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SB SALT AND LIGHT MINISTRIES
Sparks from the Anvil of Life
The part Israel plays in end times prophecy is central to God's prophetic time clock… and the fact is, God is calling us ALL back to faith in Him!
God is calling for the people of America to come home!!!
8-11 "I don't think the way you think.
The way you work isn't the way I work."
God's Decree.
"For as the sky soars high above earth,
so the way I work surpasses the way you work,
and the way I think is beyond the way you think.
Just as rain and snow descend from the skies
and don't go back until they've watered the earth,
Doing their work of making things grow and blossom,
producing seed for farmers and food for the hungry,
So will the words that come out of my mouth
not come back empty-handed.
They'll do the work I sent them to do,
they'll complete the assignment I gave them.
The truth is only men and women of faith will receive this message; and it was men and women of faith who founded this nation!!!
Whether you believe in God, or not, our founding fathers did; and the first thing we have to realize is our way back as a nation under God starts with our conforming once again to God's instructions, as found in the Bible!
Let us begin here:
14 if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.
Now is the time to turn to the Lord with your whole heart if you have not done so.
God sent his only son so that we may have life and be freed from bondage and slavery to sin.
Whether you call his son Jesus,Yahshua,Yeshua, Messiah, etc, he is able to save you from this fallen nature and bring you into His image.
As the days grow darker and darker, Satan is giving everything he's got with the purpose to find out who really belongs to the Lord and who is "religious?"
If we do humble ourselves and seek the Lord with a whole heart, giving up this world, then we will find Jesus and be set free.
He will provide all we need to make it through the days ahead by the power of the Holy Spirit!
The modern Christian Church, particularly in the West, does not teach humility, death to self and submission to the Lord.
We must be emptied of self if we are to be filled with the Holy Spirit.
Seek to be filled with the Spirit daily, moment by moment!
The measure of the Spirit that is about to be poured out is immense and we should seek the Lord to be ready to receive it.
If a cup is full of vinegar and you want to put wine in the cup what must you do?
We must humble ourselves and be emptied of this flesh life before we can be filled with the Holy Spirit!
As many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God (Romans8:14).
Abide in Jesus Christ for he is the secret place of the most High! (Psalms 91).
The Lord bless you!!
The question is, regarding the following subject, is there a correlation between our American Foreign Policy in Israel and the natural disasters that we are seeing here at home?
Is God trying to tell us something? I think so.
The facts speak for themselves; and as I've always said, when it comes to the word "coincidence" in the affairs of men, as it relates to God's Word, their is no such thing as happenstance, and the word coincidence it's NOT a kosher word!
America, I believe, is at a crossroads of decision today, in whether or not we are going to repent and return to our founding Judaic/Christian values and heritage that made us the most blessed and envied people in the history of the world; or whether we are going to allow this unbelieving and pagan (de facto) leadership in Washington D.C. rob us of our Constitutional liberties, and lead us all into oblivion and ruination?
Regardless of where you stand on this issue, the truth is this nation, by all recorded historic records, which can be verified in both our founding documents as a nation, and also in the personal writings of our Founding Fathers, this nation was founded by men and women of faith!!!
Consequently in the subsequent vacuum that was left over time, when Christians abdicated all positions of responsibility and power in both the government and in the marketplace, nonbelievers came in and have taken over.
What we see all around us today, in this de facto and unconstitutional mess called the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA CORPORATION, is the result!
Please note that when it comes to the nation of Israel, and God is very clear on this one point, that we are dealing with the apple of His eye, and we had better pay attention!
Long ago God promised Abraham, "I will bless those who bless you and I will curse those who curse you!" (Genesis 12:3)
Joel 3:2
2 I will also gather all nations,
And bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat;
And I will enter into judgment with them there
On account of My people, My heritage Israel,
Whom they have scattered among the nations;
They have also divided up My land.
So the question is, in your mind, is what follows merely a coincidence, or is God today warnings us and is He giving us time to repent and turn back to Him?
We report, you decide!
AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY-ISRAEL AND NATURAL DISASTERS
Since 1990, every time the American government has tried to fiddle with the borders of Israel, some kind of natural disaster has occurred to an American interest, and usually on American soil.
We're not talking only about one time, or five times, even ten times anymore. It's been much more.
Is there a connection between natural disasters and harming Israel?
There is some interesting correlations between the weather, and forcing Israel to give up land.
God's Final Warning to America
Below is a sampling of "record-size" natural events which coincided when the United States pressured Israel to give up its land for peace, as documented in John McTernan's book, "God's Final Warning to America".
I just noticed maybe there is something to this when:
Obama slapped Israel in the face by his big Middle East speech Thursday, May 19, Barack Obama dropped a bombshell that took even the government of Israel by surprise.
He announced not only a two-state solution, but that the borders must revert to the 1967 lines – something Israel will certainly never, ever do.
Barack Obama's proposal for Israel to pull back from the West Bank to behind the indefensible 1967 lines is down right crazy. Especially with all the unrest and uncertainty in the middle east and the Hamas/Fatah unification.
But all this is not as bad as President Barack Obama told 10,000 attentive delegates at AIPAC's annual policy conference in Washington on Sunday morning he had specified that "the borders of Israel and Palestine should be based on the 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps." Mutually agreed, he repeated. Nothing was going to be imposed on Israel and, by definition, the notion of agreed swaps meant that Israel would not have to return to its vulnerable pre-'67 lines.
So which way is it, does Obama mean should the 1967 lines be a basis for peace talks or not ?
DOES OBAMA MEAN WHAT HE SAYS, CAN ONE TRUST ANYTHING THAT COMES OUT OF HIS MOUTH
WELL WHAT ABOUT :
Obama's 2008 empty promise to Israel: Jerusalem will never be divided. Oops, looks like he kinda spaced that one yesterday.
THEN THIS HAPPENED
Re: Joplin, MO Tornado Kills at Least 89
Tornado devastation kills at least 89, leaves 'total devastation' in Missouri town
[link to www.latimes.com]
THERE SEEMS TO BE A PATTERN
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks at a joint news conference with Israel's Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman following their meeting at the State Department, June 17, 2009. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas
.US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton fractured her right elbow in a fall while on her way to the White House on Wednesday. Her chief of staff said Clinton was taken to George Washington University Hospital before returning home.
It is a bad fracture requiring surgery
The fall came after Clinton had held talks with Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman on so called "illegal settlements."
The Obama administration and Israel gave no ground Wednesday in their opposing views over Jewish settlements in Palestinian territory despite speculation the two sides might be nearing compromise. The US and Israel Still Butting Heads on Settlements
Lieberman insisted that "we had some understandings with the previous administration and we (will) try to keep this direction."
Today we see
Mitchell: Mideast stagnation endangers US aid on eve of visit to region, American special envoy threatens Israel with sanctions if it fails to advance peace talks, two-state solution.
On the eve of his visit to the Middle East, US special envoy George Mitchell threatened that his country would freeze its aid toIsrael if the Jewish state failed to advance peace talks with the Palestinians and a two-state solution.
When he travels to the region, Mitchell is expected to be carrying letters of "guarantees" outlining the US position.
The letters are likely to contain gestures to both sides. For the Palestinians, that would include criticism of settlements and the belief that the borders that existed before the 1967 Arab-Israeli War should be the basis of a future peace deal.
For the Israelis, they would acknowledge that post-1967 demographic changes on the ground must be taken into account, meaning that Israel would be able to keep some settlements.
Clinton did not address the letters in her remarks. But she said the administration wanted a resolution that meets both the Palestinian goal of a clearly defined and viable state based on the borders that existed before the 1967 war "with agreed swaps" and the Israeli goal of security within boundaries that "reflect subsequent developments."
"There is a hunger for a resolution of this matter, a two-state solution that would rebuke the terrorists and the naysayers, that would give the Palestinians a legitimate state for their own aspirations and would give the Israelis the security they deserve to have," she said.
This is followed by
Saturday, January 9th, 2010 at 7:36 pm
Eureka, California Earthquake: 6.5 Magnitude
Earthquake Hits
A 6.5 magnitude earthquake hit Northern California about an hour ago. The Eureka, California earthquake was also felt in nearby Ferndale, California.
Maybe there is something to this
And,lest you think that this is only an urban legend, check it out for yourself at:
http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/t/tenmajorevents.htm
where it says:
Summary of the eRumor: A list of ten dates on which there important events related to Israel along with natural disasters affecting the United States. The implication is that the U.S. had better pay attention to decisions about Israel … or else.
TheTruth: The historical accounts in this eRumor are, for the most part, accurate. What is left is the question of what do they mean?
Believers in the email's message say it means that if the U.S. wants to avoid natural disasters … be nice to Israel. Skeptics say that going through all the events in a particular span of years and finding apparent correlations doesn't mean they were connected.
What They failed to include in the list was George Bush Sr.'s loss in the 1992 election (plummeting from an 80 percent post-war rating in only a matter of months!) to Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton, someone with a past so shady that he earned the nickname, "Slick Willy." What had seemed like a shoe-in for a second term after Operation Desert Storm quickly became a humiliating defeat.
Indeed, as it turned out, the election witnessed one of the largest voter turnouts in American history to date, but not as much to vote-in Clinton as to vote-out the incumbent President Bush.
Apparently, he had just made good on his threat to suspend 10 billion dollars in loan guarantees to the Israeli government for not stopping construction of "settlements". And, incidentally, it had been Vice-President Bush who had been the most outspoken against the Israeli surprise attack on the Iraqi nuclear reactor in 1984.
The-eRumor confirmation also stopped short of the eradication of Gush Katif in the summer of 2005, and the Level 5 Hurricane Katrina that had occurred the following week, pounding Louisiana, exiling many of its inhabitants, and destroying countless homes and businesses.
Believers: The connection was super-obvious, with newscasters on both sides of the ocean using similar terminology to describe the effects of each disaster.
Not to be outdone by his father, or to learn from his predecessor, George W. Bush, the 43rd President of the United States of America, continued on with the legacy of both, and suffered a similar fate.
Yes, he sat for two terms, but he also had to watch his popularity erode day-after-day, in spite of his victory over Iraqi leader Suddam Hussein (ironically, it was the conclusion of the battle his father had started), until election day came around, when the U.S. Electorate once again come out in full force against his party, to vote the Republicans out of office with an overwhelming majority.
Not only this, but the financial markets crashed right in time for the election, as if planned, triggering a world-wide recession, if not a depression.
Banks went bust, while large companies were reduced to dust — and still are — as the Arabs pressure Western countries to pressure Israel into a two-state solution, and basically, national suicide, God forbid.
And, for the record, though contrary to popular belief, not giving the Arabs what they want just because they want it, and upsetting them to the point that they take revenge on the world, is not called being a threat to world peace. peace is never at the unwilling cost of other innocent people, as every other country in the world will tell you. That is, up until they start talking about the future of the State of Israel:
Now, I don't suspect that the leaders of the world will pick up on this pattern of current history. I supposed that they are either too ignorant or too arrogant to come to the conclusion that not only is there a God, and not only does He run the world, but that He actually gets involved to such an extent as to cause reciprocal damage when that which He cherishes is abused.
If so, then maybe they are not expected to get it. Maybe, in the end, they are only expected to allow their ignorance and arrogance to be the source of their own undoing, as it seems to be these days.
Maybe they are destined to go down, but at that own hands, measure-for-measure, as God seems to enjoy working. Just like Pharaoh at the beginning of Jewish history, the world's leaders are the end of Jewish history are victims of their own blind spots and prejudices.
Here are a few more:
US Sponsored Israeli-Palestinian Meetings Coincided with Two Major Record US Disasters in December –
Largest flood in Washington State's history followed by the largest ice storm and power outage in Oklahoma's history
Thursday, Nov. 29: U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza met with the leaders of 18 American Jewish organizations to assure them that the Bush administration will not pressure Israel but, rather, facilitate talks between the two sides.
Ynet reported that along with her calming words for the leaders, Rice reminded them that President Bush has been the friendliest president towards Israel in American history, and that Israel should therefore accelerate talks with Palestinians to achieve as much as possible while Bush still sits in the White House.
Friday, Nov. 30: AccuWeather: "It's hard to believe how much energy is available for storms right now. Not only one, but two major disturbances will impact various parts of the country within the next 72 hours."
Saturday, Dec. 1: AccuWeather: "Two very potent winter storm systems are affecting the country today: one in the Northeast, and one in the Pacific Northwest. Both systems contain a great deal of snow and wind."
Monday, Dec. 3: AccuWeather: Northern New England received more than a foot of snow through Tuesday. Schools from New York to Maine were canceled because of slick roads and 40-mph winds that have created near-blizzard conditions in some parts of New England.
Hurricane-force winds gusting to 100 mph were reported along the Oregon coast, with the highest reading at 129 mph at Bay City, the National Weather Service said. Massive rains produced flooding.
The governors of Washington and Oregon declared states of emergency, which could speed relief efforts in flood-hit areas.
Tuesday, Dec. 4: AccuWeather: "The storm system that pummeled parts of Washington and Oregon on Monday will hang around for one more day. The good news is that this system will not pack nearly as much of a potent punch as it did yesterday."
Wednesday, Dec. 5: AccuWeather: "The flooding that has inundated the Northwest, greatly impacting lives and travel, will be part of historical records. Rivers have either risen to or will exceed record levels set during a 1996 storm."
Damage could be in the billions of dollars, Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire said Wednesday.
Wednesday, Dec. 12: Israeli and Palestinian negotiating teams met in Jerusalem for their first official meeting towards a permanent peace agreement since 2001. In their 90-minute meeting, they argued over Israel's Jerusalem construction and Hamas rockets being fired from Gaza.
Wednesday, Dec. 12: Rice: Bush to take a more active role in Middle East peace process. Secretary of State Rice told USA Today that President Bush would be visiting the region because "he very much wants to signal support for the bilateral process between the parties and to continue in a hands-on way to encourage them to move forward."
Still, she described that approach as not one that says "All right, I'm going to go ahead and fix this for you," but one emphasizing talking to the parties, in which "he'll be able to get a strong sense of where the points of convergence are that maybe they won't see, and where the points are divergence are as well."
Wednesday, Dec. 12: About 468,000 homes and businesses in Oklahoma still had no power — the state suffering its worst power outage on record. Utility officials said it could be a week to 10 days before power is fully restored.
Elsewhere, around 228,000 customers were still blacked out in Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, Illinois and Nebraska. Kansas' tally had risen sharply — to 130,000 on Wednesday from Tuesday's 15,000 — as rural electric cooperatives reported in and falling branches brought down more power lines.
Thursday, Dec. 13: In Oklahoma, at least 315,000 homes and businesses were still without power, officials said. In Missouri, about 35,000 customers remained in the dark, said Al Butkus, spokesman for utility Aquila Inc.
Friday, Dec. 14: The second wintry blast could complicate efforts to restore power to the more than 280,000 homes and businesses in Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri still blacked out after the first storm put a million customers in the dark at its height this week.
Utilities in the Plains said nearly 400,000 customers remained without power on Friday due to ice storms this week. Electric companies reported that more than 800,000 of the 1.2 million customers who lost power have had it restored.
Saturday, Dec. 15: Oklahoma utilities said about 181,000 homes and businesses still had no electricity. Some 62,000 were still blacked out in Kansas
http://godssecret.wordpress.com/2010/01/10/american-foreign-policy-israel-and-natural-disasters/
With the tornadoes and all today, could there be a link with what John Kerry is today attempting to do in Israel once again, to cause them to give up land for so called peace, when to do so would compromise there ability to defend themselves?
For me, the answer is obvious, but I'll leave it for you to examine the evidence yourself.
« Breaking News »
Kerry wants major Israeli concessions for Palestinians, including sovereign northern Dead Sea coast
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report May 28, 2013, 2:17 PM (IDT)
US Secretary of State John Kerry put a package of proposals for reviving the moribund Israel-Palestinian peace process before Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and peace negotiator Justice Minister Tzipi Livni and then returned to Amman Monday, May 27.
He keeps the package's contents firmly under his hat. However, according to some of the details revealed here for the first time by DEBKAfile's sources, Kerry's top-secret plan places on Israel the onus of major concessions including strategic and national assets, for the sake of buying the Palestinian leader's consent to sit down and talk. Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) is not required to pay anything real in return – although it was who stalled the peace negotiations in the first place.As the first of these concessions, Kerry wants Israel to permit the Palestinians to build in Jericho for their prospective state an international airport for direct civilian flights to and from America and Europe. Those flights would cross Israeli air space and be coordinated with Israeli flight control authorities.Our exclusive sources further disclose that, while Palestinian authorities would be in charge of security at the future Jericho airport, Israel would maintain control of passengers and freight traffic by means of computer and surveillance camera networks.
In 2006, a similar remote system was installed at the Gaza Strip's Rafah border post under European controllers after Israel's withdrawal from the territory. It soon broke down when the foreign controllers were scared away by Palestinian threats.
Kerry envisages the transformation of the entire Jericho region north of the Dead Sea and near the Jordanian border into a busy hub for galvanizing the economy of the future Palestinian state. He wants Israel to hand over to the Palestinians the Kalia region on the northern shore of the Dead Sea. Kibbutz Kalia, albeit part of sovereign Israel from its inception in 1948, is nonetheless one of the assets Kerry wants Israel to cede to the Palestinians.
The fate of the veteran Israeli kibbutz is left up in the air.
Israeli concessions would not end at the northern Dead Sea coast, according to the secret Kerry plan; it would be just the first in a series of land and sovereignty handovers granted the Palestinians in trilateral negotiations among Israel, the Palestinians and the United States.The Palestinians would also be awarded by the process a three-year economic reconstruction program for boosting their Gross National Product by 50 percent and slashing unemployment from 21 to 8 percent.
The Middle East Quartet's Special Envoy Tony Blair will head the program, Secretary Kerry reported to the world economic forum meeting in Jordan Sunday, May 26. His goal is to raise $4 billion for investing in the West Bank and Gaza Strip."This is the biggest, boldest and most ambitious program ever granted the Palestinians since Oslo, 20 years ago," Kerry told the forum.
Prime Minister Netanyahu has not divulged his views on the Kerry proposals – merely for winning Palestinian consent to talk peace. Since the payment of sovereign Israeli territory would be no more than the down- payment for pulling the Palestinians to the table, how many more high-value security and national assets will Israel will be required to part with along the road toward meeting the Palestinians' ever-rising price tag?
Abu Mazen has gone on record as rejecting any economic proposals unaccompanied by political concessions. However, Kerry is still hard at his shuttle diplomacy and his talks with the Palestinian leader continue.
Kerry harps on the Palestinian issue while terrorist forces build up in Syria
DEBKAfile Exclusive Analysis
DEBKAfile May 24, 2013, 11:49 PM (GMT+02:00)
24 May. After spending 48 hours in Jerusalem and Ramallah, trying to talk Israeli and Palestinian leaders into returning to peace diplomacy, US Secretary of State John Kerry's exit line, May 24, called for "hard decisions." DEBKAfile: As he spoke, two rival terrorist groups, Al Qaeda and Hizballah, continued pouring fighting strength into Syria – both of them, enemies of Israel, Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan and the Palestinian Authority.
The most conspicuous feature of Kerry's current Middle East tour is the strong dichotomy between his public statements and the events taking place in the real world around him.
Israel's leaders may decide to ignore Kerry's message and focus their "hard decisions" on warding off the perils looming from Syria.
Author SPARKS FROM THE ANVIL OF LIFEPosted on May 31, 2013 May 31, 2013 Categories Political Commentary, Spiritual Rhema... Sparks from the Anvil!1 Comment on The part Israel plays in end times prophecy is central to God's prophetic time clock… and the fact is, God is calling us ALL back to faith in Him!
The untold story of what actually happened at Benghazi…
Apparently we have a completely incompetent administration who when confronted with his own constant ineptness, his lies, stupidly, and out and out criminal and unconstitutional activities, he claims complete ignorance.
Richard Nixon was drummed out of office and was forced to quit from the public outcry, for what by comparison would be minor infractions, compared to Obama's long line of offenses!
At least with Nixon no one died.
With Obama he's made a career out of lying and violating the law, with his most egregious violations being that of his oath of office to our own Constitution, and he's still in office to continue his deadly blunders!
Problem is every day he's in office his mistakes, blunders, and incompetence, which he always denies responsibility and claims no knowledge of, are costing American lives and a further loss of our Constitutional Liberties!
The evidence shows that he's not even a legal citizen of the United States; that he was born in Kenya, and from there the record shows that he immigrated to Indonesia with his mother, at a time when he had to be a naturalized citizen and of the Muslim faith, according to the laws of the time, even to attend school there… which he did.
At about age twelve he came to Hawaii to live with his grandparents and there is no record of him ever having been naturalized as an American citizen!
The guy is a fraud from the word go, and if anything he's also a foreign agent working for foreign interests, with ties, not only to radical socialist George Soros and ex Black Panther terrorists, but more importantly his main ties are to the Globalist Banksters, who put him in office, and also to Saudi Arabia, whom I believe paid for his Ivy League education at Harvard.
We can no longer afford to be so naive and misled by the American media who have always, until recently anyway, rubber stamped anything this guy has done or said, and has never once held him accountable for all his many lies!
What you see above is the honor guard, as they escorted the bodies of the real heroes of Benghazi, who gave their lives and were left high and dry, abandoned by this administration! (see story below)
It gets even worse, as a retired four-star admiral is now claiming that Barack Obama intentionally conspired with America's enemies to stage a bogus attack and the kidnapping of an American ambassador so he could "negotiate" the release of a "hostage" and bolster his mediocre approval ratings just prior to the 2012 election!
The Washington Examiner, quoting retired Four-Star Admiral James Lyons, writes: "the attack on the American Consulate in Benghazi… was the result of a bungled abduction attempt…. the first stage of an international prisoner exchange… that would have ensured the release of Omar Abdel Rahman, the 'Blind Sheik'…"
But something went horribly wrong with Obama's "October Surprise." Although the Obama Administration intentionally gutted security at the consulate prior to the staged kidnapping, former Navy SEALs Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty disobeyed direct orders to stand down, saved American lives, single-handedly killed scores of attackers…and the attackers, believing that Obama had betrayed them, tortured Ambassador Chris Stevens and dragged his body through the streets.
Some will say that Admiral Lyons' accusation is not a smoking gun. We agree; that's exactly why Congress must investigate Benghazi-gate.
Moreover, we firmly believe the problem with Admiral Lyons' assertion is that he is only scratching the surface; the full and complete truth may be much, much worse.
These are the guilty parties behind Benghazi, Obama and Hillary, and my question is what's wrong with the people of our country for not having a massive outcry, objecting to our even putting up with these liars and criminals even one day longer?!!
Owed to the fact that the ultimate goal of this unconstitutional de facto Washington D.C. Corporation is a "New World Order," which ultimately will become a One World Government and monetary system that will be totalitarian in nature, any political figure (past, present, or future) who has sworn an oath to our organic U.S. Constitution, it is impossible for them to maintain that oath and at the same time endorse a New World Order; and so each and every public figure that has done so (past, present, and future… among Republicans and Democrats alike) are ALL liars and traitors to both our country and our Constitution.
Ever since the Act of 1871 was passed by the forty-first Congress we have ceased to exist as a Constitutional Republic and instead we became the UNITED STATES OF AMERICAN, INC; which is a corporation that is wholly owned and controlled by private banksters and a military industrial complex, which is the very thing our founding fathers warned us against!
Folks when are we going to say enough is enough and put a stop to these criminals in high place?
As it is, the powers that be and the media, every time anyone objects to this president's dishonesty, his policies or his ineptitude, the race card is always played!
That is pure unadulterated malarkey; but that is the very reason why I believe Obama was chosen for office because they felt he could get away with things that would not have been tolerated if a white person were in office.
The fact is, liars, cheats, and criminals cross all racial boundaries, and everyone deserves the right to be liked or disliked on the bases of the color of their character and not their skin!
On that one subject alone, on the subject of character, most of the people in public office today who hold the reins of power in D.C., from both political parties, are equally culpable and guilty of treason against both our Republic and our U.S. Constitution, for the reasons I have already stated… and so in that respect I would have to say that they all are of the same color!
Truly there are intelligent voices out there who make very good sense, the only problem is the powers that be and the media who are their propaganda mouth piece, under this evil corporate oligarchy, won't allow those voices to be heard on any major national platform, and those who would be candidates for public office are not given a level playing field.
One such man that I would have to say makes a lot of sense, among others, is Thomas Sowell.
Thomas Sowell is an American economist, social theorist, political philosopher, and author. He is currently the Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.
According to Larry D. Nachman in Commentary magazine, he is considered a leading representative of the Chicago school of economics.
We need people like him, regardless of color, be they black, white, yellow, or brown, who have likeminded ideas, who will stand up and keep their oath to preserve, defend, and protect our organic Constitution!
Here is the untold story behind what really happened at Benghazi:
THIS PART YOU DON'T KNOW, BUT SHOULD…
about BENGHAZI
May 22, 2013 by Dr. Charles R. Roots
The stunning part of this story is that Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty killed 60 of the attacking force.
Once the compound was overrun, the attackers were incensed to discover that just two men had inflicted so much death and destruction.
The news has been full of the attacks on our embassies throughout the Muslim world, and in particular, the deaths of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three others in Benghazi, Libya.
However, there's a little known story of incredible bravery, heroics, and courage that should be the top story.
So what actually happened at the U.S. embassy in Libya?
We are learning more about this every day. Ambassador Stevens and Foreign Service officer Sean Smith, along with administrative staff, were working out of temporary quarters due to the fact that in the spring of 2011 during the so-called Arab Spring, the United States cut ties with then president Moammar Gadhafi.
Our embassy was looted and ransacked, causing it to be unusable. It is still in a state of disrepair.
Security for embassies and their personnel is to be provided by the host nation. Since Libya has gone through a civil war of sorts in the past 18 months, the current government is very unstable, and therefore, unreliable
A well-organized attack by radical Muslims was planned specifically targeting the temporary U.S. embassy building. The Libyan security force that was in place to protect our people deserted their post, or joined the attacking force. Either way, our people were in a real fix. And it should be noted that Ambassador Stevens had mentioned on more than one occasion to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, that he was quite concerned for his personal safety and the welfare of his people. It is thought that Ambassador Stevens was on a "hit list."
A short distance from the American compound, two Americans were sleeping. They were in Libya as independent contractors working an assignment totally unrelated to our embassy. They also happened to be former Navy Seal's.
When they heard the noise coming from the attack on our embassy, as you would expect from highly trained warriors, they ran to the fight. Apparently, they had no weapons, but seeing the Libyan guards dropping their guns in their haste in fleeing the scene, Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty snatched up several of these discarded weapons and prepared to defend the American compound.
Not knowing exactly what was taking place, the two Seal's set up a defensive perimeter. Unfortunately Ambassador Stevens was already gravely injured, and Foreign Service officer, Sean Smith, was dead.
However, due to their quick action and suppressive fire, twenty administrative personnel in the embassy were able to escape to safety. Eventually, these two courageous men were overwhelmed by the sheer numbers brought against them, an enemy force numbering between 100 to 200 attackers which came in two waves. But the stunning part of the story is that Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty killed 60 of the attacking force.
As it became apparent to these selfless heroes, they were definitely going to lose their lives unless some reinforcements showed up in a hurry.
As we know now, that was not to be. I'm fairly certain they knew they were going to die in this gun fight, but not before they took a whole lot of bad guys with them!
Consider these tenets of the Navy
SEAL Code:
1) Loyalty to Country, Team and Teammate,
2) Serve with Honor and Integrity On and Off the Battlefield,
3) Ready to Lead, Ready to Follow, Never Quit,
4) Take responsibility for your actions and the actions of your teammates,
5) Excel as Warriors through Discipline and Innovation,
6) Train for War, Fight to Win, Defeat our Nation's Enemies, and…
7) Earn your Trident every day
(http://www.navyseals.com/seal-code-warrior-creed)
Thank you, Tyrone and Glen.
To the very last breath, you both lived up to the SEAL Code.
You served all of us well. You were courageous in the face of certain death.
And Tyrone, even though you never got to hold your newborn son, he will grow up knowing the character and quality of his father, a man among men who sacrificed himself defending others.
Dr. Charles R. Roots
Former Staff Sergeant,
USMC Captain,
U. S. Navy Chaplain Corps (Ret.)
Let us never forget the Hillary Clinton Comment
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Come and join the Adventure… what follows could change your life!
Come Join the Adventure!
What follows here has the potential to change your life, and it is intended for those who have not yet discovered the Truth about life, who may have honest questions about how we got here and what is the meaning and purpose of life?
Check this video out and see 16 stories from people who actually died, and saw Heaven and Hell.
If you have already found these answers, then please pass it forward to someone you know who is still searching.
These are real stories from real people…
Heaven and Hell are real!
Whether you believe they are real or not is irrelevant. The truth is we each will know beyond a shadow of doubt the moment we die.
People ask all the time, "Why would a loving God send anyone to such an awful place as Hell?"
The answer is He doesn't, it's totally our decision. In fact God has done absolutely EVERYTHING He can to prevent it!
God is the Author and Creator of ALL that is, including all life, and anyone with a brain will recognize that we have not created ourselves, and nor is it possible that all the intricacies and complexities, as are found in creation, could have come about by mere coincidence or by accident, through something so lame brain as "natural selection!"
The evidence of intelligent design is all around us, and truly it would be easier to believe that a tornado could blow through a junkyard and produce a 747 jet, than to believe that we just evolved by chance.
No, God gave each of us a brain and along with that brain He's also has given us a measure of faith so that we can recognize TRUTH when confronted with it.
Where we spend eternity is totally our decision.
The Bible tells us that we were created for God's pleasure, in order that we of our own free will would choose to follow Him, to love Him, and to serve Him.
God is a loving God, who respects our decision, and He will not force upon us in eternity what we have rejected in life!
Being a Christian is NOT about being religious, it's about having a relationship with the One who gave you your life.
Jesus explained it this way:
Born from Above
1 There was a man of the Pharisee sect, Nicodemus, a prominent leader among the Jews.
2 Late one night he visited Jesus and said, "Rabbi, we all know you're a teacher straight from God. No one could do all the God- pointing, God- revealing acts you do if God weren't in on it."
3 Jesus said, "You're absolutely right. Take it from me: Unless a person is born from above, it's not possible to see what I'm pointing to– to God's kingdom."
4 "How can anyone," said Nicodemus, "be born who has already been born and grown up?
You can't re- enter your mother's womb and be born again. What are you saying with this 'born- from- above' talk?"
5 Jesus said, "You're not listening. Let me say it again.
Unless a person submits to this original creation– the 'wind hovering over the water' creation, the invisible moving the visible, a baptism into a new life– it's not possible to enter God's kingdom.
6 When you look at a baby, it's just that: a body you can look at and touch. But the person who takes shape within is formed by something you can't see and touch– the Spirit– and becomes a living spirit.
7″ So don't be so surprised when I tell you that you have to be 'born from above'– out of this world, so to speak.
8 You know well enough how the wind blows this way and that. You hear it rustling through the trees, but you have no idea where it comes from or where it's headed next.
That's the way it is with everyone 'born from above' by the wind of God, the Spirit of God."
9 Nicodemus asked," What do you mean by this? How does this happen?"
10 Jesus said, "You're a respected teacher of Israel and you don't know these basics?
11 Listen carefully. I'm speaking sober truth to you. I speak only of what I know by experience; I give witness only to what I have seen with my own eyes.
There is nothing secondhand here, no hearsay. Yet instead of facing the evidence and accepting it, you procrastinate with questions.
12 If I tell you things that are plain as the hand before your face and you don't believe me, what use is there in telling you of things you can't see, the things of God?
13 "No one has ever gone up into the presence of God except the One who came down from that Presence, the Son of Man.
14 In the same way that Moses lifted the serpent in the desert so people could have something to see and then believe, it is necessary for the Son of Man to be lifted up– 15 and everyone who looks up to him, trusting and expectant, will gain a real life, eternal life.
16 This is how much God loved the world: He gave his Son, his one and only Son.
And this is why: so that no one need be destroyed; by believing in him, anyone can have a whole and lasting life.
17 God didn't go to all the trouble of sending his Son merely to point an accusing finger, telling the world how bad it was.
He came to help, to put the world right again.
18 Anyone who trusts in him is acquitted; anyone who refuses to trust him has long since been under the death sentence without knowing it. And why?
Because of that person's failure to believe in the one- of- a- kind Son of God when introduced to him.
19 "This is the crisis we're in: God- light streamed into the world, but men and women everywhere ran for the darkness.
They went for the darkness because they were not really interested in pleasing God.
20 Everyone who makes a practice of doing evil, addicted to denial and illusion, hates God- light and won't come near it, fearing a painful exposure.
21 But anyone working and living in truth and reality welcomes God- light so the work can be seen for the God- work it is."
(from the Message Bible)
If you are reading this and you have not yet made that decision to be reconciled back into God's family, to make Messiah Jesus Lord of your life, and then to serve Him and to follow Him all the days of your life, then why not take this opportunity to get serious with Him and ask God whether these things are true or not?
Don't let the hypocrisy and past mistakes of man and of religion keep you from making this decision.
Many people have done things in God's name who have not known Him, and the way to know the difference between those who are truly serving God and those who aren't, you have but to judge them by the fruit that is being exhibited through their life.
Jesus put it this way:
People Know You by Your Actions
15 "Be careful of false prophets and teachers. They come to you looking gentle like sheep, but they are really dangerous like wolves.
16 You will know these people by what they do.
Grapes don't come from thornbushes, and figs don't come from thorny weeds.
17 In the same way, every good tree produces good fruit, but a bad tree produces bad fruit.
18 A good tree cannot produce bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot produce good fruit.
19 Every tree that does not produce good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 In the same way, you will know these false prophets and teachers by what they do.
21 Not all those who say 'You are our Lord' will enter into the kingdom of heaven. The only people who will enter the kingdom of heaven are those who do what my Father in heaven wants."
A wise man once told me that ships at sea do not navigate by taking their bearings from other ships, and neither should we navigate through life by looking to the failures, hypocrisies and mistakes of man.
When it comes to being perfect, none of us are… and that's why we need a Saviour!
God loves you and I love you too, and I hope you will take this time to ask yourself some very important questions, and I hope that after viewing the above video and reading what I have written here, that I have at least pricked your curiosity enough to want to know the truth and get more information.
Where you spend eternity will be totally your decision.
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Be still & know Him
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A WAKE UP CALL FOR AMERICA… the question was asked, "What can I do?" Here are some suggestions…
The following was sent to me by a friend, in response to one of my emails calling the American people to wake up and see what's going on.
"And how do you suggest we turn this around…I don't think anyone has an answer, otherwise we would all be on board."
What follows is my response…
We each can do our part, as watchman on the wall… and then we do what God tells us to do.
As for me I'm trying to do my part by banging on this keyboard several times a today, sending out emails and also doing this blog. 🙂
The first thing we ALL need to do is pray according to 2 Chronicles 7:14; next thing we get the word out as to what is going on.
We can't fight an enemy we don't recognize and don't even know what it is.
In Colonial America it was primarily the preachers who did that.
We have a Republic that is already re-inhabited, and most all of our 50 states are already on board with it.
This movement began back in March of 2010... how many of you knew about that? Don't look for any of this information to be announced on the evening news, because it won't be.
Ninety plus percent of our media in American today is controlled by only 6 corporations and that boils to really one group, because if you look at the board of directors who sit on each of these 6 corporations you will find the same names repeated over and over again.
In 1983, 50 corporations controlled the vast majority of all news media in the U.S. At the time, Ben Bagdikian was called "alarmist" for pointing this out in his book, The Media Monopoly.
In his 4th edition, published in 1992, he wrote "in the U.S., fewer than two dozen of these extraordinary creatures own and operate 90% of the mass media" — controlling almost all of America's newspapers, magazines, TV and radio stations, books, records, movies, videos, wire services and photo agencies.
He predicted then that eventually this number would fall to about half a dozen companies. This was greeted with skepticism at the time.
When the 6th edition of The Media Monopoly was published in 2000, the number had fallen to six. Since then, there have been more mergers and the scope has expanded to include new media like the Internet market.
In 2004, Bagdikian's revised and expanded book, The New Media Monopoly, shows that only 6 huge corporations —
Murdoch's News Corporation
Bertelsmann of Germany, and
(formerly CBS) — both these last two now control most of the media industry in the U.S., these two companies make up four and five, and
General Electric's NBC is number six
http://www.corporations.org/media/
These people who are in control of all of this, who are literally the owners of this D. C. Corporation, have one purpose and that is to see the establishment of what they call a "New World Order;" the Bible calls it the Antichrist kingdom and it will be a one world government and monetary system, in which they will rule as the masters of the world and we will be their slaves.
I don't have to tell most of you who is behind this agenda, because if you are a Christian and if you know your Bible then you already know who is in charge… it is Satan (the devil).
Anyway, we need to support the Republic for the united states of American, which is already in place; and it is run by Christians… whose purpose is to educate the American people about this unlawful D.C. Corporation that runs our nation today, and has run it for the last 140 years; and next we need to have the control returned back  to We the People, under our only de jure (lawful) Constitutional Republic.
Paul told us to not be ignorant of the enemy's devices; and Jesus told us to be wise as serpents and harmless as doves.
Do your homework and know your history:
http://www.serendipity.li/jsmill/us_corporation.htm
What we don't know is killing us and is robbing us of our liberty right out from underneath our noses!
This man who is speaking in the video below is a personal friend and a brother in the Lord, whom I have known for over 15 years.
Please listen to what he is saying.
You each need to do your own homework to see whether these things are true, or not?!
I have done so already.
This movement to take back our country is being done lawfully without violence and we need to pray for it and support it.
http://republicfortheunitedstates.org/
Republic News Network
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This is another resource that is run my friend in the above video, who is also a part of the Republic. He used to be a mortgage broker, but is now helping people whose homes are in foreclosure, to keep their homes.
Do you know anyone in that position , whose homes are in foreclosure? We all do… why not let them know about this resource.
http://www.hisadvocates.org/
Then their's the oath keepers, and other movements too.
God is moving in many areas and I am sure there is far more than what any of us know about… but this one thing I know, God is in control! And Satan is NOT going to win.
Pray and ask God what your part is to be.
We each can have a part and all of us together can make a difference… if we come together!
Start by praying!!!
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הרברט לוחם למען ישו
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Both Chaplains and enlisted personal now face being court-martialed for preaching, praying, or proselytizing in Jesus Name!!!
To sign a petition to keep this from happening click below:
https://secure.prayinjesusname.org/pijn_jesusprayers/?a=2565
I just was asked to comment on an email my friend received today (see below), where apparently it is now a court martial offense in the "Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave," for enlisted men and women and chaplains to proselytize in Jesus name.
That's right, you heard me right, these clowns in Washington DC are certainly ramping up their agenda; and are now mandating, no less, that no one in our United States Military, including Chaplains, are allowed to talk about Jesus, or minister, or even pray in His name.
I guess our Muslim president is afraid that to do so might offend the sensitive ears of his Muslims friends and companions in crime.
Does anyone question where this man's loyalties are anymore… or does anyone remember what Obama once wrote in his book?
Of the two books which Obama has written, one entitled "Dreams of My Father" and the other "Audacity of Hope," it was in the latter,
"Audacity of Hope," that he writes: "I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction" (see page 261 of the paperback edition).
Well he's doing just that folks, which is probably the only promise he has kept his whole political career, which is to betray our nation!
But least you think it's only those "loony" left wingers that are the problem, au contraire, I beg to differ with you because the Republican hierarchy is on the exact same page when it comes to the NWO agenda, and they are also being controlled by the very same Banksters that are pulling Obama's strings!
This on going contention between Right and Left that is always being fomented and stirred up by the Media (who by the way are owned and controlled by these very same Banksters) is for one reason, and that is to keeps our country divided and fighting among ourselves, while these same Banksters rob us blind!
May God help our country to wake up!!!
And what exactly does it take, folks, to wake us up… that is the question?
Court-martial Chaplains who talk about Jesus, says Pentagon…
by CHAPLAIN KLINGENSCHMITT on MAY 2, 2013
A Pentagon spokesman has just said in writing that Christian troops will be punished and court-martialed if they dare to talk about their personal faith in Jesus Christ.
"Religious proselytization is not permitted within the Department of Defense," LCDR Nate Christensen said in a written statement.
He declined to say if any chaplains or service members had been prosecuted for such an offense.
"Court martials and non-judicial punishments are decided on a case-by-case basis and it would be inappropriate to speculate on the outcome in specific cases," he said.
So let me get this straight. If a chaplain preaches the gospel of Jesus Christ, whether in counseling or in the chapel, and anybody is offended, the chaplain can be punished in writing?
THIS HAPPENED TO ME. In 2005 my commander downgraded my evaluation and nearly ended my chaplain career, in writing.
My C.O. illegally punished me for quoting "exclusive" Bible verses like John 3:36 in the base chapel during optionally attended Christian worship.
The Navy lawyers claimed commanders can punish chaplains for religious speech, and they did, but they broke the law and violated their oath to the Constitution.
Please pray for my lawsuit to be victorious.
So let me get this straight. If a chaplain is ordered to stop praying "in Jesus' name" outside of Sunday chapel, and the chaplain disobeys by praying in Jesus' name in uniform and worshipping in public, they can be sent to court-martial for disobeying orders?
THIS HAPPENED TO ME. In 2006 as a Navy Chaplain I faced misdemeanor court-martial and was found guilty of "worshipping in public" in my uniform, outside of Sunday chapel.
I was later vindicated by Congress, who rescinded the same bad policy for which I was punished.
All proof documents are posted here. I won the policy war, but lost my career.
Now if Congress does not intervene, and protect military chaplains and troops' right to pray "in Jesus' name" and freedom for all our troops to freely speak of their faith or preach the gospel of Jesus Christ to their peers without coercion, but with freedom to convert and voluntarily change religion, whether in counseling or in church or in their barracks, THEN THERE IS NO FREEDOM OF RELIGION IN THE MILITARY, and the Constitution is dead.
The systematic anti-Christian persecution has now begun in earnest.
They order our silence about Jesus Christ, or our punishment by the government.
What a choice! The domestic enemies of the Constitution are influencing these policies.
Let's bury Congress with petitions to defend military chaplains' right to pray publicly "in Jesus' name." Please sign the following petition today, and we will fax it right away.
Select here to sign new petition, defend military chaplains right to pray "in Jesus' name" and co-sponsor HR 343. We will fax all 535 Congressmen, Senators (saving you time!)
Or select our NEW free petition here.
Anti-Jesus Judge bans "Jesus prayers" in Virginia. Take action.
If you care about freedom to pray "in Jesus' name," please phone or email all 7 members of the Pittsylvania Virginia County board of supervisors. Their names, emails, and phone numbers are listed here.
Say these words: "Please appeal the bad court decision of the anti-Jesus judge who banned free speech. Defend peoples' right to pray in Jesus' name."
Here's why: An anti-Jesus judge has just banned freedom of speech, and told county supervisors they cannot allow anyone to pray "in Jesus' name" when giving the invocation or benediction at public meetings, reports the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
Watch Dr. Chaps' TV commentary on this anti-Jesus ban in Pittsylvania VA, starting at the 16:06 mark.
"A federal judge Tuesday permanently barred the Pittsylvania County Board of Supervisors from offering sectarian Christian prayers during its meetings. U.S. District Judge Michael Urbanski issued the ruling Tuesday, giving a victory to Pittsylvania County resident Barbara Hudson and the American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia, who represented Hudson. Hudson filed the lawsuit in September 2011.
"The case law in this jurisdiction is crystal clear," ACLU Legal Director Rebecca Glenberg said Wednesday. "Governments may not have sectarian prayers at their meetings." [Dr. Chaps' comment…sectarian means speaking the illegal word "Jesus."]
"I expect to speak to the board to decide what the next move will be," he said. Board Chairman Marshall Ecker said of the decision, "If it was up to me, I would contest it." The ruling infringes on individual rights and Jesus' name is being taken out of everything, Ecker said. Hudson contended that the sectarian prayers violated the First Amendment, amounting to government advancement of religion."
[Dr. Chaps' comment: The board is considering appeal. Please call or email 7 today here, to request they appeal. Then sign our petition to defend military chaplains freedom to pray in Jesus' name, below.]
Select here to sign new petition, defend military chaplains right to pray "in Jesus' name" and co-sponsor HR 343. We will fax all 535 Congressmen, Senators (saving you time!) Or select our free option here.
The Bible commands us: "Whatever you do in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus." –Colossians 3:17. Please forward this email widely to your friends, and share on social media here.
God Bless you, in Jesus' name,
Chaplain Gordon James Klingenschmitt, PhD
Who is Dr. Chaps? Bio here.
P.S. Prefer to donate by postal mail? Please write: The Pray In Jesus Name Project, PO Box 77077, Colorado Springs, CO 80970
You know this is still American, and these people, these criminals really, who are running this D.C. Corporation and are looking to implement their evil "New World Order" agenda, and I'm talking here about those who are the real power brokers in D.C., including presidents, and congressmen and women, both past and present, and that definitely includes Obama, who from all evidence isn't even a legal U.S. Citizen; but all of these people who have sworn an oath to preserve, protect, and to defend our organic U.S. Constitution, and have failed to do so, they ALL need to be up on charges for Treason… and I'm dead serious!
If you are a Christian, or even if you aren't a believer at all, maybe you are an atheist, your liberty is also being affected here, and if you are not angered about all of this, then I feel sorry for you!
And if you happen to be a Christians, then I certainly hope you are offended by what I just said… and I hope something wakes you up!
There were many of your kind, I am sure, in pre-Nazi Germany as well, who thought nothing was wrong until it was too late.
"For the most part, the influences that motivated and guided the German Churches in the Thirties and Forties essentially paralyzed these institutions' potential challenges to Nazism, or led them to implicitly (though reluctantly) support Hitler's regime.
The German Churches stumbled, and they stumbled badly. The leaders of the Churches spent a great deal of time delineating a "viable" position: one that would conform to Christian doctrine, prevent their Church from dividing into opposing factions, and avoid antagonizing the Nazi authorities.
In any examination of the German Churches' statements from this era, what is most striking is their painstaking attempt to say, publicly, neither too much nor too little about what is happening around them."
http://archive.adl.org/braun/dim_14_1_role_church_print.asp
You know our nation was founded by Christians; also our founding documents as a nation were written by Christians, modeling the ideas and principals found in the Bible; and that's a fact, it's a part of our history! What in the world has happened since?
I would say today's attitude in America is more akin to what we find happened in pre-Nazi Germany.
Compare that attitude with the attitude of the colonial pastors, who were the main driving force that rallied the colonialists to join the fight against the British.
They were in the minority, and there was just as much debate and controversy then against any such a move, to put things right, as there is today.
The truth is Paul Revere and his group, who were renowned for their heroic acts during the Revolutionary war, they got their start in the church parking lot!
Some of these pastors were so successful that the British put out contracts on their lives, and so they would preach on Sunday with a six shooter on either side of their Bible.
That's our history and that's why we exists today! It didn't just happen, people died to make it so; and the same reasons that caused the American Revolution to happen is once again happening today, and the perpetrators who are behind these treasonous acts to undermine our U.S. Constitution and our sovereignty in favor of this NWO, are the very people who are heading our country today! Do you not see that???
Religion played a major role in the American Revolution by offering a moral sanction for opposition to the British–an assurance to the average American that revolution was justified in the sight of God. As a recent scholar has observed, "by turning colonial resistance into a righteous cause, and by crying the message to all ranks in all parts of the colonies, ministers did the work of secular radicalism and did it better."
Ministers served the American cause in many capacities during the Revolution: as military chaplains, as penmen for committees of correspondence, and as members of state legislatures, constitutional conventions and the national Congress. Some even took up arms, leading Continental troops in battle.
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/rel03.html
If you question what I am saying, then you need to look it up and do your own homework.
February 21, 1871 was a day of infamy for our country, because on that day is when we ceased to be a Republic, and we became the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA CORPORATION, and from that day forward our organic U.S. Constitution has been in moth balls!
Don't believe me, then check it out for yourself:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, INC.
Non-profit Delaware Corporation
File No. 2193946
Folks, do you not understand that every corporation has a board of directors and stock holders who own the corporation, and I can tell you for sure that the stockholders who own this de facto U.S. Corporation is NOT the American people!
The forty-first Congress in 1871, with our nation bankrupt coming out of the Civil War, capitulated to the demands of the Rothschild's Intentional Banking Cartel, and on that day (against all the advice of our Founding Fathers and without any Constitutional authority to do so) they surrendered both our sovereignty and our independence to these Globalist Banksters and the the Mega Corporations who have since grown up around them.
Their ONE agenda folks, which has been in play now for over 140 years, is to see our nation submit to their New World Order.
That wouldn't happen with a strong independent nation and economy would it?
So who do you think has been behind all of the corruption and racketeering that has been going on in Washington DC and on Wall Street?
The Federal Reserve is a privately held corporation, you do know that by now, don't you?
Well, who do you think are the stock holders of that corporation?
I can tell you once again, it's not us, but it is the same people who hold the strings over our government, who also own and control the FED, who are in fact responsible for managing our banking and monetary policies for the last 100 years, who have literally run our nation into the ground!
So if you are reading this (after having done your own homework to see if what I'm saying is true) and if you are still not getting mad, especially if you call yourself a Christian, may God help you; and may He also deliver us from people like you, and from this de facto D.C. Corporation that is literally destroying our country!
For those who don't want to see this Antichrist NWO agenda succeed, I suggest you support those of us who have already re-inhabited our only de jure (lawful) Constitutional Republic, which officially took place in March of 2010.
For more information on that please go to this website:
Hey, what can I say, even Jesus got mad at the money-changers of his day, and the Bible says He chased them out of the Temple with a whip; well they're still around folks!
From: Manna
Date: Sun, May 12, 2013 at 4:51 PM
To: Skip Barland <skipper810@gmail.com>
What do you know about this? I'd love your thoughts?
.On 2013-05-10, at 3:20 am
Hi Deeds,
Have you seen this yet? It's scary that the US government is determining to go this way………Peter just showed me this article from Prophecy Newswatch tonight. Very sad that Christians are singled out again…..but in an extreme way. Here's the article……
The Pentagon has released a statement confirming that soldiers could be prosecuted for promoting their faith: "Religious proselytization is not permitted within the Department of Defense…Court martials and non-judicial punishments are decided on a case-by-case basis…".
The statement, released to Fox News, follows a Breitbart News report on Obama administration Pentagon appointees meeting with anti-Christian extremist Mikey Weinstein to develop court-martial procedures to punish Christians in the military who express or share their faith.
(From our earlier report: Weinstein is the head of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, and says Christians–including chaplains–sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ in the military are guilty of "treason," and of committing an act of "spiritual rape" as serious a crime as "sexual assault." He also asserted that Christians sharing their faith in the military are "enemies of the Constitution.")
Being convicted in a court martial means that a soldier has committed a crime under federal military law. Punishment for a court martial can include imprisonment and being dishonorably discharged from the military.
So President Barack Obama's civilian appointees who lead the Pentagon are confirming that the military will make it a crime–possibly resulting in imprisonment–for those in uniform to share their faith. This would include chaplains—military officers who are ordained clergymen of their faith (mostly Christian pastors or priests, or Jewish rabbis)–whose duty since the founding of the U.S. military under George Washington is to teach their faith and minister to the spiritual needs of troops who come to them for counsel, instruction, or comfort.
This regulation would severely limit expressions of faith in the military, even on a one-to-one basis between close friends. It could also effectively abolish the position of chaplain in the military, as it would not allow chaplains (or any service members, for that matter), to say anything about their faith that others say led them to think they were being encouraged to make faith part of their life. It's difficult to imagine how a member of the clergy could give spiritual counseling without saying anything that might be perceived in that fashion.
In response to the Pentagon's plans, retired Lt. Gen. Jerry Boykin, who is now executive vice president of the Family Research Council (FRC), said on Fox & Friends Wednesday morning:
It's a matter of what do they mean by "proselytizing." …I think they've got their defintions a little confused. If you're talking about coercion that's one thing, but if you're talking about the free exercise of our faith as individual soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines, especially for the chaplains, they I think the worst thing we can do is stop the ability for a soldier to be able to exercise his faith."
FRC has launched a petition which has already collected over 30,000 signatures, calling on Secretary Hagel to stop working with Weinstein and his anti-Christian organization to develop military policy regarding religious faith.
Will this affect Canada too?
Author SPARKS FROM THE ANVIL OF LIFEPosted on May 12, 2013 May 13, 2013 Categories Political CommentaryLeave a comment on Both Chaplains and enlisted personal now face being court-martialed for preaching, praying, or proselytizing in Jesus Name!!!
A tribute to all Mothers on Mother's Day…
HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!!!
By Skip Barland
I want to wish all the mothers out there a Happy Mother's Day today!
I remember a sermon I once heard by a great teacher, Dr. euGene Scott Ph.D Stanford University. It was entitled, "God couldn't be everywhere, so He made mothers!"
The title comes from an old Jewish Proverb.
Even though as Christians we know that this is not true, because we know God is Omnipresent, so He can be everywhere at once; and the reason why we know this is true is because we find it taught throughout the Bible.
1 O Lord, You have searched me and known me.
2 You know my sitting down and my rising up;
3 You comprehend my path and my lying down,
And are acquainted with all my ways.
4 For there is not a word on my tongue,
But behold, O Lord, You know it altogether.
5 You have hedged me behind and before,
And laid Your hand upon me.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;
It is high, I cannot attain it.
7 Where can I go from Your Spirit?
Or where can I flee from Your presence?
8 If I ascend into heaven, You are there;
If I make my bed in hell, behold, You are there.
9 If I take the wings of the morning,
And dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,
10 Even there Your hand shall lead me,
And Your right hand shall hold me.
Nevertheless this Old Jewish Proverb engenders a beautiful and wonderful thought, does it not? And just maybe the reason why God can be everywhere is by working through mothers by His Spirit, for truly next to God's love for man, there is no stronger nor devoted love on this earth than that of a mother for her children.
"On the judgment day, the Recording
Angel will forgive much to him who
can say, 'I never knew my mother.' "
—Charles Lamb
"All that I am my Mother made me."
—John Quincy Adams
"The bravest battle that was ever fought;
Shall I tell you what and when?
On the maps of the world you will
not find it, it was fought by the
mothers of men."
—Juaquin Miller
"A mother is a Mother still the holiest
thing alive."
"Men are what their Mothers make them."
"To the soldier who falls on the battlefield,
we give bronze and tablet.
But to a Mother, it is a battle without
glory.
She wears no medals of a nation.
Her badge is the furrowed lines upon
her face." —Unknown
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Remembering a bygone era… how far we have fallen as a nation!
Remembering a bygone era…
How far our nation has fallen from where we once were!
I like this article by Jay Leno, and I thought you would too.
The point is, regardless of when you were born, there's a message here for everyone!
To those of Us Born 1930 – 1979
by Jay Leno
First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they were pregnant.
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can and didn't get tested for diabetes.
Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs covered with bright colored lead-base paints.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, locks on doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had baseball caps not helmets on our heads.
As infants & children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, no booster seats, no seat belts, no air bags, bald tires and sometimes no brakes.
Riding in the back of a pick- up truck on a warm day was always a special treat.
We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle.
We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and no one actually died from this.
We ate cupcakes, white bread, real butter and bacon.
We drank Kool-Aid made with real white sugar.
And, we weren't overweight. WHY?
Because we were always outside playing…that's why!
We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.
No one was able to reach us all day.
And, we were OKAY.
We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride them down the hill only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.
We did not have Play stations, Nintendo's and X-boxes.
There were no video games, no 150 channels on cable, no video movies or DVD's, no surround-sound or CD's, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet and no chat rooms.
WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!
We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.
We would get spankings with wooden spoons, switches, ping pong paddles, or just a bare hand and no one would call child services to report abuse.
We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.
We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks and tennis balls and, although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes.
We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to them.
Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment.
Imagine that!!!
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!
These generations have produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever.
The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.
We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned how to deal with it all.
If YOU are one of them, CONGRATULATIONS!
You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated so much of our lives for our own good.
While you are at it, forward this to your kids so they will know how brave and lucky their parents were.
Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?
The quote of the month is by Jay Leno:
"With hurricanes, tornado's, fires out of control, mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one end to another, and with the threat of bird flu and terrorist attacks, are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?"
Personally, I am glad to have grown up in this time period and I strongly feel that we as a nation would do well today to remember how far we have fallen from where we began!
The truth is to the extent our nation has virtually abandoned the faith of our forefathers, and has removed the Bible, prayer in the classroom, patriotism, and all teachings from the Bible on the difference between right and wrong from the public schools, our nation has been on a steady slide downward.
You think I'm kidding?
It was in 1963 that in the 'wisdom' of the United States Supreme Court that God was officially removed from our pubic schools, and just look at what has happened since:
A. Young People
1. For 15 years before 1963 pregnancies in girls ages 15 through 19 years had been no more than 15 per thousand.
After 1963 pregnancies increased 187% in the next 15 years.
2. For younger girls, ages 10 to 14 years, pregnancies since 1963 are up 553%.
3. Before 1963 sexually transmitted diseases among students were 400 per 100,000.
Since 1963, they were up 226% in the next 12 years.
B. The Family
1. Before 1963 divorce rates had been declining for 15 years.
After 1963 divorces increased 300% each year for the next 15 years.
2. Since 1963 unmarried people living together is up 353%
3. Since 1963 single parent families are up 140%.
4. Since 1963 single parent families with children are up 160%.
C. Education
1. The educational standard of measure has been the SAT scores, and SAT scores had been steady for many years prior to 1963.
From 1963 they rapidly declined for 18 consecutive years, even though the same test has been used since 1941.
2. In 1974-75 the rate of decline of the SAT scores decreased, even though they continued to decline.
That was when there was an explosion of private religious schools. There were only 1000 Christian schools in 1965.
Between 1974 to 1984 they increased to 32,000.
a. That could have an impact if the private schools had higher SAT scores. In checking with the SAT Board it was found that indeed the SAT scores for private schools were nearly 100 points higher than public schools.
b. In fact the scores were at the point where the public schools had been before their decline started in 1963 when prayer and Bible reading/instruction was removed from the schools.
c. The scores in the public schools were still declining.
3. Of the nation's top academic scholars, three times as many come from private religious schools, which operate on one-third the funds as do the public schools.
D. The Nation
1. Since 1963 violent crime has increased 544%.
3. Illegal drugs have become an enormous & uncontrollable problem.
2. The nation has been deprived of an estimated 30 million citizens through legal abortions just since 1973.
Certainly compared to today these times, prior to 1963 were much better times for kids to grow up in!
At least they were safer times, and the reason was on a whole the American family unit was still intact.
Even though we had none of the modern technological advancements and conveniences that we all have gotten so use to today, and even though science and technology has increased by leaps and bounds, nevertheless I think even the casual observer would have to acknowledge the steady decline in the morals and standards of our society as a whole!
Now be honest, do really believe these statistics that I have just quoted above are a coincidence, and that they had nothing whatsoever to do with our decline?
You don't have to be a rocket scientist to see that this correlation is accurate and true… it's as plain as the nose on your face!
I do know this, at least when I was a kid, most of my friends (in fact everyone that I can remember when I was in elementary school) still had both parents living under the same roof; and everyday at school began with our saying these words:
Now mind you, I don't mean to say we didn't have our problems, because we did, but certainly nothing like what we see happening today… not even close!
First off, the most important thing is, where we have erred, is that we no longer as a nation collectively acknowledge the importance of having faith in the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, as did our Founding Fathers; and that is more than obvious by the fact that such teaching was long ago removed from our public education!
Next, all Judaic/Christian values, as are taught in the Bible, were also removed, even though those same values are found clearly expressed throughout our founding documents; and the fact is our Founding Fathers all agreed (which fact can be verified in their own personal writings, as well as in our founding documents) that they mostly ALL agreed that our belief in God and and respect for His Word were necessary and foundational to our survival as a free people!
If we are ever going to survive much beyond where we are today, especially under this corrupt and unconstitutional de facto UNITED STATES OF AMERICA CORPORATION, it's not a suggestion folks,, but rather it is mandatory, as per the instruction of God's Word that our nation, and that be both YOU and ME, repents and turns back to the faith of our founding fathers.
And this is the history we have long since strayed from:
As I remember, it was mostly during the sixties and seventies that any teaching about right and wrong, based on biblical values, were prohibited, along with our not being allowed to pray in the classroom; and it was also during that time that patriotism towards our country and our flag, were also removed from the curriculum's of our public education system.
The fact is most people clearly want the benefits that we have all come to enjoy in our country; and the truth is people have for years come to our shores from all over the world because of the fact that no other nation in the history of the world has ever been as blessed as we have been, here, in our country.
Does anyone really believe, for even a moment, that these blessings are in any way coincidental to the fact that our nation is the ONLY nation in history whose government was founded based upon biblical principals and faith in God!
I think not, but people who want to believe that way are free to do so, but I think anyone with a brain would have to recognize otherwise!
But that's just my opinion and also my soap box speech for today! 🙂
Pray for our country folks, because we are in serious danger today of losing it all!!!
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A mom, encouraging her apprehensive daughter to pose for a photo in front of an animatronic dinosaur at a theme park, got the scare of a lifetime—and the video just gets better with every viewing.
Recently re-posted on Facebook by LADbible, this hilarious video, which originally appeared about a year ago, is enjoying a resurgence.
In the video, Illinois mom Shelby Tuggle and her family are trying to pose for a photo in front of an animatronic raptor in the Jurassic Park section of Universal Studios Islands of Adventure in Orlando, Florida.
Both Shelby and her husband, Brycin, can be seen encouraging their young daughter to come into the camera's frame and stand in front of the dinosaur for that perfect family picture. The little girl eventually makes her way over, but just after the photo is taken the raptor, which has been restlessly moving about the whole time, takes things up a notch.


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Movie Review ~ In the Heart of the Sea
by Joe Movie Review	• Tags: Amanda Silver, Ben Whishaw, Benjamin Walker, Brendan Gleeson, Charles Leavitt, Charlotte Riley, Chris Hemsworth, Cillian Murphy, In the Heart of the Sea, Jordi Molla, Michelle Fairley, Nathaniel Philbrick, Rick Jaffa, Ron Howard, Tom Holland, Warner Brothers
Synopsis: Based on the 1820 event, a whaling ship is preyed upon by a giant whale, stranding its crew at sea for 90 days, thousands of miles from home.
Stars: Chris Hemsworth, Benjamin Walker, Tom Holland, Brendan Gleeson, Ben Whishaw, Cillian Murphy, Jordi Molla, Michelle Fairley, Charlotte Riley
Director: Ron Howard
Rated: PG-13
TMMM Score: (5.5/10)
Review: I finished the book that In the Heart of the Sea was based off of mere hours before I caught its big-screen adaptation and it's probably the reason why I didn't like it as much as I maybe would have had I not recently experienced Nathaniel Philbrick's well-researched book. Philbrick's historical recounting of the tragedy of the whaleship Essex was a straight-forward piece equal parts storytelling and instructional guide. Details about the whaling industry, on-board dynamics, and deeper looks into the backstories of the characters was something no film could capture fully…so it's hard to blame the filmmakers for diverting so far away from the truth.
Well…actually…there is some blame to be had here because what was already a storied tale of survival on the high seas has been unnecessarily Hollywood-ized. Events have been falsified, details overlooked, and certain aspects have been downright made up to serve…who? Not the lovers of historical fiction that made the book a bestseller, that's for sure.
Unwisely adding bookends to the piece featuring a young Herman Mellville (Ben Whishaw, Paddington) interviewing one of the survivors of the wreck (Brendan Gleeson, Song of the Sea) as he researches what will become his celebrated novel Moby Dick, the film starts off on the wrong foot by including this imagined meeting. Historically it doesn't make sense, just the first of many ill-advised missteps. The old man recounts his time aboard the Essex (including scenes where he wasn't even present) which ran afoul of one massive whale that destroyed the ship and set a band of survivors in lifeboats to fend for themselves on the harsh open sea.
After seeing the equally disappointing Unbroken last year, this survival against all odds seems a bit been-there, done-that so screenwriters Charles Leavitt, Rick Jaffa, and Amanda Silver take some major liberties with the historical facts and add in events that never happened. In the film, the whale returns several times to taunt/terrorize the men hanging onto life when in reality the massive mammal appeared only once when it originally capsized the Essex. While the extra whale sightings may add some fairly nice tension to the mix (Silver and Jaffa wrote Jurassic World so they know how to craft a creature attack), knowing that it never happened pushes the film into Jaws: The Revenge territory.
There are other false happenings that I won't spoil for you here…but the more the story took untrue turns, the less I cared about the film as a whole. Director Ron Howard (Parenthood) reteams with his Rush star Chris Hemsworth (Cabin in the Woods) and the results aren't nearly as notable. Hemsworth is a stiff actor and while his physical appearance may have made him an ideal candidate on paper for the headstrong sailor he's playing, his performance never makes it out of the bilge. Also feeling a bit lost is Benjamin Walker (Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter) as the combative Captain, in the book he's a social leader done in by his inability to lead by example but here he's a brat at sea.
The film was shot in 3D and it's used to good effect here. Unfortunately, much of the film is CGI-d to death so it can feel like you're watching an animated film at times. The camera is constantly moving so those prone to sea-sickness may want to take a Dramamine before embarking on this voyage.
When it was delayed from its intended release in March of 2015, many thought that the studio was positioning the film to play big on the high seas of awards season…but the final product is a total land lubber, unable to find its sea legs.
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Hospital pharmacy specialisation advances patient safety and high quality healthcare.
Problems caused by medicines shortages are serious, threaten patient care in hospitals and require urgent action. EAHP's statement on shortages outlines the nature of the problem and the activity required by each part of the supply chain to resolve the problem.It also calls for a European-wide investigation involving the European Commission, European Medicines Agency and European Heads of Medicines Agencies.
The escalating threat of antimicrobial resistance is a global public health concern and now seriously jeopardises the effectiveness of standard treatments, rendering some ineffective for their approved indications. EAHP is calling for health system managers to promote fuller use of the hospital pharmacy profession's skills and knowledge to drive improved stewardship of antimicrobials in the hospital sector.
This includes enabling and promoting the profession to make direct interventions within multidisciplinary care teams such as reviewing antibiotic duration, advising on the cessation of inappropriate antibiotic treatments, and educating other healthcare professionals on the restricted use of certain antibiotics.
A complete identification of a medicine, up to the moment of administration, is a key element of a safe medicines dispensing procedure in hospitals.
Due to the rising importance of biosimilar medicines, EAHP decided to set out the position of the Association on key issues concerning biosimilar medicines including the role of hospital pharmacists, naming of biosimilar medicines, extrapolation of indications, information about biosimilar medicines as well as interchangeability, switching and substitution of biosimilar medicines.
EAHP's policy statement on eHealth and mHealth calls for: systematic and universal achievement of electronic prescribing and use of electronic patient records;ensuring bar coding of medicines to the single unit primary package to enable more widespread takeup of bedside scanning in European hospitals, thus improving patient safety; appropriate regulatory oversight mechanisms to ensure the promises of mHealth applications have a positive impact, and to limit the opportunity for 'rogue' applications; and, ensuring hospital pharmacists are involved in the design, specification of parameters and evaluation of ICT within the medicines processes.
There are many ways in which clinical trials regulation in Europe could be improved.
more open access to clinical trial data.
A public debate is required in order to create more sustainable and equitable means to provide patients in Europe with the medicines they need. Cost burden should not be placed directly upon the patient, and greater transparency in the operation of pricing and reimbursement systems is required. Health technology assessment should be supported by the hospital pharmacist's pharmacoeconomic skillset and care must be taken to ensure that certain cost-saving approaches such as generic tendering do not inadvertently result in supply chain vulnerability.
Cuts to expenditure and investment in the hospital setting almost self-evidently pose risk of detriment to patient care and safety. In response to the impacts of public spending austerity being felt in health services across Europe, the 34 member countries of EAHP passed policy alerting decision-makers to the dangers and the need for diligent care in approach.
As an impacted stakeholder EAHP takes a particular interest in the discussions on the future regulatory regime for the assessment, use and vigilance of medical devices in Europe.
Hospital pharmacists are guardians of patient safety and central to ensuring the right patient receives the right medicine for the right disease at the right time and in the right dose.
Read EAHP's position on patient safety HERE.
EAHP calls for a systematic and international elevation of hospital pharmacist roles in medication reconciliation and review as a key part of the response to increasing prevalence of polypharmacy.


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By hotsoup Blog March 18, 2019
It isn't possible to generalize a generation, and we need to stop trying to do so.
The Berlin Wall, constructed in 1961, separated East Berlin from West. On the East side of the wall was, of course, the Soviet sector of Berlin, established in 1945. The West side of the wall, comprised of American, French, and British sectors, was a free city that operated with much less restriction than its neighbour over the 3.6m (11.8ft) divisor. Throughout the nearly three decades it was standing, it was believed that all people thought, desired, and acted much different than those over the wall. But did they? In Germany in the middle of the 20th century, there was no talk about generations, no discussion about age; just that of a wall and a political idealism that separated two groups of people into silos, much like generational titles do now. There was no talk about the individual, just the silo the individual was unfairly placed in. The destruction of the wall began on November 9th, 1989. Here, some 26 years later, I'm calling for the destruction of generational barriers in the workforce.
Allow me to be a selfish Millennial and make this about myself for a moment. I'm a 23 year old individual that moved away from home at 17 to further my education, doesn't have cable, doesn't have an employer, and still manages to get some work done before (and, well, after) the sun sets. I do watch the occasional Netflix movie, and I do strive to be the best I can be. I often make mistakes but I feel that the only time I've truly failed are those times where I fail to 'fail forward', as I feel that any time we make mistakes and are better as a result, I'm not failing, I'm learning. These aren't the characteristics of a Millennial, these are the characteristics of an individual. And that spans much larger than a generation.
Too often do articles read, "What Gen Y (or any other generation for that matter) really wants". Or, "Gen Y (Z, etc., you get the point) is coming, here's how to engage them". It isn't possible to generalize a generation, and we need to stop trying to do so.
21% of the Canadian population is born between 1980 and 1994. This means that 7.5 million Canadians fall into the 'Millennial' demographic; that is assuming you use the years above, and stick to them. But depending on the source, Generation Y, or Millennials, may have a five – ten year swing- this is significant. It must be hard to attract the right Millennial when a generation is being attracted, as opposed to an individual.
At Gen Y Inc., we help organizations of all sizes and sectors attract people based on 'fit' as opposed to brand or salary. We help understand employees' potential and allow cross-generational communication and contribution to shape the future of our clients, all the while increasing engagement, productivity, and morale. Simply put, we don't have a trade secret, and we don't hide our formula. We simply have conversations that don't usually happen in the workplace, focusing on the individual in the position, and leveraging what they value to guide the organization to long-term success.
Millennials are born from 19-whatever to 19-whatever. They like a lot of things and need to be respected. Some of them work really hard and are high-achievers, some don't. Some of them like to work in teams, some don't. Some like green olives, and some don't. Wait, is this just Generation Y I'm talking about? It sounds an awful lot like I could be talking about any person, or any age, regardless of sex and experience.
When the Berlin Wall finally came down, there was no barrier between East and West. There was no separation between people, and everyone could live in harmony. Let's strip the generational restriction we place on ourselves and allow ourselves to be the people we can be, regardless of any barrier that generally limits us.
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Hastings Communications and Entertainment Law Journal
The IRS, the INS and the Foreign Entertainer
Richard D. Fraade
David B. Gardner
Allan Stewart
This article discusses the interrelationship between the immigration and tax laws as they affect foreign entertainers and athletes. A survey of the types of visas available and the effect of those classifications upon taxation is examined. Additionally, the article outlines the reporting requirements of foreign entertainers, and emphasizes careful planning in structuring immigration and tax matters.
Richard D. Fraade, David B. Gardner, and Allan Stewart, The IRS, the INS and the Foreign Entertainer, 5 Hastings Comm. & Ent. L.J. 191 (1982).
Available at: https://repository.uchastings.edu/hastings_comm_ent_law_journal/vol5/iss2/1
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