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ELECTION 2008
Obama worked with terrorist
Senator helped fund organization that rejects ‘racist’ Israel’s
existence
Posted: February 24, 2008
5:44 pm Eastern

By Aaron Klein
© 2008 WorldNetDaily

Sen. Barack Obama

JERUSALEM – The board of a nonprofit organization on which Sen. Barack
Obama served as a paid director alongside a confessed domestic terrorist
granted funding to a controversial Arab group that mourns the
establishment of Israel as a "catastrophe" and supports intense
immigration reform, including providing drivers licenses and education
to illegal aliens.

The co-founder of the Arab group in question, Columbia University
professor Rashid Khalidi, also has held a fundraiser for Obama. Khalidi
is a harsh critic of Israel, has made statements supportive of
Palestinian terror and reportedly has worked on behalf of the Palestine
Liberation Organization while it was involved in anti-Western terrorism
and was labeled by the State Department as a terror group.

In 2001, the Woods Fund, a Chicago-based nonprofit that describes itself
as a group helping the disadvantaged, provided a $40,000 grant to the
Arab American Action Network, or AAAN, for which Khalidi’s wife, Mona,
serves as president. The Fund provided a second grant to the AAAN for
$35,000 in 2002.

Obama was a director of the Woods Fund board from 1999 to Dec. 11, 2002,
according to the Fund’s website.  According to tax filings, Obama
received compensation of $6,000 per year for his service in 1999 and
2000.

Obama served on the Wood’s Fund board alongside William C. Ayers, a
member of the Weathermen terrorist group which sought to overthrow of
the U.S. government and took responsibility for bombing the U.S. Capitol
in 1971.

Ayers, who still serves on the Woods Fund board, contributed $200 to
Obama’s senatorial campaign fund and has served on panels with Obama at
numerous public speaking engagements. Ayers admitted to involvement in
the bombings of U.S. governmental buildings in the 1970s.  He is a
professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

The $40,000 grant from Obama’s Woods Fund to the AAAN constituted about
a fifth of the Arab group’s reported grants for 2001, according to tax
filings obtained by WND.  The $35,000 Woods Fund grant in 2002 also
constituted about one-fifth of AAAN’s reported grants for that year.

The AAAN, headquartered in the heart of Chicago’s Palestinian immigrant
community, describes itself as working to "empower Chicago-area Arab
immigrants and Arab Americans through the combined strategies of
community organizing, advocacy, education and social services,
leadership development, and forging productive relationships with other
communities."

It reportedly has worked on projects with the Illinois Coalition for
Immigrant and Refugee Rights, which supports open boarders and education
for illegal aliens.

The AAAN in 2005 sent a letter to New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson in
which it called a billboard opposing a North Carolina-New Mexico joint
initiative to deny driver’s licenses to illegal aliens a "bigoted attack
on Arabs and Muslims."

Speakers at AAAN dinners and events routinely have taken an anti-Israel
line.

The group co-sponsored a Palestinian art exhibit, titled, "The Subject
of Palestine," that featured works related to what some Palestinians
call the "Nakba" or "catastrophe" of Israel’s founding in 1948.

According to the widely discredited Nakba narrative, Jews in 1948
forcibly expelled hundreds of thousands – some Palestinians claim over
one million – Arabs from their homes and then took over the territory.

(Story continues below)

Historically, about 600,000 Arabs fled Israel after surrounding Arab
countries warned they would destroy the Jewish state in 1948. Some Arabs
also were driven out by Jewish forces while they were trying to push
back invading Arab armies. At the same time, over 800,000 Jews were
expelled or left Arab countries under threat after Israel was founded.

The theme of AAAN’s Nakba art exhibit, held at DePaul University in
2005, was "the compelling and continuing tragedy of Palestinian life …
under [Israeli] occupation … home demolition … statelessness …
bereavement … martyrdom, and … the heroic struggle for life, for
safety, and for freedom."

Another AAAN initiative, titled, "Al Nakba 1948 as experienced by
Chicago Palestinians," seeks documents related to the "catastrophe" of
Israel’s founding.  

A post on the AAAN site asked users: "Do you have photos, letters or
other memories you could share about Al-Nakba-1948?"

That posting was recently removed.  The AAAN website currently states
the entire site is under construction.

Pro-PLO advocate held Obama fundraiser, describes Obama as ‘sympathetic’

AAAN co-founder Rashid Khalidi was reportedly a director of the official
PLO press agency WAFA in Beirut from 1976 to 1982, while the PLO
committed scores of anti-Western attacks and was labeled by the U.S. as
a terror group. Khalidi’s wife, AAAN President Mona Khalidi, was
reportedly WAFA’s English translator during that period.

Rashid Khalidi at times has denied working directly for the PLO but
Palestinian diplomatic sources in Ramallah told WND he indeed worked on
behalf of WAFA. Khalidi also advised the Palestinian delegation to the
Madrid Conference in 1991.

During documented speeches and public events, Khalidi has called Israel
an "apartheid system in creation" and a destructive "racist" state.  

He has multiple times expressed support for Palestinian terror, calling
suicide bombings response to "Israeli aggression." He dedicated his 1986
book, "Under Siege," to "those who gave their lives … in defense of
the cause of Palestine and independence of Lebanon." Critics assailed
the book as excusing Palestinian terrorism.

While the Woods Fund’s contribution to Khalidi’s AAAN might be perceived
as a one-time run in with Obama, the presidential hopeful and Khalidi
evidence a deeper relationship.

According to a professor at the University of Chicago who said he has
known Obama for 12 years, the Democratic presidential hopeful first
befriended Khalidi when the two worked together at the university. The
professor spoke on condition of anonymity. Khalidi lectured at the
University of Chicago until 2003 while Obama taught law there from 1993
until his election to the Senate in 2004.

Khalidi in 2000 held what was described as a successful fundraiser for
Obama’s failed bid for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, a
fact not denied by Khalidi.

Speaking in a joint interview with WND and the John Batchelor Show of
New York’s WABC Radio and Los Angeles’ KFI Radio, Khalidi was asked
about his 2000 fundraiser for Obama.

"I was just doing my duties as a Chicago resident to help my local
politician," Khalidi stated.

Khalidi said he supports Obama for president "because he is the only
candidate who has expressed sympathy for the Palestinian cause."

Khalidi also lauded Obama for "saying he supports talks with Iran. If
the U.S. can talk with the Soviet Union during the Cold War, there is no
reason it can’t talk with the Iranians."

Asked about Obama’s role funding the AAAN, Khalidi claimed he had "never
heard of the Woods Fund until it popped up on a bunch of blogs a few
months ago."  

He terminated the call when petitioned further about his links with
Obama.  

Contacted by phone, Mona Khalidi refused to answer WND’s questions about
the AAAN’s involvement with Obama.

Obama’s campaign headquarters did not reply to a list of WND questions
sent by e-mail to the senator’s press office.

Obama, American terrorist in same circles

Obama served on the board with Ayers, who was a Weathermen leader and
has written about his involvement with the group’s bombings of the New
York City Police headquarters in 1970, the Capitol in 1971 and the
Pentagon in 1972.

"I don’t regret setting bombs. I feel we didn’t do enough," Ayers told
the New York Times in an interview released on Sept. 11, 2001

"Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon,"
Ayers wrote in his memoirs, titled "Fugitive Days." He continued with a
disclaimer that he didn’t personally set the bombs, but his group set
the explosives and planned the attack.

A $200 campaign contribution is listed on April 2, 2001 by the "Friends
of Barack Obama" campaign fund. The two taught appeared speaking
together at several public events, including a 1997 University of
Chicago panel entitled, "Should a child ever be called a ‘super
predator?’" and another panel for the University of Illinois in April
2002, entitled, "Intellectuals: Who Needs Them?"

The charges against Ayers were dropped in 1974 because of prosecutorial
misconduct, including illegal surveillance.

Ayers is married to another notorious Weathermen terrorist, Bernadine
Dohrn, who has also served on panels with Obama. Dohrn was once on the
FBI’s Top 10 Most Wanted List and was described by J. Edgar Hoover as
the "most dangerous woman in America." Ayers and Dohrn raised the son of
Weathermen terrorist Kathy Boudin, who was serving a sentence for
participating in a 1981 murder and robbery that left 4 people dead.

Obama advisor wants talks with terrorists

The revelations about Obama’s relationship with Khalidi follows a recent
WND article quoting Israeli security officials who expressed "concern"
about Robert Malley, an adviser to Obama who has advocated negotiations
with Hamas and providing international assistance to the terrorist
group.

Malley, a principal Obama foreign policy adviser, has penned numerous
opinion articles, many of them co-written with a former adviser to the
late Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat, petitioning for
dialogue with Hamas and blasting Israel for numerous policies he says
harm the Palestinian cause.
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Barack Obama’s "Community Organized"
September 05, 2008 11:28 AM EDT (Updated: September 05, 2008 12:01 PM
EDT)
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The recent dig by Sarah Palin at Obama’s "community organizing" past
brought a quick and pointed response from the Democratic party in his
defense and revealed their thin-skin when confronted with any criticism
of their candidate no matter how valid or documented.

What it didn’t reveal is the shady relationship Obama has maintained
over the years with radical and openly "above-the-law" groups from his
past.

ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now is the
organization Obama both organized for before attending law school and
provided legal counsel to after.   According to the Wall Street Journal
article, ACORN is a radical partisan group using partial funding from
the federal government to pressure Wal-Mart and other non-union
businesses.  Their tax status requires that they be nonpartisan but they
are in-fact anything but.  They have been involved in voter fraud and
other scandals bordering on extortion, intimidation, storming council
meetings and other such "community" activities.

There have been convictions related to voter fraud in at least two
states and investigations underway in several others.  The founder’s
brother and organization CFO (Dale Rathke) embezzled nearly $1 million
from the organization in 1999-2000 timeframe which he and founder
brother (Wade Rathke) covered up along with others in the organization.  
Neither this organization, nor Obama’s ties to it, has received
appropriate media scrutiny.  His ability (like ACORN’s) to wrap his
radical beliefs and methods in a pleasant non-threatening veneer is
misleading and bodes danger for the country if it remains undisclosed.
See also this and that and the other.  By the way, ACORN is a private
corporation and thus doesn’t divulge financials, but they and
subsidiaries do receive federal funds (at least $2 Million in 2003 in
one subsidiary alone).  ACORN endorsed, guess who, Obama for President.

In a related circumstance, Sarah Palin was wrongly criticized from some
on the left  (although not by Obama) for having a Downs Syndrome baby
and how that might interfere with her VP duties.  Her unmarried
seventeen year old daughter’s pregnancy to her future husband and
intention to keep the child contrasted markedly with Obama’s statement
that he wouldn’t "penalize" his daughter "with a baby" if she found her
self similarly pregnant from such a "mistake" (Watch).

This situation is illuminating since Obama spoke at Planned Parenthood
during the campaign, praised them for their work, and received their
endorsement for President. What else does Planned Parenthood do?  They
received about $300 Million in Federal Funding in 2005 and used it to
perform about 1 out of every 5 US Abortions (See here).  Equally
important, they refuse to follow the law and report child statutory rape
events (here) and are perfectly willing to accept racially motivated
donations (watch this) and ( this).

Why doesn’t he hold organizations that he is involved in accountable to
at least the law of the land?
Why does Barack Obama endorse, encourage, and seek the endorsements of
organizations that behave dishonestly?  A similar question could be
asked about his long term associations with admitted terrorist Bill
Ayers and convicted Tony Resko.  Why does the Democratic party allow
these shady allegiances to prosper?

More importantly, why doesn’t the mainstream media ask about these
matters.  Why won’t they tell you about these issues?  What else won’t
they tell you about Barack Obama and his "community"? Is his the kind of
"change" you want?   Do you want him "organizing" in your community or
taking the oath to be your President?  Given his history and relations
to these organizations, would his oath even mean anything?

‘Course technically that would be murder.

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Taliban bring the war home to France
By Katrin Bennhold
Published: September 4, 2008

PARIS: One Taliban fighter is clad in the bulletproof vest of a dead
French soldier. Another proudly shows off a French walkie-talkie. Yet
another wears a camouflaged French Army helmet.

A glossy six-page photo spread published Thursday and featuring a
group of insurgents who say they killed 10 French soldiers in
Afghanistan on Aug. 18 has reinforced uneasiness about France’s
military presence there.
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OMG go look at every afghan in all history and see where they got the
weapons in every picture they are wearing and carrying weapons taken
off the last invaders , see national geographics magazine  coverage of
Russian weapons captured in the 1980s

wiki
Of the 16,000 people that left Kabul only one regiment, the 44th was
actually British. Another 4000 were Indian troops and the remaining
10,000 their families and other camp followers. During the withdrawal
they were attacked by Ghilzai tribesmen and in running battles through
the snowbound passes nearly all were massacred. Of the British only
one, Dr Brydon, reached Jalalabad,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Kabul_during_the_First_Anglo-Afgha…
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Afghans are still using the weapons they took off dead brits in the
1800s

almost every weapon in Afghanistan was paid for by western taxpayers
and stolen from dead western or Russian soldiers and has been like
for thousands of years since Alexander tried to occupy Afghanistan
and  collapsed ancient Greece trying

go look in old pictures going back hundreds of years , almost every
afghan gun was taken off a dead occupation army , and you can still
buy rifles captured from Brits in 1878 that are still in use in Kabul
markets

national geographic has hundreds of full page colour pics  of afghans
all carring weapons taken from dead Russians

guess who always wins in the end see pics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Afghan_wars

War in Afghanistan
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The terms Afghan War or War in Afghanistan may refer to:

    * Islamic conquest of Afghanistan (637-709)
    * Anglo-Afghan Wars:
          o First Anglo-Afghan War (1839-1842)
          o Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878-1881)
          o Third Anglo-Afghan War (1919)
    * Panjdeh Incident (1885)
    * Reforms of Amanullah Khan and civil war, 1929 civil war when
Afghan rebel Bacha-i-Saqao briefly overthrew the government and became
emir.
    * Afghan Civil War (1978-present):
          o Soviet war in Afghanistan (1979-1989) – Soviet involvement
          o Afghan Civil War (1989-1992) – Government collapse
          o Afghan Civil War (1992-1996) – Anarchy
          o Afghan Civil War (1996-2001) – Taliban period
          o War in Afghanistan (2001–present) – NATO involvement
                + Timeline of the War in Afghanistan (2001-present)

Utah Democrats back off religion-based attack on Palin
By Thomas Burr
The Salt Lake Tribune
Article Last Updated: 09/03/2008 11:50:46 PM MDT

    ST. PAUL, Minn. – The Utah Democratic Party charged this week that
Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin is a "devout member
of an anti-Mormon denomination" and questioned whether LDS faithful
should vote for her.
    But Palin is not a member of the church the Democrats are
referencing, that church denies it is anti-Mormon and there’s no
evidence of any anti-Mormon rhetoric from its pulpit.
    Now, Democratic Party Chairman Wayne Holland is backing off the
statement.
    "We do not plan on making her religion an issue," Holland said
Wednesday afternoon, adding he had not seen the news release, which
includes a quote by him along with several questions.
    The pertinent one: "Will Republicans of the LDS faith vote for
Sarah Palin, a devout member of an anti-Mormon denomination?"
    Palin was a member of the Wasilla Assemblies of God, a
congregation of the umbrella Pentecostal faith with some 12,500
churches in the United States. But that Alaska church says she has not
been a member since 2002.
    And Juleen Turnage, director of communications for the Assemblies
of God, says there’s no official policy of the faith on the Mormon
religion.
    "We do not preach or teach against any denomination," Turnage
said.
    Utah Republican Party Chairman Stan Lockhart called the Democrats’
statement "religion-baiting" and deplorable.
    "It’s just beneath the discourse that needs to be the case in the
state or in our nation," Lockhart said. "It’s just regrettable that
they are stooping so low. It’s got to be a new low" in Utah politics.
    Democratic Party Executive Director Todd Taylor said the party
stands corrected and regrets sending the release. "It should have been
looked into deeper," he said.
    But he noted that Republicans put the issue of religion on the
table in describing Palin’s attributes for the nomination as Sen. John
McCain’s running mate.
    Utah Democrats have made hay over the perceived bias against
Mormons in some wings of the Republican Party that surfaced during
Mitt Romney’s presidential bid. Some pundits have blamed Romney’s
failed campaign on the wariness of Protestant evangelicals to vote for
a Mormon, regarded as cultists by some faiths.
    The campaign for Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama,
which is mentioned in the Utah Democratic Party’s statement, did not
return calls for comment.
    There are some published accounts of pastors in Assemblies of God
attacking the Mormon faith, including an article in a January 1999
church newsletter hoping for God’s "forgiving grace [to] turn Mormons
from their destructive teachings to Jesus Christ . . .."
    That piece was written by a pastor in Corvallis, Ore., and is not
connected to the congregation in Alaska that Palin attended.
    Dean Jackson, pastor of the Rock Canyon Church, an Assemblies of
God congregation in Provo, says there are different branches of his
faith that are on the left and right on the political spectrum but
that there is no anti-Mormon belief.
    "There’s nowhere in Assemblies of God doctrinal statement that has
anything to do with Mormonism," he said.
    But, he adds, the disappointing part is how news of religion in
this year’s presidential cycle has been bad news.
    "The thing that always concerns me is that religion gets injected
into the dialogue in a
Is Mormonism Christian?
By James R. Spencer
Notice that the title of this article is not "Are Mormons Christians?"
That is a somewhat different question. No one can see into the human
heart but God. No one but God is qualified to judge hearts. But, does
Mormonism teach a consistent biblical doctrine — a Christian doctrine?
That is an important question because we can judge the teachings of an
organization. And we must do so if we are to faithfully discharge our
responsibilities as Christ’s disciples.
Mormonism, throughout its 170-year history, has always found itself
toe-to-toe with the larger body of Christian believers. Today, the
Mormon Church fields some 60,000 missionaries whose job it is to bring
people into membership — to baptize them not merely into Christ, but
into Mormonism. That is why most evangelical denominations are on
record denouncing the doctrines of Mormonism. The late Walter Martin,
the father of the modern anti-cult movement, called Mormonism a
collection of "garbled doctrines masquerading as Christianity."
Those are strong words. Christians do not make such statements out of
rancor, jealousy or ill will. They are simply facing up to their
responsibility to challenge Mormonism’s erroneous doctrines. They do
so because this religion teaches false ideas about the nature of God
and man and about the way of salvation.
The nature of God vs. the nature of man
The most important, distinctive and defended doctrine of Mormonism can
be summed up by the famous couplet of Mormon President Lorenzo Snow
(president from 1898-1901). This couplet can be recited by every
moderately knowledgeable Latter-day Saint (as Mormons call
themselves): As man now is, God once was; As God now is, Man may
become.
Any Bible-savvy Christian recognizes this statement as patently
unbiblical. Not only is it unbiblical, it is of paramount importance.
Such a teaching blurs the distinction between the almighty, self-
existent God and the creatures He has made. Joseph Smith, the founder
of Mormonism, claimed, "Man is coequal with God himself."1 Smith
taught – and his successors have maintained – that there are many gods
in the universe. He told his congregation: "You have got to learn how
to be Gods yourselves … the same as all Gods have done before you …
until you are able to dwell in everlasting burnings and to sit in
glory."2
Joseph Smith’s most noted successor, Brigham Young, remarked, "Man is
King of Kings and Lord of Lords in embryo."3
This pervasive teaching about the godhood of man is called, in Mormon
theology, the doctrine of eternal progression. Mormon theology says
Mormon men will one day rule over their own worlds as gods. This
doctrine is foreshadowed in Smith’s version of the creation of the
earth: "In the beginning, the head of the Gods called a council of the
Gods; and they came together and concocted a plan to create the world
and people it."4
Man, according to Smith, is himself self-existent with God; man’s
intelligence is coequal with that of God: "The mind or the
intelligence which man possesses is coequal with God himself."5
Whose authority is it?
Mormonism teaches that authority to act for God on the earth is found
only in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Only in the
Mormon Church is the "Priesthood" found.
Mormon doctrine states that Jesus Christ bestowed a priesthood upon
the original 12 apostles, a priesthood that eventually was lost from
the earth. When that happened, Christ’s church supposedly ceased to
exist on the earth. This, of course, is contrary to Jesus’ teaching in
Matthew 16:18: "And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and
upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not
prevail against it."
Smith claimed that John the Baptist and the apostles Peter, James and
John visited him and conferred upon him two priesthoods so he could
restore authority to the earth. This was essential, he said, because
without this priesthood man cannot conduct any legitimate ministry.
Neither Protestant nor Catholic clergy can conduct the Lord’s Supper
or Communion. They cannot baptize anyone in a way God will accept,
because they do not hold the Mormon priesthood.
The idea of Mormon priesthood is nowhere found in the New Testament.
The Book of Hebrews goes to great lengths to explain that God’s
priesthood was finalized in Christ. Everyone who is a child of God has
bold access into God’s presence through one Priest, Jesus Christ
(Ephesians 3:11,12).
Every blood-bought child of God is equal in power and authority to
every other in the kingdom of God: "But as many as received him, to
them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that
believe on his name: which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of
the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God" (John 1:12,13).
Heaven and hell
Mormon doctrine teaches that there are at least three heavens.
Everyone (with a few notable exceptions) who lives on the earth will
go to one of these magnificent heavens when they die, regardless of
their faith in Christ or whether they lived godly or evil lives.
On the other hand, the atonement of Christ, in Mormonism, is not
enough in itself to bring men and women into the presence of God.
Mormonism teaches that Christ’s death only bought resurrection for
mankind — for all men and women — but their ultimate destiny in one of
the three heavens is totally dependent upon their obedience to the
laws of Mormonism. And only those who fulfill all of Mormonism’s laws
are able to be in the presence of God the Father.
Mormonism also teaches that people who die without hearing the Mormon
message get another chance to do so in a place called "Spirit Prison."
This is an afterlife realm that is neither heaven nor hell. While they
are imprisoned there, they can receive Mormon missionaries and decide
to accept Mormonism. If they do so, they must wait for someone on
earth to be baptized for them in one of the Mormon temples. Here,
thousands of schoolchildren are baptized repeatedly, "for and on
behalf of" people who are dead. The dead people in Spirit Prison can
accept the baptism and begin their journey toward Mormon heaven.
Proxy baptisms are not the only temple work done for dead people.
Other washings, anointings and ceremonies are done in the temples for
the dead. That is what drives Mormon genealogical research. Names of
dead people are collected from all over the world so that baptisms and
other temple ceremonies can be performed on their behalf.
Grace and works
The Mormon Third Article of Faith states: "We believe that through the
atonement of Christ, all mankind may be saved, by obedience to the
laws and ordinances of the Gospel." (That is, the Mormon Gospel.)
"Faith without works is dead" (James 2:20) is often quoted by Latter-
day Saints. To Christians this verse means that since good works must
flow out of living faith, a life without obedience demonstrates that a
person does not possess such faith. In Mormonism, however, obedience
to laws and ordinances eventually buys access into the higher kingdoms
of heaven.
Mormon salvation theology, like the Mormon explanation of the nature
of God, clearly contradicts the Bible on every hand. But Mormon
founder Joseph Smith had a solution for that – he produced three new
books of Scripture and disparaged the Bible.
Scripture
"We believe," the Mormon Eighth Article of Faith declares, "the Bible
to be the word of God, as far as it is translated correctly … ." With
this statement, Mormonism — from its earliest days — undermines the
authority of the Bible. Early Mormon scholars went out of their way to
declare the Bible unfit, damaged, mistranslated and dangerous. The
Book of Mormon, on the other hand, is "the most perfect book on the
face of the earth, singularly without error."
Orson Pratt, the cream of early Mormon scholars, in denigrating the
Bible, asked: "What evidence have [Protestants] that the book of
Matthew was inspired by God, or any other of the books of the New
Testament? … [the books of the Bible] have been mutilated, changed,
and corrupted in … a shameful manner … . Who knows that even one verse
of the whole Bible has escaped pollution?"6
A law unto itself
In the final analysis, Mormonism is an original, invented religion,
born of the mind of Joseph Smith, who is responsible for the spiritual
seduction of millions of people. To the world, Mormonism sells itself
as the friendly Christian church down the street, but in reality it is
no closer to biblical Christianity than Hinduism or Islam.
The goals of Mormonism, however, remain unchanged. It desires to turn
Protestants and Catholics, Evangelicals and Pentecostals, into
Mormons. It seeks to introduce them to what the Bible calls another
gospel, another spirit, and another Jesus (2 Corinthians 11:4).
________________________________________
James R. Spencer is a minister and author of seven books on cults, the
occult and secularism. He lives in Boise, Idaho.
1 History of the Church, vol. 6, pp. 310-312.
2 Journal of Discourses, vol. 6, p. 4.
3 Journal of Discourses, vol. 10, p. 223.
4 Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, Section Six, 1843-44, p.349.
5 Journal of Discourses, vol. 6, p.6.
6 Orson Pratt’s Works, "The Bible Alone, an Insufficient Guide," pp.
44-47.

©1999-2008 General Council of the Assemblies of God

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"ST. PAUL — The McCain campaign must be giddy with this news, just
out from Nielsen: Sarah Palin’s speech generated 37.2 million viewers,
just a 1.1 million viewers fewer than watch Barak Obama’s Invesco
Field acceptance speech. As Nielsen notes, only six networks carried
Palin’s speech compared with ten for Obama’s."

http://cbs2chicago.com/local/chicago.summer.shootings.2.810166.html

Nearly 125 Shot Dead In Chicago Over Summer
Total Is About Double The Death Toll In Iraq
CHICAGO (CBS) — An estimated 123 people were shot and killed over the
summer. That’s nearly double the number of soldiers killed in Iraq
over the same time period.

Information from wire service reports and the Chicago Police Major
Incidents log indicated that 123 people were shot and killed
throughout the city between the start of Memorial Day weekend on May
26, and the end of Labor Day on Sept. 1.

According to the Defense Department, 65 soldiers were killed in combat
in Iraq. About the same number were killed in Afghanistan over that
same period.

 In the same time period, an estimated 245 people were shot and
wounded in the city.

 Tracking Summer Shootings In Chicago

The South Side’s Englewood District, which includes the Englewood and
West Englewood neighborhoods on the city’s South Side, fared the worst
over the summer. A total of 14 people were shot dead there, and 48
were shot and wounded.

The next highest totals came in the Grand Crossing District, which
includes the South Shore, Woodlawn, Park Manor and Grand Crossing
neighborhoods on the South Side, 12 people were killed and 31 were
injured.

Also hit severely by gun violence over the summer was the Ogden
District – which includes the Near Southwest Side’s Lawndale and
Little Village neighborhoods – where 10 people were killed and six
were injured. The South Chicago District on the Southeast Side saw
nine people killed and 11 injured, almost all concentrated in the
South Chicago and Avalon Park neighborhoods at the north end of the
district. The West Side’s Austin District saw also saw nine people
killed and 12 injured, while the Far South Side’s Calumet District –
including the Roseland, Fernwood and Pullman neighborhoods – saw eight
killed and 20 injured.

Breakdown of summer shootings by police district:
* District 1 – Central (Loop, West Loop, Near South Side): 1 dead, 4
injured
* District 2 – Wentworth (Washington Park, Bronzeville, Fuller Park):
1 dead, 14 injured
* District 3 – Grand Crossing (South Shore, Woodlawn, Park Manor,
Grand Crossing) 12 dead, 31 injured
* District 4 – South Chicago (Far Southeast Side to Indiana state
line): 9 dead, 11 injured
* District 5 – Calumet (Roseland, Fernwood, West Pullman): 8 dead, 20
injured
* District 6 – Gresham (Auburn-Gresham, Chatham): 7 dead, 13 injured
* District 7 – Englewood (Englewood, West Englewood: 14 dead, 48
injured
* District 8 – Chicago Lawn (most of the Southwest Side): 7 dead, 14
injured
* District 9 – Deering (Back of the Yards, Bridgeport, Canaryville,
Brighton Park): 4 dead, 19 injured
* District 10 – Ogden (Little Village, much of North Lawndale): 10
dead, 6 injured
* District 11 – Harrison (Garfield Park, parts of North Lawndale): 8
dead, 18 injured
* District 12 – Monroe (Near West Side): 1 dead, 3 injured
* District 13 – Wood (West Town, Ukrainian Village, parts of Humboldt
Park): 4 dead, 2 injured
* District 14 – Shakespeare (Wicker Park, Bucktown, Logan Square,
parts of Humboldt Park): 6 dead, 1 injured
* District 15 – Austin (North and South Austin): 9 dead, 12 injured
* District 16 – Jefferson Park (Far Northwest Side from Portage Park
to O’Hare International Airport): 0 dead, 0 injured
* District 17 – Albany Park (Albany Park, Irving Park, Avondale): 2
dead, 0 injured
* District 18 – Near North (Lincoln Park, Gold Coast Magnificent Mile,
Near North Side): 1 dead, 4 injured
* District 19 – Belmont (Lakeview, Roscoe Village, Lincoln Square,
North Center): 1 dead, 1 injured
* District 20 – Lincoln (Edgewater, Andersonville, Rosehill Cemetery,
Budlong Woods): 0 dead, 1 injured
* District 21 – Prairie (Hyde Park, Kenwood Oakland-Douglas, Lake
Meadows, Chinatown): 2 dead, 1 injured
* District 22 – Morgan Park (Beverly, Morgan Park, Mt. Greenwood): 6
dead, 4 injured
* District 23 – Town Hall (East Lakeview, Uptown): 1 dead, 4 injured
* District 24 – Rogers Park (East and West Rogers Park): 2 dead, 2
injured
* District 25 – Grand Central (Belmont-Cragin, Kelvyn Park, Hermosa,
Galewood): 7 dead, 12 injured

Adam Harrington, cbs2chicago.com
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by Henry Makow Ph.D.

A Munich-based historian Wolfgang Eggert, 46, will launch an Internet
petition tomorrow (Friday Sept. 5)  to demand action on powerful
Jewish and Christian cults that want to instigate a nuclear holocaust
to fulfill Biblical prophesy.

He thinks cult members must be exposed and removed. He points to the
Jewish Chabad Lubavitcher sect who want to hasten Armageddon in order
to facilitate the Messiah’s return. Their religion calls for them to
manipulate events, including instigate nuclear war, to bring back the
Messiah, Eggert says.

Their members include David Wolfowitz, the architect of the Iraq War
which began with an attack named after a Cabalist diety, "Shekinah"
("Shock and Awe.")  Especially worrisome now is Chabadnik Joe
Lieberman who visited Israel in March with his buddy John McCain.
There is concern over Sen. Carl Levin who is Chair of the Senate Armed
Services Committee. Other prominent Orthodox Jews who might be part of
this cult include Bush Attorney General Michael Mukasey, Homeland
Security Director Michael Chertoff and former Pentagon Controller Dov
Zakheim, implicated in the disappearance of "trillions" of dollars.

While the Chabad Lubavitchers are his focus, Eggert is also concerned
about Christian Evangelists like Jack Van Impe and Timothy LaHaye who
are close to the Bush administration. Their desired scenario includes
the destruction of the al-Aqsa mosque, the restoration of the Third
Temple on its site; the rising to heaven of the 144,000 Chosen Ones;
the battle of Armageddon; mass death among Israeli Jews and the Final
Coming of Jesus Christ.  

The power of the Lubovitchers seems uncanny. (Apparently they are
rich.)  On March 26 1991, the US Senate commemorated the birthday of
founder Rebbe Menachem Schneerson as "National Education Day."  It
also acknowledged the validity of the Talmudic "Seven Noahide Laws."
This at a time when all Christian symbolism is being assiduously
removed from society.

When Schneerson died in 1994, he was awarded the Congressional Gold
Medal for his contribution to "global morals."  According to Eggert,
Schneerson taught that Jewish and Gentile souls are fundamentally
different. "All Jews are good by nature…Jews are the pride of
creation, the Goyim (Gentiles) are the scum."

According to Schneerson, the Goyim still have a role in serving the
Chosen ones. The Jews are the Priests while the Noahide Laws provide
"a religion for the rank and file." According to Eggert, Freemasons
have always called themselves "Noachids" and incorporated the statutes
into their Constitution as early as 1723.

Here is a 2004 picture of Barrack Obama meeting with Rabbi Yossi
Brackman, Director of the Chabad Jewish Center in Chicago. If you
look, you can find pictures of many major politicians in the West
posing with this sect…

http://www.ihr.org/      http://www.natvan.com

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http://wsi.matriots.com/jews.html