(205,0,'Glenn Beck','glenn-beck','<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;\">\r\n<h1 style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 25px; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: -1px; line-height: 28px; color: #222222; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px;\">Glenn Beck: Another Obama radical</h1>\r\n</span></p>\r\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;\"><strong style=\"color: #222222;\">September 1, 2010 - 15:18 ET</strong></span></p>\r\n<p><strong style=\"color: #222222;\"></strong>GLENN: All right. So now we have from <a href=\"http://www.theblaze.com/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #002aff;\">TheBlaze.com</a> a new story that is another socialist, and I mean a hard core socialist that this president has involved in our illegal alien outreach program called We Can Help, to make sure that they get all the government services and all of the correct pay and everything else, even if you\'re here illegally. No, these seriously, no, that\'s great stuff. He has employed this woman what is her name? Dolores? <br /><br />PAT: Huerta. <br /><br />GLENN: Huerta. <a href=\"http://www.theblaze.com/stories/obama-adm-uses-child-indoctrinating-socialist-to-promote-illegals-pay-program/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #002aff;\">Dolores Huerta</a> is a hard core socialist who is also and we have the videotape now up at TheBlaze.com of this woman saying, you know, Venezuela is great, they\'ve got free healthcare, they\'re building factories where everybody has a right to a job. But she goes further than just saying how great Venezuela is. In our high schools this is her talking about America. <br /><br />HUERTA: A lot isn\'t wrong as long as you use it for the people like Hugo Chavez is doing in Venezuela. <br /><br />PAT: So what she said there was a lot isn\'t wrong, meaning a lot of money. It\'s not wrong as long as you use it like Hugo Chavez does. <br /><br />GLENN: That sounds like Teddy Roosevelt. <br /><br />PAT: Yeah. <br /><br />GLENN: That\'s Teddy Roosevelt.</p>\r\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;\">\r\n','\r\n<br />HUERTA: recently (inaudible), Hugo Chavez, and he is putting up cooperative factories for the people so that they can have work and the people there, the representatives, they are making shoes for the schoolchildren, uniforms for the schoolchildren, backpacks and T shirts. They have a cooperative farm where the people go and get food. The military can build houses for the people. And you know what? Right there by the factory they have a medical clinic and a dental clinic free. <br /><br />PAT: Free. <br /><br />HUERTA: Free for the people. They can go to a doctor, they can get their dentist, their medical free of charge. How are they paying for this? They have (inaudible) through their petro doctors. They have 20,000 Cuban doctors that have gone into Venezuela, with these neighborhoods <br /><br />PAT: With their petro dollars? <br /><br />STU: Oil money basically. <br /><br />PAT: And they are doing so well. <br /><br />STU: They are doing fantastically, yeah. <br /><br />HUERTA: If factories and jobs, the people, the medical clinics and (inaudible). <br /><br />GLENN: Because it\'s unconstitutional. I mean, other than the pesky Constitution, that\'s it. <br /><br />PAT: And if you don\'t like that pesky Constitution and you love the way socialism works in Venezuela, nothing stops you, does it? From going down there and enjoying the fruits of that fabulous society? <br /><br />GLENN: No. <br /><br />PAT: I don\'t think so. <br /><br />GLENN: No. <br /><br />STU: And by the way, you can see this woman obviously on <a href=\"http://www.theblaze.com/stories/obama-adm-uses-child-indoctrinating-socialist-to-promote-illegals-pay-program/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #002aff;\">TheBlaze</a>, you can see her doing the ad and everything. Or you can go to the Department of Labor website, slash wecanhelp. <a href=\"http://www.dol.gov/wecanhelp/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #002aff;\">Dol.gov/wecanhelp</a> and you will see the woman who was speaking that admirably about Venezuela and Hugo Chavez featured prominently on the website currently at this moment. <br /><br />GLENN: Do a screen shot, everybody do a screen shot so you have it because it will be gone. By tomorrow it will be gone, I bet. <br /><br />STU: There is more to this audio in which she gives a wonderful message about the political opposition here in America. <br /><br />VOICE: Republicans hate Latinos, okay? Republicans hate Latinos. <br /><br />PAT: And that was her little party shot, Republicans hate Latinos. <br /><br />GLENN: Okay? <br /><br />PAT: Okay? <br /><br />GLENN: Do we have that? Republicans hate Latinos. <br /><br />PAT: Wow, that is unconscionable. <br /><br />STU: Again she is on the website right now, still being featured on this program, illegal immigrant <br /><br />GLENN: You know what\'s really interesting, I hated Albert Pujols so much, I hate Latinos so much. <br /><br />STU: Didn\'t see the hate <br /><br />PAT: It was weird. You gave him an award. <br /><br />STU: One of the I mean <br /><br />GLENN: Oh, no, it was a hate award, wasn\'t it? <br /><br />PAT: It was about <br /><br />GLENN: Oh, crap, I meant to give him the hate award. <br /><br />PAT: Oh, boy. Man. <br /><br />GLENN: Shoot. <br /><br />STU: Yeah, because he\'s helping out all these charities. <br /><br />GLENN: And he\'s doing a good job and he\'s a man of honor and integrity and faith. <br /><br />PAT: How about Ramos and Compean? <br /><br />GLENN: No, I hated those guys. <br /><br />PAT: You hated them? You were glad they were rotting in prison thanks to George W. Bush? <br /><br />GLENN: They didn\'t get out, did they? <br /><br />PAT: They did. <br /><br />GLENN: Did everybody misinterpret my message? <br /><br />PAT: I guess so. <br /><br />STU: Yeah, you mistakenly fought for them to get released, which is weird. <br /><br />GLENN: Well, you know what the deal is. I\'m not a Republican. <br /><br />PAT: Oh, there you go. <br /><br />STU: So Republicans hate Latinos. That\'s it. <br /><br />GLENN: But oh, wow. <br /><br />PAT: Man. <br /><br />STU: Is that unbelievable? <br /><br />GLENN: That is. <br /><br />STU: I mean, the whole program in and of itself should be a massive news story, which I never was. And now they are promoting it with an avowed socialist who\'s praising Hugo Chavez. <br /><br />GLENN: In schools. And then telling schoolchildren that Republicans hate La Hispanics. <br /><br />STU: Latinos. <br /><br />PAT: Unreal. <br /><br />STU: That is a gigantic story. Where is the media on that? Will they pick this up? <br /><br />GLENN: No. No, they won\'t. No, they won\'t. That is why TheBlaze.com is here. I am so tired and you know what? Look. These media sources, these media sources are going to burn to the ground. And I don\'t mean literally. They are just going to, they are empty buildings. The New York Times and everything else, they are going to eventually have to be supported by the government. They are going to have to be. They will become Pravda. Because you are leaving them in droves. I\'m pretty good at seeing the future. I\'m not 100%. I\'m pretty good at seeing over the horizon and seeing the direction that things are headed. Why do you think I\'m doing all of the different mediums that I\'m doing? Because, A, I don\'t know which one they are going to shut down first. I don\'t know which one\'s going to have their hand out and say, well, we have to have government subsidies. I will tell you that it\'s coming, that they are going to they\'ll shut down voices and they\'ll shut and they\'ll just coopt whole industries. So I don\'t know what\'s going to be left, but I will tell you this: The media has so discredited themselves. They have made everything so unbelievably laughable that it you\'re just, you\'re looking for a new place that has honor and integrity, that will actually tell you the truth. That\'s what we are trying to do with TheBlaze. And we\'re at just the very beginning of it. But I would that you would check it. You can find all of this audio and so much more in today\'s edition of TheBlaze at<a href=\"http://www.theblaze.com/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #002aff;\">TheBlaze.com</a>.</span></p>',1,37,'2010-09-06 02:04:52',62,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2010-09-06 02:04:52','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',1,2,'','',1,764,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(206,0,'A New Business','a-new-business','<h2><span style=\"font-family: Aharoni; color: #000080;\">A friend of mine just started his own  business, making landmines that look  like prayer  mats.<br /><br /> It\'s doing well.<br /><br /> He says Prophets are going through the  roof.</span></h2>\r\n<p> </p>','',1,20,'2010-09-06 02:20:22',62,'Unknown','2010-09-06 02:42:54',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2010-09-06 02:20:22','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',4,27,'','',1,551,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(207,0,'Why Foxconn\'s (iPhone) Gou will not open factories in U.S.','why-foxconns-i-pad-gou-will-not-open-factories-in-us','<p><a href=\"http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_38/b4195058423479_page_2.htm\" target=\"_self\">Bloomberg Businessweek</a> has an article of interest resulting from a three-hour interview with Foxconn founder Terry Gou, whose company manufactures 137,000 iPhones a day. The article     profiles Gou\'s rise to Foxconn but also offers some interesting tidbits you might not know. <strong>O</strong><strong>n why he is not opening factories in the United States,</strong> Gou frankly states, \'If I can automate in the US and ship to China, cost-wise it can still be competitive. But I worry <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">America has too many lawyers</span></strong> I don\'t want to spend time having people sue me every day.\' If you\'re interested in how a modern day Henry Ford thinks, you can read the rest about the man steering the ship of the world\'s largest producer of {jcomments on}electronics components and China\'s largest exporter.</p>','',1,20,'2010-09-11 11:45:57',62,'slashdot','2010-09-11 12:13:54',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2010-09-11 11:45:57','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',2,26,'','',1,530,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(208,0,'Christians in Gaza Fear for Their Lives as Muslims Burn Bibles and Destroy Crosses','christians-in-gaza-fear-for-their-lives-as-muslims-burn-bibles-and-destroy-crosses','<p>After defeating their rivals in Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas\' Fatah movement, Muslim extremists are focusing their attacks on Christians in Gaza City. Christians in Gaza City have issued an appeal to the international community and a plea for protection against the increased attacks by Muslim extremists.<br /> <br /> Father Manuel Musallem, head of Gaza\'s Latin church,<a href=\"http://www.mlive.com/newsflash/international/index.ssf?/base/international-38/118216269043620.xml&amp;storylist=international\">told the AP</a> that Muslims have ransacked, burned and looted a school and convent that are part of the Gaza Strip\'s small Romany Catholic community. He told the AP that crosses were broken, damage was done to a statue of Jesus, and at the Rosary Sister School and nearby convent, prayer books were burned.<br /> <br /> Gunmen used the roof of the school during the fighting, and the convent was \"desecrated,\" <a href=\"http://www.mlive.com/newsflash/international/index.ssf?/base/international-38/118216269043620.xml&amp;storylist=international\">Mussalem told the AP</a>. <br /> <br /> \"Nothing happens by mistake these days,\" he said.<br /> <br /> <a href=\"http://www.israeltoday.co.il/default.aspx?tabid=178&amp;nid=13149\">Father Musalam additionally told The </a><a href=\"http://www.associatedcontent.com/topic/19209/jerusalem.html\" title=\"Jerusalem\" rel=\"&amp;content_type=topic&amp;content_type_id=19209\">Jerusalem</a> Post that the Muslim gunmen used rocket-propeled grenades (RPGs) to blow through the doors of the church and school, before burning Bibles and destroying every cross they could get their hands on.<br /> <br /> <a href=\"http://www.catholic.org/international/international_story.php?id=24422\">Catholic Online reports</a> that the heads of Christian churches in the Holy Land have urged both sides to put aside their weapons, noting that the infighting diverted international attention from the national goal of Palestinian independence. <br /> <br /> \"This domestic fighting where brother draws his weapon against brother is detrimental to all the aspirations of achieving security and stability for the Palestinian people,\" they said. \"In the name of the one and only God as well as in the name of each devastated Palestinian, many of whom are still dying, we urge our brothers in the Fatah and Hamas movements to listen to the voice of reason, truth and wisdom.\" <br /> <br /> One young woman told the Catholic News Service that she was concerned the Islamic extremists would \"enforce a strict dress code, forcing women to wear veils and robes.\" One Christian teenager spoke to the Catholic News Service on the condition that her name not be used. She said the days of fighting had been \"very difficult\" but they were \"OK now.\"</p>','',1,16,'2010-09-11 12:48:33',76,'Kimberly West','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2010-09-11 12:48:33','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',1,2,'MUSLIMS TERROR CHRISTIANS GAZA','MUSLIMS ARE TERRORIZING CHRISTIANS IN GAZA',1,275,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(209,0,'L.A.: $111M in Stimulus Saved Just 55 Jobs','foxnewscom','<h2>L.A.: $111M in Stimulus Saved Just 55 Jobs</h2>\r\n<p>By William Lajeunesse</p>\r\n<p>Published September 17, 2010</p>\r\n<p>| FoxNews.com</p>\r\n<div id=\"introduction\">\r\n<div>\r\n<div>\r\n<p><img src=\"http://www.foxnews.com/static/managed/img/U.S./091710_laroadsign_397x224.jpg\" border=\"0\" /></p>\r\n<p>Jan 29: A stimulus project roadsign is posted on Sunset Blvd. in West Hollywood, Calif.</p>\r\n</div>\r\n<p>More than a year after Congress approved $800 billion in stimulus funds, the Los Angeles city controller has released a 40-page report on how the city spent its share, and the results are not living up to expectations.</p>\r\n<p>\"I\'m disappointed that we\'ve only created or retained 55 jobs after receiving $111 million,\" said Wendy Greuel, the city\'s controller. \"With our local unemployment rate over 12 percent we need to do a better job cutting red tape and putting Angelenos back to work.\"</p>\r\n<p>According to the audit, the Los Angeles Department of Public Works spent $70 million in stimulus funds -- in return, it created seven private sector jobs and saved seven workers from layoffs. Taxpayer cost per job: $1.5 million.</p>\r\n<p>The Los Angeles Department of Transportation created even fewer jobs per dollar, spending $40 million but netting just nine jobs. Taxpayer cost per job: $4.4 million.</p>\r\n<p>Greuel blamed the dismal numbers on several factors:</p>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n<p>1. Bureaucratic red tape: Four highway projects did not even go out to bid until seven months after they were authorized.</p>\r\n<p>2. Projects that were supposed to be competitively bid in the private sector went instead went to city workers.</p>\r\n<p>3. Stimulus money was not properly tracked within departments</p>\r\n<p>4. Both departments could not report the jobs created and retained in a timely fashion..</p>\r\n<p>\"I would say maybe in a grade, a B- in creating the jobs,\" Greuel told Fox News. \"They have started to spend those dollars but it took seven months to get some of those contracts out. We think in the city that we should move quickly and not in the same usual bureaucratic ways.\"</p>','',1,60,'2010-09-18 00:16:39',62,'FoxNews.com','2010-09-18 00:28:44',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2010-09-18 00:16:39','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',3,256,'L.A.: $111M, Stimulus, Jobs ARRA','L.A.: $111M in Stimulus Saved Just 55 Jobs',1,277,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(210,0,'Prepared for the Times, Part 41','prepared-for-the-times-part-41','<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: verdana, lucida, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;\">Week 41, 2010\r\n<p style=\"margin: 0px;\"><span> </span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin: 0px;\"><span> </span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin: 0px;\"><strong><span> </span></strong></p>\r\nIn Matthew 12:28 Jesus said, <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">“But if I cast out demons by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God has come upon you.” </span><br /><br />As we discussed last week, every Christian is called to be the light and salt, and to occupy until the Lord returns. We all have a responsibility to help fulfill the mandate of The Great Commission and to preach the gospel of the kingdom throughout the world, which must be done before the end of this age can come. However, for the kingdom of God to come upon the world, we must do this in the Spirit of God, which will always be with the class and dignity of the fruit of the Spirit. <br /><br />We are also told in I Corinthians 2:10 <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">“For to us God revealed them through the Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God.” </span>Therefore, if we are truly Spirit led, we will be searchers, and we will not be shallow in our understanding. Therefore, we want to take some time with current events and seek to understand them from a biblical worldview, developing as much depth as required to understand them. <br />\r\n','\r\n<br />As we have also discussed before, to understand means “to stand under,” or to see from another’s perspective. When there is a stirring and controversy, it is a great opportunity to understand what is happening in a culture or nation. This is true in how America was agitated by the proposal to build a mosque near Ground Zero. Nearly everyone seemed to have an opinion on it. Both sides were accusing of the other being extremists and were themselves making extreme accusations, which shows the depth of care people had for this matter. Certainly extremists are likely on both sides of a volatile issue like this, but sometimes an extreme position is the accurate one. Is it true with this one?<br /><br />Those who oppose this planned mosque have been accused of everything from not believing in religious liberty, to being Islamophobic, to being religious bigots. Certainly these are extreme accusations, but are they accurate? Often those who make the most extreme accusations are the ones guilty of extreme intolerance for those whose opinions differ from theirs. Like the charge of racism, Islamophobia is being so overused now that it is fast losing its impact. As has been said about the charge of racism, “Racism is what a liberal calls a conservative when they start losing the argument.” This is not always true because there is still too much racism. However, the charge is overused and is often used just to intimidate or deflect from the real issue, which has lost much of its power. Those who use this charge frivolously lose respect of others, as they should.<br /><br />Of course, it is likely that there are some religious bigots in the opposition of the Ground Zero mosque, but that is surely not the reason why 70 percent of Americans are against this. One of the most costly and deadly deceptions that we are prone to have is judging other people groups after their most extreme elements. When one side starts making extreme accusations, like this, it is likely they are the ones with something indefensible in their position that they want to deflect the emphasis from. That is certainly the case here. <br /><br />The charge of Islamophobia seems to be losing its power to intimidate even faster than the overused charge of racism. This shows that the American people are growing in both discernment and understanding. A phobia is an irrational fear. There are rational fears which are not phobias, and this controversy has caused many to study Islam, and the more they have, the more alarmed they have rightly become. <br /><br />One remarkable factor to consider when we look at the opposition to the Ground Zero mosque is that it came from 70 percent of American people! Such a lopsided opinion on anything is considered virtually impossible. On almost every issue, 30 percent will side with the liberal perspective regardless of the issue, and about the same percentage will side with the conservative perspective, which leaves 40 percent in the middle. This means that with the Ground Zero mosque, virtually the entire middle went in one direction—opposing this mosque. This truly is extraordinary. <br /><br />Even though it seems like neither the government nor the media understands this—those who attacked us on 9/11 were not Christian extremists, or Hindu extremists, or Buddhist extremists; they were all Muslims. Almost all of the terrorist attacks worldwide over the last half century have been done by Muslims and not from proponents of any other religion. The majority of the American people are not stupid. To open a mosque near Ground Zero was understandably salt in the wound. For the developers to set the date for its opening on 9/11 was even more salt in the wound. For them to call it The Cordoba Mosque was like using a fork to stir the salt in the wound. <br /><br />With the media becoming increasingly unreliable and not trusted, Americans have been doing their own research, which is a very healthy and encouraging development. Just a cursory study of what took place at the conquest of Cordoba, Spain by Muslims, with the terrible slaughter or enslavement of Christians and Jews, and where the Muslims were the most vocal about how building mosques over church ruins, or turning churches into mosques, as a declaration of the triumph of Islam—to have the ground zero mosque named for Cordoba was an obvious symbol to Islamists everywhere and could hardly have been a more arrogant poke in the eye of America. That any American political leaders would not understand this is more than remarkable in its dullness. <br /><br />Intolerance can be evil, and it can be right. The intolerance of America toward this mosque at this site is understandable. It’s less understandable why all Americans are not against it except that they do not understand the real issues and symbolism of this mosque. It’s an amazing degree of tolerance that any American would accept mosques anywhere in America when so many Americans have died at the hands of Islamic terrorists, not just at the WTC and the Pentagon, but thousands of others have died all over the world, even in our embassies. For those who are for this Ground Zero mosque to declare Americans intolerant is not only a false charge, but itself is a demonstration of extreme intolerance.<br /><br />It is a serious distortion to call Americans intolerant or Islamophobic because they oppose the mosque at Ground Zero, and there is a good reason why those who make such charges lose their respect in the eyes of Americans. However, as Christians, we must have a resolve to “love our enemies,” but this does not mean we don’t understand those who are in fact our enemies. It is definitely a good thing that this controversy, and the deadly attacks that Americans and others around the world have suffered at the hands of Islamic jihadists, is causing more and more to wake up and seek understanding of those who have been forthright about their desire to destroy us. The sooner we wake up, the fewer lives that will likely be lost. This is a most deadly threat. </span></p>',1,74,'2010-10-04 23:55:36',63,'','2012-02-04 13:06:30',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2010-10-04 23:55:36','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',2,9,'Prepared for the Times, Part 41, mosque, religious liberty, Islamophobic, religious bigots.','Prepared for the Times, Part 41 Those who oppose this planned mosque have been accused of everything from not believing in religious liberty, to being Islamophobic, to being religious bigots.',1,695,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(211,0,'Support of Archbishop Nienstedt','support-of-archbishop-nienstedt','<p>Dear Friend of CatholicVote, <a href=\"http://paracom.paramountcommunication.com/ct/4720602:7098278106:m:1:162579565:E30DA121F343A81F4410893659776757\" target=\"&lt;not set&gt;\"><img src=\"http://paracom.paramountcommunication.com/cimages/2fab8fbddcd5c8f3aca57af7ec3f0aa8/Support%20Niedstedt2.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Support Nienstedt\" align=\"right\" style=\"margin: 15px;\" /></a><br /><br />Minnesota’s Archbishop John Nienstedt needs  your prayers and support. <br /><br />Just a few days ago, homosexual activists  wearing rainbow sashes and buttons attempted to receive Holy Communion from him  during Mass. The activists even bragged: “We were making a statement during the  Eucharist.” <br /><br />His Excellency stood firm, blessed them, but charitably  denied them the Eucharist. <br /><br /><a href=\"http://paracom.paramountcommunication.com/ct/4720602:7098278106:m:1:162579565:E30DA121F343A81F4410893659776757\"><strong>Sign  our petition in support of Archbishop Nienstedt here! </strong></a><br /><br />Anti-marriage activists in Minnesota are furious at the  Archbishop for backing a statewide mailing of DVD’s to every Catholic in  Minnesota urging them to support a constitutional amendment to protect marriage.  The media is hounding the Church, calling the effort ‘too political’ and  demanding to know who paid for the mailing (a private donor paid for the DVD’s).  <br /><br />As Americans, we acknowledge that citizens are free to disagree with the  Church. But a Catholic bishop has every right to speak to the Catholics in his  diocese – even during election season! <br /><br />And those that disagree with the  Church have no right to scandalize the faithful by turning the “source and  summit” of our life as Catholics into a political spectacle. <br /><br />Our Bishops  get criticized a lot -- sometimes legitimately, sometimes unfairly. For this  reason, we believe it is all the more important that the laity encourage and  applaud the courage of Bishops when they boldly stand up for the teachings of  our Church, and in this case – to protect the Holy Eucharist. <br /><br />We have a  simple message for Archbishop Nienstedt --- THANK YOU! We stand with you. We are  praying for you. May Our Lord grant you the graces necessary to resist the  attacks, and the courage to stand firm in defense of His Church and the Holy  Eucharist. <br /><br />Add your name to our letter to Archbishop Nienstedt here --  <a href=\"http://paracom.paramountcommunication.com/ct/4720603:7098278106:m:1:162579565:E30DA121F343A81F4410893659776757\"><strong>http://cvote.to/15</strong></a> <br /><br />Sincerely, <br /><br />Brian Burch <br />President <br />CatholicVote.org</p>','',1,60,'2010-10-09 12:55:58',62,'CatholicVote.org','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2010-10-09 12:55:58','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',1,255,'homosexual activists, rainbow sashes, Holy Communion, Mass, Eucharist','Homosexual activists wearing rainbow sashes and buttons attempted to receive Holy Communion from him during Mass. The activists even bragged: “We were making a statement during the Eucharist.” ',1,263,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"CatholicVote.org\"}',0,'*','',''),(212,0,'Pastor to IRS: Sue Me!','pastor-to-irs-sue-me','<p><span style=\"font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Sans\', \'Lucida Sans Unicode\', \'Lucida Grande\', sans-serif; line-height: 32px; font-size: 13px;\">\r\n<div id=\"StoryTitle\" class=\"storytitle\" style=\"width: auto; height: 68px; padding-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; border-bottom-color: #cccccc; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Sans\', \'Lucida Sans Unicode\', \'Lucida Grande\', sans-serif; color: #003399; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 7px;\">\'Political\' pastor to IRS: Sue me\r\n<div id=\"reporter\" class=\"reporter\" style=\"width: auto; height: auto; padding-top: 2px; padding-bottom: 2px; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Sans\', \'Lucida Sans Unicode\', \'Lucida Grande\', sans-serif; font-size: 10px; color: #333333; font-weight: normal;\">Charlie Butts - OneNewsNow - 10/11/2010 4:10:00 AM<span style=\"vertical-align: middle; margin-left: 25px;\"><a href=\"http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #0e4d8b; background: inherit;\"><img src=\"http://s9.addthis.com/button1-addthis.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Bookmark and Share\" width=\"125\" height=\"16\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 9px; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 0px;\" /></a></span></div>\r\n</div>\r\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px;\"> </p>\r\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px;\" align=\"left\"><img src=\"http://www.onenewsnow.com/uploadedImages/Media/Images/IRS_logo.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IRS logo (Internal Revenue Service)\" title=\"IRS logo (Internal Revenue Service)\" hspace=\"3\" vspace=\"3\" width=\"163\" height=\"133\" align=\"right\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 9px; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 0px;\" />A complaint has been filed with the Internal Revenue Service against an Iowa church on the basis of political involvement.</p>\r\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px;\"> </p>\r\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px;\"> </p>\r\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px;\"> </p>\r\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px;\" align=\"left\">Next month, <a href=\"http://www.onenewsnow.com/Politics/Default.aspx?id=1195980\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"voters in The Hawkeye State will have an opportunity\" style=\"color: #0e4d8b; background: inherit;\">voters in The Hawkeye State will have an opportunity</a> to vote against renewing terms for three state Supreme Court justices who voted in favor of homosexual \"marriage.\" Pastor Cary Gordon of <a href=\"http://cornerstoneworld.org/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Cornerstone World Outreach\" style=\"color: #0e4d8b; background: inherit;\">Cornerstone World Outreach</a> in Sioux City sent a letter to pastors around the state encouraging them to join in the effort to remove the three from the bench. In response, Americans United for Separation of Church and State filed a complaint against the Sioux City pastor.</p>\r\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px;\" align=\"left\"> </p>\r\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px;\" align=\"center\"><a href=\"http://www.onenewsnow.com/uploadedFiles/Media/Audio/2010/10/11/IOWAIRS.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"CharlieIowaLongInterview\" style=\"color: #0e4d8b; background: inherit;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">Listen to an extended interview with Pastor Cary Gordon</span></strong></a></p>\r\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px;\" align=\"center\"><em><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">(wait approx. 20 seconds into the file for interview to start)</span></em></p>\r\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px;\" align=\"left\"><br />Pastor Gordon tells OneNewsNow that Christians are often accused of shoving their religion down others\' throats -- and if they say the same things inside the walls of the church, they are accused of bringing politics into religion. \"You can\'t have it both ways,\" he remarks.<br /> <br /><img src=\"http://www.onenewsnow.com/uploadedImages/Media/Images/Mugs/CaryGordon.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Rev. Cary Gordon (Sioux City, IA)\" title=\"Rev. Cary Gordon (Sioux City, IA)\" hspace=\"3\" vspace=\"3\" width=\"88\" height=\"127\" align=\"left\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 9px; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 0px;\" />\"We\'re tired of the hypocrisy of these people because they desire to ensconce -- and frankly they\'re doing it -- ...secular humanism [as] the new state religion of the United States of America in violation of the original intent of the First Amendment,\" he laments.<br /> <br />Gordon stresses that despite complaints from groups like Americans United, he will continue to preach his convictions on Sunday.<br /> <br />\"I have never, nor will I ever, get a message from the Holy Spirit and then go check with the IRS tax code first to see if it\'s okay to preach it,\" he states. \"I\'m tired of pastors submitting to this tyranny -- and I\'m expecting to try to get the IRS to sue us so that we can take it all the way to the Supreme Court and restore freedom in America\'s pulpits.\"<br /> <br />Gordon\'s church is represented by Christian attorneys from <a href=\"http://www.libertylegal.org/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Liberty Institute\" style=\"color: #0e4d8b; background: inherit;\">Liberty Institute</a>.</p>\r\n</span></p>','',1,60,'2010-10-11 19:04:39',62,'Charlie Butts - OneNewsNow','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2010-10-11 19:04:39','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',1,254,'Political, pastor, IRS, Sue me','\'Political\' pastor to IRS: Sue me',1,315,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"Charlie Butts - OneNewsNow \"}',0,'*','',''),(213,0,'Could This Be the Reason We Have Full Body Scanners?','could-this-be-the-reason-we-have-full-body-scanners','<p>January 2010 Article but I just heard about it now. Imagine that...</p>\r\n<h1>Group slams Chertoff on scanner promotion</h1>\r\n<p>January 2, 2010</p>\r\n<p>WASHINGTON - Since the attempted bombing of a US airliner on Christmas Day, former Homeland Security secretary Michael Chertoff has given dozens of media interviews touting the need for the federal government to buy more full-body scanners for airports.</p>\r\n<p>What he has made little mention of is that the Chertoff Group, his security consulting agency, includes a client that manufactures the machines. Chertoff disclosed the relationship on a CNN program Wednesday, in response to a question.</p>\r\n<p>An airport passengers’ rights group on Thursday criticized Chertoff’s use of his former government credentials to advocate for a product that benefits his clients.</p>\r\n<p>“Mr. Chertoff should not be allowed to abuse the trust the public has placed in him as a former public servant to privately gain from the sale of full-body scanners under the pretense that the scanners would have detected this particular type of explosive,’’ said Kate Hanni, founder of FlyersRights.org, which opposes the use of the scanners.</p>\r\n<p>Chertoff’s advocacy for the technology dates to his time in the Bush administration. In 2005, Homeland Security ordered the government’s first batch of the scanners - five from California-based Rapiscan Systems. Rapiscan is one of only two companies that make full-body scanners in accordance with current contract specifications required by the federal government.</p>\r\n<p>Currently 40 body scanners are in use among 19 US airports. The number is expected to skyrocket, at least in part because of the Christmas Day incident. The Transportation Security Administration has said it will order 300 more machines.</p>\r\n<p>In the summer, TSA purchased 150 more machines from Rapiscan with $25 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds. Rapiscan was the only company that qualified for the contract because it had developed technology that performs the screening using a less-graphic body imaging system, which is also less controversial. (Since then, another company, L-3 Communications, has qualified for future contracts, but no new contracts have been awarded.)</p>\r\n<p>-- Washington Post</p>','',1,60,'2010-11-20 14:10:36',62,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2010-11-20 14:10:36','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',1,253,'Former Homeland Security Secretary Chertoff and Full Body Scanners','Former Homeland Security Secretary Chertoff and Full Body Scanners',1,211,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(214,0,'Napolitano Considering Exempting Arabic Women From Full Body Scanners?','napolitano-considering-exempting-arabic-women-from-full-body-scanners','<p>{source}<span style=\"font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;\"><br /><span>&lt;</span>object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"<span>&gt;</span><span>&lt;</span>param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/AI1n15lD6O8?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US\"<span>&gt;</span><span>&lt;</span>/param<span>&gt;</span><span>&lt;</span>param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"<span>&gt;</span><span>&lt;</span>/param<span>&gt;</span><span>&lt;</span>param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"<span>&gt;</span><span>&lt;</span>/param<span>&gt;</span><span>&lt;</span>embed src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/AI1n15lD6O8?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\"<span>&gt;</span><span>&lt;</span>/embed<span>&gt;</span><span>&lt;</span>/object<span>&gt;</span><br /></span>{/source}</p>','',1,60,'2010-11-20 16:41:32',62,'','2010-11-20 16:44:44',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2010-11-20 16:41:32','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',2,252,'','',1,225,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(215,0,'Say What Mahmoud?','mosque-makeovers-with-your-tax-dollars','<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; font-size: 13px;\"> </span></p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #9c2520; font-size: x-large;\"><span style=\"font-size: 22px; line-height: 24px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #9c2520; font-size: x-large;\"><span style=\"font-size: 22px; line-height: 24px;\">Mosque Makeovers With Your Tax Dollars</span></span></strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"storyDateTime\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;\"><span class=\"posted\" style=\"display: block; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18px; color: #5b5b5b;\">Posted: 3:57 pm EST November 11, 2010</span><span class=\"updated\" style=\"display: block; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18px; color: #5b5b5b;\">Updated: 6:42 am EST November 12, 2010</span></p>\r\n<div class=\"StoryBody\" style=\"font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\"><strong class=\"Dateline\" style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold;\">WASHINGTON, D.C -- </strong>A <a href=\"http://www.wsbtv.com/news/25762604/detail.html\" target=\"_blank\">Channel 2 Action News</a> investigation found that the State Department is sending millions of dollars to save mosques overseas. This investment has received criticism as the United States makes an effort to slash nearly $4 trillion in government spending. <a href=\"http://www.wsbtv.com/news/25762604/detail.html\" target=\"_blank\">MORE&gt;&gt;</a><a href=\"http://www.wsbtv.com/news/25762604/detail.html\" target=\"_blank\">{jcomments on}</a></div>','',1,60,'2010-11-22 18:55:29',62,'Channel 2 Action News','2010-11-23 00:09:38',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2010-11-22 18:55:29','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',6,250,'','',1,325,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(216,0,'Socialized Health Care','socialized-health-care-in-cuba-a-la-fidel','<p><img src=\"images/US_CUBA_flags.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Salud a Miami!\" width=\"104\" height=\"69\" style=\"float: left; border: 0;\" /></p>\r\n<h2><span style=\"color: red;\"><strong>Socialized Health Care in Cuba a la Fidel</strong></span></h2>\r\n<p>Sent by a friend in Miami who wants to share what Cuba\'s socialized, redistribution of wealth health care system looks like 50 years later. It\'s in Spanish, however the photos tell the story.</p>\r\n<p><span style=\"color: red;\">Click Here: </span> <a href=\"uploads/41857-SALUD_EN_CUBA.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Health Care a la Fidelistas!\">SALUD EN CUBA.PDF</a> (pdf format)</p>\r\n<div>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; color: navy; font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: Arial;\" lang=\"ES\"><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma; font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;\">From: </span></span></strong></span>Helio Rodriguez-Ecay  CPA</span></span></p>\r\n</div>\r\n<div>\r\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: \'Times New Roman\'; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> \r\n<hr width=\"100%\" size=\"2\" />\r\n</span></span></div>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma; font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;\">From:</span></span></strong><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma; font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;\"> Armando  Merino<br /><strong><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Sent:</span></strong> Monday, November 22, 2010 11:06  AM<br /><strong><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">To:</span></strong> ap_merino<br /><strong><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Subject:</span></strong> FW: SOCIALIZED HEALTHCARE IN  CUBA AFTER 50  YEARS</span></span></p>\r\n</div>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px;\">Kate</span></p>\r\n<div>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; color: black; font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia;\">These are terrible  pictures of the Health Care in Cuba unfortunately they are the real thing and  many people around the world</span></span><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; 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font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;\">The Only Surviving Album of Auschwitz</span></p>\r\n<p>This is the story of a Hungarian Jewish woman who survived Auschwitz. Immediately after her liberation, she found a coat belonging to a guard, which she took to shield herself from the cold.  In the pocket of this coat she found a photo album.  It contained pictures of what went on in this extermination camp.  Imagine her reaction when she saw a picture of herself coming off of the train, as well pictures of her family, who had already been murdered.  This album at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem was donated by this woman in 1980, and will forever be displayed there.  When you have 5 minutes of peace and quiet in front of your computer, watch it and consider passing it around to people that you know so they can share it and know about it.  It is truly moving and important.</p>\r\n<p>I hope this can be kept moving as this time in the history of the world must never be forgotten.</p>\r\n<p>Click this link:</p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://www1.yadvashem.org/exhibitions/album_Auschwitz/mutimedia/index.HTML\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Auschwitz Album\">Auschwitz Album{jcomments on}</a></p>','',1,60,'2010-11-22 23:21:30',62,'Submitted by Matthew T. Krol Sr.','2010-11-23 00:05:54',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2010-11-22 23:21:30','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',3,248,'Auschwitz Album','Auschwitz Album',1,431,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(219,0,'Prepared for the Times, Part 48','prepared-for-the-times-part-48','<p><img src=\"images/stories/r_joyner_85px.jpg\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" />Week 48, 2010</p>\r\n<p>The United States was the first, and some say the only, nation created through the belief that God, not government, has given to all men certain unalienable rights, and that government exists for the purpose of protecting those rights. For this reason, the government is a servant of the people, not the other way around. The Constitution and Bill of Rights were written to ensure the understanding and protection of those basic rights.</p>\r\n<p>The vision for such freedom was born out of the Protestant Reformation when salvation became individual, not corporate. Also during the Reformation came the truth that in order to be saved we must have personal faith in God and His atonement, not that we are saved because we came from a Christian family, lived in a Christian nation, or were raised in an institutional church. This gave infinite value to the individual and made all institutions, including government, servants of God for ensuring peace and liberty for His people. This was a radical new concept for government that took several centuries to flesh out and become the basis for an actual government. <br /><br />Freedom is required for true worship. For us to have true worship of God, we must have the freedom not to worship. This is why the Lord put the Tree of Knowledge...</p>\r\n','\r\n<p>in the Garden—there could be no true obedience unless there was the freedom not to obey. God wanted those who worshiped Him to do so because they loved Him and loved His truth, not out of compulsion. True religion is from the heart and cannot be forced or imposed. This is why we are told that “where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty” (see II Corinthians 3:17). This is why the freedom of religion is a foundational liberty upon which all of our liberties are based, and why there was insistence that the government would have no power to establish religion. <br /><br />The term “the separation of church and state” is not found in the Constitution or the Bill of Rights, but rather was coined by Thomas Jefferson in a letter. Consequently, there was no intention by the Founders to have a separation of church and state, but simply that the government would have no power to impose any religion on the people. We know from the other writings of the Founders, which were intended with these documents, that all who gave an opinion on it did not think that the Republic could last without a strong mooring to our Judea/Christian underpinnings. However, they also saw that these underpinnings would be artificial, and therefore weak, if the freedom of religion was not a necessary seedbed of true religion. <br /><br />Being the first such government in history brought out many naysayers and critics who thought that such a country could not survive long without falling into anarchy and then tyranny. Certainly the maturing of the nation brought about many crises that seemed to threaten its very existence, such as the Civil War. The danger would swing from tyranny to anarchy, but through each crisis, the nation emerged stronger and more prosperous than ever. Living under the relative peace and prosperity in the U.S. soon became the desire of the world, and the world came to America until we became a nation made up of all nations, which added greatly to our strength. <br /><br />Every generation has had its tests, and many of these were so severe that there were serious questions whether the Republic could survive. The generation before us had to face some of history’s worst and most deadly despots—Hitler, Stalin, and Mao being the major ones, but others like Pol Pot and Chauchescu who may have been even more cruel in their murder of men. After surviving the Great Depression, that generation had to fight World War II and then the Cold War, which threatened the destruction of the entire earth. Through all of this, the United States was left far stronger and more prosperous than they had received it.<br /><br />We are going through a test now that threatens our continued survival as a Republic. Millions of Islamic jihadists have arisen whose ultimate goal is to destroy America and Western civilization and would consider it the work of God to kill Americans and Jews. At the same time, a new form of socialism has arisen within the nation that threatens the foundations of American economic strength, which is the initiative promoted by economic freedom. From within and without, we are facing ultimate threats, but we should not think this is unusual, but rather that it is now our turn. This is not something that we have to face but that we get to face. <br /><br />The very foundations of the Republic are under assault, and without a doubt we could lose everything that all of the previous generations worked so hard to give to us. However, we can also come out of this much stronger and much better than ever. It really is our choice. <br /><br />When I say our choice, it is the choice of Christians. Even though we must promote and defend the freedom of every religion as a core value of Christianity as well as our Republic, without the core of Judeo/Christian moral underpinnings, the Republic will not last. Even so, we must understand that the freedom of belief is not the freedom to practice. For example, people are free to believe in animal sacrifices as a part of their religion, but they are not free to practice that here. They are free to believe in polygamy, and even female circumcision, honor killing, the cutting off of the hands of a thief, etc., but they are not free to practice these things here. <br /><br />Freedom is not unlimited, but it does have restraints. These restraints are in order to protect the freedom of those who would otherwise be victims of tyranny. Of course, where the lines of our freedoms will be drawn are fought over in each generation. However, our love for God demands that we love His people, all people, and protect the freedom without which they cannot rise to the greatest height a human can rise—to be a lover of God, and by doing this, loving one another as we should.</p>\r\n<p> </p>',1,74,'2010-11-22 23:33:31',63,'','2012-02-04 13:06:18',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2010-11-22 23:33:31','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',3,8,'United States, created, belief, God, government, unalienable rights, government is a servant of the people. Constitution, Bill of Rights','Prepared for the Times, Part 48. The United States was the first, and some say the only, nation created through the belief that God, not government, has given to all men certain unalienable rights, and that government exists for the purpose of protecting those rights. For this reason, the government is a servant of the people, not the other way around. The Constitution and Bill of Rights were written to ensure the understanding and protection of those basic rights.',1,642,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(220,0,'Schools','schools-islamyes-christianityno','<p><span style=\"font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Sans\', \'Lucida Sans Unicode\', \'Lucida Grande\', sans-serif; line-height: 32px; font-size: 13px;\"> </span></p>\r\n<div id=\"StoryTitle\" class=\"storytitle\" style=\"width: auto; height: 68px; padding-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; border-bottom-color: #cccccc; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Sans\', \'Lucida Sans Unicode\', \'Lucida Grande\', sans-serif; color: #003399; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 7px;\">Schools: Islam...yes! Christianity...no!\r\n<div id=\"reporter\" class=\"reporter\" style=\"width: auto; height: auto; padding-top: 2px; padding-bottom: 2px; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Sans\', \'Lucida Sans Unicode\', \'Lucida Grande\', sans-serif; font-size: 10px; color: #333333; font-weight: normal;\">Becky Yeh - OneNewsNow California correspondent - 11/23/2010 4:10:00 AM</div>\r\n</div>\r\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px;\"> </p>\r\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px;\" align=\"left\">An expert on Islam explains that schools across the United States have implemented radical Islamic curriculum in public schools.</p>\r\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px;\"> </p>\r\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px;\" align=\"left\"><img src=\"http://www.onenewsnow.com/uploadedImages/Media/Images/Mugs/BrigitteGabriel.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Brigitte Gabriel\" title=\"Brigitte Gabriel\" hspace=\"3\" vspace=\"3\" align=\"left\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 9px; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 0px;\" />Brigitte Gabriel, founder of <a href=\"http://www.actforamerica.org/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"ACT! for America\" style=\"color: #0e4d8b; background: inherit;\">ACT! for America</a>, explains that students are required to become a Muslim for three weeks, adopt Muslim names, memorize verses from the Quran, and visit a mosque for a field trip. If students try their best on assignments, she says, they will be guaranteed a good grade.<br /> <br />Students in these programs, laments the conservative activist, must also recite the Islamic prayer for salvation, which describes Islam as a straight path to God -- and Christianity in error.<br /> <br />\"Here\'s what they\'re teaching in the public schools; [here\'s] what they\'re telling the students they have to memorize and recite,\" she says -- \"\'Praise be to Allah, Lord of Creation, the compassionate, the merciful, king of judgment day. You alone we worship, and to you alone we pray for help.\'\"<br /> <br /><img src=\"http://www.onenewsnow.com/uploadedImages/Media/Images/ChristianMuslim.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Christian and Muslim symbols\" title=\"Christian and Muslim symbols\" hspace=\"3\" vspace=\"3\" width=\"200\" height=\"93\" align=\"right\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 9px; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 0px;\" />Gabriel sees more than a little inconsistency in how the material is being presented. \"Remember, this is public school where we can\'t even say we have a Christmas break -- we have a \'winter break,\'\" she exclaims. \"Where we can\'t even say we have Easter break -- it\'s now called \'spring break.\'\"<br /> <br />The ACT! for America president explains that Islamic ideologies are prevalent in textbooks, such as the way the term \"jihad\" is explained. She says instead of portraying the idea as one of violence and bloodshed, the texts describe it as a struggle against oppression -- the same description that al-Qaeda presents.<br /> <br />She argues that \"what they\'re doing is literally brainwashing our students to prepare them to turn against our own soldiers and our own military and government by basically feeding them the talking points of al-Qaeda.\"<br /> <br />Gabriel contends that if students were to recite Bible verses, adopt Christian names, and learn a Christian prayer for salvation, many Americans would be infuriated, arguing it violates the alleged separation of church and state. But because of political correctness, she says, Islamic indoctrination is allowed in public schools.</p>\r\n<p> </p>','',1,60,'2010-11-23 18:47:27',62,'OneNewsNow.com','2010-11-23 18:55:00',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2010-11-23 18:47:27','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',3,247,'','',1,272,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(221,0,'World Changing Events','world-changing-events','<p> </p>\r\n<p>November 30, 2010</p>\r\n<h1>World Changing Events by Rick Joyner</h1>\r\n<p>The following are world events now unfolding that have the potential to have a major impact on our times.</p>\r\n<h2>WikiLeaks complicates U.S. foreign policy.</h2>\r\n<p>More than 200,000 pages of classified and sensitive U.S. State Department documents being opened to the world by WikiLeaks.</p>\r\n<p><strong>ANALYSIS:</strong> This will no doubt complicate U.S. foreign policy, and insult a number of foreign leaders, but will likely not do any permanent or deep damage to our foreign relations. Worse than what is in these documents is the embarrassment that there is such a lack of security in the State Department that such material could be leaked.</p>\r\n<p><strong>CONSEQUENCES:</strong> This could be very bad timing because it will certainly put a damper on communications within the State Department, and between the U.S. and other nations, which could be critical as tensions and crises around the world are rising. Potentially this could also work for good by causing all to be much more careful in their communications about others—always a good thing.</p>\r\n<p> </p>\r\n<h2 style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; color: #333333;\"><strong>Other Analyses:</strong></h2>\r\n<h2 style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=221:world-changing-events&amp;catid=3:newsflash#nskorea\">North and South Korea square off</a></span></h2>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=221:world-changing-events&amp;catid=3:newsflash#rccurrencies\">Russia and China decide to use their own currencies for trade in place of the dollar.</a></span></span></p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=221:world-changing-events&amp;catid=3:newsflash#ireland\">EU bails out Ireland.</a></span></span></p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;\"> </span></span></p>\r\n<h2 style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=221:world-changing-events&amp;catid=3:newsflash#kingdom\">The Kingdom of God is Coming</a></span></h2>\r\n<p> </p>\r\n','\r\n<h2><a name=\"nskorea\"></a>North and South Korea square off.</h2>\r\n<p>After the unstable and unpredictable North Korea shelled a South Korean base and fishing village, tensions have not abated.</p>\r\n<p><strong>ANALYSIS:</strong> This is a very real threat to many nations in the region, and does have the potential of pulling China and the U.S. into a confrontation. In this crisis China is holding most of the options. It is assumed that China can control its ally North Korea if it wants to, but so far it has just lamely offered to host talks. This signals that China does not want to reign in their belligerent neighbor. Why?</p>\r\n<p>China is an economic superpower that will likely surpass the U.S. as the biggest economy in the world very soon. However, its military is still no match for the U.S., and would not fare well in a military confrontation. China has a very obvious plan to wear down the U.S. by supporting constant crises and conflicts that stretch and consume U.S. military and economic resources.</p>\r\n<p>It is unthinkable that China would want a war between North and South Korea. Not only would such a conflict be dangerously close to their own border, but could be devastating to its rising economy. It would also be a huge blow to China’s rising diplomatic stature in the world because China would be widely viewed as the one nation that could have prevented such a war, but did not.</p>\r\n<p>Even with these risks China obviously believes it is in its interest to keep the tensions high between North and South Korea, as well as keep the U.S. on edge. This situation is so tense that any little spark could easily flame up into all out war between North and South Korea, which the U.S. would almost certainly be dragged into with nearly 30,000 U.S. troops now based in South Korea.</p>\r\n<p>Why would China risk so much by allowing these tensions to rise on the Korean Peninsula? Energy—specifically Middle Eastern oil. China’s economic growth is making its energy needs rise faster than any other nation in the world and it has very little of its own reserves. China does not like to be in a position of needing diplomatic cooperation but rather wants to control its own destiny and therefore it will have to ultimately control its own energy source. China needs the U.S. out of the Middle East, which means the U.S. must be so worn down that it cannot continue to intervene there. This is a simple and brilliant strategy that has been working.</p>\r\n<p><strong>CONSEQUENCES</strong>: North Korea has proven itself to be a rogue state for decades but it only seems to be getting more belligerent and more dangerous every time it causes a crisis and gets away with it - usually even getting rewarded with more aid or concessions. This is never the way to deal with a bully and if we keep giving in as we have, the cost of not standing up to them will get more expensive.</p>\r\n<p>We’ve allowed North Korea to become a nuclear power that is now in desperate need for hard cash and with only one thing of value to sell - these terrible weapons. Are we going to pay the ultimate price for letting this go on for so long?</p>\r\n<p>If you are secure in thinking they do not have missiles that can hit the continental U.S., this has changed because we’ve now given them time to develop one that puts our West Coast within their range. Even so a short-range missile could work even better for those seeking to do us harm, as it could be launched from a trawler or fishing vessel right off the coast. What were those contrails just off the West Coast a few weeks ago? How about tests?</p>\r\n<h2><a name=\"rccurrencies\"></a>Russia and China decide to use their own currencies for trade in place of the dollar.</h2>\r\n<p>To replace the dollar as the world’s common trading currency has been a stated goal of both Russia and China for some time, but this agreement now makes it a reality.</p>\r\n<p><strong>ANALYSIS:</strong> This agreement has been in the works for some time, but their ability to actually complete it was likely stepped up by the U.S. Federal Reserve’s stated intention to start printing hundreds of billions of dollars more to place in circulation this coming year. This strategy brought a sharp rebuke to President Obama at virtually every stop of his recent Asian tour.</p>\r\n<p>What would cause Russia and China to make such a move? When the Federal Reserve puts more dollars in circulation it automatically devalues the dollar by creating inflation. Those who are holding large amounts of U.S. currency have the value of their holdings cut dramatically by such actions. A main reason why Russia, China, and other nations have been pushing for changing the U.S. dollar from being the world’s main base currency in trade and going to a basket of currencies has been the tendency of Washington to implement currency policies unilaterally that can impact the entire world without even consulting those it impacts.</p>\r\n<p>This action on the part of Russia and China signals a loss of confidence in the U.S. as the world’s economic leader, and they have perceived an opportunity to now seize it. This will have to play out, and it is by no means a slam dunk for Russia and China, but it was a bold move they must have had a great deal of confidence in to make at this time, or they felt a desperation that forced them to do it.</p>\r\n<p><strong>CONSEQUENCES:</strong> This does not bode well for the U.S. dollar. For those who believe that the strength of the U.S. dollar is essential to U.S. economic strength, an action such as this one has been one of their greatest fears. In military terms, to have the initiative in any battle is a huge advantage, giving you more options and limiting the enemy’s options. By this move on the part of Russia and China the U.S. may have just lost the initiative in the world economic contest. Instead of just being able to act and expect the rest of the world to react to what we do, our options have at the very least now become more limited, and they may well be severely restricted.</p>\r\n<p>Inflation in the U.S. is much higher now than the government is reporting because the government determined to move two of the most basic factors from the equation determining the rate of inflation—fuel and food prices. Removing fuel and food as factors determining the rate of inflation was done because they said these two commodities were too volatile to give us accurate readings. Volatile or not, they are very basic to the factoring of inflation across the whole economy. This reasoning is fallacious, and a very obvious ruse that did not build temporary confidence in the economy by hiding the true rate of inflation, but has caused even a greater erosion of faith in U.S. economic leadership.</p>\r\n<p>Printing more money and putting it into circulation automatically devalues the treasuries of those holding U.S. dollars. This was foreseen as a potential strategy of the Federal Reserve to thereby devalue the debt and deficits of the U.S. government. This will also stimulate the U.S. economy by making our goods more affordable to other nations. However, this only works while the dollar remains the world’s trading currency, and this agreement between Russia and China not only undermines this plan, but can have devastating long term economic repercussions for the already limping U.S. economy.</p>\r\n<p>The most basic fuel of the U.S. economy is faith, and faith in our economic leadership which had already been shaken worldwide by our wildly out of control spending, but is being further eroded by such schemes as this that just seem to be taking pot shots at what might work. The economic policies of the Obama Administration has been rebuked by virtually every friend and foe we have in the world, and the Russian/Chinese accord seems to mark that they are now taking steps to abandon what they see is a sinking ship.</p>\r\n<p>A weak U.S. dollar can have some trade advantages, which can help stimulate the domestic economy. We could see a bit of a boost from these actions. However, there is a way to allow the U.S. dollar to weaken in a slower and orderly way that does not erode confidence in the economy, so any advantages gained by this has likely been lost already. The result: inflation with a weakening economy, which is economic quicksand. We are on a path that could doom the dollar as not only the world’s trading currency, but as a viable currency at all, even in the U.S.</p>\r\n<p>This worst-case scenario has been forecast by many for some time, and the events that seem to be leading to this have been unfolding. It is conceivable that this could lead to a time when bartering is the currency in the U.S. for a time. As the strength of the dollar is based entirely on people having enough faith in it for them to take it in exchange for goods and services, that faith is being lost very steadily, and it could be completely lost overnight under certain potential circumstances.</p>\r\n<p>If this happens the only way the government could restore faith in its currency would be to make it a commodity based currency again (i.e. gold or silver backed). If the government sees this coming, they will likely react by starting to call in all gold and silver, even outlawing them being held by private citizens until the transition is made.</p>\r\n<p> </p>\r\n<h2><a name=\"ireland\"></a>EU bails out Ireland.</h2>\r\n<p>Over $100 billion was required to stabilize Ireland’s bond crisis.</p>\r\n<p><strong>ANALYSIS:</strong> Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain and Ireland are all bleeding Euros, and Germany and France continues to give transfusions. The ultimate cause of virtually every crisis is entitlements, and few have had the political will to address them so the meltdown of the E.U. continues, and the U.S. is not far behind.</p>\r\n<p><strong>CONSEQUENCES:</strong> The E.U. is looking more and more like, at best, a good idea badly implemented. At worst it could result in a devastating collapse of this entity that is more of a bureaucracy than a government. Without Germany, and to a lesser degree France, this could have never happened, and it is not likely that the people of either Germany or France, who are paying the price for the E.U., are going to continue to let it go on for much longer. The big question is if this is going to result in a pre-World War II like chaos, or a post World War II like chaos.</p>\r\n<h2><a name=\"kingdom\"></a>The Kingdom of God is Coming:</h2>\r\n<p>The kingdom of God cannot be shaken, and is not subject to any of the crises of this world. Those who have built their life on His kingdom will not be shaken either.</p>\r\n<p><strong>ANALYSIS:</strong> Biblical prophecy has a lot to say about these times, and makes it clear that at the end of this age there will be the greatest time of trouble the world has ever seen. These troubles are all basically the result of man trying to run this world without God, and all of creation will have learned from our story that this is something that no one should ever try again.</p>\r\n<p>In virtually every area now the crises are getting beyond human remedy, but God will help all who call upon Him. There are answers to every human problem, and for those who turn to Him with the resolve to hear and obey His word, they will not only build their own houses upon the rock that can stand against the coming storms, but they will be able to reach in and save many others too.</p>\r\n<p><strong>CONSEQUENCES:</strong> There is hope. The gospel of the kingdom, which is the ?good news? about the coming kingdom, is the greatest message of hope the world has ever, or will ever, hear. If we see it we can enter it. If we enter it we can show others the way to it. As we see in Is.60:1-5, it is during the time when darkness will cover the earth and deep darkness the people that the glory of the Lord appears upon His people. The result of this is that the nations come to the light! The darkness will not win, and those who follow the light cannot lose.</p>\r\n<p> </p>',1,75,'2010-12-01 13:12:24',63,'','2012-02-04 13:05:51',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2010-12-01 13:12:24','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',7,57,'','',1,929,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','','');
INSERT INTO `josci_content` VALUES (222,0,'We the People','we-the-people','<p>{source}<span style=\"font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;\"><br /><span>&lt;</span>object width=\"640\" height=\"385\"<span>&gt;</span><span>&lt;</span>param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/JVAhr4hZDJE?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US\"<span>&gt;</span><span>&lt;</span>/param<span>&gt;</span><span>&lt;</span>param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"<span>&gt;</span><span>&lt;</span>/param<span>&gt;</span><span>&lt;</span>param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"<span>&gt;</span><span>&lt;</span>/param<span>&gt;</span><span>&lt;</span>embed src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/JVAhr4hZDJE?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"640\" height=\"385\"<span>&gt;</span><span>&lt;</span>/embed<span>&gt;</span><span>&lt;</span>/object<span>&gt;</span><br /></span>{/source}{jcomments on}</p>','',1,20,'2010-12-02 13:13:07',62,'Submitted by Jim Willis','2010-12-04 04:59:18',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2010-12-02 13:13:07','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',8,34,'','',1,249,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(223,0,'Food Court Surprise','food-court-surprise','<p>{source}<span style=\"font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;\"><br /><span>&lt;</span>object width=\"640\" height=\"385\"<span>&gt;</span><span>&lt;</span>param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/SXh7JR9oKVE?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US\"<span>&gt;</span><span>&lt;</span>/param<span>&gt;</span><span>&lt;</span>param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"<span>&gt;</span><span>&lt;</span>/param<span>&gt;</span><span>&lt;</span>param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"<span>&gt;</span><span>&lt;</span>/param<span>&gt;</span><span>&lt;</span>embed src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/SXh7JR9oKVE?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"640\" height=\"385\"<span>&gt;</span><span>&lt;</span>/embed<span>&gt;</span><span>&lt;</span>/object<span>&gt;</span><br /></span>{/source}</p>','',1,76,'2010-12-04 04:03:34',62,'Submitted by The Oak Initiative','2012-03-25 23:40:21',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2010-12-04 04:03:34','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',2,14,'','',1,460,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(224,0,'Top Ten Gay Marriage False “Facts” ~ Part 1','top-ten-gay-marriage-false-facts-part-1','<p><img src=\"images/stories/OAKI-logo.png\" border=\"0\" title=\"The Oak Initiative\" align=\"left\" /></p>\r\n<p>December 06, 2010</p>\r\n<p>The Oak Initiative is devoted to addressing the current issues of our times from a sound biblical and historical perspective. What we distribute as <strong><em>“Oak Leaves”</em></strong> addresses mostly current events, and what we distribute as <strong><em>“Root Truth”</em></strong> is from more of a historical perspective, but which is a basis for understanding the important issues of our times.</p>\r\n<p> </p>\r\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Root Truth #3</strong></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Top Ten Gay Marriage False \"Facts\" ~ Part 1 <br /></strong><br />(Author: Frank Turek - From his article with the same name. Presented with Permission)<strong><br /></strong></p>\r\n<p>When one judge overturned the will of more than seven million Californians last week (Aug.04, 2010) in <em>Perry vs. Schwarzenegger</em>, he listed 80 supposed “findings of fact” (FF) as evidence that Proposition 8 violates the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution. Many of those 80 findings are not facts at all. They’re lies or distortions.</p>\r\n<p>Before we address the top ten false “facts” asserted by Judge Vaughn Walker, there is one <em>real</em> fact in his opinion that defeats the entire case for his opinion. Here it is: <br />“The evidence at trial shows that marriage in the United States traditionally has not been open to same-sex couples.”</p>\r\n<p>Since that fact is unquestionably true, how can Judge Walker honestly declare that Proposition 8 violates the Fourteenth Amendment? Certainly no one in 1868 intended the Fourteenth Amendment to redefine marriage. Only the most tyrannical form of judicial activism can get Judge Walker to his conclusion.</p>\r\n<p>Second, Prop 8 doesn’t violate the Fourteenth Amendment because every person in America already has equal marriage rights. We’re all playing by the same rules—we all have the same right to marry any non-related adult of the opposite sex. Those rules do not deny anyone “equal protection of the laws” because the qualifications to enter a marriage apply equally to everyone—every adult person has the same right to marry.</p>\r\n<p>What about homosexuals? That leads us to Judge Walker’s first false “fact.”</p>\r\n','\r\n<p> </p>\r\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"843\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td width=\"23\" valign=\"top\">\r\n<div><strong>1.</strong></div>\r\n</td>\r\n<td width=\"12\"> </td>\r\n<td width=\"780\">\r\n<p><strong>“Sexual orientation is fundamental to a person’s identity and is a distinguishing characteristic that defines gays and lesbians as a discrete group.”</strong> (FF 44) This is the most important of the false facts because Walker’s entire case collapses without it. The “fact” is false because it ignores the difference between <em>desires</em> and <em>behavior</em>.</p>\r\n<p>Having certain sexual desires—whether you were “born” with them or acquired them sometime in life—does not mean that <em>you</em> are being discriminated against if the law doesn’t allow the <em>behavior</em> you desire. Good laws discriminate against behavior. They do not discriminate against people. If Walker’s false “fact” was a real fact, we’d have to redefine marriage to include not just same sex couples, but also relatives, multiple partners, children or any other sexual relationship people desire. After all, those are “sexual orientations” too.</p>\r\n<p>In other words, there should be no legal class of “gay” or “straight,” just a legal class called “person.” And it doesn’t matter whether persons desire sex with the same or opposite sex, or whether they desire sex with children, parents, multiple partners or farm animals. What matters is whether the <em>behavior</em> desired is something the country should prohibit, permit or promote. And that’s a job for the people, not judges.<br /><br /></p>\r\n</td>\r\n<td width=\"10\"> </td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td valign=\"top\">\r\n<div><strong>2.</strong></div>\r\n</td>\r\n<td> </td>\r\n<td>\r\n<p><strong>“California has no interest in asking gays and lesbians to change their sexual orientation or in reducing the number of gays and lesbians in California.” </strong>(FF 47) Other than helping them avoid disease and live longer, absolutely no reason. As I document <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Correct-Politically-Same-Sex-Marriage-Everyone/dp/1607081628/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1239070012&amp;sr=1-3\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>, health problems are higher and life spans shorter for homosexuals. This has touched me personally (and perhaps someone you know as well)—a childhood friend of mine died from AIDS at the age of 36. How is it wise public policy to endorse behavior that leads to such tragic results? That’s exactly what same-sex marriage does—it endorses homosexual behavior, which results in serious health problems and shorter life spans. Permitting unhealthy behavior is one thing, but endorsing it is quite another.</p>\r\n<p>But won’t same-sex marriage help reduce gay health issues? Not likely. See Judge Walker’s next false fact.<br /><br /></p>\r\n</td>\r\n<td> </td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td valign=\"top\">\r\n<div><strong>3.</strong></div>\r\n</td>\r\n<td> </td>\r\n<td><strong>“Same-sex couples are identical to opposite-sex couples in the characteristics relevant to the ability to form successful marital unions.”</strong> (FF 48) What does “successful” mean? It has nothing to do with children according to Judge Walker. In his “the stork brings children” universe, marriage is merely about coupling; procreation is just incidental to it. He thinks a “successful” marriage is merely about commitment, but he can’t even support <em>that</em> case. In another instance of special pleading, Judge Walker ignores the evidence that at least half of committed homosexual relationships are open as even the <a href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/29/us/29sfmetro.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>New York Times</em></a> reported. (Other studies found even higher rates of promiscuity and infidelity.) This is so well known it’s a travesty that Judge Walker claims exactly the opposite is true. The <em>Times</em> reported, “None of this is news in the gay community, but few will speak publicly about it. Of the dozen people in open relationships contacted for this column, no one would agree to use his or her full name, citing privacy concerns. They also worried that discussing the subject could undermine the legal fight for same-sex marriage.” Maybe Judge Walker was worried too, and that’s why he didn’t bother mentioning this real fact with his false facts.<br /><br /></td>\r\n<td> </td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td valign=\"top\">\r\n<div><strong>4.</strong></div>\r\n</td>\r\n<td> </td>\r\n<td><strong>“Permitting same-sex couples to marry will not affect the number of opposite-sex couples who marry, divorce, cohabit, have children outside of marriage or otherwise affect the stability of opposite-sex marriages.” (FF 55)</strong>Judge Walker cites just four years of data from Massachusetts to make that sweeping conclusion about the most important relationship in human civilization. The truth is that <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Correct-Politically-Same-Sex-Marriage-Everyone/dp/1607081628/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpi_2\" target=\"_blank\">evidence from other countries</a> over a much longer period shows a mutually reinforcing relationship between same-sex marriage and illegitimacy. And the disastrous results of 40 years of liberalized divorce laws show how monumentally important marriage laws are to the health of marriages, children, and the nation.<br /><br /></td>\r\n<td> </td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td valign=\"top\">\r\n<div><strong>5.</strong></div>\r\n</td>\r\n<td> </td>\r\n<td>\r\n<p><strong>“Proposition 8 does not affect the First Amendment rights of those opposed to marriage for same-sex couples.”</strong>(FF 62) It’s too bad Judge Walker didn’t look to <a href=\"http://www.massresistance.org/docs/marriage/effects_of_ssm.html\" target=\"_blank\">evidence from Massachusetts</a> for this false fact. If he had he would have seen that court-imposed same-sex marriage <em>has</em> severely affected First Amendment rights. Same sex marriage may not affect heterosexual marriage behavior quickly, but it certainly affects the free exercise of religion very quickly.</p>\r\n<p>Parents in Massachusetts now have no right to know when their children are being taught homosexuality in grades as low as Kindergarten, neither can they opt their kids out (one parent was even jailed overnight for protesting this). Businesses are now <em>forced</em> to give benefits to same-sex couples regardless of any moral or religious objection the business owner may have. The government also ordered Catholic Charities to give children to homosexuals wanting to adopt. As a result, Catholic Charities closed their adoption agency rather than submit to an immoral order. Unfortunately, children are again the victims of the morality that comes with same-sex marriage.</p>\r\n<p>“But you can’t legislate morality!” some say. Nonsense. Not only do all laws legislate morality, sometimes <em>immorality</em> is imposed by judges against the will of the people and in violation of religious rights. There is no neutral ground here. Either we will have freedom of religion and conscience, or we will be forced to adhere to the whims of judges who declare that their own distorted view of morality supersedes our rights—rights that our founders declared self-evident.</p>\r\n<p>Think I’m overreacting? If this decision survives and nullifies all democratically decided laws in the 45 states that preserve natural marriage, religious rights violations in Massachusetts will go nationwide. In fact, it’s poised to happen already at the federal level. President Obama recently appointed gay activist Chai Feldblum to the EEOC. Speaking of the inevitable conflict between religious rights and so-called gay rights, Feldblum said, “I’m having a hard time coming up with any case in which religious liberty should win.”</p>\r\n</td>\r\n<td> </td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>\r\n<p>Printer Friendly Version (PDF) <a href=\"http://theoakinitiative.org/pdfs/rt_3_514296.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Click Here</a></p>',1,75,'2010-12-06 14:02:56',63,'Submitted by The Oak Initiative','2012-02-04 13:05:02',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2010-12-06 14:02:56','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',5,56,'','',1,449,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(225,0,'Seeing and Hearing','seeing-and-hearing','<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: verdana, lucida, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;\">\r\n<h1 style=\"font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; word-spacing: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: verdana, lucida, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; font-size: 20px; line-height: 24px; color: #000000; text-transform: none; margin-top: 10px;\">Seeing and Hearing, Part 1</h1>\r\nWeek 1, 2011   <br /><br />\r\n<p style=\"margin: 0px;\"><span> </span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin: 0px;\"><span> </span></p>\r\nSince this is the first Word for the Week of 2011, and we are studying how to know God’s voice and the prophetic gifts that He has given to His church, I want to begin by sharing what may be one of the most prolific messages God’s people have been receiving. The question I may be asked more than any other is what 11-11 means. Whether seeing it repeatedly on their clocks or in other ways, many people have been receiving this for years. New Year’s Day was 1/1/11 or 11-11. This usually speaks of a second chance, which is the message of Isaiah 11:11 because it is here that God promises to restore Israel to their land a second time. <br /><br />When Isaiah received this message, Israel had not even been scattered from the land and re-gathered the first time. When Jesus was asked about the signs of the end of the age, one of the things He said was that we should consider the fig tree, which is a symbol for Israel. Israel is one of the bold prophetic messages that prophets watch and consider. Israel is a barometer of mankind. It is in a perpetual state of conflict, both within and without. This has lasted for so long and they have desired peace so much that they have even been willing to give up large parts of their tiny bit of land in the hope of achieving peace. However, instead of leading to peace, the land they surrendered has become a base for attacking them. Their peace will never come from man, but only from God. The good news is that it will come from God, which is the most basic message of Isaiah 11.<br />\r\n','\r\n<br />Peace will never come by giving away what God assigned to us, but rather by esteeming everything He has given to us even more than peace with men and by seeing His purpose as even more valuable than life. It is time for Israel to be grafted back into the Tree—God Himself. It is a beginning to be re-gathered to the land, but it is more important to be re-gathered to the Lord. <br /><br />Israel is a sign of God’s faithfulness to His Word. In Jeremiah 31, the Lord states that the order of the sun, moon, and the roaring of the sea would cease before His promises for Israel would fail. Many believe that these are now fulfilled in the church, “spiritual Israel.” This is true of many of them, but this does not negate that they are also for “natural Israel.” The Lord makes it clear in His Word in a number of places that these are for the physical seed of Abraham. The Apostle Paul also asserted this in his most important Epistle on New Covenant theology, the Book of Romans, as we read in chapters nine through eleven. As we are warned in this text, it is a big mistake to <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">“become arrogant toward the natural branches” (see Romans 11:18). </span><br /><br />The main message of the re-gathered nation of Israel is that God is faithful to His Word. He remains faithful even if we are unfaithful, and in His faithfulness He will give us another chance. The whole chapter of Isaiah11 is about the restoration of the earth to the paradise it was originally created to be, a second chance for the whole earth—the re-gathering of Israel “the second time” is a sign that this is near. The kingdom of God that God’s people have been praying for since Jesus walked the earth is near. <br /><br />This is a year for recovering what has been lost, for many promises to come to pass, and for the backsliders to be brought back. This begins with prayer, intercession, and often fasting. When Daniel read in the prophecy of Jeremiah that Israel was to be scattered from the land the first time for seventy years, he did not just start rejoicing that it was time to return, but he started fasting and praying for God’s Word to be fulfilled. <br /><br />Why do the promises of God need intercession to be fulfilled? As we are told in Psalm 115:16,<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"> “The heavens are the heavens of the Lord, but the earth He has given to the sons of men.”</span> The Lord delegated authority over the earth to men, which is why He will not do things on the earth until we ask Him to. This is also why Jesus became a Man to become the Mediator, and while on earth, He always referred to Himself as the Son of man. He was the Son of God too, but He came here to be a Man to recover what man had lost. <br /><br />Therefore, when we know it is time for the promises of God to be fulfilled, we need to engage heaven with prayer and fasting, being intercessors in unity with Jesus who we are told “ever lives to intercede” (see Hebrews 7:25). He is a Priest forever, according to the order of Melchizedek, and we are priests in the same order. For this reason, one of the primary messages and works among His people will be to restore the priesthood to which we are all called.<br /></span></p>',1,74,'2011-01-10 00:43:54',63,'','2012-02-04 13:04:44',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-01-10 00:43:54','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',2,7,'','',1,654,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(226,0,'Pelosi Passes the Gavel to John Boehner','pelosi-passes-the-gavel-to-john-boehner','<p><a href=\"Gavel.wmv\">Too good to be true! (UNCLASSIFIED) </a></p>\r\n<p><a href=\"Gavel.wmv\">Please click to view</a></p>','',1,20,'2011-01-10 00:47:30',62,'Submitted by Jack Brake','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-01-10 00:47:30','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',1,25,'','',1,364,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(227,0,'Congress Corrects the President','congress-corrects-the-president','<p><img src=\"images/articles/congress.jpg\" border=\"0\" style=\"vertical-align: top;\" /></p>\r\n<p>This is an actual letter sent by members of Congress to President Obama regarding his incorrect citing of our national motto.</p>\r\n<p>The contents of the letter and  what it represents are not getting any national media  coverage. It is good to know that the letter is  now and forever part of the Public Record, for future generations  to read.</p>\r\n<p><a href=\"2010-12-19_National_Motto_Letter_to_President.pdf\">CLICK HERE TO VIEW (pdf)</a></p>','',1,20,'2011-01-16 01:31:57',62,'','2011-01-16 02:05:06',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-01-16 01:31:57','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',4,24,'','',1,390,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(228,0,'JOB LOSS IN AMERICA','job-loss-in-america','<p> </p>\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font: normal normal normal medium/normal \'Times New Roman\'; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\"><strong>\"If  I can automate in the U.S.A. and ship to China, cost-wise it can still be  competitive,\" he says. \"But I worry America has too many lawyers. I don\'t want  to spend time having people sue me every  day.\"</strong></span></span></span></div>\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"word-spacing: 0px; font: medium \'Times New Roman\'; text-transform: none; color: #000000; text-indent: 0px; white-space: normal; letter-spacing: normal; border-collapse: separate; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\"> </span></span></span></div>\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"word-spacing: 0px; font: medium \'Times New Roman\'; text-transform: none; color: #000000; text-indent: 0px; white-space: normal; letter-spacing: normal; border-collapse: separate; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\"> </span><em>Terry  Gou Foxconn Founder</em>, manufactures 137,000 iPhones in China per  day.</span></span></div>\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;\"> </span></div>\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\">Read the entire Business Week  Article here:</span></span></div>\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\"><a href=\"http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_38/b4195058423479.htm\"><span style=\"font-family: \'Times New Roman\'; font-size: small;\">http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_38/b4195058423479.htm</span></a></span></span></div>\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;\"> </span></div>\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;\"> </span> \r\n<hr />\r\n</div>\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\"><strong>If you need something else to pray  about, then pray about this:</strong></span></span></div>\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;\"> </span></div>\r\n<h3><strong><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\">The following are19 facts about the  deindustrialization of </span></span><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\">America</span></span><span style=\"font-size: x-small; color: #1f497d; font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #1f497d; font-family: Arial;\">:</span></span></strong></h3>\r\n<div>\r\n<div class=\"Section1\">\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\">#1 The United States has lost  approximately 42,400 factories since 2001.  About 75 percent of those factories  employed over 500 people when they were still in operation.</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\">#2 Dell Inc., one of </span></span><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\">America</span></span><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\">?s largest manufacturers of  computers, has announced plans to dramatically expand its operations in </span></span><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\">China</span></span><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\"> with an investment of over $100  billion over the next decade.</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\">#3 Dell has announced that it will  be closing its last large </span></span><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\">U.S.</span></span><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\"> manufacturing facility in </span></span><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\">Winston-Salem</span></span><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\">, </span></span><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\">North Carolina</span></span><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\"> in November.  Approximately 900  jobs will be lost.</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\">#4 <span class=\"GramE\">In</span> 2008,  1.2 billion cell phones were sold worldwide.  So how many of them were  manufactured inside the </span></span><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\">United States</span></span><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\">?  <span class=\"GramE\">Zero.</span></span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\">#5 According to a new study  conducted by the Economic Policy Institute, if the U.S. trade deficit with China  continues to increase at its current rate, the U.S. economy will lose over half  a million jobs this year alone.</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\">#6 <span class=\"GramE\">As</span> of  the end of July, the </span></span><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\">U.S.</span></span><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\"> trade deficit with </span></span><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\">China</span></span><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\"> had risen 18 percent compared to  the same time period a year ago.</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\">#7 The United States has lost a  total of about 5.5 million manufacturing jobs since October  2000. </span></span></p>\r\n','\r\n<p> </p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\">#8 According to Tax Notes, between  1999 and 2008 employment at the foreign affiliates of </span></span><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\">U.S.</span></span><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\"> parent companies increased an  astounding 30 percent to 101 million. During that exact same time period, </span></span><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\">U.S.</span></span><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\"> employment at American  multinational corporations declined 8 percent to 21.1 million.</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\">#9 <span class=\"GramE\">In</span> 1959,  manufacturing represented 28 percent of </span></span><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\">U.S.</span></span><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\"> economic output. In 2008, it  represented 11.5 percent.</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\">#10 Ford Motor <span class=\"GramE\">Company</span> recently announced the closure of a factory that  produces the Ford Ranger in </span></span><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\">St. Paul</span></span><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\">, </span></span><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\">Minnesota</span></span><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\">. Approximately 750 good paying  middle class jobs are going to be lost because making Ford Rangers in </span></span><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\">Minnesota</span></span><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\"> does not fit in with Ford\'s new  \"global\" manufacturing strategy.</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\">#11 <span class=\"GramE\">As</span> of  the end of 2009, less than 12 million Americans worked in manufacturing.  The  last time less than 12 million Americans were employed in manufacturing was in  1941.</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\">#12 In the United States today,  consumption accounts for 70 percent of GDP. Of this 70 percent, over half is  spent on services.</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\">#13 The United States has lost a  whopping 32 percent of its manufacturing jobs since the year  2000.</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\">#14 <span class=\"GramE\">In</span> 2001, the </span></span><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\">United States</span></span><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\"> ranked fourth in the world in per  capita broadband Internet use.  Today it ranks 15th. </span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\">#15 <span class=\"GramE\">Manufacturing</span> employment in the </span></span><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\">U.S.</span></span><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\"> computer industry is actually lower  in 2010 than it was in 1975.</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\">#16 Printed circuit boards are used  in tens of thousands of different products. </span></span><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\">Asia</span></span><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\"> now produces 84 percent of them  worldwide.</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\">#17 The United States spends  approximately $3.90 on Chinese goods for every $1 that the Chinese spend on  goods from the </span></span><span style=\"font-size: x-small; 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margin-right: 9px; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 0px;\" /></a></span></div>\r\n</div>\r\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px;\"> </p>\r\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px;\" align=\"left\"><img src=\"http://www.onenewsnow.com/uploadedImages/Media/Images/FrontPageArt/internet_address.jpg\" border=\"1\" alt=\"Internet address big\" title=\"Internet address big\" hspace=\"3\" vspace=\"3\" width=\"160\" height=\"105\" align=\"left\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 9px; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 0px;\" />A new article claims that as bad as ObamaCare is, the push for \"net neutrality\" is worse.</p>\r\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px;\"> </p>\r\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px;\" align=\"left\">Seton Motley is the president of Less Government and Editor in Chief of <a href=\"http://stopnetregulation.org/stop/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"StopNetRegulation.org\" style=\"color: #0e4d8b; background: inherit;\">StopNetRegulation.org</a>. He recently wrote an <a href=\"http://biggovernment.com/smotley/2011/01/19/net-neutrality-power-grab-is-worse-than-obamacare/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"article\" style=\"color: #0e4d8b; background: inherit;\">article</a> citing what he sees as many similarities between ObamaCare and network neutrality for the Internet. But while ObamaCare was at least approved through Congress and enacted into law by President Obama, Motley says net neutrality is different -- and much worse.<br /> <br />\"The media Marxists who were pushing net neutrality gave up on the congressional route in 2007,\" he argues, \"and [they] started working on it via the FCC, which is five unelected bureaucrats, three of whom voted to impose net neutrality on all of us December 21....\"<br /> <br /><img src=\"http://www.onenewsnow.com/uploadedImages/Media/Images/Mugs/Seton%20Motley.jpg\" border=\"1\" alt=\"Seton Motley\" title=\"Seton Motley\" hspace=\"3\" vspace=\"3\" width=\"82\" height=\"125\" align=\"right\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 9px; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 0px;\" />The problem with that, he laments, is that unlike they can do with elected representatives in Congress, voters have no way of addressing the Federal Communications Commission\'s policies directly. Still, Motley says make no mistake, he is in favor of repealing Obamacare.<br /> <br />\"Oh, absolutely,\" he affirms. \"The last line of the piece is: \'But why quibble? Let\'s repeal both.\'\"<br /> <br />As far as net neutrality goes, Motley remains hopeful members of Congress will intervene and reverse the FCC policy, using the Congressional Review Act. Motley adds that Verizon has also filed a lawsuit this week to overturn the order.</p>\r\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px;\" align=\"left\"> </p>\r\n<h3><strong>PLEASE SUPPORT VERIZON</strong>{jcomments on}</h3>\r\n<p> </p>','',1,60,'2011-01-25 00:27:18',64,'','2011-01-25 01:07:41',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-01-25 00:27:18','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',3,246,'','',1,548,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(231,0,'SILENT TAKEOVER','silent-takeover','<p>{source}<span style=\"font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;\"><br /><span>&lt;</span>object id=\"flashObj\" width=\"370\" height=\"260\" classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,47,0\"<span>&gt;</span><span>&lt;</span>param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1\" /<span>&gt;</span><span>&lt;</span>param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#FFFFFF\" /<span>&gt;</span><span>&lt;</span>param name=\"flashVars\" value=\"videoId=754276215001&amp;playerID=69900095001&amp;playerKey=AQ~~,AAAAAEabvr4~,Wtd2HT-p_VhJQ6tgdykx3j23oh1YN-2U&amp;domain=embed&amp;dynamicStreaming=true\" /<span>&gt;</span><span>&lt;</span>param name=\"base\" value=\"http://admin.brightcove.com\" /<span>&gt;</span><span>&lt;</span>param name=\"seamlesstabbing\" value=\"false\" /<span>&gt;</span><span>&lt;</span>param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" /<span>&gt;</span><span>&lt;</span>param name=\"swLiveConnect\" value=\"true\" /<span>&gt;</span><span>&lt;</span>param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" /<span>&gt;</span><span>&lt;</span>embed src=\"http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1\" bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\" flashVars=\"videoId=754276215001&amp;playerID=69900095001&amp;playerKey=AQ~~,AAAAAEabvr4~,Wtd2HT-p_VhJQ6tgdykx3j23oh1YN-2U&amp;domain=embed&amp;dynamicStreaming=true\" base=\"http://admin.brightcove.com\" name=\"flashObj\" width=\"370\" height=\"260\" seamlesstabbing=\"false\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" swLiveConnect=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" pluginspage=\"http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\"<span>&gt;</span><span>&lt;</span>/embed<span>&gt;</span><span>&lt;</span>/object<span>&gt;</span><br /></span>{/source}</p>','',0,60,'2011-01-28 15:10:01',62,'Submitted by Bob Storey','2011-01-28 15:13:52',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-01-28 15:10:01','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',2,245,'','',1,5,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(232,0,'Military to unveil homosexual indoctrination plan','homosexual-indoctrination-plan','<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"reporter\" style=\"width: auto; height: auto; padding-top: 2px; padding-bottom: 2px; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Sans\', \'Lucida Sans Unicode\', \'Lucida Grande\', sans-serif; font-size: 10px; color: #333333; font-weight: normal;\">Lolita C. Baldor and Pauline Jelinek - Associated Press Writers - 1/26/2011 3:55:00 PM<span style=\"vertical-align: middle; margin-left: 25px;\"><a href=\"http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #0e4d8b; background: inherit;\"><img src=\"http://s9.addthis.com/button1-addthis.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Bookmark and Share\" width=\"125\" height=\"16\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 9px; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 0px;\" /></a></span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">WASHINGTON - Officials say Pentagon leaders will roll out a plan Friday that is expected to give the military services about three months to train their forces on the new law allowing \"gays\" to serve openly.</p>\r\n','\r\n<p> </p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The plan, they said, will outline the personnel, recruiting and other regulations that must be changed. It will describe three levels of training for the troops, their commanders and the key administrators, recruiters and other leaders who will have to help implement the changes.</p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Under that training schedule, full implementation of the law could begin later this summer. Once the training is complete, the president and his top military advisers must certify that lifting the ban won\'t hurt troops\' ability to fight. Sixty days after certification, the law would take effect.</p>\r\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center\">\r\n<hr width=\"100%\" size=\"2\" />\r\n</div>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center\" align=\"center\">Story continues below ...</p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center\" align=\"center\">Those who believe American troops will be okay with open homosexuality</p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center\" align=\"center\">in the military most likely ...</p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center\" align=\"center\"><a href=\"http://www.onenewsnow.com/Poll.aspx?ekfrm=1283220\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Vote in our poll\">Vote in our poll</a></p>\r\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center\">\r\n<hr width=\"100%\" size=\"2\" />\r\n</div>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Word of the plan comes a day after President Barack Obama told the nation in his State of the Union address that the change was in sight.</p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Pentagon press secretary Geoff Morrell said senior defense and military leaders will provide an update Friday on how the Pentagon is proceeding on the implementation of the new law, which ended the Pentagon\'s 17-year-old \"don\'t ask, don\'t tell\" policy and will allow gays to serve openly for the first time in history.</p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Morrell declined to say more, but officials familiar with the plan described it on condition of anonymity because it has not been finalized or made public.</p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Details have been scarce as the military has scrambled to pull together the dozens of legal and policy changes that must be made by all the services in order to put the new law into effect.</p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The changes affect how troops are recruited, trained and discharged, as well as how same sex partners will be treated in terms of various health and other benefits.</p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Some will be easy to implement. For example, recruits will no longer be turned down because they are gay.</p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">But others involving benefits, housing and the execution of the training program will be more complex.</p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">According to officials, the training will be broken into three categories. One will be for administrators and other leaders who will have to be able to answer detailed questions about the new policy. The second will be for senior commanders who will have to enforce the policies and also be on the lookout for signs of unease or problems among service members.</p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The third group will be the general training for the troops. That is the one that is expected to be the most difficult to complete because service members are scattered around the world, and many are in various phases of deployment to war or heading home.</p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">In his State of the Union speech Tuesday night, Obama declared that, \"Starting this year, no American will be forbidden from serving the country they love because of who they love.\" He added, \"It is time to leave behind the divisive battles of the past. It is time to move forward as one nation.</p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Although Obama did not describe any specific time frame, Pentagon leaders have repeatedly said they will move quickly but carefully to implement the law.</p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Advocates for gays have called for quick action.</p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\"For years, experts have said that a swift repeal process, accompanied by strong leadership, is the best way to repeal `don\'t ask, don\'t tell.\',\" Aaron Belkin of the Palm Center, a California think tank, said Wednesday. \"In promising ... to implement the repeal of the ban this year, President Obama has demonstrated leadership and committed to the path that has been proven to be best not only for gay service members, but for all of those who currently serve.\"</p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, however, wants officials to hurry along certification that the change won\'t hurt military effectiveness.</p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\"We think there should be certification from the president, (Defense) Secretary Robert Gates and (Joint Chiefs of Staff) Chairman Michael Mullen in this quarter,\" the group said in a statement Wednesday. \"We need to make `Don\'t Ask\' repeal a reality sooner rather than later.\"</p>\r\n<p> </p>',1,60,'2011-01-28 15:14:42',62,'AP','2011-02-13 17:16:22',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-01-28 15:14:42','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',8,244,'','',1,419,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(233,0,'Bikers Escort Denair Boy to School','bikers-escort-denair-boy-to-school','<h4>School tells boy he cannot display the U.S. flag on his bike on school grounds. FYI The video embed code below has been disabled \"by request\" , so has YouTube\'s\"comments\" function.  Hmmm...</h4>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 8px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffff; \"> </p>\r\n<p> </p>\r\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 12px;\">{source}</span> <span style=\"font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;\">\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family: \'courier new\', courier, monospace;\">&lt;object width=\"640\" height=\"385\"&gt;&lt;param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/<span style=\"color: #1a1aa6; font-family: monospace; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Po7k5O9LtBo</span>?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US\"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/<span style=\"color: #1a1aa6; font-family: monospace; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Po7k5O9LtBo</span>?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"640\" height=\"385\"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;</span></p>\r\n<h3 style=\"font-family: \'courier new\', courier, monospace;\"><span style=\"line-height: 12px;\">{/source}</span></h3>\r\n<p style=\"font-family: \'courier new\', courier, monospace;\">{jcomments on}</p>\r\n<p style=\"font-family: \'courier new\', courier, monospace;\"> </p>\r\n<p style=\"font-family: \'courier new\', courier, monospace;\"> </p>\r\n</span></p>','',1,60,'2011-01-31 00:29:29',62,'kcratv','2011-01-31 00:51:31',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-01-31 00:29:29','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',2,243,'','',1,2461,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(234,0,'Egypt—The Perfect Storm','egyptthe-perfect-storm','<p>by <img class=\"caption\" src=\"images/stories/mikeevans.jpg\" border=\"0\" title=\"Evans\" align=\"left\" />Dr. Michael Evans</p>\r\n<p>I want to give you an intelligence briefing on what is happening in the Muslim Middle East.</p>\r\n<p>In 1979 I wrote a book, Israel: America\'s Key to Survival. It was endorsed by the Prime Minister of Israel, Menachem Begin. On that same day, I told Mr. Begin that a young man I had just met would one day be prime minister—not once, but twice. His second term in office would be the most dangerous in all of Israel\'s existence. I asked the prime minister to give young Benjamin Netanyahu a post in his government. The next night, the job offer came.</p>\r\n','\r\n<p> </p>\r\n<p>I wrote in the book that I saw radical Islam uniting and waging war against the dhimmis (Christians and Jews.) I later wrote The Jerusalem Scroll, a book about Osama bin Laden attacking the U.S., and specifically the World Trade Center Towers. In 2007 I wrote The Final Move Beyond Iraq, a wake-up call warning that what you are now seeing in Egypt was coming and would spread across the Middle East.</p>\r\n<p>Then in 2009, I wrote Jimmy Carter: The Liberal Left and World Chaos in which I explained in great detail what would happen in the second half of Obama\'s term of office. I interviewed over 100 Middle East leaders—former and current—including the former president of France, Valery Giscard d\'Estaing, and Empress Farah, the widow of the Shah of Iran. I can say with total certainty that Israel continues to be America\'s key to survival.</p>\r\n<p>If you have ever planned to bless Israel, do it NOW.</p>\r\n<p>President Obama still does not get it and will try to make Israel pay for this mess. If that happens, America will suffer unspeakable hell. The Bible says, \"I will bless those who bless you, And I will curse him who curses you.\" (Genesis 12:3)</p>\r\n<p>Presently, we have 730 caring Jerusalem Prayer Team members who have given toward the biggest open door ever in Israel—airing the wonderful movie The Hiding Place on national television. We still need at least 270, or the project will be cancelled. Less than forty-five days ago, I warned Israel that this crisis was coming and called on the nation to obey II Chronicles 7:14: If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land. (http://vimeo.com/19448015)</p>\r\n<p>Iranian leaders are dancing in the streets. Iran has been working behind the scenes for years to weaken Egypt by supporting Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Muslim Brotherhood.</p>\r\n<p>Much of the U.S. secular media are jumping up and down with joy while cheering the protestors. They say it is a democratic Twitter and Facebook revolution. The truth is, it\'s a \"mullah and madrasas\" revolution financed by terror-harboring regimes. The youth are only pawns who will have a wakeup call from hell once Islamic fundamentalists rule.</p>\r\n<p>It is reminiscent of another time: It was the third year of his presidency. He ran on hope and change, and that\'s what the world got. He was a weak democratic president who the bad actors of the world did not fear, but rather saw his presidency as an opportunity to advance their wicked agendas.</p>\r\n<p>As a nation rioted, he kept demanding that the Muslim government show restraint and restore freedom of the press. \"Who knows what horror will come upon the earth if this president has his way. I fear the Russians will invade Afghanistan, Iraq will invade Iran, and my beloved country will be turn into an Islamic terror state.\" Those were the words of America\'s strongest Muslim ally, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran to his wife Empress Farah.</p>\r\n<p>It appears history is repeating itself in Egypt as hundreds of thousands of protesters flood central Cairo defying yet another order of a nationwide curfew and demanding that President Hosni Mubarak step down. Yet, President Obama continues to orchestrate the same swan song that an earlier president, Jimmy Carter, played for the last Muslim dictator-ally thirty years ago.</p>\r\n<p>Carter said Sunday that this was not a revolution orchestrated by the Muslim Brotherhood and that Mubarak would have to leave. It appears that Carter is as blind to reality today as he was during the Iran crisis 30 years ago.</p>\r\n<p>President Obama has bought into the myth that an Arab democracy is better for the U.S. than an Arab dictator. The illusion that democracy can co-exist with Islamic fundamentalism is existential. Jimmy Carter tried it in Iran, buying into a protest movement that the jackals of the Middle East willingly and gladly exploited. That mistake birthed a Shi\'a Islamic state, Hezbollah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and al-Qaeda.</p>\r\n<p>Now the Muslim Brotherhood has united behind Mohammed ElBaradei, a shill for Iran, who is also calling for President Mubarak to leave the country. He fronted for Iran as the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). You can be sure Iran and al-Qaeda have joined the fray in attempting to script another Islamic revolutionary state.</p>\r\n<p>The Muslim Brotherhood is Egypt\'s largest and most well-organized opposition movement and has been waiting for this opportunity since its inception in 1928. If it grasps the reins in an Arab country of over 82 million, Israel, the Middle East, and the West will face an enemy with one of the largest and strongest militaries in the Muslim world built on some of the most advanced American-made platforms. The Revolution in Egypt could spread to Jordon and then the entire Arab World like an Ebola virus.</p>\r\n<p>It simply waits in the wings to see how this civil disturbance, entering its second week, will further its goals of a fundamentalist state ruled by the most strict interpretation of Shariah (Islamic) law.</p>\r\n<p>Its vision, which the members believe has been ordained by the Quran, has been forestalled by secular Arab regimes for too long. While the group shares the goal of Islamic sovereignty within the global jihad movement as orchestrated by al-Qaeda, it scorns the tactics viewed as counterproductive. However, it does seem to be making headway among the more fanatical Muslims in Egypt.</p>\r\n<p>Recent polls of the Egyptian population suggest that 77 percent want to see whipping and hands cut off for robbery; 84 percent favor the death penalty for any Muslim who changes his religion; 82 percent favor stoning for those who commit adultery.</p>\r\n<p>Egypt has been ground zero for Islamic terror: The blind cleric, Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, charged and imprisoned for the first World Trade Center bombing; Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah, top lieutenant to Osama bin Laden, indicted for U.S. Embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania; the infamous Egyptian physician Ayman al-Zawahiri, arrested at age 15 for his involvement with the Muslim Brotherhood, and who helped plan the 2001 attack on the World Trade Center Towers; and Mohammad Atta, the Egyptian-born hijacker of American Airlines flight 11 on September 11, 2001. These are but a few of the terrorists birthed and indoctrinated in Egypt.</p>\r\n<p>President Mubarak swore in a new cabinet on Monday. The interior minister who headed internal security and was hated by Egyptians for his cruelty was replaced by retired police general Mahmoud Wagdi who is despised by the protesters for his brutality.</p>\r\n<p>President Obama will attempt to put lipstick on the pig the same way Jimmy Carter did. Too late, he will discover the reality that will end his presidency the same way Carter\'s ended—by ignoring those fanatics who are hiding behind the curtain and manning the machinery of internal upheaval in Egypt. A domino affect will cause Shiite and Sunni caliphates all over the Middle East to fight each other for dominion.</p>\r\n<p>I believe with all my heart that you have a divine appointment with destiny. What you do will impact eternity. This scripture is burning in my spirit:</p>\r\n<p>For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father\'s family will perish. And who knows but that you have come to royal position for such a time as this? (Esther 4:14, NIV)</p>\r\n<p>Your support of the Jerusalem Prayer Team makes it possible for us to launch new outreaches like the Corrie ten Boom Project and to continue to stand for the Jewish people during this time of crisis. Thank you for blessing the Chosen People by being part of the team.</p>\r\n<p> </p>\r\n<p>Your ambassador to Jerusalem,</p>\r\n<p> </p>\r\n<p>Dr. Michael Evans</p>\r\n<p> </p>\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td width=\"208\"><a href=\"http://jerusalemprayerteam.org/tell.asp\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"http://jerusalemprayerteam.org/email/oct09Images/oct09EmailFooterBtn01.jpg\" border=\"0\" /></a></td>\r\n<td width=\"158\"><a href=\"https://www.donation-net.net/CTBF/donate.cfm?dn=1032&amp;commID=180793548&amp;ID=505548\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"http://jerusalemprayerteam.org/email/oct09Images/oct09EmailFooterBtn02.jpg\" border=\"0\" /></a></td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>',1,30,'2011-02-02 21:12:28',62,'Dr. Michael Evans','2012-02-27 03:12:53',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-02-02 21:12:28','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',9,30,'','',1,612,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(235,0,'Eat Mor Chikin!','eat-mor-chikin','<h4>Let Chairman Truett Cathy know you appreciate his Christian-based company!</h4>\r\n<h5>A Christian-owned national business deserves to be recognized.</h5>\r\n<p><img src=\"http://action.afa.net/uploadedImages/Activism/AFA_Action_Alerts/Action_Alert_Related_Items/chickfila.jpg\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"5\" align=\"right\" style=\"border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; \" />February 7, 2011</p>\r\n<p>Recently, Chick-fil-A restaurant chain has been in the news for its <a href=\"http://outbound.afa.net/track?type=click&amp;mailingid=chickfila&amp;messageid=chickfila&amp;databaseid=1234&amp;serial=1273161479&amp;emailid=jhbrake@comcast.net&amp;userid=21267818&amp;fl=&amp;extra=MultivariateId=&amp;&amp;&amp;101&amp;&amp;&amp;http//www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/feb/1/chick-fil-returns-indiana-university-south-bend/\" style=\"color: #1b57b1; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal; \">strong support of marriages</a> and I thought you would like to thank them for their commitment to family-friendly values. <br /><br />Chick-fil-A founder S. Truett Cathy built a large restaurant chain on his \"personal and business philosophy <strong>based on biblical principles</strong>.\" \r\n','\r\n<br /><br />Chick-fil-A is known for the exclusively <strong>Christian music that is played in its restaurants</strong> as well as being one of the few national businesses to close on Sunday, with no exceptions. Cathy also reflects his Christian faith philanthropically. <br /><br />Mr. Cathy used his business success to first start a scholarship program, and later a retreat center both of which go by the name \"WinShape\" to reflect their goal of shaping/winning students, business people, and traditional marriages. <br /><br />Chick-fil-A\'s stated corporate purpose is:</p>\r\n<blockquote><strong>To glorify God by being a faithful steward of all that is entrusted to us.</strong></blockquote>\r\n<blockquote><strong>To have a positive influence on all who come in contact with Chick-fil-A.</strong></blockquote>\r\n<p>The principles that Chick-fil-A is built on are obviously a strong foundation as the chain consists of over 1,500 locations in 39 states as well as Washington, D.C. <br /><br /><strong>Take Action <br /><br /><a href=\"http://outbound.afa.net/track?type=click&amp;mailingid=chickfila&amp;messageid=chickfila&amp;databaseid=1234&amp;serial=1273161479&amp;emailid=jhbrake@comcast.net&amp;userid=21267818&amp;fl=&amp;extra=MultivariateId=&amp;&amp;&amp;102&amp;&amp;&amp;http//secure.afa.net/afa/activism/TakeAction.asp?id=390\" style=\"color: #1b57b1; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal; \">Send an email to Chick-fil-A chairman and founder Truett Cathy</a>.</strong> Let him know you appreciate his Christian company, and his stand for family values.</p>\r\n<table style=\"cursor: default; \" border=\"0\" width=\"560\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"color: #2f2f2f; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 8px; cursor: text; \">Sincerely,<br /><br /><img src=\"http://action.afa.net/images/timsig.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Tim\" style=\"border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; \" /><br /><br />Tim Wildmon, President<br />American Family Association</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>\r\n<table style=\"cursor: default; \" border=\"0\" width=\"560\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"color: #2f2f2f; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 8px; cursor: text; \"><br /></td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>',1,60,'2011-02-08 11:44:00',64,'','2011-02-13 15:59:18',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-02-08 11:44:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',7,242,'','',1,373,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(236,0,'Internet Easy Prey for Governments','internet-easy-prey-for-governments','<p><img src=\"images/stories/slashdot.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"slashdot\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" style=\"float: left; border: 0;\" /> <a href=\"http://www.slashdot.org\">slashdot.org</a><br /> <strong> </strong></p>\r\n<p> </p>\r\n<p> </p>\r\n<p><strong>Articles:</strong><br /> <a href=\"https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/02/07/014258/Internet-Is-Easy-Prey-For-Governments?from=newsletter\">Internet Is Easy Prey For Governments</a> <br /> <a href=\"http://politics.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&amp;type=story&amp;sid=11/02/07/192216\">Iran\'s New Space Program</a></p>','',1,60,'2011-02-08 12:51:44',62,'slashdot','2011-02-08 13:14:49',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-02-08 12:51:44','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',3,241,'','',1,188,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(237,0,'Top Ten Gay Marriage False \"Facts\" ~ Part 2','top-ten-gay-marriage-false-qfactsq-part-2','<p><span style=\"color: #135cae; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold;\">Oak Initiative - Root Truth #4</span></p>\r\n<h2>Top Ten Gay Marriage False \"Facts\" ~ Part 2</h2>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>(Author: Frank Turek - From his article with the same name. Presented with Permission)</strong></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> </span><em>We’re in the middle of the Top Ten false “facts” reported by Judge Vaughn Walker in his decision to overturn Proposition 8 in California—a decision that could erode marriage and First Amendment rights in the entire country. See yesterday’s column here if you missed the first five false “facts.”</em></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">6. “No credible evidence supports a finding that an individual may, through conscious decision, therapeutic intervention or any other method, change his or her sexual orientation.” (FF 46)</p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">I guess thousands of ex-gays just don’t exist in Judge Walker’s special-pleading universe. Neither does renowned Columbia University psychiatrist, Dr. Robert Spitzer, who concluded that some highly motivated individuals can change their orientation from homosexual to heterosexual through reorientation therapy.</p>\r\n','\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">This is significant because Spitzer is no propagandist for the religious right. Quite the contrary—a self-described “Jewish atheist,” Spitzer has been a hero to homosexual activists since 1973 when he helped get homosexuality declassified as a mental disorder. Recently, however, they’ve turned on him because he reported the truth.</p>\r\n<p>Dr. Spitzer said that his 2003 study “has been criticized severely by many people, particularly gay activists, who apparently, feel quite threatened by it. They have the feeling that in order to get their civil rights, it’s helpful to them if they can present the view that once you’re a homosexual you can never change.”</p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">When asked whether the American Psychiatric Association should now change their position statements that say orientation cannot be changed, Dr. Spitzer said, “I think they should, [but] they will not be. . . . There’s a gay activist group that’s very strong and very vocal and is recognized officially by the American Psychiatric Association. There’s nobody to give the other viewpoint. There may be a few who believe it but they won’t talk.”</p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Dr. Spitzer then acknowledged explicitly that politics often trump the scientific facts at organizations like the APA (an organization cited to bolster Judge Walker’s conclusion). He also said that the APA should stop applying a double standard by discouraging reorientation therapy, while actively encouraging gay-affirmative therapy that’s intended to confirm and solidify a homosexual identity. Good point by Dr. Spitzer. After all, if people can be talked into it, then why can’t they be talked out of it?</p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Sexual orientation isn’t like race either. You’ll find many former homosexuals, but you’ll never find a former African American.</p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Of course Walker’s “fact” even if true is irrelevant anyway. Marriage does not need to be redefined just because people can’t change their sexual desires. Otherwise a legal “marriage” relationship must be created for every particular sexual desire.</p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">7.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> </span>“The gender of a child’s parent is not a factor in a child’s adjustment.” (FF 70)</p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Incredibly, Judge Walker says that this conclusion “is accepted beyond serious debate.” Citing a study by the politicized APA, Walker never admits that not enough research has been done to evaluate the well being of children living with homosexual parents. And he ignored evidence presented by the defense that contradicted his “fact.”</p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">But does one really need a study to know that Walker is wrong? Was your father different as a parent than your mother? To say no is laughable. In fact, even Rodney Dangerfield could expose this false fact. “No respect at all—when I was a baby, I was breast fed by my father!”</p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Later in the opinion, Walker makes the unbelievable assertion that, “Gender no longer forms an essential part of marriage; marriage under law is a union of equals.” Who sez? The imperial Judge Walker.</p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Questions for the Judge: Why do you assert that men and women are interchangeable as parents but not as sex partners? After all, if gender really is irrelevant to marriage as you maintain—if men and women are interchangeable—then why argue for same-sex marriage at all? Why not just tell homosexuals, “Gender is irrelevant to marriage, so instead of making a fuss, why not just go ahead and marry someone from the opposite sex”?</p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Why not? Because when it comes to their own personal gratification, homosexual activists like Judge Walker clearly recognize the big difference between the sexes. But when it comes to the more important priority of raising children, they say there is no difference between the sexes. Children are just going to have to take a backseat to their sexual desires. Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse sums up the attitude of homosexual activists well. She writes, “[Homosexual] adults are entitled to have what they want. Children have to take what we give them.”</p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">8.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> </span>“Religious beliefs that gay and lesbian relationships are sinful or inferior to heterosexual relationships harm gays and lesbians.” (FF 77) Really? Do religious beliefs that drunkenness is sinful or inferior to sobriety harm alcoholics? No, those beliefs help such people by telling them the truth about destructive behavior instead of enabling them with liberal fantasyland talk about how all behaviors and lifestyles are equal.</p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">9.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> </span>“Proposition 8 results in frequent reminders for gays and lesbians in committed long-term relationships that their relationships are not as highly valued as opposite-sex relationships.” (FF 68) This is not meant to be offensive, but what if certain relationships really are more valuable to society than others? Clearly, the procreative committed relationship of a man and a woman is more valuable than any other relationship in society because it is necessary for society’s very survival. To comprehend the impact of this, you just need to consider two questions.</p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"> </p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">1) What would happen to society if everyone lived faithfully in natural marriage? Our country would thrive with a drastic reduction in numerous social problems including illegitimacy, crime, welfare, and abortion.</p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">2) What would happen to society if everyone lived faithfully in same-sex marriage? Society wouldn’t thrive because it wouldn’t even survive. It would end the human race!</p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">This is not to say that such a law would cause this, but merely to point out that certain relationships are more valuable to a society than others. The truth is that homosexual and heterosexual relationships are not the same, can never be the same, and will never yield the same benefits to individuals or society. No law can change that fact; only deceive people into thinking so.</p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">If this point offends you, then you have a problem with reality not me. I didn’t make up the facts of nature. I’m just admitting them—something Judge Walker and many same-sex marriage supporters seem unwilling to do.</p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">10.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> </span>“Proposition 8 fails to advance any rational basis in singling out gay men and lesbians for denial of a marriage license.” (Conclusion)</p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The real fact is that Judge Walker fails to provide any “rational basis” for overturning Proposition 8—no rational basis from the constitution or common sense. While lecturing the people of California that their “private moral views” cannot be used to make their laws, Judge Walker has simply imposed his own “private moral view” that same-sex marriage must be sanctioned. That is objectively immoral and unconstitutional itself.</p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">He claims that the exclusion of same-sex couples from marriage “exists as an artifact of a time when the genders were seen as having distinct roles in society and in marriage. That time has passed.” If that’s true, that’s not for him or any judge to decide. The people of California have said that time has not passed.</p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Disagree? Then you have the burden of persuading your fellow citizens to pass a constitutional amendment sanctioning same-sex marriage. That’s what the amendment process is for! When judges short-circuit that process, we are no longer a free people who govern ourselves.</p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">(For more about this complicated and sensitive issue, get my compact book from which some of this article is adapted: Correct, Not Politically Correct: How Same-Sex Marriage Hurts Everyone.)</p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> </span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Printer Friendly Version (PDF) Click Here</p>\r\n<p> </p>',1,60,'2011-02-09 02:23:26',62,'Frank Turek','2011-02-13 15:57:35',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-02-09 02:23:26','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',4,240,'Top Ten Gay Marriage False Facts ~ Part 2','Top Ten Gay Marriage False Facts ~ Part 2',1,430,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(238,0,'Super Bowl Offense','super-bowl-offense','<p>By Bill Johnson</p>\r\n<div>In what has become one of America’s biggest  modern-day traditions, millions of families gathered around their televisions  last night to watch the Super Bowl. And while defense may be key to winning the  game, offense – as in offensive - is what marks many of the multi-million dollar  Super Bowl ads which generate such hype.\r\n','\r\n</div>\r\n<div>FOX TV, which had the rights to the Super  Bowl this year, also had the right to approve or decline the ads which ran. I  can imagine the FOX ad department making a list and checking it twice to make  sure they had all the expected elements of Super Bowl commercials.</div>\r\n<div style=\"margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;\">-        Crude humor which results in a man  getting hit in the privates – Check. (Pepsi Max ad)</div>\r\n<div style=\"margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;\">-        Promotion of alcohol and excessive  drinking – Check. (Budweiser ads)</div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div style=\"margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;\">-        Ads demeaning and sexually  objectifying women  - Check. (GoDaddy.com, Teleflora, etc.)</div>\r\n<div style=\"margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;\">-        Profanity-laced ad –  Check. (Brisk ice tea)</div>\r\n<div style=\"margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;\">-        Sick violence (i.e. catapulting a  baby against a window) – Check. (HomeAway.com)</div>\r\n<div style=\"margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;\">-        Offending entire people groups with  stereotypical depictions (GroupOn.com, Pepsi Max)</div>\r\n<div>And so on. You get the idea. However, there  was a commercial that FOX deemed so offensive it refused to air the ad. What was  the ad that FOX didn’t want to touch with a ten foot pole? An innocuous ad that  refers to the scripture John 3:16 and directs viewers to a website  LookUp316.com.</div>\r\n<div>The ad shows a group of fans watching a  football game who notice that one of the players is wearing John 3:16 written in  his eye-black. (A verse, by the way, that is as standard at American sporting  events as the giant foam finger.) In the ad, one of fans says, “Hey, I’ve seen  that before. What does it mean?” And another guy says, “I don’t know. Hey, I’ll  look it up.” Cut to the site address on the screen for  LookUp316.com.</div>\r\n<div>That’s the so-called “controversial” ad FOX  refused to air. They’ll gladly take the $3 million per 30 second commercial to  air truly offensive ads, but won’t take the money from a group promoting a truly  inspirational message.</div>\r\n<div>However, FOX gladly took the money from  Skechers shoes which ran an extremely salacious ad featuring a skimpily clad Kim  Kardashian seemingly about to have sex with her workout trainer on the floor of  a gym. The camera erotically pans her nearly nude body as she foregoes her  trainer for the shoes.</div>\r\n<div>And FOX had no qualms about airing the lewd  ad for British-made Mini-Cooper cars. The catch-phrase of this ad was “Cram it  in the Boot.” With a play on words and vulgar imagery, this ad made blatant  reference to anal sex to the millions of viewers, both young and old, tuning  in.</div>\r\n<div>These are the themes that FOX approves of for  family viewing. But air an ad with a Christian message and you just might offend  someone.</div>\r\n<div>FOX TV has long-proved it is no friend of the  family with shows such as “Family Guy” and “American Dad” which offend moral  sensibilities on a weekly basis. So it comes as no surprise that FOX continued  that tradition of offending not only with the ads they chose – but also with one  ad they refused to air.</div>\r\n<div>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />Your  support is important to our ability to make a difference.</div>\r\n<div>Donate online at:<br /><a href=\"https://secure4.afo.net/ada/donate.php\" target=\"_blank\">https://secure4.afo.net/ada/donate.php</a></div>\r\n<div>American Decency Association is a member of the Evangelical Council for Financial  Accountability.</div>\r\n<div>American Decency Association<br />Bill Johnson,  President<br />P.O. Box 202<br />Fremont, MI 49412<br />ph: 231-924-4050 <a href=\"http://www.americandecency.org/\" target=\"_blank\"><br />www.americandecency.org</a><br /><a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/billwjohnson\" target=\"_blank\">http://www.twitter.com/billwjohnson</a></div>\r\n<p> </p>',1,16,'2011-02-09 02:32:46',62,'Bill Johnson','2011-02-13 16:02:16',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-02-09 02:32:46','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',4,1,'','',1,506,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(239,0,'De-fund the Predatory Planned Parenthood','de-fund-planned-parenthood','<p><span style=\"font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Sans\', \'Lucida Sans Unicode\', \'Lucida Grande\', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 32px;\"> </span></p>\r\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px;\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"line-height: 32px;\"> </span></p>\r\n<div id=\"StoryTitle\" class=\"storytitle\" style=\"width: auto; height: 68px; padding-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; border-bottom-color: #cccccc; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Sans\', \'Lucida Sans Unicode\', \'Lucida Grande\', sans-serif; color: #003399; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 7px;\">\r\n<div id=\"reporter\" class=\"reporter\" style=\"width: auto; height: auto; padding-top: 2px; padding-bottom: 2px; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Sans\', \'Lucida Sans Unicode\', \'Lucida Grande\', sans-serif; font-size: 10px; color: #333333; font-weight: normal;\">Michelle Malkin - Syndicated Columnist - 2/11/2011 9:30:00 AM<span style=\"vertical-align: middle; margin-left: 25px;\"><a href=\"http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #0e4d8b; background: inherit;\"><img src=\"http://s9.addthis.com/button1-addthis.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Bookmark and Share\" width=\"125\" height=\"16\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 9px; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 0px;\" /></a></span></div>\r\n</div>\r\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px;\"> </p>\r\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px;\" align=\"left\"><img src=\"http://www.onenewsnow.com/uploadedImages/MichelleMalkin.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Michelle Malkin\" title=\"Michelle Malkin\" hspace=\"3\" vspace=\"3\" width=\"84\" height=\"122\" align=\"left\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 9px; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 0px;\" /><a href=\"http://www.onenewsnow.com/Perspectives/archives.aspx?col=Michelle%20Malkin\" style=\"color: #0e4d8b; background: inherit;\"><img src=\"http://www.onenewsnow.com/uploadedImages/Media/Images/columnists_archives_button.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"columnists archives button\" title=\"columnists archives button\" hspace=\"3\" vspace=\"3\" align=\"right\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 9px; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 0px;\" /></a>Thanks to the persistent investigative work of young pro-life journalists, Planned Parenthood\'s ruthless, money-grubbing colors are on full, fresh YouTube display. But as shocking as the illicit new videos from Live Action Films are, the routine, parental authority-sabotaging advice the taxpayer-funded abortion racket gives teens every day deserves more front-page headline news, too.</p>\r\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 18px; \"><a href=\"http://liveaction.org/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Live Action\" style=\"color: #0e4d8b; background: inherit;\">Live Action</a> is a California-based \"new media, investigative and educational organization committed to the protection and respect of all human life\" led by Internet undercover pioneer Lila Rose. The group\'s latest video footage at abortion clinics in Perth Amboy, NJ, the Bronx and four cities in Virginia shows Planned Parenthood officials aiding and abetting individuals posing as criminal sex traffickers seeking abortions for underage girls. </span></p>\r\n','\r\n<p> </p>\r\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px;\" align=\"center\"><em>Column continues below ...</em></p>\r\n<hr width=\"33%\" />\r\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px;\" align=\"center\"><em><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"> Related news reports on Live Action\'s efforts:<br /><a href=\"http://www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id=1292320\" title=\"Planned Parenthood\'s \'smear campaign\'\" style=\"color: #0e4d8b; background: inherit;\"><strong>Planned Parenthood\'s \'smear campaign\'</strong></a><strong> <br /></strong><a href=\"http://www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id=984864\" title=\"Kentucky abortion clinic falls victim to video sting\" style=\"color: #0e4d8b; background: inherit;\"><strong>Kentucky abortion clinic falls victim to video sting</strong></a><strong> <br /></strong><a href=\"http://www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id=496928\" title=\"Memphis abortion clinic exposed for hiding statutory rape\" style=\"color: #0e4d8b; background: inherit;\"><strong>Memphis abortion clinic exposed for hiding statutory rape</strong></a><strong> <br /></strong><a href=\"http://www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id=407786\" title=\"Tucson abortuary gets stung\" style=\"color: #0e4d8b; background: inherit;\"><strong>Tucson abortuary gets stung</strong></a><strong> <br /></strong><a href=\"http://www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id=417364\" title=\"Gotcha! Video exposes abortion clinic cover-up\" style=\"color: #0e4d8b; background: inherit;\"><strong>Gotcha! Video exposes abortion clinic cover-up</strong></a> </span></em></p>\r\n<hr width=\"33%\" />\r\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px;\"><span style=\"line-height: 15px;\"> </span></p>\r\n<p>Abortion activists first attacked the videos as \"doctored,\" then claimed they had already taken steps to rectify problems at the targeted clinics, then fired a worker <em>after</em> the tapes had been released and finally denied any systemic failures while patting Planned Parenthood on the back for ordering new re-training measures for their employees this week.</p>\r\n<p> </p>\r\n<p><br />Those who dismiss the scandal as an anomaly are in denial or abjectly ignorant.<br /> <br />In 2007, while an undergrad at UCLA, Rose visited a local campus Planned Parenthood clinic posing as a 14-year-old minor seeking an abortion after being impregnated by a 23-year-old man. California\'s mandatory reporting laws require abortion providers to report statutory rape involving girls under the age of 16. Rose secretly captured video of her visit in which the staff advised her to \"figure out a birth-date that works,\" to obtain the abortion and avoid getting the man in trouble with the law. Instead of vowing to do more to protect girls from predators, Planned Parenthood threatened to sue Rose to shut her up.<br /> <br />That same year, a teenager came forward in Ohio to blow the whistle on how a Planned Parenthood abortion clinic in Cincinnati had ignored her cries for help after her father -- who had been molesting her for three years from the age of 13 -- forced her to have an abortion. She told an abortion staffer, who was required by state law to report suspected abuse to police. But the women\'s health provider so beloved by liberals on Capitol Hill did nothing.<br /> <br />Another Ohio teenage victim of sexual abuse filed suit against Planned Parenthood after the soccer coach who abused her at age 14 forced her to undergo an abortion. \"Although she used a junior-high school I.D. and the coach, 21, paid with a credit card and driver\'s license,\" the <em>Coshocton</em> (Ohio) <em>Tribune</em> reported, \"Planned Parenthood failed to report the abuse.\"<br /> <br />Pro-choice radicals assert that butchers like Philadelphia Horror abortion doc Kermit Gosnell -- charged along with his baby-killing death squad last month with multiple counts of murder, infanticide, conspiracy, abuse of corpse, theft and other offenses -- are an exception and that young girls and women who choose Planned Parenthood are \"safe.\"<br /> <br />Tell that to the Washington, DC, family of 13-year-old Shantese Butler, who was left permanently injured and infertile after a botched Planned Parenthood abortion. Students for Life of America reported that Shantese was left with \"severe abdominal bleeding, severe vaginal injury, severe injury to the cervix, significant uterine perforation and a small bowel tear.\" In addition, parts of the unborn child were found inside Shantese\'s abdomen.<br /> <br />And don\'t forget the Nebraska Planned Parenthood clinic that refused to disclose the terms of a settlement with another victim whose botched abortion resulted in a perforated uterus, massive blood loss, an emergency hysterectomy, permanent infertility, seizures and lifelong pain and suffering. According to the suit obtained by <em>Life News</em>, the woman told the abortionist and his assistants to stop, but was told: \"We can\'t stop.\" The Planned Parenthood employees held her down to complete the procedure.<br /> <br />None of this is disclosed on Planned Parenthood\'s informational website aimed at teenage girls, of course. Instead, the group aggressively advises pregnant girls under 18 on how to avoid telling their parents about visiting their abortion clinics through a process known as \"judicial bypass.\"<br /> <br />Through its \"award-winning\" website Teenwire, Planned Parenthood ideologues normalize teen sexual activity, peddle their \"family planning\" services, whitewash the physical and moral consequences of abortion, downplay the long-term psychological consequences and circumvent parental authority at every opportunity. What other enterprise receives taxpayer support to entice children to hide their health decisions from their own mothers and fathers?<br /> <br />Planned Parenthood is a $1-plus billion business that rakes in one-third of its budget from government grants and contracts at both the state and federal levels. Congress has interrogated banking, energy, health insurance, tobacco and oil execs -- treating them like serial killers before the cameras. When will they finally de-fund a corrupt industry that has real blood on its hands?</p>\r\n<p> </p>\r\n<p> </p>',1,60,'2011-02-12 00:48:06',62,'One News Now','2011-02-13 16:21:46',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-02-12 00:48:06','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',5,239,'','',1,464,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(240,0,'Seeding Dark Clouds','seeding-dark-clouds','<p><img class=\"caption\" src=\"images/stories/mikeevans.jpg\" border=\"0\" title=\"Evans\" align=\"left\" />by Dr. Michael Evans</p>\r\n<p>President Barack Obama should win another Nobel Peace Prize for orchestrating an Islamic revolution from Jimmy Carter\'s Iranian playbook of indecisiveness. He has humiliated a Muslim ally who has fought terrorism for decades and has supported U.S. policies in the Middle East.</p>\r\n','\r\n<p><br />So far, Hosni Mubarak has refused to flee Egypt but left Cairo for his retreat in Sharm el-Sheikh. While he has apparently resigned as its leader, he above all men is haunted by the ghost of Persia. Egypt was the first nation to offer the Shah refuge when he fled Iran on January 16, 1979. It was the nation that provided his family with a burial plot for his earthly remains later that year. <br /><br />Mubarak witnessed the double-crosses, lies, and humiliation inflicted by the Carter administration. Mubarak\'s dark side has been intentionally ignored by past presidents because of the hawkish foreign policy which necessitated strategic allies, whether dictators or not. It worked perfectly for the U.S. during the days of Naziism and Communism.</p>\r\n<p> </p>\r\n<p>Now, it appears, President Obama does not consider America at war against Islamo-Fascism, and there is no longer a need to undergird an ally. Instead, the Liberal Left White House and press are dumbing-down the American people into thinking this is simply a battle between democracy and tyranny. The threat this poses to America and to Israel is grave indeed. <br /><br /><a href=\"https://www.donation-net.net/CTBF/CursedPlate.cfm?dn=1032&amp;commID=182812333&amp;ID=505548\">CLICK HERE TO SUPPORT ISRAEL DURING THIS GROWING CRISIS</a> <br /><br />The Muslim Brotherhood with sixty percent support from the Egyptian population believes that Egypt can become the center of jihad against the Western world. That belief system goes back to the days of Dr. al-Zawahiri, along with Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman who was arrested for attempting to kill Anwar Sadat, which was believed permissible under Islamic law. <br /><br />Hosni Mubarak picked up the reins of government after Sadat\'s assassination and continued partnering in the region with the United States. Sheikh Rahman of the fanatical Islamist Muslim Brotherhood attempted to kill Mubarak also. The plan was to kill the Egyptian president during a trip to New York City. It was Rahman, the blind cleric, who incited Muslims to \"kill Americans wherever you find them; destroy their embassies, sink their ships, shoot down their planes.\" <br /><br />It was in a Cairo hellhole that Sheikh Rahman and al-Zawahiri began to plot to bring the U.S. to its knees with the target being the World Trade Center. Islamo-Fascists from Egypt have been trained and hardened on the battlefields of Afghanistan. They have provided the training for the next generation of terrorists. One of the most well-known would be Mohammed Atta, leader of the nineteen hijackers responsible for the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. <a href=\"http://tool.donation-net.net/Images/Email/1032/Seeding_Dark_Clouds.pdf\">CLICK HERE TO READ MY ENTIRE UPDATE ON THE SITUATION IN EGYPT</a> <br /><br />And there is more. The United States is also supporting a worldwide effort to have the United Nations unilaterally declare a Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital. They are planning to present Israel with a fait accompli without any input from the Jewish people on their fate and with no say over their own borders or security. No other nation on earth would be treated this way. <br /><br />According to the unfailing and unchanging promise of God, if America sides with this plan, we WILL be cursed. \"I will bless them that bless thee and curse them that curse thee.\" (Genesis 12:3) We have an opportunity at this prophetic moment to be a blessing to the children of Abraham by standing together in defense of Jerusalem. <br /><br />God has directed me to produce and begin airing a television special to reveal this evil plot and to rally believers to join us in speaking out on behalf of Israel. We must cry out and speak the truth. The liberal media is doing everything in its power to conceal it…but we can strip away the mask and reveal the ugly anti-Israeli sentiment driving the proposed appeasement of Israel and America\'s enemies. <br /><br /><a href=\"https://www.donation-net.net/CTBF/CursedPlate.cfm?dn=1032&amp;commID=182812333&amp;ID=505548\">CLICK HERE TO HELP US SAVE JERUSALEM</a> <br /><br />In conjunction with this media special, we are also launching a massive petition drive to urge President Obama to reject this evil plan and prevent God\'s curse from falling on our nation by standing in support of Israel. There are millions of Christians in America. If we will collectively raise our voices and speak out, we will be heard, and Jerusalem will be saved! <br /><br /><a href=\"http://tool.donation-net.net/CTBF/SaveJerusalem.cfm?dn=1032&amp;commID=182812333&amp;ID=505548\">CLICK HERE TO SIGN THE PETITION TO SAVE JERUSALEM</a></p>\r\n<p> </p>\r\n<p>I urge you to forward this email to everyone on your list and ask them to join with us. This is urgent. We must act now. Thank you for standing for Jerusalem and Israel at this crucial prophetic moment. God bless you!</p>\r\n<p> </p>',1,30,'2011-02-13 01:47:36',62,'Dr. Michael Evans','2012-02-27 03:12:25',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-02-13 01:47:36','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',6,29,'','',1,638,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(241,0,'Interesting Numbers','interesting-numbers','<h3><span style=\"font-size:16.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;color:black\">Time for the revelation of some very interesting numbers:</span></h3>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family: \'Times New Roman\', serif; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 21px; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US; mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA\"><span style=\"line-height: normal; \">Two years ago, Barack Obama was inaugurated as president of the United States .  Are you better off today than you were two years ago? Numbers don\'t lie, and here are the data on the impact he has had on the lives of Americans:</span></span></span></span></p>\r\n<p> </p>\r\n','\r\n<p> </p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family: \'Times New Roman\', serif; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 21px; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US; mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA\"><span style=\"line-height: normal; \"><img src=\"images/stories/just_two_years.jpg\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" /></span></span></span></span></p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family: \'Times New Roman\', serif; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 21px; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US; mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA\"><span style=\"line-height: normal; \"><br /></span></span></span></span></p>',1,60,'2011-02-13 23:47:21',62,'Submitted by Matt Krol','2011-02-15 02:40:49',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-02-13 23:47:21','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',2,238,'','',1,1087,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(242,0,'\'Gay conservative\' is oxymoron','gay-conservative-is-oxymoron','<p><span style=\"font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Sans\', \'Lucida Sans Unicode\', \'Lucida Grande\', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 32px;\"> </span></p>\r\n<div id=\"StoryTitle\" class=\"storytitle\" style=\"width: auto; height: 68px; padding-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; border-bottom-color: #cccccc; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Sans\', \'Lucida Sans Unicode\', \'Lucida Grande\', sans-serif; color: #003399; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 7px;\">\r\n<div id=\"reporter\" class=\"reporter\" style=\"width: auto; height: auto; padding-top: 2px; padding-bottom: 2px; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Sans\', \'Lucida Sans Unicode\', \'Lucida Grande\', sans-serif; font-size: 10px; color: #333333; font-weight: normal;\">Star Parker - Syndicated Columnist - 2/14/2011 10:15:00 AM<span style=\"vertical-align: middle; margin-left: 25px;\"><a href=\"http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #0e4d8b; background: inherit;\"><img src=\"http://s9.addthis.com/button1-addthis.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Bookmark and Share\" width=\"125\" height=\"16\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 9px; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 0px;\" /></a></span></div>\r\n</div>\r\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px;\"> </p>\r\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px;\" align=\"left\"><img src=\"http://www.onenewsnow.com/uploadedImages/starparker.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Star Parker\" title=\"Star Parker\" hspace=\"3\" vspace=\"3\" width=\"78\" height=\"117\" align=\"left\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 9px; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 0px;\" /><a href=\"http://www.onenewsnow.com/Perspectives/archives.aspx?col=Star%20Parker\" style=\"color: #0e4d8b; background: inherit;\"><img src=\"http://www.onenewsnow.com/uploadedImages/Media/Images/columnists_archives_button.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"columnists archives button\" title=\"columnists archives button\" hspace=\"3\" vspace=\"3\" width=\"95\" height=\"75\" align=\"right\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 9px; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 0px;\" /></a>CPAC, the Conservative Political Action Conference, has been an annual gig for me for years. But this year I concluded it was not my place and I declined to participate in the various venues at the event for which I was invited.<br /> <br />Yes, the reason I declined was the inclusion of GOProud, a group identifying itself as representing \"gay conservatives and their allies,\" as a sponsor of the event.</p>\r\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px;\"> </p>\r\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px;\">And it\'s the reason why some of the nation\'s most important conservative organizations -- the Heritage Foundation, the American Family Association, Concerned Women of America, Family Research Council, Media Research Center, and the National Organization for Marriage -- <a href=\"http://www.onenewsnow.com/Politics/Default.aspx?id=1267268\" title=\"did not participate\" style=\"color: #0e4d8b; background: inherit;\">did not participate</a>.</p>\r\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px;\" align=\"left\"><br />The founder and chairman of GOProud removed any doubt on my part that not participating was the correct decision by dismissing these groups as \"losers,\" \"clowns,\" and \"not relevant.\"</p>\r\n','\r\n<p><br />I, of course, have been accused of being worse than a clown. The barrage regularly comes in from the left. But this is a first that I\'ve had to listen to this kind of stuff from a group that postures as \"conservative.\"<br /> <br />I became a conservative in church. I thought I was doing okay in my previous life -- scamming the welfare system, going to the beach, soaking in my welfare-subsidized hot tub, treating sex as a hobby, and abortion as birth control.<br /> <br />In our culture today that views material prosperity as the ultimate barometer of success, the truth is becoming unfortunately lost that the evil man can prosper. And if there is nothing more than what is before our eyes in this world, what does it matter?</p>\r\n<p> </p>\r\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px;\" align=\"left\"><br />When I understood how the culture of welfare state materialism was destroying not just my life, but also all of black America, there was no dividing line in my mind between \"social issues\" and \"economic issues.\" The only dividing line I saw was between right and wrong, good and evil.<br /> <br />The idea of \"gay conservative\" is an oxymoron.<br /> <br />\"Gay\" is everything that \"conservative\" is not.<br /> <br />The foundation of the worldview that so-called \"gay conservatives\" embrace has far more in common with liberalism than with conservatism.<br /> <br />It\'s a worldview that is man-centered rather than God-centered. It is a worldview that rejects eternal truths passed on from the beginning of time. Although the worldview that \"gay conservatives\" choose to invent may diverge from the worldview of liberals, their common ground is they make it all up.<br /> <br />And it is here where \"gay conservatives\" and \"liberals\" fundamentally depart from conservatives.<br /> <br />Conservatives believe that there are objective and eternal truths, not of the product of any individual human mind, that are transmitted through the generations. Culture is not like HDTV or iPhones where the newest model is the best.<br /> <br />These eternal truths provide the light in the fog that keeps us from crashing on the rocky shores where our base instincts lead us.<br /> <br />\"Gay\" is liberal, not conservative, regardless of what their stand may be on government spending or taxes.<br /> <br />It\'s why, like all liberals, they use language to create reality, rather than appreciate that words have meaning that reflect reality.<br /> <br />So they have re-invented the word \"gay,\" re-invented the word \"marriage\", and now they want to re-invent the word \"conservative.\"<br /> <br />Finally, we will re-invent the word \"freedom\" and we\'ll put the final stamp on the idea that a free society, rather than being the path to truth, is the path to meaninglessness.<br /> <br />What individuals choose in private, and for which they bear personal responsibility, is separate from what we sanction publicly for which we all must bear responsibility.<br /> <br />A value-neutral government is impossible. The central battle in our country today is about values and how we understand freedom. It is a battle for our very soul. And, as we learned from CPAC, it\'s not a struggle that is just between Democrats and Republicans.</p>\r\n<p> </p>',1,60,'2011-02-15 02:54:52',62,'Star Parker reprinted in OneNewsNow','2011-02-15 03:01:31',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-02-15 02:54:52','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',2,237,'','',1,437,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(243,0,'America\'s debts: Even more calamitous than we thought','americas-debts-even-more-calamitous-than-we-thought','<p><span style=\"font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Sans\', \'Lucida Sans Unicode\', \'Lucida Grande\', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 32px;\"> </span></p>\r\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px;\" align=\"left\"><img src=\"http://www.onenewsnow.com/uploadedImages/MarkHendrickson.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Dr. Mark W. Hendrickson (Ctr for Vision &amp; Values)\" title=\"Dr. Mark W. Hendrickson (Ctr for Vision &amp; Values)\" hspace=\"3\" vspace=\"3\" align=\"left\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 9px; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 0px;\" /><a href=\"http://www.onenewsnow.com/Perspectives/archives.aspx?col=Dr.%20Mark%20W.%20Hendrickson\" style=\"color: #0e4d8b; background: inherit;\"><img src=\"http://www.onenewsnow.com/uploadedImages/Media/Images/columnists_archives_button.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"columnists archives button\" title=\"columnists archives button\" hspace=\"3\" vspace=\"3\" align=\"right\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 9px; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 0px;\" /></a>Brace yourself. This isn\'t going to be pleasant. If you\'re in a bad mood or get easily upset, you may wish to pass on reading this article.<br /> <br />The country is in even worse shape economically than we thought. We awoke on February 14 to find that this year\'s federal budget deficit is going to be larger than previously projected -- a record $1.65 trillion.</p>\r\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px;\"> </p>\r\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px;\"> </p>\r\n','\r\n<p> </p>\r\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px;\"> </p>\r\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px;\" align=\"left\">Recently, the official accumulated debt of the federal government passed the $14 trillion threshold. A trillion is a gigantic number. If you stacked $100 bills flat on top of each other, then turned that stack on its side, a trillion dollars would stretch from where I live in western Pennsylvania to somewhere past St. Louis. That\'s just ONE trillion. Multiply that by 14, and it would stretch from here to Honolulu and back with plenty to spare.<br /> <br />The really bad news is that Uncle Sam\'s debt is significantly greater than $14 trillion, and I am not referring to the tens of trillions of dollars of unfunded liabilities representing undeliverable government promises. According to data released by the U.S. Treasury on January 21, the public debt is $20.7 trillion, an increase of $3.3 trillion in just the last year.<br /> <br />The larger sum -- actual existing debt of $20.7 trillion -- includes such off-budget items as bailouts, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, student loans, and who knows what else? I have to say \"who knows what else,\" because the leviathan federal government long ago became too large to keep track of. For example, 25 years ago the Grace Commission, instituted by Ronald Reagan in the hope of identifying ways to streamline the federal government, was unable to tabulate how many people worked for the federal government, although they did manage to identify 963 federal programs that redistributed wealth.<br /> <br /><img src=\"http://www.onenewsnow.com/uploadedImages/Media/Images/FrontPageArt/increased_spending.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"increased spending more money inflation\" title=\"increased spending more money inflation\" hspace=\"3\" vspace=\"3\" width=\"160\" height=\"119\" align=\"right\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 9px; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 0px;\" />Not only is our current national indebtedness more than 40 percent greater than the already horrendous commonly cited figure, the Social Security program is in worse shape than expected, too. As recently as a month or two ago, it was widely accepted that payouts from Social Security would start to exceed revenues in 2016. In a stunning development, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office released a report on January 26 which projected that revenue shortfalls will begin this year and continue uninterrupted until all unfunded IOU\'s are exhausted by 2037 (if not much sooner). The CBO projects what would have been a $45 billion shortfall this year, but thanks to the terrible deal that President Obama and congressional Republicans forged in December -- the one that included a two-percent reduction in Social Security withholding from workers\' paychecks -- this year\'s Social Security red ink is expected to hit $130 billion.<br /> <br />At the state level, finances are deteriorating at a sickening speed. Governors are starting to ask the Obama administration for permission to drop people from Medicaid (280,000 people in Arizona alone). Moody\'s, the debt-rating agency that seems to wait until after a collapse has happened to lower its rating of an entity\'s finances, is making noises about downgrading the credit rating of several states.<br /> <br />At the municipal level, many bonds continue to tank as municipalities careen toward bankruptcy. Of the three largest bond insurers, two are already bankrupt while the survival of the third is in doubt.<br /> <br />Meanwhile, ObamaCare is ripping us apart. The administration itself has already granted over 200 waivers to well-connected businesses and labor unions from having to comply with its unaffordable costs (meaning that wealth is being redistributed from those who don\'t receive the exemptions to those that do).<br /> <br />Two federal judges have upheld ObamaCare while two others have ruled it unconstitutional. The result is that some state governors and attorneys general are voiding it within their jurisdictions while others are not. Obama is proceeding with costly implementation despite the bill\'s uncertain status. Besides the confusion and uncertainty that this is sowing, valuable time will be consumed in waging this titanic constitutional struggle -- time that could and should be spent addressing the ballooning spending/debt crisis.<br /> <br />Given the magnitude of governmental fiscal woes, the struggle in Washington between Democrats who talk about (but don\'t propose) a possible spending freeze in one small corner of the federal budget, and Republicans who claim to want to cut $100 billion of annual spending, is a cruel joke. Talk about fiddling while Rome burns!<br /> <br />The financial condition of governments at all levels is worse than it ever has been. Neither political party seems ready to address the crisis in any meaningful way. As a result, our financial predicament is even worse than most of us had thought.{jcomments on}</p>\r\n<p> </p>',1,60,'2011-02-16 03:39:40',62,'Dr. Mark W. Hendrickson','2011-02-16 03:44:14',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-02-16 03:39:40','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',2,236,'','',1,1033,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(244,0,'WHAT’S WRONG WITH SHARIA LAW','whats-wrong-with-sharia-law','<p>\r\n<h3>WHAT’S WRONG WITH SHARIA LAW? By Rick Joyner</h3>\r\n<p><img class=\"caption\" src=\"images/stories/r_joyner_85px.jpg\" border=\"0\" title=\"Joyner\" align=\"left\" />With the massive demonstrations threatening to topple the government in Egypt and several other Muslim nations in the Middle East, a great concern for the rest of the world has been the potential for The Muslim Brotherhood (MB) to seize power. Until recently little was known or understood about the shadowy MB in America and much of the west, but in the last few years it has been the subject of so many articles, books, and lectures that it is now becoming very well known, and understood. This awareness has gone up very dramatically in just the last couple of weeks with its almost constant mention on the news in relation to the meltdown taking place in Egypt.</p>\r\n<p>\r\n','\r\nThe MB has always been bold and up front about its purpose to establish a new caliphate, and it’s mission statement was very clear about their intention to destroy America and the rest of the “rotten” western civilization in order to subdue the world to Islam, and to impose Sharia law. The now famous and alarming “U.S. vs The Holy Land Foundation” trial in U.S. Federal Court well established these and other alarming facts about the MB and Sharia, with the MB being understood to be the “mother-ship” of virtually every Muslim terrorist organization, including Al Queda and Hamas.</p>\r\n<p>This is now becoming virtually general knowledge, but what has been amazing is the way the U.S. media have been calling those who have proclaimed the dangers of the MB, or Sharia such things as “Islamophobic,” or “right wing extremists.” Are they?</p>\r\n<p>First, not all Muslims hold to the purposes of the MB, and most Muslims do not want to live under Sharia law, and are as horrified by the terrible things done in the name of Sharia as the rest of us, and some maybe more so since it reflects so terribly on their own faith. Even so, with some estimates that the radical jihadist may now compose up to 30% of Muslims, we are the greatest of all fools if we do not seek understanding of both the MB and Sharia.</p>\r\n<p>There are now almost daily examples in the news about “honor killings” and other examples of Sharia. The following story was just posted on AOL News.</p>\r\n<p>© Copyright Oak Initiative – Special Bulletin 2-2011 Page 2</p>\r\n<p>Only members Can Copy</p>\r\n<p>Alleged Rape Victim, 14, Dies After Public Flogging in Bangladesh</p>\r\n<p>Feb 3, 2011 – 7:01 PM - AOL News</p>\r\n<p>A 14-year-old Bangladeshi girl allegedly raped by a much older cousin has died after being publicly flogged for adultery, media reports said.</p>\r\n<p>Hena Begum was sentenced to receive 100 lashes by a village council made up of elders and Muslim clerics in the district of Shariatpur, about 35 miles from the capital, Dhaka, the BBC said today.</p>\r\n<p>She endured about 80 lashes before collapsing Monday, according to The Daily Star, a Bangladeshi newspaper. Her family took her to a hospital, where she died.</p>\r\n<p>\"What sort of justice is this? My daughter has been beaten to death in the name of justice. If it had been a proper court then my daughter would not have died,\" Dorbesh Khan, the girl\'s father, told the BBC.</p>\r\n<p>Family members said Hena was raped by a 40-year-old married cousin, The Daily Star said. The man\'s family beat up the teen, then accused of her adultery, the newspaper said.</p>\r\n<p>The very next day, she was sentenced to the flogging in a fatwa, or religious ruling, issued by the village council under Islamic Shariah law, the BBC said. Her father was also told pay a fine of about $700, police told the BBC.</p>\r\n<p>Four people, including a Muslim cleric, have been arrested in connection with Hena\'s death, the BBC said. Police said they were looking for another 14 people in the case.</p>\r\n<p>© Copyright Oak Initiative – Special Bulletin 2-2011 Page 3</p>\r\n<p>Only members Can Copy</p>\r\n<p>Bangladesh\'s high court has ordered district officials in Shariatpur to explain why they did not protect the girl, The Daily Star said. The court ruled eight months ago that Shariah punishment was illegal.</p>\r\n<p>In December, a 40-year-old woman in Rajshahi district died after she was publicly caned for allegedly carrying on an affair with her stepson.</p>\r\n<p>What kind of justice is it when a 14 year old girl gets raped, and because the rapist is a married man she is beaten to death for adultery? This is an example of Sharia, and the most shocking thing of all is why the media, and especially every women’s organization in the world that truly cares about the rights of women, or human rights, are not sounding the alarm daily about Sharia.</p>\r\n<p>There are almost daily news reports now about “honor killings,” the torture by stoning of adulterers, and homosexuals that should have everyone who truly cares about justice, and human rights, devoted to understanding Sharia. Those who are challenging it and sounding the alarm are not “Islamophobic,” or “right wing extremists, but are those who really care about justice and human rights.</p>\r\n<p>Remember to Renew Your Membership or Become a Member Today!</p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://www.theoakinitiative.org\">http://www.theoakinitiative.org</a></p>\r\n</p>',1,75,'2011-02-16 20:03:31',63,'','2012-02-04 13:04:15',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-02-16 20:03:31','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',2,55,'','',1,473,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(245,0,'\"TRIUMPH of DEMOCRACY\" In EGYPT?','qtriumph-of-democracyq-in-egypt','<p> </p>\r\n<p>February 16, 2011</p>\r\n<p>\"TRIUMPH of DEMOCRACY\" In EGYPT? by <a href=\"http://www.theoakinitiative.org/content/nicholas-papanicolaou\">Nicholas F.S. Papanicolaou</a></p>\r\n<p>It is easy to fall in with the euphoria that now has taken hold in the aftermath of Hosni Mubarak\'s resignation on Feb. 11th. Already people in America and in the Middle East are exulting over the \"triumph of democracy\" in Egypt.</p>\r\n<p>So it is perhaps not popular for some like me, to sound the alarm bell. Doing so does not mean I applaud the Mubarak government and its thirty years in power. It does mean that I see plenty of dangers ahead which need to be addressed in a realistic way lest Egypt become another radical Islamic state.</p>\r\n<p>In the 2005 elections the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) fielded twenty percent of the vote in the Egyptian elections. In any upcoming elections they are likely to gain even more of the vote. But at twenty percent, they already have gained a powerful voice within Egypt\'s power structure.</p>\r\n<p>Also, The National Intelligence Director, James Clapper, testified Feb. 10th before Congress and said that the MB in Egypt has renounced violence. Can we believe that the MB is now a benevolent, civic minded, non violent force in Egypt?</p>\r\n','\r\n<p> </p>\r\n<p>Let us look at two examples from other countries, to see if they provide any guidance for what may well develop in Egypt. In late 1944, as the Nazis withdrew from occupied Greece, communist guerillas who were supplied by Stalin, were trying to take over the country by force. In a country of about seven million people, they numbered less than 15,000 people in total, including some 5,000 men under arms and 10,000 people who accompanied them, some of whom had been forcibly abducted from their villages.</p>\r\n<p>Yet the power they wielded was completely disproportionate to their numbers. They controlled most politicians through sheer fear of physical violence. The government of national unity, under George Papandreou (grandfather of the present prime Minister of Greece) was yielding to their demands. One of their demands was that the armed</p>\r\n<p>© Copyright Oak Initiative – Special Bulletin 4-2011 Page 2</p>\r\n<p>Only members Can Copy</p>\r\n<p>communist guerillas be included in the regular Greek Army, which they would then ruthlessly co-opt and neutralize, or take over. With the government cowering to their demands, Winston Churchill visited Athens on Christmas Day 1944 to face the communists down. He had the personal courage, and the power of what was left of the British and Greek armies, to reject their demands. They tried to blow him up as well as the entire British Embassy that day by planting a mega bomb under the Embassy, but thankfully did not succeed.</p>\r\n<p>But what would have happened if there was no Winston Churchill and no loyal Greek and British Army to face the communists down?</p>\r\n<p>A second example is the Islamic party of Prime Minister Erdogan in Turkey. A little more than ten years ago the Turkish military allowed this party to participate in Turkey\'s national elections. They fielded some ten percent of the vote in their first election. But within ten years they had gained an absolute majority, and began to dismantle the secular Turkish state founded by Kemal Ataturk in 1923. Today Turkey is very firmly on the road to Islamization, and is participating in the disruption of the other secular regimes in the area, such as Iraq and Jordan.</p>\r\n<p>The prospects for Egypt are fraught with danger.</p>\r\n<p>The Muslim Brotherhood will, I expect, be exerting every type of influence it can in order to gain control of the country in the next five years.</p>\r\n<p>Some of this influence will be through the polls, some will be based on religious fervor, and some will inevitably be based on fear of violence.</p>\r\n<p>A big burden has now been placed on the Egyptian military, but the military could also go the same way Iran\'s went in 1979 when the ayatollahs took over. Iran\'s top military brass was summarily executed with the return to the country of ayatollah Khomeini. So let us be sensitive to the dangers facing Egypt.</p>\r\n<p>Democracy has not yet won.</p>\r\n<p>It will be a long road.</p>\r\n<p>Free passage through the Suez Canal and the peace treaty with Israel (Camp David Accords) hang in the balance; so does the continuation of the joint arms embargo imposed on Gaza and Hamas by Israel and Mubarak\'s Egypt.</p>\r\n<p>_______________________________________</p>\r\n<p>Nicholas F.S. Papanicolaou is co-Founder and Co-Chairman of the World Public Forum \"Dialogue of Civilizations\" and an <a href=\"http://www.theoakinitiative.org/\">Oak Initiative</a> Board Member. <a href=\"http://www.theoakinitiative.org/content/nicholas-papanicolaou\">Read his bio.</a></p>\r\n<p> </p>',1,60,'2011-02-17 17:57:29',62,'Nicholas F.S. Papanicolaou in Oak Initiative','2011-02-17 18:20:59',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-02-17 17:57:29','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',6,235,'','',1,558,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(246,0,'\"Father, A Rebellion has Begun\"...Robert the Bruce','qfather-a-rebellion-has-begunqrobert-the-bruce','<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: #000000; line-height: normal;\"> </span></p>\r\n<h2 style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; color: #740019; font-size: large;\">News Release</h2>\r\n<h1 style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; color: #006600; font-size: x-large; margin: 0px;\">Governor Notifies Interior of New Wolf Management Directives</h1>\r\n<p style=\"line-height: 16px;\"><em> </em></p>\r\n<p style=\"line-height: 16px;\">2/16/2011<br />Sarah Elliott 406-444-9725<br />Jayson O’Neill 406-444-9844<br /><a href=\"mailto:selliott@mt.gov\" style=\"color: #006600;\">selliott@mt.gov</a></p>\r\n<p> </p>\r\n<p>(HELENA) – Governor Brian Schweitzer today sent a letter to Department of Interior Secretary Ken Salazar notifying Interior of new directives regarding wolf management in Montana. Text of the letter below (and attached):</p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: #000000; line-height: normal;\"><em><strong>\"First, for Montana’s northwest endangered wolves (north of Interstate 90), any livestock producers who kill or harass a wolf attacking their livestock will not be prosecuted by Montana game wardens.\"</strong></em><br /> </span></p>\r\n','\r\n<p><br />February 16, 2011 <br /><br />The Honorable Ken Salazar <br />Secretary <br />U.S. Department of the Interior <br />1849 C Street NW <br />Washington, D.C. 20240 <br /><br />Dear Secretary Salazar: <br /><br />I write to you today regarding wolf management in Montana. <br /><br />While almost everyone acknowledges that the Northern Rocky Mountain gray wolf population is fully recovered, as the Governor of Montana I am profoundly frustrated by the lack of any actual results that recognize Montana’s rights and responsibilities to manage its wildlife. Montana has for years done everything that has been asked: adopting a model wolf management plan; enacting enabling legislation; and adopting the necessary implementing rules. Our exemplary efforts have been ignored. I cannot continue to ignore the crying need for workable wolf management while Montana waits, and waits, and waits. Therefore, I am now going to take additional necessary steps to protect the interests of Montana’s livestock producers and hunters to the extent that I can within my authorities as governor. <br /><br />First, for Montana’s northwest endangered wolves (north of Interstate 90), any livestock producers who kill or harass a wolf attacking their livestock will not be prosecuted by Montana game wardens. Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Parks (FWP) wardens will be directed to exercise their prosecutorial discretion by not investigating or citing anyone protecting their livestock. <br /><br />Further, I am directing FWP to respond to any livestock depredation by removing whole packs that kill livestock, wherever this may occur. <br /><br />Still further, to protect the elk herds in Montana’s Bitterroot Valley that have been most adversely affected by wolf predation, I am directing FWP, to the extent allowed by the Endangered Species Act, to cull these wolves by whole-pack removal to enable elk herds to recover. <br /><br />At this point, I can do nothing less and still maintain my commitment as Governor to uphold the rights of our citizens to protect their property and to continue to enjoy Montana’s cherished wildlife heritage and traditions. <br /><br />Sincerely, <br /><br /><br /><br />Brian Schweitzer <br />GOVERNOR <br /><br /><br /><a href=\"http://governor.mt.gov/news/docs/021611_Salazar-wolf_management.pdf\" style=\"color: #006600;\">Letter</a> (PDF) {jcomments on}</p>\r\n<p> </p>',1,60,'2011-02-19 15:41:48',62,'Office of the Governor, State of Montana','2011-02-19 15:56:15',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-02-19 15:41:48','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',3,234,'','',1,871,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(247,0,'The Middle East and the Midwest','the-middle-east-and-the-midwest','<p>\r\n<p><img src=\"images/stories/r_joyner_85px.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Rick Joyner - The Oak Initiative\" title=\"Rick Joyner\" align=\"left\" />The Middle East has erupted like a chain of volcanoes with dissent pouring forth in nearly every Muslim country in the region. Mubarak’s regime in Egypt fell faster than seemed possible, encouraged by the regime change that protestors were able to accomplish in Tunisia. Other regimes will likely fall in coming weeks, if not days.</p>\r\n<p>The Middle East has been the source of unending trouble for the world with its many religious, political, and economic challenges. Even though there is presently so much confusion and turmoil, we know what the conclusion of this matter will be, and it will be good. The unfolding scenario that we are witnessing now is found in Isaiah 19. However, the path that the events will take before the ultimate conclusion will likely present increasing challenges which will bring increasing stress on the nations. To be prepared for the times, we need to understand them. \r\n','\r\n</p>\r\n<p>First, let’s briefly look at what we obviously know is not true. How was it that Hosni Mubarak went from being one of our best allies in the Middle East to being a cruel dictator so fast? He’s a dictator, and there does not seem to have been a single dictator in history who has not been ruthless, so why did our government turn on him so fast? For us to have done this was remarkable, but to do it without even knowing who would take his place is even more so. Something is awry when someone we call our friend becomes evil in our eyes so quickly. Mubarak has been essentially the same person for the 30 years he’s been in power. Why the sudden change?</p>\r\n<p>The way that this change in our perception came was when it appeared like our government was just waiting to see who would win the standoff and then fell over themselves trying to appear to be for the winners. Our other ?allies? in the region took note of how quickly we abandoned Mubarak, and their faith in us dipped accordingly.</p>\r\n<p>Of course, we should be encouraged when any people start to demand democracy. This is the foundation of our own nation, and we should be the greatest of all</p>\r\n<p>© Copyright Oak Initiative – Special Bulletin 5-2011 Page 2</p>\r\n<p>Only members Can Copy</p>\r\n<p>champions of democracy. However, there has not been a single revolution in the Middle East that has ended up being a true democracy. Every popular uprising has ultimately ended up in an even worse form of tyranny being imposed. What makes us think Egypt will be any different?</p>\r\n<p>Why have we all of a sudden become skittish about relations with dictators or oppressive regimes? With the exception of Israel, and to a smaller degree Iraq and Afghanistan, every country in the region is ruled by a dictator, or an oppressive regime. If we do not relate to dictators or oppressive regimes, we cannot relate to anyone else in the region, not to mention many of the rest of the countries on earth. Maybe this should be our foreign policy, but if it is not uniform and consistent, then we will continue to be viewed as the hypocrites and fair weather friends we are now seen as.</p>\r\n<p>Many experts on the Middle East are quite sure that ultimately the Muslim Brotherhood will be in control of Egypt. There may be a couple of more steps before they get total control, but this is the open door they have been seeking since they killed Anwar Sadat. The information we received from the people in Egypt during the recent demonstrations was that these were not spontaneous, but had been planned for weeks if not months and by people who did not appear to be Egyptians.</p>\r\n<p>When I was at the World Public Forum on Civilizations and Religions that is held each year in Rhodes, Greece, I heard from several Muslim leaders that America is one of the most naïve and easily manipulated countries in the world. They told me how many of our intelligence sources in Iraq and Afghanistan would give us ?intelligence? on their own personal enemies, so we would bomb them, and we fell for it almost every time. Our military knows this now, but America is considered a nation very easy to manipulate and fool, and they are correct.</p>\r\n<p>A main reason for this is that our human intelligence resources have been decimated since the Reagan Administration. The resources we have now are spread very thin, and the intelligence we get is likewise very shallow. Our intelligence services were blindsided by what happened in Egypt because they have been reduced to trying to evaluate what has happened instead of foreseeing what is going to happen. In world affairs, we are now flying almost totally blind.</p>\r\n<p>We should be proud that our country supports and promotes democracy, but it is still wrong, and usually counterproductive to be naïve or hypocritical in our promotion of it. The Gaza Strip is a good example. We insisted on a democratic vote and the people voted for a terrorist organization, Hamas, enemy of Israel and enemy of the U.S., to be their leader.</p>\r\n<p>Jihadists and other enemies of America learned quickly how to use naïve, U.S. idealism about democracy to gain power. Their saying is, ?One man, one vote, one time,? meaning they will use our insistence on elections to get their people in power, and then you can forget ever having another real election. They may continue to have elections for the sake of world opinion, but they will control the outcome.</p>\r\n<p>© Copyright Oak Initiative – Special Bulletin 5-2011 Page 3</p>\r\n<p>Only members Can Copy</p>\r\n<p>As we read this scenario in Isaiah Chapter 19, through the first part of this chapter there is great conflict in the region before the final conclusion of the alliance between Assyria, Egypt, and Israel. Biblical Assyria includes all of the territory from modern-day Iraq to Egypt. This is the sure word of prophecy that it has not yet happened in history, so we know that it must happen before the end of this age.</p>\r\n<p>The Midwest</p>\r\n<p>The connection between the Middle East and the Midwest of the United States is that both regions are entering times of great challenge over ultimate issues. In the Middle East, many forces are at work, but most seem to be sincerely crying out for freedom from the oppression, which has ruled that region for too long. There is a rising cry for democracy, and we should be encouraged by this. However, in the Midwest we are facing challenges that threaten our democracy.</p>\r\n<p>To understand unfolding world issues, we need to comprehend what is now spreading in the Middle East. To comprehend unfolding national issues, we need to understand what is happening in Wisconsin, and how it is likely to spread to other states just as the uprisings have spread across the Middle East.</p>\r\n<p>A primary issue in the Midwest conflict at present is the right of public employees to collective bargaining. To consider the rejection of this right to be a union busting tactic is simply not true. This one thing is a major source busting the entire country financially, as well as bringing unprecedented political corruption, and it has to be faced if we are going to escape from some of the most crushing financial problems we’re now facing. Even Franklin D. Roosevelt, one of the most liberal of all U.S. Presidents, rejected giving the right of collective bargaining to public employees because of its potential for corruption and the destruction of sound fiscal policy.</p>\r\n<p>Why is the potential for corruption so much greater for public employees than those in the private sector in regard to collective bargaining? What has evolved since this right was given to public employees proves that FDR was right. Public Employee Unions are some of the biggest of all political campaign contributors—the campaigns of the very ones who will be setting their salaries and benefits. Who can take their money and then vote against them? Not many, which is why public employee salaries and pension benefits have soared to the point where they will soon drive the majority of states into bankruptcy even before this year is out if not reversed.</p>\r\n<p>Public service employees now make on average considerably more than those with comparable jobs in the private sector. With the benefit packages now enjoyed by public service employees, including being fully vested for 100% retirement benefits by age 55, all paid for by taxpayers, is it a wonder that the best and the brightest have left the private sector to work for government? Since government does not produce anything marketable, this sucking of all the oxygen out of the room has further crippled our ability to compete in the world markets, shrinking our national income, and therefore our tax</p>\r\n<p>© Copyright Oak Initiative – Special Bulletin 5-2011 Page 4</p>\r\n<p>Only members Can Copy</p>\r\n<p>income for paying government employees. Many states have not been able to pay into their pension funds for a long time. Others have borrowed anything they had put into them, and now these exorbitant benefits are being called for by retirees. Something has to give.</p>\r\n<p>All but possibly four states are facing insolvency this year if radical changes are not made. Illinois decided to raise state taxes by 30% rather than face down their unions. The result of this should have been expected—the beginning of a mass exodus of companies and people fleeing to neighboring states. This move will likely shrink the Illinois tax revenue instead of increasing it.</p>\r\n<p>This looming and sure to grow crisis now leaves hard choices to be faced. Lines are now being drawn between the public, and the public service unions. There are many nuances to this issue, and every state is at least to some degree unique in what it must now face, but the overall issue could change the American political landscape every bit as much as the Middle Eastern political landscape is now changing. Both regions are facing issues that can no longer be put off.</p>\r\n<p>Summary</p>\r\n<p>The immediate impact of the Middle Eastern turmoil will likely be fuel prices soaring. The U.S. could be facing permanent prices above $5 a gallon at the pump. The economic impact of this will not be good, especially with our economy still crippled.</p>\r\n<p>In the Middle East, opportunities for the liberties to expand have been tasted to a degree in Iraq and Afghanistan. Though no transcendent statesmen like Washington or Jefferson have yet appeared in the region, or even another Anwar Sadat, the cries for change are great and growing. This is no doubt an opportunity for good or evil. It is tragic that the credibility of the U.S. is being eroded so fast by our handling of the situation, which hinders our ability to influence the situation. This presents a greater opportunity for China, Russia, and the Muslim Brotherhood. Because the situation is unfolding so fast, it gives even greater opportunity for those who are better organized, and those who are the best organized are not the ones we would like to see in power. Because the situation is so fluid, there is still potential that it will turn out well, but the trend is definitely against it.</p>\r\n<p>In the Midwest crisis, there is a much greater potential for good to be the result. There are strong leaders who know what must be done and are making the hard, but essential choices. Either the union grip on government will be broken, or the country will be broke. Many states could start defaulting this year, creating a devastating cascade. States cannot just print money like the Federal government can when it cannot sell more of its debt.</p>\r\n<p>The public service unions are not the only crises facing state governments. The burden placed on the states by Obamacare will not be just the straw that breaks the camel’s back, rather the Sherman tank that breaks the camel’s back.</p>\r\n<p>© Copyright Oak Initiative – Special Bulletin 5-2011 Page 5</p>\r\n<p>Only members Can Copy</p>\r\n<p>The good is that the madness of the public service union agreements with governments and Obamacare will both be illuminated this year, and therefore can be corrected. It will take strong, resolute leadership, but there does seem to be just such a leadership now in many key positions. If they can persevere to resolve these issues, we will have a much more healthy future. If they start to cave, we will be in an even more desperate crisis very quickly. Pray for your leaders.</p>\r\n<p>On one final note, it is debatable whether public service unions should exist at all, but unions in general have been a vehicle for many positive changes in America, and it is not in our best interest for them to be totally destroyed. Without question, some of these unions have greatly hurt America’s ability to be competitive in the world over recent decades, but with reform and reformation-minded leaders, labor unions can be an important partner for our future progress.</p>\r\n<p>If it is decided that public service unions are to continue to have collective bargaining rights, then they should be restricted from making any kind of campaign contributions or endorsing candidates, just like tax-exempt organizations. At least that way those who must vote on their wages and benefits won’t be obligated to them. Without something like this, collective bargaining for public employees simply cannot be tolerated without basic continuing corruption of the system.</p>\r\n</p>',1,75,'2011-02-25 14:33:11',63,'','2012-02-04 13:03:50',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-02-25 14:33:11','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',2,54,'','',1,421,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(248,0,'U.S Tanker Contract','us-tanker-contract','<p>\r\n<div>Dear Senators Levin and Stabenow:</div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div>While listening to the business news this morning, the report stated that  the US tanker contract is going to be placed with either Boeing or AirBus.  The  contract as reported could ultimately be worth 100 billion dollars for the  winner.  The news also stated that Airbus seems to have the edge in the bidding  process and will likely get the majority of the contract.  I find it  unfathomable that our own government would even consider giving such a large  military contract to a foreign power, in the light of our unemployment rate  at 10% plus the added benefits to our economy with money being  spent domestically.  My understanding is that this contract if lost by Boeing  would mean the loss of 50,000 jobs.  Surely somebody in our government can see  the benefits of awarding the contract to Boeing and having the work and dollars  remain here in the United States.</div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div>Very truly,</div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div>Phyllis and Edward Garabedian{jcomments on}</div>\r\n</p>','',1,26,'2011-02-25 14:35:52',75,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-02-25 14:35:52','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',1,4,'','',1,971,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(249,0,'The Playboy, the Cowboy, and the Wonder Boy','the-playboy-the-cowboy-and-the-wonder-boy','<p><span style=\"font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Sans\', \'Lucida Sans Unicode\', \'Lucida Grande\', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 32px;\">\r\n<div id=\"StoryTitle\" class=\"storytitle\" style=\"width: auto; height: 100px; padding-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; border-bottom-color: #cccccc; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Sans\', \'Lucida Sans Unicode\', \'Lucida Grande\', sans-serif; color: #003399; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 7px;\">The tale of three presidents: the Playboy, the Cowboy, and the Wonder Boy\r\n<div id=\"reporter\" class=\"reporter\" style=\"width: auto; height: auto; padding-top: 2px; padding-bottom: 2px; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Sans\', \'Lucida Sans Unicode\', \'Lucida Grande\', sans-serif; font-size: 10px; color: #333333; font-weight: normal;\">Dr. Michael Youssef - Guest Columnist - 3/2/2011 10:20:00 AM<span style=\"vertical-align: middle; margin-left: 25px;\"><a href=\"http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #0e4d8b; background: inherit;\"><img src=\"http://s9.addthis.com/button1-addthis.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Bookmark and Share\" width=\"125\" height=\"16\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 9px; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 0px;\" /></a></span></div>\r\n</div>\r\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px;\"> </p>\r\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px;\" align=\"left\"><a href=\"http://www.onenewsnow.com/Perspectives/archives.aspx?col=Dr.%20Michael%20Youssef\" style=\"color: #0e4d8b; background: inherit;\"><img src=\"http://www.onenewsnow.com/uploadedImages/Media/Images/columnists_archives_button.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"columnists archives button\" title=\"columnists archives button\" hspace=\"3\" vspace=\"3\" align=\"right\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 9px; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 0px;\" /></a><img src=\"http://www.onenewsnow.com/uploadedImages/MichaelYoussef.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Michael Youssef\" title=\"Michael Youssef\" hspace=\"3\" vspace=\"3\" width=\"81\" height=\"127\" align=\"left\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 9px; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 0px;\" />Most social scientists would agree that world events do not happen in a vacuum. Political forces, whether they are accidental or deliberate, in succession or a single action, give rise to political and social movements.</p>\r\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px;\"> </p>\r\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px;\"> </p>\r\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px;\"> </p>\r\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px;\" align=\"left\">After the fall of the Shah of Iran, Islamic expansionists began looking for ways and means by which to accomplish their religious dreams. Empowered by \"divine mandate\" and fueled with lots of oil, they believed the world must be dominated by Islam and the Sharia. Yet, in order to claim victory, they had to overcome their greatest obstacle: the power of the United States.<br /> \r\n','\r\n<br />A common belief among these extremists was that American power is more perceived than real, and in the 1990s they began to test their theory. It did not take long to realize that President Bill Clinton\'s \"interests\" would distract him from acts of international terrorism. To the extremists, he was simply a 60\'s generation man who clearly wanted \"love, not war.\" Thus, a series of tests began. Embassies in Lebanon, Kenya, and Tanzania were bombed. The response of the \"Playboy President\" confirmed their suspicions.  Clinton issued many verbal threats but nothing happened.<br /> <br /><img src=\"http://www.onenewsnow.com/uploadedImages/Media/Images/BillClinton_podium.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Bill Clinton at podium\" title=\"Bill Clinton at podium\" hspace=\"3\" vspace=\"3\" width=\"141\" height=\"174\" align=\"left\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 9px; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 0px;\" />Then the tests became more daring. The bombing of the <em>USS Cole</em> was designed to reveal the vulnerability of the U.S. military. The response from the White House was from the same chapter, same verse -- \"the perpetrators of these heinous acts must be brought to justice.\" And again, nothing happened.  But what was really telling to these Jihadists was that, if Clinton\'s plan to deflect the scandal of Monica Lewinski meant throwing a million-dollar bomb on a ten-dollar tent in Afghanistan and bombing an aspirin factory in the Sudan, they were free and clear to plan, plot, and scheme for bigger things.<br /> <br />Make no mistake about it: all of the long-term planning and maneuvering that led to September 11, 2001, was going on during the Playboy President\'s watch. But these Islamists misread the domestic focus of the incoming \"Cowboy President\" as weakness. All in all, the final exam took place on the Cowboy President\'s watch. Did they really know that he would respond with such force in Afghanistan? I highly doubt it. They had become accustomed to verbal threats without action. They assumed that the Texas governor promoting education and a couple of other issues would not be willing to decimate their centers of power. As they say \"Give the devil his due,\" he disrupted their hornets\' nest and kept America safe for the remainder of his presidency.<br /> <br />All the while, the Islamic groups pressed their wealthy Muslim brothers to use their investments in the West for Jihadi purposes. They pressed them to strategically use their billions of dollars invested in Europe and Britain with strings attached. What were these strings? Demand from European governments for more mosques, more acceptance of Sharia law, more Islamic districts, more visible Islamic symbols (including Islamic banking principles and openness to immigrants from Islamic countries). Clearly, this strategy worked -- and now the Muslim expansionists smelled the air of success for the first time.<br /> <br />When our Cowboy President hit Afghanistan, many Muslim countries objected, but not as strongly as when Bush\'s neo-conservative team naïvely thought that they could remove Saddam Hussein from Iraq and create an \"Exhibit A\" of Islamic democracy. Bush and his team totally miscalculated the complication of that place. They also failed to understand the very deep desire of the Shiites in Iraq to unite with their brethren in Iran. They did not realize that democracy and Islam cannot coexist. Islamic theocracy and Western democracy are natural enemies. Allah rules through his prophet and his successors. The people do not empower their political leaders as in a Western democracy.<br /> <br /><img src=\"http://www.onenewsnow.com/uploadedImages/Media/Images/GeorgeWBush_hat.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"George W. Bush in cowboy hat\" title=\"George W. Bush in cowboy hat\" hspace=\"3\" vspace=\"3\" width=\"204\" height=\"147\" align=\"left\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 9px; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 0px;\" />Bush\'s team also failed to understand that the Butcher of Bagdad was holding the balance of power between the Shiites\' desire for domination and the Sunni Muslims\' revulsion toward the Shiite\'s design. They also wrongly believed that pro-Western authoritarian regimes such as Hosni Mubarak\'s of Egypt could survive being lectured to publicly by American officials. Of course I am referring to the speech given by Condoleezza Rice at Cairo University in 2005.<br /> <br />Finally, Bush\'s neo-con team did not understand that there is an Islamic principle which calls for an agreement with your enemy until you get the upper hand -- then you renege on your agreement. And that is why the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt welcomed the Cowboy President calling for democracy, knowing full well that, like Hamas, Hezbollah, and even Iran in 1978, once they are elected to power, they will discard democracy like a used paper napkin.<br /> <br />And now we come to the current reign of the \"Wonder Boy\" President. This young man who has no tangible achievements that have not been handed to him, swept into power with a teleprompter and a desire to be liked. Wanting to be adored by the masses is a very dangerous characteristic in any leader, let alone the leader of the free world. Such leadership often waits to see which way the wind is blowing and then jumps on the bandwagon. That would explain the seemingly conflicting statements that came from the Obama administration during the recent Egyptian youth uprising.<br /> <br /><img src=\"http://www.onenewsnow.com/uploadedImages/Media/Images/BarackObama_waving.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Barack Obama waving\" title=\"Barack Obama waving\" hspace=\"3\" vspace=\"3\" width=\"253\" height=\"166\" align=\"left\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 9px; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 0px;\" />But let\'s step back for a moment. During Obama\'s 2008 campaign, the Reverend Jesse Jackson, in a speech in France, tried to open a window into Obama\'s soul, exposing his \"lukewarm-ness\" toward Israel and his love for Islamic revolutionaries. As soon as these comments leaked into American media, the Obama campaign operatives clobbered Rev. Jackson, making it clear that he \"has nothing to do with us or our campaign.\" This was immediately followed by a hastily arranged visit to Israel by candidate Obama which was never repeated as president, despite the fact that he went to the region at least four times.<br /> <br />To make things worse, Muslim expansionists not only took comfort from President Obama\'s 2009 speech in Turkey during which he declared that America is no longer a Christian country, but also from his Cairo speech in which he gave all the possible signals that if the Islamic revolutionaries would rise up, he would hold hands with them and sing \"Kumbaya.\"<br /> <br />This unmistakable signal to the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt was followed by both well-publicized and secret meetings between the American ambassador in Cairo and the leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood. There can be no doubt: the Muslim Brotherhood is a radical, global-dominating, Sharia-implementing, Jihad-oriented, Israel-hating group. I think if I were Hosni Mubarak, I would have known right after Obama\'s speech in Cairo, and all of the signals that he gave to the Muslim Brotherhood, that my goose was cooked.<br /> <br />The tragedy is that each of these three presidents contributed to the rise of Islamic expansionism and to the total failure of Diplomacy 101. That all-important work of diplomacy should have taken place behind the scenes, in back rooms, forcefully but quietly.<br /> <br />In many ways, when history is written we will discover that the Playboy set the stage, the Cowboy danced on it, and the Wonder Boy brought it all down.</p>\r\n</span></p>',1,60,'2011-03-02 22:09:43',62,'Dr. Michael Youssef','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-03-02 22:09:43','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',1,233,'','',1,460,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(250,0,'Content of \'lightning-fast\' motion concerns FRC','content-of-lightning-fast-motion-concerns-frc','<p><span style=\"font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Sans\', \'Lucida Sans Unicode\', \'Lucida Grande\', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 32px;\"> </span></p>\r\n<div id=\"StoryTitle\" class=\"storytitle\" style=\"width: auto; height: 68px; padding-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; border-bottom-color: #cccccc; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Sans\', \'Lucida Sans Unicode\', \'Lucida Grande\', sans-serif; color: #003399; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 7px;\">\r\n<div id=\"reporter\" class=\"reporter\" style=\"width: auto; height: auto; padding-top: 2px; padding-bottom: 2px; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Sans\', \'Lucida Sans Unicode\', \'Lucida Grande\', sans-serif; font-size: 10px; color: #333333; font-weight: normal;\">Charlie Butts and Russ Jones - OneNewsNow - 3/7/2011 3:55:00 AM<span style=\"vertical-align: middle; margin-left: 25px;\"><a href=\"http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #0e4d8b; background: inherit;\"><img src=\"http://s9.addthis.com/button1-addthis.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Bookmark and Share\" width=\"125\" height=\"16\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 9px; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 0px;\" /></a></span></div>\r\n</div>\r\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px;\"> </p>\r\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px;\" align=\"left\"><img src=\"http://www.onenewsnow.com/uploadedImages/Media/Images/question_glass.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"magnifying glass question\" title=\"magnifying glass question\" hspace=\"3\" vspace=\"3\" width=\"131\" height=\"128\" align=\"left\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 9px; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 0px;\" />Family Research Council has sent a \"freedom of information\" request to the Department of Justice concerning its decision not to further defend the Defense of Marriage Act.</p>\r\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px;\" align=\"left\"> </p>\r\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px;\" align=\"center\"><a href=\"http://downloads.frc.org/EF/EF11C01.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Read FRC\'s letter to the Dept. of Justice\" style=\"color: #0e4d8b; background: inherit;\"><strong>Read FRC\'s letter to the Dept. of Justice</strong></a> [PDF]</p>\r\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px;\"> </p>\r\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px;\">DOMA is the 1996 federal law that defines marriage as the union of a man and a woman. Last week, lawmakers on Capitol Hill received a six-page letter from U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announcing the administration\'s decision to switch sides on the issue, claiming the law is unconstitutional. Almost simultaneously, Holder issued a press release as well, announcing the DOJ was bailing out on lawsuits against the traditional view of marriage.</p>\r\n','\r\n<p><br /> <br /><img src=\"http://www.onenewsnow.com/uploadedImages/Media/Images/Mugs/ChrisGacek.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Chris Gacek (FRC)\" title=\"Chris Gacek (FRC)\" hspace=\"3\" vspace=\"3\" width=\"74\" height=\"127\" align=\"right\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 9px; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 0px;\" />Chris Gacek of the <a href=\"http://www.frc.org/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Family Research Council\" style=\"color: #0e4d8b; background: inherit;\">Family Research Council</a> (FRC) comments on the timing of the two items, pointing out \"they were date-stamped, so [the press release] was attributed to Holder...at 11:10 in the morning -- and then the letter at 11:13 in the morning.\"<br /> <br />Two-and-a-half hours later, attorneys in New York and California -- representing homosexual activists -- filed a motion with the California-based Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, requesting the court lift a stay and grant permission for homosexual \"marriages\" before the court issues a decision on California\'s Proposition 8 case.<br /> <br />Gacek offers this observation: \"...One of the things that they did...in their motion -- twice and in different pages -- [was] they cited and quoted this letter that Holder had sent out to the members of Congress.\"<br /> <br />According to the FRC spokesman, it is unclear is how the attorneys could get a lengthy motion prepared in two and a half hours, with two quotes from the letter, unless there was some sort of collusion between Washington and the two attorneys about what was about to take place.<br /> <br />Gacek says FRC is not accusing Holder of any criminal actions, but the situation begs investigation just for the sake of ethics concerns.</p>\r\n<p> </p>\r\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px;\" align=\"left\"> </p>\r\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px;\" align=\"left\"><a href=\"http://www.onenewsnow.com/Legal/Default.aspx?id=1305320\" title=\"In a OneNewsNow weekend poll\" style=\"color: #0e4d8b; background: inherit;\">In a OneNewsNow weekend poll</a>, almost 85 percent of respondents felt \"without a doubt\" that someone in the administration conspired with Prop. 8 opponents in the lead up to the announcement that the Department of Justice would no longer defend the constitutionality of DOMA. Another 14 percent felt that \"possibly\" could have happened.</p>\r\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px;\" align=\"left\"> </p>\r\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px;\" align=\"center\"><em>Story continues below ...</em></p>\r\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px;\" align=\"left\"> </p>\r\n<hr />\r\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px;\" align=\"center\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">If it\'s proven that the Justice Department and Prop. 8 opponents were in cahoots,</span></strong></p>\r\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px;\" align=\"center\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">will President Obama fire Attorney General Eric Holder?</span></strong></p>\r\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px;\" align=\"center\"><a href=\"http://www.onenewsnow.com/Poll.aspx?ekfrm=1307410\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Vote in our poll\" style=\"color: #0e4d8b; background: inherit;\"><strong>Vote in our poll</strong></a></p>\r\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px;\" align=\"left\"> </p>\r\n<hr />\r\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px;\" align=\"left\"><br /><strong>Retreat a surprise<br /></strong>Meanwhile, a conservative commentator at <a href=\"http://www.heritage.org/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"The Heritage Foundation\" style=\"color: #0e4d8b; background: inherit;\">The Heritage Foundation</a> says the Obama administration\'s decision to abandon its support of DOMA surprised many congressional leaders.<br /> <br />Chuck Donovan, senior fellow at Heritage, attended the recent National Religious Broadcasters Convention in Nashville, where he spoke with OneNewsNow. (<a href=\"http://www.onenewsnow.com/uploadedFiles/Media/Audio/2011/03/07/JonesDOMA.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"JonesDOMA\" style=\"color: #0e4d8b; background: inherit;\">Listen to audio report</a>)<br /> <br /><img src=\"http://www.onenewsnow.com/uploadedImages/Media/Images/Mugs/ChuckDonovan.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Charlie (Chuck) Donovan (Heritage)\" title=\"Charlie (Chuck) Donovan (Heritage)\" hspace=\"3\" vspace=\"3\" width=\"80\" height=\"127\" align=\"left\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 9px; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 0px;\" />\"Marriage is crucial for our kids. We have a 41-percent out-of-wedlock birth rate in the United States. [Those are] record levels, twice the level that alarmed sociologists a generation ago when it touched just the African-American family,\" he shared. \"And it\'s such an incredible contributor to social costs and to the harm of kids who are raised not reaching their full potential -- because they typically don\'t have a father in the home.\"<br /> <br />Donovan contends the Justice Department has slowly undermined DOMA since President Obama took office.<br /> <br />\"They\'ve actually been doing a slow-motion self-destruct on this litigation from the beginning [by] not citing the key pro-marriage cases and also abandoning the best arguments -- including the one about children being in need of a mother and father. That wasn\'t being argued,\" he remarks.<br /> <br />\"Once Americans hear that, they know this case was being fumbled before it was completely dropped.\"<br /> <br /><a href=\"http://www.onenewsnow.com/Politics/Default.aspx?id=1306054\" title=\"On Friday\" style=\"color: #0e4d8b; background: inherit;\">On Friday</a>, House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) announced he is planning to convene a meeting of a five-member legal advisory group in the House for the purpose of initiating action to defend DOMA.<br /> <br />\"The constitutionality of this law should be determined by the courts -- not by the president unilaterally,\" stated Boehner, \"and this action by the House will ensure the matter is addressed in a manner consistent with our Constitution.\"<br /> <br />Some say in the absence of the Justice Department, conservative law firms will most likely intervene of behalf of traditional marriage.</p>\r\n<p> </p>',1,60,'2011-03-07 21:13:27',62,'OneNewsNow','2011-03-07 21:18:09',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-03-07 21:13:27','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',3,232,'','',1,391,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(251,0,'NRB Discussion on Shariah Law','nrb-discussion-on-shariah-law','<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=6blbffdab&amp;et=1104754497461&amp;s=4480&amp;e=001-6DwX_t4qJfDkAXStHqPyEUrufp2aBG6ViXfuLVP-jDhmF5s5Of31568aG698o9r21h_ThRkrus4Ms54sEBI7_8jF_iNPscJhcNWzEa4HVQ=\"><img src=\"http://theoakinitiative.org/images/OAKI-logo-Clear.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Oak Logo\" width=\"226\" height=\"124\" /></a></p>\r\n<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=6blbffdab&amp;et=1104754497461&amp;s=4480&amp;e=001-6DwX_t4qJfDkAXStHqPyEUrufp2aBG6ViXfuLVP-jDhmF5s5Of31568aG698o9r21h_ThRkrus4Ms54sEBI7_8jF_iNPscJhcNWzEa4HVQ=\">www.theoakinitiative.org</a></p>\r\n<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=6blbffdab&amp;et=1104754497461&amp;s=4480&amp;e=001-6DwX_t4qJfDkAXStHqPyEUrufp2aBG6ViXfuLVP-jDhmF5s5Of31568aG698o9r21h_ThRkrus4Ms54sEBI7_8jF_iNPscJhcNWzEa4HVQ=\"></a><strong>2011</strong> <strong>MEMBER LETTER</strong> <strong>Vol. 3 No. 2</strong></p>\r\n<p align=\"justify\">03/07/2011</p>\r\n<p align=\"justify\">Dear Jack,</p>\r\n<p align=\"justify\">Last week I sat on a small panel discussing Shariah Law that was open to the Christian media at the National Religious Broadcasters (NRB) Convention in Nashville. Also on the panel was James Woolsey, former Director of the CIA, and Frank Gaffney, Jr., former Asst. Sec. of Defense for International Security Policy and the acting President of the Center for Security Policy. We were also joined on the panel by Tom Smith and another lawyer who are on the frontlines of the battle against Shariah in the U.S., and a remarkable rabbi who had been an ambassador from Israel.</p>\r\n','\r\n<p> </p>\r\n<p align=\"justify\">This was an interesting and rich discussion on this crucial subject and how it affects our security. We were each given a few minutes to make a statement and then we all took questions from the media present. I was impressed and encouraged by the content and insight the questions revealed. Christians are no doubt starting to realize that we cannot understand our times without understanding Islam and Shariah.</p>\r\n<p align=\"justify\">The three crucial points that were clearly made and well-established at the NRB press conference are something every American must grasp:</p>\r\n<p>1) Radical Islam and Shariah is not just a religion but a totalitarian government, legal system, and economy, and this conflict is not an issue of religious liberty.</p>\r\n<p>2) Shariah is in direct conflict with the U.S. Constitution and that the two cannot co-exist.</p>\r\n<p>3) The third is the well-documented intent of the Muslim Brotherhood and all radical Islamists to destroy America and Western civilization.</p>\r\n<p align=\"justify\">James Woolsey and Frank Gaffney are professionals on the highest level, and their presentation was professional, concise, and authoritative. I was on the panel representing a Christian leadership perspective, which I used to appeal to my fellow Christian leaders that we would all stand before the judgment seat of Christ, and we would not want to stand there as shepherds who did not protect God’s flock that had been entrusted to us, or be watchmen who failed to sound the alarm against this ultimate threat in our times. By the immediate response, it seems we did accomplish our purpose.</p>\r\n<p align=\"justify\">Both James Woolsey and Frank Gaffney were a part of putting together the “Team B II Report,” <em><strong>SHARIAH, the Threat to America</strong></em>. This is a second exercise in competitive analysis into the nature of a major threat to America. The first “Team B Report” was produced by U.S. intelligence and defense officials to do “an exercise in competitive analysis” on the threat of the Soviet Union in 1976. This was an internal exercise to find any holes in the threat analysis of our intelligence and defense organizations at the time that had led to the policy known as Détente. This first “Team B Report” led to some basic changes in this policy and the understanding that then led to a brilliant strategy implemented by President Ronald Reagan that likely helped unravel the threat of the Soviet Union and the Soviet Union itself.</p>\r\n<p align=\"justify\">This new Team B Report, <em><strong>SHARIAH, the Threat to America</strong></em>, is a brilliant and remarkable study done by some of the top professionals in threat analysis, who have no purpose in being biased. It is clear, articulate, and easy to understand. Certainly every Christian leader should read this, but I also think every Christian should. If this happens, possibly half the battle against this ultimate threat would be won. The main power of the devil is to hide in darkness, doing his work where he can remain hidden. I don’t think there has been another publication that so well unmasks the threat of radical Islam and Shariah.</p>\r\n<p align=\"justify\">A contention that I have had, and certainly many others are raising also, is that any person who has taken an oath to defend our Constitution from enemies both foreign and domestic and does not seek to understand radical Islam and Shariah are either basically incompetent or they are guilty of treason. It is that serious of a threat. One of the most basic principles of warfare or defense policy is that you simply cannot defeat an enemy that you do not see. Every law enforcement officer takes this oath, as does every elected official. It is a dereliction of duty not to understand this ultimate threat.</p>\r\n<p align=\"justify\">The better we understand our foe, the better the chance we have of defeating them. This is an enemy that has publicly declared that they will destroy us. They have been effective already at doing great damage to us, and to not take them seriously, cannot be anything other than incompetence or treason.</p>\r\n<p align=\"justify\">Many think that we could not possibly be under a threat by those who compose such a tiny portion of the population. That is the big mistake which has led to the overthrow of some of the most powerful and established governments in history. The Bolsheviks in Russia only numbered twenty thousand in a nation of over one hundred million. That is just a tiny fraction of one percent. The word Bolshevik means “minority,” and anyone who took their threat as serious was considered somewhere between out of touch and paranoid—until this minority took over the country. Seditionists well understand that it does not take large numbers for a government overthrow and consider small numbers an advantage that helps keep them and their purpose off the radar screen. Radical Islamists in America far outnumber the Bolsheviks in Russia, are much better organized and funded, and are a serious threat to our continued existence.</p>\r\n<p align=\"justify\">Understanding Islam and Shariah will no doubt be a major factor in the next Presidential election and could very well determine it. The economy will likely remain the main issue, but understanding and being on the right side of confronting Shariah will be near the top and will be a major factor in American politics in 2012 and thereafter.</p>\r\n<p align=\"justify\">With the unfolding of events now in the Middle East, and where these are likely to lead, will make this an ever increasingly important issue in international affairs as well. Many in Europe are starting to wake up and are becoming increasingly vocal about what is happening to that continent. Key leaders in Russia and China understand the issues much better than it seems our present leaders in America, but that is beginning to change.</p>\r\n<p align=\"justify\">As Christians, especially those who have any position of leadership in the church, we have a responsibility to understand this threat which not only wants to wipe out America and Western civilization, but also Christianity, and every other religion on the earth. In fact, if radical Islam were able to prevail and establish Shariah throughout the world, which is its mandate according to its book, then every non-Muslim in the world would either be a slave or dead with the exception of those who could pay a tax to stay alive and would leave them with virtually no rights.</p>\r\n<p align=\"justify\">Will we let this happen to our country on our watch? No doubt there are Americans, who when given the choice between life and liberty, will choose life at any cost, even slavery. Even so, I think many more will never submit themselves to slavery, and they will not let it happen to their children, their children’s children, or their country. It will take the kind of courage, boldness, and willingness to sacrifice to save our country as it took to found it. The longer we delay in confronting these ultimate threats, the more costly the victory will be, but we will be victorious. Now is the time to take a stand.</p>\r\n<p align=\"justify\">Please read <em><strong>SHARIAH, the Threat to America</strong></em>. It is available at Amazon.com, and should be in most bookstores by now. You can get a <a href=\"http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=6blbffdab&amp;et=1104754497461&amp;s=4480&amp;e=001-6DwX_t4qJe5_zRXNrkRbzssWL7HSPYqc-eCGDe-EKw7SiiudxXr7TiIbPzyz-C45zDA2wuC30HV1wkzn9R7iWZbHaRG7Ms6sFXnPd3et7vagbQHvTdz4uVKrAPfCb7BAvYkQNJ6IRlf_JYtyQpm8CVPc6oyP9LBsg8JXX1KsmA=\">discounted copy</a> by ordering from The Oak Initiative. Please consider getting at least one additional copy to give to your pastor or any police officer or elected official you know.</p>\r\n<p align=\"justify\">We will soon have in stock Nicholas Papanicolau’s new book, <em><strong>Islam vs. the United States</strong></em>. This is a hard-hitting analysis of this issue from one of our Oak board members, and one whose international experience is vast. Nicholas is a co-host of The World Public Forum on Civilizations and Religions, which draws top government, religious, and academics from the major nations of the world each year, and had one of the top Islamic scholars read and authenticate his thesis. This is an important work and done so concisely that it can help anyone to understand the basics of this issue in just a few hours. This should be available as an e-Book on Amazon this coming week.</p>\r\n<p align=\"justify\">I have also finished my book, <strong><em>I See a New America</em></strong>, which is now available as an e-Book <a href=\"http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=6blbffdab&amp;et=1104754497461&amp;s=4480&amp;e=001-6DwX_t4qJfTIb1aaM5cIL5g7eB0RQ0Xgu51kvkl4eb5cgCrutImy-MfoOaLTcPVSXBP0oybrQvjZKTqKWEKo7zBwVgCXID2Om6SXxf-1PxifOcT9zxvrZdieEG_P_JgEzB19PZWuQzMCwndnj4VVrW6t1yCVAmeANVmVlMTVOGgoSTvDdiQlmK_XaP7df_fVXYQPpA-WhD4i4j2j-7ZH8Yc-OaNU51lpuXsvLevHUjKaSBigONfEK_iOHtMbiSG\">at Amazon</a> and will soon be available in hard copy. The initial feedback I’ve received from those I asked to read it has been most encouraging, saying this could go viral. Perhaps, but some of the talking points are already getting into the news, so I know it will have impact, and it is on time.</p>\r\n<p align=\"justify\">Above all, we are here first as emissaries of the King whose kingdom will surely come. Let us do this with the dignity and class with which the representatives of our great King should always conduct themselves. Many of the things that we now know are crucial issues for the times we ourselves did not understand just a short time ago. Therefore, let us have patience with those who do not yet understand, but also be bold and clear with the truth we have been entrusted with.</p>\r\n<p align=\"justify\">In His Service,</p>\r\n<p align=\"justify\">Rick Joyner</p>\r\n<p><br /><br />To Read Online, <a href=\"http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=6blbffdab&amp;et=1104754497461&amp;s=4480&amp;e=001-6DwX_t4qJeBGDe2udW8QOcKYHVxqN__HAM2yl8r4U49VBZ3MGeVjmdRNSHLDFBK5e1qjR9gQZ5oMM07Fk4VPLEM6RgaI3lrSxuxqah83NcNPb5pi3V0OV6msQbZSYjbJo88F3wQRjk4Vc1NxpsPhg==\" target=\"_blank\">Click Here </a><br /><br /><a href=\"http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=6blbffdab&amp;et=1104754497461&amp;s=4480&amp;e=001-6DwX_t4qJcFM2HbmZeuSNizyHcakcU2PCU-v5k3TrYc5wXiaBmtzvtmTbUH6yJz5JcFuREPupoAd9-ok-VH46XttM1-mu3kCcyDSpWW95S9MND82WGUvM_FmIzuquvZzYMDArMeZwU3AIFD5fqOV39XSvBti0mn\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"http://www.theoakinitiative.org/images/clickpdf4_LidoSTF.png\" border=\"0\" /></a> - Printer Friendly Version - <br /><br /></p>\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"684\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td width=\"4\" bgcolor=\"#071f39\">\r\n<p> </p>\r\n</td>\r\n<td width=\"358\" bgcolor=\"#071f39\">\r\n<p align=\"right\"><a href=\"http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=6blbffdab&amp;et=1104754497461&amp;s=4480&amp;e=001-6DwX_t4qJdYjaj3b4PO3_4WIpPNETM4Q5w3dgily6N6XfwI3d9UpVoSRMLznwPbmzPu6Uz8NScARw6W8jsR7DUFg0XrGHAdB2jNcN4PjAe55xuyTOgnjSVNLq6yeWWf\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"http://www.morningstarministries.org/Images/content/1000000055/1000068146.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Connect with us on Facebook\" width=\"358\" height=\"46\" /></a></p>\r\n</td>\r\n<td width=\"242\" bgcolor=\"#071f39\">\r\n<p><a href=\"http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=6blbffdab&amp;et=1104754497461&amp;s=4480&amp;e=001-6DwX_t4qJc1Nzjn8RYITEHezbyFQHn5zKIzj9T6D-hCn5PCC7Fnjz5cufREFuTb_X1L-UkcrDP_iqVOcRAnx2YDqx5ox968-q41W9_xRaDC9kyqYPZz_7mhmAhNXtKY\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"http://www.morningstarministries.org/Images/content/1000000055/1000068147.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"and Twitter\" width=\"242\" height=\"58\" /></a></p>\r\n</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>',1,75,'2011-03-08 14:02:16',63,'','2012-02-04 13:03:23',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-03-08 14:02:16','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',10,53,'','',1,481,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(252,0,'\'Sex talk\' in U.N., compliments of Nat\'l Educ. Assoc.','sex-talk-in-un-compliments-of-natl-educ-assoc','<p><span style=\"font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Sans\', \'Lucida Sans Unicode\', \'Lucida Grande\', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 32px;\"> </span></p>\r\n<div id=\"StoryTitle\" class=\"storytitle\" style=\"width: auto; height: 68px; padding-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; border-bottom-color: #cccccc; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Sans\', \'Lucida Sans Unicode\', \'Lucida Grande\', sans-serif; color: #003399; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 7px;\">\r\n<div id=\"reporter\" class=\"reporter\" style=\"width: auto; height: auto; padding-top: 2px; padding-bottom: 2px; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Sans\', \'Lucida Sans Unicode\', \'Lucida Grande\', sans-serif; font-size: 10px; color: #333333; font-weight: normal;\">Bill Bumpas - OneNewsNow - 3/14/2011 3:30:00 AM<span style=\"vertical-align: middle; margin-left: 25px;\"><a href=\"http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #0e4d8b; background: inherit;\"><img src=\"http://s9.addthis.com/button1-addthis.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Bookmark and Share\" width=\"125\" height=\"16\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 9px; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 0px;\" /></a></span></div>\r\n<div class=\"reporter\" style=\"width: auto; height: auto; padding-top: 2px; padding-bottom: 2px; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Sans\', \'Lucida Sans Unicode\', \'Lucida Grande\', sans-serif; font-size: 10px; color: #333333; font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"vertical-align: middle; margin-left: 25px;\"><a href=\"http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #0e4d8b; background: inherit;\"></a></span><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;\"><strong><em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Caution: This article contains terms that some may find offensive.</span></em></strong></span></div>\r\n</div>\r\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px;\" align=\"left\"> </p>\r\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px;\" align=\"left\"><img src=\"http://www.onenewsnow.com/uploadedImages/Media/Images/United%20Nations%20UN%20logo.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"United Nations UN logo\" title=\"United Nations UN logo\" hspace=\"3\" vspace=\"3\" align=\"left\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 9px; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 0px;\" /><img src=\"http://www.onenewsnow.com/uploadedImages/Media/Images/NEApink.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"NEA logo pink\" title=\"NEA logo pink\" hspace=\"3\" vspace=\"3\" width=\"135\" height=\"78\" align=\"right\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 9px; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 0px;\" />A social policy research group is exposing a radical sexual ideology that was on display at a United Nations\' meeting.</p>\r\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px;\"> </p>\r\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px;\"> </p>\r\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px;\"> </p>\r\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px;\" align=\"left\">The two-week annual gathering of the United Nation\'s Commission on the Status of Women recently concluded in New York City.<br /> <br />Austin Ruse, president of the <a href=\"http://www.c-fam.org/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Catholic Family &amp; Human Rights Institute\" style=\"color: #0e4d8b; background: inherit;\">Catholic Family &amp; Human Rights Institute</a> (C-FAM), tells OneNewsNow that one of the side events there included a panel discussion where Diane Schneider, a representative with the National Education Association (NEA), said that graphic sex education needs to be taught in the classroom.</p>\r\n','\r\n<p> </p>\r\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px;\" align=\"left\"><br /> <br />Speaking to a panel on combating \"homophobia\" and \"transphobia,\" Schneider stated: \"Oral sex, masturbation, and orgasms need to be taught in education.\" According to Ruse, the NEA representative did not stop there.<br /> <br /><img src=\"http://www.onenewsnow.com/uploadedImages/Media/Images/Mugs/Austin%20Ruse.jpg\" border=\"1\" alt=\"Austin Ruse (C-FAM)\" title=\"Austin Ruse (C-FAM)\" hspace=\"3\" vspace=\"3\" align=\"right\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 9px; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 0px;\" />\"She went on to say that comprehensive sex education is -- quote - \'the only way to combat heterosexism and gender conformity,\'\" he reports. \"She said that \'gender identity expression\' and sexual orientation are a spectrum, and...that those [who are] opposed to homosexuality are stuck -- quote -- \'in a binary box that religion and family create.\'\"<br /> <br />Ruse says such outrageous statements reveal that organizations like the NEA -- the largest teachers union in the country -- are way out of touch with the mainstream. \"Most Americans, I think, would feel like they were completely in foreign territory if they sat in on one of these side events at the United Nations or if they heard a United Nations debate on comprehensive sex education,\" he shares.<br /> <br />The C-FAM leader says the radical sexual agenda on display at the Commission on the Status of Women will influence U.N. policy in the near future.</p>\r\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px;\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Sans\', \'Lucida Sans Unicode\', \'Lucida Grande\', sans-serif; line-height: 32px; color: #000000; font-size: medium;\"> </span></p>\r\n<p> </p>',1,60,'2011-03-14 22:18:49',62,'OneNewsNow','2011-03-14 22:25:39',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-03-14 22:18:49','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',3,231,'','',1,362,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(253,0,'DOJ Ditches Red, White, and Blue Stars and Stripes','doj-ditches-red-white-and-blue-stars-and-stripes','<p>\r\n<h3>This is a little dated, but first time I\'m seeing it....</h3>\r\n<h2></h2>\r\n<h2>U.S.  Department of Justice  ditches red, white, and blue stars and stripes.</h2>\r\n<br />Well,  how interesting!  It seems the U.S.  Department of Justice has changed its web site.<br />Gone are the colorful red,  white, and blue U.S.  Flag decorations on the page, <br /><br />Replaced  by stark black and white. <br /><br />And  at the top of the page, is a rather interesting  quote:<br />\r\n<h3>\"The  common law is the will of mankind, issuing from the life of the  people.\"</h3>\r\n<br />Catchy,  huh?   Just one tiny little (too small to be relevant obviously) point  --the  quote is from C. Wilfred Jenks, who in the 1930\'s was a leading proponent of the  \"international law\" movement, which had as its goal to impose a global common  law and which backed \'global workers\'  rights.\'<br /><br />Call  it Marxism, call it Progressivism, call it Socialism -- under any of those  names, it definitely makes the DOJ look corrupt in their new website with  Marxist accessories to match. <br /><br />See  for yourself:  <a href=\"http://www.justice.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"http://www.justice.gov/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.justice.gov/</a> &lt;<a href=\"http://www.justice.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"http://www.justice.gov/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.justice.gov/</a>&gt;  <br /><br />How  very interesting that \'they\' couldn\'t find a nice quote from one of our Founders.  People, we have lost our  Republic.  This is an example of the slow, methodical misuse of power our  current government is doing as they lead us to socialism, and destroying our  republic as we have known it.</p>\r\n<div>\r\n<div class=\"Section1\">\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http://spectator.org/archives/2010/07/16/with-liberty-and-global-justic/print\">http://spectator.org/archives/2010/07/16/with-liberty-and-global-justic/print{jcomments on}</a><span style=\"font-family: \'Times New Roman\';\"> </span></p>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>','',1,60,'2011-03-16 14:04:19',75,'submitted by Ed G','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-03-16 14:04:19','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',1,230,'','',1,784,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(254,0,'Short \"Must Watch\" Energy Video','short-qmust-watchq-energy-video','<p>{source}<span style=\"font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;\"><br /><span>&lt;</span>iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/MlfmvwxxgHM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen<span>&gt;</span><span>&lt;</span>/iframe<span>&gt;</span><br /></span>{/source}</p>','',1,77,'2011-03-17 15:28:42',62,'Submitted by Matt Krol','2012-03-25 23:39:38',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-03-17 15:28:42','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',2,8,'','',1,439,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(255,0,'Special Bulletin: Japanese Earthquake, A Prophetic Demarcation in Time, Part 1','special-bulletin-japanese-earthquake-a-prophetic-demarcation-in-time-part-1','<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, lucida, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; color: #000000;\"> </span></p>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20pt;\"><strong><em>The Day the World Changed</em></strong></span><br /><br />\r\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><br /></strong></div>\r\n</div>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0px; line-height: normal; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;\" lang=\"EN-US\"> </span></p>\r\n<p>There are demarcation points in history where a turn is made and the world starts down a different path. March 11, 2011 will be remembered as one of those days. The 9.0 earthquake that rocked Japan, moving the entire island an estimated 8 feet, actually shifted the earth on its axis enough to change the length of our days and nights. It may not have been enough to notice, but even a slight change on our axis can have major consequences over time. The same is true with the social and economic consequence this earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown will have on modern civilization. <br /><br />It was twenty-two years ago that I first heard Bob Jones talk about a major earthquake that would be coming to Japan. He said that it would set off cataclysmic events. Thousands have heard Bob predict quakes and other natural events with astonishing accuracy. One of the most dramatic was the last San Francisco quake. He foresaw that the quake would be centered in Northern California but south of San Francisco. He said that it would be 7.0 on the Richter Scale, that the bridges would be dangerous, and that “the world will witness it.” Bob shared this at conferences and churches for months before it hit that fall. It struck during the first game of the World Series that year, which was being played in San Francisco, and it was being broadcast to 160 nations who witnessed it live, accurately fulfilling all that Bob had predicted, including how the world would see it.</p>\r\n','\r\n<p><br />Many prophetic people were shown the next quake that hit Southern California, and they were told that this was a warning of another much greater one to come. We shared this in many churches and conferences in Southern California. When it struck, we were astonished at how even the churches responded, downplaying its message, and some even boasting that Californians could handle anything. We felt that the quake we had clearly predicted, with many details that were accurate, had virtually no impact on the people, even some of the strongest Christians who had heard the warnings. <br /><br />When one of the most well-known Christian leaders in the area asked me what could be done to delay or lesson this quake, I was given “a word of wisdom” that the only commandment with a promise was to honor our fathers and mothers, and the promise was that<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"> “it may be well with you, and that you may live long on the earth” (see Ephesians 6:3).</span> The Lord showed me that one way we could do this was the way Israel did it, which was to drink from the wells that our fathers have dug. Spiritually, this meant to partake of their teachings. When I preached this in Pasadena, Lou Engle picked it up, wrote a book about it, and has in a most remarkable way carried this message to the nation through The Call. <br /><br />Has it worked? I think Lou’s work and that of many others have given us the time that we’ve had. While many were still receiving revelation about the coming big one, and many were expecting it, Bob Jones was adamant that it would not come until the major one hit Japan that he had seen. When the major quake hit Kobe, Japan, Bob was sure that was not the one he had seen. When Bob walked into the service last Sunday after the recent 9.0 quake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown, I immediately asked him if this was the one. I’ve never seen such concern in Bob’s face as he answered, “You know what this means.” <br /><br /><br /><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">What Does It Mean? </span><br /><br />It marks a demarcation point after which great change will come to the whole world, including an ultimate meltdown of the economy. It will also be followed by a major quake on the West Coast of the United States.<br /><br />Of course, when and where on the west coast that this major quake is going to hit are important questions. Bob was not given a timing on this quake but was only told that it would not come before the big one he had been shown in Japan. Now it can come. However, this does not necessarily mean that it is immediate. It could come today, or it could still be years away. We are praying that it still will be delayed so that everyone who will hear the warning, and should move, will be able to do this in an orderly way. <br /><br />This does not mean that everyone there, even those who may be near ground zero, should move. Some may be called by God to stay and be used during this impending catastrophe. However, until now, we have counseled all who asked if they should leave the West Coast not to do this unless they heard from the Lord to do so. Now we will begin counseling everyone to leave unless they hear from the Lord to stay.<br /><br />Until now, I have prayed for leaders who would have the understanding, wisdom, and courage to make the changes needed to avoid this economic meltdown. Now I am praying for leaders with the understanding, wisdom, and courage to lead us through what is now inevitable.<br /><br /><br /><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">The Nature of Prophecy</span><br /><br />As we are told in I Corinthians 13, we see in part, know in part, and prophesy in part. No one has the whole picture, so to get the whole picture, we need to put the parts together. This is why in the Scriptures that say such things as in Amos 3:7, <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">“Surely the Lord GOD does nothing unless He reveals His secret counsel to His servants the prophets,” </span>it is always plural, not just a single prophet. No one prophet, or prophetic movement, has the whole revelation. That is a major reason why we need each other.<br /><br />We know many prophetically gifted people who have seen different aspects of this major quake coming. I do not know anyone at this writing who has what I consider to be a trustworthy timing on it. We will seek to compile these prophecies and share anything we feel is important in future Special Bulletins. As we are told in Proverbs 4:18, <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">“the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, that shines brighter and brighter until the full day.”</span> It is as we walk and as we need it that the Lord tends to give us more insight. I am just sharing what we do have now.<br /><br /><br style=\"font-weight: bold;\" /><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">What Will the Economic Meltdown Look Like?</span><br /><br />It can mean many things, but one thing it does not mean is the end of the world, and it does not have to be the end of America as a free Republic. We can emerge from this stronger and better than ever, even economically stronger and better. However, we are entering some of the most dangerous times we have ever had to navigate. Without the right leadership and the right resolve of the nation, which will only come by the grace of God, we can also fall to a terrible tyranny.<br /><br />Two aspects of this meltdown that I have confidence in is the dollar losing its value with bartering being the currency for a period of time, and that there will be a time when banks are closed and what we have deposited in them will not be available. Obviously, if the dollar has lost its value, we would not even bother to get out what we have deposited in the banks, so it does not seem that these will come at the same time. It could also be that things of value we have deposited in safety deposit boxes will not be reachable. <br /><br /><br /><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">A Deadly Delusion</span><br /><br />In II Timothy 4:3-4, we are given a most sobering warning:<br /><br /><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but</span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"> wanting</span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"> to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires; </span><br style=\"font-weight: bold;\" /><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">and will turn away their ears from the truth and will turn aside to myths. </span><br /><br />One of the greatest weaknesses of American Christians is the way that so many have been conditioned against hearing anything they perceive to be negative. They have become the fulfillment of the biblical prophecy above. Many of these have already paid a terrible price for their delusion, and we do have a sure hope that through anything which comes, we can have unshakable peace and joy in the Lord. Even so, very difficult times are coming upon us in which the wise can be prepared and can prevail. These can actually be the most prosperous times for those who are the wisest. The wise win souls, which is why the next verse in II Timothy states: <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">“But you, be sober in all things, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.”</span><br /><br />This is going to be the greatest time of harvest of all time. Our preparation needs to be far more devoted to the spiritual than the natural. We can’t just hoard for ourselves, but we must think about how we can be the salt and light we are called to be in anything that happens.<br /><br />Change has to come. Many of the basic underpinnings of a strong and lasting economy that our nation was founded upon have been abandoned. This has kept us on the edge of the cliff in a most dangerous place for a long time. There has been no strength or resolve in our leadership to make the difficult but necessary decisions to begin moving us away from the cliff. Before the quake hit, fear had begun rising that the Japanese economy, which had been on the edge for nearly two decades, simply could not hold out much longer and would very soon slide off the cliff. This would cause the others who were tottering to go down too. Again, this crisis was impending even before the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown. <br /><br />Based on the sure evidence of Scripture, in everything that we see like this, we believe that with prayer and repentance these things can be avoided. One example of this was how Nineveh was spared after Jonah had prophesied their doom. For years, we have been praying that there would be the kind of awakening and repentance that would enable us to avoid this whole scenario. However, we also knew that when the quake hit in Japan, these were no longer going to be avoided. Therefore, our strategy has changed from trying to wake up the church so that it would not have to happen, to trying to get God’s people ready for it. We can still pray for the Lord’s mercy and grace through them. The Lord does prefer mercy over judgment, but there is a time when judgment is inevitable, and we have now crossed that Rubicon. <br /><br /><br /><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Judgment Is Mercy</span><br /><br />A number of different judgments of God are in Scripture—only one is condemnation and only one is destruction. The rest are discipline from the Lord for those He loves. We should be far more afraid if we go without His discipline. The discipline that is about to come to our nation is because He loves us. We are told in I Corinthians 11:31 that if we would judge ourselves, He would not have to judge us. That would be even better, and He has given us much time to do this, but now He is going to have to help us. <br /><br /><br /><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">The Right Path</span><br /><br />As we have already quoted from Proverbs 4:18, if we are on the right path, our lives should be getting brighter and brighter. This does not mean that we will not have trials, but that we should be able to see them with increasing clarity, and we should be able to see where our feet should go with increasing light. This is true for those who are on the path of the righteous regardless of the circumstances. If this is not what is happening in your life, you have missed a turn somewhere. In the Lord, the wrong road never turns into the right road. If we have missed a turn, the only thing we can do is to return to where we missed the turn and get back on the right road. That is called “repentance.”<br /><br />Through everything that is coming we must live by faith and not be controlled by fear. Unstable and immature people will receive just about any warning with fear and that cannot be helped. Some believe their presumption is faith, and that because they believe it, nothing bad will happen. We cannot let such people control us either.<br /><br />America and many other nations have drifted from sound doctrine. This includes sound economic policy in ways that cannot be sustained. It would have been much easier to correct these bad practices before a collapse, and we will now have to do it in the midst of much greater challenges. However, it can still be done. America has a destiny that we have not yet fulfilled. God has not given up on us, but we could go no further in the direction we have been going.<br /><br />The inevitable economic unraveling may not happen all at once. It may not become manifest immediately that it is happening. In recent times, our leaders have become very good at disguising the true condition we’re in. They may be doing this with good intentions, just not wanting to cause panic to those who could not do anything about the situation anyway, while they find a way out. They may be disguising the truth because they do not understand it themselves. Either way, what is happening in the world economy seems to be a striking parallel to the way the Japanese government has been trying to deal with the nuclear crisis—they’re telling us one thing but the instruments are telling us something else. They seem to get one fire under control and another worse one breaks out—the meltdown continues and we keep finding out that things are really much worse than they’ve been telling us. <br /><br />Again, as a pastor and as a watchman, my strategy has now changed from praying and seeking to intercede with our leaders to make the necessary changes, to helping God’s people prepare to go through the collapse that is now inevitable. How do we prepare?<br /><br /><br /><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">The Opportunity of Crisis</span><br /><br />It is noteworthy that the same Chinese word for “crisis” is the same word for opportunity. This may truly be the greatest opportunity we have ever had. As we see in Daniel 2, when the statue that represents the kingdoms of this world begins to collapse, then the little rock that struck at the feet of this statue will begin to grow into a mountain, which in Scripture often represents government. Then that rock keeps on growing until it fills the entire earth. The kingdom of God that the Lord has had His people praying for these last two thousand years is also inevitable. It is surely coming, and we can live in it now. <br /><br />As the governments of this world collapse, God’s government will become more manifest. As the economies of this world collapse, God’s economy will become more manifest. The kingdom will not fully come until the King returns, but a job that He left for His people to do before He returned was to preach the gospel, or good news, of His coming kingdom. We do have good news to share, not bad. <br /><br />In Isaiah 40, we are called to help prepare the way for His kingdom by building a highway. This highway is the road on which His kingdom will come. This highway will bring the other mountains and hills down, and it will raise up the valleys and low places. The entire chapter gives a good panorama of what is happening in the nations right now.<br /><br />When Israel was taken into exile into Babylon, the Lord gave a remarkable counsel to His people through Jeremiah:<br /><br /><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">“Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, to all the exiles whom I have sent into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon, </span><br style=\"font-weight: bold;\" /><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">‘Build houses and live in them; and plant gardens, and eat their produce. </span><br style=\"font-weight: bold;\" /><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">‘Take wives and become the fathers of sons and daughters, and take wives for your sons and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; and multiply there and do not decrease. </span><br style=\"font-weight: bold;\" /><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">‘Seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile, and pray to the LORD on its behalf; for in its welfare you will have welfare’” (Jeremiah 29:4-7)</span><br /><br />In a sense, Christians, who are citizens of another kingdom, have likewise been in exile waiting for their redemption and the kingdom of God to come. It is the right thing to do to seek the welfare of whatever nation we have been called to live in, and to put down roots there as Israel was counseled above. However, God’s people are also to be a distinct and separate people in many ways and were not to defile themselves with the immorality, perversions, and idolatry of Babylon. Those in exile were to maintain their devotion to the laws that God had given them to make them a distinct people for His purposes. The same is true of Christians. Being a part of our nation and seeking its good, while building our own homes and families, does not mean that we compromise the basic teachings of the kingdom. <br /><br />Those who have lived by kingdom economic principles have built on a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and they will not be shaken when everything else is. If we have not obeyed the Lord in this, and have foolishly built our estates by the principles of the world instead of the principles of the kingdom, there is still hope. We can repent, be forgiven, and be restored to a right foundation. This does not mean that we will not suffer or will not lose what was built on a wrong foundation, but we still can recover and build on a right foundation. We can do this personally and nationally.<br /><br />What will the economic meltdown look like? Hebrews 12:25-29 states it quite clearly:<br /><br /><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">See to it that you do not refuse Him who is speaking. For if those did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, much less shall we escape who turn away from Him who warns from heaven. </span><br style=\"font-weight: bold;\" /><br style=\"font-weight: bold;\" /><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">And His voice shook the earth then, but now He has promised, saying, “YET ONCE MORE I WILL SHAKE NOT ONLY THE EARTH, BUT ALSO THE HEAVEN.”</span><br style=\"font-weight: bold;\" /><br style=\"font-weight: bold;\" /><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">And this expression, “Yet once more,” denotes the removing of those things which can be shaken, as of created things, in order that those things which cannot be shaken may remain. </span><br style=\"font-weight: bold;\" /><br style=\"font-weight: bold;\" /><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Therefore, since we receive a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us show gratitude, by which we may offer to God an acceptable service with reverence and awe; </span><br style=\"font-weight: bold;\" /><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">for our God is a consuming fire. </span><br style=\"font-weight: bold;\" /><br />The coming economic meltdown will be the removal of everything that is not built on the kingdom principles that cannot be shaken. Many of the founding principles of our nation and our free market system were kingdom principles. We must return to those as a nation, and we must return to them personally. <br /><br />We are told in Psalm 89:14 and other places that <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">“righteousness and justice are the foundation of His throne.” </span>Righteousness is doing what is right in the sight of the Lord. God’s justice requires fair and equitable treatment of all people, judging issues by one standard for all, regardless of their station in life. It was the American devotion to these basic truths that enabled the greatest economic engine in history to be built here. It has been a departure from these basic principles that has caused every major problem we’re now facing as a nation. We must have a national repentance.<br /><br />In the Lord’s teaching about those who build their houses on the rock rather than on sand, we are told several things that are crucial for the times we’re now in. First, the storms beat against both houses, but only the house built on the rock would stand. The storms are coming, but if we have built well we will stand.<br /><br />To build on the rock, we must hear the words of the Lord, and then we have to obey them. As we are told in other places, hearing His words and not obeying them is to bring an even more severe judgment. I have been a Christian for forty years now, and from the time I was converted, I remember hearing warnings about the times that we’re now in. The Lord has spoken loudly, clearly, and abundantly. Many heard, but it does not seem that as many have obeyed. <br />In many ways, I have been guilty of this too, and I have paid the price for it. Even so, in every case where I have seen it, humbled myself and repented, not trying to cover up or make excuses, His grace has been abundant. I went through a bankruptcy and lost virtually everything I had spent years and great effort building, and two years later, I came out in an even better place.<br /><br />His grace is still available for us personally and nationally. We will suffer loss if we have done this, and we can expect to go through some hard times. However, if we repent, turning away from our sins, resolving to live in obedience to Him, we can expect to emerge in a much better place. As we are assured in Romans 14:17, <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">“the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.” </span>It will come in this order too. When we do what is righteous, it will be followed by true peace, which will be followed by true joy.<br /><br />How long has it been since you’ve known true peace? How about true joy? These are in your future. Now is the time to set our hearts and minds to obey the Lord and to repent of and correct every way that is not in obedience to Him. If we are going to live in His kingdom, building our lives on that which cannot be shaken and can withstand any storm that comes upon this earth, then we must begin by resolving to live by the key to the kingdom, which we are given in <br />Matthew 6:33-34:<br /><br /><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">“But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness; and all these things will be added to you. </span><br style=\"font-weight: bold;\" /><br style=\"font-weight: bold;\" /><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">“So do not worry about tomorrow; for tomorrow will care for itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.” </span><br /><br />Christians who are now living, working, or even going to church in the wrong places are there because they made major decisions based on what they wanted or what others wanted them to do, rather than seeking first what the Lord wanted them to do for the sake of His kingdom. To seek His kingdom first, means much more than firing up a prayer here and there for Him to guide us, and then go and immediately do what we want to do. It requires seeking Him until we find Him. When it takes longer than we think it should take to find Him, it could be because we have drifted so far from Him. <br /><br />Now is the time to do whatever it takes to get in the will of the Lord. There will be an increasingly high price to pay for those who are not. There will be increasing peace and joy for those who are.  I am covering these prophecies and the questions arising from them in greater detail in our video Special Bulletins posted on our website at <a href=\"http://www.morningstartv.com/prophetic-perspective-current-events/japanese-earthquake-prophesied-20-years-ago-part-1\" style=\"color: #054687;\">www.morningstartv.com</a>. We would also appreciate you sending in any questions that you have or any revelations that you have had about these same issues. Please include permission for us to use these along with your contact information. Email these to: info@morningstarministries.org.<br /><br />Also, we are having an <a href=\"http://www.morningstarministries.org/Group/Group.aspx?ID=1000075581\" style=\"color: #054687;\">Advanced Prophetic Conference</a> with Chuck Pierce, Paul Keith Davis, myself, and others at our base at Heritage the end of this month. This is shaping up to be one of the most timely and important such conferences we’ve held. There is still time to come, but please register right away. We also still have some rooms at Heritage available, and if we fill up, we have special rate arrangements at nearby hotels. You can go to our website for additional information. <br /><br /><a class=\"addthis_button_compact at300m sharebutton\" href=\"http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&amp;username=mstv\" style=\"color: #054687; cursor: pointer;\"><img src=\"http://s7.addthis.com/button1-email.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Email This Video\" width=\"54\" height=\"16\" style=\"border: 0pt none initial;\" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /></p>\r\n<p> </p>',1,74,'2011-03-21 10:37:47',63,'','2012-02-04 13:02:46',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-03-21 10:37:47','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',12,6,'','',1,464,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(256,0,'Special Bulletin: Japanese Earthquake, A Prophetic Demarcation in Time, Part 2','special-bulletin-japanese-earthquake-a-prophetic-demarcation-in-time-part-2','<h2><a href=\"http://www.morningstartv.com/prophetic-perspective-current-events/japanese-earthquake-prophetic-demarcation-time-part-2?utm_source=sbemail&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=3-22-11\"><strong>PLEASE CLICK HERE TO WATCH </strong></a></h2>','',1,74,'2011-03-22 22:43:51',63,'','2012-02-04 13:02:29',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-03-22 22:43:51','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',4,5,'','',1,475,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(257,0,'Multiculturalism - Islam in France','islam-in-france','<p>{source}<span style=\"font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;\"><br /><span>&lt;</span>iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/A3YQANdvvbY?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen<span>&gt;</span><span>&lt;</span>/iframe<span>&gt;</span><br /></span>{/source}</p>','',1,60,'2011-03-18 00:00:00',62,'Submitted by Tom Brake','2011-03-23 12:49:23',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-03-23 11:37:08','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',13,229,'','',1,232,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(258,0,'R.I.P.','rip','<p><img src=\"images/articles/gravestone.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"R.I.P.\" hspace=\"7\" width=\"198\" height=\"222\" style=\"float: left; border: 0;\" /></p>\r\n<h3>Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, <strong><em>Common Sense,</em></strong> who has been with us for many  years. No one knows for sure how old he was, since his birth records were long  ago lost in bureaucratic red tape. He will be remembered as having cultivated  such valuable lessons as:</h3>\r\n<p>- Knowing when to come in out of the rain; <br /> -  Why the early bird gets the worm; <br /> - Life isn\'t always fair; <br /> - and maybe  it was my fault. <br /><br />Common  Sense lived by simple, sound financial policies (don\'t spend more  than you can earn) and reliable strategies (adults, not children, are in  charge).<br /><br />His health began to deteriorate rapidly when well-intentioned  but overbearing regulations were set in place. Reports of a 6-year-old boy  charged with sexual harassment for kissing a classmate; teens suspended from  school for using mouthwash after lunch; and a teacher fired for reprimanding an  unruly student, only worsened his condition.</p>\r\n','\r\n<p><br /><br />Common Sense lost ground when  parents attacked teachers for doing the job that they themselves had failed to  do in disciplining their unruly children. <br /><br />It declined even further when  schools were required to get parental consent to administer sun lotion or  a paracetamol to a  student; but could not inform parents when a student became pregnant and wanted  to have an abortion. <br /><br />Common  Sense lost the will to live as the churches became businesses; and  criminals received better treatment than their victims. <br /><br />Common Sense took a beating when  you couldn\'t defend yourself from a burglar in your own home and the burglar  could sue you for assault. <br /><br />Common  Sense finally gave up the will to live, after a woman failed to  realize that a steaming cup of coffee was hot. She spilled a little in her lap,  and was promptly awarded a huge settlement. <br /><br />Common Sense was preceded in death,  by his parents, Truth and Trust, by his wife, Discretion, by his daughter,  Responsibility, and by his son, Reason. <br /><br /><strong>He is survived by his 4  stepbrothers; <br />I Know My Rights <br />I Want It Now <br />Someone Else Is To  Blame <br />I\'m A Victim</strong></p>\r\n<p> </p>',1,60,'2011-03-24 01:09:55',62,'Submitted by Padraig Egan','2011-03-24 01:38:45',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-03-24 01:09:55','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',4,228,'','',1,351,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(259,0,'FLEMING HEALTH CARE REPEAL UPDATE','fleming-health-care-repeal-update','<p><img src=\"http://fleming.house.gov/images/email/emailheader.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"U.S. Congressman John Fleming\" width=\"660\" height=\"132\" style=\"border: 0px solid initial;\" /></p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial; color: #000000; line-height: normal;\"><a href=\"http://fleming.house.gov/news/email/show.aspx?ID=KQSI62766A3GCEHZDUO62OO7PY\" style=\"color: #0000cc; text-decoration: underline; font-weight: normal;\">Click here</a> to view this email in your browser.</span></p>','',1,20,'2011-03-24 12:28:26',62,'John C. Fleming. M,D,','2011-03-24 12:34:08',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-03-24 12:28:26','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',2,22,'','',1,402,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(260,0,'Video Special Bulletin Part 3 – Japanese Earthquake: The Coming Meltdown','video-special-bulletin-part-3-japanese-earthquake-the-coming-meltdown','<p>{source}<span style=\"font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;\"><br /><span>&lt;</span>iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/2EfcuEA30uw?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen<span>&gt;</span><span>&lt;</span>/iframe<span>&gt;</span><br /></span>{/source}</p>','',0,60,'2011-03-24 22:16:19',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-03-24 22:16:19','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',1,227,'','',1,0,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(261,0,'Video Special Bulletin Part 3 – Japanese Earthquake: The Coming Meltdown','video-special-bulletin-part-3-japanese-earthquake-the-coming-meltdown-1','<p><span style=\"color: #666666; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;\">SPECIAL BULLETIN</span></p>\r\n<h2>The Day the World Changed</h2>\r\n<p>By Rick Joyner</p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://www.morningstartv.com/prophetic-perspective-current-events/japanese-earthquake-prophetic-demarcation-time-part-3?utm_source=sbemail3&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=3-24-11\"><strong>Click here to watch the Video Special Bulletin</strong></a></p>\r\n<p>There are demarcation points in history where a turn is made and the world starts down a different path. March 11, 2011 will be remembered as one of those days. The 9.0 earthquake that rocked Japan, moving the entire island an estimated 8 feet, actually shifted the earth on its axis enough to change the length of our days and nights. It may not have been enough to notice, but even a slight change on our axis can have major consequences over time. The same is true with the social and economic consequence this earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown will have on modern civilization.</p>\r\n','\r\n<p> </p>\r\n<p>It was twenty-two years ago that I first heard Bob Jones talk about a major earthquake that would be coming to Japan. He said that it would set off cataclysmic events. Thousands have heard Bob predict quakes and other natural events with astonishing accuracy. One of the most dramatic was the last San Francisco quake. He foresaw that the quake would be centered in Northern California but south of San Francisco. He said that it would be 7.0 on the Richter Scale, that the bridges would be dangerous, and that “the world will witness it.” Bob shared this at conferences and churches for months before it hit that fall. It struck during the first game of the World Series that year, which was being played in San Francisco, and it was being broadcast to 160 nations who witnessed it live, accurately fulfilling all that Bob had predicted, including how the world would see it.</p>\r\n<p>Many prophetic people were shown the next quake that hit Southern California, and they were told that this was a warning of another much greater one to come. We shared this in many churches and conferences in Southern California. When it struck, we were astonished at how even the churches responded, downplaying its message, and some even boasting that Californians could handle anything. We felt that the quake we had clearly predicted, with many details that were accurate, had virtually no impact on the people, even some of the strongest Christians who had heard the warnings.</p>\r\n<p>When one of the most well-known Christian leaders in the area asked me what could be done to delay or lesson this quake, I was given “a word of wisdom” that the only commandment with a promise was to honor our fathers and mothers, and the promise was that “it may be well with you, and that you may live long on the earth” (see Ephesians 6:3). The Lord showed me that one way we could do this was the way Israel did it, which was to drink from the wells that our fathers have dug. Spiritually, this meant to partake of their teachings. When I preached this in Pasadena, Lou Engle picked it up, wrote a book about it, and has in a most remarkable way carried this message to the nation through The Call.</p>\r\n<p>Has it worked? I think Lou’s work and that of many others have given us the time that we’ve had. While many were still receiving revelation about the coming big one, and many were expecting it, Bob Jones was adamant that it would not come until the major one hit Japan that he had seen. When the major quake hit Kobe, Japan, Bob was sure that was not the one he had seen. When Bob walked into the service last Sunday after the recent 9.0 quake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown, I immediately asked him if this was the one. I’ve never seen such concern in Bob’s face as he answered, “You know what this means.”</p>\r\n<p>What Does It Mean?</p>\r\n<p>It marks a demarcation point after which great change will come to the whole world, including an ultimate meltdown of the economy. It will also be followed by a major quake on the West Coast of the United States.</p>\r\n<p>Of course, when and where on the west coast that this major quake is going to hit are important questions. Bob was not given a timing on this quake but was only told that it would not come before the big one he had been shown in Japan. Now it can come. However, this does not necessarily mean that it is immediate. It could come today, or it could still be years away. We are praying that it still will be delayed so that everyone who will hear the warning, and should move, will be able to do this in an orderly way.</p>\r\n<p>This does not mean that everyone there, even those who may be near ground zero, should move. Some may be called by God to stay and be used during this impending catastrophe. However, until now, we have counseled all who asked if they should leave the West Coast not to do this unless they heard from the Lord to do so. Now we will begin counseling everyone to leave unless they hear from the Lord to stay.</p>\r\n<p>Until now, I have prayed for leaders who would have the understanding, wisdom, and courage to make the changes needed to avoid this economic meltdown. Now I am praying for leaders with the understanding, wisdom, and courage to lead us through what is now inevitable.</p>\r\n<p>The Nature of Prophecy</p>\r\n<p>As we are told in I Corinthians 13, we see in part, know in part, and prophesy in part. No one has the whole picture, so to get the whole picture, we need to put the parts together. This is why in the Scriptures that say such things as in Amos 3:7, “Surely the Lord GOD does nothing unless He reveals His secret counsel to His servants the prophets,” it is always plural, not just a single prophet. No one prophet, or prophetic movement, has the whole revelation. That is a major reason why we need each other.</p>\r\n<p>We know many prophetically gifted people who have seen different aspects of this major quake coming. I do not know anyone at this writing who has what I consider to be a trustworthy timing on it. We will seek to compile these prophecies and share anything we feel is important in future Special Bulletins. As we are told in Proverbs 4:18, “the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, that shines brighter and brighter until the full day.” It is as we walk and as we need it that the Lord tends to give us more insight. I am just sharing what we do have now.</p>\r\n<p>What Will the Economic Meltdown Look Like?</p>\r\n<p>It can mean many things, but one thing it does not mean is the end of the world, and it does not have to be the end of America as a free Republic. We can emerge from this stronger and better than ever, even economically stronger and better. However, we are entering some of the most dangerous times we have ever had to navigate. Without the right leadership and the right resolve of the nation, which will only come by the grace of God, we can also fall to a terrible tyranny.</p>\r\n<p>Two aspects of this meltdown that I have confidence in is the dollar losing its value with bartering being the currency for a period of time, and that there will be a time when banks are closed and what we have deposited in them will not be available. Obviously, if the dollar has lost its value, we would not even bother to get out what we have deposited in the banks, so it does not seem that these will come at the same time. It could also be that things of value we have deposited in safety deposit boxes will not be reachable.</p>\r\n<p> </p>\r\n<p>A Deadly Delusion</p>\r\n<p>In II Timothy 4:3-4, we are given a most sobering warning:</p>\r\n<p>For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires; and will turn away their ears from the truth and will turn aside to myths.</p>\r\n<p>One of the greatest weaknesses of American Christians is the way that so many have been conditioned against hearing anything they perceive to be negative. They have become the fulfillment of the biblical prophecy above. Many of these have already paid a terrible price for their delusion, and we do have a sure hope that through anything which comes, we can have unshakable peace and joy in the Lord. Even so, very difficult times are coming upon us in which the wise can be prepared and can prevail. These can actually be the most prosperous times for those who are the wisest. The wise win souls, which is why the next verse in II Timothy states: “But you, be sober in all things, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.”</p>\r\n<p>This is going to be the greatest time of harvest of all time. Our preparation needs to be far more devoted to the spiritual than the natural. We can’t just hoard for ourselves, but we must think about how we can be the salt and light we are called to be in anything that happens.</p>\r\n<p>Change has to come. Many of the basic underpinnings of a strong and lasting economy that our nation was founded upon have been abandoned. This has kept us on the edge of the cliff in a most dangerous place for a long time. There has been no strength or resolve in our leadership to make the difficult but necessary decisions to begin moving us away from the cliff. Before the quake hit, fear had begun rising that the Japanese economy, which had been on the edge for nearly two decades, simply could not hold out much longer and would very soon slide off the cliff. This would cause the others who were tottering to go down too. Again, this crisis was impending even before the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown.</p>\r\n<p>Based on the sure evidence of Scripture, in everything that we see like this, we believe that with prayer and repentance these things can be avoided. One example of this was how Nineveh was spared after Jonah had prophesied their doom. For years, we have been praying that there would be the kind of awakening and repentance that would enable us to avoid this whole scenario. However, we also knew that when the quake hit in Japan, these were no longer going to be avoided. Therefore, our strategy has changed from trying to wake up the church so that it would not have to happen, to trying to get God’s people ready for it. We can still pray for the Lord’s mercy and grace through them. The Lord does prefer mercy over judgment, but there is a time when judgment is inevitable, and we have now crossed that Rubicon.</p>\r\n<p> </p>\r\n<p> </p>\r\n<p>Judgment Is Mercy</p>\r\n<p>A number of different judgments of God are in Scripture—only one is condemnation and only one is destruction. The rest are discipline from the Lord for those He loves. We should be far more afraid if we go without His discipline. The discipline that is about to come to our nation is because He loves us. We are told in I Corinthians 11:31 that if we would judge ourselves, He would not have to judge us. That would be even better, and He has given us much time to do this, but now He is going to have to help us.</p>\r\n<p> </p>\r\n<p>The Right Path</p>\r\n<p>As we have already quoted from Proverbs 4:18, if we are on the right path, our lives should be getting brighter and brighter. This does not mean that we will not have trials, but that we should be able to see them with increasing clarity, and we should be able to see where our feet should go with increasing light. This is true for those who are on the path of the righteous regardless of the circumstances. If this is not what is happening in your life, you have missed a turn somewhere. In the Lord, the wrong road never turns into the right road. If we have missed a turn, the only thing we can do is to return to where we missed the turn and get back on the right road. That is called “repentance.”</p>\r\n<p>Through everything that is coming we must live by faith and not be controlled by fear. Unstable and immature people will receive just about any warning with fear and that cannot be helped. Some believe their presumption is faith, and that because they believe it, nothing bad will happen. We cannot let such people control us either.</p>\r\n<p>America and many other nations have drifted from sound doctrine. This includes sound economic policy in ways that cannot be sustained. It would have been much easier to correct these bad practices before a collapse, and we will now have to do it in the midst of much greater challenges. However, it can still be done. America has a destiny that we have not yet fulfilled. God has not given up on us, but we could go no further in the direction we have been going.</p>\r\n<p>The inevitable economic unraveling may not happen all at once. It may not become manifest immediately that it is happening. In recent times, our leaders have become very good at disguising the true condition we’re in. They may be doing this with good intentions, just not wanting to cause panic to those who could not do anything about the situation anyway, while they find a way out. They may be disguising the truth because they do not understand it themselves. Either way, what is happening in the world economy seems to be a striking parallel to the way the Japanese government has been trying to deal with the nuclear crisis—they’re telling us one thing but the instruments are telling us something else. They seem to get one fire under control and another worse one breaks out—the meltdown continues and we keep finding out that things are really much worse than they’ve been telling us.</p>\r\n<p> </p>\r\n<p>Again, as a pastor and as a watchman, my strategy has now changed from praying and seeking to intercede with our leaders to make the necessary changes, to helping God’s people prepare to go through the collapse that is now inevitable. How do we prepare?</p>\r\n<p> </p>\r\n<p>The Opportunity of Crisis</p>\r\n<p>It is noteworthy that the same Chinese word for “crisis” is the same word for opportunity. This may truly be the greatest opportunity we have ever had. As we see in Daniel 2, when the statue that represents the kingdoms of this world begins to collapse, then the little rock that struck at the feet of this statue will begin to grow into a mountain, which in Scripture often represents government. Then that rock keeps on growing until it fills the entire earth. The kingdom of God that the Lord has had His people praying for these last two thousand years is also inevitable. It is surely coming, and we can live in it now.</p>\r\n<p>As the governments of this world collapse, God’s government will become more manifest. As the economies of this world collapse, God’s economy will become more manifest. The kingdom will not fully come until the King returns, but a job that He left for His people to do before He returned was to preach the gospel, or good news, of His coming kingdom. We do have good news to share, not bad.</p>\r\n<p>In Isaiah 40, we are called to help prepare the way for His kingdom by building a highway. This highway is the road on which His kingdom will come. This highway will bring the other mountains and hills down, and it will raise up the valleys and low places. The entire chapter gives a good panorama of what is happening in the nations right now.</p>\r\n<p>When Israel was taken into exile into Babylon, the Lord gave a remarkable counsel to His people through Jeremiah:</p>\r\n<p>“Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, to all the exiles whom I have sent into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon,</p>\r\n<p>‘Build houses and live in them; and plant gardens, and eat their produce.</p>\r\n<p>‘Take wives and become the fathers of sons and daughters, and take wives for your sons and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; and multiply there and do not decrease.</p>\r\n<p>‘Seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile, and pray to the LORD on its behalf; for in its welfare you will have welfare’” (Jeremiah 29:4-7)</p>\r\n<p>In a sense, Christians, who are citizens of another kingdom, have likewise been in exile waiting for their redemption and the kingdom of God to come. It is the right thing to do to seek the welfare of whatever nation we have been called to live in, and to put down roots there as Israel was counseled above. However, God’s people are also to be a distinct and separate people in many ways and were not to defile themselves with the immorality, perversions, and idolatry of Babylon. Those in exile were to maintain their devotion to the laws that God had given them to make them a distinct people for His purposes. The same is true of Christians. Being a part of our nation and seeking its good, while building our own homes and families, does not mean that we compromise the basic teachings of the kingdom.</p>\r\n<p>Those who have lived by kingdom economic principles have built on a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and they will not be shaken when everything else is. If we have not obeyed the Lord in this, and have foolishly built our estates by the principles of the world instead of the principles of the kingdom, there is still hope. We can repent, be forgiven, and be restored to a right foundation. This does not mean that we will not suffer or will not lose what was built on a wrong foundation, but we still can recover and build on a right foundation. We can do this personally and nationally.</p>\r\n<p>What will the economic meltdown look like? Hebrews 12:25-29 states it quite clearly:</p>\r\n<p>See to it that you do not refuse Him who is speaking. For if those did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, much less shall we escape who turn away from Him who warns from heaven.</p>\r\n<p>And His voice shook the earth then, but now He has promised, saying, “YET ONCE MORE I WILL SHAKE NOT ONLY THE EARTH, BUT ALSO THE HEAVEN.”</p>\r\n<p>And this expression, “Yet once more,” denotes the removing of those things which can be shaken, as of created things, in order that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.</p>\r\n<p>Therefore, since we receive a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us show gratitude, by which we may offer to God an acceptable service with reverence and awe;</p>\r\n<p>for our God is a consuming fire.</p>\r\n<p>The coming economic meltdown will be the removal of everything that is not built on the kingdom principles that cannot be shaken. Many of the founding principles of our nation and our free market system were kingdom principles. We must return to those as a nation, and we must return to them personally.</p>\r\n<p>We are told in Psalm 89:14 and other places that “righteousness and justice are the foundation of His throne.” Righteousness is doing what is right in the sight of the Lord. God’s justice requires fair and equitable treatment of all people, judging issues by one standard for all, regardless of their station in life. It was the American devotion to these basic truths that enabled the greatest economic engine in history to be built here. It has been a departure from these basic principles that has caused every major problem we’re now facing as a nation. We must have a national repentance.</p>\r\n<p>In the Lord’s teaching about those who build their houses on the rock rather than on sand, we are told several things that are crucial for the times we’re now in. First, the storms beat against both houses, but only the house built on the rock would stand. The storms are coming, but if we have built well we will stand.</p>\r\n<p>To build on the rock, we must hear the words of the Lord, and then we have to obey them. As we are told in other places, hearing His words and not obeying them is to bring an even more severe judgment. I have been a Christian for forty years now, and from the time I was converted, I remember hearing warnings about the times that we’re now in. The Lord has spoken loudly, clearly, and abundantly. Many heard, but it does not seem that as many have obeyed.</p>\r\n<p>In many ways, I have been guilty of this too, and I have paid the price for it. Even so, in every case where I have seen it, humbled myself and repented, not trying to cover up or make excuses, His grace has been abundant. I went through a bankruptcy and lost virtually everything I had spent years and great effort building, and two years later, I came out in an even better place.</p>\r\n<p>His grace is still available for us personally and nationally. We will suffer loss if we have done this, and we can expect to go through some hard times. However, if we repent, turning away from our sins, resolving to live in obedience to Him, we can expect to emerge in a much better place. As we are assured in Romans 14:17, “the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.” It will come in this order too. When we do what is righteous, it will be followed by true peace, which will be followed by true joy.</p>\r\n<p>How long has it been since you’ve known true peace? How about true joy? These are in your future. Now is the time to set our hearts and minds to obey the Lord and to repent of and correct every way that is not in obedience to Him. If we are going to live in His kingdom, building our lives on that which cannot be shaken and can withstand any storm that comes upon this earth, then we must begin by resolving to live by the key to the kingdom, which we are given in</p>\r\n<p>Matthew 6:33-34:</p>\r\n<p>“But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness; and all these things will be added to you.</p>\r\n<p>“So do not worry about tomorrow; for tomorrow will care for itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.”</p>\r\n<p>Christians who are now living, working, or even going to church in the wrong places are there because they made major decisions based on what they wanted or what others wanted them to do, rather than seeking first what the Lord wanted them to do for the sake of His kingdom. To seek His kingdom first, means much more than firing up a prayer here and there for Him to guide us, and then go and immediately do what we want to do. It requires seeking Him until we find Him. When it takes longer than we think it should take to find Him, it could be because we have drifted so far from Him.</p>\r\n<p>Now is the time to do whatever it takes to get in the will of the Lord. There will be an increasingly high price to pay for those who are not. There will be increasing peace and joy for those who are. I am covering these prophecies and the questions arising from them in greater detail in our video Special Bulletins posted on our website at www.morningstartv.com. We would also appreciate you sending in any questions that you have or any revelations that you have had about these same issues. Please include permission for us to use these along with your contact information. Email these to: info@morningstarministries.org.</p>\r\n<p>Also, we are having an Advanced Prophetic Conference with Chuck Pierce, Paul Keith Davis, myself, and others at our base at Heritage the end of this month. This is shaping up to be one of the most timely and important such conferences we’ve held. There is still time to come, but please register right away. We also still have some rooms at Heritage available, and if we fill up, we have special rate arrangements at nearby hotels. You can go to our website for additional information.</p>\r\n<p> </p>',1,74,'2011-03-24 22:21:37',63,'','2012-02-04 13:01:51',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-03-24 22:21:37','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',3,3,'','',1,868,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(262,0,'Not a Citizen- Obama in His Own Words','not-a-citizen-obama-in-his-own-words','<div style=\"font-style: normal; display: inline; font-family: \'Calibri\'; color: #000000; font-size: small; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;\">\r\n<div style=\"font: 10pt tahoma;\">\r\n<div>{source}<span style=\"font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;\"><br /><span>&lt;</span>iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/MwhKuunp8D8?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen<span>&gt;</span><span>&lt;</span>/iframe<span>&gt;</span><br /></span>{/source}</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>','',-2,13,'2011-03-26 14:21:21',62,'Submitted by Tom Brake','2011-03-26 14:38:25',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-03-26 14:21:21','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',7,0,'','',1,4,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(263,0,'Not a Citizen - Obama on Obama','not-a-citizen-obama-on-obama','<p>{source}<span style=\"font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;\"><br /><span>&lt;</span>iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/MwhKuunp8D8?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen<span>&gt;</span><span>&lt;</span>/iframe<span>&gt;</span><br /></span>{/source}</p>','',1,13,'2011-03-26 14:38:46',62,'Submitted by Tom Brake','2011-03-26 14:51:09',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-03-26 14:38:46','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',2,1,'','',1,88,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(264,0,'US Likely to Keep Combat Role in Libya','us-likely-to-keep-combat-role-in-libya','<p style=\"text-align: -webkit-left;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000; font-size: xx-small;\"><span style=\"line-height: normal;\"><br /></span></span></p>\r\n<div><a href=\"http://www.military.com/news/article/us-likely-to-keep-combat-role-in-libya-shift.html?ESRC=dod.nl\" style=\"color: #1b57b1; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal; \"><img src=\"http://images.military.com//pics/libyanrebels3.25th.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Libya\" width=\"200\" height=\"132\" style=\"float: left;\" /></a></div>\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; \">The United States welcomed a partial handover for the Libyan air campaign to NATO, but the allies apparently balked at assuming full control and the U.S. military was left in charge of the brunt of combat. </span></div>\r\n<div>\r\n<p style=\"PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 17px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 3px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 13px; PADDING-TOP: 0px\"> </p>\r\n<p style=\"PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 17px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 3px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 13px; PADDING-TOP: 0px\">NATO agreed on Thursday to take over command of the newly established no-fly zone over Libya, protective flights meant to deter Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi from putting warplanes in the air. That leaves the U.S. with responsibility for attacks on Gadhafi\'s ground forces and other targets, which are the toughest and most controversial portion of the operation.</p>\r\n</div>\r\n<div><a href=\"http://www.military.com/news/article/us-likely-to-keep-combat-role-in-libya-shift.html?ESRC=dod.nl\" style=\"color: #1b57b1; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal; \">Read More</a></div>\r\n<p> </p>\r\n<p> </p>','',-2,60,'2011-03-26 17:09:10',62,'Military.com','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-03-26 17:09:10','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',1,0,'','',1,0,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(265,0,'US Likely to Keep Combat Role in Libya','us-likely-to-keep-combat-role-in-libya-1','<div><a href=\"http://www.military.com/news/article/us-likely-to-keep-combat-role-in-libya-shift.html?ESRC=dod.nl\" style=\"color: #1b57b1; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal; \"><img src=\"http://images.military.com//pics/libyanrebels3.25th.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Libya\" hspace=\"7\" width=\"200\" height=\"132\" style=\"float: left;\" /></a></div>\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; \">The United States welcomed a partial handover for the Libyan air campaign to NATO, but the allies apparently balked at assuming full control and the U.S. military was left in charge of the brunt of combat. </span></div>\r\n<div>\r\n<p style=\"PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 17px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 3px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 3px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 13px; PADDING-TOP: 0px\">NATO agreed on Thursday to take over command of the newly established no-fly zone over Libya, protective flights meant to deter Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi from putting warplanes in the air. That leaves the U.S. with responsibility for attacks on Gadhafi\'s ground forces and other targets, which are the toughest and most controversial portion of the operation. <span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;\"><a href=\"http://www.military.com/news/article/us-likely-to-keep-combat-role-in-libya-shift.html?ESRC=dod.nl\" style=\"color: #1b57b1; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal; \">Read More</a></span></p>\r\n</div>','',1,60,'2011-03-26 17:09:10',62,'Military.com','2011-03-26 17:26:35',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-03-26 17:09:10','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',5,226,'','',1,245,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(266,0,'Balaam or John?','balaam-or-john','<h3>He that has an ear, let him hear ~   \"They are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling to one another, <strong>‘We piped unto you, and you did not dance; we sang dirges, and you did not mourn.’\" </strong><strong> </strong>Luke 7:32</h3>\r\n<p> </p>\r\n<p>{source}<span style=\"font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;\"><br />&lt;iframe width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/w9TGj2jrJk8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;<br /></span>{/source}</p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 11px; color: #000000; line-height: normal;\">There\'s a lady who\'s sure all that glitters is gold<br />And she\'s buying a stairway to heaven<br />When she gets there she knows, if the stores are all closed<br />With a word she can get what she came for<br />Ooh, ooh, and she\'s buying a stairway to heaven<br /><br />There\'s a sign on the wall but she wants to be sure<br />\'Cause you know sometimes words have two meanings<br />In a tree by the brook, there\'s a songbird who sings<br />Sometimes all of our thoughts are misleading<br />Ooh, it makes me wonder<br />Ooh, it makes me wonder<br /><br />There\'s a feeling I get when I look to the west<br />And my spirit is crying for leaving<br />In my thoughts I have seen rings of smoke through the trees<br />And the voices of those who stand looking<br />and it makes me wonder<br />really makes me wonder<br /><br />And it\'s whispered that soon if we all call the tune<br />Then the piper will lead us to reason<br />And a new day will dawn for those who stand long<br />And the forest will echo with laughter<br /><br />GUITAR SOLO<br /><br />If there\'s a bustle in your hedgerow, don\'t be alarmed now,<br />It\'s just a spring clean from the May Queen<br />Yes, there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run<br />There\'s still time to change the road you\'re on<br />Ooh, it makes me wonder<br />Ooh, Ooh, it makes me wonder<br /><br />Your head is humming and it won\'t go, in case you don\'t know<br />The piper\'s calling you to join him<br />Dear lady, can\'t you hear the wind blow, and did you know<br />Your stairway lies on the whispering wind<br /><br />GUITAR SOLO<br /><br />And as we wind on down the road<br />Our shadows taller than our soul<br />There walks a lady we all know<br />Who shines white light and wants to show<br />How everything still turns to gold<br />And if you listen very hard<br />The tune will come to you at last<br />When all is one and one is all, yeah<br />To be a rock and not to roll.<br /><br />And she\'s buying the stairway to heaven</span></p>\r\n<p>{source}<span style=\"font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;\"><br /></span>&lt;iframe width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/Ekrb1-u4cio\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;</p>\r\n<p>{/source}</p>\r\n<p>{source}<span style=\"font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;\"><br /><span>&lt;iframe width=\"420\" height=\"235\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/5QUYvRaQ4XM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;</span><br /></span>{/source}</p>\r\n<p>{source}<span style=\"font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;\"><br /><span>&lt;iframe width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/EfGDvDGE7zk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;</span><br /></span>{/source}</p>\r\n<p>Oh happy day (oh happy day)Oh happy day (oh happy day)<br />When Jesus washed (when Jesus washed)<br />When Jesus washed (when Jesus washed)<br />Jesus washed (when Jesus washed)<br />Washed my sins away (oh happy day)<br />Oh happy day (oh happy day)<br /><br />Oh happy day (oh happy day)<br />Oh happy day (oh happy day)<br />When Jesus washed (when Jesus washed)<br />When Jesus washed (when Jesus washed)<br />When my Jesus washed (when Jesus washed)<br />He washed my sins away<br /><br />He taught me how (oh, He taught me how)<br />To wash (to wash, to wash)<br />Fight and pray (to fight and pray)<br />Fight and pray<br />And he taught me how to live rejoicing<br />yes, He did (and live rejoicing)<br />Oh yeah, every, every day (every, every day)<br />(oh yeah) Every day!<br /><br />Oh happy day (oh happy day)<br />Oh happy day, yeah (oh happy day)<br />When Jesus washed (when Jesus washed)<br />When my Jesus washed (when Jesus washed)<br />When Jesus washed [hits high note] (when Jesus washed)<br />My sins away (oh happy day)<br />I\'m talking about that happy day (oh happy day)<br /><br />He taught me how (oh yeah, how)<br />To wash (to wash)<br />Fight and pray (sing it, sing it, c\'mon and sing it)<br />Fight and pray<br />And to live<br />yeah, yeah, c\'mon everybody (and live rejoicing every, every day)<br />Sing it like you mean it, oh....<br /><br />Oh happy day (oh happy day)<br />I\'m talking about the happy days (oh happy day)<br />C\'mon and talk about the happy days (oh happy day)<br />Oh, oh, oh happy days (oh happy day)<br />Ooh talking about happy day (oh happy day)<br />Oh yeah, I know I\'m talking about happy days (oh happy day)<br />Oh yeah, sing it, sing it, sing it, yeah, yeah (oh happy day)<br />Oh, oh, oh<br />Oh happy day.....</p>','',1,69,'2011-03-30 03:38:31',62,'Unknown','2015-12-20 05:14:55',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-03-30 03:38:31','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',29,4,'','',1,749,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(267,0,'Video Special Bulletin Part 4 - The First Step in Preparation','video-special-bulletin-part-4-the-first-step-in-preparation','<h2><a href=\"http://www.morningstartv.com/prophetic-perspective-current-events/special-bulletin-part-4-first-step-preparation\">PLEASE CLICK HERE TO WATCH</a></h2>','',1,75,'2011-03-30 05:42:58',63,'','2012-02-04 13:01:12',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-03-30 05:42:58','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',6,52,'','',1,257,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(268,0,'Islam: The Loving Peaceful Religion','peaceful-religion','<p><strong>The Warning of  Jesus for the End of the Age</strong><br /><br />Jesus warned that as the end of the age approached, \"Then they  will deliver you to tribulation, and will kill you, and you will be hated by all  nations because of My name.\" (Matthew 24:9) Today that prophetic warning is  being fulfilled. <br /><br />As I stated in my book, The American Prophecies,  the greatest century to date of Christian persecution was not the first century,  but the twentieth. In the history of the world and of the nearly 69.6 million  Christians martyred for their faith, over sixty-five percent of them were killed  in the twentieth century. That is not even mentioning what happened to Jews in  the Holocaust. It is estimated that the first ten years of the twenty-first  century saw another million Christians murdered for their faith. Though this  shows a significant decrease in martyrdom worldwide as compared to the twentieth  century, it is still an alarming number. The truth of the matter is that while  some of the most severe persecutors of Christians in recent history have eased  their \"cultural revolutions\"—namely Communist governments—those who profess  faith in Jesus Christ, still place their lives on the line virtually every day  throughout the Islamic world.</p>\r\n','\r\n<p><br /><br />Though I could present numerous examples  of this, one that has most recently come to my attention is the predicament of  Aasia Noreen (also called Aasiya Bibi, Asia, or other transliterations in the  world press), a forty-five-year-old mother of five. In 2009, Aasia got into a  disagreement with fellow field workers in her village of Ittan Wali in Pakistan  near the Indian border. The other workers were trying to pressure her into  renouncing Christianity and becoming a Muslim. Aasia\'s family was the only  Christian household in the village. Aasia however, stood her ground, much to the  chagrin of at least one of the other women who also held a grudge against her  for a past land dispute. To end the bickering, the wife of a village elder  demanded Aasia go to fetch them water from a well in the Nankana Sahib district,  several miles away. Aasia complied, but when she returned, the disgruntled  Muslim woman said it was sacrilegious to drink water collected by a non-Muslim.  Aasia replied, \"Are we not all humans?\" The response brought another strong  rebuke and another altercation arose. <br /><br /><br />Shortly  after, the disgruntled women went to a local Muslim cleric and told him about  the incident. The cleric filed a report with the police about it on June 19,  2009, and on that same day, the disgruntled woman confronted Aasia in front of  her home accusing her of having defamed the name of Muhammad, saying she had  denied that he was a prophet. Men working in the fields nearby overheard the  altercation, left what they were doing, and forced their way into Aasia\'s house.  There they began torturing Aasia and her children, demanding she admit to the  blasphemy and repent. As things escalated, they tried to put a noose around  Aasia\'s neck ready to hang her. However, the police soon arrived and took Aasia  into custody, supposedly for her own protection. As more allegations were made,  instead of being released, Aasia was charged with blasphemy under Section 295 C  of the Pakistan Penal Code, a crime punishable by death. While awaiting trial,  Aasia would have to remain in the horrible conditions of a Pakistani prison,  separated from her family except for when they could visit. <br /><br />Aasia spent  more than a year incarcerated before her trial. Then finally in November 2010,  the accusations were heard before a judge. While the family hoped they might  finally put this matter behind them, instead of dismissing the charges because  of a lack of evidence, the judge sentenced Aasia to death by hanging and fined  her 100,000 rupees ($1,100). Because many convicted in lower courts of blasphemy  are threatened or even killed in prison, Aasia was put into solitary confinement  and all visiting rights were revoked. <br /><br />The National Commission for  Justice and Peace (NCJP) has said that up to eighty percent of such blasphemy  charges are filed to settle old grievances, which seems to be the case with  Aasia as well. In recent years, most such convictions get overturned in higher  courts. It is believed that local courts are usually pressured into convictions  by local clerics and Islamic groups. The word of such cases travels fast, and  generally angry mobs surrounding the courthouse chant slogans and demand the  death sentence as trials take place. <br /><br />In Aasia\'s area, the local imam  said he cried with joy when Aasia was sentenced to hang. He told reporters,  \"She\'ll be made to pay, one way or the other. . . If the law punishes someone  for blasphemy, and that person is pardoned or released, then we will take the  law into our own hands.\" Despite the fact that no one has ever been executed by  the government under this law, many have been murdered after their release.  Several Islamic groups have already taken to the streets of Pakistan to let the  government know there will be anarchy if Aasia\'s sentence is not carried out.  Since her sentencing, Aasia\'s family has had to go into hiding. At the end of  that November, a hard-line Islamic imam promised to pay anyone who killed Aasia  $6,000 if she were set free by the courts. <br /><br />While the sentencing has  brought international protests, Aasia still remains in prison as of this  writing. Even Pakistani government officials have been among those who have  spoken out against the sentencing and called for Aasia\'s pardoning and  protection by the president of Pakistan. Doing so has placed anyone who speaks  out into the crosshairs of Islamic fundamentalists as well. <br /><br />One who  spoke out for Aasia was Punjab Governor Salman Taseer. Because of this, Taseer  was assassinated by one of his bodyguards on January 4, 2011—shot down in cold  blood in broad daylight. Several clerics and imams in Pakistan had called for  Taseer\'s execution after his defense of Aasia. Different religious leaders  offered a total of 50 million rupees ($579,300) for the assassination of Aasia  and any who spoke out on her behalf. The call apparently worked. The bodyguard  made no attempt at escape after gunning down Taseer, turning himself in to the  police and telling them he had killed Taseer \"because of the governor\'s  opposition to Pakistan\'s blasphemy laws.\" <br /><br />Roughly two months later, the  Pakistani minister for religious minorities, Shahbaz Bhatti who had also called  for Aasia\'s pardoning and opposed the blasphemy laws, was gunned down in the  streets. Radical Islamists will stop at nothing to spread their hatred—a hatred  that is aimed particularly at Israel.</p>\r\n<p> </p>',1,71,'2011-04-01 23:40:14',62,'Dr. Michael Evans','2011-06-25 15:02:30',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-04-01 23:40:14','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',6,12,'','',1,447,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(269,0,'Another Obama Power Grab','another-obama-power-grab','<p><strong> ByPaul Strand</strong></p>\r\n<p>CBN News Washington Sr. Correspondent</p>\r\n<p>As senior correspondent in CBN\'s Washington bureau, Paul Strand has covered a variety of political and social issues, with an emphasis on defense, justice, and Congress.</p>\r\n<div><img src=\"http://www.cbn.com/CBNNews_Files/images11/politics/CongressEPA_LG.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"320\" align=\"left\" />\r\n<p>WASHINGTON - Some in Congress are claiming the Obama administration is making an unconstitutional power grab.</p>\r\n<p>Concerned lawmakers say Obama administration bureaucrats are using global warming fears to start regulating greenhouse gases, without any control by Congress. They worry such a move will send energy costs soaring and halt the economy\'s recovery.</p>\r\n<p>At the heart of the clash is who should control efforts to fight climate change -- or whether there should be any control.</p>\r\n<p>The <a href=\"http://www.epa.gov/\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Protection Agency</a> sides with those who believe man-made greenhouse gases could lead to dangerous global warming. The agency plans to start regulating them as soon as possible.  <a href=\"http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/politics/2011/April/Power-Grab-Concerns-Heat-Up-over-Climate-Change/\">MORE&gt;&gt;</a></p>\r\n</div>','',1,60,'2011-04-04 11:34:14',62,'CBN','2011-04-04 11:46:23',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-04-04 11:34:14','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',2,225,'','',1,278,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(270,0,'The Middle East Muslim Community Organizer','the-middle-east-muslim-community-organizer','<p> </p>\r\n<p><img src=\"images/stories/mikeevans.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Dr. Evans\" title=\"Dr. Evans\" align=\"left\" /><a href=\"http://myjwn.com/\">Jerusalem World News</a> - He ran against a disgraced president and his policies. He ran in the aftermath of an unpopular war and on a platform of human rights; and he won. His theme was change, and that\'s what America and the Middle East got. No, not Barack Obama; Jimmy Carter. The Liberal Left Democratic president believed that America needed to support an Islamic revolution.</p>\r\n<p>Carter perceived Khomeini as a \"religious holy man in a grassroots, democratic revolution,\" rather than the founding father of modern terrorism. Carter\'s ambassador, Andrew Young, said, \"Khomeini will eventually be hailed a saint.\" His ambassador to Iran, William Sullivan, declared, \"Khomeini is a Gandhi-like figure.\" The former president of France, Valery Giscard D\'Estaing told me that in January 1979 on the French Island of Guadeloupe, Carter informed him, the West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, and British Prime Minister James Callaghan that the U.S. government could not support the Shah of Iran but was working behind the scenes to oust him in favor of a cleric—Khomeini. I was told the same thing by General Robert Huyser, sent to Iran by Carter to keep the Iranian military in check.</p>\r\n','\r\n<p> </p>\r\n<p>On April 1, 1979, Khomeini officially declared his Islamic revolution and called it the \"first day of the government of God.\" That declaration was accompanied by screams of \"Death to America.\" The tragic mistake by Jimmy Carter precipitated the Russian invasion of Afghanistan, the Iran-Iraq War, the funding of the Mujahedeen beginning with $50 million and ultimately up to $10 billion, matched by the Saudis.</p>\r\n<p>Nothing much has changed in the thirty-plus years since Khomeini\'s declaration. Radical Islamists have planned from the beginning to try to establish Islamic states in the Middle East, including Pakistan, Afghanistan, the Gulf States, Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, etc. Their second phase would be to expand to regions and nations that already have a strong Muslim population, i.e., Eastern Europe. The third phase would be to spread the caliphate to America and the rest of the world.</p>\r\n<p>The attack on the United States on September 11, 2001, was not aimed at bringing down the U.S., or even to allow radical Islam to take over; it was to send a message to America. It was aimed at illustrating to the government the ability of radical Islamic terrorism to seriously injure the economy and the safety of its citizens. It was a signal that if the U.S. did not initiate a foreign policy that corresponded with the interests of radical Islam, the unthinkable would happen.</p>\r\n<p>Bin Laden and radical Islamists consider the U.S. as the primary obstacle to achieving the first phase of the strategy to take over the Middle East. The plan was to force America to stop supporting Muslim allies in the Gulf as it had done with the Shah of Iran. Bin Laden believed if he could get America to turn on its allies, there would be no one to protect these regimes from a radical Islamic revolution. This is precisely what an Internet-savvy, community organizer, President Barack Hussein Obama is doing. He is betting the farm on democratic governments that will likely be totally aligned with mosques, mullahs, and madrassas, and will enhance America\'s foreign policy interests in the region rather than lending support to dictator-allies.</p>\r\n<p>History will give President Obama as much credit for the Islamic revolution now being birthed as it gave Ronald Reagan for the fall of the Berlin Wall. The president has now taken on becoming the Middle East Muslim community organizer. He apparently believes that change is not only desirable and inevitable, but that the U.S. must take the lead in shaping the Middle East.</p>\r\n<p>In August 2010 President Obama, believing that America\'s relationship with the Arab world was broken, issued Presidential Study Directive 11 asking agencies to prepare for change. The document cited evidence of growing citizen discontent with the \"region\'s regimes\" and warned that \"the region is entering a critical period of transition.\" The president asked his advisors to \"manage these risks by demonstrating to the people of the Middle East and North Africa a gradual but real prospect of greater political openness and improved governance.\"</p>\r\n<p>Six months later, this revolution was toppling leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya and spreading to the Gulf oil fields. The response of Obama\'s deputy national security adviser, Ben Rhodes was, \"We have a core interest in stability through political and economic change. The status quo is not stable.\"</p>\r\n<p>The White House reviewed earlier democratic shifts in Indonesia, the Philippines, Serbia, Poland, and Chile for \"lessons learned.\" From that study, Obama\'s team bought into transition to achieve \"buy-in\"; affecting quick change that is obvious to all, i.e., setting political prisoners free, giving freedom to the press, freedom to protest—precisely what Jimmy Carter demanded in Iran.</p>\r\n<p>This review has led U.S. officials to conclude that countries need to bring the opposition quickly into a change to achieve \"buy-in\"; make fast changes that people can see, such as freeing political prisoners; and sequence events, putting the easiest first, so that presidential elections precede parliamentary balloting and detailed rewriting of the Constitution.</p>\r\n<p>President Obama gave his \"Berlin Wall speech\" on June 4, 2009, in Cairo. He declared that \"tension has been fed by colonialism that denied rights and opportunities to many Muslims, and a Cold War in which Muslim-majority countries were too often treated as proxies without regard to their own aspirations.\" This is the core of Obama foreign policy change: to not have strong allies in the Middle East as proxies.</p>\r\n<p>President Obama inspired hope for the masses when he, as an African-American with the name Barack Hussein Obama, made it clear that America was not \"at war with Islam,\" and that the two greatest destabilizing factors in the Middle East were al Qaeda and Israel. President Obama made a bold and impassioned plea for democracy in his speech. He said: \"There are some who will advocate for democracy only when they are in power, and once in power, they are ruthless in suppressing the rights of others … elections alone do not make true democracy.\"</p>\r\n<p>The specter of a global collapse of the world\'s economy, along with Islamic Sunni oil states at war against the \"Great Satan\"—America, and the \"Little Satan\"—Israel, may be the price the West will have to pay for \"April Fools.\"</p>\r\n<p> </p>',1,30,'2011-04-04 14:38:55',62,'Dr. Michael Evans','2012-02-27 03:11:38',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-04-04 14:38:55','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',4,28,'','',1,777,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(271,0,'Obama Administration Wants Your Old Email ','obama-administration-wants-your-old-email','<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 24px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 30px; color: #000000;\">Justice Dept. to Congress: Don’t Saddle 4th Amendment on Us</span></p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;\">\r\n<div class=\"entryDescription\" style=\"padding-top: 2px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px;\">\r\n<ul style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">\r\n<li class=\"entryAuthor\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; display: inline; list-style-type: none; padding: 0px;\">By <a href=\"http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/author/davidkravets/\" title=\"Posts by David Kravets\" style=\"color: #007ca5; text-decoration: none; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">David Kravets</a> <a href=\"mailto:david_kravets@wired.com\" style=\"color: #007ca5; text-decoration: none; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\"><img src=\"http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/wp-content/themes/wired/images/envelope.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Email Author\" width=\"14\" height=\"11\" style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px none initial;\" /> </a></li>\r\n<li class=\"entryDate\" style=\"display: inline; list-style-type: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">April 7, 2011  | </li>\r\n<li class=\"entryTime\" style=\"display: inline; list-style-type: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">4:06 pm  | </li>\r\n<li class=\"entryCategories\" style=\"display: inline; list-style-type: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">Categories: <a href=\"http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/category/surveillance/\" title=\"View all posts in Surveillance\" rel=\"category tag\" style=\"color: #007ca5; text-decoration: none; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">Surveillance</a>, <a href=\"http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/category/threats/\" title=\"View all posts in Threats\" rel=\"category tag\" style=\"color: #007ca5; text-decoration: none; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">Threats</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</div>\r\n</span></p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;\">The Obama administration is urging Congress not to adopt legislation that would impose constitutional safeguards on Americans’ e-mail stored in the cloud.  <a href=\"http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/04/fourth-amendment-email-2/\">MORE&gt;&gt;&gt;</a></span></p>','',1,70,'2011-04-09 05:47:53',62,'David Kravets','2012-03-25 23:39:15',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-04-09 05:47:53','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',2,68,'','',1,212,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(272,0,'EAT THE RICH','eat-the-rich','<p>\r\n<p>{source}</p>\r\n<p>&lt;iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/661pi6K-8WQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;</p>\r\n<p>{/source}</p>\r\n</p>','',-2,37,'2011-04-10 11:28:40',74,'Iowahawk.com','2011-04-10 12:41:52',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-04-10 11:28:40','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',8,0,'','',1,0,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(273,0,'EAT THE RICH','eat-the-rich-1','<p>{source}<span style=\"font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;\"><br /><span>&lt;</span>iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"560\" height=\"349\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/661pi6K-8WQ?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen<span>&gt;</span><span>&lt;</span>/iframe<span>&gt;</span><br /></span>{/source}</p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2011/03/eat-the-rich.html\">GOTO IOWAHAWK.COM &gt;&gt;</a></p>','',1,20,'2011-04-10 12:55:25',62,'Submitted by Helio Rodrigez-Ecay','2011-04-10 13:19:34',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-04-10 12:55:25','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',3,21,'','',1,384,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(274,0,'Dollars and Sense ','dollars-and-sense','<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; \"> </span></p>\r\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: inherit; border-top-left-radius: 0px 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px 0px; -webkit-box-shadow: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; \"><strong style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: inherit; border-top-left-radius: 0px 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px 0px; -webkit-box-shadow: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; \"><span class=\"style2\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: inherit; color: #ff0000; border-top-left-radius: 0px 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px 0px; -webkit-box-shadow: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; \"><img src=\"images/stories/OAKI-logo.png\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" />SPECIAL BULLETIN 6-2011</span><br style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px 0px; -webkit-box-shadow: none; \" /></strong><br style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px 0px; -webkit-box-shadow: none; \" /></div>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: inherit; border-top-left-radius: 0px 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px 0px; -webkit-box-shadow: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; \">The Middle East has erupted like a chain of volcanoes with dissent pouring forth in nearly every Muslim country in the region. Mubarak’s regime in Egypt fell faster than seemed possible, encouraged by the regime change that protestors were able to accomplish in Tunisia. Other regimes will likely fall in coming weeks, if not days.</p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: inherit; border-top-left-radius: 0px 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px 0px; -webkit-box-shadow: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; \">For months now, we have lingered on the edge of either a government shutdown or another stopgap measure to keep the government going for another few weeks of indecision on the part of our leaders. They are haggling over somewhere between $10 and $30 billion in cuts. The higher number is what our government runs up in deficits about every five days! This is even worse than trying to use an aspirin to cure brain cancer.</p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://www.theoakinitiative.org/content/special-bulletin-6-2011\">READ MORE &gt;&gt;</a></p>','',1,75,'2011-04-10 13:19:41',63,'','2012-02-04 13:00:35',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-04-10 13:19:41','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',3,51,'','',1,291,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(275,0,'Rubin: U.S. presence in Libya \'makes absolutely no sense\'','rubin-us-presence-in-libya-makes-absolutely-no-sense','<p><span style=\"font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Sans\', \'Lucida Sans Unicode\', \'Lucida Grande\', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 32px; \"> </span></p>\r\n<div id=\"StoryTitle\" class=\"storytitle\" style=\"border-bottom: #cccccc 1px solid; padding-bottom: 5px; width: auto; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Sans\', \'Lucida Sans Unicode\', \'Lucida Grande\', sans-serif; margin-bottom: 7px; height: 68px; color: #003399; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; padding-top: 5px;\">\r\n<div id=\"reporter\" class=\"reporter\" style=\"padding-bottom: 2px; width: auto; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Sans\', \'Lucida Sans Unicode\', \'Lucida Grande\', sans-serif; height: auto; color: #333333; font-size: 10px; font-weight: normal; padding-top: 2px;\">Chad Groening - OneNewsNow - 4/11/2011 3:35:00 AM</div>\r\n</div>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; \" align=\"left\"><img src=\"http://www.onenewsnow.com/uploadedImages/Media/Images/Mugs/DavidRubin.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"David Rubin (author)\" title=\"David Rubin (author)\" hspace=\"3\" vspace=\"3\" width=\"75\" height=\"127\" align=\"left\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 9px; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 0px; \" />A U.S.-born Israeli author and expert on the Middle East doesn\'t think it makes sense for President Barack Obama to get the U.S. military embroiled in a potentially protracted war in Libya, while giving a pass to countries that present a true threat to U.S. national security.</p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; \"> </p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; \">Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi recently wrote a three-page letter to President Obama, urging him to halt what the Libyan leader calls \"an unjust war.\" Gadhafi says the moral ramifications of the NATO campaign against his country have been more severe than the physical hurt, and he repeats his claim that his foes are with al-Qaeda. Gadhafi also uses his letter to wish Obama good luck in his bid for re-election next year.  <a href=\"http://www.onenewsnow.com/Security/Default.aspx?id=1326054\">MORE&gt;</a>&gt;</p>','',1,30,'2011-04-11 17:33:23',62,'One News Now','2012-02-27 03:11:24',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-04-11 17:33:23','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',4,27,'','',1,452,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(276,0,'Song of Solomon revisited, 20th Century','song-of-solomon-revisited-20th-century','<p>What, then, does this mean? \"We piped unto you and you did not dance, we sang dirges and you did not mourn.\" Johanan <img src=\"images/articles/Johanan.png\" border=\"0\" /></p>\r\n<p>{source}<span style=\"font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;\"><br /><span>&lt;</span>iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/HkGS263lGsQ?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen<span>&gt;</span><span>&lt;</span>/iframe<span>&gt;</span><br /></span>{/source}</p>\r\n<p>{jcomments on}</p>','',1,69,'2011-04-12 00:59:42',62,'He who has an ear to hear...','2015-12-20 05:22:55',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-04-12 00:59:42','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',7,3,'','',1,514,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(277,0,'Media members \'subsidiaries\' of Obama admin','media-members-subsidiaries-of-obama-admin','<p><span style=\"font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Sans\', \'Lucida Sans Unicode\', \'Lucida Grande\', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 32px;\">\r\n<div id=\"StoryTitle\" class=\"storytitle\" style=\"width: auto; height: 68px; padding-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; border-bottom-color: #cccccc; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Sans\', \'Lucida Sans Unicode\', \'Lucida Grande\', sans-serif; color: #003399; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 7px;\">\r\n<div id=\"reporter\" class=\"reporter\" style=\"width: auto; height: auto; padding-top: 2px; padding-bottom: 2px; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Sans\', \'Lucida Sans Unicode\', \'Lucida Grande\', sans-serif; font-size: 10px; color: #333333; font-weight: normal;\">Chris Woodward - OneNewsNow - 4/12/2011 4:00:00 AM</div>\r\n</div>\r\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px;\"> </p>\r\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px;\" align=\"left\">Two mainstream media outlets are receiving money from a so-called \"slush fund\" in ObamaCare.</p>\r\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px;\"> </p>\r\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px;\"> </p>\r\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px;\"> </p>\r\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px;\" align=\"left\"><img src=\"http://www.onenewsnow.com/uploadedImages/Media/Images/sackofcash.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"sack of cash\" title=\"sack of cash\" hspace=\"3\" vspace=\"3\" width=\"136\" height=\"134\" align=\"left\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 9px; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 0px;\" />The Washington Post and CBS received taxpayer dollars from ObamaCare\'s \"<a href=\"http://errp.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Early Retiree Reinsurance Program\" style=\"color: #0e4d8b; background: inherit;\">Early Retiree Reinsurance Program</a>\" (ERRP), a $5-billion grant program for entities to pay for health insurance for early retirees. Republicans refer to the program as a \"slush fund.\"<br /> <br />Matthew Boyle details the exact amount in an <a href=\"http://dailycaller.com/2011/04/06/washington-post-and-cbs-receiving-money-from-obamacare-slush-fund/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"article\" style=\"color: #0e4d8b; background: inherit;\">article</a> he wrote for The Daily Caller. \"The Washington Post is getting $573,217, and the CBS Corporation is getting $722,388,\" he remarks.  <a href=\"http://www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id=1328038\">READ MORE&gt;&gt;</a></p>\r\n</span></p>','',1,60,'2011-04-12 21:43:22',62,'One News Now','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-04-12 21:43:22','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',1,224,'','',1,228,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(278,0,'Why the Peaceful Majority is Irrelevant','why-the-peaceful-majority-is-irrelevant','<p><strong>REPRINT OF 2007 OPINION PIECE</strong></p>\r\n<h3>History lessons are often incredibly simple.</h3>\r\n<p>I used to know a man whose family were German aristocracy prior to World War II. They owned a number of large industries and estates. I asked him how many German people were true Nazis, and the answer he gave has stuck with me and guided my attitude toward fanaticism ever since.</p>\r\n<p>“Very few people were true Nazis,” he said, “but many enjoyed the return of German pride, and many more were too busy to care. I was one of those who just thought the Nazis were a bunch of fools. So, the majority just sat back and let it all happen. Then, before we knew it, they owned us, and we had lost control, and the end of the world had come. My family lost everything. I ended up in a concentration camp and the Allies destroyed my factories.”   <a href=\"http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/6996\">READ MORE &gt;&gt;</a></p>','',1,60,'2011-04-15 15:36:39',62,'Paul E. Marek','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-04-15 15:36:39','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',1,223,'','',1,164,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(279,0,'If the judge ain\'t straight, you must vacate','if-the-judge-aint-straight-you-must-vacate','<p><img src=\"http://www.onenewsnow.com/uploadedImages/Matt_Barber.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Matt Barber\" title=\"Matt Barber\" hspace=\"3\" vspace=\"3\" width=\"94\" height=\"127\" align=\"left\" />Proposition 8 is an amendment to California\'s State Constitution. It was passed by a comfortable margin via ballot initiative in 2008. Prop. 8 maintained the age-old definition of marriage in The Golden State as requiring binary male-female compatibility. It remains tied-up in federal court today.<br /> <br /> Back in February of 2010 it became rumored that retired Federal Judge Vaughn Walker -- who presided over the case at the District level -- was a practitioner of the homosexual lifestyle. It was further reported that he had a longtime male lover. Judge Walker refused to confirm or deny the rumors. At the time I was one of the few people to <a href=\"http://www.onenewsnow.com/Legal/Default.aspx?id=901170\" title=\"publicly call\">publicly call</a> for his recusal. It\'s inexplicable that attorneys defending Prop. 8 didn\'t make such a motion.   <a href=\"http://www.onenewsnow.com/Perspectives/Default.aspx?id=1330468\">MORE &gt;&gt;</a></p>','',1,60,'2011-04-15 20:13:13',62,'Matt Barber','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-04-15 20:13:13','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',1,222,'','',1,175,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(280,0,'Palestinian Leader Says, \"We Are Counting on President Obama\"','palestinian-leader-says-qwe-are-counting-on-president-obamaq','<p><img src=\"images/stories/mikeevans.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Dr. Evans\" align=\"left\" />On his visit to Tunisia, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas confirmed his intention to seek United Nations recognition of an independent Palestinian state this September. Palestinian leaders have abandoned any pretense of peace negotiations with Israel, believing they will get far more from the world authority which has indicated its willingness to adopt the boundaries preferred by the Palestinians without regard to Israel\'s interests or security. <br /><br />Abbas cited the support of the Obama Administration for his goal. \"We are counting on the words of US President Barack Obama who said his vision is to see a Palestinian state this coming September according to a deadline set by the Quartet.\" Abbas also noted, \"More than 130 countries have already recognized a Palestinian state on 1967 borders. This number has the potential to reach 140 or 150.\" At this point, the only way for this plan to divide Jerusalem and curse Israel to be stopped is for America to use its veto at the United Nations—but the Obama Administration shows no interest in doing so. Now more than ever we need to stand with the Jewish people and the nation of Israel. <a href=\"http://myjwn.com/\">Jerusalem World News &gt;&gt;</a></p>','',1,30,'2011-04-23 01:19:07',62,'Dr. Michael Evans','2012-02-27 03:09:52',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-04-23 01:19:07','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',2,25,'','',1,362,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(281,0,'Obummer!','obummer','<p>{source}<span style=\"font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;\"><br /><span>&lt;</span>iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"330\" height=\"270\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/aiGg8D4hFLc?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen<span>&gt;</span><span>&lt;</span>/iframe<span>&gt;</span><br /></span>{/source}</p>','',1,20,'2011-04-23 01:40:24',62,'Christina Houston','2011-04-23 02:03:48',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-04-23 01:40:24','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',2,20,'','',1,352,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(282,0,'Brother, Can You Spare A Trillion?: Government Gone Wild!','brother-can-you-spare-a-trillion-government-gone-wild','<p>{source}<span style=\"font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;\"><br /><span>&lt;</span>iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/VtVbUmcQSuk?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen<span>&gt;</span><span>&lt;</span>/iframe<span>&gt;</span><br /></span>{/source}</p>','',1,26,'2011-04-23 02:14:11',62,'submitted by Ed Garry','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-04-23 02:14:11','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',1,3,'','',1,4587,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(283,0,'President Obama ignores most holy Christian holiday; AFA calls act intentional.','president-obama-ignores-most-holy-christian-holiday-afa-calls-act-intentional','<p><span style=\"color: #2f2f2f; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; line-height: normal;\"> </span></p>\r\n<p><strong>President Barack Obama</strong> found time to prepare an eight paragraph proclamation for Earth Day on Friday, but <strong>found zero time to issue a proclamation for Easter</strong>, the highest and holiest day of the year for Christians.</p>\r\n<p>While waxing eloquent about the necessity of preserving our nation\'s \"natural heritage,\" he had <strong>not a word for the millions of Christians celebrating Easter</strong> in America and around the world.</p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTLKu4mMvrI\"><img src=\"http://action.afa.net/uploadedImages/Activism/AFA_Action_Alerts/Action_Alert_Related_Items/oeaster.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Watch this video!\" hspace=\"5\" align=\"right\" /></a>The American Family Association believes this was an intentional act of disrespect.</p>\r\n<p>This is consistent with other egregious examples of disregard for our Christian heritage on the president\'s part, such as omitting \"Creator\" from the Declaration of Independence, which he has done on at least three occasions.</p>\r\n<p><strong>The president has shown far more interest in promoting Islam than his own self-proclaimed Christian faith</strong>, the faith of our Founding Fathers.</p>\r\n<p>The president has been devoted to issuing statements marking all major Muslim holidays, which are of no historical significance to the United States whatsoever. He has released statements in honor of Ramadan, Eid-ul-Fitr, Hajj and Eid-ul-Adha, holidays which most Americans cannot pronounce and certainly do not celebrate.</p>\r\n<p>More glaringly, <strong>President Obama made no mention of Good Friday or Easter in his weekly address to the nation on Saturday</strong>.  <a href=\"http://action.afa.net/email/online.aspx?cid=1308&amp;mid=21267818&amp;tid=aa&amp;utm_source=smAFA&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=1308\">READ  MORE &gt;&gt;</a></p>\r\n<p> </p>','',1,20,'2011-04-26 22:42:43',62,'AFA - American Family Association','2011-04-26 23:08:24',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-04-26 22:42:43','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',2,19,'','',1,537,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(284,0,'Showstopping performance by Carrie Underwood and Vince Gill ... \"How Great Thou Art\"','showstopping-performance-by-carrie-underwood-and-vince-gill-slaying-qhow-great-thou-art','<p>{source}<span style=\"font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;\"><br /><span>&lt;</span>iframe width=\"640\" height=\"390\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/7eiEaK4GXtw?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen<span>&gt;</span><span>&lt;</span>/iframe<span>&gt;</span><br /></span>{/source}</p>','',1,20,'2011-04-28 15:23:54',62,'Submitted by Phyllis Garabedian','2011-04-28 15:28:29',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-04-28 15:23:54','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',3,18,'','',1,1205,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(285,0,'Panetta to Be SecDef; Petraeus to CIA','panetta-to-be-secdef-petraeus-to-cia-april-27-2011-associated-press-washington-president-obama-plans-to-name-cia-director-leon-panetta-as-the-next-secretary-of-defense-and-move-gen-david-petraeus-now-running-the-war-in-afghanistan-into-the-cia-ch','<p><span style=\"color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: normal;\"><span class=\"article_title\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 9px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: block;\"><br /></span></span></p>\r\n<p><span id=\"article_photo\" style=\"margin-top: 3px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; display: inline; float: left; padding: 0px;\"><img src=\"http://images.military.com/cs/Satellite?blobcol=urldata&amp;blobheadername1=Content-Type&amp;blobheadername2=Content-Disposition&amp;blobheadervalue1=image%2Fjpeg&amp;blobheadervalue2=inline%3Bfilename%3Dpanetta4.27th.jpg&amp;blobkey=id&amp;blobnocache=false&amp;blobtable=MungoBlobs&amp;blobwhere=1209999684052&amp;ssbinary=true\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Leon Panetta\" style=\"display: inline; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 1px solid #999999;\" /></span></p>\r\n<div class=\"article_meta\" style=\"padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 10px; margin: 0px;\">\r\n<div class=\"article_pub_date\" style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">April 27, 2011</div>\r\n<span id=\"article_source\" style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">Associated Press</span></div>\r\n<div id=\"article_page_1\" class=\"article_body\" style=\"overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; word-wrap: break-word; display: inline; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">\r\n<p style=\"padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px;\">WASHINGTON -- President Obama plans to name CIA Director Leon Panetta as the next secretary of defense and move Gen. David Petraeus, now running the war in Afghanistan, into the CIA chief\'s job in a major shuffle of the nation\'s national security leadership, administration and other sources said Wednesday.</p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px;\">All sources spoke on condition of anonymity because the changes haven\'t been announced by the president.</p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px;\">The changes would probably take effect this summer. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has already said he will leave this year, and the White House wants to schedule Senate confirmation hearings in the coming months.</p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px;\"><a href=\"http://www.military.com/news/article/sources-panetta-to-dod-petraeus-to-cia.html?ESRC=dod.nl\">&gt;&gt; READ MORE</a></p>\r\n</div>\r\n<p> </p>','',1,20,'2011-04-30 21:17:50',62,'Military Insider','2011-04-30 21:24:02',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-04-30 21:17:50','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',3,17,'','',1,327,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(286,0,'Remember The Bailouts?','remember-the-bailouts','<div>First, let me set the scene.  The   housing market had collapsed with properties in many areas losing more than half   their value.  Banks had been pushing adjustable rate mortgages (ARM’s) and even   ‘interest only’ loans with high commissions that artificially inflated the   housing market instead of more traditional ‘fixed rate’ loans. Politicians in   Washington were demanding that loans be given to people who couldn’t reliably   pay them back.  Then to insulate themselves from the bad loans they had written,   companies like Goldman Sachs bundled those bad loans into a new financial   instrument called a mortgage backed security.  Those securities allowed Wall   Street to sell those bad loans back to regular people as AAA rated investments   through State pensions funds and other investment tools. I could go on and   on about how this fraud was committed at the behest of Wall Street and their   politicians, so the American people got burned by buying overvalued homes, got   burned again by being pushed into bad loans, and finally got burned by assuming   the risk of those bad loans through our pensions and other retirement accounts.    The American people had taken a beating, but Wall Street and the politicians   they owned were not done raiding our wealth.   \r\n','\r\n</div>\r\n<div>Loopholes that   these bankers had bought from Washington allowed these banks to become “too big   to fail” and when the market came crashing down around us, they threatened more   financial misery unless they could raid TRILLIONS of dollars from our tax   dollars.  Goldman Sachs alum, Henry Paulson, was heading up the treasury and in   conjunction with other bank-owned politicians, like Tim “Tax-Cheat” Geithner,   Barney Frank, and Christopher Dodd, they successfully pushed through a gigantic   bailout.  Now, years later, Goldman Sachs and Wall Street are back to making   billions of dollars in profit while the American people are still dealing with a   collapsed housing market, soaring gas prices, and diminished pensions.</div>\r\n<div>I ask you to   remember all of this because, once again, Wall Street manipulation ignored by   Washington threatens regular American people and even national security.  Gas   prices are soaring at rates far beyond what can be attributed to the forces of   regular supply and demand.  Gas prices are soaring because crooked politicians   and crooked Wall Street wiz kids needed another way to rob the American   people—this time by using our pension funds and foreign money to artificially   inflate gas prices.</div>\r\n<div>One of the   reasons that Donald Trump is resonating with a lot of people is that he openly   talks about ending Wall Street’s ability to artificially inflate gas prices   through speculation.  When you see gas prices soaring above $4 a gallon, ask   yourself where are the lines caused by a supply shortage?  With the world’s   economy in a recession, where is the gigantic increase in demand that would   warrant a 100%+ increase in cost?  The obvious answer is these gas prices are   not being caused by a major tilt in supply or demand.  The people driving up gas   prices can be found among the same crooks who we bailed out after they stole   incredible amounts of American wealth and their politicians in Washington just a   few short years ago.</div>\r\n<div>This speculation   on oil commodities is literally driving trillions of dollars to enemies of the   United States.  When the price of oil rises, countries like Iran, Venezuela, and   Libya are the major benefactors.  I plan on asking a lot of politicians what can   be done to rein in oil speculation, and I hope you will too.  I look forward to   sharing some solutions with you in a future column.</div>\r\n<div>Dustin   Stockton</div>\r\n<div>Media/Events   Director, TheTeaParty.net</div>\r\n<div>Chief Strategist,   Western Representation PAC</div>\r\n<p><strong><em><a href=\"http://paracom.paramountcommunication.com/ct/5867961:8672645893:m:1:247031018:0D0FC78115858375867AA6F29E887C92\" target=\"_blank\">TheTeaParty.net</a></em><em> | 1717 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Suite 1025 |   Washington, DC 20006</em></strong></p>\r\n<p><br /> <img src=\"https://secure.campaignsolutions.com/theteaparty/donation1/share.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"share\" /></p>',1,20,'2011-05-02 13:11:14',62,'The Tea  Party.net','2011-05-02 13:16:56',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-05-02 13:11:14','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',2,16,'','',1,523,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(287,0,'NEWS:  Bin Laden, Al Qaeda, and the Muslim Brotherhood ','bin-laden-is-dead-and-i-dont-feel-so-good-myself','<div>\r\n<p align=\"justify\"><img src=\"images/stories/OAKI-logo.png\" border=\"0\" /></p>\r\n<p align=\"justify\">John Guandolo is a former FBI Special Agent with particular   expertise on the Muslim Brotherhood and is a friend of the Oak Initiative.  He   also is one of the authors of the \"Team B II Report\" titled \"<a href=\"http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=6blbffdab&amp;t=xncarpfab.0.orbtrpfab.6blbffdab.4480&amp;ts=S0621&amp;p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theoakinitiative.org%2Fcontent%2Fsharia-threat-america-team-b-iibr\" target=\"_blank\">Sharia: The Threat to   America</a>\". His co-authors include a former CIA Director, Dept. of Defense   senior officials, retired three and four star generals, and NSA and intelligence   officials.   The following article has recently been released by   John.  I trust you will find it very enlightening - please share with your   friends.</p>\r\n<a href=\"http://bigpeace.com/author/jguandolo\"><img src=\"http://bigpeace.com/files/userphoto/3981.thumbnail.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"John Guandolo\" width=\"62\" height=\"80\" align=\"left\" /></a></div>\r\n<div>\r\n<h1>Bin Laden is Dead and I Don’t Feel So Good Myself</h1>\r\nPosted by <a href=\"http://bigpeace.com/author/jguandolo/\" title=\"View all posts by John Guandolo\">John Guandolo</a> May 3rd 2011 at 9:32 am in <a href=\"http://bigpeace.com/category/featured-story/\" title=\"View all posts in Featured Story\" rel=\"category tag\">Featured Story</a>, <a href=\"http://bigpeace.com/category/islamic-extremism/\" title=\"View all posts in Islamic extremism\" rel=\"category tag\">Islamic extremism</a> |<a id=\"IDShowCommentLink112676\" href=\"http://bigpeace.com/jguandolo/2011/05/03/bin-laden-is-dead-and-i-dont-feel-so-good-myself/#idc-container\" title=\"Comment on Bin Laden is Dead and I Don’t Feel So Good Myself\">Comments (40)</a></div>\r\n<div>\r\n<div id=\"lazyload_post_0\">\r\n<p>Nearly flawlessly executing the operation in Pakistan to raid the compound where Osama bin Laden was living – among the military and police leadership of Pakistan by the way – the U.S. Navy’s SEAL Team Six along with elements of other U.S. government assets killed America’s most wanted man.  This is a victory for all of us – no doubt.  A tremendous Bravo Zulu to the men and women who made it possible and gave the operation the best chance of success.  Bin Laden is dead.  What I am hearing from the media, the government, and our President, however, is making me queezy.</p>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>','',1,20,'2011-05-05 13:58:25',62,'Submitted by The Oak Initiative','2011-05-05 14:31:38',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-05-05 13:58:25','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',5,15,'','',1,779,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(288,0,'Feds accused of \'coercion,\' \'union bullying\'','feds-accused-of-coercion-union-bullying','<div>\r\n<div id=\"StoryTitle\">\r\n<div id=\"reporter\"><strong>Chris Woodward and Jody Brown - OneNewsNow - 5/4/2011 4:10:00 AM</strong></div>\r\n</div>\r\n<p align=\"left\"><img src=\"http://www.onenewsnow.com/uploadedImages/Media/Images/Maps/South%20Carolina.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"South Carolina\" title=\"South Carolina\" hspace=\"3\" vspace=\"3\" width=\"125\" height=\"100\" align=\"right\" />A U.S. senator, a labor consultant, and nine attorneys general are ripping the National Labor Relations Board for filing a complaint against Boeing over its new facility in South Carolina.</p>\r\n<p> </p>\r\n<p align=\"left\">Boeing plans to open its newest 787 airliner assembly plant this summer in South Carolina, which is one of almost two dozen \"right-to-work\" states. The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) filed the complaint, claiming the aircraft manufacturer participated in unfair labor practices by threatening to open new, non-union facilities.  <a href=\"http://www.onenewsnow.com/Politics/Default.aspx?id=1340970\">&gt;&gt; READ MORE</a></p>\r\n</div>\r\n<div></div>','',1,29,'2011-05-05 14:31:48',62,'OneNewsNow','2012-03-25 23:38:47',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-05-05 14:31:48','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',2,12,'','',1,344,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(289,0,'Special Bulletin - Tornadoes in the Southeast: Peace in Conflict','special-bulletin-tornadoes-in-the-southeast-peace-in-conflict','<p><span style=\"color: #000; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, \'Bitstream Vera Sans\', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\"> </span></p>\r\n<div class=\"field field-type-content-taxonomy field-field-speaker\" style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; display: table-cell; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">\r\n<div class=\"field-items\" style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">\r\n<div class=\"field-item odd\" style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\"><img src=\"images/stories/r_joyner_85px.jpg\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" /><strong>Rick Joyner</strong></div>\r\n<div class=\"field-item odd\" style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\"><span style=\"line-height: 17px;\">Tuesday, May 3, 2011</span></div>\r\n<div class=\"field-item odd\" style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\"></div>\r\n<div class=\"field-item odd\" style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">In this Special Bulletin, Rick Joyner speaks about the recent tornadoes in the southeast, and shares a prophecy from Bob Jones. The weather is going to become increasingly chaotic and turbulent, but we must find peace in these times. We will face a state of almost continuous conflict from this point on. However, standing on the truth of the Lord and knowing His voice will bring us peace and security that cannot be surpassed.</span></div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://www.morningstartv.com/prophetic-perspective-current-events/tornadoes-southeast-peace-conflict?utm_source=sbemail&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=5-5-11\">&gt;&gt;VIEW FLASH VIDEO</a></p>','',1,20,'2011-05-06 03:20:42',62,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-05-06 03:20:42','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',1,14,'','',1,753,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(290,0,'Military Insider: Bin Laden Planned to Derail US Train','military-insider-bin-laden-planned-to-derail-us-train','<p><span id=\"article_photo\"><img src=\"http://images.military.com/cs/Satellite?blobcol=urldata&amp;blobheadername1=Content-Type&amp;blobheadername2=Content-Disposition&amp;blobheadervalue1=image%2Fjpeg&amp;blobheadervalue2=inline%3Bfilename%3DOBL-w-AK47-380x253+%28sm%29.jpg&amp;blobkey=id&amp;blobnocache=false&amp;blobtable=MungoBlobs&amp;blobwhere=1210000203800&amp;ssbinary=true\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"7\" align=\"left\" /></span></p>\r\n<div>\r\n<div><strong>May 06, 2011</strong></div>\r\n<span id=\"article_source\">Associated Press</span></div>\r\n<div id=\"article_page_1\">\r\n<p>Holed up in a compound in Pakistan, Osama bin Laden was scheming how to hit the United States hard again, according to newly uncovered documents that show al-Qaida plans for derailing an American train on the upcoming 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.</p>\r\n<p>Details of the plan emerged Thursday as some of the first intelligence was gleaned from the trove of information found in bin Laden\'s residence when Navy SEALs killed the al-Qaida leader and four of his associates. They took his body and scooped up computers, DVDs and documents from the compound where U.S. officials think he had been living for as long as six years. <a href=\"http://www.military.com/news/article/bin-laden-planned-to-derail-us-train.html?ESRC=dod.nl\">&gt;&gt;READ MORE</a></p>\r\n</div>','',1,20,'2011-05-08 11:58:40',62,'Military.Com','2011-05-08 12:07:39',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-05-08 11:58:40','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',2,13,'','',1,643,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(291,0,'A Resolution for Israel ','a-resolution-for-israel','<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #000000; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; margin-right: 0in;\"> </span></p>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: black; font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Geneva;\"><strong>A Resolution for Israel </strong></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Special Bulletin</span> </span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: \'Arial\',\'sans-serif\'; color: black; font-size: 10pt;\">by <em>Rick Joyner </em></span></p>\r\n</div>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0px; font-family: Verdana,Geneva; margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 10pt;\" align=\"justify\">The events of this past week make the Oak Initiative\'s Board Resolution to publish a position on Israel even more timely and imperative. We would not be too dramatic to say that a Rubicon has been crossed and that we are at a major demarcation point in our history.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0px; font-family: Verdana,Geneva; margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 10pt;\" align=\"justify\"> </p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; font-family: Verdana,Geneva; margin-bottom: 0px;\">In a most shocking and reprehensible way, America betrayed one of its most faithful and important allies, Israel. Not only has our President placed one of America\'s best friends in the world in jeopardy of her very survival, stating that as a basis for peace in the Middle East Israel should return to its pre-1967 borders, but as history testifies, what we do to Israel comes back on us for good or evil just as the Lord promised. Those who bless Israel will be blessed, and those who curse Israel will be cursed. If this proposal stands, we have no doubt put our own nation in jeopardy as well. <span style=\"color: black; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Geneva; font-size: 10pt;\">....</span><a href=\"http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=6blbffdab&amp;et=1105660366765&amp;s=4480&amp;e=001mzNh-hioXQ2noCr8JKXQ8GKN6QrD0y1XQz4VWMkYtK7eqw8_sCfLORcU5_orLgx5P4fxvqPzpM8Xr7n4IUZBcv-B4z0hf8wQ-FkcYqPDMR4RR7bFYSmM-B8udwSA4zLCANQglFa18kavfrsNDFSCVhEgegpitQmkfNC5Bc9CKLs=\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: blue; text-decoration: underline;\">more</a></span></p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #000000; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; margin-right: 0in;\"><em> </em></span></p>\r\n<p> </p>','',1,75,'2011-05-24 23:31:54',63,'','2012-02-04 13:00:19',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-05-24 23:31:54','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',5,50,'','',1,302,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(292,0,'Benjamin Netanyahu Addresses US Congress','benjamin-netanyahu-speaks-to-us-congress','<p>{source}<span style=\"font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;\"><br /><span>&lt;</span>iframe width=\"560\" height=\"349\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/Xi0GPEXOzng\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen<span>&gt;</span><span>&lt;</span>/iframe<span>&gt;</span><br /></span>{/source}</p>','',1,30,'2011-05-24 23:47:29',62,'Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu','2012-02-27 03:08:12',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-05-24 23:47:29','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',4,22,'','',1,435,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(293,0,'Americans Misled on Energy','americans-misled-on-energy','<p>\r\n<p>Washington D.C. – Congressman John Fleming, M.D. released the following statement responding to deceptive claims by Senator Durbin (D-Il) that the United States only has 2% of the world\'s oil reserves. This is on top of claims by President Obama and the Interior Department that oil production in the Gulf of Mexico is at an all time high, an assertion refuted by his own administration\'s data.<br /><br />\"Once again Democrats would rather deliberately mislead Americans on the state of our domestic oil reserves than solve our energy problems. It\'s time Americans were told the WHOLE truth about our domestic oil reserves. Yes – we have 2% of the world\'s \'proved\' oil reserves but what Senator Durbin fails to mention is that the United States has 14% of the world\'s \'technically recoverable\' oil reserves. The United States is still the world’s third-largest oil producer – second to Russia and Saudi Arabia. Only looking at the United States\' \'proved\' oil reserves ignores 83% of the oil we have in the United States,\" said Congressman Fleming.<br /><br />Congressman Fleming added, \"This latest assertion by Senator Durbin is part of the Democrats\' agenda to deflect criticism for surging gas prices and mislead Americans on the vast energy resources of the United States. Prices at the pump are a direct response to supply and demand. If we increase our energy supply, gas prices will fall. But the deliberate actions of democrats and the Obama administration to restrict our energy supply are causing gas prices to spike. Half truths and deliberate misrepresentations by President Obama and Democrats about our domestic energy production and reserves do nothing to lower gas prices and create REAL jobs in the United States and Americans can\'t afford it.\" <br /><br />For the latest videos from Washington, D.C. <a href=\"http://fleming.house.gov/Components/Redirect/r.aspx?ID=141781-13376839\">Please Click Here</a></p>\r\n<p style=\"line-height: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;\">Sincerely, <br /><br /><img src=\"http://fleming.house.gov/images/fleming-sig.png\" border=\"0\" /><br />JOHN FLEMING, M.D.<br />Member of Congress<br /><br /><em>Dr. John Fleming is Chairman of the Natural Resources Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans and Insular Affairs and is a member of the House Armed Services Committee. He is a physician and small business owner and represents the 4th Congressional District of Louisiana.</em></p>\r\n</p>','',1,77,'2011-05-31 20:13:11',62,'Congressman John Fleming, MD','2012-03-25 23:38:31',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-05-31 20:13:11','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',2,7,'','',1,451,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(294,0,'California Assembly Approves Internet Tax ','california-assembly-approves-internet-tax','<p>ClientNine writes \"California could collect more than [0]$1 billion a<br />year by  taxing Amazon and other online retailers if a bill approved by<br />the Assembly  becomes law. Assemblyman Charles Calderon, a Democrat from<br />Whittier, says his  legislation doesn\'t impose a new sales tax, but<br />extends one that California  should already have been enforcing. AB155<br />passed, 47-16, with the support of  one GOP lawmaker Tuesday. It now heads<br />to the Senate. Other Republicans  rejected the bill because they said it<br />would invite lawsuits, drive business  out of California, and get the<br />state entangled in the messy task of  regulating the Internet.\"<br /><br />Discuss this story at:<br /> <a href=\"https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/06/01/2022223/California-Assembly-Approves-Internet-Tax?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting\">https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/06/01/2022223/California-Assembly-Approves-Internet-Tax?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting</a></p>','',1,60,'2011-06-02 11:30:04',62,'slashdot','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-06-02 11:30:04','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',1,221,'','',1,225,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(295,0,'Links to Videos about Islam','links-to-videos-about-islam','<p> </p>\r\n<p>These links, forwarded to me by an ROG member, provide additional information  supplementing Mr. Rick Wilson\'s recent presentation on radical Islam. They  address recruitment tactics, Islamic beliefs, and wake up call to other  nations. Submitted by <a href=\"http://www.retakeourgov.com\">RetakeOurGov.com</a></p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://www.retakeourgov.com/index.php?option=com_acymailing&amp;ctrl=url&amp;urlid=181&amp;mailid=148&amp;subid=245&amp;Itemid=109\" style=\"color: #0000cc;\">http://hizb-america.org/multimedia/video/951-khilafah-conference-2010  Conference</a> Ad<br /><br /><a href=\"http://www.retakeourgov.com/index.php?option=com_acymailing&amp;ctrl=url&amp;urlid=182&amp;mailid=148&amp;subid=245&amp;Itemid=109\" style=\"color: #0000cc;\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib9rofXQl6w  3</a> Things You Should Know<br /><br /><a href=\"http://www.retakeourgov.com/index.php?option=com_acymailing&amp;ctrl=url&amp;urlid=183&amp;mailid=148&amp;subid=245&amp;Itemid=109\" style=\"color: #0000cc;\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEljIEZlobg&amp;feature=related  BG</a> @ CC<br /><br /><a href=\"http://www.retakeourgov.com/index.php?option=com_acymailing&amp;ctrl=url&amp;urlid=184&amp;mailid=148&amp;subid=245&amp;Itemid=109\" style=\"color: #0000cc;\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQ6VI_bc1j4&amp;feature=related  Sweden\'s</a> Lesson To All<br /><br /><a href=\"http://www.retakeourgov.com/index.php?option=com_acymailing&amp;ctrl=url&amp;urlid=185&amp;mailid=148&amp;subid=245&amp;Itemid=109\" style=\"color: #0000cc;\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kKkY5EpVpY&amp;feature=related  Population</a> Explosion<br /><br /><a href=\"http://www.retakeourgov.com/index.php?option=com_acymailing&amp;ctrl=url&amp;urlid=186&amp;mailid=148&amp;subid=245&amp;Itemid=109\" style=\"color: #0000cc;\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1tWTtveFL8  Hate</a> Preaching<br /><br /><a href=\"http://www.retakeourgov.com/index.php?option=com_acymailing&amp;ctrl=url&amp;urlid=187&amp;mailid=148&amp;subid=245&amp;Itemid=109\" style=\"color: #0000cc;\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKs7oi_-NUo&amp;feature=fvwrel  How</a> to Lie<br /><br /><a href=\"http://www.retakeourgov.com/index.php?option=com_acymailing&amp;ctrl=url&amp;urlid=188&amp;mailid=148&amp;subid=245&amp;Itemid=109\" style=\"color: #0000cc;\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWIFhKYiMqU&amp;NR=1&amp;feature=fvwp  Mickey</a> Mouse<br /><br /><a href=\"http://www.retakeourgov.com/index.php?option=com_acymailing&amp;ctrl=url&amp;urlid=189&amp;mailid=148&amp;subid=245&amp;Itemid=109\" style=\"color: #0000cc;\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wh7qiO3Ygnk&amp;feature=related  Wife</a> Beating</p>\r\n<p> </p>','',1,71,'2011-06-02 11:31:27',62,'RetakeOurGov.com','2011-06-25 14:56:55',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-06-02 11:31:27','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',5,11,'','',1,455,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(296,0,'Man Ordered At Gunpoint To Hand Over Phone For Recording Cops','man-ordered-at-gunpoint-to-hand-over-phone-for-recording-cops','<p>| Man Ordered At Gunpoint To Hand Over Phone For Recording Cops<br />|   from the  don\'t-shoot-or-we\'ll-shoot dept.<br />|   posted by Soulskill on Saturday June 04,  @18:02 (Crime)<br />|   <a href=\"https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/06/04/201228/Man-Ordered-At-Gunpoint-To-Hand-Over-Phone-For-Recording-Cops?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email\">https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/06/04/201228/Man-Ordered-At-Gunpoint-To-Hand-Over-Phone-For-Recording-Cops?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email</a><br />+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />HungryHobo  writes with this excerpt from a story at Pixiq: \"Miami Beach<br />police [0]did  their best to destroy a citizen video that shows them<br />shooting a man to death  in a hail of bullets on Memorial Day. First,<br />police pointed their guns at the  man who shot the video, [1]according to<br />a Miami Herald interview with the  videographer. Then they ordered the man<br />and his girlfriend out of the car and  threw them down to the ground,<br />yelling, \'you want to be f****** paparazzi?\'  Then they snatched the cell<br />phone from his hand and slammed it to the ground  before stomping on it.<br />Then they placed the smashed phone in the  videographer\'s back pocket as<br />he was laying down on the  ground.\"<br /><br />Discuss this story at:<br /> <a href=\"https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/06/04/201228/Man-Ordered-At-Gunpoint-To-Hand-Over-Phone-For-Recording-Cops?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting\">https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/06/04/201228/Man-Ordered-At-Gunpoint-To-Hand-Over-Phone-For-Recording-Cops?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting</a><br /><br />Links:<br /> 0. <a href=\"http://www.pixiq.com/article/MIami%20Beach%20Police%20Ordered%20Videographer%20At%20Gunpoint%20To%20Hand%20Over\">http://www.pixiq.com/article/MIami%20Beach%20Police%20Ordered%20Videographer%20At%20Gunpoint%20To%20Hand%20Over</a><br /> 1. <a href=\"http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/06/02/v-fullstory/2248396/witnesses-said-they-were-forced.html\">http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/06/02/v-fullstory/2248396/witnesses-said-they-were-forced.html</a></p>','',1,70,'2011-06-05 19:07:37',62,'slashdot','2011-06-25 12:53:02',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-06-05 19:07:37','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',2,67,'','',1,197,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(297,0,'Yet Another Senate/Obama End Run','yet-another-senateobama-end-run','<h3>When is enough, enough?<br />Yet another Senate/Obama attempted end run against the will of the people, compliments of Olympia Snowe et al.</h3>\r\n<p> </p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://www.loc.gov/\">The Library of Congress</a> &gt; <a href=\"http://thomas.loc.gov/\">THOMAS Home</a> &gt; <a href=\"http://thomas.loc.gov/home/LegislativeData.php?&amp;n=BillText\">Bills, Resolutions</a> &gt; Search Results</p>\r\n<div id=\"content\">\r\n<h1>Bill Text<br /> 112th Congress (2011-2012)<br /> S.689.IS</h1>\r\n<pre><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; white-space: normal;\"><a href=\"http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c112:s689:#locshare/print\">Print </a><a href=\"http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c112:s689:#locshare/subscribe\">Subscribe </a><a href=\"http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c112:s689:#locshare/share\">Share/Save</a></span></pre>\r\n<span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"line-height: normal; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;\"><br /></span></span> 112th CONGRESS   1st Session\r\n<p> </p>\r\nS. 689\r\n<p>To promote the oil independence of the United States, and for other purposes.</p>\r\n<p> </p>\r\nIN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES\r\n<h3>March 30, 2011</h3>\r\n<p>Mr. MERKLEY (for himself and Ms. SNOWE) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources</p>\r\n<p> </p>\r\nA BILL\r\n<p>To promote the oil independence of the United States, and for other purposes.</p>\r\n<ul>\r\nBe it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, \r\n</ul>\r\n<h3>SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.</h3>\r\n<ul>\r\nThis Act may be cited as the `Energy Security Act of 2011\'. \r\n</ul>\r\n<h3>SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.</h3>\r\n<ul>\r\nIn this Act: \r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li> \r\n<ul>\r\n(1) ADMINISTRATOR- The term `Administrator\' means the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. \r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li> \r\n<ul>\r\n(2) COUNCIL- The term `Council\' means the National Energy Security Council established by section 4. \r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li> \r\n<ul>\r\n(3) NATIONAL ENERGY SECURITY PROGRAM- The term `national energy security program\' means the national energy security program established by section 3. \r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li> \r\n<ul>\r\n(4) NATIONAL OIL INDEPENDENCE GOAL- The term `national oil independence goal\' means the national oil independence goal established under section 3(c). \r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li> \r\n<ul>\r\n(5) NATIONAL OIL INDEPENDENCE PLAN- The term `national oil independence plan\' means the national oil independence plan established under section 3(d). \r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3>\r\n','\r\nSEC. 3. NATIONAL ENERGY SECURITY PROGRAM.</h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n(a) Establishment- There is established in the Executive Office of the President the national energy security program. \r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n(b) Mission- The mission of the national energy security program shall be to coordinate the activities and policies of the Federal Government to ensure, to the maximum extent practicable, that the United States meets-- \r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li> \r\n<ul>\r\n(1) goals for reducing oil dependence, oil imports, and oil consumption; and \r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li> \r\n<ul>\r\n(2) other energy policy goals, including goals for-- \r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li> \r\n<ul>\r\n<li> \r\n<ul>\r\n(A) enhancing the competitiveness of the United States in clean energy technology; \r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li> \r\n<ul>\r\n<li> \r\n<ul>\r\n(B) strengthening clean energy technology manufacturing in the United States; \r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li> \r\n<ul>\r\n<li> \r\n<ul>\r\n(C) reducing greenhouse gas emissions; and \r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li> \r\n<ul>\r\n<li> \r\n<ul>\r\n(D) reducing hazardous pollutants. \r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n(c) National Oil Independence Goal- \r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li> \r\n<ul>\r\n(1) IN GENERAL- Subject to paragraph (2), it is the goal of the United States to reduce oil consumption by the quantity that is equal to or greater than the quantity of oil imported by the United States from outside of North America by calendar year 2030 (as compared to the rate of oil consumption projected for calendar year 2030 as of the date of enactment of this Act). \r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li> \r\n<ul>\r\n(2) ADJUSTMENTS- The President, in consultation with the Council-- \r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li> \r\n<ul>\r\n<li> \r\n<ul>\r\n(A) may adjust the numeric goal for calendar year 2030 established under paragraph (1); \r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li> \r\n<ul>\r\n<li> \r\n<ul>\r\n(B) shall ensure that any new goal established under subparagraph (A) represents the maximum practicable oil savings achievable, taking into account other benefits of reducing oil consumption (including economic, security, and environmental benefits) and costs or other economic effects; and \r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li> \r\n<ul>\r\n<li> \r\n<ul>\r\n(C) if any new goal established under subparagraph (A) is lower than the goal established under paragraph (1), shall establish an additional goal for reducing oil consumption in the United Sates by a quantity that is equal to or greater than the quantity of oil imported by the United States from outside of North America on the fastest timeline practicable, taking into account other benefits of reducing oil consumption (including economic, security, and environmental benefits) and costs or other economic effects. \r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n(d) National Oil Independence Plan- \r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li> \r\n<ul>\r\n(1) IN GENERAL- The President, in coordination with the Council and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, shall-- \r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li> \r\n<ul>\r\n<li> \r\n<ul>\r\n(A) develop a national oil independence plan that describes programs and activities that will be implemented to meet or exceed the national oil independence goal and other goals established pursuant to subsection (c); \r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li> \r\n<ul>\r\n<li> \r\n<ul>\r\n(B) submit the national oil independence plan to Congress not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act; and \r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li> \r\n<ul>\r\n<li> \r\n<ul>\r\n(C) submit an updated national oil independence plan to Congress every 2 years thereafter. \r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li> \r\n<ul>\r\n(2) REVIEW OF FEDERAL POLICIES, PROGRAMS, AND AUTHORITIES- Not later than 120 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the President, in coordination with the Council and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, shall review existing programs and authorities of the Federal Government and other applicable policies (including tax policies) to determine-- \r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li> \r\n<ul>\r\n<li> \r\n<ul>\r\n(A)(i) which programs, authorities, or policies could be used to accelerate reductions in oil dependence; and \r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li> \r\n<ul>\r\n<li> \r\n<ul>\r\n(ii) any means by which the programs, authorities, or policies-- \r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li> \r\n<ul>\r\n<li> \r\n<ul>\r\n<li> \r\n<ul>\r\n(I) could be used to maximize reductions in oil dependence; or \r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li> \r\n<ul>\r\n<li> \r\n<ul>\r\n<li> \r\n<ul>\r\n(II) would require modification in order to be used to maximize reductions in oil dependence; and \r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li> \r\n<ul>\r\n<li> \r\n<ul>\r\n(B)(i) which programs, authorities, or policies have the effect of increasing oil consumption and oil dependence or otherwise create barriers to reducing oil consumption and oil dependence; and \r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li> \r\n<ul>\r\n<li> \r\n<ul>\r\n(ii) the manner by which the programs, authorities, or policies-- \r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li> \r\n<ul>\r\n<li> \r\n<ul>\r\n<li> \r\n<ul>\r\n(I) have the effect of encouraging oil consumption or oil dependence or otherwise create barriers to reducing oil consumption and oil dependence; and \r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li> \r\n<ul>\r\n<li> \r\n<ul>\r\n<li> \r\n<ul>\r\n(II) could be modified or eliminated to help meet the goal of reducing oil consumption and oil dependence. \r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li> \r\n<ul>\r\n(3) CONTENTS- At a minimum, the national oil independence plan shall-- \r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li> \r\n<ul>\r\n<li> \r\n<ul>\r\n(A) describe the results and conclusions of the review conducted under paragraph (2); \r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li> \r\n<ul>\r\n<li> \r\n<ul>\r\n(B) as appropriate, include-- \r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li> \r\n<ul>\r\n<li> \r\n<ul>\r\n<li> \r\n<ul>\r\n(i) the use of programs, authorities, or policies described in paragraph (2)(A); and \r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li> \r\n<ul>\r\n<li> \r\n<ul>\r\n<li> \r\n<ul>\r\n(ii) if existing authority allows, proposals to modify or eliminate programs, authorities, or policies described in paragraph (2)(B); \r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li> \r\n<ul>\r\n<li> \r\n<ul>\r\n(C) include recommendations to Congress for legislation that would further-- \r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li> \r\n<ul>\r\n<li> \r\n<ul>\r\n<li> \r\n<ul>\r\n(i) promote reductions in oil consumption and oil dependence; \r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li> \r\n<ul>\r\n<li> \r\n<ul>\r\n<li> \r\n<ul>\r\n(ii) reduce barriers to reducing oil consumption and oil dependence; and \r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li> \r\n<ul>\r\n<li> \r\n<ul>\r\n<li> \r\n<ul>\r\n(iii) help meet the energy policy goals of the United States; \r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li> \r\n<ul>\r\n<li> \r\n<ul>\r\n(D) include a timetable for achieving the national oil independence goal, including interim targets on not less than a biennial basis; \r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li> \r\n<ul>\r\n<li> \r\n<ul>\r\n(E) a plan for coordinating actions across the Federal Government to ensure, to the maximum extent practicable, that the national oil independence goal is met; and \r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li> \r\n<ul>\r\n<li> \r\n<ul>\r\n(F) a timeline for issuing rules, Executive orders, or other policy instruments that will implement the recommendations contained the national oil independence plan. \r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n(e) Annual Requests to Congress- When submitting annual budget requests to Congress, the President shall include-- \r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li> \r\n<ul>\r\n(1)(A) requests for sufficient funding for such programs the President considers appropriate to implement the national oil independence plan; and \r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li> \r\n<ul>\r\n(B) if the amount of funding is not sufficient to meet the national oil independence goal, a description of the amount of funding that would be necessary to meet the goal; \r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li> \r\n<ul>\r\n(2)(A) requests for such additional authorities or changes to existing laws or authorities as the President considers appropriate in order to implement the national oil independence plan; and \r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li> \r\n<ul>\r\n(B) if the amount of funding is not sufficient to meet the national oil independence goal, a description of such additional authority or changes to existing laws or authorities as would be necessary to meet the goal; and \r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li> \r\n<ul>\r\n(3) a report on the oil consumption and imports of the United States relative to the national oil independence goal and the interim targets and timelines established in the national oil independence plan. \r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3>SEC. 4. NATIONAL ENERGY SECURITY COUNCIL.</h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n(a) Establishment- There is established in the Executive Office of the President a National Energy Security Council. \r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n(b) Mission- The mission of the Council shall be to assist and advise the President in-- \r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li> \r\n<ul>\r\n(1) establishing the national oil independence goal in numeric terms of barrels per day of oil consumption, based on the most recent consumption estimates by the Energy Information Administration; \r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li> \r\n<ul>\r\n(2) meeting the national oil independence goal; \r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li> \r\n<ul>\r\n(3) developing the national oil independence plan and the requests described in section 3(e); \r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li> \r\n<ul>\r\n(4) coordinating the policies, programs, and activities of the national energy security program in order to implement the national oil independence plan and meet the national oil independence goal; and \r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li> \r\n<ul>\r\n(5) ensuring that policy decisions and programs are consistent with the energy policy goals of the United States. \r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n(c) Membership- The membership of the Council shall consist of-- \r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li> \r\n<ul>\r\n(1) the Secretary of Energy; \r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li> \r\n<ul>\r\n(2) the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs; \r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li> \r\n<ul>\r\n(3) the Secretary of Transportation; \r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li> \r\n<ul>\r\n(4) the Administrator; \r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li> \r\n<ul>\r\n(5) the Secretary of the Treasury; \r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li> \r\n<ul>\r\n(6) the Director of the National Economic Council; \r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li> \r\n<ul>\r\n(7) the Secretary of Agriculture; \r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li> \r\n<ul>\r\n(8) the Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality; \r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li> \r\n<ul>\r\n(9) the Secretary of State; and \r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li> \r\n<ul>\r\n(10) the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy. \r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n(d) Chair- The President shall act as Chair of the Council. \r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n(e) Authorization of Appropriations- There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section such sums as are necessary. \r\n</ul>\r\n</div>',1,60,'2011-06-07 00:52:07',62,'Olympia Snowe','2011-06-07 15:35:55',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-06-07 00:52:07','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',6,220,'','',1,206,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(298,0,'The Real Cost of the Auto Bailouts','the-real-cost-of-the-auto-bailouts','<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; 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color: #333333; text-transform: none; width: 668px; padding: 0px;\">From Wall Street Journal: The government\'s unnecessary disruption of the bankruptcy laws will do long-term damage to the economy.</h2>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n<div class=\"art_tabbed_nav\" style=\"padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 15px; font-size: 1em; zoom: 1; border-bottom-width: 4px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: #70787c; clear: both; margin: 0px;\">\r\n<ul id=\"articleTabs\" class=\"tab\" style=\"list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; float: left; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">\r\n</ul>\r\n</div>\r\n</span></h3>\r\n<h3 class=\"byline\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.583em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; font-size: 1.2em; font-weight: normal; font-family: helvetica; line-height: 1.3em; color: #666666;\">By <a href=\"http://online.wsj.com/search/term.html?KEYWORDS=DAVID+SKEEL&amp;bylinesearch=true\" style=\"color: #093d72; text-decoration: none; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; text-transform: uppercase; letter-spacing: 1px;\">DAVID SKEEL</a></h3>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 8px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.5em; display: block; padding: 0px;\">President Obama\'s visit to a Chrysler plant in Toledo, Ohio, on Friday was the culmination of a campaign to portray the auto bailouts as a brilliant success with no unpleasant side effects. \"The industry is back on its feet,\" the president said, \"repaying its debt, gaining ground.\"</p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 8px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.5em; display: block; padding: 0px;\">If the government hadn\'t stepped in and dictated the terms of the restructuring, the story goes, General Motors and Chrysler would have collapsed, and at least a million jobs would have been lost. The bailouts averted disaster, and they did so at remarkably little cost.  <a href=\"http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303745304576361663907855834.html?mod=googlenews_wsj\">READ MORE&gt;&gt;</a></p>\r\n<p> </p>','',1,60,'2011-06-07 15:25:29',62,'Wall Street Journal','2011-06-07 15:38:13',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-06-07 15:25:29','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',3,219,'','',1,218,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(299,0,'Project Gunwalker','project-gunwalker','<h3><a href=\"http://www.nationalgunrights.org/\">National Association of Gun Rights</a><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;\"><br />by Dudley Moore</span></h3>\r\n<p><strong>Operation Fast &amp; Furious</strong> -- or as we have been calling it, “Project  Gunwalker” -- is becoming a large scandal very fast and most  furiously.<br /><br />One media outlet referred to it yesterday as <strong>“worse  than Iran-Contra.”</strong><br /><br />As you know, the anti-gun brass at the Bureau  of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE) conspired to force gun  dealers to sell firearms to criminals who in turn walked those firearms across  the border into Mexico and into the hands of dangerous drug  gangs.<br /><br /><strong>The BATFE administration blatantly ignored its own agents’  warnings in order to advance their anti-gun political agenda. By sanctioning and  encouraging the sale, literally thousands of firearms ended up in the hands of  violent Mexican drug cartels.</strong></p>\r\n','\r\n<p><br />The result?<br /><br />At least two  American law enforcement agents killed, one Mexican military helicopter shot  down and over 100 Mexican officers killed or wounded.<br /><br />That’s not counting  the crime that could come in the future.<br /><br /><strong>The BATFE purposefully  armed men who are considered by our own Federal law enforcement agents to be  more dangerous than al Qaeda.</strong><br /><br />And now, thanks to thousands of  gun owners -- patriots who took action and called their Congressmen -- the  anti-gun zealots who run the BATFE are facing a Congressional inquiry.<br /><br />On  Wednesday, after a full day of hearings, the Chairman of the US House of  Representatives Oversight and Government Reform Committee had this to say  regarding guns going into Mexico:<br /><br /><strong>“Could that be a political  decision? Could that be a decision that basically, we just want to substantiate  that guns in America go to Mexico…?”</strong><br /><br />You see what’s going on  here.<br /><br />Let’s retrace the steps:<br /><br /></p>\r\n<ul class=\"paragraph\">\r\n<li>The Obama administration and Hillary Clinton State Department assert that  most of the guns used in Mexican crimes come from America, and that in the name  of regional stability \"<strong>more restriction on law-abiding American Firearms  owners are needed and the United States must sign on to the United Nations Small  Arms Treaty.</strong> </li>\r\n<li>The BATFE begins investigating this “claim”, and creates a “sting operation”  to ensure American guns end up in Mexico. Then <strong>they force gun dealers to  sell firearms to known criminals</strong> who smuggle the guns to violent  Mexican drug cartels. </li>\r\n<li><strong>Agents on the ground in this investigation said that it was a  horrible idea, but the operations were authorized and supported by leading  officials in the BATFE and the Justice Department.</strong> </li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p><br />The  mantra of the anti-gun Left is simple: “never let a crisis go to  waste.”<br /><br />And if there isn’t a convenient crisis, go ahead and make one  up.<br /><br /><strong>This is exactly the strategy Obama and his anti-gun allies  have been practicing for years.</strong><br /><br />They will use this “crisis” to  ram federal gun control legislation down the throats of American  citizens.<br /><br /><strong>But I know you won’t stand for it.</strong><br /><br />I’m  going to remind them every chance I get, and remind them that you are behind  me.<br /><br /> For Freedom,<br /><br /> <img src=\"http://nationalgunrights.org/images/DWBsigBlue.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"signature\" /><br /> Dudley  Brown<br /> Executive Director</p>',1,72,'2011-06-19 13:24:25',62,'Dudley Brown, NAGR','2011-06-25 20:11:53',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-06-19 13:24:25','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',5,27,'','',1,426,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(300,0,'US Insists Israel Must Accept 1967 Borders to Bring Peace','us-insists-israel-must-accept-1967-borders-to-bring-peace','<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\"><img class=\"caption\" src=\"images/stories/mikeevans.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Dr. Michael Evans\" title=\"Dr. Michael Evans\" align=\"left\" /></span></p>\r\n<p>Shalom from the Holy City of Jerusalem. The Obama Administration is continuing to insist that Israel accede to its position on the 1967 borders as a basis for future peace talks to begin. Steve Simon of the National Security Council said, \"We in Washington are waiting to see whether the parties are actually going to sign up to the President\'s principles as a basis for negotiations. The Palestinians have been fairly forthcoming on this score...and now we are working with the Israeli government to see whether or not they can accept these principles as a basis for negotiations.\" <br /><br />Of course, Prime Minister Netanyahu has already rightly rejected this ridiculous proposal of retreat and defeat for Israel. So why is the Obama Administration still pushing? Many people I talk to here believe they are following the game plan of the Clinton Administration and hoping that with enough pressure, the coalition government Netanyahu leads will collapse and be replaced by new leaders who are willing to make the concessions the Palestinians are demanding.</p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://myjwn.com/\">Jerusalem World News</a></p>\r\n<p> </p>','',1,30,'2011-06-19 13:37:31',62,'Dr. Michael Evans','2012-02-27 03:08:43',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-06-19 13:37:31','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',2,23,'','',1,388,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(301,0,'Israel\'s Critical Security Needs for a Viable Peace','israels-critical-security-needs-for-a-viable-peace','<p><strong><a href=\"index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=category&amp;layout=blog&amp;id=1&amp;Itemid=50\"><strong>GOTO</strong></a><span style=\"color: #1b57b1; text-decoration: none;\"><a href=\"index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=category&amp;layout=blog&amp;id=1&amp;Itemid=50\" style=\"color: #1b57b1; text-decoration: none;\"><strong>&gt;&gt;&gt;</strong></a> </span><a href=\"index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=category&amp;layout=blog&amp;id=1&amp;Itemid=50\"><strong>FLAME Hotline article:</strong> <strong>Why does President Obama continue to bully Israel to accept the suicidal \"1967 borders\" to start up peace negotiations?</strong></a></strong></p>\r\n<p>{source}<span style=\"font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;\"><br /><span>&lt;</span>iframe width=\"425\" height=\"349\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/ytWmPqY8TE0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen<span>&gt;</span><span>&lt;</span>/iframe<span>&gt;</span><br /></span>{/source}</p>','',1,30,'2011-06-21 15:13:06',62,'Submitted by FLAME Hotline','2012-02-27 03:09:31',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-06-21 15:13:06','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',7,24,'','',1,343,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(302,0,'YouTube Videos - How to Prepare','youtube-videos-how-to-prepare','<p>My friend Kathy Lee took the time to research this after seeing one  of the videos. Nothing new to most of us, really...except that I believe God is  speaking about His children preparing. Not so we can run &amp; hide in a cave  with our stash...but so we can be a part of the answer, doing what Jesus  said: giving a cup of water (or more) in His name!</p>\r\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<div><br /><br />\r\n<div>ALL ARE INTERESTING - WORTH WATCHING - NEED TO BE  PREPARED - SOME VIDEOS ARE ADVERTISING, BUT WITH LEGITIMATE DATA WORTH KNOWING.  CHECK IT OUT FOR YOURSELF.......AT LEAST BE  INFORMED.....</div>\r\n<div><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W66jvhGZpQo&amp;NR=1\" target=\"_blank\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W66jvhGZpQo&amp;NR=1</a></div>\r\n<div><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WJq3D8G3fA&amp;feature=related\" target=\"_blank\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WJq3D8G3fA&amp;feature=related</a> -  be sure to see this one</div>\r\n<div><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bUz1BAkDcI&amp;feature=related\" target=\"_blank\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bUz1BAkDcI&amp;feature=related</a></div>\r\n<div><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEgcLv2wZrM&amp;feature=related\" target=\"_blank\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEgcLv2wZrM&amp;feature=related</a></div>\r\n<div><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-4cBmnJtsw&amp;feature=related\" target=\"_blank\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-4cBmnJtsw&amp;feature=related</a> -  RISING FOOD PRICES</div>\r\n<div><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UtnPND4GGM&amp;feature=related\" target=\"_blank\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UtnPND4GGM&amp;feature=related</a> -  THIS IS A GREAT ONE!!!!!BE PREPARED! NOW IS THE TIME! BE A SPIRITUAL GIANT! NOW  IS THE TIME! LAST CALL! ALL ABOARD! CLEAN OUT YOUR LIFE - BE PREPARED! BE AWARE!  MAKE THE CHOICES NOW!</div>\r\n<div><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IMfyiEm22c&amp;feature=related\" target=\"_blank\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IMfyiEm22c&amp;feature=related</a> -  THIS HAS AN AD FOR STORING FOOD - BUT IT IS ALSO WORTH WATCHING</div>\r\n<div><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ERGTWGOdts&amp;feature=related\" target=\"_blank\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ERGTWGOdts&amp;feature=related</a> -  FEMA ORDERS $1 BILLION OF DEHYDRATED FOOD!</div>\r\n<div><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWh_uDtZgjo&amp;feature=related\" target=\"_blank\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWh_uDtZgjo&amp;feature=related</a> -  WARNING FROM CEO OF WALMART</div>\r\n<div><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wt7YcfG93Y&amp;NR=1\" target=\"_blank\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wt7YcfG93Y&amp;NR=1</a> -- SEE  THIS ONE</div>\r\n<div><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOXKBdKOn1k&amp;feature=related\" target=\"_blank\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOXKBdKOn1k&amp;feature=related</a> -  THIS GUY LOOKS AT FIRST LIKE A NUT - BUT PRETTY INTERESTING WHEN YOU LISTEN TO  THE WHOLE THING!!!</div>\r\n<div>THERE IS SO MUCH TO PROVE THAT THIS IS LEGITIMATE!  WE HAVE TO PREPARE AND PAY ATTENTION.......</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n<p> </p>','',1,59,'2011-06-21 15:54:30',62,'Submitted by Carol Bassett','2011-06-21 16:06:59',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-06-21 15:54:30','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',3,1,'','',1,362,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(303,0,'When will Obama crack in public? ','when-will-obama-crack-in-public','<p><img class=\"caption\" src=\"images/stories/massie2.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Mychal Massey\" title=\"Mychal Massey\" align=\"left\" />At a time when  many Americans can barely afford Burger King and a movie, Obama boasts of  spending a billion dollars on his re-election campaign. Questioned at a recent  appearance about the spiraling fuel costs, Obama said, \"Get used to it\" – and  with an insouciant grin and chortle, he told another person at the event, who  complained about the effect high fuel prices were having on his family, to \"get  a more fuel-efficient car.\"<br /> <br /> The Obama’s behave as if they were  sharecroppers living in a trailer and hit the Powerball, but instead of getting  new tires for their trailer and a new pickup truck, they moved to Washington.  And instead of making possum pie, with goats and chickens in the front yard,  they\'re spending and living large at taxpayer expense – opulent vacations, gala  balls, resplendent dinners and exclusive command performances at the White  House, grand date nights, golf, basketball, more golf, exclusive resorts and  still more golf.</p>\r\n<p>Expensive, ill-fitting and ill-chosen wigs and  fashions hardly befit the first lady of the United States. The Obama’s have  behaved in every way but presidential – which is why it\'s so offensive when we  hear Obama say, in order \"to restore fiscal responsibility, we all need to share  in the sacrifice – but we don\'t have to sacrifice the America we believe  in.\"<br /> <br /> The American people have been sacrificing; it is he and his family  who are behaving as if they\'ve never had two nickels to rub together – and now,  having hit the mother lode, they\'re going to spend away their feelings of  inadequacy at the taxpayers\' expense.<br /> <br /> Obama continues to exhibit  behavior that, at best, can be described as mobocratic and, at worst, reveals a  deeply damaged individual. In a February 2010 column, I asked, \"Is Obama  unraveling?\" I wrote that it was beginning to appear the growing mistrust of him  and contempt for his policies was beginning to have a destabilizing effect on  him.<br /> <br /> At that time, I wrote that not having things go one\'s way can be a  bitter pill, but reasonable people don\'t behave as he was behaving. He had  insulted Republicans at their luncheon, where he had been an invited guest. I  had speculated that was, in part, what had led him to falsely accuse Supreme  Court justices before Congress, the nation and the world, during the 2010 State  of the Union address.<br /> <br /> It appeared, at that time, as if he were \"fraying  around the emotional edges.\" That behavior has not abated – it has become more  pronounced. While addressing the nation, after being forced to explain the  validity of his unilateral aggression with Libya, America witnessed a petulant  individual scowling and scolding the public for daring to insist he explain his  actions.<br /> \r\n','\r\n<br /> But during an afternoon speech to address the budget/debt, he  took his scornful, unstable despotic behavior to depths that should give the  nation cause for concern. Displaying a dark psychopathy more representative of  an episode of \"The Tudors\" television series, he invited Rep. Paul Ryan,  R-Wis.., to sit in the front row during his speech and then proceeded to berate  both Ryan and Ryan\'s budget-cutting plan. Even liberal Democrats were put off by  the act. MSNBC\'s Joe Scarborough questioned the sanity of Obama\'s  actions.</p>\r\n<p>Today, criticism is coming from all sides. A senior  Democrat lawmaker said, \"I have been very disappointed in [Obama], to the point  where I\'m embarrassed that I endorsed him.. It\'s so bad that some of us are  thinking, is there some way we can replace him? How do you get rid of this guy?\"  (\"Democrats\' Disgust with Obama,\" The Daily Beast, April 15,  2011)<br /> <br /> Steve McCann wrote: Obama\'s speech \"was chock full of lies,  deceit and crass fear-mongering. It must be said that [he] is the most  dishonest, deceitful and mendacious person in a position of power I have ever  witnessed\" (\"The Mendacity of Barack Obama,\" American Thinker.. com, April 15,  2011).<br /> <br />McCann continued: \"[His] performance was the  culmination of four years of outright lies and narcissism that have been largely  ignored by the media, including some in the conservative press and political  class who are loath to call [him] what he is in the bluntest of terms: a liar  and a fraud. That he relies on his skin color to intimidate, either outright or  by insinuation [against] those who oppose his radical agenda only add to his  audacity. It is apparent that he has gotten away with his character flaws his  entire life, aided and abetted by sycophants around him. …\"<br /> <br /> With these  being among the kinder rebukes being directed at Obama, and with people becoming  less intimidated by his willingness to use race as a bludgeon, with falling poll  numbers in every meaningful category and an increasingly aggressive tea-party  opposition – how much longer before he cracks completely?<br /> <br /> The coming  months of political life are not going to be pleasant for Obama. Possessed by a  self-perceived palatine mindset, that in his mind places him above criticism,  how long before he cracks in public? Can America risk a man with a documented  track record of lying and misrepresenting truth as a basic way of life, who is  becoming increasingly more contumelious?<br /> <br /> Mychal Massie is a  nationally recognized political activist, pundit and columnist. He has appeared  on Fox News Channel, CNN, MSNBC, C-SPAN, NBC, Comcast Cable and talk radio  programming nationwide. A former self-employed business owner of more than 30  years, Massie can be followed at  mychal-massie.com</p>\r\n<p> </p>\r\n<p> </p>',1,60,'2011-06-21 16:32:17',62,'Mychal Massey','2011-07-07 12:20:12',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-06-21 16:32:17','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',5,218,'','',1,670,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(304,0,'FLAME','flame','<p>  <strong>Why does President Obama continue to bully Israel to accept the suicidal \"1967 borders\" to start up peace negotiations?</strong></p>\r\n<div style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 16px; FONT-FAMILY: courier,georgia,serif; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 10px; FONT-SIZE: 12px\">\r\n<p> </p>\r\n<p>Dear Friend of FLAME:</p>\r\n<p>In President Obama\'s \"Arab Spring Speech\" he called for negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians to be based on the so-called 1967 borders, which were really the armistice lines following Israel\'s 1949 War of Independence. This effectively asks Israel to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">give up more recent defensible borders</span> that were attained as a result of the Six Day War in 1967---which is essentially to commit suicide.</p>\r\n<p>Remember that in June of 1967 four hostile Arab armies led by Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser massed on Israel\'s borders. Israel preemptively attacked the Arabs to defend herself against annihilation. In repulsing her enemies and winning the 1967 war, Israel greatly expanded her territory, including the Sinai Peninsula, the Golan Heights, and the eastern part of Jerusalem. Some of this land has been annexed by Israel for security purposes, but <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">most of it has stayed on the table as a bargaining chip</span> for peace with the Arabs.</p>\r\n<p>Indeed, since 1967, Israel has shown a willingness to trade land for peace---in its peace agreements with Jordan and Egypt and in many offerings to the Palestinians---which makes it unnecessary for President Obama to unilaterally declare that Israel must go back to its 1967 borders. Once the Palestinians are willing to recognize Israel as a <em>Jewish state</em>, and give up the ridiculous notion of a right of return for millions of descendants of Arab refugees, they will have their state. Unfortunately, since 1967 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">the Palestinians\' approach to peace has not been negotiation</span>, but rather thousands of rockets and countless terrorist attacks.</p>\r\n<p>Israel has every right to maintain territory won in a defensive war and should never be asked to give up any of Jerusalem, its holiest city. It is up to Israel, and Israel alone, to determine what defensible borders means in relation to her Arab neighbors. A visual representation is helpful in understanding just how vital the notion of defensible borders is to Israel. Take a minute to view <a href=\"http://econnect.dmsgs.com/t/14146459/110750721/2596330/0/\">this excellent video</a> by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, which clearly demonstrates what Israel is up against.</p>\r\n<p>In this week\'s FLAME Hotline, <em>Washington Post</em> columnist Jennifer Rubin <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">exposes the weakness and folly of President Obama\'s 1967 borders declaration</span>. In his speech to AIPAC last month, President Obama stated that Israel could not be expected to negotiate with those who want to destroy her (i.e. Hamas). However, when Rubin contacted the White House, National Security Council spokesman Thomas Vietor would NOT give a direct answer to the question of whether Israel was expected to negotiate with a Palestinian unity government that includes Hamas. Rather than having a clear plan for the Israel-Palestinian conflict, this administration is squeezing the Israelis into an impossible situation---insisting that they negotiate with an entity even Obama says they shouldn\'t have to negotiate with.</p>\r\n<p>What\'s worse about President Obama\'s positions is that the Palestinians have taken to making a precondition out of each of his precepts. This first happened with the settlement issue, with the Palestinians following Obama\'s lead and saying they would not negotiate until all settlement building ceased. This despite the fact that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">the settlements had never been an issue</span> in preventing negotiations before. Now the Palestinians say they are ready to negotiate, but only if Israel agrees to the 1967 borders as a precondition. In other words, Mr. Obama keeps moving the peace process backwards.</p>\r\n<p>One thing is certain: Israel must maintain defensible borders, which she absolutely did not have in 1967. In addition, the onus to come back to the negotiation table in good faith should remain squarely on the Palestinians\' willingness to accept the Jewish state. We supporters of a strong US-Israel alliance can take solace, though, that at least <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">the United States Congress seems to be fully in Israel\'s corner</span>. Hopefully, President Obama will soon follow.</p>\r\n<p>At this point, it\'s critical for us pro-Israel activists to back our sentiments with action. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Here\'s what you can do</span>:</p>\r\n<p>House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) and Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (D-MD) have introduced House Resolution 268, which urges the Obama administration to rally opposition to Palestinian efforts seeking recognition of statehood. In July, Arab states will submit a measure to the United Nations (U.N.) calling for the recognition of an independent Palestinian state. The Cantor/Hoyer resolution also warns of repercussions for U.S.-Palestinian relations if an unreformed Hamas is included in a new Palestinian government. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">I urge you to pick up the phone and call your Congressional representative right now</span> through the Congressional switchboard at (202) 225-3121. To identify your Representative (and contact him or her via email), go to <a href=\"http://econnect.dmsgs.com/t/14146459/110750721/2362937/0/\">Contacting the Congress</a>. (You\'ll need your nine [5+4] digit zip code to find your Representative.) Please take a few minutes, right now, while you have this Hotline in hand, to contact your Representative. Urge him or her to support H.R. 268: We oppose U.N. recognition of a Palestinian state as long as Hamas is part of the Palestinian government.</p>\r\n<p>I would also urge you, using the Forward to a Friend button below, to forward this powerful message to your friends, family, and colleagues. Israel needs us <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">now</span>.</p>\r\n<p>Best Regards,</p>\r\n<p>Dave Nogradi<br />FLAME Hotline Contributor</p>\r\n<table style=\"line-height: 18px; width: 98%; font-family: Courier,Verdana,Helvetica; color: black; font-size: 12px;\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"2\" cellpadding=\"0\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 16px; FONT-FAMILY: Courier,Verdana,Helvetica; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 10px; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12px\" width=\"10%\" valign=\"top\">P.S.</td>\r\n<td rowspan=\"2\" valign=\"top\">\r\n<p style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 16px; MARGIN: 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: Courier,Verdana,Helvetica; FONT-SIZE: 12px\">As you know, Israel gets regularly battered in the media, and we pro-Israel advocates too often find ourselves on the defensive. But FLAME has begun to take a different tack in its <em>hasbarah</em> (clarifying) messages: Most recently we\'re calling the world\'s attention to the hypocrisy of unrelenting attacks on Israel by the U.N. in the face of horrible crimes against humanity committed by the Arab world. If you, too, believe we should seize the offense against Israel\'s enemies, I recommend you review FLAME\'s latest position paper: \"<a href=\"http://econnect.dmsgs.com/t/14146459/110750721/2552308/0/\">Apartheid in the Arab Middle East: How can the U.N. turn a blind eye to hateful, state-sponsored discrimination against people because of their race, ethnicity, religion and gender?</a>\" This piece is just now appearing in magazines and newspapers, including college newspapers, with a combined circulation of nearly 5 million people. In addition, it is being sent to every member of the U.S. Congress. If you agree that this kind of public relations effort on Israel\'s behalf is critical, I urge you to support us. Remember: FLAME\'s powerful ability to influence public opinion comes from individuals like you, one by one. I hope you\'ll consider giving a donation now, as you\'re able---with $500, $250, $100, or even $18. (Remember, your donation to FLAME is tax deductible.) To donate online, just go to <a href=\"http://econnect.dmsgs.com/t/14146459/110750721/2289518/0/\">http://www.factsandlogic.org/make_a_donation.html</a>. Now more than ever we need your support to ensure that Israel gets the support it needs---from the U.S. Congress, from President Obama, and from the American people.</p>\r\n</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>\r\n</div>\r\n<p> </p>','',1,30,'2011-06-21 17:05:33',62,'','2012-02-27 03:10:52',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-06-21 17:05:33','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',4,26,'','',1,416,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(305,0,'Soros','soros','<h3><img class=\"caption\" src=\"images/stories/soros.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"George Soros\" align=\"left\" />György Schwartz<span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;\">, better known to the world as George Soros, was born August 12, 1930 in Hungary. Soros\' father, Tivadar, was a fervent practitioner of the Esperanto language invented in 1887, and designed to be the first global language, free of any national identity. The Schwartz\'s, who were non-practicing Jews, changed the family name to Soros, in order to facilitate assimilation into the Gentile population, as the Nazis spread into Hungary during the 1930s.</span></h3>\r\n<p>When Hitler\'s henchman Adolf Eichmann arrived in Hungary , to oversee the murder of that country\'s Jews, George Soros ended up with a man whose job was confiscating property from the Jewish population. Soros went with him on his rounds. Soros has repeatedly called 1944 \"the best year of his life.\"  70% of Mr. Soros\'s fellow Jews in Hungary, nearly a half-million human beings, were annihilated in that year, yet he gives no sign that this put any damper on his elation, either at the time or indeed in retrospect\".  During an interview with \"Sixty Minute\'s\" Steve Kroft, Soros was asked about his \"best year.\"</p>\r\n<p>KROFT: My understanding is that you went out with this protector of yours who swore that you were his adopted godson.<br /> SOROS: Yes. Yes. <br />KROFT: Went out, in fact, and helped in the confiscation of property from your fellow Jews, friends and neighbors. <br />SOROS: Yes. That\'s right. Yes.</p>\r\n','\r\n<p>KROFT: I mean, that sounds like an experience that would send lots of people to the psychiatric couch for many, many, years. Was it difficult? <br />SOROS: No, not at all. Not at all, I rather enjoyed it. <br />KROFT: No feelings of guilt?</p>\r\n<p>SOROS: No, only feelings of absolute power.</p>\r\n<p>In his article, Muravchik describes how Soros has admitted to having carried some rather \"potent messianic fantasies with me from childhood, which I felt I had to control, otherwise they might get me in trouble.\" Be that as it may. After WWII, Soros attended the London School of Economics, where he fell under the thrall of fellow atheist and Hungarian, Karl Popper, one of his professors. Popper was a mentor to Soros until Popper\'s death in 1994. Two of Popper\'s most influential teachings concerned \"the open society,\" and Fallibilism.</p>\r\n<p>Fallibilism is the philosophical doctrine that all claims of knowledge could, in principle, be mistaken. (Then again, I could be wrong about that.) The \"open society\" basically refers to a \"test and evaluate\" approach to social engineering. Regarding \"open society\" Roy Childs writes, \"Since the Second World War, most of the Western democracies have followed Popper\'s advice about piecemeal social engineering and democratic social reform, and it has gotten them into a grand mess.\"</p>\r\n<p>In 1956 Soros moved to New York City , where he worked on Wall Street, and started amassing his fortune. He specialized in hedge funds and currency speculation. Soros is absolutely ruthless, amoral, and clever in his business dealings, and quickly made his fortune. By the 1980s, he was well on his way to becoming the global powerhouse that he is today.</p>\r\n<p>In an article Kyle-Anne Shiver wrote for \"The American Thinker\" she says, \"Soros made his first billion in 1992 by shorting the British pound with leveraged billions in financial bets, and became known as the man who broke the Bank of England . He broke it on the backs of hard-working British citizens who immediately saw their homes severely devalued and their life savings cut drastically, almost overnight.\"</p>\r\n<p>In 1994 Soros crowed in \"The New Republic\", that \"the former Soviet Empire is now called the Soros Empire.\" The Russia-gate scandal in 1999, which almost collapsed the Russian economy, was labeled by Rep. Jim Leach, then head of the House Banking Committee, to be \"one of the greatest social robberies in human history. \"The \"Soros Empire\" indeed. In 1997 Soros almost destroyed the economies of Thailand and Malaysia . At the time, Malaysia \'s Prime Minister, Mahathir Mohammad, called Soros \"a villain, and a moron.\" Thai activist Weng Tojirakarn said, \"We regard George Soros as a kind of Dracula. He sucks the blood from the people.\"</p>\r\n<p>The website Greek National Pride reports, \"Soros was part of the full court press that dismantled Yugoslavia and caused trouble in Georgia , Ukraine and Myanmar [ Burma ]. Calling himself a pilanthropist, Soros\' role is to tighten the ideological stranglehold of globalization and the New World Order while promoting his own financial gain. He is without conscience; a capitalist who functions with absolute amorality.\"</p>\r\n<p>France has upheld an earlier conviction against Soros, for felony insider trading. Soros was fined 2.9 million dollars. Recently, his native Hungary fined Soros 2.2 million dollars for \"illegal market manipulation.\" Elizabeth Crum writes that the Hungarian economy has been in a state of transition as the country seeks to become more financially stable and westernized. Soros deliberately driving down the share price of its largest bank put Hungary \'s economy into a wicked tailspin, one from which it is still trying to recover.</p>\r\n<p>My point here is that Soros is a planetary parasite. His grasp, greed, and gluttony have a global reach. But what about America ? Soros told Australia \'s national newspaper \"The Australian.\" \" America , as the centre of the globalised financial markets, was sucking up the savings of the world. This is now over. The game is out,\" he said, adding that the time has come for \"a very serious adjustment\" in American\'s consumption habits. He implied that he was the one with the power to bring this about.\"</p>\r\n<p>Soros: \"World financial crisis was \"stimulating\" and \"in a way, the culmination of my life\'s work.\" Obama has recently promised 10 billion of our tax dollars to Brazil , in order to give them a leg-up in expanding their offshore oil fields. Obama\'s largesse towards Brazil came shortly after his political financial backer, George Soros, invested heavily in Brazilian oil (Petrobras). Tait Trussel writes, \"The Petrobras loan may be a windfall for Soros and Brazil , but it is a bad deal for the U. S. The American Petroleum Institute estimates that oil exploration in the U S could create 160,000 new, well-paying jobs, as well as $1.7 trillion in revenues to federal, state, and local governments, all while fostering greater energy security and independence.\"</p>\r\n<p>A blog you might want to keep an eye on is SorosWatch.com (website deleted). Their mission: \"This blog is dedicated to all who have suffered due to the ruthless financial pursuits of George Soros. Your stories are many and varied, but the theme is the same: the destructive power of greed without conscience. We pledge to tirelessly watch Soros wherever he goes and to print the truth in the hope that he will one day be made to stop preying upon the world\'s poor, that justice will be served.\"</p>\r\n<p>Back to America . Soros has been actively working to destroy America from the inside out for some years now. People have been warning us. Two years ago, news sources reported that \"Soros [is] an extremist who wants open borders, a one-world foreign policy, legalized drugs, euthanasia, and on and on. This is off-the-chart dangerous.\"In 1997, Rachel Ehrenfeld wrote, \"Soros uses his philanthropy to change or more accurately deconstruct the moral values and attitudes of the Western world, and particularly of the American people. His \"open society\" is not about freedom; it is about license. His vision rejects the notion of ordered liberty, in favor of a PROGRESSIVE ideology of rights and entitlements.\"</p>\r\n<p>Perhaps the most important of these \"whistle blowers\" are David Horowitz and Richard Poe. Their book \"The Shadow Party\" outlines in detail how Soros hijacked the Democratic Party, and now owns it lock, stock, and barrel. Soros has been packing the Democratic Party with radicals, and ousting moderate Democrats for years. The Shadow Party became the Shadow Government, which recently became the Obama Administration.</p>\r\n<p>DiscoverTheNetworks.org (another good source) writes, \"By his [Soros\'] own admission, he helped engineer coups in Slovakia , Croatia , Georgia , and Yugoslavia . When Soros targets a country for \"regime change,\" he begins by creating a shadow government, a fully formed government-in-exile, ready to assume power when the opportunity arises. The Shadow Party he has built in America greatly resembles those he has created in other countries prior to instigating a coup.\"</p>\r\n<p>November 2008 edition of the German magazine \"Der Spiegel,\" in which Soros gives his opinion on what the next POTUS (President of the U. S.) should do after taking office. \"I think we need a large stimulus package.\" Soros thought that around 600 billion would be about right. Soros also said that \"I think Obama presents us a great opportunity to finally deal with global warming and energy dependence. The U. S.. needs a cap and trade system with auctioning of licenses for emissions rights.\"</p>\r\n<p>Although Soros doesn\'t (yet) own the Republican Party, like he does the Democrats, make no mistake, his tentacles are spread throughout the Republican Party as well. Soros is a partner in the Carlyle Group where he has invested more than 100 million dollars. According to an article by \"The Baltimore Chronicle\'s\" Alice Cherbonnier, the Carlye Group is run by \"a veritable who\'s who of former Republican leaders,\" from CIA man Frank Carlucci, to CIA head and ex-President George Bush, Sr.</p>\r\n<p>In late 2006, Soros bought about 2 million shares of Halliburton, Dick Cheney\'s old stomping grounds. When the Democrats and Republicans held their conventions in 2000, Soros held Shadow Party conventions in the same cities, at the same time. In 2008, Soros donated $5,000,000,000 ( that’s Five Billion ) to the Democratic National Committee, NC, to insure Obama\'s win and wins for many other Alinsky trained Radical Rules Anti-American Socialist. George has been contributing a $ billion plus to the DNC since Clinton came on the scene.</p>\r\n<p>Soros has dirtied both sides of the aisle, trust me. And if that weren\'t bad enough, he has long held connections with the CIA. And I mustn\'t forget to mention Soros\' involvement with the MSM (Main Stream Media), the entertainment industry (e. g. he owns 2.6 million shares of Time Warner), and the various political advertising organizations he funnels millions to. In short, George Soros controls or influences most of the MSM. Little wonder they ignore the TEA PARTY, Soro\'s NEMESIS. As Matthew Vadum writes, \"The liberal billionaire-turned-philanthropist has been buying up media properties for years in order to drive home his message to the American public that they are too materialistic, too wasteful, too selfish, and too stupid to decide for themselves how to run their own lives.\"</p>\r\n<p>Richard Poe writes, \"Soros\' private philanthropy, totaling nearly $5 billion, continues undermining America \'s traditional Western values. His giving has provided funding of abortion rights, atheism, drug legalization, sex education, euthanasia, feminism, gun control, globalization, mass immigration, gay marriage and other radical experiments in social engineering.\"</p>\r\n<p>Some of the many NGOs (Non-Government Organizations) that Soros funds with his billions are: MoveOn.org, the Apollo Alliance, Media Matters for America , the Tides Foundation, the ACLU, ACORN, PDIA (Project on Death In America), La Raza, and many more. For a more complete list, with brief descriptions of the NGOs, go to DiscoverTheNetworks.org. Poe continues, \"Through his global web of Open Society Institutes and Open Society Foundations, Soros has spent 25 years recruiting, training, indoctrinating and installing a network of loyal operatives in 50 countries, placing them in positions of influence and power in media, government, finance and academia.\"</p>\r\n<p>Without Soros\' money, would the Saul Alinsky\'s Chicago machine still be rolling? Would SEIU, ACORN, and La Raza still be pursuing their nefarious activities? Would Big Money and lobbyists still be corrupting government? Would our college campuses still be retirement homes for 1960s radicals?</p>\r\n<p>America stands at the brink of an abyss, and that fact is directly attributable to Soros. Soros has vigorously, cleverly, and insidiously planned the ruination of America and his puppet, Barack Obama is leading the way.</p>\r\n<p>The words of Patrick Henry are apropos: \"Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!\"</p>\r\n<p>Excerpts from above information said to have been researched by CBS Steve Kroft</p>\r\n<p>Written on May 13, 2011 at 8:49 am Soros Tied to Over 30 Major News Organizations</p>\r\n<p>Filed under Ethics, Media</p>\r\n<p>When liberal investor George Soros gave $1.8 million to National Public Radio , it became part of the firestorm of controversy that jeopardized NPR’s federal funding. But that gift only hints at the widespread influence the controversial billionaire has on the mainstream media. Soros, who spent $27 million trying to defeat President Bush in 2004, has ties to more than 30 mainstream news outlets – including The New York Times, Washington Post, the Associated Press, NBC and ABC.</p>\r\n<p>Prominent journalists like ABC’s Christiane Amanpour and former Washington Post editor and now Vice President Len Downie serve on boards of operations that take Soros cash. This despite the Society of Professional Journalists’ ethical code stating: “avoid all conflicts real or perceived.” This information is part of an upcoming report by the Media Research Centers Business &amp; Media Institute which has been looking into George Soros and his influence on the media.</p>',1,20,'2011-06-24 14:44:40',62,'Submitted by Chang Jac Shu','2011-06-25 11:58:18',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-06-24 14:44:40','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',9,12,'','',1,13043,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(306,0,' US Government Releases DoD Report Critical of NSA','us-government-releases-dod-report-critical-of-nsa','<p>+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />|  US Government Releases DoD Report Critical of NSA<br />|   from the  can-you-hear-me-now dept.<br />|   posted by Soulskill on Friday June 24, @12:56  (Communications)<br />|   <a href=\"https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/06/24/1630251/US-Government-Releases-DoD-Report-Critical-of-NSA?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email\">https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/06/24/1630251/US-Government-Releases-DoD-Report-Critical-of-NSA?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email</a><br />+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />[0]decora  writes \"Jesselyn Radack of the [1]Government Accountability<br />Project has  [2]posted a summary of the newly released [3]DoD Inspector<br />General report  (PDF) on the NSA\'s Thinthread and Trailblazer programs.<br />The DoD found that  NSA \'disregarded solutions to urgent national security<br />needs\' and that  \'TRAILBLAZER was poorly executed and overly expensive.\'<br />NSA contractors had a  \'fear of management reprisal\' for cooperating with<br />the DoD audit. The FBI  later raided the homes of several people involved<br />with the report, and Thomas  Drake faced [4]Espionage Act charges for<br />retaining information related to it.  Those [5]charges were dropped two<br />weeks ago. Radack and the GAP represent  Drake on whistleblower issues.\"<br /><br />Discuss this story at:<br /> <a href=\"https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/06/24/1630251/US-Government-Releases-DoD-Report-Critical-of-NSA?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting\">https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/06/24/1630251/US-Government-Releases-DoD-Report-Critical-of-NSA?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting</a><br /><br />Links:<br /> 0. <a href=\"mailto:decorat@mail.com\">mailto:decorat@mail.com</a><br /> 1. <a href=\"http://www.whistleblower.org/\">http://www.whistleblower.org/</a><br /> 2.  <a href=\"http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/06/23/987930/-What-The-Drake-Prosecution-Was-Really-AboutIG-Report-Vindicates-NSA-Whistleblowers?via=user\">http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/06/23/987930/-What-The-Drake-Prosecution-Was-Really-AboutIG-Report-Vindicates-NSA-Whistleblowers?via=user</a><br /> 3. <a href=\"http://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/206129/redacted-dod-oig-audit-requirements-for-the.pdf\">http://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/206129/redacted-dod-oig-audit-requirements-for-the.pdf</a><br /> 4. <a href=\"http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/05/23/110523fa_fact_mayer\">http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/05/23/110523fa_fact_mayer</a><br /> 5. <a href=\"http://www.thenation.com/article/161376/government-case-against-whistleblower-thomas-drake-collapses\">http://www.thenation.com/article/161376/government-case-against-whistleblower-thomas-drake-collapses</a></p>','',1,70,'2011-06-25 12:36:38',62,'slashdot','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-06-25 12:36:38','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',1,66,'','',1,38,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(307,0,'LulzSec Document Dump Shows Cops\' Fear of iPhones','lulzsec-document-dump-shows-cops-fear-of-iphones','<p>+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />|  LulzSec Document Dump Shows Cops\' Fear of iPhones<br />|   from the  sunlight-is-the-best-disinfectant dept.<br />|   posted by Soulskill on Friday  June 24, @17:04 (Privacy)<br />|   <a href=\"https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/06/24/2017248/LulzSec-Document-Dump-Shows-Cops-Fear-of-iPhones?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email\">https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/06/24/2017248/LulzSec-Document-Dump-Shows-Cops-Fear-of-iPhones?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email</a><br />+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />[0]jfruhlinger  writes \"People are starting to comb through the details of<br />the law  enforcement documents [1]made public by LulzSec. Blogger Kevin<br />Fogarty  noticed one interesting trend: [2]The cops seem very anxious<br />about iPhones,  particularly apps that would allow encounters with police<br />officers to be  recorded. Ironically, the cops seem extremely concerned<br />with protecting their  own privacy, but the documents encourage police to<br />examine iPhones during the  course of interacting with the public to see<br />what apps they  have.\"<br /><br />Discuss this story at:<br /> <a href=\"https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/06/24/2017248/LulzSec-Document-Dump-Shows-Cops-Fear-of-iPhones?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting\">https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/06/24/2017248/LulzSec-Document-Dump-Shows-Cops-Fear-of-iPhones?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting</a><br /><br />Links:<br /> 0. <a href=\"http://joshreads.com/\">http://joshreads.com/</a><br /> 1. <a href=\"http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/06/23/2352247/LulzSec-Posts-First-Secret-Document-Dump\">http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/06/23/2352247/LulzSec-Posts-First-Secret-Document-Dump</a><br /> 2. <a href=\"http://www.itworld.com/security/177409/lulzsec-docs-show-ariz-cops-unhealth-obsession-iphone\">http://www.itworld.com/security/177409/lulzsec-docs-show-ariz-cops-unhealth-obsession-iphone</a></p>','',1,70,'2011-06-25 12:43:24',62,'slahdot','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-06-25 12:43:24','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',1,64,'','',1,30,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(308,0,'NRB Discussion on Shariah Law','nrb-discussion-on-shariah-law-1','<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=6blbffdab&amp;et=1104754497461&amp;s=4480&amp;e=001-6DwX_t4qJfDkAXStHqPyEUrufp2aBG6ViXfuLVP-jDhmF5s5Of31568aG698o9r21h_ThRkrus4Ms54sEBI7_8jF_iNPscJhcNWzEa4HVQ=\"><img src=\"http://theoakinitiative.org/images/OAKI-logo-Clear.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Oak Logo\" width=\"226\" height=\"124\" /></a></p>\r\n<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=6blbffdab&amp;et=1104754497461&amp;s=4480&amp;e=001-6DwX_t4qJfDkAXStHqPyEUrufp2aBG6ViXfuLVP-jDhmF5s5Of31568aG698o9r21h_ThRkrus4Ms54sEBI7_8jF_iNPscJhcNWzEa4HVQ=\">www.theoakinitiative.org</a></p>\r\n<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=6blbffdab&amp;et=1104754497461&amp;s=4480&amp;e=001-6DwX_t4qJfDkAXStHqPyEUrufp2aBG6ViXfuLVP-jDhmF5s5Of31568aG698o9r21h_ThRkrus4Ms54sEBI7_8jF_iNPscJhcNWzEa4HVQ=\"></a><strong>2011</strong> <strong>MEMBER   LETTER</strong> <strong>Vol. 3 No.   2</strong></p>\r\n<p align=\"justify\">03/07/2011</p>\r\n<p align=\"justify\">Dear Jack,</p>\r\n<p align=\"justify\">Last week I sat on a small panel discussing   Shariah Law that was open to the Christian media at the National Religious   Broadcasters (NRB) Convention in Nashville. Also on the panel was James Woolsey,   former Director of the CIA, and Frank Gaffney, Jr., former Asst. Sec. of Defense   for International Security Policy and the acting President of the Center for   Security Policy. We were also joined on the panel by Tom Smith and another   lawyer who are on the frontlines of the battle against Shariah in the U.S., and   a remarkable rabbi who had been an ambassador from Israel.</p>\r\n','\r\n<p> </p>\r\n<p align=\"justify\">This was an interesting and rich discussion   on this crucial subject and how it affects our security. We were each given a   few minutes to make a statement and then we all took questions from the media   present. I was impressed and encouraged by the content and insight the questions   revealed. Christians are no doubt starting to realize that we cannot understand   our times without understanding Islam and Shariah.</p>\r\n<p align=\"justify\">The three crucial points that were clearly   made and well-established at the NRB press conference are something every   American must grasp:</p>\r\n<p>1) Radical Islam and Shariah is not just a religion but a totalitarian   government, legal system, and economy, and this conflict is not an issue of   religious liberty.</p>\r\n<p>2) Shariah is in direct conflict with the U.S. Constitution and that the two   cannot co-exist.</p>\r\n<p>3) The third is the well-documented intent of the Muslim Brotherhood and all   radical Islamists to destroy America and Western civilization.</p>\r\n<p align=\"justify\">James Woolsey and Frank Gaffney are   professionals on the highest level, and their presentation was professional,   concise, and authoritative. I was on the panel representing a Christian   leadership perspective, which I used to appeal to my fellow Christian leaders   that we would all stand before the judgment seat of Christ, and we would not   want to stand there as shepherds who did not protect God’s flock that had been   entrusted to us, or be watchmen who failed to sound the alarm against this   ultimate threat in our times. By the immediate response, it seems we did   accomplish our purpose.</p>\r\n<p align=\"justify\">Both James Woolsey and Frank Gaffney were a   part of putting together the “Team B II Report,” <em><strong>SHARIAH, the Threat   to America</strong></em>. This is a second exercise in competitive analysis into   the nature of a major threat to America. The first “Team B Report” was produced   by U.S. intelligence and defense officials to do “an exercise in competitive   analysis” on the threat of the Soviet Union in 1976. This was an internal   exercise to find any holes in the threat analysis of our intelligence and   defense organizations at the time that had led to the policy known as Détente.   This first “Team B Report” led to some basic changes in this policy and the   understanding that then led to a brilliant strategy implemented by President   Ronald Reagan that likely helped unravel the threat of the Soviet Union and the   Soviet Union itself.</p>\r\n<p align=\"justify\">This new Team B Report, <em><strong>SHARIAH,   the Threat to America</strong></em>, is a brilliant and remarkable study done by   some of the top professionals in threat analysis, who have no purpose in being   biased. It is clear, articulate, and easy to understand. Certainly every   Christian leader should read this, but I also think every Christian should. If   this happens, possibly half the battle against this ultimate threat would be   won. The main power of the devil is to hide in darkness, doing his work where he   can remain hidden. I don’t think there has been another publication that so well   unmasks the threat of radical Islam and Shariah.</p>\r\n<p align=\"justify\">A contention that I have had, and certainly   many others are raising also, is that any person who has taken an oath to defend   our Constitution from enemies both foreign and domestic and does not seek to   understand radical Islam and Shariah are either basically incompetent or they   are guilty of treason. It is that serious of a threat. One of the most basic   principles of warfare or defense policy is that you simply cannot defeat an   enemy that you do not see. Every law enforcement officer takes this oath, as   does every elected official. It is a dereliction of duty not to understand this   ultimate threat.</p>\r\n<p align=\"justify\">The better we understand our foe, the better   the chance we have of defeating them. This is an enemy that has publicly   declared that they will destroy us. They have been effective already at doing   great damage to us, and to not take them seriously, cannot be anything other   than incompetence or treason.</p>\r\n<p align=\"justify\">Many think that we could not possibly be   under a threat by those who compose such a tiny portion of the population. That   is the big mistake which has led to the overthrow of some of the most powerful   and established governments in history. The Bolsheviks in Russia only numbered   twenty thousand in a nation of over one hundred million. That is just a tiny   fraction of one percent. The word Bolshevik means “minority,” and anyone who   took their threat as serious was considered somewhere between out of touch and   paranoid—until this minority took over the country. Seditionists well understand   that it does not take large numbers for a government overthrow and consider   small numbers an advantage that helps keep them and their purpose off the radar   screen. Radical Islamists in America far outnumber the Bolsheviks in Russia, are   much better organized and funded, and are a serious threat to our continued   existence.</p>\r\n<p align=\"justify\">Understanding Islam and Shariah will no doubt   be a major factor in the next Presidential election and could very well   determine it. The economy will likely remain the main issue, but understanding   and being on the right side of confronting Shariah will be near the top and will   be a major factor in American politics in 2012 and thereafter.</p>\r\n<p align=\"justify\">With the unfolding of events now in the   Middle East, and where these are likely to lead, will make this an ever   increasingly important issue in international affairs as well. Many in Europe   are starting to wake up and are becoming increasingly vocal about what is   happening to that continent. Key leaders in Russia and China understand the   issues much better than it seems our present leaders in America, but that is   beginning to change.</p>\r\n<p align=\"justify\">As Christians, especially those who have any   position of leadership in the church, we have a responsibility to understand   this threat which not only wants to wipe out America and Western civilization,   but also Christianity, and every other religion on the earth. In fact, if   radical Islam were able to prevail and establish Shariah throughout the world,   which is its mandate according to its book, then every non-Muslim in the world   would either be a slave or dead with the exception of those who could pay a tax   to stay alive and would leave them with virtually no rights.</p>\r\n<p align=\"justify\">Will we let this happen to our country on our   watch? No doubt there are Americans, who when given the choice between life and   liberty, will choose life at any cost, even slavery. Even so, I think many more   will never submit themselves to slavery, and they will not let it happen to   their children, their children’s children, or their country. It will take the   kind of courage, boldness, and willingness to sacrifice to save our country as   it took to found it. The longer we delay in confronting these ultimate threats,   the more costly the victory will be, but we will be victorious. Now is the time   to take a stand.</p>\r\n<p align=\"justify\">Please read <em><strong>SHARIAH, the Threat   to America</strong></em>. It is available at Amazon.com, and should be in most   bookstores by now. You can get a <a href=\"http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=6blbffdab&amp;et=1104754497461&amp;s=4480&amp;e=001-6DwX_t4qJe5_zRXNrkRbzssWL7HSPYqc-eCGDe-EKw7SiiudxXr7TiIbPzyz-C45zDA2wuC30HV1wkzn9R7iWZbHaRG7Ms6sFXnPd3et7vagbQHvTdz4uVKrAPfCb7BAvYkQNJ6IRlf_JYtyQpm8CVPc6oyP9LBsg8JXX1KsmA=\">discounted   copy</a> by ordering from The Oak Initiative. Please consider getting at least   one additional copy to give to your pastor or any police officer or elected   official you know.</p>\r\n<p align=\"justify\">We will soon have in stock Nicholas   Papanicolau’s new book, <em><strong>Islam vs. the United States</strong></em>.   This is a hard-hitting analysis of this issue from one of our Oak board members,   and one whose international experience is vast. Nicholas is a co-host of The   World Public Forum on Civilizations and Religions, which draws top government,   religious, and academics from the major nations of the world each year, and had   one of the top Islamic scholars read and authenticate his thesis. This is an   important work and done so concisely that it can help anyone to understand the   basics of this issue in just a few hours. This should be available as an e-Book   on Amazon this coming week.</p>\r\n<p align=\"justify\">I have also finished my book, <strong><em>I   See a New America</em></strong>, which is now available as an e-Book <a href=\"http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=6blbffdab&amp;et=1104754497461&amp;s=4480&amp;e=001-6DwX_t4qJfTIb1aaM5cIL5g7eB0RQ0Xgu51kvkl4eb5cgCrutImy-MfoOaLTcPVSXBP0oybrQvjZKTqKWEKo7zBwVgCXID2Om6SXxf-1PxifOcT9zxvrZdieEG_P_JgEzB19PZWuQzMCwndnj4VVrW6t1yCVAmeANVmVlMTVOGgoSTvDdiQlmK_XaP7df_fVXYQPpA-WhD4i4j2j-7ZH8Yc-OaNU51lpuXsvLevHUjKaSBigONfEK_iOHtMbiSG\">at   Amazon</a> and will soon be available in hard copy. The initial feedback I’ve   received from those I asked to read it has been most encouraging, saying this   could go viral. Perhaps, but some of the talking points are already getting into   the news, so I know it will have impact, and it is on time.</p>\r\n<p align=\"justify\">Above all, we are here first as emissaries of   the King whose kingdom will surely come. Let us do this with the dignity and   class with which the representatives of our great King should always conduct   themselves. Many of the things that we now know are crucial issues for the times   we ourselves did not understand just a short time ago. Therefore, let us have   patience with those who do not yet understand, but also be bold and clear with   the truth we have been entrusted with.</p>\r\n<p align=\"justify\">In His Service,</p>\r\n<p align=\"justify\">Rick Joyner</p>\r\n<p><br /> <br /> To Read Online, <a href=\"http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=6blbffdab&amp;et=1104754497461&amp;s=4480&amp;e=001-6DwX_t4qJeBGDe2udW8QOcKYHVxqN__HAM2yl8r4U49VBZ3MGeVjmdRNSHLDFBK5e1qjR9gQZ5oMM07Fk4VPLEM6RgaI3lrSxuxqah83NcNPb5pi3V0OV6msQbZSYjbJo88F3wQRjk4Vc1NxpsPhg==\" target=\"_blank\">Click Here </a><br /> <br /> <a href=\"http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=6blbffdab&amp;et=1104754497461&amp;s=4480&amp;e=001-6DwX_t4qJcFM2HbmZeuSNizyHcakcU2PCU-v5k3TrYc5wXiaBmtzvtmTbUH6yJz5JcFuREPupoAd9-ok-VH46XttM1-mu3kCcyDSpWW95S9MND82WGUvM_FmIzuquvZzYMDArMeZwU3AIFD5fqOV39XSvBti0mn\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"http://www.theoakinitiative.org/images/clickpdf4_LidoSTF.png\" border=\"0\" /></a> -   Printer Friendly Version - <br /> <br /></p>\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"684\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td width=\"4\" bgcolor=\"#071f39\">\r\n<p> </p>\r\n</td>\r\n<td width=\"358\" bgcolor=\"#071f39\">\r\n<p align=\"right\"><a href=\"http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=6blbffdab&amp;et=1104754497461&amp;s=4480&amp;e=001-6DwX_t4qJdYjaj3b4PO3_4WIpPNETM4Q5w3dgily6N6XfwI3d9UpVoSRMLznwPbmzPu6Uz8NScARw6W8jsR7DUFg0XrGHAdB2jNcN4PjAe55xuyTOgnjSVNLq6yeWWf\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"http://www.morningstarministries.org/Images/content/1000000055/1000068146.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Connect with us on Facebook\" width=\"358\" height=\"46\" /></a></p>\r\n</td>\r\n<td width=\"242\" bgcolor=\"#071f39\">\r\n<p><a href=\"http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=6blbffdab&amp;et=1104754497461&amp;s=4480&amp;e=001-6DwX_t4qJc1Nzjn8RYITEHezbyFQHn5zKIzj9T6D-hCn5PCC7Fnjz5cufREFuTb_X1L-UkcrDP_iqVOcRAnx2YDqx5ox968-q41W9_xRaDC9kyqYPZz_7mhmAhNXtKY\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"http://www.morningstarministries.org/Images/content/1000000055/1000068147.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"and Twitter\" width=\"242\" height=\"58\" /></a></p>\r\n</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>',1,71,'2011-06-25 15:05:38',62,'Submitted by Oak Initiative','2011-07-10 21:59:51',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-06-25 15:05:38','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\\r\",\"link_titles\":\"\\r\",\"show_intro\":\"\\r\",\"show_section\":\"\\r\",\"link_section\":\"\\r\",\"show_category\":\"\\r\",\"link_category\":\"\\r\",\"show_vote\":\"\\r\",\"show_author\":\"\\r\",\"show_create_date\":\"\\r\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\\r\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\\r\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\\r\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\\r\",\"language\":\"\\r\",\"keyref\":\"\\r\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',7,10,'sha\'aria, shariah, NRB, Islam','NRB Discussion on Shariah Law',1,10995,'{\"robots\":\"\\r\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(309,0,'NRA WEBSITE','nra','<p> </p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://home.nra.org/#/home\">GOTO&gt;&gt;&gt; to the NRA Digital Network</a></p>\r\n<p>This unique state-of-the-art network offers fast access to live news and commentary, legislative updates, links to all of the NRA channels and properties, plus countless hours of archived video resources. 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A story in the Washington Post relies on anonymous sources to allege that Issa and the Oversight Committee were briefed on the scandalous operation last year and failed to lodge any objections at the time. The intent of the piece seems clear; portray the investigation into Fast and Furious as just politics as usual.</p>\r\n<p>One of the reporters for the Post story is Sari Horwitz, just back from a suspension that lasted several months after she was caught plagiarizing material. Maybe her journalistic chops are a little rusty, because I can\'t figure out why she would quote anonymous sources to allege that Issa was briefed on \"all the things [he] has been screaming about\" without asking one simple question: Did the briefing discuss the fact that the ATF was getting guns end up in the hands of Mexican drug cartels? The anonymous source doesn\'t say, and Horwitz apparently didn\'t ask. 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