† DAILY BIBLE VERSE - JUNE 07, 2013

Fear Not

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LORD’S PRAYER AT GRADUATION

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Liberty High School Graduation 2013

Roy B Costner’s Valedictorian Address

PRIVACY, TRACKING AND SURVEILLANCE

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The Crosstalk Radio Talk Show is heard each weekday on over 90 radio outlets across America and worldwide on the Internet. Crosstalk covers the issues that affect our world, our nation, our families and the Christian church from a perspective centered in the Word of God. Whether we discuss the economy, the political scene, the continuing moral collapse of our nation, legislation that affects the family, or the state of evangelicalism, our authority is found in the unchanging standard of the Holy Scriptures. Veteran co-hosts Dr. Vic Eliason and Jim Schneider have worked as a team for over 20 years to bring solid information to the body of Christ.

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Air Date: June 6, 2013

Show Description:
Dr. Katherine Albrecht is the author or co-author of six books including, Spychips: How Major Corporations and Government Plan to Track Your Every Move with RFID. She has a doctorate in education and also a Masters in Education with a concentration in technology, innovation and education. She is a privacy expert, a frequent keynote speaker and lecturer and director of CASPIAN (Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering).

Imagine your body becoming a numerical signal that can be used for authentication to make purchases, log on to smart-phones, to start a car, etc. Imagine this being accomplished with an electronic tattoo which is actually a sticker that's an RFID tag. This tag would make you an antenna that transmits your number everywhere you go.

Then there's “vitamin authentication”. In this case you would swallow an RFID laced pill. As it works its way through your system the radio microchip in the pill would react with the acids in your stomach to create a battery that would turn your body into an antenna. So as you touch your computer, smart-phone or other similar hi-tech device, you would be transmitting your authentication code (your unique I.D. number). No need to remember passwords!

Does this sound like science fiction or perhaps another step toward a “mark of the beast”? Learn more as Dr. Albrecht explains not only these staggering new technologies in the works, but why privacy concerns that may have seemed like conspiracy theories in the past are now genuine concerns.

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OBAMA’S WAR ON CHRISTIANS

The Ultimate Scandal For
The Most Scandalous Presidency In U.S. History

‘The Mother of All Scandals’

WND WHISTLEBLOWER MAGAZINE — “Scandal.” That one word pretty much summarizes the Obama administration’s second term – from Benghazi-gate, to the IRS’s all-out war on hundreds of conservative organizations, to the Justice Department’s “criminalization of journalism” through targeting, harassing and seizing the records of news reporters and editors.

And that’s in addition to the many other Obama scandals, from his illegally waged war against Libya and his policy of targeted assassinations of Americans (both designated by a bipartisan panel of constitutional experts as “clearly impeachable offenses”) to the Justice Department’s disastrous “Fast and Furious” gun-running operation which resulted in at least 100 deaths – and countless other outrages.

Yet, the mother of all Obama scandals – indeed, the root of all the rest – receives little attention from the press. In fact, most Americans have never even heard an explicit reference to the primary scandal of the Obama administration. That is the sole focus of the June issue of WND’s acclaimed monthly Whistleblower magazine.

As Whistleblower Editor David Kupelian says in the issue, headlined “OBAMA’S WAR ON CHRISTIANS“: “Just scratch a little below the surface of all the current scandals, and the mother-lode comes fully into view.”

“Take the IRS scandal. Who exactly are all these 500-plus ‘tea party,’ ‘patriot,’ ‘conservative’ and ‘prolife’ groups being targeted by the revenue agency?” asks Kupelian. “Who populates these organizations? What beliefs and values animate them? By and large, they are Christians and Jews who strongly hold to a traditional, biblical, Judeo-Christian worldview.”

Continues Kupelian: “Haven’t you wondered why the Obama Department of Homeland Security warns law enforcement departments that the real ‘extremist’ threats to America are from pro-lifers, patriots, constitutionalists, amnesty opponents, gun enthusiasts and military veterans? Haven’t you scratched your head trying to figure out why the U.S. military recently threatened to court-martial Christian service personnel just for sharing their faith with others?

“The hard truth is: Barack Obama considers traditional, freedom-loving, center-right Christian America – not Marxism, not Islamism, not a toxic culture nor a stagnant economy – to be his biggest enemy, his greatest obstacle to fundamentally transforming America.”

Highlights of “OBAMA’S WAR ON CHRISTIANS”

• “The biggest Obama scandal of all” by David Kupelian

• “Banning Christianity from the armed forces” by Joseph Farah, who reports that the U.S. military was recently advised that Christian believers are “monsters” who “terrorize” others with their faith

• “Under Obama, Christians and conservatives are ‘extremists’” by Bob Unruh, on the current administration’s relentless demonization of opponents of abortion, same-sex marriage and illegal immigration

• “IRS targeting of conservatives continues” by Jerome R. Corsi, on the public interest law firm that has now sued the revenue agency in federal court on behalf of 25 different organizations

• “IRS demands Christian pro-lifers reveal ‘the content of their prayers’” – one of the most outrageous abuses in an era of outrages

• “Why Obama wars against Judeo-Christian America” by David Kupelian, an in-depth and thought-provoking exploration of what’s really behind the never-ending attacks on everything “decent” and “normal”

• “Obamacare forcing Christian companies to provide abortion pill” by Bob Unruh, showing how some of the Obama administration’s abuses are so egregious that the judiciary is siding against them

• “New class of people identified as IRS enemies” by Gina Loudon, on the bizarre fact that families that adopt children are far more likely to be audited by the IRS than “millionaires and billionaires”

• “Warning from Canada: Orwellian future awaits U.S.” by Art Moore, who documents how the lessons of 10 years of same-sex marriage in our neighbor to the north totally shatter the arguments of “gay marriage” supporters

• “Lesbian journalist: ‘Gay marriage is a lie’” – in a candid moment, journalist-activist confirms everything most opponents of same-sex marriage have long believed

• “Feds require employees to give open LGBT approval” by Matt Barber, who explains the latest – and astonishingly Orwellian – decree from the Obama Justice Department: No longer is it OK for Christians just to be intimidated and “shut up” regarding “lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgenders” in the federal workplace – they most verbally support it! As one internal DOJ memo to employees puts it: “Silence will be interpreted as disapproval”

• “How a revered Christian institution was brought down” by Peter LaBarbera, a poignant, insider look at what really caused the downfall of the Boy Scouts of America

• “Dobson: Feds must stop silencing and intimidating Christians” by Bob Unruh, in which the evangelical leader confirms that the IRS has been directly targeting traditional-values religious groups – including his own

• “Assaulting Christians but coddling terrorists” by David Limbaugh, on the U.S. military’s disturbing track record of targeting religious liberty

• “Reflections by a former Muslim on Obama’s love of Islam” by Nonie Darwish, on how Obama became the “savior of both Islam and socialists”

• “The world’s most dynamic religion is …” by Dennis Prager, who surprisingly reveals that today’s most influential belief system – and the one increasingly dominating America – is neither Christianity nor Islam

• “Beware of liberals in evangelicals’ clothing” by Ann Coulter, who exposes the totally irrational “new Christian ethic of compassion-by-personal-encounter”

• “Christian civil disobedience may be imminent” by Patrick J. Buchanan, who asks: What happens when millions of believers refuse to obey new same-sex marriage laws?

• “Memo to Christian troops: We’ve got your back” by Matt Barber, who speaks for one public-interest law firm in encouraging American soldiers to “stand tall and proclaim your faith proudly.”

• “Fasten your seat belts,” says Kupelian, “because we’re about to go for a wild ride, connecting the dots of the Obama administration’s many outrages, allowing the real scandal underlying all the others to finally come clearly into view.”

To most people, the very idea of “Marxism in America” sounds absurd. After all, this is the “land of the free,” plus we won the Cold War against the Soviet Union and its failed Marxist “utopia,” didn’t we?

Yes, but the truth is, the good old USA – after sending hundreds of thousands of its finest young people overseas to fight and die to combat the evils of Marxism – has quietly and steadily succumbed to the same ideological seduction right here at home.

“MARXISM, AMERICAN-STYLE” reveals with jaw-dropping clarity how Marx’s godless, materialist ideology – characterized by an all-consuming obsession with government control of resources and production, as well as the radical “redistribution” of wealth and power to perpetually aggrieved “victim” segments of society – is increasingly dominating America.

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MUST WATCH: 2013 ‘FREEDOM OF SPEECH’ AWARD CEREMONY

Glenn Beck Reveals One Thing
He Wishes He Could Take Back

Glenn Beck speaks in New York City on April 26, 2013 in New York City. Getty Images

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U.S. Constitution

Bill of Rights - Amendment 1

'Freedom of Religion, Press, Expression'

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

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Erica Ritz, TheBlaze — Glenn Beck received the Freedom of Speech award from TALKERS magazine in New York City on Thursday, joining more than 55 prominent speakers at the sold-out event.

In the theme of the award, Beck discussed freedom of speech and how he believes it is under attack “from both the left and the right.”

“If they tell you to shut up and sit down, it’s trouble,” he said. “If it’s a Republican or a Democrat or an Independent, if it’s a Tea Party person or someone from Occupy Wall Street — if they say shut up!, it’s trouble in the end.”

Reflecting on the amazing opportunities we have in America, Beck said that future will be brighter if the nation unites around the values of respecting each other’s rights to express opinions, especially opposing views.

“Any role that I have played in dividing, I wish I could take it back — I don’t wish I could take back the truth that was spoken, but [many] times I could’ve said it differently,” he said. “We are now living in a completely new era, and there is profound opportunity and profound light on the horizon ready to dawn, a world that none of us could understand or even design if we tried, because the possibilities are endless. But so are the nightmares.”

He went on: “And it will require all of us to recognize what time we’re living in, to recognize we have a profound responsibility because of the rights we have, and to stand and protect the rights not of those we agree with, but protect the rights of those we vehemently disagree with.”

“…You stand with those people, and that’s what will heal our country,” he concluded.

Using talk radio as an example, Beck said he welcomed the progressive movement coming onto radio “because it makes all of us stronger if we can come in, debate the issues, and have any point available.”

He emphasized the point with an intentionally controversial example, saying “the whole world would be set on fire” if this statement was taken out of context: “If you read the Koran, you will be amazed at the absurdities contained within it.”

Beck said that his speech could be be cut to imply that those are his words, though they are not.

“That’s a quote from Thomas Jefferson,” Beck said, noting that it was part of a disclaimer printed on Korans by the U.S. Congress when the U.S. went to war with the Barbary pirates.

But Beck’s point, he said, was that Jefferson brought copies of the Koran to America and urged all Americans to read it. “Read it yourself and you decide,” Beck said. “That’s what we should be encouraging people to do, not shouting people down in the square.”

Regarding the controversial Common Core education program, Beck said he wouldn’t try to stop those who want to educate their children a certain way. “But don’t you dare silence me for raising an alarm,” he said. “[And] If I want out of that system, don’t you dare try to stop my children from getting out of that system.”

Beck said when no dissent is tolerated, often, the road only leads one way – to the loss of freedom.

He showed the audience a rare copy of a teacher’s manual from WWII-era Germany, which explained the best way to identify the Jews in class, and a napkin worn by Adolf Hitler during an assassination attempt. The napkin was riddled with bloodstains and holes, though Hitler survived.

“Why did somebody do this? Because by the time he had all that power there was nothing to do but take it, because people were forced into silence…There was a chance to stand up against it, and the Germans failed the test. But make no mistake, so did the rest of the world.”

Beck urged listeners never to let it get to that point in America, and be wary of those who tell you to “sit down and shut up.” » Full Article

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We should keep this country safe without the federal government having access to everything 300 million Americans do online.”

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SENATOR TED CRUZ RESPONDS TO PHONE TAPPING SCANDAL

Truth Lives Here

“There’s a pattern unfortunately of this administration not respecting
the Bill of Rights and not respecting the Constitution.”

Glenn talked about the latest Obama scandal — federal snooping that even Al Gore found ‘obscene’ — during an interview with Ted Cruz on radio today. » Full Article With Comments

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“People forget when it comes to our president when he talks about terrorists he’s talking about us not the middle east. He stated before that when it came between America vs Muslims, he’ll always side with the Muslims. We call the extremists terrorists. He calls them friends. So since now we are the terrorists he has no problem getting into our business. He is already closing Christian websites down starting with those that end in .cc To him they are extreme terrorists.”

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Paul Ryan, who had a question of his own decided to forgo his planned remarks to respond to what he just heard come out of McDermott’s mouth. McDermott repeatedly tried to stop and interrupt Paul Ryan’s response.

SPY STATE SHOCK: GMAIL, YAHOO MAIL, FACEBOOK, SKYPE, AOL, APPLE ALL SECRETLY SHARING PRIVATE USER COMMUNICATIONS WITH NSA

The Internet From Hell

‘All Your Info Belong To Us’

Mike Adams, The Health Ranger Editor, Natural News — In a week that has already been rocked by one explosive government spy scandal involving the NSA scooping up phone call data and geographic locations of Verizon customers, another scandalous discovery has just erupted that's sure to "wake up" millions of Americans who have been living in denial.

"The National Security Agency and the FBI are tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading U.S. Internet companies, extracting audio, video, photographs, e-mails, documents and connection logs that enable analysts to track a person’s movements and contacts over time," reports the Washington Post in an explosive investigative article.

Top secret documents obtained by the Washington Post show that nearly all the top internet services -- Microsoft Hotmail, Google Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Facebook, Skype, AOL, Apple, Youtube and PalTalk -- are all sharing ALL your user communications with the federal government. Dropbox is reportedly "coming soon."

As the Washington Post explains:

Through a top-secret program authorized by federal judges working under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), the U.S. intelligence community can gain access to the servers of nine Internet companies for a wide range of digital data. Documents describing the previously undisclosed program, obtained by The Washington Post, show the breadth of U.S. electronic surveillance capabilities in the wake of a widely publicized controversy over warrantless wiretapping of U.S. domestic telephone communications in 2005.

The types of data these services allow the government to surveil include emails, audio chats, video chats, text chats, photos, usernames, passwords, file transfers, VoIP sessions and much more. Users of Google Drive will be shocked to learn that the NSA has full access to all their private files stored on Google Drive. In effect, these services take every communication initiated by their users and turn it over to the NSA. All these internet services are operating in conspiracy with a criminal government that believes there are absolutely no limits to its power and that it can spy and snoop on all Americans.

When you are calling friends on your iPhone, or chatting over Skype, or emailing someone on Gmail or Yahoo Mail, everything you type, speak, attach or send is being systematically siphoned up, databased and tracked by the U.S. government.

This is all revealed in "PRISM slide #4," which was leaked to the Washington Post. Here's the slide image, just in case it gets yanked from WashPo:

Timeline of Betrayal

The collection of private user data under the PRISM program began on September 11, 2007, with Microsoft (Hotmail) turning over private emails. Every Hotmail email sent since 2007 has been surveiled and tracked by the NSA.

Here are the dates of "activation" when the NSA began collecting private user data from internet service providers:

• September, 2007 - Microsoft / Hotmail
• March, 2008 - Yahoo Mail
• January, 2009 - Google Gmail
• June, 2009 - Facebook
• December, 2009 - Paltalk
• September, 2010 - YouTube
• February, 2011 - Skype
• March, 2011 - AOL
• October, 2012 - Apple

This is detailed in "PRISM slide #5" shown below:

Total Bust For Any Remaining Trust
In Cloud Computing

Beyond all the astonishing implications of this discovery which merit a full discussion separate from this article, this revelation is bound to shatter any remaining trust in so-called "cloud computing."

Anyone and everyone using Google applications that store files online -- or using online file backup or storage services -- must now assume the NSA is capturing and scanning all their files. The internet police state is operating in full force, and absolutely nothing is safe from its prying eyes... not even your photos and private files.

And while many people were aware that services like Google and Yahoo were scanning their emails in order to show them related advertising on other websites they surf, virtually no one believed that Microsoft, Google, Yahoo and AOL were systematically turning over all their private emails to the government.

That very idea, in fact, was called a "conspiracy theory" until this very day. Anyone who suggested this was taking place -- like Alex Jones -- was branded a loon. (Will the media now apologize to him for warning of this exact thing? I doubt it...)

But now it's all confirmed. The government isn't just reaching down your pants at the airport; it's reaching into your private phone calls, emails, bank account activities, family photos, online storage files, Skype chats, Skype calls and everything else.

The Bush-Obama Surveillance Nightmare

This police state surveillance nightmare was started by Bush but continued by Obama. Ron Fournier has penned an excellent article on this very topic, entitled Welcome to the Bush-Obama White House: They're Spying on Us.

These revelations are so shocking that even the New York Times is starting to awaken to the reality of the police state, saying the Obama administration "...has now lost all credibility on this issue" and following that up with, "Mr. Obama is proving the truism that the executive will use any power it is given and very likely abuse it."

The NYT goes on to call the Patriot Act "reckless in its assignment of unnecessary and overbroad surveillance powers."

It's right about that, of course. And it brings up an inconvenient fact that many Republicans have forgotten: All this police state surveillance expansion was started in the Bush era. It was all "legalized" in the frenzied aftermath of 9/11, which now completely explains why rogue elements working within the government plotted the 9/11 attacks and allowed them to be carried out by standing down defense forces which could have prevented it.

The Real Purpose Of The Bush-Era Patriot Act

The entire purpose of 9/11 was to thrust Americans into a state of irrational fear so that they would support even the most insane, draconian, police state laws such as the Patriot Act. Republicans were beating their war drums and cheering the passage of this law!

Now, of course, they incorrectly blame Obama for the police state. But Obama is only half to blame: he didn't start these activities but he sure continued them. And in some ways, Obama found new opportunities to exploit and abuse government power beyond what even Bush could have imagined. The due of Bush + Obama is an absolute train wreck of criminality, spookiness and the abandonment of all rights and protections for the People.

Everybody is to blame for this. Bush supporters let this happen and Obama supporters let it ride. All along, neither party demanded the government limit its powers and abide by the Constitution. Only Ron Paul and a few libertarians carried that torch for the last 12 years, but they were shouted down by the establishment media which pretended the police state didn't exist at all.

So don't expect any miracles to occur when talking about dismantling this police state nightmare that smacks of North Korea: both political parties are huge believers in government abuse of power and the use of government to dominate, intimidate, censor, oppress, track and surveil innocent Americans. In fact, their entire power base depends on this.

Because if Americans were free to openly share ideas without fear of intimidation, they might discuss truly revolutionary ideas like eliminating the IRS, arresting all the war criminals in the U.S. Senate, or even marching on the White House and throwing the gangsters out of office.
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Read more about PRISM and government spying:
• » PRISM: 'They Quite Literally Can Watch Your Ideas Form As You Type'

• » NSA slides explain the PRISM data-collection program

• » President Obama’s Dragnet

• » Documents: U.S. mining data from 9 leading Internet firms; companies deny knowledge

• » Welcome to the Bush-Obama White House: They're Spying on Us

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REP. GOWDY FIGHTS BACK TEARS AS HE DRESSES DOWN IRS OFFICIAL RESPONSIBLE FOR LAVISH CONFERENCES

Gowdy On IRS Conference Spending
'A Moral & Character Issue'

“It just strikes me we need one single recommendation,” a visibly emotional and angry Gowdy concluded. “Start over.”

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Representing South Carolina’s 4th District, Trey Gowdy entered Congress with a resolute commitment to the conservative principles that have guided him throughout his years in public service. At the core of those principles lies a firm belief in a limited government that inspires trust and demands accountability.

Representative Gowdy serves on the House Committees on Education and the Workforce, Ethics, Judiciary, and Oversight and Government Reform. He also serves as Chairman of the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security for the Judiciary Committee. In these capacities, Representative Gowdy has fought to highlight facts, uphold the Constitution, rein in the ever-expanding scope of the federal government, and restore America’s trust with a renewed spirit of honesty, fairness and reason. » Full Bio

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IS '1984' NOW?

Restore Liberty — Honor The Constitution

George Orwell's Dystopian Novel
Continues To Come True In Too Many Ways

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REMEMBERING NON-REVISED HISTORY: JUNE 07, 2013

Thomas Jefferson

Third President of the United States (1801-1809)
2nd Vice President of the United States (1797-1801)
An American Founding Father
Principal Author of the Declaration of Independence

Biography
Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 – July 4, 1826) was an American Founding Father, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776) and the third President of the United States (1801–1809). At the beginning of the American Revolution, he served in the Continental Congress, representing Virginia and then served as a wartime Governor of Virginia (1779–1781). Just after the war ended, from mid-1784 Jefferson served as a diplomat, stationed in Paris. In May 1785, he became the United States Minister to France. » Full Bio

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This Day In History 237 Years Ago

June 7, 1776

Lee Resolution Presented To Continental Congress

The American Revolutionary War

On this day in 1776, Richard Henry Lee of Virginia introduces a resolution for independence to the Continental Congress in Philadelphia; John Adams seconds the motion.

Lee's resolution declared: "That these United Colonies are, and of right out to be, free and independent States, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved; that measures should be immediately taken for procuring the assistance of foreign powers, and a Confederation be formed to bind the colonies more closely together." » Full Article

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