Details emerge on alleged plot to bomb airliners

Details emerge on alleged plot to bomb airliners
Officials: Leader still at large in Pakistan, test run was planned for weekend
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Updated: 6:59 p.m. CT Aug 10, 2006
LONDON - British authorities said Thursday they thwarted a terrorist plot to simultaneously blow up 10 aircraft heading to the U.S. using explosives smuggled in hand luggage, averting what police described as “mass murder on an unimaginable scale.”

Officials told NBC News that the alleged mastermind of the plot is still in Pakistan and has yet to be captured.

Some plotters had already purchased tickets on a flight to stage a test run planned for this weekend. The test run would have determined how easily the plotters could have gotten their materials past security and on board the planes.

The actual attack would have followed within days, officials told NBC News.

Police arrested 24 people saying they were confident they captured the main suspects in what U.S. officials said was a plot in its final phases that had all the earmarks of an al-Qaida operation. However, ABC News quoted unidentified U.S. officials who had been briefed on the plot as saying five suspects were still at large and being urgently hunted.

President Bush called the plot a “stark reminder” of the continued threat to the United States from extremist Muslims.

Senior U.S. intelligence officials told NBC News that the plot was on British officials’ radar for about two weeks and that several of the people involved had been monitored for several months when this plot came into view.

Asked whether there were a significant number of suspects involved in the plot still on the loose who could still carry out an attack, the official said, “They didn't get them all.”

Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff described the plot on Thursday as “well-advanced and well-thought-out and ... really resourced to succeed.”

The alleged plan
Britain disclosed no details about the plot or those arrested, although one police official indicated the people in custody were British residents, most of whom lived in east London. A French official in contact with British authorities described the arrested as originating from predominantly Muslim Pakistan.

British authorities said the suspects were arrested in London, its suburbs and Birmingham following a lengthy investigation, including the alleged “main players” in the plot.


At least one of the plotters attended a terrorist training camp in Pakistan, and more than one of the accused prepared a martyrdom tape, a counterterrorism official told NBC News.

Investigators say the plotters had not decided on specific flights to attack, but within the past few days were clicking around the Internet, looking at non-stop flights from the U.K. to the U.S. that left around the same time, NBC News’ Pete Williams reported.


U.S. officials say British investigators had the terror cell under close surveillance for several months, keeping the U.S. informed, then adding more specifics just within the past several days.

For the past several days, the FBI has feverishly looked for any potential ties to terrorists in the U.S., but has not found any.

“We literally in the last couple of weeks have had hundreds of FBI agents around the country tracking down every lead, and we have not found to date any plotters here in the United States,” FBI Director Robert Mueller told NBC.

Aviation experts say airport screening devices have a hard time picking up the chemicals the plotters planned to use, something officials verified with a test Thursday morning at Washington's Ronald Reagan National Airport.

Officials raised security to its highest level in Britain — suggesting a terrorist attack might be imminent — and banned carry-on luggage on all flights. Huge crowds backed up at security barriers at London’s Heathrow Airport as officials searching for explosives barred nearly every form of liquid outside of baby formula.

Chertoff said the terrorists planned to use liquid explosives disguised as beverages and other common products and set them off with detonators disguised as electronic devices.

“I can’t tell you that the particular explosives they had designed would have succeeded in bringing the planes down, but certainly you don’t even want to come close to taking that kind of a risk,” Chertoff said on MSNBC TV’s “Hardball.”

A counterterrorism official with knowledge of the plot and Thursday’s arrests told NBC News that the plotters, who ranged in age from 17 to 35, planned to use false-bottomed sports drink bottles to bring the liquids on board.

The terrorists on each plane would combine the separated liquids mid-flight to create an explosive solution.

An American law enforcement official who was briefed on the investigation said it appeared the liquid to be used was a “peroxide-based solution” to be detonated by an electronic device that was not specified, but could be anything from a disposable camera to a portable digital music player.

The official spoke on condition of anonymity because British authorities had asked that no information be released.

Alerts raised worldwide
News of the arrests and extreme security measures in London, a major international aviation hub, sent ripples throughout the world. Heathrow was closed to most flights from Europe, and British Airways canceled all its flights between the airport and points in Britain, Europe and Libya. Numerous flights from U.S. cities to Britain were canceled.

Washington raised its threat alert to its highest level for commercial flights from Britain to the United States.

The alert for all flights coming or going from the United States was also raised slightly.

Two U.S. counterterrorism officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the terrorists had targeted United, American and Continental airlines.

A U.S. intelligence official said the plotters had hoped to target flights to major airports in New York, Washington and California.

‘Stark reminder’
Visiting Green Bay, Wis., to raise support for a Republican candidate, Bush said that the plot was a “stark reminder that this nation is at war with Islamic fascists.” Despite increased security since Sept. 11, he warned, “It is a mistake to believe there is no threat to the United States of America.”

ABC News quoted sources as saying Western intelligence agencies had identified three of the alleged ringleaders. It said two were believed to have traveled recently to Pakistan and later had money wired to them from Pakistan, purportedly to purchase airline tickets for suicide bombers.

While British officials declined to publicly identify the 24 suspects, French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy said in Paris they “appear to be of Pakistani origin.”

Pakistan’s government said later its intelligence agents helped Britain crack the plot and had arrested two to three suspects.

“Pakistan played a very important role in uncovering and breaking this international terrorist network,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Tasnim Aslam said, but she declined to give details.

‘Homegrown’
The suspects arrested in Britain were “homegrown,” though it was not immediately clear if they were all British citizens, said a British police official who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the case. Police were working closely with the South Asian community, the official said.

Raids were carried out at homes in London, the nearby town of High Wycombe and in Birmingham, in central England. Police also combed a wooded area in High Wycombe.

Hamza Ghafoor, 20, who lives across the street from one of the homes raided in Walthamstow, northeast of London, said police circled the block in vans Thursday and that they generally swoop into the neighborhood to question “anyone with a beard.”

“Ibrahim didn’t do nothing wrong,” Ghafoor said, referring to a suspect. “He played football. He goes to the mosque. He’s a nice guy.”

The suicide bombing assault on London subway trains and a bus on July 7, 2005, was carried out by Muslim extremists raised in Britain.

The police official said the plotters intended to simultaneously target multiple planes bound for the United States.

“We think this was an extraordinarily serious plot and we are confident that we’ve prevented an attempt to commit mass murder on an unimaginable scale,” Deputy Police Commissioner Paul Stephenson said.

First time red alert status invoked
Prime Minister Tony Blair, vacationing in the Caribbean, briefed Bush on the situation Wednesday. Blair issued a statement praising the cooperation between the two countries, saying it “underlines the threat we face and our determination to counter it.”

Chertoff said the plot had the hallmarks of an operation planned by al-Qaida, the terrorist group behind the Sept. 11 attack on the United States.

“It was sophisticated, it had a lot of members and it was international in scope. It was in some respects suggestive of an al-Qaida plot,” Chertoff said, but he cautioned it was too early in the investigation to reach any conclusions.

It is the first time the red alert level in the Homeland Security warning system has been invoked, although there have been brief periods in the past when the orange level was applied. Homeland Security defines the red alert as designating a “severe risk of terrorist attacks.”

“We believe that these arrests (in London) have significantly disrupted the threat, but we cannot be sure that the threat has been entirely eliminated or the plot completely thwarted,” Chertoff said.

He added, however, there was no indication of current plots within the United States.

‘Close to the execution phase’
Chertoff said the plotters were in the final stages of planning. “We were really getting quite close to the execution phase,” he said, adding that it was unclear if the plot was linked to the upcoming fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks.

A senior U.S. counterterrorism official said authorities believe dozens of people — possibly as many as 50 — were involved in the plot.

In the mid-1990s, officials foiled a plan by terrorist mastermind Ramzi Youssef to blow up 12 Western jetliners simultaneously over the Pacific. The alleged plot involved improvised bombs using liquid hidden in contact lens solution containers.

No way to end a war

Posted: August 10, 2006
1:00 a.m. Eastern

By Michael Evans

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For once, Hezbollah and the government of Lebanon that it controls did the right thing yesterday: They shot down a draft cease-fire resolution in the U.N. Security Council that might have kept Israel from finishing off the murdering band of terrorists that has brought so much death and destruction to both Israel and Lebanon over the past month.

The resolution submitted by France and the United States was itself a compromise. The French want an immediate cease-fire before establishing a multi-national force to secure it. The U.S. wants the multi-national force in place before a cease-fire is declared, so the cease-fire has a chance of lasting.

Hezbollah and Lebanon, on the other hand, oppose the French-U.S. plan, because it ignores their demand that Israeli forces withdraw from southern Lebanon before Hezbollah's bombardments of northern Israel are halted.

At least for public consumption, Jerusalem welcomed the draft resolution, saying it would agree to the U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon, or UNIFIL, remaining in southern Lebanon while the multi-national force is organized. Since Israel clearly wants to be allowed to win this war, UNIFIL may be the next best thing to no cease-fire at all, considering that UNIFIL observers watched Hezbollah take delivery of an estimated 16,000 Katyushas and other missiles over the past six years and did nothing to stop it. A real cease-fire would also mean preventing Hezbollah from rearming by smuggling arms from Syria or elsewhere.

On the up side, the resolution would allow Israel to retaliate if attacked and reiterates the necessity to implement U.N. Security Council Resolution 1559, which calls for disarming Hezbollah, established by Iran in 1982 to threaten Israel by taking over southern Lebanon and becoming a state-within-a-state.

Hezbollah has turned every village in the south into an arsenal and a launching pad for missiles aimed at Israel. It cynically uses Lebanese civilians as human shields, firing missiles at Israel from inside villages – and even from inside homes. When these civilians are inevitably hurt by this heinous strategy, Hezbollah exploits the casualties the terror group itself caused for propaganda purposes.

Before it was flattened by Israeli bombing, Hezbollah's exclusive Dahiya quarter in southern Beirut was a gated community for jihadists dedicated to the destruction of Israel, and could only be entered by permission of Hezbollah. It was from there that some 200 members of Iran's Revolutionary Guards supervised the deployment of Hezbollah's terrorists, in effect Iran's front-line troops in its war against the West.

It is wishful thinking to assume that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad would agree to let his Hezbollah troops retire from warfare and go into politics, just as it is folly not to take seriously his threat to annihilate Israel with nuclear weapons. How can any U.N. resolution expect Israel to trust an Iranian terrorist proxy that has fired some 3,000 missiles packed with ball bearings to murder and maim as many innocent Israeli civilians as possible? It would be like asking the U.S. not to go after bin Laden, but instead negotiate with the terrorist masterminds of 9-11.

British: Thwarted Plot Involved 10 Jets

British: Thwarted Plot Involved 10 Jets

Aug 10, 3:53 PM (ET)

By DANICA KIRKA

LONDON (AP) - British authorities said Thursday they thwarted a terrorist plot to simultaneously blow up 10 aircraft heading to the U.S. using explosives smuggled in hand luggage, averting what police described as "mass murder on an unimaginable scale."

Police arrested 24 people, saying they were confident they captured the main suspects in what U.S. officials said was a plot in its final phases that had all the earmarks of an al-Qaida operation. However, ABC News quoted unidentified U.S. officials who had been briefed on the plot as saying five suspects were still at large and being urgently hunted.

President Bush called the plot a "stark reminder" of the continued threat to the United States from extremist Muslims.

Britain disclosed no details about the plot or those arrested, although one police official indicated the people in custody were British residents. A French official in contact with British authorities described the arrested as originating from predominantly Muslim Pakistan.

Officials raised security to its highest level in Britain - suggesting a terrorist attack might be imminent - and banned carry-on luggage on all flights. Huge crowds backed up at security barriers at London's Heathrow airport as officials searching for explosives barred nearly every form of liquid outside of baby formula.

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said the terrorists planned to use liquid explosives disguised as beverages and other common products and set them off with detonators disguised as electronic devices.

An American law enforcement official who was briefed on the investigation said it appeared the liquid to be used was a "peroxide-based solution" to be detonated by an electronic device that was not specified, but could be anything from a disposable camera to a portable digital music player. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because British authorities had asked that no information be released.

The extreme measures at a major international aviation hub sent ripples throughout the world. Heathrow was closed to most flights from Europe, and British Airways canceled all its flights between the airport and points in Britain, Europe and Libya. Numerous flights from U.S. cities to Britain were canceled.

Washington raised its threat alert to its highest level for commercial flights from Britain to the United States amid fears the plot had not been completely crushed. The alert for all flights coming or going from the United States was also raised slightly.

Two U.S. counterterrorism officials said the terrorists had targeted United, American and Continental airlines. They spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the case.

A U.S. intelligence official said the plotters had hoped to target flights to major airports in New York, Washington and California. A counterterrorism official said the plot involved 10 flights.

British authorities said 24 people were arrested in London, its suburbs and Birmingham following a lengthy investigation, including the alleged "main players" in the plot. Searches continued in a number of locations, and police cordoned off streets in several locations.

Bush said during a visit to Green Bay, Wis., that the foiled plot was a "stark reminder that this nation is at war with Islamic fascists." Despite increased security since Sept. 11, he warned, "It is a mistake to believe there is no threat to the United States of America."

ABC News quoted sources as saying Western intelligence agencies had identified three of the alleged ringleaders. It said two were believed to have traveled recently to Pakistan and later had money wired to them from Pakistan, purportedly to purchase airline tickets for suicide bombers.


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While British officials declined to publicly identify the 24 suspects, French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy said in Paris they "appear to be of Pakistani origin." He did not give a source for his description, but said French officials had been in close contact with British authorities.

Pakistan's government said later its intelligence agents helped Britain crack the plot and had arrested some suspects.

"Pakistan played a very important role in uncovering and breaking this international terrorist network," Foreign Ministry spokesman Tasnim Aslam said, but she declined to give details.

The suspects arrested in Britain were "homegrown," though it was not immediately clear if they were all British citizens, said a British police official who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the case. Police were working closely with the South Asian community, the official said.

The suicide bombing assault on London subway trains and a bus on July 7, 2005, was carried out by Muslim extremists who grew up in Britain.


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The police official said the plotters intended to simultaneously target multiple planes bound for the United States.

"We think this was an extraordinarily serious plot and we are confident that we've prevented an attempt to commit mass murder on an unimaginable scale," Deputy Police Commissioner Paul Stephenson said.

Prime Minister Tony Blair, vacationing in the Caribbean, briefed Bush on the situation Wednesday. Blair issued a statement praising the cooperation between the two countries, saying it "underlines the threat we face and our determination to counter it."

White House spokesman Tony Snow said Bush also had been briefed by his aides while at his ranch in Crawford, Texas, where he has been on vacation.

"We do believe the plot involved flights from the U.K. to the U.S. and was a direct threat to the United States," Snow said.

While Snow called the plot a serious threat, he assured Americans that "it is safe to travel."

Chertoff, the homeland security chief, said the plot had the hallmarks of an operation planned by al-Qaida, the terrorist group behind the Sept. 11 attack on the United States.

"It was sophisticated, it had a lot of members and it was international in scope. It was in some respects suggestive of an al-Qaida plot," Chertoff said, but he cautioned it was too early in the investigation to reach any conclusions.

It is the first time the red alert level in the Homeland Security warning system has been invoked, although there have been brief periods in the past when the orange level was applied. Homeland Security defines the red alert as designating a "severe risk of terrorist attacks."

"We believe that these arrests (in London) have significantly disrupted the threat, but we cannot be sure that the threat has been entirely eliminated or the plot completely thwarted," Chertoff said.

He added, however, there was no indication of current plots within the United States.

Chertoff said the plotters were in the final stages of planning. "We were really getting quite close to the execution phase," he said, adding that it was unclear if the plot was linked to the upcoming fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks.

A senior U.S. counterterrorism official said authorities believe dozens of people - possibly as many as 50 - were involved in the plot. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the situation.

The plan involved airline passengers hiding masked explosives in carry-on luggage, the official said. "They were not yet sitting on an airplane," but were very close to traveling, the official said, calling the plot "the real deal."

Passengers in Britain faced delays as tighter security was hastily enforced at the country's airports and additional measures were put in place for all flights. Laptop computers, mobile phones, digital music players, and remote controls were among the items banned from being carried on board.

Liquids, such as hair care products, were also barred on flights in both Britain and the U.S.

In the mid-1990s, officials foiled a plan by terrorist mastermind Ramzi Youssef to blow up 12 Western jetliners simultaneously over the Pacific. The alleged plot involved improvised bombs using liquid hidden in contact lens solution containers.

Huge lines formed at ticket counters and behind security barriers at Heathrow and other airports in Britain.

Ed Lappen, 55, a businessman from Boston, who was traveling with his wife and daughter to Russia, found himself unable to travel further. "We're safe, we're OK," he said at Heathrow. "Now my daughter is going to get a shopping trip in London."

Hannah Pillinger, 24, seemed less concerned by the announcement. "Eight hours without an iPod, that's the most inconvenient thing," she said, waiting at the Manchester airport.

Most European carriers canceled flights to Heathrow because of the massive delays created after authorities enforced strict new regulations banning most hand baggage.

Tony Douglas, Heathrow's managing director, said the airport hoped to resume normal operations Friday, but passengers would still face delays and a ban on cabin baggage "for the foreseeable future."

Security also was stepped up at train stations serving airports across Britain, said British Transport Police spokeswoman Jan O'Neill. At London's Victoria Station, police patrolled platforms with bomb-sniffing dogs as passengers boarded trains carrying clear plastic bags.

Margaret Gavin, 67, waiting to board a train, said she wasn't scared. "Why should I change my life because some idiots want to blow something up?" she said.

Associated Press writers Lara Jakes Jordan in Washington, Matt Moore in Frankfurt, Germany, and Pat Milton in New York contributed to this report.

Israel enhancing nuke-capable submarines

Israel enhancing nuke-capable submarines
Diplomatic channels working to secure travel, refueling routes to waters near Iran

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4:55 p.m. Eastern

Editor's note: The following article is adapted from the Galil Report, a regular Mideast briefing by WND Jerusalem bureau chief Aaron Klein published exclusively in Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin, the premium, online intelligence newsletter. The Galil Report is published at G2 Bulletin and available as an email newsletter free to G2 Bulletin subscribers. Annual subscriptions have been reduced to $99, while monthly trial subscriptions are available to credit card users for just $9.95.

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Dolphin-class submarine
HAIFA, Israel – German engineers the past few weeks have been in Israel working to improve three advanced, nuclear capable attack submarines it provided the Jewish state last year, security sources tell the Galil Report.

Many here have estimated the vessels can be used both as a strategic, second-strike nuclear deterrent or for conventional use during any large-scale confrontation.

Military officials say the submarines are not needed for Israel's current campaign in Lebanon. The officials said Israel recently has discussed with foreign governments travel and refueling routes so the submarines can reach the Persian Gulf – within firing distance of Iran.

The submarines usually patrol in the Indian Ocean. But the Galil Report has learned one is currently stationed in the Mediterranean off the coast of Haifa and another off the coast of Lebanon. Both submarines are being serviced. The Galil Report was not provided with the location of the third submarine.

The submarines are being fitted by German engineers with larger fuel tanks, security sources said. They said the submarines also are being fixed to carry larger torpedo tubes. Israel already had the submarines redesigned once in the past. Four of the 10 torpedo tubes were made to carry a 650 mm tube size, surpassing the nearly universal 533 mm diameter. Security sources said the submarine enhancements were not related to any specific military agenda. But they said Israel has discussed travel routes with foreign governments for the submarines to reach the Persian Gulf, within firing distance of Iran.

They said Egypt has denied Israel the ability to travel through the Suez Canal, but the Jewish state through diplomatic channels has secured the ability to travel to the Gulf via the Mediterranean. Coastal Eritrea had agreed to allow Israel to refuel at its port, which is still controlled by the Ethiopian army, sources told the Galil Report. Still, Israel is playing it safe by having the submarines' fuel capacity enlarged.

Today's Galil Report details the upgrades being made to Israel's already enhanced SSK Dolphin-class submarines and outlines diplomatic negotiations to ensure the vessels can travel toward the direction of the Iranian coast.

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We have not updated the war coverage for two days due to several, different, and at the same time, disturbing pieces of intelligence information brought to our attention from insider sources and "chatter" on the internet that could have dramatic and prophetic implications for the Babylon judgment prophecy, the Magog war prophecy and the Armageddon prophecy. It is because of this information and the need for time to evaluate the information plus the fact that the Lebanese war events were not producing any dramatic new developments that led us to not post any new coverage.

We're still wrestling with and evaluating the alarming information that has crossed our news desk. The information received does not exactly match the traditional paradigm of conservative, literal, prophetic interpretation and understanding of Bible Prophecy. We are looking at fundamental shifts in the status of Turkey, Russia, China and North Korea in the prophecies.

The best way we can characterize the information we're digesting is to say that IF true, and IF these sources and indications are correct, things are going to get dramatically horrible in the next 60 to 90 days, and that leads us to suspect that Divine Activity is about to take place within that time frame, which leads us to strongly suspect that the Rapture may be about to occur, between now and the end of October.

We're still not sure of what we're sitting on. We're not sure of the validity and we're not sure how it would fit in prophecy. It's similar in some respects to other reports we encountered in April and May and it does involve nuclear war including nuclear destruction of Israel. It is NOT dreams or visions, but rather hard intelligence data and alleged geo-political maneuvering and NWO insider information, but again we're not sure of the validity and until we know for sure, we're not inclined to post anything further.

All we will say is that we're keeping very close eyes on Turkey, China, North Korea, Syria and Iran plus what Israel is doing, including one mainstream media report that Israel has threatened to kill UN personnel in Lebanon. Also watch and see if Israeli troops enter the Bekaa Valley "in force" and or Beirut "in force." If so, look for major destruction in Israel and a real risk of nuclear war.

IF, you visit the website daily, and find us not posting for a day or two, you can figure that we're being inundated with information that has simply overwhelmed our ability to analyze and properly relay that information and its importance because the information we're picking up is so dramatic that it paralyzes us from providing other news that in comparison, seems inconsequential. In other words, its not because we're lazy or that nothing is going on, but simply that our resources are being put to the extreme test of processing the information.

California Activist Hopeful Governor Vetoes Pro-Homosexual Education Bills

California Activist Hopeful Governor Vetoes Pro-Homosexual Education Bills
Dems Pushing a 'Torrid Flood of Immorality' on State, He Says
By Jim Brown and Jody Brown
August 9, 2006

(AgapePress) - A pro-family activist warns that California's State Assembly will likely pass a bill tomorrow that will turn every government-run school in the state into a sexual indoctrination center.

The bill, sponsored by lesbian state senator Sheila Kuehl, would have required public schools to study homosexual historical figures. But Kuehl and her supporters, fearing a certain veto from Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, have now amended SB 1437 to prohibit teachers and textbooks from "reflecting adversely" on individuals because of their sexual orientation. The Los Angeles Times reports, however, that even with the changes, the governor has provided "no encouraging signal that he would change his mind" about vetoing the legislation. Schwarzenegger's press secretary stated the governor will not sign a bill "that micromanages curriculum that is better left to the state Board of Education."

Randy Thomasson, who heads the Sacramento-based Campaign for Children and Families (CCF), says recent amendments -- which Kuehl says gutted about 90 percent of the "import" of the bill -- are merely window dressing. SB 1437, he says, "continues to require every textbook, all instructional materials, all school-sponsored activities to positively portray transsexuality, bisexuality, and homosexuality, including homosexual marriages, to six million California schoolchildren" -- some as young as kindergarten.

Thomasson has described Keuhl's legislation as a "sexual-agenda bomb dressed up as a child-caring Easter egg." He contends that pro-homosexual legislators, such as Keuhl, want voters to believe SB 1437 merely updates school anti-discrimination policies by incorporating such terms as "gender" -- which the CCF leader says includes transsexuality and transvestitism -- and "sexual orientation" -- which means bisexuality and homosexuality, he notes.

"But the bill is ultimately about requiring transsexual, bisexual, and homosexual textbooks, instruction, and school activities," says Thomasson, "because not promoting these sexual lifestyles would 'reflect adversely' on them."

According to the family advocate, Californians have more than just one education bill to be concerned about. "The State Assembly of California will likely pass SB 1437 and SB 1441, the second bill, which will force Christian colleges and universities in California to promote transsexuality, bisexuality and homosexuality," he says. "It's a torrid flood of immorality that's being pushed by the Democrats in California."

CCF is also calling on Governor Schwarzenegger to veto AB 606 and AB 1056, which Thomasson describes as two more "school sexual indoctrination" bills -- both of which were expected to pass out of Senate committee this week. But the governor may decide not to veto any of the pro-homosexual legislation if he does not hear from pro-family Californians, notes Thomasson.

AB 606 would authorize the state superintendent of education to withhold state funds from any district that does not adequately promote transsexuality, bisexuality, and homosexuality in its school policies. AB 1056 would authorize expenditure of a quarter-million taxpayer dollars to promote those aberrant sexual lifestyles under the banner of "tolerance education."

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Science proves Gods wisdom again.

Male circumcision 'lowers risk of HIV infection by 60%'
By Jeremy Laurance, Health Editor
Published: 09 August 2006
It used to be called the unkindest cut. But now the head of the one of the world's largest Aids charities believes we are on the brink of a revolution in attitudes to circumcision.

Richard Feachem, executive director of the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria, said research revealing the protective effect of circumcision against HIV was set to change parental expectations and medical practice across the world. Instead of viewing the operation as an assault on the male sex, it was increasingly being seen as a lifesaving procedure which every parent would want for their sons.

Removing the foreskin is thought to harden the glans (head) of the penis, making it less permeable to viruses. Research conducted in 2005 showed the transmission of HIV from women to men during sex was reduced by 60 per cent if the men were circumcised.

A study published last month calculated that if all men in sub-Saharan Africa were circumcised, it would prevent almost six million new cases of HIV infection and save three million lives over the next 20 years.

Dr Feachem said the finding was one of the most significant in the battle against Aids and offered real hope of slowing the spread of the virus. The issue is to be debated at the World Aids Congress, which opens in Toronto next week.

Dr Feachem said: "We know the factors that cause HIV to spread rapidly in a country - the number of concurrent sexual partners, the use of condoms, the presence of other sexually transmitted diseases and male circumcision. Other things being equal, in a circumcised population you have a low and slowly developing epidemic and in an uncircumcised population you have a high and fast developing epidemic."

He added: "Circumcision is growing strongly in popularity in South Africa and in North America. We see males seeking circumcision very commonly in South Africa. The news of its protective effect caused a substantial increase in demand for adult male circumcision.

"Circumcision fell out of favour in North America and the UK as an unnecessary operation. Following this research, I think it extremely probable that parental demand for infant male circumcision will grow as a consequence."

More than one in three boys were estimated to be circumcised in the 1930s, but it fell out of favour from the 1940s onwards. By 1998, it was estimated that 12,000 circumcisions were being performed each year in Britain, suggesting fewer than one in 25 boys was having the surgery. There are big differences between racial and religious groups.

The rate of HIV infection in west Africa is less than 10 per cent, compared with more than 20 per cent in South Africa, which has mystified researchers.

Catherine Hankins, chief scientific adviser to UNAids, and a co-author of the study of the impact of circumcision on Aids in sub-Saharan Africa, published in the online journal PloS Medicine, said: "In west and central Africa there are high circumcision rates and lower HIV rates. Southern and eastern Africa have lower circumcision rates and higher HIV rates."

Deborah Jack, chief executive of the UK-based National Aids Trust, said the research findings were encouraging.

"It is clear the promotion of voluntary circumcision can play an important role in reducing the risk of HIV transmission," she said. But she warned: "People who are circumcised can still be infected with HIV and any awareness campaign would have to be extremely careful not to suggest that it protects against HIV or is an alternative to using condoms."

It used to be called the unkindest cut. But now the head of the one of the world's largest Aids charities believes we are on the brink of a revolution in attitudes to circumcision.

Richard Feachem, executive director of the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria, said research revealing the protective effect of circumcision against HIV was set to change parental expectations and medical practice across the world. Instead of viewing the operation as an assault on the male sex, it was increasingly being seen as a lifesaving procedure which every parent would want for their sons.

Removing the foreskin is thought to harden the glans (head) of the penis, making it less permeable to viruses. Research conducted in 2005 showed the transmission of HIV from women to men during sex was reduced by 60 per cent if the men were circumcised.

A study published last month calculated that if all men in sub-Saharan Africa were circumcised, it would prevent almost six million new cases of HIV infection and save three million lives over the next 20 years.

Dr Feachem said the finding was one of the most significant in the battle against Aids and offered real hope of slowing the spread of the virus. The issue is to be debated at the World Aids Congress, which opens in Toronto next week.

Dr Feachem said: "We know the factors that cause HIV to spread rapidly in a country - the number of concurrent sexual partners, the use of condoms, the presence of other sexually transmitted diseases and male circumcision. Other things being equal, in a circumcised population you have a low and slowly developing epidemic and in an uncircumcised population you have a high and fast developing epidemic."

He added: "Circumcision is growing strongly in popularity in South Africa and in North America. We see males seeking circumcision very commonly in South Africa. The news of its protective effect caused a substantial increase in demand for adult male circumcision.
"Circumcision fell out of favour in North America and the UK as an unnecessary operation. Following this research, I think it extremely probable that parental demand for infant male circumcision will grow as a consequence."

More than one in three boys were estimated to be circumcised in the 1930s, but it fell out of favour from the 1940s onwards. By 1998, it was estimated that 12,000 circumcisions were being performed each year in Britain, suggesting fewer than one in 25 boys was having the surgery. There are big differences between racial and religious groups.

The rate of HIV infection in west Africa is less than 10 per cent, compared with more than 20 per cent in South Africa, which has mystified researchers.

Catherine Hankins, chief scientific adviser to UNAids, and a co-author of the study of the impact of circumcision on Aids in sub-Saharan Africa, published in the online journal PloS Medicine, said: "In west and central Africa there are high circumcision rates and lower HIV rates. Southern and eastern Africa have lower circumcision rates and higher HIV rates."

Deborah Jack, chief executive of the UK-based National Aids Trust, said the research findings were encouraging.

"It is clear the promotion of voluntary circumcision can play an important role in reducing the risk of HIV transmission," she said. But she warned: "People who are circumcised can still be infected with HIV and any awareness campaign would have to be extremely careful not to suggest that it protects against HIV or is an alternative to using condoms."

The Israel, Lebanon, Middle East War, and its End

The Israel, Lebanon, Middle East War, and its End
By Kato Mivule
July 18, 2006

Scriptures are clear that we are to watch. Jesus Christ is very clear in His Word when He commands us to watch and so these are very evil days... The world is reeling back and forth, politically, socially, economically and religiously... A Tsunami hit Indonesia again; Israel is in a heated conflict with the Hizbullah; Economic woes continue unreported; numerous earthquakes allover different places around the world...and much more...

These shakings are not going to stop, this is just the beginning...more cataclysmic judgments are coming...nations will be wiped off the face of the earth, cities will fall and Nuclear wars will take place...all will usher in a New World Order...

Sadly all these signs are happening while many in the churches are sleeping and continue to preach prosperity, riches, and "going to the next level"...

The situation in Israel is of very serious concern and ALL True Christians should be watching and in prayer too...what will certainly develop out of this conflict at the end when ALL the Middle East dust settles down is the signing and a confirming of a false peace accord between Israel and the Nations of the World courtesy of Babylon USA in the name of seeking peace...this is where all this is leading to...this will usher in the Tribulation Period when Israel signs this Peace treaty that the Bible calls the covenant with Death and Hell...

Most Christians are ignoring this fact and continue to sleep...surprisingly many will join those who will support some so-called Christian nation to protect Israel – The current religious leaders will certainly support a nation like America in her quest to be Israel's protector not knowing this is a covenant with death and hell...so it is time to Watch and not sleep...

Only The Lord is protector of Israel and His Church and not Man...any protection outside Jesus Christ is spiritual adultery and harlotry...be sure that this is what will certainly lead to the FALL of Babylon USA...

Any forcing of Israel and or the Church to get protection from the USA through false peace treaties will lead to the demise of the USA...watch for destructive cataclysmic judgments on the USA from The Lord...

There will certainly be war between Syria, Iran and Israel...it has already begun only that Syria and Iran are currently fighting Israel through proxies...that is the Hizbullah...Syria according to Bible Prophesy will suffer catastrophic destruction by having Damascus destroyed...possibly by Nuclear war...

World War III certainly will have to happen and Ezekiel 38, 39 will have to be fulfilled...Gog and her Arab alliance forces will certainly be led to destruction in the middle East...this Ezekiel 38, 39 war will lead to nations coming on a round table to confirm false peace treaties...Babylon USA as we know it will be taken down by Gog and her Alliance...

For God of Heaven alone is protector of His people and not Babylon USA, therefore she is judged because of her pride, sin, arrogance, and rebellion towards God of Heaven...for she has refused to fear God and Give Him Glory in the hour of God's Judgments...

As for True Christians, it is time to Hide and totally Abide in Christ Jesus and prepare to be witnesses for Christ Jesus in this hour...remember we have to face the Beast and be a witness against the whole Anti Christ Beast system and its enterprise...

Yes, even as in Revelation 11, the Lampstands, representing the remnant in the Church and the Olive Trees representing the remnant in Israel...some will have to be put to death because of our witness for Jesus Christ and certainly all will have to endure until the end...for we walk with the lamb and wherever He goes, so we do follow...Amen

>>Confirming of the covenant...

Daniel 9:27
(27) And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

>>Anti Christ will desecrate the Holy Place...
>>Those who know The Lord will grow strong...but to be a witness for Jesus Christ

Daniel 11:30-36
(30) For the ships of Chittim shall come against him: therefore he shall be grieved, and return, and have indignation against the holy covenant: so shall he do; he shall even return, and have intelligence with them that forsake the holy covenant.
(31) And arms shall stand on his part, and they shall pollute the sanctuary of strength, and shall take away the daily sacrifice, and they shall place the abomination that maketh desolate.
(32) And such as do wickedly against the covenant shall he corrupt by flatteries: but the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits.
(33) And they that understand among the people shall instruct many: yet they shall fall by the sword, and by flame, by captivity, and by spoil, many days.
(34) Now when they shall fall, they shall be helped with a little help: but many shall cleave to them with flatteries.
(35) And some of them of understanding shall fall, to try them, and to purge, and to make them white, even to the time of the end: because it is yet for a time appointed.
(36) And the king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvelous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.

>>Syria's Damascus has never be destroyed so, this is a prophesy to be fulfilled...watch...

Isaiah 17:1
(1) The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.

>>Gog – Russia and her company will launch a Middle East war...

Ezekiel 38:1-11
(1) And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
(2) Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him,
(3) And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:
(4) And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armor, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
(5) Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
(6) Gomer, and all his bands; the house of Togarmah of the north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with thee.
(7) Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
(8) After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
(9) Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.
(10) Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
(11) And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,

>>Gog – Russia and her Arab alliance will launch a suicidal war...they will be destroyed by the Lord but after they take down Babylon USA...

Ezekiel 39:1-8
(1) Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:
(2) And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts, and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
(3) And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
(4) Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands, and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
(5) Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
(6) And I will send a fire on Magog, and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
(7) So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
(8) Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.

>>True Christians – Both Remnant in Church and Remnant in Israel are all called to be witnesses for Christ Jesus...Yes, we shall have to face the beast and we a True Witness for Our Lord Jesus Christ...Amen

Revelation 11:1-7
(1) And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.
(2) But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.
(3) And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.
(4) These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth.
(5) And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies: and if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed.
(6) These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will.
(7) And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them.

>>We must follow the Lamb wherever He goes...not our will but His Perfect will be done in us...this includes suffering and even unto death if the Lamb so chooses to lead us along that path...

Revelation 14:4
(4) These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb.

>>Yes, we overcome in Christ Jesus alone...by carrying our Cross and following The Lamb wherever He goes...amen

Revelation 12:11
(11) And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.

>>It is time to Fear God and Give Him the Glory for the Hour of His Judgment is now...

Revelation 14:7
(7) Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.

In Christ Jesus
Kato Mivule
Uganda, Africa

‘12th Imam,’ key facet of Islamic prophecy, fueling Middle East turmoil, experts say

‘12th Imam,’ key facet of Islamic prophecy, fueling Middle East turmoil, experts say
By Olivia Tulley
Aug 7, 2006


NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--Among the nearly 68 million people in Iran, the vast majority are Muslim who place their hope not in modern-day politics or rulers but in a person who walked the earth centuries ago and is promised to return.

“Both Islam and Christianity have a very well-defined eschatology, or period of the last days; both of them cannot be correct …,” said William Wagner, senior professor at Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary and author of the book, “How Islam Plans to Change the World.”

A majority of Shiite Muslims traditionally believe that the “12th Imam” (Islamic religious leader), born in 868 A.D., was placed by God into hiding (known as occultation) until the day of judgment. Southern Baptist author and evangelist Anis Shorrosh explained that many Shiites also refer to the 12th Imam as the Mahdi, an Arabic word that generally references a messiah, or a guide.

“This man will come to show them the way, because the prayer of every Muslim five times a day … ends with ‘Show us the right path, not the path of those who have incurred your anger or those who are lost, but those upon whom grace has come,’” Shorrosh said.

Though most strains of Islam have a belief in the Mahdi, Shiites traditionally believe he is Mohammed ibn Hasan, the 12th in the line of imams who were descendents of the prophet Mohammed. Though they do not know when the Mahdi will return, they believe he will come to end the misery of his people. Some strains of Islam even hold a belief that Jesus will be the Mahdi who will return and proclaim Islam as the true religion.

“Satan always tries to duplicate everything that God does,” Wagner said, “and I believe he has created his own eschatology that is somewhat similar to that of Christianity, but false enough to where it is apparent that it is not the truth.”

Ray Tallman, director of the school of intercultural studies at Golden Gate Seminary, noted that the major eschatological question for Shiite Muslims is when the Mahdi’s return will take place -– and many hold the belief that the time is near. The increasing clash with Israel and that with Christianity are two indications to Shiites that the Mahdi’s return could be near, said Tallman, who spent seven years as the international director for Arab World Ministries.

“All of that is sort of a sign of the times that now it has come to this, and that what is actually being done now out of hate has an eschatological sign of promise to it,” Tallman said of the Shiite view.

Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been cited by various news sources as not only believing in the eventual return of the Mahdi, but that the return is near and that it is the responsibility of the Iranian government to prepare the country for his return.

“Belief in a savior is universal,” BBC News quoted Ahmadinejad as saying in January. “It is the pivot of our beliefs as Muslims and Iranians. We believe that an offspring of the prophet, may peace be upon him, will be the ultimate savior. His name and attributes are clear. He will come and will administer ultimate justice.”

The belief that the Mahdi’s return is near is not a new claim among Shiites, Wagner said, but one that has been held almost since the 12th Imam was historically placed into hiding.

“Almost every generation has some figures in Islam that either claim to be the 12th Imam or claim that the 12th Imam will come to himself,” Wagner said.

Although Shiites and Sunnis often battle against each other, as is currently the case in Iraq, Wagner noted common efforts among both groups of Muslims to destroy Israel, which is a critical part of Islam taking control in the world and thus ushering in the Mahdi.

“They feel like one of the major blocking points is Israel, and that is one reason why they feel like they must destroy Israel,” Wagner said.

Wagner further noted that Islam is “on the march” with the intention of the entire world becoming Muslims.

“The problem is that in many parts of the world today, Christianity has become very weak,” Wagner said. “It is extremely necessary for all Christians to reevaluate their faith and to become stronger in their faith in Jesus Christ. This is the one thing that Islam fears the most because, down deep; they know that they cannot compete with the truth of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.”

Wagner also noted that Islam is a religion of fear, with many Muslims fearing their own faith.

“It is the task of Christians to proclaim the Good News of Jesus Christ to Muslims everywhere so that they can be released from this fear and find the assurance of eternal salvation through Jesus Christ,” Wagner said.

War Analysis Update for 8-8-6

War Analysis Update for 8-8-6

As things now look, the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah appears as though it will continue indefinitely despite the diplomatic wrangling for a cease-fire. Israel's capabilities to end the war with a victory are severely limited by its continued limitations of manpower. The Israeli government still has not fully mobilized its armed forces of more than a half-million troops. It's Lebanese invasion force numbers remain at about 10,000 troops, according to mainstream reports. The remainder of the mobilized forces in the IDF are remaining in reserve, rotating troops in and out of key battleground points.

The IDF seems reluctant until now to engage Hezbollah in the necessary bloody, hand-to-hand combat, much like the U.S. was forced to do against the Japanese in World War 2. Until Israel's politicians give the IDF complete and total free-reign, the war appears doomed to stalemate.

Perhaps, this is what the Illuminati is wanting. Perhaps the real, behind-the-scenes strategy is to have an ongoing moderate-grade-intensity war, that is ready to ignite itself into a regional and then later a world war, at a moment's notice. Why?

It seems to us that the Satanic forces believe the "end" is near and that God, at any moment, will withdraw His restraint, and allow the end-time's events to proceed in full force. The thinking by the Illuminated strategists then is not to waste a single moment, once the green light is given. By having a low-grade war already in progress, there would be little delay in seeing events mushroom dramatically with little time lost.

We're not saying that this is the case. We are saying that is MAY be the case. This may be the reason why this war is developing the way it is. All we can really note with certainty is that all the decision-makers involved in this conflict seem to be operating in "slow-motion" mode as if they're all waiting for some other "shoe" to drop in which events speed up.

Iran apparently thinks that a slow, war of attrition will be to Iran's benefit, by slowly bleeding Israel to death. Iran wants Israel to be bogged down in a situation much like the U.S. finds itself in Iraq. Furthermore, by keeping Israel bogged down on its home front, Israel is less likely and less able to launch an aerial campaign against Iranian nuclear facilities in Iran.

It seems that this war is destined to drag on for at least a while longer because neither side seems ready to stop. Thus, any UN cease-fire resolution will be meaningless until at least one side is ready to quit, and problably not until both sides are ready to stop the fighting.

(C) 2006 Alpha Omega Report

WHY ARE AMERICANS IGNORANT OF 'AGENDA 21'?

WHY ARE AMERICANS IGNORANT OF 'AGENDA 21'?

Joyce Morrison
August 6, 2006
NewsWithViews.com

The United Nations Agenda 21 was signed by the United States in 1992 and 14 years later, people are still in the dark. If you were to ask at random the question, "Have you heard of Agenda 21?" the answer would be an over-whelming "No," although it is being implemented in every local community.

Agenda 21 is a 40 chapter document listing goals to be achieved globally. It is the global plan to change the way we "live, eat, learn and communicate" because we must "save the earth."

"Its regulation would severely limit water, electricity, and transportation - even deny human access to our most treasured wilderness areas, it would monitor all lands and people. No one would be free from the watchful eye of the new global tracking and information system," according to Berit Kjos, author of Brave New Schools.

Maurice Strong, Secretary-general of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro said, "...[C]urrent lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class - involving high meat consumption and large amounts of frozen and convenience foods, use of fossil fuels, appliances, home and workplace air-conditioning, and suburban housing are not sustainable. A shift is necessary which will require a vast strengthening of the multilateral system, including the United Nations.

In other words, the Global plan is for us to live on the level of third world nations. That means no box mixes or microwave meals, limited use of fuel of any kind, no air-conditioning and very little meat. When the cost of freon skyrocketed, when mad cow disease hit, the National Animal Identification System introduced, the price of fuel soared, it has become apparent that given time, these sustainable controls will be put into place - one way or another - and the Global Governance is powerful.

In 1992, Agenda 21 began to change our lives. In that same year, Al Gore wrote his book, Earth in the Balance. To advance his cause, he has now written another piece of fiction entitled, An Inconvenient Truth about global warming…..he even starred in the movie. He also thinks he invented the internet.

Although groundwork had been laid, it took a Bill Clinton to actually introduce something so invasive to our nation and get by with it without the public becoming aware. President Clinton appointed his "President’s Council on Sustainable Development" and he literally gave away the rights and freedoms the framers of the Constitution had provided.

People in the United States may not know about Agenda 21 and the President’s Council on Sustainable Development, but people around the world do. They know that Chicago has one of the greatest numbers of activities existing at the local, neighborhood and/or microregional level. They also know that the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) monitors and promotes activities in this field through their Office for Sustainable Ecosystem and Communities.

Found on a Slovakian website: "To the leading countries in the field of development but especially of practical using of sustainable development indicators belong to the U.S.A. At the top level these activities are promoted by the President’s Council on Sustainable Development (1996), which defined a set of ten national goals toward sustainable development. These goals express in concrete terms the elements of sustainability. Alongside the goals are suggested indicators that can be used to help measure progress toward achieving them.”

Agenda 21 is certainly not a secret. The internet is full of how Agenda 21 has been fulfilled through Smart Growth planning, land use, sustainable development and extreme environmentalism. The so-called agenda is grant driven to your city council or county board in terms of sustainable, visioning, partners, tourism and stakeholders, along with consensus and other terms with the intent to make you believe we are running out of all our resources and we must do our part and "save for tomorrow. [See Agenda 21's Table of Contents.]

It has nothing to do about “saving anything” – it has everything to do with “control.” Sadly, very few congressmen even know Agenda 21 is actually running our country when they are voting to send grant money back home. Agenda 21 is incentive driven as the planners know that greed in the heart of man will be his downfall.

The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, better known as ANWR, has oil we need to be drilling for the security of our nation. Environmentalists don’t seem to understand we are dependent on foreign oil from nations who do not like us and our nation’s defense is at stake. The area where drilling would occur is just a dot in this vast land, yet they would gamble the strength of our nation in behalf of their favorite word --"pristine."

At the same time, technology is advancing and we may not need the oil later. But we do need it now.

Henry Lamb of Eco-logic, Restructuring the U.N.,

The world changed on 9-11. No longer can the world tilt at the windmills of a fantasized "global village." No longer can visions of "sustainable development" be justified in a world where "sustainable freedom" is the only possible solution to the economic and power vacuum that foments acts of terrorism.

There is a better way.

Nations can and, ultimately, must learn to live as neighbors, free from the web of "international laws" that dictate which activities are "sustainable" and which are xenophobic and unacceptable. Nation-to-nation relationships, just like neighbor-to-neighbor relationships, should be fashioned voluntarily, driven by mutual benefit. For the first time in a century, the United States may be exploring this possibility.

Henry Lamb is right. We can live as neighbors with other nations but we do not need to live under a "web of international law." There are dedicated citizens in the United States who are wise enough to set our nation’s guidelines without following Agenda 21 and Sustainable Development as set forth by the United Nations. [See DVD: Liberty or Sustainable Development?]

One of the main goals of Agenda 21 is to redistribute the wealth to third world countries and to bring our great nation to its knees in the name of socialism, fascism, communism or some other “ism.” Our founding fathers founded this nation on the belief of a Sovereign God and we have been blessed. Do you know the Gods of the nations to which we would become equal?

© 2006 Joyce Morrison - All Rights Reserved

YOU MIGHT BE A CONSTITUTIONALIST IF...

YOU MIGHT BE A CONSTITUTIONALIST IF...

By Pastor Chuck Baldwin

August 8, 2006

NewsWithViews.com

I originally published this column back in January of 2005. Since then (and especially lately), many people have called and written with requests to republish it. So, here it is. Enjoy.

More than thirty years as a student of American history, constitutional government, and the Holy Bible leads me to the conviction that the two major political parties in this country are equally culpable in stripping America of its founding principles. In my opinion, both the Democrat and Republican parties in Washington, D.C., have zero fidelity to the U.S. Constitution and zero respect for America's foundational precepts.

In my studied opinion, neither the Democrat nor Republican Party has any intention of slowing the out-of-control expansion of government. Neither party has demonstrated any loyalty to preserving and protecting our constitutional form of government or shows any real resolve to saving the lives of innocent unborn babies.

Like National Socialists and Soviet Socialists of old, the only thing that concerns Democrats and Republicans today is who is in power. Both are equally willing to destroy the freedoms and liberties of people without conscience or regret as long as their party remains in control.

For this reason, I have abandoned the two major parties and am proudly affiliated with an independent party that truly represents America's founding principles and my convictions. That party is the Constitution Party.

Furthermore, knowing that there are countless other patriotic, God-fearing Americans across this nation who realize that both major parties have become impotent and irrelevant when it comes to representing constitutional principles, I offer the following test. Read it and see if you, too, are a Constitutionalist. (Yes, Martha, this is another Jeff Foxworthy spin-off.)

1. You might be a Constitutionalist if you believe that elected leaders should really obey the U.S. Constitution.

2. You might be a Constitutionalist if you believe that before the United States invades and occupies another country, Congress must first declare war.

3. You might be a Constitutionalist if you believe the federal government should live within its means, like everyone else is forced to do.

4. You might be a Constitutionalist if you think that taking away people's liberties in the name of security is neither patriotic nor does it make the country more secure.

5. You might be a Constitutionalist if you would like to see politicians be forced to abide by the same laws they make everyone else submit to.

6. You might be a Constitutionalist if you understand that we have three coequal branches of government that are supposed to hold each other in check and balance.

7. You might be a Constitutionalist if you believe that the federal government has no authority to be involved in education or law enforcement.

8. You might be a Constitutionalist if you believe that gun control laws do nothing but aid and abet criminals while trampling the rights and freedoms of law abiding citizens.

9. You might be a Constitutionalist if you believe that the income tax is both unconstitutional and immoral and, along with the I.R.S., should be abolished.

10. You might be a Constitutionalist if you believe the federal government had no authority to tell Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore that he could not display a monument containing the Ten Commandments in the Alabama Judicial Building in Montgomery.

11. You might be a Constitutionalist if you believe that neither Congress nor the White House nor any sovereign state is required to submit to unconstitutional Supreme Court rulings such as the Roe v Wade decision.

12. You might be a Constitutionalist if you understand that freedom has nothing in common with illegal immigration.

13. You might be a Constitutionalist if you understand that outsourcing American jobs overseas is not good for America.

14. You might be a Constitutionalist if you believe that the United States should get out of the United Nations and get the United Nations out of the United States.

15. You might be a Constitutionalist if you believe that it is not unconstitutional for children in public schools to pray or read the Bible.

16. You might be a Constitutionalist if you believe that the Boy Scouts are not a threat to America.

17. You might be a Constitutionalist if you believe that the federal government should honor its commitments to America's veterans.

18. You might be a Constitutionalist if you believe that U.S. troops should never serve under foreign commanders or wear the uniform or insignia of the United Nations.

19. You might be a Constitutionalist if you believe that the federal government has no business bribing churches and faith-based organizations with federal tax dollars.

20. You might be a Constitutionalist if you believe that federal agents who murder American citizens should be held to the same laws and punishments that any other citizen would be held to.

21. You might be a Constitutionalist if you understand that NAFTA, GATT, the WTO, and the FTAA are disastrous compromises of America's national sovereignty and independence.

22. You might be a Constitutionalist if you would like to see Congressmen and Senators be required to actually read a bill before passing it into law.

23. You might be a Constitutionalist if you understand that it is the job of government to protect and secure God-given rights not use its power to take those rights away.

24. You might be a Constitutionalist if you understand that there is nothing unconstitutional with the public acknowledgement of God and our Christian heritage.

25. You might be a Constitutionalist if you believe that in the beginning God made Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve.

26. You might be a Constitutionalist if you believe that airport screeners have no business touching women's breasts and confiscating fingernail clippers.

27. You might be a Constitutionalist if you believe that many public schools' "zero-tolerance" policies are just plain stupid.

28. You might be a Constitutionalist if you believe that parents have a right to home school their children.

29. You might be a Constitutionalist if you believe that governmental seizure of private property is plain, old fashioned thievery.

30. You might be a Constitutionalist if you would like to meet one single Congressman or Senator besides Ron Paul who acts as if he or she has ever read the U.S. Constitution.

Well, how did you fare? Are you a Constitutionalist? If you are, why not check out the Constitution Party? Their website is at: www.constitutionparty.com.

© 2006 Chuck Baldwin - All Rights Reserved

SECURITY AND PROSPERITY PARTNERSHIP BACKGROUND

SECURITY AND PROSPERITY PARTNERSHIP BACKGROUND
By Dennis L. Cuddy, Ph.D.
August 7, 2006
NewsWithViews.com

Dr. Jerome Corsi recently has been warning people about the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP), which President Bush signed with the head of both the Canadian and Mexican governments on March 23, 2005, in Waco, Texas. At the same time this agreement was signed supposedly to improve the security and economic prosperity of each of the 3 nations, a Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) report, "Building a North American Community," not coincidentally was being prepared by Robert Pastor (U.S.), Wendy Dobson (Canada) and Luis Rubio (Mexico). And in this 100-page report released May 2005, one finds plans for a North American Union by 2010, with its own court, legislative body, executive commission, Customs officials and currency called the Amero.

In case you think this idea came from nowhere, the following background or timeline should prove instructive:

1) July 1792---AMERICAN MUSEUM publishes Philip Freneau's warning to Americans about how their Republic could be undermined by the power elite. For the first half of the 1800s, the power elite will devise ways to break up the U.S.

2) 1863---The historian Motley writes a letter to THE LONDON TIMES describing "the ultimate object of the conspirators...to establish a Gulf Empire" including the southern U.S. and Mexico.

3) November 21, 1864---President Lincoln writes to William Elkin of his great fear that the power elite is working "until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands, and the Republic is destroyed." Lincoln is assassinated within a few months.

4) 1891---Cecil Rhodes forms his secret Society of the Elect "to take the government of the whole world." His Association of Helpers (AH) forms Round Table Groups from which comes the CFR.

5) Octrober 27, 1908---Alfred Lord Milner, who implements Rhodes' plan, writes to Canadian AH member Arthur Glazebrook : "I think every member of your body should feel it's his principal business to influence as many people as possible who are not of it and who do not know they are being influenced." A half century later, Rhodes scholars will surround Canadian Prime Minister Lester Pearson who, according to William Frye in A UNITED NATIONS PEACE FORCE, will be "the author of the U.N. Emergency Force," which would grow to have a collective security function.

6) 1942---P.E. Corbett, Canadian AH member, authors POST-WAR WORLDS calling for "a world association binding together and coordinating regional groupings of states (that) may evolve toward one universal federal government....World government is the ultimate aim...(with) common economic agencies for advice and control...an Economic and Financial Organization, embracing Trade, Development, and Migration Commissions, and a Central Bank. The functions of these institutions...would be to regulate the production and distribution of raw materials and food, control the flow of inter-regional investment and migration, etc."

7) 1952---World government map prepared by World Association of Parliamentarians for World Government shows Chinese (Mongolian) forces will be policing in Mexico. Under the SPP, there will be a TransAmerica highway running from Mexico to Canada, splitting the U.S. Chinese containers from ships will be offloaded in Mexican ports (avoiding American Longshoremen) and trucked by Mexicans (avoiding American Teamsters) through Kansas City where the only inspection will be performed by Mexican Customs officials in Kansas City.

8) 1953---Ford Foundation president H. Rowan Gaither will reveal they are under White House directives to have a "comfortable merger" between the U.S. and USSR.

9) 1953---John J. McCloy, agent of the power elite, becomes chairman of the CFR until 1970. From 1958 to 1965, he also will be chairman of the Ford Foundation.

10) 1968---The Hispanic organization, the Southwest Council of LaRaza Unida, is created with a $630,000 grant from the Ford Foundation, which supports the movement to bring massive numbers of Mexicans into the U.S. From 1968 to 1992, Ford Foundation grants to radical Hispanics totaled over $31 million. And according to Henry Santiestevan (former head of the Southwest Council of LaRaza), "It would hardly be an exaggeration to say that the Ford Foundation is the Chicano movement."

11) 1972---CFR member Lester R. Brown (1991 Humanist of the Year) authors WORLD WITHOUT BORDERS and writes in the LOS ANGELES TIMES (November 19, 1972) about the need for countries to "sacrifice a measure of sovereignty."

12) April 1974---The CFR's FOREIGN AFFAIRS publishes Trilateralist and Rhodes scholar Richard Gardner's "The Hard Road to World Order" claiming that "an end run around national sovereignty, eroding it piece-by-piece, will accomplish much more than the old-fashioned frontal assault." Gardner also explains how GATT will be part of this process.

13) 1991---"The Pacific Northwest Economic Region" (www.pnwer.org) is begun, and is comprised of Alaska, Alberta, British Columbia, Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington. It is defined as "an economic consortium created by legislative leaders of states and provinces in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States and Canada," whose goals are "to build a world class workforce to make the Pacific Northwest economic region competitive in worldwide markets; and to develop a lifelong education system for the states and provinces which includes measurable objectives." Most of the region is known as Cascadia.

14) September 27-October 1, 1995---Mikhail Gorbachev's first State of the World Forum is held, at which first Trilateral Commission director Zbigniew Brzezinski reveals: "We cannot leap into world government through one quick step. A consensual global system requires a process....The precondition for eventual and genuine globalization is progressive regionalization because by that we move toward larger, more stable, more cooperative units."

15) August 4, 1996---Rhodes scholar and future CFR president Richard Haass over 5 years before the terrorist attacks of 9/11 writes "'Land of the Free' Makes a Tempting Target" in THE PALM BEACH POST about "a world in which borders count less and less," and he states: "The war against terrorism is a war with an unlimited number of battles, none of them decisive....What price are we prepared to pay? The price will be financial and personal. People will have to accept longer lines before entering buildings, longer delays at airports, more intrusive searches of belongings and our persons....Greater vigilance will also involve a willingness to compromise some of our civil liberties, including accepting more frequent phone taps and surveillance....Those who would resist paying such a price should keep in mind that terrorism could well get worse in coming years."

16) July 7, 1999---THE TORONTO STAR publishes "NAFTA for military proposed" by Linda Diebel describing a report by Lt. Col. Joseph Nunez of the U.S. Army War College advocating a joint command for American, Mexican and Canadian forces.

17) June 17, 2000---The Ottawa, Canada, CITIZEN publishes "Border with U.S. 'likely to disappear'," which begins as follows: "An American think-tank is calling on Canada, the United States and Mexico to combine customs, immigration and security functions to the point at which borders become almost irrelevant. A study released yesterday by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace urges the three countries to explore whether a North American 'integration project' is worth pursuing and to develop a strategic plan for rethinking border relationships."

18) 2002---David Rockefeller, chairman of the CFR 1970-1985 and Trilateral Commission founder, authors MEMOIRS, in which he remarks: "Some even believe we (Rockefeller family) are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as 'internationalists' and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure---one world, if you will. If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it."

19) 2004---During the presidential campaign, President Bush mails a video to Hispanic voters showing him waving a Mexican flag and stating: "About 15 years before the Civil War, much of the American West was northern Mexico. The people who lived there weren't called Latinos or Hispanics. They were Mexican citizens, until all that land became part of the United States. After that, many of them were treated as foreigners in their own land." Regarding this, the LOS ANGELES TIMES on April 2, 2006, opined that President Bush "essentially described millions of Americans who populate his home state as the true foreigners in someone else's native land."

20) May 26, 2005---U.S. Rep. Katherine Harris (of Florida dangling chad fame) introduces "The North American Cooperative Security Act" (HR 2672), which has as its purpose: "The Secretary of State shall enhance the mutual security and safety of the United States, Canada, and Mexico by providing a framework for better management, communication, and coordination between the governments of such countries."

Robert Congdon in Edinburgh, Scotland, is just completing a manuscript concerning the gradualistic, covert process used by Jean Monnet (with the extensive support of the CFR) to form the European Union (EU), and Congdon has described how the same process is being applied to the SPP which will be linked to the EU. On January 9, 2000, the EU presented a paper, "Strategic Objectives 2000-2005: Shaping the New Europe," in which they revealed: "What we are aiming at is a new kind of global governance to manage the global economy and environment." About three months later, on March 31, 2000, EU Commission president (and now Italian Prime Minister) Romano Prodi delivered a speech titled "Europe and Global Governance," in which he declared that "global governance can emerge only from inter-regional co-operation....This means pursuing both economic and political integration....Our European model of integration is the most developed in the world....I believe that we can make a convincing case that it would also work globally." Linking the SPP to the EU is an important step in the plan for world government.

© 2006 Dennis Cuddy - All Rights Reserved

ELIAN GONZALES, BILL CLINTON & US STORM TROOPERS

ELIAN GONZALES, BILL CLINTON & US STORM TROOPERS

Jim Kouri, CPP
August 8, 2006
NewsWithViews.com

A little Cuban boy named Elian, who in 1999 was scooped up by a federal SWAT team in Miami and shipped back to Cuba, is in the news again for the get well card he and his family sent to communist dictator Fidel Castro.

The youngster addressed the 79-year-old as my "Dear Grandfather" and wished Castro a happy 80th birthday.

For those not familiar with this child's story or for those who've forgotten, Elian Gonzalez was the center of one of the biggest news stories during the Clinton Administration. Not as big as Monica, but close.

While escaping the communist paradise with his mother, Elian was shipwrecked and then rescued off the Florida coast in 1999, but his mother wasn't as lucky. Relatives of the 5-year old wanted him to stay with them in Miami. However, the boy's father, a loyalist to Castro wanted him back and suddenly Elian was the in the midst of a heated tug-of-war.

The Clinton Administration decided that Elian would be better off with his alleged biological father in Castro's Proletariat kingdom. The only problem was Elian's Miami relatives, who had escaped from the de facto Cuban prison themselves, wanted Elian to grow up in the United States and enjoy the benefits of living in a free, capitalist nation.

Bill Clinton and the rest of his liberal cronies wanted the boy turned over to the federal authorities and shipped back to Cuba. When Elian's relatives refused to comply, that paragon of justice, Attorney General Janet Reno, sent a squad of officers dressed for combat -- helmets, body armor, black BDUs -- carrying fully automatic weapons to grab the child away from his unarmed kin.

The sight of this on television should have outraged every American, not just conservatives. Had only the Clinton Administration been so zealous with the millions of illegal aliens within the US.

One Cuban-American police officer from New Jersey said to me, as we watched this ridiculous display of Reno's abuse of power unfold on television, "Ronald Reagan would never do this. Ronald Reagan wouldn't allow this."

All I could reply was, "Clinton is no Ronald Reagan. Clinton is simpatico with Marxist dictators." Over the top, you say? Wasn't that an old photo I saw of Clinton protesting the Vietnam War under a Viet Cong flag?

Thanks to the popular President Bill Clinton, the biggest flimflam man ever to sit in the oval office, Elian Gonzales, now 12, has probably been indoctrinated by the Stalinist system in Cuba.

And Janet Reno? Well, she's is still popular among liberals in the US, despite the Elian incident; and despite Waco, another crowning moment for the Clinton Administration, in which Reno sent stormtroopers to kill men, women and children because her and her boss didn't particularly like their religion or their ideas about gun ownership.

© 2006 Jim Kouri- All Rights Reserved

AMERICA’S DROUGHT PREDICAMENT

AMERICA’S DROUGHT PREDICAMENT

By Frosty Wooldridge
August 7, 2006
NewsWithViews.com

On many of my transcontinental bicycle treks across six continents over the past 30 years, I noticed one repeating aspect of problems in Third World countries: leaders ignore problems until they become irreversible and unsolvable.

Once those problems manifest, citizens in those countries live with the consequences, i.e., they live in misery. What kind of misery? According to the March 14, 2005 issue of Time Magazine, eight million people starve to death annually around the globe. Over 35 percent of human beings on this planet do not enjoy clean drinking water, daily! Tuberculosis kills two million human beings annually. AIDS killed millions in Africa with millions more expected to die. In China, their government forces its citizens into one child per family. Why? Because, 50 years ago, they ignored their growing population until it exploded into 1.3 billion people. Such horrific numbers couldn’t be sustained. Today, even with one child families, they can’t solve their food, air and water dilemmas let alone present anything but a subsistence life for most of their citizens.

Do you think other countries’ leaders might step up to address such problems? Let’s look at the problems facing Mexico. In the last century, it grew from 50 million to 104 million. It’s expected to double to 200 million within this century. As witnessed in the past 20 years, it can’t feed, clothe or house its citizens—so 10 million Mexicans migrated illegally to the United States. As Mexico doubles again, we can expect no less than 10 to 30 or 40 million more Mexican migrants flooding into the USA.

You think it’s been hot and dry this summer? So what’s the problem? Short answer: water!

Two years ago, a devastating drought gripped Colorado and much of the West. Water rationing became the norm in Denver where I live. Reservoirs dropped to dangerous levels. That wouldn’t have been a problem in 1990 with only 3.1 million in the state. However, in a decade, 1.3 million people moved to Colorado. Demographers expect another four to six million within 44 years.

At the same time, California adds 20 million by 2035, Texas adds 12 by 2025 and Arizona will add up to four million. Check these figures out at populationreferencebureau.com and balance.org and numbersusa.com

In other words, as we allow millions to immigrate into America, we create commensurate penalties for our citizens. As if an echo or a mirror, our own leaders mimic the same actions as Third World leaders. Why? The future doesn’t concern them. However, the future involves all our children. You have to wonder where our children will flee for a better life.

Associated Press writer James McPherson on July 30, 2006 wrote a piece “Without Rain, Dakotas Dry Up.” He reported, “Fields of wheat, durum and barley in the Dakotas this summer will never end up as pasta or bread…what is left is hot winds blowing clouds of dirt from dried-out ponds.”

More than 60 percent of the United States suffers abnormally dry or drought conditions this summer. I’ve traveled through 35 states thus far this summer. I’ve seen burned up corn and pigmy crops from the lack of water. This drought stretches from Georgia to Arizona and from Montana to Wisconsin.

Mark Svoboda, climatologist for the National Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska said, “The Dakotas are the epicenter…it’s just a wasteland in north central South Dakota.”

A South Dakota farmer, Paul Smokov, 81, said, “Conditions this summer are the worst…I could see it coming in May. That’s the time the good Lord gives us rains, but we never got them this year. This is the worst since the 1930s.”

Let’s sober you up a few notches. At current legal immigration levels of 1.1 million annually and our own population growth momentum of 1.0 million annually—that equals 2.1 million people added to the USA annually. Let’s multiply that by 10 years. That’s 21 million more people requiring food and water. If you add at least 1.5 million illegal aliens crossing US borders annually (Time Magazine reported 3 million annually), that equals a minimum of 15 million more people requiring food and water. When you add 21 million plus 15 million, you discover a net gain of 36 million people added to the United States in 10 years. In 20, it equals 72 million.

In a July front page exclusive, USA Today reported the United States will add 100 million by 2040.

Is there a chance that America will experience commensurate rain fall to provide food and water for that added 100 million in 34 years? Will we be able to feed and water the 300 million already in the USA? Is there a chance that science might produce miracle crops that grow without water? As America suffers farmland and wetland vanishing by the millions of acres for new malls, highways and housing, do you think crops might grow on concrete and asphalt? Could cows and sheep munch on fields of freeways?

Short answer: No!

You witness a president and Congress mirroring Third World leaders. Not one single senator steps up to the microphone to speak on this growing national nightmare. The president refuses to address America’s water crisis. Dick Cheney is clueless or could care less. Condi Rice, for all her brainpower, struggles under the nightmare of an irrelevant war. The presidential cabinet acts more like sycophants than knowledgeable leaders. They plunge the United States into the same irreversible and unsolvable consequences now experienced in China, India and Mexico.

What choices do Americans possess in light of this frightening future? You stand up, speak out, promote and elect leaders who will address our country’s water crisis and other accelerating problems, or your children suffer the same fate as citizens of China, India and Mexico.

© 2006 Frosty Wooldridge - All Rights Reserved

The End Time News Media Fulfills Prophecy of Apostle Paul:Deceiving and Being Deceived

The End Time News Media Fulfills Prophecy of Apostle Paul:
Deceiving and Being Deceived

By Bill Wilson, KIN Senior Analyst

Wash—Aug 8—KIN—Much of the mainstream news media has continuously deceived its audience in the coverage of the Hezbollah War against Israel by reporting outright lies from Hezbollah militants or by manipulating the facts itself in an attempt to portray Israel as the aggressor. This is a clear indication of the fulfillment of an end time prophecy by the Apostle Paul who wrote that in the latter days “Evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived (2 Timothy 3:13).”

The news coverage of the Hezbollah War against Israel leads millions of people toward a certain point of view—that the mean-spirited and militarily superior Israel Defense Forces are ravaging Lebanon by killing innocent women and children and by leaving a path of needless destruction. Pictures are shown in newspapers and on television of smoke billowing out of cities like Beirut, men and women carrying their dead children before the cameras, and Arab people running from what is perceived to be an Israeli air strike. It is as if it were a carefully staged war movie to depict the innocent victims of a powerful, unyielding killing machine.

And in many cases, this real life drama has Hollywood beat hands down. There have been many photos released by private sources on the Internet depicting Hezbollah terrorists manning anti-air weapons from Lebanese villages, but these stories give way to those that sensationalize the Israeli war machine. Take the incident in Qada. Initial reports were that 60 people were killed, most of them women and children who were hiding in a building struck by an Israeli bomb. The images of fathers carrying their children from the rubble; families picking out their dead grandmother from beneath the ruin; the tears and screams; were all part of the news coverage. After a week’s worth of investigation, it was determined that the building in question was likely destroyed by Hezbollah who had locked some people inside for the public relations benefits. Now death counts are at 17 and many of the children were brought from a nearby morgue.

It is beyond belief for most of the world that there could be such a calloused, evil group of people who would use their fellow mankind in such a manner, but welcome to the modern holy war of Islam against the world. Worse yet, that the news media would report these lies as truth makes them implicit in the deeds themselves. For example, Reuters, one of the most respected news sources in the world, yet also one that is biased against Israel, admitted that its war images were “manipulated” to present Israel in a bad light. They pulled some 920 photographs after the accuracy of the events were questioned by eyewitnesses. Turns out the photographer, a Hezbollah sympathizer, doctored his photos.

Journalists should not be easily manipulated. They are paid to report the news accurately as a trusted truth bearer to their audiences. For example, 17 dead does not look like 60. Clean bodies are not pulled from bombed out rubble, unless, of course, the reporter wanted to support a point of view. In the end times it will be difficult to discern between lies and truth. Jesus said in Matthew 24:4, “Take heed that no man deceive you.”

Minister Ezra: Hizbullah is breaking down

Minister Ezra: Hizbullah is breaking down

On eve of cabinet meeting, in which ministers are expected to decided whether to expand military operation to Litani River, environment minister tells Ynet, 'if we stop now, it’s like we didn’t do a thing'
Ronny Sofer

Is Minister Gideon Ezra seeing something new? The cabinet ministers are expected to meet Wednesday morning to decide whether to expand the military campaign to the Litani River.

Several hours before the meeting, Environment Minister Gideo Ezra told Ynet that "Hizbullah is showing signs of breaking down. The Hizbullah members kidnapped by the IDF in their sleep reveal that the organization is tired."

According to Ezra, "we should wait and continue the fighting. I estimate they can be broken down. Israel cannot belittle even one quarter of a rocket, not to mention hundreds and thousands. Even one rocket a week makes the entire north crazy. If we stop now, it's like we didn’t do a thing."

Many of the government ministers share Ezra's view, and will be required to decided whether to accept Defense Minister Amir Peretz's request and the Israel Defense Forces' demand to expand the operation.

Ezra: "Israel must not agree to the ongoing rocket fire at any cost. The diplomatic activity to stop the rocket fire must be the result of out military activity. The power of the enemy standing in front of us is undoubtedly decreasing."

Minister Ezra believes that the government is doing the right thing and that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is required to measure his steps between the demands of the Americans, on the one hand, who are working to reach a ceasefire, and the Israeli military activity which is aimed at breaking Hizbullah's rocket launching capabilities.

Like Olmert , Ezra also believes that Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora's proposal to station a force of 15,000 soldiers in southern Lebanon is interesting and should be examined. He expects a multinational force to be stationed in southern Lebanon with the authority to use weapons after Israel's military operation is completed.

According to Ezra, "the rockets must be eliminated and we must leave a fenced and clear area with a border in the south and in the north, into which the multinational force will enter. The border in the north can be the Litani, and in the south it is of course the Blue Line, the international borderline between Israel and Lebanon. Until the force arrives, the military operation must continue."