The Middle East

Fundamentally Freund: The myth of Palestinian moderation

Even for a president prone to misusing the English language, George W. Bush outdid himself last week. Sitting next to Mahmoud Abbas at the White House, Bush gushed and swooned over the visiting Palestinian leader, describing him in terms usually reserved for heroes and saints.

"The president is a man of peace," Bush assured the gaggle of reporters who were present. "He's a man of vision. He rejects the idea of using violence to achieve objectives, which distinguishes him from other people in the region." More........

World News

Russia warned over Georgia move

Nato has warned Russia that its recent troop build-up in Georgia's breakaway region of Abkhazia undermines its neighbour's territorial integrity. The alliance is "watching with concern" Moscow's moves, which a Nato spokesman said were raising tensions in the area.

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Lest we Forget.....

US troop deaths hit 7-month high in Iraq

BAGHDAD - The killings of three U.S. soldiers in separate attacks in Baghdad pushed the American death toll for April up to 47, making it the deadliest month since September.

One soldier died when his vehicle was struck by a roadside bomb. The other died of wounds sustained when he was attacked by small arms fire, the military said Wednesday. Both incidents occurred Tuesday in northwestern Baghdad.

A third soldier died in a roadside bombing Tuesday night in the east of the capital, the military said.

The statement did not give a more specific location. But the eastern half of Baghdad includes embattled Sadr City and other neighborhoods that have been the focus of intense combat between Shiites and U.S.-Iraqi troops for more than a month.

In all, at least 4,059 members of the U.S Military have died since the Iraq war started in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

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Got us Over a Barrel

Opec says oil could hit $200

By Carola Hoyos in London

 

Opec’s president on Monday warned oil prices could hit $200 a barrel and there would be little the cartel could do to help.The comments made by Chakib Khelil, Algeria’s energy minister, came as oil prices hit a historic peak close to $120 a barrel, putting further pressure on global economies.

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Some GOOD NEWS!

US Among Most Bible-Literate Nations

By Philip Pullella,

Reuters

VATICAN CITY (April 28) - Americans are among the world's most 'Bible-literate' people and Spaniards, French and Italians are among the most ignorant about what the "good book" says, according to a new study released on Monday.

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Where Do Americans Rank?

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A new survey finds that Americans are among the world's most Bible-literate people. Asked if they had read a part of the holy book in the past 12 months, 75 percent of American respondents said yes, while the number was much lower in eight other countries that were polled. Above, parishoners pack Five Holy Martyrs church in Chicago.

A poll carried out in nine countries -- the United States, Britain, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Russia, Italy, Spain and Poland -- also showed Americans were most willing to donate money to spread the message of the Bible.

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Can You Spell Hypocrisy?

PETA and Euthanasia

Even among animal lovers, killing unwanted pets is a divisive issue.
what many animal lovers don't realize is that PETA itself may have put down some of those unwanted Dalmatians. The organization has practiced euthanasia for years. Since 1998 PETA has killed more than 17,000 animals, nearly 85 percent of all those it has rescued. Dalmatians may no longer be the breed of the day, but the problem of unwanted and abandoned pets is as urgent as ever. Shelters around the country kill 4 million animals every year; by some estimates, more than 80 percent of them are healthy. In recent years those grim statistics have split the animal rights community. Ironically, PETA has emerged as a strong proponent of euthanasia. (The group is better known for its public condemnations of everyone from fashion designer Donna Karan for her use of fur to the National Cancer Institute for its animal research.) In defense of its policy PETA has insisted that euthanasia is a necessary evil in a world full of unwanted pets. But while the group has some well-known allies, including the Humane Society of the United States, a growing number of animal rights activists claim to have found a better, more humane way.

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What Energy Crisis?

It’s a myth that the world’s oil is running out

THERE are more misunderstandings about the oil market than perhaps any other. In America, drivers are fuming and politicians are demanding explanations because petrol has hit about $3.50 a gallon. That’s 47p a litre, less than half the 105p-115p being paid by British motorists. So “high” in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Oxford, Mississippi, is “low” in similarly named cities in Britain.

But assume that prices are “high”, which indeed they are by historic standards. We are mistaken when we think these “high” prices are causing inflation. High oil prices can force consumers to spend more on petrol and heating oil, at the expense of other purchases. Ask any suffering restaurateur or clothes retailer if you doubt that. But high oil prices can’t trigger a rise in the general price level – inflation – unless someone pumps money into the economy so that, to use an oldie but goodie from the economists’ lexicon, there is more money chasing the same amount of goods. If you want something to blame for inflation, don’t look at oil prices, look at the billions the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy gurus and their confederates at the US Treasury are pouring into the economic system.

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Amazing Hidden Facts

Planned Parenthood and Nazi Eugenics

 

There is a facile temptation to think of Nazi anti-Semitism as an expression of Christianity and Christian theology—“applied Christianity”, if you will.  But even a cursory examination of Nazi writings and policies shows that this is far from the truth—on the contrary, the campaign to exterminate the Jews grew out of the world view of secular materialism, of evolution and the exaltation of the natural over the supernatural, and was in fact an extreme expression of “applied Darwinism.”

In the past there have been many persecutions of the Jews in Christian countries. These persecutions fell into one of three categories.  Some were mob actions, inflamed expressions of blood lust and fury.  Tragically, many of these were incited by pseudo-Christian exhortations to avenge the death of Christ, or by related blood libels against the Jews (most particularly accusing them of the human sacrifice of Christian children).  The pogroms and the rampaging mobs of the Crusades fall into this category.  However, the Holocaust does not.  The slaughter of the Holocaust was not produced by momentary mob hysteria, but was a calculated, “rational”, long-term campaign plotted by sober, if deranged, minds.

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Mis-Quoting the Bible

Biblical Scholars Challenge Pelosi's 'Scripture' Quote

(CNSNews.com) - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is fond of quoting a particular passage of Scripture. The quote, however, does not appear in the Bible and is "fictional," according to biblical scholars.

In her April 22 Earth Day news release, Pelosi said, "The Bible tells us in the Old Testament, 'To minister to the needs of God's creation is an act of worship. To ignore those needs is to dishonor the God who made us.' On this Earth Day, and every day, let us pledge to our children, and our children's children, that they will have clean air to breathe, clean water to drink, and the opportunity to experience the wonders of nature."

 

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The Energy Crisis

Greenpeace founder now backs nuclear power

Greenpeace founder Patrick Moore says there is no proof global warming is caused by humans, but it is likely enough that the world should turn to nuclear power - a concept tied closely to the underground nuclear testing his former environmental group formed to oppose.

The chemistry of the atmosphere is changing, and there is a high-enough risk that "true believers" like Al Gore are right that world economies need to wean themselves off fossil fuels to reduce greenhouse gases, he said.

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The Middle East

Israel's UN ambassador calls Jimmy Carter 'a bigot'

NEW YORK - Israel's ambassador to the United Nations on Thursday called former President Jimmy Carter "a bigot" for meeting with the leader of the militant Hamas movement in Syria.

Carter, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, "went to the region with soiled hands and came back with bloody hands after shaking the hand of Khaled Mashaal, the leader of Hamas," Ambassador Dan Gillerman told a luncheon briefing for reporters.

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Why We Do What We Do - Amazing Facts You Never Knew!

Cannibalism Became Communion

Cain thought he was the "Lord " since Eve exclaimed "I have gotten a man, a lord" (Gen.4:4). The name Cain came to mean "cohen" or "priest." Cain developed his own religion after being cut off from God. He thought he was the Savior. He created a priesthood. Since the name "CANNIBAL" (Cahna Baal) is a word which means "Baal Priest" and may be derived from the name "TUBAL-CAIN," some have concluded that Tubal-Cain was a descendant of this priesthood of Cain and that the religion of Cain had to do with CONSUMING of HUMAN FLESH -- mostly LITTLE CHILDREN. When Tubal-Cain's sister/wife Naamah married Noah, this Baal religion came through the flood. How else would Naamah learn about the false religion unless her brother was a priest of Cain? She came to be known as Naamah Isis, or NEMISIS, because she betrayed Noah by getting him drunk. She is the original prototype of the harlot of Revelation sitting on Babylon holding a cup of wine for the world to get drunk. She founded the Babylonian Mystery Religion with Ham's help. Their grandson was Nimrod. "Nimrod, as the representative of the devouring fire to which human victims, and especially CHILDREN, were offered in SACRIFICE, was regarded as the great CHILD-DEVOURER ... he was, of course the actual father of all the Babylonian gods; and, therefore, in that character he was afterwards universally regarded. As the father of the gods, he was called Kronos" (Lemp. Clas. Dict., Art. "Saturn") The literal meaning of BONFIRE is "BONE FIRE" [M.E. bonefyre, bone fire, later funeral pyre] because such a ritual fire came from the SACRIFICE of HUMANS. In this context, the fiery VOLCANO may also derive its name from TUBAL-CAIN.

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Politics

Obama Becomes the Weakest Candidate

{Editors Note: I personally believe Obama has ALWAYS been the weakest candidate. America will not vote for a Massachusetts anything, or a black communist. It is that simple. .... Bob Barney Editor}

Pennsylvania was the beginning of the end for Barak Obama.

His startlingly bad results among key groups — Catholics, white women, Jews and elderly voters — has shaken the Democratic world to its core. And now the re-emergence of the infamous Rev. Jeremiah Wright will be the coup de grace for the already-hurting Obama.

Just when Obama has been trounced in the Keystone State the last thing he needs is Wright popping off on Bill Moyers on PBS, followed by a speech in D.C. at the National Press Club.

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Coming World Wars

Israel's Air Force Chief: Iran Threat Real

 

 

(CBS) The commander of the Israeli air force takes Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s threats against Israel extremely seriously. Israelis must be ready for anything and ultimately trust only themselves, he believes, and for good reason: his family survived the Holocaust.

Maj. Gen. Eliezer Shkedy speaks to 60 Minutes correspondent Bob Simon in a story about the Israeli air force this Sunday, April 27, at 7 p.m. ET/PT.

"I think it is a very serious threat to the state of Israel, but more than this, to the whole world," Shkedy says of the Iranian leader’s public animosity toward Israel. "They are talking about what they think about the state of Israel. They are talking about destroying and wiping us from the earth," he tells Simon. It reminds him of the Holocaust. "We should remember. We cannot forget. We should trust only ourselves."

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Coming World Wars!

Climate change 'may put world at war'

Climate change could cause global conflicts as large as the two world wars but lasting for centuries unless the problem is controlled, a leading defence think tank has warned.

The hidden threat from the world's water shortages

Food shortages: how will we feed the world?

Biofuel rules 'could make millions homeless'

The Royal United Services Institute said a tenfold increase in research spending, comparable to the amount spent on the Apollo space programme, will be needed if the world is to avoid the worst effects of changing temperatures.

	Governments should be preparing for the worst

However the group said the world's response to the threats posed by climate change, such as rising sea levels and migration, had so far been "slow and inadequate," because nations had failed to prepare for the worst-case scenario.

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Economy

Era of cheap food ends as prices surge

Families have been warned that the prices of basic foods will rise steeply again because of acute shortages in commodity markets.

Experts told The Times yesterday that prices of rice, wheat and vegetable oil would rise further. They also forecast that high prices and shortages — which have caused riots in developing countries such as Bangladesh and Haiti — were here to stay, and that the days of cheap produce would not return. Food-price inflation has already pushed up a typical family’s weekly shopping bill by 15 per cent in a year.

A further 15 per cent increase in the price of a standard Kingsmill loaf would push it up from £1.09 to to £1.24. Butter has gone up by 62 per cent in the past year. A similar rise would bring the price of a 250g pack to £1.52.

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Famine Coming to America?

UPDATE 3-Wal-Mart's Sam's Club limits rice purchases

NEW YORK, April 23 (Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc's (WMT.N: Quote, Profile, Research) Sam's Club warehouse division said on Wednesday it is limiting sales of several types of rice, the latest sign that fears of a rice shortage are rippling around the world.

Sam's Club, the No. 2 U.S. warehouse club operator, said it is limiting sales of Jasmine, Basmati and long grain white rice "due to recent supply and demand trends."

U.S. rice futures hitting an all-time high Wednesday on worries about supply shortages.

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Famine Coming to America?

The price of a food staple -- rice -- is rising significantly, NBC11 reported.

The price of rice has increased dramatically in recent weeks due to crop failure overseas and resulting hoarding, NBC11 reported.

And at least one Bay Area store is asking customers to hold back on their rice purchases. Costco has posted signs asking customers to follow their regular rice-buying habits.

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Rev. 6:6

Revel 6:6..And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and [see] thou hurt not the oil

Gas prices rise further above $3.50, while oil nears $120
Tuesday April 22, 4:19 pm ET
By John Wilen, AP Business Writer

Gas prices push further above $3.50 a gallon, while oil nears $120 on weaker dollar

NEW YORK (AP) -- Gas and oil prices pushed further into record high territory Tuesday, with retail gas reaching a national average of $3.51 for the first time and crude nearing $120 as the dollar fell to a new low against the euro.

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WorldNetDailyExclusive

 
Will Muhammad image ignite holy war?
'Why We Left Islam' 1st American book to picture 'prophet' on cover
Posted: April 21, 2008
10:45 pm Eastern

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WASHINGTON – WND is already being denounced as a hate site by radical Muslims in anticipation of its release next Tuesday of "Why We Left Islam," the first U.S. book ever to feature an image of Muhammad on the cover.

"This book is put out by WND Publishing (sic), which promotes hate every day on its extremist anti-Muslim hate site," Ibrahim Hooper, spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, told the New York Daily News. "The editor is a guy who suggested air-dropping pig's blood over Afghanistan. There are 7 million American Muslims and over a billion worldwide who love Islam and practice it peaceably on a daily basis."

Joseph Farah, an Arab-American and the only person ever to serve as editor of WND, said, in response, he has never advocated air-dropping pig's blood over Afghanistan.

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The King of the South of daniel 11

Muslim call to adopt Mecca time

Muslim scientists and clerics have called for the adoption of Mecca time to replace GMT, arguing that the Saudi city is the true centre of the Earth.

Mecca is the direction all Muslims face when they perform their daily prayers. The call was issued at a conference held in the Gulf state of Qatar under the title: Mecca, the Centre of the Earth, Theory and Practice.

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The Four Horseman of Revelation

FAMINE COMING TO AMERICA????

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Many parts of America, long considered the breadbasket of the world, are now confronting a once unthinkable phenomenon: food rationing. Major retailers in New York, in areas of New England, and on the West Coast are limiting purchases of flour, rice, and cooking oil as demand outstrips supply. There are also anecdotal reports that some consumers are hoarding grain stocks.

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What Does all of this Mean?

By Robert R Barney

Misunderstood: The 4 Horseman of Revelation
 
For years many religious experts and ministers have taught that the plagues described in the Bible (Matthew 24 and the Book of Revelation) as already happening. However these experts have made a serious error concerning these prophecies. They are correct to say that we are living in the "end times" but honestly the first century Church and the epistles of our Bible tell us that! We have been living in the "end times" now for about 1900 years! Jesus, in his famous Olivet prophecy (Matthew 24) gave exact clues to help us pinpoint the times right before he returns to earth. Although he goes on to say that no man (including Jesus) knows the exact time, if we look for certain signs, we will have an idea about when these times are very close. I have been warning people now for months that many things must still occur before the return of Jesus. Here is a short list of what HAS NOT happened yet:
 
1) The rise of the King of the North (Assyria)
2) The rise of the end time King of the South (Saudi Arabia and the entire Muslim world)
3) The rebuilding of the Temple in Jerusalem
4) The near destruction of Israel.
5) The revealing of the false prophet and the beast (as a part of this King of the North)
6) The plagues of Matt 24 and Revelation
 
Many think that famines in Africa, or Asia are a result of Bible prophecy being fulfilled. This is a series error. The Bible deals with the nation of Israel. Only nations and events that have anything to do with Israel are mentioned in the Bible. The key that so many have overlooked is the identity of who Israel is. If you do not understand who Israel is, you can never understand Biblical prophecy because it concerns physical Israel and the spiritual Church. If you ask people today, who is Israel, they would say right away, "The Jews."  It is understandable. Most people get their religion from theologians and not the Bible. Do yourself a favor. Look up the word "Jew" in www.blueletterbible.com. Read the chapter. You will be surprised to see that the Jews were at war WITH THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL! Now how can that be, aren't the Jews Israel?
 
Your Bible Says NO!
 
If you read on, you will see that your Bible says that the Jews are not the House of Israel. Although one tribe of Israel, the Jews homeland in the Bible is called Judah. Israel belongs to only one people of the twelve (really 13) tribes making up the House of Israel! Israel was the name God gave Jacob. The name Israel is the personal name of a single man named Jacob. Jacob gave his name ONLY to the two son's of Joseph. Read it for yourself:
 Gen 48:16   the Angel who has delivered me from all harm—may he bless these boys.May they be called by my name "

The name Israel belongs to the tribe of Joseph. They are known either by "Jacob" or Israel. If you see the name Jacob in the Bible, referring to a nation, it means Joseph. That is the single most important lesson you can ever learn to understand what the Bible says about YOU and prophecy.
 
 
 "A Time of Jacob's Trouble"
 
 When Jesus warned of the plagues that were coming in Matthew 24, he was not talking about Aids in Africa or famine in South America. He was referring to a time whenIsrael (Jacob, or the sons of Joseph) would be experiencing these plagues. This is what Jesus says. (Mat 24:21)  "For then there will be great distress, unequaled from the beginning of the world until now– and never to be equaled again"
 
 Now compare this to:
 
Jer 30:7   "How awful that day will be! None will be like it.It will be a time of trouble for Jacob,but he will be saved out of it."
 
Notice that this is the same event being discussed! A time like no other in History, nor ever again. A time of Jacob's trouble! The nation of Jacob (Joseph or Israel) will be seeing the plagues of Matthew 24 and Revelation. 
 (See related Stories on WHO IS JACOB. Click on Links below)

Part 1 of WHAT NATIONS TODAY are in the BIBLE....... Part 2 of WHAT NATIONS TODAY are in the BIBLE.......

What/Who are the 4 Horseman?
To understand who the four horseman represent, we need to see that Jesus tells us their meaning in Mathew 24.
 
White Horse = "Many will came in my name and deceive many" The white horse is FALSE CHRISTIANITY! Not false religion, but a false Christian ministry. See what Paul says about this: 2Cr 11:4  For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or [if] ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with [him].  Paul shows that we are to watch for "another Jesus", another Gospel! Read it for yourselves who the white horseman is. It is a man, wearing a crown (Rev 6:2). Jacob would be controlled by this man.
 

Red Horse= Everyone knows that this means war. "And there were wars and rumors of war". Again what everyone misses here is that the wars must involve Israel! A world War that Israel (the tribe of Joseph) is fighting in and will lose!
 

The Black Horse = Inflation and Famine that must happen in Israel! Notice the story Linked above about Rations Coming to the USA!
 

The Pale Horse = Death. The time of Jacob's trouble where "if those days were not cut short, nobody would be saved alive!" Mat 24:22.
 
 
 
The KEY to the Identity of Jacob:
 
Jacob, when blessing Joseph's two sons made the promise that these to boys would be the two greatest nations, with the younger being even greater than the older brother. The younger brother would be a Company of Nations (States) (a United States). Now doesn't that sound like a familiar name to you? It should. The Tribe of Joseph became part of the LOST TEN TRIBES and whose identity is the United States, Britain and the other English speaking nations of the world.

So we need to watch signs of Matthew 24 and Revelation occurring in the United States, England, Canada and Australia and that is the reason we select the articles we do for the Plain Truth. If you want to understand the Bible, you must know who the players are. The United States is the key player in everything! We are Jacob. We are Israel and the plagues Jesus talked about will someday come here. It may not be tomorrow, or next year or in ten years. It will happen and you can count on it. The United States, if we return to God, will be given more time.... If we do not return to God, we will find our time running out. Someone once said, when 51% of the nation is righteous, then God will bless us. When 51% become corrupt, God will destroy us. I still have hope that the great majority of Americans are still God fearing people trying to do right. Let's all hope and pray for that to continue. Watch when this changes, then you know our history will be coming to and end. You can make a difference. How you act, how you treat others and how you keep God in your life can go a long way. Jesus said that Love covers a multitude of Sin! Wake up America. We still delay our fate.

 

Environment

Why flowers have lost their scent

Pollution is stifling the fragrance of plants and preventing bees from pollinating them – endangering one of the most essential cycles of nature, writes Environment Editor Geoffrey Lean..

Pollution is dulling the scent of flowers and impeding some of the most basic processes of nature, disrupting insect life and imperilling food supplies, a new study suggests.

The potentially hugely significant research – funded by the blue-chip US National Science Foundation – has found that gases mainly formed from the emissions of car exhausts prevent flowers from attracting bees and other insects in order to pollinate them. And the scientists who have conducted the study fear that insects' ability to repel enemies and attract mates may also be impeded.

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Iraq

Pentagon institute calls Iraq war 'a major debacle' with outcome 'in doubt'

WASHINGTON — The war in Iraq has become "a major debacle" and the outcome "is in doubt" despite improvements in security from the buildup in U.S. forces, according to a highly critical study published Thursday by the Pentagon's premier military educational institute.

The report released by the National Defense University raises fresh doubts about President Bush's projections of a U.S. victory in Iraq just a week after Bush announced that he was suspending U.S. troop

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Raise Your Chid Well.

(Lisa Adams)

By Robert R Barney

Teenage drinking: Can sips at home prevent binges?

As I reported before  Click Here for Previous Story......... The teenage drinking problem that we face today is one of proper home based education on HOW to drink, rather than drinking age limits. Now another story has surfaced in Europe that teaching children and young adults how to drink responsibly, helps prevent drinking problems in later life. America today leaves everything up to the schools instead of training our children at home. Hopefully you will read the following report to see that Americans need to go back to the basics on child rearing.

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Do You Know Why We Do What We Do?? Paganism 101

Hitler's Contribution to Olympic Pageantry By Tony Perrottet

Mr. Perrottet is the author of The Naked Olympics (Random House).

Just how theatrical were the ancient opening ceremonies on the morning of day one? It’s hard not to let our imaginations run riot, blurring Hollywood movies and the pseudoclassical kitsch of our own lavish Olympics rituals. The torch relay, for example, is so ingrained in the modern choreography that most people today assume it was a revival of a pagan tradition—unaware that it was actually concocted for Hitler’s Games in Berlin.

The Nazis knew a good propaganda symbol when they saw one. At noon on July 20, 1936, two weeks before the start of the Berlin Games, a Greek “high priestess” and fourteen girls wearing classical robes gathered in the ancient Stadium of Olympia, and used parabolic mirrors to focus the sun’s rays on a wand until it burst into flame. As a torch was kindled, a chant went up— “Oh fire, lit in an ancient and sacred place, begin your race”— followed by a ceremony where one of Pindar’s Pythian odes was sung to ancient instruments. The so-called Olympic flame was then carried by 3,075 relay runners from Greece, passed from magnesium torch to torch (each one bearing the logo of the German arms manufacturer Krupp), until it finally lit a colossal brazier in the Berlin stadium before the Führer’s approving gaze.

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WND Exclusive

BRAVE NEW SCHOOLS
District bans 'John 3:16,' promotes demonic leer
Court filing seeks elimination of penalties for Christian art

A court in Wisconsin has been asked to suspend immediately a policy in the Tomah Area School District that bans Christian symbols in students' artwork, but allows Hindu, Buddhist and satanic representations.

The motion was filed yesterday by the Alliance Defense Fund, which has taken on the case of a student identified by the initials A.P.

The ADF launched a lawsuit on the student's behalf after a teacher refused to give him a grade on a project because his work included "John 3:16" as well as "As sign of love."

Artwork banned because of the inclusion of a biblical reference and the message: "A sign of love"

The school district, however, openly acknowledged and publicized various pieces of art representing Buddhism, and Hinduism as well as several demon faces that appeared satanic.

The school defended its actions:

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Religion

 FAITH UNDER FIRE
China escalates Bible crackdown
Bookstore owner re-arrested after being cleared of original counts

Shi Weihan and his family (China Aid Association photo)

The Chinese owner of a bookstore near the 2008 Olympics complex in Beijing has been re-arrested and detained, only about a dozen weeks after he was cleared of allegations of illegally publishing Bibles and Christian literature due to "insufficient evidence," according to a new report from Compass Direct.

As WND reported earlier, Shi Weihan was released in January after being taken into custody shortly after Thanksgiving 2007 during police raids on his home and office.

China Aid Association then reported the fact he was released, along with several others, although the government offered no explanationfor his case.

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Progressive Insurance: One of MOVE ON's Largest Supporters

Why Is Progressive Using "Recent Military Service" To Determine Rates And Eligibility?

We got this email tonight from Ceaser, who wants to know why his military service would negatively affect his car insurance:

While searching for new car insurance on progressive and sadly other insurance carriers, figuring what the rate check would be I answered a few questions. Some questions asked were if I was currently in the military and in college, I am both. As an Iraq war Army vet I am currently going to school with the GI bill, and tuition assistance from the Air national guard, so I put that I am both a student and national guard.

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Economy and Big Brother

Inside Tip: MERGERS!

By Robert R. Barney
 
In case you haven't realized it yet, many of the financial problems hitting America's poor and middle class have another nasty side – probably planned by our leaders in Washington and on Wall Street.

 

The bad economic times, saddled with runaway inflation which itself is being fueled by the high cost of petroleum, are going to create huge mega-mergers.

 

This week, we saw Delta Air Lines merge with Northwest. Expect many more to come. Your government actually wants team-ups like this to happen.

 

Why? The answer is simple.

 

Our leaders, in collusion with Fortune 500 companies, want to stymie competition by establishing monopolies. Monopolies are the single largest threat to both capitalism and the freedoms we enjoy in the United States.
 
Soon, we can expect to see huge mergers among bankers, the oil and gasoline as industry (yes, Exxon wants to make more profits and can only do so when there are only two or three oil companies in the world), car manufacturers, chemical companies, food chains and the trucking industry.

 

I expect to see Ford Motor Company swallowed by a Japanese car firm within three years. Dodge/Chrysler will almost certainly be taken over by Volkswagen or possibly Nissan. In 10 years, we may even see a merger between Toyota and General Motors.

 

The same applies to the trucking and rail industry. You think food prices are high now? What happens when this artificial fuel shortage cause the little trucking companies out of business? It will be FedEx Freight and UPS. I've been told that even R&L may be a target for takeover by DHL.
 
The paint industry in which I'm involved has been on this route for 30 years. In the 1970s, 70 percent of auto coatings were produced by the top 50 paint companies. Today, 70 percent are produced by only the top four! Many experts in my field believe in 10 years, America will have just two major paint companies – Dupont and PPG – with a whopping 90 percent share.  

 

Grocery stores are the next target. Last year, Whole Foods bought out its rival, Wild Oats. I predict many smaller chains such as Farm Fresh and Publix will become targets of buyouts by larger stores like Kroger and Albertson's.
 
Why is this happening?

 

Control.

 

The government can control you better if you are working for a huge company rather than working for yourself.

 

Salaried employees pay taxes and basically can write nothing off. Small business owners have many things they can write off and your government hates this. So does Wall Street.

 

Corporate America simply cannot compete with the little guy. I know many may doubt this, but the little guy can always sell his wares cheaper than the big guys. The reason: the bureaucratic high cost of overhead is immense in large companies.

 

Here's an example from my business. It costs me about $30 to make a gallon of clear coat paint. That's raw material cost. It probably only costs industry giant PPG $20 because of its buying power. My overhead runs about 20 percent. That makes my total cost about $36 a gallon. PPG probably has a whopping 100-150 percent overhead cost compared to raw materials! This makes the cost of its clear in the $50 range.

 

How is that? Well, we don't give NASCAR racing teams millions of dollars. We don't have an advertising budget of tens of millions and we don't buy business. It's the norm in my industry for a paint company to give "up-front" money to a body shop for its business. I have been involved in deals when I sold for these companies that paid large dealer groups millions for their business. Millions! So it's easy to see why they have to sell their clear coat for $200. I don't. I also don't sell 4 billion!

 

Just as politicians pay for votes, large companies pay for business. Politicians hand out cigarettes, booze and even "gas money" in exchange for votes. The Democrats have been experts at such tactics. Wall Street has learned from the best.
 
We are being merged into a one-world government that will take away your choices. You'll see your rights disappear, and eventually an Adolf Hitler-type will be your leader. Sound far-fetched? Read the 11th chapter of Daniel and see what can be expected. Hopefully, this will not happen in our lifetimes; however, we can't be sure when it will. We do know, though, that it will happen. God says so.

 

 

Religion and Politics

The Texas Polygamy Raid

It has been more than two weeks since Texas Rangers raided the Yearning for Zion Ranch, seizing more than 400 children on vague evidence of polygamy and child abuse.

To the credit of law enforcement authorities, no one was injured. Apparently, only two men were arrested, while another is being sought in another state for his role in alleged sexual abuse. Little resistance was offered by the sect's followers.

Now, I don't like polygamy.

And I don't like child abuse.

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Who Is Man That You Make so Much of Him? Psalm 8:4

THE AWESOME CREATION OF GOD!

The Earth Compared to Some of the Planets. Notice the Color! LIFE!

Now see how small the Earth is to the Bigger Planets in Just our Solar System

Compare the tiny Earth to our SUN!

Now see how small our sun is! Compared Antares 
Is The 15Th Brightest Star In The Sky. That star is: MORE THAN 1000 LIGHT YEARS AWAY. 
NOW  HOW BIG  ARE YOU?

NOW 
TRY TO WRAP YOUR MIND AROUND THIS.........  THIS IS A 
HUBBLE TELESCOPE ULTRA DEEP FIELD INFRARED  VIEW OF COUNT LESS
'ENTIRE' GALAXIES  BILLIONS OF LIGHT-YEARS AWAY. 

HUMBLING, 
ISN'T IT?

And yet, Someone knows how many hairs are on your head, and not even a single sparrow dies apart from His will (Matthew 10:29-31)!

NOW 
HOW BIG ARE YOU?   
AND HOW BIG ARE THE THINGS
THAT UPSET YOU TODAY?  AND 
HOW BIG IS YOUR GOD?  KEEP LIFE IN 
PERSPECTIVE.  For the Answer Read JOB 38 the entire chapter

BE HAPPY AND DON'T  SWEAT THE SMALL STUFF!  IT'S ALL UNDER CONTROL

Energy Crisis?

National news media burying amazing oil breakthrough?

By Joe Kovacs
© 2008 WorldNetDaily

It could potentially be one of the biggest energy breakthroughs in history – genetically manipulating bacteria to quickly convert anything that grows out of the Earth into oil. But the biggest names in the national media have thus far not provided any coverage of this possible solution to skyrocketing gas prices and America's long-term energy security.

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Your Health Today

Stay Informed. Stay healthy

The Plain Truth's Your Health Today has the latest health news so you can keep yourself and your family healthy and happy!

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Your Government at Work

Military Denied Benefits to Surviving Son

 

FRESNO, Calif. (April 17) - Forced to leave the combat zone after his two brothers died in the Iraq war, Army Spc. Jason Hubbard faced another battle once he returned home: The military cut off his family's health care, stopped his G.I. educational subsidies and wanted him to repay his sign-up bonus.

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Army Spc. Jason Hubbard helps carry the casket of his brother Nathan Hubbard on Aug. 31 in Fresno, Calif. Military rules forced Jason Hubbard out of the service after both his brothers died in Iraq. Then the military cut off his family's medical benefits, stopped his education subsidies and tried to force him to repay his $6,000 enlistment bonus.

 

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Politics

Carter meets Hamas delegation in Cairo

CAIRO (AP) - Former President Carter is meeting with a Hamas delegation from Gaza, part of a series of talks with the Islamic militant group that has drawn sharp criticism from U.S. and Israeli officials.

An Associated Press reporter saw the Hamas delegation going into the meeting Thursday at a Cairo hotel and a Hamas coordinator in Egypt said they were meeting with Carter. The coordinator spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.

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The Coming White Horse

Pope blames church sex scandal on breakdown of

Society

Pope Benedict XVI chided Americans for a moral breakdown he said had fueled the church's child sex abuse scandal, ahead of an open-air mass before tens of thousands here Thursday.

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Economy

Gas prices pass $3.40 a gallon, are expected to rise higher Thursday April 17, 3:27 pm ET By John Wilen, AP Business Writer Gas prices pass $3.40 and are expected to rise higher; oil gyrates after setting own record NEW YORK (AP) -- Retail gas prices pushed past a record high $3.40 a gallon Thursday, fulfilling expectations that they'll keep climbing toward $4 as the summer driving season approaches.

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Religion in America

Bush welcomes pope and says US is open to his message

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WASHINGTON (AP) - An enthralled South Lawn crowd of more than 9,000 sang "Happy Birthday" Pope Benedict XVI on Wednesday—twice—and President Bush said that the first papal White House visit in 29 years was a reminder for Americans to "distinguish between simple right and wrong."

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The Coming War in the Middle East

Iran threatens to eliminate Israel

Iran will eliminate Israel if it attacks the Islamic Republic, Iran's deputy army chief warned Tuesday in words conjuring up Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's threats to wipe Israel off the map.

Iran threatens to 'eliminate Israel' if it launches attack

"Should Israel take any action against Iran, we will eliminate Israel from the scene of the universe," Gen. Muhammad Reza Ashtiani said in Teheran on Tuesday.

Ashtiani's statement followed Infrastructure Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer's comment last week warning Iran that any attack on Israel would result in the "destruction of the Iranian nation."

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Religion in America

 

 

Texas defends separation of polygamist sect kids from moms

ELDORADO, Texas - State officials Tuesday defended their decision to suddenly separate mothers from many of the children taken in a raid on a polygamist ranch in West Texas.

Texas Children's Protective Services spokeswoman Marleigh Meisner said the separation was made Monday after they decided that children are more truthful in interviews about possible abuse if their parents are not around.

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Freedom of Speech?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Brigitte Bardot on trial for Muslim slur

 

PARIS (Reuters) - French former film star Brigitte Bardot went on trial on Tuesday for insulting Muslims, the fifth time she has faced the charge of "inciting racial hatred" over her controversial remarks about Islam and its followers.

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Economy

Food Costs Rising Fastest in 17 Years

Food Costs Rising at Fast Clip, Squeezing Poor, Forcing Food Vendors to Explain Higher Prices

NEW YORK (AP) -- Steve Tarpin can bake a graham cracker crust in his sleep, but explaining why the price for his Key lime pies went from $20 to $25 required mastering a thornier topic: global economics.

He recently wrote a letter to his customers and posted it near the cash register listing

the factors -- dairy prices driven higher by conglomerates buying up milk supplies, heat waves in Europe and California, demand from emerging markets and the weak dollar.

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Economy

Made in China

By Finlo Rohrer BBC News Magazine In the run-up to the Olympics some opponents of China's regime are boycotting not just the games but all Chinese products. There have been many boycotts before, but with its dominance in manufacturing, those vowing not to buy Chinese face an especially tough challenge. Sitting on the bus wending your way to work and wherever you are, you probably have a bit of China with you. Listening to your iPod. Made in China. Fiddling with your key ring. Made in China. Label on the inside of your underpants irritating you a little bit. It more than likely says "Made in China".

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The White Horse Of Revelation

Biography: Pope Benedict XVI

  Joseph Alois Ratzinger was born on April 16, 1927, on the Saturday before Easter — to parents named Josef and Mary — and was baptized the same day in the small Bavarian town of Marktl Am Inn. The baptismal font is now displayed proudly by the town's small museum.

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Religion In America

Polygamist Moms Return to Ranch

 

FDLS Mothers Had Complained About 'Appalling' Conditions at Shelter Where Kids Were Held

By SCOTT MICHELS, MIKE VON FREMD, KELLY HAGAN and JONANN BRADY
April 14, 2008

Nearly all the 139 women from the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints, who volunteered to accompany the group's children taken by authorities, left police custody late today and headed back to the polygamist sect's rural Texas compound.

A woman in a plural marriage disagrees with polygamist compound raid.

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Though the 416 children were taken into state custody when authorities entered the Yearning For Zion Ranch to investigate allegations of abuse there earlier this month, the women went along voluntarily to be with their children.  

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Politics

WILLIAM KRISTOL Obama's Mask Slips

It’s one thing for Karl Marx to assert that “religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature” and another for Barack Obama to claim that we “cling to ... religion” out of economic frustration.

AP

US Sen. Barack Obama

I haven’t read much Karl Marx since the early 1980s, when I taught political philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania. Still, it didn’t take me long this weekend to find my copy of “The Marx-Engels Reader,” edited by Robert C. Tucker -- a book that was assigned in thousands of college courses in the 1970s and 80s, and that now must lie, unopened and un-remarked upon, on an awful lot of rec-room bookshelves.

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WorldNetDaily Exclusive

BLACK-GOLD BLUES
Billions of gallons of oil in North Dakota, Montana
Geological Survey calls find largest reserves outside Alaska

Posted: April 13, 2008
10:31 pm Eastern

By Jerome R. Corsi
© 2008 WorldNetDaily

A shale formation stretching North Dakota and Montana may have an estimated 3 to 4.3 billion barrels of technically recoverable oil, according to a U.S. Geological Survey assessment.

Known as the Bakken Formation, the find would make the recoverable oil in North Dakota and Montana the largest U.S. oil reserves outside Alaska.

Map of Bakken Formation in northern United States, courtesy Grand Forks Herald

The recently released assessment shows a 2,800 percent, or 28-times increase in the amount of oil recoverable from the Bakken Formation, compared to the agency's 1995 estimate of 151 million barrels of oil. 

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Economy

IRS eases pressure on Big U.S. companies, study says

NEW YORK: Most Americans dread tax season. But corporate America seems to have less to fear from the Internal Revenue Service than it used to, according to a new study.

The IRS's scrutiny of the biggest U.S. companies is running at a 20-year low, according to the study, conducted by Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, or TRAC, a research group affiliated with Syracuse University.

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Why China is the REAL master of the universe

Why China is the REAL master of the universe

Cecil Rhodes, the businessman-imperialist of Africa, the creator of Rhodesia, suffered no flicker of doubt about who were the masters.

"To be born an Englishman," he mused, "Is to win first prize in the lottery of life."

It wasn't idle boasting. In the jingoistic triumphalism of the late 19th century, when waving the Union Jack was a simple pleasure, people sang: "Rule Britannia! Britannia, rule the waves" without any irony. It was a statement of fact.

A quarter of mankind lived under the British flag in the largest empire the world had ever known.

And many of those parts that weren't under Britain's rule - such as the U.S. - had been created by Britain.

British missionaries had opened up the Dark Continent almost unchallenged.

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Eastern promise: Chinese factory workers line up for their morning roll call

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Big Brother! This is Coming to America Friends!

Mother denied daughter's organs

A woman in need of a kidney transplant has been told by medical authorities that she does not have the right to her dead daughter's organs, which have already been passed on to strangers.

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WND Exclusive

O Jerusalem! America drafts plan to cut in 2
Allows Palestinian security control, asks Israel to forfeit Temple Mount
Posted: April 09, 2008
11:30 pm Eastern

By Aaron Klein
© 2008 WorldNetDaily

JERUSALEM – The United States, which has been mediating negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority here, has proposed a plan to divide Jerusalem, WND has learned.

The plan, divided into separate phases, among other things calls for Israel eventually to forfeit parts of the Temple Mount, Judaism's holiest site.

According to the first stage of the U.S. plan, which was obtained by WND, Israel would give the PA some municipal and security sovereignty over key Arab neighborhoods in eastern Jerusalem.

The PA would be allowed to open some official institutions in Jerusalem, could elect a mayor for the Palestinian side of the city and would deploy police forces to maintain law and order.

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America's Next Depression

Will trade deficit trigger depression?
Economists: It's de-industrializing America, leading nation toward 2nd-rate power status
Posted: April 09, 2008
12:45 am Eastern

© 2008 WorldNetDaily

Editors Note: The Plain Truth is predicting that America will go into a depression someday unless we turn back to God. It is our position that Deuteronomy 26 is a message to the USA and our "Birthright" is that we are lost Israel. Robert R. Barney.

WASHINGTON – America is selling its birthright not for a mess of pottage, but for a mess of Chinese junk, and the resulting "unsustainable" trade deficit is leading "to the collapse of the dollar, depression and conversion of the United States to a second-rate power," says a new book written by three generations of a family of economists.

"Not only will the United States feel the pain, but other countries will as well," write Raymond, Howard and Jesse Richman in "Trading Away Our Future." "Because other countries are dependent upon the U.S. dollar as a reserve currency and because they are dependent on exports to the United States to sustain their own economies, the eventual collapse of the dollar could wreak havoc on the economies of the whole world."

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Politics

FDA Action Against Raw Milk

Special FDA agents and investigators from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration aggressively interrogated two young female employees of Organic Pastures Dairy Company, the nation's largest raw milk producer, with questions focusing on the dairy's interstate sales of raw colostrum and raw milk for pet food. The surprise interrogations took place after work in their private homes on the evening of March 19, just hours after Judge Tobias of the Hollister Superior Court issued a temporary restraining order against the California Department of Food and Agriculture. The state court ruling blocked enforcement of California's anti-raw milk AB 1735, which mandates unnecessarily stringent standards for beneficial coliform bacteria in raw milk. The temporary restraining order represents an important legal victory for raw milk producers and consumers in California and throughout the nation.

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Politics

A surprise: Oprah pays a real cost for supporting Barack Obama

Editors Note: Plain Truth Readers will realize that this story was predicted by me back in January 2008 and www.RaceRap.com Readers will know that I wrote this in December of last year. My point was that Oprah's "coming out" for Barak Obama would end up destroying her public image because she was supporting him only because of his race, it the majority of Americans, especially liberal and moderate white people would see thru her charade. She has marketed herself "above race" quite successfully until now. The following story shows the drastic plummet of her ratings and revenue because of her endorsement.My Comment Back In January! See what I predicted..........

Most of the attention on the O2 effect -- Obama and Oprah -- has been focused on how much the daytime TV cult leader helped her home state senator by endorsing him and appearing at all those rallies in Iowa and South Carolina with Barack and Michelle.

The 54-year-old Chicago TV hostess certainly helped raise a hefty chunk of change by loaning out her estate for that Obama fundraiser last summer.

Oprah Winfrey has long enjoyed an immense popularity tied to her long-running daytime TV show, which started in 1986, and helped give her favorable ratings around 78% by 1996. So well known is she that one name will suffice, as in our headline.

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