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If it's rated 'R,' who brought all these children?
U.S. military unveils heat-beaming weapon that burns without causing
lasting harm
Former principal accused of possession of child porn
America's pro-homosexual giants: 2006
Corporate America gets 'gay'-friendlier
Sutton: Nothing Wrong With Sharing Bed With Page
Federal investigation sought into abortions
House resolution opposes North American Union
Plan for superhighway ripped as 'urban legend'
Troops Authorized to Kill Iranian Operatives in Iraq
Maine revolts against digital U.S. ID card
Arab groups urge GMA to dump 'biased' CNN personality
French Babies Tagged for Protection from Kidnappers
Public revolt quashes biometric ID chips
Iran prepares people for 'messiah miracles'
Can a past of Islam change the path to president for Obama?
You are undie surveillance
Church loses opt-out fight over gay adoptions
Bush Directive Increases Sway on Regulation
FBI turns to broad new wiretap method
N.Y. scanners spark union cries of "geoslavery"
He Calls Himself God
Religious Group Urges Mainline Churches to Abandon Abortion Rights
Stance
Iran prepares people for 'messiah miracles'
Islam converts change face of Europe
Young, British Muslims 'getting more radical'
Exclusive: IAF to buy US smart bombs
Israeli Nuclear Strike On Iran Turned Back
Survey exposes divide between Pope and priests
Davis to DHS: Fast-track Real ID
Funerals not for shouting slogans, judge says
7 Large Tunnels Beneath U.S.-Mexican Border Raising Security Concerns
'Proof' Temple Mount 'belongs to Muslims'
Religions Must Conform to Canadian 'Charter Values' or Lose
Charitable Status
Senate chaplain cancels appearance
Israel allows minaret over Temple Mount
Rockefeller Admitted Elite Goal Of Microchipped Population







If it's rated 'R,' who brought all these children?

CHICAGO - When Kate Attea went to see Steven Spielberg's "Munich" last
year – an R-rated film with themes of terrorism and revenge and with
graphic portrayals of sex and violence – she was shocked to see a 7-
or 8-year-old girl sitting behind her, occasionally asking her parents
about the on-screen violence before her. "It seems very obtuse of
parents to think that has no effect at all," says Ms. Attea, a Chicago
mother of a 1-year-old. She still remembers being "traumatized for
years" after seeing "Poltergeist" in the third grade. Even as parents
push for more consistency in movie ratings and theater owners feel the
pressure to keep unaccompanied teens out of "R" movies, the reality is
that many parents choose – some thoughtfully, some casually – to take
young teens and even preschoolers to those movies with them. The movie
industry now is considering amending its ratings system to include
this new and specific admonishment to parents: Many R-rated movies are
unsuitable for young children.

U.S. military unveils heat-beaming weapon that burns without causing
lasting harm

MOODY AIR FORCE BASE, Georgia — The U.S. Defense Department on
Wednesday unveiled what it called a heat-beaming weapon made by
Raytheon (RTN) that repels people by creating a painful burn without
causing lasting harm. The so-called Active Denial System could be used
to control mobs or repel foes in conflicts like Iraq or Afghanistan,
officials said. "This is a breakthrough technology that's going to
give our forces a capability they don't now have," Theodore Barna, an
assistant deputy undersecretary of defense for advanced systems and
concepts, told Reuters. "We expect the services to add it to their
tool kit. And that could happen as early as 2010." The weapon, mounted
on a Humvee, uses a large rectangular dish antenna to direct an
invisible beam toward a target. It includes a high-voltage power unit
and beam-generating equipment and is effective at more than 500 meters.

Former principal accused of possession of child porn

Anchorage, Alaska - Police say he had some of the most disturbing
images of child pornography they have ever seen. Frederick Deussing,
the former vice principal of Heritage Christian School, faces 12
counts of possessing thousands of pictures and movies depicting sex
acts with children. Police say they will be dealing with the aftermath
of this crime and trying to contact thousands of as-yet unidentified
children who, police say, appear on Deussing's computer being forced
to do unimaginable things. Detective Mark Thomas, a cyber crimes
investigator for the Anchorage Police Department, said the images on
Deussing's computer were among the most graphic he had ever seen.
Police say the images of child pornography discovered on 64-year-old
Deussing's computer depict children as young as 1-year-old being raped
by adult men. Detectives say both the sheer number -- thousands of
images -- and the nature of Deussing's alleged collection were hard to
imagine, even for the most seasoned officers.

America's pro-homosexual giants: 2006

Below is the list of companies scoring a perfect 100 percent on the
Human Rights Campaign's 2006 Corporate Equality Index, with policies
beneficial toward homosexuals:

Adobe Systems
Aetna
Agere Systems
Agilent Technologies
Allianz Life Insurance
Alston & Bird
American Express
AMR Corp. (American Airlines)
Anheuser-Busch
Apple Computer
Arnold & Porter
AT&T
Avaya
Bain & Company
Bank of America
Bausch & Lomb
Bell South
Best Buy
Boeing
BP America
Bright Horizons Family Solutions
Bristol-Myers Squibb
California State Automobile Association
Capital One Financial
Cargill


Corporate America gets 'gay'-friendlier

Another three dozen major American corporations have acceded to the
demands of homosexual activists in their corporate decision-making
process and have been given a top ranking in an activist group's
annual assessment of their accommodations. The 2006 report from the
Human Rights Campaign, which advocates for homosexual issues, was
released yesterday and notes that "an unprecedented" 138 major U.S.
corporations earned the top rating of 100 percent, up from 101 last
year. Among the majors listed was Ford Motor Corp., which has been the
subject of a boycott by conservatives over its advertising efforts
within the homosexual community and also last week announced plans for
tens of thousands of layoffs or buyouts and an expected operating loss
for another three years. The report said the total companies reaching
the top score was up by 10 times in just four years.

Sutton: Nothing Wrong With Sharing Bed With Page

PIERRE -- A state senator accused of sexually groping a male
legislative page last February testified Wednesday night that he saw
nothing wrong with sharing a motel bed with the lad. Dan Sutton, D-
Flandreau, is the subject of a special state Senate inquiry into an
allegation that he fondled Austin Wiese, 19, now a college student. "I
didn't do what Austin is claiming that I did," Sutton told a lawyer
hired by the Senate to grill him. "I loved Austin like a son, a son
that I never had," Sutton added. Sutton said Wiese made it up --
possibly related to his father's political ambitions or a failed
business venture. Wiese's father, Dennis Wiese, lost the Democratic
nomination for governor last year. Asked by a lawyer for the state
Senate why Wiese would have made up such a story, Sutton said, "That's
an answer for this committee to decide." Wiese had told the special
committee on Tuesday that his genitals were touched by Sutton on the
motel room's king-size bed. The incident allegedly took place as Wiese
was starting a stint as a page for the Legislature. Sutton testified
his family and the Wiese family had been good friends for years. The
senator said he helped Austin Wiese, Austin's cousin Anna Wiese and
another youth become pages for a week during the 2006 lawmaking
session.

Federal investigation sought into abortions

Another four-day protest, "Pray in May" has been scheduled in Wichita,
Kan., where late-term abortion special George Tiller has a business,
as a pro-life activist group weighs its legal options in an effort to
have criminal charges against Tiller heard in a court of law. The
state's former attorney general, Phill Kline, had filed 30 criminal
counts against Tiller just days before Christmas, but the local
prosecutor, Sedgwick County District Attorney Nola Tedesco Foulston,
worked with a local judge to have the counts dismissed before they
could be heard. That's despite the fact they resulted from a multi-
year investigation by Kline, which had been reviewed and approved by
the state Supreme Court, and the counts themselves had been reviewed
and approved by two separate Kansas judges.

House resolution opposes North American Union

Rep. Virgil Goode, R-Va., has introduced a House resolution expressing
congressional opposition to construction of a NAFTA Super Highway
System or entry into a North American Union with Mexico and Canada.
Goode said the goal behind House Concurrent Resolution 40, introduced
Monday, is "to block a NAFTA Superhighway System and to indicate the
opposition of the Congress to the Security and Prosperity Partnership
(SPP) of North America that was declared by President Bush, Mexico's
then-President Vicente Fox, and Canada's then-Prime Minister Paul
Martin, at the conclusion of their summit meeting in Waco, Texas, on
March 23, 2005." The preamble of HCR 40 refers to the Trans-Texas
Corridor being built by the Texas Department of Transportation,
noting "a NAFTA Super Highway System from the west coast of Mexico
through the United States and into Canada has been suggested as part
of a North American Union to facilitate trade between the SPP
countries."
Plan for superhighway ripped as 'urban legend'

Congressmen and a policy official of the Department of Transportation
engaged in a spirited exchange over whether NAFTA Super Highways were
a threat to U.S. sovereignty or an imaginary "Internet conspiracy,"
such as the "black helicopter myths," advanced by fringe lunatics. At
a meeting Wednesday of the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit of the
U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Transportation and
Infrastructure, Jeffrey N. Shane, undersecretary of transportation for
policy at the U.S. Department of Transportation, testified. During the
questioning by committee members, Rep. Ted Poe, R-Texas, asked Shane
about the existence of plans for a "NAFTA superhighway."

Troops Authorized to Kill Iranian Operatives in Iraq

The Bush administration has authorized the U.S. military to kill or
capture Iranian operatives inside Iraq as part of an aggressive new
strategy to weaken Tehran's influence across the Middle East and
compel it to give up its nuclear program, according to government and
counterterrorism officials with direct knowledge of the effort. For
more than a year, U.S. forces in Iraq have secretly detained dozens of
suspected Iranian agents, holding them for three to four days at a
time. The "catch and release" policy was designed to avoid escalating
tensions with Iran and yet intimidate its emissaries. U.S. forces
collected DNA samples from some of the Iranians without their
knowledge, subjected others to retina scans, and fingerprinted and
photographed all of them before letting them go.

Maine revolts against digital U.S. ID card

BOSTON (Reuters) - Maine lawmakers on Thursday became the first in the
nation to demand repeal of a federal law tightening identification
requirements for drivers' licenses, a post-September 11 security
measure that states say will cost them billions of dollars to
administer. Maine lawmakers passed a resolution urging repeal of the
Real ID Act, which would create a national digital identification
system by 2008. The lawmakers said it would cost Maine about $185
million, fail to boost security and put people at greater risk of
identity theft. Maine's resolution is the strongest stand yet by a
state against the law, which Congress passed in May 2004 and gave
states three years to implement. Similar repeal measures are pending
in eight other states. "We cannot be spending millions of state
dollars on an initiative that does more harm to our state than good,"
said Maine's House Majority leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat, in a
statement that called it a "massive unfunded federal mandate."

Arab groups urge GMA to dump 'biased' CNN personality

NEW YORK — Three groups are urging ABC News not to keep CNN Headline
News personality Glenn Beck on as a Good Morning America commentator
because they believe he's biased against Arabs. The Arab American
Institute, American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee and the Muslim
Public Affairs Council all said Thursday they had written to ABC News
President David Westin about Beck. Good Morning America executive
producer Jim Murphy has spoken to a representative of the groups and
has invited them on the air to talk about their grievances, said ABC
News spokeswoman Jeffrey Schneider. Beck has appeared twice on the
show, once together with a Muslim religious leader. The groups said
that Beck — who's drawing strong ratings with his evening show on CNN
Headline News — has stated on his show that Arab and Muslim Americans
are apathetic to terrorism. During an interview in November with
Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison, the first Muslim member of Congress,
Beck asked him to "prove to me that you are not working with our
enemies." "That blatant anti-Arab, anti-Muslim bias has been given
credibility on a larger news show is something that concerns us," said
Arab American Institute spokeswoman Jennifer Kauffman.
French Babies Tagged for Protection from Kidnappers

Electronic wrist or ankle bands may sound like a high-tech way to
monitor criminals on probation, but now a French hospital wants to put
the digital shackles on a different demographic -- babies at risk of
kidnapping. Starting in March 2007, babies born in the Le Raincy-
Montfermeil hospital in Paris will wear electronic wristbands, the
hospital announced on Tuesday. Each wristband will communicate with
its own alarm box, which is not attached to the child. As soon as the
wristband moves outside a designated area -- or someone tampers with
the box -- the alarm goes off.

Public revolt quashes biometric ID chips

While opposition grows to a national ID card in the U.S., citizens of
the southeast European nation of Serbia have successfully pressed
their government to back off on a plan to make biometric data chips
compulsory in the country's new citizen cards. The decision followed a
pitched battle prior to the Jan. 21 election as opponents criticized
the accompanying plan for a centralized database of citizen
information and the taking of fingerprints. Biometric technology uses
data from sources such as fingerprints, facial features and iris scans
to authenticate a person's identity. In the U.S., the Real ID Act
passed by Congress in 2005 calls for a national ID portion to go into
effect by May 2008. It requires states to participate in a federal
data-sharing program when issuing driver's licenses, making those
licenses de facto national ID cards. A number of state legislatures
have passed nonbinding measures in opposition, including the Maine
House and Senate, which yesterday almost unanimously approved a
resolution refusing to implement the Real ID Act.

Iran prepares people for 'messiah miracles'

Official Iranian radio has completed broadcasting a lengthy series on
the imminent appearance of a messianic figure who will defeat Islam's
enemies and impose Islamic Shiite rule over the entire world – even
speculating on specific dates the so-called "Mahdi" will be revealed.
English-language transcripts of "The World Toward Illumination"
programs can be found on the website of IRIB, a public broadcast arm
of Tehran. "Be joyous my heart, miracles of the Messiah will soon be
here," reads a poem used to conclude the first broadcast. "The scent
of breaths of the One we know comes from near. Grieve not of sorrow
and melancholy, as assured I was … last night that a Savior will come,
it's clear." After the coming of the 12th imam, or Mahdi, "liberal
democratic civilization" will be found only in "history museums,"
explained the program.

Can a past of Islam change the path to president for Obama?

WASHINGTON - Although Sen. Barack Obama is a Christian, his childhood
and family connections to Islam are beginning to complicate his
presidential ambitions. The Illinois Democrat spent much of last week
refuting unfounded reports that he had been educated in a madrassa, or
radical Islamic school, when he lived in Indonesia as a boy. “The
Indonesian school Obama attended in Jakarta is a public school that is
not and never has been a Madrassa,” said a statement put out by the
senator’s staff. But the school did teach the Quran, Islam’s holy
book, along with subjects such as math and science, according to
Obama, who attended when he was 9 and 10. “In Indonesia, I had spent
two years at a Muslim school,” he wrote in his first memoir, “Dreams
from my Father.” “The teacher wrote to tell my mother that I made
faces during Koranic studies.”

You are undie surveillance

OFFICIALS are bracing themselves for a storm of public outrage over
their controversial X-ray cameras scheme. As part of the most shocking
extension of Big Brother powers ever planned here, lenses in lampposts
would snap “naked” pictures of passers-by to trap terror suspects. The
proposal is contained in leaked documents drawn up by the Home Office
and presented to PM Tony Blair’s working group on Security, Crime and
Justice. But the prospect of the State snooping on individuals’ most
private parts is certain to spark national fury. And officials are
battling to find a way of dealing with that reaction.

Church loses opt-out fight over gay adoptions

Roman Catholic adoptions agencies yesterday lost their battle to opt
out of new laws banning discrimination against homosexual couples when
Tony Blair announced that there would be "no exemptions" for faith-
based groups. The Prime Minister said in a statement that the new
rules would not come into force until the end of 2008. Until then
there would be a "statutory duty" for religious agencies to refer gay
couples to other agencies. Earlier, David Cameron risked a split with
Tory traditionalists by announcing that he was against allowing
Catholic adoption agencies to opt out of new laws banning
discrimination against gay couples. He called for a compromise that
would give the Catholic agencies time to find a way of dealing with
the regulations — possibly by developing twinning arrangements with
other adoption services. Last week the leader of Catholics in England
and Wales, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, warned that the agencies
would close rather than accept rules that required them to hand over
babies to gay couples.

Bush Directive Increases Sway on Regulation

WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 — President Bush has signed a directive that gives
the White House much greater control over the rules and policy
statements that the government develops to protect public health,
safety, the environment, civil rights and privacy. In an executive
order published last week in the Federal Register, Mr. Bush said that
each agency must have a regulatory policy office run by a political
appointee, to supervise the development of rules and documents
providing guidance to regulated industries. The White House will thus
have a gatekeeper in each agency to analyze the costs and the benefits
of new rules and to make sure the agencies carry out the president’s
priorities.

FBI turns to broad new wiretap method

The FBI appears to have adopted an invasive Internet surveillance
technique that collects far more data on innocent Americans than
previously has been disclosed. Instead of recording only what a
particular suspect is doing, agents conducting investigations appear
to be assembling the activities of thousands of Internet users at a
time into massive databases, according to current and former
officials. That database can subsequently be queried for names, e-mail
addresses or keywords. Such a technique is broader and potentially
more intrusive than the FBI's Carnivore surveillance system, later
renamed DCS1000. It raises concerns similar to those stirred by
widespread Internet monitoring that the National Security Agency is
said to have done, according to documents that have surfaced in one
federal lawsuit, and may stretch the bounds of what's legally
permissible. Call it the vacuum-cleaner approach. It's employed when
police have obtained a court order and an Internet service provider
can't "isolate the particular person or IP address" because of
technical constraints, says Paul Ohm, a former trial attorney at the
Justice Department's Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section.
(An Internet Protocol address is a series of digits that can identify
an individual computer.)

N.Y. scanners spark union cries of "geoslavery"

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Every morning Dennis Colson, a surveyor at New
York City's Department of Design and Construction, begins his work day
by placing his hand on a scanner to log his time and attendance at the
office. The use of hand geometry and other biometric data, like facial
and iris recognition, is not new -- the University of Georgia
pioneered the use of hand geometry when it installed scanners in its
student dining hall in 1974. But the planned roll-out of hand geometry
scanners in all New York City government agencies has sparked union
cries of "geoslavery" and assertions that technology developed for
security will be used to track, label and control workforces. "It's
frustrating, it's kind of an insult," Colson, 53, told Reuters. "They
are talking about going to voice and retina scanners and that's an
invasion of privacy in that they can track you wherever you go."

He Calls Himself God

Feb. 5, 2007 issue - At first glance, the congregation gathered in a
warehouse in Doral, Fla., seems like a typical Hispanic evangelical
group. There's the 10-piece band, the singing and swaying, the
whooping and hollering. But look a little more closely. There's not a
cross in sight. The lectern is emblazoned with a near replica of the
U.S. presidential seal, except that it reads in Spanish, government of
god on earth. Off to the side stand three burly guys in dark suits
with Secret Service-style earpieces. When a door by the stage opens,
the guards leap into action. They surround the man with slicked-back
hair who emerges and escort him to his seat. When the crowd spots him,
it goes wild. People chant, "Lord! Lord! Lord!" It quickly becomes
clear that they're referring to him. "It's Jesus Christ himself!" a
preacher onstage announces. "Let's welcome Jesus Christ Man!"

Religious Group Urges Mainline Churches to Abandon Abortion Rights
Stance

(CNSNews.com) - Many of the pro-life activists who marched in
Washington on Monday belong to mainline churches that support abortion
rights, said a conservative alliance that advocates biblical and
historic Christian teachings. The Washington-based Institute on
Religion and Democracy, in a statement released on Friday, noted that
the United Methodists and other mainline churches "routinely defend
unrestricted abortion." Those mainline churches belong to the
Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, which opposes
restrictions on abortion, including partial-birth abortion, and even
parental notification. "How appalling that mainline church officials
have resultantly ended up sounding more like Planned Parenthood or the
National Organization of Women than like the spiritual heirs of the
apostles," the Institute on Religion and Democracy said. The IRD
describes support for abortion rights as a "step away from the
traditions and teachings of the church." "Mainline churches" are
parishes that stand in the theological and political middle, between
the more liberal groups such as Unitarian Universalism and the more
conservative fundamentalist and evangelical churches. These mainline
church agencies are more open to new ideas, and many have taken a pro-
abortion stance by joining the Religious Coalition for Reproductive
Choice (RCRC).

Iran prepares people for 'messiah miracles'

Official Iranian radio has completed broadcasting a lengthy series on
the imminent appearance of a messianic figure who will defeat Islam's
enemies and impose Islamic Shiite rule over the entire world – even
speculating on specific dates the so-called "Mahdi" will be revealed.
English-language transcripts of "The World Toward Illumination"
programs can be found on the website of IRIB, a public broadcast arm
of Tehran. "Be joyous my heart, miracles of the Messiah will soon be
here," reads a poem used to conclude the first broadcast. "The scent
of breaths of the One we know comes from near. Grieve not of sorrow
and melancholy, as assured I was … last night that a Savior will come,
it's clear." After the coming of the 12th imam, or Mahdi, "liberal
democratic civilization" will be found only in "history museums,"
explained the program.

Islam converts change face of Europe

As many as 100,000 French and British citizens have converted to Islam
over the last decade, according to a new book by an Israeli historian.
The figures cited by Hebrew University Prof. Raphael Israeli in his
upcoming book The Third Islamic Invasion of Europe are representative
of the fast-changing face of Europe, which the Islamic history
professor says is in danger of becoming "Eurabia" within half a
century. He noted that about 30 million Muslims currently live in
Europe, out of a total population of 380 million., adding that with a
high Muslim birthrate in Europe, the number of Muslims living in the
continent is likely to double within 25 years. Israeli also cited
massive immigration and Turkey's future inclusion in the EU as the
primary reasons why the face of Europe will be indelibly changed
within a generation. European concerns over a fast-growing Muslim
population is at the center of opposition to Turkey's entry into the
EU, he said, as the inclusion of Turkey into the EU will catapult the
number of Muslims to 100 million out of a total population of 450
million.

Young, British Muslims 'getting more radical'

A bleak picture of a generation of young British Muslims radicalised
by anti-Western views and misplaced multicultural policies is shown in
a survey published today. The study found disturbing evidence of young
Muslims adopting more fundamentalist beliefs on key social and
political issuesForty per cent of Muslims between the ages of 16 and
24 said they would prefer to live under sharia law in Britain, a legal
system based on the teachings of the Koran. The figure among over-55s,
in contrast, was only 17 per cent. In some countries, people found
guilty under sharia law face penalties such as beheading, stoning, the
severing of a hand or being lashed. The study, by the Right-wing think-
tank Policy Exchange, also found a significant minority who expressed
backing for Islamic terrorism.

Exclusive: IAF to buy US smart bombs

In one of the largest weapons deals since the war in Lebanon, the
Israel Air Force intends to purchase thousands of Joint Direct Attack
Munition (JDAM) missiles from the United States for an estimated $100
million, The Jerusalem Post has learned. During the war this past
summer, the IAF used JDAM missiles extensively and even received
emergency shipments from the US. The aerial shipments caused an
international uproar after one of the planes destined for Israel was
routed through Glasgow's Prestwick Airport and reportedly did not fly
according to safety and security procedures established by the British
Civil Aviation Authority. # 'Cluster bombs used in self defense' # The
second Lebanon war: JPost.com special report The Post has also learned
of ongoing negotiations between the IAF and Israel Aircraft Industries
(IAI) concerning the purchase of LORA ground-to-ground ballistic
tactical missiles. Accurate to less than 10 meters, equal to that of a
JDAM, the LORA missile can eliminate targets without risking expensive
fighter jets. It can be equipped with a 400-kilogram high-explosive
warhead and can penetrate enemy territory more than 1,000 kilometers
away. The LORA missile was displayed by IAI at the Eurosatory defense
exhibition in Paris in 2006. It was developed under orders by former
prime minister Ariel Sharon and was the brainchild of former Knesset
Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee chairman Yuval Steinitz (Likud),
who realized the need for a tactical missile that could carry out
missions instead of fighter jets. The JDAM is a low-cost guidance kit
produced by Boeing Co. that converts free-fall bombs into
guided "smart" weapons. The JDAM kit consists of a tail section that
contains a Global Positioning System/Inertial Navigation System and
body improvements for additional stability and lift.

Israeli Nuclear Strike On Iran Turned Back

A recent strike by nuclear-armed Israeli Air Force fighter-bombers
bound for targets in Iran was turned back after being intercepted by
U.S. fighters over Iraq, this reporter has learned. Two sources have
independently confirmed the encounter, which took place on January 7,
2007. Though the first informant offered few details beyond an initial
tip, a second source long-known by this reporter to have well-placed
U.S. and “non-U.S.” military and government contacts provided specific
information regarding the raid, which was aimed at the radical
religious ayatollahs holding ultimate power in Iran. Israeli nuclear
strikes are not unprecedented. Soon after Desert Storm, U.S. Navy
pilots told this reporter in Kuwait how in late 1990 Israel made good
on its pledge to respond in kind to WMD attacks by launching nuclear-
armed aircraft against Baghdad following a lethal assault on Tel Aviv
by Scud missiles tipped with chemical warheads. That air strike was
called off when the Americans refused to provide the vital IFF codes
needed to fly through U.S.-controlled airspace. When questioned
concerning the “Identification Friend or Foe” transponder codes needed
to overfly Iraq today, this source said that allied Israeli aircraft
are routinely provided “squawk codes” when flying missions aimed at
acquiring the characteristics of air defence radars triggered by their
approach to Syrian, Jordanian, Iranian and U.S.-controlled Iraqi
airspace.

Survey exposes divide between Pope and priests

A yawning gulf between the stern doctrines preached by Pope Benedict
and the advice offered by ordinary Roman Catholic priests has been
exposed by an Italian magazine, which dispatched reporters to 24
churches around Italy where, in the confessional, they sought rulings
on various thorny moral dilemmas. One reporter for L'Espresso claimed
to have let a doctor switch off the respirator that kept her father
alive. "Don't think any more about it," she was told by a friar in
Naples. "I myself, if I had a father, a wife or a child who had lived
for years only because of artificial means, would pull out [the
plug]." Another journalist posed as a researcher who had received a
lucrative offer to work abroad on embryonic stem cells. With the extra
cash, he said, he and his wife could think about starting a family. So
should he take up the post?

Davis to DHS: Fast-track Real ID

As Maine and other states dig in their heels against the Real ID Act
of 2005, Rep. Tom Davis, R-Va., called on the Homeland Security
Department to move forward quickly to show how the program should be
implemented. “The department's leadership in the coming weeks is
crucial to the success or failure of the Real ID program,” Davis said
in a Jan. 31 statement to the press. Davis was responding to the Maine
State Legislature’s approval last week of a resolution asking Congress
to repeal the Real ID Act. Maine lawmakers called it an unfunded
mandate that will cost the state millions. Several other states,
including Montana, are expected to approve similar bills rejecting the
Real ID Act due to concerns about the expense and possible loss of
privacy. The goal of the act is to improve homeland security by
tightening procedures by which driver’s licenses are issued. Under the
law, states must meet national standards for their driver’s licenses
and issuance processes by 2008, and build a national network to
validate the identities of hundreds of millions of driver’s license
holders. State government organizations have estimated the cost of
implementing the Real ID Act at $11 billion. Davis wrote to Homeland
Security Secretary Michael Chertoff requesting a briefing on the
program.

Funerals not for shouting slogans, judge says

A federal judge in Missouri has ruled that a church whose members
believe God is judging America by having her soldiers killed in war
cannot shout those beliefs at memorial services for U.S. servicemen
and women. The ruling came on a request for a preliminary injunction
in a case brought by a member of that organization, the Westboro
Baptist Church of Topeka, Kan., against the state of Missouri, which
earlier adopted a law banning protests within an hour before and after
such a memorial service. Judicial Watch, the Washington group focused
on more transparency in government, had filed a brief in the case, and
its chief, Tom Fitton, told WND that Missouri's restrictions on
protests at funerals were "appropriate." "The question we were trying
to address is whether it is appropriate for states to regulate, to
protect the rights of these families to have these funerals of fallen
service family members conducted in peace," he said.

7 Large Tunnels Beneath U.S.-Mexican Border Raising Security Concerns

SAN DIEGO — While key entrance and exit points have been plugged in
some of the biggest tunnels used to ferry people and drugs across the
U.S.-Mexico border, the passageways remain largely intact raising
concerns smugglers reuse them, according to a published report. In
recent years, dozens of tunnels have been discovered running under the
border. The smaller, more crudely constructed passages are easily
destroyed, authorities say. But the larger, more elaborate tunnels
require enormous amounts of material and expertise to fill. The task
to jam up an entire route also is costly and sometimes complicated if
the tunnels run under private property, authorities say. According to
a report in Tuesday's Los Angeles Times, seven of the largest tunnels
discovered under the U.S.-Mexico border have yet to be filled in,
including the so-called Grande Tunnel found in January 2006 that
extends nearly half a mile from San Diego to Tijuana.

'Proof' Temple Mount 'belongs to Muslims'

The replacement tomorrow in the Al Aqsa Mosque of a key podium
transported with the coordination of Israeli security forces
is "proof" the Temple Mount belongs only to Muslims and will never be
returned to Jewish sovereignty, according to the leader of the Wafq –
the Muslim custodians of the Temple Mount. "This historic occasion
proves that the extremist Jews will never achieve their goals of
taking over the [Temple Mount.] It shows that we are much closer to
liberating the Al Aqsa Mosque and Jerusalem from Israeli occupation,"
said Waqf chief Adnan Husseini.

Religions Must Conform to Canadian 'Charter Values' or Lose Charitable
Status

TORONTO, February 1, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A political scientist
at the University of Toronto has argued that as Canadian “Charter
values” and Christian values drift further apart, churches should
either adhere to and promote the state ideology, or lose the financial
support they enjoy through their tax-free status. In her
article, “Living Better Multiculturally: Whose values should prevail?”
published in the Fall 2006 edition of the Literary Review of Canada,
Janice Gross Stein equates “Canadian values” with “Charter values,” in
other words, those formulated and championed by the Liberal party of
Canada after Pierre Trudeau’s leftist revolution. Stein is a prominent
political scientist and director of the University of Toronto’s Munk
Centre for International Affairs, a member of the Order of Canada and
a recognized expert in Middle Eastern conflicts. Deborah Gyapong
reported in Canadian Catholic News that Stein proposed traditional
religious groups essentially must either abandon any religious beliefs
that conflict with the ideologies of the state, notably that of
radical feminism, or cease to make any claims to special financial
considerations for their charitable, non-profit works for the
community. “If religious institutions are able to raise funds more
easily because governments give a tax benefit to those who contribute,
are religious practices against women a matter only for religious law,
as is currently the case under Canadian law, which protects freedom of
religion, or should the values of the Charter and of human rights
commissions across Canada have some application when religious
institutions are officially recognized and advantaged in fundraising?”
Stein writes of what she calls a “resurgence of orthodoxy in
Christianity, Islam and Judaism,” as a threat to the peaceful
coexistence of various cultures in Canada’s urban centres. This
orthodoxy, she claims, “is sharpening lines of division between ‘them’
and ‘us’.”

Senate chaplain cancels appearance

WASHINGTON — Senate Chaplain Barry Black has canceled his scheduled
appearance at a Christian evangelical conference after he was pictured
with columnist Ann Coulter and other prominent conservatives in a
brochure promoting the event. Black told Senate Majority Leader Harry
Reid, D-Nev., he wouldn't be addressing next month's Reclaiming
America for Christ Conference because his appearance wouldn't uphold
the Senate chaplain's "historic tradition of being nonpolitical,
nonpartisan, nonsectarian," Meg Saunders, a spokeswoman for the
chaplain, said Thursday. Saunders said Black, a Seventh-day Adventist
and a former Navy chaplain, had received "a very generic invitation"
in the fall of 2005 to speak at the conference and had agreed because
there was room on his schedule. After learning more about the other
speakers and the event's featured topics, Black became "concerned" and
canceled his appearance, Saunders said. "He felt the information had
been incomplete," she said. Other featured speakers at the March 2 and
3 conference in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., include abortion opponent and
Catholic priest Frank Pavone, conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly,
and Family Research Council president Tony Perkins. Listed topics
include "making America safe for the unborn," "the battle to defend
marriage," "homosexuality and the church" and "Darwin's deadly legacy."

Israel allows minaret over Temple Mount

As Maine and other states dig in their heels against the Real ID Act
of 2005, Rep. Tom Davis, R-Va., called on the Homeland Security
Department to move forward quickly to show how the program should be
implemented. “The department's leadership in the coming weeks is
crucial to the success or failure of the Real ID program,” Davis said
in a Jan. 31 statement to the press. Davis was responding to the Maine
State Legislature’s approval last week of a resolution asking Congress
to repeal the Real ID Act. Maine lawmakers called it an unfunded
mandate that will cost the state millions. Several other states,
including Montana, are expected to approve similar bills rejecting the
Real ID Act due to concerns about the expense and possible loss of
privacy. The goal of the act is to improve homeland security by
tightening procedures by which driver’s licenses are issued. Under the
law, states must meet national standards for their driver’s licenses
and issuance processes by 2008, and build a national network to
validate the identities of hundreds of millions of driver’s license
holders. State government organizations have estimated the cost of
implementing the Real ID Act at $11 billion. Davis wrote to Homeland
Security Secretary Michael Chertoff requesting a briefing on the
program.

Rockefeller Admitted Elite Goal Of Microchipped Population

Hollywood director and documentary film maker Aaron Russo has gone in-
depth on the astounding admissions of Nick Rockefeller, who personally
told him that the elite's ultimate goal was to create a microchipped
population and that the war on terror was a hoax, Rockefeller having
predicted an "event" that would trigger the invasions of Iraq and
Afghanistan eleven months before 9/11. Rockefeller also told Russo
that his family's foundation had created and bankrolled the women's
liberation movement in order to destroy the family and that population
reduction was a fundamental aim of the global elite. Russo is perhaps
best known for directing Trading Places starring Eddie Murphy but was
more recently in the spotlight for his exposé of the criminal run for
profit federal reserve system, the documentary America From Freedom to
Fascism .






Skip Wigmore
Light of Life Ministries
Smithfield, NC
lolministries@...
Rev. 18:4