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Thank you for stopping by the show. There is so much going on in the World today that if you don't have Christ as your guide you will get lost in the shuffle and loose hope quickly because it 'looks' like evil is going to prevail. Evil has but a short time and that is why the volume and the occurrences have increased. But praise be to God who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ! Glory! Again thank you for stopping by and for the information you are providing, it allows whosoever reads it to draw their own conclusion!

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You do the true peace-filled people good service by teaching Mohammad's writing in the Koran. People in all cultures deserve peace from violence. Keep up great informative shows Reza! : )

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    Miscellaneous "armed men" in Philippines kidnap 40 people, kill 21

    But in the article's eleventh paragraph we learn that there is an "Islamic insurgency" in the area. Fit to print -- but just barely! "21 Filipinos Are Reported Dead in Election Violence," by Carlos H. Conde for the New York Times, November 23 (thanks to Bill):

    MANILA -- In one of the worst incidents of election- related violence in the Philippines in recent memory, a group of more than 40 people -- including lawyers, journalists and relatives of a local politician -- were kidnapped by armed men Monday, and military officials said 21 of them had been killed.

    Lt. Col. Romeo Brawner, a military spokesman in Manila, said 21 bodies had been recovered in Maguindanao, a province on the island of Mindanao in the southern Philippines that has often been wracked by election violence. Thirteen of the dead were women, according to the military.

    Maj. Gen. Alfredo Cayton, a security official in the province, said in a radio interview that the victims had been shot. But relatives of most of the victims said at least 30 abductees had been killed and many of them beheaded by a group of about 100 men.

    The victims were reportedly stopped on their way to an election office to file candidacy papers for Esmael Mangudadatu, the vice mayor of the town of Buluan, who plans to run for governor of Maguindanao. Mr. Mangudadatu said on ABS-CBN television that his wife, his sister and several other female relatives had been in the group and that he had received confirmation that they had been killed.

    He said they had been filing his candidacy documents in the hope that women would not be attacked. Lawyers and reporters accompanied the group, although the military did not identify the bodies they had recovered.

    "We believe more bodies are buried," Colonel Brawner said, according to Reuters. "Unfortunately, the killing happened before our troops got there."...

    Attacks on candidates and supporters during campaign periods are common throughout the Philippines. In 2007 local elections, nearly 100 people were killed in such attacks.

    Election violence is more extreme in Maguindanao, where an Islamic insurgency and decades-old clan wars complicate the security situation. Loose firearms, many of them in the hands of criminal groups and political warlords, have worsened the situation in this and other areas....

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    Taqiyya: Why Iran can't be trusted

    Mamoun Fandy doesn't discuss the Koranic roots of taqiyya (3:28; 16:106), which make this something that is sometimes used by Sunnis as well as Shi'ites, and he seems to continue to be a bit naive about trusting Iran, but this is nevertheless an unusually full discussion of a concept that the mainstream media usually ignores or denies outright.

    "The real reason Iran can't be trusted: As they confront Iran's nuclear aims, negotiators must mind the Shiite doctrine of deceit called 'taqiyya,'" by Mamoun Fandy for the Christian Science Monitor, November 20 (thanks to Joseph):

    Can Iran be trusted?

    In Iran, the teachings of Shiite Islam govern all aspects of society. And taqiyya - dissimulation and concealment - is one of the key elements of the Shiite faith. While many outsiders are surprised by Iran's concealment of its nuclear installations, those who study the Shiite faith and recognize the signs of taqiyya are not.

    Many governments lie about strategic secrets, especially secrets about nuclear weapons. Witness Israel's concealment of its nuclear capabilities. And former Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping counseled his country to "hide its brightness" - for strategic reasons.

    Iran's approach to its nuclear ambitions, however, is a different form of deception and denial. Certainly states do not need a religious edict to lie or obfuscate. But it helps if a state has one already in place.

    What can the West do?

    Western negotiators must be mindful, not only of the technical side of Iran's nuclear program, but the historical evolution of taqiyya. Such context sheds critical light on the insecurities of the Iranian regime and that of the Shiite community at large.

    Taqiyya doesn't mean the West should give up all negotiations with Iran, or that Iran can never be trusted. Tehran's concealment is a means to an end: It wants nuclear weapons to provide security for the clerical regime and the Shiite community. So long as Iran feels threatened, it will deceive. But if the West can ease Tehran's anxiety with strong assurances, then negotiations will be more truthful.

    How a doctrine of deceit developed

    Taqiyya requires the faithful to be deceitful at times of weakness. The history of Shiites in their conflict with Sunnis is a history of the downtrodden. They have been the underdogs in Islamic history, and have had to protect both their communities and their faith from being overrun by the more numerous Sunnis. Taqiyya emerged as a response.

    Taqiyya offers a license to violate the strict rules of the faith in cases of extreme pressure or threat of extinction - something not unusual in Sunni-Shiite history. The doctrine allows dissimulation in the service of self-preservation, practiced by the faithful.

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    Islamic dawah truck in Los Angeles?

    We've covered the dawah buses that appeared in various cities a few months ago, but has anyone seen anything like this white truck? In "A Different Kind of Ice Cream," November 23, the estimable Baldilocks recalls a strange visitor to her Los Angeles neighborhood:

    [...] At midday, I was in the back of the house in my office--blogging, of course. At some point, a noise entered my consciousness. It was a voice, a tinned one and, as I listened I became aware of three things: that the voice was male, that it was coming out of a bullhorn and that it was repeating the same phrase over and over again. However, I could not make out the words at first. [...]

    The voice was coming from speakers attached to the type of truck that is sometimes used by ice cream vendors. The truck was spotlessly clean and gleaming white except for the design on the side: the huge blood-red star-and-crescent symbol of Islam.

    The occupant had been exhorting the residents of this neighborhood using a two-sentence phrase, most of which I have blocked out of my memory. But I do remember one part and, really, it's the only relevant part. The occupant was advising us to...

    "Embrace Islam."

    By the time I gained the presence of mind to grab a camera, the gleaming white truck had moved on. I haven't seen it since.

    From the time that it came to light the Major Nidal Malik Hasan basically warned the FBI and the Army of what he was--if not of what he was about to do--I've been thinking of that "ice cream" truck and what that particular vendor was selling. Aren't Jihadis required to warn their infidel foes and invite them to convert before any attack?

    "Embrace Islam," he said. Left unspoken was the alternative.

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    Fort Benning receives package containing shells and threat to reenact Fort Hood jihad

    Jihad or copycat -- in any case, an enemy of diversity. "Suspicious Note and Package at Fort Benning," by Ashley Ball for WRBL.com, November 23 (thanks to Matt):

    Fort Benning investigators are launching an investigation into a suspicious note and package found last week on post.

    News 3 spoke to a post representative Sunday night, they say the note and box were found Thursday morning outside a motor pool belonging to the 197th.

    Officials could not release any more information, but the Army Times is reporting the box was full of twenty hollow point shells and the note threatened a re-enactment of the massacre at Fort Hood....

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    پیش به سوی
    16 آذر سبز در دانشگاه ها

     
     
     
     

    نهضت آزادی ایران با صدور اطلاعیه ای، دیدگاه خود در باره ضرورت ادامه حرکت مسالمت آمیز جنبش سبز و همچنین مراسم سالگرد 16 آذر در دانشگاه های کشور را اعلام کرد.

    نهضت آزادی از دانشجویان خواست تا به رسم و سنت چندین دهه (از 1332 تا 1387) امسال نیز سالگرد 16 در داخل دانشگاه ها، به دور از هر نوع خشونت و متعهد به شعارهای اصلی جنبش سبز، یعنی دفاع از قانون و قانون اساسی، مخالفت با فضای امنیتی و نظامی حاکم و رد هر گونه خشونت پایبند باقی بمانند.

    در این بیانیه آمده است:

    پس از گذشت نزديك به پنج ماه از انتخابات ریاست جمهوری، تداوم اعتراضات عمومی به شیوه رفتار امنیتی و پلیسی نظام، نشان دهنده عمق جنبش اعتراضی سبز مردم ایران است. با اینکه تمامیت خواهان اعتبارات بسیار سنگینی از بودجه کشور را برای کنترل، سرکوب و خاموش كردن جنبش هزینه کرده‌اند، اما حضور گسترده معترضان در گردهمایی‌هاي رسمی و عمومی در روزهای قدس و 13 آبان این واقعیت را آشکار ساخت که این جنبش را نمی‌توان با شیوه‌های پلیسی و امنیتی خاموش ساخت.

    تلاش حاکمان در اعمال خشونت بیشتر و صرف هزینه‌های کلان برای برخورد با جنبش، به ویژه در روز 13 آبان سال جاری، نشان دهنده احساس ضعف حاکمان از يك سو و ناتوانی آنان از درک عمق و گستردگی جنبش، از سوي ديگراست. اما اعمال سیاست خشونت و سرکوب هزینه سنگيني را برای حاکمان در پی داشته است كه برای ادامه چنين سياستي باید بتواند آن را توجیه کند. بنابراین، تمایل درونی حاكمان رادیکالیزه کردن جنبش است. تجربه نشان داده است كه اگر پاسخ مردم به خشونت حکومت به صورت واکنشی و احساسی و درقالب رفتار تلافی جویانه و تقابلی صورت گیرد، نه تنها مردم موفق به عقب‌راندن نظامیان نخواهند شد، بلکه اين گونه رويارويي توجیه اعمال زور به عنوان یک «حق قانونی» را برای حکومت آسان خواهد ساخت.

    حاکمان نظامی و شبه نظامی با نفوذ در صف‌های معترضان و تحریک احساسات مردمی فضایی را به وجود می‌آورند که «اقدام متقابل خشونت آمیز» از نظر مردم عقلانی و درست جلوه کند، درحالی که نظاميان، به دلیل برتری ابزاری و اطلاعاتی، قطعا پیروز میدان خشونت خواهند بود. از سوي دیگر، رادیکالیزه و تند شدن جنبش از فراگیری و گسترش آن کاسته، امکان حضور میلیونی را از مردم سلب خواهد کرد. در نتیجه، جنبشی که در آن همه اقشار مردم، اعم از زنان و مردان، سالمندان و نوجوانان به صورت جمعی و خانوادگی شرکت می‌كرده‌اند، تبدیل به درگیری‌های خشونت آمیز شهری خواهد شد که تنها عده اندکی از مردم تمایل حضور در آن را خواهند داشت.

    نهضت آزادی ایران معتقد است که جنبش سبز تنها در چارچوب مبارزات مسالمت آمیز و اصلاح طلبانه پیروز خواهد شد.

    در برنامه‌ریزی برای 16 آذر، باید توجه داشت که روزهاي قدس و 13 آبان فرصتی ملی برای مشارکت گسترده همگان بود، در حالی که 16 آذر روز دانشجو است.

    نخستين هدف جنبش اصلاح طلبی، در شرایط کنونی، وادار ساختن حاکمیت به تمکین از قانون است. در صورت تداوم اعتراضات مسالمت آمیز قانونی، با توجه به بحرانی که در درون حاکمیت پديد آمده است، احتمال پذیرش این خواست از سوي حاکمیت و تسلیم شدن آن به راه حل سیاسی وجود خواهد داشت.

    دانشجویان در روز 16 آذر به بزرگداشت این روز تاریخی در قالب برنامه‌ای مسالمت آمیز و آرام تنها در محوطه دانشگاه‌ها بپردازند تا بهانه‌ای به دست بدخواهان برای تحمیل خشونت در داخل دانشگاه‌ها داده نشود.

    همچنین، بار دیگر، به حاکمان نظامی و سیاسی اكيداً توصیه می‌شود که مدیریت سیاسی را جایگزین مدیریت امنیتی و نظامی فعلی کرده، با پذیرش وجود بحران و به رسمیت شناختن جنبش سبز، پل‌های پشت سرشان را برای یافتن راه حل‌های مسالمت‌آمیز برای خروج از بن بست سیاسی خراب نکنند. سرکوب خشونت آمیز جنبش باعث از بین بردن آن نمی‌شود، بلکه به معناي پاک کردن صورت مسئله است و حتي اگر نمود بیرونی جنبش را کمرنگ کند، بدون شک بر عمق مطالبات آن خواهد افزود، مطالباتی که اگر امروز تامین نشود، در آینده به شکلی جدی‌تر مطرح خواهد شد.

    روزی که در پس حوادث و اتفاقات ناگهانی و بروز جنبش‌های مختلف، نیروی عظیم اجتماعی برای تغییرات اساسی آزاد شود، دیگر زمان برای پذیرش خطاها و اشتباهات دیر خواهد بود

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    Unemployment Edges Up to Great Depression Level

    Here is a chart released by the government that claims to show the percentage of unemployed people in the United States as of July, 2009. It is a fictional snapshot of the actual number of unemployed and under-employed people.

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    As economics professor John Miller notes in an article posted on the Dollars&Sense website, the actual number of unemployed and — importantly — under-employed people is actually in the double-digits, probably twice the official figure. Miller writes that government figures

    dramatically understate the true extent of unemployment. First, they exclude anyone without a job who is ready to work but has not actively looked for a job in the previous four weeks. The Bureau of Labor Statistics classifies such workers as “marginally attached to the labor force” so long as they have looked for work within the last year. Marginally attached workers include so-called discouraged workers who have given up looking for job-related reasons, plus others who have given up for reasons such as school and family responsibilities, ill health, or transportation problems.

    The government figures also leave out out part-time workers looking for full-time work because part-time workers are “employed” even if they work as little as one hour a week, according the the bean counters and number crunchers in the district of criminals. “The vast majority of people working part time involuntarily have had their hours cut due to slack or unfavorable business conditions,” Miller explains. “The rest are working part time because they could only find part-time work.” Miller notes that “forced part-time work” is at an all-time high, going all the way back to 1956 and including the 1982 recession. In May 2009, 8.8 million workers were forced to work part time for economic reasons, in other words they were forced out of the job market by the banksters and their long-standing plot to turn the country into a third world cesspool (the latter was not stated by Mr. Miller).

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      In February, MSNBC ran a report indicating official unemployment figures are a government created illusion.
       

    During the last bankster engineered economic depression in the 1930s, the official unemployment rate was 24.9%. If we accept the premise that the actual unemployment rate is double the officially cooked figures, then the states in the above chart with 12 percent or higher unemployment are actually experiencing unemployment on par with the so-called Great Depression. If we accept the “or higher” on the chart, some parts of the country are suffering unemployment worse than the Great Depression.

    The GDP is now floundering in negative territory — officially at -1.89% — which means massive job losses will continue. Conventional economic wisdom states that in order to maintain stable employment, the GDP must be around 2.5% per year and it must go much higher to make up for the catastrophic losses suffered since the “recession” began in November, 2007.

    Once again, the government is playing a shell game with the numbers. The GDP numbers are distorted by manipulation of the money supply, which creates inflation. If you look at the Federal Reserve’s M3 data, you will see that GDP has decreased substantially since 1990. In order to hide this from the American people, the Fed stopped publishing the M3 monetary aggregate report on March 23, 2006. The discontinuation of the M3 “detracts from the transparency the Fed preaches and adds to the suspicion that the Fed wants to hide anything showing money growth high enough to fuel inflation, just so people won’t know how bad it is and possibly react and thus make it worse,” writes Bud Conrad for Financial Sense.

    Or react and storm the castle with pitch forks and raised fists.

    Earlier this month, the U.S. government told the one-worlders at the European Union that at the end of the third quarter it will not meet its forecast for the annual budget deficit and the forecast must be revised to a figure in excess of 10.75%. On Saturday, Obama’s budget office said the figure will be 11.2% of GDP, a staggering $1.8 trillion, the highest deficit as a percentage of GDP since 1945 when the people were obliged to pay for the last world war created by the banksters and their international minions.

    In order to give this dire situation a somewhat softer and fuzzier glow, Obama’s folks removed from the 2009 budget deficit projection $250 billion given away to the banksters.

    Even if the “recession” ends this quarter — and in the meantime, you may as well wish for a pony — Obama’s number crunchers admit unemployment will continue to skyrocket. “Unemployment has continued to rise for several months after six of the past seven recessions. That’s just what it does as a lagging indicator,” write the brain surgeons over at the CIA’s favorite newspaper, the Washington Post. “What we’ll be watching for, however, is whether the gap between the officially and unofficially unemployed continues to grow. If it does, this recovery will take even longer than people think.”

    Of course, we shouldn’t expect the Grand Dame of Operation Mockingbird to level with us, even if her scribes realized the truth — the “economic crisis” is an engineered affair. It is the largest and most elaborate transfer of wealth from the people to the banksters in the history of mankind.

    Back when Obama signed the so-called American Recovery and Reinvestment Act — absurdly called the “stimulus” bill — he said the plan would create three and a half million jobs over a two year period and that unemployment would be less than 8 percent — 16 percent? — by June of 2009. The corporate media is now turning somersaults over an officially reported drop in unemployment — from 9.5% in June to 9.4% (multiply by two) — but with the caveat that things will get worse before they get better.

    It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out things will get worse — much worse — and there will be no recovery at the end of the rainbow.

    “There is no economy left to recover. The US manufacturing economy was lost to offshoring and free trade ideology,” economist and former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Paul Craig Roberts wrote last month. “The real economy was traded away for a make-believe economy. When the make-believe economy collapsed, Americans’ wealth in their real estate, pensions, and savings collapsed dramatically while their jobs disappeared.” Americans are “over their heads in debt. Jobs are disappearing. America’s consumer economy, approximately 70% of GDP, is dead. Those Americans who still have jobs are saving against the prospect of job loss. Millions are homeless. Some have moved in with family and friends; others are living in tent cities.”

    “Obama’s policy, like Bush’s before him, is keyed to the enrichment of Goldman Sachs and the armament industries,” Roberts concluded.

    “Will Americans realize that they are not ruled by elected representatives but by an oligarchy that owns the Washington whorehouse?” the economist wrote more recently. “Will Americans ever understand that they are impotent serfs?”

    At this late hour, it remains to be seen.


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    Half of US kids will get food stamps, study says

    CHICAGO – Nearly half of all U.S. children and 90 percent of black youngsters will be on food stamps at some point during childhood, and fallout from the current recession could push those numbers even higher, researchers say.

    The estimate comes from an analysis of 30 years of national data, and it bolsters other recent evidence on the pervasiveness of youngsters at economic risk. It suggests that almost everyone knows a family who has received food stamps, or will in the future, said lead author Mark Rank, a sociologist at Washington University in St. Louis.

    "Your neighbor may be using some of these programs but it's not the kind of thing people want to talk about," Rank said.

    The analysis was released Monday in the November issue of Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. The authors say it's a medical issue pediatricians need to be aware of because children on food stamps are at risk for malnutrition and other ills linked with poverty.

    "This is a real danger sign that we as a society need to do a lot more to protect children," Rank said.

    Food stamps are a Department of Agriculture program for low-income individuals and families, covering most foods although not prepared hot foods or alcohol. For a family of four to be eligible, their annual take-home pay can't exceed about $22,000.

    According to a USDA report released last month, 28.4 million Americans received food stamps in an average month in 2008, and about half were younger than age 18. The average monthly benefit per household totaled $222.

    Rank and Cornell University sociologist Thomas Hirschl studied data from a nationally representative survey of 4,800 American households interviewed annually from 1968 through 1997 by the University of Michigan. About 18,000 adults and children were involved.

    Overall, about 49 percent of all children were on food stamps at some point by the age of 20, the analysis found. That includes 90 percent of black children and 37 percent of whites. The analysis didn't include other ethnic groups.

    The time span included typical economic ups and downs, including the early 1980s recession. That means similar portions of children now and in the future will live in families receiving food stamps, although ongoing economic turmoil may increase the numbers, Rank said.

    An editorial in the medical journal agreed.

    "The current recession is likely to generate for children in the United States the greatest level of material deprivation that we will see in our professional lifetimes," Stanford pediatrician Dr. Paul Wise wrote.

    Wise said the Archives study estimate is believable.

    "I find it terribly sad, but not surprising," Wise said.

    James Weill, president of Food Research and Action Center, a Washington-based advocacy group, said the analysis underscores that "there are just very large numbers of people who rely on this program for a month, six months, a year."

    "What I hope comes out of this study is an understanding that food stamp beneficiaries aren't them — they're us," Weill said.

    The analysis is in line with other recent research suggesting that more than 40 percent of U.S. children will live in poverty or near-poverty by age 17; and that half will live at some point in a single-parent family. Also, other researchers have estimated that slightly more than half of adults will use food stamps at some point by age 65.

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