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As I've often said in the past, one of the Enemy's principal weapons has always been fear. If he can terrify men and women and put them in fear of their lives, then as he said in the book of Job, "Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life" (Job 2:4). When the men and women of the world fear catastrophe, they generally look to their governments to save them rather than the Lord, sad to say. So what happens? Governments gain more control and power, the rich and the powerful grow even more rich and powerful, and the Enemy's plan of strengthening the very institutions he'll someday use for ultimate power and control under his One World government is.
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By Nick Parker Stanford’s emergency management contingencies were activated just after 8 p.m. yesterday, when a 5.6 magnitude earthquake rocked the University and sent shock waves across campus. Officials were quick to reassure students last night that the situation was under control. Enlarge

Cristina Bautista A 5.6 magnitude earthquake shook the Bay Area shortly after 8 p.m. last night. The quake - the largest in the region since the 6.9 magnitude Loma Prieta earthquake killed more than 60 people in 1989 - originated near San Jose and sent shock waves rippling across campus as University officials quickly launched emergency management protocols. There was no damage reported on campus and only minor damage reported in San Jose.

The quake — whose epicenter was in the Diablo Range foothills nine miles northeast of San Jose — set in motion a series of events dictated by the University’s emergency management protocols.“Very shortly after the earthquake was felt, the


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Are you prepared, or have our own warnings to be ready for emergencies fallen on deaf ears? Don't put it off until you have more time. You'll never have more time in a day than you have right now, today--24 hours. Where the rub comes in is just how you choose to use that time.
You're not as prepared as you should have been or could have been if and when disaster strikes, you'll only have yourselves to blame.
You don't have to do a big earthquake prep push, although you can if you want to. Just do a little every week, surely and steadily buying little extra food, setting aside some jugs of water, getting some extra flashlights or camping gear or survival supplies, or spending a little time discussing some contingency plans. Do something, and keep doing something, and almost before you know it, you will be prepared!

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At 8:04 p.m. Tuesday night San Jose State University shook for approximately one minute as an earthquake rattled through campus.

Preliminary reports from the U.S. Geological Survey placed the quake at a 5.6 magnitude, sourcing it at the Calaveras fault in Alum Rock, nine miles northeast of San Jose State University....


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Ted Rudow III,MA Are you prepared, or have our own warnings to be ready for emergencies fallen on deaf ears? Don't put it off until you have more time. You'll never have more time in a day than you have right now, today--24 hours. Where the rub comes in is just how you choose to use that time.
You're not as prepared as you should have been or could have been if and when disaster strikes, you'll only have yourselves to blame.
You don't have to do a big earthquake prep push, although you can if you want to. Just do a little every week, surely and steadily buying or provisioning a little extra food, setting aside some jugs of water, getting some extra flashlights or camping gear or survival supplies, or spending a little time discussing some contingency plans. Do something, and keep doing something, and almost before you know it, you will be prepared!
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Tuesday, October 30, 2007

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If you were to get pregnant today, within 24 weeks you could feel your baby kick, watch your uterus expand and even go into labor.

And according to California state law, you could also obtain an abortion up to 24 weeks into your pregnancy.

I'm not going to tell you that a 24-week old fetus should be considered a human....


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Ted Rudow III,MA What is more valuable human rights or animal rights? An unborn eagle or an unborn child? If you chose the unborn child, sorry you are wrong--at least accounting to the law of the land. U.S Code Title 16 section 668, the eagle takes precedence. A person who kills, damgages,tranports a bald eagle, its egg, or nest is subject to a fine of up to $5,000 or imprisonment for up one year or both(first offense).Whereas, not only is there no penalty for aborting an unborn child?
A mass massacre of babies is going on in the U.S. today, not to mention Europe, the Soviet Union and many other places. One-and-a-half million abortions a year are performed in the U.S. alone, and it's estimated that one out of every four pregnancies ends in abortion! What a horrible slaughter!!
I don't think I've ever seen a sign saying "Save the Babies," have you? I've seen "Stop the Killings!" and things like that. They're always saying, "Save the Whales," "Save the Otters," "Save the Alligators," "Save the Wolves," and they're not even saving their own babies--human beings!
The Americans alone are now killing more babies every year than have been killed in all their wars that they have ever fought! What's the difference between killing babies before they're born or killing them after they are born. The almanac says that from the American Revolutionary War to the present, only 1.2 million Americans have died in battle, and they're killing 1.5 million babies every year!--Imagine!
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Monday, October 29, 2007

Liars

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by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Monday Oct 29th, 2007 11:56 AM
"Today, many of the men who hope to be the next president - including all of the candidates with a significant chance of receiving the Republican nomination -

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have made unreasoning, unjustified terror the centerpiece of their campaigns. Consider, for a moment, the implications of the fact that Rudy Giuliani is taking foreign policy advice from Norman Podhoretz, who wants us to start bombing Iran "as soon as it is logistically possible."--
Paul Krugman
Politicians are expert liars, because they make their living by telling people what they want to hear, not what they need to hear. Otherwise, they wouldn't get elected-at least in the U.S.(HA) And once they do get elected, especially when they rise as far as the presidency, they just continue to lie-it becomes a habit with them.
Politics is an evil game in which all the players are vying for control. They don't care about the poor people who'll get hurt as long as they get what they want. Nothing they do is for honest and pure reasons. They'll tell the true tale of man's inhumanity to his fellow man, and all those who take part in such atrocities.
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Saturday, October 27, 2007

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Hillary Clinton's strong beliefs have been exposed in various publications. She's on the wrong side of everything. She's for abortion; she's for gay rights; she's against home schooling; she's for children's rights against their parents; and she's for children suing their parents, and on down the line. Before William Branham died, that great and humble prophet, one of the last revelations and visions he had was that the final ruler of the United States, who would bring the United States to its doom and would be the worst ruler they ever had, would be a very beautiful but very cruel woman.
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The more "democratic" another nation is, after all, the closer the rich and the powerful can work together, the greater the pickings and the booty available, and the less controls there are on their actions. The rich can grow richer and the poor can grow poorer because, after all, the rich think, it's the survival of the fittest.
American presidents can be a very bloodthirsty lot, as well as terrific liars when it comes to getting their way, while they criticize other world leaders who commit similar crimes. They have to account for their actions, or their war crimes, no matter how they may try to justify them.

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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice singled out Iran Wednesday as "perhaps the single greatest challenge" to US security but stressed that diplomacy was the preferred way to end its nuclear drive. President George W. Bush last week warned that a nuclear-armed Iran meant the threat of "World War III," and Vice President Dick Cheney on Sunday spoke of "serious consequences" unless the Islamic Republic gives in. It is written, 'Thou shalt not kill' and 'Thou shalt not bear false witness.' The leaders of America are doing both, and most of them know this. It is also written, "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house or anything that is thy neighbor's," ­ or as concerning this war, "thy neighbor's oil" ­ which the leaders of America also have their eyes upon. Of course, they know they have to be careful about this, so that there is not such an outcry from other nations. In their greed and lust for more power and control of the oil, they have perpetrated war.
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Thy neighbor's oil

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Friday Oct 26th, 2007 9:07 AM
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice singled out Iran Wednesday as "perhaps the single greatest challenge" to US security but stressed that diplomacy was the preferred way to end its nuclear drive. President George W. Bush last week warned that a nuclear-armed Iran meant the threat of "World War III," and Vice President Dick Cheney on Sunday spoke of "serious consequences" unless the Islamic Republic gives in.

It is written, 'Thou shalt not kill' and 'Thou shalt not bear false witness.' The leaders of America are doing both, and most of them know this. It is also written, "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house or anything that is thy neighbor's," ­ or as concerning this war, "thy neighbor's oil" ­ which the leaders of America also have their eyes upon. Of course, they know they have to be careful about this, so that there is not such an outcry from other nations. In their greed and lust for more power and control of the oil, they have perpetrated war.
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Burning Down the House: Keep on rockin' in the free world



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"But we’re not an entirely single-minded people, Americans. We’ve been known to do one thing, and sanctimoniously vote for another. This is why Bush claims his favorite song is the Everly Brothers’ “Wake Up Little Susie.” Recorded, of course, in 1957, it’s about a couple that goes on a date to a movie, only to fall asleep and worry about the scandal of getting home so late. It’s perfect, right up to the diminutive epithet attached to Susie’s name. Conservatives have spent the decades since Woodstock campaigning against rock and roll and the era of social change that it symbolized. Nixon’s vice president, Spiro Agnew, used to joke about “acid, amnesty and abortion” as the Democratic platform, and Reagan kicked off his presidential campaign in Philadelphia, Miss., site of the murder of three Freedom Summer civil rights workers. Why do you think the modern Republican mind is fixated on Hillary Clinton?"




Ted Rudow III,MA -In 1969, Nitler and his Nitzies began to crush their youthful rebellion by the most fiendish, brutal, violent and repressive police power ever seen used in America against its own citizens and its own children since the days of the horrible slaughter of the Civil War of just 100 years before!

The student were cruelly beated, maimed and shot to death on their own campuses and as well as in the jails by the very parents who should have protected them and helped them to change the world! Draft deferments were canceled and America's young men were placed in military concentration camps--or in prison if they refused to go and fight their parents' murderous wars!
They managed to fool and lull the American public to sleep with a false sense of security and a don't-rock-the-boat-attitude. If the general American public now permit their dirty-dealing President to get away with his illegal, underhanded crimes and criminal obstructions of justice and suppressions of the truth,I belived that all hope is lost.

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I cannot say that I know much about politics or that I have the experience to run this country, but there is someone who can.

Hillary Clinton, New York senator and former first lady, is no stranger to a life of politics and a presence in the public eye.

She currently leads the Democratic nominees with a majority of at least 48 percent, according to polls taken by FOX News and CNN, as well as the LA Times/Bloomberg and the USA Today/Gallup polls....


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Ted Rudow III,MA 10/25/07 Hillary Clinton's strong beliefs have been exposed in various publications. She's on the wrong side of everything. She's for abortion; she's for gay rights; she's against home schooling; she's for children's rights against their parents; and she's for children suing their parents, and on down the line. Before William Branham died, that great and humble prophet, one of the last revelations and visions he had was that the final ruler of the United States, who would bring the United States to its doom and would be the worst ruler they ever had, would be a very beautiful but very cruel woman.

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Left Coast: An effective response to SoCal wildfires



October 25, 2007
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"I drove down to Los Angeles Monday night with my girlfriend to report on the wild fires that have been raging this week in Southern California. --
-----There is always more to do, but we should pause for a moment and thank ourselves for making these investments. California has a well trained, high-morale, professional firefighting force and the physical infrastructure to support these firefighters. Our police departments are well staffed and have the equipment they need. We have competent administrative agencies that can coordinate a disaster response, prepare plans in advance and work together smoothly.

It’s easy to complain about the high and numerous taxes in California. But looking at the response to this disaster, it seems our tax dollars have been put to good use. This was a time when we needed our government, and our government — in the form of the brave fire fighters and police officers still battling the fires — has followed through."



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As I've often said in the past, one of the Enemy's principal weapons has always been fear. If he can terrify men and women and put them in fear of their lives, then as he said in the book of Job, "Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life" (Job 2:4).

When the men and women of the world fear catastrophe, they generally look to their governments to save them rather than the Lord, sad to say. So what happens? Governments gain more control and power, the rich and the powerful grow even more rich and powerful, and the Enemy's plan of strengthening the very institutions he'll someday use for ultimate power and control under his One World government is.

Wednesday, October 24, 2007

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Only God knows in his wisdom just exactly why he takes so many in a natural disaster, but it's apparently their time. Even Christians, theologians and church leaders have to face the question: Why does God destroy so many people? Death is not a curse for little children, the innocent, the poor, the suffering, the less responsible, less accountable.Death is not a curse for them, because they go to a better world, a better life, a relief from the evils of this horrible planet and so death's a blessing. So perhaps this is why the Lord allows so many of the poor, and the young to die ­ those who are suffering almost beyond endurance in this life. Therefore, the Lord takes them out of their suffering, out of their poverty, out of their pain, out of their starvation. He blesses them with death ­ which to those upon whom he has such mercy is a mere gateway, a doorway, an entrance to a better life in which they'll be relieved of all this.
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Ted Rudow III,MA Only God knows in his wisdom just exactly why he takes so many in a natural disaster, but it's apparently their time. Even Christians, theologians and church leaders have to face the question: Why does God destroy so many people?

Death is not a curse for little children, the innocent, the poor, the suffering, the less responsible, less accountable.Death is not a curse for them, because they go to a better world, a better life, a relief from the evils of this horrible planet and so death's a blessing. So perhaps this is why the Lord allows so many of the poor, and the young to die ­ those who are suffering almost beyond endurance in this life. Therefore, the Lord takes them out of their suffering, out of their poverty, out of their pain, out of their starvation. He blesses them with death ­ which to those upon whom he has such mercy is a mere gateway, a doorway, an entrance to a better life in which they'll be relieved of all this.
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Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Center of policy

"The Office of the Vice President has transformed itself into a free republic's worst nightmare, assuming Caesar-like dictatorial authority over almost every aspect of American national security policy at home and abroad. From torture to illegal wiretapping, to arms control (or lack of it) to Iran, Dick Cheney is the undisputed center of policy power in America today." Scott Ritter He is a man of oppression. He became a common joke. But he's no joke. Draw a mustache on him and you see what he really is, who he really is, in his heart. Bush's whole administration has all the earmarks of a well-prepared Nazi-type regime! In "The War Goes On", by Sholem Asch, he wrote on the conditions in post-WWI Germany which brought Hitler to power. He showed the picture of Germany--what was wrong with Germany--what happened to Germany and why Hitler was created--the monster was created to devour the lesser monster--so they created a bigger Monster!
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Does anybody listen anymore?

Do people listen to their professors when they assign essays? Do professors listen when students say, "I uhh … left it … umm … my dog …"?

How about this: Will Americans listen when Fidel Castro says President George W. Bush is on the verge of igniting World War III?

Will Congress listen?

Heck - will Bush himself listen?

Will I get drafted because of this?

According to the Associated Press, Castro, Cuba's communist head of state, wrote a brief essay titled "Bush, Hunger and Death" criticizing our president's nuclear war policy a day before "the White House plans to announce new plans to draw Cuba away from communism....


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Ted Rudow III,MA Russian President Vladimir Putin Tuesday warned against military action against Iran and backed its right to nuclear energy, during the first visit to this country by a Kremlin chief since World War II.
The Arab-Israeli war, Iraq war and all other conflicts can be ended and a final agreement reached on the Arab lands and an international pact made concerning the city of Jerusalem. Because Arab patience has reached its limits with Israeli refusal to abide by the unenforced UN Resolution No.242 in which virtually the whole world, including America, agreed that Israel should withdraw from Arab lands.
Because of totally irreconcilable differences between selfish American and Israeli interests and those of the rest of the World a peaceful settlement is utterly impossible, and an armed invasion and conquest by Russia and supporting powers is inevitable. Any major invasion force would have to be permitted to pass through either Turkey or Iran or both, as well as Iraq and Syria .
God himself describes this invasion of Israel,and says it will come from the North led by Russia with the help of Europe, Libya, Turkey, Persia and Ethiopia.That's what it says in the Bible(see Ezekiel 38 and 38 and Daniel 11).
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Tuesday, October 23, 2007

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October 23, 2007
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"The Halloween Party started in the 1950s as a costume party for children, and steadily grew from a party for the city’s gay community and their families into an attraction for people from all over the Bay Area. Over the years, moving the famed Castro party has been subject to annual discussion as violence has increasingly defined the event. Drawing large and wild, inebriated crowds, the party has been marred by violence and hate-speech against the gay community, culminating in the stabbing of four revelers in 2002. The last straw came last year when a gunman opened fire and shot nine people, including innocent bystanders.---"

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The true name of Halloween is "Samhain." This was the Celtic Lord of the Dead! For 3 days from Oct 29-31, the Celtic people, along with their priestly class called Druids, would hold an ancient rite which would mark the beginning and the end of the year.
Usually a week before the rites of Samhain began, the Druid had ordered the people of the Celtic tribe to disperse throughout the countryside and gather thousands of wicker reed.This is a very strong and durable stick. Wicker furniture has been made from it and most of us are familiar with it.
They would then construct a giant human effigy that would stand from 30 to 50 feet, as the Wicker Man. Many cages had been built within it. Each prisoner would be tied to one of the cages. Then the Druids began their idea of fun and games.
Yet, I have seen many Christian churches throughout this nation hold Halloween Parties within the church building. Every single one of these things is directly from the celebration of Samhain. You are simply trying to turn something evil into something good! Isaiah 5:20. We pray this helps you to NOT be a partaker of this "holiday.

Monday, October 22, 2007

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Cheney by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Monday Oct 22nd, 2007 3:02 PM
"Cheney and his cohorts have constructed a never-never land of oversight deniability, claiming immunity from both executive and legislative checks and balances. With an unchallenged ability to classify anything and everything as secret, and then claim that there is no authority inherent in government to oversee that which has been thus classified--


--The Office of the Vice President has transformed itself into a free republic's worst nightmare, assuming Caesar-like dictatorial authority over almost every aspect of American national security policy at home and abroad. From torture to illegal wiretapping, to arms control (or lack of it) to Iran, Dick Cheney is the undisputed center of policy power in America today."Scott Ritter
He is a man of oppression. He became a common joke. But he's no joke. Draw a mustache on him and you see what he really is, who he really is, in his heart.
Bush's whole administration has all the earmarks of a well-prepared Nazi-type regime! In "The War Goes On", by Sholem Asch, he wrote on the conditions in post-WWI Germany which brought Hitler to power. He showed the picture of Germany--what was wrong with Germany--what happened to Germany and why Hitler was created--the monster was created to devour the lesser monster--so they created a bigger Monster!

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Supporters of ending world poverty gathered at the Student Union Amphitheater Wednesday afternoon at the "Stand Up, Speak Out" rally, part of a worldwide event in support of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals.

"We stand here proudly as members of the generation that intends to defeat extreme poverty," the supporters pledged in unison at the rally....


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Ted Rudow III,MA At the same time, dirty water is the second-leading cause of death among children globally, after respiratory infections. It kills 1.8 million children younger than 5 each year, more than do HIV/AIDS, malaria, war or traffic accidents, says the U.N. report.
The governments of the world are so stupid! Many poor people today live just like poor people lived 2,000 years ago, barely scratching out a living and hauling water from a nearby river or well, while their governments spend millions or billions on weapons of war. It's such a ridiculous waste! Thank the Lord, He's going to set things right when He returns and put an end to war and war-mongering politicians and wasteful governments! In the meantime, the state of the world shows what happens when man tries to run it himself, and what a mess he makes of it!
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October15, 2007

The industry's size-hedge funds contain over $1.5 trillion and the impact of the funds' trading strategies on securities markets and on company operations has prompted regulators around the world to investigate the industry. The securities and exchange commission recently promulgated a limited package of new rules, effective on February 1 of this year.
SEC lists as one of its primary reasons for its new hedge fund regulations, a number of troubling incidences of fraud perpetrated by hedge fund operators. People who are suspicious of " get-rich-quick, guaranteed" come-on pitches believe that hedge funds may be duping their own investors with false promises of easy money.
Colleges such as the college of Wooster in Ohio have over 80 percent of their entire endowment in hedge funds, to the consternation of some of their alumni who wonder whether the college officials are overmatched when responding to hedge fund solicitations. The more money it has made, the more it has borrowed, and the harder and more devastating the fall will be in the end. There is a crash coming, no matter how often the feel-good economists predict that all things will continue as they are, just because they have been for the last several decades.

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"So, on Saturday morning, we heard that the Middle East is a gas station with antisemitism and domestic-abuse problems, and that our economy is a monster truck with a stuck gas pedal and a lost key, among other things. Neither of these points is even actually wrong, though the metaphors don’t really scan. Further, Friedman appears, theatrically dropping his voice to a whisper, to have just discovered them.--For example, he notes — I think correctly — that radical Islamic terrorism is the result of years of American-sanctioned political repression in the Islamic world. Friedman’s solution to Arab resentment of the American-backed political regime? American invasion. To sum up: Friedman is smart enough to understand that Arabs, like everyone else, want their human and civil rights, and that they’re pissed that we are complicit in denying them these rights. ---"

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The Bush administration is approaching its last year in the White House. As the clock ticks toward 2008, speculation grows over whether President Bushand Vice President Dick Cheney will indeed launch a widely feared attack on Iran.
"I thought Petraeus went way beyond what Iran is doing inside Iraq today," said David Kay, a former CIA adviser and the chief weapons inspector in Iraq for the United Nations. "When the White House started its anti-Iran campaign, six months ago, I thought it was all craziness. Now it does look like there is some selective smuggling by Iran, but much of it has been in response to American pressure and American threats."
Iran's not a threat to the US, just as Iraq wasn't a threat to the US. The threat is to Israel, which has always worried about any of its neighbors getting ahold of nuclear weapons.
Israel, of course, has many nuclear weapons. So Israel is egging on the US to do something about it, and is hinting that if the US doesn't stop the Iranian nuclear program, then Israel will - the same way it stopped Iraq's nuclear program years ago, by blowing up their reactor. The United States professes that it supports democracy in the Middle East, yet when there was a democratic government in Iran, the US destroyed it.

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Wednesday, October 17, 2007

WWIII?

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WWIII?
by Ted Rudow III,MA
Wednesday Oct 17th, 2007 3:06 PM
Russian President Vladimir Putin Tuesday warned against military action against Iran and backed its right to nuclear energy, during the first visit to this country by a Kremlin chief since World War II.

The Arab-Israeli war, Iraq war and all other conflicts can be ended and a final agreement reached on the Arab lands and an international pact made concerning the city of Jerusalem. Because Arab patience has reached its limits with Israeli refusal to abide by the unenforced UN Resolution No.242 in which virtually the whole world, including America, agreed that Israel should withdraw from Arab lands.
Because of totally irreconcilable differences between selfish American and Israeli interests and those of the rest of the World a peaceful settlement is utterly impossible, and an armed invasion and conquest by Russia and supporting powers is inevitable.Any major invasion force would have to be permitted to pass through either Turkey or Iran or both, as well as Iraq and Syria .
God himself describes this invasion of Israel,and says it will come from the North led by Russia with the help of Europe, Libya, Turkey, Persia and Ethiopia.That's what it says in the Bible(see Ezekiel 38 and 38 and Daniel 11).
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Five years after the invasion of Iraq, like most Americans, I see the images of violence and bloodshed. Every picture is horrifying - and the suffering is real. Amid all this violence, I know Americans ask the question: Is the sacrifice worth it,? George Bush

And again the answer is no!

American presidents can be a very bloodthirsty lot, as well as terrific liars when it comes to getting their way, while they criticize other world leaders who commit similar crimes. They have to account for their actions, or their war crimes, no matter how they may try to justify them.

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Ted Rudow III,MA Look at what democracy has done to America and the way it has grown more ungodly by the year. You may wonder how that can be, if the majority of the people are Christian and elect a president, especially this one, who also claims to be a Christian and glorifies His name. You may say that an ungodly majority is bad, yes, but what about a godly majority? What about a nation that preaches and promotes such Christian values?
Yes, America would like to export democracy to the world. Her people think it is a great thing, for has it not brought them wealth? Her rulers also think it is a great thing, because it not only brings them wealth, but it brings them power as well, both at home and in other nations.
The more "democratic" another nation is, after all, the closer the rich and the powerful can work together, the greater the pickings and the booty available, and the less controls there are on their actions. The rich can grow richer and the poor can grow poorer because, after all, the rich think, it's the survival of the fittest.
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Monday, October 15, 2007

Hedge funds?

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Hedge funds?
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Monday Oct 15th, 2007 2:22 PM
The industry’s size – hedge funds contain over $1.5 trillion and the impact of the funds’ trading strategies on securities markets and on company operations has prompted regulators around the world to investigate the industry. The Securities and Exchange Commission recently promulgated a limited package of new rules, effective on February 1 of this year.

SEC lists as one of its primary reasons for its new hedge fund regulations, a number of troubling incidences of fraud perpetrated by hedge fund operators. People who are suspicious of “get-rich-quick, guaranteed” come-on pitches believe that hedge funds may be duping their own investors with false promises of easy money.
Colleges such as The College of Wooster in Ohio have over eighty percent of their entire endowment in hedge funds, to the consternation of some of their alumni who wonder whether the college officials are overmatched when responding to hedge fund solicitations. The more money it has made, the more it has borrowed, and the harder and more devastating the fall will be in the end. There is a crash coming, no matter how often the feel-good economists predict that all things will continue as they are, just because they have been for the last several decades.
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Ted Rudow III,MA The Horrors of Halloween

The true name of Halloween is "Samhain." This was the Celtic Lord of the Dead! For 3 days from Oct 29-31, the Celtic people, along with their priestly class called Druids, would hold an ancient rite which would mark the beginning and the end of the year.
The priests of the Celtic tribe, the Druids, would meet in giant megalithic circles during the nights of Oct 29-31. One of the most famous of these circles is known as Stonehenge. They serve 3 functions: 1)temple complexes of worship 2) used as astrological observatories, and 3) they were used as temples for the rite of human sacrifice!
The Druids would meet within these circles and fill a cauldron with an apple cider like substance and then light a fire underneath it. Once this was done, then they would wander the countryside and visit the homes of various members of nobility. They would knock on the door and yell, "Trick or Treat."
This was a two part expression that would send waves of fear over everyone. The Treat would come about if you, as the head of the house would give a servant, or a family member over to the Druids to be used as a human sacrifice offering to Samhain for that night. In return, the "Treat" the Druids would give you would be a pumpkin which had been previously hallowed out and filled with human fat! The Druid would place this pumpkin on the front door step and light it. This would then serve as a protection for you and your family against those demonic forces which they would be summoning for those nights. Now, heres the "Trick." If you did not cooperate with the Druid, they would take human blood and draw a huge hexagram on your front door. The hexagram is the foulest, most evil of all symbols in the occult. If you are going to summon up a demon, a LITERAL demon. to this plane of existence, you need the hexagram in order to do so. Once the Druids had drawn this symbol on the door, someone would usually die from all the demonic forces that had been summoned. After they had wandered for 3 or 4 hours, they would return back to the stones with their human sacrifice offerings in tow.
Usually a week before the rites of Samhain began, the Druid had ordered the people of the Celtic tribe to disperse throughout the countryside and gather thousands of wicker reed. This is a very strong and durable stick. Wicker furniture has been made from it and most of us are familiar with it.
They would then construct a giant human effigy that would stand from 30 to 50 feet, as the Wicker Man. Many cages had been built within it. Each prisoner would be tied to one of the cages. Then the Druids began their idea of fun and games.
These so called departed souls were nothing more than demonic spirits taking on the form of someone's departed loved one. Just another demonic deception.
So, as you can now see, the practice of Halloween is FILLED with OCCULT practices. Yet, I have seen many Christian churches throughout this nation hold Halloween Parties within the church building. Some call it a "Harvest Party." You will find Scarecrows, Pumpkins, Bobbin for Apples, Orange and Black Crepe paper, Candy, Hot Apple cider, Ghost Stories, Costumes (Christian or not). Every single one of these things is directly from the celebration of Samhain. So, here we are as Christians DUPLICATING ONE OF SATAN'S HOLIDAYS. The Scarecrows are derived from the Wicker Man, the Pumpkin or "Jack 0 Lantern" same thing used by the Druids as protection against demonic forces. Bobbin for Apples in the horrible cauldron. Orange and Black-specific colors in the occult world. The two traditional colors for autumn to this very day. Candy the food offering for Samhain. Hot Apple-Cider from the liquid in the caldron!! Ghost stories. Costumes, even if you dress up as King Solomon or Moses, you are STILL COUNTERFEITING the Devils Holiday!! You are simply trying to turn something evil into something good! Isaiah 5:20. We pray this helps you to NOT be a partaker of this "holiday
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"The truth"

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'The truth"
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Saturday Oct 13th, 2007 8:19 AM
Throughout history, the same events recurred. Mussolini and the Nazis had the blessing of the Pope, because the Catholic Church depends upon for its existence.
With Nixon, having now been unmasked for his nefarious perfidies by the now Watergate affair, if the general American public now permit their dirty-dealing President to get away with his illegal, underhanded crimes and criminal obstructions of justice and suppressions of the truth, yet Cheney still think they should have fought it!
Bush professed to be a moderate, and got elected--but then turned rightist. For his Vice-president he picked a man with a bad civil rights record, a record of oppression. He became a common joke. But he's no joke. Draw a mustache on him and you see what he really is, who he really is, in his heart. By putting such a man next in line to him for the Presidency, Bush figured out the best way to save his own neck.
The clever subtlety of this regime. It was all very logical and obviously supposed to be very good for you and good for everyone, good for the Country and even for the rest of the world. You were almost convinced yourself--into believing what they were doing was right and for the common good, and even necessary, so that you felt little or no resentment or resistance.
It seem almost hypnotic: You moved along as though in a trance, as though drugged or dreaming, unable to speak out, unable to contradict, and much less able to rebel against what was called "the Truth", although all the time you realized subconsciously that it was some kind of big, horrible, and monstrous lie, but you were afraid not to believe it.
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Thursday, October 11, 2007

5 years

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5 years
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Thursday Oct 11th, 2007 2:42 PM

Now after 5 years of invaded Iraq, "Like most Americans, I see the images of violence and bloodshed,....Every picture is horrifying - and the suffering is real. Amid all this violence, I know Americans ask the question: Is the sacrifice worth it?", George Bush
And again the answer is NO!!



Noting "there are no hereditary Kings in America and no powers not created by the Constitution," the American presidents can be a very bloodthirsty lot, as well as terrific liars when it comes to getting their way, while they criticize other world leaders who commit similar crimes! Then have to account for their actions, or their war crimes, no matter how they may try to justify them now.
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Ted Rudow III,MA 10/11/07 YES! "The link toward violence and steroids is a fact! "How they manage the risks of using steroids and other physique-enhancing drugs; how they understand the alleged steroid-violence link..." ("Bodybuilding, Drug and Risk," Lee Monaghan)


It's just like the grades in school now! What was a "B" 25 years ago now is an A++! Bonds, Romanowski and many others who had been accused of taking steroids. So they take steriods and the world just loves it!


Dr. Morris Mellion of the University of Nebraska Medical Center has made a strong case that exercise addiction is every bit as real and serious as drug addiction and eating disorders and is very much like them in the way it works. He described the growing trends among young athletes engaging in more high-risk behaviors, such as drinking, taking drugs, having more sexual partners and higher rates of sexually-transmitted diseases, using steroids, violence, impaired academic work and smoking. "Without concluding that sports are necessarily bad for our kids' behavior, clearly something is going on here. Parents, school administrators and coaches need to get a grip on it."

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Ted Rudow III,MA Terror is big business
"George W. Bush is the imperial president that James Madison and other founders of this great republic warned us about... thus eschewing the alarms of Thomas Jefferson as to the deprivation of the inalienable rights of free citizens...",Robert Scheer
Bush betrayed Congress, which in turn betrayed the American people--just as Madison feared when he wrote: "Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it compromises and develops the germ of every other."
The "War on Terror" is the perfect war--it keeps the economy rolling, as all wars do,provides jobs and generates taxes, gives the government greater control over almost every aspect of life, and will never end, because how can you be sure you've nabbed all the terrorists? And trying to stop them is too lucrative a business to give up!
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Wednesday, October 10, 2007

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--- "This raises the question of whether America truly is ready for a female president and what more has to be done so that it is. Hillary may lead the Democratic nomination. She may be favored by the political markets and odds-makers to win both the primary and general election. Unfortunately, she may not be able to conquer substantial negative perceptions for behaving no differently than any other male politician."

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Hillary Clinton's strong beliefs have been exposed in various publications. She's on the wrong side of everything. She's for abortion; she's for gay rights; she's against home schooling; she's for children's rights against their parents; and she's for children suing their parents, and on down the line. Before William Branham died, that great and humble prophet, one of the last revelations and visions he had was that the final ruler of the United States, who would bring the United States to its doom and would be the worst ruler they ever had, would be a very beautiful but very cruel woman.

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Tuesday, October 09, 2007

Zionist

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by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Tuesday Oct 9th, 2007 10:10 AM
There's a rabidly Zionist bunch of Christians in the U.S. which is also adamantly opposed to Iran getting the bomb, in case it might attack Israel.
The main one, John Hagee is very liberal with his ministry’s money when it comes to Israel. A Religious News Service report stated that Hagee raised over $1 million to help Soviet Jews resettle in Israel. He believes that Jews already have a covenant with God and a relationship to God and do not need to come to the cross. This certainly is a shocking statement in the light of Jesus’ words that “no man comes to the Father but through me” (John 14:6).
They're afraid Israel's destruction would hinder or frustrate the Lord's return(secret Rapture like C.I. Scofield)—as if the Lord needed their help to fulfill His prophecies. So here you see the U.S., which has 10,000 nuclear weapons of various types and has been engaged in constant wars, and Israel, which has at least 200 nuclear weapons and has repeatedly fought its neighbors, calling Iran, with no nuclear weapons, a threat to world peace and a menace to civilization!

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Monday, October 08, 2007

Palestine point

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Palestine point
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Monday Oct 8th, 2007
Being able to voice criticism of Israeli government policy is becoming a major issue on university campuses across the United States.
There has been an almost complete disappearance of the Palestinian point of view from the mainstream media reporting of the Middle East within the past two years.
The issue is neither ignorant nor anti-semitic. It presents a view of the US and Israel that people such as Alan Dershowitz and Ruth Wisse oppose. Former President Jimmy Carter made similar points, if rather hotly and self-righteously, in his recent book, “Palestine Peace Not Apartheid.”
Despite their treatment, many of the Palestinians simply try to get by, to survive, but there are those who respond to violence with violence. There is terrorism on both sides.Yet it is Palestinian children who have suffered the most, endured the most hardship and pain, and undergone the most torment of body and spirit.Recognition of Israel, and acceptance of previous agreements and obligations( UN 242) could solve the problem!
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Editorial: Praise for USA PATRIOT Act rulings



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"The USA PATRIOT Act was written in the wake of the Sept 11, 2001 attacks, in an attempt to fight terror and increase foreign intelligence accessibility for law enforcement agencies. --The judges who have ruled against the USA PATRIOT Act over the past three years should be praised, as should the Congressmen and Senators who have written the under-publicized bills condemning or repealing parts of the act. These actions, however, are only stepping stones to a final and necessary achievement. The government as a whole, including the executive branch, must decide against the underlying tenants of the USA PATRIOT Act. Never should absolute power be given to any part of the government. The liberties of American citizens should never be sacrificed, regardless of how well-intentioned the rationale"
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The debate over how terrorist suspects should be held and questioned began shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, when the Bush administration adopted secret detention and coercive interrogation. The U.S. Senate got up in arms over the "torture" aspect of these prisons like Guantanamo Bay and others, and passed a bill to try and stop it—despite disagreements with the vice president and others in the administration over "What is torture" and how far they can legally go in mistreating and abusing people—and the president finally signed it, but said he had the power to ignore it in the interest of national security!
Well, Bush is ignoring other laws, so I guess he figures one more doesn't make much difference. He's also authorized the NSA, the National Security Agency, to spy on Americans despite laws against it, and the FBI is getting into surveillance of anti-war groups, civil rights workers, and such dangerous folks as Quakers, of all things—anyone who exercises their right of free speech to oppose his government's policies.
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Despite volatile economy, endowment continues decade of steady increase

October 3, 2007
By James Hohmann
"It was another red letter year for Stanford’s endowment fund, which grew about 23 percent to $17.2 billion, as of Aug. 31.
The net gain alone amounted to $3.1 billion, a figure larger than the gross domestic product of Barbados. And over the last decade, Stanford’s pool of money has grown an average of 15.1 percent every year.--The potential for further market declines and volatility concerns Powers and his team of investment gurus, so they are being cautious and have taken a dim view on the credit markets.“We don’t believe the shocks of July and August have worked their way completely though the system,” he said. “We still think risks in the domestic and global economies aren’t fully represented in the credit markets.”-----
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The world is headed back toward the days of the Great Depression in more ways than one. In the U.S., the difference between the immense wealth of the rich and the poverty of the poor led to the election of FDR, who said he'd see that the poor were treated more fairly.
More self-delusion. More danger of a sudden bust. The more money it has made, the more it has borrowed, and the harder and more devastating the fall will be in the end. There is a crash coming, no matter how often the feel-good economists predict that all things will continue as they are, just because they have been for the last several decades. The world's economy is a house built on the sand of debt, and a storm is coming, and great will be the fall of that house (Matthew 7:24-27).

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The natural progression: Democrat to Independent to Republican?

Abstract: The first presidential race I can remember was in 1988. I was 7 years old. The candidate for the Democrats was Michael Dukakis. In my house it was all Dukakis. Dukakis. Dukakis. Dukakis. See, my father is, and was, a Democrat. His father was a Democrat....

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Conscious, manipulative lies were also at the root of U.S. intervention in Vietnam. Hysterical cold warriors portrayed Vietnam as the key domino in a global struggle against
communism.

As the old saying goes, about the only thing we ever learn from history is that we never learn from history. One man's terrorist is another's freedom fighter, and what some governments consider potential terrorists are simply
those who don't agree with government policies.
"When the Nazis came for the Communists, I didn't speak up, because I was not a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak up because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I was a Protestant, so I didn't speak up. Then they came for me ... and by that time, there was no one left to stand up for me." German Minister Martin Niemoller
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Tuesday, October 02, 2007

Attack on Iran?

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Attack on Iran?
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Tuesday Oct 2nd, 2007 1:45 PM
The Bush administration is approaching its last year in the White House. As the clock ticks towards 2008, speculation grows over whether President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney will indeed launch a widely feared attack on Iran.
On target is Revolutionary Guard Corps facilities in Tehran and elsewhere.
“I thought Petraeus went way beyond what Iran is doing inside Iraq today,” David Kay, a former C.I.A. adviser and the chief weapons inspector in Iraq for the United Nations. “When the White House started its anti-Iran campaign, six months ago, I thought it was all craziness. Now it does look like there is some selective smuggling by Iran, but much of it has been in response to American pressure and American threats"..
Iran’s not a threat to the U.S., just as Iraq wasn’t a threat to the U.S. The threat is to Israel, which has always worried about any of its neighbors getting ahold of nuclear weapons. Israel, of course, has many nuclear weapons. So Israel is egging on the U.S. to do something about it, and is hinting that if the U.S. doesn’t stop the Iranian nuclear program, then Israel will—the same way it stopped Iraq’s nuclear program years ago, by blowing up their reactor. The U.S. professes that it supports democracy in the Middle East yet when there was a democratic government in Iran the U.S. destroyed it.
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Aside from time constraints, are there any forces limiting our reading choices? Does your local bookstore carry books from a wide variety of publishers, or just a few? How are selection decisions made? Could the person responsible for buying books for your local bookstore or library avoid books on topics they don't agree with? Have any titles been removed from school libraries or school curriculum due to parent or teacher disapproval of the subject matter?

These are important questions to think about periodically....


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Ted Rudow III,MA 10/02/07 "War is important for consuming the products of human labour; if this work were being used to increase the standard of living, the control of the party over the people would decrease. War is the economic basis of a hierarchical society.", "1984"
The prophetic novel, about a government that controls the masses by spreading propaganda, cracking down on subversive thought and altering history to suit its needs, was intended to be read as a warning about the evils of totalitarianism.
In "1984," the state remained perpetually at war against a vague and ever-changing enemy. The war took place largely in the abstract, but it served as a convenient vehicle to fuel hatred, nurture fear and justify the regime's autocratic practices
Banned Books Week has been observed since 1982, with the purpose of reminding people of their freedom to read whatever they want. Sounds just like some governments today, and like many politicians. Fear is the devil's favorite weapon, and it works as well with governments as it does with individual people. Currently it's a day of fear -- of "terror." Nations and people are terrified of terrorism, and many are quite willing to give up all sorts of freedoms -- many of the very freedoms we are supposedly "fighting for" -- to avoid it.
Sound familiar? Sometimes fiction is just as strange as truth.
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Across nation, college campuses alive with debates on politics, free speech

October 2, 2007
By Patrick K. Fitzgerald "Last week’s visit by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to Columbia University brought the debate over campus politics and academic freedom — a debate already brewing at Stanford since the Hoover Institution announced the appointment of Donald Rumsfeld as a distinguished visiting fellow in mid-September — to the national spotlight."

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One can call Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad many things, but a dictator he is not. He doesn’t even have the power to appoint his own cabinet ministers. It’s a presidency with very limited power. And to claim that he is in a position to threaten the United States or Israel is just bizarre.

The Israelis and the pro-Israel interest in the United States have lobbied to make sure that there is no dialogue or there’s no rapprochement between the United States and Iran. And the Iranians have done similar things. They have undermined every U.S. initiative in the Middle East they feared would be beneficial to Israel.

The U.S. isn’t really against terrorists; it’s just against terrorists who aren’t its friends and allies. After all, if it were against terrorists, it would be against Israel, against the various Israeli governments that have thrown the Palestinians off their land and seized it.
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