Former CBS News president Richard Salant (1961 - 64 and 1966 - 79) explained the major media's role: "Our job is to give people not what they want, but what we decide they ought to have." ...and to this very day most Americans haven't noticed they're being brained washed! ~ N. Hooben
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
Sunday, November 4, 2007
The Power Of Prayer
In a certain town, a new building was under construction. It was going to be a bar. On that same side of town, a church launched a campaign for petitions and prayers in an effort to prevent the bar's opening.
A week before the bar was to open for business, lightning struck and the new building burned to the ground. The church folks were rather smug until the bar owner sued the church. The lawsuit alleged that the congregation was ultimately responsible for the fire. Of course, the church denied any responsibility.
At the hearing, the judge said this: "I don't know how I will ultimately rule; but from the paperwork, it appears we have a bar owner who believes in the power of prayer and a church that doesn't."
George Merritt in The Southern Star newspaper
Ozark, Alabama
31 October 2007
A week before the bar was to open for business, lightning struck and the new building burned to the ground. The church folks were rather smug until the bar owner sued the church. The lawsuit alleged that the congregation was ultimately responsible for the fire. Of course, the church denied any responsibility.
At the hearing, the judge said this: "I don't know how I will ultimately rule; but from the paperwork, it appears we have a bar owner who believes in the power of prayer and a church that doesn't."
George Merritt in The Southern Star newspaper
Ozark, Alabama
31 October 2007
Friday, November 2, 2007
Law Of The Sea Treaty (LOST)
Update 2 August 2010: See also: How much time is there left before we are LOST? ...also Agenda 21, its coming your way! (Don't dismiss this one, IT WILL AFFECT YOU !)
The Worst Treaty In The History Of Mankind
Why?The Worst Treaty In The History Of Mankind
The number one reason: It is the first time in the history of mankind that a leader of sovereign nation is willing to surrender that sovereignty against the will of it's peoples to a corrupt lesser power which will dictate to the people that which the Assembly decides...and thus removes the voting power of the people.
The Assembly will decide upon which laws they will obey and put themselves above the law of all participating states. The Assembly will exempt themselves from all taxes and yet tax the member states for the privilege of such obscene membership. The Assembly will not be subject to any Legislative or Executive branch of any of the member states...thus making a mockery out of any voting privileges remaining with the people. The landlocked member states will have free and open passage across neighboring states to obtain access to the oceans. The Assembly will have the right of passage anywhere among and over the member states to enforce their laws with complete immunity from all other laws unless they decide to give up that immunity.
The Law Of The Sea Treaty will discourage Capitalism in that the Assembly will charge enormous fees for the privilege of mining the ocean floor (sea bed). Any such entrepreneur willing to attempt such endeavors must share his findings with member states chosen by the Assembly.
Here is an excerpt from "UNCLOS"
United Nations Convention on the Law Of the Sea
SUBSECTION G. LEGAL STATUS, PRIVILEGES AND
IMMUNITIES
Article 176
Legal status
The Authority shall have international legal personality and such legal
capacity as may be necessary for the exercise of its functions and the
fulfilment of its purposes.
Article 177
Privileges and immunities
To enable the Authority to exercise its functions, it shall enjoy in the
territory of each State Party the privileges and immunities set forth in this
subsection. The privileges and immunities relating to the Enterprise shall be
those set forth in Annex IV, article 13.
Article 178
Immunity from legal process
The Authority, its property and assets, shall enjoy immunity from legal
process except to the extent that the Authority expressly waives this immunity
in a particular case.
Article 179
Immunity from search and any form of seizure
The property and assets of the Authority, wherever located and by
whomsoever held, shall be immune from search, requisition, confiscation,
expropriation or any other form of seizure by executive or legislative action.
Article 180
Exemption from restrictions, regulations, controls and moratoria
The property and assets of the Authority shall be exempt from
restrictions, regulations, controls and moratoria of any nature.
Article 181
Archives and official communications of the Authority
1. The archives of the Authority, wherever located, shall be inviolable.
2. Proprietary data, industrial secrets or similar information and
personnel records shall not be placed in archives which are open to public
inspection.
3. With regard to its official communications, the Authority shall be
accorded by each State Party treatment no less favourable than that accorded
by that State to other international organizations.
Article 182
Privileges and immunities of certain persons connected with the Authority
Representatives of States Parties attending meetings of the Assembly, the
Council or organs of the Assembly or the Council, and the Secretary-General
and staff of the Authority, shall enjoy in the territory of each State Party:
(a) immunity from legal process with respect to acts performed by them
in the exercise of their functions, except to the extent that the State
which they represent or the Authority, as appropriate, expressly
waives this immunity in a particular case;....
Thursday, November 1, 2007
Don't kill the messenger...
Quotes From the Left
Easily Terrified, Mindless Christian Lemmings "We are, as far as urban public education is concerned, essentially at rock bottom. We are now at a point where we are essentially churning out ignorant teens who are becoming ignorant adults and society as a whole will pay dearly, very soon, and if you think the hordes of easily terrified, mindless fundamentalist evangelical Christian lemmings have been bad for the soul of this country, just wait." - San Francisco columnist Mark Morford, writing for SFGate.com, the Web site of the San Francisco Chronicle and picked up by Kristen Fyfe of MRC's Culture and Media Institute October 24.
In Case You Missed It
Chris Matthews Tells 'Fellow Democrats' What to Think Biased reporting is one thing, but when program hosts start campaigning on the air, it's over the top. Here's how Chris Matthews did it opening the Oct. 29 edition of Hardball: "Good evening, I'm Chris Matthews and welcome to Hardball. The 2008 election, that's the spotlight tonight. Iowa, which starts the whole thing January 3rd, is now a dead heat between Hillary and Obama. Here's what I think Obama should say, starting tomorrow night, at the big MSNBC debate in my hometown of Philly..." Matthews then puts words in Obama's mouth, suggesting that he link Hillary to both "endless war in Iraq" and the "inevitable war with Iran," suggesting that only he could get us out of "the rut of fearful politics and endless war." Matthews then concludes (presumably to get to the "news") -- "So there you have it. It's for you, my fellow Democrats, to decide. If you think Bush would have succeeded with his policies, if they were better executed, then go with Senator Clinton. If you think the Bush policies were wrong, dead wrong, I'm with you." – MRC's CyberAlert Tuesday Oct. 30
Fires Subside But Bush Still Takes Heat
California's wildfires are now under control, but President Bush is still taking the heat. Powerless to resist the liberal compulsion to bash Bush, ABC and CBS evening news broadcasts Oct. 28 quickly left the good news about the fires for graphic reminders of Katrina. With heart-tugging video of victim anguish in New Orleans, one reporter whined that Bush just "flew home from vacation" and "never stopped." There was no mention of the times Bush visited both New Orleans and Mississippi. And as for his recent California trip, thanking firefighters and consoling displaced homeowners, all the nets could manage was "the President came to a burned-out area to press the flesh..." – CyberAlert Monday Oct. 29 and NewsBusters Sunday night Oct. 28
"Worst Notable Quotables" from the past 20 years.
Here are just a few:
"... if everyone on Earth just stopped breathing for an hour, the greenhouse effect would no longer be a problem." – Newsweek Senior Writer Jerry Adler, 12-31-1990.
Evangelical Christians who like Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson "are largely poor, uneducated, and easy to command." – Washington Post reporter Michael Weisskopf in a 2-1-1993 news story.
"I hope his [Justice Clarence Thomas's] wife feeds him lots of eggs and butter and he dies early like many black men do, of heart disease... He is an absolutely reprehensible person." – USA Today columnist Julianne Malveaux on PBS's To the Contrary 11-4-1994.
"... when the last referendum took place, Saddam Hussein won 99.96 percent of the vote. Of course, it is impossible to say whether that's a true measure of the Iraqi people's feelings." – ABC's David Wright in Baghdad, on World News Tonight, 10-15-2002.
Dead Silence !
When in England at a large conference, Colin Powell was asked by the Archbishop of Canterbury if our plans for Iraq were just an example of empire building by George Bush. He answered by saying, "Over the years, the United States has sent many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for in return is enough to bury those that did not return." It became very quiet in the room.
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Then there was a conference in France where a number of international engineers were taking part, including French and American. During a break one of the French engineers came back into the room saying, "Have you heard the latest dumb stunt Bush has done? He has sent an aircraft carrier to Indonesia to help the tsunami victims. What does he intended to do, bomb them?" A Boeing engineer stood up and replied quietly: "Our carriers have three hospitals on board that can treat several hundred people; they are nuclear powered and can supply emergency electrical power to shore facilities; they have three cafeterias with the capacity to feed 5,000 people three meals a day, they can produce several thousand gallons of fresh water from sea water each day, and they carry half a dozen helicopters for use in transporting victims and injured to and from their flight deck.. We have eleven such ships; how many does France have?" Once again, dead silence.
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A U.S. Navy Admiral was attending a naval conference that included Admirals from the U.S., English, Canadian, Australian and French Navies. At a cocktail reception, he found himself standing with a large group of Officers that included personnel from most of those countries. Everyone was chatting away in English as they sipped their drinks but a French admiral suddenly complained that, 'whereas Europeans learn many languages, Americans learn only English.' He then asked, 'Why is it that we always have to speak English in these conferences rather than speaking French?' Without hesitating, the American Admiral replied 'Maybe its because the Brits, Canadians, Aussies and Americans arranged it so you wouldn't have to speak German' You could have heard a pin drop!
Easily Terrified, Mindless Christian Lemmings "We are, as far as urban public education is concerned, essentially at rock bottom. We are now at a point where we are essentially churning out ignorant teens who are becoming ignorant adults and society as a whole will pay dearly, very soon, and if you think the hordes of easily terrified, mindless fundamentalist evangelical Christian lemmings have been bad for the soul of this country, just wait." - San Francisco columnist Mark Morford, writing for SFGate.com, the Web site of the San Francisco Chronicle and picked up by Kristen Fyfe of MRC's Culture and Media Institute October 24.
In Case You Missed It
Chris Matthews Tells 'Fellow Democrats' What to Think Biased reporting is one thing, but when program hosts start campaigning on the air, it's over the top. Here's how Chris Matthews did it opening the Oct. 29 edition of Hardball: "Good evening, I'm Chris Matthews and welcome to Hardball. The 2008 election, that's the spotlight tonight. Iowa, which starts the whole thing January 3rd, is now a dead heat between Hillary and Obama. Here's what I think Obama should say, starting tomorrow night, at the big MSNBC debate in my hometown of Philly..." Matthews then puts words in Obama's mouth, suggesting that he link Hillary to both "endless war in Iraq" and the "inevitable war with Iran," suggesting that only he could get us out of "the rut of fearful politics and endless war." Matthews then concludes (presumably to get to the "news") -- "So there you have it. It's for you, my fellow Democrats, to decide. If you think Bush would have succeeded with his policies, if they were better executed, then go with Senator Clinton. If you think the Bush policies were wrong, dead wrong, I'm with you." – MRC's CyberAlert Tuesday Oct. 30
Fires Subside But Bush Still Takes Heat
California's wildfires are now under control, but President Bush is still taking the heat. Powerless to resist the liberal compulsion to bash Bush, ABC and CBS evening news broadcasts Oct. 28 quickly left the good news about the fires for graphic reminders of Katrina. With heart-tugging video of victim anguish in New Orleans, one reporter whined that Bush just "flew home from vacation" and "never stopped." There was no mention of the times Bush visited both New Orleans and Mississippi. And as for his recent California trip, thanking firefighters and consoling displaced homeowners, all the nets could manage was "the President came to a burned-out area to press the flesh..." – CyberAlert Monday Oct. 29 and NewsBusters Sunday night Oct. 28
"Worst Notable Quotables" from the past 20 years.
Here are just a few:
"... if everyone on Earth just stopped breathing for an hour, the greenhouse effect would no longer be a problem." – Newsweek Senior Writer Jerry Adler, 12-31-1990.
Evangelical Christians who like Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson "are largely poor, uneducated, and easy to command." – Washington Post reporter Michael Weisskopf in a 2-1-1993 news story.
"I hope his [Justice Clarence Thomas's] wife feeds him lots of eggs and butter and he dies early like many black men do, of heart disease... He is an absolutely reprehensible person." – USA Today columnist Julianne Malveaux on PBS's To the Contrary 11-4-1994.
"... when the last referendum took place, Saddam Hussein won 99.96 percent of the vote. Of course, it is impossible to say whether that's a true measure of the Iraqi people's feelings." – ABC's David Wright in Baghdad, on World News Tonight, 10-15-2002.
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Dead Silence !
When in England at a large conference, Colin Powell was asked by the Archbishop of Canterbury if our plans for Iraq were just an example of empire building by George Bush. He answered by saying, "Over the years, the United States has sent many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for in return is enough to bury those that did not return." It became very quiet in the room.
**************
Then there was a conference in France where a number of international engineers were taking part, including French and American. During a break one of the French engineers came back into the room saying, "Have you heard the latest dumb stunt Bush has done? He has sent an aircraft carrier to Indonesia to help the tsunami victims. What does he intended to do, bomb them?" A Boeing engineer stood up and replied quietly: "Our carriers have three hospitals on board that can treat several hundred people; they are nuclear powered and can supply emergency electrical power to shore facilities; they have three cafeterias with the capacity to feed 5,000 people three meals a day, they can produce several thousand gallons of fresh water from sea water each day, and they carry half a dozen helicopters for use in transporting victims and injured to and from their flight deck.. We have eleven such ships; how many does France have?" Once again, dead silence.
*****************
A U.S. Navy Admiral was attending a naval conference that included Admirals from the U.S., English, Canadian, Australian and French Navies. At a cocktail reception, he found himself standing with a large group of Officers that included personnel from most of those countries. Everyone was chatting away in English as they sipped their drinks but a French admiral suddenly complained that, 'whereas Europeans learn many languages, Americans learn only English.' He then asked, 'Why is it that we always have to speak English in these conferences rather than speaking French?' Without hesitating, the American Admiral replied 'Maybe its because the Brits, Canadians, Aussies and Americans arranged it so you wouldn't have to speak German' You could have heard a pin drop!
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