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END-TIME CHURCH / PLURALISM GREETINGS ----- Some of the links are not going to be working because they are headlines and have been deleted from the newspaper. Since we have been behind in publishing it can't be helped. ----- QUICKVIEW OF UPDATED INDEXES http://cephas-updates.cephasministry.com ----- Hebrews 3:1-15 "Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus; Who was faithful to Him that appointed Him, as also Moses was faithful in all his house. For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as He who hath builded the house hath more honour than the house. For every house is builded by some man; but he that built all things is God. And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after; But Christ as a son over His own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end. Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear His voice, Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness: When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years. Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways. So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.) Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God. But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end; While it is said, To day if ye will hear His voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation."   ----- EVENT:   IS PROPHECY BEING FULFILLED? September 15-16, 2003 Atlantic Coast Prophecy Conference Myrtle Beach, SC Where: Landmark Resort Hotel 1501 S. Ocean Blvd. Myrtle Beach, SC 29577 Reservations by phone: (800) 845-0658 or Fax (843) 448-6701   To register: Mail to: Atlantic Coast Prophecy Conference PO Box 280008 Columbia, SC 29228 (800) 845-2420 or (803) 755-0733 Fax (803) 755-6002 ----- :: GREETINGS to the newcomers to this list. We'd like to introduce ourselves. We were Mormons for 20 years and prayed about a ministry and six months later God led us to the truth: out of the cult. From there information about all the cults and the present development came to us and we have moved what we could find out to the public. We are fundamental Bible students and do not belong to any organization anymore. These newsletters prove why we had to leave the world system. We do not solicit for funds nor do we have a membership. We have an email group that gets information when we upload new information and a newsletter whenever it is possible timewise. We love the Lord with all our hearts and minds. Our Statement of Faith is at the top of the page on the http://www.cephasministry.com/index2.html   ::We believe every word in the KJV Bible and believe it is the Word of God and that Jesus is the Christ, God Himself, who spilled His blood on the cross for our sins and rose again to prepare a place for those who accept 'His' righteousness as their righteousness. They are those who accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior, Jews first and then Gentiles. We expect to be raptured in a pretribulation Rapture to live with God, His Son Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit who are one, forever. We pray the Lord will bless you with a thirst for truth and a desire to serve Him exclusively, In Christ Jesus, Cephas Ministries ----- :WYCLIFFE BIBLE TRANSLATORS :: The following is a book review by Sarah Leslie, editor of the Christian Conscience magazine. The book "Thy Will Be Done" reveals the exploitation of a respected missionary organization, Wycliffe Bible Translators, by Nelson Rockefeller and the CIA for the purpose of gaining control of the resources of indigenous populations in South America. According to Sarah, the book also includes information on Wycliffe's involvement in Africa and Southeast Asia that was simultaneously occurring and interconnected with the South American situation. :: This documentary provides disturbing evidence that global planners are using the modern missions movement as an agency of the New World Order. The data-banking techniques mentioned as having been developed by Wycliffe's founder are widely employed today by the A.D. 2000 global missions movement. These data-gathering operations are also a means of supplying computerized information on individuals to globalist organizations for future genocide and domination of the world's populace. 8.7.97 - Barbara Aho - Watch Unto Prayer - http://watch.pair.com/pray.html ----- CORPORATION'S OR "THY WILL" BE DONE? :: "IT'S SIGNIFICANT, HEARTBREAKING AND INVOLVES THE WORK OF AMERICAN RELIGION, BUSINESS, POLITICS AND WARS." This report confirms what we have been suspecting for some time. Our focus was for readers to come to this conclusion by reading all the various reports we have brought to your for ten years. This review is the tip of the iceberg, but finally at least someone researched and wrote about it which took much courage.   THE BOOK is out of print. It is available at a considerable price at Amazon and is most likely available at the public library. We also found a TV interview online with the author. http://www.webactive.com/rihurl.ram?file=webactive/demnow/dn971010.ra&start="5:59"   Christians need to read the Book review to get a handle on this issue! :: "THY WILL BE DONE:" The Conquest of the Amazon: Nelson Rockefeller and Evangelism in the Age of Oil by Gerard Colby, Charlotte Dennett, 960 pages, Publisher: HarperCollins; (May 1995) - ASIN: 0060167645 Editorial Reviews: :: Amazon.com: This extraordinary saga moves from the Oval Office to the Amazon rain forests to show how Cold War intrigue linked a powerful American family, the U.S. government, and a missionary organization in a forty-year campaign to conquer the Amazon. At the heart of this story are two intensely ambitious men: Nelson Rockefeller, scion of the liberal and immensely wealthy Standard Oil family, and William Cameron Townsend, founder of the ultraconservative Wycliffe Bible Translators. Although leaders of opposing camps, they found common cause in the struggle against fascism and then communism, with the result that hundreds of thousands of Amazonian tribespeople died or were displaced. The systematic campaign of colonization fathered by Rockefeller and Townsend was a chilling foreshadowing of American intervention in the Third World to secure valuable natural resources in the name of democracy. For the whole review click on: http://www.cephas-library.com/nwo_corporations_or_thy_will_be_done.html ----- GODFORSAKEN SINCE 11 SEPTEMBER 2001 :: In 1986 at one of his famous crusades, THE EVANGELIST BILLY GRAHAM TOLD THE AUDIENCE THAT THEY SHOULD REGARD MUSLIMS NOT AS THE ENEMY BUT AS FELLOW BELIEVERS, THAT THEY ALL WORSHIPED THE SAME GOD. OVER A WEEK HE REPEATED IT EIGHT TIMES, IN CASE ANYONE MISSED HIS POINT. ...The elder Graham is remembered as the nation's preacher-statesman, who never took sides, who HAD KIND WORDS FOR EVERY RELIGION, EVERY PRESIDENT. ...Mark DeMoss, a spokesman for Franklin Graham [said,] "[What] his dad did [is] going to great lengths to avoid it [controversy]..." ...William Martin, the elder Graham's biographer [wrote that] Billy Graham emerged as their [the evangelicals'] AMBASSADOR TO THE MAINSTREAM WORLD. HE BEFRIENDED PRESIDENTS...AND MADE IT RESPECTABLE TO CALL YOURSELF EVANGELICAL AGAIN. ...BILLY GRAHAM HAD SAID "JESUS" AT MANY OF THE EIGHT [PRESIDENTIAL] INAUGURATIONS HE'D PRAYED AT, BUT NO ONE HAD OBJECTED. (Hanna Rosin, "Younger Graham Diverges from Father's Image: Ministry's Patriarch Accepted Islam, but His Son Condemns the Religion," WASHINGTON POST, 02 September 2002, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24620-2002Sep1.html) ----- :: PRESIDENT BUSH RUNNING ON HIS FAITH "I want to repeat to you something I said earlier. IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT FOR SOMEBODY IN MY POSITION TO...UNDERSTAND THAT PEOPLE COMMUNICATE WITH GOD AND REACH GOD IN DIFFERENT WAYS. IT JUST DOESN'T HAVE TO BE MY WAY. AND I THINK IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT [THAT I'M] TRYING TO UNITE A NATION THAT IS DIVERSE AS OURS... AND I REALLY MEAN THAT. ...AND I AM MINDFUL OF WHAT BILLY GRAHAM ONE TIME TOLD ME, FOR ME NOT TO TRY TO FIGURE OUT -- TRY TO PICK AND CHOOSE WHO GETS TO GO TO HEAVEN." (US President George W. Bush, "George W. Bush: Running on His Faith," US NEWS ONLINE, 1999, http://www.beliefnet.com/story/33/story_3345_1.html) ----- ECUMENICAL PRESIDENT BUSH :: One evening MY DAD [FORMER US PRESIDENT GEORGE HW BUSH] ASKED BILLY [GRAHAM] TO ANSWER QUESTIONS from a big group of family gathered for the weekend. ...Over the course of that weekend, Reverend Graham planted a mustard seed in my soul, a seed that grew over the next year. HE LED ME TO THE PATH, AND I BEGAN WALKING. ...Laura and I visited Israel in 1998. ...OUR DELEGATION INCLUDED FOUR GENTILE GOVERNORS - ONE METHODIST, TWO CATHOLICS, AND A MORMON, AND SEVERAL JEWISH-AMERICAN FRIENDS. ...one of our friends...he, a gentile, and his friend, a Jew, had...JOINED HANDS UNDERWATER, AND PRAYED TOGETHER, ON BENDED KNEE. ...NOW JEW AND GENTILE, MEETING, FROM MANY A DIFFERENT SHORE, AROUND AN ALTAR KNEELING, ONE COMMON LORD. FAITH CHANGES LIVES. I KNOW, BECAUSE FAITH HAS CHANGED MINE. (George W. Bush, A CHARGE TO KEEP, ed. Mickey Herskowitz, Morrow,William & Co., November 1999) ----- PRESIDENT BUSH INSISTS THAT ISLAM ARE THE TEACHINGS OF PEACE AND GOOD :: It's my honor to welcome to the White House my fellow Americans -- Arab Americans, Americans who are Muslim by faith... I HAVE TOLD THE NATION MORE THAN ONCE THAT...THE TEACHINGS OF ISLAM ARE THE TEACHINGS OF PEACE AND GOOD. ...AND I ALSO APPRECIATE THE PRAYERS TO THE UNIVERSAL GOD. (US President George W. Bush, "Text: Bush Welcomes Muslim Americans to White House," 26 September 2001, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/nation/specials/attacked/transcripts/bushtext2_092601.html) ----- :: I APPRECIATE YOUR [THE RUSSIANS'] UNDERSTANDING THERE IS A UNIVERSAL AND GRACIOUS GOD. :: May God bless Russia. And may God bless the United States. (US President George W. Bush, "Remarks by the President to Community and Religious Leaders, Spaso House, Moscow, Russia," Office of the Press Secretary, 24 May 2002, http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/05/20020524-12.html) ---- PRESIDENT BUSH BELIEVES IN A UNIVERSAL GOD :: YOU KNOW, IT'S INTERESTING, THERE IS A UNIVERSAL GOD, IN MY OPINION, and the first conversation I ever had with Vladimir Putin was about God -- in Slovenia. ...THERE IS A -- I THINK THAT THE ALMIGHTY IS IMPORTANT -- OBVIOUSLY, IMPORTANT PART OF MY LIFE, BUT VERY IMPORTANT PART OF THE LIFE OF OUR COUNTRY. (US President George W. Bush, "President Bush, President Putin Discuss Joint Efforts against Terrorism: Remarks by President Bush and Russian President Putin in Photo Opportunity - Calgary, Kananaskis, Canada," Office of the Press Secretary, 27 June 2002, http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/06/20020627-3.html) ----- IS THIS THE TRIUNE CHRISTIAN GOD THAT PRESIDENT BUSH DESCRIBES? :: AS MORE AND MORE PEOPLE GO TO THEIR CHURCHES AND SYNAGOGUES AND MOSQUES AND HEAR THAT UNIVERSAL CALL TO LOVE A NEIGHBOR, AMERICA'S CULTURE IS CHANGING. ...OUT OF THE EVIL DONE TO THIS GREAT LAND IS GOING TO COME INCREDIBLE GOOD... May God bless you all, and may God bless America. (US President George W. Bush, "President Talks Homeland/Economic Security at Mt. Rushmore: Remarks by the President on Homeland Security and the Budget," Mount Rushmore, South Dakota, Office of the Press Secretary, 15 August 2002, http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/08/20020815.html ----- THEY HAVE HIJACKED A GREAT RELIGION [ISLAM], SAID THE PRESIDENT :: We [Americans] love the fact that people can worship an almighty God in a free land, ANY WAY THEY CHOOSE TO WORSHIP. ...And the enemy doesn't view it that way. ...See, they've hijacked A GREAT RELIGION [ISLAM]... God bless America. (US President George W. Bush, "President Bush Thanks America's Workers at Labor Day Picnic, Carpenters Joint Apprenticeship Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania," Office of the Press Secretary, 02 September 2002, http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/09/20020902.html ----- THE "SPIRIT OF UNITY" HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH JESUS CHRIST WHO IS PART OF THE TRIUNE GOD, NOT THE UNIVERSAL GOD (WHOEVER THE UNIVERSAL GOD IS IS NOT KNOWN TO CHRISTIANS). :: ISLAM IS... A FAITH BASED UPON LOVE, NOT HATE. ...Tomorrow [on the anniversary of September 11], AMERICANS OF ALL FAITHS WILL COME TOGETHER IN A SPIRIT OF UNITY and remembrance and resolve. I call on every American to uphold the...value that we believe that EVERYBODY OUGHT TO WORSHIP THE ALMIGHTY, HOWEVER THEY SO CHOOSE. (US President George W. Bush, "President Bush Holds Roundtable with Arab- and Muslim-American Leaders, Embassy at Afghanistan, Washington, D.C.," Office of the Press Secretary, 10 September 2002, http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/09/20020910-7.html) [ source: http://fellow-servants-of-christ.0catch.com ] ---- VATICAN TO FACE IT'S PEDOPHILIA CRIMES BEFORE THE U.N. :: October 16, 2002 - The Vatican has violated international law by covering up their crimes through reassignment of pedophile priests to different regions and paying millions $ to silence victims. See following report: ----- RAELIAN MOVEMENT FILES COMPLAINT WITH UNITED NATIONS ABOUT VATICAN ::October 16, 2002 - Geneva, Switzerland: The Raelian Movement and its attorneys have filed an 'Urgent Request for Action' with Mr. Miguel Petit, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography to further investigate and stop the countless crimes of not only pedophilia by priests and bishops, but the procurement, trafficking, & abuse of children worldwide. The Raelian 'Urgent Appeal' which was lodged at UN Headquarters Geneva on October 1 and is in transit to Mr. Petit in Uruguay was according to one UN official, the first complaint filed with the UN about the Vatican’s involvement in an international child sex scandal, 'There has been a lot of talk about the Vatican, but you are the first to address the child abuse issue.' A copy of the Urgent Request for action filed with the UN can be viewed at: http://www.rael.org/int/english/freedom/unrequest/UNRequestforUrgentAppeal9-13ver2.pdf ----- THEIR CASE STATES THAT THE VATICAN VIOLATED INTERNATIONAL LAW BY COVERING UP CRIMES ::The Vatican violated international law by covering up their crimes through reassignment of pedophile priests to different regions and paying $ millions to silence victims, the Vatican is in direct violation of treaties they have sworn to uphold: 1) the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) 2) the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography -OPCRC. Will the power of the Vatican to influence the world to ignore these crimes stop at the U.N.? Or will the U.N. be able to turn away from the thousands of documented facts, including signed treaties by the Vatican? :: Furthermore, the Vatican holds an official observer status at the U.N., another 'privilege' it enjoys since it does not possess any of the normal aspects required by every other government. The Vatican claims that its sovereignty is based upon the Roman Catholic Church's conception of itself as a sovereign entity on par with secular sovereign states. No other organization is allowed this status by just claiming sovereignty. The truth, however, is that its power comes directly from its cultural domination and annihilation of countless indigenous cultures, which will also be brought to the U.N. soon. http://www.prweb.com/releases/2002/10/prweb48118.php ----- AS CHRISTIANS LET'S NOT FORGET WHERE WE CAME FROM :: 2 Samuel 7:8, "Now therefore so shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, from following the sheep, to be ruler over my people, over Israel:" It will be good if we can always remember where we were, God took us from a place of sin and death, to a place of victory. He traded our sins for His righteousness, our death for His life, our defeat for His victory. :: God has our best interest at heart and the glory of the heavenlies can't be compared with the glory of the earthly things. Let us not love the world, but love our bridegroom who will fetch us away from this world. God bless [emailer] ----- A GROWING DANGER :: [Ednote: Antipas Ministry is a bit too hard core for us but they do provide nuggets to help us understand the overall trend and what Christians need to be aware of. We do not wish to suggest becoming members of their movement. End of note] :: Their email stated: "By the 90's, the religious right was becoming more and more involved politically. So Steve began writing about the "religious right." We realized that the great apostasy of the "last days" church was a marriage with the antichrist political and economic system and we saw it starting to happen in front of our very eyes with the birth of the "Religious Right"! [Antipas Ministry 12.9.02] :: Now this could be a very dangerous thing for us and, frankly, not only for us, but for all those who associate themselves with us - and we are not kidding around here! The fact is, those who oppose the self-righteous and sanctimonious "hard-right" in this country have a way of "disappearing," having "accidents," and/or being jailed on "trumped up charges" of one kind or another. [Please see our articles on this matter, "MK-Ultra: The Search for the Manchurian Candidate, A Study of the Mindset Behind Today's New World Order;" please also see "MK-Ultra and the Assassination of John F. Kennedy - More Evidence," and "Conspiracy Theories;" finally, please see our articles, "Apostasy: Christianity in the Service of a Religio-Political-Corporate-Terrorist State," "John Ashcroft, Theodore Olson, and the New National Security State," and "Ashcroft: Making a List of Dissenters."] :: [Ednote they spell out how we feel in the following sentence: end of note] While we have no interest at all in the politics of what's happening here [by that we mean, we are not interested in building a political challenge against Bush, we are only interested in breaking the connection between him and the church (and not out of any political concern for the nation as such, but because of the spiritual concern we have for the church)], we understand that is probably not the way Bush and his sycophants in the leadership of the church are going to view matters. And in connection with this, it probably has not gone unnoticed by the "powers that be" that our readership has grown to the extent that it has, which, of course, does us no good from a "personal security" standpoint. [ November 13, 2002 ] Homepage - http://www.endtimesnetwork.com ----- MORIEL MINISTRIES ADVERTISES THAT THE KJV BIBLE IS A FREEMASON BIBLE. ::[Ednote: Give me a break. Putting a John Henry on a Bible does not make it a John Henry Bible. That is saying that Billy Graham wrote a book that he endorsed. Maligning anything that is connected to Jesus Christ to discourage Christians from believing, is the world's focus. End of Ednote]: THE FOLLOWING IS FROM THE MORIEL MINISTRY WEBSITE: :: King James - The Founder of Freemason Lodges The KJV - A Freemason Bible :: The history of King James' role in the formation of Freemasonry is mandatory reading in the Hiram Key book of Masonic scrolls attempting to link Christ with the Pharaohs. Freemasonry, in its present form, came into being through the Lodge system, established under the auspices of King James VI of Scotland, (later King James I of England), the only son of Roman Catholic Mary Queen of Scots. At the age of 37, two years after becoming a Mason, James became the first Stuart king of England and immediately began to persecute the Puritans, rejecting their petition to reform the Church of England along biblical lines. :: James was initiated into Freemasonry, into the Lodge of Scoon and Perth in 1601, at the age of 35. Fifteen years after taking active control of Scotland and five years before becoming English monarch, he ordered that the Masonic structure be given leadership and organisation. He made a senior Mason, named William Schaw, his General Warden of the Craft, and instructed Schaw to revamp the entire structure of Freemasonry into what it became today. Schaw commenced this project on 28th December 1598, on the orders of James. :: To this day, the 1611 edition of the King James Bible remains the Freemason Bible and is the edition conventionally used in secret Masonic temple rituals. Moriel does not, however believe that the Masonic association with the KJV or the Freemasonry of King James, founder of the Masonic Lodge system, detracts from the validity of this outdated but valid translation of the Bible. Nonetheless, it is the Freemason Bible and has been from its inception, commissioned and authorised by the same Freemason King who commissioned and authorised the Masonic Lodge structure. We can only speculate how many members of the KJV Only cult are in fact Freemasons. (Moriel thanks Mrs Sara Robinson for providing excerpts of The Hiram Key) http://ww2.moriel.org:8004/discernment/ruckmanism/KJV_freeMasons.htm [Ednote: Don't be surprised if this link does not work anymore. That is what happens when it gets around. End of note.] ----- PEOPLE BELIEVE THAT FREEMASONRY IS QUICKLY BECOMING PAST HISTORY BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE NOT JOINING ANYMORE. :: Freemasonry is not being left behind. The Knights of Columbus are represented in Catholic schools sponsoring events with their flags to get kids interested which is then advertised in the Newspaper. In this case they announced the winners of a spelling contest. [Tampa Tribune carried this information.] ----- ADD TO YOUR "Famous Freemasons", Al Sharpton (activist) and Andrew Young (former mayor of Atlanta, U.N Ambassador). The page has been pulled: http://www.freemason.org/cfo/march_april_2001/orgins.htm ----- HOLOCAUST WRITER IN STORM OVER ROLE OF ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH :: Daniel Jonah Goldhagen is provoking outrage with a new book that accuses the church of being morally delinquent during the Nazi killing of Jews. A Moral Reckoning: The Role of the Catholic Church in the Holocaust and Its Unfulfilled Duty of Repair by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/14/international/europe/14GERM.html?todaysheadlines ----- PROMISES FADE ALONG WITH MONEY :: By Amy Nolan Knoxville - News-Sentinel He represented himself to be a Christian, a man of God, and he came into their homes and prayed with them. SEVIERVILLE, Tenn. - Dan Stetson sold ministers, missionaries and evangelists a vision of a Christian resort in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains where they could relax "weary in well doing" during their retirements. Hundreds bought into the Tampa financier's vision, providing the money from retirement savings and loans to create three log cabin developments in Sevier and Jefferson counties. The plan was that Deer Path Vacations would lease the cabins from their owners and rent them to tourists, generating income to cover the owners' mortgages and utilities. But the vision has turned into a nightmare. :: Debts associated with two bankrupt firms, Deer Path Vacations and Stetson & Associates of Tennessee Inc., of which Dan Stetson is president and sole shareholder, are estimated at $50 million. Creditors include First Tennessee Bank, which holds about $30 million in mortgages on some 150 cabins, and an additional $4.25 million in loans related to construction of the unfinished Eagle Springs resort. About 550 businesses and individuals are being notified they may have an interest in the bankruptcy proceeding. And to complicate matters, the cabins' locations don't match the titles and accompanying surveys in numerous cases. [ http://www.tampatrib.com/MGAHNMX2L8D.html ] ----- PA HB 1493 BANS MINISTERS FROM FORMS OF PUBLIC COMMUNICATION OR ADDRESS :: 05 Dec 2002 - Pennsylvania Anti-Religious Freedom House Bill No. 1493 prohibits ministers from reading the Old Testament through public "communication or address" in certain instances. It apparently has passed the legislation and is on the Governor Schweiker's desk. http://users.netreach.net/infoquest/Pa_HB1493_is_Unconstitutional.txt see http://www.cephas-library.com/nwo_pa_hb_bans_ministers_from_reading_ot_publicly.html ----- BONO WANTS TO DO GOOD -- WITH YOUR MONEY. :: Friday Church News Notes, December 27, 2002 (David W. Cloud, Fundamental Baptist Information Service, P.O. Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061-0368, fbns@wayoflife.org) - Bono, front man for the popular rock group U2, is using his star status to promote international socialism. Earlier this month he spoke to a packed house at Wheaton College's Edman Memorial Chapel about his DATA organization (which stands for Debt, AIDS, Trade in Africa). Bono is calling upon America to forgive the massive debts of African nations in order to help the African people, but, of course, it would do nothing like that. The pitiful African people in general are not in that sad condition because of American greed but because of demon worship, false religion, immorality, and the oppression of their own self-serving leaders. If Bono wants to help the poor, he is free to do so; but money possessed by the American government comes from the taxation of American workers; and what scriptural mandate gives Bono the right to do good with other people's money? Bono claims to be a Christian, but it is a faith that is not based on the Bible. :: At Wheaton he said, "It's a remarkable thing, the idea that there's some sort of hierarchy to sin. It's something I can never figure out, the idea that sexual immorality is somehow much worse than, say, institutional greed. Somewhere in the back of the religious mind is this idea that we reap what we sow is missing the entire New Testament and the concept of grace completely" ("Backstage with Bono," Christianitytoday.com music interviews, Dec. 9, 2002). I don't know what New Testament Bono is referring to, but the one I have read for the last 29 years says, "Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap" (Galatians 6:7); and that was stated in the very context of Paul's teaching about grace. God's grace through Christ is offered to all men, but its reception requires repentance and faith. Furthermore, the Apostles did not interpret Christ's message in Bono's fashion. Nowhere in their epistles did not fret about "institutional greed" or rebuke the Roman government for its institutional sins; but they said a LOT about personal sin and sexual immorality! http://users.netreach.net/infoquest/Pa_HB1493_is_Unconstitutional.txt ----- SATANIST CLUB APPROVED BY PUBLIC SCHOOL. :: Friday Church News Notes, December 20, 2002 (David W. Cloud, Fundamental Baptist Information Service, P.O. Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061-0368, fbns@wayoflife.org) - In early October, the San Mateo High School in California approved the Satanic Thought Society as a school club, and its first meeting was attended by 35 students. The public schools in America are pagan institutions that brainwash young people in humanistic thought and pollute their morals with the rock & roll philosophy. http://www.wayoflife.org ----- THE SPIRIT OF JUDAS :: In today's volatile and uncertain world, all earth dwellers are being subjected to an intense call for unity and loyalty to one's country, and even to some greater form of a New World Order. On the surface, as we watch events on our television screens, it all sounds so right and proper. However, the political and religious leaders who are attempting to unite this world, with peace and prosperity for all, fail to realize the spirit and power they are operating in. The Bible calls this the spirit of antichrist in 1 John 4:3, which is the voice of the dragon or Satan of Revelation 20:2. For this is Satan's world system at work until Jesus Christ returns to end his dominion. You can also identify the spirit of antichrist as the spirit of Judas. :: The life of Judas, who we all know was one of the twelve disciples of Jesus, is a vivid example of betrayal and disloyalty. Remember, Judas walked and lived with Jesus for over three years. He saw the Lord's miracles and power, he heard all of his teachings, he felt his love for people. Any outsider would declare that Judas was one of the ringleaders of this new sect in Israel. But Judas turned on Jesus. He tried to change the mission of Jesus. :: Christendom's religious and political leaders are repeating the error of Judas. They can't see their need for a new heart, a new nature that only Jesus can give through repentance and faith in his blood sacrifice. Without this new nature we are all hopelessly destined for Hell. They don't understand the sin nature we're all born with. A nature that is proud and full of wrath, that loves oneself, money, and this world system controlled by Satan. Like Judas, today's leaders want the power, prosperity, and glory, but refuse to understand the cross of Jesus Christ. They want to wear the crown, but refuse to die on the cross. They refuse to believe that all of us are guilty of nailing Jesus to the cross. Christendom has become a harlot. It has betrayed the one they claim to follow; it has become Babylon the Great of the Revelation. Instead of learning from the life of Judas, America's people and leaders, while claiming to be Christians, are labeling anyone who disagrees with their "one nation under God" tradition, as unpatriotic traitors. As this world war on religious terrorism spreads and intensifies, the greater will be the call for loyalty and unity. It's ironic, but anyone who desires publicly to remain loyal to the truth of the cross and coming of Jesus, are the ones likened unto Judas. We are being lumped together with cowardly pacifists and leftists who also don't understand Jesus or his mission. I suppose that is why Satan is referred to as "the master of deception." For those of you who are offended by what I have written, I plead with you to study the Bible, to see for yourself. Set aside for a moment all of your traditions, that keep your love and devotion to this world system and not the coming Kingdom of Jesus Christ. Read John 17:12 and 2Thessalonians 2:3. You will discover that the phrase "son of perdition" is used twice in the New Testament; first referring to Judas, then to the coming Antichrist. This means that the Antichrist is not a Moslem, Buddhist, or Hindu, but a false "disciple of Jesus Christ." But, like Judas, he will betray Jesus, by wanting his crown, but not his cross. Those in Christendom who want world dominion and are also indifferent to the coming of Jesus, are part of the great apostasy predicted in the Bible. :: One final question needs to answered. Would you rather be considered a traitor by the "American New World Order" or by the coming King of Kings, the Lord Jesus Christ? Please visit my website for more details. [Jack D. Hook - http://www.babylonthegreatisfalling.net ] ----- WHERE DID ALL THE MILLIONS GO? :: John Davies complained: "The fact remains that the multi-million dollar families run Evangelistic Ministries in America be it the Hinn's of Orlando, the Straders of Lakeland, the Howard-Browne's of Tampa, the Falwells of Lynchburg, the Brights of Orlando, the Robertson's of Norkfolk, the Roberts of Tulsa, the Copelands of Forth Worth, and the Graham's of Minneapolis hide their total salaries and those of their family members and special friends in their indirect personally owned non- profit religious corporation while they live in palatial palaces like kings and royalty. :: Unlike Jesus Christ who owned nothing, Televangelists Jan and Paul Crouch who lost their tax exemption for their Trinity Broadcasting Network are definitely not lacking in any material possession. Their home is described as "a palatial estate with ocean and city views and was purchased for around five million dollars. It has six bedrooms, nine bathrooms, a billiard room, a climate-controlled wine cellar, a sweeping staircase and a crystal chandelier. The three-story, nearly 9,500-square-foot house, has an elevator, also has a six-car garage, a tennis court and a pool with a fountain. :: Trinity Broadcasting, established in 1973, has more than 768 TV stations on the air worldwide. The Crouches oversee a 100- million- plus-a- year enterprise. One of the Crouch estates is TBN's ranch in Colleyville, TX, just minutes away from the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport. The 80-plus acre ranch contains eight houses and horse stables, is estimated to be worth about $10 million. [Source: John Davies - not researched by CMI] ----- BOSTON CHURCH PANEL WILL ALLOW ARCHDIOCESE TO WEIGH BANKRUPTCY BOSTON :: Dec. 4 2002 - A finance panel of the Archdiocese of Boston voted today to allow the church to file for bankruptcy as a way of dealing with the hundreds of lawsuits it faces over sexual abuse by priests.. If the archdiocese does declare bankruptcy, it would become the first American Roman Catholic diocese to do so. Legal experts have said they would be stunned by such an action because the Boston Archdiocese is so large it could potentially liquidate assets for payments to abuse victims, which have been estimated to require about $100 million. And some legal experts suggested that the archdiocese could be using the specter of bankruptcy as a way of creating pressure on plaintiffs' lawyers to accept a settlement... 450 plaintiffs in the abuse lawsuits had said this week that they would quit settlement negotiations if the archdiocese did not agree to take talk of bankruptcy off the table while negotiations continued. :: Voice of the Faithful, which started in February with 40 people in a church basement discussing the clergy sexual abuse crisis and now claims 25,000 members in 40 states, has been careful to avoid stances that leaders felt might unduly antagonize or alienate the archdiocese. http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/05/national/05PRIE.html?todayshead ----- THE RELIGION OF UNIFICATION OF THE WORLD - AN AUSTRALIAN'S OPINION :: [Likening it to a travelog] again it did bear an uncanny resemblance to last Sunday’s parish bulletin from our local community spirituality centre. Or it could have been a quote from the Melbourne-based jesuit quarterly, Australian Catholics, which all the bishops of Australia, God bless their little ......, provide free-of-charge to all the parishes as befits a publication bearing such a lovely and tolerant name. But what is that to our correspondent and to us? Then it struck. Eureka! Of course, the mystery citation could be none other than Pope John Paul II. Trained in the theatre and a specialist in the philosophy of phenomenology, Karl Wojtyla is possibly among other things the greatest actor the world has ever seen. The great man leaves Sir Lawrence Olivier for dead. Why? Because when Wojtyla acts, he actually becomes what he acts. Whereas when Olivier acts, the character becomes Olivier. :: A true maestro, all things to all men like St Paul, and mesmerisingly charming, John Paul knows how to tap into the deepest wellsprings of a culture. He knows how to tap the heartstrings of a people. No matter which of the hundreds of different nations he has visited, he has left them all spellbound. His world travels have been a veritable labor of the sun. Indeed the prophet of the popes Malachy of Armagh 1000 years in advance endowed him that name which more tersely than a whole biography sums up the soul of his apostolate: The Labor Of The Sun. (And if you don’t believe me, wasn’t the Melbourne Sun newspaper totally Labor in its editorial on the morning of the recent victorian election? Which only goes to show!) Everyone loves John Paul II and we too love a Quiz Show. So let’s keep playing the guessing game with our reader. Is the quote not perhaps an extract from one of the speeches given by John Paul when he came to Sydney in 1995 to beatify Mary McKillop? Say, the Mass at Randwick Racetrack? John Paul knows that the way to unite the family of man is through reawakening our most ancient traditions. Such as this month’s gathering of 10,000 Australian Druids, Catholics, naturists and others on the beach at Ceduna South Australia for that grand ceremony of catharsis and rebirth, of fearful death and joyful resurrection: the solar eclipse. Once again there it is. The labor of the sun! Did you not know that during the birth of Karl Wojtyla in Poland on May 18 1920 there occurred over the city of Cracow on that day, yes you guessed, a solar eclipse? :: People are always expecting him to die but we believe they are mistaken. This man has a will. His twilight is will be brighter yet and no anticlimax. Be that as it may, everyone is asking, what will his legacy be? Apart from an eternal rest from his whirlwind of labours defending the wee small voice of truth so tragically eclipsed in this darkening valley of tears, it will be this. What greater thing does humankind share in common than nature and our joyful celebration of it? :: All Australian bishops are united with John Paul in praying for peace through community and for unity through communion with our timeless traditions that are so true to our nature. Smoke, sun, moon, Uluru (formerly Ayers Rock), four sacred elements, dancing around the sanctuary of fire. These are some of the evocative imaginings that today’s Australians, who are such a nature-loving people, are assimilating, thanks to the Aborigines and John Paul, he confirming his brothers the bishops. From kindergarten to yoga class, from Earth Day to winter festival, the people are learning all is one and one is all. As that great peacemaker Franklin Delano Roosevelt noted, and Pope John Paul II adopted for his motto: Fear not! For we have nothing to fear but fear itself. And what is there dividing us but division itself? Source email from:desmondo@labyrinth.net.au ----- CHRISTIAN RIGHT CALLS FOR STUDY OF KORAN :: Evangelical broadcaster Pat Robertson says media and political leaders have failed to educate Americans about violence in the Koran and in islamic history. :: Robertson relinquished his baptist ordination to run for Republican presidential nomination in 1988. But he now describes his primary work as promoting Christianity. For 18 years his CBN Christian Broadcasting Network had an arab - language broadcast station in Lebanon. "It was overrun by Hezbollah. He said the violence visited on Christians in many nations such as Indonesia, Sudan and Nigeria arising from Shariah or muslim law shows that the violent behavior is tied to the Koran. He wishes President Bush had never said Islam is a religion of peace. "He is not elected as chief theologian. It would have been better for the president to speak only politically about the Islamic world and not religiously." :: Robertson believes that sooner or later our predominantly Christian nation will need to take its head out of the sand and work out how to respond to a foreign enemy with religious roots. He says the public would be better served if the media investigated the content of the Koran, for many passages directly and unambigously incite Muslims to kill nonbelievers but under the now dominant ideology of politically correct neomarxism, the media are not allowed to report on that. Robertson said he opposed as "bad law" the government's plans, even in a time of war, to electronically track the lives of all Americans. "As the war on terrorism is going forward, the thing I'm concerned about is how much government control they'll have" on Americans' domestic life. I don't want to change my ministry and become some kind of muslim fighter. I don't want to alienate muslim people." He believes Muslims privately desire more information about Christianity but are too afraid to ask. That is why the Internet is giving a great boost to privacy and truth. Full story http://www.washtimes.com/national/20021126-14786718.htm. ----- MUSLIMS ASK LIBRARIES TO OFFER INFO ON ISLAM :: US Muslim groups have organized a yearlong project to put a package of books and a PBS video on Islam, all by american authors, in the nation's 16,000 public libraries to promote understanding of the religion. :: CAIR Council On American Islamic Relations reports that supporters have sent in 4,219 sponsorships of $150 each to pay for the library package, but the number of libraries accepting them is not yet clear. He also confirmed reports that a saudi billionaire, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal bin Abdul Aziz al Saud, donated $500,000 to CAIR for the educational push. Most of it is going for the library project. The saudi money prompted conservative activist Paul Weyrich, chairman of Free Congress Foundation, to say that while libraries have intellectual freedom, the library packages "present a highly misleading view of Islam, spray-painting over the religion's long history of animosity to Western values." He called for American Library Association to issue a statement on the problems with stocking a one-sided view of Islam and urged the use of materials written by his foundation's staff. ----- RADIO STATION DROPS DOBSON- :: A California radio station has ended its 17-year relationship with Focus on the Family because station officials say the broadcasts are "too racy." Santa Ana's KWVE - run by Calvary Chapel of Costa Mesa - says it has dropped Dr. James Dobson's program from its broadcasting format (10/16 AgapePress). Per a statement on KWVE's Web site, concerns were aired earlier in the year with a series of Focus broadcasts on women and sexuality. THE JESUIT CAMPUS :: C-Span 11.4.02 featured Garry Wills addressing a group at Georgetown University. He called it the Jesuit Campus. What was most interesting was the fact that he said that the Democratic Party takes orders from below while the Republicans take orders from above. He lamented that Democrats are against capital punishment like the Pope and it doesn't fit. They are not true to form. The reason the Pope is against capital punishment, it gives sinners a time to repent which Jesus would want. He said that America had no religion at its foundation so they could control religions somehow. They wanted to try something new. Everything else had been tried and didn't work. President Madison emphasized separation of church and state as the only way that this country could be run with a pluralistic society. Some believe it is the government's business to uphold the peace of God's city on a hill (America) and others that they should uphold the peace of Babylon. Which ever, we are all in this together and rather than destroy we should love our country and try to improve it, critizise it and stay in the country. Many get so upset they leave the country. Concepts are meant to protect. Garry Wills briefly touched religious pluralism and being a devout Catholic he is expected to deal with it but stated that so far he has had little appetite for it and hopes someone else will tackle it. A lady addressed him and stated as a Catholic that the church needs to be put on its head to get cleaned up and needs a whole new agenda. We feel for Catholics. It has to be heartwrenching to watch the Pope reject expelling priests who practice pedophilia. We would have a hard time taking our children to church and subject them to that possibility. Author of a number of books, Garry Wills, stated that tyranny is justifiable to control people. Remembering, for Freemasons black is white and white is black and apply that to what was said about the two American political parties. ----- ORAL ROBERTS SEED FAITH COMES TO CARPENTER'S HOME CHURCH :: 10.27.2002 Evangelist Paula White of Church Without Walls, spoke about their new venture. They moved into Carpenter's Home Church in Lakeland and have been offered $50 million for their property. Sowing seeds works, she said, recommending that people watch them in action. She said that they were inspired to sow a seed of $10,000 to T.D. Jakes and a check came in the mail which was the largest they had ever seen. (She didn't say how much.) She said if you are asked to do something illogical, do it. All it takes is one 13 foot angel to visit your drug addict son. GLOBAL / LOCAL POLITICS ----- THE WAR ISN'T GOING AWAY IN SPITE OF THE U.N. DEVELOPMENTS :: Reports we picked up between 9.14 - 17. 2002 THE HOLY WAR IS A TWO-EDGED SWORD. :: The "Goldstein" story from Tampa where 1000s of arms were found in a Condo. The collector, "Goldstein", of the ammunition planned to blow up 50 Mosques did not go national. [C-Span 9.14.02] It was covered by Tampa News Programs on local television. The man seemed to be operating by himself. ----- HOPING THIS IS UNTRUE :: Undocumented: The waitress who turned in a conversation between Muslims from a restaurant table at a restaurant will probably collect $50,000 reward from someone in Washington D.C., reported a caller. Is there a reward to encourage snooping? ----- A GAME SERVES TO PREPARE YOUTH FOR THEIR FUTURE WORLD :: Satan teaches how to be a Super Power?? Computer Game Super Power Realistic Real-Time Strategy Based on official data taken from U.S. military and C.I.A. Databases. From the wrapper (the box) the following information is given: Enron "E" means everyone can play it. It is a game of Strategy & Global Domination The war of terrorism is just the beginning... A complete world simulator. A truly unique military and geo-political simulator, SuperPower allows you the ability to decide on how you want to play the game. Built using actual data from the CIA World Factbook and Periscope, the United States Naval Institute World Military Database, play as any 1 of 140 nations and strive to solve the real-world economic, social and political problems facing the country. From a military standpoint, there are more than 4,000 unique deployable units which can be used to fight strategic battles anywhere around the globe. :: Computer-controlled countries are independent entities that actually learn from their actions. SuperPower's highly sophisticated "EHE" (Evolutive Human Emulator) is a revolutionary approach to artificial intelligence, combining both neural networks and expert systems. Computer-controlled countries are independent entities that actually learn. They learn how to solve problems, how to play against each other and how to play against YOU. :: Fight in real-world locations taken from a complete topographical map of the globe. You must use demography, politics, economy, military, and secret services to achieve your goals. Relying on only 1 sector may ultimate result in being conquered or overthrown. You must carefully balance your strategic initiatives to achieve ultimate global domination. Choose from 140 nations [actual number of nations] using real-world, United Nations data. :: Use nuclear strikes to defeat your enemies.. but only as a last resort. Research military technology from a database of 4,000 unique units. Fight your battles in the real-world on a topographical map drawn accurately to the square kilometer. Demography: Plan your taxation strategy carefully to ensure you have the funding to grow your population, keeping them well-fed, well-educated and working. Economy: Buy and sell resources such as ore, cereals, meat and energy. Strategically allocate your available funds to keep your economy growing. Military: Manage your country's real-world armed forces. Deploy units and make - or -break treaties with other nations to strengthen your global influence and power. :: Politics: Keep your people happy, and your government will stand. If your actions prove unpopular with the people they let you know about it. Secret Service Use espionage to plot the overthrow of opposing governments. Rig election or incite revolt to turn the population against their leaders. Producer: CoemLabs Dreamcatchergames.com Mild violence. ----- WHAT HAPPENED TO A NICKEL FOR A POP? :: Have you ever wondered where money goes? We had a unique experience at the mall. We don't carry cash and we wanted a pop. We walked half a mile to find an ATM machine and got our $20.00 bill if we agreed to pay a $2.00 fee for the transaction. We wanted a drink so we said, yes. Now the bill needed to be changed into $1.00 bills and there was a cookie stand right next to us. We got the bright idea to buy one cookie. ::"$1.37 please!" said the lady and handed us the cookie. We rushed to the machine to get a bottle of pop. $1.00 each said the machine and each pop fell down the shoot. By now we had spent $5.37. To think a what a pop used to be before we got ATM and cookies over the counter. Going back when we were kids you could buy a bottle of pop for $.05. That a hundred fold more expensive due to technology.Oh - wait, we got our bank statement today and they added another $1.50 for the ATM machine. The total was $6.87 for 2 bottles of pop and one cookie. ----- A BOOK: :: Good or Bad? What a lack of Jewish representation in Bush’s Cabinet might mean for Jews and Israel. By Sidney Zion http://www.jewishjournal.com/home/searchview.php?id=6327 ----- PRESIDENT BUSH SEES NOTHING NEEDS CHANGE? 1) Stock Market lost $7 trillion beginning with 2000 2) jobs lost 1.8 million 3) $5.6 trillion surplus gone from the budget 4) $40 billion shortfall in states [C-SPAN 8.2.2002] ----- ANTHRAX STILL AN ISSUE :: Anthrax / Bio weapons: The FBI and CDC (Center for Disease Control) came to Fort Lauderdale Anthrax case. 90% Of Anthrax is in private hands Foreign sources are classified information EBA is the chemical industry and EPA represents potential of causing public problems. Anthrax is located in Yucca Mountain and shipped across the country. Types of weapons are chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear. EPA was not authorized to analyze the event. It took 8 month to get authority to test the air. FEMA is also slow in responding, They took 9 month to respond. ::FEMA coordinates all agencies, consolidates borders, of which portions are shared and some are separate. They are exempt from freedom of information law. They are transferring people out of Civil Service to a new system because the President needs flexibility. ----- RESEARCHING PAST AND PRESENT LEADERS :: Author Arnold Ludwig wrote King of the Mountain. He studied leaders for 18 years and among many other things he discovered that over 200 million subjects have died due to leaders in the 20th century. He has many pictures of guerillas in the book and stated that he could see that there is similarity in characteristics between leaders and chimpanzees. ----- VACCINATION SHORTAGES STILL EVIDENT :: Vaccinations were under discussion at the White House today to analyze the shortages. The federal government has aspirations of taking over that industry. :: Jonathan Tucker author of a book named "Scourge" specializes in chemical bio weapons. He said that people who are vulnerable when vaccinated for Smallpox which is planned, are those who have Eczema, Aids, Cancer (chemo therapy) and Transplants (receivers). If you get sick you get Encephalitis which is often fatal. The virus of Smallpox is airborne within 5 to 6 feet of the person who has been infected. The virus doesn't have a long life span outside the body. If exposed to it one can still be vaccinated within 3 or 4 days and become immune to it. The person needs to be isolated immediately. Infection shows up first as skin rash after which it gets into mouth and throat and becomes airborne. Smallpox vaccination is a live virus. In 1947 there was an outbreak of Smallpox. 8 million people were vaccinated and 8 died from vaccinations. Smallpox killed 1 out of 3.[ Washington Journal C-SPAN ] ----- WERE THE TWIN TOWERS A WAKE UP CALL FOR AMERICANS? :: Interesting facts about Flight 93 Only 8% of human remains were found. Wreckage found, said someone from Shanksville, was almost non existent. The biggest piece they found was the size of a briefcase in Shanksville, PA. Two women reported that they were informed prior to the private tape hearing by a District Attorney not to be too specific about what they heard on the tape which had recorded activity on the plane before it went down. :: Mrs. Beaver said that the tape was muffled, there was not much to gain from it. On 9/11 a year later, in Shanksville, some 30,000 people were expected for a first viewing of the area. The President had not seen it either prior to that day. The people who reported what they found were people who live in Shanksville. They screened the area to see what they could find. Just a hand full of people showed up for memorial service led by President Bush. :: They call the Twin Tower site THE PIT. Cost of the attack so far is $100 billion. On Phil Donahue's Show survivors were interviewed and it came out that New York is exempt from the usual fire codes and the buildings are death traps. There was no communication within the building which had been a problem for a long time and all but one staircase was open. They had never had a fire drill. Nobody knew what to do and people tried to misdirect others. Many perished due to confusion and making wrong decisions. 343 firefighters died due to that kind of irresponsibility. They were betrayed. These buildings were controlled by the government Port Authority. :: Another survivor told they could not leave the building. They were told to stay. There were twenty minutes between take offs and even airports seemed to have communication failure. Women who lost sons and husbands have been trying to contact Senators and they do not make themselves available. There is nobody home to the people in the White House. They won't investigate. :: 19,000 body parts are still unidentified. Only 293 bodies have been recovered. :: President Bush said he immediately declared EMERGENCY RESPONSE. Why was Rumsfeld sitting at his desk when the Pentagon was hit, asked one lady. Many miracles were reported. The buildings had normally up to 50,000 people trafficking through and residing in the buildings. Less than 3,000 died who were apparently there at 9/11. Only a few got out. :: Another interesting comment was that the fuel burned out in 4 minutes. The buildings took 6 years to build and there is no technical explanation why they came down as fast as they did. One of the buildings that imploded was not hit. There was enough time to evacuate Tower 2 which wasn't even attempted. :: Dennis Smith was involved in constructing the towers. He wrote a book: "Ground Zero' about his own rescue. He was trapped inside with a group. One of them did not make it out. :: The Pentagon project is called the "Phoenix Project." [Masonic language]. President Bush said on 9/11 2002, "this is NO TIME TO LOOK BACK." Ollie North said the same thing when he was asked about Anthrax that was shipped to Saddam Hussein in Iraq some years ago. Donald Rumsfeld, when asked about the new war and the fact that Osama is not caught yet, he said: "The war in Afghanistan was not about targeting Osama bin Laden but about moving the Taliban out of Afghanistan." :: A sculpture which they called "a monument to foster peace through world trade" of a large sphere, placed in 1971, was damaged in the attack. It had a large gaping hole in it. (Fox News 9/11). The sphere, a symbol of strength and hope, so they said, was taken into THE PIT - GROUND ZERO. The United Nations Assembly was present with world leaders and lit the eternal flame. :: They are showing Osama now with a group of sixty "brothers" (9.15.02 on CNNfn) and repeating what he said after the planes hit the buildings. "The brothers heard the news" said the commentator .. .. "ONLY THE SELECT FEW KNOW that the fourth plane is in the air." Osama wept and thanked Allah. He signaled each event with number of fingers on 9/11, the last being four fingers. Fighter pilots had permission to shoot planes down. ----- BENJAMIN NETANYAHU CALLS CONGRESS TO WAR :: Fox News 9/11 interviewed Benjamin Netanyahu, he called the terrorists organized crime on a global basis. He stated that we have to attack before they get nukes. The dictators are confounded. They did not plan on our being united. The people will back up a forceful leader like President Bush. ----- JUST AS THE PA CALLS THEIR BLOWN UP MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN HEROS, THEY CALL THE DEAD OF 9/11 HEROS :: What really impressed me was that the dead were considered to be heroes [for being in the wrong place at the wrong time, like any other unforeseen car accident, or murder. It struck me that the message was the same as Arafat's. You will be a hero if you die for this cause. You will be glorified forever. ----- MORE ABOUT THE WHITE HOUSE: :: President Bush said that he can't believe that someone in Congress said that he would wait on the United Nation. Between Bush and Colin Powell we are getting nothing but mixed messages. :: President Bush, making his bid for war on Iraq, stated that the United Nations is irrelevant if they don't want to get involved in this planned war. They have no function if they let Saddam get away by noncompliance of 16 U.N. Resolutions for decades. :: The next day, Senator Byrd debated for hours lamenting and asking, "are we going into a police state?" when he looked at the language used in the appropriation budget for war. Byrd chairs the Appropriation Committee. He has been in Congress for 50 years slowing the young ones down. He was used to debating in previous years but nobody would listen today. The room was empty except for one who would come and go. "They want to pass this in a hurry." He had a problem with plans to integrate assets into the U.S. military into "all" aspects of the strategy. We seem to have a government within a government just like the CIA which pulled a cloak of secrecy around itself. Senator Jeff Sessions said that we have troops by Iraq already and they fly daily over Iraq. Saddam has moved 80,000 troops to the Kuwait border. :: President Bush has become a role model of more aggressive behavior. Not only did the Prime Minister of Pakistan rewrite his Constitution giving all the power to himself, but Prime Minister Putin attacked Georgia by preemptive strike. [C-SPAN Washington Journal] :: When asked if parties still matter a lady called in and said that Republicans represent self interest and Democrats selflessness. The Independent Party is in the center. It has gained one third of electoral votes. By 2010 political parties will cease to exist. It will be about issues: abortion; tough on crime, etc. [9-15-02] ----- SADDAM'S BIO: :: Saddam goes back to 1968 in government service. He was the head of Intelligence until 1979 when he became head of Iraq. Iraq became a Republic in 1958. Saddam has threatened to torch Saudi Arabia oil fields said editor of "Oil Daily". The U.S. is one of the biggest producers of oil. It is 50% foreign oil dependent. The U.S. is buying 1.5 million barrels of oil a day from Iraq. They wish to raise it to 5 to 7 million barrels a per day. Alaska is not a real alternative, not enough to get to make it worthwhile. President Bush is increasing storage, which is now 7 - 8 month worth to 80 additional days. The editor did not think that changing oil prices at the pump has much of an effect on the U.S. economy. She said that they can't lower the price. It would hurt the U.S. economy. There are 11 members in OPEC. They have a huge lobbie stepping in front of alternative supplies. ----- MILITARY PERSONNEL RESIGNING: ::They don't agree with the U.S. government policy in the Middle East. ----- THE UN MULTILATERAL POLICY VERSUS THE BUSH UNILATERAL POLICY. :: The U.N. Charter prohibits force. There needs to be authorization from the Security Council to proceed into war. There are 5 members on the Security Council: U.S., France, Britain, Russia and China. A Resolution has to be presented to the council. A country can abstain which has no effect on whether the resolution is adapted. :: The reason President Bush has expressed that Iraq is implicated in 9/11, he insists that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction. Anticipatory self defense, are reasons for war that could be recognized by the Security Council. :: Saddam has now complicated matters by wanting to comply and neutralize 2 or 3 significant violations to remove himself from the list of reasons for war. Saddam split the Security Council by this maneuver. Putin of Russia and Hussein have an economic interest. ----- PREDICTIONS OF A HORRIBLE WAR :: The professor predicted horrible consequences if we go to war. Iraq would not shy away from using whatever. A similar comment came up by from Ashley's interview with a representative of Iraq when she was in Iraq several weeks prior to this:development. He said weapon's inspectors at this point could become "a slaughter of the lambs." By asking inspectors into Iraq would be to allow them to spy on the weapons he has readied for war. That is why the pitched out before. They are nothing but spies, said Hussein. :: Scott Ritter, a GI and former U.N. weapon's inspector is to be admired to put himself in harms way trying avert a war. His life is being threatened for getting involved. He is using his own money which has been subsidized by benign organizations. He said that he has maxed out 3 credit card traveling to Iraq etc.. When asked were Iraq got their weaponry he said Western Europe which was facilitated by the U.S. Regime removal is the focus and oil is after the fact. :: One of the arguments against war is that there are many countries that have tyrants for leaders. We have military personnel in 104 countries out of 140 countries. We are 5% of the world population. ----- THE BUDGET: :: This year's budget in Washington D.C. Congress is $2 trillion stated a Representative on the Committee. :: The Senate only (excluding the House) wants to reinstate the PAY GO Rules to which only one person objected. Graham objected that the Senate planned to exclude the House rule on this issue. Pay Go means that money is spent as it comes in, which includes Social Security and all surplus can be used up for administrative costs. Pay as you Go only effects direct spending and has no effect on the "continuing resolution (a status when there is no budget passed)." :: What is in effect is a boundary of $760 billion to slow down the train before it crashes. A former White House Budget director said what is going to happen when the equity on homes, the only savings that people now are forced to dip into, erodes when they raise interest rates. ----- SOME OF TAMPA MILITARY BASE MOVED TO AFGHANISTAN :: President Bush has decided to move a part of the Tampa base to Afghanistan to bring the military headquarters closer to Iraq and they will have a certain amount of privacy. I heard him place an order for 6 + or - military ships costing in the billions of dollars. ----- FRANKLIN GRAHAM BUILDING A HOSPITAL IN AFGHANISTAN :: Last I checked Franklin Graham's whereabouts, he is building a hospital in Afghanistan and the military occupation in Afghanistan are building infrastructure there. The New World Order marches on. There is a law in US that grants ownership of land that has been trespassed at a certain point to the frequent tresspasser. The law grants that right to possession without a purchase. ----- GAINS THAT ARE ECONOMICALLY EFFICIENT :: Believe it or not, 'economic efficiency' is the culprit that caused the thousands of dedicated, hardworking Americans to lose their investments and retirement incomes. Why, because this law has been practiced and taught in law schools over the last 15 to 20 years. This philosophy has to do with the New World Order which is about money. It teaches that a manager may break the law if it is financially more efficient, in other words more economically efficient. The motto is to pay the fine. The financial world apparently is not based on morality anymore. :: This concept came up when Cynthia Williams, a Professor at the Law School of the University of Illinois College, was asked where the morality was in these CEOs who raised their earnings up to 575%, pay no taxes, get hundreds of millions of tax rebates even though they do mostly off shore transactions and walk away with billions without a jail sentence. :: Professor Williams stated that every time there are stock holder's decisions they are supposed to file a statement to the FCC and the FCC is underfunded. They do not have the personnel to evaluate thousands upon thousands of these filings. There is literally no enforcement. :: 85% of the CEOs admit that they cheat at golf. The rule for corporate accountability is accurate financial statements which are critical to the market and they are required to show accountability and maximize the shareholder's wealth not their own. The CEOs work for the shareholders. They are hired by them. $2 trillion dollars worth of records relating to social economic matters of public interest are not available nor disclosed. Consumers have lost $6 trillion to corporations and where are the penalties? :: The crash of 1929 lasted four years. 80% of stock was lost during that time. Only 2% of American citizens owned stock compared to 50% today. The shareholders are out of the loop. They have no voice. They have no idea that the philosophy of law and economics does not protect them. To violate the law if it increases profit is taught by 80% of the teachers and pounded into student's heads, was said at this conference about corporate crime. It facilitates economic efficiency. If a manager should violate a law to make gains, only the CEO wins. It pays well to breach a contract, do it because it is economically efficient. The fines don't go the shareholder but the government. The result has the effect of what is happening. The reason the CEOs stayed quiet about their deeds was to maximize their take. :: The Reagan administration was about economics and globalism. Deregulation of the market is behind it. Moral values have ceased to exist even if they are telling us that we are under God. They speak with forked tongues. ----- PANORAMIC VIEW OF THE WORLD :: Click on the link provided below. This is really a sight to behold. The image is a panoramic view of the world from the new space station. It is a night photo with the lights clearly indicating the populated areas. You can scroll East-West and North-South. Note that Canada's population is almost exclusively along the U.S. border. Moving east to Europe, there is a high population concentration along the Mediterranean Coast. It's easy to spot London, Paris, Stockholm and Vienna. Check out the development of Israel compared to that of the Arab countries. Note the Nile River and the rest of the "Dark Continent." After the Nile, the lights don't come on again until Johannesburg. Look at the Australia! and Outback and the Trans-Siberian Rail Route. Moving east, the most striking observation is the difference between North and South Korea. Note the density of Japan. It is an awesome picture of the Earth taken from the Boeing built Space Station last November on a perfect night with no obscuring atmospheric conditions. http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0011/earthlights_dmsp_big.jpg ----- EUROPEANS AND BRITS MUST ENTERTAIN PIGS. :: Farmers in Britain have 90 days to implement the new ruling, designed to "keep pigs happy and prevent them from chewing each other" (The Times, London, Jan. 29). A spokesman for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs suggested that soccer balls would probably work nicely but warned, "Farmers may also need to change the balls so the pigs don't get tired with the same one." Farmers who refuse to provide the proper entertainment for their pigs can be fined up to $1,500 or jailed for three months. [wayoflife.org] ----- RESOLUTION IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL :: Congressman Paul on war with Iraq: "The resolution is unconstitutional and unwise. It sends our troops into battle without a congressional declaration of war, citing the United Nations as authority for our actions. Our armed forces serve America, not the UN." http://www.house.gov/paul/congrec/welcome2002.htm ----- TRACKING TERRORISM 9/11 REPORT SAYS SAUDI ARABIA WENT UNEXAMINED :: WASHINGTON, Nov. 22 2003 -A draft report by the joint Congressional committee looking into the Sept. 11 attacks has concluded that the F.B.I. and the C.I.A, in their investigations, did not aggressively pursue leads that might have linked the terrorists to Saudi Arabia, senior government officials said today. The report charged among other things that the authorities had failed to investigate the possibility that two of the hijackers, Saudis named Khalid al-Midhar and Nawaq Alhazmi, received Saudi money from two Saudi men they met with in California in the year before the attacks. The committee's preliminary findings, which also accuse the Saudi government of a lack of cooperation with American investigators, have caused a bitter behind-the-scenes dispute between the panel's staff and officials at the F.B.I. and the C.I.A. At each agency, officials have disagreed with the draft findings, saying investigators vigorously pursued all available information related to Saudi Arabia... In a rebuttal report sent to the committee in recent days, the F.B.I. has tried to disprove several specific allegations by the committee. One of them was about Mr. Midhar and Mr. Alhazmi, who lived in San Diego a year before the attacks. While in California, the two met with Omar al-Bayoumi and Osama Bassnan, each of whom was receiving financial support from the Saudi government. The men were receiving stipends.. investigators should have followed up on the meetings of the four men to determine whether there might have been a Saudi link to the hijacking plot. The Bush administration has sought to maintain close ties with Riyadh even as investigators examining the backgrounds of the hijackers have complained that they have received little cooperation from the Saudi government. The tension between the joint inquiry staff and the F.B.I. and C.I.A. is the latest to evolve from the inquiry into lapses by intelligence and law enforcement agencies related to the Sept. 11 attacks. In a series of interim reports released during committee hearings in recent months, the joint panel has repeatedly criticized the performance of the two agencies. Mr. Midhar and Mr. Alhazmi, who were aboard the American Airlines plane that crashed into the Pentagon, were identified as Qaeda operatives by the C.I.A. in January 2001. But the C.I.A. did not ask the State Department to place their names on a watch list intended to prevent entry into the United States until late August. By then, they were both in the country. The C.I.A. sent information about the two men to the F.B.I. in late August, but by then there was little time left for the bureau to track them down. http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/23/international/middleeast/23TERR.html?todaysheadlines ----- MONEY FROM SAUDI ROYAL FAMILY INDIRECTLY HELPED TWO HIJACKERS :: WASHINGTON (Nov. 24) (AP) - Allegations that money from the Saudi royal family indirectly helped two Sept. 11 hijackers mean a well-financed terrorist structure still could be in place in America, capable of striking again, lawmakers said Sunday. A link between the Saudi government and the hijackers, if true, "raises the stakes substantially of what the threat is in the United States," said Democratic Sen. Bob Graham of Florida, outgoing chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. Such a network could "facilitate the next wave of terror." Saudi officials have denied doing anything intentionally to help the 19 hijackers, of whom 15 were from their country. Foreign policy adviser Adel al-Jubeir said Sunday, "We will be merciless against people in the war on terrorism." The FBI is investigating financial records indicating that Princess Haifa al-Faisal, wife of the Saudi ambassador, wrote monthly checks that ultimately went into the accounts of Omar al-Bayoumi and Osama Basnan. "If it's the royal family, (that) needs to be brought out," said Alabama Sen. Richard Shelby, top Republican on the intelligence panel. He said Saudi officials, despite their alignment with the United States, have promoted shady charities and fundamentalist strains of Islam that are hostile to America. With the latest allegations, Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona, "..But facts are facts," he said, turning to what he sees as Saudi complicity in the rise of anti-American radicalism. "The Saudi royal family been engaged in a Faustian bargain for years to keep themselves in power." ----- BUSH BUSHED BY ADVISERS ABOUT FACE :: Dana Milbank, Washington Post - President Bush is taken aback by a Janus-faced establishment's agenda shift. The mildmannered multiculturalism of 'Don't call it a Crusade, George!' has given way to the multilateralist aggression of 'This is Lepanto, World War Four, Islam versus the free world, the ultimate clash of civilisations!' The President finds himself in disagreement with the 'neo-conservative' radicals in his party over his efforts to portray Islam as a peaceful religion not responsible for anti-American terrorism. He has persistently called for tolerance of Muslims and described Islam as "a faith based upon peace and love and compassion" and committed to "morality and learning and tolerance." He told UN Secretary General Kofi Annan: "Some of the comments that have been uttered about Islam do not reflect the sentiments of my government or the sentiments of most Americans. Islam, as practiced by the vast majority of people, is a peaceful religion, a religion that respects others. Ours is a country based upon tolerance, Mr Secretary General, and we respect the faith and we welcome people of all faiths in America.' He exhorted the American public: 'Millions of our fellow citizens are Muslim. We respect the faith. We honor its traditions. Our enemy does not. Our enemy doesn't follow the great traditions of Islam. They've hijacked a great religion. The face of terror is not the true faith of Islam. That's not what Islam is all about. Islam is peace." Both the Bush administration and moderate governments in Arab and Muslim nations are struggling to prevent War On Terrorism from becoming what Osama bin Laden wants: a clash of civilizations, between the judeo-christian West and a resentful impoverished muslim world. But foreign policy hawks with advisory roles in the Bush administration have joined religious conservatives in taking issue with Bush's characterizations. They say the claim is dishonest and destined to fail. Kenneth Adelman, a former Reagan official who serves on the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board, says: "The more you examine the religion, the more militaristic it seems. After all, its founder, Mohammed, was a warrior, not a peace advocate like Jesus." Another member of the Pentagon advisory board, Eliot Cohen of Johns Hopkins School Of Advanced International Studies, wrote an article on Wall Street Journal's editorial page arguing that the enemy of the US is not terrorism but militant Islam: "The enemy has an ideology and an hour spent surfing the web will give the average citizen at least the kind of insights that he or she might have found during World Wars II and III by reading Mein Kampf or the writings of Lenin, Stalin or Mao. Nobody would like to think that a major world religion has a deeply aggressive and dangerous strain in it: a strain often excused or misrepresented in the name of good feelings. But uttering uncomfortable unpleasant truths is one of the things that defines leadership." Norman Podhoretz in Commentary magazine wrote: "Certainly not all Muslims are terrorists. But it would be dishonest to ignore the plain truth that Islam has become an especially fertile breeding-ground of terrorism in our time. This can only mean there is something in the religion itself that legitimizes the likes of Osama bin Laden. And indeed there is: the obligation imposed by the Koran to wage holy war or jihad against the infidels." Full story http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A55273-2002Nov29?language=printer. ----- TERROR WAR'S PARALLEL UNIVERSE :: Charles Lane, Washington Post - The Bush administration is developing a parallel legal system in which terrorism suspects, US citizens and noncitizens alike, may be investigated, jailed, interrogated, tried and punished without legal protections guaranteed by the ordinary system. The elements of this new system are already familiar from President Bush's orders and his aides' policy statements and legal briefs: indefinite military detention for those designated "enemy combatants," liberal use of "material witness" warrants, counterintelligence-style wiretaps, and searches led by law enforcement officials and for noncitizens trial by military commissions or deportation after strictly closed hearings. For example under authority it already is asserting in court cases, the administration with approval of the special Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court could order a clandestine search of a US citizen's home and based on the information gathered secretly declare the citizen an enemy combatant to be held indefinitely at a US military base. Courts would have very limited authority to second-guess the detention, to the extent that they were aware of it. At least one American has been shifted from the ordinary legal system into the parallel one: alleged al Qaeda "dirty bomb" plotter Jose Padilla, who is being held at a Navy brig, without the right to communicate with a lawyer or anyone else. US officials have told the courts that they can detain and interrogate him until the executive branch declares an end to the war against terrorism. Full story http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58308- 2002Nov30.html. ----- MEXICAN DRUG DEALERS TURNING U.S. INTO MAJOR DEPOTS DALTON, Ga. — By Tim Golden. This sturdy town in the Appalachian foothills likes to call itself "the carpet capital of the world," and its industry has thrived over the last decade as thousands of Mexican immigrants have flocked to jobs in the mills. More recently, though, federal and local law enforcement officials say the same pipeline of immigration and trade has been exploited by Mexican drug traffickers, who have helped turn this corner of northwestern Georgia into a busy distribution center for methamphetamine and other drugs. http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/16/national/16DRUG.html?ex=1038632400&en= 7a9ff6956c7e36a9&ei=5004&partner=UNTD ----- GLOBALIZATION GOES AGAINST FRENCH CULTURE :: Globalization goes against French culture stated Alain Juppe, former French Prime Minister. He said that France is taking a stand against becoming homogenized with the rest of the world which globalization demands. The French love their culture and want to preserve it under any circumstances. The new world government institution produces fear and frustration in France. They want to be exempted from the WTO, Unemployment is 9-10% in France compared to 5-6% in the U.S. and taxes run at 45% of the GNP when the U.S. stands at 35%. The reason their taxes are higher, education and healthcare are free. French workers rather than asking how much they are going to get in dollars, they want to know how much time off they get when they apply for a job. Young French people have different priorities. Leisure takes first place and then money. Changes yet to be accomplished to comply with globalization in France are: pensions, privatization, people from the private sector entering politics will find a huge salary difference. The deficiencies have to be delt with. They have to become efficient, the housing shortage has to be solved and they have to become committed to the principle of solidarity. (C-Span 2 - 10.31.02) ----- WHAT HAPPENED TO THE DOLLARS? C-Span 10.27.2002 It was revealed in the Georgia Senate Debate that the Stockmarket lost $5.7 trillion capital over the last two years. ISRAEL  NEWSLETTERS  NEWS INDEX  MAIN INDEX