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No man survives when freedom fails, The best men rot in filthy jails, And those who cry 'appease, appease' Are hanged by those they tried to please.": Hiram Mann
 
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"Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but, disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort." : Marshall McLuhan - (1911-1980)
 
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"...free enterprise, [is] a term that refers, in practice, to a system of public subsidy and private profit, with massive government intervention in the economy to maintain a welfare state for the rich." : Noam Chomsky
 

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Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered Since The U.S. Invaded Iraq "1,366,350"
www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html
 
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Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America's War On Iraq:  4,734
icasualties.org/oif/
 
Number Of  International Occupation Force Troops Slaughtered In Afghanistan : 2,040
 
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Cost of War in Iraq & Afghanistan $1,072,882,588,973
http://www.costofwar.com/
 
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Abbas is a Man in Exile, Even Among His Own
 
By Omar Karmi
 
Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, faces a crisis of credibility among his own people as he heads into direct talks with Israel in Washington this week.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26270.htm
 
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Hamas, the I.R.A. and Us
 
By ALI ABUNIMAH
 
The resumption of peace talks without any Israeli commitment to freeze settlements is another significant victory for the Israel lobby and the Israeli government. It allows Israel to pose as a willing peacemaker while carrying on with business as usual.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26269.htm
 
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Serving in Iraq Killed my Faith in God
 
By Adnan Sarwar
 
The destruction I saw made me question everything I had previously thought about religion.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26271.htm
 
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To Tackle Domestic Terrorism, End Foreign Wars
 
By Haroon Siddiqui
 
Stop being in denial that there is no connection between the wars we wage and the terrorist mayhem that they trigger, there and here.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26268.htm
 
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The Backward Slide into Recession   
 
By Mike Whitney
 
The US is now facing a protracted period of high unemployment and subpar economic performance punctuated by infrequent stock market rallies and predictable bursts of optimism. The recovery is over.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26274.htm
 
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"I Was Wrong Again!" What Ben Bernanke meant to say
 
By Andrew Leonard
 
The Fed chairman delivers a big, but boring, speech on the economy at Jackson Hole. Here's a translation.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26273.htm
 
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U.S. Government Prepares for 'Crisis'
 
By Jeff Nielson
 
The Obama regime has to "go big, or go home." It must either engage in massive (genuine) stimulus of the U.S. economy -- meaning a multi-trillion dollar commitment, or simply allow the collapse to proceed (and feed upon itself).
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26272.htm
 
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19 people killed as rebel assault Chechnya President's fortress:
 
"We let them in so they couldn't escape," the President said. He was previously on the side of the rebels but switched side when he was named President by the Kremlin in 2007.
http://www.newkerala.com/news2/fullnews-30984.html
 
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15 Taliban militants killed in Afghanistan:
 
Fifteen Taliban militants, including a rebel commander, were killed in fighting with security forces in Afghanistan, Xinhua reported Monday.
http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/678671/cs/1/
 
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7 US occupation troops killed in south Afghan bomb attacks:
 
No details were given of Monday's attacks, although eyewitnesses in the southern city of Kandahar said an armored U.S. Army Humvee hit a roadside bomb in the early afternoon. Several bodies were seen being removed from the vehicle, which was on fire. The deaths bring to 14 the number of U.S. troops killed in action in eastern and southern Afghanistan over the past three days.
http://www.kztv10.com/news/7-us-troops-killed-in-south-afghan-bomb-attacks/
 
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Afghan district chief killed in Jalalabad bombing:
 
A bomb blast in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad Monday killed a district chief and injured up to five others, an official and the interior ministry said.
http://bit.ly/9Z7CGG
 
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Somalia: Fresh Mogadishu clashes kill six civilians: -
 
Clashes in Somalia pitting Islamist radicals against government troops backed by African Union forces have killed at least six civilians and wounded 16, officials and medical sources said Monday.
http://yhoo.it/chfutS
 
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4 Killed as Somali Presidential Palace Shelled :
 
Four African Union (AU) peacekeepers have been killed in Mogadishu, the Somali capital, after al-Shabab fighters fired a mortar at the presidential palace.
http://english.aljazeera.net//news/africa/2010/08/2010830155656429103.html
 
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Somali Government Appeals for Help as Islamists Advance:
 
Somalia's government is urgently appealing for more help as insurgents threaten to seize full control of the capital, Mogadishu.
http://bit.ly/ayW4ei
 
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Death toll rises to 12 in Yemen attack:
 
The death toll of a weekend attack by suspected Al-Qaeda gunmen on an army post in south Yemen has risen to 12, including one civilian, the interior ministry said on Monday.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100830/wl_mideast_afp/yemenunrestqaeda
 
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At least one killed in bomb attack in Iraq's Mosul:
 
At least one civilian was killed and 12 others were wounded on Sunday in a coordinated cart bomb and hand grenades attacks in the city of Mosul, the capital of Nineveh province, a provincial police source said.
http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90777/90854/7121718.html
 
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Report: Hezbollah, Syria to join forces in future clash with Israel:
 
Kuwait's al-Rai daily says Lebanon-based group, Syrian army have created a joint military command, dividing potential war fronts.
http://bit.ly/cT9Dme
 
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Mahmoud Abbas: If talks fail over settlements, only Israel will be to blame:
 
Palestinian President: We understand Israel's need for security, but it is not an excuse to expand settlements and steal lands.
http://bit.ly/aT983Z
 
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U.S.: Rabbi's 'offensive' remarks harm peace efforts:
 
U.S. State Department spokesman Philip J. Crowley condemns Rabbi Ovadia Yosef's 'inflammatory' statement that all Palestinians should perish.
http://bit.ly/avPZ3n
 
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'Sinner' singer given 39 lashes by rabbis:
 
A singer who performed in front of a "mixed audience" of men and women was lashed 39 times to make him "repent," after a ruling by a self-described rabbinic court on Wednesday.
http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=186154
 
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How Bush and Blair plotted in secret to stop Brown:
 
Tony Blair attempted to prolong his time as prime minister after he was warned that George W Bush's US administration had "grave doubts" about Gordon Brown's suitability to follow him into No10, well placed sources have revealed.
http://bit.ly/aJBF9E
 
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Veterans' group: CIA blocking lawsuit over experiments on troops:
 
An advocacy group working on behalf of Vietnam veterans has asked a federal judge in California to sanction the CIA, saying the spy agency has been blocking efforts to uncover its role in alleged experiments on US soldiers from the 1950s to 1970s
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/0827/veterans-group-sanction-cia-experiements/
 
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Fire and Gunshots at Tennessee Mosque Site Called 'Terrorism':
 
On Sunday, one day after a fire at the site of a planned Islamic center and mosque in the Nashville suburb of Murfreesboro, Muslim community members reported hearing gunshots as they inspected the damage.
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/30/fear-spreads-after-fire-at-tennessee-mosque-site/
 
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In activist's video, Glenn Beck fans agree with Ted Nugent on shooting illegal immigrants:
 
Nugent also recently claimed during a radio interview that he's convinced the president is a "muslim operative."
http://bit.ly/aSBfLI
 
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And Now We're Headed For The GREATEST Depression, Says Gerald Celente:
 
Celente says the country is headed for rising unemployment, poverty, and violent class warfare as the government efforts to keep the economy going begin to fail.
http://yhoo.it/9YhYhs
 
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Top economists: The second Great Depression has arrived:
 
As long as two years ago, one of Britain's top economists predicted a decade-long depression, $45 trillion in debt defaults and unemployment in the US and UK approaching 25% or higher.
http://www.helium.com/items/1933168-us-in-economic-great-depression
 
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Record number in government anti-poverty programs:
 
Government anti-poverty programs that have grown to meet the needs of recession victims now serve a record one in six Americans and are continuing to expand.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2010-08-30-1Asafetynet30_ST_N.htm
 
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More Employers Looking for Armed Guards:
 
One valley security agency said the troubled economy is driving businesses to ask for armed guards because they are concerned about what some desperate, unemployed people could do. FOX 10 spent the day at an intense training camp.
http://bit.ly/ajVZ4n
 
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Las Vegas logs 5 murder-suicides since Aug. 7:
 
Police say murder-suicides are on the rise in the Las Vegas area because of a bad economy.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9HTDMPG0&show_article=1
 
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Cash-Poor Governments Ditching Public Hospitals:
 
Faced with mounting debt and looming costs from the new federal health-care law, many local governments are leaving the hospital business, shedding public facilities that can be the caregiver of last resort.
http://bit.ly/b3uswx
 
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"Let us be peace and joy"
 
Tom Feeley

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"Never, never, never let anyone tell you that, in order to be Orthodox, you must also be eastern. The West was Orthodox for a thousand years, and her venerable liturgy is far older than any of her heresies."

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The purpose for presenting this Daily News section:

Daily News is very important to those who are true Orthodox Catholic Christians.  For without knowing or gaining information for understanding about what is happening in one's local area and around the world, you could  find yourself faced with denied services in the secular area, lack of income, even (although it sounds far-fetched) ability to worship openly for the time is not far off when all will have to decide if they wish to follow the Anti-Christ through the One World Church and One World Government as prophesied by the Apocalypse, the Book of Revelation of St. John or follow the faith delivered once and for all which will cause for many to be denied the abilities to survive under those kind of conditions, causing for one to consider other options. 

 

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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"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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