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it, and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which
was with the Father, and was manifested unto us;) That which
we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may
have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the
Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.
- "And these things write we unto you, that your joy
may be full. This then is the message which we have heard of
him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no
darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with him,
and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:
- "But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light,
we have fellowship one with another, and the
blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin."
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like to introduce ourselves. George and Rita Williams, who founded
this ministry, were Mormons (Temple Mormons part of the time)
for 20 years. We prayed to God in 1992 to allow us to do a ministry
speaking out against Scientology. Six months later God led us
to the truth: out of the cult of Mormonism. We did not know at
the time we were in a cult. No-one had witnessed to us in 20
years.
- The Holy Spirit brought us to information about all the cults
and the present development of the New World Order. We began
bringing our research to you. Because all the research was already
done, we decided to build a library within Cephas Ministry.
- We are fundamental Bible students and have left all worldly
organizations.
- The focus of these newsletters is to prove why we had
to leave the world system. We are called 'Watchmen on the
Wall' which God always had during the Old / New Testament Times.
- To understand what is happening, one has to know the Bible
to compare notes.
- The first section is about the church.
The news about churches is unedited unless indicated by Ednotes.
The church as we knew it, is undergoing disintegration. This
began on a fast track in the early nineteen sixties when the
Catholic Church produced liberal Vatican II to replace Vatican
I.
- The trend since then has been ecumenical which is truly what
the word 'Catholicism' means: a universal religion all
inclusive and multicultural. The Bible calls for a final church
which doesn't resemble what Jesus taught. The Word of God has
undergone many changes to fit the present mode. The Bible calls
for a falling away from the truth before Jesus
comes back for His Bride, the true believers called 'Ekklesia.'
Our newsletters prove this fact and prove that the Bible is true
from beginning to end.
- The second section is about globalism
where we bring your attention to the social, political and global
trend to prove that we are moving to closure of the times of
the Gentiles.
- The third section compliments End Time
teachings with what is happening in Israel. We describe and watch
for signs of the coming Tribulation to confirm that we are moving
into that space and time.
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the Word of God and that Jesus is the Christ, God Himself, who
spilled His blood on the cross for our sins and rose again to
prepare a place for those who accept 'His' righteousness as their
righteousness. They are those who accept Jesus Christ as their
Lord and Savior, Jews first and then Gentiles. We expect to be
raptured in a pretribulation Rapture to live with God the Father,
God His Son Jesus Christ and God the Holy Spirit, who are ONE
GOD in three persons, forever.
We pray the Lord will bless you with a thirst for truth and a
desire to serve Him exclusively, in Christ Jesus, Nicholas A.
Stivers, NicholasScrolls and Rita Williams, Cephas Ministry /
Cephas Library.
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- THE WORLD'S LARGEST CHURCH
Dave Cloud writes: "On my first Sunday morning in Korea
I visited "the largest church in the world," the Yoido
Full Gospel Church. They claim that they have 850,000 members,
but I believe that is a vast exaggeration. They have 7 services
on Sunday, and the auditorium seats about 14,000. It was full
the two services I attended, but even so, that is not anything
like 850,000 -- even adding the other places where they have
services. It is a charismatic church and they have a lot of false
doctrine, which is very sad, considering the vast number of people
that they are leading astray. The pastor, David Yonggi Cho, is
very popular around the world. He teaches that God promises healing
and prosperity for every believer. In fact, he considers this
as part of the gospel. The church's web site presents a "five
fold gospel" -- the gospel of regeneration, the gospel of
the fullness of the Holy Spirit, the gospel of divine healing,
the gospel of blessing, and the gospel of the advent. The Yoido
Church web site says, "Full Gospel faith not only accepts
the Gospel of salvation which Christ made complete as He was
resurrected from the dead, but also believes in the release from
physical illness and salvation for the cursed life." By
adding to the one true gospel of the death, burial, and resurrection
of Christ, these churches are preaching a false gospel. In 1
Cor. 15:1-4, Paul clearly stated the gospel that he preached,
and it is the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ for our
sins. Period. Paul warned that if someone adds to or changes
this gospel, they are cursed of God (Galatians 1). These are
fearful words.
- The promise of health and prosperity is one reason, of course,
why that church is so popular.
- The Yoido Full Gospel Church's web site says that 279 of
the 527 pastors are women. This is in direct disobedience to
1 Timothy 2. [ David Cloud - http://www.wayoflife.org ]
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- HARVESTING POVERTY
Welfare Reform for Farmers - The New York Times, November 10,
2003 - A great rift is opening in America's once-impregnable
farm lobby. It is a gap between those forms of agriculture that
can prosper on their own and the ones that must be perpetually
propped up by huge subsidies. This is a critical development
if this country is ever going to control the costs of its farm
programs and deal fairly with poor countries that want their
chance to prosper from global trade. The United States has to
acknowledge that it can no longer continue to support hopelessly
unprofitable agricultural enterprises, even if they are in states
represented by powerful members of Congress.
- This new schism shows up in the debate over proposals to
cap the amounts individual farmers can receive in government
aid. Right now, some of the nation's wealthiest welfare recipients
are farmers "earning" taxpayer subsidies in the high
six figures, or more. Senator Charles Grassley, the chairman
of the Finance Committee and an Iowa farmer, has long been eager
to impose new limits. Unfortunately, he was unable to get the
Senate to debate an amendment to the Department of Agriculture's
annual funding legislation last week that would set a new cap
on the overall amount farmers can obtain in federal subsidies.
Many Southern senators were eager to avoid the issue.
- Find out facts about American Farms and what has happened
to them.
Library VHS V 241 CMI soc - WTO Effect on Food and Farms, 20,000
Farmers in India committed suicide (60 min) Many farmers are
doing the same in the U.S
- http://www.a2zbookdepot.com/video_library.html
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- FRANCE DEBATES PLACE OF RELIGION IN SOCIETY
Paris (ENI). As a 1905 French law separating church and state
approaches its centenary, and amidst current difficulties within
French society in accepting and integrating Islam, a major debate
has broken out in France on the place of religions in public
life. The debate was triggered by a fierce polemic - widely covered
in the media - about whether female Muslim students may wear
the Islamic veil to school. French President Jacques Chirac appointed
a commission in July to draw up proposals by the end of the year
to deal with the situation. [ENI-11-07-2003]
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PRESIDENT BUSH AGAIN PRAISES ISLAM.
- November 7, 2003 (David W. Cloud, WayofLife.org) President
George Bush claims to be a born again Christian, but his frequent
praise for the false religion of Islam is contrary to the Bible
that he professes to believe. In his remarks to a group of Muslim
leaders at the White House on October 28, President Bush spoke
of the "Holy Koran" and described it as "God's
word." He said, "Islam is a religion that brings hope
and comfort." In reality, it offers a false hope that brings
eternal destruction. President Bush allowed a Muslim cleric to
lead him in prayer, even though he should know that prayers are
not accepted by
Almighty God except through Jesus Christ, the very Jesus Christ
that is denied by Islam. From a political viewpoint, George Bush,
Jr., is many times better than the alternative that we were presented
with in
presidential election of 2000, but he is doing a dangerous thing
by promoting the idea that Islam is a peaceful, godly religion
and by decrying those who are exposing Islam for what it is.
"To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according
to this word, it is because there is no light in them" (Isaiah
8:20).
- http://www.cephasministry.com/index_islam_files.html
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- PROMISE KEEPERS GET A NEW HEAD
Thomas Fortson, Jr., the newly appointed head of Promise Keepers,
is a member of a Southern Baptist congregation (Riverside Baptist
in Denver). Founding president Bill McCartney resigned effective
October 1. The widespread Southern Baptist support for Promise
Keepers is a loud testimony to the deep spiritual compromise
that permeates the Convention in spite of the 'conservative renaissance.'
Promise Keepers has promoted the most radical form of ecumenical
unity. Promise Number Six states, 'A Promise Keeper is committed
to reaching beyond ANY 'DENOMINATIONAL BARRIERS to demonstrate
the power of biblical unity.' The official Promise Keepers literature
does not list any exceptions to its call for reaching beyond
denominational barriers. Catholic priest John Salazar spoke at
a PK meeting in Plainview, Texas, in December 1995. That same
year, the PK field representative for the upper Midwest was a
Roman Catholic. According to the December 1995 issue of the Roman
Catholic publication New Covenant, a Promise Keepers group was
being formed that year in a Catholic parish in Tallahassee, Florida.
In 1996, PK representatives Dale Schlafer and Glenn Wagner spoke
at the Roman Catholic Franciscan University of Steubenville,
Ohio, a school that promotes prayers to Mary. Roman Catholic
Mike Timmis was one of the directors of Promise Keepers for a
couple of years. Addressing 40,000 ministers at the 1996 Atlanta
Clergy Conference, Bill McCartney said: 'No such meeting was
held in the past 400 years, and IT IS EXCITING TO SEE THE DENOMINATIONAL
BARRIERS COME DOWN AS WE HAVE PROTESTANTS AND ROMAN CATHOLICS
HERE TOGETHER. THE PURPOSE OF THIS MEETING IS TO HAVE THE UNITY
OF THE CHURCH.' Where are the Southern Baptists who have lifted
their voices to warn plainly of this error? [Source: David Cloud,
WayOfLife.org 11/06/2003] http://www.cephasministry.com/index_promise_keepers.html
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- MALAWI CHURCHES DISTRIBUTE DRUGS CONDOMS T CHECK SPREAD OF
HIB/AIDS
Blantyre (ENI). The Church of Central Africa Presbyterian (CCAP)
has been distributing a drug that reduces the risk of pregnant,
HIV-positive women transmitting the virus to their children at
birth. Mothers in the northern region of Livingstonia can receive
an anti-retroviral drug called Nevirapine at the church's Ekwendeni
mission hospital, thereby avoiding the long trek to Lilongwe,
the country's capital, in central Malawi, to find the drug. And
although the use of condoms as a method of checking the spread
of the AIDS pandemic remains controversial for some churches,
several denominations have started distributing them to married
couples [ENI-11-04-03]
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- MAJOR INCREASE IN PROFANITY ON TV
- Foul language on television shows has increased dramatically
on nearly every network and time slot-including the so-called
"Family Hour" from 8 to 9 p.m. (10/24 Sword of the
Lord). Foul language, including curses or intensives, offensive
epithets, scatological language, sexually suggestive or indecent
language, and censored language increased by 94.8 percent during
the Family Hour between 1998 and 2002. [http://cnview.com/ 11.21.03]
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- MOTHER TERESA'S CATHOLICISM NOT ENOUGH
- Pope John Paul II has given high priority to making Mother
Teresa a saint, and blessed her Oct. 19 in a beatification and
Mass attended by 300,000. But faith in Jesus Christ alone makes
one a saint. If you're not a saint before death, you can't become
one after death. Letters reveal Mother Teresa's inner struggle
and feelings of abandonment by God. (11/3 Chr. News) She wrote:
"I want God with all the power of my soul - and yet between
us there is terrible separation." And again: "Heaven
from every side is closed." And her sad lament from the
heart: "I feel just that terrible pain of loss, of God not
wanting me, of God not being God, of God not really existing."
Mother Teresa was a universalist who did not believe that Jesus
Christ was the only way to heaven. [http://cnview.com/ 11.21.03]
- http://www.cephasministry.com/index_catholic_files.html
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- RICK WARREN'S 40-DAY PLAN FOR GOD'S PURPOSE
- Rick Warren's Saddleback Church (Calif.) is one of the nation's
largest with 17,000 members. His latest book Purpose-Driven Life
lays out a step-by-step 40-day plan to discover God's purpose
for one's life. In another book he gives 10 essentials for a
church to keep on growing: One of these: You should change the
primary role of the pastor from minister to leader. He says you
can grow a church to 300 with pastoral/ministry skills, but for
it to grow beyond 300 will require leadership skills. Warren
wanted his church built around unbelievers and thus uses worldly
methods to build his church. But methods are important. I Cor.
3:10 warns: "But let every man take heed how he builds [on
the foundation of Christ.]." Warren uses rock music, casual
dress, etc., and Southern Baptists and other new evangelicals
are climbing aboard his Purpose bandwagon in droves. So now it
is seen as mainly an ecumenical outreach tool "bringing
Lutherans, Episcopalians, Methodists, Baptists together."
[http://cnview.com/ 11.21.03]
- http://www.cephasministry.com/index_purpose_driven_churches.html
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- STANLEY 'CLARIFIES' STANCE ON FEMALE PASTORS
- Popular Bible teacher and former Southern Baptist president
Dr. Charles Stanley ridicules the SBC's mandate that wives should
submit to their husbands and he doesn't support its ban on female
pastors (10/30 Ala. Bapt.). He said he was led to Christ by a
quiet female evangelist, not by a fiery female pastor (see 7/15/00
CC), and added, "You just can't draw the line and say, "You
can't do so-and-so." [Note: After a Texas paper reported
that Stanley "disagrees" with the 2000 Baptist Faith
& Message, he told Baptist Press (11/6 Ala. Baptist) that
he is "absolutely" supportive of the BF&M and its
stances on the role of women, but thinks a clarifying amendment
was needed. He makes a distinction between "pastor"
and "preacher," saying the latter can be a woman.]
[http://cnview.com/ 11.21.03]
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- ACCC RESOLUTION ON ROBERT SCHULLER & NAE
- Robert Schuller, pastor of the Crystal Cathedral in Garden
Grove, CA, and the number one TV preacher watched on hundreds
of stations in over 180 countries with an audience of over 20
million, will be a speaker at the 62nd annual meeting of the
National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) in Colorado Springs,
in March of 2004. Mr. Schuller's involvement further demonstrates
the harmfully inclusive policy of the NAE. Over the years the
organization has reached out to many speakers for its programs,
but this year is different. Robert Schuller is a false prophet,
a wolf in sheep's clothing! His erroneous definition of sin as
"anything that robs myself or another human being of his
or her self-esteem" has led him to deny and distort the
Gospel of grace. Man's greatest need is not self-esteem, but
regeneration. Our Lord said: "Beware of false prophets,
which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are
ravening wolves" (Matt. 7:15). Schuller's Possibility Thinking
is no different than Norman Vincent Peale's Positive Thinking
- both are error (II Pet. 2:1, I Jn. 4:1)! ... We believe salvation
is by grace alone, through faith alone, and in Christ alone!
We further reaffirm our commitment to Biblical separation from
apostasy (Schuller) and from those who compromise with apostasy
(NAE). We also remind Bible-believing Christians of the danger
of the NAE, especially with this latest compromise of inviting
a false prophet to come into its annual meeting as a speaker.
[http://cnview.com/ 11.21.03]
- http://www.cephasministry.com/index_positive_confession.html
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- SALVATION ARMY SHELTER CHARGES FAMILIES TO STAY
- AP - 9.29.03 - LOUISVILLE, Ky., Sept. 28 (AP) The
city's Salvation Army chapter is charging homeless families $5
a night if they stay at its downtown shelter for more than a
week, a change that has angered some advocates for the homeless.
The Louisville organization started the fee this month as an
incentive to pull people out of homelessness, said Maj. John
Tolan, the agency's director of social services. Some people
have been staying for months at the shelter, Major Tolan said.
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- SYMBOLISM
Charles Manson's symbol was displayed next to the Harry Potter
lightning rod.
- For more information: http://www.cephasministry.com/index_save_our_children.html
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- GLOBAL CHURCH AND STATE ARE ONE
Problems are not getting solved in foreign countries. In example
American charities are doing the government's work in Africa.
They trade food for people to come to church and become believers.
The charitable initiative most likely is an outgrowth of what
has been happening in third world countries. It is based on volunteers
doing the work for free. Overseas they get lots of volunteers
to do the job just to eat and maybe even come to the US. In the
Mormon church many have come with the help of the church because
they were approached by Mormon missionary to accept their doctrines
with the promise of help.
- 4.17.03 - Haiti recognizes Voodoo religion as national religion.
The president, a former Catholic Priest, said it is an ancestral
part of their national identity. That is how they link humans
with the divine. Americans wanted to deliver them and placed
a dictator to lead Haitians and today they are worse off than
ever.
- Head of the Lutherans in Europe agreed to unity in Africa with
Tutu. This relates to 120 million Christians and 169 national
churches. http://www.cephasministry.com/index_church_and_state.html
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- ECUMENISM
- Cecil Stewart of www.ccneurope.org.uk said that all denominations
should be united. He called for that kind of unity and calls
it unity in spirit. He said that Satan loves division and said
that we lose power if we are divided. We have to help people
to become their potential. He functions from Jacksonville, Florida.
In contrast to this preacher Jesus said the following:
Matthew 13:30 "Let both grow together until the harvest:
and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather
ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn
them: but gather the wheat into my barn." In other words
we know that the many denominations are not of the same spirit
because denominations include various cults who claim they have
the same Jesus when in fact their Jesus is a different Jesus.
That indicates that wheat and tares have been growing together
under the title "church". Now, which includes the last
twenty years, due to Watchmen on the wall blowing their trumpet,
the wheat and tares are being separated. If they are reading
their Bible, true believers are realizing that a different spirit
entered their ranks. The verse Jesus gave us for the harvest,
is in effect and the tares are being bundled to be burned. The
call for unity of all denominations is a call to tares who do
not know their Bible. If they did they would not follow these
teachers. http://www.cephasministry.com/index_ecumenism.html
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- ISLAM
In the Koran, Sirah 5:20, Allah promises the land to Israel not
Muslims. Sirah 17: 104 Jews were told to inhabit the land Allah
promised to Israel.
- Simultaneously with the world's greatest vulcano in Krakatoa
is called "The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883.
It happened in Indonesia, in Sunda Strait between Java and Sumatra.
The vulcano blew up part of the island and changed the configuration
of the strait. The accompanying tidal wave cause great destruction
and loss of life. So great was the volume of ashes and lava poured
out that new islands were formed, and debris was scattered across
the Indian Ocean as far as Madagascar.
- 4.10.03 - Simon Winchester called the eruption the Dragon.
The god of the people who were affected was the earth itself,
mother nature. They assumed that their god was angry and in turn
caused anger in worshippers of this god. With the vulcano came
the eruption of the Islamic believers who felt inspired by Allah
to slice non-believers who are infidels to them.
The book title: Krakatoa : The Day the World Exploded: August
27, 1883 by Simon Winchester (Author) http://www.a2zbookdepot.com/islam_book_3.html
- American born Queen Nore who is the mother of the King of Jordan
converted to Islam and recently published a book: "Leap
of Faith". Beware of her message about the beauty of Islam.
She wishes to convert women at best to Islam which rejects Jesus
Christ as the Son of God but calls Him a prophet like Mohammed.
Jesus is sitting at the right hand of God, who also holds the
Melchezidek Priesthood which has the power to grant eternal life
in heaven, while Mohammed's body is in a grave waiting to be
resurrected at the end of the Millennium to be judged at the
Great White Throne judgment which determines who goes to hell
and why.
- We received a letter from a man in prison and communicated
for months with him. Since we have a time problem and discovered
that he had a circle of people who were helping him maintain,
we told him that we had to stop writing. He wrote one last letter
and stopped writing. Beginning with the second chapter he wrote:
"Our 14th Amendment of the Constitution guarantees the equal
protection of every individual in the U.S.A. but as of the 9-11
incident, the 14th Amendment has become shattered. I will expose
an enemy that hides behind the U.S.A.'s Constitution as a first
"Amendment Right" as a smokescreen dressed in a religious
garb; this religion is Islam. The religion of Islam is a group
that promotes by force, Hadith 2.193, 2.256. Also women are second
class citizens, Hadith 3.826, 2.541, 7.30.33, Sura 4:11m 3:14.
Anyone who does not believe in Allah, such as Jews, Christians,
are called infidels, "non believers of Islam" is an
automatic place in paradise heaven, this 9-11 incident was called
a Holy Jihad, "A Holy War against non Muslims, Hadith 1.35,
8.73.1, 9.93.519, 4.73, Surah 3:195, - 9:29.
This book called the "Koran" and the "Hadith"
is the guide book to all devout Muslims. A devout Muslim will
follow his or her word "If" they are true followers
for the cause of Islam, such as the followers that died on 9-11
for their Holy Jihad calling. This book and teachings floods
Texas prison system, It also puts Texas inmates and Texas prison
officials in jeopardy for the cause of Islam. A true Muslim believer
will kill for the cause of their eternal destiny, and a Holy
Jihad is an order by Allah and Muhammad in the Koran and Hadith.
This book is in the hand of inmates in Texas prison. The Quran
teaches anti-Semitism, assassinations on all non Muslims. This
Holy Jihad is murder, but Muslims call it a martyr's Holy War
for the cause of Allah. This book is in the hand of inmates in
a very serious time, many inmates have nothing to loose for the
cause of murder which Islam teaches.
The courts of America "must" without delay bring this
anti-Semitism racist religion before the legislatures of America
to do away with the Koran in American schools and prisons. Every
free, law abiding citizen in America is in danger of Kamikaze
Muslims who are not afraid of death in exchange of paradise heaven
according to the teachings of Muhammad.
The teachings of the Koran and the Hadith show beyond a shadow
of a doubt that a woman is discriminated against, less in value
of a man, two women equal one man's word, last but least, Mohammad
said he saw hell and the majority were women. This is documented
fact in the Koran and Hadith.
We as American people love our freedom, we love our mothers,
we have ladies in the prison system, schools, Congress, in the
Legislative Branch, etc., The Muslim religion threatens the life
of the female of America.
I ask that this letter be printed and made a public awareness
to [expose] this murderous false cult which hides behind our
First Amendment Right to act out their racist assassinations
in the name of Allah. Edited by Donald Wayne Courville. Note
by him: Please send copies to your House Representatives, Congressman,
the President, the Legislative Branch, churches, media, T.V.
Stations, etc..
- http://www.cephasministry.com/index_islam_files.html
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- Buy a Book for someone or yourself for Christmas and let
it be:
- Apostasy Revealed by Nicholas A. Stivers
A non-fiction, highly spiritual work
$11.95 Trade paperback plus postage
Jesus' disciples were of common Hebrew stock. They became Apostles
through their tenacity and were firm in their commitment. They
developed groups of believers called churches (gatherings). They
were a minority then as God's appointed ones are today, not following
mainstream ideals, but clinging steadfastly to Christ's teachings
and enduring persecution for their unwavering faith. The rest
of the world at that time was as deceived and enslaved as the
world is today. Their world suffered under siege by secular powers,
just as our world today is at the mercy of the same models of
Government.
- Sadly, the many-divided houses of God promote
their own brand of elitism and partiality. Many Christian authorities
are largely tolerant of sensual deviance and abhorrent authority.
Religion has (in part) lost its zeal because the message has
been so watered down that it fails to keep the believers faithful.
Today, hypocrisy is an epidemic. So many are backsliding and
falling into pits. The message herein brings you back to the
fundamental "Gospel of Christ crucified" in a contemporary
context. This book is for those who have been thirsting and hungering
for the righteousness of God. What many people need is encouragement
to follow Jesus' example.Take courage now and share the experience
of salvation and fresh revelation with a brother in Christ.
- Highly recommended by Cephas Ministry
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GLOBAL / LOCAL
POLITICS
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- $7 BILLION OF TAXPAYER'S MONEY DOLED TO NANO TECHNOLOGY IN
THE ERA OF SELF REPLICATION A FORM OF CLONING TO ACHIEVE ETERNAL
LIFE?
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- $6.5 BILLION OF TAXPAYER'S MONEY TO BUILD 13000 MORE NUKES?
WE HAVE ENOUGH TO DESTROY THE WORLD WHY DO WE NEED MORE?
- We have a video in the library if you wish to pursue this
subject: V 244 CMI soc - Nuclear Weapons Still
On First Strike - Helen Caldicott, MD (60 min) http://www.a2zbookdepot.com/video_library.html
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- IN EUROPE THE US IS CALLED THE DEVIL'S ISLAND. ENGLISH WOMAN
THANKFUL THANKSGIVING THAT SHE IS NOT AN AMERICAN
- http://www.cephasministry.com/index_nwo.html
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- ANIMALS GROW FASTER ON DRUGS WHICH CREATES HUNGER IN HUMANS
AND OVER EATING
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- DAVID AIKMAN, AUTHOR, FEATURED IN CHARISMA MAGAZINE, SAID
TO STATE WE ARE JUDEAN CHRISTIANS IS MUCH MORE INCLUSIVE"
AND A PRECURSOR TO ADDING "ISLAM WHICH HAS A WAYS TO GO."
HE IS OBVIOUSLY ECUMENICAL
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- "OIL, POWER AND EMPIRE, NO CONGRESSIONAL MANDATE TO
START WAR, NEO CONSERVATISTS CAUSING A PERMANENT REVOLUTION,
27% INCREASE IN FEDERAL BUDGET, WHAT'S GOING ON?" ASKS A
CALLER
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- RETURN ON CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS IS 300% FOR CORPORATIONS
AND IT IS LEGAL
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- MSNBC PAT BUCHANAN STATED THAT THE US CUT THE UN OUT OF THE
ACTION
- MSNBC Pat Buchanan stated that the U.S. cut the U.N. out
of the action. U.S. and British Petroleum are setting up free
trade laws and who gets the contract none other than Haliburton
affiliated with the Vice President and the Daktel Corporation.
Syntek gets an $80 billion contract headed by John Poindexter.
He recommended the book: Best Democracy Money can Buy. For more
information click on:
- http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0452283914/ichthusfasttrack
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- SENATOR FRITZ HOLLINGS SAID TERRORISTS WERE TRAINED IN THE
US
- IRAQ COMPARED TO GOLDRUSH
- Senator Fritz Hollings 4.2.03 at Senate Hearing for 2004
Justice Department Budget: "80,000 terrorist were trained
by the U.S." "Close to 500 drug enforcement were moved
to terrorism." Iraq is compared to a goldrush in regard
to water and electricity infra structure.
- BBC Greg Palast. Iraqis will be paying for a $500 billion
dollar investment bypassing the traditional process by cutting
secret deals. Canada used to have control. Iraq will have to
drop out of Opec.
- Iraqis already owe $200 billion to U.N. Compensation Commission.
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- NELSON MANDELLA SLAMS THE US PRESIDENT
- C-Span 1.31.03 Nelson Mandella slams the U.S. President by
stating that he wants a hollocaust.
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- CONTRACTORS GET AROUND THE BIDDING PROCESS
- A $60 million computer based contract given to Americans
affiliated to the Administration without the usual bidding process.
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- THE PATRIOT ACT NOW GIVE GOVERNMENT THE AUTHORITY TO AMASS
- INFORMATION ON EVERY CITIZEN
- C-Span 4.17.03 - The Patriot Act now gives government the
AUTHORITY to amass information on every U.S. citizen. Patriot
Act II is in the wings.
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- NOBODY MOTIVATED TO STOP MEDIA INTERVENTION CREATING UNSTOPPABLE
POWER
- USA Interactive CEO Barry Diller [formerly part of the broadcasters]
spoke at the Broadcaster's Convention in Las Vegas 4.15.03 on
C-Span. He stated that nobody is motivated to intervene with
conglomerates in the media.. which creates unstoppable power,
no safeguards and no independent voices at this point. Local
news become distribution arms of the conglomerates... Remember
the Rothchilds funded both sides of the war in earlier days.."
Discouraged Diller has moved on to another venture.
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- KNIGHT, PAUL GETTY, DIES
- Billionaire Sir J. Paul Getty Jr., the reclusive American-born
billionaire philanthropist and art lover who became a British
citizen late in life, died Thursday, his doctor said. He was
70.
Paul Getty was given the honorary title of Knight Commander of
the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 1986 for services
to charity, but could not be called Sir Paul then because he
was not a British citizen.
- John Paul Getty Jr. was born Sept. 7, 1932, the third of
five sons of J. Paul Getty, nicknamed "Oklahoma Crude,"
who built Getty Oil into a $6 billion fortune making him
the richest man in the world in his day..
http://www.usatoday.com/money/2003-04-17-getty-obit_x.htm
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- BEST SELLERS
- DECEMBER 2003: 2. PURPOSE DRIVEN CHURCH IS
- HARDCOVER NONFICTION
Top 5 at a Glance
1. LEAP OF FAITH, by Queen Noor
2. STUPID WHITE MEN, by Michael Moore
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/books/bestseller/
- Leap of Faith: Memoirs of an Unexpected Life
by Queen Noor, Queen Noor Al-Hussein of Jordan
Hardcover: 467 pages
Publisher: Miramax; (March 18, 2003)
ISBN: 0786867175
Queen Noor appears now and then in events in the United States
and she is pro Muslim religion and proud of it. Christians have
to be careful not to be taken in by her testimony. Celebrities
are easily idolized and used as role models. Following are a
couple of reviews of her book.
- A VERY DIFFICULT READ, April 7, 2003 - Reviewer: A reader
from Salt Lake City, Ut United States
I found this book to be a very difficult read. The style of writing
just does not flow well, and that is the least of my complaints.
This book seems to be more about the history of Jordan, and very
little to do with Noor herself.
- I was a little surprised at the uncalled for pot shots at
the United States. She was born and raised an American. I understand
she has a roll to play as a public figure, and I felt she was
still playing that roll as a writer. I didn't feel that the book
was very honestly written.
- In the end I think the book is more about her being a CHEERLEADER
for the Arab cause, and her attempts to persuade people to see
them as the victims in the Mideast, and for most of us that is
to hard a sell. Anyone who knows anything about the Mideast conflict,
can see the obvious bias in this book, with regards to facts
and events involving the Middle East.
- No Fluff, just Facts, April 15, 2003 - Reviewer: A. F. Roberts
from NYC, NY
After September 11, I have come to a new awareness of how our
country meddles in the Middle East with our "silent partner",
Israel. How unfortunate that so many horrid things have been
done to the Palestinians in our name. Theresa, your post made
me gasp - you really must open your eyes and educate yourself.
I would be shocked if the Palestinians enacted suicide raids
for no particular reason, as you so claim.
- I believe that US citizens were kept in the dark for the
last 40 years regarding our actions in Israel, but not any more.
Read this book to educate yourself in order to be a more powerful
citizen. And along the way, learn from Queen Noor what self-sacrifice
and duty really mean.
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- REPORTER ON THE GROUND IN BAGDAD SAYS 5 AMERICANS ARE DYING
A DAY
- Reporter on the ground in Baghdad reported that American
soldiers are dying at the rate of 5 per day; and the news media
is not reporting it!
- NEWS BRIEF: "Dispatch From Baghdad - 'A Catastrophe
Here' ", From Anita Roddick.com, 8-14-3, Rense.com, http://www.rense.com/general40/cva.htm
- "We get reports that many more us soldiers are dying
than the Pentagon admits. Perhaps 5 a day ... George Bush and
Donald Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz and Condoleezza Rice and Tony
Blair and Dick Cheney are insane ... They have caused a catastrophe
here.
- NEWS BRIEF: "GIs In Iraq Dying In Their Sleep: Calendar
Of Military Dead During Iraqi War", 8-14-3, Rense.com, http://www.rense.com/general40/dying.htm
- "Staff Sgt. Richard S. Eaton Jr., 37, of Guilford, Conn.,
died on August 12 in Ar Ramadi, Iraq. A fellow soldier tried
to wake Eaton and noticed he was not breathing. Eaton was assigned
to the 323rd Military Intelligence Battalion, U.S. Army Reserves,
based at Fort Meade, Md.
- "Spc. Levi B. Kinchen, 21, of Tickfaw, La., died on
Aug. 9 in Baghdad, Iraq. A fellow soldier tried to wake Kinchen
and noticed he was not breathing. Kinchen was assigned to 2nd
Armored Cavalry Regiment, Fort Polk, La.
- "Pvt. Matthew D. Bush, 20, of East Alton, Ill., died
on Aug. 8 in Camp Caldwell, Iraq. A fellow soldier tried to wake
Bush and noticed he was not breathing. Bush was assigned to F
Troop, 1st Squadron, 10th Armored Cavalry Regiment, Fort Hood,
Texas. "
- NEWS BRIEF: "Marine dies after returning from Iraq",
CNN.com, August 12, 2003.
- "WEARE, New Hampshire (AP) -- After eight months in
Kuwait and Iraq, Marine Master Sgt. Dale Racicot just wanted
to see his wife and two daughters ... Back home three hours later,
Racicot collapsed onto his dining room floor, dead of a heart
attack at 54. His wife, Janet, said she heard the thud from the
kitchen, where she was getting a glass of water."
- NEWS BRIEF: "Death marches at double in Iraq but US
public unaware", sm.com.au, August 5, 2003
- "United States military casualties in Iraq are running
at more than twice the number most Americans have been led to
believe they are. The public is largely unaware of a high number
of accidents, suicides and other non-combat deaths."
- NEWS BRIEF: "7 MORE CASES OF MYSTERY ILLNESS IN IRAQ",
TheLakeSunLeader, By Marsha Paxson, August 7, 2003.
- "LAKE OF THE OZARKS -- Seven more soldiers in Iraq have
contracted the same puzzling illness that has killed two soldiers,
including one from the lake area. The latest cases bring the
number of affected troops to 19 ... It is believed Neusche contracted
the illness, first thought to be pneumonia, while conducting
cleanup operations with the 203rd Engineer Battalion in Baghdad
... When Neusche's parents arrived in Germany on July 9, the
illness had already begun ravaging his muscles, liver and kidneys.
Neusche died in an ambulance on the way to another hospital for
dialysis. Cindi and Mark Neusche said that as they watched their
son's health get worse, they noticed other soldiers were beginning
to fill nearby hospital rooms."
- NEWS BRIEF: "Father of dead soldier claims Army coverup",
By Mark Benjamin, Investigations Editor, The Washington Times,
August 8, 2003.
- "WASHINGTON, Aug. 7 (UPI) -- The father of a soldier
who died of pneumonia this spring said Thursday the Army has
excluded her death from its investigation of deadly pneumonia
because it wants to cover up vaccine side effects. 'The government
is covering this up and it is a dog-gone shame,' said Moses Lacy,
whose daughter, Army Spc. Rachael Lacy, died April 4 at the Mayo
Clinic in Rochester, Minn., after getting pneumonia."
- NEWS BRIEF: "Troops sent home after collapsing in heat",
By Bob Graham, Evening Standard, in Baghdad, 16 August 2003.
- "British troops have been flown home from Iraq as casualties
of the desert heat ... The Ministry of Defence admitted today
its soldiers are falling "at the rate of three a day"
from temperature-related problems ... down at the rate of 10
a day from heat exhaustion."
- Suspecting that we were seeing just the tiny tip of the proverbial
iceberg, I sent these stories to my medical source, a doctor
in a foreign army, asking for an expert opinion as to what is
truly going on in Iraq, and how seriously this situation could
get. After several emails back and forth, this doctor called
me from overseas. The news was shocking, but it did tie into
the Illuminati ultimate plan as we have been teaching.
- The body of every soldier in Iraq is now being assaulted
by the following elements:
- 1. Searing heat between 120-150° - This tremendous heat
will not relent until mid-October
2. Local biting insects that deliver a toxic pathogen with which
the native Iraqis have to contend daily
3. A cocktail of vaccines that were administered prior to landing
in Iraq. As in Gulf War I, these vaccines are highly toxic
4. Exposure to Depleted Uranium in the air, in the water in some
areas, and in the dust everywhere. As Amy Worthington states
in her article in The Idaho Observer, "The US and British
troops are the walking dead."
5. Unknown and unpredictable mutations of physical maladies caused
by the above combination of toxic elements
In the daily campaign in Iraq, soldiers are breathing in the
toxic Depleted Uranium, and many of them are being constantly
bitten by the local insects. These two elements join the toxic
vaccine already in the body. Because of the unrelenting, searing
heat, nearly every soldier is dehydrated to some degree, thus
allowing this deadly combination of toxins to build up to dangerously
concentrated levels. Further, this doctor related how American
scientists keeping watch over the radioactive poisoning of the
Pacific islands at which France and the United States conducted
nuclear tests several decades ago, are constantly finding mutated
organisms that have never been identified before! Uranium poisoning
in our soldiers is very likely mutating with these other elements
to create strange and deadly organisms for which the soldiers
have not been prepared to face.
- The way in which these five elements combine to make the
soldier sick, or to kill him, will vary widely with each soldier.
The age of the soldier plays a part, as does the individual genetic
code, as does the health of the immune system. Thus, soldiers
will be getting sick at various points along the time spectrum.
Further, the exact cause of death will vary so widely that it
will be difficult to prove any single cause. Some soldiers will
die of pneumonia, some of internal organ meltdown, some of apparent
heart attack, and some will die of maladies perhaps not yet seen
in medical science.
- This doctor felt strongly that our government officials knew
exactly that this scenario would develop, and deliberately bypassed
the cool time of the year -- November to February -- so that
our troops would be fighting a guerrilla war during the searing
heat time of year. This high heat accelerates the process of
getting sick tremendously. If our soldiers are already dying
and/or getting sick at the rate of 5 per day, how long will it
take to reach 50 per day, and then 100? At which point will the
pressure build up about the true situation so that the news cannot
be suppressed any longer? The situation facing our troops in
Iraq is simply unprecedented!
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- THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE BUT IT'S CLASSIFIED
- Published: September 27, 2003 - The corners of the Internet
frequented by fans of "X-Files" and alien-creature
sightings were abuzz last week when President Bush extended for
another year the total secrecy of Area 51, a large Air Force
base in the Nevada desert.
- Since the base was established in 1954 to test the U-2 spy
plane, its cloaked existence has fueled speculation that it is
used for something else: the storage and study of captured extraterrestrials
and their spacecraft, including those said to have landed in
Roswell, N.M. A 1997 Air Force report saying there were no captured
aliens served only to convince the faithful that there must have
been.
- But if the site stokes distrust, it should be for something
more down to earth. Mr. Bush's order effectively lets the Air
Force flout environmental laws without a public accounting. That
is understandably upsetting to a group of former workers and
two widows represented by Jonathan Turley, a George Washington
University law professor who filed suit in 1994, claiming that
exposure to toxic materials illegally burned on the grounds had
caused gruesome skin rashes and respiratory ailments.
- The secrecy surrounding Area 51 has been obsessive, even
for the military, which does not like to acknowledge its existence,
much less whether officers illegally handled hazardous waste.
In 1995, in response to the suit, President Bill Clinton issued
the first annual exemption to protect the military from having
to make disclosures.
- While armed patrols and ominous signs warning of "deadly
force" isolate Area 51, situated about 90 miles northwest
of Las Vegas, foreign satellite photos of buildings and of a
runway several miles long hint at its uses. Rather than performing
alien autopsies, the Air Force is more likely to be using the
site to test new military hardware. Few would disagree that such
work deserves to be classified, but it should not give the government
a pass to break the law or to abuse the basic rights of its workers.
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- SCHOOLS TESTING EYE RECOGNITION
- The Associated Press - N.J. Schools Testing Eye Recognition
Tiny New Jersey School District Testing Cutting-Edge Eye Recognition
Security System
- PLUMSTED, N.J. April 21 The biggest security breach
in recent memory in this small central New Jersey school district
happened when a parent forgot to sign in at the office before
delivering cupcakes to a child's classroom.So it was somewhat
of a surprise when the Plumsted district's three schools became
the test site for a cutting-edge eye recognition security system
designed to keep out strangers."We're an appealing test
site because we are a small community where everybody knows everybody,"
said Michael Dean, the schools' technology coordinator. "We're
taking a rural town and asking, `What is John Q. Public's perception
of this technology?
- What is people's comfort level is this easy to use?'"The
iris scanning technology will be used to identify employees and
those authorized to pick up children in the 1,800-student district.
Anyone else will have to show ID before being allowed in. Students
themselves will never been screened.In the wake of shootings
and child abductions, schools nationwide have been taking steps
to tighten security, from installing metal detectors and video
cameras to hiring extra guards.But iris scanning has never been
used in a school, according to Lina Page, director of marketing
for Iridian Technologies. The company holds patents on the iris
recognition software being used here.Iris recognition systems
use a video camera to record the colored ring around the eye's
pupil.
- More accurate than fingerprints and other biometric markers,
iris scanning is considered a nearly foolproof way of identifying
people because markings in the iris are unique to each person
and do not change as people age.Plumsted was among some 400 school
districts that applied for a grant from the Justice Department
for the iris recognition technology. The federal agency is building
a database on school security and is using Plumsted as its first
data collection."The unique thing about our grant is we
picked a technology that no one else was doing," said Phil
Meara, assistant schools superintendent.The technology has a
wide range of applications. Officials at the Charlotte, N.C.,
airport recently installed iris recognition systems to identify
employees, pilots and flight attendants. And United Nations workers
have used it to keep track of Afghani refugees and prevent them
from claiming more than their share of aid packages.Biometrics
expert Paul Robertson of TruSecure Corp. in Herndon, Va., said
he sees potential benefit in the iris scanning system but questions
if it's the best technology for controlling entry to schools.He
cited privacy concerns on behalf of people whose personal data
is stored in the schools' system and cautioned against overreliance
on a single technology.
- More than 300 parents and nearly all the district's teachers
and staff volunteered for Plumsted's two-month pilot project
that began earlier this month. Pictures were taken of their eyes,
and the images were stored in a computer database.If the iris
image in the database matches that of the person seeking entry
to the school, the school door automatically unlocks. Members
of the project's control group, meanwhile, must show identification
and be buzzed into the school by a staffer.Wendy Arzt, whose
two daughters attend New Egypt Elementary School, lauded the
technology as noninvasive and easy to use.
- "We're fortunate to live in a small, safe town. But
in this day and age, you can't take safety for granted,"
said Arzt, a substitute teacher taking part in the study.After
the study ends, the Maryland consulting firm 21st Century Solutions
will evaluate whether the iris scanning was useful in the schools
and conduct surveys to determine people's attitudes about the
technology, said Craig Uchida, a researcher with the firm.The
Plumsted board of education will then make the final decision
about whether to use the technology.Copyright 2003 The Associated
Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published,
broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/ap20030421_1307.html
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SCHOOL VIOLENCE DATA UNDER A CLOUD IN HOUSTON
Michael Stravato for The New York Times November 7, 2003, by
Sam Dillon
Houston, Texas Oct. 31 2003 - It was one of the most unforgettable
of schoolhouse crimes: a disabled 17-year-old student was shoved
into a boys' bathroom in her wheelchair by a classmate at Yates
High School here, dragged to the floor and raped. Her attacker
was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
Yet the Houston Independent School District did not include that
rape, committed two years ago, when it came time to report the
school year's campus crimes to the state as required by Texas
law. And that is not the only school crime that appears to have
been airbrushed from the official record.
On Oct. 3, 2000, a boy named Joseph Hamilton was "stomped
and beaten" by another student in the cafeteria of Williams
Middle School and was left injured on the floor, according to
a school district memorandum, but the assault went unreported
to Texas authorities. Last April, a 16-year-old boy was stabbed
in the chest by another student at Washington High School; that
attack was not reported, either.
In the last four school years, the Houston district's own police,
who patrol its 80 middle and high schools, have entered 3,091
assaults into a database that is shared with the Houston city
police but not with the Texas Education Agency in Austin.
In the same period, the Houston district itself has listed just
761 schoolhouse assaults on its annual disciplinary summaries
sent to Austin. That means that the school authorities either
have not reported or have reclassified 2,330 incidents described
as assaults by the district's police.
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- COURT BLOCKS NEW STATUTE THAT LIMITS ABORTIONS
The New York Times, November 7, 2003 - Federal judge in Manhattan
blocked the government's new ban on a type of abortion yesterday,
granting a temporary restraining order to a network of abortion
providers that challenged the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act
as unconstitutional just moments after President Bush signed
it into law on Wednesday.
The ruling is expected to have national implications because
the group that filed the lawsuit, the National Abortion Federation,
has clinics in almost every state and says it performs half of
the abortions done nationwide. In addition to the network, seven
individual doctors joined the suit, which was brought with the
assistance of the American Civil Liberties Union.
The decision follows a similar ruling from a federal district
judge in Lincoln, Neb., that was the first to bar the law from
taking effect. But that order was limited, applying only to the
four doctors who brought the lawsuit.
In contrast, the temporary restraining order signed yesterday
may have a sweeping effect because though it, too, applies only
to the people who brought the suit, the network has 350 clinics
in 47 states. The group says it treats about 700,000 women a
year.
The decision was handed down by Judge Richard Conway Casey of
Federal District Court in Manhattan, who wrote in a three-page
order that the network had proved that it would suffer irreparable
harm without an order blocking enforcement of the new law. Judge
Casey also said the network would be likely to succeed in a lawsuit
on the merits of their case.
The decision to issue a restraining order stemmed from the act's
failure to allow exemptions for abortions when a woman's health
is at risk. In the order, Judge Casey wrote that the government
acknowledged at a hearing on Wednesday that there was disagreement
within the medical community as to whether the procedure covered
by the act is ever necessary to protect a woman's health.
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- UK WILL HOST EURO PRIDE, THE BIGGEST GAY PARADE IN EUROPE
- MANCHESTER - UK will host EuroPride 2003 from 15 - 25 August,
Europe's biggest Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT)
Festival Numbers Expected Approaching 300,000 people will experience
EuroPride over the ten days.
15,000 visitors are expected from overseas. The majority of these
will come from Germany, Netherlands and France.
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- TESTING FINDS BLOOD DONORS ARE CARRYING NILE VIRUS
By Lawrence Altman - A new test has detected the West Nile virus
in more than 600 blood donors across the country this summer,
preventing transfusions of the contaminated blood. New York Times
9.19.03
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- SWEDES RESOUNDINGLY REJECT THE EURO
By Alan Cowell - STOCKHOLM, Sept. 14 In a significant
setback for a more unified Europe, Swedes voted overwhelmingly
today to reject membership in the European single currency after
a passionate referendum campaign, made uncertain to the last
moment by the assassination of Foreign Minister Anna Lindh.
- The margin of victory for those opposed to adoption of the
single currency, the euro, far exceeded the expectations of many
people here. It provided a stunning defeat for Prime Minister
Goran Persson, who had called the referendum in the belief that
most Swedes would agree to abandon their currency, the krona.
- Political experts said the impact would be felt across Europe,
countering efforts to strengthen the 15-nation European Union
before its planned expansion with 10 new members next year. Apart
from Sweden, two union members, Denmark and Britain, are outside
the 12-country euro-zone stretching from the Arctic Circle to
the Mediterranean. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/15/international/europe/15SWED.html?th
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- GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY THINK TANK IS WHERE MADELEINE ALBRIGHT
WAS FOUND AND HIRED.
- US Politics - Georgetown University Think Tank - 9.21.03
- Madeleine Albright was interviewed about her book "Madam
Secretary". She stated that she was teaching at Georgetown
University when President Clinton picked her for the job.
C-Span Georgetown University Forum about leadership for America
of which the purpose was to increase wealth of other countries.
That is the reason jobs are going overseas.
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- BUSH CONSIDERED IMPERIAL PRESIDENCY
4.9.03 - The American Bush Presidency is referred to as the Imperial
Presidency in some discussions. The author of "American
Empire", Andrew Bacevich, stated that the US plans on maintaining
domination and the document that confirms that is available on
the White House website. The veil has been dropped since 911.
Certain words are no longer controversial. The US spends more
on military than all other nations combined. The use of force
is a very important theme. Militarization is continuing and the
preferred instrument to American power. The liberation of Iraq
is a by product. We are there strictly for American interests.
WE ARE THE NEW ROME and there is probably no escape.
Cementing American interest in the Middle East is not only about
oil but about 911 not happening again. The strategy is to remove
these conditions. Iraq is only step 1. The goal is to democratize
the Middle East: Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Iran and Syria. The optimistic
view is to to make Iraq prosper encouraging liberal tendencies
which will force change upon all in the Middle East. The pessimistic
view is to maintain superior military operations.
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- DESERT STORM DEEPLY FLAWED TOUTED REASON FOR TODAY'S BLOOD
BATH
Desert Storm was the beginning but was deeply flawed. A bloody
path was the result.
C-Span 2 - Washington, DC - Chamber of Commerce: Homeland Security
is expecting transparency of businesses. There have been workshops
recently on how to report to them. Universities are offering
intelligence courses on Homeland Security.
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- NADER CALLS AMERICANS TO RISE AGAINST PATRIOT II, HE SAID
TO SEPARATE THEIR WORDS AND DEEDS
C-Span - 5.11.03 - Ralph Nader called on Americans to rise against
Patriot II which was presented to Congress for signature. He
said that it blocks out citizens of this country from participating
in the political process. He said, "SEPARATE THEIR WORDS
FROM THEIR DEEDS."
He also stated that the president has done enormous damage to
our Democracy. People have lost control of their own government.
The Patriot Act is an attack on American liberties. Half of discretionary
spending within the US budget is military. Massive deficit inflation
is weakening the dollar. 90,000 votes of Blacks and Hispanics
were purged in Florida. The administration is de-industrializing
our economy. It is going to Third World countries where the labor
is $0.20@ hour. They ship the completed product back to the US
to sell at huge profits. The Columbia University analyzed statistics
and came up with 90% of products are imported. There are six
gigantic media corporations who control American audiences. "Clear"
Channel owns locals and between them they control 90% of the
entertainment industry and advertising.
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- ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS MAJOR CONCERN TO COLORADO REPRESENTATIVE
C-Span - 5.6.03 US House Representative Tom Tancredo is very
concerned about the effects on US citizens derived from illegal
immigrants stated the following: Related to illegals there were
41 drug seizures in Colorado. US citizens are in a war zone due
to the invasion across their land due to open, porous borders.
US citizens have been abandoned by their government because it
is ignoring illegal immigration. There are significant problems
and infra structural costs. Hospitals are going broke in providing
healthcare. 25% of the prison population are non citizens. Cost
of immigration are far greater than tax contributions. The deposits
of trash are enormous problems. Massive immigration, multiculturism
is nothing unique about the US West but has serious implications
and is an attack on citizenship. Referring to the book "American
No More by Georgianne Geyer out of print but still available
used, citizenship is being eroded by new laws and aggressive
actions of other nations. The link is to the book.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0871136503/ichthusfasttrack
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- MATRICULAR COUNSELOR ID CARDS ARE INTERNATIONAL DESIRED EFFECT
IS TO ELIMINATE DISTINGUISHING BETWEEN CITIZENS AND ILLEGALS
- Matricular counselor ID cards are international. There is
a desired goal of Congress and other countries to eliminate distinguishing
between citizens and illegals. The Mexican government and Honduras
are pushing the matricular counselor ID cards upon illegals usurping
the US. These cards are given to thousands of Mexicans at their
Consulate's lobbies to get states to accept the ID. Scores of
cities have accepted this concept. Local states, Denver, Colorado
Springs and Boulder have agreed to it. The police said, "yes,
we'll do it," not realizing that they confer status on that
illegal immigrant. The state of Colorado has legislation now
that they cannot accept the cards. Illegals have no social security
cards. What happens to earnings? This trend is illiminating the
concept of citizenship. The law of the land eroded by our government
that conspires with other governments.
In state tuition is granted to illegal immigrants. Illegals have
dragged down US standard of living. It will determine over time
whether we will be a nation at all. That is what is at stake
here. State and local government is allowing K-12 education,
social services and healthcare and subsidized housing at the
expense of US citizens. Rights to vote are threatened. Only drivers
licenses are used as a right to vote. There are many cases where
illegal votes are rampant.Catholic Bishop Gomez of Denver Diocese
doesn't agree with House Representative Tancredo and stated that
illegals do not come here to become citizens. That should prove
Tancredo's point.
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- GENERIC DRUGS ARE KEPT SECRET TO KEEP SENIORS BUYING EXPENSIVE
DRUGS
C-Span - 5.7.2003 - Drug prices for elderly are kept high by
keeping the information away from them when high priced drugs
become generic. The book: 'The Big Fix' by Katherine Greider
is about that. Many elderly have stopped taking drugs altogether
because they can't afford them. To check out the 'The Big Fix'
by Katherine Greider click on:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1586481851/ichthusfasttrack
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- US USES TERROR LAWS TO PURSUE CRIMES FROM DRUGS TO SWINDLING
- New York Times - 9.28.2003 U.S. Uses Terror Law to Pursue Crimes
From Drugs to Swindling
By Erich Lichtblau - The Bush administration has begun using
the Patriot Act with increasing frequency in many criminal investigations
that have little or no connection to terrorism.
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- INTERESTING BEST SELLER LIST
- For your convenience the latest best sellers:
Bushwhacked: Life in George W. Bush's America - by Molly Ivins,
Lou Dubose
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0375507523/ichthusfasttrack
The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century, by Paul
Krugman
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0393058506/ichthusfasttrack
Dude, Where's My Country? by Michael Moore
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0446532231/ichthusfasttrack
Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look
at the Right by Al Franken
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0525947647/ichthusfasttrack
Thieves in High Places: They've Stolen Our Country - Its Time
to Take It Back by Jim Hightower
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0670031410/ichthusfasttrack
Big Lies: The Right-Wing Propaganda Machine and How It Distorts
the Truth by Joe Conason
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0312315600/ichthusfasttrack
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- JOURNALIST ARRESTED FIRST AT PEACE MOVEMENT PROCESSION
- The Peace Movement procession at Washington DC was enlightening.
They arrested the journalists first. "If an event is not
recorded it did not happen."
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- PATRIOT II WILL MAKE IS LEGAL TO KEEP INFORMATION UNDER WRAPS
- Patriot Act 2: It will protect investigations. Information
will not be made available to the public. It will also broaden
authority.
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- THE WAR IN IRAQ
When asked, "how many friendly fire casualties are under
investigation?" The answer was evaded. Another question
was: "Why are oilfields protected and banks and museums
are not protected? The high priority was to protect Iraqis. The
regime did not use weapons of mass destruction.
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- TONI BLAIR SAYS PARTNERSHIP WITH US ONLY WAY TO PEACE
- 4.23.03 - Toni Blair stated that there needs to be a peaceful
existence between people of different faith. The world works
best with U.S. and E.U. in partnership and destabilization is
diminished. Spanish President Aznar agreed.
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- ENORMOUS POWER OF US EVIDENT NOW
- The enormous power of the U.S. has become evident. In spite
of that nobody has any answers.
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- AFGHANISTAN, IRAQ AND US WILL DO BUSINESS THE NEW WAY, PUBLIC
PRIVATE ENTERPRISES
- 8.23.03 C-Span - Iraq has no income because the oil is not
flowing. It has the send largest oil reserve in the world.
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- HUSSEIN WAS USER FRIENDLY WHEN PUT INTO POWER SUPPORTED BY
THE US
- 2 million Shiites participated in a pilgrimage, which is
more than half. They believe its the beginning of the end of
the American Era. Shiites prayed to get rid of Hussein and believe
the Allah brought it about.
4.17.03 - Former Special Envoy to the Middle East said that the
US supported Hussein when he was put into office in Iraq and
Iraqians did not like it then and they never changed their minds.
Iraqians hope war would be short without much damage. Instead
thousands were killed in this war. Mixed results were unfortunately
not a seamless transition. The looting is upsetting Iraqians.
They don't see Iraq as a priority. The Middle East peace process
is the highest priority instead. Extremism, financial resources
and political attitudes are the reason for suicidal tendencies.
They need understanding what are the forces that drive people
to suicide. He said that the UN is absolutely necessary and should
not be abolished.
In Afghanistan, Iraq and US the new way to do business is public
private enterprises, the public part is the government with tax
payers dollars. We live in a six year old housing project which
is run by the federal and state government. They set all the
rules and people have to have permission from them for things
that they wish to do. It reminds me of a boss who said he wanted
no restrainer straps and expected to rape me right in the office
at work.
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- IRAQ IS THE BEGINNING OF DOLING OUT TO EACH INDIVIDUAL
US DOLLARS
- In the December Cephas Newsletter we pointed out that the
final solution will be doling dollars out to each individual
on the planet for subsidy. Here we have the beginnign of it.
Many Americans would be happy to have that much.
C-Span - 5.3.2003 Treasury Secretary John Snow spoke of four
general licenses in relation to Iraq. 1) Humanitarian aid to
Iraq. 2) Personal remittances of Iraqians in the US (143,000):
$500@. 3) US Government fund authorized activities by contractors.
4) Privately funded contractors will also be permitted. President
Bush lifted sanctions.
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TO THE AUDIENCE AT UN INVASION REMAINED DANGEROUS ACT
- New York Times - 9.28.2003 - Audience Unmoved During Bush's
Address at the U.N. by Steven R. Weisman - The invasion of Iraq,
to the audience of world leaders, remained a dangerous act of
unilateralism now beset by intractable problems. For the whole
article go to;
http:\\www.cephasministry.com/index_nwo.html
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- IRAQI BOYS INJURED DURING NIGHT JET ATTACK IN SEPTEMBER 2003
By Alex Berenson. For the second time in two weeks, a unit of
the 82nd Airborne appears to have attacked an unresisting group
of Iraqis.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/24/international/middleeast/24IRAQ.html?th
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- THE ECONOMY
People keep thinking the economy is improving because the Media
says so but they don't tell why they say that. The economist
got a 3% growth by changing the formula. This information came
out of an interview on C-SPAN.
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CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT
5.28.03 All pieces are now in place. The total tax burden must
come down. It's about long term economic growth worldwide. Putin's
economy in Russia doesn't need anymore US Aid. Partnership is
what is at stake now with the US. Russia needs to enter the WTO.
The US is holding back on Russian visas and the relationship
between the US and Russia has been troubled. Russia only controls
4% - 8% of the oil and there is no comparison to the Persian
Gulf.
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EIGHT CABINET MEMBERS ARE DEEPLY CONNECTED TO THE OIL INDUSTRY
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- CREDIT CARD DEBT FOR US CITIZENS HAS CLIMBED TO $700 BILLION
- Consumer Federation of America shared the following information
on C-Span. The credit card debt has climbed to $700 billion credit
card debt by consumers. They have found serious problems in deceptive
credit card counseling. They are nonprofit firms charging high
fees which do not get to the creditors. They invariably cause
higher interest rates due to refinancing. A person maxed out
on credit card debt could owe as much as $60,000.00 and have
no hope of recovering. If credit card counseling has ever been
done it shows up in the credit report.
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JEWS CREATED CAPITALISM
- 5.21.2003 - Joint Budget Committee meeting included Greenspan
who said that low employment, caused low demand which is causing
sluggish economy. Equity extractions are used to reduce debt
which means people are borrowing on their home equity to live.
It is also called liquifying wealth. Everything is manipulated
to the economy going again. Greenspan did not agree with the
tax cut because of the long term effects. A single currency world
wide was brought up which requires flexibility and gold backing.
Greenspan warns of deflation for ten years. There are now five
currencies. The EU is on a gold standard. They have no experience
in deflation only on inflation.
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- RUPERT MURDOCH ASSETS ARE STAGGERING WANTS MORE, 'CONTROL
OF THE MEDIA' THAT IS
Fox News is owned by Rupert Murdoch. His news corporation ownership
is staggering and he is the Chairman and CEO. He was trying to
merge with DirectTV and Echo Star Satellite Corporations to cut
out their competition. The House Judiciary Committee interrogated
Murdoch and Chairman of the FCC, Michael Powell, son of Colin
Powell, who runs the FCC and others who are involved in broadcasting.
The present rules ask for no more than 35% to 45% ownership to
preserve the free market. It has far exceeded the limit and is
now at 70% which wants to expand to 90%. It is an enormous transformation.
The question is why now? There are no rules in digital transmission.
Implications were that we were about to lose free press stated
a Seattle Times publisher. Prices will skyrocket and capitalism
will crowd out civic issues. Wallstreet drives conglomorates.
Freedom of the press is an endangered species.
- One issue discussed was that Fox News Broadcasting has the
right to pull the program after three disagreements with a Fox
affiliate, in example if Fox does not approve programming three
times, the affiliate is pulled, which is part of the network
agreement. 90 % of television is owned by four companies which
relates to 189 out of 200 stations in New York. Frank Blethen
of the Seattle Times stated that the last 20 years proves that
democracy is disappearing due to controlled media which is a
sad day for America. A 70 year statute was to be undone very
quickly. 98% of the public were against changing the rules.
There were no hearings at the FCC, no meetings and this was the
last barrier against unfettered ownership. The big company wants
to be the biggest going from 45% to 90% ownership of the entire
system. The process was going on behind closed doors. 80% of
the public were not informed about this development. The FCC
had 20,000 responses against permission.
- FCC ruling a disaster
Tom Shales
- Exactly and depressingly as predicted, the Republican majority
of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)--Chairman Michael
Powell, Kathleen Q. Abernathy and Kevin J. Martin--have voted
to trash long-standing limits on media ownership in ways that
will hugely benefit, among others, rich Republicans.
- Relaxing the rules that prohibit a single entity from controlling
too large a percentage of American media will allow corporations
that are already too big to become much bigger--also more powerful
and more oblivious to the common good. Restrictions on how many
TV and radio stations and newspapers one company can own, even
in the same city, have been radically reduced.
- The changes are such a threat to First Amendment freedoms
that even some Republicans on Capitol Hill are expected to join
in a movement to block them by congressional vote. For now, Powell
has gotten his way.
- A diversity of voices--voices with the ability to be heard--is
integral to the health and maintenance of a democracy. Powell
claims that the existence of hundreds of channels on cable and
satellite systems proves there's diversity aplenty. But that
"diversity" is a hoax if five fat companies own all
those channels.
- Unless Congress acts, unless people wise up and rise up,
they'll discover that America's "marketplace of ideas"
is owned and controlled by only a handful of appallingly powerful
and interdependent corporations.
- In recent months, Powell alienated many in Washington not
just by insisting that the rules be changed, but also by pushing
the changes through with little debate, great haste and considerable
secrecy.
- "I'm opposed to the changes," says Barry Diller,
chairman of USA Interactive and a media mogul himself, "but
I'm much more upset that this has not produced enough conversation
and dialogue. The way Michael Powell has gone about it is to
hide the issue as much as possible, organizing it to avoid debate
and hearings, and getting it done largely under the cover of
night."
- Diller says he doesn't understand why Powell and his supporters
refused to stop even for a brief 30-day period to give the public
a chance to comment on the proposals. "Why are they so afraid
of a mere pause?" Diller asked. "It's not like there's
a bridge on fire."
- Jeff Chester, executive director of the Center for Digital
Democracy, says Powell's behavior has been deplorable: "If
Saddam Hussein had stayed in business, Powell might have made
a great minister of information."
- Powell's motive can't have anything to do with "the
public interest, convenience and necessity" that the FCC
is mandated to safeguard. It's about corporate interest, convenience
and necessity instead. Powell, the ambitious son of Secretary
of State Colin Powell, apparently thinks this crusade on behalf
of corporate America will enhance his own political future and
that he will be rewarded with a Cabinet post, maybe attorney
general, if there is a second George W. Bush administration.
- Unlike the FCC itself, the informal coalition opposing the
changes was not drawn along partisan political lines. The conservative
National Rifle Association is among the groups that objected
to the changes, and conservative columnist William Safire has
called Powell's move a "power grab." In a May 22 column,
Safire blasted the FCC for its refusal to hold ample public hearings
on "the most controversial decision in its history."
- Ted Turner, one of the most influential communications entrepreneurs
in American history, wrote in guest column for The Washington
Post claiming that if Powell's rules favoring big business had
been in place in 1980, "it would have been virtually impossible
for me ... to launch CNN."
- If there is one public figure more than any other that symbolizes
media greed and the lust for power, as well as profit, that figure
is Rupert Murdoch, the megalomaniac Australian with an insatiable
lust for broadcast and cable properties. Murdoch's support of
the Bush administration has been rewarded over and over by fabulous
favors from his friends in Washington. When Murdoch decided he
wanted to add DirecTV, America's biggest satellite service, to
his global holdings, the Bush administration made sure that existing
roadblocks to the takeover were removed, and Murdoch got his
way.
- Lifting the limits on how many American households that one
company's TV stations can reach was the next item on Murdoch's
wish list, wrote Ken Auletta recently in The New Yorker. And
on June 2, that wish was granted by the FCC.
- It was a happy day for Rupert Murdoch and for the other richest
and most powerful media tycoons--and a sad day for the people
of the United States.
http://www.postwritersgroup.com/archives/shal0603.htm
- FCC Rejects EchoStar-DirecTV Merger
The FCC ruled that the proposed merger of EchoStar and Hughes
would eliminate an existing competitor in every market, create
the potential for higher prices and lower service quality, and
negatively impact future innovation.
Citing a potential loss of competition in the pay-TV market,
the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Thursday rejected
the proposed merger between satellite television providers EchoStar
Communications and Hughes Electronics, a subsidiary of General
Motors.
- Under terms of the deal, initially valued at US$26 billion,
EchoStar would purchase Hughes, combining EchoStar's DISH service
with Hughes' DirecTV offering to create the second largest pay
television company in the United States, with some 17 million
subscribers.
- Creating a Monopoly
- The FCC said the companies did not demonstrate that approval
of the transaction would serve the public interest, and called
for a hearing before an administrative law judge. The agency
ruled that the merger would eliminate an existing competitor
in every market, create the potential for higher prices and lower
service quality, and negatively impact future innovation.
- In most areas reached by cable, the number of competitors
would drop from three to two, the FCC said, and in nearly all
other areas, the proposed transaction would create a monopoly.
EchoStar declined to comment on the FCC's decision.
- "The record before us irrefutably demonstrates that
the proposed merger would eliminate an existing viable competitor
in every market in the country. The case against approving the
transfer application is particularly compelling with respect
to residents of rural America who are not served by any cable
operator," FCC Chairman Michael Powell said in a statement.
- Decision Was Expected
- In announcing the proposed merger a year ago, the companies
contended that combining EchoStar and Hughes would enable more
effective competition against the dominant U.S. cable and broadband
providers, open more frequencies in smaller markets and speed
deployment of satellite-delivered broadband services.
- The FCC ruling came as no surprise, Yankee Group senior analyst
Mike Goodman told Wireless NewsFactor. "From the beginning,
this deal did not pass the basic tenet that you cannot sacrifice
competition in one market in order to increase competition in
another market," he said. "The bottom line is that
if the companies combine, there is no competition in the rural
markets."
- While the deal is not yet dead, and the companies can file
an amended application that addresses the FCC's anticompetitive
concerns, the likelihood of a successful appeal is slim, Goodman
said. The proposal also is under review by the U.S. Department
of Justice.
- Murdoch Re-Enters the Picture
- Goodman suggested that Australian media mogul Rupert Murdoch
and his News Corp., which had offered and subsequently withdrawn
a bid for Hughes, could re-enter the picture and reach a deal
with GM at a much lower price due to the decline of the company's
stock.
- "GM still wants to sell Hughes, and it is possible that
other players, such as telecom companies, could get involved
in an effort to combine phone service, high-speed data and video,"
he said.
- IDC analyst Greg Ireland said Murdoch is the most logical
choice to pursue Hughes, pointing out that he has made a concerted
effort to penetrate the U.S. satellite TV market and has the
required resources.
- Ireland told Wireless NewsFactor there also has been speculation
that Liberty Media may go after Hughes, or that EchoStar may
relinquish some of its assets to cable TV provider Cablevision
to satisfy the FCC's demands. www.wirelessnewsfactor.com/perl/story/19655.html
- 11k - Sep 26, 2003
- PS MURDOCH DID NOT GET HIS WAY THIS TIME BUT HE SAID THAT
IT'S JUST A MATTER OF TIME.
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- EDUCATION
Bilingual teaching and interaction with financial and professional
institutions is designed to Spanish poor and alienated, said
David Horowitz.
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- EUROPEAN UNION WANTS PERMANET PRESIDENT BY 2006, GUESS
WHO WOULD LIKE THAT JOB, YOU GUESSED IT: TONI BLAIR
EU wants a permanent president by 2006 to reside over the European
Union. With 25 members it is impossible to have a rotating presidency.
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- RUSSIA WON'T END ACCORD WITH IRAN
New York Times - 9.28.2003 - Russia Won't End Accord With Iran
to Build Reactor by David Sanger - But President Vladimir V.
Putin of Russia told President Bush that he would urge Iran to
cooperate with nuclear inspections.
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- PANDORAS BOX - TOWARD A REAL KYOTO PROTOCOL
- This paper contains a set three interactive strategies which
we believe would reduce carbon emissions by the 70 percent required
by nature -- at the same time as it would create millions of
jobs around the world, especially in developing countries.
- At the risk of exaggerating their potential, we believe these
solutions could, at the same time, address several other major
problems facing us as well.
- The most obvious, given our newfound vulnerability to guerrilla
attacks, is that a worldwide transition to renewable energy would
dramatically reduce the significance of oil -- and with it our
exposure to the political volatility in the Middle East. http://worldwiderenaissance.org/
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- RUSH LIMBAUGH COMPLAINS ABOUT STRANGE COMPARISONS
- Rush Limbaugh: I think the vast differences in compensation
between victims of the September 11 casualty and those who die
serving the country in Uniform are profound. No one is really
talking about it either, because you just don't criticize anything
having to do with September 11. Well, I just can't let the numbers
pass by because it says something really disturbing about the
entitlement mentality of this country. If you lost a family member
in the September 11 attack, you're going to get an average of
$1,185,000. The range is a minimum guarantee of $250,000, all
the way up to $4.7 million.
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