40 Syrian Generals on Secret Mission to Tehran
(April 23, 2007)
- Led by Maj. Gen. Yahya L. Solayman, War Planning chief at the
Syrian armed forces General Staff, the delegation represents all
branches of the Syrian armed forces. On their arrival on April 18,
the Syrian officers went straight into conference with Iranian
defense minister Brig. Gen. Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar, Revolutionary
Commanders chief Maj. Gen. Yahya Rahim-Safavi and dep. chief of
staff Maj. Gen. Hassani Sa’di, who is Iran’s chief of military war
preparations. The Syrian visitors were taken around RG and armed
forces training installations and given a display of the latest
Iranian weapons systems, including stealth missiles, electronic
warfare appliances and undersea missiles and torpedoes. They also
visited the big Imam Ali training base in N. Tehran, where hundreds
of Lebanese Hizballah and Palestinian Hamas and Jihad Islami
terrorists are taking courses. In Washington and Jerusalem, there is
little doubt that the two allies timed the Syrian delegation’s
mission to Tehran as a rejoinder to US defense secretary Robert
Gates’ Middle East tour last week. Israel sees four causes for
concern: 1. The unusually large size of the Syrian delegation and
the presence of operations officers from the various army corps. 2.
The elevated positions of the Iranian officials hosting the Syrians:
the top men with responsibility for preparing the RGs and armed
forces for armed conflict. US and Israeli intelligence experts
agreed in their talks during Gates’ two-day visit to Israel last
week on the object of the Syrian mission: to tighten operational
coordination at the highest level between the Syria military and
Iran’s armed forces and Revolutionary Guards. 3. The installations
and weapons shown the Syrian officers. The intelligence estimate is
that they saw the weapons systems soon to be consigned by Iran to
the Syrian army and Hizballah, as well as the types of assistance
pledged for Syria in the event of a military showdown with the
United States or Israel. Syrian-Iranian consultations must also be
presumed to have cleared the routes by which these weapons would
reach Syria and Hizballah in a military contingency. During the 2006
Hizballah-Israel war, Iran ran an airlift to Damascus through
Turkish airspace and over the Mediterranean. 4. The unusual length
of the visit. Monday, April 23 the Syrian officers were still busy
in Tehran after six days and showed no sign of leaving.
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Iran
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Islam
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Syria Deploys Iranian Missiles
(April
23, 2007) - Israel's military has assessed that Syria
deployed an Iranian-origin cruise missile. Military sources said
Syria has obtained and deployed the Iranian version of the
Chinese-origin C-802 anti-ship missile. They said the missile was
used successfully by Hizbullah during the war against Israel in
mid-2006. "Syria has ordered scores, if not hundreds, of such
missiles," a military source said. "The C-802 would keep the Israel
Navy away from the Syrian coast in any future war." The C-802
employs a small turbojet engine and contains a range of 120
kilometers. The missile could be launched from aircraft, ships,
submarines and land-based vehicles. |
Iran
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Israel
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Islam
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Abbas: Mideast peace can pacify 'all
flash points in the world' (April
23, 2007) - Palestinian Authority Chairman
Mahmoud Abbas on Monday said a resolution to the Israeli Palestinian
conflict would pacify all major conflicts around the world. Speaking
in Athens after talks Monday with Greek Prime Minister Costas
Karamanlis, Abbas said, "Everyone recognizes that peace in the
Middle East and a resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict can
put out the fires at all the flash points in the world." Abbas also
appealed to the international community to lift an aid embargo
imposed on the Palestinian Authority after Hamas came into power,
saying the sanctions hurt prospects for peace in the Middle East.
"If the international community wants to help us, it must lift this
embargo so that we can lead a normal life," Abbas said. "We are
requesting that the embargo be lifted." "The Palestinian people have
suffered in the past year because of this blockade," Abbas added.
"They are living through a tragedy - on a social, economic and
political level." Abbas' three-day visit to Greece, was part of a
seven-nation tour of European Union countries. He also met Greek
President Karolos Papoulias, and on Saturday he met Foreign Minister
Dora Bakoyannis. Greece has traditionally close ties with the
Palestinians and with Arab nations. Direct financial aid to the
Palestinian Authority was frozen after Hamas swept to power in
January 2006 elections, but Abbas has argued the restrictions should
be lifted because a new unity government includes members of his
more moderate Fatah party. |
Israel |
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Vanishing honeybees mystify scientists (April
22, 2007) - Go to work, come home. Go to work, come home. Go
to work -- and vanish without a trace. Billions of bees have done
just that, leaving the crop fields they are supposed to pollinate,
and scientists are mystified about why. The phenomenon was first
noticed late last year in the United States, where honeybees are
used to pollinate $15 billion worth of fruits, nuts and other crops
annually. Disappearing bees also have been reported in Europe and
Brazil. Commercial beekeepers would set their bees near a crop field
as usual and come back in two or three weeks to find the hives
bereft of foraging worker bees, with only the queen and the immature
insects remaining. Whatever worker bees survived were often too weak
to perform their tasks. If the bees were dying of pesticide
poisoning or freezing, their bodies would be expected to lie around
the hive. And if they were absconding because of some threat --
which they have been known to do -- they wouldn't leave without the
queen. Since about one-third of the U.S. diet depends on pollination
and most of that is performed by honeybees, this constitutes a
serious problem, according to Jeff Pettis of the U.S. Agricultural
Research Service. "They're the heavy lifters of agriculture," Pettis
said of honeybees. "And the reason they are is they're so mobile and
we can rear them in large numbers and move them to a crop when it's
blooming." Honeybees are used to pollinate some of the tastiest
parts of the American diet, Pettis said, including cherries,
blueberries, apples, almonds, asparagus and macadamia nuts. "It's
not the staples," he said. "If you can imagine eating a bowl of
oatmeal every day with no fruit on it, that's what it would be like"
without honeybee pollination. Pettis and other experts are gathering
outside Washington for a two-day workshop starting on Monday to pool
their knowledge and come up with a plan of action to combat what
they call colony collapse disorder. "What we're describing as colony
collapse disorder is the rapid loss of adult worker bees from the
colony over a very short period of time, at a time in the season
when we wouldn't expect a rapid die-off of workers: late fall and
early spring," Pettis said. The problem has prompted a congressional
hearing, a report by the National Research Council and a National
Pollinator Week set for June 24-30 in Washington, but so far no
clear idea of what is causing it. "The main hypotheses are based on
the interpretation that the disappearances represent disruptions in
orientation behavior and navigation," said May Berenbaum, an insect
ecologist at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. There
have been other fluctuations in the number of honeybees, going back
to the 1880s, where there were "mysterious disappearances without
bodies just as we're seeing now, but never at this magnitude,"
Berenbaum said in a telephone interview. In some cases, beekeepers
are losing 50 percent of their bees to the disorder, with some
suffering even higher losses. One beekeeper alone lost 40,000 bees,
Pettis said. Nationally, some 27 states have reported the disorder,
with billions of bees simply gone. more...
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Earth Changes |
I find this story interesting and it has been building for some time
now. Given the timeline of Bible prophecy revealed in the
HIStory, Our Future collection of Bible studies, I
think it's possible that this massive disappearance of bees
worldwide could help contribute to the coming famine of the
third seal of Revelation. It would certainly fit the timeline.
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Israel: Syria readying for war (April
22, 2007) - The gist of the Israeli message
in its recent talks with United States Defense Secretary Robert
Gates is that Syria is preparing for a military confrontation with
Israel. The U.S. message to Israel on Syria, in contrast, remained
unchanged: Israel should at present avoid diplomatic talks with
Damascus because President Bashar Assad plans on using such talks to
extricate Syria from its isolation. Israeli talks with Damascus
would be a knife in the back of the government of Fouad Siniora in
Lebanon. No tangible evidence exists, Israel told the U.S., that
Damascus is planning an all-out war with Israel. But it is believed
that Damascus has concluded that Israel might respond to various
Syrian actions and that would be the cause of a full-blown
confrontation. Such an Israeli response might come following Syrian
assistance to Hezbollah or Palestinian terror organizations like
Islamic Jihad. Damascus would have no choice but to respond with a
more extensive operation. Such evaluations have been made before and
proven mistaken. However, facts on the ground show the Syrian army
is increasing its battle readiness, munitions production (especially
of rockets and missiles), emergency stores and is acquiring more
weapons systems from Iran. It has purchased a large number of
advanced anti-tank missiles from the Russians, with whom it also
negotiating the purchase of Russia's latest anti-aircraft missiles.
The Syrians have deployed Iranian naval missiles (originally
Chinese), the C. 802. The destructive power and range of Syria's
rockets and missiles has clearly grown in recent years. Israel does
not rule out a possible Syrian grab for the Golan, assuming that if
Israel counter-attacks the Syrian lines it will incur heavy losses.
Thus, the IDF's power has also increased, especially that of the
Israel Air Force. Like the Syrians, the Israelis are upgrading the
training of their units and providing them with the latest
equipment. more... |
Gog/Magog |
Israel |
Islam |
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Hamas calls for new attacks on
Israel (April
22, 2007) - Hamas
on Sunday called for new attacks on Israel after nine Palestinians
were killed in a surge of fighting over the weekend. Hamas spokesman
Fawzi Barhoum urged Palestinians to be prepared for a new round of
confrontation. "The blood of our people is not cheap," he said in a
statement faxed to The Associated Press. "Therefore we are calling
on ... (Hamas's armed wing) and the Palestinian resistance groups to
be united in the trench of resistance and to use all possible means
of resistance and to respond to the massacres." Meanwhile, IDF
troops on Sunday morning shot and killed a Palestinian youth near
Ramallah as he prepared to throw a Molotov cocktail at the soldiers.
Overnight Saturday, an IDF soldier was lightly wounded by gunfire
during arrest operations in the West Bank city of Nablus, as troops
killed two Al Aksa Martyrs Brigades operatives in the city.
more... | Israel
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Islam |
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The Control Cult
(April
21, 2007) - In the
aftermath of the murders of 32 people at Virginia Tech, we are
witnessing the collective reaffirmation of the article of faith
uniting all politically-minded persons: the belief that the state is
capable of identifying and controlling the factors that produce
undesirable behavior. Even before the killer was identified, the
chant arose – in unison – from political chambers, academia,
government offices, and the media: “there is something that those in
authority can do to alleviate such problems.” The mantra often finds
expression – without any break in established meter – in this form:
“we will find out what went wrong and fix it, so that this doesn’t
happen again.” This mindset is so out of touch with the harsh facts
of reality that The Wall Street Journal carried a feature article
asking: “Next Debate: Should Colleges Ban Firearms?” That firearms
had been banned on the Virginia Tech campus before these atrocities
took place apparently did not inform the judgments of this
newspaper’s editors. Nor have I seen evidence of any rethinking on
the part of a Virginia Tech spokesman who, in 2006, following the
Virginia legislature’s enactment of a ban on guns on state
university campuses, declared: “I’m sure the university community is
appreciative of the General Assembly’s actions because this will
help parents, students, faculty and visitors feel safe on our
campus.” This man might send such words of comfort to the families
of these 32 victims! Whatever explanations or remedies various
“experts” offer for the problems that beset mankind, the common
thread connecting them is that both human and physical nature are
capable of being causally understood and, therefore, subject to
interventionist correction. Universities are the temples of faith in
this proposition, with students enrolling for their stated purpose
of “making the world a better place.” It is not surprising,
therefore, that immediately following these atrocities, the Virginia
Tech campus became an attractor for the proponents of this
Weltanschauung. “If the university had intervened after this man
turned in some disturbed writing to his English professor;” “if we
can just control guns;” “if police had had access to his mental
health records beforehand”: these were the oft-repeated concerns of
those who are convinced that the world is predictable and, hence,
controllable. In the latter vein, NBC news anchor, Brian Williams,
reportedly vocalized the catechism in proposing a new federal
program to monitor the mental health of all college students, in
order to prevent occurrences such as this one. The true believers of
the dogmas of control have insinuated themselves into all forms of
institutions. Being ends in themselves, and with people serving as
little more than resources for organizational purposes, institutions
provide a fitting environment for such thinking. Government schools
– unable to grasp the reality that children are, by nature,
self-directed, spontaneous, and exploring people eager to devote
their energies to what interests them – become upset when their
conscripts refuse to suppress their inquisitiveness. The children
get labeled “hyperactive” or “suffering” from “attention deficit
disorder” (i.e., do not adhere to the teacher’s prescribed agenda)
and must, therefore, have their energies controlled by drugs,
counseling, and other “behavior modification” techniques that
squeeze the childhood sense of personally-relevant curiosity from
them. Children grow into adulthood, and go to work for an
institutionalized employer who plays this same control game at their
expense. The employee finds himself or herself under the thumb of
what has got to be the most dehumanizing and vulgar job description
anywhere: a “human resources manager.” For an individual to be
labeled as nothing more than a “resource” – what one dictionary
defines as “an available means” – is a glaring admission of the
victory of institutions over the human spirit! ...Apostles of the
control cult will focus their energies on any area of human activity
that provides them the opportunity to advance what is central to
their lives: the exercise of coercive power over other people.
Whether any given issue involves gun ownership; global warming;
discriminatory behavior; tobacco, drug, and alcohol usage; eating
habits; educating or raising children; or any other expressions of
human action that can be exploited for their purposes, the overall
objective remains fixed. There is nothing this crowd fears more than
the specter of ordinary people retaining decision-making authority
over their own lives.
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America
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problem, I believe is a spiritual one. Because there is so much
iniquity and sin, the love of many has grown cold. Many in Western
scientific thought deny the spirit world for lack of physical
evidence when the very nature of the spiritual has no physical
dimensions. However, even though we live in the spirit daily, it's
never really addressed in terms that make sense. This is where
Thought: Voice of the Spirit Realm comes
in. We need to understand that God put laws in place so that love
would dominate our lives and actions. It is when that spirit of
God's love is deficient that we get the kind of situation the world
is in today. Guns don't kill people, people who have no regard for
anyone but themselves kill people. Given the direction of Bible
prophecy, I wouldn't expect the situation to get better until Christ
returns. There is a definite truth to this article that I believe
exposes the subtle design of the enemy to keep the population under
his control. It's even more subtle because it has occurred over
generations slowly to bring the kind of lax culture we're seeing
emerge today. We are seeing the results of rejection of God's ways.
Send In The Clowns
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Dry Australia Faces Food
Imports (April
21, 2007) - Australia's
Prime Minister says some food may have to be imported, if there is
no water for farm irrigation in the Murray-Darling Basin this year.
John Howard has said that without heavy rain in the coming weeks
there may be no permits given for irrigating agricultural land. He
says it might be possible in some areas to import the foodstuffs
that would otherwise come from Australian sources. And Australia's
National Farmers Federation also says some foods may need to be
imported if there is not good rain. |
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Russian President Putin says Turkey is a reliable partner (April
21, 2007) - Russian President Vladimir
Putin, in an interview for a special edition of the Rodina-Da
magazine, said that Turkey was a reliable partner for Russia. The
magazine Da, which is published in Eurasia by the Dialogue Eurasia
Platform, and the Rodina magazine published in Russia, brought
together Russian and Turkish leaders in a special edition, Rodina-Da,
where they discussed views about bilateral relations. Putin
explained that it was important to develop Turkish-Russian relations
further as he said, “There are lots of projects which a
Turkish-Russian partnership can realize together.” The Russian
president pointed out that there were similarities between both
countries’ efforts towards modernization and economic development,
asking the Turkish government to create more appropriate grounds for
investments and provide support for exports. Putin went on to say
that Russia was willing to make new openings with Turkey in the
fields of nuclear energy, transportation, chemical industry and
advanced technology. “It is evident that the obstacles hindering our
partnership’s improvement should be removed,” Putin said. Putin
also mentioned that effective results can be obtained in many fields
with a strong Turkish-Russia partnership. In this context, he said
that Turkey and Russia may give a joint fight against terror.
“Establishing a dialogue to be between cultures and religious
groups will help taking a joint stance against terrorism and all
sorts of radical acts,” he remarked. Underlining that developing
economic and commercial relations between Turkey and Russia will
bolster democracy and transparence principle as well as
strengthening political and cultural relations, Putin said, “The
Turkish-Russian partnership relies on mutual trust, respect and
equality. We wish that our relations will improve more. I personally
believe that the ‘Year of Russia’ that is marked in Turkey in 2007
and the “Year of Turkey” that will be marked in Russia in 2008, will
make a significant contribution to our bilateral relations.”
more... |
Gog/Magog |
Islam |
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Police force abortions on Christian women (April
20, 2007) - Dozens of unborn babies
have been killed in a sweep by Chinese authorities of the Guangxi
province that snared pregnant women and brought them against their
will to a hospital for fatal abortion injections, according to a
Christian ministry that monitors the district and ministers to those
in need. "After 41 women were forced to have abortions on [Tuesday],
China Aid Association has learned that the Youjiang District
People's Hospital of Baise City performed forced abortions for at
least 20 more pregnant women on [Wednesday]," an alert from the
organization said. China Aid, which has its U.S. offices in Midland,
Texas, confirmed that eyewitnesses are reporting that the latest
roundup of pregnant women involved more than 20, who were
transported to a hospital by government "Family Planning"
authorities. "Within 30 minutes, about 10 of them were injected
forcefully for an abortion. This means within [the] last 24 hours,
at least 61 babies were killed by forced abortions," the sources
within China told CAA. "At bed Number 37, Ms. He Caigan was nine
months pregnant. Officials injected her baby's head and 20 minutes
later, her baby stopped moving and died," the sources confirmed.
Many of those targeted in the killing rampage were Christians, CAA
said. "About 6 a.m. on [Wednesday], Pastor James Liang's wife Ms.
Wei Linrong gave birth to a boy, but he was dead because of the
injection. She received three injections – one is to induce the
birth and the other two to kill the baby in the womb," CAA's sources
reported. Liang formerly was a pastor in the government-sanctioned
Three-Self church before he became a House church pastor a year ago,
according to information from China Aid Association's Bob Fu.
Eyewitnesses told CAA that the couple wanted to keep their child
because of their Christian faith. Officers from the government
surrounded the section of the hospital where the women were being
held, the report said. "CAA urges the international community to
register your protest and concern with letters and phone calls to
the chairman of the National Population and Family Planning
Commission, Party Secretary of Baise City, Mr. Liang Chunlu, and the
Youjiang District People's Hospital," CAA said.
First exposed by WND in 1997, what has come to be known as "gendercide"
in China – due to a cultural preference for boys – has resulted in
the deaths of at least 50 million girls. more...
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Signs of the Times |
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Ismail Ax: The Shooter Was
Another 'Son of Sacrifice' (April
19, 2007) - First it was Johnny
Muhammad, now it was Cho Sueng Hui aka Ismail Ax. Precisely how many
mass shooters have to turn out to have adopted Muslim names before
we get it? Islam has become the tribe of choice of those who hate
American society. I'm not talking about people who grew up as
Muslims, confident and secure in their faith, good fathers, sons and
neighbors. I'm talking about the angry, malignant, narcissist loners
who want to reject their community utterly, to throw off their
'slave name' and represent the downtrodden of the earth by shooting
their friends and neighbors. This morning I read that the Virginia
Tech shooter died with the name Ismail Ax written in red ink on his
arm. The mainstream press doesn't seem to have a clue as to what
this might mean. To quote Indiana Jones, "Didn't any of you guys go
to Sunday School?" The story starts with a man named Abraham. He is
the father of the Jews, the Muslims and the Christians. He was born
in Iraq, the son of a wealthy idol manufacturer. He came to believe
that there was only one true God and, according to tradition, took
up his ax and destroyed his father's idols. Eventually he left Iraq
and moved to what is now known as Israel. He had a son with his
concubine whom she named Ishmael. The Muslim world prefers the
Arabic spelling of the name: Ismail. Eventually Abraham had a son by
his rightful wife and named the son Isaac. Ishmael and his mother
were disinherited and sent out into what is now Saudi Arabia. Isaac
became the heir. Eventually, God decided to test Abraham by telling
him to kill his son, Isaac. Abraham took up the knife, but God
stopped him at the last moment. Isaac lived and eventually became a
man of great wealth. Ishmael became a desert warrior chieftain. The
Jews are the descendants of Isaac, the Arabs are the descendants of
Ishmael. In the 7th Century, Muhammad, the founder of Islam,
re-wrote the story, claiming that Ismail was the true faithful
descendant of Abraham and that it was he, not Isaac, who God told
Abraham to sacrifice. Ismail was the one saved. For Muslims, Ismail
(not Isaac) was the true 'Son of Sacrifice.' In the original version
of the story, Abraham used a knife, in some of the later Muslim
versions, he used an Ax. Flash forward 1,400 years: a sullen, angry
young man who rages against rich people and apparently against
Christians, writes a play in which a mother and son try to kill his
step-father, but in the end the boy (age about 13, the age many
think Ismail was when he was exiled) is murdered by the step-father
with 'a deadly blow'. Father issues? Yeah, I think so. Cho Sueng-hui
cum Ismail Ax hated the American society to which he had been
brought 15 years earlier. His play McBeef (a poor pun from an
English Lit major on Macbeth) is one endless screed against the
corruption of American culture. A cheesy re-telling of Shakespeare's
Hamlet, it involves a young man abused by his step-father, a former
NFL football player. The son, throws epithets at his father calling
him a 'Catholic priest'. And makes derisive comments about
McDonalds. It seems that none of the foundational structures of
Western Civilization, Christianity, capitalism, family, are spared
his rage. In other words, he really meant what he said in his last
words: "you (that is us, America) made me do this."
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Colombia Volcano Erupts,
Thousands Flee (April
19, 2007) - Thousands of people were
evacuated after a long-dormant volcano erupted late Tuesday and
again early Wednesday, provoking avalanches and floods that swept
away houses and bridges. The Nevado del Huila volcano's eruptions
were its first on record since Colombia was colonized by the Spanish
500 years ago. There are about 10,000 people living in the area
around the volcano, and about 3,500 had been evacuated, Luz Amanda
Pulido, director of the national disaster office, told The
Associated Press after flying over the volcano in southwest
Colombia. There were no reports of deaths or injuries. The eruption
sent an avalanche of rocks down the volcano's sides and into the
Paez and Simbola rivers, causing them to flood. "The bridges were
swept away, the highway used by the indigenous in the zone was
destroyed for various kilometers (miles) and the problem we have now
is the lack of a route to deliver goods and medicines to the
population," Police Gen. Orlando Paez said. Experts were not ruling
out more eruptions. more...
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Sun's Atmosphere Sings (April
19, 2007) - Astronomers have recorded
heavenly music bellowed out by the Sun's atmosphere. Snagging
orchestra seats for this solar symphony would be fruitless, however,
as the frequency of the sound waves is below the human hearing
threshold. While humans can make out sounds between 20 and 20,000
hertz, the solar sound waves are on the order of milli-hertz--a
thousandth of a hertz. The study, presented this week at the Royal
Astronomical Society's National Astronomy Meeting in Lancashire,
England, reveals that the
looping magnetic fields along the
Sun's outer regions, called the corona, carry magnetic sound waves
in a similar manner to musical instruments such as guitars or pipe
organs. Robertus von Fay-Siebenburgen of the Solar Physics and Space
Plasma Research Center at the University of Sheffield and his
colleagues combined information gleaned from
sun-orbiting satellites with
theoretical models of solar processes, such as coronal mass
ejections. They found that
explosive events at the Sun's surface
appear to trigger acoustic waves that bounce back and forth between
both ends of the loops, a phenomenon known as a standing wave.
"These magnetic loops are analogous to a simple guitar string," von
Fay-Siebenburgen explained. "If you pluck a guitar string, you will
hear the music." In the cosmic equivalent of a guitar pick,
so-called microflares at the base of loops could be plucking the
magnetic loops and setting the sound waves in motion, the
researchers speculate. While
solar flares are the largest
explosions in the solar system, microflares are a million times
smaller but much more frequent; both phenomena are now thought to
funnel heat into the Sun's outer atmosphere. The acoustic waves can
be extremely energetic, reaching heights of tens of miles, and can
travel at rapid speeds of 45,000 to 90,000 miles per hour. "These
[explosions] release energy equivalent to millions of hydrogen
bombs," von Fay-Siebenburgen said. more...
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Palestinians disavow 'right of return' (April
18, 2007) - A large and growing
number of young Palestinians born abroad have no interest in coming
to the Palestinian Authority or Israel, Palestinians in London have
told Ynetnews. They expressed anger at Palestinian leaders for
continuing to trumpet a "right of return," a call which is neither
desirable nor realistic, the men said, adding that the demand is
merely an attempt to force concessions out of Israel during peace
talks. Seeking a good standard of living, Palestinians born in
Lebanon have left for Europe and North America to escape the
state-imposed discrimination placed on them by the Lebanese
government which does not grant them citizenship or basic rights,
the men say. "Most Palestinian refugees who live in Lebanon are not
concerned about returning to Palestine or to Israel because we have
been outside of Palestine for 60 years," Rami Abdel Rahim, a 26
year-old Palestinian living in London, said. "If we returned to the
Palestinian territories, we would feel like second class citizens,"
he added. "We have different accents. We don't have any homes in
West Bank and Gaza. For us, it will be more desirable to live in
Arab countries and Europe," he explained. "No one wants to live
there, not because we don't like our country Palestine, but because
we can't live there," Rahim added. "If we all went, it would destroy
the Palestinian economy. If we got an opportunity to live in Europe,
we would enjoy a good standard of life. We can visit Palestine," he
said.
more...
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Israel
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Netanyahu Going Into Action to Topple
Olmert (April
18, 2007) - Likud Chairman and head of
the Opposition Binyamin Netanyahu has decided to abandon his
wait-and-see strategy and to launch a public campaign for toppling
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's government. In a rally held Tuesday at
the Likud headquarters building 'Metzudat Ze'ev' in Tel Aviv,
Netanyahu reportedly told his supporters "this government has to go
home and we need to start acting to make this happen." He told them
to begin holding weekly protest vigils every Friday in busy
intersections throughout Israel as well as street demonstrations.
"The slogan is simple," he said: "'You've Failed – Go Home'."
According to NRG, the meeting was attended by dozens of Likud
branch chairmen and other central activists from all parts of
Israel. Netanyahu informed them of a working plan for country-wide
protest vigils with the intention of creating an atmosphere
conducive to bringing down the government. Netanyahu assured the
activists that he would be joining the protests on a regular basis.
Netanyahu's move appears to be timed with precision, as the date of
release of the interim report by the Winograd Commission approaches.
The Winograd Commission was appointed to investigate failures in the
conduct of the Second Lebanon War last summer and is expected to
have harsh criticism for the government and its heads. Prime
Minister Olmert has received record-setting low marks of support in
the polls, one of which recently gave him an amazingly low 3%
support level – less than the margin of error. more...
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Iraq: Baghdad Christians Flee Forced
Conversion to Islam (April
18, 2007) - Iraqi Christians fled their
homes over the weekend after armed Sunni extremists threatened to
kill them if they did not convert to Islam within 24 hours,
Christian sources said. Six Christian families from the Mualimien
neighborhood of Baghdad’s Dora district have relocated to a church
elsewhere in the city, said a Baghdad source who requested that the
families’ location and identity remain anonymous. Armed Sunnis told
the families on Saturday (April 14) that an amir (independent Muslim prince or ruler) had issued a
fatwa or
judgment based on Islamic law against Dora’s Christians, the source
said. “They called the Christians infidels and told them, ‘If you
don’t convert to Islam or leave your homes in 24 hours, we will kill
you,’” the source told Compass after speaking with a member of the
church helping the displaced Christians. The source was unable to
confirm an April 15 report from the news website Iraq Slogger that
militants had printed the fatwa on fliers distributed
throughout the neighborhood. According to Ainkawa.com, an
Arabic-language Christian website that first reported the news on
Saturday evening (April 14), the extremists prevented fleeing
Christian families from taking any personal belongings with them. A
Baghdad pastor and priest each independently confirmed that
Christians had fled the area in response to the fatwa.
“Most of the Christian people have now left Mualimien,” said a
pastor, who himself recently moved away from Dora to escape the
daily violence. “No one was injured, they just all got out.” The
pastor said that several of the fleeing families relocated to the
northern Kurdish region of Iraq. He also confirmed reports that
militants had removed the cross from the top of St. John the Baptist
Chaldean church in Dora. more...
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Islam |
Just wait until all Islam becomes radical. Don't think it's
possible? We have no idea what kind of spiritual changes will happen
between now and the coming antichrist's reign. Nor do we fully
understand what kind of influence the 12th Mahdi (or someone
claiming to be him) could have. Bible prophecy is pretty specific
that both the antichrist and false prophet will do signs and wonders
that deceive the world. The false prophet can call fire from
heaven. What will Islam become once these things begin? Will there
be a non-radical element of Islam? Beheading is the form of
execution by the antichrist for those that refuse to worship him.
All we need to do is see the reaction to Islam with their executions
to see the similarity there. There is much more, just click
here.
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A New Global Constitution And A New
Internet? (April
18, 2007) - For background in reading this, you may want
to visit
my blogspot, and read the last seven articles which are my
ongoing series on Javier Solana and his relationship to the rest of
the world. I have included relevant click on links either in the
body of those articles, or by footnote. Javier Solana was
griping a few months ago. In his speeches, he complained of the
protagonists, a/k/a “fundamentalists,” presumably religious ones.
Purposely including religious attitudes
(refusal to syncretize) along with ethnic conflicts,
Solana said of “the protagonists,” “they use the Global Village” to
full advantage,” he said. He was amazed at their sophistication. So,
it wasn’t only the New Agers “evolved” enough to figure out how to
use modern communication technologies. I guess he thought us “Old
Agers” would communicate with tom-toms and carrier pigeons –
certainly not fax machines and the internet! Dr. Solana has raised
his global profile considerably since the beginning of 2007. He has
been considerably more modest in the global press than on his own
press releases. I made a fortuitous accidental discovery of Stanford
University’s February 16th conference on “Global
Constitutionalism,” I rather suspect
that the January NewsWithViews column published on it gave its
organizers more free unwanted publicity than they had ever counted
on. I also suspect that they scrambled for cover. In that
column, I
speculated that both Javier Solana and New York University were
somewhere lurking. It was not all Stanford, even though some
of the hierarchy at that institution and its related think tanks,
such as the Hoover Institution, were obviously players. New York
University and many other intellectuals and wannabes were also on
board. I didn’t have to wait long to get confirmation on my January
hunch. Two days before the Stanford Conference opened, Javier Solana
spent Valentine’s Day evening in New York City with German-American
journalists. They were all in attendance at the Arthur Burns
Fellowship Dinner. Solana was introduced by the German Ambassador as
“the face and voice of Europe.” “The
Face and Voice of Europe” went
clearly beyond those geophysical boundaries that same evening,
hinting broadly of new global machinery in the works. If you clicked
on the hyperlinks just preceding this sentence, you will find direct
links in those older stores to the source documents, provided they
have not now been removed in what I have found to be a favorite “New
Age” game over the years – now you see us, now you don’t. Or, to put
it as Marilyn Ferguson expressed it, they were self-camouflaging
networks! Well, a few short weeks later, he was again on American
soil, this time in Washington, D.C. at the Brookings Institution. At
a meeting chaired by Brookings president, a former World Federalist
chief, Strobe Talbott, Javier Solana announced that like Dean
Acheson,
he had been present at the creation of a new
global order. He said he played a
“modest role” in its creation. He confirmed my suspicions as he
thanked both Stanford University and New York University for helping
to pull it together. His own European headlines announced that he,
Javier Solana, had “launched”
the new ‘global security initiative.’
Don’t ask me, “Does the President know?” The United States State
Department, evidently hungry for words of affection from Senor
Solana, effusively praised the effort. You may read all about it
here.
more... From the
"Clean Slate" whitepaper, "So as to involve the
whole research community in clean-slate design, in 2006 NSF funded
the FIND (Future Internet Network Design
http://find.isi.edu/).
FIND is a precursor to the proposed and much larger NSF GENI program
(http://www.nsf.gov/cise/geni).
GENI plans to build a nationwide programmable network – a research
platform upon which experimenters can create, deploy and use whole
new network architectures across a nationwide network. GENI is
ambitious: the programmable network would support hundreds of
simultaneous experiments, all running on the same virtualizable
platform. If deployed (it will require about $250M from NSF),
GENI will not be operational before about 2010."
Chalk up another event for
the 2009/2010 global transition list. Here's another excerpt
stating one of the desired characteristics of this new Internet, "Support
mobile end-hosts. Laptops, Wi-Fi and cellular
telephones make mobility commonplace, rather than an exception. A
new Internet should support mobility (and all the associated
security, naming, routing and privileges) as seamlessly as it
supports wired end-hosts today. It should also support future
small sensor and ad-hoc networks, as well as RFID."
If you don't know anything about RFID, I would recommend doing some
research on it here. It uses radio frequency to remotely identify a tag with a
unique ID number. Some stores are already using it on a limited
basis to track inventory, etc. According to the Bible, the
antichrist will force the population of the world to take a mark on
the forehead or hand. Without this mark you cannot buy or sell and
if you refuse the mark, you are killed. I personally believe that
the bride of Christ will be removed before that point, but it
behooves us to understand the possibilities anyways. I also believe
that the RFID chip may not necessarily be THE mark, but an aspect of
it to force the population to join the club or rely on God. This is
why those who take the mark of the beast will not enter heaven,
because they have chosen the antichrist over God. I believe the
taking of the mark will be a pledge of allegiance, not just a
technology. If this new Internet had RFID capabilities built in,
anyone with the RFID chip could be located anywhere on the globe
instantaneously via the world-wide RFID/Internet network. And if
there was no more paper currency and this is the only way to buy or
sell, it is impossible to fake the mark to buy or sell because your
unique ID must be in the database. If there is no longer an
infrastructure of paper currency, then those who refuse the mark
would be left out in the cold without a way to buy food or anything
else. Those who refuse the mark will be looked down upon and hated
by those who have as non-conformists and against the state.
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NYC police search for torturer-rapist
(April 19, 2007) - It was an
ordeal that lasted 19 hours. In that span, a man bound a Columbia
University graduate student in her apartment, raped her, doused her
with hot water and bleach, slit her eyelids and finally set a fire
before fleeing, police said. Police pressed a manhunt for the
assailant in the April 13 attack, with investigators hoping any
surviving DNA and a $12,000 reward for information leading to an
arrest would produce fresh leads. The victim, who managed to free
herself before the fire spread, was still in the hospital Thursday,
police said. The woman was nearing her degree at the Graduate School
of Journalism when the attack occurred at her apartment more than 20
blocks north of the Ivy League campus in upper Manhattan, classmates
have said. Dozens paid tribute to her Monday with a candlelight
vigil. Female students throughout the school were rattled,
especially because the attacker was is still on the loose, said
Lindsay Miller, 23, an architecture student who, like the victim,
lives several blocks from the campus. "It makes you nervous," she
said. "I find I'm walking faster and looking over my shoulder."
Witnesses told police they had spotted the attacker loitering around
the victim's building on the night of the attack. At about 9:30
p.m., he slipped inside, got on an elevator with her and pushed a
button for a different floor than hers, police said. He followed her
out of the elevator and pretended like he was lost, police said.
Then he followed her to her apartment door and forced his way
inside, where he beat her. more... |
Signs of the Times |
The
love of many is very cold. This kind of influence has Satan written
all over it. The physical manifestations of spiritual darkness are
apparent everywhere. We need to manifest the spirit of Love through
Yeshua the Christ.
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1 of 4 NYC men reported binge drinking
(April 18, 2007)
- One in four men in New York City reported binge drinking in 2005,
or having five or more drinks on one occasion during the previous
month, city Health Department said in a report released Wednesday.
The statistics — the latest available — are contained in the
agency's annual community health survey of 10,000 New Yorkers, who
were randomly selected and interviewed by phone throughout 2005. The
survey found that men over the age of 18 were more than three times
as likely as women to binge drink. The report said that about one in
four Hispanic and white males indulged in binge drinking, compared
to about one in six black men and one in eight Asian men. It also
found that white women were more likely to binge drink than black,
Hispanic or Asian women, but still half as likely than men.
"Alcoholism is a disease, but recovery is possible," Health
Commissioner Dr. Thomas Frieden said in a statement. "Drinking too
much can lead to liver damage, injuries, cancer and death." He
recommended that people who regularly drink in excess seek a
doctor's help or call the city's 311 non-emergency hotline and ask
for LifeNet. more... This
goes in line with
They Sold Their Souls For Rock 'N Roll series. Alcohol is one
way that self-control is given over to other influence. When you
understand that
thought is the voice of the spirit realm, it's easy to see why
alcoholism is so damaging spiritually to the drinker and those
around them. Much of the culture of today lives on the sex, drugs,
and rock n' roll philosophy. It is a materialistic, physical-driven
fulfillment of the desires of the flesh that is built upon the
foundation of Aleister Crowley, "Do what thou wilt shall be
the whole of the law." Self-fulfillment, self-gratification, and
promotion of self above all others. This is 180 degree opposite to
God's love, which is selfless giving of oneself to others and
treating them as you would be treated.
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Want Middle East Stability? Move UN to Iraq (April
9, 2007) - “Get the U.S. out of the
U.N.!,” a sign near Gettysburg shouts. “The United Nations sabotages
America’s security,” author Eric Shawn declared in his book The U.N.
Exposed. Iranian spokesman Gholam-Hossein Elham told reporters that
the U.N. “must be relocated from the U.S.” And a few days after
Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez’s rant before a U.N. audience, a
New York Daily News editorial encouraged Chavez to “take the
atrophied, self-abasing remains of a global idea 2,100 miles to
Caracas!” The idea of moving U.N. headquarters seems to resonate
with many—those who believe that the U.S. is being manipulated by
anti-American and anti-Israeli elements within the U.N., as well as
those who feel that the U.S. is doing the manipulation. For
Americans, it would of course mean the loss of a global status
symbol—but it would also mean the reacquisition of valuable New York
real estate, fewer cases of diplomatic immunity for the legal
systems, and perhaps a reduction of anti-American sentiment
worldwide. Where should it go? Try Iraq. While
moving the U.N. headquarters to Venezuela or Iran is probably not
wise, moving it to Iraq might be a strategic coup. There is even a
ready-made location for it—Saddam Hussein’s 600-room palace and
compound constructed over the remains of the ancient city of
Babylon. Americans might even consider footing the bill
for the relocation. Think about it. If the U.S. should be forced to
abruptly withdraw from Iraq, a peacekeeping force—something similar
to the International Security Assistance Force now in
Afghanistan—would probably be deployed. Yet peacekeeping forces
under temporary mandates, with all the associated communications
problems, functional restrictions, and managerial arguments that so
often spring from ego or nationalist pride, generally don’t work.
They would be even less viable in a region like Iraq, where the
threat of kidnapping and indescribable torture would keep many
countries from participating. Relocating U.N. headquarters to Iraq,
however, might actually be a reasonable alternative. Former U.N.
Secretary General Kofi Annan agreed with member states’ demands for
the U.S. to leave Iraq. Yet he admitted that any force reductions
would have to be planned so as not to lead to greater violence and
instability. Moving the U.N. to Iraq might be the only method of
ensuring that a departure of U.S. forces would not leave the country
and the region in chaos. Considering the severe cutbacks in U.N.
personnel within Iraq following the 2004 truck bombing of its
Baghdad compound, the idea might seem ridiculous; but the mission of
the U.N. is to promote and preserve peace. In order to maintain its
fledgling democracy, Iraq needs international commitment, an
inducement to stop factional violence, and a stable form of income
not subject to the terrorists’ reprisals. It is hard to imagine a
more visible and binding form of commitment than a change of such
magnitude. The prestige factor alone might guarantee stability.
Middle East leaders may seize upon the move as recognition of the
region’s importance, thus stimulating their sense of self- and
nationalist esteem while gaining further incentive for dealing with
internecine conflict. more...
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Yes that's right, it is being suggested that the UN move into
Babylon. Wouldn't that just fit Bible prophecy perfectly? Keep
watching!
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Eurocrat empire building (March
28, 2007) - On
Sunday, the European Union celebrated its 50th anniversary. The EU
was established on March 25, 1957, when its six founding states
(Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxemburg)
signed the Treaty of Rome. They solemnly declared that they would
aim for "an ever closer union." As a first step towards the goal of
political unification the six states decided to integrate their
economies. They have meanwhile been joined by 21 other European
countries, Economic activities, however, cannot result in achieving
a predetermined political goal without strict economic controls and
centralist planning. The controlling and planning body of the EU is
the European Commission, based in Brussels. The commissioners are
not elected and are accountable to no one. This
deliberate democratic deficit was built in as a structural feature
of the EU. An unelected and unaccountable structure
makes it easier to impose centrally driven change on a society. Some
of the EU's founding fathers claimed that political unification was
needed to prevent European nations from going to war again. Others,
such as Paul-Henri Spaak, the Belgian foreign minister who authored
the Rome treaty, dreamed of a European superstate. He hoped that
such a state might one day become as powerful as the United States.
Robert Rothschild, Mr. Spaak's chef de cabinet, recalled later how
Mr. Spaak told him in 1957: "I think
we have re-established the Roman Empire
without a single shot being fired." Washington
foolishly supported the European unification project. It failed to
see that democratization and decentralization are far more likely to
preserve peace than unification and centralization. Washington also
thought that without the gradual obliteration of the former European
nation-states the Europeans were bound to wage war on each other
again. America became the EU's midwife. "Without the Americans we
would not have gotten anywhere," Mr. Rothschild
acknowledged. Empires, however, are carnivorous monsters. They have
to keep growing in order to avoid unraveling. Hence, they inevitably
grow ever more totalitarian and expansionist. The EU is interfering
more and more in the daily lives of its subjects. At the same time,
its territory continues to expand, from the original six members to
the present 27. By definition, there is no end to this process. The
Leviathan has to be fed. With the accession of Romania and Bulgaria
on Jan. 1, the EU's territory has reached the outer boundaries of
the European continent. Since the European Empire by definition has
to expand, it has to move into Asia and Africa. The preparation for
this crossing of the Rubicon -- in this case the crossing of the
Strait of Gibraltar and the Bosporus -- has been going on for
years. Five years ago, Louis Michel, then the Belgian minister of
foreign affairs and at present a member of the European Commission,
told the Belgian parliament that eventually the EU will encompass
the entire Mediterranean basin, including North Africa and the
Middle East. Mr. Michel also posited that only by
incorporating both Israel and Palestine into the EU will there be
peace between them. The European-Mediterranean
("Euro-Med") partnership between the EU and the countries of the
Maghreb (an Arab word meaning "the West" and denoting Morocco,
Algeria, Tunisia and Libya -- the North African Muslim countries to
the west of Egypt) was established specifically to promote the
economic, cultural and political integration of the EU and the
Maghreb countries. The Brussels bureaucrats embrace
Islam because they want the EU to expand into the Muslim east and
south. They think that eventually the Maghreb will
become part of Europe, but many ordinary Europeans fear that Europe
is on its way to becoming the Maghreb, the Muslim "West." more...
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