Daily Archives: November 26, 2008

What Every Child Should Know About Thanksgiving

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Newt Gingrich   Thanks to H.T. of NY-Metro ACT!

Second only to Independence Day, Thanksgiving is a uniquely American holiday. And as an American holiday, it is rooted deeply – like our nation – in faith in God.

The earliest Thanksgivings were celebrated by Americans who were keenly aware that their blessings — like their rights – came from god. In times of hardship unimaginable to us today, they took time to give thanks to their Creator.

Throughout early American history, when they suffered from drought famine or war, Americans paused, not to seek vengeance or to question their faith, but to give thanks (Celebrating Thanksgiving In America) to God for the blessings they still had. At a time when the economic news seems to get worse every day, it’s important to remember the humble faith of these early Americans. They didn’t just give thanks when times were good, they gave thanks when times were bad – especially when times were bad. 

Radical Secularists Deny the Central Role of Religion in American History

Today is a decidedly different time in America.

Not only have many American forgotten or never learned the historic origins of our thanksgiving – to pause and give thanks to God for our abundance – but radical secularists are intent on removing God and faith from our national life altogether (America Rediscovering God DVD).

Many of the entertainment and political elite seem to be threatened by religious faith. Bill Maher is among the latest who stands like a drunken mouse circling the wine keg waving his tiny fist in the face of God. Last sentence is editorial note. 

Others seem intent on denying or whitewashing the central role that religious faith has played in American history, such as the attempt to whitewash God out of the Capitol Visitor’s Center (view the video and petition my wife, Callista, and I have created to ask Congress to ensure the Capitol Visitor’s Center is historically accurate about America’s Godly heritage.)

These radical secularists seek to portray those who acknowledge this historical fact as theocrats intent on imposing their religion on others.

In fact, to acknowledge the centrality of God in American history is to acknowledgeAmerica’s great freedom of religion – the freedom to worship and the freedom not to worship. Many Americans have taken advantage of this freedom by drawing closer to their Creator. They understand, even if so many of our media and political elites don’t, that religious freedom is the cornerstone of all of our freedoms.

Voices From Thanksgivings Past

The centrality f God in Thanksgiving in America comes through in the words of some of our greatest national leaders:

Virginia Governor Thomas Jefferson, in 1779:

(1) appoint … a day of public Thanksgiving to Almighty God … to (ask) Him that He would  … pour out His Holy Spirit on all ministers of the Gospel; that He would … spread the light of Christian knowledge through the remotest corners of the earth … and that He would establish these United States upon the basis of religion and virtue.

President George Washington’s first Federal Thanksgiving proclamation in 1789:

Whereas it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favor … Now, therefore, I do appoint Thursday, the 26th day of November 1789 … that we may all unite to render unto Hiim our sincere and humble thanks for His kind care and protection.

President Abraham Lincoln, making Thanksgiving an annual national holiday in 1863, in the midst of the Civil War:

No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy. It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently, and gratefully acknowledged, as with one heart and one voice, by the whole American people.

“Let Us Be Thankful For a Land That Will For Such Religion Stand.”

Our leaders have not been alone in celebrating God’s gifts at Thanksgiving, of course.

I conclude today with a poem by Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer, an African-American poet writing at the turn of the 20th century. Her generous, hopeful view of Thanksgiving is made even more remarkable by the suffereing and discrimination she endured as an African-American in the late 19th and early 20th century.

Thanksgiving

Let us give thanks to God above,
Thanks for expressions of His love,
Seen in the book of nature, grand
Taught by His love on every hand.

Let us be thankful in our hearts,
Thankful for all the truth imparts,
For the religion of our Lord,
All that is taught us in His word.

Let us be thankful for a land,
That will for such religion stand;
One that protects it by the law,
One that before it stands in awe.

Thankful for all things let us be,
Though there be woes and misery;
Lessons they bring us for our good-
Later ’twill all be understood.

Thankful for peace o’er land and sea,
Thankful for signs of liberty,
Thankful for homes, for life and health,
Pleasure and plenty, fame and wealth.

Thankful for friends and loved ones, too,
Thankful for all things, good and true,
Thankful for harvest in the fall,
Thankful to Him who gave it all. 

May you and your family have a happy, healthy, and blessed Thanksgiving.

Your friend

From the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews Website

Did you know that Thanksgiving is really a Jewish holiday?

Although Thanksgiving is not on the Jewish calendar, historians believe that Sukkot may have inspired America’s favorite farewell to fall, often nicknamed “Turkey Day.”    

“The pilgrims based their customs on the Bible,” says Gloria Kaufer Greene, author of the “New Jewish Holiday Cookbook” (Times books, 1999). “They knew that Sukkot was an autumn harvest festival, and there is evidence that they fashioned the first Thanksgiving after the Jewish custom of celebrating the success of the year’s crops.”

Linda Burghardt, author of “Jewish Holiday Traditions” (Citadel Press, 2001), said, “Sukkot is considered a model for Thanksgiving. both holidays revolve around showing gratitude for a bountiful harvest.”

Today Thanksgiving is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November, but President Franklin Roosevelt didn’t propose this timing until 1939.

It was Abraham Lincoln who made Thanksgiving a national holiday. Roosevelt actually changed Lincoln’s decree that Thanksgiving be observed on the last Thursday in November, which may fall on the fifth Thursday of the month. 

The pilgrims’ invited local Indians to the first Thanksgiving during the fall of 1621. This follows a biblical commandment, well known to the Pilgrims, to welcome the stranger to your meals. Historians speculate that this celebration occurred somewhere between September 21 and November 9, but most likely in early October, around the time of Sukkot.

“Originally, Sukkot entailed a pilgrimage to Jerusalem,” says Greene, who believes the two holidays share much in common.

The Puritan Christians who landed on American shores seeking religious freedom were called pilgrims, in deference to their journey from England. Their dream of finding a place where they’d be free to worship as they pleased in a recurrent theme in Jewish history.

After their pilgrimage to Jerusalem, the ancient Israelites lived for a week in temporary huts while giving thanks for a plentiful harvet. Likewise, during their first wintr in Massachusetts, the pilgrims dwelled in makeshift huts, wigwams that the Indians helped them build.

While Sukkot remains a seven-day observance, the first Thanksgiving celebration continued for three days, a time frame more similar to the Jewish harvest festival than today’s Thanksgiving dinner, which often begins in late afternoon and ends several hours later. 

The Real Objectives of Barack Obama

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The following posts is not quick and easy reading, but it’s too serious not to circulate. Please read carefully and circulate to those who will consider and understand the implications of the situation!

Posted: November 25, 2008
By Hilmar von Campe  © 2008 

Editor’s note: Hilmar von Campe is author of the new book ”Defeating the Totalitarian Lie: A Former Hitler Youth Warns America,” which is available at WND’s online store.

Lust for power is in the heart of every human being – it is part of human nature. It is an issue for each one of us in our personal and professional life, and it is a political issue on the level of government. The question is how to deal with the lust for power and serve justice at the same time if you want a stable government.

The handling of human nature in organizing power is different from country to country. Because our Founding Fathers understood human nature and the temptation of power, they created a Constitution that took both issues into account – a masterpiece of transferring Christian teachings into the political organization of American society. It is built on the respect for life and for the rights every person has been given by our Creator and not by any government. Its political foundation consists of the separation of power between the three branches of government and depends on truthful and responsible citizen who make it function. The armed forces have to defend life and freedom of all Americans to outside enemies. Additionally, there are the National Guards reporting to the governor of the respective state of the union and the militias. One reason for the creation of the militia was to enable the citizens to defend themselves against our own government if it should get oppressive. Therefore, to bear arms is our constitutional right, which cannot be taken away by any government.

Enemies of freedom do not like the idea of armed citizens and try all sorts of means to control or eliminate guns in private hands. Hitler described on April 11, 1942, in a dinner keynote address his thinking regarding the matter:

“The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subject races to possess arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by so doing. I would go so far as to say that supply of arms to the underdog is a sine qua non to overthrow of any sovereignty. So let’s not have any native militia or native police.” He was referring to occupied Soviet Union provinces whose people he called “races” but made clear that his principle is valid to wherever somebody wants to overthrow any sovereignty.

Hilmar von Campe’s riveting book, “Defeating the Totalitarian Lie: A Former Hitler Youth Warns America,” draws compelling parallels to today’s America

In our case, you just need to say “citizen” instead of “race” and you understand what that “somebody” means when he tells you his lies about why he wants to do it. It that simple!

The Nazis also controlled the media, which fed us with lies about what they were doing and why. The Democratic Party and Barack Obama would like to get a similar status of power as the Nazis had. The so-called Fairness Doctrine is a steppingstone in that direction. If you hear former NBC anchor Tom Brokaw say, “We have to have free speech in some kind of context,” then you know what he is up to.

By the time of his speech, Hitler had put himself into a comfortable position. He was commander in chief of the armed forces. In 1934, the armed storm troopers under the leadership of Ernst Roehm, a close friend of Hitler, had become a competitor of Hitler’s power. Hitler had him and 300 others killed in 1934, among them a great part of the storm troopers’ leadership. Thereafter, the troopers were without weight in the inside power struggle. Hitler had created the SS, including the Gestapo, the secret political police (Geheime Staatspolizei), the feared executioner of the Nazi system. The only dangerous enemies of the system remaining were inside the armed forces. He bribed some of the military leaders with ranches and had every officer and civil servant swear his oath of allegiance to him personally. The only ones who were legally forbidden to bear arms were the Jews. My father had a gun.

All of the above was meant to enable the government to put down any armed insurrection. Different from any “normal” dictatorship, a totalitarian system goes after the minds and hearts of the population with the purpose to make them do voluntarily what the government wants them to do. This is called mind control, which also is far advanced in the United States. The Nazis controlled 100 percent of the media and also an important part of education. In the schools, control was exercised through godless Nazi teachers where they had some and through Darwinism, which is also taught to American children. The minimum result they had with the Hitler Youth was that there was no other youth organization and that we young people didn’t question the legality of it. It belonged to the system into which we were born.

There was another Nazi organization that had the same task as all other institutions, namely to keep people under control and influence their thinking. It was the Service to Work(Arbeitsdienst). Young men had to serve half a year before entering into military service. It seems that Obama likes this Nazi feature because he has proposed, in addition to the idea of a civilian national security force, a plan to create a national community service program. Obama’s motives for this cannot be different from the Nazi motives – to bring as many youth as possible under their socialist umbrella and influence. Obama has 3.1 million e-mail addresses from young people who are waiting to do something.

President-elect Obama says that America is no more a Christian nation. He is not a Christian himself because you can’t be a Christian and promote the killing of unborn human beings, which he does. He also wants to neutralize our Constitution by adding class-warfare concepts. His plans point to where he wants to lead the American nation: onto the same road Germany took in 1933. Americans, do you want to go in that direction? It is still time to take the opposite direction – a nation under God.

Lewis Cass, governor of the Michigan Territory in 1848, secretary of state for President James Buchanan, senator and 1848 Democrat presidential candidate, stated the following: “Independent of its connection with human destiny hereafter, the fate of republican government is indissolubly bound up with the fate of the Christian religion, and a people who reject its holy faith will find themselves the slaves of their own evil passions and of arbitrary power. … God, in his providence, has given us a Book of His revealed will … to teach us what we ought to do here, and what we shall be hereafter.”

John Witherspoon, who lost two sons in the Revolution, was the only clergyman to sign the Declaration of Independence and served on 120 Congressional committees. He stated: “He is the best friend of American liberty, who is most … active in promoting true and undefiled religion … to bear down profanity and immorality of every kind. Whoever is an avowed enemy of God, I scruple not to call him an enemy of his country.”

Barack Hussein Obama would bring his immorality into the White House. He is an enemy of God. As everybody else, he can and must change morally to be in line with our Constitution and be able to represent and lead the American people.

Order von Campe’s new book, “Defeating the Totalitarian Lie: A Former Hitler Youth Warns America”

Hilmar von Campe is listed in the 1992 “International Who’s Who of Intellectuals” of the International Biographical Center in Cambridge, England. He is the author of “Defeating the Totalitarian Lie: A Former Hitler Youth Warns America.” Having grown up under the Nazis, he offers a unique perspective on the rise and fall of Nazi Germany. He warns that there are many similarities between the Nazi society and America of today.


Does Barack Obama Plan to Emasculate Israel’s Supposed Nuclear Deterrence?

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by Emanuel A. Winston, Mid East analyst & commentator  Nov. 20, 2008

Ex-President Jimmy Carter was unable during his failed presidency to destroy “those Jews” but his gang is ready to try again under Abu*Hussein’s pro-Islam philosophy. Read and understand what’s really happening to Israel. Dan

President-elect Barack Obama plans to “get tough” on Israel’s alleged nuclear weapons. This is not new policy from the U.S. State Department.

October 30 to November 1, 1991 Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir attended the Madrid International “Peace” Conference. He was urged not to go but, he ignored the warnings. He assumed he could handle everything. As predicted, Israel was facing “Kangaroo Court”.

Shamir and the other Israelis present were thrust into an ambush arranged by then-Secretary of State James Baker III and Baker’s 3 infamous “Jew-boys” (as they came to be known): Dennis Ross, Aaron David Miller and Daniel Kurtzer. These 3 were selected by Baker because they were ambitious, Leftists and could be depended upon to take their marching orders from Baker and the ever-pro-Arab U.S. State Department.

These very same pro-Arab Leftists are now advising Obama on how best to deal with Israel, as they did before.

While they denied playing any significant role at the Madrid Conference, it was reported by those present that they bounced from room to room, pressuring, making recommendations and otherwise guiding the tenor of those meetings.

While Ross, Miller and Kurtzer were doing their lobbying, mostly biased toward the Muslim Arab countries’ positions, I had an uneasy thought. I sensed and wrote back then that I thought the Baker team would urge some Arab Muslim country’s representative to ask for a “Nuclear-Free Zone” in the Middle East. Sure enough, near the end of the Conference, like a well-oiled scheme, the Egyptian representative did ask for a “Nuclear-Free Zone,” in effect, to eliminate Israel’s deterrence to enemies who far out-number her.

Since it was well-known that Israel probably had a Nuclear Deterrence (and was the only country in the area to be so endowed) clearly, the objective of this proclamation was, as pre-planned, to eliminate Israel’s deterrent capability. If Israel obeyed those “diktats” that would translate into Israel having to face Muslim Arab aggression with conventional weapons only and limited man-power compared to the huge population of the surrounding Arab Muslim countries.

This was Baker’s and his team’s objective. Without a Nuclear Deterrence, Israel could be invaded with forces superior in numbers and arms. Without a Nuclear Deterrence, Israel could be driven, if not into extinction, certainly into submission and forced to accept any compromise or surrender on Muslim Arab terms. Remember: the very word “Islam” means “Submission.”

I would presume that you, the reader, knows what that could mean to the Jewish nation of Israel. Israel would be forced into a dangerous compromise of territory, being swamped by the return of descendants from the 450,000 Arabs who left in 1948 – now dubiously claimed to number 3 to 5 million; Israel would suffer the loss of precious ancestral sites like the Temple Mount and the Cave of the Machpelah (burial place of the Patriarchs and Matriarchs); Israel would become a parched desert with the loss of scarce fresh water resources under the Judean, Samarian mountains and the Golan Heights which Israel would be forced to surrender; Israel would lose the defensive positions on those mountains and Heights, plus homes, farms, factories, synagogues, schools – just as happened in Gaza.

Can’t they learn from that bitter experience? The Israeli government cannot afford to (or simply refuses to) re-settle the 10,000 Jewish men, women and children that her corrupt leadership “ethnically cleansed” from the 21 thriving communities in Gush Katif and the 4 towns in the Northern Samaria. How then could she possibly re-settle 400,000 more from their homes in Judea, Samaria, the Jordan Valley, the Golan Heights and those parts of Jerusalem that were occupied and desecrated by Jordan for 19 years from 1948 to 1967?

Regardless, this is the plan driven by the Bush family, by Condoleezza Rice, James Baker, and now threatened to be carried forward by Obama and his advisory team of Arabists. [And Hillary will gladly implement this plan, to honor the memory of the husband of her girl friend, Suha Arafat. -- Allan.]

It appears that Baker’s Leftist Jew boys, “Ross, Miller and Kurtzer” (who were later joined by Martin Indyk) now are all advising Barack Obama. They have re-sold their old kettle of dead fish (a “Nuclear Free Zone”) to the Obama advisory team.

Keep in mind that many on Obama’s advisory team are notorious Jew-Haters from years past. Zbigniew Brzezinski, Robert Malley, Gen. James Jones, Jimmy Carter and Robert Gates have all been deeply linked to James Baker’s philosophy for years. Remember James Baker famously said to President Richard Nixon: “F**k the Jews. They didn’t vote for us anyway.”

Condoleezza Rice is scurrying to insert her personal and State Department hostility into the Obama camp to insure continuity. Hillary Clinton requires more analysis given (Bill’s and her) relationship to Yassir (and Suha) Arafat and having been given honorary status at every Islamic Conference, to say nothing of millions of dollars in contributions and honoraria!

Israel has not spoken about her Nuclear Deterrence but, everyone assumes it exists in volume. Most of the Arab Muslim countries do not dare attack in complete confidence and assurance that they would survive an Israeli counterstrike. However, the only unknown is Iran which operates on several tracks. The worst of these is their joyous acceptance of being utterly destroyed by Israel in retaliation if Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ever hits Israel with even one nuclear bomb or a “dirty” radioactive bomb. Why? Because, every faithful Muslim believes that if he (or she) dies in battle against the “infidel” (non-Muslim), he will go to Allah’s heaven with all the benefits that he believes he will each receive for himself and his family, including 72 virgins, rivers of honey, precious stones, et al, as fed by the martyr-myth in the Islamic cult.

I am uncomfortable in relying on Intelligence estimates that conclude that Iran, through its own capabilities has processed enough Uranium to make one atom bomb. The IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) has been wrong so many times, especially under its current Director General, the Egyptian Muhammad Al-Baradei. However, in June 2008 he predicted that Iran’s 3,800 centrifuges would have processed enough enriched Uranium for an Atom bomb in six months to a year – and that Iran might have 6,000 centrifuges enriching Uranium by the end of this year. The latest IAEA report affirmed that these goals have been reached and that Iran said it intended to install another group of 3,000 centrifuges early next year. The amount of enriched Uranium Iran is said to have would be sufficient for a Nagasaki size atom bomb. (2)

However, the NYT story on this “grapefruit-sized” amount of enriched Uranium did NOT discuss the possibility that this amount of Uranium could be used to make one or more “dirty” radio-active bombs – which would be quite deadly if used against the small state of Israel – a checkerboard only 300 miles long and 50 miles wide.

Also ignored in this report is the available fissile material on the Russian black market through the mafia of Russian generals. You may recall that at the collapse of the Soviet Union, East Germans and Russians were selling tanks and other military equipment. Numerous nuclear tactical artillery shells went “missing,” though to have been bought by cash-rich Iranian shoppers.

General Alexander Lebed said on 60 Minutes TV, September 7, 1997, that approximately 100 suitcase sized ‘bombs’ (out of 250 that the Soviets had created) also went missing. Lebed presented to the U.S. Congress in 1997 that 132 K.G.B.-produced suitcase bombs could not be accounted for. (3)

Then there is North Korea, which has never been known to miss a chance to sell nuclear know-how and materials.

Pakistan’s nuclear scientist, Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan, called the father of the Islamic Atom Bomb, sent out his scientific and technical knowledge to many Islamic states.

Israel can deal with Terrorists provided, however, that American and European Arabists do not tie Israel’s defensive capability (as they have) behind their backs. In order to overthrow Israel, the main objective would be to force Israel into destroying her Nuclear Deterrence. Then the numerous Muslim Arab armies could attack and ignore their losses to Israel’s conventional arms, knowing that they have much greater depth in forces which would eventually wear down Israel’s conventional man-power and equipment.

Many forces are at work spreading the myth that, if the Palestinians were pacified with a State of their own, they would cease their terror attacks against Israel. Moreover, they would cancel their Quran-dictated Charter to eliminate the Jews and the Jewish State. The spurious myth continues that such nations as Syria and Iran would no longer use Terror globally.

Adding to that myth, then the Arab League would also cancel their Qur`an-based PLO Charter to eliminate the non-Muslim “infidel” State of Israel as Muhammad demanded. While the cessation of Global Terror is a matter of fiction, it serves oil-driven Arabists as an adequate excuse to disarm Israel, thus appeasing the Arabs.

[So long as the elimination of a "kafir" state within their claimed "dar al-islam" is an islamic imperative, the pundits at our State Dep't can no more expect islam to give up their quest than they can expect the Vatican to give up Easter. Disarming Israel will only permit the muslims to destroy that nation - and, just perhaps, that is the ultimate goal of Obama and his advisers as well. -- Allan]

1. “Pressuring Israel To Suspend Nuclear Activity Will Not ‘Build Confidence’” by Shmuel Rosner Jerusalem Post Nov. 19, 2008

2. “Iran Said To Have Enough Nuclear Fuel For One Weapon” by William J. Broad and David S. Sanger New York Times November 20, 2008

3. Dr. Irwin Redlener, associate dean, Professor of Clinical Public Health and Director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health

* The Arabs in the Middle East have named our soon-to-be president-elect “Abu Hussein,” because of his middle name.