• 11.28.09 // Daily S.O.A.P. (1 Chronicles 16:8)



    1 Chronicles 16:8 (New International Version)


     8 Give thanks to the LORD, call on his name;        make known among the nations what he has done.

    OBSERVATION
    We should always be in an attitude of gratitude.  There is much to be thankful for.  We should always call upon the name of the Lord!  He is our provider.  And we should be a walking testimony telling of the great things He has done for us.  We all have things to be thankful for.  God has touched all of our lives at one point. Even at the cross, He paid the price for not only my sin, not only your sin, but for the sins of the entire world.  We need to make our testimony known.

    APPLICATION
    I will continue during this season of Thanksgiving to call upon my Lord and tell of His greatness.  He has done so much in my life and I have so much to be thankful for.  I will do my very best to remember to tell at least 1 person every day about how God has blessed me. It may not be the same blessing that I share with everyone, but I will pray that God gives me the right testimony at the right time, for the right person, each and every day for 7 days.  And then I will continue to live his word.  Thank you Lord for your word today.

    PRAYER
    Father, thank you so much for who you are.  You are my provider, my source of strength, my everything.  Without you I am nothing.  Put the right person in my path to tell of your greatness today and everyday.  Give me the words to speak that would touch their heart and help them know you even better. I submit to you, my will, my body, and all that I am for the building of your kingdom.
    Bless my sister as she goes to the hospital today to give birth to precious Reese. Thank you for such a gift.  I pray that you will calm my sister for the birth of her first child.  Calm my brother-in-law and give him a peace that passeth all understanding. Give the doctors and nurses favor to do their jobs supernaturally under the direct guidance of your spirit.

    Bless this day, my friends, my family and the wonderful people of Connection Life Church!!!

    AMEN!!!

  • Are you Walmart or Target?

    You Are Target



    Like Walmart shoppers, you know how to stretch a dollar when you need to... but you're not exactly stingy.
    You shop to have fun, and you can't help but be drawn in by all the whimsical things you find at Target.

    Between red cards, gourmet food, and funky home decorations, you're totally hooked.
    Plus, you can't help but notice that everyone seems a little happier at Target. You think it's worth a few extra bucks to shop there.


  • "two places of mind"

    as i post many times and see/find few who connect/adjacentize image with my posts...

    anyway i have come to the conclusion of "two places of the mind"and for us to agree or walk or talk a time together we must be in the same place...

    now i know, i am not a brilliantly educated person, but i lean upon visions an dreams i see coupled to words ...

    my point is, as i read and watch "the happenin's" in the world i see this great division!...

    an ta cop some words from some guy name henry davie thoreau who said something as "there are a thousand hacking at the branches to one striking the root!"...

    now i wonder where the minds of this board will go when reading this!... i know where mine is!... image

  • You can Save America!

    I would like to share this email, I got.

    Join the Neo-Nazi party, and save America!
    Are you tired of the liberal elite, forcing their ideas down your throat?
    Are you tired of gays being given priority, over good christian heterosexual family values?
    Are you tired of Rosie O'Donnell, and her "family values"?
    Are you tired of states pandering to illegal aliens, giving them free housing, free medical, access to our schools, and welfare?
    Are you tired of of going to the ATM, and seeing the words. "do you want English or Spanish"?
    Are you tired of the attempts to make this a bi-lingual nation?
    Are you tired of students, who can't speak english?
    Are you tired of the "left-wing elitests", trying to turn this country into a socialist nation?
    Are you tired of making prayer, a criminal offense, in our schools?
    Are you tired of "Evilution", being shoved down our kid's throats, and the Bible outlawed?
    If you are tired of being shoved around, and want to take this nation back from inferior races, that are ruining this nation,
    then maybe you should take a new look, at the New Nazi Party!
    GOD BLESS AMERICA!

  • Be Determined

    Be Determined

    Even when we were dead (slain) by [our own] shortcomings and trespasses, He made us alive together in fellowship and in union with Christ; [He gave us the very life of Christ Himself, the same new life with which He quickened Him, for] it is by grace (His favor and mercy which you did not deserve) that you are saved (delivered from judgment and made partakers of Christ's salvation).

    Ephesians 2:5

    Paul said, "My determined purpose is, that I may know Christ, and the power of His resurrection, the power that lifts me out from among the dead, even while I am in the body" (see Philippians 3:10-13)

    You can use every day to get to know God in a deeper way. Read the Bible for understanding of what He wants to reveal to you, and receive His grace to be lifted out of every past fault. Let His power lift you into life His way.

    Starting Your Day Right, by Joyce Meyer

  • Peace

    Peace

    "Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid."

    John 14:27

    Most of us aren't looking for fame, fortune, or power. We just want to be happy. But somehow, circumstances keep getting in the way! Just when we think we've got it together, another problem hits us.

    Lots of things can send your life into turmoil. You're caught in the middle of your parents' divorce. Someone you love dies. You're overloaded: too much to do in too little time. A friend rejects you. You're the victim of a crime. your health fails. How can you have peace when people and situations keep conspiring against you? The world offers lots of ways to cope. Bookstores overflow with advice on how to find happiness. Drugs and liquor promise to numb the pain. Money promises to buy your way out of troubles. Movies tell you what you need is a good romance. Some religions direct you to seek tranquility within yourself.

    You can try every solution the world offers, and you still won't have peace. Peace doesn't come from the world, nor does it come from within yourself. Peace domes from God. God wants to give you the same peace he gave Jesus---a peace that carried him through the worst torment the world could dish out. Even while Jesus was being tortured and ridiculed on an excruciating cross, he had peace. God's peace goes deep down into your soul where nothing and no one can touch it. If you're looking for real peace, go to Jesus. He wants to give you peace that can never be taken away.

    The Experience, by Henry and Richard Blackaby

  • It's An Opportunity

    It's An Opportunity

    In order to develop a strong sense of the preciousness of human life, it must connect to one's belief system. The belief system doesn't need to be the Buddhist karmic system, but it has to be one that is critically aware of the uniqueness and special nature of this life form.

    ---Robert Thurman, Circling the Sacred Mountain

    Do you see it? Do you see what a special, precious opportunity each day of your life is?

    Look more closely. See all the lessons you can learn. See how you can participate in your growth. See how carefully God holds your hand, guides you down the right path, offers just the right words and opportunities at the right moments, sends just the right people your way.

    You can feel. You can touch. You can agonize in despair and giggle with glee. You can make jokes. You can cry at the movies. You can weep in bed at night. Then get the next day, refreshed.

    You can taste an orange, a lemon, a mango---and describe in detail the difference in each of those tastes. You can smell a forest of pine trees. You can hold your friend's hand and feel how he trembles because he's afraid.

    You can stumble and fall and feel abandoned, then get up and suddenly, in one moment, understand that lesson you've been trying to learn. You can jump out of airplanes, feel the smoothness of your lover's back, and hold your child to your breast.

    You can wait and thank God later.

    But you might as well thank God now.

    Maybe the best way to thank God is by living your life fully today.

    God, help me to use this opportunity, this life that I have been given to the best of my ability every day.

    More Language Of Letting Go, by Melody Beattie

  • Attraction, Not Promotion

    *~*~*~*~*^Daily Reflections^*~*~*~*~*

    ATTRACTION, NOT PROMOTION

    Through many painful experiences, we think we have arrived at what that policy ought to be. It is the opposite in many ways of usual promotional practice. We found that we had to rely upon the principle of attraction rather than of promotion.

    TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 180-181

    While I was drinking I reacted with anger, self-pity and defiance against anyone who wanted to change me. All I wanted then was to be accepted by another human simply as I was and, curiously, that is what I found in A.A. I became the custodian of this concept of attraction, which is the principle of our Fellowship's public relations. It is by attraction that I can best reach the alcoholic who still suffers.

    I thank God for having given me the attraction of a well-planned and established program of Steps and Traditions. Through humility and the support of my fellow sober members, I have been able to practice the A.A. way of life through attraction, not promotion.

    Copyright 1990 ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS WORLD SERVICES, INC.

  • Am I Deeply Grateful To Have Found A.A.?

    *~*~*~*^Twenty Four Hours A Day^*~*~*~*

    A.A. Thought for the Day

    The A.A. way is the way of sobriety. A.A. is known everywhere as a method that has been successful with alcoholics. Doctors, psychiatrists, and the clergy have had some success. Some men and women have gotten sober all by themselves. We believe that A.A. is the most successful and happiest way to sobriety. And yet A.A. is, of course, not wholly successful. Some are unable to achieve sobriety and some slip back into alcoholism after they have had some measure of sobriety. Am I deeply grateful to have found A.A.?

    Meditation for the Day

    Gratitude to God is the theme of Thanksgiving Day. The pilgrims gathered to give thanks to God for their harvest which was pitifully small. When we look around at all the things we have today, how can we help being grateful to God? Our families, our homes, our friends, our A.A. fellowship: all these things are free gifts of God to us. "But for the grace of God," we would not have them.

    Prayer for the Day

    I pray that I may be very grateful today. I pray that I may not forget where I might be but for the grace of God.

    Hazelden Foundation PO Box 176 Center City, MN 55012

  • Release Me

    Release Me

    Lord, keep me from the habit of thinking I must say something on every subject and on every occasion.

    Release me from wanting to control everyone's affairs.

    Keep my mind free from the recital of endless details---give me wings to get to the point.

    I ask for grace enough to listen to the tales of others' pains. help me to endure them with patience, but seal my lips on my own aches and pains---they are increasing and my life of rehearsing them is becoming sweeter as the years go by.

    Teach me the glorious lesson that occasionally it is possible that I may be mistaken.

    Keep me reasonably sweet. I do not want to be a saint---some of them are so difficult to live with---but a sour old person is one of the crowning works of the devil.

    Give me the ability to see good things in unexpected places, and talents in unexpected people. And give me, O Lord, the grace to tell them so.

    Make me thoughtful, but not moody; helpful, but not bossy. With my vast store of wisdom, it seems a pit to not use it all, but you know, Lord, that I want a few friends at the end.

    The Twelve Step Prayer Book, Written and Compiled by Bill P. and Lisa D.

  • Only you can deprive yourself of anything

    Only you can deprive yourself of anything. do to oppose this realization, for it is truly the beginning of the dawn of light. Remember also that the denial of this simple fact takes many forms, and these you must learn to recognize and to oppose steadfastly, without exception. This is a crucial step in the reawakening. The beginning phase of this reversal are often quite painful, for as blame is withdrawn from without, there is a strong tendency to harbor it within. It is difficult at first to realize that this is exactly the same thing, for there is no distinction between within and without.

    ACIM

  • U.S was "hell bent" on war with Iraq U.K envoy says?

    U.S. was 'hell bent' on Iraq war, U.K. envoy says

    Bush administration didn't care about getting U.N. support, he tells inquiry

    LONDON - The United States was "hell bent" on a 2003 military invasion of Iraq and actively undermined efforts by Britain to win international authorization for the war, a former British diplomat told an inquiry Friday.

    Jeremy Greenstock, British ambassador to the United Nations from 1998 to 2003, said that President George W. Bush had no real interest in attempts to agree on a U.N. resolution to provide explicit backing for the conflict.

    The ex-diplomat, who served as Britain's envoy in Iraq after the invasion, said serious preparations for the war had begun in early 2002 and took on an unstoppable momentum.

    As diplomats frantically attempted in early 2003 to agree upon a U.N. resolution approving a military offensive, Bush's key aides grew impatient — criticizing the process as an unnecessary distraction, he said.

    'Waste of time' alleged
    Grumbling from Washington "included noises about 'this is a waste of time, what we need is regime change, why are we bothering with this, we must sweep this aside and do what's going to have to be done anyway — and deal with this with the use of force,'" Greenstock testified before the inquiry into the Iraq war.

    Several nations had hoped to stall the invasion of Iraq to allow U.N. weapons inspectors more time to search for evidence that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction — the key justification for the war. No such weapons were ever found.

    Yet Bush's inner circle cared little about what international allies thought and refused to halt plans to invade in March 2003, Greenstock said. He said even Blair was unable to persuade Bush, winning only a brief hiatus of two weeks.

    "The momentum for earlier action in the United States was much too strong for us to counter," Greenstock said in a written statement to the inquiry, provided alongside his live testimony.

    Britain's inquiry is the most exhaustive study yet into the war and will seek evidence from former Prime Minister Tony Blair, military officials and spy agency chiefs. It won't apportion blame or establish criminal or civil liability. But it will offer recommendations by late 2010 on how to prevent mistakes from being repeated in the future.

    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34172972/ns/world_news-europe/

    >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

    { At least the Brits realize they made a terrible mistake following Bush/Cheney into their crazy crusade against Saddam and Iraq. Their enquiry will " offer recommendations by late 2010 on how to prevent mistakes from being repeated in the future". Good for them!

    At least they are not burying their collective heads in the sand like so many are in this country. We need the same sort of investigation here in America and let the chips fall where they may. If we can't drag Bush and Cheney into a court of law to answer for their callus disregard for the truth, misrepresentations, exaggerations and out and out lies while planning and carrying out an immoral and unjustifiable war of aggression than we can at least make recommendations for future Presidents and administrations so they won't be so stupid as to repeat their mistakes.

    Bush/ Cheney are already dammed by most of the world and most historians but history will repeat itself if we don't learn from it. Is it time for a complete investigation on the planning and justification for the Bush/Cheney war against Iraq?

    What do you think?}

  • Just another day in America

    Killer hunted after Thanksgiving party rampage


    Cops: Man with ‘ongoing resentment’ toward family kills 4 female relatives

    JUPITER, Fla. - Police were searching Friday for a man suspected in the Thanksgiving shooting deaths of his twin sisters, aunt and a 6-year-old cousin during a family celebration.

    One of the sisters, Lisa Knight, 33, was pregnant, said Jupiter Police spokeswoman Sally Collins-Ortiz. She did not say how far along the woman was in her pregnancy.

    Police said 17 relatives were in the Palm Beach County house when the shootings were reported around 10 p.m. Thursday in Jupiter, a small beach town about 90 miles north of Miami that is best known as a home to celebrities including Michael Jordan and Burt Reynolds. 

    The little girl was sleeping in her bed when she was shot, police said. A fifth man was critically wounded and a sixth was treated at the scene for a gunshot graze.

    Jupiter Police Sgt. Scott Pascarella said officers were looking for Paul Michael Merhige, 35, of Miami. Merhige is a cousin of the 6-year-old victim, Makayla Sitton, and has no criminal record, police said.

    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34170956/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/

    { Four dead by gunshots. Three adult women and a female child. Go to the link and see the photo of the child with her dolls in the bed she was shot to death in. It's always "open season" on women and children in America. A daily occurrence as we all know. Slaughtered by a man with no criminal record. Another typical "law abiding gun owner".

    What good is a "right" that murders defenceless woman and blows children to pieces in their beds? Enough is enough!

    REPEAL THE 2ND AMENDMENT.}


  • Google Wave invites (I got 8)

    I managed to snag an invite to Google Wave, so I was wondering if anyone wants one of the 8 I am now allowed to send out.

  • The public execution of Christianity re: http://www.bluecrucifix.co.uk/bluecrucifix/Christianity.html

    Is the only genuine Christian act remaining that of the simultaneous and universal crucifixion of the institution of Christianity?

    http://www.bluecrucifix.co.uk/bluecrucifix/Christianity.htmlheart

  • PAEDOPHILE PRIESTS.......WILL AUTHORITIES EVER STOP THEM?

    It appears the answer is a resounding NO.
     
    The following is from the News Desk of the Australian Boroadcasting Corporation 27/11/2009
     

    Catholic abuse aided by police

    Emma Alberici reported this story on Friday, November 27, 2009 08:14:00

    TONY EASTLEY: A shocking report released overnight reveals that sexual abuse by Catholic priests in Ireland was covered up for decades by both the church and police.

    Four archbishops have been named for their mishandling of hundreds of allegations.

    The 720-page report says the official policy from 1975 to 2004 was to protect the reputation of the church at the expense of the victims.

    Here's Europe correspondent Emma Alberici

    EMMA ALBERICI: Maree Collins was sexually assaulted in 1960. When she reported the abuse the Catholic Church moved the priest to another parish. The report says that was a common practise for dealing with abusive priests - there was a conspiracy to protect the church not the welfare of the children in its care.

    MAREE COLLINS: This was a system of cover-up, of protecting the institution and it's going to be the same wherever the Catholic Church is.

    EMMA ALBERICI: In one case a priest admitted to attacking more than 100 children but instead of helping those defenceless members of the parish the church covered it up.

    Ireland's Justice Minister Dermot Ahern is adamant that those complicit in the abuse of children should be made to pay.

    DERMOT AHERN: The Government will decide in relation to this one way or the other, but ultimately I think it's fair to say that the church should not be allowed to get away with what has happened in relation to this.

    EMMA ALBERICI: For seven years until 1995, Cardinal Desmond Connell kept incriminating documents locked away in a secret vault. By hiding the clergy's crimes, he had allowed countless other children to fall victim to what the report dubs "the church's evil".

    At a press conference after the report's release, Dublin's current Archbishop Diarmuid Martin was contrite.

    DIARMUID MARTIN: As Archbishop of Dublin and as Diarmuid Martin a person, I offer to each and every survivor my apology, my sorrow and my shame for what happened.

    EMMA ALBERICI: The relationship between some senior members of the force and priests and bishops in Dublin was described as inappropriate. Rather than investigate complaints from children police simply reported the matter to the Dublin Catholic Diocese. At least one perpetrator, the report says, was allowed to flee the country.

    This is Emma Alberici reporting for AM.

                .............................................................................................................................
     
    Once again outrage is piled upon outrage as this whorish cess-pit of degradation is allowed free rein to practise its raison d'etre............by a catholic police force no less! 
    This world-wide cabal for the promotion and protection of paedophiles and paedophilia, that promotes the spread of HIV AIDS among undeveloped societies by banning condoms, that would rather millions die than violate church doctrine, should be swept from the face of Earth, expunged, exterminated.
     
    Biggles, Prime 

  • Do You Use the Internet Like a Man or a Woman?

    Your Surfing Habits are 60% Male, 40% Female

    If we had to guess, we would guess that you are a man.
    You use the internet to make your life more efficient - and to make you smarter.
    For you, the internet is like a vast encyclopedia.
    You search and surf extensively. You look up everything online.

    Do You Use the Internet Like a Man or a Woman?

    Blogthings: If Quizzes Are Outlawed, Only Outlaws Will Take Quizzes        [/center]
    Boy are they ever wrong! I am female.
    I also resent the implication that men use the net to increase their knowledge.[/center]

  • Should You Celebrate Buy Nothing Day?

    You Should Celebrate Buy Nothing Day



    Whether you've ever celebrated it before or not, you definitely know where Buy Nothing Day advocates are coming from.
    You agree that the holidays have gotten too commercial and materialistic. And all this debt is really hurting people.

    Besides, buying a ton of disposable holiday gifts and decorations isn't doing anything to help the environment. Or your wallet.
    This Black Friday, give yourself the option of opting out. Bake some cookies. Visit a friend. It feels much better than standing in line at the crack of dawn.

    Should You Celebrate Buy Nothing Day?

    Blogthings: We Have a Quiz for Almost Everything        [/center]

  • Be a good Christian: Say 'Happy Holidays'

    Be a good Christian: Say 'Happy Holidays'
    By Ruth Ann Dailey, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

    Here's a fun mind game just in time for the year's biggest shopping season: If Jesus were a clerk ringing up your purchase at The Gap, would he wish you "Merry Christmas" or "Happy Holidays"? What would Jesus do?

    Really, let's have some fun with this, because if we have to give a few minutes' attention to the culture war, then we might as well do the thing that would most annoy the extremists on either side: Let's think.

    The big bonus is, there are no wrong answers -- not when you're playing "Jesus Clerks at The Gap."

    Since Jesus was born a Jew, maybe he would hand you your bag and say, "Happy Hanukkah." Or, as the founder of his own religion, maybe he'd say, "Merry Me-Day."

    Maybe, if he was truly God, he would tailor his words to fit each customer's unspoken need: "Your daughter won't like this and will spend my birthday sulking," or "Just give up already on trying to please everybody," or "This year at your in-laws? Don't drink so much."

    Or maybe he'd start preaching against the grasping materialism of our age and urge customers to put down the argyle sweaters and celebrate his birth by performing real acts of mercy instead.

    And then he'd get fired. Because no matter what you call the holiday, a retailer's job is to sell merchandise, not a religion.

    The American Family Association, however, doesn't see it that way. The "traditional family values" organization, famous for crusades against porn and raunchy TV, regularly announces boycotts of big enterprises that don't make business choices in accordance with its Christian world view.

    In 2005, AFA targeted Wal-Mart and other major retailers to pressure them into using Christmas-specific signs and advertising. It worked. In November 2006, Wal-Mart announced it would ditch generic "Happy Holidays" verbiage and restore "Christmas" to its packaging and greeters' lips.

    This year AFA has Gap in its crosshairs. "For millions of Americans the giving and receiving of gifts is in honor of the One who gave Himself," read a Nov. 10 AFA press release. "For Gap to pretend that isn't the foundation of the Christmas season is political correctness at best and religious bigotry at worst."

    News flash for the "religious right" from this column-writing Jesus freak: Christmas is not the only religious observance taking place at this time of year, and millions of Americans do not recognize Jesus as "the One" nor give gifts to honor him.

    Is recognizing this reality "political correctness," or is it simple respect?

    And why wouldn't Christians want to respect the religious freedom exercised by their fellow citizens? After all, obnoxious pouting -- "It's our holiday!" -- isn't exactly a persuasive evangelistic technique.

    On its Web site, the AFA's stated goal is to "equip citizens to reform our culture to reflect Biblical truth on which it was founded." While the colonial culture was overwhelmingly Christian, the nation's government was founded on the irreconcilable tension between Reformation and Enlightenment, between divine revelation and man's reason.

    That's a conflict to be resolved in the individual's heart and to be engaged as graciously as possible when all those individuals collide in the public sphere -- which includes the local mall.

    Cultural conservatives would be doing the nation a favor, however, by fighting true secularization where it actually matters: in the public schools. To prohibit kids from singing "Silent Night" or "The Hallelujah Chorus," as some districts do, is to prevent them from learning about Western civilization. It is anti-intellectual.

    Deliberately imposing such ignorance on the young is just a different kind of indoctrination. If officials don't want that charge laid at their door, they should embrace all of America's rich religious traditions and celebrate them in, yes, a "winter concert."

    As if it had anticipated the "Christmas boycott," Gap's ad campaign includes this "Holiday Cheer" on its Web site: "Go Christmas / Go Hanukkah / Go whatever holiday / You wanukkah."

    That's brilliant, as far as it goes; Gap's 30-second ad goes further, with Gap-clad cheerleaders equating all religions with paganism or doing "what just feels right." (How'd that work out on, say, Wall Street?)

    While the AFA demeans true faith with self-regarding anger, the Gap cheer makes religious decisions seem as important as cashmere scarves. Here -- toss one on! They look a bit different but they're all the same!

    They are not, of course -- a fact fully evident in the cultures and political systems they've inspired.

    Faith matters. If yours is so weak that you are offended by someone else's -- or need their two words of approval ("Merry Christmas!") -- you've got growing to do.

    There's nothing like a little shot of religion to inoculate you against the big, life-changing kind. The distance between the insincere gesture and the real thing -- that's the only gap worth worrying about.
    http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09320/1013776-152.stm

  • ..yo Obama

    ..familes r dyin n rottin on the vine/we need ta be understanding tha times that we're in/these kids need leadership not some crazy pep talk on how ta be livin/tha Word o God is what they need ta be given/
  • A Reality Check on Democracy

    I was inspired to create this thread by reading the OP of a thread on this forum entitled "The TRUTH About Democracy". I don't want to post there because the author is obviously a religious fundamentalist who feels government should be based on his particular interpretation of the Bible, and I'd rather discuss the subject from a much broader perspective.

    First of all, the English word "democracy" has two quite different meanings in about equally common use. One is quite specific: "rule by majority vote". The other is more general, and is roughly, "rule that involves a significant amount of consent by the governed".

    My opinion of the first kind of democracy is summed up quite well in this quotation often attributed to Thomas Jefferson: "A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where 51 percent of the people may take away the rights of the other 49." There's no evidence that Jefferson ever actually made this statement in so many words, but his life-long support of minority rights is powerful evidence that he believed in the basic sentiment behind it.

    And Winston Churchill really did write, "It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.", but in a context that makes it obvious he is using the second definition of "democracy". The sentence is embedded in a discussion of the faults and virtues of the complex political system set up by the set of laws and traditions usually called the British Constitution, and I definitely agree such a system is indeed the "lesser evil" compared to other forms of governance.

    I often call myself a "left-wing anarchist". The "left-wing" part means that I believe that the concept of "inalienable rights granted by god or nature" is a myth, and that all so-called "rights" are really "entitlements", granted to citizens by the government. But the "anarchist" part means I also believe that ALL forms of authoritarian government are a "necessary evil" and that the use of violence and other forms of coercion to enforce laws should be kept to a minimum. In other words I believe in checks and balances on all forms of power: political, economic, social, and spiritual. And IMO, both kinds of Democracy -- majority rule and consent of the governed -- are an important part of the mix needed to maintain such a balance.

    So the specific question I'd like to discuss first in this thread is:

    EXACTLY what role should majority rule and consent of the governed play in the design of a just and efficient system of governance? In other words, how much of each should we have and what should they be balanced against?

  • February 2, 2010: Who Am I?

    Do you think the issue of identity is significant?  Why or why not?
     
     
     
    How does personal identity impact one's attitudes and actions?

  • Earthquake in Venezuela .......

    Venezuela Earthquake Rattles Caracas, Measures 6.4
     
     
    CARACAS, Venezuela — An earthquake shook Venezuela's capital and nearby states Saturday, injuring 14 people and causing damage to a few buildings.
    The U.S. Geological Survey reported a preliminary magnitude of 6.4 for the quake, saying the epicenter was off Venezuela's Caribbean coast 65 miles (110 kilometers) west of Caracas.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/12/venezuela-earthquake-ratt_n_284733.html


  • There is no hell

    There is no hell. Hell is only what the ego has made of the present. The belief in hell is what prevents you from understanding the present, because you are afraid of it. ACIM

  • Go On Through

    Go On Through

    Yes, though I walk through the [deep, sunless] valley of the shadow of death, I will fear or dread no evil, for You are with me: Your rod [to protect] and Your staff [to guide], they comfort me.

    Psalm 23:4

    Knowing God personally requires trusting Him through the hard times in life, and not running away from trials. It requires being faithful to do whatever He says to do, being steadfast while waiting for Him to work out your problems.

    You understand how faithful and how good God is when you see His deliverance in your life. You can't get that certainty by reading a book about Him. Your faith increases by going through tough times and seeing His presence make a difference in your life. Don't run away from God during tests and trials: draw near to Him, and listen for His voice of assurance.

    Starting Your Day Right, by Joyce Meyer

  • Unbelief

    Unbelief

    Even after Jesus had done all these miraculous signs in their presence, they still would not believe in him.

    John 12:37

    Do you ever think, If I could just see Jesus in the flesh, hear his voice, and watch him perform miracles, it would be much easier to have faith in him? In Jesus' day, people were able to walk with him and observe him firsthand. They were eyewitnesses when he touched a blind man and gave him sight, or healed the rotting flesh of a person with leprosy. They saw him take a young boy's lunch and feed five thousand men with it. Most astonishing, they were there when Lazarus walked out from the tomb, very much alive, four days after his death! These were astounding signs of miraculous power! But the most incredible thing of all was this: even after what they saw and what they heard, some people still refused to believe in Jesus.

    Others trusted Jesus so readily it compelled him to remark on the depth of their faith (Matthew 15:28). What was the difference? The difference was the condition of their hearts. People see what they want to see. Those whose hearts are closed to Christ will not trust him even if people come back from the grave in order to convince them (Luke 16:27-31). But those whose hearts are sensitive to God will not need to see miracles in order to believe in Christ and follow him.

    Look around you. There are signs of God's power everywhere if you have the eyes to see them. If you are waiting for God to perform miracles so that your faith is increased, you may wait a long time. If,; however, you are putting your faith in God, regardless of what happens, you may be surprised at how many miracles occur around you.

    The Experience, by Henry and Richard Blackaby

  • Flex Your Wings

    Flex Your Wings

    Walking in the hills of Southern California, I came across a high meadow bursting with the movement of hundreds of moths. I stood for a few moments and drank in the scene, watching them dance lightly around me. There were so many of them I could actually hear their wings beating in the still air.

    I walked further along and saw a caterpillar crawling along the ground. I looked more closely and saw that the tiny creature had two small but useless wings protruding from its back. At first I thought that it must have been a deformity, that this poor worm would be forced to spend its days crawling, never able to fly, but all the while having wings. Then as I walked further along, I saw another winged caterpillar---this one with sightly larger wings. It was slowly flexing its new appendages, looking anxiously at the sky. These moths grew their wings gradually, without the aid of a cocoon to protect them throughout the transformation. They just sprouted their wings right out there for the whole world to see.

    We each Have different levels of freedom. What I think of as a box might be unthinkable freedom for you today. In the future, when you look back at your life, you may be amazed at the levels of freedom into which you have naturally grown. Perhaps you are looking around today at the freedom of others in awe and envy. "I could never for that," you might say.

    Yes, you can.

    And you might.

    Feel those wings on your back? They're there. And they're growing every day---whether you're flying yet or not.

    Robert Thurman wrote, "The great thing about the horizon of infinity is that there is no limit to how amazing you can become."

    God, help me flex my wings. Teach me how amazing I can become.

    More Language Of Letting Go, by Melody Beattie

  • When Seeking God

    When Seeking God

    If a person would find God, let that person humbly ask for a chance to believe; and meanwhile let him or her go personally, not by delegate, to a less fortunate brother, helping him in his need of body and soul.

    When a person seeks God, he or she will presently find what is sought. For when a person can leave him or herself and enter the lives of others, that person leaves his or her own heart open so that God may enter and dwell within.

    The Twelve Step Prayer Book, Written and Compiled by Bill P. and Lisa D.

  • The Perils Of The Limelight

    *~*~*~*~*^Daily Reflections^*~*~*~*~*

    THE PERILS OF THE LIMELIGHT

    In the beginning, the press could not understand our refusal of all personal publicity. They were genuinely baffled by our insistence upon anonymity. Then they got the point. Here was something rare in the world - a society which said it wished to publicize its principles and its work, but not its individual members. The press was delighted with this attitude. Ever since, these friends have reported A.A. with an enthusiasm which the most ardent members would find hard to match.

    TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 182

    It is essential for my personal survival and that of the Fellowship that I not use A.A. to put myself in the limelight. Anonymity is a way for me to work on my humility. Since pride is one of my most dangerous shortcomings, practicing humility is one of the best ways to overcome it. The Fellowship of A.A. gains worldwide recognition by its various methods of publicizing its principles and its work, not by its individual members advertising themselves. The attraction created by my changing attitudes and my altruism contributes much more to the welfare of A.A. than self-promotion.

    Copyright 1990 ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS WORLD SERVICES, INC.

  • Am I On The A.A. Way?

    *~*~*^Twenty Four Hours A Day^*~*~*

    A.A. Thought for the Day

    The way of A.A. is the way of sobriety, fellowship, service, and faith. Let us take up each one of these things and see if our feet are truly on the way. The first and greatest to us is sobriety. The others are built on sobriety as a foundation. We could not have the others if we did not have sobriety. We all come to A.A. to get sober, and we stay to help others get sober. We are looking for sobriety first, last, and all the time. We cannot build any decent kind of a life unless we stay sober. Am I on the A.A. way?

    Meditation for the Day

    To truly desire to do God's will, therein lies happiness for a human being. We start out wanting our own way. We want our wills to be satisfied. We take and we do not give. Gradually we find that we are not happy when we are selfish, so we begin to make allowances for other people's wills. But this again' does not give us full happiness, and we begin to see that the only way to be truly happy is to try to do God's will. In these times of meditation, we seek to get guidance so that we can find God's will for us.

    Prayer for the Day

    I pray that I may subordinate my will to the will of God. I pray that I may be guided today to find His will for me.

    Hazelden Foundation PO Box 176 Center City, MN 55012

  • Counter Strike: Source

    If you play it add me on Steam: Steen_J
    Its a pretty cool one

  • The Goal has created the misery for you

    more of U. G. Krishnamurti's indomitable nonsense. ;) 

  • Navy Seals catch terrorist and face "assault" charges?

    Navy Seals Face Assault Charges for Capturing Most-Wanted Terrorists

     

    Navy Seals have secretly captured one of the most wanted terrorists in Iraq — the alleged mastermind of the murder and mutilation of four Blackwater USA security guards in Fallujah in 2004. And three of the SEALs who captured him are now facing criminal charges, sources told FoxNews.com.
     
    The three, all members of the Navy's elite commando unit, have refused non-judicial punishment — called a captain's mast — and have requested a trial by court-martial.


    Ahmed Hashim Abed, whom the military code-named "Objective Amber," told investigators he was punched by his captors — and he had the bloody lip to prove it.
    Now, instead of being lauded for bringing to justice a high-value target, three of the SEAL commandos, all enlisted, face assault charges and have retained lawyers.

    Matthew McCabe, a Special Operations Petty Officer Second Class (SO-2), is facing three charges: dereliction of performance of duty for willfully failing to safeguard a detainee, making a false official statement, and assault.

    Petty Officer Jonathan Keefe, SO-2, is facing charges of dereliction of performance of duty and making a false official statement.

    Petty Officer Julio Huertas, SO-1, faces those same charges and an additional charge of impediment of an investigation.

    Neal Puckett, an attorney representing McCabe, told Fox News the SEALs are being charged for allegedly giving the detainee a “punch in the gut.”

    The three SEALs will be arraigned separately on Dec. 7. Another three SEALs — two officers and an enlisted sailor — have been identified by investigators as witnesses but have not been charged.The military is sensitive to charges of detainee abuse highlighted in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal. The Navy charged four SEALs with abuse in 2004 in connection with detainee treatment.

    http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,576646,00.html?test=latestnews
    { The above is only a snippet from the whole article so if your interested I would urge you to read all of it. It seems to me the Seals probably roughed this guy up a bit and when called on it they lied and tried to cover up. That attempt at a cover up is probably what got them into the serious trouble they seem to be in now.

    It is the military {it seems} who has brought about the charges and as stated one explanation may be their sensitivity "to charges of detainee abuse highlighted in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal". That is understandable as they took a beating over that even thought I suspect the orders came from a civilian in the Bush/Cheney administration.

    We are at war with these terrorists and the rules of war must be followed. What happened at Abu Ghraib prison was morally wrong and illegal. That being said....this hardly seems worthy of destroying the careers of these Navy Seals who it seemed did an outstanding job of catching this alleged murderous bastard. Is it the lies and cover up that is bringing them to this or the original "smack around" they allegedly carried out? Is there ever any justification for someone in custody to be slapped around or roughed up? Should the Seals be let off the hook on this one or punished?

    What do you think?}


  • Conversion, reconversion led to Kandhamal riots: Commission

    Ashadh Shuddha Trayodashi

    Bhubaneswar: Conversion and re-conversion were among the major factors which led to the riots in Orissa's Kandhamal district last year, a judicial commission probing the violence has said.

    "Sources of the violence were deeply rooted in land disputes, conversion and re-conversion and fake certificate issues," Justice S C Mohapatra, heading the one-man panel, said in his interim report on the violence in Kandhamal which claimed 43 lives besides damaging many houses and churches.

    He, however, did not elaborate on the conversions and reconversions issue.

    "Suspicion among the scheduled tribe and scheduled caste inhabitants of Kandhamal is the main cause of riots with the tribals suspecting that 'Pano' dalits were capturing their land through fraudulent means," Justice Mohapatra said.

    Besides the issues of land and conversion and re-conversion, Justice Mohapatra said fake certificates were another major factor that created discontent among Kandha tribals who constitute 52 per cent of Kandhamal's population.

    Justice Mohapatra, who submitted the interim report on July 1, said the government should take steps immediately to remove differences between the communities.

    "I know it will take at least two years to complete inquiry, but interim report will help the government to make immediate intervention," he said.

    Justice Mohapatra said in his 28-page report that most Kandha tribals were uneducated and were under the impression that quotas meant for them were being availed of by 'Pana' dalits, who were Christians.

    This was another factor behind tribal anger, he said suggesting the state government expedite freeing of tribal land in possession of non-tribals, take up fake certificate cases and remain vigilant to conversion and re-conversion.

    "Once the basic issues are addressed, the Kandhamal problem could be solved," he said.

    Replying to a question, Justice Mohapatra said he had not blamed anybody for the violence in the interim report.

    Sources, however, said the commission which was set up on September 3 last year could fix responsibility for the violence on any organisation or government body.

    In the interim report, Justice Mohapatra had not blamed any religious body or the CPI (Maoist) which claimed responsibility for killing of VHP leader Laxmananda Saraswati on August 23 last year.

    Killing of Saraswati and four of his associates had triggered large-scale violence in Kandhamal which evoked condemnation from many quarters in the country and abroad.

    Source: The Hindu

  • गाय बचेगी, देश बचेगा

    विश्व मंगल गो ग्राम तहसील स्तरीय रथ यात्रा श्रीगोपाल गुफा धाम तिमावा से गुरुवार को बैंड बाजे व आतिशबाजी के साथ रवाना हुई। यात्रा को संत महेश चेतन महाराज व राधाकृष्ण महाराज ने हरी झंडी दिखाकर रवानगी दी। यात्रा रवानगी के दौरान गाय बचेगी, देश बचेगा व गो माता भारत की समृद्घि का आधार आदि नारे लोग लगा रहे थे।

    गो ग्राम रथ यात्रा के पदाधिकारी गुरुवार को सुबह रथ व गाय की प्रतिमा को सजाने में व्यस्त नजर आए। रथ को दुल्हन की तरह सजाया। पंडित गिर्राज प्रसाद शर्मा ने विधि विधान व मंत्रोच्चारण के साथ गोपाल भगवान, रथ में विराजमान गो की प्रतिमा व रथ का पूजन करवाया। इसके उपरान्त सामूहिक रूप से आरती उताकर गो रक्षा व पालन का संकल्प लिया। रवानगी के मुख्य अतिथि विधायक रमेश मीणा ने कहा कि गाय की आज जो स्थिति है वह बड़ी शोचनीय है।

    इसके लिए हम सब को पुन: अपने घर में गाय रखने की आवश्यकता है क्योंकि गाय का हिन्दू संस्कृति में बड़ा महत्वपूर्ण स्थान है। गाय का दूध व मूत्र, गोबर भी औषधि निर्माण के साथ पर्यावरण संतुलन बनाने में सहायक है। उन्होंने उपस्थित सभी लोगों से एक गाय अवश्य पालने की अपील की। प्रांत प्रचारक गोपाल आर्य ने कहा कि यदि गाय नहीं होती तो भगवान भी नहीं होते। भगवान राम का वंश भी कामधेनू गाय की पूजा से चला था। हिन्दु संस्कृति में गाय को माता के बराबर का दर्जा दिया गया है।

    गाय का गोरस हमारे स्वास्थ्य के लिए लाभदायक साथ ही पर्यावरण को स्वच्छ बनाने में सहायक है। भारतीय संस्कृति में धार्मिक आयोजनों में गाय का दूध, दही, घी ही नहींं बल्कि गोबर भी काम में लिया जाता है। उन्होंने सभी से गो प्रेमी बनने की अपील की। मुकेश सोलंकी ने कहा, भारत जैसे हिन्दू देश में गो की हत्या की जा रही है, यह हमारे लिए चिंता का विषय है। हम हिन्दू होते हुए भी गाय की रक्षा नहीं कर पा रहे हैं।

    उन्होंने कहा कि आप घर में गाय नहीं पाल सकते हो तो गो शाला की एक गाय खर्चा वहन कर सहयोग करने की अपील की। सह जिला संयोजक उम्मेद सिंह कैमा ने बताया कि गो यात्रा के दौरान लोगों से गो की हत्या रोकने के लिए हस्ताक्षर करवाकर राष्टïपति को ज्ञापन सौंपेंगे। सम्पूर्ण देश में करीब एक करोड़ लोगों के हस्ताक्षर करवाए जाएंगे।

    गो ग्राम यात्रा के पदाधिकारियों ने दो गोपालकों को श्रीफल व स्मृति चिन्ह भेंट कर सम्मानित किया।

    इस अवसर पर विश्वजीतसिंह, बजरंग दल के पूर्व संयोजक महेन्द्र कैमला, बृजमोहन सैनी, रामनरेश वैद्य, मण्डल अध्यक्ष नेमीचन्द शर्मा, रामविलास, कमल मेहर, भूपेन्द्र, देवेन्द्र जैन, अशोक शर्मा, क्षेत्रपाल मीणा, राजेन्द्र घाटोली, राजेश तिमावा, डीलर रामकेश मीणा, गिर्राज सेठ, केदार सोनी, श्रीराम सेठ, रामरतन मेडिय़ा सहित सैकड़ों लोग मौजूद थे।

    गो ग्राम रथयात्रा का कार्यक्रम

    भास्कर न्यूज & मडरायल

    विश्व मंगल गो ग्राम रथ यात्रा का कार्यक्रम मण्डरायल तहसील के लिए निर्धारित किया गया है। मण्डरायल तहसील के यात्रा संयोजक विनोद बिहारी व्यास एवं राष्ट्रीय स्वयं सेवक संघ के तहसील कार्यवाहक नरेश सिंह ने बताया कि यात्रा 29 नवम्बर से प्रारम्भ की जाएगी।

    उन्होंने बताया कि 29 को करणपुर के गुमानो माता के मंदिर से यात्रा प्रारम्भ होकर अजीतपुरा से महाराजपुरा एवं डांगरीय में रात्रि विश्राम होगा। 30 को आशाकी से निभेरा, घूसई, बबूलरोड टोडा एवं सिमारा होते हुए कसेड़ में रात्रि विश्राम होगा। 1 दिसम्बर को अरौरा से रंगा, रोधई, धातूरीया पुरा, दर्रा, जगडरपुरा होते हुए खिरकन में रात्रि विश्राम होगा। 2 को मोंगेपुरा, नयागांव, धावली, झारीसा होते हुए नींदर में रात्रि विश्राम होगा। 3 को जखौदा, घटली, गोपालपुर, खडऱपुरा होते हुए धौरेटा में रात्रि विश्राम होगा। 4 को सीतापुरा, मारकाकुआं, ओड़, देवीपुरा होते हुए दरगमां में रात्रि विश्राम होगा। 5 को पांचौली, बरैड, मल्हापुरा, खांडेपुरा, गडवार, भरपुरा होते हुए रानीपुरा रात्रि विश्राम होगा। 6 को मण्डरायल, चैनापुरा, श्यामपुर, चंदेलीपुरा होते हुए लांगरा में रात्रि विश्राम होगा। 7 को साथलपुर, बाटदा, बहरदा, भांकरी, गढीका गांव चौधरीपुरा होते हुए मण्डरायल में रात्रि विश्राम होगा। 8 को मण्डरायल में समापन समारोह किया जाएगा।

    यात्रा का शुभारंभ कल

    हिंडौनसिटी & हिंडौन तहसील की विश्व मंगल गौ ग्राम यात्रा का 28 नवंबर से महूखास के हनुमान मंदिर से शुभारंभ होगा। सुबह साढे 10 बजे आयोजित होने वाले उदघाटन कार्यक्रम की अध्यक्षता हिमाचल के हरस्वरूपजी महाराज करेंगे और मुख्य वक्ता माध्यमिक शिक्षा बोर्ड राजस्थान के पूर्व अध्यक्ष डा. विमलप्रसाद अग्रवाल होंगे।

    विश्व मंगल गौ ग्राम यात्रा के तहसील संयोजक परशुराम ने बताया कि उदघाटन अवसर पर गौ पूजन, गाय की महत्वता की जानकारी देने सहित कई साहित्यों की प्रदर्शनी भी लगाई जाएगी। उदघाटन के बाद बैण्डबाजों के साथ गांव के मुख्य मार्गों से होकर कलश यात्रा निकाली जाएगी। तहसील संयोजक ने महिलाओं से अधिकाधिक संख्या में कलश यात्रा में शामिल होने की अपील की है।

    source bhaskar

  • Hindu woman fights claim that she converted to Islam

    Kuala Lumpur, Nov 25 (IANS) A Malaysian woman is fighting to establish that she is a Hindu, denying a claim by the government’s social welfare department that she converted to Islam in 1983.

    Siti Hasnah Vangarama Abdullah, who goes by her original name S. Banggarma, 27, was issued a conversion certificate when she was seven years old in 1989. Her lawyer Gooi Hsiao Leung said: ‘Clearly, you cannot convert twice.’


    The certificate lists Banggarma and her younger sister as Muslim. Banggarma, however, says that her younger sister was not even born at that time.

    The government, however, says the father converted to Islam along with the rest of the family and placed the daughters in a welfare home.


    Banggarma’s case came to light last week when she appealed to Gooi for help to register her marriage to S. Sockalingam, 31, with the National [^] Registration Depart-ment, The Star newspaper said Wednesday.


    Despite going through a traditional Hindu marriage ceremony in 2001, Banggarma says she is unable to register her marriage or name her husband as the father of her two children in their birth certificates as she is listed as a Muslim.


    Ethnic Indians [^], a bulk of them Tamil Hindus who settled here during the British era, form nearly eight percent of Malaysia’s multi-religious population that has a Muslim majority.

  • YSR daughter Sharmila convert's Hindu boy to Christianity .



    above Video Testimony of YSR Son-In-Law "Brother" Benjamin Anil Kumar (anti-Hindu documentary filmed in a Hindu temple)

    In the above Video Y Samuel Reddy alias YSR Son-in-Law, Bro Anil Kumar an new convert from Hindu Dharma to Christianity , shamelessly tells how YSR daughter Sharmila converted an Hindu Brahmin into Christianity . He shoots the above video to depict his life story in pious Hindu temple thus he like YSR family insults Hindu Dharma .

    YSR alias Y Samuel Reddy cute looking Daughter was married to her maternal Uncle ,and prooved to be not so happy marriage life for her . To overcome her deppresed marriage life with her uncle, She the 'Desperate HouseWife' started eyeing on handsome Hindu Brahmin Anil Kumar whom she met in USA . She (YSR Daughter ) was so desperate that she eloped with Anil Kumar and married him .Heard that they eloped and took shelter in Warangal . Once this innocent brabmin Hindu boy fell in trap , he was converted by YSR family and only then accepted him into family . Such is the secularism of YSR aka Y Samuel Reddy . This incident prooved that YSR family is corrupt not just in financial matters but even are corrupt in 'character' .

    Thus YSR alias Y Samuel Reddy along with his wife , sister, daughter and son YS Jagan prooved their christist conversion treachery mindset and their anti-Hindu feelings . The sorrow part of above incident is that YSR family used their Daughter marriage for religious conversion , and still dare to give Hindus lectures on Secularism .

    Y.S. Rajashekar Reddy’s evangelist son-in-law has been accused of misusing Government Machinery in launching himself as an alternative to another tele-evangelist KA Paul. The Indian Express has carried a detailed story on this. The most interesting part of the story is how a case of telecom fraud against YSR’s son-in-law has been conveniently covered up while the man himself has been busy spreading the “good news” (read christian gospel).

    A sampling of videos on YouTube belonging to the Ministry run by the son-in-law reveals that this is very much a YSR family enterprise with YSR’s mother euologised as the patron maternal figure, YSR’s sister giving divine testimony and pious anchors from the Televangelical channel praying for the “State and its officials”.

    The whole story can probably be dismissed away as family soap opera but for the brazen manner in which YS Rajashekar Reddy aided by his son-in-law have been promoting Christian Communal Socialism.

    YSR S-I-L hoarding put up in Hyderabad last year

    Quotes source from Media

    Brother Anil Kumar spoke for an hour about the importance of accepting God into one’s life. He claimed that miracles had occured in his life since he accepted Christ. He also claimed, ``No doctor has a solution for AIDS, but there is a supernatural doctor and all you have to do is believe in Him.’’ The Chief Minister drew the maximum applause when he stepped on to the stage. In his brief remarks, he wished everyone a merry Christmas

    Yeah all you have to do is believe in him, after that you rape, murder, rob it doesn't matter. Even if you have AIDS, it doesn't matter just believe in Christ and it will be cured. What kind of superstitious bullshit is this?

    Very few people were aware of who Anil Kumar was till hundreds of huge hoardings, welcoming people to his 'Grand Christmas celebrations', sprung up all over the twin cities of Hyderabad-SecunderabadWhile Anil Kumar avoided the media, YSR quipped, "What is wrong in it," when asked about the publicity machinery being used to promote his son-in-law. Anil Kumar told the congregation that he had experienced many miraculous changes in his own life after he adopted Christianity. Reddy, his wife Vijaya and daughter Sharmila also addressed the congregation. While the chief minister restricted himself to extending Christmas greetings to the people, his daughter stole the show with her spirited speech. She drew huge applause when she quoted a passage from the Bible



    Incidentally, Anil Kumar is being promoted as an Evangelist at a time when the ruling Congress is embroiled in a running feud with another internationally famous evangelist K A Paul, who is facing legal problems in the state. "Rajasekhara Reddy promoted Anil Kumar so that he can become more popular than K A Paul,"

    Mr. Samuel Reddy's nonsecular actions speak louder than the words of those who are concerned about his questionable support for the illegal & unethical mass conversions of Hindus by fundamentalist Christian organizations. Religious conversion was Late YSR aka Y Samuel Reddys another lucrative family business .

  • 'Not enough to find out about an attack when it is in progress!'



    Danny YatomDanny Yatom, director of Israel's external intelligence service Mossad from 1996 to 1998, today runs the Global Strategic Group that advises governments and large companies on security issues. Yatom, 64, once a member of the Knesset, Israel's parliament, has extensive experience in fighting terrorism. As a member of Israeli's elite commando force, the Sayeret Matkal, he was part of the commando squad that rescued passengers from the Belgian airline Sabena's Vienna-Tel Aviv flight in 1972 when it was hijacked by Palestinian terrorists.
    Immediately after the Mumbai terror attacks [ Images ], he told Israeli Radio that 26/11 indicated severe lapses in intelligence because they probably 'involved dozens of terrorists enjoying the support of numerous sympathisers. It is vital that the Indian security services draw the necessary lessons.'
    Yatom visited Mumbai in March and examined the sites of the 26/11 carnage. When rediff.com's Vaihayasi P Daniel met the grizzled, plain-speaking, former Mossad boss at 9.30 pm at the downtown seafront five-star Moriah Plaza hotel in Tel Aviv, he discussed what a country like India [ Images ] needs to do to be secure from terror attacks.
    You have special expertise in counter-terrorism. Tell us about your background.
    I served in the Israeli defence forces for more than 30 years. I retired as a major general after commanding one of our territorial commands. We had three commanding generals at the time, which is the highest position in the ground forces. I was one of them.
    Then I served as a military secretary or advisor to (then prime minister) Yitzhak Rabin. We did not have the post of national security advisor, but it was like (being) a national security advisor. Then I was director of Mossad. And then I was chief of staff of the government when (Ehud) Barack was prime minister.
    I was twice elected to our parliament. I resigned from parliament because I did not like what I had seen there. I did not like to be a politician. After five-and-a-half years I resigned.
    A year-and-a-half ago I established this company that provides services in the area of strategy, security and foreign policy.
    When we talk about security we speak about all the areas of security -- homeland security, border security, VIP protection security.
    We don't only advise. We also implement and execute, mainly, we put the programme on the table. And once the government approves it, we go in and do it. We know how to implement it. We train forces from the level of the individual to the level of a unit.
    We specialise mainly in special forces, commando forces, special units like anti-terror units, for instance, and intelligence. Both intelligence similar to the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Central Intelligence Agency -- one is external and other one is internal. Those are generally speaking, our services.
    I visited India more than half a year ago. I have been to Mumbai. I went through the sites that were attacked in the horrific terrorist attack last November. I met many people -- both people from the local government and the central government. And many private businessmen, in order to find out the possibility to collaborate/cooperate in building a new capability, both in the private sector -- for guards, security offices. And also for central government or the government of the state.
    It was a short tour that lasted a few days only, but I continue my engagement with many of those that I met in order to find a way to do things together.
    You perceived there was a need and therefore you went to India?
    Through some links that I have, I coordinated meetings and I explored the possibility to enter the Indian market in the area of HLS (homeland security) in particular and security in general. We are still exploring the possibilities.
    Based on your experience in fighting terrorism and your visit to Mumbai, what do you think of India's present situation? How fragile is her security? Can you add some perspective from your point of view?
    Firstly, I am not in a position to advise the Indian authorities because I am sure you have excellent people that can do it and not necessarily they need my advice.
    It is not in order to criticise. It is not in order to educate... (But this is) from my point of view, period. People can take it or leave it:
    I think that the capability of a nation, which will allow an effective security of the vital interests of a nation, is essential. Every nation, every State, every country, should, today, have the best capability to mitigate and tackle security challenges like terror attacks.
    Now it is not a simple issue at all. Because in order to be able to mitigate successfully and to thwart terror attacks, you first and foremost, need very good intelligence, so that you will be able to know what is going on far away from your borders, if somebody is in a process of arranging and planning a terror attack against India.
    The better you know, the farther you know, the better you will be able to cope with it.
    It is not enough to find all of a sudden in the middle of the night a group of terrorists firing at the Taj Mahal (hotel) or the Oberoi (hotel). Not enough to find out when a terrorist attack is already in progress!
    In order to avoid it, in order to prevent it, and in order to thwart it, before it comes to execution, you need intelligence. This is the most important element.
    And further?
    The second element is rapid deployment forces, which are on high alert all the time, trained and equipped to face groups of terrorists and to win each and every of the battles against terrorism.
    This takes a lot of effort in order to prepare and build such a unit.
    Firstly, you have to find the people. You have to select them from maybe many, many people who are ready to volunteer. But you have to have a system how to choose the best people even before they start their training. Because you don't want people to start training and after a week to be withdrawn, to be dropped.
    Firstly is how to choose the people. They have to pass certain tests -- psychological tests, physical tests. And only then you recruit them.
    Once you have the recruitee you need, of course, a programme of training. It calls for a very, very skillful trainers and instructors.
    Then you need the most modern equipment and weapon systems, because in order to be able to fight a terrorist effectively, it is usually at very close distance -- the engagement is at very close distance. You need weapons.
    You need gear which will allow you to do it at close distance and in a built area, which is very, very difficult, like Mumbai. If someone can shoot you from the 16th floor: How do you solve the problem?
    So it is a combination of training and technology. Technology is weapon systems. Technology is gear. Radio transmitters. Binoculars, for both day and night etc. You need special equipment. This is not the regular equipment that you usually equip an army with. Only special forces.
    And they should go through drills and exercises on a routine basis in order to keep their high readiness and their professionalism. So this is (the requirement) for a unit.
    You also need means of transportation like helicopters, fast means of transportation. Because if all of sudden there is an attack here you need to be able to take forces and bring them to the place of the attack, as soon as possible.
    Once you have those two elements then you start to be ready, in order to be able to mitigate, in the future, a challenge that the forces might be faced by terrorism.
    The anti-terror warfare is something very, very complicated because, as in Mumbai, and as in many other places, those terrorists, once they were on the ground, they were ready to die. They came in order to execute a suicide type of terrorist attack. Which means that there is now way to deter them.
    You cannot deter somebody who is ready to die. You need to either catch them before they start their journey and before they start implementation or while they are on their way.
    Were the Mumbai attacks particularly unusual in format compared to other attacks that have happened all over the world?
    I don't think it was unusual.
    We saw even more horrific terror attacks, like, for instance, the attack on the Twin Towers (on September 11, 2001, in New York) where close to 3,000 people lost their lives.
    There were a series of terror attacks in Israel during approximately a year of the Second Intifada (the violent Palestinian-Israeli conflict that began in September 2000) -- more than a thousand Israelis were murdered in the streets by buses that were exploded, by cafes that were exploded, by restaurants that were exploded.
    The problem with terrorism is that if you don't have an early warning -- which is again intelligence -- when they walk in the street, unless they take out the weapons and if they go in the streets with civilian clothes and weapons concealed, you cannot tell that they are terrorists, because they look like you and me. This are one of the problems.
    Of course, once a terrorist brings out his weapon there should be a system that immediately will face him, which means not necessarily special forces, but the regular forces. The regular policeman should be able to at least contain, encirculate, and to prevent a terrorist from proceeding.
    If he (the terrorist)is going into a high rise building and the police force is not trained and equipped to tackle it, once the police holds the terrorist in a certain place; he is stationary and not on the move, then you call your special forces in order to kill him.
    So yes, we have seen such terrorist attacks. But this (Mumbai's 26/11) was no doubt a horrific one.
    But I think, and again without referring to India, one of the principles of fighting terror is to try and to finish an event as soon as possible, because if it takes time, as it happened in India, and as it happened in many other places, the more time it takes, the worse it gets and the more casualties.
    Do you think it was possible for ten terrorists to do what they did in Mumbai? You have been to study these sites. What do you feel?
    They prepared themselves very well. But maybe they were there beforehand. It might be so.
    The interrogation of the one who was captured alive (Ajmal Kasab [ Images ]) and the one who was captured in the United States (David Headley), will clarify what exactly happened.
    Maybe they were there by themselves. Maybe they sent some others that came and instructed them exactly. Maybe they were assisted by locals. The interrogation should clarify.
    Any further learnings you made on your trip to India in March that you can share with us?
    In order to defend a country -- and this is in addition to what I said about intelligence, special forces and, of course, the local police etc, etc who should be prepared -- we are talking about circles of security.
    The final one is intelligence. If you know, you can prepare yourself to mitigate.
    Then you have the security of the border and the entrances to the country. You should check each and every one of the entry (points).
    Then you have the local security of the site. For instance, you need security, it might be for a private company. But you need to have security around a hotel, around a shopping centre, around a university.
    When I talk about security, mainly manpower, but trained -- not as I have seen them, non-trained security people without weapons -- but trained so that they will be able to -- if worse comes to worse -- if all of a sudden, they face a terrorist they should be able to react. Stop it.
    Vaihayasi P Daniel in Tel Aviv, Israel

  • what is a Hindu

    A Hindu means a person who regards this land of BHARATVARHSA, from the Indus to the Seas as his Father-Land as well as his Holy-Land that is the cradle land of his religion.

    From this definition it is very clear that the Vedics, Jains, Sikhs, Buddhists, Lingayats, Aryas etc and all tribals are called as Hindus. Because all these people have only one Holyland - Hindusthan, only one fatherland - Hindusthan. Their panthas may differ. But their nationality is one that is nothing but, the Hindu Nationality.

    So called Indian Muslims & Christians cannot be called as Hindu because their Holyland is not the Hindusthan but Arabsthan and Rome are their Holylands.Muslims and Christians cannot be called as nationals unless they abandon their faith in antinational religions like Islam and Christainity and also unless they embrace again their original religion from which they were forcibly converted to their present status.

    Japanese and Chinese are also cannot be treated as Hindus because their fatherlands are Japan & China respectively.

    The Hindus are a Nation by themselves

    Pseudo secularists always raise one question and challenge us - "How the Hindus who differ so much amongst themselves in every detail of life could at all be called a nation as such ?

    To them our reply is that no people on the earth are so homogenous as to present perfect uniformity in language, culture, race & religion.

    A people is marked out a nation by themselves not so much by the absence of any heterogeneous differences amongst themselves as by the fact of their differing from other peoples more markedly than they differ amongst themselves.

    Take Great Britain as an example. There are at any rate three different languages there, They have fought amongst themselves dreadfully in the past, there are to be found the traces of different seeds & bloods and races. If you say that inspite of it all they are a nation because they possess a common country, a common languages, a common culture and common Holyland then the Hindus too possess a common country so well marked out as Hindusthan, a common language the Sanskrit. By 'Anuloma' and 'Pratiloma' marriages their seed and blood continued to get commingled even since the days of Manu. Their social festivals and cultural forms are not less common than those we find in England. They possess a common Holyland. The Vedic Rishis are their common pride. Their heroes Shriram and Shrikrishna, Shivaji and Pratap, Guru Govind and Banda are a source of common inspiration. Their prophets Buddha & Mahaveer, are held in common esteem.

    Remember ! Their ancient and modern history is common. They have friends and enemies in common. They have faced common dangers and won victories in common. One in national glory and one in national disasters, one in national hope and one in national despairs and Hindus are welded together during aeons of a common life and a common habitat.

    If the United States with the Warring Crowds of Negroes, Germans and Anglo-saxons with a common past not exceeding four or five centuries put together can be called a nation - then the Hindus must be entitled to be recognised as a nation par excellence.

    Verily the Hindus as a people differ most markedly from any other people in the world than they differ amongst themselves. The oneness of the Hindus was proved in a negative way at the time of partition of India on theocratic basis. One who received a muslim dagger was invariably a Hindu. The Muslims while attacking Kafirs made no distinction between a touchable and nontouchable, a Brahmin and a nonbrahmin,a Kshtriya or a Vaishya.When Hindus came together in the graveyard after death,they are certainly a nation while alive.

    And whatsoever differences divide the Hindus amongst themselves are rapidly disappearing owing to their awakening of national consciousness and the Sanghatan & Social reforms. So say with pride "Hindus we are & love to remain so !"

     
    ll Dharmo Rakshati Rakshitaha ll
    ll Sanghe Shakti Kaliyuge ll

    When all other means have failed,it is righteous to draw the sword."

  • Hindu girl’s conversion, marriage

    By Shamim Bano

    Karachi (Pakistan): Additional District and Sessions Judge (South) Abdul Naeem Memon reserved his order on the bail application of a suspect who allegedly played role in converting a Hindu girl to Islam.

    One Gulzar, an engineer by profession, has been charged with kidnapping a Hindu girl Bano who later converted to Islam and got married with a Muslim man Jaffer Abbas in Rajanpur.

    Bano’s father Lal Jee lodged a complaint with Kalri police station that his daughter was kidnapped by Gulzar on August 17, following which an FIR under Section 365-B (kidnapping with intent to commit rape) of the Pakistan Penal Code was lodged against Gulzar.

    The judge reserved his ruling on the bail application of Gulzar till September 24 after hearing the arguments of both the sides. Gulzar is said to be the common friend of the couple he had been in constant touch with them.

    Family members suspected that he had kidnapped Bano and later forced her to embrace Islam and get married to a Muslim man.

    When the case came up for hearing on Saturday, a large number of Hindu community members surrounded the court premises.

    Investigation Officer SI Ishaq, who was despatched to Rajanpur along with a police party, submitted his report in the court along with the certified copy of marriage certificate and a statement of Bano recorded under Section 164 of the CrPC before the Judicial Magistrate, Rajanpur.

    In her statement, Bano stated that she converted to Islam on her own choice and married to Jaffer Abbas with whom she wanted to spend her rest of life. According to certified copy produced in the court both entered into the matrimony on August 15 i.e. four days after she embraced Islam.

    She converted to Islam on August 11 through a cleric of Jamia Binnoria Town Mosque. Deputy District Public Prosecutor Abdul Maroof argued on the basis of merit, stating that Bano changed her name as Zohra after embracing Islam and she was 26 years old, therefore, she was adult enough to act accordingly and can move freely anywhere she wants.

    Her father, however, showed annoyance on his argument and expressed no-confidence in DDPP, praying the court to appoint another prosecutor. At initial stage, Deputy District Public Prosecutor Faiz Essa was assigned the said case but the Hindu community members also showed mistrust on him.

    Now the court would call the third prosecutor to conduct the proceedings and examination-in-chief on the next date of hearing. At present, the couple is residing in Rajanpur.

    Source: The News

  • ‘Havyak Jagruti Action Force (HJAF)’ working against ‘Love Jihad’

    Get ready to stop attack on Dharma by Muslims – Satchidananda Hegade, Director, HJAF

    Sirsi (Karnataka): Muslims have started a plot under the name ‘Love Jihad’ to draw Hindu girls into their net. As informed by the Founder President of Sri Ram Sene, Mr. Pramod Mutalik 36,000 Hindu women have been drawn into their net by Muslims in Karnataka and day by day, the number is increasing. We have formed an organization, HJAF about two years back to stop these incidents. This organization is constantly fighting against the drive undertaken by Muslims. Hindus should now get ready to fight against attacks on Dharma. The above views were expressed by the Director of HJAF and the Editor of a pro-Hindu weekly periodical ‘Dhyeyanishtha Patrakarta’, Mr. Satchidananda Hegade during his conversation with the reporter of ‘Dainik Sanatan Prabhat’.

    Organisation set up with the blessings of Saints

    Mr. Hegade said further, “The organization was established with the blessings of the spiritual guide of ‘Havyak’ community, Swami Pujya Sri Sri Gangadharendra Maharaj. We have formed a squad of 900 devout Hindus in Sirsi, Ailapur and Siddhapur talukas. In these 3 talukas, a group of 5 members is operative in every village. This group keeps a watch on the incidents of ‘Love Jihad’ taking place in every village. If they come across such incidents, they first try to find a solution by discussing the matter; but if required, police help is sought in case no solution is found. We have achieved success to a certain extent. We get help from Sri Ram Sene also.”

    Bhagawan Parashuram our ideal !

    Swami Pujya Sri Sri Gangadharendra Maharaj has told us that ‘Bhagawan Parashuram is our ideal’. This, in fact, is not a job of any particular community but of all Hindus. Therefore, more and more Hindus should participate in this mission, said Mr. Hegade.

    Boards enlightening people on the issue have been put up in hundreds of houses !

    Explaining about the activities of the Force, Mr. Hegade said, “We have prepared posters on how the parents should be vigilant and how they should keep a watch on their children in the matter. These posters have been put up in hundreds of houses. In this poster, 11 questions have been asked to the parents like – ‘Do you know by which bus your daughter or son travels?’, ‘Do you know at what time your children’s classes start and get over?’, ‘Do you discuss with your children what they are taught in the college every day from the viewpoint of giving guidance,?’ etc.”
    Source: Dainik Sanatan Prabhat

  • New Fatwa : 'Seduce Hindu girls and make them Muslims'

    Sambhajinagar (Maharashtra): There is an ordinance stating, ‘Attracting the Hindu young girls by your charm lure them and force them to accept Muslim religion’. Many Hindu Organisations have made a complaint to the police stating the above declaration. A Muslim youth who was arrested by the police told about the ordinance. (O, Hindus! Remember, the Government would not take any step against this ordinance that is against Hindus. If you wish to protect yourself from the Muslims who are bent upon ruining the Hindus in all respect there is no other alternative but getting united and ready to fight them! – Editor)

    The youth also told the police that each of these Muslim youths is given Rs.200 per day for doing this service. (It is quite evident from this how much hatred towards Hindus they have. Hindus should decide whether to keep contact with Muslims anymore or not! – Editor) There is news published by a Daily in Marathwada stating that similar ordinance is being published in Parbhani, Nanded, Beed and Latur and many Muslim youths are seen moving in groups to achieve their goal. They are also given two wheelers to facilitate them to allure the girls going to schools and colleges. One Muslim youth who was seen moving suspiciously was questioned by some social workers and handed over to the police by following him when he was trying to run away. He revealed this shocking conspiracy. 

    Source: Daily Sanatan Prabhat   

  • Modus Operandi of the Jihadi Romoes and Women Jihadis

    By K.N. Jinesh
     
    The moment a young girl gets an easy recharge from a recharge shop in the city, her number is added to the list of the targets for Love Jihadis. Sources say that there are hundreds of recharge shops in the main cities in Kerala that help in collecting the mobile numbers of young girls for Love Jihad. There are several such recharge shops that are active in the Kozhikode Palayam area and Malappuram Edappal area.
     
    Once the number reaches a Jihadi Romeo, he will either send an SMS or make a call at night on that number. Then this becomes a routine. Although the girl may try to avoid in the initial stages, the romeo will persist till the girl reaches a stage where she starts expecting his call and waiting for it. He is fully trained in this matter on how to make the girl reach this stage. The romeo will then start intimate, sometimes vulgar talk and the girl starts falling into the trap. School/college going girls, working women, and IT professionals are the main targets.         
     
    There is another group of Love Jihadis in the school/college campuses. They are divided into two groups, one that makes the list of Hindu-Christian girls in colleges who could be easily trapped and the other a group of good-looking guys who take on the responsibility of actually making them fall in their trap. Young muslim boys are coming forward in large numbers to become romeos because they are given a lot of money to lead a lavish lifestyle and they also get a chance to become promiscuous. These romeos are provided trendy dresses, flashy mobiles, and expensive bikes and cars to attract young girls. They are also given SIM cards with unlimited phone call facility to help them attain their goals. Those girls who are from a financially weak background are provided study materials, exam fees, mobile phones, gifts, etc., to impress them.
     
    In a recent case, a youth hailing from Pattanamthitta had helped the college going girls by providing them photocopies required for their project work, and asked the girls to convert in exchange for it. This was revealed in their statement to the High Court Justice R. Basanth. Shajahan and Riyas, two young men, laid their trap for young girls through Sira Computers which is also an Akshaya Study Center in Pattanamthitta. They would teach chatting and provide opportunity to view porn sites to the girls studying computers there and subsequently pave way for sexual abuse of those girls; another one of the ways in which Love Jihadis operate.
     
    Many of the massage parlours operating in the Malabar region are conversion centers. Intimate actions of couples visiting ice cream parlours and net cafes are photographed with the help of hidden cameras and then they are blackmailed into converting. The Jihadis are successfully attaining their goals by exploiting the weaknesses of women, i.e., new and trendy dresses, cinema, icecream, sightseeing trips, etc. These Love Jihadis operate in Kerala under the guidance of trained experts in this field with clear foresight and extensive preparation.
     
    The Jihadi activities in Kozhikode, Kochi, and Thiruvananthapuram centers are monitored by Abdul Shukur, Anwar Saadat, and Hazibul Rehman who have been trained by the Lashkar-e-Taiba. They have Love Zone Chairman and various committtees working on a district basis to coordinate the activities of the Jihadi Romeos. They have legal cells for dealing with the legal aspects of conversion. The activities of the legal cell in Wayanad is monitored by Ayub, an active member of NDF, a muslim extremist organization in Kerala. The girls who are brought by the romeos who had promised to marry them are first converted and then they are sent to a "Religious Study Center" for "religious studies". The conversion takes place in conversion centers in Ponnani and Kozhikode Muhdar. The "Religious Study Centers" operate in Kottayam, Kasargode, and Karunagappally.   
     
    Campus Front, Muslims Youth Forum, Tasreen Millayat, Shaheed Force, Islam Association, etc., are some of the organizations that are providing support to Love Jihad as has surfaced in several of the investigations. Tasraan Valiyat and Shaheen Force are two of the many "Women" Jihadi organizations conducting their operations secretly in Kerala. These women jihadis help the Jihadi Romeos in all ways possible for Love Jihad. Each unit is given an initial expenditure amount of about Rs. 50,000 to Rs. 80,000. There are several funding agencies that collect money in the name of Islamic scholarship. Like the inception of Love Jihad, the fund for it also comes from foreign agencies. It is said that the "Indian Fraternity Forum" based in Damam is the agency that collects finances from the Gulf countries for this purpose.

    Source: Janmabhumi Online (Translated)

  • 'Love Jihad' - A Jihadi Organisations to trap Hindu girls

    Pathanamthitta (Kerala): Few days back a secular Malayalam Daily, Kerala Kaumudi exposed shocking revelations about a jihadi organisation named ‘Love Jihad’ which has been conveniently ignored by rest of the media.

    Trapping naive Non Muslim girls (Read as Hindu girls) in the web of love inorder to convert to Islam is the modus operandi of the said organisation. Already more than 4000 girls have been converted to Islam by this Jihadi Romeos.

    Special branch of Police started investigation when marriages of such large scales are reported within last 6 months. As per the instructions to recruits of this organisation, they have to love a Hindu girl within the time frame of 2 weeks and brainwash them to get converted and marry within 6 months. Special instructions to breed atleast 4 kids have also been given. If the target won’t get trapped within first 2 weeks, they are instructed to leave them and move on to another girl.

    College students and working girls should be the prime target. Once completed their mission the organisation will give 1 lakh Rupees and Financial help for the youth to start business. Free Mobile Phone, Bikes and Fashionable dresses are offered to them as tools for the mission.

    Money for this Love Jihad comes from Middle East. Each district have their own zone chairman’s to oversee the mission. Prior to College admission they make a list of Hindu girls and their details and target those whom they feel vulnerable and easy to be brainwashed.

    It’s upto our Secular parents and Hindu Soceity as a whole to decide whether they should inculcate the ethos of Sanathana Dharma upon  their Sons and Daughters before getting targeted by these evil doers. The story of a Marxist MLA’s daughter which hit even National Headlines (Although for Maligning Hindu Organisations) is only the tip of the iceberg.

    Source: Haindava Keralam

  • Heart rending Love Jihad statistics from God's own country

    This is happening in Bhaarat not in any Middle East country or Pakistan or Bangladesh
     
    Parents in Kerala suffer from extreme anxiety and fear from the time their young daughters leave home for school or college till she is back home. Official statistics say that about 8 girls are reported missing under suspicious circumstances everyday in Kerala and this is the reason for their growing anxiety and fear. 
     
    Based on the statistics of the Crime Record Bureau of Kerala Police, Kochi's National University of Advanced Legal Studies carried out a study in which it was found that the number of girls missing from Kerala was 2167 in 2007 and 2530 in 2008. The police or other investigative agencies have no information regarding nearly 600 out of these girls. The actual number may be much more taking into consideration the fact that these are the statistics of only the cases that have been registered.
     
    Many of the cases are those of couples falling in love, then eloping and marrying, but information about such cases are gathered within 2 or 3 weeks. The question remained as to what happened to the others. The investigation then ultimately led to the now global disaster called Love Jihad.
     
    The activities of Love Jihadis became more aggressive in Kerala in 2006. This led to the sudden increase in women and young girls disappearing from Kerala.
     
    Jihadi Romeos promise to marry unsuspecting young girls within 6 months if they convert to Islam and take and dump these girls in the conversion centers. These Romeos then go for their next prey. These girls are subject to various tortures for weeks in these conversion centers. There is information that these girls are shipped to foreign countries after drugging them. They are shipped from the unmanned coasts of Kochi, Kozhikode, etc., to Mangalore, Goa, Chennai, Lakshadweep, from where they are taken abroad. They are taken to the Gulf countries under the false pretence of a job and forced into prostitution once they reach there.
     
    It was found in investigations that many of the muslim girls found in police raids in the red light areas in Kochi and Kozhikode were actually Hindu-Christian girls who had converted to Islam in places like Mangalore and Bangalore.             
     
    The statistics of the Jihadi conversions in Kerala since 2006 are shocking. The number of those converted in this way was 2876. Cases were registered in only 705 of such incidents. Kasargod tops the list of Jihadi conversions with a figure of 568. Only 123 incidents have been registered with the police.   
     
    The numbers from 2006 till 2009 of such Love Jihad conversions on a district basis in Kerala is staggering. Below is a table giving the data district wise in Kerala with total incidents, cases registered, and those brought back with the help of various institutions and friends. The statistics of Waynad district are not available.

    Sr.No. Districts Incidents Cases Registered Rescued
    1 Thiruvananthapuram 216 26 6
    2 Kollam 98 34 7
    3 Alappuzha 78 22 6
    4 Pathanamthitta 87 36 11
    5 Idukki 156 18 9
    6 Kottayam 116 46 13
    7 Ernakulam 228 52 26
    8 Thrissur 102 41 19
    9 Palakkad 111 19 9
    10 Malappuram 412 88 31
    11 Kozhikode 364 92 29
    12 Kannur 312 106 27
    13 Kasargode 586 123 68

    Central investigation agencies have recieved information that 4000 such girls all over India who have been converted under Love Jihad are being trained for Jihadi activities by Pakistan-based terrorist organizations.   
     
    Recently, an incident that left Keralites in a shock was the suicide of three girl students in Ambalapuzha. The reason behind that is being cited as Love Jihad. The three girls, Anila, Veni, and Julie, committed suicide as they were being tortured by their classmates, Soufar and Shanavas. Soufar and Shanavas reportedly have links to NDF, a muslim extremist organization in Kerala.
     
    The Jihadi Romeos are given special ranks, rewards, and money for carrying out their operation of trapping more and more unsuspecting girls into this. Jahangir Razak, a former student of Kozhikode Law College, one such Jihadi Romeo, is said to have trapped 42 girls till date. He is reportedly the link between a sex racket running in Chennai and terrorist organizations. One Shajahan from Pathanamthitta has trapped 6 young girls from Malayalappuzha Panchayat itself.

    Source:
    Janmabhumi Newspaper (Translated)

  • A GENIUS SURGEON OF INDIA @ THE AGE OF SEVEN..


    DEAR DEVOTEES JAI SHRI RAM!
    HAVE YOU KNOWN ANY SEVEN YEARS OLD SURGEON ON THIS PLANET?
    I'M EXCITED & PROUD TO INTRODUCE THIS GENIUS FROM INDIA
     
    This lad indeed has a gifted brain.... His parents  used to sell portion of their investments to  purchase  his Medicine related books that he wanted to study and today he gets everything  from people who really want him to fulfill his dreams....
     

    http://groups..yahoo.com/group/imakj

    A year ago a footage emerged from a remote village in India . The video showed a young girl receiving surgery to separate her fingers, which were badly burned and fused together. Why did this operation make headlines around the world? The surgery was performed by a 7-year-old boy named Akrit Jaswal.

    Now 13 years old, Akrit has an IQ of 146 and is considered the smartest person his age in India a country of more than a billion people. Before Akrit could even speak, his parents say they knew he was special.

    'He learned very fast,' says Raksha, Akrit's mother. 'After learning the alphabet, we started to teach him joining of words, and he started writing as well. He was two.'

    At an age when most children are learning their ABCs, Akrit was reading Shakespeare and assembling a library of medical textbooks. When he was 5 years old, he enrolled in school. One year later, Akrit was teaching English and math classes.

    Akrit developed a passion for science and anatomy at an early age. Doctors at local hospitals took notice and started allowing him to observe surgeries when he was 6 years old. Inspired by what he saw, Akrit read everything he could on the topic. When an impoverished family heard about his amazing abilities, they asked if he would operate on their daughter for free. Her surgery was a success.
    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/imakj

    After the surgery, Akrit was hailed as a medical genius in India . Neighbors and strangers flocked to him for advice and treatment. At age 11, Akrit was admitted to Punjab University . He's the youngest student ever to attend an Indian university. That same year, he was also invited to London's famed Imperial College to exchange ideas with scientists on the cutting edge of medical research.

    Akrit says he has millions of medical ideas, but he's currently focused on developing a cure for cancer. 'I've developed a concept called oral gene therapy on the basis of my research and my theories,' he says. 'I'm quite dedicated towards working on this mechanism.'

    Growing up, Akrit says he used to see cancer patients lying on the side of the road because they couldn't afford treatment or hospitals had no space for them.. Now, he wants to use his intellect to ease their suffering. '[I've been] going to hospitals since the age of 6, so I have seen firsthand people suffering from pain,' he says. 'I get very sad, and so that's the main motive of my passion about medicine, my passion about cancer.'

    Currently, Akrit is working toward a bachelor's degrees in zoology, botany and chemistry. Someday, he hopes to continue his studies at Harvard University .

     



    Watch this amazing video of the surgery
     

       
    MAY THY LORD BLESS THIS GENIUS!
     
    With blessings!
    Swamiji Sri Madanji
    FOUNDER PANCHVATI ASHRAM PO BOX 222, CALLICOON CENTER NEW YORK 12724 (USA)
    PHONE: 845-482-5811     FAX: 845-482-5073
       

  • सर्दियों में रखें सेहत का ख्याल

    सर्दियों का गुलाबी मौसम अपने साथ सेहत से जुड़ी कई समस्याएं भी साथ लेकर आता है। इस दौरान नाक बहना, लगातार छींके आना, गले में खराश, सीने में जकड़न जैसी स्वास्थ्य समस्याएं आम हैं। इसलिए इस मौसम में आपको अपनी सेहत को लेकर थोड़ा सा सावधान रहने की जरूरत है। अगर आप डायबीटीज या हाई ब्लड प्रेशर के मरीज हैं, तो इस मौसम में आपको अपने दिल का खास ध्यान रखना होगा। सर्दियों के दौरान
    मधुमेह के मरीजों में दिल और मस्तिष्क आघात का खतरा बढ़ जाता है। यह भी ध्यान रखें कि सर्दियों में रक्तवाहिनी सिकुड़ जाती हैं और रक्तचाप भी बढ़ जाता है।

    डॉ. अश्विनी शास्त्री के मुताबिक, इस मौसम में बुखार और संक्रमण काफी तेजी से फैलता है, इसलिए बेहतर है कि अपनी रोग प्रतिरोधक क्षमता बढ़ाने के लिए आप पहले से ही एहतियात बरतें। अपने खाने में पपीता, कद्दू, गाजर, टमाटर, पालक, अमरूद जैसी मौसमी सब्जियों और फलों को जरूर शामिल करें। इनसे आपके शरीर का तापमान भी मौसम के मुताबिक गर्म रहेगा। खुद को संक्रमण से बचाने के लिए एक और बेहतर उपाय
    यह है कि आप रोज सुबह एक लौंग खा लें।

    कभी-कभी कुछ लोग अत्यधिक ठंड के कारण शीतदंश का शिकार हो जाते हैं, जिससे त्वचा सख्त या सुन्न हो जाती है। इसलिए अपने को ठंड के प्रकोप से बचाने के लिए पर्याप्त गर्म कपड़े जरूर पहनें। अगर शरीर का कोई हिस्सा सुन्न पड़ जाए, तो उसे कुछ देर तक गुनगुने पानी में रखने से आराम हो सकता है। एक बात का खास तौर पर ध्यान रखें कि शराब का सेवन करने के बाद ठंड में बाहर न निकलें। इससे आपकी
    रक्तवाहिनी सिकुड़ सकती हैं, जिससे फेफड़ों की समस्या हो सकती है।

    डॉ. शास्त्री बताते हैं कि सर्दी-खांसी और बुखार के 100 से ज्यादा वायरस होते हैं। अगर एक बार आपकी नाक या गले से यह संक्रमण शरीर में प्रवेश कर जाए, तो यह लगातार बढ़ता ही रहता है। इसके लक्षणों में गले में खराश, छींक, नाक और आंखों से पानी बहना, शरीर में दर्द, हल्का बुखार, बंद नाक, खांसी आदि इसके लक्षण हैं। शरीर में सर्दी का यह सिलसिला एक या दो हफ्ते तक चलता है। इसके मुकाबले का बेहतर
    तरीका यही है कि आप ज्यादा से ज्यादा आराम करें और जितना हो सके जूस या अन्य दव  भरपूर मात्रा में लें।

    संक्रमण से लड़ने का सबसे अच्छा तरीका यही है कि आप पौष्टिक खाना खाकर अपनी रोग प्रतिरोधक क्षमता को बढ़ाएं। साथ ही भरपूर नींद लें और व्यायाम करें। यह भी जरूरी है कि इस संक्रमण के रोगियों के प्रत्यक्ष संक्रमण में आने से जहां तक हो सके, खुद को बचाएं। सर्दियों में यह संक्रमण काफी तेजी से फैलता है, इसलिए जरूरी है कि ऐसे किसी भी रोगी के प्रत्यक्ष संपर्क में न आएं। अगर आप इस
    संक्रमण से पीड़ित हैं, तो भीड़भाड़ वाली जगहों पर जाने से बचें और हमेशा खांसते या छींकते वक्त मुंह पर रूमाल जरूर रख लें।

    मौसम के लिए खास सलाह
    डॉ. एन.के. त्रिपाठी बताते हैं कि सर्दी के मौसम में बीमारियों से बचाव के लिए हर उम्र के लोगों को खास एहतियात बरतने की जरूरत होती है। इस मौसम में छोटे बच्चों को बाहर की ठंडी हवा के बचाकर रखना चाहिए। बच्चों को नहलाने के बाद उन्हें तुरंत गर्म कपड़े पहना दें, क्योंकि अगर एक बार उनके शरीर में ठंड बैठ गई, तो उन्हें ठीक होने में वक्त लग सकता है। वहीं, अस्थमा के मरीजों को भी घर और बाहर
    मौसम के अचानक बदलावों से सावधान रहना चाहिए। खास तौर पर सुबह के वक्त गर्म बिस्तर से उठकर एकदम खुली हवा में न जाएं, बल्कि थोड़ा इंतजार करें। डॉक्टर की सलाह के मुताबिक अपने इनहेलर और नैजल स्पे आदि का इस्तेमाल भी करते रहें।

    डॉक्टरों के मुताबिक, सर्दी सबसे ज्यादा सिर, कान और पैरों के जरिए शरीर में प्रवेश करती है। इसलिए अपने शरीर के इन हिस्सों को ठंडी हवाओं से बचाकर रखें। शरीर के रक्त संचार को सही स्तर पर रखने के लिए हर रोज व्यायाम करना न भूलें। आप बिना पैसा खर्च किए घर में रहकर ही 15-20 तक कुछ ऐसी एक्सरसाइज कर सकते हैं, जिन्हें करने पर शरीर से थोड़ा-बहुत पसीना जरूर निकले।

    Vijender Arya