Free Lunch...
900 teachers just got laid off from the Los Angeles Unified School District . They are $650,000 over their annual budget.
The following English teacher helps to explain one area that looms large over California 's educational crisis.
THIS HAS GOT TO BE PASSED ALONG TO AS MANY AS
POSSIBLE OR WE WILL ALL GO DOWN THE DRAIN BECAUSE A FEW DON'T CARE.
This English teacher has phrased it the best I've seen yet.
This should make everyone think, be you Democrat, Republican or Independent
From a California school teacher - - -
"As you listen to the news about the student protests over illegal immigration, there are some things that you should be aware of:
I am in charge of the English-as-a-second-language department at a large southern California high school which is designated a Title 1 school, meaning that its students average lower socioeconomic and income levels.
Most of the schools you are hearing about, South Gate High, Bell Gardens, Huntington Park , etc.. where these students are protesting, are also Title 1 schools.
Title 1 schools are on the free breakfast and free lunch program. When I say free breakfast, I'm not talking a glass of milk and roll -- but a full breakfast and cereal bar with fruits and juices that would make a Marriott proud. The waste of this food is monumental, with trays and trays of it being dumped in the trash uneaten.
(OUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK)
I estimate that well over 50% of these students are obese or at least moderately overweight. About 75% or more DO have cell phones. The school also provides day care centers for the unwed teenage pregnant girls (some as young as 13) so they can attend class without the inconvenience of having to arrange for babysitters or having family watch their kids.
(OUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK)
I was ordered to spend $700,000 on my department or risk losing funding for the upcoming year even though there was little need for anything; my budget was already substantial. I ended up buying new computers for the computer learning center, half of which, one month later, have been carved with graffiti by the appreciative students who obviously feel humbled and grateful to have a free education in America ..
(OUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK)
I have had to intervene several times for young and substitute teachers whose classes consist of many illegal immigrant students here in the country less than 3 months who raised so much hell with the female teachers, calling them "Putas" (whores ) and throwing things, that the teachers were in tears.
Free medical, free education, free food, day care, etc, etc, etc. Is it any wonder they feel entitled not only to be in this country but to demand rights, privileges and entitlements?
To those who want to point out how much these illegal immigrants contribute to our society because they LIKE their gardener and housekeeper and they like to pay less for tomatoes: spend some time in the real world of illegal immigration and see the TRUE costs.
Higher insurance, medical facilities closing, higher medical costs, more crime, lower standards of education in our schools, overcrowding, new diseases etc., etc, etc. For me, I'll pay more for tomatoes.
Americans, We need to wake up. The guest worker program will be a disaster because we won't have the guts to enforce it. Does anyone in their right mind really think they will voluntarily leave and return?
It does, however, have everything to do with culture: A third-world culture that does not value education, that accepts children getting pregnant and dropping out of school by 15 and that refuses to assimilate, and an American culture that has become so weak and worried about "political correctness " that we don't have the will to do anything about it.
If this makes your blood boil, as it did mine, forward this to everyone you know including your Congressmen and Senators.
CHEAP LABOR? Isn't that what the whole immigration issue is about?
Business doesn't want to pay a decent wage.
Consumers don't want expensive produce.
Government will tell you Americans don't want the jobs.
But the bottom line is cheap labor. The phrase "cheap labor" is a myth, a farce, and a lie. There is no such thing as "cheap labor."
Take, for example, an illegal alien with a wife and five children. He takes a job for $5.00 or 6.00/hour. At that wage, with six dependents, he pays no income tax, yet at the end of the year, if he files an Income Tax Return,
he gets an "earned income credit" of up to $3,200 free.
He qualifies for Section 8 housing and subsidized rent.
He qualifies for food stamps..
He qualifies for free (no deductible), no co-pay) health care.
His children get free breakfasts and lunches at school.
He requires bilingual teachers and books.
He qualifies for relief from high energy bills...
If they are or become, aged, blind or disabled, they qualify for SSI.
Once qualified for SSI they can qualify for Medicare. All of this is at (our) taxpayer's expense .
He doesn't worry about car insurance, life insurance, or homeowners insurance.
Taxpayers provide Spanish language signs, bulletins and printed material.
He and his family receive the equivalent of $20.00 to $30.00/hour in benefits.
Working Americans are lucky to have $5.00 or $6.00/hour left after paying their bills AND his.
The American taxpayers also pay for increased crime, graffiti and trash clean-up.
Cheap labor? YEAH RIGHT! Wake up people!
THESE ARE THE QUESTIONS WE SHOULD BE ADDRESSING TO THE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES FOR EITHER PARTY. 'AND WHEN THEY LIE TO US AND DON'T DO AS THEY SAY, WE SHOULD REPLACE THEM AT ONCE!'
THIS HAS GOT TO BE PASSED ALONG TO AS MANY AS
POSSIBLE OR WE WILL ALL GO DOWN THE DRAIN BECAUSE A FEW DON'T CARE
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Saturday, March 12, 2011
He told us in advance what he planned to do
He told us in advance what he planned to do. Few were listening.....
Yes, he told us in advance what he planned to do. Few were listening.
The following is a narrative taken from a 2008 Sunday morning televised "Meet The Press'.
From Sunday's 07 Sept. 2008 11:48:04 EST, Televised "Meet the Press" THE THEN Senator Obama was asked about his stance on the American Flag.
General Bill Ginn' USAF (ret.) asked Obama to explain WHY he doesn't follow protocol when the National Anthem is played.
The General stated to Obama that according to the United States Code, Title 36, Chapter 10, Sec. 171...
During rendition of the national anthem, when the flag is displayed, all present (except those in uniform) are expected to stand at attention facing the flag with the right hand over the heart. Or, at the very least, "Stand and Face It".
NOW GET THIS !!
'Senator' Obama replied:
"As I've said about the flag pin, I don't want to be perceived as taking sides". "There are a lot of people in the world to whom the American
flag is a symbol of oppression.." "The anthem itself conveys a war-like message. You know, the bombs bursting in air and all that sort of thing."
(THIS EXPLAINS HIS ABSENCE FROM THE BIG GAME)
(ARE YOU READY FOR THIS???)
Obama continued: "The National Anthem should be 'swapped' for something less parochial and less bellicose. I like the song 'I'd Like To Teach the World To Sing'. If that were our anthem, then, I might salute it. In my opinion, we should consider reinventing our National Anthem as well as 'redesign' our Flag to better offer our enemies hope and love. It's my intention, if elected, to disarm America to the level of acceptance to our Middle East Brethren. If we, as a Nation of warring people, conduct ourselves like the nations of Islam, where peace prevails - - - perhaps a state or period of mutual accord could exist between our governments ..."
When I become President, I will seek a pact of agreement to end hostilities between those who have been at war or in a state of enmity, and a freedom from disquieting oppressive thoughts. We as a Nation, have placed upon the nations of Islam, an unfair injusticewhich is WHY my wife disrespects the Flag and she and I have attended several flag burning ceremonies in the past".
"Of course now, I have found myself about to become the President of the United States and I have put my hatred aside . I will use my power to bring CHANGE to this Nation, and offer the people a new path..My wife and I look forward to becoming our Country's First black Family. Indeed, CHANGE is about to overwhelm the United States of America "
WHAAAAAAAT, the Hell is that???
Yes, you read it right.
I, for one, am speechless!!!
Dale Lindsborg , Washington Post
EVERYONE IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NEEDS TO READ THIS, KEEP IT GOING ! ! SAVE AMERICA BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE !
Yes, he told us in advance what he planned to do. Few were listening.
The following is a narrative taken from a 2008 Sunday morning televised "Meet The Press'.
From Sunday's 07 Sept. 2008 11:48:04 EST, Televised "Meet the Press" THE THEN Senator Obama was asked about his stance on the American Flag.
General Bill Ginn' USAF (ret.) asked Obama to explain WHY he doesn't follow protocol when the National Anthem is played.
The General stated to Obama that according to the United States Code, Title 36, Chapter 10, Sec. 171...
During rendition of the national anthem, when the flag is displayed, all present (except those in uniform) are expected to stand at attention facing the flag with the right hand over the heart. Or, at the very least, "Stand and Face It".
NOW GET THIS !!
'Senator' Obama replied:
"As I've said about the flag pin, I don't want to be perceived as taking sides". "There are a lot of people in the world to whom the American
flag is a symbol of oppression.." "The anthem itself conveys a war-like message. You know, the bombs bursting in air and all that sort of thing."
(THIS EXPLAINS HIS ABSENCE FROM THE BIG GAME)
(ARE YOU READY FOR THIS???)
Obama continued: "The National Anthem should be 'swapped' for something less parochial and less bellicose. I like the song 'I'd Like To Teach the World To Sing'. If that were our anthem, then, I might salute it. In my opinion, we should consider reinventing our National Anthem as well as 'redesign' our Flag to better offer our enemies hope and love. It's my intention, if elected, to disarm America to the level of acceptance to our Middle East Brethren. If we, as a Nation of warring people, conduct ourselves like the nations of Islam, where peace prevails - - - perhaps a state or period of mutual accord could exist between our governments ..."
When I become President, I will seek a pact of agreement to end hostilities between those who have been at war or in a state of enmity, and a freedom from disquieting oppressive thoughts. We as a Nation, have placed upon the nations of Islam, an unfair injusticewhich is WHY my wife disrespects the Flag and she and I have attended several flag burning ceremonies in the past".
"Of course now, I have found myself about to become the President of the United States and I have put my hatred aside . I will use my power to bring CHANGE to this Nation, and offer the people a new path..My wife and I look forward to becoming our Country's First black Family. Indeed, CHANGE is about to overwhelm the United States of America "
WHAAAAAAAT, the Hell is that???
Yes, you read it right.
I, for one, am speechless!!!
Dale Lindsborg , Washington Post
EVERYONE IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NEEDS TO READ THIS, KEEP IT GOING ! ! SAVE AMERICA BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE !
Monday, March 7, 2011
God New From the High Court
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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court won't hear an atheist's latest challenge to the U.S. government's references to God.
The court on Monday refused to hear an appeal from Michael Newdow, who says government references to God are unconstitutional and infringe on his religious beliefs.
This appeal dealt with the inscription of the national motto "In God We Trust" on U.S. coins and currency. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco says the phrase is ceremonial and patriotic and "has nothing whatsoever to do with the establishment of religion."
The court refused to hear Newdow's appeal of that decision.
"In God We Trust" was first put on U.S. coins in the 1860s and on paper currency in the 1950s.
The case is Newdow v. Lefevre, 10-893.
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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court won't hear an atheist's latest challenge to the U.S. government's references to God.
The court on Monday refused to hear an appeal from Michael Newdow, who says government references to God are unconstitutional and infringe on his religious beliefs.
This appeal dealt with the inscription of the national motto "In God We Trust" on U.S. coins and currency. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco says the phrase is ceremonial and patriotic and "has nothing whatsoever to do with the establishment of religion."
The court refused to hear Newdow's appeal of that decision.
"In God We Trust" was first put on U.S. coins in the 1860s and on paper currency in the 1950s.
The case is Newdow v. Lefevre, 10-893.
Shariah Law - so just how does it work...
Subject: David Kupelian: The Muslim Brotherhood's sneak attack on America
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
23 February 2011
DAVID KUPELIAN: THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD'S SNEAK ATTACK ON AMERICA
Conducting interviews on this topic is the award-winning journalist and managing editor of WND.com, the largest independent Internet news service in the U.S., David Kupelian.
After a 14-year-old Bangladeshi girl named Hena Begum was forcibly raped, kicking and screaming, by a 40-year-old married man on Sunday, Jan. 30, a Shariah court the next day sentenced her - the rape victim - to receive 100 lashes for having engaged in an illicit "affair." Henna was given no chance to appeal, and the sentence was carried out immediately. After between 70 and 80 lashes, the little girl collapsed into unconsciousness and was taken to the hospital - where she bled to death.
Islamic apologists will tell you such an atrocity is an abuse of Shariah law, or the excess of some remote, rural tribal council. Hogwash. Rape victims are frequently flogged and imprisoned under Shariah, as when a Saudi court in early 2009 sentenced a 23-year-old female who had been gang-raped by five men to 100 lashes and a year in jail. Her crime? Accepting a lift from a man who drove her against her will to his house and took turns, with four of his friends, raping her. Same with a 2007 case where the Saudi Justice Ministry sentenced a girl gang-raped by seven men to six months in prison and 200 lashes.
Speaking of Saudi Arabia, who can forget when the kingdom's "religious police" allowed 15 young girls to die horrible deaths when a fire broke out in their school in Mecca on March 11, 2002? The religious police, or Mutaween, literally blocked firefighters from saving the girls because they weren't dressed in the proper Islamic way for girls and women to be seen outdoors. With helpless firemen watching, the religious police literally beat the girls - those who were not wearing their headscarves or abayas - back into the inferno.
This criminally insane behavior, my friends, is Shariah, the barbaric, seventh-century legal system Islamists are hell-bent on imposing on the entire world.
In the wake of the Egyptian turmoil and subsequent abdication of the presidency by Hosni Mubarak, the Obama administration has had many opportunities to weigh in on the Muslim Brotherhood, the shadowy transnational Islamist organization dedicated to establishing Shariah throughout the world, including in America.
As is usual for Obama - who seems secretly to empathize with everything subversive and anti-American - the president has refused to condemn the Brotherhood. His director of national intelligence, James Clapper, went a step further, downplaying the Brotherhood's influence and ambitions and bizarrely referring to the dedicated Islamist group as "largely secular."
Since the Obama administration apparently has such a difficult time thinking logically about anything, let's reduce the facts of Shariah and the Muslim Brotherhood down to a simple, inescapable, purely logical syllogism:
Shariah - Islamic law - is unspeakably cruel, barbaric and inhuman.
The Muslim Brotherhood is unalterably dedicated to imposing Shariah on the entire world, with a special emphasis on America.
Therefore, the Muslim Brotherhood is America's enemy.
Nothing could be clearer than this. And yet, the Muslim Brotherhood - while preparing for an ever-larger role not only in Egypt but throughout the Middle East - is also making major inroads, through its many proxies, right here in America.
And it is doing so by employing the exact same dual strategy the left has successfully employed for decades to transform America.
Whether it's Marxism or Shariah Islam, efforts to transform America always seem to involve two fronts. And though we generally win the overt, intimidating, threatening battles, we always lose the covert, seductive, "peaceful" battles - and thus we lose the war.
To understand how Islam has made such remarkable inroads into Europe and the U.K., and how the same fate awaits America if we don't wake up, let's get our bearings by taking a quick trip back to pre-transformation, "normal" America.
How subversion works
I grew up in suburban Washington, D.C., during the 1950s. It was an innocent time. Kennedy hadn't been assassinated, there wasn't much divorce, and everyone loved Christmas. I didn't know what abortion or homosexuality were, and I had never even heard of people taking illegal drugs except in far-off ghettos. My school taught the three "Rs" and didn't teach about condoms. After school I got a snack and watched "Leave It to Beaver" and "Father Knows Best."
America was prosperous, strong and unified, and its culture was unapologetically Judeo-Christian. Despite all its flaws, America was simply the greatest nation on earth.
And the rest of the world knew it. People flocked here from all over, including my father who, as a little boy, barely escaped along with his mother from the Armenian Genocide. His father was murdered by the Turks, and his baby sister succumbed as well. In all, I lost dozens of family members, perhaps as many as 100, in the jihadist genocide of one and a half million Christian Armenians - the predecessor to the Nazi Holocaust 30 years later. For people like my father and grandmother, America was what the Promised Land was to the ancient Hebrews. They were inexpressibly grateful to be welcomed here. Though they came with nothing, they somehow thrived, got an education, became successful and prosperous and had families - all because of the generosity of America and the freedom and opportunity this country gave them.
This is the America that was imprinted on me - and on you, if you're old enough. This is the America you love.
However, ever since the 1960s we've lived in a blur. Although we remember the long hair, the "British invasion" and the obsession with psychedelic drugs, the really important, consequential things were happening on America's college campuses. Unbeknownst to almost everyone at the time, our nation was being assaulted by radical revolutionary movements: women's liberation, black liberation, sexual liberation, gay liberation, animal liberation, multiculturalism, political correctness and so on. But it was like a blur - we didn't really know what we were looking at, where it was coming from, and where it was taking us.
For decades, we blurred along like this. Even though our knowledge and technology were growing and transforming our world, giving us the illusion of constant progress, something was wrong. Crazy things kept happening. There were scandalous Supreme Court decisions no one could understand - banning prayer and Bible reading, but legalizing the killing of beautiful little babies. There was also a rapid upsurge in cults, atheists, New Agers and witches, not to mention hordes of angry homosexuals demanding special rights and denouncing anyone who disagreed with them.
Alongside all this developed an ever-increasing contempt - even demonization - toward Christianity, the religion that formed the basis for America and Western Civilization. It seemed that as a people we were in a pitched battle with ourselves - literally at war with our own core founding values.
But again, all this was a blur. It was hard to pin down what was happening, where it was all coming from and where it was heading.
Then finally, in late 2008, something broke the spell: We elected Barack Hussein Obama as president. Consider that America's most vexing problems in the modern age have revolved largely around two very dangerous, expansionist political/religious/military worldviews - Marxism and Shariah Islam. And yet, we elected as president someone with a very strong affinity for both. Obama was a Muslim as a youth - that's not my opinion, it's a matter of public record. He was also steeped in Marxism and radical left-wing street tactics for years - again, public record.
But we didn't hear about his background from the big media, who instead anointed Obama as a political messiah, comparing him with Jesus and God. In what became a full-fledged cult of personality, complete with people fainting right and left at his rallies, millions of people hypnotically, emotionally pinned all of their hopes and dreams on Obama. And so on Election Day, 69 million of us voted for him - 53 percent of the American electorate.
Then, almost immediately, reality struck. Under the pretext of saving the economy, Obama, along with Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, attempted to turn America into a socialist state overnight, with astonishing levels of deficit spending, mega-bailouts and government takeovers of entire economic sectors including the auto industry, not to mention forcing the "holy grail" of socialism - government-run health care - on an unwilling America. Two years later, the nation was in open revolt against Obama and the leftist-controlled Congress.
This awakening - manifest in the tea-party movement and November's historic election - forced us to ask the following painful question:
How could it be that millions of Americans fought and bled, and many died, on foreign shores to contain an evil ideology variously called communism, Marxism, socialism - and yet now a few years later, we look up at the pinnacle of power in our own country and see someone in thrall to that very ideology we fought and died to protect strangers from?
In search for answers, Americans listened to talk radio, watched Glenn Beck, read WorldNetDaily and Whistleblower, scoured books on the subject - and discovered our real history about the long-term leftist infiltration and subversion of America, which we had never been taught in public school or college.
We learned all about the "progressives" - a pleasant euphemism for cultural Marxists. We learned about the "Frankfurt School," starring Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci and his Marxist colleagues who, right here in America during the '20s and '30s, proposed taking hold of our culture by embarking on "a long march through the institutions." We learned how these Marxist intellectuals realized Marx didn't have it quite right, and that the workers of the world were not all going to rise up in unison and violently overthrow the evil bourgeois factory owners as Marx had predicted, because those workers had been too "brainwashed" by their Christian culture!
Thus, conspiring to destroy Western culture and the religion that underpinned it - Christianity - these neo-Marxists embarked on their quest to "fundamentally transform the United States of America." And transform they did.
Over time, they and those that followed in their footsteps took control of every major institution in America right under our noses: Our public education system, our colleges and universities, our news and entertainment media, our foundations and philanthropies, even most of our churches.
Why didn't we see this coming? Why did a beautiful, noble country like America - a shining city on a hill - fall prey to leftist ideology, especially when you consider that just over 20 years ago, President Ronald Reagan defeated the "evil empire" of the Soviet Union? Don't you remember? We watched the U.S.S.R. disintegrate and the Eastern Bloc nations like Poland, Czechoslovakia and East Germany celebrate their freedom. Indeed, we beheld the glorious spectacle of formerly enslaved people taking sledge hammers to the Berlin Wall and knocking it to the ground. People of good will the world over cried and sent up shouts of joy.
So, how could we win the war against an evil ideology - and yet simultaneously lose the same war?
Simple. It's a classic two-front war. While we're engaged in repelling one battle, the enemy simultaneously conducts a stealth operation. The battle that's out in the open is threatening and intimidating and distracting; it captures our attention and draws our return fire. Meanwhile, the other front in this war is seductive, non-violent, reasonable-sounding, even appealing - and that's the one that gets us.
Until two decades ago, America was preoccupied with the threat of Soviet expansionism and, worse, global thermonuclear war - thousands of nuclear-tipped ICBMs raining terror and death down on our population centers. Scary stuff. At the same time, unbeknownst to us, there was a second front in this same war being waged against us - quietly, in a more "civilized" fashion and out of the limelight.
So this is how evil works. While our attention is engaged in fighting one battle, we're distracted from dealing with the subtler, more seductive, but ultimately more dangerous version of the exact same evil.
What is at the heart of evil in our world, and how do we lessen its power in our own lives? Check out David Kupelian's newest book, "How Evil Works: Understanding and Overcoming the Destructive Forces That Are Transforming America"
The 2-front war for Shariah dominance
We are seeing now the exact same war strategy on the part of expansionist Islam, which is engaged in a two-front assault against the West. While we are focused on the very real threat of terrorism - having created in the wake of 9/11 a massive homeland security organization tasked with monitoring, analyzing and intercepting thousands of potential dangers - another stealthier, less dramatic and seemingly less threatening campaign in the same long-term war for Shariah dominance is being carried out right under our noses.
News flash: There is an advanced level of seditious Islamist infiltration and subversion within today's America, including anti-Semitic, jihadist indoctrination and even recruiting in some of our colleges, radical teachings and incitement in the rapidly growing number of mosques and Islamic schools around the nation, jihad recruitment in our prisons thanks to taxpayer-funded radical Muslim chaplains, even subversion within our own government.
Most U.S.-based Islamists and their organizations masquerade as charitable, religious and civil-rights groups but are dedicated to replacing the Constitution with the Quran. That's not my opinion; their leaders have said so, like CAIR founder Omar Ahmad, who told a California newspaper: "Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Quran, the Muslim book of scripture, should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth."
There's a dangerous psychology at work with the two-front war. When you consider the dual communist attack on America, a few loony-tunes Marxist professors or crazy, subversive textbooks have never seemed all that bad when compared to the threat of all-out nuclear war and tens of millions of casualties. So we didn't do anything. This same psychology is anesthetizing us when it comes to engaging the current Islamist assault on America: Compared with hijacking passenger jets and flying them into tall buildings, thereby mass-murdering thousands in a horrific inferno, a little Hamas fundraising or jihad recruiting on college campuses, or CAIR's counseling Muslims not to cooperate with the FBI, seems not too threatening. In any event, we imagine such subversion, however controversial and objectionable, to be permissible under America's expansive First Amendment rights of free speech, religion and assembly.
Therein lies our problem. Despite the fact that Shariah is fundamentally incompatible with America, and efforts to replace the U.S. Constitution with the Quran clearly amount to sedition, we have great difficulty confronting expansionist Islam in America. Part of the reason is that, although Shariah Islam is actually a totalitarian political, legal and military system and not just a religious faith in the conventional sense, it nevertheless has taken advantage of America's unique and broad First Amendment protections.
But there's another factor that makes America, just like Europe and the U.K., vulnerable to Islamization - and that is the growing level of societal self-doubt, self-hatred and rejection of our core Judeo-Christian values, thanks to several generations of a leftist educational system, news media and cultural establishment. That is why we are ripe for subversion.
What I'm describing, of course, is the nightmare of multiculturalism. Very simply, Judeo-Christian values used to constitute the light of America and Western Civilization. Over the past couple of generations, we have been tricked into turning out that light. And when you turn out the lights, everything looks the same in the dark: That's multiculturalism. All cultures are equally worthy, all ideas about morality, all religions, all forms of sexuality, all values - everything has equal worth in this meaningless and relativistic worldview.
To be brutally frank, the ultimate purpose of what we call multiculturalism is to annihilate objective values of good and evil and thereby to make evil acceptable.
Thus, in the multicultural "Alice in Wonderland" world that today dominates our nation, how can we possibly oppose Shariah Islam? It's just another worldview, no better or worse than our own - or so we're supposed to believe. Not honoring Shariah as equal to our own Judeo-Christian values is somehow insulting to its adherents. Funny, during the 1940s we had no problem with hurting the feelings of Nazis or forcefully rejecting all of that evil philosophy's suppositions and conclusions. Do you think the murderous and pathologically anti-Semitic philosophy of Islamo-fascism is somehow less evil than Nazism?
Yet, this ongoing "multicultural" surrender of our national and spiritual identity is a sure precursor of our country's disintegration and death - or, to use the more vogue term, "transformation."
How do we win this war?
As Sun Tzu famously said, if you know your enemy and know yourself you'll win every battle.
America's enemies, for the past several generations, have specialized in two things: deceiving us about who and what they really are, but also confusing us as to who we really are and what we really stand for (this being the primary purpose of the left's subversion of our educational system).
As a result - since we are no longer confident and unified about who we are as a nation, nor do we recognize our enemies when they're standing right in front of us - we have been losing.
To change course, a good start would be to take a cue from Europe's leaders, who have seen our future - since their nightmare of Islamic cultural, demographic, educational, legal and military (jihad) subversion is a few years further along than ours. Indeed, it is precisely because of the rapid Islamization of Europe that the continent's leaders are starting to wake up. In recent weeks, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, British Prime Minister David Cameron and French President Nicolas Sarkozy all have publicly disavowed the madness of multiculturalism and stressed the need to reclaim their nation's core identity.
"It's a failure," Sarkozy said of multiculturalism. "The truth is that, in all our democracies, we've been too concerned about the identity of the new arrivals and not enough about the identity of the country receiving them."
America must finally take its multicultural blinders off and realize that Shariah is evil, and that groups promoting its establishment in America are subversive, anti-American organizations and should be regarded as such.
Bottom line: Islam is inflicting a two-pronged attack on the West. One prong is jihad, intimidation, terror. The other is infiltration, seduction and deception. Both have exactly the same goal - the imposition of Shariah on the United States of America and the rest of the world.
That is why the Muslim Brotherhood and its proxy groups in the U.S. are our enemy every bit as much as the violent jihad groups the Brotherhood has spawned, from Hamas to al-Qaida. Don't be fooled by the nice-guy approach. As history proves, the revolutionary with the coat and tie is ultimately far more dangerous than the pawn carrying the explosives.
Read more: The Muslim Brotherhood's sneak attack on America http://www.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=264361#ixzz1Elca7o81
ABOUT YOUR GUEST: David Kupelian is an award-winning journalist, managing editor of WorldNetDaily.com, editor of Whistleblower magazine and author of the best-selling book, "The Marketing of Evil: How Radicals, Elitists, and Pseudo-Experts Sell Us Corruption Disguised as Freedom." His newest book is "How Evil Works: Understanding and Overcoming the Destructive Forces That Are Transforming America," which will be out in paperback March 15, 2011.
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23 February 2011
DAVID KUPELIAN: THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD'S SNEAK ATTACK ON AMERICA
Conducting interviews on this topic is the award-winning journalist and managing editor of WND.com, the largest independent Internet news service in the U.S., David Kupelian.
After a 14-year-old Bangladeshi girl named Hena Begum was forcibly raped, kicking and screaming, by a 40-year-old married man on Sunday, Jan. 30, a Shariah court the next day sentenced her - the rape victim - to receive 100 lashes for having engaged in an illicit "affair." Henna was given no chance to appeal, and the sentence was carried out immediately. After between 70 and 80 lashes, the little girl collapsed into unconsciousness and was taken to the hospital - where she bled to death.
Islamic apologists will tell you such an atrocity is an abuse of Shariah law, or the excess of some remote, rural tribal council. Hogwash. Rape victims are frequently flogged and imprisoned under Shariah, as when a Saudi court in early 2009 sentenced a 23-year-old female who had been gang-raped by five men to 100 lashes and a year in jail. Her crime? Accepting a lift from a man who drove her against her will to his house and took turns, with four of his friends, raping her. Same with a 2007 case where the Saudi Justice Ministry sentenced a girl gang-raped by seven men to six months in prison and 200 lashes.
Speaking of Saudi Arabia, who can forget when the kingdom's "religious police" allowed 15 young girls to die horrible deaths when a fire broke out in their school in Mecca on March 11, 2002? The religious police, or Mutaween, literally blocked firefighters from saving the girls because they weren't dressed in the proper Islamic way for girls and women to be seen outdoors. With helpless firemen watching, the religious police literally beat the girls - those who were not wearing their headscarves or abayas - back into the inferno.
This criminally insane behavior, my friends, is Shariah, the barbaric, seventh-century legal system Islamists are hell-bent on imposing on the entire world.
In the wake of the Egyptian turmoil and subsequent abdication of the presidency by Hosni Mubarak, the Obama administration has had many opportunities to weigh in on the Muslim Brotherhood, the shadowy transnational Islamist organization dedicated to establishing Shariah throughout the world, including in America.
As is usual for Obama - who seems secretly to empathize with everything subversive and anti-American - the president has refused to condemn the Brotherhood. His director of national intelligence, James Clapper, went a step further, downplaying the Brotherhood's influence and ambitions and bizarrely referring to the dedicated Islamist group as "largely secular."
Since the Obama administration apparently has such a difficult time thinking logically about anything, let's reduce the facts of Shariah and the Muslim Brotherhood down to a simple, inescapable, purely logical syllogism:
Shariah - Islamic law - is unspeakably cruel, barbaric and inhuman.
The Muslim Brotherhood is unalterably dedicated to imposing Shariah on the entire world, with a special emphasis on America.
Therefore, the Muslim Brotherhood is America's enemy.
Nothing could be clearer than this. And yet, the Muslim Brotherhood - while preparing for an ever-larger role not only in Egypt but throughout the Middle East - is also making major inroads, through its many proxies, right here in America.
And it is doing so by employing the exact same dual strategy the left has successfully employed for decades to transform America.
Whether it's Marxism or Shariah Islam, efforts to transform America always seem to involve two fronts. And though we generally win the overt, intimidating, threatening battles, we always lose the covert, seductive, "peaceful" battles - and thus we lose the war.
To understand how Islam has made such remarkable inroads into Europe and the U.K., and how the same fate awaits America if we don't wake up, let's get our bearings by taking a quick trip back to pre-transformation, "normal" America.
How subversion works
I grew up in suburban Washington, D.C., during the 1950s. It was an innocent time. Kennedy hadn't been assassinated, there wasn't much divorce, and everyone loved Christmas. I didn't know what abortion or homosexuality were, and I had never even heard of people taking illegal drugs except in far-off ghettos. My school taught the three "Rs" and didn't teach about condoms. After school I got a snack and watched "Leave It to Beaver" and "Father Knows Best."
America was prosperous, strong and unified, and its culture was unapologetically Judeo-Christian. Despite all its flaws, America was simply the greatest nation on earth.
And the rest of the world knew it. People flocked here from all over, including my father who, as a little boy, barely escaped along with his mother from the Armenian Genocide. His father was murdered by the Turks, and his baby sister succumbed as well. In all, I lost dozens of family members, perhaps as many as 100, in the jihadist genocide of one and a half million Christian Armenians - the predecessor to the Nazi Holocaust 30 years later. For people like my father and grandmother, America was what the Promised Land was to the ancient Hebrews. They were inexpressibly grateful to be welcomed here. Though they came with nothing, they somehow thrived, got an education, became successful and prosperous and had families - all because of the generosity of America and the freedom and opportunity this country gave them.
This is the America that was imprinted on me - and on you, if you're old enough. This is the America you love.
However, ever since the 1960s we've lived in a blur. Although we remember the long hair, the "British invasion" and the obsession with psychedelic drugs, the really important, consequential things were happening on America's college campuses. Unbeknownst to almost everyone at the time, our nation was being assaulted by radical revolutionary movements: women's liberation, black liberation, sexual liberation, gay liberation, animal liberation, multiculturalism, political correctness and so on. But it was like a blur - we didn't really know what we were looking at, where it was coming from, and where it was taking us.
For decades, we blurred along like this. Even though our knowledge and technology were growing and transforming our world, giving us the illusion of constant progress, something was wrong. Crazy things kept happening. There were scandalous Supreme Court decisions no one could understand - banning prayer and Bible reading, but legalizing the killing of beautiful little babies. There was also a rapid upsurge in cults, atheists, New Agers and witches, not to mention hordes of angry homosexuals demanding special rights and denouncing anyone who disagreed with them.
Alongside all this developed an ever-increasing contempt - even demonization - toward Christianity, the religion that formed the basis for America and Western Civilization. It seemed that as a people we were in a pitched battle with ourselves - literally at war with our own core founding values.
But again, all this was a blur. It was hard to pin down what was happening, where it was all coming from and where it was heading.
Then finally, in late 2008, something broke the spell: We elected Barack Hussein Obama as president. Consider that America's most vexing problems in the modern age have revolved largely around two very dangerous, expansionist political/religious/military worldviews - Marxism and Shariah Islam. And yet, we elected as president someone with a very strong affinity for both. Obama was a Muslim as a youth - that's not my opinion, it's a matter of public record. He was also steeped in Marxism and radical left-wing street tactics for years - again, public record.
But we didn't hear about his background from the big media, who instead anointed Obama as a political messiah, comparing him with Jesus and God. In what became a full-fledged cult of personality, complete with people fainting right and left at his rallies, millions of people hypnotically, emotionally pinned all of their hopes and dreams on Obama. And so on Election Day, 69 million of us voted for him - 53 percent of the American electorate.
Then, almost immediately, reality struck. Under the pretext of saving the economy, Obama, along with Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, attempted to turn America into a socialist state overnight, with astonishing levels of deficit spending, mega-bailouts and government takeovers of entire economic sectors including the auto industry, not to mention forcing the "holy grail" of socialism - government-run health care - on an unwilling America. Two years later, the nation was in open revolt against Obama and the leftist-controlled Congress.
This awakening - manifest in the tea-party movement and November's historic election - forced us to ask the following painful question:
How could it be that millions of Americans fought and bled, and many died, on foreign shores to contain an evil ideology variously called communism, Marxism, socialism - and yet now a few years later, we look up at the pinnacle of power in our own country and see someone in thrall to that very ideology we fought and died to protect strangers from?
In search for answers, Americans listened to talk radio, watched Glenn Beck, read WorldNetDaily and Whistleblower, scoured books on the subject - and discovered our real history about the long-term leftist infiltration and subversion of America, which we had never been taught in public school or college.
We learned all about the "progressives" - a pleasant euphemism for cultural Marxists. We learned about the "Frankfurt School," starring Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci and his Marxist colleagues who, right here in America during the '20s and '30s, proposed taking hold of our culture by embarking on "a long march through the institutions." We learned how these Marxist intellectuals realized Marx didn't have it quite right, and that the workers of the world were not all going to rise up in unison and violently overthrow the evil bourgeois factory owners as Marx had predicted, because those workers had been too "brainwashed" by their Christian culture!
Thus, conspiring to destroy Western culture and the religion that underpinned it - Christianity - these neo-Marxists embarked on their quest to "fundamentally transform the United States of America." And transform they did.
Over time, they and those that followed in their footsteps took control of every major institution in America right under our noses: Our public education system, our colleges and universities, our news and entertainment media, our foundations and philanthropies, even most of our churches.
Why didn't we see this coming? Why did a beautiful, noble country like America - a shining city on a hill - fall prey to leftist ideology, especially when you consider that just over 20 years ago, President Ronald Reagan defeated the "evil empire" of the Soviet Union? Don't you remember? We watched the U.S.S.R. disintegrate and the Eastern Bloc nations like Poland, Czechoslovakia and East Germany celebrate their freedom. Indeed, we beheld the glorious spectacle of formerly enslaved people taking sledge hammers to the Berlin Wall and knocking it to the ground. People of good will the world over cried and sent up shouts of joy.
So, how could we win the war against an evil ideology - and yet simultaneously lose the same war?
Simple. It's a classic two-front war. While we're engaged in repelling one battle, the enemy simultaneously conducts a stealth operation. The battle that's out in the open is threatening and intimidating and distracting; it captures our attention and draws our return fire. Meanwhile, the other front in this war is seductive, non-violent, reasonable-sounding, even appealing - and that's the one that gets us.
Until two decades ago, America was preoccupied with the threat of Soviet expansionism and, worse, global thermonuclear war - thousands of nuclear-tipped ICBMs raining terror and death down on our population centers. Scary stuff. At the same time, unbeknownst to us, there was a second front in this same war being waged against us - quietly, in a more "civilized" fashion and out of the limelight.
So this is how evil works. While our attention is engaged in fighting one battle, we're distracted from dealing with the subtler, more seductive, but ultimately more dangerous version of the exact same evil.
What is at the heart of evil in our world, and how do we lessen its power in our own lives? Check out David Kupelian's newest book, "How Evil Works: Understanding and Overcoming the Destructive Forces That Are Transforming America"
The 2-front war for Shariah dominance
We are seeing now the exact same war strategy on the part of expansionist Islam, which is engaged in a two-front assault against the West. While we are focused on the very real threat of terrorism - having created in the wake of 9/11 a massive homeland security organization tasked with monitoring, analyzing and intercepting thousands of potential dangers - another stealthier, less dramatic and seemingly less threatening campaign in the same long-term war for Shariah dominance is being carried out right under our noses.
News flash: There is an advanced level of seditious Islamist infiltration and subversion within today's America, including anti-Semitic, jihadist indoctrination and even recruiting in some of our colleges, radical teachings and incitement in the rapidly growing number of mosques and Islamic schools around the nation, jihad recruitment in our prisons thanks to taxpayer-funded radical Muslim chaplains, even subversion within our own government.
Most U.S.-based Islamists and their organizations masquerade as charitable, religious and civil-rights groups but are dedicated to replacing the Constitution with the Quran. That's not my opinion; their leaders have said so, like CAIR founder Omar Ahmad, who told a California newspaper: "Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Quran, the Muslim book of scripture, should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth."
There's a dangerous psychology at work with the two-front war. When you consider the dual communist attack on America, a few loony-tunes Marxist professors or crazy, subversive textbooks have never seemed all that bad when compared to the threat of all-out nuclear war and tens of millions of casualties. So we didn't do anything. This same psychology is anesthetizing us when it comes to engaging the current Islamist assault on America: Compared with hijacking passenger jets and flying them into tall buildings, thereby mass-murdering thousands in a horrific inferno, a little Hamas fundraising or jihad recruiting on college campuses, or CAIR's counseling Muslims not to cooperate with the FBI, seems not too threatening. In any event, we imagine such subversion, however controversial and objectionable, to be permissible under America's expansive First Amendment rights of free speech, religion and assembly.
Therein lies our problem. Despite the fact that Shariah is fundamentally incompatible with America, and efforts to replace the U.S. Constitution with the Quran clearly amount to sedition, we have great difficulty confronting expansionist Islam in America. Part of the reason is that, although Shariah Islam is actually a totalitarian political, legal and military system and not just a religious faith in the conventional sense, it nevertheless has taken advantage of America's unique and broad First Amendment protections.
But there's another factor that makes America, just like Europe and the U.K., vulnerable to Islamization - and that is the growing level of societal self-doubt, self-hatred and rejection of our core Judeo-Christian values, thanks to several generations of a leftist educational system, news media and cultural establishment. That is why we are ripe for subversion.
What I'm describing, of course, is the nightmare of multiculturalism. Very simply, Judeo-Christian values used to constitute the light of America and Western Civilization. Over the past couple of generations, we have been tricked into turning out that light. And when you turn out the lights, everything looks the same in the dark: That's multiculturalism. All cultures are equally worthy, all ideas about morality, all religions, all forms of sexuality, all values - everything has equal worth in this meaningless and relativistic worldview.
To be brutally frank, the ultimate purpose of what we call multiculturalism is to annihilate objective values of good and evil and thereby to make evil acceptable.
Thus, in the multicultural "Alice in Wonderland" world that today dominates our nation, how can we possibly oppose Shariah Islam? It's just another worldview, no better or worse than our own - or so we're supposed to believe. Not honoring Shariah as equal to our own Judeo-Christian values is somehow insulting to its adherents. Funny, during the 1940s we had no problem with hurting the feelings of Nazis or forcefully rejecting all of that evil philosophy's suppositions and conclusions. Do you think the murderous and pathologically anti-Semitic philosophy of Islamo-fascism is somehow less evil than Nazism?
Yet, this ongoing "multicultural" surrender of our national and spiritual identity is a sure precursor of our country's disintegration and death - or, to use the more vogue term, "transformation."
How do we win this war?
As Sun Tzu famously said, if you know your enemy and know yourself you'll win every battle.
America's enemies, for the past several generations, have specialized in two things: deceiving us about who and what they really are, but also confusing us as to who we really are and what we really stand for (this being the primary purpose of the left's subversion of our educational system).
As a result - since we are no longer confident and unified about who we are as a nation, nor do we recognize our enemies when they're standing right in front of us - we have been losing.
To change course, a good start would be to take a cue from Europe's leaders, who have seen our future - since their nightmare of Islamic cultural, demographic, educational, legal and military (jihad) subversion is a few years further along than ours. Indeed, it is precisely because of the rapid Islamization of Europe that the continent's leaders are starting to wake up. In recent weeks, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, British Prime Minister David Cameron and French President Nicolas Sarkozy all have publicly disavowed the madness of multiculturalism and stressed the need to reclaim their nation's core identity.
"It's a failure," Sarkozy said of multiculturalism. "The truth is that, in all our democracies, we've been too concerned about the identity of the new arrivals and not enough about the identity of the country receiving them."
America must finally take its multicultural blinders off and realize that Shariah is evil, and that groups promoting its establishment in America are subversive, anti-American organizations and should be regarded as such.
Bottom line: Islam is inflicting a two-pronged attack on the West. One prong is jihad, intimidation, terror. The other is infiltration, seduction and deception. Both have exactly the same goal - the imposition of Shariah on the United States of America and the rest of the world.
That is why the Muslim Brotherhood and its proxy groups in the U.S. are our enemy every bit as much as the violent jihad groups the Brotherhood has spawned, from Hamas to al-Qaida. Don't be fooled by the nice-guy approach. As history proves, the revolutionary with the coat and tie is ultimately far more dangerous than the pawn carrying the explosives.
Read more: The Muslim Brotherhood's sneak attack on America http://www.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=264361#ixzz1Elca7o81
ABOUT YOUR GUEST: David Kupelian is an award-winning journalist, managing editor of WorldNetDaily.com, editor of Whistleblower magazine and author of the best-selling book, "The Marketing of Evil: How Radicals, Elitists, and Pseudo-Experts Sell Us Corruption Disguised as Freedom." His newest book is "How Evil Works: Understanding and Overcoming the Destructive Forces That Are Transforming America," which will be out in paperback March 15, 2011.
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
WORTH THE TIME TO READ IF YOU WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT BHO AND HIS CONNECTIONS
You may have read this, or bits and pieces about George Soros in the past,
regardless it is definitely worth your time to read, or read again… …and worry !
I have read bits and pieces of this but this seems to pull a lot of it together and reminds me/ us of how evil plays out in the world. I am not judging anyone but I do believe that Satan is hard a work every day to try and defeat good. If even a part of this is true and much of it is then we can see him actively working to bring more people down to him. This is my belief as it relates to the Muslim faith… I have spent a fair amount of time trying to understand the Koran ( their Bible) if you will and it is filled with hate and evil. No nice way to serve it. People who say that the Muslim / Islamic faith is a peace and loving religion is like saying Christian do not believe in the birth of Jesus. It is just not so…. Muhammad gives some very direct actions to take against anyone who does not believe and follow his teachings, how to treat women, how to treat family members who go out side of the muslim faith… Not very peace loving … Anyway I will step off my box and just ask that you take a bit of quite time and read this…
If it makes sense to you them sent it to your friends and lets get as many people as we can informed on what may be the answer to a lot of the things that we as a Christian nation, regardless of what our president would like to tell people, we are a Christian nation.
Thanks for taking the time to read and forward. It will also be posted on my blog
http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/
HJ
The America we know and love may be existing on borrowed time
ONE EVIL Son of Satan
FROM STEVE KROFT ( 60 Minutes ) on CBS!
This is very interesting material. Glenn Beck has been developing material to show all the ties that Soros has through the nation and world along with his goals. This article is written by Steve Kroft from 60 Minutes . It begins to piece together the rise of Obama and his behavior in leading the nation along with many members of Congress( in particular the Democrats, such as the election of Pelosi and now recently to the minority leader position in Congress):
If you have wondered where Obama came from and just how he quickly moved from obscurity to President, or why the media is "selective" in what we are told, here is the man who most probably put him there and is responsible. He controls President Obama's every move. Think this is absurd? Invest a few minutes and read this. You won't regret it.
Who is Obama? Obama is a puppet and here is the explanation of the man or demon that pulls his strings. It's not by chance that Obama can manipulate the world. I don't think he knows how to tie his shoe laces. After reading this and Obama's reluctance to accept help on the oil spill you wonder if the spill is part of the plan to destroy the US ? "In history, nothing happens by accident. If it happened, you can bet someone planned it." [ Franklin Delano Roosevelt ]
Who Is George Soros? He brought the market down in 2 days. Here is what CBS' Mr. Steve Kroft's research has turned up. It's a bit of a read, and it took 4 months to put it together. "The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States ." [George Soros]
George Soros is an evil man. He's anti-God, anti-family, anti-American, and anti-good. He killed and robbed his own Jewish people. What we have in Soros, is a multi-billionaire atheist, with skewed moral values, and a sociopath's lack of conscience. He considers himself to be an elitist world-class philosopher, despises the American way, and just loves to do social engineering and change cultures.
György Schwartz, better known to the world as George Soros, was born August 12, 1930 in Hungary . Soros' father, Tivadar, was a fervent practitioner of the Esperanto language invented in 1887, and designed to be the first global language, free of any national identity. The Schwartz's, who were non-practicing Jews, changed the family name to Soros, in order to facilitate assimilation into the Gentile population, as the Nazis spread into Hungary during the 1930s.
When Hitler's henchman Adolf Eichmann arrived in Hungary , to oversee the murder of that country's Jews, George Soros ended up with a man whose job was confiscating property from the Jewish population. Soros went with him on his rounds.
Soros has repeatedly called 1944, "(T)he best year of his life." Seventy percent of Mr. Soros's fellow Jews in Hungary , nearly a half-million human beings, were annihilated in that year, yet he gives no sign that this put any damper on his elation, either at the time or indeed in retrospect. During an interview with Sixty Minutes' , Steve Kroft, Soros was asked about his "best year."
KROFT: My understanding is that you went out with this protector of yours who swore that you were his adopted godson. SOROS: Yes. Yes.
KROFT: Went out, in fact, and helped in the confiscation of property from your fellow Jews, friends and neighbors. SOROS: Yes. That's right. Yes.
KROFT: I mean, that sounds like an experience that would send lots of people to the psychiatric couch for many, many , years. Was it difficult?
SOROS: No, not at all. Not at all, I rather enjoyed it.
KROFT: No feelings of guilt?
SOROS: No, only feelings of absolute power.
In his article, Muravchik describes how Soros has admitted to having carried some rather "potent messianic fantasies with me from childhood, which I felt I had to control, otherwise they might get me in trouble." Be that as it may. After WWII, Soros attended the London School of Economics, where he fell under the thrall of fellow atheist and Hungarian, Karl Popper, one of his professors. Popper was a mentor to Soros until Popper's death in 1994. Two of Popper's most influential teachings concerned "the open society," and fallibilism.
Fallibilism is the philosophical doctrine that all claims of knowledge could, in principle, be mistaken. (Then again, I could be wrong about that.) The "open society" basically refers to a "test and evaluate" approach to social engineering. Regarding "open society", Roy Childs writes, "Since the Second World War, most of the Western democracies have followed Popper's advice about piecemeal social engineering and democratic social reform, and it has gotten them into a grand mess."
In 1956 Soros moved to New York City , where he worked on Wall Street, and started amassing his fortune. He specialized in hedge funds and currency speculation. Soros is absolutely ruthless, amoral, and clever in his business dealings, and quickly made his fortune. By the 1980's he was well on his way to becoming the global powerhouse that he is today.
In an article Kyle-Anne Shiver wrote for The American Thinker , she says, "Soros made his first billion in 1992 by shorting the British pound with leveraged billions in financial bets, and became known as the man who broke the Bank of England . He broke it on the backs of hard-working British citizens who immediately saw their homes severely devalued and their life savings cut drastically, almost overnight."
In 1994 Soros crowed in The New Republic , that "the former Soviet Empire is now called the Soros Empire." The Russia-gate scandal in 1999, which almost collapsed the Russian economy, was labeled by Rep. Jim Leach, then head of the House Banking Committee, to be "one of the greatest social robberies in human history. "The "Soros Empire" indeed. In 1997 Soros almost destroyed the economies of Thailand and Malaysia . At the time, Malaysia 's Prime Minister, Mahathir Mohammad, called Soros "a villain, and a moron." Thai activist Weng Tojirakarn said, "We regard George Soros as a kind of Dracula. He sucks the blood from the people."
The website Greek National Pride reports, "[Soros] was part of the full court press that dismantled Yugoslavia and caused trouble in Georgia , Ukraine and Myanmar [ Burma ]. Calling himself a philanthropist, Soros' role is to tighten the ideological stranglehold of globalization and the New World Order while promoting his own financial gain. He is without conscience; a capitalist who functions with absolute amorality."
France has upheld an earlier conviction against Soros for felony insider trading. Soros was fined 2.9 million dollars. Recently, his native Hungary fined Soros 2.2 million dollars for "illegal market manipulation." Elizabeth Crum writes that the Hungarian economy has been in a state of transition as the country seeks to become more financially stable and westernized. [Soros'] deliberately driving down the share price of its largest bank put Hungary 's economy into a wicked tailspin, one from which it is still trying to recover.
My point here is that Soros is a planetary parasite. His grasp, greed, and gluttony have a global reach. But what about America ? Soros told Australia 's national newspaper The Australian , " America , as the centre of the globalized financial markets, was sucking up the savings of the world. This is now over. The game is out," he said, adding that the time has come for "a very serious adjustment" in American's consumption habits. He implied that he was the one with the power to bring this about."
Soros: "World financial crisis was "stimulating" and "in a way, the culmination of my life's work."
Obama has recently promised 10 billion of our tax dollars to Brazil , in order to give them a leg-up in expanding their offshore oil fields. Obama's largesse towards Brazil came shortly after his political financial backer, George Soros, invested heavily in Brazilian oil (Pet rob ras).
Tait Trussel writes, "The Pet rob ras loan may be a windfall for Soros and Brazil , but it is a bad deal for the U. S. The American Petroleum Institute estimates that oil exploration in the U S could create 160,000 new, well-paying jobs, as well as $1.7 trillion in revenues to federal, state, and local governments, all while fostering greater energy security and independence."
A blog you might want to keep an eye on is SorosWatch.com. Their mission: "This blog is dedicated to all who have suffered due to the ruthless financial pursuits of George Soros. Your stories are many and varied, but the theme is the same: the destructive power of greed without conscience. We pledge to tirelessly watch Soros wherever he goes and to print the truth in the hope that he will one day be made to stop preying upon the world's poor, that justice will be served."
Back to America . Soros has been actively working to destroy America from the inside out for some years now. People have been warning us. Two years ago, news sources reported that "Soros [is] an extremist who wants open borders, a one-world foreign policy, legalized drugs, euthanasia, and on and on. This is off-the-chart dangerous." In 1997 Rachel Ehrenfeld wrote, "Soros uses his philanthropy to change or more accurately, deconstruct the moral values and attitudes of the Western world, and particularly of the American people. His "open society" is not about freedom; it is about license. His vision rejects the notion of ordered liberty, in favor of a PROGRESSIVE ideology of rights and entitlements."
Perhaps the most important of these "whistle blowers" are David Horowitz and Richard Poe. Their book The Shadow Party outlines in detail how Soros hijacked the Democratic Party, and now owns it lock, stock, and barrel. Soros has been packing the Democratic Party with radicals, and ousting moderate Democrats for years. The Shadow Party became the Shadow Government, which recently became the Obama Administration.
Discover The Networks.org (another good source) writes, "By his [Soros'] own admission, he helped engineer coups in Slovakia , Croatia , Georgia , and Yugoslavia . When Soros targets a country for "regime change," he begins by creating a shadow government, a fully formed government-in-exile, ready to assume power when the opportunity arises. The Shadow Party he has built in America greatly resembles those he has created in other countries prior to instigating a coup."
The November 2008 edition of the German magazine Der Spiegel , in which Soros gives his opinion on what the next POTUS (President of the U. S. ) should do after taking office. "I think we need a large stimulus package." Soros thought that around 600 billion dollars would be about right. Soros also said that, "I think Obama presents us a great opportunity to finally deal with global warming and energy dependence. The U. S. needs a cap and trade system with auctioning of licenses for emissions rights."
Although Soros doesn't (yet) own the Republican Party, like he does the Democrats, make no mistake, his tentacles are spread throughout the Republican Party as well.
Soros is a partner in the Carlyle Group where he has invested more than 100 million dollars. According to an article by The Baltimore Chronicle 's Alice Cherbonnier, the Carlye Group is run by "a veritable who's who of former Republican leaders," from CIA man Frank Carlucci, to CIA head [and ex-President] George Bush, Sr.
In late 2006, Soros bought about 2 million shares of Halliburton, Dick Cheney's old stomping grounds. When the Democrats and Republicans held their conventions in 2000, Soros held Shadow Party conventions in the same cities, at the same time. In 2008, Soros donated $5,000,000,000 ( that's five billion ) to the Democratic National Committee, DNC, to insure Obama's win and wins for many other Alinsky trained Radical Rules, Anti-American Socialists. George has been contributing a $ billion plus to the DNC since Clinton came on the scene.
Soros has dirtied both sides of the aisle, trust me. And if that weren't bad enough, he has long held connections with the CIA. And I mustn't forget to mention Soros' involvement with the MSM (Main Stream Media), the entertainment industry (e.g., he owns 2.6 million shares of Time Warner), and the various political advertising organizations he funnels millions to. In short, George Soros controls or influences most of the MSM. Little wonder they ignore the TEA PARTY, Soro's NEMESIS. As Matthew Vadum writes, "The liberal billionaire-turned-philanthropist has been buying up media properties for years in order to drive home his message to the American public that they are too materialistic, too wasteful, too selfish, and too stupid to decide for themselves how to run their own lives."
Richard Poe writes, "Soros' private philanthropy, totaling nearly $5 billion, continues undermining America 's traditional Western values. His giving has provided funding of abortion rights, atheism, drug legalization, sex education, euthanasia, feminism, gun control, globalization, mass immigration, gay marriage and other radical experiments in social engineering."
Some of the many NGOs (Non-Government Organizations) that Soros funds with his billions are: MoveOn.org, the Apollo Alliance , Media Matters for America , the Tides Foundation, the ACLU, ACORN, PDIA (Project on Death In America ), La Raza, and many more. For a more complete list, with brief descriptions of the NGOs, go to DiscoverTheNetworks.org.
Poe continues, "Through his global web of Open Society Institutes and Open Society Foundations, Soros has spent 25 years recruiting, training, indoctrinating and installing a network of loyal operatives in 50 countries, placing them in positions of influence and power in media, government, finance and academia."
Without Soros' money, would the Saul Alinsky's Chicago machine still be rolling? Would SEIU, ACORN, and La Raza still be pursuing their nefarious activities? Would Big Money and lobbyists still be corrupting government? Would our college campuses still be retirement homes for 1960s radicals?
America stands at the brink of an abyss, and that fact is directly attributable to Soros. Soros has vigorously, cleverly, and insidiously planned the ruination of America and his puppet, Barack Obama is leading the way.
The words of Patrick Henry are apropos, "Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!"
Above information researched by CBS' Steve Kroft
regardless it is definitely worth your time to read, or read again… …and worry !
I have read bits and pieces of this but this seems to pull a lot of it together and reminds me/ us of how evil plays out in the world. I am not judging anyone but I do believe that Satan is hard a work every day to try and defeat good. If even a part of this is true and much of it is then we can see him actively working to bring more people down to him. This is my belief as it relates to the Muslim faith… I have spent a fair amount of time trying to understand the Koran ( their Bible) if you will and it is filled with hate and evil. No nice way to serve it. People who say that the Muslim / Islamic faith is a peace and loving religion is like saying Christian do not believe in the birth of Jesus. It is just not so…. Muhammad gives some very direct actions to take against anyone who does not believe and follow his teachings, how to treat women, how to treat family members who go out side of the muslim faith… Not very peace loving … Anyway I will step off my box and just ask that you take a bit of quite time and read this…
If it makes sense to you them sent it to your friends and lets get as many people as we can informed on what may be the answer to a lot of the things that we as a Christian nation, regardless of what our president would like to tell people, we are a Christian nation.
Thanks for taking the time to read and forward. It will also be posted on my blog
http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/
HJ
The America we know and love may be existing on borrowed time
ONE EVIL Son of Satan
FROM STEVE KROFT ( 60 Minutes ) on CBS!
This is very interesting material. Glenn Beck has been developing material to show all the ties that Soros has through the nation and world along with his goals. This article is written by Steve Kroft from 60 Minutes . It begins to piece together the rise of Obama and his behavior in leading the nation along with many members of Congress( in particular the Democrats, such as the election of Pelosi and now recently to the minority leader position in Congress):
If you have wondered where Obama came from and just how he quickly moved from obscurity to President, or why the media is "selective" in what we are told, here is the man who most probably put him there and is responsible. He controls President Obama's every move. Think this is absurd? Invest a few minutes and read this. You won't regret it.
Who is Obama? Obama is a puppet and here is the explanation of the man or demon that pulls his strings. It's not by chance that Obama can manipulate the world. I don't think he knows how to tie his shoe laces. After reading this and Obama's reluctance to accept help on the oil spill you wonder if the spill is part of the plan to destroy the US ? "In history, nothing happens by accident. If it happened, you can bet someone planned it." [ Franklin Delano Roosevelt ]
Who Is George Soros? He brought the market down in 2 days. Here is what CBS' Mr. Steve Kroft's research has turned up. It's a bit of a read, and it took 4 months to put it together. "The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States ." [George Soros]
George Soros is an evil man. He's anti-God, anti-family, anti-American, and anti-good. He killed and robbed his own Jewish people. What we have in Soros, is a multi-billionaire atheist, with skewed moral values, and a sociopath's lack of conscience. He considers himself to be an elitist world-class philosopher, despises the American way, and just loves to do social engineering and change cultures.
György Schwartz, better known to the world as George Soros, was born August 12, 1930 in Hungary . Soros' father, Tivadar, was a fervent practitioner of the Esperanto language invented in 1887, and designed to be the first global language, free of any national identity. The Schwartz's, who were non-practicing Jews, changed the family name to Soros, in order to facilitate assimilation into the Gentile population, as the Nazis spread into Hungary during the 1930s.
When Hitler's henchman Adolf Eichmann arrived in Hungary , to oversee the murder of that country's Jews, George Soros ended up with a man whose job was confiscating property from the Jewish population. Soros went with him on his rounds.
Soros has repeatedly called 1944, "(T)he best year of his life." Seventy percent of Mr. Soros's fellow Jews in Hungary , nearly a half-million human beings, were annihilated in that year, yet he gives no sign that this put any damper on his elation, either at the time or indeed in retrospect. During an interview with Sixty Minutes' , Steve Kroft, Soros was asked about his "best year."
KROFT: My understanding is that you went out with this protector of yours who swore that you were his adopted godson. SOROS: Yes. Yes.
KROFT: Went out, in fact, and helped in the confiscation of property from your fellow Jews, friends and neighbors. SOROS: Yes. That's right. Yes.
KROFT: I mean, that sounds like an experience that would send lots of people to the psychiatric couch for many, many , years. Was it difficult?
SOROS: No, not at all. Not at all, I rather enjoyed it.
KROFT: No feelings of guilt?
SOROS: No, only feelings of absolute power.
In his article, Muravchik describes how Soros has admitted to having carried some rather "potent messianic fantasies with me from childhood, which I felt I had to control, otherwise they might get me in trouble." Be that as it may. After WWII, Soros attended the London School of Economics, where he fell under the thrall of fellow atheist and Hungarian, Karl Popper, one of his professors. Popper was a mentor to Soros until Popper's death in 1994. Two of Popper's most influential teachings concerned "the open society," and fallibilism.
Fallibilism is the philosophical doctrine that all claims of knowledge could, in principle, be mistaken. (Then again, I could be wrong about that.) The "open society" basically refers to a "test and evaluate" approach to social engineering. Regarding "open society", Roy Childs writes, "Since the Second World War, most of the Western democracies have followed Popper's advice about piecemeal social engineering and democratic social reform, and it has gotten them into a grand mess."
In 1956 Soros moved to New York City , where he worked on Wall Street, and started amassing his fortune. He specialized in hedge funds and currency speculation. Soros is absolutely ruthless, amoral, and clever in his business dealings, and quickly made his fortune. By the 1980's he was well on his way to becoming the global powerhouse that he is today.
In an article Kyle-Anne Shiver wrote for The American Thinker , she says, "Soros made his first billion in 1992 by shorting the British pound with leveraged billions in financial bets, and became known as the man who broke the Bank of England . He broke it on the backs of hard-working British citizens who immediately saw their homes severely devalued and their life savings cut drastically, almost overnight."
In 1994 Soros crowed in The New Republic , that "the former Soviet Empire is now called the Soros Empire." The Russia-gate scandal in 1999, which almost collapsed the Russian economy, was labeled by Rep. Jim Leach, then head of the House Banking Committee, to be "one of the greatest social robberies in human history. "The "Soros Empire" indeed. In 1997 Soros almost destroyed the economies of Thailand and Malaysia . At the time, Malaysia 's Prime Minister, Mahathir Mohammad, called Soros "a villain, and a moron." Thai activist Weng Tojirakarn said, "We regard George Soros as a kind of Dracula. He sucks the blood from the people."
The website Greek National Pride reports, "[Soros] was part of the full court press that dismantled Yugoslavia and caused trouble in Georgia , Ukraine and Myanmar [ Burma ]. Calling himself a philanthropist, Soros' role is to tighten the ideological stranglehold of globalization and the New World Order while promoting his own financial gain. He is without conscience; a capitalist who functions with absolute amorality."
France has upheld an earlier conviction against Soros for felony insider trading. Soros was fined 2.9 million dollars. Recently, his native Hungary fined Soros 2.2 million dollars for "illegal market manipulation." Elizabeth Crum writes that the Hungarian economy has been in a state of transition as the country seeks to become more financially stable and westernized. [Soros'] deliberately driving down the share price of its largest bank put Hungary 's economy into a wicked tailspin, one from which it is still trying to recover.
My point here is that Soros is a planetary parasite. His grasp, greed, and gluttony have a global reach. But what about America ? Soros told Australia 's national newspaper The Australian , " America , as the centre of the globalized financial markets, was sucking up the savings of the world. This is now over. The game is out," he said, adding that the time has come for "a very serious adjustment" in American's consumption habits. He implied that he was the one with the power to bring this about."
Soros: "World financial crisis was "stimulating" and "in a way, the culmination of my life's work."
Obama has recently promised 10 billion of our tax dollars to Brazil , in order to give them a leg-up in expanding their offshore oil fields. Obama's largesse towards Brazil came shortly after his political financial backer, George Soros, invested heavily in Brazilian oil (Pet rob ras).
Tait Trussel writes, "The Pet rob ras loan may be a windfall for Soros and Brazil , but it is a bad deal for the U. S. The American Petroleum Institute estimates that oil exploration in the U S could create 160,000 new, well-paying jobs, as well as $1.7 trillion in revenues to federal, state, and local governments, all while fostering greater energy security and independence."
A blog you might want to keep an eye on is SorosWatch.com. Their mission: "This blog is dedicated to all who have suffered due to the ruthless financial pursuits of George Soros. Your stories are many and varied, but the theme is the same: the destructive power of greed without conscience. We pledge to tirelessly watch Soros wherever he goes and to print the truth in the hope that he will one day be made to stop preying upon the world's poor, that justice will be served."
Back to America . Soros has been actively working to destroy America from the inside out for some years now. People have been warning us. Two years ago, news sources reported that "Soros [is] an extremist who wants open borders, a one-world foreign policy, legalized drugs, euthanasia, and on and on. This is off-the-chart dangerous." In 1997 Rachel Ehrenfeld wrote, "Soros uses his philanthropy to change or more accurately, deconstruct the moral values and attitudes of the Western world, and particularly of the American people. His "open society" is not about freedom; it is about license. His vision rejects the notion of ordered liberty, in favor of a PROGRESSIVE ideology of rights and entitlements."
Perhaps the most important of these "whistle blowers" are David Horowitz and Richard Poe. Their book The Shadow Party outlines in detail how Soros hijacked the Democratic Party, and now owns it lock, stock, and barrel. Soros has been packing the Democratic Party with radicals, and ousting moderate Democrats for years. The Shadow Party became the Shadow Government, which recently became the Obama Administration.
Discover The Networks.org (another good source) writes, "By his [Soros'] own admission, he helped engineer coups in Slovakia , Croatia , Georgia , and Yugoslavia . When Soros targets a country for "regime change," he begins by creating a shadow government, a fully formed government-in-exile, ready to assume power when the opportunity arises. The Shadow Party he has built in America greatly resembles those he has created in other countries prior to instigating a coup."
The November 2008 edition of the German magazine Der Spiegel , in which Soros gives his opinion on what the next POTUS (President of the U. S. ) should do after taking office. "I think we need a large stimulus package." Soros thought that around 600 billion dollars would be about right. Soros also said that, "I think Obama presents us a great opportunity to finally deal with global warming and energy dependence. The U. S. needs a cap and trade system with auctioning of licenses for emissions rights."
Although Soros doesn't (yet) own the Republican Party, like he does the Democrats, make no mistake, his tentacles are spread throughout the Republican Party as well.
Soros is a partner in the Carlyle Group where he has invested more than 100 million dollars. According to an article by The Baltimore Chronicle 's Alice Cherbonnier, the Carlye Group is run by "a veritable who's who of former Republican leaders," from CIA man Frank Carlucci, to CIA head [and ex-President] George Bush, Sr.
In late 2006, Soros bought about 2 million shares of Halliburton, Dick Cheney's old stomping grounds. When the Democrats and Republicans held their conventions in 2000, Soros held Shadow Party conventions in the same cities, at the same time. In 2008, Soros donated $5,000,000,000 ( that's five billion ) to the Democratic National Committee, DNC, to insure Obama's win and wins for many other Alinsky trained Radical Rules, Anti-American Socialists. George has been contributing a $ billion plus to the DNC since Clinton came on the scene.
Soros has dirtied both sides of the aisle, trust me. And if that weren't bad enough, he has long held connections with the CIA. And I mustn't forget to mention Soros' involvement with the MSM (Main Stream Media), the entertainment industry (e.g., he owns 2.6 million shares of Time Warner), and the various political advertising organizations he funnels millions to. In short, George Soros controls or influences most of the MSM. Little wonder they ignore the TEA PARTY, Soro's NEMESIS. As Matthew Vadum writes, "The liberal billionaire-turned-philanthropist has been buying up media properties for years in order to drive home his message to the American public that they are too materialistic, too wasteful, too selfish, and too stupid to decide for themselves how to run their own lives."
Richard Poe writes, "Soros' private philanthropy, totaling nearly $5 billion, continues undermining America 's traditional Western values. His giving has provided funding of abortion rights, atheism, drug legalization, sex education, euthanasia, feminism, gun control, globalization, mass immigration, gay marriage and other radical experiments in social engineering."
Some of the many NGOs (Non-Government Organizations) that Soros funds with his billions are: MoveOn.org, the Apollo Alliance , Media Matters for America , the Tides Foundation, the ACLU, ACORN, PDIA (Project on Death In America ), La Raza, and many more. For a more complete list, with brief descriptions of the NGOs, go to DiscoverTheNetworks.org.
Poe continues, "Through his global web of Open Society Institutes and Open Society Foundations, Soros has spent 25 years recruiting, training, indoctrinating and installing a network of loyal operatives in 50 countries, placing them in positions of influence and power in media, government, finance and academia."
Without Soros' money, would the Saul Alinsky's Chicago machine still be rolling? Would SEIU, ACORN, and La Raza still be pursuing their nefarious activities? Would Big Money and lobbyists still be corrupting government? Would our college campuses still be retirement homes for 1960s radicals?
America stands at the brink of an abyss, and that fact is directly attributable to Soros. Soros has vigorously, cleverly, and insidiously planned the ruination of America and his puppet, Barack Obama is leading the way.
The words of Patrick Henry are apropos, "Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!"
Above information researched by CBS' Steve Kroft
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
It Is Time To Take Back Our Country.. Up To You And Me
Governors of 35 states have filed suit against the Federal Government for imposing unlawful burdens upon them. It only takes 38 (of the 50) States to convene a Constitutional Convention.
This will take less than thirty seconds to read. If you agree, please pass it on.
This is an idea that we should address.
For too long we have been too complacent about the workings of Congress. Many citizens had no idea that members of Congress could retire with the same pay after only one term, that they specifically exempted themselves from many of the laws they have passed (such as being exempt from any fear of prosecution for sexual harassment) while ordinary citizens must live under those laws. The latest is to exempt themselves from the Healthcare Reform... in all of its forms. Somehow, that doesn't seem logical. We do not have an elite that is above the law. I truly don't care if they are Democrat, Republican, Independent or whatever. The self-serving must stop.
If each person that receives this will forward it on to 20 people, in three days, most people in The United States of America will have the message. This is one proposal that really should be passed around.
Proposed 28th Amendment to the United States Constitution: "Congress shall make no law that applies to the citizens of the United States that does not apply equally to the Senators and/or Representatives; and, Congress shall make no law that applies to the Senators and/or Representatives that does not apply equally to the citizens of the United States ."
This will take less than thirty seconds to read. If you agree, please pass it on.
This is an idea that we should address.
For too long we have been too complacent about the workings of Congress. Many citizens had no idea that members of Congress could retire with the same pay after only one term, that they specifically exempted themselves from many of the laws they have passed (such as being exempt from any fear of prosecution for sexual harassment) while ordinary citizens must live under those laws. The latest is to exempt themselves from the Healthcare Reform... in all of its forms. Somehow, that doesn't seem logical. We do not have an elite that is above the law. I truly don't care if they are Democrat, Republican, Independent or whatever. The self-serving must stop.
If each person that receives this will forward it on to 20 people, in three days, most people in The United States of America will have the message. This is one proposal that really should be passed around.
Proposed 28th Amendment to the United States Constitution: "Congress shall make no law that applies to the citizens of the United States that does not apply equally to the Senators and/or Representatives; and, Congress shall make no law that applies to the Senators and/or Representatives that does not apply equally to the citizens of the United States ."
Monday, January 3, 2011
It Is Time For Real Change - For The Betterment of The USA
U.S. House: Under New Management
Most people will tell you that it's about a two and a half mile walk from the White House to the U.S. Capitol. But in two days, the distance between the President and the 112th Congress is bound to feel a lot larger. After four grueling years, House Democrats will hand over the keys to Republican Speaker John Boehner (Ohio). The pride of West Chester Township, Leader Boehner plans on bringing some hearty Midwestern values back to the capital city. And unlike his predecessor, who celebrated her new post with a series of expensive parties, the new Speaker will be in a far different place before his installation: church. After the official mid-week ceremony, there won't be Embassy concerts or champagne dinners. Instead, the Leader is insisting on something more meaningful--a public reading of the U.S. Constitution.
But the opening session of Congress isn't the only departure from the old regime. Plenty of new rules await--on everything from making bills public to citing the Constitutional grounds for legislation. The new environment "will be cumbersome at first," Boehner says. "But if we quit wasting time... naming post offices... honoring every sports team that won the local little league, guess what? We'll have time [to get down to business]." That's exactly what his freshmen class wanted to hear. There are 69 new GOP faces on Capitol Hill this week--and at least 50 of them are ready to get to work on something other than liberal social policy. Like Boehner, they know this may be the last chance for Republicans to define themselves.
For President Obama, the New Year will bring new challenges. When the First Family gets back from Hawaii, the President's clock won't be the only thing that needs adjusting. The administration will have to get used to a fresh way of doing business, and that includes a level of scrutiny his team has never experienced. "Democrats should be concerned about real oversight," the Washington Post warns, "the sort we've not seen in the last two years, while the Democratic Congress displayed precious little interest in examining the executive branch's performance on a slew of policy issues. In failing to... seriously examine the administration's policy initiatives... Congress abdicated its constitutional obligations..." The President said he's "willing to work with anyone of either party who has a good idea and a commitment to see it through. [We] have a shared responsibility to move this country forward." Fortunately for America, conservatives will have a say in which direction it moves.
As for FRC's resolutions for 2011, we aren't looking for Washington to solve our problems--we just want it to stop creating them. And so far, our priorities seem to be lining up with the new House majority. One of our top goals will be stopping the flow of our tax dollars to organizations and government programs that undermine the values that parents are trying to instill in their children. Repealing ObamaCare is first on the list, and even though the Senate probably doesn't have the stomach for it, we plan to work with House leadership to dismantle the law with language found in the Reps. Pitts (R-Penn.)-Lipinski (D-Mich.) bill. Obviously, our biggest goal will be getting taxpayers out of the abortion business. First up is the Rep. Smith (R-N.J.)-Lipinski (D-Mich.) "No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act" which would wipe the slate clean of most government projects that force us to subsidize the abortion business. Rep. Mike Pence's (R-Ind.) legislation, "Title X Abortion Provider Prohibition Act" takes care of the federal money line for abortionists. His bill is becoming even more important now that Planned Parenthood has told all of its affiliates they are required to perform abortions or lose the organization's support. In addition to cultivating a culture of life, we'll be working to aggressively protect religious freedom and the family--both of which are at risk as a result of legislation passed by the 111thCongress.
The incoming House leaders understand that the first few months are going to be critical in regaining America's trust. When the ball dropped in Times Square at the start of the New Year, it became the Republicans' job to prove that they won't drop the ball on voters' concerns in this new Congress.
** FRC's Kenyn Cureton, Vice President for Church Ministries, prayed in the New Year with a piece in the Christian Post. To read his hopes for 2011, click here. **
Most people will tell you that it's about a two and a half mile walk from the White House to the U.S. Capitol. But in two days, the distance between the President and the 112th Congress is bound to feel a lot larger. After four grueling years, House Democrats will hand over the keys to Republican Speaker John Boehner (Ohio). The pride of West Chester Township, Leader Boehner plans on bringing some hearty Midwestern values back to the capital city. And unlike his predecessor, who celebrated her new post with a series of expensive parties, the new Speaker will be in a far different place before his installation: church. After the official mid-week ceremony, there won't be Embassy concerts or champagne dinners. Instead, the Leader is insisting on something more meaningful--a public reading of the U.S. Constitution.
But the opening session of Congress isn't the only departure from the old regime. Plenty of new rules await--on everything from making bills public to citing the Constitutional grounds for legislation. The new environment "will be cumbersome at first," Boehner says. "But if we quit wasting time... naming post offices... honoring every sports team that won the local little league, guess what? We'll have time [to get down to business]." That's exactly what his freshmen class wanted to hear. There are 69 new GOP faces on Capitol Hill this week--and at least 50 of them are ready to get to work on something other than liberal social policy. Like Boehner, they know this may be the last chance for Republicans to define themselves.
For President Obama, the New Year will bring new challenges. When the First Family gets back from Hawaii, the President's clock won't be the only thing that needs adjusting. The administration will have to get used to a fresh way of doing business, and that includes a level of scrutiny his team has never experienced. "Democrats should be concerned about real oversight," the Washington Post warns, "the sort we've not seen in the last two years, while the Democratic Congress displayed precious little interest in examining the executive branch's performance on a slew of policy issues. In failing to... seriously examine the administration's policy initiatives... Congress abdicated its constitutional obligations..." The President said he's "willing to work with anyone of either party who has a good idea and a commitment to see it through. [We] have a shared responsibility to move this country forward." Fortunately for America, conservatives will have a say in which direction it moves.
As for FRC's resolutions for 2011, we aren't looking for Washington to solve our problems--we just want it to stop creating them. And so far, our priorities seem to be lining up with the new House majority. One of our top goals will be stopping the flow of our tax dollars to organizations and government programs that undermine the values that parents are trying to instill in their children. Repealing ObamaCare is first on the list, and even though the Senate probably doesn't have the stomach for it, we plan to work with House leadership to dismantle the law with language found in the Reps. Pitts (R-Penn.)-Lipinski (D-Mich.) bill. Obviously, our biggest goal will be getting taxpayers out of the abortion business. First up is the Rep. Smith (R-N.J.)-Lipinski (D-Mich.) "No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act" which would wipe the slate clean of most government projects that force us to subsidize the abortion business. Rep. Mike Pence's (R-Ind.) legislation, "Title X Abortion Provider Prohibition Act" takes care of the federal money line for abortionists. His bill is becoming even more important now that Planned Parenthood has told all of its affiliates they are required to perform abortions or lose the organization's support. In addition to cultivating a culture of life, we'll be working to aggressively protect religious freedom and the family--both of which are at risk as a result of legislation passed by the 111thCongress.
The incoming House leaders understand that the first few months are going to be critical in regaining America's trust. When the ball dropped in Times Square at the start of the New Year, it became the Republicans' job to prove that they won't drop the ball on voters' concerns in this new Congress.
** FRC's Kenyn Cureton, Vice President for Church Ministries, prayed in the New Year with a piece in the Christian Post. To read his hopes for 2011, click here. **
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