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Persecution.
Update: Christian sentenced
to prison; believers heavily fined in Uzbekistan:
"Members of the Council of Churches Baptists in Uzbekistan have faced
prison sentences and fines in recent weeks for refusing state registration,
citing fears that it could lead to interference from the state. Unregistered
religious activity in the country is banned, as is evangelizing, publishing
unapproved religious literature, and attending religious meetings in
private homes."
Does this sound like America? Last week we wrote about Gilbert, Arizona. Now it's happening in Southern California!
Persecution?
AGAIN!
City orders Bible study closed:
"A southern California city has ordered a Friday night Bible study involving
about a dozen people to shut down its meetings by Good Friday or members
could face financial sanctions. Or they could apply to purchase an expensive
permit from the city government.
"The
new case is similar to a dispute last week in Gilbert, Ariz., and another
last year in San Diego County. Now, in Rancho Cucamonga... the city is targeting
a Bible study for banishment, and officials say they are 'not budging.'...
'"According
to their definition a family praying over their dinner would qualify
as a church.'...The precedent that would be created should the rule
stand... should alarm religious people across the nation. 'When you step
back and look at communist China, home churches are being persecuted there.
This isn't any different. And this isn't even a church, just a Bible study,
facing the same ultimatums, the same demands as in communist China."
See
Chinese Land Official Says
'Golden Lampstand Church will be destroyed'
Law &
Corruption.
Banned by the US Postal Service!:
"The following letter was part of a FRI mailing that was rejected by a US
Postal Inspector for being 'obscene' and for inciting 'forcible resistance
against the government.' The mailing also included our February 2010 newsletter,
discussing ‘gays in the military.’ FRI believes the reaction of the Postal
Service is both unwarranted and unfounded....
Health Management & Social Control. Health-care 'trickery' called overthrow of Constitution: "America's system of government based on the U.S. Constitution is being overthrown through illegal legislative 'trickery' Congress is using to pass controversial health-care reform.... At issue is the possibility that reforms pushed by President Obama and other Democrats will be approved without ever actually having a direct vote, but could be 'deemed' to have been passed, then signed into law by Obama." See America's Spiritual Slide Health Management & Social Control. Obamacare: Driving Doctors Out of Medicine: "A survey–published in the New England Journal of Medicine!, not a conservative blog site–found that huge numbers of doctors worry they will be forced–or will want–to leave medicine if Obamacare passes. From the story: ...'46.3% of primary care physicians (family medicine and internal medicine) feel that the passing of health reform will either force them out of medicine or make them want to leave medicine.'" Toward Global Socialism. Not again! Meet Obama's new controversial pastor: "Rev. Jim Wallis, a member of President Obama's 'faith council' who is described as a spiritual adviser to the president, is a socialist activist who has championed communist causes and previously labeled the U.S. 'the great captor and destroyer of human life.'... Wallis' magazine actively lobbied for communist regimes that seized power in Latin America in the late 1970s, including the Sandinista dictatorship in Nicaragua. "Wallis continues to openly support socialism. Along with socialist activist West, Wallis in 1995 founded Call to Renewal, a coalition of religious groups demanding the spread of U.S. wealth to promote 'social justice.'" See Treason in the Church: Trading Truth for a "Social Gospel" Crisis & Corruption. Why Team Obama thrives on creating crises: "The Obama administration's primary mode of governance is literally to create crises where none actually exist. ...anyone even superficially familiar with the history of the political left has heard references to the strategy of creating crises as a means of transforming society. You've probably heard of the 'Hegelian dialectic,' a key Marxist technique.... " A crisis throws us off our guard, upsets us and inclines us to make decisions and accept 'solutions' we normally would reject. Politically, the strategy is to create a crisis, or exploit a real one, by throwing people into a mode where they can be redirected toward a predetermined 'solution' – whether it's imposing 'carbon penalties' on businesses in response to fears of global warming or draconian gun-control laws in response to a rash of school shootings."We're talking about solutions that people would normally reject, but now in a crisis accept, and as a result establish a new baseline of what is normal – which becomes the starting point for pushing the nation still further leftward in response to the next 'crisis.' "The radical environmental movement's primary modus operandi – from top to bottom – is the creation of crises where none exist." See Rules for Radicals Lawlessness & Violence. Mexico drug war: A cancer spreading to U.S. Thought brutal gangs only on south side of border? Think again!: "Two drug gangs in the town of Reynosa, across from McAllen, Texas, are fighting to gain control of key drug routes. A 200-mile stretch of border ... is brimming with violence stemming from bloody battles between the long-established Gulf Cartel and a group called Los Zetas, former Mexican special forces soldiers originally recruited as assassins for the Gulf Cartel.... "'The Zetas have obviously assumed the role of being the No. 1 organization responsible for the majority of the homicides, the narcotic-related homicides, the beheadings, the kidnappings, the extortions that take place in Mexico.'... "In addition to drug trafficking, the Mexican cartels have been tied to incidents of human trafficking, auto theft and kidnapping. An estimated 18,000 people have been killed in Mexico's drug violence in the last three years. The fresh surge of bloodshed comes on the heels of President Obama's reiteration of his 'unwavering' commitment to comprehensive immigration reform in recent days." See Scriptures on Lawlessness Control & Tyranny. Without Firing a Shot? "The American people are getting a bird's-eye view of what the left, which completely dominates the Democratic Party, thinks of the Constitution, freedom and the right of the people to self-governance. The people now attempting to govern us with an iron fist are Marxist-leaning in terms of not only the policies they support but also the ruthless tactics they employ to enact those policies into law.... They have tried every trick in the book to pass Obamacare, such as lying about many substantive provisions in the bill and their inevitable effects on quality, price and choice." See The Intelligent Student's Guide to the New World OrderCorruption. Two Terrible Ideas in One!: "It’s interesting that the Democrats are attempting to roll two of their highest priorities into one bill this month. ...health-care reform now includes a reconciliation package that would fold in student-loan reform. And by 'reform' the Democrats mean increasing direct lending to students by the federal government.... "Have you seen the TV ads for the Scooter Store? 'My scooter didn’t cost me a dime!' exults a customer. 'Medicare and my insurance covered the whole thing.' Multiply that by several million and you have a sense of the incentives.... "The United States, like other developed nations, was on a glide path toward entitlement meltdown even before Barack Obama ascended. But his acceleration of the descent has been stupefying." See The Power and Perversions of LawsSigns of the times. America’s Shiny New Palestinian Militia: "‘The stupidest program the U.S. government has ever undertaken” — last year that’s what I called American efforts to improve the Palestinian Authority (PA) military force.... The PA has never wavered in its goal of eliminating Israel.... Should the PA achieve statehood, it will certainly pursue its historic goal — only now equipped with a shiny new American-trained soldiery and arsenal." See Jerusalem
Education & Re-Learning.
Artificial
Stupidity (by Thomas
Sowell): "A woman with a petition went among the crowds attending a state
fair, asking people to sign her petition demanding the banning of dihydroxymonoxide.
She said it was in our lakes and streams, and now it was in our sweat and
urine and tears. She collected hundreds of signatures to ban dihydroxymonoxide
-- a fancy chemical name for water.... This little episode revealed how
conditioned we have become, responding like Pavlov's dog when we hear a
certain sound -- in this case, the sound of some politically correct crusade.
"People
are all born ignorant but they are not born stupid. Much of the stupidity
we see today is induced by our educational system, from the elementary schools
to the universities.... Many of today's 'educators' not only supply students
with conclusions, they promote the idea that students should spring into
action because of these prepackaged conclusions -- in other words, vent
their feelings and go galloping off on crusades, without either a knowledge
of what is said by those on the other side or the intellectual discipline
to know how to analyze opposing arguments.... "Will Rogers once said that it was not ignorance that was so bad but 'all the things we know that ain't so.' But our classroom indoctrinators are getting students to think that they know after hearing only one side of an issue. It is artificial stupidity." See A New Way of ThinkingOccult phenomena. Science and the Supernatural: "...the military and defense communities, including that of Russia and China, are not the only areas where science and the supernatural have combined. Psychic activity has also been used in the fields of archeology and criminology. Of these two, the use of psychics in criminology is probably the most widely known, fueled in large part by various television programs and publications that have highlighted the apparent successes and failures of criminal-clairvoyant investigations." See Spiritual Warfare
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