Wednesday, February 05, 2003
Good Morning Everyone. Today I want to comment on the taxation issue once again and am posting a very interesting article by Neil Boortz written in the World Net Daily. The tax honesty movement is growing by leaps and bounds and will begin to make a difference in this fight against legalized theft. The horror stories that we are hearing about the Infernal Revenue Service and their total lack of concern for following the law are to numerous to put in one little blog site. However, we can point out some of the most famous assaults that are going on everyday in this country.
Here is a good one for you. My daughters received refunds last year from the State of Georgia as a result of the Tax Reduction Act. When they went to file their 1040's this year they discovered that the Infernal Revenue Service is taxing them on that refund.It seems that these scalawags consider this income. Now remember that they have already paid taxes on the income that produced the refund. This thing is getting more ridiculous by the day. The money masters through this un-American beauracracy are controling the income of the American People. My kids are not rich but they are bearing the brunt of this legalized theft of their hard earned income. When will the people get enough of this? When will they realize that there is a way the people can demand this evil be stopped? When will the people get enough courage to just say no to more bloated socialistic governmental spending? I do not have the answer but I think it just might be on the way. Take a look at what Neil has to say and Think About It!
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Neil Bortz
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Bonus-check blues
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Posted: February 4, 2003
1:00 a.m. Eastern
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It's been a week since the president's State of the Union speech, and my disappointment has yet to abate. Much to the disgust of my radio listeners, I rated the speech a "B" on foreign policy and a "D" on domestic policy for a composite "C" grade.
My chief complaints with President Bush's speech are centered on three areas. First, there was not one mention of one single government spending program that was to be targeted for elimination. Not one. As long as taxpayers are paying college co-eds 75 bucks to insert electronic probes into their bodies and sit back to watch a porno movie, we have programs to be eliminated.
Secondly, Bush was simply not strong enough in his defense of the concept of income tax cuts only for people who actually pay income taxes. Contrary to current liberal dogma, not every American listens to talk radio, the only venue where the "who pays what" statistics are regularly brought forth. My guess is that jaws would have dropped in Joplin if Bush had told the nation that the top 1 percent of taxpayers the Democrats are so fond of slamming actually pay almost 38 percent of all income taxes – though they earn only 17 percent of the income.
My third area of disappointment was the lack of a call for a complete, top-to-bottom overhaul of our system of taxation. It's broken, it's unpopular (at least with those who actually pay taxes) and it simply has to go. America is ill-served with a tax system that punishes achievement and rewards a lack of ambition.
Perhaps the president's failure to call for an overhaul of our tax system is understandable. It's hard to generate interest in tax reform in a country where almost one-half of wage earners don't pay income taxes anyway – and most of those who do pay taxes couldn't tell you how much.
Last week, a friend of mine – a life-long Democrat – called to tell me that he was considering his first vote for a Republican in 2004. He had just earned a $10,000 bonus. He knew the bonus was coming – knew it about a month or so – and had imagined the many things he could do with that money. When the check was delivered to him last week, he was dismayed to see that his total was less than $6,000. Over 40 percent of his bonus had been eaten up in income and payroll taxes.
Why was he so surprised, so shocked? He gets a paycheck every two weeks, and the same exact thing happens to each and every one of those checks. Each and every check is reduced by 40 percent or more by withheld income and payroll taxes. So, why was he caught so off guard by this bonus check?
Do I have the answer? You bet!
It's all about mindset and expectations. My friend has been conditioned throughout his working life to not think in terms of his total salary, but rather in terms of his "take-home" pay. If you approach almost any salaried American on any given April 15 to ask them how much money they make every pay period, if they tell you anything at all, they will tell you what they "take home," not what they actually earn. Ask them what the gross amount of their typical paycheck is and you will see a face normally reserved for brook trout. They don't know. They only know what they "take home." When the check comes, there are no surprises. Every penny of the take-home pay was there, and the rest had been forgotten long before.
Not so with the bonus check. My friend earned a $10,000 bonus and that figure was sticking in his mind through the four-week wait for the money. Realization dawned quickly when he opened the envelope … taxes. Forty percent … gone! The anger welled and it became time to start rethinking his continued support for the tax-and-spend Democrats. Suddenly, the idea of a tax cut sounded rather good!
The culprit here is withholding. The system of withholding income and payroll taxes from employee paychecks has numbed tens of millions of Americans to just what they are actually paying. Perhaps you don't know that withholding was supposed to be a temporary program! It was instituted during World War II as a way to generate a much-needed cash flow for a nation that needed to build the implements of war. The promise to Americans was that withholding would cease after the war, and citizens would go back to calculating and paying their taxes every April.
What happened to this promise of a temporary withholding program? Politicians, that's what. Politicians soon discovered the magic of take-home pay. They found out that under withholding most people stopped thinking about the taxes they paid, and started thinking solely in terms of take-home pay. This was a perfect atmosphere for higher taxes and spending … a politician's nirvana.
At the very least, Americans should have some clear idea of how much they are paying to cover the cost of government. Withholding stands in the way ... and politicians are certainly not anxious to change the system.
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Monday, February 03, 2003
We Are Closer Now Than We Have Ever Been!
There's a brand new excitment filling the air.
Keep your eyes upon the Eastern sky.
Lift up your head your redemption draweth nigh."
This is a great hymn made popular by Doug Oldham back in the early 1970's. Today, we are seeing the signs of the endtimes everywhere. I am amazed at what is happening in this old world but thrilled to know that the Lord told us about all of it in His precious word. The most important issue for anyone today is that they know the Lord and are ready when the rapture takes place. I believe it is so near and everyday as I read the news, it is as if the Holy Spirit softly reminds me of the lateness of the hour.
Today the blog post is a copy of a portion of email sent to me by The Cutting Edge Ministries. I think I will let these articles speak for themselves. Jesus is coming soon and our most important task now is to see that people know the Lord as their personal Savior. As mankind marches toward another possible World War, let us stay close to Jesus and trust only in Him. Are You Ready? If not, simply call upon Jesus and ask forgivness for your sins. Then simply ask Him to come into your heart and save you. I assure you on the authority of His Word that he will.
19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
20 Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.
21 To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.
No matter what happens, let us walk in true faith and love as we look toward that Eastern sky!
God Bless
Elaine
From the Cutting Edge Ministries
. America prepares to take on both Iraq in the Middle East and North Korea on the Korean Peninsula! Of course, this news is exactly what Cutting Edge has been saying for many years, i.e, that the World War III planned to produce Antichrist would be a three-war world war. After American units are fully committed in the Middle East, Korea is supposed to attack using Weapons of Mass Destruction; China is to intervene on behalf of North Korea, threatening us with nuclear annihilation if we intervene to aid South Korea. Mankind is literally to experience "nuclear fear meltdown", believing that, at any instant, we could be nuclear bombed into oblivion. Finally, China is to invade and attack Taiwan once we are overcommitted in the Middle East and the Korean Peninsula.
Last week, matters seemed to reach a crescendo with both Iraq and North Korea. Even while we declaring Iraq to be "in material breach" of the U.N. accords, we announced that North Korea may have nuclear weapons "within weeks". News reports indicated that our satellites have observed North Korean trucks hauling material from their nuclear processing sites; our intelligence instantly surmised this cargo must be the nuclear rods needed to make nuclear bombs.
On Friday, British Prime Minister Blair boldly confirmed our treatise in NEWS1761, when he stated: "dealing with Iraq, the UN would 'confront' North Korea about its nuclear weapons programme." [Guardian Unlimited, 1/29/03].
On Sunday, our Pacific Commander asked the White House to begin to move troops to South Korea. By treaty, America is committed to send 690,000 troops to defend South Korea should the North attack [NEWS1449]. If we send this number of troops to South Korea, after committing 350,000 men to the Middle East, we will virtually empty out our country of organized units comprised of native-born Americans.
Thus, whom shall we call when our cities explode in riots and panic after the planned terrorist attacks? Why, Henry Kissinger has told us: "Today, if U.N. should land in Los Angeles to restore order, people will be enraged; but the time is coming when they will applaud the arrival of U.N. troops." At this moment, the U.S. will cease to be a nation and become five U.N. military patrol zones [NEWS1291]. Only at this time will the confiscation of guns occur, by foreign troops going door to door.
But, the key is to empty out our country of organized units comprised of native-born troops. Watch the news carefully.
3. "Let My 'Temple Artifacts" Go! The Temple May Be About To Be Rebuilt! Christians the world over who know their prophecy, understand that Antichrist is going to rebuild his Temple -- Matthew 24:15. An Israeli fundamentalist organization called "The Temple Mount Faithful" is leading the fight to get that Temple rebuilt. They believe they are building a Temple for their Jewish Messiah, but we Christians know that Temple will be for Antichrist.
Last week, really exciting news came out of Jerusalem that possibly indicated the closeness of the hour. For the first time in history, the President of Israel, Moshe Katzav, asked the Prime Minister of the Vatican, Cardinal Angelo Sudano, to prepare a list of all the Temple treasures, vessels and Judaica that are being held by the Vatican. The goal is that one day soon Israel would recover them from the Vatican and return them to Jerusalem which would indicate the beginning of the rebuilding of the Temple in Jerusalem and the redemption of the people and land of Israel.
If the Vatican relents and gives this ancient treasure to Israel, the appearance of Antichrist will truly be at hand.
4. "Wars and Rumors of Wars, Famines, and Pestilences" -- The director of the Council On Foreign Relations (CFR) recently granted an interview with CNN, in which he gave a brief review of the current troubles sweeping this planet. ["Conflicts rage across the globe", CNN News, February 3, 2003]. When you listen to what this Illuminist director had to say, you can only think of this prophecy contained within the headline.
"Iraq and North Korea have dominated the world's attention in recent months, yet in countries and regions around the globe, strife smolders with sporadic notice. Civil war. Mutilations. Threat of nuclear deployment. Human trafficking. Starving babies. Those are some of the seeds and harvest of conflicts in Africa, Asia, Europe and South America ... depleted water resources ... soil contaminated with fertilizers ... Millions of Zimbabweans face starvation ... officials blame the impending food shortage on drought and the government's controversial seizure of farmland.
"Burundi could evolve into a genocide ... conflict over Kashmir has raised the specter of nuclear conflict."
Truly, Jesus was correct when He gave us these prophecies for which to look to determine when the true End of the Age has arrived and Antichrist is close. Jesus said: "Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh." [Matthew 24:32] Since Israel is the "fig tree", we know Jesus is talking of Israel coming back to her land as prophesied; when Israel was reborn in 1948, the "fig tree" was alive and "putting forth leaves".
Now, the second part of Jesus' prophecy should thrill your heart. "So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors." [Matthew 24:33]
We are apparently here, at this moment, in world history!
5. Terrorism continues to be trumpeted as a major threat, especially after we begin our attack on Iraq. Let us review, from our Daily News Updates:
a. "World Health Organization issues alert on food terrorism." [BBC News, 31 January, 2003].
b. "Al-Qaida developing 'dirty bomb', Jerusalem Post, 2/1/03. For an examination of a "dirty bomb", you can read NEWS1565.
c. "Man charged in London with conspiracy to produce chemical weapons", Jerusalem Post, 1/31/03.
d. "Blair Warns Hussein, Al Qaeda 'Will Come Together in Deadly Form', CNSNEWS.com, 1/31/03.
Terrorism is planned to be the excuse to dissolve our form of government, impose Martial Law, impose vaccinations, and start rounding up dissidents; therefore, these stories of terrorism are exceedingly significant.
6. "Bush approves nuclear response", Washington Post, 1/31/03. President Bush signed the requisite document reversing decades of American policy on the first use of nuclear weapons. Bush authorized the Pentagon to use nuclear weapons should Saddam Hussein hit our forces with any kind of Weapons of Mass Destruction -- Nuclear, Biological, or Chemical. Christians the world over should see Joel 2:30-31 coming true, perhaps very soon.
Remember the context of this prophecy. This weaponry producing these "columns of smoke" would be used in the Middle East and would occur "before" the Great and Terrible Day of the Lord. In other words, this type of warfare -- which certainly sounds like nuclear -- would occur before Antichrist arose, as his confirmation of the covenant -- Daniel 9:27 -- begins the 7-Year Tribulation, otherwise known as the Great and Terrible Day of the Lord.
7. Will it be peace or war with Iraq? While the news certainly seems like our attack on Iraq is inevitable, we still believe it is possible for peace to suddenly "break out", and all these military forces called back. Saddam might decide to take us up on our offer to give him sanctuary and bolt for his palace in Libya. How, you say, can this happen?
This could happen if the timing of the final act in world history was still not ready according to God's timetable. Certainly, the forces of Antichrist are overly anxious to get on with this World War III so their man, Antichrist, can be staged. In fact, in every era of time, occult forces have been anxious to arise, as we know from Paul's revelation of 2 Thessalonians 2:1-8; however, God is the One Who will finally determine when the Illuminati can launch their war.
You really have to pity the poor Illuminati; they may control the major political and military offices of the major nations of the world, they may control the military forces totaling over two hundred million men, and they may control all the exotic Weapons of Mass Destruction, but they cannot move their forces to accomplish their plan until their demonic Guiding Spirits give them the final authorization, and the Guiding Spirits are waiting for the final signal from God!
Therefore, if you suddenly hear that Saddam has bolted and there is to be peace in the Middle East, just know that the timing was not of the Lord!
God Bless and remember, Perhaps Today!
Elaine
Saturday, February 01, 2003
"Yes, we did produce a near perfect Republic. But will they keep it, or will they, in the enjoyment of plenty, lose the memory of freedom? Material abundance without character is the surest way to destruction." -- Thomas Jefferson
Do you remember the story of the Fox and the Scorpion? It seems that the scorpion pursuades the fox to carry him to the other side of the river on his back. Once they make it to safety, the scorpion stings the fox and he dies. What a horrible story!
In real life, the UN is the Scorpion and America is the Fox. Henry Lamb posted a new article at the World Net Daily today that should interest every American. Why does the United States continue to pour millions of dollars into this institution whose goal is a One World Government? The answer is simple. Those in power in our country are part and parcel of the One World scheme. Truth be known, the majority of the United Nations hates all that our country stands for and is seeking to bring us in line with a World System that will make slaves of us all. Will the American people even care about this fact? I doubt it. Here is one of my reasons why.
Many of you know I went to work for the school system in my county. I took the school nursing position where my grandchildren go and it has been quite an experience. One humerous side to this job is my grandaughter Kerrigan. I call her my tornado and she is so full of life that I can hardly keep up with her. Kerrigan is in Pre-K and she so adorable as she marches to her class every morning and stops by the clinic to give me a morning hug. Well it seems as if Kerrigan has told her class that I am Mema and a doctor (she is not concerned with correct titles)! Last week in the cafeteria, I walked by her class and several of the children greeted me with, hello Doctor Mema. I almost fell out but Kerrigan was there smiling proudly as her fellow students greeted her Mema.
There is another side to my job as school nurse and that is dealing with children who are abused, in single families, foster children and children in or going through the divorce of their moms and dads or stepdads. I can tell you from just my little corner, that we are in big trouble. Let me just say that the teachers and Principal of my school are wonderful and really care about the children. However it is the family that is in crisis. I would say that a great many of the homes care nothing for the things of God. Many parents are unemployed and in crisis or are happy to be on the government welfare roles. I have had children in my clinic with 103.8 temperatures and I was unable to find someone to pick them up and when I did, in the majority of cases they did not even take the child to the doctor. Telephones are disconnected and you cannot find Mom when these children need her the most. One child whose mother had no way to come and get him told me that his mom and stepdad were going through "a friendly divorce". You should see the look in the eyes of these kids. It is breaking my heart. The churches must fight back at the territory Satan has gained over the families of this Nation. The church must stand for rightousness and truth again and not bow down to government controls. She must preach truth and reach out to the families in a major way. This is spiritual warfare at the highest level. Satan is literally destroying the family and there is dead silence from most churches.
What does this have to do with the UN? Let me just say that if the family crisis nationwide is reflected by what I have personally observed, we have people who neither have the time nor the will to get informed about what is happening to our beloved country. They are too busy with soap opera lives and trying to survive to worry about the United Nations. The Bible says that in the last days, men (and women) would do what was right in their own eyes. The results is broken homes and damaged kids. When the generation I am describing comes of age, America will fall into the hands of her enemies from within. I believe that we have heard those words before.
Here is the article by Henry Lamb:
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Marching Toward Oblivion
Posted: February 1, 2003
1:00 a.m. Eastern
2003 WorldNetDaily.com
The League of Nations withered on the vine when the United States refused to join the world government. It is time for the U.N. to follow its predecessor into oblivion. This will happen when the United States finally recognizes that the U.N. has become the breeding ground of hate for American values, and pulls the financial plug.
The most avid supporters of the U.N. must now take another – realistic -- look at this institution. The U.N. Commission on Human Rights has elected Libya as its chair. If that doesn't frost your apples, how about this: Iraq will chair the U.N. Conference on Disarmament. Next, we'll hear that Osama bin Laden has been named to head the U.N.'s anti-terror commission.
The nation that for 12 years, has thumbed its nose at U.N. demands to disarm, will now set the agenda for U.N. disarmament talks. Libya, the nation near the top of every list of human-rights violators, will set the agenda for U.N. human-rights programs.
The Human Rights Commission was prepared to elect Libya by acclamation, but the U.S. insisted on a vote to see where the chips fell. Thirty-three nations voted for Libya; Canada and Guatemala joined the U.S.'s "no" vote; and 17 European nations abstained. This vote speaks volumes about the attitude of our so-called "allies" in Europe.
The European nations that condone this U.N. bureaucratic nonsense are among the same nations that have refused to stand up to Saddam Hussein for the last 12 years. Not only are they unwilling to take a stand now, they bad-mouth the United States, and its president, for not submitting to the "international will."
The anti-American attitude, so flagrantly displayed by the U.N. Commission on Human Rights, and in the U.N. Security Council, permeates the entire United Nations organization. I've seen it at U.N. meetings in Bonn, in Geneva, in Buenos Aires, in Kyoto and in The Hague. At every U.N. meeting I've ever attended, there is a constant drumbeat of anti-American sentiment.
Despite this anti-American attitude, the U.N. has the audacity to ask the United States for a $1.3 billion interest-free loan to refurbish its New York headquarters. The only money that goes to the U.N. should be to purchase the property, and send the U.N. packing.
There are two ways the U.S. can change this growing anti-American attitude. The shortest route, would be to acquiesce to global governance, and submit to the international scheme to transform the world into a socialist utopia, administered by the United Nations. The rest of the world would love us – instantly. The U.S. would finally be under the control of the U.N.
The other way is to immediately withdraw from the U.N. – lock, stock and barrel. The howls and screams would dominate the international media – and the liberal U.S. press – for a while. For a short while. Individually, outside the U.N. stable, most nations would scramble to establish a relationship with the U.S.
America's strength and prosperity arises from the principles of freedom on which the nation was founded. These same principles offer the same result to all nations that will embrace them. The United States should stop apologizing for our success – and stop compromising the principles of freedom in order to appease the international community. America should assert those principles, in domestic policy, and most definitely, in international policy.
The United Nations has but one, overarching goal: to become the center of global governance through which its socialist philosophy will impose "sustainable development" – the equitable distribution of the earth's resources. What the world needs is not sustainable development, but sustainable freedom. U.S. withdrawal from the U.N. would be a major step in the right direction.
Capitalism cannot survive in a "sustainable" world, nor can individual freedom. Capitalism is the source of evil, according to many U.N. supporters. Individual freedom is characterized as a license to pollute, according to many U.N. supporters. National sovereignty is an obsolete idea held only by xenophobes – according to many U.N. supporters.
Individual freedom, free markets and national sovereignty are the bricks and mortar of the greatest nation the world has ever known. The United Nations is working to replace these values with government control of the economy – and the environment – by controlling every facet of human behavior.
Every dime we give to the U.N. advances the cause of global governance. When we withdraw our support, and stop paying their bills, the U.N. will fade into oblivion, just like the League of Nations.
Henry Lamb is the executive vice president of the Environmental Conservation Organization and chairman of Sovereignty International.
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*****Note from me: If we do not begin to reach our families and stand up to evil we will loose this nation. Get informed and help turn America around! May God help us in this battle.
Thursday, January 30, 2003
17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you.
HERE THEY GO AGAIN!
Sometimes when I get up and read the news I am absolutely astounded at what people are doing! I am so grateful that we have the Word of God to steer us right in this nutty world we live in. Today I am posting an article on the churches in America that should blow you away. If the National Council of Churches was not bad enough, they now want to start another organization that will put all of the churches in America into one big happy group. Who ever said that the church of the Lord Jesus Christ should participate in an organization where some of the other groups deny his Word, His Doctrine and His Salvation through his shed blood on Calvary's Cross? I remember somewhere the Lord told us we would be hated and would not be accepted by the world so why would His Church clamor to get involved in these type of organizations?
Once a church signs on to a program such as this, there is no local control of the leadership. If the battles for control of the Southern Baptist Convention are any example ( they have appeared to remain conservative up until now), I will predict you end up with a liberal leadership that will deny all we believe in. Remember that the New World Order wants a One World Religion. There is no way that a Conservative Bible Believing Local Church would join the National Council so now they are trying to repackage the deal. My thought on this is, "Let the Buyer Beware".
God Bless
Elaine
Church Leaders Eye 'Christian Alliance'
Church Leaders Propose a Plan to Create the Broadest-Ever U.S. Christian Alliance
The Associated Press
Church leaders from 30 denominations agreed Wednesday on a proposal to create the broadest alliance of Christians ever formed in the United States.
The steering committee of the budding effort, tentatively called Christian Churches Together in the U.S.A., will invite a wide range of national church bodies and agencies over the next several weeks to join them.
The loosely knit alliance would represent five segments of U.S. Christianity, listed in the plan as "Evangelical/Pentecostal, Historic Protestant, Orthodox, Racial/Ethnic and Roman Catholic."
The Catholic church and most evangelicals and Pentecostals do not belong to the National Council of Churches, which is currently the nation's largest ecumenical group. If the new alliance does emerge, it could supplant the National Council or radically alter its role in American Christianity.
Catholic Bishop Tod Brown of Orange, Calif., and Baltimore's Cardinal William Keeler were among the 55 participants who met at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, Calif. Both are members of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' ecumenical committee.
"I don't think there has ever been anything like this attempted before in this country," Brown said.
The Rev. Wesley Granberg-Michaelson, steering committee chair and chief executive of the Reformed Church in America, called the meeting "a remarkable breakthrough. We gathered a wide representation of the Christian churches in the U.S.A. and were able to inspire them into making a deep commitment together."
Brown said the U.S. Catholic hierarchy could decide on the proposal within two years. Granberg-Michaelson said that's the likely timetable to go from the planning stage to formal launch of the organization.
One sticking point: The nation's largest Protestant denomination, the Southern Baptist Convention, may be reluctant to join, though it had an observer at the meeting.
The idea of a broad Christian alliance emerged from discussions three years ago within the National Council. The council is not sponsoring the new unity effort, though its chief executive is participating in it.
The organization would gather groups that "believe in the Lord Jesus Christ as God and Savior according to the Scriptures" and "worship and serve One God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit."
The proposal being sent to churches says that, in the early stages, the alliance will exist mostly for common worship, fellowship and dialogue on "commonalities" and "differences." Later, it would become more active in "speaking to society with a common voice, whenever possible," and sponsor forums where Christians could address specific issues.
The Catholic church belongs to similar interdenominational organizations in some other nations.
The National Council and rival National Association of Evangelicals each have faced organizational woes in recent years.
The National Council currently includes 36 Protestant and Orthodox denominations with 100,000 local congregations. The National Association of Evangelicals unites 51 denominations, 45,000 congregations and 250 interchurch agencies. U.S. Catholicism has 65.3 million members in 19,500 parishes.
****My note- It will be interesting to see if the SBC finally joins in with a group such as this.
This article can be found at: ABC News Online
Today More Than Ever The Words Of Adrian Rogers Ring True:
Tuesday, January 28, 2003
Living In America!
Have We The People stuck our proverbial head in the sand? If so, it is time to pull it out!
I believe that when we are right, we must stand on truth even if the whole world hates us. However, when the truth is being covered up with a controlled media and the government wants to control all aspects of our lives, we are in trouble. I honestly believe that if the people in this country do not wake up to what is happening to us, the Great American Experiment is over.
Joseph Farah of World Net Daily has written a new book I just received and it is entitled, Taking America Back. This is not a book to expose the problems. It is a book with answers to the problem. You can go to the World Net Daily Bookstore to order and this is one that every American should read . If you want answers, he has given them. I plan on quoting this new expose in future post.
Today I am posting an article from World Net Daily written by Joan Veon. Ms. Veon is an expert on the New World Order and her article should be a wake up call to us all. I don't think it will touch many people but it is the truth and this is one we better think about. Don't wait on Dan Rather to tell you about this one on television!
God Bless
Elaine
America was great because America was good
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Posted: January 28, 2003
1:00 a.m. Eastern
By Joan Veon
© 2003 WorldNetDaily.com
DAVOS, Switzerland – We all know the story of Alexis de Tocqueville who came to America to see what made America great. After exploring all of America's institutions, he finally concluded that America was great because America was good and if she ceased to be good, she would cease to be great.
Here at the 33rd World Economic Forum in Davos, the mood is prevailingly solemn – quite unusual for a group of the world's most powerful businessmen and world leaders. I remember several years ago hearing the CEOs declare how great business was and how the IT revolution was just beginning. In their unbridled arrogance, they could do it all and they had all the answers – that is, until the Nasdaq crash and the unexpected Sept. 11, which was followed by the crash of Enron and WorldCom.
Because the objective of the forum is to give CEOs and world leaders an overall picture of the "state of the world," the major themes centered on the global economy, public-private partnerships, the changing role of business, security, terrorism and America's war with Iraq. In addition, they discussed something a civilized world should never have to discuss: trust and values.
There was complete agreement that the state of the world is very fragile. While the global economic downturn is of concern, the greater concern is over what they perceive as America's loss of values and eroding constitutional freedoms. In this regard, there are more Muslims participating and voicing their opinions than before. Both participants and speakers shared their concerns which were disturbing to me for they see America as having lost her way. It would not be so bad if the white Anglo-Saxon internationalists did not agree with them. There is a majority forming as to our treatment of Muslims and our saber rattling against Iraq. Furthermore, the actions of the Bush administration are sending a great deal of fear into the world.
Now let me tell you some of the things that are being said. We will begin with Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir who said that the United States needs to find out why the terrorists are mad so that we can help them. He used the Palestinian problem as an example. He said, "Israel was created by expelling Palestinians from their land. Every time they fought back, they lost more land. Since they are not able to use conventional forms of attack, they have turned to unconventional attacks." Mahathir concluded by saying fear rules the world.
This was followed by Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch, who asserted that basic fundamental human rights of Muslims in America were being violated. He said there is radical distrust as a result of how America has dealt with 9-11: arresting people without trial, torture at U.S. airbases and how prisoners are being treated at Guantanamo Bay.
I interviewed former Australian Foreign Minister Garth Evans, who is now chairman of International Crisisgroup – an independent and international non-profit organization whose goal is to prevent deadly conflict. He said that what the U.S. has done has led to negative reverberations of stereotyping and overkill. While he decries America's go-it-alone approach – as do many other globalists – he said that we still need better evidence as to why we are going to war. I think what hit home is when he said that everyone depends on the U.S. to get it right and that there is great concern when the U.S. is wrong and that the administration was inflaming terrorist sentiment.
Then there was the workshop on "U.S. Omnipotence: What Lies Ahead?" Amre Moussa, secretary-general of the League of Arab States in Cairo, said that we must guard against reshaping the region when the U.S. does not have the consent of the people to do so. He called our actions "arrogant." Grigory Yavlinsky who is a member of the Russian Duma said that terrorism is a new situation for us and that we must avoid war.
However, an American – Lewis Lapham, editor of Harper's Magazine in the U.S. and a member of the Council for Foreign Relations – also lashed out at the Bush administration when he said, "Is the U.S. changing from a democracy to an autocratic empire?" He then went on to state how our country is being changed through the Patriot Act, the reformulation of the FBI and the right to tap phones and mail.
Lastly, the gentlemen who received the applause in this workshop pointed out two concerns: (1) Was America being honest to its own basic principles and founding values as seen in the Declaration which now appears to be hijacked and (2) There is danger with the U.S. going to the U.N. and then saying, "If I don't like what you say, I will do it anyway."
While I could tell you of the pat responses of Congressman Portman, R-Ohio, and of Attorney General John Ashcroft, however, there is growing concern that America is going one way while the world goes in another direction.
While I don't agree with the need for a new paradigm and a new mindset that says the world is one and we all need to be in lockstep, what can I say when the average American is now guilty until proven innocent?
Now, the government has the right to tap our phones without notice. If this were not so bad, retired Adm. John Poindexter is heading up a new department which will consolidate all of the data available about us – credit cards, what we buy in the grocery story, our driving records, airline tickets, tax records, hotel records, etc. to profile us. Americans have no privacy any longer and their freedoms are diminishing while the U.S. Senate will debate this year if they should set up what the British have – a civilian intelligence unit (MI5). People who question if America is still great have ample reason.
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Joan Veon is a certified financial planner and is president of Veon Financial Services, Inc., an investment advisory firm. Visit her website, WomensGroup.org.
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Monday, January 27, 2003
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