The Anatomy of the Death of America

COMFORT ZONE, TWILIGHT ZONE OR DEAD ZONE?

By Greg Evensen
August 22, 2010
NewsWithViews.com

The Anatomy of the Death of America

Comfort

Many of us across America have been experiencing an unusual period of heat, humidity and high amounts of rain. Unless you have air conditioning, it has been highly uncomfortable with mold and bugs emerging all around. The other sense of atmospheric closeness is the descending veil of evil in the air that is enveloping us like a wet wool blanket. Our “comfort zone” in physical terms has been disrupted. We have seen vast amounts of mold and bugs emerging in the halls of congress as well, regardless of the weather conditions. In Washington’s case, it is killer mold and scorpions. Eradication and a thorough cleaning of the house is long overdue. How much comfort are you willing to give up? How comfortable have you become being a part of this stench and rot that surrounds you and your family? Apparently, many Americans are still quite satisfied to walk in the putrefying remains of liberty and personal sovereignty. You are so used to the feel and odor of that wretched scene that you really do not remember what real freedom felt and tasted like. Comfort has given rise to fat, stupidity and waste. Time to clean house where you live as well.

Several of my good friends in the patriot broadcast and editorial arena are in the process of pulling back and “signing off” if you will, because of the utter futility they feel digging in week after week, trying their best and watching America slide into the abyss. Fighting the tide and holding on to the values many of us are willing to die for is one thing. Listening and observing America’s “leaders” justify all things evil and scorn all things righteous is just more than some of us can bear. When talented men and women of faith, honor and patriotic zeal retreat to take care of their own, you know that the ultimate moment is at hand. For the record, for those who somehow have missed all of this through intellectual deceit, dishonesty concerning the real state of affairs in America, or just plain stupidity, let this ring loud and clear one last time.

THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IS IN ITS DEATH SPIRAL!

THE EVIL AGENDA OF GOVERNMENT HERE AND ABROAD

People across this nation are preparing for the worst and they are doing it in record numbers. They no longer hide their fear and they are driven by seething anger toward the traitorous bastards at all governmental levels who have stolen their peace, safety and destiny. People are watching the absurdly arrogant demands of illegals protesting in the southwest. They watch as taxes are preparing to skyrocket under “health care” and every other possible place they can sneak in a new user fee or “privilege” assessments on cars, homes, water, air and gardens—if they allow you to grow the garden at all.
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Think about it

What’s in a name? Charles Darwin's book, when mentioned by the left always use the shortened version, 'The origin of species'. They never give you the full title which is “The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or, The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life". 'The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life' is something that Hitler, Stalin, Liberals and even the KKK used to justify their hatred or extermination of certain groups of people. Now we know why we have wars. It's human evolution. Does 'Ethnic Cleansing' ring a bell. In order to save Mother Earth and the animals on the planet we must reduce the world's population. Guess who will be first to go? Al Gore or Alan Keyes?

Choices. Democrat or Republican? That's like Nazi or Communist. You have a choice as long as it is one of the two we allow you to vote for. This is their primary way to maintain power. You will notice that anyone outside the group is quickly discredited or not even allowed on the ticket. Democrats or Republicans give most people someone to vote for who has some of the traits they look for in a candidate, while still leading the nation down a prescribed path.

Hippies. In the 1960's they were always trying to discover themselves or find out who they were especially thru the use of drugs. Now there is a new movement in America. I heard one liberal husband and wife say they were going to raise their children 'gender neutral'; as if, the country hasn't screwed up our children  enough already.

Hate Crimes. That's when you kill someone of a different race or belief. Some how this makes the killing a much worse crime. This added charge ensures a greater chance of punishment, including the death penalty. Of course, liberal lawyers and judges will have to prove hate crimes cannot be committed by the temporarily insane. It could blow their case completely. They take one law, 'Thou shall not kill,' and make a thousand laws on murder. 1st degree, 2nd degree, 3rd degree, premeditated, without malice, temporarily insane, the list goes on and on.

Tattoos. Making a statement? Is getting a tattoo your way of showing that you are not a Christian? If not, then is it your way of showing your IQ level? You have choices. You decide.

The U. S. Government - America's greatest enemy

THE SEPARATION OF LAW AND MORALITY

By Coach Dave Daubenmire
August 5, 2010
NewsWithViews.com

Moral— “Founded on the fundamental principles of right conduct rather than on legalities…
Legal— “Established by or founded upon law; lawful.”
Lawful— “Allowed or permitted by law; not contrary to law.”
Right— “In conformity with fact, reason, truth, or some standard or principle; correct.”
Amoral— “Having no moral standards, restraints, or principles.”

So, the folks in California were wrong. How dare they think that they knew what marriage was.

That is what judges are for. They are the arbiter of right and wrong. Their years in amoral law school have enabled them to rise above the common folks, far above the ignorance of “religion,” having rendered themselves “the deciders” of all things “legal.” Teddy Roosevelt said “To educate a man in mind, and not in morals, is to educate a menace to society.”

Judges are a menace to society and they are destroying America. No other group of individuals has been able to wreak such ruinous havoc as the “terrorists in black robes.” The atheistic-ruling judges have done more to destroy America than the Islamic terrorist could have done in a thousand years.

Just this week the will of the people has been overturned twice by a black-robed terrorist. The people of the state of Arizona went to the polls and voted to enforce America’s immigration laws. The citizens of the state of California journeyed into their polling stations to declare that marriage was a union of one man and one woman.

In both cases, the courts “struck down” the will of the people. In both instances, one woman, and then one man, booted our Republican form of government to he curb. If the vote of the people can no longer change the laws of the land; when the “opinion” of one judge can over-rule the “opinion” of the majority of the people we have descended into unspeakable tyranny. America is teetering on the precipice.
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Hegelian Dialectic

Revolutionaries in government have created economic chaos, shortages in food and fuel, confiscatory taxation, a crisis in education, the threat of war, and other diversions to condition Americans for the “New World Order."

The technique is as old as politics itself. It is the Hegelian Dialectic of bringing about change in a three-step process: Thesis, Antithesis and Synthesis.

The first step (thesis) is to create a problem. The second step (antithesis) is to generate opposition to the problem (fear, panic and hysteria). The third step (synthesis) is to offer the solution to the problem created by step one: A change which would have been impossible to impose upon the people without the proper psychological conditioning achieved in stages one and two.

Applying the Hegelian Dialectic, and irresistible financial influence, concealed change agents seek to dismantle social and political structures by which free men govern themselves — ancient landmarks erected at great cost in blood and treasure.

Their objective is to emasculate sovereign states, merge nations under universal government, centralize economic powers, and control the world's people and resources.


A second explanation. First a problem is created and designed to elicit a certain reaction out of the public. Then the people demand something be done about the problem and willingly accept the pre-planned NWO solution; a solution that always involves actions or legislation that never would have passed under normal circumstances.

“It works like this – the manipulating body covertly creates a problem and then directs the media to incessantly focus on it without recourse. Remember, you only need to control the top of the pyramid – most media coverage is an exercise in regurgitating what the big newspapers and T.V. stations are reporting. The problem could be anything – a war, a financial collapse, a rash of child abductions, or a terrorist attack. The power of the media can create the false perception that a big problem exists, even if it doesn’t … Once you have created this problem you make sure that an individual, a group or an aspect of society is blamed. This then rallies the population behind the desperate lunge for a solution to the problem. ‘Something must be done!’ they cry in unison. The people that created the problem in the first place then come back in and offer the solution that the people demand. Remember – the people screaming for a solution do not know that the problem was artificially created in the first place. The solution to the problem is always a further curtailment of freedom and an advancement of one or more aspects of the New World Order agenda – whether that is geopolitical expansion, new laws or the implantation of new societal worldviews.” -Paul Joseph Watson, Order Out of Chaos (13)

“The Hegelian dialectic of problem-reaction-solution. Attack yourself, blame your enemies, and tell the public you can protect them if they give up their freedoms.” -Alex Jones, “911 Descent into Tyranny”

The American people have been manupilated by this logic for years. The USS Maine, Creation of The Federal Reserve in 1913, Stock Market Crash of 1929, The Gulf Of Tonkin incident, The oil shortage, global warming, Evolution, The Iraqi Invasion, The Wall Street Bailout, National ID, War on drugs, War on proverty, War on terror, epidemics and pandemics, Y2K, swine flu, open border problem, Ruby Ridge, Latter Day Saints raid (the LDS compound in Texas), Waco, Terrorism, gay rights, gun control, equal rights, womens rights, hate crimes, Airport Security, more taxes for education, the National Debt, Oklahoma City bombing, threat of a metorite striking the planet, Our two-party system of government, 2012, UFO's; the list goes on and on. In each case they gain something and you loose something.

True Christianity

The Basics of Salvation Through Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ by Micheal Bradley
Bible-Knowledge.com

As you will see in the very powerful verses I will be listing in this article – Jesus Christ, and His sacrificial death on the cross, is the central and most important fundamental, basic tenet of the Christian faith. Jesus Christ is God’s only plan of eternal salvation for the entire world.

The Bible specifically says, without any other possible interpretation, that there is only one God, one faith, one baptism and one way to God the Father – and that is only through His Son Jesus Christ and His sacrificial death on the cross. Jesus says that He, and only He, is the way, the truth and the life leading to God the Father and that no one comes to the Father except through Him!

Many people, including some Christians, believe that God the Father honors all other religions as long as people try to live a good and godly life and try to stay out of trouble. However, as you will see in the Scripture verses I will list below, this is not the way God the Father has everything set up. God will not honor any other religion, and He makes it very clear that it is only through His Son and His sacrificial death on the cross that will give people eternal salvation and thus eternal life with Him in heaven.

The Bible says that we are appointed for the defense of the gospel. It is our job, when called upon, to defend God and Jesus on the basics of our salvation. Here are two verses specifically telling us this:

1.“… knowing that I am appointed for the defense of the gospel.” (Philippians 1:17)

2.“… always be ready to give a defense to everyone who asks you a reason for the hope that is in you …” (1 Peter 3:15)
Below are some of the main verses from Scripture that will deal with the basics of our salvation through Jesus Christ. These verses are the basic ammunition that you will need when witnessing to anyone.

There are 6 main principles to the basic message of God’s plan of eternal salvation for the entire world. Here they are, along with all of the Scripture verses to back them up.

1. Jesus Christ is the Only Way to God the Father and Heaven
As stated above, there is no other name under Heaven by which man can be saved other than through the name of Jesus Christ! God the Father will not honor any other name, religion or faith!

Please note the extreme power and authority on the first four verses listed below. These first four verses specifically tell us, without any other possible interpretation, that Jesus Christ is the only way to be able to receive eternal salvation with God the Father.

1.“Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.” (Acts 4:12)

2.“For there is one God and one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus, who gave Himself a ransom for all …” (1 Timothy 2:5)

3.“There is one body and one Spirit … one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.” (Ephesians 4:4)

4.Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.” (John 14:6)

5.“I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and find pasture … I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.” (John 10:9)

6.Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life, he who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live. And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die.” (John 11:25)

7.Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life.” (John 8:12)

8.And Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. He who comes to Me shall never hunger and he who believes in Me shall never thirst.” (John 6:35)

9.“I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread that I shall give is My flesh, which I shall give for the life of the world.” (John 6:51)

10.“… whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” (John 3:15-16)

11.“He who believes in the Son has everlasting life; and he who does not believe the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him.” (John 3:36)

12.“Therefore I said to you that you will die in your sins; for if you do not believe that I am He, you will die in your sins.” (John 8:24)

13.“Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.” (John 5:24)

14.“… And this is the testimony: that God has given us eternal life and this life is in His Son. He who has the Son has life; He who does not have the Son of God does not have life.” (1 John 5:11)

15.“And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as Savior of the world. Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.” (1 John 4:14)
I do not see any other interpretation as to what these verses are trying to tell us other than Jesus Christ is the only way to God the Father and His dwelling place, heaven! I don’t think God the Father could have made things any more clearer than by the way He has worded all of the above Scripture verses!

Jesus Himself said in the New Testament that He did not come to bring peace – but division! What He means by this is that He is drawing a major battle line in the sand. You either believe in Him and everything that He stands for – or you do not. There are no middle or neutral grounds on this issue.

If you choose not to believe in Jesus and His message of eternal salvation through His death on the cross, then you will die in your sins and go straight to hell when you die – no if, ands or buts about it! The life that we are living down here on this earth is serious business! The choices that we make in this life will determine our ultimate fate in the afterlife.

Choose Jesus and the blood that He has personally shed for you on the cross – and you will become saved and born again – and you will then enter into the most incredible place imaginable when you die – heaven itself!

Choose anyone or anything else, and you will cross over into the most horrible place imaginable when you die – hell itself, and then eventually into the Lake of Fire and Brimstone after the Millennium has taken place, where the Bible says that the smoke of your torment will ascend forever and ever!

2. God Desires All Men to be Saved
God has given each man and each woman a free will to make their own choices in this life. The next 3 verses will show us that God does not want anyone to perish, but that He will not make or force anyone to accept Him and His Son and what His Son’s death on the cross really means for all of us.

Here are three very powerful verses showing that God wants all men and all women to be saved through the Blood of His Son Jesus.

1.“… God our Savior, who desires ALL MEN to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.” (1 Timothy 2:4)

2.“The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.” (2 Peter 3:9)

3.“For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord over all is rich to all who call upon Him. For WHOEVER calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.” (Romans 10:12)
Notice that God is wanting all men and all women to accept His free gift of eternal salvation through His Son Jesus Christ. He is not making any exceptions either by race, color, creed or gender.

The Bible also tells us that God the Father is no respecter of persons, which means He loves each man and each woman equally and unconditionally.

3. We Are Saved by Grace Through Faith – Not Works
The gift of eternal salvation is a free gift given by God to all those who will believe on Jesus and what His death on the cross really means for all of us. These next 3 verses will specifically tell us that good works will not get us into heaven. Works are needed after salvation.

The Bible says that faith without works is dead – but that is after you have received God’s gift of eternal salvation. After you get saved, God has a plan and a purpose for your life, and this is where you will go to work for God into whatever your calling is going to be in Him. But to initially receive the gift of eternal salvation from God the Father is simply done by having faith and belief in Jesus Christ and what He personally did for you on the cross. Here are the verses:

1.“For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast.” (Ephesians 2:8)

2.“… knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but by faith in Jesus Christ … for by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified.” (Galatians 2:16)

3.“Therefore by the deeds of the law no flesh will be justified in His sight, for by the law is the knowledge of sin … for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.” (Romans 3:20,23)
The Bible specifically tells us in that last verse that all men and all women have sinned and have fallen way short of the glory of our God. The Bible says that there are none that are righteous before the eyes of God the Father. As a result, none of our fleshly works, no matter how good we think they may be, will ever be good enough to get us into heaven or back into the good graces of our Lord and Savior.

4. The Gift of Salvation Now Makes Us Righteous Before God the Father
Once you become saved and born again by accepting Jesus as your personal Lord and Savior, the Bible says that we are now made perfectly righteous before the eyes of God. The righteousness of Jesus has now been imputed to us. This means that we are now free to approach the throne of God for intimate prayer and communication, and when we die, we will all go straight to heaven.

Even though we will continue to commit sin from time to time, God will always forgive us as long as we properly confess each sin when it does happen. We will never become totally sinless or perfect. No one will ever become the fourth person of the Holy Trinity. Only God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit are totally perfect in Their actual natures and in all of Their ways. Humans and angels are not!

The Bible says that all men have sinned and will continue to sin, and thus will fall way short of the glory of our God. That is why Jesus had to come and die for all of our sins – which will include all of the past sins that we have ever committed, all of the present sins we are now committing, and all of the future sins that we will ever commit.

As a result of Jesus dying on the cross for all of our sins, God the Father now sees all of us as righteous and justified before His very eyes – now and for all of eternity, even though we are all still sinners! Talk about an incredible pardon!

Here are two very powerful verses showing us that we have now all been made perfectly righteous and perfectly justified before God the Father as a result of Jesus dying on the cross for all of our sins.

1.“For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.” (2 Corinthians 5:21)

2.“But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him.” (Romans 5:8)
So not only do we get a full pardon and a full remission for all of our sins, but we now get to be made perfectly righteous before God the Father Himself. Righteousness and Redemption – what more could we ask for!

5. How to Become Saved and Receive the Gift of Eternal Salvation
The Bible makes it very clear as to how to receive the Gift of Eternal Salvation from God the Father:

1.Admit that we are sinners, be willing to confess our sins before God, and be willing to repent and turn from those sins.

2.Be willing to accept the fact that Jesus Christ came to our earth in the flesh to die on the cross for all of our sins, that He rose from the dead on the third day, and then be willing to formally accept Him as your personal Lord and Savior.
This acceptance of Jesus as your personal Lord and Savior must be confessed out loud before God the Father. It does not have to be done in a church. This can happen to anyone at anytime at any place. It can be done in the privacy of one’s own bedroom. Here are three specific verses showing all of the above points.

1.“REPENT THEREFORE and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord.” (Acts 3:19)

2.“IF WE CONFESS OUR SINS, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” (1 John 1:9)

3.“… if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes to righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made to salvation.” (Romans 10:9)
Notice the last verse says to confess with your mouth, and with the mouth confession is made to receive salvation. This means just saying a good, basic salvation prayer out loud direct to God the Father from your heart.

Below is a good, basic salvation prayer to give to someone who wants to get saved by accepting Jesus as his personal Lord and Savior. Some people call this the “Sinners Prayer.” Others call it a basic salvation prayer. Either title will work.

Basic Salvation Prayer
Say the following prayer out loud, believe it from your heart and you will be saved.

Dear Father,

I now believe that Jesus Christ is Your only begotten Son, that He came to our earth in the flesh and died on the cross to take away all of my sins and the sins of this world. I believe that Jesus Christ then rose from the dead on the third day to give all of us eternal life.

Lord Jesus,

I now confess to You all of the wrong and sinful things I have ever done in my life. I ask that You please forgive Me and wash away all of my sins by the blood that You have personally shed for me on the cross. I am now ready to accept You as my personal Lord and Savior. I now ask that You come into my life and live with Me for all of eternity.

Father, Jesus – I now believe that I am truly saved and born again.

Thank you Father.
Thank you Jesus.

For more information on the above Sinner’s Prayer, we have another article in our site in the Prayer section titled “The Sinner’s Prayer.” In this article, we give you some additional information as to what goes on behind the scenes in the spiritual realm when God does start to move in on someone in an effort to try and get them saved.

6. Become a Fisherman for God
All of the above are what I call the basics to understanding what eternal salvation through Jesus Christ is really all about. I will be doing other articles on what it really means to be born again, as this comes off the story of Adam and Eve.

To lead someone into eternal salvation through Jesus Christ is really a work of the Holy Spirit. I will show you how God the Father will set people up, and why every Christian needs to be open and sensitive to letting God, through the Holy Spirit, direct you as to who you should witness to and exactly how to go about it. Now that your are saved, God wants you to become a fisherman for Him.

All of the above Scripture verses will give you major, live, ammunition to use when trying to get someone saved. The Holy Spirit will really move on someone if you stay with His leadings as to when to witness to that someone and exactly how to go about it.

According to the Bible, the greatest thing we can accomplish in this life is to get another person saved and brought home to the Lord – because with the gift of eternal salvation comes the gift of eternal life – which means that when we die, we will be able to enter into heaven to be with God, Jesus, the Holy Spirit, all of Their angels and all of our saved loved ones who have passed away and are now living in heaven.

To bring a person into that reality after they die is the greatest thing you can do for another human being! It is the ultimate superman scenario. You are literally saving their eternal life. I do not believe there is any other accomplishment that will bring about as much fulfillment as this one act will do.

I will leave you with 16 good verses from the Bible showing you the extreme importance on God being able to use each and every one of us to get other people saved in this life.

1.Then Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations …” (Matthew 28:18)

2.And He said to them, “Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men.” (Matthew 4:19)

3.“As the Father has sent Me, I also send you.” (John 20:21)

4.“You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do they light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven.” (Matthew 5:14)

5.“Whatever I tell you in the dark, speak in the light; and what you hear in the ear, preach on the housetops.” (Matthew 10:27)

6.“… to whom I now send you, to open their eyes and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in Me.” (Acts 26:17)

7.“Preach the word. Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, and exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching.” (2 Timothy 4:2)

8.“How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace, who bring glad tidings of good things.” (Romans 10:15)

9.“For the Son of Man has come to save that which was lost … Even so it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.” (Matthew 18:11,14)

10.“Therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord …” (2 Timothy 1:8)

11.“For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes … ” (Romans 1:16)

12.“For I seek Your precepts. I will speak of Your testimonies also before kings, and will not be ashamed.” (Psalm 119:45)

13.“Deliver those who are drawn toward death, and hold back those stumbling to the slaughter.” (Proverbs 24:11)

14.“Therefore we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us …” (2 Corinthians 5:20)

15.“They shall speak of the glory of Your kingdom, and talk of Your power, to make known to the sons of men His mighty acts, and the glorious majesty of His kingdom.” (Psalm 145:11)

16.“Men shall speak of the might of Your awesome acts, and I will declare Your greatness. They shall utter the memory of Your great goodness, and shall sing of Your righteousness.” (Psalms 145:6)
If you believe the Holy Bible is truly the inspired and infallible Word of our God, then there is absolutely no other interpretation or spin that you can put on the above verses. God the Father has made it as clear as He possibly could with the way that He has worded all of the above Scripture verses.

Bottom line – God’s free gift of eternal salvation can only be received by accepting His Son Jesus Christ and the blood that He has personally shed for each and everyone of us on that day He died on the cross.

There is no other way into the kingdom of God! We either come through the blood and the cross – or we don’t come through at all!

I rest my case for my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

Is it hot or what?

You know it's hot when:

Al Gore is changing 'Climate Change' back to 'Global Warming'.
The birds have to use potholders to pull worms out of the ground.
The trees are whistling for the dogs.
The best parking place is determined by shade instead of distance.
Hot water now comes out of both taps.
You can make sun tea instantly.
You learn that a seat belt buckle makes a pretty good branding iron.
The temperature drops below 95 F (35 C) and you feel a little chilly.
You discover that in August it only takes 2 fingers to steer your car.
You discover that you can get sunburned through your car window.
You actually burn your hand opening the car door.
You break into a sweat the instant you step outside at 7:30 a.m.
You realize that asphalt has a liquid state.
The potatoes cook underground, so all you have to do is pull one out and add butter, salt and pepper.
Farmers are feeding their chickens crushed ice to keep them from laying boiled eggs.
The cows are giving evaporated milk.

God Is Light

NOTHING IS AS IT SEEMS

By Emanuel McLittle
July 24, 2010
NewsWithViews.com

There are two ways to view the world. One is as a blind man sees. The other is with the eyes that see what is beyond what the enemy magician hides. It is by no accident that there has been more material progress in the United States during the 20th century than there was in the entire world, during all the previous centuries, combined. During the past 50 years life expectancy has increased by 30 years. Killer diseases, such as tuberculosis, polio, typhoid and pneumonia almost disappeared during the age of baby-boomers. Food that only the wealthy ate a century ago is today being eaten, daily by America's poor. Wages have quadrupled from $3.50 an hour to $12.00 per hour, on average in the last 50 years.

During the course of last century alone, the affordability of all goods has greatly increased. Most poor Americans make choices only the upper middle class made 80 years ago. Near 95 percent of every American household have no less than two telephones, electricity and a flushing toilet, all conveniences our grandparents were lucky to have. More than 70 percent of Americans own a car, a VCR, a microwave, air conditioning, cable TV, Googles daily and a washer and dryer. Such goods are common today, but were scarce a century ago. Dr. Julian Simon (deceased in 1998) was an economics professor at the University of Maryland and senior fellow at the Cato Institute. He studied and wrote, "America's 20th century was the greatest century of Human progress in history." While America's getting was better than good the God who delivered colonists from the clutching fingers of English mid-wives, is dying in the minds of more Americans every year.

The World Christian Encyclopedia documented in 2006 that "The status of faith is especially dire in the west, [Europe and America] where churches face an unprecedented crisis that threatens the existence of organized faith as a viable entity. There is surprisingly little that can be done to change the massive defections from Christianity that's taking place in Western Europe, due to secularism and in America, due to materialism. The number of non-religionists in the 20th century skyrocketed from 3.2 million in 1900, to 697 million in 1970 and on to 918 million in 2000." But the predicted defections are due to deeper causes than fat wallets, fat waistlines and full cupboards.

The great "falling away" is still occurring and will continue among a huge, unnumbered crowd that never really knew the real God. So few actually know or know of the real God that it's time to illuminate, just a bit as to whom we are talking about. Existence, all that is, was never a place. Existence is a living, active thinking but unseen Being. Existence forever existed. Existence exist now and will forever exist in the forever future. To make matters simple let's start at the beginning of our insight, since there actually never was a beginning of Existence.

Before anyone, anything or any place existed Existence, consisting of a single living, spherical, MEGA-MAGNIFICENT ATOMIC LIGHT existed then and now. Existence is a forever living fiery Sun many times larger and much more atomically intense than any light known to Humans. This One absolute Being is the whole of all-existence, alone. Remember, Existence is a massive, living BEING, who used His actual everywhere presence to replicate the Human form. This is a difficult concept for most. Let's use familiar icons to illustrate. Imagine, if you will that the entire Existence is the sum total of one HUGE INVISIBLE LIGHT that is the whole of Existence. Before the beginning of anything, less than 100,000 years ago, there were no people, animals, insects, no universe, planets of any kind anywhere. Before anyone, anything or any place existed a brightness that could think, see, hear, smell taste and feel existed and will forever exist.
Read entire article:  http://www.newswithviews.com/EmanuelMcLittle/mclittle100.htm

New Blog - The Big Picture

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Understanding Evolution

Lets see, man evolved from primates. Definitely an improvement there; especially if you like fast cars and beautiful women. But as you can see in the picture above, we might not be done yet. After all scientist say that pigs have a very high IQ among those in the animal world and even today pigs are used for testing because their skin makeup is closest to humans. I submit to you that maybe we got it all wrong. That maybe these pigs you see are really the early stages of humans next step in evolution. When you look at some people, there is compelling evidence out there.
Now as for the alligator, it has gone unchanged for million of years. I guess if you are perfect, there is no need to change.
My last comment is on birds. That's right, they evolved from dinosaurs. I understand part of it, you know the size and mobility problem; but really, would you give up that position of power and strength? Wasn't there something about the survival of the fittest?
I hope you have a clearer understanding now. I guess I'm just 'oh ye of little faith.'

Sarcosuchus imperator (flesh crocodile emperor) also known as super croc, was a giant crocodile that walked the earth about 110 million years ago. Super croc was 37-40 feet long. That is twice the size of the largest living crocodile on record. Super croc weighed 17,500 lbs, which is 10 times the weight of the heaviest crocodile living today.
During the 1940’s and 1950’s, a paleontologist from France named Alfred Felix de Lapparent found armor plates and fossilized teeth of this giant crocodile. He found the fossils while on a mission to the Sahara. This was the first evidence of Super Croc’s fossils. The discovery site was in the country of Niger.
A group of people went on an expedition to Niger in the year 2000. During that expedition, they found about 50% of the skeleton of super croc. Many technicians and students cleaned the bones, and believe it or not, it still took one whole year to clean all of the bones thoroughly.
Super croc was known to have eaten dinosaurs. It sure sounds pretty strange but it is true.





Terrifying Tyrannosaurus Rex had close links to the humble chicken

Last updated at 10:56 25 April 2008

Chickens and dinosaurs may have more in common than was previously thought after researchers discovered close ties between the two creatures.
The link between the bird and the Tyrannosaurus Rex has been revealed in a protein study dating back 88million years.
Scientists from Harvard University discovered the link between chickens and the T-Rex when they analysed the structure of tiny shreds of collagen taken from a fossilised dinosaur bone.
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The Tyrannosaurus Rex and the chicken could be direct descendants
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-561907/Terrifying-Tyrannosaurus-Rex-close-links-humble-chicken.html#ixzz0uiKoi58a

We will take America without firing a shot - Khrushchev

Earlier supporters of Communism and the new world order

Of course Khrushchev had some help

Communist Agenda for the
United States of America

* Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions, by claiming their activities violate civil rights. Done
* Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers associations. Put the party line in textbooks. Done
* Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all form of artistic expression. An American communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings," substituting shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms. Done
* Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art." Done
* Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press. Done
* Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio and television. Done
* Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural and healthy." Done
*Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity, which does not need a "religious crutch." Done
* Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the grounds that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state." Done
* Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of "the big picture." Give more emphasis to Russian history since the communists took over. Obliterating the American past, with its antecedents in principles of freedom, liberty and private ownership is a major goal of the communists then and now. Done
* Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture - education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc. Done
* Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce. Done
*Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing and policy making positions. Done
*Infiltrate the media and get control of radio, TV, motion Pictures. Done (Updated 1990's, now also the internet and talk radio). In the process of doing
*Control both political parties in the USA. Done
*Transfer the power of arrest from the police to social agencies to weaken law and order. Done
*Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws to control those who oppose communist goals. Done
*Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influences of parents. Done
*Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which only a train psychiatrist can understand and treat. Done
*Discredit the U. S. Constitution by calling it inadequate, old fashion and out of step with the modern world. Call it a hindrance to the new world order. Done
*Discredit the American founding fathers as non Christian hateful racist bigots. Done
*Use student riots, protest and demonstrations to help foment public opinion to promote communist programs and ideas. Done
*Do away with all loyalty oaths. Done
*Promote the UN as the only hope for mankind and a new world order. In the process of doing
Jan. 10, 1963

*Amended in the 1990's - Ban guns in the United States. In the process of doing

Punishment fits the crime

Subject: NATURAL CAUSES............... And people don't like the new AZ law!

POLK COUNTY FLORIDA SHERIFF GRADY JUDD

An illegal alien in Polk County Florida who got pulled over in a routine traffic stop ended up 'executing' the deputy who stopped him. The deputy was shot eight times, including once behind his right ear at close range. Another deputy was wounded and a police dog killed. A state-wide manhunt ensued.
The murderer was found hiding in a wooded area and as soon as he took a shot at the SWAT team, officers opened fire on him. They hit the guy 68 times.
Naturally, the liberal media went nuts and asked why they had to shoot the poor undocumented immigrant 68 times.
Sheriff Grady Judd told the Orlando Sentinel: 'Because that's all the ammunition we had..' Now, is that just about the all-time greatest answer or what!
The Coroner also reported that the illegal alien died of natural causes.. When asked by a reporter how that could be since there were 68 bullet wounds in his body, he simply replied: (QUOTE of 2009) "when you are shot 68 times you are naturally gonna die."

Angilo Freeland
From Wikipedia,
Angilo Freeland (1979 – 29 September 2006) was an Antiguan national who was pulled over for speeding in Lakeland, Florida by Polk County Sheriff's Deputy Doug Speirs around noon on September 28, 2006. After giving the officer a fake ID, and the officer called for backup, Freeland (who was armed with a handgun) ran into the woods and hid. A K9 unit responded and the two officers and the dog began searching for Freeland. Freeland shot K9 officer Deputy Vernon "Matt'" William 9 times, including 1 close-range shot into the officer's head and a second shot into the offier's head with the muzzle of the pistol pressed against the victim's skull. Freeland also killed the dog, and then shot Deputy Speirs in the leg when he came to assist his fellow-officer. Freeland took the dead officer's weapon and ammunition and hid in the woods again.

Deputy Speirs notified his dispatcher of the situation and authorities mounted a massive manhunt, including 500 officers, every available police dog, a SWAT tank and a helicopter. Law enforcement officers searched the woods for Freeland, who came out of the woods once to shoot at the searchers. He was finally cornered by 10 SWAT officers the next day. The SWAT team members say that when Freeland pointed his gun at them, they opened fire, shooting Freeland 68 times out of their 110 rounds fired. Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd later told reporters that Freeland was shot 68 times because:

“I suspect the only reason 110 rounds was all that was fired was that’s all the ammunition they had.

Norway and the City of Bergen

Norway

Bergen

This link is a series of beautiful pictures of Norway
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=905356

This link is to pictures of the City of Bergen
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=689272

Bergen is located on the south-western coast of Norway and ranks as the 2nd largest city in the country with 250.000 inhabitants. The city is thought to have been founded by king Olav Kyrre, son of Harald Hardråde, in AD 1070, and has been an important trading centre in Norway ever since. Towards the end of the 13th century, Bergen became one of the Hanseatic League's most important bureau cities. Throughout the 15th and 16th centuries, Bergen remained one of the largest cities in Scandinavia, and was Norway's biggest city until the 1830s, when Oslo became the biggest. (taken from wikipedia)

Palestinians - Evolution of terrorism

God is light

ALL THINGS BEAUTIFUL, A must see website. http://www.allthingsbeautiful.com/
The following is an article from this site. The Truth, something the world rejects.

Our thoughts today are with Israel, and Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and his family.
The Palestinian people [do] not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct 'Palestinian people' to oppose Zionism.

For tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign state with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa. While as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan. (PLO executive committee member Zahir Muhsein, March 31, 1977, interview with the Dutch newspaper Trouw.)

The facts are as follows based on UN records:

1. Palestine was a British invention after WWI and never existed as an independent state. Most of this "Palestine" is called Jordan today.

2. The small number of people (700,000) occupied the entire Palestine Mandate which included Israel, the West Bank, Golon Heights, Gaza and Jordan today. Most of the Arab populations lived East of the Jordan River.

3. The common usage of the word "Palestinian" refers to people who live in Palestine: Arabs (a "mixed race of Arabic speaking peoples"), Bedouins, Christians, Druze, and Jews.

4. Under Muslim rule the region had been reduced to a barren wasteland. Jews were the only people that produced anything causing resentment from the masses of illiterate and poverty-ridden Arabs. Jews never held any political power until 1948.

5. The British didn't want a Jewish majority in the region. This led in later years to a policy of systematically reduced immigration quotas, and indirectly to the death of millions of Jewish refugees in Europe twenty some years later. The British would illegally partition the region into Jordan, (forbidding Jews from living there) then stripped off the Golon Heights giving that to France and Syria. Calling the remainder "Palestine" then flooding it with outside Arabs.

6. Constant agitation by outside Arabs and others leading to riots and murders of Jews. The British did nothing to stop this. Immigration and travel restrictions were almost universally applied only to Jews, no restriction was placed on Arab immigration to help flood the region with Arabs the British favored. Jews were the only economic success even with all of this going on.

7. Whenever there were Arab riots, Jewish immigration was restricted. This was the beginning of the British Policy of Appeasement, and the success of terrorism. The success of terrorism goes on today and appeasement still fails today. When will they ever learn?

8. All lands acquired by Jews were purchased, not taken according to Arafat's Nazi Uncle in 1937 and the British. Haj Amin al-Husseini was a Nazi war criminal wanted in Yugoslavia and mixed Nazi ideology into Islam. Arafat in fact wasn't even a Palestinian, but was born, raised, and educated in Egypt. According to Forbes, his estate is estimated to be worth over $300 million while he locked his own people into concentration camps.

9. Between 1950 and 1967 when Jordan and Egypt annexed the West Bank and Gaza, they flooded the area with more Arabs. Even today most Arabs in the West Bank, etc. hold Jordanian passports and Jordanian citizenship. After 1967 Jordan/Egypt relinquished claims to the area then started to scream for a second Palestinian state in addition to the first Palestinian State of Jordan. Before that, they claimed Palestine meant land of the Jews.

10. Even with immigration from Russia in the 1990's, the majority of Israelis are descended from Arab, Asian, and African Jews including two-thirds of the 870,000 Arab Jews expelled from surrounding Arab Nazi states. Druze, Bedouins, Christians, and some Arabs sided with the Jews in 1948 and serve in the Israeli Army today. The Israeli military has three Arab generals.

11. Why did the British do this? It's about oil, stupid! Britian didn't give a damn about Arabs or Jews. Just like America today ignores Saudi terrorism it's still about oil.

"If you believe what you read in most news sources, Palestinians want a homeland and Muslims want control over sites they consider holy. Simple, right?

Well, as an Arab-American journalist says who has spent some time in the Middle East dodging more than his share of rocks and mortar shells, these are just phony excuses for the rioting, trouble-making and land-grabbing.

Isn't it interesting that prior to the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, there was no serious movement for a Palestinian homeland?

"Well, Farah," you might say, "that was before the Israelis seized the West Bank and Old Jerusalem."

That's true. In the Six-Day War, Israel captured Judea, Samaria and East Jerusalem. But they didn't capture these territories from Yasser Arafat. They captured them from Jordan's King Hussein. I can't help but wonder why all these Palestinians suddenly discovered their national identity after Israel won the war.

The truth is that Palestine is no more real than Never-Never Land. The first time the name was used was in 70 A.D. when the Romans committed genocide against the Jews, smashed the Temple and declared the land of Israel would be no more. From then on, the Romans promised, it would be known as Palestine. The name was derived from the Philistines, a Goliathian people conquered by the Jews centuries earlier. It was a way for the Romans to add insult to injury. They also tried to change the name of Jerusalem to Aelia Capitolina, but that had even less staying power.

Palestine has never existed -- before or since -- as an autonomous entity. It was ruled alternately by Rome, by Islamic and Christian crusaders, by the Ottoman Empire and, briefly, by the British after World War I. The British agreed to restore at least part of the land to the Jewish people as their homeland.

There is no language known as Palestinian. There is no distinct Palestinian culture. There has never been a land known as Palestine governed by Palestinians. Palestinians are Arabs, indistinguishable from Jordanians (another recent invention), Syrians, Lebanese, Iraqis, etc. Keep in mind that the Arabs control 99.9 percent of the Middle East lands. Israel represents one-tenth of 1 percent of the landmass.

But that's too much for the Arabs. They want it all. And that is ultimately what the fighting in Israel is about today. Greed. Pride. Envy. Covetousness. No matter how many land concessions the Israelis make, it will never be enough.

What about Islam's holy sites? There are none in Jerusalem.

Shocked? You should be. I don't expect you will ever hear this brutal truth from anyone else in the international media. It's just not politically correct.

I know what you're going to say: "Farah, the Al Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem represent Islam's third most holy sites."

Not true. In fact, the Qur'an says nothing about Jerusalem. It mentions Mecca hundreds of times. It mentions Medina countless times. It never mentions Jerusalem. With good reason. There is no historical evidence to suggest Mohammed ever visited Jerusalem.

So how did Jerusalem become the third holiest site of Islam? Muslims today cite a vague passage in the Qur'an the seventeenth Sura, entitled "The Night Journey." It relates that in a dream or a vision Mohammed was carried by night "from the sacred temple to the temple that is most remote, whose precinct we have blessed, that we might show him our signs. ..." In the seventh century, some Muslims identified the two temples mentioned in this verse as being in Mecca and Jerusalem. And that's as close as Islam's connection with Jerusalem gets -- myth, fantasy, wishful thinking. Meanwhile, Jews can trace their roots in Jerusalem back to the days of Abraham.

The latest round of violence in Israel erupted when Likud Party leader Ariel Sharon tried to visit the Temple Mount, the foundation of the Temple built by Solomon. It is the holiest site for Jews. Sharon and his entourage were met with stones and threats. Can you imagine what it is like for Jews to be threatened, stoned and physically kept out of the holiest site in Judaism?

So what's the solution to the Middle East mayhem? Well, frankly, I don't think there is a man-made solution to the violence. But, if there is one, it needs to begin with truth. Pretending will only lead to more chaos. Treating a 5,000-year-old birthright backed by overwhelming historical and archaeological evidence equally with illegitimate claims, wishes and wants gives diplomacy and peacekeeping a bad name." www.allthingsbeautiful.com/.../palestine/

America and Christianity 3

Discovery of the Mississippi by De Soto

William Henry Powell’s dramatic and brilliantly colored canvas was the last of the eight large historical paintings in the Rotunda commissioned by the Congress. It shows Spanish conquistador and explorer Hernando De Soto (1500–1542), riding a white horse and dressed in Renaissance finery, arriving at the Mississippi River at a point below Natchez on May 8, 1541. De Soto was the first European documented to have seen the river.

As De Soto and his troops approach, the Native Americans watch warily but quietly before their tepees, and a chief holds out the pipe of peace. The central area of the painting is filled with light and color, set off in dramatic relief by the foreground figures in shadow, and the dark forest at the left contrasts strongly with the bright sky on the right. In the foreground, weapons, armor, artillerymen moving a cannon, and a soldier wrapping a wounded leg suggest the attack by Indians that took place the day before. To the right, a monk prays as men set a newly constructed crucifix in the ground. Above this group and fading to the horizon is the Mississippi River, dotted with native canoes, small islands, and a tree being borne downstream; the lightly forested opposite bank is visible along the skyline. Powell based his scene on published accounts and histories, including Theodore Irving’s 1835 The Conquest of Florida by Hernando de Soto. A year later, after De Soto died of a fever, his body was buried in the river, as shown in Constantino Brumidi’s frescoed Frieze of American History above the painting.

American painter William Henry Powell (1823–1879) was the last artist commissioned by the Congress to create a painting for the Capitol Rotunda. He replaced Henry Inman, his former teacher, who was commissioned to fill one of the frames in the Rotunda but who died in 1846 before completing his painting showing Daniel Boone emigrating to Kentucky. Powell, who chose a different subject, worked on the painting in Paris from 1848 to 1853, basing the Spaniards’ costumes and equipment on specimens in the Museum of Artillery. He had a color lithograph made of the painting and exhibited the canvas in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; Baltimore, Maryland; and New York City before bringing it to Washington, D.C.

The painting has undergone various cleaning, revarnishing, repair, and restoration treatments since its installation. In 1982 the painting was lined to an aluminum panel to help it resist the effects of changes in temperature and humidity. All of the Rotunda paintings were most recently cleaned in 2008.

Engravings of Discovery of the Mississippi by De Soto have appeared on the reverse of two United States bank notes: a $10 note in the 1860s and a $500 note in the 1918 series.

William Henry Powell was born in New York City on February 14, 1823, and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio, from infancy. His youthful interest in art was encouraged by a local philanthropist, and he received instruction. At the age of seventeen he returned to New York, where he became a pupil of Henry Inman, and he later studied art in Italy for three years. Initially recognized for his portraits, he moved into the field of history painting, which led to his work for the Rotunda. The success of Discovery of the Mississippi by De Soto led the Ohio legislature to commission him to paint The Battle of Lake Erie (1873), a scene of Commodore Perry’s famous victory. This work, still displayed in the Ohio Statehouse, prompted the Congress to commission a larger version, which hangs in the east Senate Grand Staircase in the Capitol. Powell’s other history paintings include The Siege of Vera Cruz, The Landing of the Pilgrims, and Washington at Valley Forge. His portraits include depictions of Washington Irving, Peter Stuyvesant, and General George B. McClellan. He died in New York on October 6, 1879.

America and Christianity 2

Robert W. Weir
Oil on canvas, 12' x 18'
1843; placed 1843
Rotunda

Embarkation of the Pilgrims
This painting depicts the Pilgrims on the deck of the ship Speedwell on July 22, 1620, before they departed from Delfs Haven, Holland, for North America, where they sought religious freedom. They first sailed to Southampton, England, to join the Mayflower, which was also making the voyage. After leaks forced the Speedwell to make additional stops in Dartmouth and then Plymouth, its passengers boarded the Mayflower. Five months later the Pilgrims settled the Plymouth Colony in present-day Massachusetts.

The group appears solemn and contemplative of what they are about to undertake as they pray for divine protection through their voyage; the words “God with us” appear on the sail in the upper left corner. The figures at the center of the composition are William Brewster, holding the Bible; Governor Carver, kneeling with head bowed and hat in hand; and pastor John Robinson, with extended arms, looking Heavenward. Gathered around them are the men, women, and children going on the voyage. Some are dressed in traditional puritan attire while others wear more fanciful and bright garments. The armor, helmet, and musket in the foreground represent the tools that the Pilgrims will use for protection in the new and unfamiliar land. In the background on the right are the city and people the Pilgrims leave, and on the left a rainbow represents the hope and promise of what lies ahead.

Embarkation of the Pilgrims is Robert Weir’s most famous work. Initially, Weir had intended to paint a scene depicting the Mayflower Compact. However, the same subject was proposed by artist and inventor Samuel F. B. Morse, who also sought a commission for one the Rotunda paintings. While Morse did not receive a commission, Weir out of respect chose instead to the paint the embarkation from Delfts Haven. Weir’s depiction of the event was drawn from Nathaniel Morton’s New-England’s Memorial of 1669 and, perhaps, Cotton Mather’s Magnalia Christi Americana. The armor and costumes Weir collected in Europe were sources for the garments worn by those depicted. The painting was completed in July 1843 and was first seen by the Corps of Cadets at the United States Military Academy at West Point, where Weir was an instructor. The painting then traveled to Boston, New York, and Philadelphia and was hung in the Capitol in December that same year.

The painting has undergone various cleaning, repair, and restoration treatments. In November 1860, the painting was damaged by a falling beam during the construction of the new dome, scraping the painting and causing a hole near the foot of Miles Standish. The War Department detailed Weir from West Point to make the needed repairs. The painting has since undergone periodic cleaning and restoration, including relining and varnishing, with the most recent cleaning in 2008.

In 1857, Weir painted a smaller version of Embarkation of the Pilgrims, which is now in the Brooklyn Museum of Art. In the later work, Weir made changes in light and details and achieved greater focus on the three central figures by giving them fuller faces and broader shoulders. Engravings of this later painting have appeared on the reverses of several U. S. currency notes, including a $50 bank note and the $10,000 Federal Reserve note, the largest denomination ever issued to the general public.

Robert Walter Weir was born in New York City on June 18, 1803. He was a largely self-taught artist who had some formal instruction but developed his skills through first copying pictures and later traveling to Europe to study the art of Florence and Rome. He spent much of his career as an instructor at the United States Military Academy at West Point, where he was appointed Instructor of Drawing in 1834 and promoted to Professor in 1846; after forty-two years at the Academy, he retired in 1876 and set up a studio in New York City. He painted and exhibited portraits, landscapes, and genre scenes throughout his life—for example, Portrait of Walter Weir (1853), View of the Hudson River (1864), and The Greenwich Boat Club (1833). Weir married Louisa Ferguson in 1829 and later, after her death, married Susan Martha Bayard. He was the father of sixteen children, including artists John Ferguson Weir and Julian Alden Weir. Robert Weir died on May 1, 1889, and is buried at West Point.

America and Christianity

In United States Capitol is displayed an 1840 painting by John Gadsby Chapman, The Baptism of Pocahontas, in the Rotunda.
This painting depicts the ceremony in which Pocahontas, daughter of the influential Algonkian chief Powhatan, was baptized and given the name Rebecca in an Anglican church. It took place in 1613 or 1614 in the colony at Jamestown, Virginia, the first permanent English settlement on the North American continent. Pocahontas is thought to be the earliest native convert to Christianity in the English colonies; this ceremony and her subsequent marriage to John Rolfe helped to establish peaceful relations between the colonists and the Tidewater tribes.

The figures of Pocahontas and the officiating minister are given prominence by their placement, their bright white clothing, and the light that shines upon them. Pocahontas kneels on the top level of a stepped dais, her head bowed and her hands clasped before her. Reverend Alexander Whiteaker raises his eyes and his left hand, while his right hand rests on the baptismal font. John Rolfe, Pocahontas’s future husband, stands behind her.

Other colonists and members of Pocahontas’s family look on, displaying a range of emotions. At the left of the painting, Sir Thomas Dale, deputy governor of the colony, has risen from his chair near the font to observe the event. Pocahontas’s regally dressed brother, Nantequaus, turns away from the ceremony as her uncle Opachisco leans in from the right. The seated, brooding figure of another uncle, Opechankanough, turns completely away from the ceremony while Pocahontas’s sister, with an infant, watches from the floor.

Chapman received the commission for the Rotunda painting in 1837 and selected Pocahontas as its subject. He may have chosen to paint her baptism because he had already (in 1836) completed a scene that showed her more widely depicted rescue of John Smith. Seeking to depict the scene of this ceremony accurately, Chapman traveled in England and America to examine objects and buildings from the early seventeenth century. Because the Jamestown church had since been torn down, he based his setting on a church that he believed to be of similar age and incorporated features appropriate to the colony, such as the pine columns; many details were based on a written description by a Jamestown resident. Chapman created this painting in Washington, D.C., in the loft of a barn on G Street, N.W. His life during the time in which he worked on it was marked by great sadness and misfortune: his son died in February 1838, and two weeks later his daughter was born prematurely and survived only ten hours. He was also under mounting pressure from debts and worked quickly on the canvas to collect his payment; after completing it he noted in his day book that the money he received from the government for the painting was “barely equivalent to its cost” to him. The painting was delivered to the Capitol and installed in November 1840.

This painting has undergone various cleaning, repair, and restoration treatments. In 1925, it was relined because of the damage it suffered from currents of heated air rising from the floor registers. Finding a manufacturer in the United States to provide such a large canvas proved difficult, and the canvas was eventually ordered from a company in Brussels. In 1980 the painting was attached to an aluminum panel to help it resist the effects of changes in temperature and humidity. All of the Rotunda paintings were most recently surface cleaned in 2008.

An engraving of Chapman’s painting appeared on the reverse of the First Charter $20 National Bank Notes issued in 1863 and 1875.

John Gadsby Chapman was born on August 11, 1808, in Alexandria, Virginia. He received encouragement and instruction from history painter George Cooke and portraitist Charles Bird King, and he studied further in Philadelphia. In 1828 he traveled to Italy to study the Old Masters, and in 1831 he returned to America to create landscapes and portraits, which he exhibited in Washington, D.C.; Richmond; and Philadelphia. He moved in 1834 to New York City, where he became a member of the National Academy of Design and illustrated books and magazines. He also began a series of history paintings depicting events in colonial-era America, and their success led to the commission for Baptism of Pocahontas, his best-known work. In 1850 he and his family settled in Rome, where he prospered by selling his works to American tourists. In the 1860s, however, the Civil War curtailed tourist travel; in the 1870s his wife died and he relied on fellow Americans for charity. His health failing, he returned to the United States in 1884 and lived with his son in Brooklyn. He died on November 28, 1889.
http://www.aoc.gov/cc/art/index.cfm

The Federal Reserve and the U.S. Government

"The most powerful Nation on earth is not the most most powerful force on earth." - The Federal Reserve. - by James

"From now on, depressions will be scientifically created."
— Congressman Charles A. Lindbergh Sr. , 1913 - After the creation of The Federal Reserve

“The high office of the President has been used to foment a plot to destroy the American's freedom and before I leave office, I must inform the citizens of this plight.” — President John Fitzgerald Kennedy - In a speech made to Columbia University on Nov. 12, 1963, ten days before his assassination! He wanted to do away with the Federal Reserve system.

Even U.S. presidents do the bidding of the FEDS. Look how fast X-President GW Bush bailed out the failed banks scam. He OKed Billions; perhaps a Trillion dollars to the banking system, no questions asked.

"Government spending is always a “tax” burden on the American people and is never equally or fairly distributed. The poor and low-middle income workers always suffer the most from the deceitful tax of inflation and borrowing."
—Congressman Ron Paul

"You are a den of vipers! I intend to rout you out, and by the Eternal God I will rout you out. If the people only understood the rank injustice of our money and banking system, there would be a revolution before morning."
—President Andrew Jackson (1829-1837)

"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered."
—Thomas Jefferson (1816)

MEDIA BLACKS OUT THE FACTS
Here's one terrific example. John Swinton, the former Chief of Staff for the New York Times, was one of New York's best loved newspapermen. Called by his peers "The Dean of his Profession", John was asked in 1953 to give a toast before the New York Press Club, and in so doing, made a monumentally important and revealing statement. He is quoted as follows:

"There is no such thing, at this date of the world's history, in America, as an independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinion out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar weekly salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job. If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone. The business of the journalists is to destroy the truth; to lie outright; to pervert; to vilify; to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it, and what folly is this toasting an independent press? We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities, and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes."

In 1913, members of Congress committed treason and violated their oath of office to defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic by voting in the Federal Reserve Bank. Signed into law by President Woodward Wilson.

For the New World Order to create a one world government, they must control a central bank, eliminate the Constitution, end Christian values, disarm America, and control the media. The Council on Foreign Relations has openly said they will take us over in favor of a one world government. The American people must be warned or we may lose our freedom forever. If we do not demand our rights and uphold the Constitution, the CFR and bankers will continue their march toward socialism. If we allow them to continue, they will abolish our rights and put an end to our present government.

The ones who scream the loudest to keep the Federal Reserve Bank probably profit the most. - Thomas D. Schauf, CPA, is a national speaker to Certified Public Accountants and business leaders. Mr. Schauf's expertise includes banking, the economy, business appraisals, mergers, and acquisitions.

The "War on Terror" has been manufactured by the New World Order to finally realize their goal of total world domination. The agents of the New World Order have created a globalized economy in order to create financial dependencies between the nations. The crash of the American Dollar will be used as the Trojan Horse to destroy the globalized market and create the chaos and conditions required to usher in the New World Order. The crash of the world economies coupled with food shortages (famine) and World War III in the Middle East will be used to create the perfect crises out of which the New World Order will arise as the solution. The NWO modus operandi uses a simple Problem->Reaction->Solution process to gain control.

The agents of the NWO use their money, power and control to manufacture the crises. In reaction, the people cry out for help from the ravages of war, famine and despair. The agents of the NWO seize this opportunity to deceive and enslave the masses into their One World Fascist Dictatorship / Government. There is no clash of civilizations, East vs. West, Christian or Jew vs. Muslim, but instead propaganda and manufactured conflict to keep us in fear so we continue to play the game. We are all pawns in this game and until we realize this truth we will continue to be exploited by the agents of the New World Order for personal gain.

From our beginnings, Americans had been left surpluses by each preceding generation of our forefathers all the way back to the first colonists, until sometime after the enactment of The Federal Reserve Act and the Income Tax Act.
Except at times of war or revolt, Americans had experienced no significant inflations nor deflations nor stagflations nor other "booms nor busts", such as we have all experienced until sometime after the enactment of The Federal Reserve Act and the Income Tax Act, except those caused by banks.
Americans had the highest personal savings in history, and, never had 'National' debts nor deficits, until sometime after the enactment of The Federal Reserve Act and the Income Tax Act.
America had full employment and no need of coercive labour, nor unemployment insurance, nor welfare, until sometime after the enactment of The Federal Reserve Act and the Income Tax Act.
America, from our beginnings, had a largely virtuous, and Godly population, until after the enactment of The Federal Reserve Act and the Income Tax Act, and, now we suffer gross taxes, litigiousness, crime, etc.
America had universities and institutes of higher learning which produced thinkers, scholars, scientists and creative genius of the highest order but, now, most of our colleges are utilitarian job training centers, due to the impoverishment created by the enactment of The Federal Reserve Act and the Income Tax Act.
A man and wife could own a home and many children even if modestly creative, he could feed them, clothe them, educate them and pay his way, until sometime after the enactment of The Federal Reserve Act and the Income Tax Act, such that now they must rent and have multiple incomes.
Citizens of The United States Of America owned and controlled the voting stock of our major corporations, corporations which were, once the greatest economic engine on Earth and which now are controlled by foreign bank nominees, agents and 'street' form voting stock, as a result of the enactment of The Federal Reserve Act and the Income Tax Act.

If you fight against the Federal Reserve system, then you will be visited by the IRS. In Germany they were the Gestapo or the SS. Terrorist in uniforms with government approval.

TV programs, Music Videos, Video Games and Action Movies

Our children today are classified with all type of Attention Deficient Disorders and many have problems paying attention to one subject for longer than a few seconds. There may be some that have valid medical or heredity reasons. The purpose of this article is why since the beginning of the computer and digital age do programmers, media corporation executives and producers create all these shows, music videos and movies where the images continually changed every few seconds. The rapid-fire change of media images, which occurs every 5 to 6 seconds in many programs and 2 to 3 seconds in commercials (even less on MTV and programs on Spike TV), does not give the higher thought brain a chance to even process the image. It reportedly takes the neocortex anywhere from 5 to 10 seconds to engage after a stimulus. The neocortex is our higher brain, but also needs a greater processing time to become involved. This is a deliberate and planned attack on our children to disrupt their developed. It's just one of the many ways family life in America is being destroyed. How children grew up prior to the electronic age and today leaves no doubt. As kids in our day we played outside a lot, interacted with other kids, built things, studied things we saw, enjoyed and watch nature. Things moved at a slower pace. We listen to the radio; yes actually listen. We kids actually talked to each other. When we listen to music, it was cheerful and relaxing. Singers like Doris Day, Bing Crosby and Andy Williams lifted the spirit. Even with the beginning of Television the programs imitated everyday life, always in a positive and uplifting manner. People were polite, the humor was clean and God and things of a religious nature were not banned. These things you took with you when you grew up. There is not one valid reason for all the rapid fire images. Even in the motion pictures there is continuous action scenes of destruction. Forget anything of a story line provoking thought. All the entertainment is mindless chaos. The only effects of this type of program on our kids are harmful ones, extremely harmful. These programs have no value to them except in the negative since.