11/4/03
10/4/03
- Signs
of an Anti-Christ and EU Connection?
-- The AntiChrist will not emerge
from the EU and "befriend"
Israel; its seems only too clear that
the GW Bush Illuminist clique could
be the entourage of the prophesied
AntiChrist!
- Are
the Nazi's Taking Over the US
Government? - This is one of
those socalled "christian"
Ministries sites, of which I am
usually suspicious. Their scenarios
generally warn of the iminent
"End of the World", but
this one makes sense - most of the
time.
7/4/03
Is
GW Bush trully "Born Again"?
I
usually dont give much time for those who
proclaim themselves as "Born
Again", however, it seems the author
of this piece concurs with many of my
beliefs and conclusions regarding the
infiltration of the Christian churches by
followers of Satan and he exposes clearly
GW Bush's ridiculous proclamations that
he is a genuine christian!
See:
Satanism
and the Born Agains
See:
\Born
Again Fundamentalist Christianity and The
Bible - Hope or Hoax ???\
See:
6/4/03
5/4/03
Mystery Illness
Global Fears Heighten
By DIRK BEVERIDGE,
Associated Press Writer
HONG KONG - As
scientists scramble to unravel the mystery of
severe acute respiratory syndrome, a sense of
crisis is spreading even faster than the
illness itself.
People in Hong
Kong are buying surgical masks by the
thousands. Hospitals have closed in Canada, a
jetliner was briefly detained and inspected
in California, and the Panama Canal
dispatched inspectors to check ship crews for
symptoms.
A hoax that
Hong Kong had been declared an "infected
city" prompted panicked people to rush
out and stock up on food. In Thailand,
authorities turned away a French warship en
route from Singapore, which has reported
cases.
Economists
warn it could batter Asia's economy as
manufacturers temporarily shut down,
consumers avoid malls and restaurants and
tourists to stay away.
Severe acute
respiratory syndrome, or SARS, has now
sickened more than 2,200 people worldwide and
killed at least 78. Some of the alerts
cropping up in infected countries are real,
some aren't; but fears about the disease are
gaining momentum.
In Hong Kong,
authorities used barricades and tape to seal
240 people inside their infected apartment
building. The next night, they were put in
quarantine camps.
Hong Kong has
become something of a masked city, with
hundreds of thousands of people putting them
on around town — some sporting creative
designs such as cartoon characters or bright
floral patterns. The World Health
Organization (news - web sites) recommends masks only
for those in contact with victims.
"If you
put on a mask but don't fasten your seatbelt
in your car, that's upside down," said
Dr. Guenael Rodier, WHO's head of
surveillance and response.
Doctors and
nurses in Singapore have donned germ-warfare
suits to get closer to patients.
The
Geneva-based WHO warned people on Wednesday
to avoid travel to Hong Kong and China's
Guangdong province, where most of the
mainland's deaths occurred. But many places
have already been screening travelers.
Thailand said
Wednesday that nobody who appears to have
SARS symptoms can enter the country, and
visitors from infected areas must wear masks.
Air New Zealand said some cabin crew members
were refusing to fly to Hong Kong.
Schools in
Singapore and Hong Kong were closed, and
producers of Singapore's version of
"Wheel of Fortune" said it had
eliminated live studio audiences to avoid
spreading the disease. At the Singapore Zoo,
officials were no longer letting people have
their photos taken next to the orangutans to
avoid infecting the animals.
The first
alarm sounded in February when people in
southern China began stocking up on medicine,
surgical masks and vinegar, which they boiled
as a disinfectant to stop a mysterious
disease sweeping through Guangdong province.
Health experts
are increasingly focusing on a type of
coronavirus — a common cause of colds
— as the probable cause of SARS, but a
cure may be more elusive. The WHO and the
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (news - web sites) say no medications
have been proven effective against SARS.
Hong Kong
experts are more optimistic, after gaining
enormous experience with SARS cases by virtue
of having dealt with so many. Health
secretary Yeoh Eng-Kiong said most SARS
victims can expect to recover.
Yeoh said a
treatment involving the antiviral drug
ribavirin and steroids is probably able to
cure 95 percent of the patients, assuming
they get early treatment and don't have other
bad illnesses complicating their conditions.
People in
weakened condition can in fact become good
hosts for the virus, making them more
contagious than victims who are otherwise in
better health.
"In
certain people, it seems to be very, very
contagious," Yeoh said.
The experts
believe that the most likely method of
transmission is through droplets caused by
coughing or sneezing.
China on
Wednesday acknowledged 12 more SARS deaths,
for a total of 46, but critics have said
Beijing was too slow in admitting what it
knew. A WHO team arrived in Guangdong
province on Thursday after days of awaiting
government permission.
When a
mainland Chinese medical professor named Liu
checked into Hong Kong's Metropole Hotel on
Feb. 21 for a two-day stay, there was no
reason for anybody to be alarmed as he went
to his room on the ninth floor.
The professor,
who had treated disease victims in China, was
in Hong Kong for a wedding but got sick and
died March 4 in a local hospital.
Medical
sleuths soon came across a key finding:
People who had carried the disease to
Vietnam, Singapore and Canada had all been on
the same floor at the same time, as had a man
who spread the disease to Hong Kong's Prince
of Wales Hospital.
Someone then
spread SARS to the Amoy Gardens apartment
complex. At least 240 people in Amoy Gardens
got sick.
People living
in apartments 7 and 8 of many floors in one
building were sickened, raising speculation
that the disease was carried vertically
through a sewer or drainage leak.
THIS IS THE
FORECAST "ONE WORLD CHURCH" - THE
REAL CHURCH OF SATAN!
The Clash of Two Fundamentalisms
By Henri Tincq
Le Monde
Monday 31 March 2003
"Crusade" against
"jihad"? Faced with the war in
Iraq's risks of getting bogged down, the
feared scenario of a religious confrontation
seems already in place. From one side, calls
to prayer and fasting, constant references to
the Bible: George Bush's speeches also
mobilize Christian ritual and dogma for the
legitimization of the war.
The more the war causes death and
suffering, the more this sort of
mystic-politic risks taking over. In a
parallel way, Saddam Hussein is happy to
drape himself in the garments of a modern
Saladin and to demand God as a witness to the
aggression of the "the impious" on
his territory. In spite of reservations with
regard to Saddam, his calls for the
solidarity of the umma and to "holy
war" resonate in most Muslim countries,
from Algeria to Pakistan, by way of Cairo and
Teheran. There were warnings since the
attacks of September 11. One cannot do other
than shiver before such a vulgar
instrumentalization of the name of God and of
religious themes in the Eastern cradle of the
three great monotheisms.
The vision of the American Cabinet praying
in the White House before deciding to go to
war may make some smile on this side of the
Atlantic. The least pious Muslim might be
equally shocked by the exploitation of the
name of Allah and a call to
"martyrdom" in the mouth of the
Iraqi leader, head of the ultra-secular
Baathist party, who has demonstrated the low
value he ascribes to human life. For the
reader of the Koran or the Gospel, nothing is
more indefensible than this manner of
invoking God in every instance, giving God's
endorsement for human decisions, sometimes
among those the most criminal, to confuse
faith, weapons, and right. The faithful, like
the agnostic, knows that God offers no
protection against the temptation of
Totalitarianism. History, on the contrary,
reminds us that He has often lent a hand.
Gott mit uns: in the name of God, people have
tortured, murdered, subjugated their
consciences, destroyed countries, attempted
to exterminate the Jewish people.
His father an Episcopalian, George Bush
Junior belongs to the United Methodist Church
of the United States, as do Dick Cheney, his
Vice-President, and Andrew Card, the White
House Chief-of-Staff. Condoleezza Rice is
herself the daughter of a minister. Even
though Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld,
does not make a show of religious conviction,
one is tempted to write that the fate of
America is in the hands of a little group of
Protestant bigots. In effect, George W. Bush
demonstrates all the zeal of the convert.
Prayer is his daily habit. He belongs to a
movement of born-again Christians, for whom
baptism is equivalent to a second birth, and
who are ascendant to the point of counting up
to 70 million American adherents, especially
in the South (the "Bible Belt").
RELIGIOUS "POPULISM"
Baptized "Evangelical" or
"Pentecostal", this Christian
neo-fundamentalism draws its sources from all
forms of American Protestant revival. It has
been exported to South America, Europe, the
megapolises of Asia and Africa. Experts such
as Harvey Cox, a Massachusetts sociologist,
consider it "the religion of the
twenty-first century". This religious
populism grows in response to world
instability, economic somersaults, and the
anonymity of cities. It does away with
clerical mediation - hence the success of
"televangelists" -, with the
moderating interpretations that historic
Protestant and Catholic churches have
developed. It interprets Biblical texts
literally, justifies homophobia and the death
penalty, prohibits abortion. The evangelical
"convert" is convinced to enter a
small circle of the "chosen". He
entertains a Manichean world view, divided
between the forces of "good" and
"evil" and the forces of
"depravity", "decadence",
and "obscurantism"-within which,
for example, Islam is often ranged. Since
September 11, the preachers Pat Robertson,
Jerry Falwell, and others have made a
specialty of using obscene terms to attack
the "criminal" Mohammed!
MESSIANIC VOCATION
Of course, to believe that this
fundamentalism tipped the United States into
a war with Iraq would be grotesque. Its
political influence among the ranks of the
neoconservatives does not exhaust all the
reasons for American intervention. But the
map of the Christian world is in the process
of fracturing. From the Pope to the great
Protestant churches, the Orthodox, the
Anglicans, opposition to the war is virtually
unanimous. In the United States themselves,
with the exception of the Southern Baptist
Convention (16 million faithful), all the
churches have taken a position against the
war, including the United Methodist Church,
which disapproved George Bush, its adherent
and the President.
But how should the America of the depths,
shaken by the cataclysm of September 11,
attached to symbols as powerful as the
"In God we trust" on the greenback,
attached to all the affirmations about the
role of the United States as a "moral
and universal" nation, not identify
itself with "this God who legitimizes
and supports the American nation, along a
Providentialist register that reaches beyond
any confessional cleavages", as
Sebastian Fath, a French researcher
specialized in Protestantism in the United
States, asks?
American history is unique: the messianic
vocation this pioneer people have assigned
themselves, freedom established as an
absolute dogma, America as the new Promised
Land, Americans as the new chosen people.
George Bush Junior is not, of course, the
first American president to conform to this
messianic role. Remember Ronald Reagan,
champion of the struggle against the
"Evil Empire" (Soviet). Or Jimmy
Carter, Southern Baptist who was more
indulgent of Saudi Wahabism, often considered
a sort of Muslim Protestantism, than of
Iranian Shiism. A number of observers saw the
first Gulf War as a sort of "Holy
Alliance" between the Bible and the gun
(according to Slimane Zeghidour's
expression), between American Evangelists and
the Saudis, hosts of the Holy Sites, Puritans
of Islam, hostile to all clerical mediation
between man and God. Even today, apart from
the weight of history and strategic
interests, is it surprising that so many
connections unite America, this other
"people of God" and Israel, which
missionary groups of messianic Christians
hostile to the Palestinians support, renewing
the Biblical opposition of the Hebrews
against the Philistines and the Canaanites?
Should this confrontation between
Protestant and Islamic fundamentalism be
viewed as a new avatar of the historic
rivalry between Christianity and Islam? This
war is molded by history, in effect. Or
rather by "mytho-history", as
Mohamed Arkoun writes in his latest work,
"From Manhattan to Baghdad" (Bayard
Editions), freshly baffled to see how stories
of crusades and invasions can still inflame,
in the twenty-first century, imaginary
"holy wars", still nourish sacred
systems of mutual exclusion.
Yesterday, at the onset of Nasserism, the
first Palestinian revolts, the Algerian war
of independence, Arab resistance was limited
to the great periods of nationalist fever.
However today, in spite of the existence of
an isolated secular camp, largely hidden,
religion has become the principal mobilizing
ideology in those Arab societies heaped high
in frustrations. The erosion of secular
models (Zionist, Socialist, Marxist), the
religious legitimization of power seizures
(the Islamic revolution in Iran as well as
the occupation of the territories in Israel,
etc.)have tended toward a reaffirmation of
all orthodoxies.
PROCESS
So even the secular Saddam Hussein has
always sought to provide religious legitimacy
and cover for his conflicts. In the war of
the eighties against Iran, he had already
manipulated Muslim opinion. During the Gulf
War, he took up the complaints against the
Saudis, accused of serving as an American
protectorate, unworthy for this reason to
administer Islam's Holy Sites for his own
account.
Since then, there has been September 11,
ultimate outcome of a process derivative of
this defeated and fragmented Islam. The
"long" process of Islamic combat in
Egypt or in Algeria, which, as in Iran
yesterday, aimed to conquer political power
through a mobilization of opinion, has been
defeated. But the "short" process
of the most extreme violence, setting up an
historic confrontation between a humiliated
and aggressed Islam on one side and the Jews
and the "Crusaders" on the other,
has also failed. No more than the assassins
of Anwar Sadat in 1981 succeeded in raising
up the masses to fell the Egyptian
government, did the authors of the September
11 attacks mobilize the Muslim masses to
support them. Radical violence, writes Gilles
Kepel in "Jihad" (Gallimard), has
transformed itself into "a fatal trap
for the Islamicist movement".
One would have thought it possible to be
very economical of the "Islam Against
the West" variety of commentary for a
war in Iraq about which Europe and the West
are not at all unanimous. The Islamicist
movement itself has never been more divided
between, on the one side, advocates of
rapprochement with nationalist and democratic
forces, and, on the other, the artificers of
"jihad". But between American
Evangelical Christian fundamentalism, which
is gaining in the Christian sphere, and
Islamic fundamentalism, two visions clash
that are both founded on cartoon discourse,
savage exegesis, and perversions of sacred
writings. And if the religious dimension of
this war is certainly now neither the most
immediate nor decisive, it could still serve
tomorrow as a burning ember of unforeseeable
consequences.
2/4/03
- Photo of the Monument
to the missing people of Ireland!
"Disappeared off the face of the
earth!"
