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As has happened literally hundreds of times, I started writing a brief note to introduce today's articles and it turned into this article: Thoughts on Killed Humanitarian Mission MembersThese thoughts are a bit random, but I feel there's some pattern tying them together.

Obama and his generals are failing to understand that hard power is not what it used to be. Soft power-- the connection created by kindness and positive values-- that's what will win the battle for freedom and justice, for democracy and a peaceful future.
 
The Taliban killed ten humanitarian mission members. The Taliban are considered terrorists.
 
Israelis kill a dozen humanitarian mission members. They call the mission members terrorists.
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By Bill Hare
CIA: Enforcement Bureau of the Military-Industrial Complex
CIA engineered coups in Iran and Guatemala provide reasons why other foreign nations are concerned about U.S. occupations.

By michael payne
And, So, The Love Affair Ends. President Obama's Political Base Eroding
President Obama has pulled off an astounding feat less than two years into his presidency. His political base, made up of liberals, progressives and independents, is no longer blindly loyal but, in fact, has become very disillusioned. It is apparent that the president and many of his supporters are simply not on the same page. On issue after issue his base and he are drifting further and further apart.

By Rob Kall
Thoughts on Killed Humanitarian Mission Members
Obama and his generals are failing to understand that hard power is not what it used to be. Soft power-- the connection created by kindness and positive values-- that's what will win the battle for freedom and justice, for democracy and a peaceful future.

 

By Edward C. Corrigan
Israeli Criticism of Zionism and of Israel's Treatment of the Palestinians: The Politicians
Reviews Israeli politicians criticism of Israel's treatment of the Palestinians and of Zionism.

By Sherwood Ross
Bernie Madoff & The Watchdog That Didn't Bark or Bite
How, over a period of nearly two decades, did Bernie Madoff get away with it---except perhaps the watchdogs didn't want to know what he was up to?

By Jonathan Cook
Suspected Torturer Gets Key Police Job in Jerusalem; Doron Zahavi Accused of Running Israel's Abu Ghraib
A police officer known as "Major George" who is accused of torturing Arab prisoners in his previous role as chief interrogator in a secret military jail has been appointed to oversee relations with Jerusalem's Palestinian population, it has emerged.

Elizabeth Warren: My Mission Is to Restore America's Great Middle Class
A speech on Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

By Bill Quigley
Katrina Pain Index 2010 New Orleans Five Years Later
the challenges facing New Orleans after Katrina are the same ones facing millions of people of color, women, the elderly and disabled and their children across the US. Katrina just made these challenges clearer in New Orleans than in many other places. Here is where we are five years later.

By Monika Mitchell
Do Republicans Hate Small Business?
The calls for small business economic support are getting louder and more insistent by the day. In a free market economy like the U.S., the entrepreneurial spirit drives a large portion of our prosperity. Since the free market is no longer "free" after many government interventions, small business is waiting for its bailout too. Good-B Blogger Monika Mitchell reports on the state of American Small Business.

Should Videotaping the Police Really Be a Crime? - TIME

Anthony Graber, a Maryland Air National Guard staff sergeant, faces up to 16 years in prison. His crime? He videotaped his March encounter with a state trooper who pulled him over for speeding on a motorcycle. Then Graber put the video -- which could put the officer in a bad light -- up on YouTube. (TIME Magazine)

 

By Jay Janson
The American Dream for its Whopping Majority. CHARITY from Billionaires!
Some US billionaires have pledged to give at least half their fortunes to charity. What a nice way to balance out The American Dream for the millions whose wage labor created wealth for a few hundred billionaires. Charity! Billionaires block the US from providing its citizens with the Human Rights that are provided elsewhere in accord with the UN Declaration of Human Rights signed by all, but replaced with charity here.

By Mac McKinney
Photo-Essay: Haiti After the Earthquake, Part 11: The Fortunes of Sugarcane

As I continue my Haiti series, let's visit the only functioning sugar mill in the country, noting how NAFTA, the IMF and their flawed paradigms helped bring down the agricultural base of Haiti.

 

US dismisses BP dispersants threat
The US has ruled out a health threat from tons of dispersants used by energy giant BP to clean up crude that was leaking from a ruptured oil well in the Gulf of Mexico. The FDA said it was highly unlikely that the chemicals would enter the food chain.

 

By Ed Tubbs
How wealthy we must be, to toss our kids into the pit
". . . the U.S., once the world's leader in percentage of young people with college degrees, has fallen to 12th among 36 developed nations."

By Jim Quinn
A WEALTHY STIMULUS NEEDED

Unless we can stimulate the wealthy to keep spending we are all doomed to a double dip recession. The plight of the wealthy should be at the forefront of anything we do. Since the top 1% wealthiest Americans own 43% of the financial assets in the country, they were particularly hard hit by the stock market crash. These poor souls were quite disillusioned by their losses.
 

Ahmadinejad: 9/11 scenario dubious

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says Western media hyped the September 11, 2001 attacks to pave the way for the US-led invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq. Ahmadinejad said Western media had enabled the US to mount its campaign against Iran's nuclear program.

 

By Kevin Gosztola
5 Videos You Should See This Week (August 7th)
As a Multi-Media Editor for OpEdNews, I am going to begin to do a post each week that features five videos I think everyone should see. Those videos will celebrate and seek to elevate the work of indepndent video producers, broadcast journalists, and documentary filmmakers. The five videos will not always consist entirely of independent video, but that will be the aim each week...
By Niloufar Parsi
the times they are a-changin'
western power is in decline. the east has decoupled from the west. so has the south. non-western countries are consistently growing faster than the west, and they trade more with each other than with the west. sanctions against iran are doomed to fail.
 

By Steve Macek
A Merger That Isn't Comcastic
An op-ed opposing the Comcast-NBC merger.

By David Glenn Cox
Mr. Weiner Goes to Hollywood
There is something sick, perverse and moldering about this sound-stage melodrama called legislation in the House of Representatives. The 9/11 aid was intentionally attached to a tax increase on offshore corporate profits. In short, this bill was crafted by the Democrats to lose.

By Stanley Heller
20 Years After the Sanctions
Aug. 6 2010 is the twenty year anniversary of the levying of genocidal sanctions of Iraq. Dr. Rafil Dhafir was sentenced to 22 years in prison, primarily for breaking the sanctions. He's up for resentencing this fall.

The end - Iraq war is over, but deployments continue
U.S. troop strength in Afghanistan has nearly tripled since Barack Obama took office, closing in on 100,000. Forces there are working under their third commander in 18 months - the conflict has been tough on generals. Although Obama says he intends to begin drawing down troop numbers next year, it may be a token withdrawal, because Afghan security forces make Iraq's look elite by comparison.

Bob Herbert: Putting Our Brains on Hold
The U.S., once the world's leader in the percentage of young people with college degrees, has fallen to 12th among 36 developed nations. We're allowing ourselves to become a nation of nitwits, obsessed with the comings and goings of Lindsay Lohan and increasingly oblivious to crucially important societal issues that are all but screaming for attention.

Massive ice island breaks off Greenland

A piece of ice four times the size of Manhattan island has broken away from an ice shelf in Greenland, according to US scientists. Environmentalists say ice melt is being caused by global warming with Arctic temperatures in the 1990s reaching their warmest level of any decade in at least 2,000 years.

 

6 Americans on medical team killed in Afghanistan
Ten members of a medical team, including six Americans, were shot and killed by militants as they were returning from providing eye treatment and other health care in remote villages in northern Afghanistan.

By Stephen Lendman
Israel Prohibiting the Right to Demonstrate
Nonviolent demonstrations are attacked

By Joan Wile
THEY DON'T MAKE THEM LIKE NORMAN SIEGEL ANYMORE
In praise of New York's most honest and incorruptible lawyer

By Timothy V. Gatto
Are We Crazy?
War seems to be this country's greatest export. The only export that we sell above all other nations is in arms, we are the world's largest purveyors of instruments of death. We spend over half of our discretionary spending on our military.

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By william hills
A World Federal Government
A proposal for a World Federal Government (some day).

By Terrence Aym
US Navy Stunned: Deadly new Chinese Missiles can Sink Every US Supercarrier

Patrick Cronin, a senior director of the Asia-Pacific Security Program that is part of the Washington, DC Center for a New American Security organization admits the DF 21D is designed to kill carriers--specifically US Naval carriers. "The Navy has long had to fear carrier--killing capabilities..."

 

By Frank Smecker
War of the World: How the American Empire Project Trashed a Planet for Profit, While Selling the Public Lies
An interview w/ Dahr Jamail about US Empire, the occupation in the Middle East, the BP oil spill, and the relationship between the three.

By Stephen Lendman
Bradley Manning: An American Hero
He deserves our praise and support

By Don Smith
Are the Democrats as bad as the Republicans? Should progressives form their own party?
Common sense thoughts about how progressives should deal with evil Republicans, mixed Dems, and a mysteriously wimpy President Obama.

By Brian McAfee
Pakistan Hit By Worst Flood In 80 Years
Current natural disaster in Pakistan exacerbated by global warming and Himalayan glacial melt. Ways of assisting those affected are provided.

By Joyce McCloy
Voting News: TN e-poll book blocks 3,000 voters. Rivest-Risks of Internet Voting negate benefits
"I'm sorry you can't vote," .Up to 3,000 Shelby Co Tennessee voters were turned away and some were offered provisional ballots...A Victory in Florida For Tighter Cyber Security?...The US is going to help Nigeria conduct its presidential election in 2011...The Oregonian wants the SoS to be "open" to internet voting...What do experts say? "The risks of 'internet voting' more than negate any possible benefits.."~ Ron Rivest.

By Mary Pitt
THE WHITE HOT URGENCY OF NOW
We, as progressive Americans, must not allow the dream to die. We must ever be conscious that there are no time outs when our children are hungry. Our elected officials must know there is no campaign season trip home when the nation is bleeding.

By Thom Hartmann
Learning About Reality From Fiction: "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo"

Who owns the news? Who controls the news? What is the importance of independent media in a world where giant monoliths and monopolies have become the norm? And, most important, what is the relationship between news, in a free and open society and democracy?
By Robert Parry
October Surprise Cover-up Unravels
It should come as no surprise that "respectability" and "honors" don't necessarily go to people who stand up for the truth or for rationality. Indeed, it's almost always the opposite; they are bestowed on people who go with the flow and get along.

By Franklinl Lamb
America's "Dog in the Fight"
America's "Dog in the Fight" Will Hezbollah leash "NABI"?

By Andrew Kreig
What's Next After Kagan's Confirmation?

With the Kagan appointment, we're now seeing the ascendancy of a well-credentialed careerist to a lifetime job where it seems likely she'll help further shift constitutional power toward an unaccountable Executive Branch vastly different than one the Framers envisioned. Kagan suggests she's comfortable with these dangerous long-term trends.
By David Fiderer
Financial Legislation Doesn't Mean Much If The Government Won't Aggressively Police Against Fraud
The financial crisis is easy to understand, once you realize that, under Bush and Greenspan, the government refused to enforce the law.

By Ellen Brown
WHAT A GOVERNMENT CAN DO WITH ITS OWN BANK: THE REMARKABLE MODEL OF THE COMMONWEALTH BANK OF AUSTRALIA
Virg Bernero, the mayor of Lansing, Michigan, just won the Democratic nomination for governor of his state, making a state-owned Bank of Michigan a real possibility. Bernero is one of at least a dozen candidates promoting that solution to the states' economic woes. It is an innovative idea, with little precedent in the United States. Fortunately other precedents are available from other countries . . .

By Dean Hartwell
How to Address the Issue of Illegal Immigration
If people just want to say "Deport all of the illegal immigrants" without offering a solution as to how to keep them from getting here or for identifying them or for adjusting to an economy that no longer includes them, is it a surprise that Congress has not acted?

By Stanley Lucas
Lugar Calls for Business Reform; Proposes Haitian-American Enterprise Fund
On July 22, Senator Lugar released a report, authored by senior staff members, entitled, "Without Reform, No Return on Investment in Haiti", The report misses a critical element of why the business sector is in such disarray, and why there is almost no political will to make the necessary reforms. A business cartel known as the "Groupe de Bourdon" controls 95% of the economy and contributes less than 4% of the income taxes

By Martha Rosenberg
Paralysis and Alcoholism Funny? Yes Said Cartoonist John Callahan
The year was 1989. Millions of wheelchair-users were about to be recognized for the first time by the Americans with Disabilities Act. Millions more had came out of "family abuse" closets to join Adult Children of Alcoholics 12-step groups. And John Callahan's just published autobiography, Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot, made fun of both. Callahan passed away last week at the age of 59.

By Dean Baker
Crazy Economists Are Still Defending The Wall Street Bailout As The Recession Gets Worse
It is amazing that angry mobs have not risen up and chased all the economists out of the country. While the greed of the Wall Street gang provided the fuel for the bubble, the economists played an essential role as enablers. The Fed absolutely had all the tools needed to stop this disaster. They just lacked either the competence or the integrity, or both.

By Dave Lindorff
Musta Slipped Through the Cracks: Dodd-Frank 'Reform' Act May Force Companies to Clean Up Their Act
Wall Street's aggressive lobbyists appear to have missed a little piece of the largely successfully eviscerated Dodd-Frank financial "reform" bill--a whistleblower provision that could return to bite not just Wall Street, but all corrupt public companies.

By Susan Galleymore
Confronting a Mindset: "Bombing Hiroshima was Right"
Imagine the power to erase, in nine seconds, more than 200,000 human beings and everything surrounding them within a two mile radius. Then imagine that power magnified many times over. Then understand that We, the People, are represented by those who are capable of destroying far more people and property in less time. For, according to President Bill Clinton "nuclear weapons are the cornerstone of the policies" of U.S...

By Kevin Gosztola
More on How Physicians Became Torture Doctors for CIA

A good amount of documentation on the involvement of psychologists in the torture and abuse of detainees or "terror suspects." And, a new study provides even more revelations on the involvement of physicians making it increasingly clear that medical professionals put limits on ethical standards they were expected to follow in order to help the CIA interrogate detainees.

 

By Bob Burnett
Obama's Failure to Communicate
Three months before the mid-term elections, Americans are angry. As a result, it's likely that Democrats will lose control of either the House or Senate. While the negative political trends can be attributed to the stagnant economy or ruthless Republican negativism, the primary culprit is the White House: Barack Obama has failed to communicate the accomplishments of his Administration.

By Eric Lotke
New Unemployment Data: No news. Clear conclusions.

Today's new unemployment report contains no news, just decimal point changes. It tells us what we already know, that times are bad. The question is whether our great nation can rise to the challenge.
By Dave Lefcourt
What Will It Take America?
What will it take to stir the American people into action, get us out of our collective lethargy, our passivity in the face of what is happening and get our country on a path of renewal? The Congress is all but dysfunctional, polarized and partisan. What is needed is citizen funded elections. Most people recognize that the country is severely off track. Citizen funding of elections is the chance to put it back on track.

By Kemstone
There is No Immigration Crisis

The fact is, illegal immigration is not spinning wildly out of control. This chart from the U.S. Department of Commerce shows the number of migrant apprehensions along the U.S.-Mexico border over the last two decades...

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Afghan media: US-led death toll at 4,413
Afghanistan's official state news agency says the US-led war in the country has claimed the lives of 4,413 foreign soldiers since the beginning of the invasion in 2001. Reports from the US and NATO member countries have put the overall death toll at less than half the number reported by the news agency.

 

Reflections of Fidel: A call to the President of the United States
In this wide-ranging treatise, Fidel Castro brings together events that include everything from methane gas escaping the floor of the Gulf of Mexico and the bombing of the Cheonan to Osama's bin Laden's CIA connections and the Israeli/Washington threat to attack Iran.

Foreign mercs must leave, Karzai says

Afghan President Hamid Karzai has called on the United States and its allies to stop supporting private security companies, saying the activities of these firms aggravate the country's problems. Kabul has confirmed the presence of 52 foreign private security companies in Afghanistan, including the notorious US security firm Xe Services LLC -- formerly known as Blackwater.

 

The Critical Unraveling of U.S. Society
The economic elite have launched an attack on the U.S. public and society is unraveling at an increased rate.

 

BP and WH Cover-up of Evidence of Catastrophe: Thousands of Dead Seabirds Bagged and Buried
Thousands of birds were poisoned by BP's criminally negligent oil spill. We can't be sure how many whales, dolphins and turtles were killed because BP quickly bagged and buried the evidence. BP's oil spill is the largest, most toxic oil spill in history. It is also the largest cover-up of mass seabird and animal poisoning in history.

Mitt Romney - Brain Eating Zombie for President 2010
A satirical cartoon of GOP hopeful Mitt Romney. At least you know he really doesn't have a pulse!

The Hindu : News / International : Chinese missile could shift Pacific power balance
Which illegal invasion/occupation will be the "straw"? Remember - bullies always get their come-up-ins. Others aren't building their military might just for something to do.

From Britain: An Apology Fatally Devalued by the Passage of 65 Years

At last we've apologised for Hiroshima well, sort of. We've recognised the suffering our atom bombs caused â€"well, kind of. President Obama was showing off his anti-nuclear credentials in the killing grounds of Hiroshima, but this was not to be confused with saying sorry.
 

Gwynne Dyer: Nothing short of nukes will work
The end would be an embarrassing retreat by the US and the definitive establishment of Iran as the dominant power of the Gulf region. That was the outcome of every war-game the Pentagon played and Mike Mullen knows it.

Gaza aid flotilla to set sail from Lebanon with all-women crew
A ship bearing aid for Gaza is preparing to leave Tripoli in Lebanon this weekend in the latest attempt to defy the Israeli blockade with only women on board. once news of the flotilla was out organisers were inundated with requests to join the voyage, with more than 400 from the US alone. At least 10 Americans will be on board.

Fareed Zakaria: Build the Ground Zero Mosque
The much larger issue that this center raises is, of course, of freedom of religion in America. Much has been written about this, and I would only urge people to read Michael Bloomberg's speech on the subject last week. Bloomberg's eloquent, brave, and carefully reasoned address should become required reading in every civics classroom in America. It probably will.

VIDEO: Defense Department Press Briefing on Wikileaks
Pentagon Spokesman Geoff Morrell conducted a daily briefing at the Defense Department. He called on the website WikiLeaks to return all of the classified war documents in their possession and delete them from the website.

The Mobile Press-Register: Tests suggest oil dispersant washing up on Alabama beaches

The stained, brown water seen washing up in pockets along Alabama beaches for the last two weeks appears to contain the dispersant widely used on oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill, according to a preliminary analysis.
 

House Dems want meeting with Obama to urge Warren nod
Senior House Democrats are calling for a meeting with President Obama to urge the nomination of Elizabeth Warren to head a new consumer financial protection agency.

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC: Much Gulf Oil Remains, Deeply Hidden and Under Beaches

Nice try attempting to hide the body (of oil, bodies of marine mammals, and on and on) BP and the Obama Administration. Didn't Shakespeare say: "Foul deeds will rise, Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes."
Google-Verizon Deal: The End of The Internet as We Know It-- : ICH - Information Clearing House
For years, Internet advocates have warned of the doomsday scenario that will play out on Monday: Google and Verizon will announce a deal that the New York Times reports "could allow Verizon to speed some online content to Internet users more quickly if the content's creators are willing to pay for the privilege." The deal marks the beginning of the end of the Internet as you know it. Since its beginnings, the Net was...

Gay Tea Partiers Discuss Marriage And Bigotry
The title caught my eye for obvious reasons. Words you would not think to see in the same sentence or title, appear here. I enjoyed the video, as I enjoy good healthy debate.

Johann Hari: And now for some good news
We'll never know the names of all the people who paid with their limbs, their lungs, or their lives for the goodies in my home and yours.

What is the point of the Senate? [Ezra Klein]

Dodd is still on the Senate banking committee, not in jail for taking bankster bribes. Dodd hangs with Obama. Conspiracy theorists accuse Dodd of being a Bilderberg for the New World Order. Is Dodd so comfortable talking about the new plans for the US Government that he let plans talked about in secret meetings slip out in the presence of peasants? Are there secret plans to abolish the US Senate and just have a Congress?
Paul Magliocchetti | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
Paul Magliocchetti was a big spender, apparently. That may come back to haunt some of the recipients of his largesse. His firm is shutting down next week amid a federal investigation. And, that has people on Capitol Hill worried. There a deju vu feel to this. A Jack Abramoff feel

BP May Drill for Oil Again at Leak Site
Why? Because that's where the oil is....

Congress OK'd Gitmo Prisoner's Deportation To Algeria, Despite His Fears Of Torture Upon Return
The action, or more properly, inaction of Congress in the face of the illegal return (by international standards and U.S. treaty) of Abdul Aziz Naji to Algeria is inexcusable. When asked to make further explanation on policy regarding non-refoulement in general, or in the case of Mr. Naji, both Sen. Levin and Sen. Feinstein's office declined to comment.

Climate talks in danger of unravelling as China and US clash
Global climate talks have sunk to a new low after China and the US clashed and rich countries lined up against poor in a refusal to compromise on emission reduction targets. With just six days' negotiating time left before a critical meeting in Cancun, Mexico, some diplomats fear that the fragile deal struck in Copenhagen last December could unravel.

Battle Looms Over Huge Costs of Public Pensions
By RON LIEBER Published: August 6, 2010 State and local governments promised their retirees at least $1 trillion more in benefits than they have in their pension plans, leading to battles over who should pay to fill the gap.

BP risks Obama row by hinting it may return to stricken oil well

A struggle between BP and the Obama administration over the future of the cemented well in the Gulf of Mexico erupted in public today when the oil company suggested it may drill in the same reservoir again.
Governments Go to Extremes as the Downturn Wears On
By MICHAEL COOPER Published: August 6, 2010 Strained for funds, governments have made life-changing cuts in core services like education, transportation and public safety.

From Fires in Russia to Flooding in Asia, Extreme Weather Taking Its Toll
Floods have killed thousands in Asia and left millions homeless from Pakistan to North Korea, while fires and drought in Russia have roiled global markets and a tropical storm bears down on Bermuda.

Stanley Kutler: 65 Years After Hiroshima: Truman's Choices
The options of naval blockade and "conventional" bombing quickly dissolved, and over time they have disappeared. Drift and inertia account in part for some of the flow of events as the decision to use the bomb took on a force of its own, with the tragic results of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Israeli Settlers Step Up 'Price Tag' Policy
Rabbi Yitzhak Shapira is one of the leading ideologues of the extreme wing of the religious settler movement. He is known to be a champion of the price tag policy of reprisal attacks on Palestinians, including punishing them for attempts by officials to enforce Israeli law against the settlements.

U.S. worried by Hamid Karzai's attempt to assert control over corruption probes
Obama administration officials fear that a move by Afghan President Hamid Karzai to assert control over U.S.-backed corruption investigations might provoke the biggest crisis in U.S.-Afghan relations since last year's fraud-riddled election and could further threaten congressional approval of billions of dollars in pending aid.

David Corn: Tucker Carlson's Journalistic Purity Test

The Log Cabin Republicans event for which Carlson is the marquee name is indeed a fundraiser. Whether Carlson realizes it or not, he's helping this Republican group raise money for its efforts. Is this too partisan an action for an independent journalist? It might be, particularly if that journalist is a purist who questions the purity of others.
Plumbing the Depths of Lawless Executive Depravity by Ernest A. Canning
'Targeted Assassinations' Threaten Very Foundation of Our Republic...

Hiroshima Photo Essay from TIME
The pilot of the Enola Gay, Colonel Paul Tibbets, had put the plane into a 180Ëš turn to the west and was getting away from the target as fast as he could. "All we saw," recalls Van Kirk, "was a bright flash."

Medicare Stronger, Social Security Worse in Short Run, Report Finds
By ROBERT PEAR and JACKIE CALMES Published: August 5, 2010 Cost-cutting measures in the law will keep Medicare solvent for 12 additional years, until 2029, the program's trustees projected on Thursday.

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Many of those who subscribe to, and some who have caused or are the cause for, these things to happen are involved in or with the Roman Jurisdiction of the Catholic Church (which is not the seat of all things "Catholic") as well as its protestant daughters such as the cultic Jehovah's Witnesses, the Pentecostal Churches, the Church of Latter Day Saints also known as the Mormon Church and far too many more to list. 

 

Yet, at this web site we do provide some of the reasons about why they are opined to be the harbingers of that which is prophesied in Holy Scripture for the bringing about of the End Times which we have already entered.  It is not necessarily their individual members or parishioners that should be blamed since they are only the "Sheep" and not the Shepherds... So do not think we castigate individual people of themselves as we castigate those "money changers" who Jesus Christ chased out of His Father's House as the Bible Describes; for they exist in these present times too.

 

Events are already rushing toward that time in which this is beginning to happen and will become more fully wide-spread. In these present times all you need to really do is look around both your local and larger areas as to what is really on-going through.  Things so very little or miniscule that they are barely noticeable except to the more informed observer may become apparent. 

Those little things are the laws of the land, economics, politics, the degrading and erosion of those rights and liberties afforded by the Constitution of these United States of America and many other things such as the manner with which entertainments have taken over much of the populace, entering into and becoming a major focus in worship, and more. 

We ask you, if you don't want to believe us... Have you heard, seen or found what is termed (of the many terms being used) that there are "holding areas" or "camps" or "Closed/Fenced communities" being built by GOVERNMENT? 

Here in North America, especially in the United States of America, we must admit that what Russia has come out of (a communistic, atheist country) we are entering into.  And one last thing that needs also to be understood... Something very important to those of you who are "Catholic" in the Roman sense of its jurisdiction....   And, we believe this also holds true for many who are "Orthodox" whether "Eastern" or "Western"....

[ * Non-Denominational = Synchrestic Ecumenism, Disease of Scholasticism, altering the Life and Teachings of Jesus Christ to accommodate the disease of Political Correctness and CULTIC PROTESTANTISM, and the Roman Jurisdiction (Latin Church = Vatican) of the Catholic Church) breaking of - or failure and refusal to respect and abide by  - the ancient Seven Ecumenical "Do Not" Canons which leaves everything else open to God's gift of creativity... failure & refusal to abide by and have respect for those who diligently protect one of the other Pillars of the Church, the Seals of the Confessional, but "Non-Denominational" also includes worshiping Satan's religion of Muslim, Islam by praying with them and other heretics such as 'Pentecostalism,' 'Jehovah's Witnesses,' 'Mormons,' 'Church of Christ,' any so-called church with "Community Church" in their nomenclature and others who by their false and misleading dogmas and doctrines are actually against the Life and Teachings of Jesus Christ upon whom and for exacting reason we are called "Christian" in both spirit and truth from which non-denominational protestant sectarian claimants have departed from as being so-called Christian] Only a skilled spiritual father can help you!

Remember: You cannot ride two horses or serve two masters for one of them will be harmed by your thoughts, your very words and your actions which is to blaspheme the Holy Ghost (Spirit) who will depart from you.  And when the Holy Spirit departs, the great deceiver (unbeknownst to you) will rush in to fill the void under disguise of being the Holy Spirit!  Testing of the Holy Spirit to insure it is the Holy Spirit does not, for many a Sectarian Protestant and Roman, work because the Great Deceiver (Satan) is most skilled in worming and snaking his charms around your mind and heart to feign being the Holy Spirit.  Remember, Satan has the same gifts similar to the Holy Spirit but Satan's gifts are UN-HOLY and lead all who accept him (unbeknownst to you) to perdition.

 

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The lives of monks consist of a podvig [(spiritual struggle) exploit] of repentance and of withdrawal from the world. They flee from judging their neighbor in his moral falls, considering themselves to be sinners and the worst of all men.

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"I understand the idea of sodomy and homosexuality, but to say that homosexuality is not a sin is incorrect and not just in my mind but all of Orthodoxy and again, not just in Orthodoxy but all of Catholicism and again, not simply all of Catholicism but all of Christianity with the exception of those who have this in their personal life as sin or are very close to someone who does." (Ed. Note: We have never said "homosexuality is not a sin or okay... however, there are those who, being homosexual, are that way for a variety of reasons.  The conversion tactics employed by many other groups, bespeaks of a "politics" that is not wholly honest.  For, in their endeavors they have failed to show forth the truth that one is driven into a "closet" styled of life.  It is better, we believe, to become wholly celibate, be it a homosexual and even heterosexual... and to learn what "celibacy" really means and requires).

 

If a man looks on a woman who is not his wife with lust, he has sinned, if he and she are married to other people he has committed adultery. If a man looks at a man with lust he has sinned the same as a man who looks at a woman. Sodomy does not have to enter into it, lust for someone is a sin and must be removed, now people do this all day long to be sure but it is still a sin. To say that homosexuality is not a sin allows homosexuals to live in sin without repentance and this is wrong to do to them spiritually.

 

It is for the sake of their own soul that one has to recognize sin that is in them and not to excuse it regardless of the sin or the preference of the sinner. Homosexuality is indeed a sin regardless of sodomy, the act of attraction or the lust is a sin even without action and simply must be repented. I must also add this; woe to all who misguide others into sin and especially those who are of the clergy who do this. For the sake of your own soul and others, you must recognize this and repent. I know that it is not easy to overcome and if it is never overcome then one must live a life of constant repentance, that is the only choice.

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