The Great Deception

(from “The Hal Lindsey Report”)

“…as I watch our economy continue to convulse beneath an increasing tax burden, a smothering national debt, and stifling new administrative regulations, I marvel at how deep the deception runs. Though we think of our nation as the land of entrepreneurship, capitalism, and free markets, there’s nothing “free” about it today. Our entire financial system is owned and controlled, lock, stock, and barrel, by a shadowy, private, global financial cabal. Its front in America is The Federal Reserve System. Texas governor Rick Perry thinks the Fed’s actions may be “treasonous.” I think he may be on to something.”

Did you know that President John F. Kennedy was killed 10 days after stating that he would investigate the Federal Reserve?  See this and more in “The Hal Lindsey Report” of October 7, 2011.

The Palestinian Bid for UN Recognition

[Excerpted from Hal Lindsey's email letter of 9-23-2011]

PA President Mahmoud Abbas wants the United Nations to formally recognize Palestine as an independent state with borders based on a UN resolution passed 64 years ago! It’s a resolution the Jews accepted back in 1947, but the Arabs rejected!

Abbas has been adamant in his determination to submit a formal request to the Security Council. The PA says it will also ask the General Assembly to extend recognition. That will be a slam dunk there, since the majority of nations are Muslim or Muslim-sympathetic. Observers expect about 130 of the 191 members will vote in favor of the Palestinian state.

Of course, the GA carries no legal weight. Only Security Council votes bear the authority of international law. But recognition by the General Assembly will still complicate things immeasurably for Israel. The US has announced it will veto the request at the Security Council and President Obama essentially confirmed that in his speech to the UN on Wednesday.

But whether or not the Palestinian Authority actually carries through with its threat at this session, all of this just goes to show that the world is growing ever closer to forcing Israel to accept a failed terrorist state within its borders. The events of the last few weeks illustrate perfectly what the ancient prophets predicted: in the last days the entire world will line up against Israel.

Israel’s legitimacy as a modern nation is rooted in the same League of Nations actions, taken decades earlier, that provide legitimacy for Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Kuwait, and other Arab nations in the Middle East…. The bottom line is if those nations are legitimate, then so is Israel. If Israel has no legitimacy as a nation, then neither do the other nations of the Middle East. You can’t have it both ways.

Pocket Watch

After presenting several articles on cell phone safety, I found this down-to-earth piece in Time Magazine.  It’s an easy-to-understand quick read which reveals flaws in the test results that manufacturers use to state that cell phones are safe.  This could also be used to separate them from liability should you develop a tumor from cell phone usage.

Please read POCKET WATCH along with considering how much you hold the device against your ear.  If a cell phone is your ONLY phone, please, for your health, get a headset or use in speakerphone mode.

IARC Raises its Concern over Cell Phone Radiation

[courtesy CNET News]

Until today, the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) had said that there were no adverse health effects from the use of cell phones. The wireless industry, including the CTIA lobbying group, and the Federal Communications Commission and U.S. Food and Drug Administration have also long maintained that cell phones were safe.

In a report issued today, the IARC said it now lists mobile phone use in the same category as lead, gasoline engine exhaust, and chloroform. Officially, cell phone radiation is listed as a “carcinogenic hazard.” Download the IARC report here.

CNET has published a series of three articles which cover the issues very well.  Here are the links:

• Cell phone radiation: Harmless or health risk?
• The trouble with the cell phone radiation standard
• Cell phone radiation: A self-defense guide (FAQ)

In September, 2009, the connection had already been established between brain tumors and cell phone usage.  At that time I wrote an article titled “Brain Tumors Solidly Linked to Cell Phone Usage“.   The evidence has not changed.  The danger is still there.  What has changed is that this evidence has become more apparent.  I would ask you to liken cell phone safety with driving safety; you fasten your seatbelt to reduce your chances of injury, and there are things you can do to reduce the health hazards from using a cell phone — these are listed in my article.

Will Israel’s Major Oil Deposits Change the World?

There are..some big changes on the horizon that may cause things to never be the same again! I’m referring to recent major discoveries of natural gas and oil deposits in Israel and off its coastline. These documented discoveries are turning out to be so huge that many are speculating that not only can Israel guarantee its energy independence for decades, it may actually become a net energy exporter.

Some experts predict that Israel may possess enough natural gas that it could relieve Europe of its dependence on Russia as its major gas supplier. In fact, Greece is already proposing an agreement to make it the hub through which those supplies will flow to Europe.

Other knowledgeable sources speculate that Israel possesses the third largest reserve of oil shale deposits in the world, behind only America and China. They say it will rival Saudi Arabia’s reserves. Up to now, though, oil obtained from shale rock has been expensive to recover and the whole process considered ecologically dirty. What’s more, the recovery consumes vast amounts of water, an expensive and increasingly rare commodity. However, the Israelis are developing a new process to recover shale oil that is neither dirty nor as expensive as current methods. It takes place a thousand feet underground and actually produces water rather than consumes it!

If they’re successful, not only can they mine their own vast reserves, but they can make the technology available for Western nations to use. This would break the back of the Arab nations’ stranglehold on the world oil market. Dore Gold, former Israeli Ambassador to the UN, said that the effect of the spread of this technology would be to “shift the center of gravity of world oil away from Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the Persian Gulf to more stable states that have no history of backing terrorism or radical Islamic causes.”

The last 90 days have made painfully clear to the West that the Muslim oil-supplier states that were previously volatile and undependable (and didn’t hesitate to commit extortion with their oil), are now even more so. You can bet that if a Western-oriented, stable nation were to suddenly be able to supply those same energy products, the West, particularly Europe, would be knocking on their door tomorrow.

All of a sudden, Ezekiel’s description of Israel in the last days as a people who “have acquired land and wealth and who live at the center of the world” takes on new meaning! Isn’t it exciting to see prophecy unfolding before us at breakneck speed?

(This article is in the last half of the Hal Lindsey Report dated April 15, 2011)

Barack Obama speaks on his Christianity

After hearing and seeing so much anti-Christian rhetoric regarding our President, I read with great interest his recent message at the National Prayer Breakfast on February 3.  Here are some highlights from his enlightening talk on his Cristianity.

My Christian faith then has been a sustaining force for me over these last few years. All the more so, when Michelle and I hear our faith questioned from time to time, we are reminded that ultimately what matters is not what other people say about us but whether we’re being true to our conscience and true to our God. “Seek first His kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be given to you as well.” [...] But while I petition God for a whole range of things, there are a few common themes that do recur. The first category of prayer comes out of the urgency of the Old Testament prophets and the Gospel itself. I pray for my ability to help those who are struggling. Christian tradition teaches that one day the world will be turned right side up and everything will return as it should be. But until that day, we’re called to work on behalf of a God that chose justice and mercy and compassion to the most vulnerable. [...] So my prayer this morning is that we might seek His face not only in those moments, but each and every day; that every day as we go through the hustle and bustle of our lives, whether it’s in Washington or Hollywood or anywhere in between, that we might every so often rise above the here and now, and kneel before the Eternal; that we might remember [ ...] the fact that those who wait on the Lord will soar on wings like eagles, and they will run and not be weary, and they will walk and not faint. When I wake in the morning, I wait on the Lord, and I ask Him to give me the strength to do right by our country and its people.  And when I go to bed at night I wait on the Lord, and I ask Him to forgive me my sins, and look after my family and the American people, and make me an instrument of His will. I say these prayers hoping they will be answered, and I say these prayers knowing that I must work and must sacrifice and must serve to see them answered.  But I also say these prayers knowing that the act of prayer itself is a source of strength.  It’s a reminder that our time on Earth is not just about us; that when we open ourselves to the possibility that God might have a larger purpose for our lives, there’s a chance that somehow, in ways that we may never fully know, God will use us well. May the Lord bless you and keep you, and may He bless this country that we love.

~President Barack Obama    READ ENTIRE TEXT

Conspiracy & the organization that may well cause the collapse of the U.S.

In the video below, Hal examines the history of the Federal Reserve and its ‘money trust’ ancestors; the impact it is having on our nation and world today; and the role it may play in the global economic system that will be controlled by the Antichrist.

Andrew Jackson foresaw the fraud in 1832, exposed it, and an attempt was then made to kill him. Later, Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield, and John F. Kennedy all attempted to expose the money cartel that “runs” U.S. economy, and all were assassinated.

The international banking families who control the privately-owned Federal Reserve System, have robbed America blind for much of its history. And every time an American President has attempted to stop or confront those sinister forces, tragedy occurs.

Please watch the video to see how one of America’s most dominant institutions is affecting us all and the future of every person on planet earth.

U.S. QE2: Lets pay off our debt with our credit card!

-a synopsis of The Hal Lindsey Report which aired Nov. 12, 2010

[QE2 is] the program the Federal Reserve Board announced the day after the mid-term elections in which the Fed intends to print up between $600 billion and $1 trillion to buy US Treasury bills over the next 6 months.  In short, the Fed is going to create money out of nothing to buy our own debt that nobody else wants.  You know, a little like you paying off your mortgage with your American Express card.  Experts predict that this lunacy will further devalue the US dollar by as much as 20%.

The Germans are especially angry.  And with cause.  They still remember the experience of the Weimar Republic. After World War One, the Germans tried to pay off their debts by simply printing more paper money.  In 1914, 100,000 Marks meant a comfortable retirement.  By 1919 — just five years later — it wouldn’t buy a loaf of bread.  It reminds me of the song Larry Norman recorded back in 1970.  It was called, “I Wish We’d All Been Ready.”  It described the conditions that would occur in the days just before the Rapture and afterward.  One line says, “Children died, the days grew cold, a piece of bread would buy a bag of gold.  I wish we’d all been ready.”

Is that what we’re facing soon?

I believe the answer to that question is “Yes!” Even just a few short years ago, the prospect of the United States of America facing total financial collapse was laughable.  Today, it’s not only a possibility, it’s a probability.  In fact, John Allison IV, the former CEO of BB&T, the nation’s tenth largest bank, says it is “a mathematical certainty.”  In fact, I believe it’s possible that the current administration is trying to force this collapse so that our nation can be merged into a new global order.  I’ve discussed that extensively on past programs.  No matter what the reason, though, it’s coming.  And probably coming sooner rather than later.

Persecutions (in America!) you may not have heard about

-by Hal Lindsey

By now, most of you know that National Public Radio (NPR) news analyst Juan Williams, who is also a contributor to Fox News, was abruptly fired by NPR. He was apparently dismissed by the taxpayer-supported radio network because he expressed an “opinion” (which, oddly enough, is precisely the job of a ‘news analyst,’ isn’t it?) on “The O’Reilly Factor” on the Fox News Network.

In the video below, see the ‘opinions’ some other NPR personalities have expressed about Christians in the past — opinions that are authentically disgusting and outrageous.  Yet they weren’t fired.  So what made Mr. Williams’ ‘opinion’ so much worse that he merited dismissal?  One word: Islam.

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The trademarked slogan for Las Vegas is “What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.” I’ll bet you probably feel a little like that about your church. You may feel like you can let your guard down a little when you’re there since you’re among friends and others who believe like you and live their lives like you.

Well, I’m sure that’s how a young, single Christian lady from Grand Rapids, Michigan, felt, too. In fact, she felt so comfortable in her church that when she decided she wanted to find a roommate to share her house, her church is where she looked. She posted a notice on the church bulletin board that she was searching for a Christian roommate. Mistake. Especially in Michigan where the government dictates tolerance.

You guessed it. Someone from this young woman’s church took down the notice and turned it in to the Fair Housing Center of West Michigan. They passed it on to the Michigan Department of Civil Rights and now this woman is facing the possibility of fines and ‘re-education’ at a government-mandated ‘fair housing training seminar.’ Her crime? She advertised for a “Christian” roommate.

Frankly, I’m furious at the ignorant stupidity of imbecilic laws (and legislators) like this. But, folks, this is not “The Twilight Zone.” This is reality. This is happening in America. And it may have already happened in your state and you just have not run afoul of that law yet. Trust me, it won’t get any better unless we citizens do something about it. More in the video…

How is this NOT an Invasion?

-by Hal Lindsey

Last May, the Department of Homeland Security issued a memo that contained information from a “proven credible confidential source” in Mexico. The intel described a new operation by several Mexican drug cartels in which they were sending a team of snipers into the United States to use lethal force against bandits who were robbing their drug smugglers.

The DHS memo also noted that the cartels had “23 scout locations with rolling encryption” along a route in southern Arizona known as the Vekol Valley. That smuggling route extends from Mexico northward across Interstate 8 to Phoenix. The area has gotten so dangerous that the Bureau of Land Management has posted signs along the US Interstate 8 highway warning American travelers of the danger from alien and drug smugglers.

However, a news organization recently got hold of the memo and published it. When asked, Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu confirmed that the DHS has sent the memo to his office along with many others in southern Arizona. Apparently, the Department of Homeland Security then realized that its own memo confirming the seriousness of the situation along the border could be quite embarrassing to the Administration, which denies that there is a crisis along the border with Mexico. So DHS disavowed the memo. But too many people had copies of it, so the Department’s spokesman then announced that the “information proved to be inaccurate.” He also said that the DHS didn’t have any “specific, credible information on intra-cartel violence taking place in Arizona.” I suppose he overlooked the fact that Phoenix is now the Kidnap Capital of America and almost all of it is “intra-cartel violence taking place in Arizona.”

Further, every other piece of information contained in the DHS memo has proven accurate, so why not believe the most important part? It makes me want to ask DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano, “Were you lying then or are you lying now?”
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[EDITOR'S NOTE- Shouldn't Homeland Security PROTECT us from the threat rather than tell us to avoid it?]

‘Myrtus’ file found in Stuxnet Code

-By Hal Lindsey

Iran went on the offensive after its industrial infrastructure was infected by the ‘Stuxnet’ computer worm. Though the Iranian government accused “the enemy,” it did not name any specific nation or nationalities. Instead, Iran’s security services arrested dozens of ‘cyberspies’ at the Bushehr, Natanz, Isfahan nuclear facilities and also in Tehran.

Particular attention has been paid to the many Russian scientists, technicians, and engineers who are in Iran building the nuclear plants and putting them on-line.

However, many assume that Israel is responsible for creating the worm and planting it. Independent computer security experts think they may have found further proof of that involvement. An interesting file labeled “Myrtus” has been found in the Stuxnet code. Many are speculating that the label is an obscure reference to the Biblical Book of Esther. That book details the story of how the Jews foiled a Persian plot against them.

As a clue, it’s too obvious. As a taunt, it’s priceless.

The Lethality of Political Correctness

-By Hal Lindsey

America is facing a threat that is beginning to take its toll. It’s a little like the growth of a deadly mold in your home. You never know it’s there until you begin to feel its effects in your body. And it can be lethal. If you don’t attack it with resolve, it might kill you. … That describes the insidious enemy we’re facing today here in the United States. “Political Correctness” the paralyzing fear of what others may think. It prevents us from acting in our own best interest.

On this week’s edition of “The Hal Lindsey Report,” I’ll discuss four recent stories that perfectly illustrate this immense danger facing America. The suffocating paralysis induced by political correctness opens the door to our own self-destruction, especially when confronting the threat posed by radical Islam.

Is it already too late? The Bible describes this condition very explicitly in the prophets’ discussion of the last days. Friends, America is in crisis. We can no longer just treat the symptoms, we must deal with the infection itself. It will be painful, exasperating, and perhaps frightening, but we must eliminate this insidious killer before it irreversibly cripples us. I do believe, however, that the Bible offers a remedy. Please watch the Hal Lindsey Report here.

Capitalism in America - It Was A Good Run

But, it now has all of the earmarks of coming to a close.  Here is a realistic look at the leading signs of it’s inevitable collapse.

Hong Kong contrarian economist Marc Faber warns in his Doom, Boom & Gloom Report: “The future will be a total disaster, with a collapse of our capitalistic system as we know it today.”  No, not just another meltdown, another bear-market recession like the one recently triggered by Wall Street’s too-greedy-to-fail banks. Faber is warning that the entire system of capitalism will collapse. Get it? The engine driving the great “American Economic Empire” for 233 years will collapse, a total disaster, a destiny we created.

Please read the article Death of ‘Soul of Capitalism’: Bogle, Faber, Moore

where you will find 20 indicators of the demise and recommendations to downsize your lifestyle expectations, trust no one, not even media.  Faber is uncertain about timing, we are not. There is a high probability of a crisis and collapse by 2012. The “Great Depression 2″ is dead ahead. Unfortunately, there’s absolutely nothing you can do to hide from this unfolding reality or prevent the rush of the historical imperative.

$300 Crude Oil - 1 to 3 Years away?

Remember the $4-$5 per gallon gasoline prices in 2008?  At that time, crude was at about $147 per barrel. Prepare yourself - read this article Squandered opportunities? explaining the predicted $300 per barrel pricetag coming way too soon.

Why The Truth About ‘The Inconvenient Truth’ Matters

In October, 2009, Lord Christopher Monckton, former adviser to Margaret Thatcher, spoke at Bethel University in St. Paul, MN, on the UN Climate Change treaty scheduled to be signed in Copenhagen in December 2009.  Fueled by puposefully-skewed media-exacerbated scientific data, President Obama is primed to sign this treaty, which will ultimately lead to the economic fall of the United States.  Did you spend an hour and a half watching “The Inconvenient Truth”?  If so, you owe it to yourself and your nation to watch this (which is an hour and a half).  There is a link below, plus a 4-minute video of the conclusion only.  But, if you want to see how every important claim by Al Gore science is offset by an actual fact, you need to watch the entire presentation.

Lord Monckton also addresses the underlying issue of the UNCC treaty, which makes the assumption that man can change the global climate.  The question “Can he?” is answered in the presentation.

Here is an excerpt from Lord Monckton’s Presentation..

“Here is why the truth matters. It was all very well for jesting Pilate to ask that question and then not to tarry for an answer. But that question that he asked, “what is the truth?” is the question which underlies every question and in the end it is the only question that really matters. When you ask that question what you are really asking is “what is the truth about the matter?” And we are now going to see why it matters morally, socially, and politically, as well as economically and scientifically. That the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth should inform public policy on this question.”

Hal Lindsey says this (Dec. 11, 2009)..

“I believe that what we are now witnessing in “Hopenhagen” is perhaps the most concrete step toward a one-world bureaucratic regime in recent history. And it could reduce some of the world’s most prosperous nations to the level of third world countries.

To give our President some bargaining clout in Copenhagen, the Environmental Protection Agency this week declared ‘greenhouse gases,’ most notably carbon dioxide, a public health hazard. This allows the EPA to regulate it — read that ‘tax it’ and ‘outlaw it’ — under the Clean Air Act. The Supreme Court had ruled that the Administration had to go back to Congress for that authority. No longer. This declaration by the EPA, just in time for Copenhagen, is almost a criminal circumvention of the Constitution.

Lord Monckton’s complete presentation (1-hr, 35-min)

The Conclusion of Lord Monkton’s Presentation (under 4-min, 10-sec)

The Presentation Slides (7.32 MB)

Climategate - Is It Important?

From “The Hal Lindsey Report” - December 11, 2009

The UN’s Conference on Climate Change got underway this week in Copenhagen, Denmark. With thousands of delegates from most of the world’s nations and more than 100 heads of state due to make appearances, this conclave has a sense of urgency about it not even seen at the opening of the United Nations.

The ‘Climategate’ scandal seems to have added fuel to the fire. The conference organizers realize they have to ram their agenda through before it’s too late. Even the conference president acknowledged this in her opening remarks. Connie Hedegaard, former Danish Climate and Energy Minister, said, “This is our chance. If we miss it, it could take years before we got a new and better one. If we ever do.” That sounds a lot like US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announcing at the European Union that our government was taking advantage of the global economic crisis to ram home massive changes under the guise of responding to the emergency. She actually said, “Never waste a good crisis.”

If the Administration gets its way, we’ll see massive increases in the cost of all fossil fuel energy. It’s an open secret that the government wants the price of gasoline to hit $8.00 per gallon. That, in turn, will drive the price of everything that requires energy, including manufacturing, agriculture, transportation, heating and cooling, through the roof. Copenhagen is all about controlling the world’s energy sources, then being able to dictate how that energy will be distributed — and taxed. Many strategically-placed individuals (Al Gore and George Soros come to mind), government officials (too long a list here), political parties (take a guess), corporations (GE is leading the pack), and science institutions and universities (as well as the scientists who receive huge government grants for coming up with the goods) will grow massively wealthy as a result. But, trust me, none of it will filter down to you and me. In fact, we’ll be the ones paying the new taxes to enrich these parties and many of the ‘underdeveloped’ countries in the world.

You know, it’s ironic that some of the underdeveloped nations in Africa that depend on income from their oil sales will be hurt by the drive to eliminate fossil fuels as an energy source. I suppose that’s why the ‘developed’ countries will be expected to replace that lost income. It’s sort of like the Obama Administration demanding that Israel freeze settlement construction in the West Bank. A freeze puts thousands of Palestinians out of work in the construction business. Come to think of it, the Administration’s policies will do the same thing right here in America. At least they’re consistent!

I believe that what we are now witnessing in “Hopenhagen” is perhaps the most concrete step toward a one-world bureaucratic regime in recent history. And it could reduce some of the world’s most prosperous nations to the level of third world countries.

To give our President some bargaining clout in Copenhagen, the Environmental Protection Agency this week declared ‘greenhouse gases,’ most notably carbon dioxide, a public health hazard. This allows the EPA to regulate it — read that ‘tax it’ and ‘outlaw it’ — under the Clean Air Act. The Supreme Court had ruled that the Administration had to go back to Congress for that authority. No longer. This declaration by the EPA, just in time for Copenhagen, is almost a criminal circumvention of the Constitution. The Agency has already begun developing permit requirements for ‘carbon dioxide pollution.’ And I’m sure those permits will cost a pretty penny.

Oh, yeah. Just in case you don’t know, carbon dioxide is what we humans breathe out. Plants breathe it in and make oxygen. So I guess that means we’ll now be taxing air!  [And,..] Copenhagen may fit into the drive to a one-world government foretold by the Bible prophets.

Is Your Cell Phone Spying on You?

Should you be worried about people listening to your private conversations, even when you are NOT ON YOUR CELL PHONE?  Please take 5-minutes to watch this very revealing investigative video - it will definitely change the way you think about your cell phone:

http://brasherweb.com/now/downloads/cellphone_expose.wmv

A study by SMobile Systems of 1,958 smartphones revealed infections by Spyware, Viruses Worms and Trojans, as well as hundreds of unlicensed software programs installed on the handsets reviewed. A comparison of these statistics to the worldwide smartphone population places the number of infected devices globally into the millions. Because the vast majority of these infections are designed to be stealthy and the fact that few smartphones possess Anti-Malware applications, most infected users are completely unaware their devices have been compromised.

“As more and more people carry smartphones, the target-rich environment is proving to be incredibly tempting to hackers, spammers and criminals looking to steal vital information on these handsets. With millions upon millions of new devices in the market, the likelihood of unwanted infection increases,” said Neil Book, president of SMobile Systems. “The sophistication and ease of spreading malware is escalating; as such, the need for handset-based security has never been greater.”

SMobile’s Global Threat Center (GTC) monitors devices throughout the world for malware infections detected by its industry-leading Security Shield(TM) software. Throughout 2009 the GTC has seen a marked increase in the capabilities of new malware infecting mobile devices, as well as the frequency of attacks. The attacks have taken the form of worms and Trojans that are transmitted via Bluetooth, SMS, MMS, or email, as well as Spyware that is unwantedly being downloaded from various online application and shareware websites.

According to Daniel V. Hoffman, chief technology officer of SMobile, “These attacks are very concerning and financially motivated. The Spyware we are detecting has the ability to intercept e-mail and SMS messages, allow hackers to listen-in on voice conversations and even track the location of the user. This can have devastating repercussions to those performing online financial transactions, mobile banking or having sensitive business-oriented communications. Additionally, worms are unknowingly sending Premium SMS messages from infected devices, directly charging user cell phone accounts.”

Mr. Hoffman concluded, “Handset manufacturers and network carriers continue to insist that mobile malware is not a significant concern. According to data from our customers, the infection rate is accelerating and the capabilities of today’s mobile malware is increasing.”

What Can You Do?

This expose of unwanted cell phone capabilities is intended to educate the user, not to sell any particular product.  SMobile, however, has researched and provided substantial work in this uncharted territory, and I feel strongly that all smartphone users should be knowledgeable of what their devices are capable of or problems they are likely to encounter.  I therefore thank SMobile for placing much of the information I have used here on the internet, and for developing products that will allow users to continue using their cell phones without worry.  Please visit their website (www.smobilesystems.com) for suggestions on how to thwart these invasions of your privacy.

SMobile, headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, currently offers the most comprehensive suite of security and parental control applications on the market for consumer, business and government smartphone users.  SMobile currently markets and sells its Anti-Theft and Identity Protection and Security Shield(TM) suites, which address the critical threats facing consumers, enterprise users and government agencies using smartphones. The software protects users from malware, hackers and physical compromise with its anti-virus, firewall and remote lock, locate, wipe and backup features.

- Portions of this article ©2009 SMobile Systems

Home Robots Have a Dark Side

According to the University of Washington News http://uwnews.org,  a team of researchers ran tests to evaluate the security of three consumer-level robots: the WowWee Rovio, a wireless, buglike rolling robot marketed to adults as a home surveillance tool that can be controlled over the Internet and includes a video camera, microphone and speaker; the Erector Spykee, a toy wireless Web-controlled “spy” robot that has a video camera, microphone and speaker; and the WowWee RoboSapien V2, a more dexterous toy robot controlled over short distances using an infrared remote control.

The concerns the researchers uncovered with the wireless robots include the fact that:

• The robots’ presence is easily detected by distinctive messages sent over the home’s wireless network.
• The robots’ audio and video streams can be intercepted on the home’s wireless network or in some cases captured over the Internet.
• Only some robots give an audible or other alert when a user logs on, letting people nearby know that someone new is accessing the data.
• Only some robots periodically generate a noise or other signal when stationary, reminding people nearby that the robot is collecting data.

The authors also identified scenarios in which a robot might physically harm its owner or the home environment. While the risks today are relatively small, researchers say they believe the risks will become more serious as robots become more widespread.

Read the entire article and accompanying report

The work was funded by the National Science Foundation and an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation research fellowship.

Danger in Your Home: Cordless Phones

As most of you know, I have worked in the RF (radio frequency) industry, now better known as the wireless industry, throughout my life.  My work has always involved both RF receivers and transmitters, and RF transmitters come with health risks unless precautions are taken.  With the unprecedented increase in cordless phone usage, especially in homes where prolonged exposure can be inevitable, I feel compelled to make you aware of the dangers of RF when its use becomes substantial or the dangers go unheeded.  The recent (August 25, 2009) release of the report, “Cellphones and Brain Tumors - 15 Reasons for Concern” touches on what may actually be a bigger problem: the cordless phone (and possibly the baby monitor or intercom) you probably use at home.  All of these contain RF transmitters, thus come with health risks.

Lenhart Hardell (Department of Oncology, Örebro University Hospital, SE-701 85 Örebro, Sweden) has probably done the most complete job of determining the effects of exposure to cell phones and cordless phones.  His latest report (accepted April 13, 2009 for publication in the  International Journal of Oncology - available for download below) involving 905 cases with malignant brain tumors, 1,254 cases with benign tumors and 2,162 population-based controls provides irrefutable evidence solidly linking cordless phone usage to brain tumors.

Note that newer cordless phones may use DECT (Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications) Technology.  DECT may add yet more influences to the mix; here is an excerpt from “Medical warnings needed on DECT cordless phone use”, J. Aust. Coll. Nutr. & Env. Med. Vol. 25 No. 2 August 2006 (accepted for publication), Don Maisch, EMFacts Consultancy:

“Concerns within the German medical community led to the Freiburger Appeal in October 2002, signed by over 130 medical practitioners from the German environmental medicine medical organisation, Interdisziplinäre Gesellschaft für Umweltmedizin e. V. (IGUMED). The appeal was to express their concern over their medical observations of adverse health impacts from the use of both cell phones and DECT cordless phones. Symptoms were attributed to exposure to pulsed microwave radiation from cell phone and DECT technology. The following is an extract:

We have observed, in recent years, a dramatic rise in severe and chronic diseases among our patients, especially:

• Learning, concentration, and behavioural disorders (e.g. attention deficit disorder, ADD)
• Extreme fluctuations in blood pressure, ever harder to influence with medications
• Heart rhythm disorders
• Heart attacks and strokes among an increasingly younger population
• Brain-degenerative diseases (e.g. Alzheimers) and epilepsy
• Cancerous afflictions: leukemia, brain tumors

Moreover, we have observed an ever-increasing occurrence of various disorders, often misdiagnosed in patients as psychosomatic:

• Headaches, migraines
• Chronic exhaustion
• Inner agitation
• Sleeplessness, daytime sleepiness
• Tinnitus
• Susceptibility to infection
• Nervous and connective tissue pains, for which the usual causes do not explain even the most conspicuous symptoms

Since the living environment and lifestyles of our patients are familiar to us, we can see especially after carefully-directed inquiry a clear temporal and spatial correlation between the appearance of disease and exposure to pulsed high -frequency microwave radiation (HFMR), such as:

• Installation of a mobile telephone sending station in the near vicinity
• Intensive mobile telephone use
• Installation of a digital cordless (DECT) telephone at home or in the neighbourhood”.

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If you use a cordless phone regularly and substantially, it is imperative that you

• move the base station out of any sleeping area
• consider using the cordless phone only for short calls and emergencies
• install wired telephones and make them your “normal use” phones or buy headsets for all cordless phones so that the transmitter is kept at a distance from your body.

Click here to download the full report: “Mobile phones, cordless phones and the risk for brain tumours“, as published in the International Journal of Oncology [PDF, 128KB]

Click here to download the full report: “Medical warnings needed on DECT cordless phone use” [PDF, 26KB]

The correlation between cordless phone usage and health problems as noted above is factual.  In the case of brain tumors, there may be no indication for 5, 10, or more years, so you may be tempted to think you are not affected.  The evidence strongly suggests YOU WILL BE AFFECTED, so please take appropriate action now to preserve your health.

If you use a cell phone, you should read the related article, Brain Tumors Solidly Linked to Cellphone Usage

Brain Tumors Solidly Linked to Cell Phone Usage

Arguably on the same scale as the the plague, swine flu, and the tobacco-lung cancer relationship, the connection between cellphones and brain tumors is undeniable.  Efforts to show there was no connection, and that cellphones are totally safe, came from the cell phone industry itself, not independent studies. The report described and available below not only reveals what many had feared for over a decade, but also exposes critical (read: ‘deadly‘) flaws built in to the upcoming Interphone study release.

43 scientists and doctors from 14 countries endorsed the document entitled, “Cellphones and Brain Tumors - 15 Reasons for Concern“.  L. Lloyd Morgan (Bioelectromagnetics Society, Electronics Engineer) along with seven co-authors, created this report to provide an unbiased release of health-risk information related to the use of cell phones.

The report concludes:

• There is a risk of brain tumors from cellphone use
• Telecom funded studies underestimate the risk of brain tumors
• Children have larger risks than adults for brain tumors

This report, sent to government leaders and media on August 25, 2009, details eleven design flaws of the 13-country, Telecom-funded Interphone study. The Interphone study, begun in 1999, was intended to determine the risks of brain tumors, but its full publication has been held up for years. Components of this study published to date reveal what the authors call a ’systemic-skew’, greatly underestimating brain tumor risk.

The design flaws include categorizing subjects who used portable phones (which emit the same microwave radiation as cellphones,) as ‘unexposed’; exclusion of many types of brain tumors; exclusion of people who had died, or were too ill to be interviewed, as a consequence of their brain tumor; and exclusion of children and young adults, who are more vulnerable.

“In particular, the report’s purpose is to inform journalists and government officials of the
independent scientific findings that raise red flags, and also to address the design flaws in the Interphone study protocol that results in an underestimation of the risk of brain tumors from cellphone use. This report is fully referenced to enable further investigations and for detailed fact checking.”

USE YOUR CELLPHONE SAFELY…

If you are a regular user of a cellphone and you value your health, please take the time to fully understand this important issue, and what you can do to minimize your risk now.  The idea is to keep the cellphone transmitter away from your body, especially your head.  You can use a wired headset with the phone in a holster (not in your pocket) or place the cellphone in speakerphone mode - either of these solutions should place substantial distance between your head and the transmitter.

DOWNLOADS…

Click here to download the full report: “Cellphones and Brain Tumors - 15 Reasons for Concern” [PDF, 440KB]

Additional and updated information is available at these websites:

• Powerwatch www.powerwatch.org.uk
• Microwave News www.microwavenews.com
• EMR Policy Institute www.emrpolicy.org
• The Peoples Initiative Foundation www.ThePeoplesInitiative.org
• ElectromagneticHealth.org www.electromagnetichealth.org

A Doctor, A Government, and An Industry

George Carlo, PhD, JD, is an epidemiologist and medical scientist who, from 1993 to 1999, headed the first telecommunications industry-backed studies into the dangers of cell phone use. That program remains the largest in the history of the issue. But he ran afoul of the very industry that hired him when his work revealed preventable health hazards associated with cell phone use.

In this article, we look at why cell phones are dangerous; Dr. Carlo’s years-long battle to bring the truth about cell phone dangers to the public; the industry’s campaign to discredit him and other scientists in the field; and what you can do to protect yourself now.

Please read this intriguing fact-based article..  CLICK HERE

A Message the World Forgot

Over Forty years ago, two men landed on the moon. One of them spoke
unforgettable words. The other did something equally momentous.

- Article by Neil Earle -

An Episcopalian, Buzz Aldrin had somehow wedged into his stowage pouch a plastic bag. In it were a small flask of wine, a chalice and some wafers. About 5:57 p.m. Houston time, he set the elements on the fold-down guidance-computer table. He spoke into his microphone: “This is the LM [Lunar Module] pilot speaking. I’d like to take this opportunity to ask every person listening in to pause for a moment and contemplate the events of the past few hours, and to give thanks in his or her own way.”

Aldrin’s way of giving thanks was to gently pour the wine into the chalice. He then recited—silently, as NASA had requested—John 15:5, “I am the vine; you are the branches…. Without me you can do nothing.”

Taking Communion on the moon!

Back to God

This remarkable story is relayed in Andrew Chaikin’s history, A Man on the Moon: The Voyage of the Apollo Astronauts. Back on earth, Aldrin’s wife Joan marveled—Buzz had not forgotten the deeper significance of what was happening on July 20, 1969. On his return to earth, Aldrin reflected aloud on the meaning of Psalm 8:3-4, words written some 2,800 years earlier by another gazer into the starry night: “When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, what you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him?”

Ironically, humanity’s most stunning technological feat took some of its key participants back—if only for a few moments—to their own humble place in the cosmos. As the apostle Paul told a group of advanced thinkers back in Athens, Greece, in the first century, God is not far from every one of us (Acts 17:27).

The world has all but forgotten Buzz Aldrin’s call to thanksgiving and his Communion service, standing as they do in the shadow of Neil Armstrong’s famous words, “That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.” But that humble acknowledgment from space of our dependence on the Creator of all things and our union with Jesus Christ speaks to the quality of human life in ways that will forever transcend even our most amazing technological achievements.

Copyright 2009 - Christian Odyssey

‘Is’ or ‘Was’ America a Judeo-Christian Nation?

Congressman Forbes asks the questions “Did America ever consider itself a Judeo-Christian nation?” and “If America was once a Judeo-Christian nation, when did it cease to be?” on the floor of the US House.

–>  Have a look at his thoughtful commentary here.

Fannie Mae Eases Credit to Aid Mortgage Lending

Here is a link to a New York Times article printed September 30, 1999.  The Bush White House has recently come under fire for creating the 2008 mortgage credit collapse.  As you will read here, it had nothing to do with the Bush Administration.

N. Y. Times: Fannie Mae Eases Credit to Aid Mortgage Lending[PDF 150KB]

According to this article, the risk, which played out in 2008, was known then; but, hey, the economy was OK so why not take alittle risk?

Is America Going Broke?

Written by Kerby Anderson

Let me begin with a provocative question: Is America going broke? It is a question that has been asked many times before. And when an economist asks the question, it creates quite a stir. Back in 2006, Laurence Kotlikoff asked: “Is the United States Bankrupt?”{1} He concluded that countries can go broke and that the United States is going broke due to future obligations to Social Security and Medicare. At the time, his commentary generated lots of discussion and controversy.

Two years later that same economist writing for Forbes magazine asked the question in a slightly different way: “Is the U.S. Going Broke?”{2} He pointed out that the federal government’s takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac represented a major financial challenge. These two institutions issue about half of the mortgages in America, so that part of the bailout put the government on the hook for $5 trillion (if you consider the corporate debtthat is owed and the mortgage debt that is guaranteed).

But $5 trillion is effectively pocket change when you consider the real liabilities that are facing our government. He estimates that is on the order of $70 trillion. I have seen others estimate our unfunded liabilities at anywhere from $50 trillion to as high as more than $90 trillion. Let’s for the sake of discussion use the $70 trillion figure.

The $70 trillion figure actually represents the fiscal difference between the government’s projected spending obligations and all its projected tax receipts. He notes, “This fiscal gap takes into account Uncle Sam’s need to service official debt-outstanding U.S. government bonds. But it also recognizes all our government’s unofficial debts, including its obligation to the soon-to-be-retired baby boomers to pay their Social Security and Medicare benefits.”{3}

When we are talking about such large dollar amounts, it is hard to put this in perspective. Let’s focus on the challenge that the baby boom generation creates. There are approximately 78 million baby boomers who will be retiring over the next few decades. Each of them can expect to receive approximately $50,000 each year (in today’s dollars) during their retirement. OK, so let’s multiply 78 million by a $50,000 annual payment and you get an annual cost of $4 trillion per year.

Of course, these are just the obligations we know about. There are others potential costs and obligations that aren’t even calculated into the national debt. Housing prices certainly fit into that category. We know some of the obligations that were written into law but cannot predict what might take place in the future. And we don’t know how many banks in the future will fail and what that cost might be to the American taxpayer.

So in this article we will take the time to count the cost and answer the question, Is America going broke?

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Modern-day road to the White House: too long, too expensive and verging on “insane.”

WASHINGTON (CNN) — Former Republican congressional leader Newt Gingrich blasts the modern-day road to the White House as too long, too expensive and verging on “insane.”

Gingrich discusses the war on terror at the National Press Club Video, 5:23

Gingrich: “I’m deeply worried…

Cold Hard Facts

Forward by John R. (Jack) Farrington Major General, USAF (Retired)…

Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007

Another assessment of where the US stands in relation to the Middle East problems, this one is from the guy who had his finger on the nuclear trigger for three years as head of our defense and response complex buried under Cheyenne Mountain at Colorado Springs. He was the only person who could initiate a nuclear attack after advising the sitting president of a missile launch by our enemies and our need to respond.

No political or civilian type in the US had more knowledge about day to day military actions around the world. Everyone should find quiet time to read this. As far as I am concerned, it is exactly the direction we should go and the consequences of not doing so are well thought out.

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Middle East Imperative

BY: JIM CASH, Brig. Gen., USAF, Ret.

I wrote recently about the war in Iraq and the larger war against

radical Islam, eliciting a number of responses. Let me try and put

this conflict in proper perspective.

Understand, the current battle we are engaged in is much bigger than

just Iraq. What happens in the next year will affect this country and

how our kids and grandkids live throughout their lifetime, and beyond.

Radical Islam has been attacking the West since the seventh century.

They have been defeated in the past and decimated to the point of

taking hundreds of years to recover. But they can never be totally

defeated.

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