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Very important open letter to WND readers
Jun 28th, 2009
CommentaryWND
Categories: Commentary;Warning

Managing Editor David Kupelian takes on XXX-rated press corps

Everyone reading this knows exactly why we elected the most left-wing president in history, even though a recent Gallup poll reveals conservatives are the largest ideological group in the nation.

It's because Barack Obama had an advantage no other presidential candidate has ever had – the total backing of the "mainstream media," which was so enchanted by the prospect of a young, eloquent, cool, liberal – and for the first time in history, black – president, that they essentially picked Obama up, held him high over head, and giddily raced together across the finish line.

Indeed, immediately after Election Day, when it no longer mattered, Washington Post ombudsman Deborah Howell publicly admitted the paper's reporters and editors had utterly neglected to vet either Obama, who "deserved tougher scrutiny," or Biden – an omission she referred to as "one gaping hole in [the Post's] coverage."

But the problem with journalism today is not just "gaping holes in coverage" and temporary abdication of professional journalism standards. Our "big media" have come increasingly to resemble the state-run press we see in China, with its gigantic Xinhua "News" Agency, in reality a mouthpiece for the Chinese Communist Party. Or maybe a more apt comparison would be with Russia, where although criticism of the government can be found in some newspapers and on the Internet, the country's national television channels are essentially extensions of the state: "They are all either controlled by the Kremlin or run by editors who know what not to say," says Allison Gill, director of the Human Rights Watch office in Russia.

How did the press arrive at such a sorry state?

When I started in journalism in the early 1980s, the media behaved more-or-less professionally, but were biased leftward, as everyone knows. Then throughout the '90s the media experienced an influx of activists, especially feminists and gays, intent on advancing their agendas by covering those beats for their journalism organizations – very unprofessional. Most recently, the media have abandoned virtually all pretense of objectivity, with top national news personalities praising Barack Obama in the most embarrassing terms imaginable: Like MSNBC's "Hardball" host Chris Matthews comparing Obama to Jesus and saying the candidate's oratory gave him "this thrill going up my leg." Or Newsweek Editor Evan Thomas declaring, "… In a way, Obama's standing above the country, above – above the world, he's sort of God."

It gets even worse. Some nationally televised journalists have sunk to mocking, foul-mouthed on-air ridicule of traditional-minded, patriotic Americans.

For instance, though most of the establishment press ignored the coast-to-coast Tax Day "tea parties," two major cable news TV networks turned the occasion into a platform, not for reporting on opposition to the government's socialist policies, but for making on-air jokes about oral sex. In one 2 minute and 42 second report on the tea parties, MSNBC's David Shuster made a total of 23 sexual double-entendres. Not to be outdone, the same network's Rachel Maddow managed to pack 36 oral-sex references into a six minute and 54 second segment on the tea parties.

CNN superstar Anderson Cooper started off the tea party media mockery with his own dead-pan reference to the homosexual act – "It's hard to talk when you're tea-bagging," a term with which most Americans were heretofore unaware – while interviewing political consultant David Gergen.

Friends, can you imagine, during America's Revolutionary War days, the press covering the Boston Tea Party by mocking it and turning virtually every sentence into a sexual joke?

Here's the problem: It's really, really hard to have a free country without a free press. But America's "big media" today – especially the national broadcast and cable TV news (except Fox), as well as the major trendsetting newspapers like the New York Times – have devolved into a de facto state propaganda ministry, whose members let off steam by mocking critics of the government with filthy, on-air jokes.

That's where WorldNetDaily comes in.

At WND, we don't mock patriotic Americans trying to set their country right. We don't rewrite White House press releases and call it news. We don't bow and scrape before President Obama or anyone else. We don't pretend abortion is OK, or that same-sex marriage is good, or that global warming is "proven science," or that more government is the solution to all problems, or that Palestinian leaders wants peace, or that the Constitution is old-fashioned, or that the "Federal Reserve" is good for America. In short, we're not politically correct and we have no sacred cows. Instead, we really do strive to tell the truth that Americans desperately need and deserve to hear.

The Globalization of Tolerance
Jun 28th, 2009
Daily NewsThe Washington Post - Tony Blair
Categories: Today's Headlines;One World Church

Faith matters. Even if you are not of religious faith yourself. Over 4 billion people world-wide recognize themselves as religious. They may not attend an organized place of worship. But Faith plays a part in their lives. A recent poll found that religion is important for around 30-35% of people in Europe, 65% of Americans and for about 90% of people in most Muslim-majority countries.

I started the Tony Blair Faith Foundation because I believe the modern world cannot work unless people from different faiths and cultures learn to live in peaceful co-existence with each other. Understanding increases the possibility of peace. Ignorance increases the potential for division.

The reason this is so important today is that globalization is shrinking the space we live in, making us share it, pushing people together in a way that is unique in human history. Some dislike this process. Some, like me, are content and even welcome it. But, for sure, it is a fact.

In this world, if religious faith becomes a counter force to this process, one which pulls people apart, then it becomes reactionary and divisive. So if I define myself as a Christian in opposition to you as a Muslim, then just as we are forced to live together by globalization, so we are forced apart by a view of religious faith that is exclusionary and hostile to those of a different faith to our own.

The Tony Blair Faith Foundation works in a number of ways to prevent this happening. One way is an inter-faith encounter through action, which is why we are supporting the UN anti-malaria campaign, to mobilize the faith communities to become centres of distribution for bed nets and medicines in Africa. We work also for reconciliation where religion is a dimension in political conflict, as in the Middle East. A key part of our work is education. In partnership with Yale University in the United States we now have a "Faith and Globalization" course which began last year. This is now being extended to four other universities world-wide.

Now we are adding a new dimension: an education program linking up schools across the globe and across the faith divide. Launching officially today is Face to Faith, the new global schools project from my Foundation, designed to encourage young people of different faiths to learn directly with, from and about each other. Through structured video-conferencing, an online community and a course syllabus, Face to Faith gets secondary school students from across the world working together, investigating big global issues; sharing their own opinions, values and beliefs; and exploring the reasons for similar and different views. In this way, Face to Faith encourages young people to recognize the similarities between faiths but also, importantly, to respect and deal with the differences between diverse and often conflicting worldviews, helping to equip them to live in a global society made up of different faiths and beliefs.

Developed by an international group of educational experts and piloted with more than 1000 students on three continents, Face to Faith encourages young people to research what different faiths have to say about key global issues. The program supports them to explore the doctrines, practices and stories of major world religions; and, importantly, to understand the role of faith in the lives of others. How do their peers - believers and nonbelievers - feel and think, and think about what others assume about them?

Young people involved in the pilot are already reporting how their understanding of the role of faith in today's world has increased by learning from those of differing social, cultural and religious perspectives. A student from Indian Heights School in New Delhi commented; 'It's so much more interesting and real to learn directly from people of a different religion rather than simply reading about them in a book.'

The Tony Blair Faith Foundation is dedicated to achieving understanding, action and reconciliation between the different faiths for the common good. It is not about the faith that looks inward; but the faith that resolutely turns us towards each other. The new program I am launching today, Face to Faith, has started a global conversation about and between different religions; a true conversation between people despite differences. An increase in religious literacy must surely follow and, with it, a new generation committed to interfaith understanding and respect.

Editors Note....We can now feel the hot breath of the Harlot Church breathing down our necks.

Revelation 12:14
Jun 28th, 2009
Exploring RevelationArt Sadlier
Categories: Commentary;Prophecy;Book Study

" And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent".

It is now the midtribulation period, Satan has been cast out of heaven and the final battle of the ages is about to begin. Satan knows that his time is short, he knows that he has but 3 1/2 years to defeat God, and he knows that his only hope is to destroy Israel. Satan understands that Christ has promised to return to earth and rule over a redeemed and restored Israel, he believes that if he can destroy Israel he will have defeated God.

"That she might fly into the wilderness". Jesus tells us about this event in Matthew 24:15-16. At the midtrib point Satan's man, antichrist, turns against Israel and seeks to destroy her. Jesus warned Israel to flee into the mountains, John says that they will fly into the wilderness. There is only one mountain wilderness area near Judea, that is mountains of Petra. It has long been speculated, and I think rightly so, that Israel at that time will flee to mountain fortress of Petra.

"Ànd to the woman  were given two wings of a great eagle", what is this all about? This reminds us of how God miraculously brought Israel out of the hand of pharoah who sought to destroy her. "Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles wings and brought you unto myself", Exodus 19:4.

Remember how God sent a cloud to hide Israel from Pharoah, in this latter case it will probably not be a literal cloud nor literal eagles wings, but God is able to hide the remnant of Israel from the armies of antichrist.

Ezekiel tells us about this event, "And I will bring you into the wilderness of the people, and there will I plead you face to face", Ezekiel 20:35. The word plead means to chasten or judge, during those years the Lord will put Israel through the fire and refine her and bring her to the point of redemption. We read about the closing days of that time in Zechariah 12:10, "And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him...".

As God chastens Israel, but He pours out His love on the repentant remnant. "I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and I will try them as gold is tried; they shall call upon my name, and I will hear them; I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, the Lord is my God.

Chicago school to march in Pride Parade
Jun 28th, 2009
Daily NewsChicago Tribune.com
Categories: Today's Headlines;Moral Decline

Nettelhorst Elementary School to show solidarity with surrounding gay community

The black metal fence in front of Nettelhorst Elementary School is obscured by thousands of strips of dyed fabric -- yellows giving way to greens, then blues, purples and reds -- each one tied on by the small hands of a student.

The ruffled, waist-high rainbow is a symbol of the school's solidarity with its east Lakeview community, and a sign hanging by the gate trumpets that Nettelhorst this year "will be the first Chicago public school to march in the city's gay pride parade."

"We believe family means everybody," the sign reads.

Amy Goodman agrees with that. She'll be in the parade at noon Sunday with her husband, towing their 6-year-old son and 3-year-old daughter in a wagon bedecked in rainbows.

Brad Rossi agrees as well. He'll be there with his partner and their 7-year-old daughter, along with more than 50 other families from Nettelhorst whose presence marks the latest expansion of a parade that began in the 1970s with drag queens and gay activists and has grown to reveal the full spectrum of the city's diverse gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community.

In this, the 40th annual Pride Parade, there will be gay Democrats and gay Republicans, gay business people and gay artists, seniors and teens and Christians and veterans -- and, as always, drag queens and activists.

Blind Optimism
Jun 28th, 2009
Thought for the WeekA. W. Tozer
Categories: Exhortation;Inspirational

The close of World War II saw a radical change in the religious mood, especially on the part of the masses. It was a complete reversal. Religion came into its own. Faith became once more intellectually respectable and people stopped being ashamed to admit that they believed in God. Evangelicalism and the world wept briefly on each other?s shoulders, kissed, shook hands and became friends. The church discovered that she could use a good many of the world?s ideas and the world found that religion was a useful technique for achieving desired ends. The ox and the ass, as well as the lion and the lamb, romped together as they had not done since Luther nailed his theses on the door of the church at Wittenberg and launched the Reformation.
Over the last few years the world has gone on to woo the Church (about like water woos a duck!) and has won her heart and hand in what seems to be a case of true love. The honeymoon is still on and the church is now the pampered bride of the world. And what a dowry she has brought to her sensuous and drooling lover! An impenitent and unregenerate populace buys religious books by the millions, to the delight of the profit-hungry publishers. Movie stars now write our hymns; the holy name of Christ sounds out from the gaudy jukebox at the corner pool hall, and in all-night stomp sessions hysterical young people rock and roll to the glory of the Lord.

Today dark-browed Pessimism has gone out of vogue and her happy and responsible sister Optimism has come in to take her place. Christianity is now conceived as fun and the only cross is the one on which Jesus died several hundred years ago. Christ?s yoke is not only easy, it is downright thrilling. His burden is not only light, it is jaunty. The church goes along with everything and stands against nothing--until she is convinced that it is the safe and popular thing to do; then she passes her courageous resolutions and issues her world-shaking manifestoes--all in accord with the world?s newest social venture, whatever it may be.