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The Northern King’s Conquests

40 “At the time of the end the king of the South shall attack him; and the king of the North shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter the countries, overwhelm them, andRead full post »

 

US PINCHED OUT OF THE MONEY

Downturns Can Leave Americans 'Pinched' For Years

 

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August 9, 2011

During the bleak days of the Great Depression, the nation's unemployment rate neared 25 percent, and the stock market lost nearly 90 percent of its value.

Many his

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   ARAB LEAGUE
The Arab League 

 

59 The chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin were looking for false evidence against Jesus so that they could put him to death.

    60 But they did not find any, though many false witnesses came forward. Finally two came forwar/Read full post »

 

 

 

In the 1960s, Leiber and Stoller founded and briefly owned Red Bird Records, which issued the Shangri-Las' "Leader of the Pack" and the Dixie Cups' "Chapel of Love".

After selling Red Bird, they continued working as independent producers and writing songs. Their best knoRead full post »

 

 

 

An Unclean Spirit Returns

24 “When an unclean spirit goes out of a man, he goes through dry places, seeking rest; and finding none, he says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came.’ 25 And when he comes, he finds it swept and putRead full post »

 

 

"Sometimes [Kurtz] was contemptibly childish. He desired to have kings meet him at railway-stations on his return from some ghastly Nowhere, where he intended to accomplish great things. 'You show them you have in you something that is really profitable, and then there will beRead full post »

 

 

Joseph Samuel Nye, Jr. (born January 19, 1937) is the co-founder, along with Robert Keohane, of the international relations theory neoliberalism, developed in their 1977 book Power and Interdependence. Together with Keohane, he developed the concepts of asymmetrical and complexRead full post »

 

 

The West is up to its old trick of trying to rearrange the world to suit its comfort both financially and psychologically, i.e. Christianize the Arabs and steal their oil.  Margaret Macmillan’s Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed The World (2001), is a pivotal classiRead full post »

 

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WorldUpMC:15 Aug 11 Libya / Mubarak Trial / Camero
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Libyan battle for key port / Mubarak Trial / UK riots and social media

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In Sweden and Norway, in particular, crime writers have picked up the torch of the 19th-century social novel. They are exploring the undercurrents that Holt recognizes in Norway, a society undergoing great social changes — including growing racism and discrimiRead full post »

 

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  • Religion: A Force for Good? (part one)
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BBC WORLD SERVICE UPDATE

 

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We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense,[note 1] promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain

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The Arab Uprising - Is America Getting It Right? 

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AUGUST 3, 2011 6:11PM

RELIEF ON POINT~SLAM!

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JACKI LYDEN
TODAY IS WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 2011

 

 

 

 

 

 

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GAZING INTO THE ABYSS

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The Sharia does not allow politics or political parties. That is why we give no salaries to officials or soldiers, just food, clothes, shoes, and weapons. We want to live a life like the Prophet lived 1400 years ago, and jihad is our right. We wantRead full post »

 

 

FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT: Section 4 & 5

Section 4. The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neitherRead full post »

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DEBT CEILING

See also: 2011 U.S. debt ceiling crisis

 

Article I Section 8 of the United States Constitution gives the Congress the sole power to borrow money on the credit of the United States. From the founding of the United States through 1917 Congress authorized eRead full post »

 

The sincere and gifted politician is able, by the instrument of propaganda, to mold and form the will of the people.

 

                  Edward L. Bernays, Propaganda

 

 

 

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The credit rating agency Moody’s warned in 2008 that the US faced the prospect within a decade of losing its top-notch triple-A credit rating, first granted to US government debt when it was assessed in 1917, unless it took radical action to curb government expendituRead full post »

 

Students of American anti-Semitism often analyze the impact of “conflict situations”—those public controversies that tend to polarize society—with the expectation that they will trigger a rise in anti-Semitism.  The record, without exception, has been thatRead full post »

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MURDOCH'S MOM FORESHADOWED TABLOID TROUBLES

July 22, 2011

More than four decades ago, one of Rupert Murdoch's closest advisers warned him not to buy the News of the World. The British tabloid accused of phone hacking has dragged Murdoch's media empire into a major scandal. That/Read full post »