News Snippets From All Beats

Phil Jones, Former director of climate research at University of East Anglia, has been suicidal over the reaction to his emails that were published showing his manipulation of data in order to support global warming theory.  Jones also lamented that he lacked public relations skill that could have helped him to weather the scandal.¹  No one in their right mind would wish Jones to take his life.  The only hope serious people have is that he would end his support for the failed theory of global warming.  It would be the honest thing to do.  And this word of advice: repentance will take you much further than PR skills.

^1. Time Online, “I thought of killing myself, says climate scandal professor Phil Jones,” February 7, 2010.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article7017922.ece

Photo: The Washington Post. 

Climate just won’t cooperate with global warming conspirators.  On top of all the other record breaking rain and snow, now a record storm is scheduled to hit the east coast and drop 30″ of snow in D.C. area alone.  The National Weather Service is warning of “extremely dangerous winter weather conditions” as they track possibly the biggest storm to hit the region since records were kept.¹  The president may not want to admit it, and the lying scientists are still lying, and Al Gore is still, well, Al Gore, but the informed man on the ground is redefining the term Cap-and-Trade to mean: make sure to wear a cap, and trade almost anything for a good snow shovel.

 ^1. Watches, Warnings, & Advisories, The National Weather Service, February 5, 2010.

http://forecast.weather.gov/showsigwx.php?warnzone=DCZ001&warncounty=DCC001&firewxzone=DCZ001&local_place1=Washington+DC&product1=Special+Weather+Statement

Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), is refusing to apologize.¹  The issue this time is a factual error in the Panel’s 2007 report claiming that the Himalayan glaciers were very likely to melt as a result of global warming by 2035.  It turns out the information cited in the report actually came from observations made by some hikers, and a school paper writing by a geography student.  Dr. Pachauri said he can’t be held responsible for every word in the 3,000 page report.  That’s alright.  Many of us are refusing to apologizing for correctly identifying global warming theory as nothing more than a socialist plan to redistribute wealth under false pretenses held together by conspiracies; because we’re not responsible for global warming.

 ^1. David Adam and Fred Pearce, “No apology from IPCC chief Rajendra Pachauri for glacier fallacy,” guardian.co.uk, February 2, 2010.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/feb/02/climate-change-pachauri-un-glaciers

The Air Force Academy in Colorado is about to dedicate a Wiccan prayer circle made of boulders.  Finally “Earth-centered cadets,” as the pagans on the base refer to themselves, will have a place to worship.¹  If they only realized how theologically accurate the term that they have chosen for themselves really is.

 ^1. Fox News, “Neo-Pagans Get Worship Circle at Air Force Academy,” February 1, 2010.

President Obama’s $8 billion award to pay for high-speed train rails amounts to hardly the sales tax.  The actual amount of the project, with 13 rails projected, is more like $100 billion.  The question is, with states nearly broke and the fed in record deficit spending already, who will pay to complete the project?  Answer: think toll roads. Foreign companies have been buying leases on U.S. toll roads in Indianan, Virginia, Detroit, Alabama, and elsewhere for about a decade now.

This is a dangerous trend as our national interests could be adversely affected.   In the event of some future world crisis requiring us to mobilize and move forces and supplies stateside, foreign interests would control our roads. The toll road trend may be about to get a lot worse.

One idea is that Obama already has China up his sleeve for bailing out the high-speed train project by being offered everything from purchasing the whole line, manufacturing the trains, managing the routs, and selling the tickets.  Strapped for cash, and willing to sacrifice national heritage for world approval, Obama would even put the airlines on the block if he could find a way.  Waite for it….

Income earned by mega churches reportedly averages $6.5 million a year.  The annual budget for Lakewood Church in Houston, pastured by Joel Osteen, exceeds $80 million.¹  Merchandise in the form of CDs, DVDs, and books probably accounts for a large portion of the income.  Some of the changes that have been made which are propelling both growth and income were noted by Jonathan Walton, Assistant Professor of religious studies at University of California, Riverside.  Walton told CNN that “the plasma screen TVs have replaced crosses, Power Point-like presentations of words of songs and liturgical practices have replaced the hymnals.”²  While the CNN report did not touch on it, another change responsible for the growth of mega churches is the commercialization of the message marketed to the members, or rather, the consumers.

Notes:

^{1 - 2.} CNN, “Mega churches mean big business,” Connect the World, CNN. January 22, 2010.

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/01/21/religion.mega.church.christian/

News reports on climate change are now telling many what they already knew.  The decadal oscillation of ocean currents and other climate cycles have been naturally taking their course without any influence from mankind, and are now entering into to a period of global cooling.  This fact has put a chill on the excitement of some scientists who followed the evidence and not the party line.

When thinking back ten years ago to his work in the global warming campaign, scientist Dr. David Evans recounts: “It was great. We were working to save the planet.”¹   Since that time, Evans has been disabused of that euphoria as he has honestly faced the evidence that carbon emissions simply don’t cause the sort of warming governments are being told they do.  Not even close, for that matter.

According to Evens, “There is no evidence to support the idea that carbon emissions cause significant global warming. None.”²  He should know, he’s the scientist who authored the carbon accounting model for the Australian government, and today he is making the case against anthropogenic global warming conspiracy.

Perhaps other proponents of global warming that were only a few years ago so vociferous in accusing dissenters from the theory of being “deniers” for purely political and monetary reasons will also come forward and change their views to match the evidence.³  Or maybe they’re waiting for spring, it is pretty cold out there.

Notes:

^{1 - 2.} David Evans, “No Smoking Hot Spot,” The Australian, January 18, 2010. 

^3. Sharon Begley, “Global Warming Deniers: A Well-Funded Machine,” MSNCB.com, (accessed August 20, 2007). Originally pubublished as  “The Truth About Denial,” Newsweek, August 13, 2007. citations are from the MSNBC title. http://www.newsweek.com/id/32482.

^{see also:} David Dansker, “The Truth - About the Truth About Denial,” TheNewsBeats.com, News Snippets from All Beats (August 20, 2007).  http://www.thenewsbeats.com/news/2007/08/20/the-truth-about-the-truth-about-denial/

The costs of enacting restrictions on energy use to combat humans in order to prevent the theory of global warming are about to run into the very real costs of finding food to feed them in the reality of global cooling.

A farmer and his tractor in Denshaw near Oldham, as heavy snowfall continues across most parts of the UK. Photograph: John Giles/PA Archive/Press Association Ima

Read it: Food costs to soar as big freeze deepens

The Heritage Foundation’s employment report for December 2009 also looks at the year in review, and some forecasts made back then, and some for 2010.  A survey in the report shows that, for the near future, business investing that would create jobs is expected to be down by half it was before the recession.  Many have taken a wait and see attitude as congress proceeds with sweeping cost increases to doing business such as cap and trade, and government health care.  Heritage noted that “businesses are not increasing hiring in part due to the fears of an activist government agenda that makes labor costs uncertain,” and that activism has a chart.¹

Exemplifying the divergence between that ideological activism and reality, Heritage published this following graph showing Whitehouse projections on the effect that stimulus spending would have on unemployment, and the actual figures on the rise in unemployment:

Lines like the ones above also reveal that the government has either no grasp of the severity of the problems, an inability to confront them, no ability to solve them, or, and this is becoming widely suspected, a real desire to bankrupt the nation.   Socialism: now that’s change we can really heave in.

Notes:

^1. Rea S. Hederman, Jr., James Sherk, “Heritage Employment Report: 2009 Ends with More Job Losses,”  Heritage Foundation,” January 8, 2010. http://www.heritage.org/Research/Economy/wm2748.cfm. (accessed January 9, 2010).

The study of UFO phenomenology is taking place in both secular and Christian circles.  The focus in the secular venue is primarily on the existence of a superior extraterrestrial race with good will towards men.  In the Christian study of UFO’s, answers for the existence of powerful supernatural beings are sought within the pages of Bible, and the evidence shows that fully one third of them would possess diabolical intentions for the human race.  There is an explanation for all the curiosity in both camps, and this article titled “The Longing” at Drywind takes a peek at them.

Superman: Man has thought he has become powerful enough to destroy the world in his own time; man must become powerful enough to save it in his own eyes.

Several articles have appeared here chronicling the global warming hoax and the motivations for perpetuating that hoax. Many developments in the scandal have made the news lately, and the unraveling of the fraudulent science and associated conspiracies has been rapid fire.  The following link is provided here for a concise topical overview:

Copenhagen and “ClimateGate“

Many civic minded individuals with religious convictions have joined together in the Manhattan Declaration to declare their opposition to abortion and support of marriage, among other socially redeeming values.  Except for other signers, it might be only the commendable exertion of civic duty on the part of the citizenry that could be praised much in the same way as their registering to vote, though garnering more of it from those who agree with their position.  What has turned this otherwise fair lesson in civics, however, into a debacle is the assortment of religious leaders who are now also in league together by their own declaration.

The religious signers of the Manhattan Declaration include many high-ranking officials of the Roman Catholic Church.  Present are the Most Rev. Samuel J. Aquila, Bishop, Roman Catholic Diocese; Most Rev. Robert J. Baker, S.T.D., Bishop of Birmingham Diocese;  Most Rev. Charles J. Chaput, Archbishop, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Denver; Most Rev. Nicholas DiMarzio, Bishop, Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn; Most Rev. Timothy Dolan, Archbishop, Roman Catholic Diocese of New York, etc., et al.¹  Had it ended there it would have remained only a Constitutionally protected expression of religious beliefs to be respected.

The trouble with the document is that an assortment of famous, Protestant religious leaders has also signed onto it.  This has caused many to declare openly their disappointment and disapproval, and to question the wisdom of such an act.

How can persons who conduct large ministries which include study in the scriptures be so very ignorant of the implications of their endorsements? When they sign the Manhattan Declaration they affix their seal of recognition that legitimizes the views and positions of other signatories.  This writer has yet to discover that heretofore Kay Arthur, of Precept Ministries International, and Chuck Colson, of Prison Fellowship; have renounced their view of salvation through Christ alone and have joined the Catholic Church to obtain it.

Certainly it is a logical step to take after joining with its representatives in religious pursuit of ideals based on a common understanding of the scriptures.  The Protestants who signed would do well to understand what the Roman Catholic Church understands about itself:

This is the one Church of Christ which in the Creed is professed as one, holy, catholic and apostolic, which our Saviour [sic], after His Resurrection, commissioned Peter to shepherd…. This Church constituted and organized in the world as a society, subsists in the Catholic Church.²

This tenent of the Roman Catholic Church, found in the Dogmatic Constitution On The Church, simply means that if one is not in the Catholic Church, one is not in the body of Christ; as the Catholic Church is the only true Christian church.  It follows that the Catholic Church would conclude the obvious about those who left it, or remained outside of it, in regards to salvation.  What the Catholic Church still affirms as its position on salvation, “basing itself upon Sacred Scripture and Tradition, it teaches that the [Catholic] Church, now sojourning on earth as an exile, is necessary for salvation.”³

In light of these things, should we now expect future study programs from Arthur’s Precept Ministries instructing on how recant Protestantism to join the Catholic Church?  Will Colson’s Prison Fellowship be disturbing Bibles and rosaries to inmates?  While offerings that could be forthcoming from such popular ministries would probably not be so blatant, but of a more subtle nature; such a change in directions could have ill effects on many who subscribe to those ministries.  That makes the nature of these questions, if not their substance, serious; and among others that should be answered by the signatories:

Jack Graham - Will Dr. Jack Graham, pastor of Prestonwood Baptist Church in Plano, Texas, perform the Mass when fellow signatories such as His Eminence Adam Cardinal Maida come to call on him?

Josh McDowell - Is author Josh McDowell, founder of the ministry by the same name, soon to release a book titled: New Evidence that Demands a PAPACY“?

Chuck Swindoll - More to the point, and at the foundation, can Chuck Swindoll, pastor and founder of Insight for living, lend any insight as to why he now accepts the organization which claims exclusive sacerdotal powers and that conversely finds his Pastoral Office illegitimate and ungodly?

That last question should also be answered many other signers, including:

Randy Brannon, Senior Pastor, Grace Community Church;

Rev. Jonathan Falwell, Senior Pastor, Thomas Road Baptist Church;

Dr. Jim Garlow, Senior Pastor, Skyline Church;

Dr. R. Albert Mohler, Jr., President, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary;

Dr. Michael Youssef, President, Leading Way;

Ravi Zacharias, Founder and Chairman of the board, Ravi Zacharias International Ministries.

(There are others of notoriety who signed the Manhattan Declaration, but who have already proved they cannot be taken seriously in the faith.) What say you?

Notes:

^1. List of Religious Leaders Signatories, “Manhattan Declaration,” Manhattan Declaration.org,  http://www.manhattandeclaration.org/sign/list-of-religious-leaders-signatories(accessed December 5, 2009).

^2. Pope Paul VI, Dogmatic Constitution On The Church, (Lumen Gentium) November 21, 1964. Ch 2, 14 (emphasis added).  http://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_const_19641121_lumen-gentium_en.html

^3. Ibid. Ch 1, 8 (emphasis added).

Many people are beginning to understand the ramifications of a Government-run Health Care system,  and to suspect the worst.  As proposed, the new system would not only control the entire Health Care Industry and your access to it, but it will also control every aspect of your life.  This will be accomplished under the principal of the “continuum of care”¹ that surrounds every person with a “collaborative” network of clinics and agencies.² The premise behind this all inclusive continuum of care is that everyone is always in some condition requiring care or  treatment depending on the fluctuating status of their wellbeing, and not the actual condition of their health.

The term wellbeing was introduced many years ago as a replacement category for health because physical health was increasingly being viewed as an insufficient means for measuring overall human health.  A person’s thoughts and attitudes weighted significantly on a person’s prognosis, and so wellbeing could also encompass the psychology of that person and prescribe psychotherapy to meet those needs. This view of treating the total person helped to popularize the holistic approach to medicine. This view is of relatively low risk when visiting a herbalist.

The key component of the idea of Government-run Health Care that is so freighting is a government dispensing treatment for attitudes.   When the government controls health care it will also manage the branch referred to as Mental Health; with its continuum of “assessments, crisis intervention, counseling, treatment, and referral to continuum of services including emergency psychiatric care.”³  When the government controls mental health, they also control all psychologists and psychiatrists, whom they will employ, and will determine what constitutes a condition requiring emergency psychiatric care.

Assessments could be designed to turn ordinary attitudes of sixty-year olds, which of course differ from those of twenty-year olds, into cries for euthanasia.  People who express disapproval of a government action or are critical of a government official could be assessed as requiring counseling, and remember that psychiatric care includes drug therapy.  The want by some in government now for the use of this latter health care option to be immediately employed was made evident by Senate Majority Leader  Harry Reid (D) of Nevada.

Senator Reid claimed recently that that the public outrage over the government plan to take over health care exhibited by those attending town hall meetings was really an effort to “sabotage” democracy.⁴  This is definitely a different slant on the First Amendment, which reads in part: “Congress shall make no law… abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” Many of the people at these meetings, who were recognized and allowed to speak, brought documentation to show how they will lose their health care under the government plan, and how their children will suffer.  Grievances for sure.

Nevertheless, Senator Reid’s diagnosis supersedes these First Amendment safeguards on the grounds of the coming new government Mental Health Care plan.  He observes that “They are doing this because they don’t have any better ideas…. It’s really simple: they’re taking their cues from talk show hosts, Internet rumor-mongerers … and insurance rackets.”⁵  (The American Health Insurance Industry will no doubt be responding to that last remark.) It seems that according to Senator Reid, these are people who cannot think and fend for themselves, and are unable to reason.  They are easily manipulated by disreputable sources such as are found on radio and the internet (he’ll deal with that later), and it is against their own personal safety and welfare for them to be free to roam the streets unsedated. The prescribed treatment would probably be restraint, and confinement to a facility where they would receive a strict diet of government-approved media, and possibly drug therapy.

While this is satiric treatment of the attitude displayed by Senator Reid,  it is not as far from the pail as it may seem.

When the government controls the dials, they can redefine what constitutes conditions such as obesity, and other health risks factors.  In the area of Preventative Treatment, where programs will be put in place to prevent disease and keep exiting conditions for escalating, patients (and that means everyone, as all will be under care) will endure ongoing assessments to monitor behavior. The controls to ensure compliance to one’s medical profile are easy enough to put into place.   A special National Health Card, or “machine-readable health plan beneficiary identification card” as it is listed in H.R. 3200,⁶  could be issued and updated with new restriction codes after each visit to the clinic.

This card would have to be presented and scanned for all purchases.  A patient will take their groceries to the checkout, but only those foods approved for their diets will scan.  Remember that government has already linked the environment to human health, and some are demanding that bovine be effectively taxed out of existence under the theory of global warming.  It will be so much easier to code beef restrictions on National Health Cards so that everyone will be eating high-fiber; everyone except for Senator Reid, and others in the ruling class.  They’ll still be eating steak.  Most government officials will almost certainly be exempted from these restrictions by a Consumer National Health Division Act that will actually establish a second tier to the Government-run Health Care system for government officials.

The writing on the wall for such tyranny is as plain as the conceit and arrogance now being displayed by those officials towards the people. Not everyone sees all these possibilities as imminent realities, but many see that there is a real and present danger in a Government-run Health Care system of exactly these proportions, and worse.   There is even a provision for health practitioners to provide “advance care planning,” that would include “the continuum of end-of-life services.”⁷ That would probably be the coming demand for euthanasia government assessments are to discover exists among sixty-year olds,  and dissidents.  It is clear even now that procedures deemed to be too expensive for the contribution society receives in return from a person will be denied, and a pain pill will be dispensed instead.  A journalist producing anything other than government propaganda will score very low on contributory value no matter what their age. It will be far more cost effective to let them die than to try to change their mind.  Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin accurately recognizes the Government-run Health Care plan is “downright evil,” and we are recognizing the lady from Alaska.⁸

Notes:

^1. America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009, HR 3200, 111^th Cong., 1^st sess., http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=111_cong_bills&docid=f:h3200ih.txt.pdf   429. (accessed August 9, 2009)

^2. Ibid, 994.

^3. Ibid, 998-99.

^4. Yahoo News, “Top Democrat denounces health care protestors,” August 6, 2009.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090806/ap_on_go_co/us_health_care_overhaul

^5. Ibid.

^6.  America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009, HR 3200, 58

^7. America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009, 425.

^8. Yahoo News, “Palin says Obama’s health care plane is ‘evil’,” August 8, 2009.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090808/ap_on_re_us/us_palin_health_care

If the assets conversion plan being considered by the Obama administration for delinquent homeowners gets approval, eminent domain will take on a new dimension.  The proposal is for $50 million to be rushed to assist bowers who cannot make their current mortgage payments, but with a double twist.  Homeowners would accept the subsidies, but have to sign over ownership of their homes to the Federal Government and become renters.  To sweeten the deal, details include paying stipends to the ‘renters’ for disposing them of their title to their homes, and land.

What is insidious about this tact is that once this almost-certain-to- gain-popular-acceptance-plan goes into effect, the Obama Federal Government, which is already dialing the knobs via the Federal Reserve and Treasury, will be able to affect these types of asset conversion rates on the general population in the not too distant future.

While some may still foolishly believe that the world will be converted to Christianity, it becomes more obvious with each passing day that the world is to being converted to Marxism.   Here is a concise definition of Marxism for those who have arrived late: Marxism is Satanism; the living organism that is part of the bride of Antichrist, which denies the Messiah, and His living body on earth the Church (not the false teachers and false professors one may see on TV, or at local gatherings).

Rick Warren continues to amaze and dazzle the unregenerate by preaching business strategies for corporate growth and profit while completely ignoring the gospel.  He appears before Jews and Muslims instructing them how to grow and enhance their numbers without offering the message of salvation.

Particularly odious is his exhortation that Christians join hands with Muslims in community service projects and put their differences behind them for this greater good.  As this article “Rick Warren: A Voiced for the Regenerate Church or the Degenerate Church?” by Moriel Ministries shows, it is not difficult to see the true spirit behind Rick Warren.