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Losing Israel – October 26

Posted: 26 Oct 2009 03:59 PM PDT

When America entered the war in Vietnam, Ho Chi Min said that it would be a long war and that the communists would win by using propaganda in the media and the universities. He was correct. It is time to take stock in the war between Israelis and the Palestinians and deal with some forbidden [...]


Abbas to Obama: I’ll quit, there’s no chance for peace with Netanyahu

Posted: 26 Oct 2009 03:56 PM PDT

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told U.S. President Barack Obama that he intends to resign his post, Channel 10 television reported on [...]


Netanyahu, Livni meet after months of severed ties

Posted: 26 Oct 2009 03:32 PM PDT

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with opposition chairwoman Tzipi Livni on Monday, the first such meeting in [...]


Rabbi Cherlow: ‘Human Rights’ Includes Jews Worshipping on Mount

Posted: 26 Oct 2009 03:21 PM PDT

"Those who fight for freedom of worship, but are quiet when Jews are bullied when they ascend the Mount, damage the cause of justice and [...]


Barak: Obama envoy Mitchell due in Israel this week

Posted: 26 Oct 2009 02:37 PM PDT

Defense Minister Ehud Barak said U.S. President Barack Obama's Middle East envoy, George Mitchell, would return to the region on Wednesday [...]


Egypt boycott of Lieberman pushes off Med Union summit

Posted: 26 Oct 2009 02:30 PM PDT

France on Monday postponed the start of a foreign ministers meeting for member states of the Union for the Mediterranean due to Egypt's refusal to participate in protest of Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman's planned attendance. [...]


52 children recovered, 60 alleged child pimps arrested in crackdown – CNN

Posted: 26 Oct 2009 02:03 PM PDT

Why the world will never run out of energy

Posted: 26 Oct 2009 01:51 PM PDT

Oil, nuclear power remain abundantly [...]


Prayers for Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu

Posted: 26 Oct 2009 01:31 PM PDT

A special prayer session is held in which worshippers call for the speedy recovery of Rabbi Mordechai [...]


Abbas Threatens to Quit, Obama Steps In

Posted: 26 Oct 2009 01:22 PM PDT

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas tells U.S. President Obama he plans to quit, blames Israel. Netanyahu: "We're ready to [...]


Christianity Today International Adds Digital Magazine

Posted: 26 Oct 2009 01:22 PM PDT

Contact: Ginger Kolbaba, 630-260-6200 ext. 4214, gkolbaba@christianitytoday.com CAROL STREAM, Ill., Oct. 26 /Christian Newswire/ -- Today Kyria.com announced the release of the inaugural issue of their monthly digital magazine (digizine), titled "Born Identity: Chosen in Christ. Called to Influence." In August 2009, Christianity Today International launched Kyria.com, a web-based resource for women who want to grow deeper in their relationship with Christ and in faithfully influencin Source: Christianity Today [...]


Shomron Jews to Left: We’ll Show you Provocation

Posted: 26 Oct 2009 01:14 PM PDT

Jews living in the town of Kida say "olive farmers" are terror supporters, and plan [...]


Church Management Software Leader, Church Community Builder (CCB), Launches New Interactive Website

Posted: 26 Oct 2009 01:00 PM PDT

Contact: Lauren Hunter, 916-838-2184, lauren@laurenhunter.net COLORADO SPRINGS, Oct. 26 /Christian Newswire/ -- Church Community Builder (CCB), the original socially-driven church management solution (ChMS), has launched a completely new website so that visitors may get a first hand glimpse of the CCB solutions as well as view the most powerful features with ease. "We want the CCB website to both cast vision and inform about benefits in a way that allows someone to easily determine whe Source: Lauren Hunter Public [...]


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Referendum Law Vote Canceled Due to Last-Minute Appeal

Posted: 26 Oct 2009 12:23 PM PDT

The vote on a bill that would force a referendum before withdrawal from Israeli land is canceled due to a Likud minister's last-minute [...]


NEVER FORGET THE AMERICANS IRAN KILLED IN BEIRUT IN 1983 – Rosenberg – October 26

Posted: 26 Oct 2009 12:22 PM PDT

At 6:25 local time on the morning of October 23, 1983, agents of the ayatollah used a suicide bomber to plow a truck filled with explosives into the U.S. Marines barracks in Beirut, Lebanon. The attack resulted in "the largest non-nuclear explosion that had ever been detonated on the face of the Earth," according to a U.S. [...]


Charity Is Politicians’ Slush Fund

Posted: 26 Oct 2009 12:22 PM PDT

A Baltimore charity created to finance programs for the underprivileged largely serves as a slush fund for city officials who routinely dip into its multi million-dollar coffers to pay for projects unrelated to the foundation's tax-exempt purposes.

A local news report reveals that, with virtually no oversight, the foundation (Baltimore City Foundation) regularly violates Internal Revenue (IRS) rules by spending nonprofit contributions on political purposes and by serving as a secret account where taxpayer funds can be stashed without public scrutiny. 

Among the unscrupulous things funded by the Baltimore City Foundation was the corrupt mayor's lavish inauguration bash at a local ice skating rink. Criminally indicted Mayor Sheila Dixon's "Winter Wonderland" festivities cost more than $15,000 for rental of a temporary ice rink at the War Memorial Plaza, musical entertainment, a fancy ice sculpture of a reindeer and security. 

Earlier this year Dixon, a former Baltimore City Council president, was charged with a dozen felony counts, including theft, perjury, fraud and misconduct in office for accepting bribes from developers with city contracts. She also used gift cards donated to the city's poor families to buy herself expensive electronic equipment, fur coats and other items. 

Last year Dixon had the Baltimore City Foundation, which has no staff and uses the city finance clerk on taxpayer time for bookkeeping, pick up the hefty tab for her fancy Christmas cards. The nonprofit has also been used to illegally store state funds intended for local projects as well as to sidestep a ban on no-bid contracts.  

The private charity was formed in 1981 to provide much-needed programs for poor residents in the notoriously crime-infested city. Last year it raised more than $7 million, supposedly to pay for things such as a summer jobs program for youths, funeral expenses for murder victims and smoke alarms for those who can't afford them. However, large sums of cash are routinely withdrawn by city officials with no questions [...]


Six Human Rights Lawyers Speak on Religious Freedom and Rule of Law in Washington, DC

Posted: 26 Oct 2009 11:55 AM PDT

Contact: Annee Kahler, Media Relations, 267-210-8278, Annee@ChinaAid.org; Jenny McCloy Directory of Advocacy in Washington, DC, 202-213-0506, Jenny@ChinaAid.org; www.ChinaAid.org, www.MonitorChina.org   WASHINGTON, Oct. 26 /Christian Newswire/ --As President Obama prepares to visit China in November, the world is watching closely to see what issues the United States will address--from energy and economics to human rights and basic freedom. In light of this, six Chinese legal professionals Source: China Aid Association, [...]


Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid ‘Burn in Hell’ Video/Protest Competition Opens — Prizes to be Awarded

Posted: 26 Oct 2009 11:54 AM PDT

Contact: Catherine Veritas, 904-687-9804; for Randall Terry, Founder, Operation Rescue; www.overturnroe.com      WASHINGTON, Oct. 26 /Christian Newswire/ --See video of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid "Burn in Hell" for putting child-killing in health care, instruction video on how to burn Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid "in hell," and rules for entering video competition of Pelosi and Reid "burning in hell." Photo: Clip from Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid Source: Society for Truth and [...]


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LIVE Phone Press Conference with Academy-Award Nominated director Roland Joffe (The Mission) and 007 Girl Olga Kurylenko (Quantum of Solace) About the Controversial Upcoming Film ‘There Be Dragons’

Posted: 26 Oct 2009 11:21 AM PDT

Contact: Lesley Burbridge-Bates, 310-854-8170, lesley@motivemarketing.biz   MEDIA ADVISORY, Oct. 26 /Christian Newswire/ -- The director who brought us the highly acclaimed and deeply spiritual film The Mission has returned to his roots with the epic movie "There Be Dragons," a powerful story of war, tragedy, love and redemption. Featured in the NY Times, the $35 million Dragons has just wrapped production in Spain with an Academy Award-winning crew.   LIVE Phone Press C Source: Motive [...]


Danon: Criminalize ‘Peace Now’

Posted: 26 Oct 2009 11:13 AM PDT

MK Danny Danon slams Peace Now for underhanded tactics, reveals plan to criminalize the group's [...]


Odyssey Networks Appoints The Rev. Eric C. Shafer as SVP of Philanthropy and Faith Community Relations

Posted: 26 Oct 2009 11:01 AM PDT

Contact: Mary Dickey, Manager-Public Relations & Marketing, 212-870-1046, Mdickey@odysseynetworks.org; Desiree Frieson, Associate-Public Relations & Marketing, 212-870-1053, Dfrieson@odysseynetworks.org; both with Odyssey Networks MEDIA ADVISORY, Oct. 26 /Christian Newswire/ -- Odyssey Networks, the nation's largest coalition of Christian, Jewish and Muslim faith groups dedicated to building bridges of understanding among people of faith through media, has appointed The Rev. Eric C. Sh Source: Odyssey [...]


Poll: Conservatives Most Dominant Political Group Among Americans – Fox

Posted: 26 Oct 2009 10:25 AM PDT

Barak Fights Labor MKs over Goldstone

Posted: 26 Oct 2009 10:19 AM PDT

DM Ehud Barak fought with Labor MKs on Monday over his insistence that Israel will not force soldiers to testify regarding Goldstone claims.

Military Contracts Go To Firms Under Criminal Probe

Posted: 26 Oct 2009 10:01 AM PDT

Keeping with its well-documented history of waste and mismanagement, the Department of Defense has awarded tens of millions of dollars in federal stimulus contracts to half a dozen companies under criminal investigation for defrauding the government.

The deals mark the latest of many scandals associated with how the Pentagon misspends billions of tax dollars by regularly awarding lucrative no-bid contracts to politically-connected firms and severely mismanaging Middle East military operations rife with waste, fraud and abuse. 

A new database of federal contracting reveals that the Department of Defense has awarded nearly $30 million in stimulus contracts to six companies while they were under federal criminal investigation for cheating the government. The information was disclosed in a report published this week by an independent investigative journalism group that links the database to its story.

The companies defrauded U.S. taxpayers by falsely claiming to be small, minority-owned businesses that are granted special preferences when bidding on coveted government contracts. Instead, they are part of a larger enterprise that makes them ineligible for the federal deals and have been suspended from receiving new contracts. Never the less, the Pentagon still awarded the companies 112 stimulus-funded projects at U.S. military bases. 

This sort of contempt for public funds is par for the course at the massive agency with an annual budget that exceeds $530 billion. Just last month the Department of Defense reported spending more than one-fourth (around $242 million) of its stimulus funds on hundreds of no-bid contracts that will end up costing tens of millions more than if the work was competitively bid.  

Additionally, several government reports have detailed how the Pentagon has blown tens of billions of tax dollars by miserably failing to address the seemingly endless corruption in contracts for military operations in the Middle East. A few months ago a bipartisan legislative commission established to study wartime contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan determined that much of the $830 billion the U.S. has pumped into the wars is susceptible to waste, fraud and [...]


Wayward Pilots Were Working on Their Laptops

Posted: 26 Oct 2009 09:41 AM PDT

Two Northwest Airlines pilots have told federal investigators that they were going over schedules using their laptop computers in violation of company policy while their plane overflew their Minneapolis destination by 150 miles, the National Transportation Safety Board said [...]


Report: Turkey PM says Lieberman threatened to nuke Gaza

Posted: 26 Oct 2009 09:40 AM PDT

Turkey's prime minister has further inflamed simmering Israel-Turkey tensions, claiming that Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman threatened to use nuclear weapons against Gaza, The Guardian reported [...]


Pelosi Wants to Change ‘Public Option’ to ‘Consumer Option’

Posted: 26 Oct 2009 09:34 AM PDT

A government-sponsored "public option" for health care lives, though it may be more attractive to skeptics if it goes by a different moniker, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said [...]


Policeman Fined 25,000 Shekels for Beating Orange Protestor

Posted: 26 Oct 2009 09:23 AM PDT

A violent policeman filmed by an Arutz-7 cameraman during anti-Disengagement protest in 2005 must pay victim 25,000 shekels – from his own [...]


Policeman Fined 25,000 Shekels for Beating Nationalist Protestor

Posted: 26 Oct 2009 09:23 AM PDT

A violent policeman filmed by an Arutz-7 cameraman during anti-Disengagement protest in 2005 must pay victim 25,000 shekels – from his own [...]


Turkish PM: Iran is Our Friend

Posted: 26 Oct 2009 09:22 AM PDT

Turkish PM Erdogan says Ahmadinejad is his friend, and accuses Israel of threatening nuclear war on Gaza. Israeli flags burn in [...]


Fans of Military History Books Welcome First Biography of Marine Corps Legend Colonel John W. Ripley USMC

Posted: 26 Oct 2009 09:00 AM PDT

Contact: Norman Fulkerson, 717-887-6270, njfulkerson@tfp.org; www.AmericanKnight.org SPRING GROVE, Penn., Oct. 26 /Christian Newswire/ -- On October 28, 2008 America mourned his death; On October 28, 2009 America will be given the chance to celebrate and honor his life; "An American Knight: The Life of Colonel John W. Ripley USMC" is now available for purchase online. With political and public attention once again focused on the sacrifices made by our military in Afghanistan, it's more Source: [...]


Iran FM plays down threat of pre-emptive IDF strike

Posted: 26 Oct 2009 08:59 AM PDT

Iran's foreign minister on Monday played down the possibility of Israel launching a strike against the Islamic Republic's nuclear program, after his French counterpart warned of such an attack if talks between Iran and world powers [...]


Dollar Touches 14-Month Low as Recovery Signs Spur Risk Demand – Bloomberg

Posted: 26 Oct 2009 08:58 AM PDT

Backlash Builds Over Obama’s War Against Fox, Chamber of Commerce – NewsMax

Posted: 26 Oct 2009 08:58 AM PDT

Pakistan Police Arrest 11 Iranian Revolutionary Guards Near Border – Fox

Posted: 26 Oct 2009 08:58 AM PDT

Obama Told House Democrat He Wasn’t Talking about House Health Bill When He Told Congress ‘Our Plan’ Doesn’t Fund Abortion

Posted: 26 Oct 2009 08:53 AM PDT

"I don't know if it is a game of semantics or what," Rep. Bart Stupak (D.-Mich.) said of President Obama's nationally televised declaration to Congress that the health-care plan will not allow federal funding of [...]


Farmers Demand Foreign Labor, Sales to Gaza

Posted: 26 Oct 2009 08:50 AM PDT

Farmers clashed with immigration police Monday and demanded foreign laborers. Fruit farmers want increased sales to [...]


Activists Press for Homosexual ‘Rights’ to Be Included in Comprehensive Immigration Reform

Posted: 26 Oct 2009 08:10 AM PDT

Two amendments to the Immigration and Nationality Act introduced in the House of Representatives' current session would add language allowing "permanent partners" to sponsor their foreign-born "spouses" to become naturalized [...]


Dodd Wants Immediate Rate Freeze on Credit Cards

Posted: 26 Oct 2009 08:07 AM PDT

Senate Banking Committee chairman Chris Dodd, who is fighting for his political survival, has proposed an immediate freeze on the interest rates on the estimated 700 million credit cards in [...]


King Scraps Saudi Woman Flogging for Sex Talk Show

Posted: 26 Oct 2009 08:05 AM PDT

Saudi Arabia's king waived a flogging sentence on a female journalist charged for involvement in a risque TV show, the second such pardoning of such a high profile case by the monarch in recent [...]


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