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Bible Believers' Newsletter 537
"We focus on the present Truth – what Jesus is doing now. . ."
Christian greetings in the precious Name of our Lord Jesus Christ; we are pleased you could join us in fellowship.
This week we find the world is ruled by men who will never enter the Kingdom of God. Jesus called them "liars" (John 8:37, 44-45; Revelation 22:15).
". . . government and finance have combined to make war against the producers of this country" (Henry Ford).
"an irresponsible super-Government" was created "composed of a group of International Bankers" [seeking to control the world through a monopoly of credit] (Arthur Kitson, 1919). Even before World War I Kitson wrote to Churchill to say that trade could never be "free" so long as the mechanism of trade was held as a private monopoly.
This was revealed by US Congressman Charles A. Lindbergh Sr. from Minnesota before the US Congress during his term of office between the years of 1907 and 1917 to warn the citizens: "We [the bankers] must proceed with caution and guard every move made, for the lower order of people are already showing signs of restless commotion. Prudence will therefore show a policy of apparently yielding to the popular will until our plans are so far consummated that we can declare our designs without fear of any organized resistance. The Farmers Alliance and Knights of Labor organizations in the United States should be carefully watched by our trusted men, and we must take immediate steps to control these organizations in our interest or disrupt them. At the coming Omaha Convention to be held July 4th (1892), our men must attend and direct its movement, or else there will be set on foot such antagonism to our designs as may require force to overcome. This at the present time would be premature. We are not yet ready for such a crisis. Capital must protect itself in every possible manner through combination (conspiracy) and legislation. The courts must be called to our aid, debts must be collected, bonds and mortgages foreclosed as rapidly as possible. . . . When through the process of the law, the common people have lost their homes, they will be more tractable and easily governed through the influence of the strong arm of the government applied to a central power of imperial wealth under the control of the leading financiers. People without homes will not quarrel with their leaders. History repeats itself in regular cycles. This truth is well known among our principal men who are engaged in forming an imperialism of the world. While they are doing this, the people must be kept in a state of political antagonism. The question of tariff reform must be urged through the organization known as the Democratic Party, and the question of protection with the reciprocity must be forced to view through the Republican Party. By thus dividing voters, we can get them to expand their energies in fighting over questions of no importance to us, except as teachers to the common herd. Thus, by discrete action, we can secure all that has been so generously planned and successfully accomplished."
American Bankers Association as printed in the Congressional Record of April 29, 1913 for 1891: "On Sept 1st, 1894, we will not renew our loans under any consideration. On Sept 1st we will demand our money. We will foreclose and become mortgagees in possession. We can take two-thirds of the farms west of the Mississippi and thousands of them east of the Mississippi as well, at our own price. . . Then the farmers will become tenants as in England. . ."
"We live in a social environment that is operating at the height of ignorance because we constantly condemn that which we do not investigate. Why do we condemn it? Because it is beyond our ability to perceive it! And we constantly, constantly misunderstand the difference between the limits of our perception of possibilities and what is actually possible. And when we do that, we enter a mind prison that allows the [chosen] few to control the many" (David Icke, July 2nd 2008).
"Fictions are necessary to the people, and the Truth becomes deadly to those who are not strong enough to contemplate it in all its brilliance. In fact, what can there be in common between the vile multitude and sublime wisdom? The truth must be kept secret, and the masses need a teaching proportioned to their imperfect reason" (Albert Pike 33° Sovereign Grand Commander Mother Supreme Council of the World THE SUPREME COUNCIL of the Thirty-Third and Last Degree Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry. Morals and Dogma, p. 103).
The Zionism hoax was created to plant the Khazars, converted to Talmudic Judaism in AD740 and labeled "god's chosen people," into the Middle East as a new front-line for European Colonialism. Sir Campbell Bannerman, Prime Minister of Britain [1905-08] said in 1902: "There are people who control spacious territories teeming with manifest and hidden resources [oil]. They dominate the intersections of world routes. Their lands were the cradles of human civilizations and religions. These people have one faith, one language, one history and the same aspirations. No natural barriers can isolate these people from one another . . . if, per chance, this nation were to be unified into one state, it would then take the fate of the world into its hands and would separate Europe from the rest of the world. Taking these considerations seriously, a foreign body should be planted in the heart of this nation to prevent the convergence of its wings in such a way that it could exhaust its powers in never-ending wars. It could also serve as a springboard for the West to gain its coveted objects" (Genesis 16:12).
"Zionism is but an incident of a far reaching plan," said leading American Zionist Louis Marshall, counsel for bankers Kuhn Loeb in 1917. "It is merely a convenient peg on which to hang a powerful weapon." The far-reaching plan is Illuminati world dictatorship. The Illuminati is the highest echelon of Freemasonry, an occult secret society dedicated to Lucifer. The world's central bankers have intermarried with the richest dynastic families of Europe and America to bring about world hegemony. They instigated wars and depressions to degrade and destroy humanity. The American people have been financing their wars since 1914.
"The Jewish people as a whole will become its own Messiah. It will attain world dominion by the dissolution of other races, by the abolition of frontiers, the annihilation of monarchy and by the establishment of a world republic in which the Jews will everywhere exercise the privilege of citizenship. In this New World Order the [alleged] 'children of Israel' will furnish all the leaders without encountering opposition. The Governments of the different peoples forming the world republic will fall without difficulty into the hands of the Jews. It will then be possible for the Jewish rulers to abolish private property and everywhere to make use of the resources of the state. Thus will the promise of the Talmud be fulfilled, in which is said that when the Messianic time is come, the Jews will have all the property of the whole world in their hands" (Baruch Levy, Letter to Karl Marx, 'La Revue de Paris,' p. 574, June 1, 1928).
This is the objective in which our treacherous political leaders are engaged in vain hopes of personal aggrandizement. It is Lucifer's totalitarian one world government that Brother Branham called Satan's Eden.
This Newsletter serves those of like precious faith. Whoever will receive the truth is welcome to feed their soul from the waters of the River of Life. Everything here presented should be confirmed personally in your own Bible.
Your brother-in-Christ, Anthony Grigor-Scott
The Money Meisters
Take twenty minutes to read, understand and believe the Truth in this essay and you will be smarter than a first-year student who has studied Monetary Economics for 100 hours, smarter than 5,000 Monetary Economics PhD's put together who have each studied full-time for twenty years. This means that you (a layperson adult, a teenager, a child or even a toddler if you read it to him) would be one million times smarter than any of the 5,000 PhD's on the topic of Monetary Economics; that is the power of Truth over lies and deception. . . Full story: currencycompetition.googlepages.com
NAB will shock Wall Street
July 25, 2008 The National Australia Bank's decision to write off 90 per cent of its US conduit loans will have dramatic repercussions around the world. . . NAB says that it is suffering a 55 per cent loss on American housing loansan event that has never happened in the history of a developed country in recent memory. This is an unprecedented event and means that the cost of bailing out the US financial system is now far beyond the highest estimates. A US recession is now locked in, but more alarmingly, 55 per cent loan losses point to the possibility of a depression.
It means the cost of bailing out housing exposures to the two mortgage insurers will be so great that it will leave no room to bail out anything else and there are several US banks that are now in big trouble. NAB says that the dislocation in the residential market is separate from the corporate market, but the flow on is inevitable. . . US banks have written down $450 billion in bad housing loans. The revelation from NAB means that they will now certainly need to take provisions to $1,000 billion. But write-downs of $1,300 billion and perhaps even more are on the cards. . . Full story: businessspectator
Profound Revolution
The Constitutional Government of the United States had established the People as rulers of this Nation. The rule was of, for and by the People. In the "profound but peaceful revolution" described by President Roosevelt, the People were not consulted; they knew nothing about it. When their Constitutional Government was overthrown, the Government of, by and for the People did "perish from the earth."
We shall take the President at his word; we will accept, for the purposes of this book, the premise that there was a successful revolution during the Franklin Roosevelt administration. The "New Deal" and the "Brain Trust" symbolized the new Revolutionary Government. It is with this new revolutionary government we must deal, for this new revolutionary government of the United States has officially stated its intention of spreading this particular revolution world-wide. Neither People nor Congress are to be consulted.
The New Deal Revolution was unique. It maintained the outward forms of the old Constitutional Government; the three Departments of Government, the Executive, the Legislative and the Judicial were, to all intents and purposes, to remain. The People, unaware that the revolution had occurred, would not be aroused by the ousting of their "duly elected" President and Congress and the appointed Judiciary. If the profound and peaceful aspects were to continue, the People would have to be deceived, kept in ignorance, while the revolutionary government was quietly eased into full power and control. . .
Revolution, as the average American understands the term, is a violent overthrow of existing government. The International Bankers of the Council on Foreign Relations could not hope to accomplish their purpose by such tactics, nor are they the type to engage in such perilous activity. The new revolution had to be fought with money. They would provide the money for revolution, for wars, for the wholesale bribery of the whole populace in the forms of welfare, subsidies, wage and price guarantees, social security and a host of other benefits all charged to the beneficiaries in the public debt. This debt is owed largely to these International Bankers of the Council on Foreign Relations.
In order to sustain the profound and peaceful operation of the new government, the visible form of that government must be maintained. The People will go along producing at peak capacity to support the schemes of what they believe to be their government, hence, the President, the Congress and the Supreme Court will remain in Washington and go through the motions of that government. The revolutionary government works through the United Nations, where the laws are actually made and handed down to the straw-bosses of the Member State, the President, Congress and Supreme Court for implementation. All are charged with the binding obligation of putting these laws into effect within their borders. This they do, and they are continuing to do, wittingly or unwittingly (members of Congress appear to do their part unwittingly) since we were taken into the United Nations. . .
The course of empire once again is littered with the dead and broken bodies of youth, the youth of the world this time. A war and debt economy on an international scale demands this; empire-building requires it. The death march goes on because American youth and their irresponsible parents are misinformed and completely misled by the propaganda of those who will destroy anything which stands in the way of their planned World Conquest. . .
The President of the United States has made the unequivocal statement that the United States had a revolution under the New Deal and that it was time now for a world revolution. He said the New Deal revolution had been profound but peaceful. That is why the people did not know about it and because the people did not know about it, an immediate change in the form of government was not expedient. The Constitutional form would remain; the President, the Congress, the Supreme Court, would continue to represent a visible government, while the new revolutionary government was established at a higher, invisible level. . .
However incredible it may seem, the facts are that the United Nations Organization is a world government, that its Charter is the Constitution creating it, that the United States has been a member of this world government since its creation in 1945 and that our joinder therein was actually a bloodless revolution which caused the loss of our sovereignty and which illegally changed our form of government, in violation and abandonment of the United States Constitution, the Constitutions of the respective States and the inalienable rights of the people.
Is the United Nations Charter a Constitution for world government or is it merely a treaty? It is true that America's agreement to it and participation in it was effected in the manner of a treaty, as prescribed by the Constitution of the United States, by being signed by President Harry S. Truman with the advice and consent of the United States Senate. Article VI of the United States Constitution provides that the Constitution and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof and all treaties made or which shall be made under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land and that the judges in every State shall be bound thereby, anything in the Constitution and laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding.
It will thus be seen that in effecting the United Nations Charter as a treaty it was given a prima facie status of being the supreme law of the land. . .
At this point, it might intelligently be asked why we are still operating under the United Nations Charter if it is so clearly illegal and void. The answer is insidiously simple. Under the principles of American law, the Charter, which as you will recall, was approved as a treaty, is presumed to be valid, until such time as it is declared invalid by a Court of competent jurisdiction. The Courts, themselves, cannot raise the question on their own initiative. The question of invalidity must be raised by some litigant in an actual, litigated case, called a justifiable controversy.
Why, then, has no State come forward to file such a suit? Why, moreover, has the Congress of the United States not passed a law simply voiding the alleged "Treaty"? Why, then, have the Presidents and Senate members since 1945 not acted to cancel the unconstitutional and revolutionary action which their predecessors took? There can be only one answer to these questions. Those in control of the federal agencies of the government must be dedicated world socialists, desirous of perpetuating the illegally established world government and desirous of confirming forever the destruction of the former Constitutional, Republican form of government of the United States. As to those in control of the State Agencies, there are many who have a similar ambition and identity of interest and there are undoubtedly others who simply do not have the courage to try to fight the world power, knowing that there would be immediate reprisal in the form of withdrawal of all federal handouts, sabotage of their political careers and the targeting of their States for intensive, military controls.
It might then be asked, why some individual does not start a suit to restore our Constitution and to force our withdrawal from the United Nations. The answer again is quite clear. Such a suit, absent the joinder of a State, would have to be filed in the lowest state or federal tribunal and laboriously appealed. It would be subjected to a thousand delays and legal, procedural snarls and pitfalls and very likely never even reach the Supreme Court of the United States. Even the cost of such an effort would be a roadblock to individual action.
You might finally ask. What proof is there that the provisions of the United Nations Charter established a world government? Well, we must first suggest that you read the document and judge for yourself. You will find that it assumes territorial sovereignty over the entire universe. It has established a capital in New York City. It has established a World Court and judicial system, a world legislative body and a world executive department. Through regional agencies, regional agreements, covenants, resolutions, executive agreements and conventions, it has assumed control over every field of life of which the mind can conceive and last, but certainly not least, in the so-called interest of peace and security, it has provided for its own absolute military control of the entire universe. As an example of the exercise of this power in our current history, it involved the United States in a war with Viet Nam, without the necessity of a declaration of war by the United States Congress. This should be enough to satisfy any reasonable mind that we are not operating under the Constitution of the United States.
. . . the Constitutional Government of the United States of America, as it existed for more than one hundred and fifty years before we became involved in the United Nations, was quietly transferred to an international government. This was done without any suspicion on the part of the United States population of being so transferred. This fact simply does not register on the minds of the people. The human mind cannot grasp the enormity of such a transaction, cannot cope with it and cannot accept it as accomplished fact. . . Full story: Please read all 70-pages.
Comment: This concise book will help you understand what Brother Branham meant when he said:
"Women, given the right to vote, elected President-elect Kennedy, the wrong man, which will finally be to full control of the Catholic church in the United States; then the bomb comes that explodes her. There's seven things predicted, and five of them has already happened. So you can judge yourself how far away we are. We're near the end. If them five things happened, these other two things are bound to happen. It's just got to happen" (Hybrid Religion, p. 6:6; 21:7).
"I believe, one of these glorious days, when this united confederation of church goes together, and the new pope is brought out of the United States and put over there according to prophecy, then they'll form an image like unto the beast. And I tell you, the true Church of God will be drove together. The real, true believers out of Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, Pentecostal, Nazarene, Pilgrim Holiness, whatever they'll be, will go together and cemented by the love of God, that'll make the Body of the Lord Jesus Christ, all the believers. And agnostics and shallow-minded will be cast to one side; they'll go right on into the confederation of churches" (The Acts of the Holy Spirit, p. 12:87).
Profound Revolution explains why George II could call the US Constitution "just a goddamned piece of paper," which is all it has been since FDR, if not since Lincoln. I shows how the banksters of 'the City of London' are bleeding the world into penury and why her US troops are marauding in a trail of blood worldwide.
Perhaps you have detected the exercise of Orwell's "doublethink" and "newspeak." The UN's never ending "wars" are keeping "peace." Those defending their homes and families against 'the City' are branded "terrorists" and "insurgents" in their own country, having enraged the "International Community" (UN world government headquarters). And as the Illuminati always work under another name and in a different occupation their US colony 'fronting' for their UN is commanded to pursue "peace" to the death. "The Member States' governments will just continue to levy these burdensome taxes [for militaries and armaments] AFTER THE NATIONS ARE DISARMED. They will turn the savings, resulting from disarmament, over to the United Nations for the building of the World Empire or, as they undertake the proposition, for the 'development of the less-developed countries'. . ."
So the world is their laboratory. We Goyim replaced Pavlov's dogs when we put our hands in our pocket for the "holocaust" of six million Jews claimed as victims of Germany in World War I, again for six million Jews claimed exterminated by Jew-controlled Russia between the wars, and yet again for the six million Jews claimed as victims of Germany in World War II. Now we are panting to pay unlimited trillions for the "climate change" hoax being FORCED by UN and foisted upon us by IPCC liars in order to destroy the economies of the developed world and return us to the serfdom of the Dark Ages. Do you begin to see where migrant workers on temporary visas, multiculturalism and internment camps for recalcitrants, AIDS, chemtrails, UN-approved NGOs, public-private partnerships, etc., fit in?
God placed the criminal outcast Cain and his children in charge of law, which is only for sinners, and takes account of learned argument without regard for truth. By corrupt laws they are bringing Theodor Herzl's "Programme for the World Jewish Colony" better known as The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion into being.
Looming Attack on Pakistan spells Nuclear Confrontations with China, Russia & Their Allies
July 20, 2008 Russian leader Vladimir Putin and his faction clearly had read Brzezinski's intentions accurately: "Where did you get a public opinion that we should fully disarm and then, according to some theoreticians, such as Brzezinski, divide our territory into three or four states? If there is such a public opinion, I would disagree with it," Putin had stated on June 4, 2007.
An Obama regime was therefore a probable one-way ticket to thermonuclear war, an outcome several orders of magnitude worse than anything the neocons had ever plotted. Brzezinski and his friends were more aggressive, more adventurous, more intelligent, and more insane than the neocons. The American people, if they succumbed to Obama, were about to leap out of the frying pan and into the fire. . . Full story: rense.com
Comment: God cannot bless Israel until she returns to the homeland. Since World War III was planned to emasculate both political Zionism and political Islam it appears the neocons have fulfilled their utility, and the unintended outcome of this brief war will see Israel and Judah return from exile in the Muslim lands where they remain "for fear of the Jews."
Brother Branham said, "Israel paid for every sin she did, and so will we" (The Token Vol. 19:12, p. 10:70).
In recounting his visit to Finland he said, "I passed right by on the iron curtain line here recently, till they pulled the curtains down on that little old train, there's a big old Russian guard standing there with a gun on me like that, while we passed by, and let us not look out of a hundred miles of man-made tunnel. I went up to a little Finnish officer, he said, "Isn't that awful?" He could speak English.
I said, "What is it?"
He said, "You Americans will learn pretty soon."
Underground jet planes, planes go out from under the ground like that. Under there was atomic bombs, everything just ready, can fly the whole world around, in just a little bit, with atomic bombs. And they can send these saucers out across the nation [as Dr. Peter Beter said], drop a bomb, and twenty minute's time explode the whole earth. If they wasn't afraid of that chain of relay, could stop that hydrogen bomb, they'd be doing it right now. Brother, while it's time to repent, get right with God.
America. . . I talked to a fellow today; he said, "You mean to tell me that God would ever let America be overrun?"
"Yes, sir."
"Why, as a respect of our forefathers. . ."
I said, "God never did say to America what He said to the Jews down there, the Israelites. But when they got out of harmony with God, God let them go." That's right. And I tell you, brother, when you sow you reap" (Speak to this Rock, #53-1115).
Avian Flu has already been Weaponized
July 19, 2008 There is a basic virological fact you need to know to make sense of what comes next: it is impossible to make a vaccine against a virus that does not yet exist. Public relations efforts to the contrary, IF a vaccine is being made against the Avian Flu virus in its pandemic form, that means that the pandemic virus already exists. Period. End of discussion. So that fact that the Avian Flu vaccine is already being manufactured in China by Sanofi-Pasteur, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the French arm of the Rockefeller oil cartel (Total Petroleum) is confirmation of what you are about to read. If you allow it to be introduced into your body, there is no reason to imagine it will be anything but an unmitigated disaster for your immune system and for you. We believe it's planned to be that way. . .
The genome of the 1918 pandemic so-called "Spanish Flu" was recently intentionally resurrected. Because of that resurrection, the Avian Flu, and its vaccine, are now a US government-instigated threat to lifeyour life. . .
Full story: timebomb2000.com
Comment: "It is indispensable to trouble in all countries the people's relations with their governments so as to utterly exhaust humanity with dissension, hatred, struggle, envy and even by the use of torture, by starvation, by the inoculation of diseases, by want, so that the "goyim" see no other issue than to take refuge in our complete sovereignty in money and in all else" (Protocol 10).
Brother Branham said, "Did you know the Bible predicts that in the last days, that they'll be a germ warfare? That diseases will break out upon the people, and will fall on everyone without the baptism of the Holy Spirit? But the Angel who had charge over these plagues was given orders to touch no one on whom the mark was. Why, how much, kind of teachers have we got to be, brethren, to get the church in order to be in that condition? Immune." (God's Provided Way of Healing, #54-0719A).
"The Bible said that man would actually rot in their flesh. . . But that Angel was given commission, "Don't you touch any of those! Don't you come near those who has the wine and the oil. Don't touch those who has the seal of God upon their forehead" (God's Provided Way of Fellowship, #60-0709).
Intelligence Briefing for Chief Executive Officers
Most countries in the Western world have stopped breeding. For a civilization obsessed with sex, this is remarkable. Maintaining a steady population requires a birth rate of 2.1. In Western Europe, the birth rate currently stands at 1.5, or 30 percent below replacement. In 30 years there will be 70 to 80 million fewer Europeans than there are today. The current birth rate in Germany is 1.3. Italy and Spain are even lower at 1.2. At that rate, the working age population declines by 30 percent in 20 years, which has a huge impact on the economy. When you don't have young workers to replace the older ones, you have to import them.
The European countries are currently importing Moslems. Today, Moslems comprise ten percent of France and Germany, and the percentage is rising rapidly because they have higher birthrates. However, the Moslem populations are not being integrated into the cultures of their host countries, which is a political catastrophe. One reason Germany and France don't support the Iraq war is they fear their Moslem populations will explode on them. By 2020, more than half of all births in the Netherlands will be non-European. . .
There is a direct correlation between abandonment of traditional religious society and a drop in birth rate, and Christianity in Europe is becoming irrelevant. . . Full story: Intelligence Briefing for Chief Executive Officers.
Comment: Speaking before a special meeting of the Emergency Council of European Rabbis in Budapest on January 12, 1952, Rabbi Emanuel Rabinovich said concerning progress towards their NWO, ". . . We will openly reveal our identity with the races of Asia and Africa. I can state with assurance that the last generation of white children is now being born. Our Control Commissions will, in the interests of peace and wiping out inter-racial tensions, forbid the whites to mate with whites. The white women must cohabit with members of the dark races, the white men with black women. Thus the white race will disappear, for mixing the dark with the white means the end of the white man, and our most dangerous enemy will become only a memory . . ." (Common Sense). This is representative of similar quotes by prominent Jews inspired by the Talmud like Theodore Herzl, Rabbi Reichorn, Dr. Oscar Levy, Bernard Lazare, Rabbi Stephen Wise and Maurice Samuel.
Rabbi Emanuel Rabinovich obviously disputed the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob; of Moses and the prophets of Israel, who condemned miscegenation.
Brother Branham said, "Sin can keep corrupting, righteous seed can remain in there and seed can keep corrupting and corrupting till after while it runs out. It gets to a place because their mothers and daddies and so forth has lived so before us, until there's nothing left for us. And you know what Jesus said? If He didn't cut the work short, there'd be not even any flesh saved" [for the rapture] (Why are We not a Denomination, p. 20:90).
Our Fathers have inherited Lies
"The individual is handicapped by coming face to face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists" (J. Edgar Hoover, FBI Director 1924-1972, The Elks Magazine, August, 1956).
Jeremiah 16:19, "O Lord, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, to You shall the Gentiles come from the ends of the earth and say, Our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit".
According to Jeremiah 16:1 - 17:4, the Lord has banished Israel and Judah from the Promised Land and His Presence until after the Gentile dispensation has ended. This agrees with Isaiah, Daniel and all of God's holy prophets and apostles, and also Jesus Messiah, so the rulers of modern-day Israel are not Israelites but non-Semitic self-styled Jews as noted by their own historians and Encyclopedias. Jeremiah includes Himself with we once heathen Christian believers in Jehovah, but he excludes Israel from this communion until they have been chastened by the seven Trumpet judgments and instructed by the expositions of two Hebrew prophets endued with the Spirit that was upon Moses and Elijah (Daniel 9:24-27). Only then will an election of 144,000 blood Israelites recognize their errors and obtain the same saving knowledge (Zechariah 10-14). The good Jeremiah prophecies concerning the future conversion of us Gentiles exposes the sins of Israel to a clearer Light.
Amos 2:4-5, "THUS SAITH THE LORD: For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment decided upon; because they have despised the Law of the Lord, and not kept His statutes. Their lies (idols), after which their fathers walked led them astray; therefore I will send fire into Judah, and it will devour the palaces of Jerusalem".
Here, even before His judgment upon the Northern kingdom of Israel whose utter conquest and transportation is foretold in verses 6-16 as punishment for apostasy and injustice, Amos prophesies Nebuchadnezzar's destruction of Judah for the sin of apostasy manifest in idolatry.
Sennacherib took 46 of Judah's fenced cities, gave away certain of her territory and built towers round Jerusalem, shutting up Hezekiah who then submitted by coming under tribute. In 742BC Isaiah (7:8) foretold that within 65 years the Northern kingdom should be "broken that it be not a people." This was accomplished in 677BC by Esarhaddon who transported the ten tribes throughout the Assyrian empire and resettled Samaria with foreigners.
The minority of Judeans who returned following the Captivity found Benjamin's inheritance occupied by Edomites and they relocated to new land in "Galilee of the Gentiles." In the second century BC, John Hyrcanus, high priest and king of Judah, defeated and forcibly assimilated the Edomites. "They were hereafter no other than Jews" (Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews, XIII, 9:1). Then in AD740 Talmudic Jews from Babylon, (where they have dwelt centuries longer than ever they lived in Palestine), converted the Khazars overnight. Hence the so-called Jews are generally a non-Semitic people, "aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world" (Ephesians 2:12). And "for fear of the Jews" the blood descendants of the Northern and Southern kingdoms reside still in Muslim lands that once comprised the Assyrian empire.
This confirms Jeremiah's prophecy that "Our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit." Not only were the idolatrous traditions of our forefathers false from the very beginning, but we "have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit" from what Paul called "Jewish fables" of so-called Jews whose true identity is Hittite and Canaanite, and who perverted Christian faith into the "lies and vanity" of their Judaeo-Catholic church.
For those with traditions but no faith, "a man's fate is a man's fate, and life is but an illusion".
Sir John Harrington wrote: "Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it treason." As war-making is now called "peace-keeping" it is considered benign and beneficent; and since miscegenation was renamed multiculturalism it is applauded by sycophant politicians although it is accursed by the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Now because it prospers, treason is called "politically correct" by cowards who dare not speak the truth but wink at evil and bind themselves with lies perchance they might confront their fellow cowards or offend the guilty.
Words carry spirits because they communicate the thoughts and intents of the heart which is where the soul resides, ruled by your old or your new husbandthe spirit of this world, or the Spirit of Christ. Words have the power to bind or set you free. Jesus said to Peter, "I will give you the keys of the Kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever you shall bind on earth will be bound in heaven: and whatsoever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven" (Matthew 16:19). "The keys to the Kingdom of heaven" are the right words of faith that unlock or seal the entrance to the Kingdom of heaven, which is the new birth into the Family of God.
This is confirmed by multitudes of Scriptures. In Matthew 21:21-22 Jesus said, "I assure you, If you have faith, and doubt not, you will not only do this which is done to the fig tree, but if you say to this mountain, Be removed, and cast into the sea; it shall be done. And all things, whatsoever you ask in prayer, believing, you shall receive." Hence Brother Branham's theme hymn was, "Only believe, all things are possible, only believe".
John 15:7, "If you remain in Me, and My Words remain in you, you may ask what you wish, and it will be done for you".
James 1:5-6, "If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives to everyone without reserve and without reproach, and it will be given him. But he should ask in faith, without doubting".
As Jesus told Peter, God is building His Kingdom on the rock of a clear revelation of the revealed Word of the hour, which is faith (Matthew 17:18), and the elect of God cannot be deceived by creed and dogma that pretend to be revelation, but are in fact deception (Matthew 24:24; John 10:1-5; Hebrews 6:4).
Satan is also building his kingdom upon words; words that send strong delusion to those who "receive not the love of the Truth;" one Word disbelieved is the kingdom of Satan. That was all it took for Eve to throw this world into death, sickness, worry and sorrow.
Satan does not want you to understand the original sin that sealed his doom and separated man from God, but is content for you to read the "letter" of II Corinthians 11:2-3so long as you believe eating an apple caused the fall. "I am jealous over you with godly jealousy because I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. But I am afraid that as the serpent beguiled Eve through his cunning, [causing her to have two living husbands], your minds should be corrupted from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ." Satan does not want you to understand his deceit actually caused Eve to commit adultery so that the father of Cain was the incarnate Serpent, and there are two (2) races of people on earth, one of whom is not written in the Book of Life, which is the genealogy of Adam's race, and is therefore without redemption.
Satan is happy for you to read the "letter" of God's unchanging Word, but he is determined to prevent you from receiving faith which is the mind of God in youa clear understanding of what it meanswhereby we receive His "Spirit and eternal Life," for the new birth is a revelation. Faith in the Word for your day is the key that will give you new birth and unlock the Kingdom of heaven (John 6:63).
God told the Serpent, "I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; it shall bruise your head, and you shalt bruise His heel" (Genesis 3:15). So hatred exists between the natural and spiritual seed of the Serpent, that is, between Cain's offspring and all those who disbelieve the revealed Word of God, and the natural seed of the first Adam by the first Eve and the Spiritual seed of the last Adam, the second Eve, which is Christ's elect Church.
Should you receive this revelation, Satan will do his utmost to keep you from exposing the identity of his offspring by the Serpent. This is why the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) of B'nai B'rith and numerous other 'fronts' pushed multiculturalism, which is absolutely accursed by the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob; a repetition of the original sin on a global scale "as it was in the days of Noah" (Matthew 24:37). They have also introduced hate legislation worldwide to ensure you dare not call it treason, for miscegenation with Cain's race is genocide to Adam's race as the offspring is not in the Book of Life.
Genesis 27:40-41, Isaac prophesied over Esau, "You shall live by your sword, and serve your brother Jacob; and it shall come to pass that when you exert your strength, you will break his yoke from your neck. So Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him: and Esau said to himself, The days of mourning for my father are approaching; then I will kill my brother Jacob [who is Israel]." Right now Esau is fulfilling his oath by the proxy-militaries of 'the City of London,' yet the Laodiceans funding the slaughter with their taxes and the blood of their sons "know it not".
Only the discovery that you are one of "God's chosen people," Christ's Bride, and that you have a backbone, will enable you to put on the full armour of God and to stand against the wiles of the Devil, confident that "he who blesses you will be blessed, and he who curses you will be accursed" (Genesis 12:3). "For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places".
Truth will set you free. The missing element in society is the knowledge of and submission to a clear revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ and what Jesus is doing now. The fear of offending His great enemy too often overrides that which is the beginning of wisdom. When Laodicea refused to receive the present Truth they put Christ out of the denominational camps and became menpleasers for the aliens who brazenly impose their hatred for "all things bright and beautiful, all creatures great and small" through the colonies of 'the City of London,' particularly Britain, the United States and communist nations. They despise the very Name of Jesus and say "Yeshu," omitting the last syllable 'a' to frame the acronym concocted by medieval rabbis as the curse: "May his name and memory be blotted out." He is despised because He is not their kinsman Redeemer, and like their father Cain, have no inheritance in this world and no hope in the world to come (Matthew 23:35). God placed "enmity between them and the sons of Adam" and their only achievements are the acquisitionby whatever meansof temporal material wealth and power; that is, the lust of the eye, the lust of the flesh, and the pride of life.
Since they gave us the League of Nations and (so-called) United Nations there has been constant warfare, for the objective of such bodies is the establishment of the totalitarian one world government Lucifer offered to Jesus if He would serve him. As Mary Davison explains in Profound Revolution, the United Nations is the defacto world government, and since the United States superpower is a state of the UN, all other nations, whether members or not, are subservient. Refractory states will be made compliant. This is the world government Jesus refused, the super-government to which most so-called Christians do obeisance. But man cannot achieve peace on earth because spirits do not die; only the house in which they lived perishes. There can be no rest until the God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel has purged and wiped the planet clean of sinners, and the Prince of Peace establishes His throne for a thousand years of peace as King of Peace (Hebrews 7:1-3). Then comes the general resurrection and white throne judgment followed by a renewed heavens and earth.
A highly organized group hates the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and those who love and serve Him. If you serve Satan, he will promise whatsoever your heart desires, but he is a liar and the father of liars whose authority is restricted to the degree to which you yield to him. He actually has nothing to give you since his only power is the dominion over earth forfeited by the first Adam when he took Eve back to himself. The last Adam defeated Satan when He rose from the dead and His victory was confirmed when He resurrected the Old Testament saints, making them captives of eternal Life. Our commission is to withstand the Adversary by the Word of God and prayer and overcome the wiles of his children who boast of themselves as "the destroyers."
Proverbs 30:5, "Every word of God is pure: He is a shield to those who put their trust in Him." So long as we stand behind the shield of faith clothed in the full armour of God we shall be able to quench the fiery darts of the wicked one.
God created Lucifer the sum of wisdom and beauty and placed him on the basis of free moral agency as He did Adam and Eve at the start. Consequently his name means "Light bearer," but without faith and overcome by pride in his own beauty, he made reasonthe lust of the eye, the lust of the flesh, and the pride of lifethe destroyer of wisdom (Ezekiel 28:15-17). Henceforth he is called Satan, which means "adversary," for he is the adversary of God and men. He has nothing to give you but trouble and death and cannot offer salvation or eternal Life which he has forever forfeited.
God's power is in His Word by which He created the universe and its dispensations. His Word is omniscient and omnipotent and cannot fail provided we apprehend and hold it at the throat of the Enemy by the hand of faith (Hebrews 4:12). Very soon we will have to rely wholly upon God's Word, so now is the hour to practice.
Satan is anything contrary to the revealed Word of God. His kingdom is not eternal Light but darkness that leads to death. I repeat, "Satan's kingdom is anything contrary to the Word of God." Remember that definition and apply it to people, places and things so you can recognize the "thou shalt nots" encountered in your daily walk and uphold the shield of faith. Perhaps there are certain friendships, habits, errors of understanding, customs or places contrary to the Word of God that need to be pruned from your life.
Satan's power resides in his word, which is a lie and the bluff that has led the world and its leaders to forsake the Logos and walk the quicksand of reasoning. His word is chutzpahunmitigated impudence; the shameless effrontery of brazen gall akin to the overweening pride, self-confidence, superciliousness or arrogance of hubris.
A program on Australia's taxpayer-funded alien-controlled propaganda-broadcasting network called A Drifting Coconut: The story of the Carteret Islanders said their low-lying islands, which form part of the large Solomon Islands group, are disappearing into the Western Pacific faster than can be explained by rises in sea level. Despite this the objective of the program appeared to be to persuade Islanders this subsidence is due somehow to man-made "climate change" for which Australia is responsible; that they have a legitimate grievance with entitlement to compensation because their culture and way of life will be lost no matter where they relocate, and because they will have to forsake the graves of their ancestors, they will be alienated from their spirits.
However, the most recent and comprehensive review of potential sea level rise due to contributions from the wastage of both the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets suggests a century-long rise measured in millimeters. And whereas Dr. James Hansen, considered by many to be perhaps the world's foremost authority on the 'greenhouse effect' of anthropogenic CO2 emissions, claims the rate of sea level rise is accelerating, and his statements are typically regarded as expressions of fact: "In many cases, however, they are merely his opinions. Century-scale data indicate the mean rate-of-rise of the global ocean has either not accelerated at all or has actually slowed over the latter part of the past century," according to Dr. Sherwood Idso.
Man-made climate change is a clear-cut satanic deception designed to strike unfounded fears into thoughtless hearts, and press treasonous politicians in developed countries to hamstring and bankrupt their productive economies in response to unscientific lies repudiated by over 31,000 senior scientists. Their NWO masters have been planning this hoax for decades. One could refer to the writings of NWO conspirator H. G. Wells and the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, to the 1967 Hudson Institute "Report from Iron Mountain," the 1972 Club of Rome's report "Limits to Growth," to "Global 2000: Report to the President" and "Global Future: A Time to Act" of the Council of Foreign Relations, Trilateral Commission and International Monetary Fund in the days of Cyrus Vance, Edmund Muskie and Jimmy Carter, or to the World Bank's Earth Summit, and the UN's Agenda 21.
Australia's glib new Prime Minister has signed the Illuminati's Kyoto Protocol scam and is determined to commit the country to a "cap in trade" carbon credit scheme, as if it will reduce emissions, treating electors like Pavlov's dogsgood doggies taking the lead to set the example for India and China who will appreciate the economic handicap he has set the nation.
How can those "whose conscience has been seared with a hot iron" perpetrate such an audacious hoax? Simply by gaining worldwide control of the mass media and public education. Media is the most efficient weapon of tyranny and oppression ever created. There is no need to physically control populations with Redcoats when you can manipulate and program their minds, internalizing the rules. The hidden hand has thousands of false 'fronts' disseminating disinformation via syndicated news and the Internet. They control television, newspapers, wire services, radio and magazines. The concentration of media ownership is the foundation of the covert power structure.
Our alien-controlled media promotes "recreational" drugs, promiscuity, filthy language and homosexuality, popularising these activities as acceptable "youth culture." Their Absolute is not the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob but the ulterior motive of an undisclosed agenda to play down the public to first-name nonentities with no distinction in gender, social standing, marital status, or age. And one of the main purposesperhaps the main purposeof the conspiracy for world government is to destroy marriage, the real thing, joining one man and one woman. That is why the conspiracy is frenetically promoting all kinds of perversions and calling them 'marriage.' God's commandment of a permanent union of husband as lord, and wife in submission, has been usurped by a relationship of equal "partners" that may be dissolved by mutual agreement.
In exposing the modus operandi of the Jewish Weimar Republic that usurped and all but devastated Germany following the abdication of Emperor Wilhelm II and the allies' betrayal of the Armistice of World War I, the Jew Josef Goebbels explained: "If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State".
Hence we see such legislation as the Patriot Acts, Homeland Security, Racial Hatred, Global Anti-Semitism Act designed to repress dissent against corrupt legislators in a corrupt state.
Since World War II Germany has been absolutely raped by a plethora of lies designed to cover allied atrocities, primarily perpetrated by the Jews' USSR. Our (once) Christian nations have been the target of media wildfire in the psychological warfare of historical mythmaking strategies to divide and conquer from without as egregious legislation and racial genocide by multiculturalism divide and conquer from within. After imposing premature independence on the former colonies and ensuring their inexperienced administrators were either corrupt or corruptible, international banksters loosed their advisers, and these new nations made bankrupt exchanged equity over national resources for debt; liberty and self-determination for tax slavery. As a cover for their sins the Illuminati planted hatred for white men and the former imperial powers, yet they are the 'hidden hand' that rules the European powers and white men. England for example, has been their colony since she was invaded by their surrogate, William of Orange, in 1688. Like their vicarious farther, Satan's children are liars (John 8:44).
The discontent of so-called "first nations" people throughout the world is orchestrated and funded by the 'hidden hand' to divide and conquer nation states prior to immersing all survivors into Lucifer's totalitarian one world government. The same plan of attack employed to dispossess the imperial powers of their colonies and then rob the newly independent nations is now being applied in countries like Canada, the United States, and in Australia, now divided into countless Bantustans demanding changes to the constitution on the basis of false history which claims white man invaded the country when in fact Britain had been under the thumb of an alien 'hidden hand' for a century before the first fleet arrived.
Propaganda broadcast recently claimed Negro slavery in America was caused by white men, "Christian white men," when slavers in Africa and in America, shipowners, captains, auctioneers, traders and plantation-owners were predominantly Jews according to their own historians.
Israel Cohen wrote, "We must realize that our party's most powerful weapon is racial tension. By propounding into the consciousness of the dark races, that for centuries they have been oppressed by the whites, we can move them to the program of the Communist party. In America; we will aim for subtle victory. While inflaming the Negro minority against the whites; we will instill in the whites a guilt-complex for their exploitation of the Negroes. We will aid the Negroes to rise to prominence in every walk of life, in the professions, and in the world of sports and entertainment. With this prestige; the Negro will be able to intermarry with the whites and begin a process which will deliver America to our cause" (A Racial Program for the 20th Century; Also see Protocol 5:5
For the past century and a half, Germany, Russia and innocent Islam have been made bogeymen for the unthinking. The lives of those without Christ, even within the circle of this Message, are governed by "Jewish fables and commandments of men who turn their backs to the truth . . . to those thus contaminated and unbelieving nothing is pure; but even their mind and conscience are polluted. They profess to know God; but by their deeds they deny Him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unfit for any good deed" (Titus 1:14-16). To those who believe liars, "life is but an illusion".
Martin Luther. He said, "If I profess with the loudest voice and clearest exposition every portion of the truth of God except precisely that little point which the world and the devil are at that moment attacking, I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing Christ. Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved; and to be steady on all the battlefield besides is mere flight and disgrace if he flinches at that point". nl537.htm
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA--(Marketwired - Sep 23, 2014) - Gridstore™, the leader in converged infrastructure architecture purpose-built for Microsoft Hyper-V, today announced that Warren Memorial Hospital in Friend, Nebraska, selected as one of the top 20 critical access hospitals in the nation, has chosen Gridstore to provide its innovative storage technology allowing them to utilize the most modern technology solution that would provide more functionality and capacity within a community hospital's budget.
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Included in its vision of the future is Warren Memorial Hospital's drive to acquire state-of-the-art technology in order to provide the optimum healthcare experience for every patient. In its modernization efforts, Warren Memorial decided that prohibitively high licensing fees were reason enough for it to search for an alternative to its NetApp and VMware environment. CIO Matt Scott notes that Gridstore appeared at the right time and provided a potential solution to the hospital's need for improved performance and scalability as well as reduced acquisition and maintenance costs.
"Warren Memorial is a small, critical access hospital. We licensed VMware and purchased NetApp, and the annual fees were huge, with Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) up to $50K per year -- and we did not need that expense. It was time to consider other options. We briefly looked at HP and EMC, and then Gridstore came calling."
Warren Memorial Hospital made the move away from VMware to Hyper-V with a key goal of optimizing I/Os on VMs. Its new platform includes Microsoft System Center managing Hyper-V servers clustered together with three Gridstore Performance Nodes for storage in a company-wide installation, supporting all of the IT functions within the hospital. "Our primary gain is performance improvements," said Scott. "We are at wire speed and running in real time since the Gridstore installation. Our SQL database and exchange servers are performing much better. It used to take three to five minutes for our staff to log in, now the same function takes 30 seconds at most. Gridstore is easy to manage and is way simpler than NetApp. By being able to establish and manage QoS on our most critical apps, we can now spend less time with technology and more time treating our patients, which is of utmost importance to us."
Warren Memorial Hospital realized several benefits in implementing Gridstore:
Scott added, "Storage is like a closet, eventually you are going to fill it up and need more space. We can see how it will be straightforward to expand the Gridstore grid here at Warren Memorial in the future. We would not hesitate to add more Gridstore as we need it."
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Warren Memorial Hospital, located in Friend, Nebraska, is an integral part of the community it has served over the past 80 years. Dedicated to supporting and healing its community by providing quality and progressive healthcare services, Warren Memorial Hospital's vision is to continue to be a trusted healthcare partner and to meet the needs of its entire community through incomparable care and wellness services.
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St. Jude's Defibrillator Leads: Information for Patients
Just as the dust appeared to be settling from St. Jude Medical Inc.'s months-long saga over a troubled heart-device, U.S. regulators sent a warning shot that could rattle doctors and patients.
The agency advised doctors to begin routinely screening the nearly 80,000 U.S. patients who have Riata defibrillator leads in their chests with X-rays to search for signs that a device's insulation is wearing away. FDA officials also pressed the company to amp up studies for both the flawed Riata device and its successor, Durata-series leads, which have not yet been linked to problems.
Defibrillator leads connect the heart to implantable devices that quell abnormal heart rhythms with an electrical zap. But, the wires inside Riata leads have been breaking through their insulation, a trend that prompted the FDA to announce a recall of the devices in December. The loose wires are often visible by X-ray. St. Jude hasn't sold Riata leads since 2010.
Patients with defibrillators should check in with their doctors to find out whether their leads are covered by the recall, said Peper Long, an FDA spokeswoman. Many physicians have already been screening patients with X-rays in search of problems, and patients who've had one in the last three to six months probably don't need another, the FDA guidance said. Patients shouldn't feel that they have to "rush in and get an X-ray every month," Ms. Long said.
St. Jude, so far, hasn't recommended routinely X-raying Riata patients whose devices are working normally. "We are reviewing the FDA's recommendations and will be discussing them with our independent medical advisory board," said Amy Jo Meyer, a St. Jude spokeswoman. St. Jude's medical advisory board prompted the company to caution doctors in December about the emerging insulation problems, leading to the recall.
One question Riata patients face is what to do if their leads are shown to have problems. The FDA recommends against surgically removing leads, which thread into the heart through a vein and can be dangerous to extract, when they don't show obvious signs of malfunction. And, even devices that have insulation problems often work properly. The choice to take a working lead out can be a difficult one.
The FDA guidance is a reminder to patients—and investors, who watched St. Jude's stock fall more than 4% Thursday—that the medical community's understanding of the scope of the problem remains fluid. A month ago, St. Jude said X-rays collected in its own 724-person study showed that wires had broken through their insulation in about 19% of Riata patients. Earlier studies had shown similar rates.
But the FDA says it wants to know more. The St. Jude study didn't say, for instance, how many leads with insulation troubles also malfunctioned. Doctors and regulators caution, too, that the Riata problem appears to be getting worse over time, one reason that the FDA is seeking more data now.
"There are many pieces missing from the previous studies," said Mary Beth Ritchey, an FDA epidemiologist. The uncertain link between visible insulation problems and dangerous malfunctions remains particularly troublesome to doctors and regulators.
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Beijing: China`s new leaders will face a challenging foreign affairs, said a state-run daily which quoted an expert as stressing that the "present conflicts are not due to mistakes in China`s diplomacy".
Global Times said that China`s next generation of leadership is doomed to face a much bumpier and more challenging decade in terms of foreign affairs.
The state-run daily quoted analysts as saying that the diplomatic skills of China`s new leaders will be tested not only because of increasing incidents of conflict overseas, but also the need for a comprehensive and straightforward national strategy that can guide the country beyond the once in a decade leadership transition.
"China is entering a vital period of transition," said John Ross, a visiting professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
"Provided that no large policy mistakes are made by the new Chinese leadership, in five to seven years, the country`s GDP will become the world`s largest. However, it will not at that time become the strongest," Ross said.
The new Chinese top leaders must "make sure that people and governments of other countries understand China`s growth is a `win-win` for them and will aid their own prosperity" while maintaining rapid economic growth in the country, Ross told the Global Times.
The ongoing 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China will see a once-in-a-decade leadership transition in one of the world`s most powerful economies.
"The China-US relationship is always the top topic in China`s foreign affairs," said a Chinese strategist from the military.
"Now the Chinese and the US governments have very few problems in communication, but mutual understanding of the two countries` people, especially mutual respect for each other`s political system, is a problem that needs to be worked on," the strategist said.
"The next generation of Chinese leaders should further consolidate China`s economic footing in the world, avoid slipping into an ideological conflict with the US, and not seek to challenge the US leading role in terms of military," he added.
Qu Xing, head of the China Institute of International Studies, said he believes that the new leaders need "diplomatic skills and art" in handling the frictions with neighbouring countries that have territorial issues with China.


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From Broome to Cairns and Perth to Brisbane and beyond, more than 30,000 Australians support the establishment of a very large, world-class, fully protected marine park in the Coral Sea, which would provide a safe haven for marine wildlife and recognise the area's historic significance.
The 30,000 Australian supporters include more than 2,500 recreational fishers who have also added their support to this good cause.
"I've recreationally fished along the Queensland coast for 30 years. Even in that brief time I've noticed a huge decline in the fish stocks. Let's be honest - those who enjoy fishing want to preserve our assets and fish stocks. That's the reason I support the creation of a very large fully protected marine national park in the Coral Sea", said recreational fisherman Sean Marler.
People from all walks of life – school children, mums and dads, teachers, retirees – believe in creating a lasting legacy in the Coral Sea for future generations to enjoy.
"We know so much about environmental issues nowadays and I'd like to think my generation is working towards leaving a legacy of healthy oceans so my grandchildren's children can enjoy the lifestyle we all take for granted", said Lisa Newey, mum to two kids under 9 years old.
"My Gen Y friends are very worried that our politicians are not taking environmental issues seriously. We will inherit their mistakes so please don't make any", said Tanya Behr, avid scuba diver.
"Just like a national park on land protects everything (the plants, the animals, the whole ecosystem), a fully protected park in the Coral Sea would ensure the survival of all the species and ecosystems in this magnificent area", said Nicola Salkeld, Year 3 teacher.
"Ninety percent of large fish lost from our oceans in the past fifty years is a frightening figure. We need a place such as the Coral Sea, where these large fish can have a safe home", said Terry Spackman, retiree and occasional recreational fisher.
Each of the 30,000 plus supporters has emailed a letter to their federal Member of Parliament calling on him or her to protect the Coral Sea. The Coral Sea offers the federal government an unparalleled opportunity to protect one of the world's last intact tropical ocean ecosystems, an area of great historic significance and an important part of Australia that lies below the surface.


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The day I moved to Barrie, I cried my eyes out the entire day. Actually, I was excited about the move to 'the city' and eager to spread my wings, go to college and make some new friends, but leaving my family on the rather isolated vegetable farm just north of Bradford was pretty overwhelming.
Barrie was a community of about 45,000 people and Georgian College consisted of only 3 buildings then with several small, free parking lots.
I rented a room with a friend, a nursing student from my school days, in a house on Bernick Dr. owned by her grandmother. Room and board was $25 a week, which sounds like a sweet deal until you factor in that dinner was sometimes simply a huge plate of fried onions, baths were only allowed once a week, and she really frowned on curling irons and hair dryers — c'mon it's the 80s!
Around the corner was, and still is, the Duckworth Plaza. In 1982, it was anchored by the Bank of Montreal on one end, the Drive Test office on the other – we all remember Mr. Tucker! In between, there was a convenience store, a laundromat, a European deli, a dentist, a sub shop, pizza place and KFC. After eating my fill of fried onions, I rented a room on Sylvia St. the next school year, and took a job cooking at Smitty's Pancake House on the corner of Bayfield St. and Ferris Lane to pay the higher rent. I was a second-year culinary skills student and my three roommates were all enrolled in the Resort and Hotel program. None of us had a car, or any spare money really, so daily specials at the Duckworth Plaza fast food places were pretty much memorized by us. I made $250 a month working that part time job and my rent was $200. That was the year I learned to cut my own hair!
Broke or not, college students have to have some fun. Before the Last Class existed, the cafeteria was the place to be for pub nights where I saw bands of the day like Honeymoon Suite, Harlequin and Platinum Blonde play. I recall one event that was sponsored by Craven A cigarettes and everybody was handed a pack upon entering. Try that today!
Most of the time we walked, bussed or crammed 5 or 6 into a taxi for a trip downtown. Live music could be had at the Wellington Hotel, or at the Yank (American Hotel) which was living out its last days while awaiting a date with the wrecking ball. Our crowd was more likely to be found in the Brookdale where Cyndi Lauper's Girls Just Wanna Have Fun played on the big video screen, or on the lighted dance floor at the Queen's Hotel surrounded by mirrors, and the smoke of hundreds of cigarettes illuminated by strobe lights. Our earrings were big, our hair was bigger.
When the lights came up at 2 a.m., large crowds of hungry bar patrons headed to Papa's Fire Pit (Toronto Street at Dunlop West) or Reggie's Sandwich Factory on Dunlop East. I can still taste my favourite sandwich at Reggie's – seafood (crab, shrimp, lobster) on a soft Kaiser with cocktail sauce and some romaine lettuce. Can somebody re-open Reggie's, please?
In 1982, the city buses did not go to the Georgian Mall, because the mall was outside of the city limits and I remember getting off the bus just north of Cundles Rd. and walking the rest of the way. Between Douglas Lincoln Mercury and the mall, there wasn't much, just Wendy's, the tiny box that was CK Chinese Food and little else.
Friday night in Barrie meant going to the bank before it closed in order to get enough money out to last the weekend. My twenty-something offspring find it hard to grasp that you could not access any more of your own money until the bank opened again on Monday morning. When Canada Trust first arrived, where Casa Cappuccino is now, with its unheard-of Saturday and late evening hours, I was an immediate customer! They may also have had the first ATM in Barrie, with their cleverly named Johnny Cash Machine.
My kids also find it mind boggling that, until about this time, movies were watched solely in theatres or on TV if the station chose to air them. The invention of the VCR changed all that, and in 1982, Beta was still battling VHS for technological supremacy. To get ready for the weekend, my friends and I hit one of the few but increasing video stores in town and rented a big clunky VCR in a metal case – nobody had their own – and an armload of popular movies to watch. The selection was minimal and I know we watched a lot of Scarface, The Evil Dead and Eddie Murphy stand up comedies.
Through the years, fashions have changed and businesses have come and gone, the skyline has been completely reinvented and the population has mushroomed, but the core of Barrie has remained the same and I have never found one good reason to move anywhere else. When people ask me how I ended up in Barrie, I always say that I came for Georgian College and forgot to leave.
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Iconic Rock Band Duran Duran To Ring In 2017 At The Theater at MGM National Harbor December 31 And January 1
The New Year will begin with a bang when iconic British rock band Duran Duran takes the stage at The Theater at MGM National Harbor Saturday, Dec. 31 at 10:30 p.m. and Sunday, Jan. 1 at 9 p.m. The legendary group joins an unrivaled opening lineup at the newest entertainment venue in the D.C. region. MGM National Harbor, a $1.4 billion resort and casino, will open December 8.
The Theater at MGM National Harbor will provide an unmatched experience to guests, allowing them the opportunity to see legends of the entertainment industry in an intimate, 3,000-seat setting. Event-goers also will have a variety of amenities to elevate their visit to the resort. Whether it's enjoying a stay in a luxury suite, viewing the public fine art collection or sampling the cuisine of one of the country's most acclaimed chefs, MGM National Harbor will offer a host of options to create an unforgettable night out or an exciting weekend away from home.
Tickets for Duran Duran range from $125 to $300, including applicable service charges, and go on sale Friday, Oct. 28 at 10 a.m. EDT. Tickets can be purchased online at mgmnationalharbor.com or ticketmaster.com. For more show and ticket information, visitmgmnationalharbor.com or call (844) 346-4664.
Members of the Duran Duran Fan Community will have access to pre-sale tickets beginning Tuesday, Oct. 25 at 10 a.m. EDT. Members should visit www.duranduranmusic.com for full details. The password will be revealed upon login. A Live Nation pre-sale will beginWednesday, Oct. 26 at 10 a.m. EDT.
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Throughout its storied three decades-plus career, Duran Duran has sold over 100 million records, scored 18 American hit singles, 30 UK Top 20 singles and performed to millions of loyal fans and concert-goers across the globe. The band – singer Simon Le Bon, keyboardist Nick Rhodes, bassist John Taylor and drummer Roger Taylor – has achieved these feats in their own unique way; fusing pop music, art, technology and fashion with a sense of style and confidence that have made them an unstoppable force.
Duran Duran's most recent record, Paper Gods, is their 14th full-length album and the celebrated band's highest-charting release in 22 years. Produced by the Grammy Award-winning Mark Ronson and Nile Rodgers, alongside Mr Hudson and Josh Blair, Paper Godsfeatures collaborations with Janelle Monáe, John Frusciante, Kiesza, Jonas Bjerre, and Lindsay Lohan. 2017 will see the band continuing their world tour in support of Paper Gods.


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Luckily, though, while I wait for Austin to go into full bloom for two perfect months before sweltering heat takes over, bits of spring can be found indoors.
More on Galaxie 500...because there's always more to say about Galaxie 500! Despite having a pretty good run this past week of suspiciously good moods, I've been listening almost exclusively to music on the gloomier side. I keep coming back to these songs, in particular, and getting nostalgic for the magical night I saw Dean Wareham open for Belle & Sebastian and ended up in a P.F. Chang's until close because none of the bars in downtown Boston were letting our underage friend in.
There is also always more room for Stella McCartney! Her Spring 2012 campaign by Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott is pretty perfect. If I weren't already super set in the sunglasses department, I would probably spend a lot of time thinking about this particular pair of shades.
This chandelier by Pani Jurek has been making the rounds on the internet lately, but I never tire of seeing it and can't help but think I'd be able to make my own mini version for my bedroom. Now I just have to work a constant supply of fresh flowers into my budget...which really, I should have done ages ago.
My dream blouse by Equipment.
tea towel from The House That Lars Built is way too pretty for drying dishes. I want to snatch one up for myself to hang on my wall.


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House Cleaning
If you employ a maid on a full time basis, 5 or 6 days per week, then you should agree on a monthly salary, in Turkish Lira, to be adjusted every four months to counter the effects of inflation. It is more economical to hire someone to work full time for you than it is to pay the higher fees for a maid that comes in two or three times a week (i.e. the amount a full time maid earns per day, working for one family, is less than if she were to charge per day for different employers).
If you are a foreigner, hiring a full time maid, you can expect that she will try to get you to agree to buy her health insurance. If you can somehow include her in your company, then fine, but otherwise, you are not expected and don't need to provide this. It is a sustantial bonus for your employee but often cuostly to provide. Check around with your friends and neighbors to determine the going rate for maid services.
Companies specializing in house cleaning are usually used after renovation or decoration and for furniture and carpet cleaning purposes. Addresses are in our yellow pages.
Here are some Turkish words and short sentences you may need while communicating with your maid. Don't forget to add the word lütfen (please) before or after each sentence.
Wash the dishes Bulaşıkları yıka
Dry the dishes Tabakları kurula
Clean the top of the refrigerator Buzdolabının üstünütemizle
Clean the refrigerator a sponge Buzdolabının içini süngerle temizle
Clean the outside of the kitchen cupboards Mutfak dolaplarının dışını sil
Clean the oven Fırını/ocağı temizle
Clean the inside of the kitchen Mutfak dolaplarının içini temizle
Tidy up the drawers Çekmeceleri düzenle
Put everything away Herşeyi yerine koy
Sweep Süpür
Scrub Ov
Wipe up Sil
Shake the rugs Halıları silkele
Do not shake the rugs Halıları silkeleme
Clean Temizle
Use the vacuum cleaner Elektrik süpürgesini kullan
Don't use the vacuum cleaner Elektrik süpürgesini kullanma
Mop the floor Yerleri sil
Dust Tozları al
Straighten/tidy up Her tarafı topla
Do the laundry Çamaşırları yıka
Make the beds Yatakları düzelt
Empty the ashtrays Sigara tablalarını dök
Empty the wastebasket Kağıt sepetlerini dök
Clean the silver Gümüş takımları parlat
Polish Parlat
Wash the balconies Balkonları yıka
Tide up the drawers Çekmeceleri düzenle
Clean the wall Duvarları sil
Clean the toilets and the sink Tuvaletleri ve lavaboyu temizle
Change the bed sheets Çarşafları değiştir
Wax Cilala
Cook Pişir
Hang up the clothes Çamaşırları as
Wash the windows Camları sil
Open the door Kapıyı aç
Shut the door Kapıyı kapat
Open the window Pencereyi aç
Shut the window Pencereyi kapat
Please watch the children while I am not here Burada olmadığım zaman çocuklara bakar mısın lütfen
I want istiyorum Name or show what you want first then say istiyorum
For your maid to bring you an item or object, name what you want first then say getirir misin
For the maid to put something, name first the object, than the place and koyar mısın
Latest comments about this article
By klausd 27.8.2007
The quarterly inflation adjustment is past, going rates are YTL 700 or USD 500 per month for a fulltime job. Add some YTL 50-100 as bus money (dolmus). Permit eating (your food), do not permit smoking in the house. The editors are talking about compulsory social insurance (SSK), whereby the element of health can be excluded. Be sceptical in hiring Turkish maids seemingly under marital pressure. Prefer divorcees. Be super careful in hiring Bulgarians, they may leave you within a fortnight (standard story: visa problems, though she probably was re-assigned by her agent). Prepare detailed job-list with Turkish translation. Consider to retain some money from the wages to combat doubtful sick-leaves or sudden off-works. Bear in mind that expat families are preferred employers for fair treatment but also for ill-intended maneuvres.
By helpfulstranger 28.10.2005
I really like this site, a commendable effort. However if you do get a maid please please do not use the translations given on this page as is - they are correct, however will come across as if you are barking orders at a dog. You must polite these up - the standard ...misin lutfen as on the last couple of examples will do just fine!!
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Walt Disney World: What's in a Name?
by by Brian Martsolf, ALL EARS® Guest Columnist
Feature Article
This article appeared in the January 25, 2005, Issue #279 of ALL EARS® (ISSN: 1533-0753)
Last spring I found that a co-worker was going to Walt Disney World on vacation. Since I had not been back to Walt Disney World myself since 2002, I asked him if he would check out the gift shop at the new attraction Mission: SPACE and pick me up any postcards. Upon seeing him for the first time after he returned from his trip he handed my money back to me and explained that he wasn't able to buy me anything, because, as he put it: "We didn't go to Epcot — we only got to the Disney World part." I shrugged my shoulders, gave him a smile and said, "Oh well, thanks for trying."
People in the know, know that the proper name of the ENTIRE resort is Walt Disney World — or, more commonly, just "Disney World." I've even seen folks write it down as "Disneyworld," a simple one-word name to cover both the theme parks and the complex they reside in. All of us have heard the Magic Kingdom referred to in this way at one time or another — more likely many, many times.
You can hardly blame folks for thinking that is the name of the place. For locals, and even for out-of-towners who stayed off Disney property in the early days, it was natural to refer to the park they wanted to go to as Walt Disney World, since initially there was only one theme park — the Magic Kingdom — to visit. When folks thought of "Disneyworld," they thought of the Magic Kingdom. That was the theme park they saw on TV, so Walt Disney World and the Magic Kingdom became synonomous and interchangeable in the minds of many.
Even many of us, during our first expeditions to this wondrous place, may have referred to the Magic Kingdom theme park that way — some of us probably still do at times. After all, if you are talking to someone who has not ever been to Walt Disney World, or has not been for a while, they are also probably in the habit of calling the Magic Kingdom Disney World. They actually might not even know what you mean if you start talking about the "Magic Kingdom."
But, as I said, you can hardly blame your friends, neighbors and even the odd Disney theme park fanatic for referring to the Magic Kingdom as Disneyworld. Yes, I know there are great big signs that announce the Magic Kingdom at the toll plaza, on road signs, and on many other signs, and various pieces of paper you will see around the resort, including your park guide map. But it is easy for a guest who has always referred to the Magic Kingdom as Disney World to rationalize this away, since they obviously have to put something on the road signs to differentiate that park from Epcot and other areas, and that "nickname" (in the mind of the person rationalizing) is as good a way as any, and besides that… it wasn't always that way.
The park itself used to reinforce this notion — for example, at one time they printed information guides for the park with the title on the cover in large letters: "WALT DISNEY WORLD." The first few years the park was open they didn't even have the words Magic Kingdom on the cover of the guides. Even toward the late '70s when they finally added it, the name "Magic Kingdom" was in black print and a smaller typeface than "WALT DISNEY WORLD," which was printed above in a contrasting color.
In fact, there are still a few holdovers of this today. Look at the back of a regular photo postcard of each park. On the back of postcards for Epcot, Disney-MGM Studios, and Animal Kingdom, the parks' names are usually the ones found as a logo. But on the back of a Magic Kingdom photo postcard, what does the title say? Not Magic Kingdom — it says Walt Disney World. Still, even in those early days of Walt Disney World they did make some differentiations. They tried to use the "Walt Disney World" term only for those areas in the resort district at the northern end of the property (the Contemporary, Polynesian, Golf Resort, Fort Wilderness, Magic Kingdom, and the Palm and Magnolia Golf Courses), separated a bit from the non-resort park aspects of the development. The first postcards for the Lake Buena Vista Shopping Village (later known as the Walt Disney World Shopping Village, now known as Downtown Disney Marketplace) had a Lake Buena Vista logo on the back that listed only in smaller print "the host community to Walt Disney World." At that time they thought of those shops as the beginnings of a new community.
You may wonder why Walt Disney World itself so carelessly referred to the Magic Kingdom as "Walt Disney World" for so long. It had bigger things on its mind than building the world's largest and most successful theme park enterprise. Does that sound surprising? It might — after all, the Walt Disney World we know and love is a pretty amazing place as it is. (There is no other place in the world I'd rather spend my time!)
But let's step back in time a bit and see why they would let the park usurp the Walt Disney World name in most visitors' minds. Picture it — Lake Buena Vista, Florida, 1972: the "Vacation Kingdom of the World" is bringing guests in at a rate that will end up exceeding their ambitious projections for the first year. Yet, much work lies ahead for Project Florida. The Magic Kingdom theme park is just the first phase, and the focus now is shifting toward a latter phase of the project, an Experimental Prototype Community Of Tomorrow. In short, a city of the future.
As a sort of warm-up to that, first the southeastern corner of the property was to be developed. Already the project had built its first works here. The preview center building in this area had been the first thing on the site to open to the public, and adjacent to it the first sites had been leased to hotel partners in the development. Hotels there are situated on what is now known as Hotel Plaza Boulevard near Downtown Disney. Next were a shopping village, and planned after that was a residential development, not "E.P.C.O.T." itself, but an additional preliminary development to the east of where Epcot now stands. Additionally, the other plans for Project Florida included an industrial complex, a jetport, and an "entrance complex," which would have eliminated the current Ticket and Transportation Center. Guests would have parked there and taken a monorail to their destination, and you would have gained a nice view of that city of the future as your monorail passed through it. That city was not really seen as a tourist draw, of course. It was more a place for the companies of this country to come together to solve the problems facing the cities of the U.S., starting with a clean slate, an example that could be studied, adjusted, and emulated, across the U.S. and perhaps even around the world. A high and noble goal, but you can see this is quite a different thing than what we ended up with. "Why is that?" you may wonder. Well, this is one of those questions that has many answers. Which answers are most important to you may just depend on from what angle you are looking at.
After Walt Disney's passing, it is not hard for me to see why the folks in charge were dissuaded from building the Epcot Walt had envisioned. They may have simply been afraid… it would have been a huge gamble. Walt Disney himself could have pushed for it — he gambled with the company for most of his life. In fact, he ran a company that went bankrupt before he started the studios, so he was not risk-averse. Without Walt, though, who would be so bold to risk losing it all? Like Walt selling his second home in Palm Springs, and borrowing against his life insurance, to get Disneyland built? If Walt lost it all, he may have felt it was his to lose. Even if you take into account that he had stockholders, they were, after all, investing in a company named for him. If they did not feel comfortable with the choices he made, that probably was not where they should be invested.
But can you imagine how it would have been if Epcot had been built as a "City of Tomorrow" and failed? Without Walt at the helm, the consensus might have been that Disney's former Chief Executive Officer E. Cardon Walker had run "the house that Walt built" into the ground. If that vision of what was to be built on the Florida property had come to pass, it would hardly matter if you said, "We're going to visit Disney World," when what you meant was that you were going to visit the "Magic Kingdom" — that is possibly all there would be to go to!
So the next time someone who is clearly talking about the Magic Kingdom refers to it as "Disneyworld," remember — they aren't necessarily ENTIRELY wrong. History is on their side.
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Brian Martsolf is a lifelong Disney theme park fan whose first visit to Walt Disney World was in 1996. He lives in Charlotte, NC, with his wife, Carlene, and works at a Tyco Plastics manufacturing facility. He also has his own Disney website, http://www.bigbrian-nc.com, which features trip reports (with lots of photos), a section on the history of Walt Disney World illustrated with its postcards, and articles on the Disney Internet community and Disney theme park souvenirs.
Read other articles Brian has written for ALL EARS® here: http://allears.net/btp/brianm.htm
Editor's Note: This story/information was accurate when it was published. Please be sure to confirm all current rates, information and other details before planning your trip.


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Tomi Lahren is furious that the widely covered and universally condemned attack on a disabled white man has not provoked as much coverage or outrage as the fatal shootings of nine black worshipers in a South Carolina church.
The conservative commentator was angry that police did not immediately describe the incident as a hate crime, although all four suspects were charged with a hate crime and several other felonies after a day-long investigation.
"Chicago police aren't sure if it was politically motivated," Lahren said. "Are you freaking kidding me? This is the definition of a hate crime, and these four sick individuals deserve a seat on death row right next to Dylann Roof."
The Chicago assailants, all of whom are black and ages 18 to 24, said "f*ck white people" and "f*ck Donald Trump" as they cut the victim's hair and clothing with a knife, and the man's family said he was traumatized by the attack.
"Times like these, we have to wonder, where are the parents?" Lahren said. "Not just (Wednesday), but when these four were growing up? Because the breakdown of the American family has left young people — especially in the inner cities — with no role models. That's why they turn to celebrities and rap stars who chant 'eff Trump' for guidance and leadership."
She argued that popular culture made attacks like this more acceptable in the minds of some, although she didn't offer any examples beyond the four "thugs" who were arrested and charged in the case.
"If the race roles were reversed here, can you imagine the coverage?" Lahren said. "The race of the assailants would be plastered on every deadline from here to Timbuktu, but if it doesn't fit the race-baiting agenda of the left and their cohorts in the mainstream, it doesn't quite get the same attention."
The case was widely covered in U.S. and international media, and President Barack Obama condemned the attack as "despicable," but Lahren dismissed those reports with a casual what-if.
"If this thing wasn't paraded on Facebook Live, the mainstream would have likely diluted, dismissed or outright ignored it," she said. "If it bleeds, it leads — but only if it's the right color, huh?"
She even shrugged off the president's statements about the case because they were made during a one-on-one interview, rather than a news conference convened for the occasion.
"I can't and I won't sit here and say this was a Black Lives Matter-motivated act — we don't know that," Lahren said. "I do hope the group comes out and makes it clear these thugs are not what BLM stands for — I hope to see that."
Deray Mckesson, one of the most prominent activists in the Black Lives Matter movement, tweeted out a statement Thursday morning denouncing the Chicago attack, and police have found no link between the assault and the civil rights group.
It goes without saying that the actions being branded by the far-right as the "BLM Kidnapping" have nothing to do w/ the movement.
— deray mckesson (@deray) January 5, 2017