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- GREETINGS
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To all
those who believe in Astrology, Freemasonry, Kabalah, Mormons
(Sunworship) or those who fit this category in Jeremiah
8:2
"And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon,
and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they
have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have
sought, and whom they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered,
nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth."
(Jeremiah 8:2 KJV )
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- We believe the KJV Bible 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
repent and accept 'His' righteousness as their righteousness.
They are those who accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior,
Jews first and then Gentiles. "Behold,
I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and
open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him,
and he with me." We invite you to take this
opportunity to say 'yes' to Jesus and commit your life to Him
only by clicking on this link: Salvation
- Luke 12:20,21 "But
God said unto him, "Thou fool,
this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall
those things be, which thou hast provided? So is he that layeth
up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God."
We pray the Lord will bless you with a thirst for truth and a
desire to serve Him exclusively, Jude 1:25 To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and
majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen."
- God has blessed us with a tremendous
world wide outreach. The Cephas
Network (4 Cephas websites) keeps growing every month. The month
of June 2008 grew to 20.75 gigabytes bandwidth usage in one month
which is stunning.
- If the information on hosthelp.com
is correct, "a web site can be very successful and receive
many visitors, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.. The page you are
reading now could be downloaded and viewed by two million ninety-seven
thousand one hundred and fifty-two visitors before utilizing
2 gigabytes of bandwidth! http://www.hosthelp.com/articles/size_matters.php
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- Apply that number to the following
and figure out how many visitors that amounts to at Cephas Ministry:
10 X 2,970,152 = 29,701,520 visitors a month.
- Enjoy our labor of love, Cephas Ministry
/ Library (1992)
- All submissions come from dedicated
researchers who work for your benefit to educate and keep you
up on developing events. God motivates the researchers and us
to keep at it around the clock if need be. You know He is behind
this effort since we do not get paid by the public. It is God
Who cares and gets the credit for all of it. We appreciate all
who contributed their research to us to put these newsletter
together. All Cephas Ministry does is organize the files and
media so you have access to as much as possible in one place
because there is much to learn to keep ahead of the Satanic movement
against committed Believers, the invisible Body of Christ Jesus,
His Church. We pray He will keep us standing through the coming
storm to reach our destiny which is Heaven bound. By the will
of God, to the saints .., and to the faithful in Christ Jesus:
Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the
Lord Jesus Christ. Amen
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- Cephas Ministry advocates KJV Bible study only for truth
necessary to become part of the Bride of Christ. The Bible states
that it is the only truth available to us.
- MORE GREETINGS to all newcomers to this list. We'd like to
introduce ourselves.
- To understand what is happening, one has
to know the Bible to compare notes.
- The first section is about the church.
The news about churches is unedited unless indicated by Ednotes.
The church as we knew it, is undergoing disintegration. This
began on a fast track in the early nineteen sixties when the
Catholic Church produced liberal Vatican II to replace Vatican
I.
- The trend since then has been ecumenical which is truly what
the word 'Catholicism' means: a universal religion all
inclusive and multicultural. The Bible calls for a final church
and today's church doesn't resemble what Jesus taught. The Word
of God has undergone many changes to fit the progressive modes.
Many new Bible translations have brought confusion. The Bible
calls for a falling away from the truth before
Jesus comes back for His Bride. The true believers are called
'Ekklesia.' Our newsletters prove this fact and prove that the
Bible is true from beginning to end.
- The second section is about globalism
where we bring your attention to the social, political and global
trend, the so called democratizing what is left of the world.
This is a deception since the underlying new world global government
is developed by implementing sustainable development. The
Bible prophesies that there will be ten kings (ten horns), each
king (horn) will receive a region of the world as a reward for
work well done for the Antichrist. This is the reason for the
present development of NAU (The North American Union) as well
as the war in the Middle East. It again proves that we are moving
to closure of the times of the Gentiles prophesied in the Bible.
The end result will not be Democracy but a form of Fascist Communism
(Public/Private Corporations enslaving mankind).
- The third section compliments End Time
teachings because Israel is the time piece of the Biblical Prophecy.
1948 was the beginning of the figtree representing Israel, coming
back to life. Israel was allowed to return to its land. Israel
is the rock upon which the world stumbles and crumbles. We watch
and visit Israel for signs which point to the Tribulation to
confirm that we are moving into that space of time.
- Watchmen on the wall do not solicit memberships. If you wish
to be notified when the newsletters are uploaded we invite you
to join. We have an email group that gets information when we
upload new information. Because of the workload newsletters are
sporadic and uploaded whenever it is possible. We love the Lord
with all our hearts and minds and our focus is the Great Commission
and anticipating the Second Coming of our Lord and Savior. Times
are pretty chaotic. Christian music and meditation on the Word
of God are great antidotes.
- Demand for books, videos, and audios is close to zero in
the library and bookstore confirming disinterest and a growing
apostasy or lack of funding. We are dismantling our inventory
to keep meeting fiancial obligations. We do not get donations
that cover costs and it has become difficult. We plan another
website for that purpose. "And as many as walk according
to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy, and upon the Israel
of God. From henceforth let no man trouble me: for I bear in
my body the marks of the Lord Jesus. Brethren, the grace of our
Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen. <<The
Apostle of Paul to the Galatians written from Rome.>> (Galatians 6:16-18)
- Our Mission and Statement of Faith are at
- http://www.cephasministry.com/statement_of_faith.html
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 SCRIPTURE STUDY - WHAT DID
JESUS MEAN IN MATT 16:18
- "And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and
upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell
shall not prevail against it."
- ASYMMETRIC JANUS PARALLELISM IN PETROS HOMONYM MATT 16:18
- The word play in Matthew 16:18 is a double entendre
on the homonym PETROS. "Thou art Peter, and upon this rock
I will build my church…"-(Matthew 16:18 KJV) "Peter"
petros (Aramaic ; Greek ) has two meanings, one Aramaic[i], one
Greek. Jesus used BOTH in an ASYMMETRIC JANUS PARALLELISM [ii]
Our LORD directed the Aramaic meaning (PeTRos PeTeR) to what
precedes-- Simon is the "First" born of the divinely
implanted "word of faith" (Romans 10:8)… and the
Greek (petros / rock) meaning to what followed, the immutable
"truth" (from which flows living water the church drinks),
upon that rock the church is built "Thou art Firstborn (PeTRos[iii])
and upon this (immutable life giving) petra (drinking from gave
you life), I will build my church."[iv] Continued:
- http://www.cephas-library.com/bible_believers_asymmetric_janus_parallelism_in_petros_homonym.html
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- ARCHAEOLOGISTS FIND QUEEN OF SHEBA'S PALACE AT AXUM, ETHIOPIA
- May 07, 2008 - DPA - The Earthtimes.org - Hamburg - Archaeologists
believe they have found the Queen of Sheba's palace at Axum,
Ethiopia and an altar which held the most precious treasure of
ancient Judaism, the Ark of the Covenant, the University of Hamburg
said Wednesday. Scientists from the German city made the startling
find during their spring excavation of the site over the past
three months. The Ethiopian queen was the bride of King Solomon
of Israel in the 10th century before the Christian era. The royal
match is among the memorable events in the Bible. Ethiopian tradition
claims the Ark, which allegedly contained Moses' stone tablets
on which the Ten Commandments were written, was smuggled to Ethiopia
by their son Menelek and is still in that country.
- The University said scientists led by Helmut Ziegert had
found remains of a 10th-century-BC palace at Axum-Dungur under
the palace of a later Christian king. There was evidence the
early palace had been torn down and realigned to the path of
the star Sirius. The team hypothesized that Menelek had changed
religion and become a worshipper of Sirius while keeping the
Ark, described in the Bible as an acacia-wood chest covered with
gold. Remains of sacrifices of bullocks were evident around the
altar. The research at Axum, which began in 1999, is aimed at
documenting the origins of the Ethiopian state and the Ethiopian
Orthodox Church. "The results we have suggest that a Cult
of Sothis developed in Ethiopia with the arrival of Judaism and
the Ark of the Covenant and continued until 600 AD," the
announcement said. Sothis is the ancient Greek name for a star
thought to be Sirius. The team said evidence for this included
Sirius symbols at the site, the debris of sacrifices and the
alignment of sacred buildings to the rising-point of Sirius,
the brightest star in the sky. http://www.earthtimes.org
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- THE GREATNESS AND GLORY OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST
by T. Austin-Sparks - Chapter 1 - The Function of the Son of
God - "Who being the effulgence of his glory, and the very
image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word
of his power" (Hebrews 1:3). "The god of this world
hath blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of
the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should
not dawn upon them" (2 Corinthians 4:4). "Who is the
image of the invisible God" (Colossians 1:15). Our subject
is the Greatness and the Glory of the Lord Jesus Christ, and
these passages are amongst many which declare that greatness
and glory. In Hebrews it is: "Who being the effulgence of
his glory"; in Corinthians it is: "The light of the
gospel of the glory of Christ"; and in Colossians it is:
"Who is the image of the invisible God". We begin by
noticing the function of the Son of God, and that function is
to be God's supreme representative of Himself. Those Scriptures
state His function to be the very effulgence of God's image,
the image of the invisible God, and that in Him is the glory
of God. The all-governing truth of the Scriptures is that by
the greatness and glory of His Son, God designs to show that
He is God alone. To put that in fewer words: Jesus Christ, as
God's Son, is the revelation of God. This defines the nature
of Jesus Christ, and sets forth His greatness and His glory.
Continued:
- http://www.cephasministry.com/believers_the_greatness_and_glory_of_the_lord_jesus_christ.html
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- THE SECOND COMING OF JESUS WILL BE ON A WHITE HORSE NOT IN
A UFO
- By Stephen Yulish PhD - February 20, 2008
 There is a statement that Jesus
said to the unbelieving Jews 2000 years ago that also applies
to many people interested in UFOs today. "I have come in
My Father's name and you do not receive Me; if another shall
come in his own name you shall receive him. How can you believe,
when you receive honor and fame from one another and you do not
seek the glory that is from the one and only God?" (John
5:43-44). What does this have to do with UFOs in this post modern
world of ours (see my article on Deconstructing UFOs in this
Post Modern World, UFO Digest, January 29, 2008)? Why should
anybody care what Jesus had to say 2000 years ago? After all,
the zeitgeist of today is that 'everything is possible and nothing
is certain'. The accepted wisdom is that the word of the cross
is foolishness (1 Corinthians 1:18). But what if, just what if,
the word of the cross is not foolishness but is instead the power
of God? What if these so called extraterrestrials are rather
fallen angels, evil spirits and demonic entities which are discussed
in the Bible (Genesis 6:2-4, Ephesians 6:12, 2 Peter 2:4, Jude
6)? That is what Jesus was speaking to. People will reject Him
and the truth but will accept ETs many of whom come in his name,
with open arms. They would rather accept a lie than the truth.
That is because people do not want to give up their sins. I sure
did not. They felt too good. I also wanted to find so called
Gnostic truth on my terms, in my way and still maintain control.
It is hard to let go and let God be in control. As I have discussed
before (My Early Descent into the Spirit World of Darkness and
my Later Ascent into the Godly World of Light, UFO Digest, February
7, 2008) Continued: http://www.ufodigest.com/news/0208/whitehorse.html
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- Mark 13:22 "For false Christs and false prophets
shall rise, and shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce, if it
were possible, even the elect."
- IS VISSARION THE CHRIST? 10,000 FOLLOWERS AND GROWING THINK
SO
 Reported by Clarissa
Ward, June 2008 - Deep in the heart of Siberia's birch forests
lies one of the largest and most remote religious communes of
the planet. More than 5,000 people have left their families and
their homes to move here and join the Church of the Last Testament,
which has more than 10,000 followers worldwide. The church centers
on one man. He is known simply as Vissarion, meaning "he
who gives new life," or simply as the teacher, and he claims
that he is Jesus Christ.
- I had heard about a self-proclaimed messiah in Siberia and
I decided to try to find him myself. Getting to Vissarion's commune
is not easy. From Moscow, the Russian capital, it is more than
2,000 miles and four time zones away. One begins by flying to
Abakan, a bleak city near the Mongolian border, dotted with crumbling
tsarist buildings and Soviet-style blocks. Driving through, I
decided to ask residents whether they had heard of Vissarion
and what they thought of him. Most people knew who he was, but
they didn't seem to like him much. Continued: http://www.eternalpath.com/vissarion.html
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- WHY ARE THERE SO FEW WATCHMEN ON THE WALL?
- Why are there so few watchers? We as believers are assigned
by the Lord Himself to be about the Father’s business -
that is of spreading the Gospel to the nations, this is true
and our first order of command. We also need to be sober, and
watchful because the days are evil: (1 Thess. 5: 6)(1 Pet. 4:
7)(Eph. 5: 16). In today’s evil times we also need watchmen
who will stand on the wall and sound the alarm when they see
the evil coming! Why is there such a small minority reporting
on issues and events to wake up and shake up an apathetic world
and church? Is the church sleeping? Your News Lady, Hollis Caravetta
E-mail: Holliscar@aol.com
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- SAUDI KING TO OPEN INTER-FAITH CONFERENCE IN MADRID
- MADRID (AFP) - Saudi King Abdullah opens an international
conference in Madrid on Wednesday aimed at allowing representatives
of the world´s great religions "to get to know each
other," the organisers said. The conference is organised
by the Muslim World League from an initiative by King Abdullah,
whose country hosts Islam´s two holiest shrines in Mecca
and Medina. The king "has been calling for this type of
dialogue between religions for the past three years," Saudi
Deputy Culture and Information Minister Saleh al-Namlah told
a news conference Monday. Around 200 participants are expected,
including representatives of the world´s major religions:
Islam, Christianity, Judaism and Buddhism.
Among them are the secretary general of the World Jewish Congress
Michael Schneider and Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, in charge of
dialogue between the Vatican and Muslims. The secretary general
of the Muslim World League, Abdullah al-Turki, said "the
aim of this inter-faith conference is for us to get to know each
other and to look for ways to cooperate. "We are not going
to discuss religious issues or common issues between religions
such as ethics, family, the environment," he said. After
an inaugural session on Wednesday attended by the Saudi king
and Spain´s King Juan Carlos, four closed-door round tables
will be held before a final communique on Friday. Spain was chosen
as the site for the conference as it is "a natural place
for this type of dialogue" since for centuries it has been
home to members of three of the world´s great religions,
said the Saudi ambassador to Spain, Saud bin Naif. Furthermore,
the UN Alliance of Civilizations, aimed at promoting dialogue
between different cultures, was the idea of Spanish Prime Minister
Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero. Despite this week´s initiative,
Saudi Arabia remains the only Arab Muslim country to ban all
non-Islamic religious practices on its soil, even though it has
a large community of non-Muslim expatriates. Last November King
Abdullah met Pope Benedict XVI during the first official visit
to the Vatican by a monarch from the ultra- conservative Saudi
kingdom. (Copyright © 2008 Agence France Presse. 07/14/08)
http://www.unitedjerusalem.org/index2.asp?id=1093941
- THE DANGER OF MADRID: http://www.unitedjerusalem.org/index2.asp?id=1093595
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- ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY CLAIMS CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE IS OFFENSIVE
TO MUSLIMS AND FAILS TO NOTE ISLAMIC DOCTRINE IS OFFENSIVE TO
CHRISTIANS
- Religion News Blog, Amsterdam, Netherlands - July 17, 2008
www.religionnewsblog.com
http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21778/archbishop-of-canterbury-claims-christian-doctrines-is-offensive-
- to-muslims-fails-to-note-islamic-doctrine-is-offensive-to-christians
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- CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY BANNED FROM UK SHOPPING CENTRE
Religion News Blog, Amsterdam, Netherlands - July 16, 2008 www.religionnewsblog.com
- The Church of Scientology has been banned from a Midland
shopping centre after a string of complaints that they had been
preaching to children. Church leaders understood to be from Birmingham
set up a stall at Wolverhampton’s Wulfrun Centre after making
a booking under the name Dianetics, the church’s main theory.
Bosses ordered preachers to pack up and leave after angry parents
said their children had been invited to take part in “stress
tests” and then lectured about the religion. “We had
complaints that kids had been invited to take part in a stress
test and were then being asked questions about religion,”
said operations manager Colin Quinton. “We told them that
we’d had complaints, and we wouldn’t be inviting them
back. It didn’t seem like a religious set-up and we wouldn’t
have allowed them in if we had realised who they were. We try
and stay neutral on issues of politics and religion.” Continued:
http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21774/scientology-shopping-center-ban
July 12: 2008 Global Scientology Protest… Your Mission:
Spy vs Sci
- http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21732/july-12-global-your-mission-spy-vs-sci
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- GOOGLE, YAHOO, AND THE INTERNATIONAL SCIENTOLOTY CRIME SYNDICATE
- What do Google (NSDQ: GOOG), Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), and The
Church of Scientology have in question? They’re among the
dozens named as defendants in a lawsuit filed on Tuesday in a
Florida federal court. The plaintiff, Peter Letterese, is alleging
that The Church of Scientology runs a worldwide criminal network
and has been assisted by Google, Yahoo, and the other defendants.
Really, it’s not clear what the plaintiff is talking about.
And that’s a shame, because if you’re going to make
wild accusations, they may as well be entertaining. It seems
Letterese, an ex-Scientologist, had a copyright dispute with
the Church of Scientology in the past and lost. Continued:
- http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21776/peter-letterese-scientology-lawsuit
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POPE BENEDICT XVI TO BRING SEVEN EXTRA SINS TO D.C.
- By Pier Paolo Cito/Associated Press - March 10, 2008 - It's
fair to say that Washington's Catholic community is currently
up to its eyeballs in Pope Fever, what with the pontiff's exclusive
April 17 mass at the new Nationals stadium only a little over
a month away. Turns out, Pope Benedict XVI will be bringing more
than the Popemobile with him to D.C. Bloomberg News reports that
today the Vatican has officially created seven brand new sins,
which will no doubt be the cornerstone of many of the Pope's
big upcoming masses. The new so-called "social sins"
are in addition to the familiar "deadly sins" that
that crazy dude in that movie used as a reason to kill Gwyneth
Paltrow. The new sins are:
- 1. 'Bioethical' violations such as birth control
2. 'Morally dubious' experiments such as stem cell research
3. Drug abuse
4. Polluting the environment
5. Contributing to widening divide between rich and poor
6. Excessive wealth
7. Creating poverty
Just to clear up any confusion, the original sins, Pride, Envy,
Gluttony, Lust, Anger, Greed and Sloth, are still in effect.
We repeat, these new sins don't cancel out the old ones, so get
off your butt and quit lusting after your boss who you are so
envious of that you're stealing from the company and boasting
about it. And while you're at it, stop taking the Pill, smoking
weed, littering and conducting potentially lifesaving medical
research. Otherwise, you'll never get one of those coveted papal
mass tickets. Continued: http://dcist.com/2008/03/10/pope_to_bring_s.php
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- Ednote: from an email: "We just returned from a PFO
conference. What came up:
- The Emergent church one of the leaders
put it this way. " this is not just the same old message
with new methods. We're rediscovering Christianity as an
Eastern religion"
- EmergING Church latest versions of liberalism
EmerGENT--want change in theology as well as worship. Deny essentials
of the faith, want secular experiential services to draw youth.
The seeker sensitive now doing a paradigm shift into this
'emergent /contemplative/Eastern religion' seems this is
a return to Roman Catholic practices including things like Medieval
rituals, Prayer stations, Labyrinths, candle/incense use, icons,
more stained glass, darkened worship rooms, completive prayer
to find the God inside! Leaders include Brian
McLaren, Bill Hybels of Willow Creek and Rob Bell of Mars Hill.
Rob Bell has a ticket/pass to meet soon with the Dalai
Lama - Websites: Emergent Village http://www.emergentvillage.org/
- The Ooze http://www.theooze.com/main.cfm
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- BUSH WHITE HOUSE FIRST "CATHOLIC" PRESIDENCY?
 How sad that the
"born-again" leader of the free world should give a
royal welcome to the leader of a religion which holds one billion
people in spiritual bondage.
A flurry of publicity during the pope's visit this year attempted
to position the George Bush White House as "the first truly
[Roman] Catholic presidency." Evidence presented cited the
two new U.S. Supreme Court justices, John Roberts and Samuel
Alito appointed by Bush bringing to five the number of Roman
Catholics on the bench. We are told that he is also surrounded
with RC advisors, cabinet members and speechwriters. His royal
welcome for Pope Benedict further reinforces the idea that the
president has introduced a new era of Vatican influence. Continued:
http://www.cephas-library.com/catholic_bush_white_house_first_catholic_presidency.html
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- BUSH BROUGHT A GIFT FOR THE POPE: THE ALLIANCE BETWEEN CATHOLICS
AND EVANGELICALS: http://chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it/articolo/7045?&eng=y
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- WHO IS DALAI LAMA?
- The Dalai Lama's biography - His Holiness the 14th the Dalai
Lama Tenzin Gyatso, is the head of state and spiritual leader
of the Tibetan people. He was born Lhamo Dhondrub on 6 July 1935,
in a small village called Taktser in northeastern Tibet. Born
to a peasant family, His Holiness was recognized at the age of
two, in accordance with Tibetan tradition, as the reincarnation
of his predecessor the 13th Dalai Lama, and thus an incarnation
Avalokitesvara, the Buddha of Compassion. The Dalai Lamas are
the manifestations of the Bodhisattva (Buddha) of Compassion,
who chose to reincarnate to serve the people. Lhamo Dhondrub
was, as Dalai Lama, renamed Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe
Tenzin Gyatso - Holy Lord, Gentle Glory, Compassionate, Defender
of the Faith, Ocean of Wisdom. Tibetans normally refer to His
Holiness as Yeshe Norbu, the Wishfulfilling Gem or simply Kundun
- The Presence. The enthronement ceremony took place on February
22, 1940 in Lhasa, the capital of Tibet. Education in Tibet He
began his education at the age of six and completed the Geshe
Lharampa Degree (Doctorate of Buddhist Philosophy) when he was
25 in 1959. At 24, he took the preliminary examinations at each
of the three monastic universities: Drepung, Sera and Ganden.
The final examination was conducted in the Jokhang, Lhasa during
the annual Monlam Festival of Prayer, held in the first month
of every year Tibetan calendar. Continued: http://www.tibet.com/DL/biography.html
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- [Ednote: Every Christian should realize that Deepak Chopra
has been very active on various levels and visible on the media
sharing his philosophy and I believe he has influenced Christianity
in the Emergent movement more than anyone else. Notice Oprah
/ [CH]Opra / Obama running for the spirit. Obama said that Christianity
is past history last I heard him speak. Why does he call himself
a Christian??]
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- WHO IS JESUS? HE'S THREE PEOPLE SAYS DEEPAK CHOPRA
- NEW YORK (Reuters) - Who is Jesus? According to spiritual
guru Deepak Chopra, there are three interpretations.
 In
his book "The Third Jesus," published this week, Chopra
says there is a "sketchy historical figure," a second
"abstract theological creation" and a third Jesus with
the highest level of enlightenment -- what Chopra calls God-consciousness.
"I want to offer the possibility that Jesus was truly, as
he proclaimed, a savior," Chopra wrote. "Not the savior,
not the one and only Son of God. Rather Jesus embodied the highest
level of enlightenment. "He spent his brief adult life describing
it, teaching it, and passing it on to future generations,"
he said. "Jesus intended to save the world by showing others
the path to God-consciousness." Chopra, author of more than
50 books and head of the spiritual group Alliance for
a New Humanity, describes God-consciousness as "a metaphor
for a shift in consciousness that makes Jesus's teachings totally
real and vital." He said he began searching for the third
Jesus as a child attending a Catholic Irish missionary
school in India after being fascinated by what he described at
the "most interesting, romantic, passionate, spiritual story
of all time." "Yet I was struck by the fact that my
friends, who were part of the Church, had been indoctrinated
into a belief system where guilt was actually a virtue and I
couldn't quite come to terms with that," Chopra told Reuters
in an interview. "I said to myself there must be a third
Jesus, a state of consciousness that I can actually
relate to, and I started to really study the New Testament and
the Bible," he said.
- EAST MEETS WEST
- Chopra paints this third Jesus as one of both Eastern
and Western spirituality. "Leave aside the differences
in the language of it -- they are all talking about the same
thing," he said. "So I hope in the very least it will
contribute to some healing of the rift in our collective soul,
which is the cause of all the wars and all the problems we're
having today." Chopra said the Jesus created by the Catholic
Church was confusing because although the religion had done
a lot of good in the world, it had also taken part "in the
Crusades, in witch hunts, in burning people on the stake, homophobia,
depriving women of their rights, all kinds of things." "The
present day crisis in Christianity is it's bogged down in
issues like -- what would Jesus do? They make pronouncements
on things like abortion, women's rights, homophobia, stem cell
research -- nothing to do with Christ," he said.
"It influences our politics, it influences our national
policy, it influences whether we go to war or not in the name
of God," he said. "It's insanity of the utmost extreme."
Chopra said he hoped readers would take away a practical way
to understand the New Testament and understand that engaging
in contemplative meditation can lead to positive change.
"Everything changes for the good," he said. "The
way we think, the way we behave, the way we feel, the way we
have our personal relationships, our social interactions, our
environment all changes in an evolutionary direction because
we have shifted in our own consciousness." And that, he
said "is precisely what is meant by the kingdom of heaven
is within you." (Editing by Bill Trott) http://www.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/
- idUSN1918295720080221?feedType=RSS&feedName=entertainmentNews&rpc=22&sp=true
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- "OPRAH AND FRIENDS" TO TEACH COURSE ON NEW AGE
CHIRST
- By Warren Smith - November 2007 - See also Oprah
and Eckhart Do the New Age Shift by Warren Smith - The
twisted "truths" of The Shack & A Course in Miracles
- and From
God's Truth to the "New Spirituality" - Oprah Winfrey
will be letting out all the stops on her XM Satellite Radio program
this coming year. Beginning January 1, 2008, “Oprah &
Friends” will offer a year-long course on the New Age teachings
of A Course in Miracles. A lesson a day throughout the year will
completely cover the 365 lessons from the Course in Miracles
“Workbook.” For example, Lesson #29 asks you to go
through your day affirming that “God is in everything I
see.” Lesson #61 tells each person to repeat the affirmation
“I am the light of the world.” Lesson #70 teaches the
student to say and believe “My salvation comes from me.”
By the end of the year, “Oprah & Friends” listeners
will have completed all of the lessons laid out in the Course
in Miracles Workbook. Those who finish the Course will have a
wholly redefined spiritual mindset—a New Age worldview that
includes the belief that there is no sin, no evil, no devil,
and that God is “in” everyone and everything. A Course
in Miracles teaches its students to rethink everything they believe
about God and life. The Course Workbook bluntly states: “This
is a course in mind training” and is dedicated to “thought
reversal.”
- http://www.crossroad.to/articles2/007/smith-oprah.htm
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- OPRAH'S PLAN TO BRING THE NEW AGE TO MILLIONS OF WOMEN
- In 2008 it is Oprah's Plan to Bring the New Age to Millions
of Women. Starting January 1st 2008, New Age advocate Marianne
Williamson began a
year long course on Oprah
& Friends radio, teaching the New Age "bible"
A Course in Miracles. Former New Age follower Warren Smith explains
the origins of A Course in Miracles: In 1965 Columbia University
Professor of Medical Psychology, Helen Schucman, heard an "inner
voice" saying, "This is a course in miracles. Please
take notes." Schucman's initial resistance was overcome
when the "inner voice," identifying itself as "Jesus,"
told her the purpose of the Course [i.e., A Course in Miracles,
ed.]: The world situation is worsening to an alarming degree.
People all over the world are being called on to help, and are
making their individual contributions as part of an overall prearranged
plan. Part of the plan is taking down A Course in Miracles, and
I am fulfilling my part in the agreement, as you will fulfill
yours. You will be using abilities you developed long ago, and
which you are not really ready to use again. Because of the acute
emergency, however, the usual slow, evolutionary process is being
by-passed in what might best be described as a "celestial
speed-up." (Reinventing Jesus Christ, p. 8) Continued: http://www.cephas-library.com/na_oprahs_plan_to_bring_new_age_to_millions
of women.html
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- A PROPOSAL FOR RELIGIOUS DIALOGUE BY KING ABDULLAH
 King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
New York, Mar 28, 2008 / 01:05 am (CNA).- A proposal for religious
dialogue presented by King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia has prompted
warm reactions from several Jewish, Christian, and Muslim leaders
in what could be a major development in inter-religious relations,
the Associated Press reports.
- "The idea is to ask representatives of all monotheistic
religions to sit together with their brothers in faith and sincerity
to all religions as we all believe in the same God," King
Abdullah said Monday night at a Riyadh seminar on "Culture
and the Respect of Religions." King Abdullah said he presented
the idea to Pope Benedict XVI when he visited the Vatican in
November of last year. Saying the Pope had 'warmly welcomed'
him in 'a meeting of a human to a human which I would never forget,'
the king said he aimed 'to seek the consent of Allah according
to what he ordered in the religions: the Torah, Bible and Quran.'
'I pray for Allah to let us meet on one word,' the king said,
according to a statement published on the website of Saudi Arabia’s
Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The king said he planned to hold
conferences to learn the opinion of Muslims from other parts
of the world, after which he would meet with “our brothers'
in Christianity and Judaism "so we can agree on something
that guarantees the preservation of humanity against those who
tamper with ethics, family systems and honesty." Continued:
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=12177
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- RICK WARREN APPOINTED ADVISOR TO THE TONY BLAIR FAITH FOUNDATION
[Don't forget Tony Blair just converted to Catholicism, that
should tell you something about Catholicism. Obama has joined
this bandwagon as well by promising that he will reinstate the
Faithbased Programs . President Bush used this promise
without following through. Tonight Obama said that each of us
citizens have a duty to serve. (He sounds like he is already
running the U.S.) That was another echo from George Bush. He
wanted two years of service by every citizen in their community
in 2000. It turned out to be just rhetoric.]
 Rick Warren is the founding pastor
of Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, Calif. — one of the
largest churches in the United States — and author of the
New York Times bestseller “The Purpose Driven Life.”
In his bestselling book, The Purpose Driven Life, megachurch
pastor Rick Warren said studying end-times prophecy distracts
Christians from fulfilling the missions God has given each of
them. In context, their missions should focus primarily on spreading
the gospel, according to Warren (see pages 285-286). He said,
‘If you want Jesus to come back sooner, focus on fulfilling
your mission, not figuring out prophecy. It is easy to get distracted
and sidetracked from your mission because Satan would rather
have you do anything besides sharing your faith. He will let
you do all kinds of good things as long as you don’t take
anyone to heaven with you.’
- Yet, if Warren had studied prophecy, he’d know better
than serving on the advisory council of the Tony Blair Faith
Foundation.
- The foundation’s stated purpose is to harness ‘faith
as a force for good’ in the
world, by getting people of different faiths
to work together to tackle global poverty and conflict.
It was launched Friday in New York at an event moderated by Christiane
Amanpour, CNN’s chief international correspondent. Read
about it here. Continued:
- http://www.fulfilledprophecy.com/commentary/what-holly-thinks-rick-warren-appointed-advisor-t/
- Warren's PEACE plan: http://www.thepeaceplan.com/
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- YOU DIDN'T KNOW HARRY POTTER WAS JEWISH?
 April. 28, 2008 -
By Nathan Thornburgh - It discusses how some mystic, Hassidic,
kabbalistic, meshugeh (crazy) Jews believe that the Harry Potter
books follow their misguided beliefs. That is not surprising
since both advocate gnostic new age dabblings. How sad. As I
have said for years, many Jews searching for the truth
fall into mysticism as I did. Read what happens when the author
Nathan says the name of Jesus only as as an exclamation to the
'mystic'. Oy! There has been a resurgence of late in the ancient
Jewish mystical practice of Kabbalah as a result of many Hollywood
types, some Jewish and some not, falling into this spiritual
delusion. Don't be fooled, dabbling in this type of endeavor
can have serious consequences on you and your children's lives.
I am not going to quote scripture to you or give you an intellectual
argument for avoiding Kabbalah. I am going instead to tell you
a real story about one person's
descent into the spiritual arrogance of Kabbalah and hope that
it scares the hell out of you.
That person was me! While I was brought up in a more or less
traditional Jewish household and went to an after school Cheder
(Hebrew School) from age 9-13 to prepare for my Bar Mitzvah,
I was always
interested in way out things. I loved science fiction novels
and as a young teen even wrote a
story for Analog Science Fiction magazine about life on Mars.
My interests gradually moved into
study of philosophy, religion, and mysticism. I became what the
Bible speaks of as a Gnostic. I
wanted to commune directly with God. Forget the traditional religions
and their outdated
practices. I was trying to find knowledge (gnosis) of God. I
meditated, studied astrology,
numerology, UFOs, Hinduism, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, and death
and dying research. I studied
my dreams, alternate states of consciousness, and gradually found
myself studying Jewish
mysticism. I was excited to find that the Zohar (23 volume Kabbalah
bible) spoke of astrology,
reincarnation (gilgul), spirit guides, and many other subjects
that I loved. Now I could be so
called New Age and Jewish as well. I loved it. Continued:
- http://www.cephas-library.com/You Didn't Know Harry
Potter Was Jewish.html
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- THE TROUBLE WITH IRON AND CLAY - THE WEU TEN IS THE ONLY
ALLIANCE STANDING
- The Lisbon Treaty was rejected Thursday by Irish voters.
What does their vote mean for the EU and for the WEU Ten? Guest
columnist Mishael Meir — an attorney with interest in EU
legal development — answers this question. Ireland’s
No vote on the Lisbon Treaty tells us just how brittle the EU
structure really is. The existing EU treaties gave rise to a
power-thirsty oligarchic government that overlays 27 sovereign
democracies. It’s quite a brittle blend of iron and clay,
an iron fist attempting to rule over the pliable clay of democracy.
Having bullied the vote on the Lisbon Treaty out of citizens’
hands from all but one democracy, the EU heads of state concocted
a bait and switch: get Ireland to say yes by hiding their plans
for expansion of the EU military and security mechanisms until
after the Irish had voted. See here, here and here. Up until
the vote results came in early Friday morning, EU leaders had
been huddled behind closed doors, divvying up the power they
hoped would soon be handed over by the member states under the
Lisbon Treaty. Continued: http://www.fulfilledprophecy.com/commentary/eye-on-the-eu-the-trouble-with-iron-and-clay/
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- TODAY'S TONGUES BOOKLET
- http://www.cephas-library.com/todaystonguesbooklet.pdf
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- MEDITATION EXPLOSION - 17 MILLION MEDIATORS!
Over the last five years, 7 million people have joined the ranks
of meditators. by Ray Yungen and Lighthouse Trails Editors -
In 2003, Time magazine reported (in a feature
article on meditation) that 10 million Americans practiced
meditation. Now, four years later, Dr. Rick Levy, in his book
Miraculous Health, claims that number is now 17 million in the
United States alone. This means that since A Time of Departing
came out, 7 million people in this country have embraced the
practice of meditation. Dr. Levy makes it clear that the type
of mediation of which he speaks is the eastern-New Age kind as
the essence of his book is that meditation is a door way to the
"superconscious." This is a very significant revelation
to us at Lighthouse Trails because in the Time magazine article
it revealed that meditation had grown by about 1/2 million people
a year between 1993 and 2003. Now, it appears to be growing at
three and a half times that rate at about 1.7 million people
a year. Keep in mind that we are not talking about people that
have just embraced a particular belief system intellectually
or rationally. We are talking about mystics, people who are in
touch with the supernatural realm on a continuous basis. We believe
this remarkable acceleration is due to two factors. Continued:
- http://www.cephas-library.com/new_age_17_million_medittation_explosion.html
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- A WARNING ABOUT MICHAEL PEARL'S NO GREATER JOY MINISTRY
- February 27, 2008 (first published September 5, 2005) by
David Cloud www.wayoflife.org Over the past few years a number
of people have asked me about Greater Joy Ministries operated
by Michael and Debi Pearl, and as I have traveled on preaching
trips I have found that many families in good fundamental Baptist
churches are using their materials. The following is a report
on my investigation into this ministry. I have read two of Michael's
books as well as issues of No Great Joy magazine, and I have
looked carefully through the material available at their web
site. There is much to praise in Greater Joy Ministries. The
Pearl's book To Train up a Child contains many very helpful things
(though it often goes beyond clear biblical precepts and enters
into a legalistic "Pearlosophy," which is presented
as dogmatically as the parts that are supported directly by Scripture,
such as some of his teaching about education and other things
that almost require an Amish-like lifestyle).
- The Pearls rightly avoid "Christian" psychology.
They promote godly husband-wife relationships. They teach parents
how to reach the child's heart rather than enforcing mere externals.
They focus on how crucial it is for the parents to live what
they preach, to avoid hypocrisy. They teach a biblical approach
to corporal punishment without apology. They teach parents how
to jealously and carefully protect their children from evil influences.
They give some excellent and timely warnings about the danger
of the average church youth group that throws young people together
in a secular fashion and thus allows strong but worldly personalities
to corrupt heretofore innocent youth (which is exactly what happened
to me as I grew up in a Southern Baptist congregation). They
are clear about parental responsibility, that the "buck
stops here" with Christian parents in regard to child training.
Continued: http://www.cephas-library.com/apostasy_warning_about_michael_pearls_ministry.html
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- UNQUESTIONING LOYALTY TO PASTORAL LEADERSHIP THE MARK
OF A CULT
- Updated May 8, 2008 (first published September 10, 1999)
by David Cloud, wayoflife.org - For church leaders to demand
unquestioning loyalty is a perversion of biblical truth and is
the mark of a cult. The Bible gives authority to pastors and
elders (Heb. 13:7, 17), but that authority is not unlimited or
unquestionable. Those who demand blind obedience from their people
are cult leaders. Consider the following description of the authority
that was wielded by James and Ellen White in the early days of
the Seventh-day Adventist cult: "ELDER AND MRS. WHITE RAN
AND RULED EVERYTHING WITH AN IRON HAND. Not a nomination to office,
not a resolution, not an item of business was ever acted upon
in business meetings till all had been first submitted to Elder
White for his approval. Till years later, we never saw an opposition
vote on any question, for no one dared to do it. Hence, all official
voting was only a farce. The will of Elder White settled everything.
If any one dared to oppose anything, however humbly, Elder White
or wife quickly squelched him. LONG YEARS OF SUCH TRAINING TAUGHT
THE PEOPLE TO LET THEIR LEADERS THINK FOR THEM; HENCE, THEY ARE
UNDER AS COMPLETE SUBJECTION AS ARE THE CATHOLICS" (D.M
Canright, Seventh-day Adventism Renounced, 1898). This description
was given by a man who was a faithful member of the Seventh-day
Adventist Church for 28 years and who became one of its top leaders.
D.M. Canright knew James and Ellen White intimately. He left
the Seventh-day Adventist Church in 1884 and became a Baptist
pastor in Michigan until his death in 1919 - THE FRIGHTFUL FACT
IS THAT THE ABOVE DESCRIPTION OF THE PERVERTED AUTHORITY THAT
WAS EXERCISED BY JAMES AND ELLEN WHITE IN THEIR ADVENTIST CULT
PERFECTLY DESCRIBES THE AUTHORITY THAT IS EXERCISED BY SOME FUNDAMENTAL
BAPTIST PASTORS. If I were to publish Canright's description
of perverted church authority without including the names of
James and Ellen White and without explaining who this describes
and when it was written, some church members in independent Baptist
churches would be tempted to write to me and charge me with libeling
their own pastors!
- http://www.cephas-library.com/bible_believers_unquesitoning_loyalty_is_a_sign_of_a_cult.html
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- CHURCH BUILDS $1 MILLION MANSION FOR REV. WRIGHT
TINLEY PARK - Welcome home, Rev. Wright - March 30, 2008
- BY KRISTEN SCHORSCH SouthtownStar - Trinity United Church
of Christ is building Barack Obama's controversial former pastor
a million-dollar Tinley Park home complete with an elevator,
whirlpool, butler's pantry, circular driveway and four-car garage,
building plans show.
- The four-bedroom home being built for the Rev. Jeremiah Wright
is in the Odyssey Club neighborhood, which boasts some of Tinley
Park's largest homes and a mix of town homes. It backs up to
the Odyssey Country Club and golf course.
- Continued: http://www.suntimes.com/business/867629,CST-NWS-wright29.article#
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- JOSEPH SMITH WAS A MASTER MASON .
Notwithstanding this supposed "Royal Arch stock," Forsberg
suggests that Joseph Smith was unable to join a Masonic lodge
because of a slight limp sustained in his boyhood leg surgery
(pp. 17, 22). Forsberg fails to identify, however, what sources
suggest that a rule excluding someone so afflicted existed in
New York Freemasonry. Instead, he states Joseph's "risk
of rejection" as a universal truism, ignoring the fact that
Joseph was later raised to the sublime degree of a Master Mason
in Nauvoo. This "limping Joseph" theory becomes critical
because Forsberg argues that, being unable to join a Masonic
lodge, Joseph invented his own version of Freemasonry, with The
Book of Mormon being a thinly veiled Masonic "monitor"
(p. 22)-that is, a book of Masonic ritual instruction.
http://saintsalive.com/mormonism/smith_and_temple_doom.htm
http://www.webcom.com/gnosis/ahp.htm
http://maxwellinstitute.byu.edu/display-print.php?table=review&id=566
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- BEWARE OF TONY CAMPOLO
- March 5, 2008 by David Cloud WayOfLife.org - Tony Campolo
is a popular "evangelical" speaker and author He is
professor emeritus of Sociology at Eastern University and an
ordained minister in the liberal American Baptist Convention.
According to Wikipedia, he currently serves as an associate pastor
of the Mount Carmel Baptist Church in West Philadelphia, whereas
his wife attends Central Baptist Church in Wayne, Pennsylvania.
In an interview with me at the New Baptist Covenant Celebration
in Atlanta in January 2008, he confirmed that he and his wife
attend different churches. Campolo is associated with the emerging
church. For example, he co-authored Adventures in Missing the
Point with Brian McLaren. McLaren also endorsed Campolo's book
Speaking My Mind: The Radical Evangelical Prophet Tackles the
Tough Issues Christians Are Afraid to Face (2004).
- Campolo is a master entertainer. No doubt about it. Of course,
that is the kind of speaker who is popular in this confused,
carnal hour. Campolo is dynamic, interesting, and personable.
He appeals to the young and to the old. He can make you laugh,
and he can make you cry. He is full of zeal. He can move people.
But Campolo is a dangerous man because of his aberrant theology.
- A SHAM EVANGELICAL "TRIAL"
- After Campolo published the book A Reasonable Faith some
evangelical leaders became concerned that he was teaching universalism.
Campolo developed the idea that "Christ lives in all human
beings, regardless of whether they are Christians" He asserted
that the resurrected Jesus of history is "actually is present"
in each person and said, "Jesus is the only Savior, but
not everybody who is being saved by Him is aware that He is the
one who is doing the saving." When Campus Crusade for Christ
and Youth for Christ cancelled Campolo's speaking engagement
at Youth Congress '85, the Christian Legal Society organized
a "reconciliation panel" let by J.I. Packer. After
examining the book and questioning Campolo the panel came to
the amazing conclusion that though his statements were "methodologically
naïve and verbally incautious." Christianity Today
editor Kenneth Kantzer wrote that Campolo was entirely orthodox.
- Campolo told Christianity Today, "I'm worried that evangelical
intellectuals will not say anything except the old phrases and
the old worn out terminology ... The way evangelical Christianity
is doing theology really bothers me. If everybody has to say
only things that they know are safely orthodox, if we lose the
capacity to be open and to share ideas that people may consider
heretical, I think we will lose our creativity." Continued:
http://www.cephas-library.com/apostasy_beware_of_tony_campolo.html
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- NONE DARE CALL IT APOSTASY
- What is apostasy? - April 27, 2008 - by Ron and Karen Schwartz
- Most Christians believe that the word “apostasy”
is synonymous with social decadence. When we hear this word applied
to the state of the church, many Christians assume that it has
to do with sin or backsliding. But being backslidden does not
really capture the meaning of the word. In fact, Christians don’t
need to be backslidden to be apostate. There are many respected
and devout Christians today filling our churches who are actually
living in apostasy.
- Understanding Apostasy
- Our English word “apostasy” comes from the Greek
word “apostasia,” which is found in only a few places
in the New Testament. The most popular of these is 2 Thessalonians
2:3: “Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day
shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that
man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition”. The words
“fall,” “fallen,” and “falling,”
as translated in the New Testament, most often come from derivatives
of the Greek word “pipto” (“to fall down or descend”
- used both figuratively and literally). When used in a spiritual
context, the word “pipto” usually describes sin or
depravity. However, in this verse, the word “apostasia”
is used, which (in the New Testament) points to something other
than sin. Continued: http://www.cephas-library.com/apostasy_none_dare_call_it_apostasy.html
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- WHO ART THOU THAT JUDGEST ANOTHER MAN'S SERVANT?
- Updated March 11, 2008 (first published June 10, 1997) by
David Cloud - The following is from the book JUDGE NOT! IS IT
LEGALISM TO JUDGE SIN AND ERROR? This book is a reply to 21 of
the most common charges that are brought against a fundamentalist
Bible approach to Christianity. - These are the challenges that
every fundamentalist Bible-believing Christian must learn to
deal with, because there is no part of the world so remote that
the believers there will not be confronted with this thinking.
The sections of the book are as follows: The Bible Says We Should
Not Judge; Love is Nonjudgmental and Tolerant; Being Strict about
Biblical Issues is Legalism; Fundamentalists Are Pharisees; Jesus
Told Us Not to Forbid Others; Why Don't You Follow Matthew 18?
We Should Heed Gamaliel's Advice; We Should Leave the Tares until
the Harvest; We Should Not Touch the Lord's Anointed; If We Don't
Stand Together We Will Hang Separately; The Christian Army Shoots
Its Own Wounded; God Does Not Look on the External Appearance;
We Will Be in Heaven Together; The Christian Life Should Be Liberty
and Fun; We Should Be All Things to All Men; Denominational Divisions
Should Be Erased; It is Not Possible to Know That Your Doctrine
Is Right; Loving Jesus Is All that Is Important; Fundamentalism
Is a Belief in the Five Fundamentals.. Continued:
- http://www.cephas-library.com/bible_believers_who_art_thou_that_judgest_another_mans_servant.html
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- N 1945 "3" LEADERS DIED IN ONE MONTH: ROSEVELT,
HITLER AND MUSSOLINI
- Zechariah 11:8 Three shepherds also I cut off in one month;
and my soul lothed them, and their soul also abhorred me. Note:
Jamieson, Fausset - Brown Commentary. about Zechariah 11:8 Three
shepherds . . . I cut off--literally, "to cause
to disappear," to destroy so as not to leave a vestige of
them. The three shepherds whom Messiah removes are John, Simon,
and Eleazar, three leaders of factions in the Jewish war [DRUSIUS].
Or, as Messiah, the Antitype, was at once prophet, priest, and
king, so He by the destruction of the Jewish polity destroyed
these three orders for the unbelief of both the rulers and people
[MOORE]. If they had accepted Messiah, they would have had all
three combined in Him, and would have been themselves spiritually
prophets, priests, and kings to God. Refusing Him, they lost
all three, in every sense.
one month--a brief and fixed space of time (Ho 5:7). Probably
alluding to the last period of the siege of Jerusalem, when all
authority within the city was at an end [HENDERSON].
loathed them--literally, "was straitened" as to them;
instead of being enlarged towards them in love (2Co 6:11-12).
The same Hebrew as in Nu 21:4, Margin. No room was left by them
for the grace of God, as His favors were rejected [CALVIN]. The
mutual distaste that existed between the holy Messiah and the
guilty Jews is implied. (Sword Searcher Windows Bible - kjv)
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- PRAGMATIC EVANGELICALISM HAS PEAKED
- By Orrel Steinkamp - Pluntbline Letter - “Something
. .just happened in the evangelical community. For most of a
generation evangelicals have been romanced by the ‘seeker-sensitive’
movement spawned by Willow Creek Community Church in Chicago.
The guru of this movement is Bill Hybels. He and others have
been telling us for decades to throw out everything we have previously
thought and been taught about church growth and replace it with
a new paradigm, a new way to do ministry.. .The size of the crowd
rather than the depth of heart determined success. If the crowd
was large then surely God was blessing the ministry. Churches
were built by demographic studies, professional strategists,
marketing research, meeting ‘felt needs’ and sermons
with these techniques. We were told that preaching was out, relevance
was in. Doctrine didn’t matter nearly as much as innovation.
If it wasn’t ‘cutting edge’ and consumer friendly
it was doomed. The mention of sin, salvation and sanctification
were taboo and replaced by Starbucks, strategy and sensitivity.
Continued: http://www.cephas-library.com/emergent_pragmatic_evangelicalism_has_peaked.html
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- AFRICA WATCH
- UPDATED January 8, 2008 - This past year Discernment Ministries
has written about unfolding events leading to a global church.
We've observed with growing alarm how the continent of Africa
has been targeted to receive an onslaught of the heretical theologies,
marketplace transformation, collaborations with the United Nations,
poverty programs of rock stars, and Rick Warren's global "P.E.A.C.E.
plan." The recent shocking revelations about the failed
"dreams" of Bruce Wilkinson in Swaziland have given
impetus to creating this special new webpage. AFRICA WATCH! will
be devoted solely to Africa and what is transpiring there. This
page will be frequently updated with new information and relevant
commentaries on the on-going situation. Africa holds a very special
place in our hearts. Discernment Ministries has an office and
active outreach in South Africa. Travers and Jewel van der Merwe
(Grewe) began their ministry on this continent. One of the Discernment
Research Group members served for six years as a missionary in
Africa. Continued: http://www.discernment-ministries.org/AfricaWatch.htm
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- ARE YOU IN THE THROES OF TRANSFORMATION?
- Herescope was requested to prepare a "thumbnail sketch"
-- an overview -- of what constitutes "transformation."
Below is an outline summary which many will find helpful. “Transformation”
is the end-goal of a process that moves from TRADITION through
TRANSITION to TRANSFORMATION. This is sometimes called a “Paradigm
Shift,” which means that Transformation shifts one’s
worldview (paradigm) from the old to a new. This is a dialectically
unfolding PROCESS in which the THESIS is continually challenged
by ANTITHESIS, evolving into ever-unfolding SYNTHESES. Transformation
is engineered, orchestrated and/or manipulated. Transformation
involves changing over a person’s values, opinions, beliefs,
attitudes, and even their behaviors to that of the new paradigm/worldview.
Continued: http://www.discernment-ministries.org/Throes.htm
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- BRITISH CARDINAL ASKS BOARD OF CATHOLIC HOSPITAL TO RESIGN
OVER CATHOLIC PRO-LIFE ETHICS
After three years of investigations and disputes, Cardinal Cormac
Murphy O'Connor has asked the entire board of directors of a
London Catholic hospital to resign in order to facilitate the
implementation of a Catholic ethics code that would preclude
abortion referrals, IVF and contraception. The LifeLeague says:
We urge you to click here to send a message to Cardinal Cormac
Murphy O'Connor, commending him on this principled and courageous
decision on his part. Catholic Online 23.02.08 Click here for
more information. http://www.catholic.org/international/international_story.php?id=26949
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- SPEECHLESS.. SILENCING THE CHRISTIANS
SilencingChristians.com will webcast and The Inspiration Networks
will broadcast Speechless...Silencing the Christians. Sign up
to be reminded to watch each episode and take action. Americans
are at greater risk of losing their basic freedoms today than
ever before in the history of this nation. Political correctness
and the voice of the liberal minority are undermining the morals
and values of mainstream America. Renowned author and commentator
Janet Parshall takes you on a journey across the country to meet
citizens who have been arrested for speaking out at a public
rally, students who are being forced to attend classes that require
them to recite verses from the Koran and to stage their own
jihad and activists pushing social tolerance to such an extreme
that the Bible itself is being labeled “hate speech.”
Follow these cases and learn how you can take action to stop
the erosion of your personal freedoms on this episode of Speechless
... Silencing the Christians. http://www.silencingchristians.com/
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- JESUS DOESN'T LIVE HERE ANYMORE...
- ST JOSPEH CHURCH OF ZEPHYRILLS SENT ME A GREEN FLYER
- GREEN, THE NEW RED WHITE AND BLUE???
- WHAT THEY SEEM TO BE FORGETTING IS THAT WE ARE BROKE. WE
HAVE TO HAVE DOLLARS TO BUY THE WINDMILLS BEFORE THEY GET INSTALLED
TO PAY FOR JOBS
- Presenting a free gift from NY Times columnist Thomas Friedman,
the 11th hour Project & Interfaith Power &
Light campaign. In this documentary, Friedman explores various
"green" and n "not so green" technologies-hydroelectric,
solar, wind, and nuclear power, hybrid, electric and hyrdrogen-fuel-cell
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He shows what works to reduce the output of greenhouse gases,
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political stability thorughout the world. Source: Green Flyer
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- http://www.11thhourproject.org/partners
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 Secrets of the Koran
by Don Richardson (Author)
- Paperback: 260 pages
Publisher: Regal Books (June 2003)
ISBN-10:
0830731237
A plea for immediate distribution to the entire free world!,
May 2, 2005
By James Forsyth "www.jamesforsyth.net" (Melbourne,
Australia) - See all my reviews
I have just finished reading Secrets of the Koran and am excited,
but at the same time concerned for the future of our freedom.
I am excited because such a truthful and uncompromising book
has been (and still can be) written and made available. I am
concerned because I do believe that Mr Richardson's description
of what the world could be like under future Islamic domination
is all too real. This book is so important that it should be
made available wherever it can be safely sold (or made available
in libraries) without having a fatwa issued against those responsible.
Please approach your bookshop and suggest that they make some
shelf-space available for this great, new book. Please buy a
copy and offer it as a donation to your local library. You may
wish to give it to them to peruse first, with a note inserted
that if they don't want to keep it, it should be returned to
you. If the librarian says that the book is too biases or unacceptable
for any other reason, be prepared to come back at them regarding
the anti-Christian and pro-Islamic books already on their shelves.
Write letters. Ask your Christian friends to get involved. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0830731237/ichthusfasttrack
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- A CHRISTIAN PASTOR TELLS "360" WHY HE'S EMBRACING
ASPECTS OF SCIENTOLOGY
- Anderson Cooper 360 CNN "Their hope is that through
these programs, people will become more interested in L. Ron
Hubbard, what else Mr. Hubbard had to offer, and this will lead
them eventually to Scientology," Ross said. The church has
long been in the headlines for practices critics say are little
more than cult-like mind control. It is also known for its stable
of devout celebrity followers.
- And according to published reports, Scientology has been
recently diversifying its outreach to include other religions
and ethnic groups. Kennedy, McLaughlin and a handful of other
Christian church leaders -- no one can say how many -- are finding
answers to their communities' needs in Scientology's social programs.
For Kennedy, it began two years ago when he attended a meeting
at the Church of Scientology's spiritual headquarters in Clearwater,
Florida. He was introduced to a book called "The Way to
Happiness" -- Hubbard's 64-page, self-described "common
sense guide to better living."
- In the book, which lays out ways to maintain a temperate
lifestyle, Kennedy found a message he believed could help lift
his predominantly lower income African-American congregation.
He said the book's 21 principles help them with their struggle
in an urban environment where there is too much crime and addiction
and too little opportunity. Kennedy knew that before he could
introduce any Scientology-related text to his congregation, he
would have to prove that it did not contradict his Christian
beliefs. And so, he found Scripture to match each of the 21 principles.
Continued: http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/10/31/christian.scientology/index.html
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- SCIENTOLOGY CULT SEEPING INTO SOME URBAN "PENTECOSTAL"
CHURCH GROUPS
- by Independent Conservative - Our brother Ernest who often
reads this blog passed me something a while back, that I finally
had a good chance to look over. And let’s just say it’s
down right awful! Check out the CNN.com video Some Christian
pastors embrace Scientology. Notice how they have decided to
fuse the teachings of a cult with their regular activities? The
claims being “oh it’s helping people get off drugs”.
Their goal is now reliance on cult teaching to address social
ills. This is turning into a golden calf situation. Exodus 32:1-4
(New American Standard Bible) 1 Now when the people saw that
Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people assembled
about Aaron and said to him, “Come, make us a god who will
go before us; as for this Moses, the man who brought us up from
the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.”
2 Aaron said to them, “Tear off the gold rings which are
in the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and
bring them to me.” 3 Then all the people tore off the gold
rings which were in their ears and brought them to Aaron. 4 He
took this from their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool
and made it into a molten calf; and they said, “This is
your god, O Israel, who brought you up from the land of Egypt.”
- Their surroundings look bad and now they are looking to things
other than Christ, while calling it a church assembly. This is
nothing more than a spin on the health and wealth, prosperity,
Y-O-U centered false doctrines. Just toss in anything and claim
you thank God for it. Put the Bible down for a church meeting
and pick up the cult book. And the cult is giving out the books
free of charge, anything to help people lose their souls.Continued:
http://www.independentconservative.com/2007/12/12/scientology_goes_pentecostal/
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- MAN ARRESTED AFTER STANDOFF AT JIMMY SWAGGART MINISTRIES
April 30, 2008 BATON ROUGE, La. - A machete-wielding man held
sheriff’s deputies at bay for two hours outside the Rev.
Jimmy Swaggart’s headquarters today before officers broke
into his truck and arrested him. Workers at Jimmy Swaggart Ministries
called police after they became suspicious of Garland Morris,
who had spent four hours in his pickup in a parking lot, listening
to the televangelist’s radio station at loud volume, said
Casey Hicks, spokeswoman for the East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s
Office. Morris had also appeared at the ministries a day earlier
and asked for to speak with an individual who worked there, Hicks
said. Morris, 35, of Carville, waved a machete at deputies when
they arrived, refusing to get out of the truck. After two hours,
the SWAT officers eventually charged the truck, broke a window
and took Morris into custody. He was charged with disturbing
the peace and aggravated assault, Hicks said. Continued http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21310/jimmy-swaggart
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- BONO REVEALS HIS ALLEGIANCE
- http://www.cephas-library.com/bono_reveals_himself.html
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- MESSIANIC JUDAISM IS NOW NOW MAKING A BID FOR THE PLACE ONCE
OCCUPIED BY SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISM
By WRM, 18950 Highway 441 - #308, Mt. Dora, FL 32757
The battle is real. The branch of Pentecostalism custom-designed
to take over Seventh-day Adventism, is now making a bid for the
place that Adventism once held in the religious world. Messianic
Judaism, aligned with the supernatural power of the charismatic
movement, believes that in 1980 Adventism nose-dived into apostasy,
and sees itself as the inheritor of the unique place which Seventh-
day Adventism saw itself as holding— upholding the Sabbath.
Sanctuary, Biblical Diet and Second Corning, with “new light”
now besides. Rome Has a Masterplan
Messianic Judaism’s great mistake in this assessment is
that it has been led to lake the vitiated caricature of Adventism
offered by a Structure deeply involved in apostasy as being what
Adventism is. The Structure does not represent Adventism, the
Bible and Spirit of Prophecy represents what Adventism truly
is. Meanwhile, Messianic Judaism itself is being led by Roman
orders in ways that it does not comprehend. .t~r Rome has a inasterplan
tar both enlilies, a plan that is now being iiipleniented rigorously.
Charismatic Enthusiasm Continued:
- http://www.cephas-library.com/seventh_day_adventists_messianic_judaism_making_bid_for_the_church.html
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- IT IS AMAZING HOW MANY USE MASONIC SYMBOLISM
Ednote: I sent out a message about women's hairdos today that
resemble the Masonic all-seeing eye when  women
cover one eye. Tonight I received a link to a webpage that addresses
occult symbolism. The all-seeing eye (also the Egyptian Eye)
was included and my concern was well founded. I doubt that women
realize what their hairdo means. Unwittingly, those who wear
it, wear their god on their faces.
It is utterly amazing how many corporations have satanic symbols
branding their products. The symbolism worked for Adolf Hitler
until he finally committed suicide because he didn't wish to
be prosecuted for his crimes. Symbols must be effective or these
CEOs would not resort to them. WalMart is the richest company
in the world. The Pentagram between Wal and Mart is known to
almost every person. When organizations are committed to Satan
they have no choice but to advertise it. Mormons have Satanic
Pentagrams on some of the Temples, especially the Salt Lake Temple.
Brigham Young had a gate to his house with a Masonic symbol.
Because most of the CEOs of the Corporations are Masons they
know what they doing. Check the link below this article and see
how many are involved. There are two of the same covers of Time
Magazine which show a pyramid shaped group of Masons with their
aprons. Satan loves to demoralize even people who are on his
side. The notion of aprons on men is quite ridiculous. The reason
the pictures are dark is not to reveal that these Masons are
members of Congress.
- Speaking of symbols, last time in Israel, I picked up a brochure
of Solomon's Temple that was quite revealing. It proved that
Astrology was practiced. That is why God destroyed the Temple
70 A.D.
- The following link has some very interesting revealing photos
of symbols used today that relate to the wrong side. Click on
George Bush Sr. and have a laugh. You can see from this page
that Christians live in enemy territory. This is not our home.
http://www.wikicompany.org/wiki/911:Occult_symbolism
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- GLOBAL /
LOCAL POLITICS
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- HIGH US OFFICIAL TO ATTEND NUCLEAR TALKS WITH IRAN
- capping secret US-Tehran diplomacy (DEBKAfile) Exclusive
Report 07/16/08
Source: http://www.debka.com/headline.php?hid=5438 - The announcement
that US Under Secretary of State William Burns will join the
meeting the European Union’s Javier Solana holds with Iranian
nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili in Switzerland this week makes
official the secret diplomatic track afoot between Washington
and Tehran, which was first disclosed by DEBKA-Net-Weekly on
June 27. Our US sources confirm that this step distances the
Bush administration still further from Israel’s policy position,
which calls for the curtailment of Iran’s drive for a nuclear
bomb by all means, including military action. It leaves Jerusalem
alone in the arena against Iran on the nuclear and other security
issues, such as Hizballah, Syria and the radicalized Lebanese
government. Continued: http://www.unitedjerusalem.org/index2.asp?id=1094967
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- DISAPPEARING HONEY BEES
[Ednote: Channel 9 in Denver brought this to my attention again
and sure enough this problemis still a world wide problem. I
had a nest of wasps last year in front of the garage door under
the driveway which was quite a problem. This year they have disappeared.
Not only that, I live in an old home, 43 years old, and had quite
a spider problem in spring and summer. It has disappeared completely,
no spiders this year. Not only that there are no moskitos or
flies. It is beginning to get scary. Since I have seen much informtion
about Chemtrails, might there be a connection to that spray?
Nobody has brought that up. Little creatures would certainly
be affected first if people are to be affected with this spray
from the Chemtrails. Scientists have dissected dead bees and
cannot find diseases. It is something to think about. endofnote]
Honey bees around the globe are disappearing and nobody knows
why - maybe it is due to bloodsucking mite called varroa - pictured
above. One-third of US honey bees were wiped out last year. Bees
are crucial for the pollination of 90 major crops. Albert Einstein
is claimed to have said that if honey bees disappeared the human
race had 4 years until it to became extinct. Commenter AndrewT
points out this may well be apocryphal. In addition there is
the possibility that wild bees may substitute as pollinators
if honey bees disappear. http://kalimna.blogspot.com/2008/06/disappearing-honey-bees.html
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- FRANCE TOOK OVER THE EU'S SIX-MONTH ROTATING PRESIDENCY
BBC - July 01, 2008 - France took over the EU’s six-month
rotating presidency, Tuesday. The country’s agendas for
the bloc — including boosting EU military capabilities —
have been overshadowed by the Irish No vote on the Lisbon Treaty.
 Continued: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7482651.stm
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- BANK OF ENGLAND (?) WARNS NO MORE RATE CUTS BEFORE
2010 AS CREDIT CRISIS DEEPENS Bank of England warns no more rate
cuts before 2010 as credit crisis deepens
By Sam Fleming and Becky Barrow on 15th May 2008 - There may
be no cuts in interest rates until 2010, the Bank of England
has indicated. However, inflation is predicted to rise far above
previous forecasts and stay well above the Government's target
of two per cent for up to two years. Mervyn King, the Bank governor,
said price increases would cause "a squeeze on real take-home
pay, which will slow consumer spending and output growth, perhaps
sharply". Saying that "the nice decade is behind us",
he added that it was "quite possible we may get the odd
quarter or two of negative growth".
- http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1019615/Bank-England-warns-rate-cuts-2010-credit-crisis-deepens.html
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- GOVERNMENT SAYS FBI AGENTS CAN'T TESTIFY ABOUT 9/11
The Associated Press Published: June 19, 2008 - NEW YORK: Government
lawyers say the ongoing investigation into the Sept. 11 attacks
could be compromised if the airline industry is allowed to seek
more information from the FBI to defend itself against lawsuits
brought by terrorism victims. In papers filed late Tuesday, the
government urged a judge to block aviation companies from interviewing
five FBI employees who the companies say will help them prove
the government withheld key information before the 2001 attacks.
The lawyers said it would be impossible to interview the employees
without disclosing classified or privileged material that could
"cause serious damage to national security and interfere
with pending law enforcement proceedings." "The harm
described is not hypothetical and cannot be lightly dismissed,"
according to the court papers submitted by the office of U.S.
Attorney Michael Garcia. "Investigators continue to seek
out those parties responsible for the 9/11 attacks who remain
at large." Continued: http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/06/19/america/Sept-11-Lawsuits.php
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- A RARE FIND: BILL AND HILLARY CLINTON
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- THERE IS HOPE FOR HIGH GAS PRICES: RUN YOUR CAR ON WATER?
- http://www.runyourcarwithwater.com/?hop=cyprusmete
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- NEW RULES FOR FANNIE MAE EXTENDS 6 MONTHS TO AVOID FORECLOSURE
Fannie Mae has tightened standards for the home mortgages it
guarantees or buys.
- The government-sponsored provider of home loan now will require
a minimum credit score of 580 for most loans it buys on an individual
basis.
In the past, Fannie had no minimum score.
Fannie also told lenders it will increase the period needed for
borrowers to re-establish credit history after a foreclosure
from four years to five.
Fannie also said they will extend forbearance periods on delinquent
borrowers for six months to allow borrowers time to find an alternative
to foreclosure.
Source: The Wall Street Journal, James R. Hagerty (04/02/2008)
- http://www.qachousingmarket.com/2008/04/fannie-mae-extends-6-months-to-avoid.html
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- FREDDIE MAC, FANNIE MAE SHARES SLUMP
- [Ednote: I watched C-Span replay 7.15.2008 the Banking Housing
Committe meeting with Bernanke and Paulson presenting the Comittee
with their proposal which was quite shocking. Treasury Secretary
Paulson wants approval for an unlimited account backup
by Federal dollars in other words a blank check for an eighteen
month period without collateral.. Of course once they go into
that kind of agreement they just keep extending it. This is supposedly
just to reassure the rest of the world that our economy is not
at risk. A couple of Senators were quite angry that Paulson wants
unlimited access to the people's taxes to prop up failing banks.
To make it all look good they suggested a new position at the
Fed of a stand alone regulator. One of the Senators asked Bernanke
if he wanted the job?" The amount tapped could go as high
as a trillion dollars. Paulson knew how to get around questions
without answering them, changing the subject, etc. When asked
who would be responsible to pay he wouldn't respond and one of
the Seantors responded, "the taxpayer of course." Paulson
will be leaving with Bush. Senator Schumer thought it was a great
idea and excitely encouraged the rest of the committee to go
for this proposal. In going into the background of privatization
I discovered the reason for that. They incorporate Federal Departments
and then derive income by selling the corporation's stock. In
one case the Carlisle Group bought the stock and consequently
owns the corporation. Checking HOMELAND SECURITY INC.
You guessed it, a corporation. Profiting From Terror - Former
Antiterror Officials Find Industry Pays Better New York Times
- by Eric Lipton - Published: June 18, 2006. [there is a pop
up on the left called "The Revolving Door".] FDIC:
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (privatized) but
acting as government. They take over the failing bank and sell
what's left to the highest bidder. C-Span interviewed
the CEO of the FDIC and asked about their reserves to cover $100,000
for depositors when the banks fail of the present magnitude.
It didn't seem to adequate. She said they would have to raise
insurance premiums to restore their reserve and if they run out
the Feds would back them, not to worry? Fannie and Freddie were
created as government entities and later privatized (incorporated),
in other words became part of the Stockmarket to be purchased.
It is said to be the biggest Mortgage banking system in the US
and it is insolvent? The mortgages are secured and repaid with
high interest by homeowners. How can the collateral be gone?
I was a cash account for state government and the agencies invested
into those accounts to earn interest to increase their cash reserves.
Sounds like the fox is watching the hen house. Endofnote]
- By Alistair Barr - July 7, 2008 - SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch)
-- Shares dropped respectively during afternoon trading on Monday.
The Wall Street Journal reported late last week that investors
are concerned Freddie is having trouble raising fresh capital
to strengthen a weakened balance sheet. Freddie shares dropped
22% to $11.27 during afternoon trading on Monday. Fannie shares
declined 15% to $16.01. http://www.marketwatch.com/News/Story/freddie-mac-fannie-mae-shares/
- story.aspx?guid=%7B28CBBF33-3535-4894-B2AF-94EA4C3D3BE0%7D&siteid=msn
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- STATUS REPORT ON THE COLLAPSE OF THE U.S. ECONOMY
- http;//www.cephasministry.com/nwo_collapse_of_us_economy.html
- http://www.richardccook.com/articles.php
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- BANKER LEAVES GOLDMAN SACHS TO AID PAULSON
By Dennis K. Berman - Wall Street Journal - Goldman Sachs Group
Inc.'s most senior - financial- institutions banker, Ken Wilson,
is temporarily leaving the firm to advise Treasury Secretary
Henry Paulson on how to resolve the country's banking crisis,
according to people familiar with the matter.
- As chairman of Goldman's Financial Institutions Group, Mr.
Wilson has proved to be a big player in capital raisings and
reorganizations across ... http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121660908385169563.html?mod=fpa_whatsnews
- US SPELLS OUT FANNIE-FREDDIE BACKSTOP PLAN
- [Ednote: 1) Shares of Fannie Mae are down 74 percent
since the beginning of the year. Freddie Mac shares fell
77 percent so far this year. The companies were created
by the government for the government originally. In 1968 they
were privatized. What they don't tell people is that they became
corporations with a government appointed board. The corporations
hold or back $5.3 trillion of mortgage debt. (according to European
Market Countdown - Bloomberg 7.13.08 total of $11 trillion -
Dubai is bailing half of the debt out, was a comment not verified.
A Commentary at American Bloomberg was that stockholders are
mainly foreigners and that they didn't read the fine print. The
Feds can lock up FannieMae and Freddie any time. Now they are
worried about the Treasury Bonds and suggested that they need
to raise interest rates to stabilize the market. What to do is
in the textbooks but the decision makers are doing just the opposite
from what should be done). Where is all the interest that they
are collecting monthly from all the homes that are getting paid
off.? It's obvious that there is much more to this than meets
the eye.]
[Ednote: 2 - Dollar facing collapse, warns Mahathir AFP, KUALA
LUMPUR Mar 30, 2008: The US dollar is facing an imminent collapse
and the global economy will suffer a "catastrohpe"
when it is rejected as the currency for trade, former Malaysian
prime minister Mahathir Mohamad said in remarks published Wednesday.
Mahathir, who famously ignored International Monetary Fund (IMF)
advice and instead chose to peg his country's ringgit to the
US dollar during the Asian financial crisis, said a standard
gold currency was now the best alternative for world trade. The
dollar was retaining some value because of fears of a global
economic catastrophe if it was rejected, he told a conference
of some 650 chief executives from 30 countries at a conference
in Kota Kinabalu on Borneo island Tuesday, The Star newspaper
reported it.]
[Ednote: 3) The reason for the loss of value of the dollar is
simply printing trillions of dollars by the Fed (a privately
owned corporation.). Every time the Fed lowers interest, means
they have no income from interest. That happened to all our savings
accounts, earnings are lowest ever. I'm in a credit union and
years ago they gave us interest bonuses quarterly because they
made more money lending than they were supposed to. When people
lose their jobs they can't pay. That is the bottom line. That
is what the government doesn't admit to publically. They blame
it on everything but the truth. Now here is the big question:
Realty Track Staff Reports the following:
1.2 million foreclosure filings reported in 2006
2.2 million foreclosure filings reported in 2007
- 2007 had 2.2 million filings = 1%
of all households slipped into foreclosure in 2007
- 2006: 1.2mill = 0.52% of all households
2007: 2.2mill = 1.00% of all households
Foreclosures = 1.52% of all households.
99.48 % of all US Households are
NOT insolvent and are paying their payments mostly
interest.
How could they possibly be insolvent?? ]
[Ednote: 4) Bloomberg Asia Satellite - 7.13.2007 - Japan - 'EURO
(overvalued) has to come down in value to come in line with the
$. Sounds like they have plans for new money.' end of notes]
The U.S. Treasury and the Federal Reserve announced steps
Sunday, July 13, 2008 to shore up mortgage giants Fannie Mae
and Freddie Mac. Manuel Balce CenetaBy JEANNINE AVERSA (AP Economics
Writer) - From Associated Press - July 13, 2008 - WASHINGTON
- The Federal Reserve and the Treasury announced steps Sunday
to shore up mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, whose
shares have plunged as losses from their mortgage holdings threatened
their financial survival. The steps are also intended to send
a signal to nervous investors worldwide that the government is
prepared to take all necessary steps to prevent the credit market
troubles that started last year from engulfing financial markets
and further weakening the economy and housing markets. The Fed
said it granted the Federal Reserve Bank of New York authority
to lend to the two companies "should such lending prove
necessary." They would pay 2.25 percent for any borrowed
funds - the same rate given to commercial banks and big Wall
Street firms. The Fed said this should help the companies' ability
to "promote the availability of home mortgage credit during
a period of stress in financial markets." Secretary Henry
Paulson said the Treasury is seeking expedited authority from
Congress to expand its current $2.25 billion line of credit to
each company should they need to tap it and to make an equity
investment in the companies - if needed.
- GOVERNMENT NOT EXPECTED TO HELP MORE COMPANIES Continued
on both subjects:
- http;//www.cephas-library.com/nwo_us_spells_out_fannie_freddie_backstop.html
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- NATIONALIZING FANNIE MAE AND FREDDIE MAC WILL WIPE OUT STOCKS
- ACCORDING TO "ON THE ECONOMY" by Bloomberg 7.14.2008
Report.
- BEN BERNANKE AND HENRY PAULSON ARE BOTH GOVERNORS FOR THE
US AT THE INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND [IMF] There ae 185 member
countries participating in the IMF. The primary mission of the
IMF is to provide financial assistance to countries that experience
serious financial and economic difficulties using funds deposited
with the IMF from the institution's 185 member countries. Member
states with balance of payments problems, which often arise from
these difficulties, may request loans to help fill gaps between
what countries earn and/or are able to borrow from other official
lenders and what countries must spend to operate, including to
cover the cost of importing basic goods and services. In return,
countries are usually required to launch certain reforms, which
have often been dubbed the "Washington Consensus".
These reforms are generally required because countries with fixed
exchange rate policies can engage in fiscal, monetary, and political
practices which may lead to the crisis itself. For example, nations
with severe budget deficits, rampant inflation, strict price
controls, or significantly over-valued or under-valued currencies
run the risk of facing balance of payment crises. Thus, the structural
adjustment programs are at least ostensibly intended to ensure
that the IMF is actually helping to prevent financial crises
rather than merely funding financial recklessness.
- Interesting stats: IMF/World Bank support of military
dictatorships The role of the Bretton Woods institutions has
been controversial since the late Cold War period, as the IMF
policy makers supported military dictatorships friendly to American
and European corporations. Critics also claim that the IMF is
generally apathetic or hostile to their views of democracy, human
rights, and labor rights. The controversy has helped spark the
anti-globalization movement. Arguments in favor of the IMF say
that economic stability is a precursor to democracy, however
critics highlight various examples in which democratized countries
fell after receiving IMF loans.[6] Countries that were or are
under a Military dictatorship whilst being members of the IMF/World
Bank (support from various sources in $ Billion):[7] Continued:
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Monetary_Fund#Past_managing_directors
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- BERNANKE THROWS WEIGHT BEHIND PAULSON'S DOLLAR POLICY
- By Scott Lanman - June 4 (Bloomberg) -- Federal Reserve Chairman
Ben S. Bernanke threw the weight of the central bank behind Treasury
Secretary Henry Paulson's efforts to strengthen the dollar after
its 10 percent drop over the past year. Bernanke said in a speech
yesterday the Fed is ``attentive'' to the currency and will guard
against a jump in inflation expectations. Paulson a day before
reiterated that he ``very strongly'' favors a ``strong'' dollar.
The Fed chief's signal that he's done for now with lowering interest
rates may help stabilize the dollar after 3.25 percentage points
of rate cuts since September reduced returns on U.S. investments
and demand for the currency. Paulson began strengthening the
U.S. stance in November by stating the dollar would reflect solid
long-term economic fundamentals.
- ``The Fed cannot ease further if the dollar is now a concern,''
said Stephen Jen, chief currency economist at Morgan Stanley
in London, who used to work at the Fed and the International
Monetary Fund. ``This shift in rhetoric is one more reason to
believe that the dollar has bottomed.''
- A measure of the dollar against the currencies of major U.S.
trading partners has fallen in five of the past six years, reaching
a record low of 69.26 in March. The Fed's trade- weighted major
currency dollar index closed yesterday at 71.15. Bernanke yesterday
omitted previous comments on how the dollar helps U.S. exports
and stressed instead that it contributes to an ``unwelcome rise''
in inflation. Speaking to a conference in Barcelona, he said
Fed and Treasury officials are collaborating to ``carefully monitor''
exchange rates. No `Further' Continued: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&refer=home&sid=ao1HLC6Blg00
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- FEDERAL RESERVE HAS SEVEN MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF GOVERNORS
- BUT ONLY LIST FIVE MEMBERS. [EDNOTE: I HEARD ON THE RADIO
THAT CEOS OF MERRILL LYNCH AND LEHMAN BROS. ARE BOARD MEMBERS
(UNVERIFIED) THE MEMBERS LISTED WERE APPOINTED BY THE BUSH ADMINSITRATION.
THE FED WAS CREATED IN 1913 -
 Members
Ben S. Bernanke, Chairman | Donald L. Kohn, Vice Chairman | Kevin
M. Warsh | Randall S. Kroszner | Frederic S. Mishkin - The seven
members of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
are nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate. A
full term is fourteen years. .The Chairman and the Vice Chairman
of the Board are named by the President from among the members
and are confirmed by the Senate. They serve a term of four years.
Federal Reserve System
- Former Bear Stearns hedge
fund manager Matthew Tannin's perp walk after being arrested
on 2008-06-19 by the FBI and charged with lying to investors
about the collapse of the subprime mortgage market.[58] On 2008-03-18
JPMorgan bank agreed to purchase BSC for $2 per share, compared
to their 2007 high of nearly $170, in exchange for the Federal
Reserve Bank agreeing to accept BSC's devalued mortgage back
securities as collateral for public loans at the newly created
Term Securities Lending Facility (TSLF), effectively providing
a mechanism to bail out Wall Street banks threatened with insolvency.[59]
- In order to address problems related to the subprime mortgage
crisis and United States housing bubble, three new tools have
been created. The first new tool, called the Term Auction Facility,
was added on December 12, 2007. It was first announced as a temporary
tool but there have been suggestions that this new tool may remain
in place for a prolonged period of time. Creation of the second
new tool, called the Term Securities Lending Facility, was announced
on March 11, 2008. The main difference between these two facilities
is that the Term Auction Facility is used to inject cash into
the banking system whereas the Term Securities Lending Facility
is used to inject treasury securities into the banking system.
Creation of the third tool, called the Primary Dealer Credit
Facility (PDCF), was announced on March 16, 2008. The PDCF was
a fundamental change in Federal Reserve policy because now the
Fed is able to lend directly to primary dealer's, which was previously
against Fed policy. Continued:
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_reserve#Board_of_Governors
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- DERIVATIVES THE NEW TICKING TIME BOMB
- http://www.cephas-library.com/nwo_derivatives_the_new_ticking_bomb.html
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- HOUSING CRISES:: BESIDES SUBPRIME MORTGAGES, ALL FINANCIAL
PLAYER OPERTAING ON THE US MARKET ARE DRAGGED INTO THE INFERNAL
SPIRALl
GlobalEurope Anticipation Bulletin - Abstract GEAB N°13 (March
16, 2007)
- http://www.leap2020.eu/Housing-crises-Besides-subprime-mortgages,-all-financial-players-operating-on-the-
- US-market-are-dragged-into-the_a811.html
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- WORLD WEALTH REPORT [IS IT POSSIBLE THIS IS PHONY?]
- Merryll Lynch http://www.ml.com/media/100502.pdf
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- INDIMAC'S CASHIER'S CHECKS ARE NOT ACCEPTED BY OTHER BANKS
EVEN IF BACKED BY THE GOVERNMENT.
- http://www.indymacbank.com/
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- RON PAUL VERSUS BERNANKIE
- Ron Paul vs. Ben Bernanke - By tmartin • July 16, 2008
- Ron Paul has asserted for many years that inflation is a tax
that benefits those who get all that freshly printed money first,
and harms everyone else. Today, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke agreed
with that assertion, but failed to present a viable plan for
saving the collapsing dollar: The Fed is now in an impossible
situation. It can’t solve the problem because it is the
problem. Should Ben Bernanke follow Jim Rogers’ advice -
shut down the Fed and resign?
http://www.ronpaul.com/
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- SHADOW STATS
- http://www.shadowstats.com
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- COUNTERFEITING, COUNTERFEITING
- Over Eighty (80) Years of COUNTERFEITING, COUNTERFEITING,
Ad Infinitum, Ad Nausea
Blogs Bud Burrell - Posted by: bburrell 2/28/2008 - The modern
history of counterfeiting of commercial securities began over
80 years ago. It started with the wholesale traditional counterfeiting
of stock certificates to support the short selling activities
of more than 500 pools comprised of the assets of the wealthiest
individuals in this country at the time, over a 3 year period
leading to the October, 1929 Raid-related Crash. The refinement
of the earliest photo lithography made it possible to produce
reasonably high quality counterfeit stock certificates duplicating
the real ones. These certificates could then be loaned to short
sellers to create a required "borrow" to secure the
margined short, especially useful when stocks were tightly held.
The manual back offices of the brokerage firms never knew the
difference, and they never saw what hit their companies until
it was too late. These unregistered counterfeit securities sold
above were never registered by the true underlying company. They
were never entered into the stock record book of the corporation,
nor were any proceeds ever given to the underlying Company, nor
were they ever accounted for in any audit process or financial
reports of the Company. The frauds/criminals here knew they would
force de-registration or bankruptcy of the targets, and subsequent
loss of the books and records of the companies they broke. There
was no Federal Record Keeping requirement back then.
- In most cases, if not all, the people doing the counterfeiting
were directly linked to the very same Pools (we call their modern
analog Hedge Funds) referred to above, most of whom coordinated
their efforts to act in concert at the direction of what might
today be called in Chinese organized crime a "Snakehead".
The largest short of the Crash was to become the first head of
the SEC, Joe Kennedy Sr. He would accumulate a personal cash
net worth of over $500 Million in 1933.
- 008 that Spitzer has told senior advisers that he had been
involved in a prostitution ring. On its Web site, the newspaper
cites an anonymous administration official as the source and
says Spitzer was meeting with his top aides. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)
(AP) http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/wireStory?id=4422424
- http://www.thesanitycheck.com/Blogs/BudBurrellsBlog/tabid/84/EntryID/688/Default.aspx
- http://www.thesanitycheck.com/Resources/TheBudFiles/tabid/85/Default.aspx
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- BARACK OBAMA BROUGHT IN $52 MILLION LAST MONTH
- On Monday Barack Obama campaign manager David Plouffe sent
out an e-mail to supporters saying that "the McCain campaign
is bragging that they are out-raising and out-spending us."
It wasn't technically untrue: The McCain campaign was getting
that message out there — but it turns out that in June,
Obama vastly outraised his rival. Though the McCain campaign
reported $22 million in fund-raising for last month, the Obama
campaign just announced that its total was $52 million.
The average donation was $68 dollars, which means the total was
reached by a mix of large and very small contributions. This
may not mean that the financial advantage is now Obama's, however.
The RNC had about $67.8 million on hand at the end of the month
of June, and independent groups are sure to further muddy the
waters. For an in-depth analysis of the campaigns' finance situations,
check out Peter Keating's story here from yesterday. http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2008/07/barack_obama_brought_in_52_mil.html
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- CHERTOFF US VULNERABLE TO ATTACK DURING ELECTION, TRANSITION
- AP - 17 Jul 2008 European terrorists are trying to enter
the United States with European Union passports, and there is
no guarantee officials will catch them every time, Homeland Security
Secretary Michael Chertoff said Thursday. Chertoff's comments
on Capitol Hill comes as the country is entering a potentially
vulnerable period with the presidential nominating conventions
coming up next month; the presidential election in November;
and the transition to a new administration in January -- all
of which may be attractive targets for [Bush's] terrorists. Chertoff
reiterated his concern that terrorists could sneak radiological
material into the country on small boats or private aircraft.
This material could be used to create an explosive device known
as a "dirty bomb." Continued: http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5i3uIGU_Clf36waqYlsaWDls9HP2gD91VURDO0
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- UNDERSTAND THE MECHANICS USED TO BRING AMERICA AND ITS PEOPLE
DOWN
- nwo_inderstand-mechanics_used_to_bring_America_down.html
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- OBAMA YOUTH?
- ExurbanLeague.com - July 7, 2008 - Exurban Jon - July 08,
2008 by inkling - On Thursday, we talked a lot about Liberal
Fascism. Apparently, it wasn't a moment too soon. "[W]e
are going to grow our foreign service, open consulates that have
been shuttered and double the size of the Peace Corps by 2011
to renew our diplomacy," said Obama. "We cannot to
continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the
national security objectives that we have set. We have got to
have a civilian national security force that is just as powerful,
just as strong, just as well funded." Obama's going to create
a civilian national security force as strong as the Army, Navy,
Air Force, Marines -- combined? With the same budget? And hardware,
apparently? This inconceivably vast proposal is hardly being
mentioned by the MSM; just a throwaway line in last week's speech
about volunteerism. But what will this "civilian national
security force" do? Obama didn't say. Where will they get
their funding? Didn't say. Wouldn't this force be at least extra-constitutional,
if not unconstitutional? Who would control them? Would service
be mandatory like his other youth "volunteer" initiatives?
At this same speech, he promised to withhold funds from school
districts that don't make their junior high and high schoolers
serve 50 hours a year. 100 hours for college students, provided
their type of service is deemed acceptable by a sprawling new
Federal bureaucracy.
- Oh, and Obama's going to double the size of the Peace Corps
while quadrupling AmeriCorps. I'm curious if anyone will be left
to fill all the newly vacated private sector jobs. St. Barack
concluded his speech with this gem: "Loving your country
must mean accepting your responsibility to do your part to change
it." Continued: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042459/posts
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- OBAMA CALLS ON AMERICAN YOUTH FOR NATIONAL SERVICE
- July 2, 2008 - Mobilizing America’s youth to join his
mission in taking on the "fierce urgency of now", Sen.
Barack Obama laid out his plan to expand civic participation
Wednesday in Colorado Springs, Colorado, asking the new generation
of Americans to put change into action through national service
opportunities. Continued: http://www.kcrg.com/explorepolitics/?feed=bim&id=22835374
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- SECURITY FEARS SHADOW OBAMA TOUR
- 18 Jul 2008 Barack Obama 's planned trip to Israel and the
West Bank has raised security concerns to levels not seen since
the Illinois senator began his presidential bid, officials tell
the DRUDGE REPORT. Coming just weeks after shots were fired at
Israel's TLV airport during a farewell ceremony for France's
Sarkozy, from an apparent suicide of a security guard, Obama's
trek to the region has become a serious logistical and safety
challenge. [Bush's Blackwater is the biggest threat to Obama's
safety.]
- http://www.drudgereport.com/flashome.htm
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- THE MOST RADICAL PRESIDENT IN HISTORY
July 4, 2008 Seymour Hersh, Journalist: What's Your Opinion on
Iran (3 interviews)
http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=33&Itemid=74&jumival=166
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- 2.28.2008: HOUSE PASSES RENEWABLE ENERGY CREDITS
- Farmers are now slaughtering their cattle because they eat
what goes into ethonal production. Now you know why we will have
a food crisis shortly. 35% CROP TO FUEL WILL CAUSE FAMINE.
- http://www.11thhourproject.org/news
- http://www.dtn.com/promo/KNC_ag/eth001_0607xp0.cfm?CMP=KNC-Google_Ag&HBX_PK
- =ethanol%20production&HBX_OU=50
- HOW IS EHTONAL MADE: http://www.ethanolrfa.org/resource/made/
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- TEN DOLLAR$ PER GALLON?
Filed under: General — citizen X @ 1.31 pm
- Continued: http://citizenx.org/
- IMF WAS FOUNDED IN 1945 WHEN GLOBALISM HAD ITS START IN ACTION.
- WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO THE US DOLLAR
- (1) The value of the U.S. dollar in terms of the SDR is the
reciprocal of the sum of the dollar values, based on market exchange
rates, of specified quantities of the first four currencies shown.
See SDR Valuation. The value in terms of the SDR of each of the
other currencies shown above is derived from that currency's
representative exchange rate against the U.S. dollar as reported
by the issuing central bank and the SDR value of the U.S. dollar,
except for the Iranian rial and the Libyan dinar, the values
of which are officially expressed directly in terms of domestic
currency units per SDR. All figures are rounded to six significant
digits. See Representative Exchange Rates for Selected Currencies.
(2) The value in terms of each national currency of the SDR is
the reciprocal of the value in terms of the SDR of each national
currency, rounded to six significant digits. http://www.imf.org/external/np/fin/data/rms_five.aspx
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- MORGAN STANLEY WARNS OF 'CATASTROPHIC EVENT' AS ECB FIGHTS
FEDERAL RESERVE
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, International Business Editor - Last
Updated: 1:29am BST 17/06/2008 - The clash between the European
Central Bank and the US Federal Reserve over monetary strategy
is causing serious strains in the global financial system and
could lead to a replay of Europe's exchange rate crisis in the
1990s, a team of bankers has warned. Continued: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2008/06/16/bcnecb116.xml
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- FORT KNOX GOLD DEPOSITORY CONSPIRACY?
- United States Bullion Depository - From Wikipedia, the free
encyclopedia
(Redirected from Fort Knox Bullion Depository) - The United States
Bullion Depository, commonly called Fort Knox, is a fortified
vault building located near Fort Knox, Kentucky which is used
to store a large portion of United States official gold reserves,
as well as from time to time, other precious items belonging
to, or entrusted to, the United States of America.
- The United States Bullion Depository holds about 5,037.5
tons (4,570 metric tonnes) of gold bullion (147.3 million ounces[1]).
It is second in the United States only to the Federal Reserve
Bank of New York's underground vault in Manhattan, which holds
about 5,000 metric tons of gold in trust for many foreign nations,
central banks and official international organizations. [Under
the Clinton administration there were 282 million oz of gold.
Half of that has been sold by the Bush adminstration. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Knox_Bullion_Depository
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- ROMAN ABRAMOVICH 'TO DRILL US-RUSSIAN TUNNEL?
http://prisonplanet.com/articles/march2008/280308Abramovich.htm
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- ONE RESPONSE ON INTERNET ABOUT THE FOLLOWING
COMMENT
- 120 million hispanics in the US by 2050? - Jorge Ramos mentioned
last night in the Texas Democratic debate that the US would have
120 million Hispanics by 2050. I'm not a US citizen or anything,
but I would be pretty upset if there was a statistic like that
for my country. Not because of them being Hispanics, but the
nation's culture being gradually replaced with something else.
The border states aside, doesn't this bother most Americans?
Continued:
- http://nz.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080222154201AA6bKRU&show=7
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- UK: SUSPECTED SUICIDES IN BRIGEND U.K. AREA REACH 17 AS SCHOOLGIRL
FOUND HANGED
- The Guardian, UK - Feb. 20, 2008 - Robert Booth - www.guardian.co.uk
- A 16-year-old schoolgirl was found hanged yesterday, bringing
to 17 the number of apparent suicides among youngsters in the
Bridgend area since the beginning of last year. South Wales police
said Jenna Parry was discovered at 7.45am in woods near her home
at Cefn Cribbwr, a small village north-west of the town. Her
death is the latest in a spate which has made Bridgend the focus
of national scrutiny and the centre of a police investigation
to discover possible links between the suicides. Speculation
originally centred on the internet and social networking websites
but police and grieving relatives moved yesterday to quash rumours
of such links. The parents of 15-year-old Nathaniel Pritchard,
who apparently killed himself last week, went further and blamed
their son’s death on press coverage. Nathaniel’s mother,
Sharon, said: “It has glamorised ways of taking your life
as a way of getting attention without fully realising the tragic
consequences.” Continued: http://www.religionnewsblog.com/20708/brigend-suicides
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- UK RESEARCHERS ANNOUNCE FIRST CLONED HUMAN / ANIMAL HYBRID
EMBRYROS
 The research team at Newcastle
University that had previously asked permission to create cloned
human/cow embryos, has announced that it has already succeeded
in creating the hybrids, reports Hilary White, LifeSiteNews.com.
The Times newspaper reported today that the research has gone
ahead and generated "admixed embryos" that share human
and animal DNA and lived for three days in the lab. The largest
grew to 32 cells. The researchers said that their goal is to
create patient-specific genetically matched embryonic stem cells.
In January this year the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority
issued two licenses to allow the creation of human/animal hybrid
embryos. While the debate continues over the impending Human
Fertilisation and Embryology bill that proposes to enshrine in
law all the practises allowed in the last decade by the HFEA,
many have decried the government's "one way ratchet effect"
on embryo research that allows an increasingly permissive milieu
to continue. Continued: http://www.watchmenonthewalls.com/issue295.html
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- TRANSGENDER MAN GIVES BIRTH IN US
- A transgender man who was born a woman has given birth
in the United States. Thirty-four year old Thomas Beatie shot
to fame earlier this year when he was hailed across the world
as a "pregnant man".
- Mr Beatie has undergone gender realignment surgery, but decided
at the time to keep his female sex organs. He is legally
classified in the US as male. American media outlets say he gave
birth to a baby girl in a hospital in Oregon. Details of the
birth are closely guarded but Mr Beatie has told People magazine
he and his child are "healthy and doing well". He's
also denied reports that it was a Caesarean delivery.
- http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200807/s2294678.htm?tab=latest
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- MERGER IN THE MAKING BY NEW AMERICAN
- MergerInTheMaking.pdf
- SIGNS OF HOPE
- http://www.thenewamerican.com/node/6230
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- FINANCE: U.S. LAWMAKERS INVESTED IN IRAQ, AFGHANISTAN WARS
- By Abid Aslam - WASHINGTON, Apr 7 (IPS) - U.S. lawmakers
have a financial interest in military operations in Iraq and
Afghanistan, a review of their accounts has revealed. Members
of Congress invested nearly 196 million dollars of their own
money in companies that receive hundreds of millions of dollars
a day from Pentagon contracts to provide goods and services to
U.S. armed forces, say nonpartisan watchdog groups. David Petraeus,
the top U.S. general in Iraq, is to brief the Senate Foreign
Relations and Armed Services committees on Tuesday and Wednesday.
The latest findings are unlikely to have a significant impact
on this week's proceedings but could stoke anti-incumbent sentiment
in this year of presidential and legislative elections.
- Lawmakers charged with overseeing Pentagon contractors hold
stock in those very firms, as do vocal critics of the war in
Iraq, says the Centre for Responsive Politics (CRP).
- Senator John Kerry, the Democrat from Massachusetts who staked
his 2004 presidential bid in part on his opposition to the war,
tops the list of investors. His holdings in firms with Pentagon
contracts of at least five million dollars stood at between 28.9
million dollars and 38.2 million dollars as of Dec. 31, 2006.
Kerry sits on the Senate foreign relations panel.
- Members of Congress are required to report their personal
finances every year but only need to state their assets in broad
ranges.
- Other top investors include Representative Rodney Frelinghuysen,
a New Jersey Republican with holdings of 12.1 million - 49.1
million dollars; Rep. Robin Hayes, a North Carolina Republican
(9.2 million - 37.1 million dollars); Republican Rep. James Sensenbrenner
Jr. of Wisconsin (5.2 million - 7.6 million dollars); and Rep.
Jane Harman, a California Democrat (2.7 million - 6.3 million
dollars). http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=12177
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- INTERESTING STATISTICS: THE GOVERNMENT OWNS IT "ALL"
BY INVESTMENT
- CAFR, (the Annual Financial Report) shows significant (2
to 3 times more) income, assets,and investment over budget reports.
It appears the financial officer of Escondido, ca. does not want
to talk about their net worth according to their CAFR. I e-mailed
the mayor of Escondido, ca. and told her what is happening. I
asked the mayor assistant does she know the difference between
the budget and CAFR and she said no. This is all blacked out.
http://cafr1.com/
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- Ednote: email
information: April 13, 2008 - 1) "We have just
returned from the PFO conference 2008 - Someone there told me
she had seen her first semi-truck with a Ca-Mex-U.S. plate!!
In Myrtle beach this winter I saw a drivers license (North
Carolina ones) with the Logo on the back for the North American
Continent! Heard on the news -appropriations committee has
passed bill for funding and giving technologies for the real
wall - one between Mexico and Guatemala -.(the other one --just
a political football) election diversion! The
North American Alliance is coming together.
- More off the cuff:
Off the cuff: 3 out of 5 kids are on steroids that is shortning
their lives. Athletes are modeling to children. Have you been
approached with Vitamin B12 on the web. Some of the B12 is spiked
with hormons such as steroids.
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- SNOPES' CREDIBILITY DAMAGED . . SAYS NAU IS 'FALSE'
- Februrary 13, 2008 - you CANNOT rely on Snopes. They
may be part of the media that is working to suppress the truth
and spread dis-information. Below you will find refutations of
the Snopes' contention that the NAU is 'false'. Since you cannot
copy and paste from a Snopes' webpage (deliberate perhaps??)
you will have to go to Snopes here: http://www.snopes.com/politics/immigration/nau.asp
to see the Snopes' comments that will be proven false. For example:
The first of the Snopes' errors is found in the first paragraph
under 'Origins' where they state that the three heads of their
respective countries: "met in Texas to discuss plans for
increased cooperation . . . a dialog to increase security and
enhance prosperity among the three countries." Thus the
FIRST refutation of both Snopes AND the spp.gov propaganda website
can be found here.
It PROVES that there was a SIGNED AGREEMENT making the SPP a
TREATY which, according to our Constitution, requires a 2/3rds
approval from the Senate in order to proceed. The President NEVER
got that approval and is continuing the SPP without Congressional
oversite or approval.
The SECOND refutation concerns the Amero, which was proposed
as far back in 1999 by the Fraser Institute in Canada: http://www.stopthenorthamericanunion.com/videos/Amero-NorthAmericanCurrency.html#Title
.
The THIRD refutation is by a Canadian government official who
confirms that the NAFTA Superhighway (which is in fact the NASCO
SuperCorridor) exists: http://www.stopthenorthamericanunion.com/videos/ManitobaSpeech.html#Title
.
Note: Remember when watching the Manatoba video. . . that when
governments work in concert with the corporate-military complex
without the input, consent or knowledge of the Congress, or We
the People, that is FASCISM!
- Snopes did get it right when it said: "there is currently
no official governmental plan underway to make all that happen".
That's because it is being done ILLEGALLY, in secret, and unilaterally
through executive orders by the president who has tasked the
ALL the departments of the executive branch to stealthily and
surreptitiously move forward with the SPP-NAU. Treason Abounds
. . . You can read the full version of this article here: http://www.stopthenorthamericanunion.com/Snopes.html
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- CHINA'S SPACE CHALLENGE TO THE US
By Paul Reynolds - World Affairs correspondent, BBC News website
- The Chinese hit their target, but most satellites are not so
vulnerable  The announcement
by China confirming that it has destroyed a satellite with a
ballistic missile is a challenge to the recently formulated American
policy insisting that Washington reserves its "rights, capabilities
and freedom of action in space". In 2002, China and Russia
proposed a treaty banning the use of weapons in space, but the
United States opposes such a treaty and the Chinese action is
unlikely to weaken that primarily unilateral American approach.
Washington puts more faith in its own abilities to protect its
interests than in a treaty. US policy, authorised by President
Bush on 31 August last year, included the statement: "The
United States will oppose the development of new legal regimes
or other restrictions that seek to prohibit or limit US access
to or use of space." China might be saying that, without
a treaty, anything goes and that includes the development of
satellite-destroying systems. Its action is likely to increase
the US long-term determination to protect its satellites upon
which it relies heavily for imagery, communications, targeting,
navigation, early warning and weather. 'Not vulnerable' At the
moment, though, most of these satellites are in high orbit. This
would protect them from the kind of operation carried out by
the Chinese, which was against a low orbit vehicle. Continued:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/6290525.stm
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- WHOLE LANGUAGE DECONSTRUCTION IN THE PRIMARY SCHOOL
- By Samuel L. Blumenfeld, posted with permission. Excerpted
from The Whole Language/OBE Fraud, (Boise, Idaho: The Paradigm
Company, 1995), Chap. 14, pp. 149-166. [Note: Discernment Ministries
does not necessarily agree with the political and/or Reconstructionist
beliefs of Sam Blumenfeld, but we do highly recommend his writings
on phonics and literacy. An excellent curriculum for teaching
phonics to children or illiterate adults is Sam’s Alpha-Phonics,
which is also quite inexpensive]. http://www.discernment-ministries.org/WholeLanguage.htm
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- GLOBAL WARNING? OR GLOBAL GOVERNANCE?
- By Jim Zilonka - Cultivate Ministries - July 2008 Newsletter
- Is there global Warming? Yes there is! At least right now there
is. Is it being caused by man? Excluding HAARP, which we don’t
know just how much they’re playing with the weather, man
is responsible for less than 1% of the Global Warming. That’s
right, with all our C02 we’re sending into the atmosphere
from our cars, factories and everything else, we’re still
only contributing less that 1% toward global warming! But what
about Al Gore and the documentary he made and what about all
they’re teaching our kids in school? The globalists are
using global warming for there own agenda. This is another one
of those things you’re not supposed to know about! Finally,
Finally, Finally there’s been made a real documentary with
the real truth!. This DVD has scientists, physicists and ecologists
getting out the truth. Send little Johnny to school with this
DVD for his teacher and see what happens. Could be interesting!
And yes, you are encouraged to make as many copies as you like
and get them out there! If you’d like a copy, it’s
available for a gift of any amount this month postage included.
Simply clcik on the donation button or ask for the DVD: Global
Warming? Or Global Governance if you don't wish to go with PayPal.
write to Cephas Ministry PO Box 351944 Westminster CO 80035-1944
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