Saturday, 2 May 2009

READ THE AMAZING HISTORY OF AMERICAN PRESIDENTS MEN IN THE ADMINISTRATION LEVEL: PRAY & MAKE A DIFFERENCE....

Love it or hate it, America is getting a makeover. In a lightning-quick first 100 days, President Obama has arrested attention with his transformative responses to the economic crisis, as well as his brash foreign-policy moves and trips abroad.
Far less press, however, has been devoted to how the new administration is laying the groundwork for massive cultural shifts here at home.
Aided by a sympathetic Congress, the president is filling the executive and judicial branches with liberal activists whose effect on the nation could be incalculable. Consider a few of these individuals.

David Ogden, a lawyer, is a strong abortion-rights advocate. He has fought to give young teenage girls the right to abort without parental consent. He once argued for Planned Parenthood that “Abortion rarely causes or exacerbates psychological or emotional problems,” and that the few women who do have trouble “appear to be those with preexisting emotional problems.” He also defends homosexual rights and pornography. He worked to remove porn filters from the Internet in public libraries and infamously defended a child pornographer. And now, courtesy of the Obama administration, Ogden is America’s new deputy attorney general. The porn industry called his nomination “refreshing.”

The Washington Times calls Dawn Johnsen “one of the country’s most radical abortion proponents.” She opposes all limits on abortion, including parental notification for teenagers and bans on partial-birth abortion. In a brief she submitted to the Supreme Court on behalf of an abortion-rights organization in 1989, she called limits on abortions “disturbingly suggestive of involuntary servitude, prohibited by the Thirteenth Amendment”—which forbids slavery—“in that forced pregnancy requires a woman to provide continuous physical service to the fetus in order to further the state’s asserted interest.” By forbidding any type of abortion, she wrote, “the state has conscripted her body for its own ends.” She wrote a bill, the Freedom of Choice Act, that could force hospitals to perform abortions or risk losing federal funding—an act the new president has said he will sign. The Obama administration has nominated this woman to head the Office of Legal Counsel, chief adviser to its legal team. Hers is the voice that, if she is confirmed, will have the ear of the attorney general and the president on constitutional questions.

Former aclu leader and acorn fundraiser David Hamilton is a U.S. district judge well known for his judicial activism. He fought against the Children’s Internet Protection Act. He invalidated a law requiring that sex offenders be registered. He prevented enforcement of an Indiana law requiring a waiting period for abortions. He ordered the Indiana legislature to stop opening its sessions with a “sectarian prayer” because the references to Jesus offended him. Though the American Bar Association rates him as “not qualified” for his current post, Hamilton is the president’s nominee for a vacancy on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals.
Harold Koh believes American courts should consult international law for help in interpreting the U.S. Constitution and making their decisions. Supreme Court justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas say this practice undermines U.S. sovereignty. Their concerns may grow if Koh’s nomination as the legal adviser of the Department of State is confirmed.

Elena Kagan booted military recruiters from the campus of Harvard Law and sought to do the same for all colleges that receive federal funds. She calls the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy “a moral injustice of the first order” because it discriminates against soldiers who want to be openly homosexual. Kagan is now America’s new solicitor general—the executive branch’s chief courtroom lawyer and adviser to the Supreme Court.

Morrell John Berry, during his tenure as director of the National Zoo, implemented several pro-homosexual employee policies. He wants the Defense of Marriage Act repealed and supports benefits for same-sex partners of federal employees. This month, Berry became director of the Office of Personnel Management, which puts him in charge of 1.9 million federal employees—and their benefits. He is the highest-ranking openly homosexual official ever to serve in the executive branch.

Harry Knox is a homosexual activist. Last month he called certain Catholic leaders “foot soldiers of a discredited army of oppression” for supporting California’s Proposition 8, which legally defines marriage as male-female. He criticized the Apostle Paul for being an “educated, rich heterosexual man” who “didn’t think [homosexuality] was natural because for him it must not have been.” The president apparently appreciates Knox’s view of Scripture, because he just appointed him to his Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships.

John Holdren has written extensively on global environmental change. He has advocated population control measures such as mandatory abortions and encouraged declines in fertility to reduce stresses on the environment. He has warned of imminent catastrophe caused by global warming. He is now assistant to the president and director of the Office of Science and Technology.
These are only a few of the more notable of the alarming nominations and appointments of the past hundred days. Never has such an unruly cast of characters been so prominent in the affairs of state

SWINE FLU AND THE PALE HORSE OF APOCALYPSE : BY WAYNE TURGEON ( THE TRUMPET )


Fear of an imminent, potentially devastating flu pandemic is sweeping the globe.
A multistrained swine flu has infected nearly 2,000 people in Mexico, it is believed, killing up to 149 as of Monday just in that one country. According to authorities, this flu is an animal strain of the H1N1 virus that killed around 50 million people in 1918.
The United States declared a state of emergency on the weekend when at least 20 people were identified with the virus. Cases have also been identified in Canada, New Zealand and Spain. European Union Health Commissioner Androulla Vassiliou went so far as to warn EU citizens against traveling to America or Mexico. Margaret Chan, director general of the World Health Organization, warned that the virus has “pandemic potential” and is a “public health event of international concern.”
“We have determined that this virus is contagious and is spreading from human to human,” the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on its website. In Mexico City, the government has canceled all public events, from ministerial speaking engagements to rock concerts. Schools have been closed and millions have been cautioned against going to work. Soldiers and police have handed out 2 million face masks in the city.
For those familiar with Bible prophecy, the sea of face-masked people in Mexico City and widespread fear of a global flu pandemic brings to mind the image of the pale, or sickly, horse of the four horsemen of the apocalypse, as described by the Apostle John in the book of Revelation.
The first three horsemen of the apocalypse symbolize religious deception, war, and famine. Along with the fourth horseman, pestilence, these riders represent the end-time culmination of the most traumatic problems endured by a rebellious mankind. They picture one of the most ominous scenarios ever.
“And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see. And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth” (Revelation 6:7-8).
The key to the identity of the last horseman is the word pale, which often makes us think of someone who is feeling sick, having an anemic-looking appearance. Pale is translated from the Greek chloros, which we would normally take to mean the color of chlorophyll, the property that gives plants their healthy green appearance. When used biblically, however, chloros means the sickly pale green color of sickness and disease.
In Matthew 24, Christ the Revelator unlocks the true identity of this pale green horse: “and there shall be … pestilences” (verse 7). The man on the pale horse symbolizes climactic, globe-encircling plagues and pandemics occurring and soon to occur in this modern age!
The only reason for this type of extreme punishment is man’s unabated rebellion toward his Creator God. “As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil is come upon us: yet made we not our prayer before the Lord our God, that we might turn from our iniquities, and understand thy truth” (Daniel 9:13). The book of Daniel is an end-time prophecy (Daniel 12:4, 9).
Let’s examine Deuteronomy 28 (part of the law of Moses) and add modern-day expressions to see more clearly how this warning applies to our time now. “But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee …. The Lord shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest to possess it. The Lord shall smite thee with a consumption [chronic, degenerate diseases such as aids], and with a fever, and with an inflammation [malaria or communicative diseases such as influenzas], and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew … with the botch of Egypt [elephantiasis], and with the emerods [tumors, cancer, etc.], and with the scab, and with the itch [aggravated psoriasis and other nutrient-deficiency diseases such as scurvy, rickets, etc.], whereof thou canst not be healed [incurable or drug-resistant diseases] … with madness [mental illness, insanity] and blindness and astonishment of heart [emotional distresses such as depression]” (Deuteronomy 28:15, 21-22, 27-28).
The next verse (verse 29) graphically depicts the utter hopelessness of mankind suffering from these and the many other innumerable scourges of our generation.
In America, health care remains a controversial subject among lawmakers. Billions of dollars are spent annually. We have too many problems already to try to satisfactorily deal with new ones that seem to pop up without warning. To make matters worse, we live in a small world. And what about the prospect of blatant terrorist acts to damage air, soil or water quality?
Millions are prophesied to die because they fail to heed God’s warnings to turn to Him with the type of contrite attitude necessary to please Him (Isaiah 66:2). God wants true repentance—a turning away from the carnal “human nature” that we possess to the spiritual nature God originally intended us to develop.
Beyond the suffering, however, Jesus Christ is returning to this Earth to bring it all the joy and happiness man has continually sought after! God will mercifully end the deadly sweep of the four horsemen just before they eradicate mankind from off the Earth.
Whether the current outbreak of swine flu will grow to pandemic levels remains to be seen, but disease epidemics are certain to come. For more on this fourth horseman of the apocalypse, as well as the other three, read our booklet The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. •

SWINE FLU : IS THE WORLD STARING AT THE WORST HEALTH CRISIS IN 90 YEARS ?



just one step short of seeing a full-blown pandemic affecting at least two regions of the world — health experts were fearing a situation similar to the 1918 Spanish Flu which killed at least 50 million people.

That's because H1N1 (the swine flu virus) is the closest so far to the Spanish Flu virus. While that kind of mortality is ruled out now, given the advance of medical science and the quick spread of information and awareness in today's world, WHO was taking no chances as it now knows that the disease can spread easily between humans and hence raised the alert which is read as a signal that a pandemic is imminent.

The Avian Flu (also known as bird flu) had an alert which was two notches lower, which means the danger this time is much higher. Worldwide, at least 13 countries have confirmed cases of swine flu. Switzerland became the fifth European country to report a case of the disease in a 19-year-old student, and the Netherlands soon after became the sixth, reporting a case of the virus in a three-year-old who had recently returned from Mexico. Britain, Germany, France and Austria are the other European countries where authorities have begun a campaign urging people to sneeze into tissues and wash their hands after that.

The campaign was called, ``Catch it, bin it, kill it.'' The disease has also spread to Costa Rica and Peru. Raising the alert — the second in three days — WHO's director general Dr Margaret Chan asked all countries to activate pandemic flu plans and called on them to be on high alert for a H1N1 swine flu outbreak.

Describing Influenza viruses as notorious for their rapid mutation and unpredictable behaviour, Dr Chan said, ``Influenza pandemics must be dealt with seriously and precisely because of their capacity to spread rapidly to every country in the world. New diseases are, by definition, poorly understood. WHO and health authorities in affected countries will not have all the answers immediately, but we will get them.''

According to Dr Chan, at this stage, effective and essential measures include heightened surveillance, early detection and treatment of cases, and infection control in all health facilities. ``This change to a higher phase of alert is a signal to governments, to ministries of health and to the pharmaceutical industry that actions should now be undertaken with increased urgency and at an accelerated pace,'' Dr Chan added.

Preparedness measures undertaken because of the threat from H5N1 avian influenza were an investment, and we are now benefiting from it, said experts. According to WHO, the biggest question, right now, is how severe will the pandemic be, especially now at the start? Dr Chan says it is possible that the full clinical spectrum of this disease goes from mild illness to severe disease. ``From past experience, we know that influenza may cause mild disease in affluent countries, but more severe disease, with higher mortality, in developing countries.

This is an opportunity for global solidarity. After all, it really is all of humanity that is under threat during a pandemic,'' Dr Chan said. Justifying raising the pandemic alert to phase five, WHO's assistant director-general Keiji Fukuda said in a global teleconference on Thursday night, ``Phase 5 indicates the spread of the virus among communities, normal people who haven't visited Mexico or come in contact with travellers.''

WHO has been tracking the spread of the virus at the epidemiological, clinical and virological levels. Dr Fukuda said, ``We found sustained human to human transmission in multiple generations. When we looked at the virus in Mexico and US, we found that it was beginning to behave like a human virus and was becoming part of our community and not just being spread by travellers. This therefore made us increase the pandemic threat.'' He added, ``Pandemic phases aren't intended to be a barometer of epidemiology of the virus but a clear warning and alert that the risk of the virus to reach your country is now significantly high.''