Conservative Refocus

By Barry Secrest

It was Benjamin Franklin who uttered these immortal words when the question of security was weighed against individual Liberty at the founding of the nation:

He who would trade liberty for some temporary security, deserves neither liberty nor security.

And are doomed to lose both, I should add...and maybe we have.

In at least a month of well beyond surprising news items, this one in particular stuck a very deep and resounding chord with a very large number of individuals, not only within the US, but also across the world. In fact, without a doubt, it might be one of the most extraordinary headlines ever to be penned in US history,  and it's happening on our watch, America.

Below, was the story  headline from the UK Guardian which broke the dam.

NSA collecting phone records of millions of Verizon customers daily

At this site, we saw the prophetic news item and linked to it within hours in our news section, only to watch the post soar like an angry eagle, and yet our own personal interpretation was only slightly different:

National Security Agency: Collecting Phone Records of All Americans Per Secret Court Order

To explain our own perspective, it was the Verizon document "only" that was initially exposed; in fact, we believed that elementary logic would dictate that not one major communications provider, but inevitably most of the major ones, along with a jingoistic Federal judicial system, had to be  involved in order to make any sort of meta-sense.

In only a few days hence, we were proven stunningly correct:

Beyond Verizon: U.S. intelligence mining data from nine U.S. Internet companies in broad secret program

The media was getting hotter.... and we were on a new trail of proverbial tears. But then, and just as we initially surmised, it wasn't only the top major carriers, it was in effect, virtually everyone:

NSA Burrowing into As Many as 50 Different US Companies for Diverse "Domestic Collection"

Cue Goosebumps...

The interesting thing, in this case, might have to be that the story was broken not from any of at least 100,000 journalists across the fruited plain, nor even a thousand news organizations here in our hauntingly vaunted "Homeland" of Freedom and "unrestricted Liberties."

No, it would seem that the UK media in Great Britain was, once again, well far ahead of the traditional US news media which has pathetically run a distant third, even  from the still neonatal US Conservative media, at least as it regards the totalitarian gyrations of a Constitutional Democracy. Fascinating, it is also,  that America has grown such a penchant for imports that we are even importing our inarguably essential Fourth Estate from a nation that we had formerly rebelled against.

Can anyone else see the irony, here, or should that be tyranny?

But, now, why is it, do you suppose, that all of this simply is?  Was the information that was most probably laid out by an ostensibly patriotic NSA whistleblower, not also proffered to the US news media, as well, only to be rebuffed? Or was it the lack of a true shield law, in addition to the Constitution's 1st amendment guaranteeing, more or less,  Freedom of The Press that seemed a little bit more than stressed these days? I guess it's that "more or less" that'll bite you, one must surmise. Just ask Fox News journalist James Rosen, if you have any doubts.

The AP might also tell you a thing or two about the 1st amendment stomped and shredded, unless of course their jilted little love-spat with Obama and the DOJ has run its course. However, now,  we do know that the governmental usurper was none other than a government contract whistleblower who requested to be named and who may go down as a modern-day sort of John Galt.  Edward Snowden, the 29 year-old specialist felt that the government had built a huge espionage monster which burrowed into its own citizenry, and he could not abide it.

Here was Snowden's explanation:

"I don't want to live in a society that does these sort of things ... I do not want to live in a world where everything I do and say is recorded. That is not something I am willing to support or live under."

Nor do we,  Mr. Snowden.

Mr. Snowden went on to articulate the following:

"The NSA has built an infrastructure that allows it to intercept almost everything. With this capability, the vast majority of human communications are automatically ingested without targeting. If I wanted to see your emails or your wife's phone, all I have to do is use intercepts. I can get your emails, passwords, phone records, credit cards," he said.

"My primary fear is that they will come after my family, my friends, my partner. Anyone I have a relationship with," he said. "I will have to live with that for the rest of my life. I am not going to be able to communicate with them. They (the authorities) will act aggressively against anyone who has known me. That keeps me up at night."

"I can't in good conscience allow the U.S. government to destroy privacy, Internet freedom and basic liberties for people around the world with this massive surveillance machine they're secretly building."

Indeed, the US government has now been confirmed to be watching everything that each and every one of us does.  But then they're not actually watching us actively, or so they say, they're simply recording everything that we do to be put into a sort of digital lockbox, for later perusal, if actual needs be. You know, sort of like the social security lockbox that's supposed to contain trillions of US dollars for our own personal "social security"....

Nor are the intrusions of this particular "Beast" limited to Americans, but in fact, extend across the globe. Here was what the Guardian wrote only a day later:

UK gathering secret intelligence via covert US NSA operation

Well, well, well, so has the land of liberty become a land of informational Libertines?

How dare they! Who authorized this, becomes the actual question. Who knew of this? What did our elected officials know and when did they know it?

In retrospect, the words of my lovely young daughter, who I initially excoriated for uttering something so outrageous to me, as to be unthinkable, have now come back to haunt me. One day, in seeing my anger if not angst, at the far too many atrocities which had already been perpetrated, under the auspices of security,  she stated to me that she did not "love her country very much, right now."

I turned on her in irritation and let loose a scathing stream of invective, but had a difficult time explaining that it's not your country, young lady, it's your anti-constitutional government and establishment aparatchiks that are doing these things.  She understandably, had a hard time separating the two, and I had a devil of a time trying to explain the nuances of the thing, or are there even any nuances here?

Do we truly have the government that we want? Or have we grown a beast so frightful in its size and power, while meaningfully void of any natural loyalty to its own creator? Have we created such a beast of a false-God, so jealous that it now forces us to worship it by rite of sacrificial Liberty, disallowing the free will so generously allowed by our true creator?

Now, we see this and we wonder, how do I explain this to our children, who understand it to some degree, but not completely? Our government seems to be teaching our youngest and most impressionable that it's okay to delve into someone's personal things, to divulge confidences delivered in earnest; it's fine to eavesdrop and plunder for something useful to the state, our most tender are even  encouraged to snitch for the good of the collective. The end justifies the means, seems to be the final conclusion and welcome, in fact, to 1984.

And yet, after all of this, there are those who walk among us who still think that being incessantly observed, by Big Brother, to the point of recording every keystroke and mosaically constructing every digital purchase while cross-referencing every single phone call, is a most good and needful thing, if not perhaps even an honor. What, are these people actually expecting, a Statist-pathfinder merit badge at some point, for heaven's sake?

Oh,  and to you Democrats who have stubbornly supported all of these extremes in a radicalized security apparatus, while simultaneously decrying a pathetic little voting ID card....Seriously, they can track our cellphones, intercept emails, log all of our calls, track every purchase and yet you're worried about having to obtain a plastic ID card to vote?

Obama's lightning fast, if not furious reaction, relatively speaking, was to order an immediate criminal investigation into who at the NSA might have leaked the Obama Regime's actions through its intelligence agency and its duplicitous complicity to the world. How dare this NSA miscreant illuminate the illegal actions of a government gone completely out of control, while that same government is trying to illegally illuminate and record the actions of its innocent citizens for possible future interrogations?

It's an outrage! Even while we have heard nothing but deflection and misdirection over assorted DOJ atrocities, the IRS' unlawful targeting and harassment, and even the Benghazi roadblocks, all contrived and set up by this same administration, nevermind the Fast and Furious gun-running.

The President responded to the concerted howls of criticism by stating the following

'Nobody is listening to your telephone calls',

Oh! Very well then...carry on....

The US government, these days, does not seem to particularly trust "We the People," Ladies and Gentlemen, or so it would seem, at least to the naked eye. The National Security Agency has been building this digital mosaic on each and every American, for the last seven years, and a number of US Senators, and not a few others, have been aware of this. It would seem that our US government has become so obsessive-compulsive in its creepy "Peeping-Tom" role of monitoring its own citizens that it completely missed the blinking light provided to it from Russia, with regard to the Chechen terrorists who either killed or blew up a staggering number of US citizens while on-looking at the Boston Marathon. Where were the ever-watchful eyes of our heroic Big Brother?  How did they miss those Russian calls, or even those vicious, jihad YouTube postings laid out for all to see by the dead ringleader?

Perhaps our government was so busy trying to track every single God - loving American, that it simply forgot what the true mission is, unless jihadist are no longer considered a true threat, of course.

But have we as Americans yet failed? I am reminded of the immortal words of President Reagan:

Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.

Have we lost the faith? Have we kept the world free? Are we ourselves, even free, at this point?

Whose actual security is the US government looking after these days? Is it the people's security or is the US government's security within a hyper-controlled status quo of Big Government paranoia? We at least have gotten a hint from the IRS' recent witch hunt of Conservatives and non-Islamic religious groups. Oh, surely you do not think these simple coincidences, now, do you?

However, in the face of all of this, we still have the governmentally worshipful leg-humpers, who decry our anger as being anchored in ideology, notice, please, that they can no longer use the term Right-Wing Extremists, by the way. To these, who may call themselves either Liberal or Conservative, Republican or Democrat or even Independent, while paying homage to a beast bristling with antenna, I can only say this:

Your political belief system is nothing if not a hodgepodge of sewn together mantras and impossible to resolve talking points.  You're the Frankenstein Monsters of dug up and sewn together big government incantations shocked into macabre articulation. Each of your worshipful hymns are stitched haphazardly together to protect whoever is in power at ANY given moment. It's not a pretty sight,  in fact, it's beyond frightening.

I believe it to be true that the Islamic Jihad terrorists, who are the sole reason for all of this,  now threaten our nation more than ever, despite what those in power say, along with a preponderance of third world nations, who don't hate us because of our religions generally, nor our ostentatious wealth specifically, nor even our superpower status as a nation.  They hate us because of our individual freedoms, or at least whatever handful of liberties we, as sovereign beings, have remaining.

But, didn't Obama say we were going back to a pre- 9/11 stance and if so, why then is all of this necessary?

Or have the terrorist now won under the auspices of the 9/11 terrorist attack, which effectively led to this beast of a burgeoning dystopian nightmare? That question has yet to be answered but perhaps we can at least see the trendline.

What was all of that Truther stuff about, anyway?

"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it." ~ Mark Twain

Below are some related Conservative Refocus News postings going all the way back to 2011:

Obama's Assertion "Nobody's Listening to Your Phone Calls" Not Exactly True: NSA Intercept Errors

Rush Limbaugh On the Obama Regime's Coup d' Etat: A Complete Takeover of US Government

Forget Benghazi, IRS, and DOJ Issues: Obama Immediately Starts Investigation into NSA Leak

NSA Burrowing into As Many as 50 Different US Companies for Diverse "Domestic Collection"

Another Obama Slush Fund? Saul Alinsky Connected Group Gets $ 56 Million Fed Loan To "Sell Insurance"

Division, Lack of Trust, Accompany Obama's Executive Order: Controversy Gives Way to Debate

The King's New Law: Attack on the First Amendment, H.R. 347 Signed into Law Granting Odd Powers of Arrest

Democrat Officials Fight Back Against ID Cards for Constituents: Boycott Coke, Wal-Mart in Protest

Facebook defends support for CISPA monitoring bill; Other tech supporters remain silent

The Declaration of Independence: July 4, 1776

Your Cell Phone Carrier as Government Snitch? Government's Access to Subscriber Cell Data Increases Massively

Big Brother's Now Watching All US Citizens: NSA Whistle Blowers Say Feds Putting "All Data" Together

An Inside Job: General Patraeus Betrayed by Senior CIA Officials in Scandal Says New Book

US Becoming Orwellian State Under Obama Says Director Oliver Stone

NSA Whistleblower William Binney: FBI Has Emails of Nearly All US Citizens Including Congress

Conservative Refocus

Barry Secrest

This week, an apparently insane Rep. McDermott actually blamed the Tea Party and other Conservative groups for having the nerve to apply to the IRS in order to receive tax exempt status.

McDermott put forth the reasoning that these Conservative groups were operating under the government's expense because they would be tax exempt and, therefore, were somehow taking money away from the American government for their ability to receive donations.

McDermott then went on to state that the American people should not have to pay for these Conservative Groups' (implicated) radical belief systems, when in fact, it's McDermott who is indeed the radical in our midst.

Ergo, all money first belongs to the government and then, of course, those who McDermott sides with.

Was the man drunk?

Indeed, without tax exempt status as with most groups, a vast amount of Conservative and otherwise donors would be unwilling to give away income that would still be subjected to taxation. This is at the heart of these groups' impetus at applying for tax exempt status.

In other words, Progressive groups like Media Matters and Think Progress, largely funded by billionaire Left-Wing Capitalist George Soros, would hold a distinct advantage over these newly founded Conservative upstarts.

Before the impetus of the Obama Regime's radicalized, Socialistic agenda, there were far fewer Conservative groups in existence.

Conservative Rep. Paul Ryan was visibly angered at McDermott's asinine efforts at severely uncritical thinking, and he proceeded to call McDermott out to a roar of applause from the gallery.

Ryan made the point that these Americans were being called out and persecuted for both their political and religious beliefs by what is easily one of the most powerful and largest civil enforcement branches of the US government.

McDermott did not dare to even touch on the fact that high-profile, Conservative individuals have been harassed by the IRS, and that groups have even had their donor lists downloaded to Progressive media organizations to be singled out and harassed within the left-wing media.

That, ladies and gentlemen, is  illegal, and it's a felony.

As we move deeper into understanding everything that actually happened, these types of unboundedly ridiculous defensive deflection efforts are sure to get worse, but only out of a heightened sense of desperation for those within the now mortally wounded Liberal Democrat sanctum.

Remember  one thing....if the leadership of the Democrat party, that being the Obama Regime, had nothing to do with this Alinsky-style political targeting, then why are the Democrats becoming so increasingly defensive?

But...It's Not Political....

Case in point was the exchange between Karl Rove and senior Obama apparatchik David Plouffe in which Plouffe tries to defend the indefensible:

Karl Rove nailed the ridiculous Left's defense of the IRS targeting in their ongoing talking point of "It's not political."

Indeed.  It's not political when groups whose ideological bases disagree with those in power get targeted for extreme abuse? Then what the hell is it, if it's not political?

It's not political, it's tyrannical, is the probable answer that the Obama-Marxists refuse to enunciate.

However, this argument, being disingenuously trotted out by the Left's dim-witted apparatchiks, only shows how incredibly stupid they of the Democrat Party believe that the American people are, and by default, how industriously moronic Liberals certainly can be.

The simple fact, as everyone knows, is that the Obama Regime oligarchy used a powerful government agency to go after political opposition in an effort to silence and quell dissension.

Any other answer is nothing if not obtuse political graft.

In fact, only idiots, plain and simple, will continue to use this dead-horse argument, which ultimately makes no sense, whatsoever.

Scandal-palooza

The latest scandal, this week, to rock the political world even further was the one in which we all learned that the National Security Agency regularly downloads Phone-call and contact meta-information for every single American in the US.

Ah yes, remember when just a little earlier, El Magnifico came out and indicated that the 9/11 war on terrorism will be changed to a different type of stance? Well, guess what? That stance is now centered on the domestic front, and virtually every single American (with a special asterix next to political affiliation) will be suspect.

At present, we have only been told that Verizon is the only company known to have done this. However, it would stand to extreme reason that this is not the only company being forced to exchange information with the government. In fact, we will most likely later find that virtually all major phone networks are required to do this. By the way, key leaders in the Senate have known of this for about the last seven years.

Nevermind the special secret email accounts used by senior administration officials, that we also learned of this week, nor the fact that the US federal government, we have found, is mining personal data from (9) big internet companies in a program that also used to be secret.

Then, we also learned of the missing $ 4.1 million dollars in Conference play-money that the IRS cannot account for, it's probably in a shoebox in Kenya. After spending over $50 million dollars in funsy meetings between 2010 and 2012, the IRS issued has an apology....irony of the week.

So, the question which many might now be asking is simply when did America turn into the old Soviet Union?

The answer is layered in a natural timeline-chronology of webpage after webpage, easily totaling thousands, (all easily available) from hundreds of different sources within the news section of this website and gathered over the past five years. The overall synopsis for these news items can be found in the main commentary section of this website, which is where you are now, just click backward through the various titles.

Do check-it out when you have a moment, it's why this site was built...among just a few other reasons.

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Conservative Refocus

By Barry Secrest

In this clip from Shark Tank Media,  former Congressman West asserts that the President's failure to act to defend American lives on US soil  is "right up there" with regard to extreme Obama Regime negligence in Benghazi.

West makes a very valid comparison in speaking to Nixon's extraordinarily minor cover-up with regard to Watergate, as opposed to Obama's continual cover-up of the Benghazi event, both before, during, and after his re-election.

The Benghazi event marked the first time in over fifty years that a  US Ambassador had been killed in the field of foreign service, despite massive advances in both intelligence and diplomatic communication technology in the modern day.

West asserts that "No one died in Watergate," and maintains that Obama's scenario is far, far, worse, but is he correct?

Let's take a look at the following Warren Roche YouTube video:

Roche pretty much establishes the same evidence we've been looking at on this site, in pointing to some rather extreme Obama Regime problems going forward, and even adds one that is mostly off the radar.

But Roche is referring to The Department of Health and Human Services and its illegal efforts at campaigning for private funds from health insurance companies to support a political funding strategy for the US government's Obamacare, which is clearly outside of what is allowed by US law.

By way of identification, in this particular matter, see the "Iran-Contra" affair, which bedeviled Ronald Reagan's now esoterically esteemed Presidency, and he was a true Conservative, by the way.

"Obamacare Funding-gate"

So, what does the HHS actually have to do with Obamacare?  The answer to that question is rather obvious on each of the 26,000 pages of regulations established thus far; pretty much any and everything is at their tyrannically official whim.

But, as a point of reference in this regard, the King James Bible, on average, is only about 1,750 pages long, and we're still learning lessons from that historical reference, which handily includes the Creator's teaching guide to man. And so it is with the HHS regulations toward Obamacare's bureaucrats.  It's their unholy bible, and it will probably take centuries for them to read and fully understand it, as well...at least until something of a more positive nature occurs.

However, this leads to the question of whether or not there might also be an Obamacare Reformation movement? You know, the one that might allow us peasants to both actually drop our pitchfork and torches and haltingly read and somehow understand their un-Holy Bible of government healthcare regulations.

But,  getting back to the Roche and West assertions, how do the Nixon and Obama Regimes' "Gate" scandals compare in similarities thus far?

Well, first we have Water-gate, which involved a break-in at the Watergate office complex in Washington, DC. The break-in was an effort to essentially bug or wiretap the Democrat National Committee's headquarters. At this point, you could be thinking about the DOJ's efforts, as signed for by AG Eric Holder, at tapping into the phone records of both the Associated Press and James Rosen of Fox News, but that's another scandal, just a little further down.

At any rate, Obama states that he knew nothing of any of these events involving his attorney general.

Nixon, it was proven, was not exactly involved in the efforts to bug or wire-tap the headquarters, but he was involved in trying to cover it all up, which is why he resigned from the Presidency under impeachment articles.

And,  as West has indicated, the Obama Regime was certainly complicit in not only lying to the American people in trying to cover-up the facts on how Benghazi-Gate happened, but also in how the four members of the foreign service, including Ambassador Stevens, were murdered by Al Qaeda terrorists only one month prior to an Obama election--whose theme was one of having beaten Al Qaeda Terrorists into submission the world over. It's what they kept crowing about during the Democrat National Un-Convention.

Indeed, Obama knew nothing of Benghazi as well, or so he states, In fact,  no one seems to know where the President was nor what he was doing during Benghazi, quite frankly.

Next we have IRS-Gate, where IRS management groups, ostensibly all over the US, were urged by someone in Washington's West Wing, to target  any and all Conservative rooted groups, including the Tea Party, certain Conservative individuals, Romney campaign donors, Conservative activists, religious group donors, pro-Israeli groups, and even Christian groups.

Ladies and gentlemen, if only the Obama Regime were as merciless to America's  enemies as they are to his constituent, non-supporter, countrymen.  The problem with IRS-gate, among many others,  but also as with each of the other scandals, has been an administration that has tyrannically tried to intimidate and block testimony from those who have the answers. See  IRS official Lois Lerner's invocation of the Fifth Amendment in her congressional hearing, if you have any questions in that regard, or even Gregory Hicks testimony as a member of the US State department, with regard to Benghazi-Gate.

Obama, also here as with all things under the sun, knew nothing of these issues as well.

Next is AP-Gate and even Fox-Gate, where the law-giver and head-executioner of the Obama Regime, US Attorney General Eric Holder illegally sought and was given search warrants to go after journalists to track down US security leaks. In Congressional testimony, Holder denied any sort of knowledge of going after journalists, when in fact he signed the order himself and even found an apparatchik judge, after the third try, to sign off on his personal witch-hunt subpoena.

Obama, as with virtually all other things otherwise, knew nothing of Holder's journalist witch hunt, as well. For that oh-so-smart  guy, who before, knew practically every fact ever conceived by mankind, now, Obama seems to know absolutely nothing, at all.....and in triplicate to the 2nd power.

Next we have Fast and Furious-gate, in which the Regime illegally provided over 2,000 assault weapons, (you know the kind they've been trying to outlaw), to Mexican drug banditos and dangerous Cartels, while also trying to cover that up.

By the way, Conservative Refocus was reporting stories on this in early 2011, for heaven's sake.

But, in this case Obama invoked executive privilege to conceal all the available details from everyone, namely because he knew nothing of these events, neither, one supposes.

Indeed, no one else will ever know as well....

At least one border agent was killed, and no telling how many Mexican citizens were slaughtered, as a result. But, why would the Obama Regime supply Mexican criminals with military-style assault weapons? Well, we have already seen the reason why, just recall Obama's desperate gun control efforts as a result of the Sandy-Hook massacre, which could also be referred to as False-Flag- Gate, at least in many conspiracy theory circles.

So, to answer the question as to how the Nixon impeachment scandal could be compared to Obama's deepening scandals, the answer might incredibly be that there is no valid comparison....whatsoever.

Indeed, Nixon's Water-gate was a tadpole-fart in the Potomac compared to these Obama scandals in which five Americans are dead at a minimum. The more troubling aspect, as to Obama and each within his Regime, is the fact that Nixon resigned in shame only because he tried to cover the facts up and lied extensively to the American people, deja vue.

However, Nixon initially knew nothing of the Water-Gate events....says historical data.

Obama and his administration, conversely,  seems to have taken an active role in, not only covering up the truth in each of these cases, but in also setting these events into motion, in one way or another.

The truth is out there....and interestingly in that particular vein, we have a brand new mystery player in the media, which could prove to be the tipping point in all of this.

Oh my goodness, unfortunately for El Magnifico and as anyone can see, it's the tabloid media, available at any local supermarket, drug store, 7-Eleven, or even local bowling alley..... the main bastion of the "low-Information voter" and a source which not coincidentally, has broken a number of stories to include the John Edwards love- child scandal.

They may well, in fact, be breaking stories ahead of all of us, and more power to them in that regard.

Ladies and Gentlemen, even before this bit of recent news,  it was bad....but the tabloid media's now becoming heftily  involved?

It looks to me personally,  as if the fat lady herself has launched into warbling song on this piece of news. Now, the typical American voter in all of his or her gory, will become privy to all the raunchy details and then some Heaven help their souls...Good God , I love America, folks.

Mr. President, can you say the word "toast?"

Conservative Refocus News/ The Examiner

By Barry Secrest

Rep. Andre Carson (D) Indiana, has submitted a bill which would require a mental health "check-up" for deployed and pre-deployment members of the US military to be considered on the heels of the Memorial day season. The bill, HR 1463 which is titled "The Military Suicide Reduction Act," is slated to come before the House Armed services Committee Panel for approval on June the 5th, 2013.

The military mental health bill was introduced by the 2nd Muslim ever to be elected to US Congress and a frequent Left-Wing critic of the US military presence in Iraq, while largely supporting the war in Afghanistan.

A Radical Liberal Background

However, Rep. Andre Carson is also the same elected official who thinks that the US public education system should be modeled after Islamic schools and was named as one of the world's top 500 most influential Muslims.

In May of 2012, Rep.Carson stated this:

America will never tap into educational innovation and ingenuity without looking at the model that we have in our madrassas, in our schools, where innovation is encouraged, where the foundation is the Koran. And that model that we are pushing in some of our schools meets the multiple needs of students. …I have found that we need an educational model that is current, that meets the needs of our students. America must understand that she needs Muslims.

In July of 2012, Carson indicated that 9/11 was "tough on Muslims"--to which some might append, "maybe" but the Islamists were kind of tough on the US too, during the terrorist breach of September 2001. Carson also, much like the IRS and the Obama administration, despises Tea Party Conservatives and has used "KKK imagery" to smear the Tea Party on several occasions.

In August of 2011, Carson indicated that the Tea Party 'wants black Americans hanging on a tree' at a congressional black caucus event. The website Govtrack places Rep. Carson in the same general ideological position as Rep. Maxine Waters, thereby making Carson one of the more Left-leaning members of an already radical Democrat Congress, and by default, extraordinarily suspect when cobbling bills aimed at the US military.

Below is an outtake on Carson from the American Thinker:

In light of his role models, Carson's lies about the Tea Party and peaceful ObamaCare protesters outside the Capitol calling Representative John Lewis the N-word "15 times" makes sense. It puts to rest any doubt about his adherence to Farrakhan's world view. Just because Andre Carson occasionally has to throw his mentors under the bus à la Obama doesn't mean he's not a believer. As a faithful follower, he will say and do anything his masters tell him to do.

The Mental Health Bill as Reported from the Navy Times

Troops would be required to get a mental health checkup once every six months when deployed to contingency operations under a draft version of the 2014 defense bill approved by the House Armed Services Committee’s personnel panel.

Under the provision, service members would rate an in-person mental health screening every 180 days that they are operationally deployed.

These screenings would be in addition to ones already in place pre- and post-deployment, required 120 days before deployment and three times after deployment: between 90 to 180 days, 181 days and 18 months, and 18 and 30 months.

Rep. Andre Carson, D-Ind., originally sponsored HR 1464, the Military Mental Health Empowerment Act, that proposed the new in-theater screenings to improve behavioral health services on the front lines.

“We are quick to diagnose and treat service members who are injured in combat, with medics rushing to those who are struck by enemy IEDs or gunfire,” Carson said. “But when it comes to the mental health challenges placed on our service members, we abandon them through months of deployment to deal with post traumatic stress disorder, depression and suicidal thoughts.”

According to the Navy Times "The House Armed Services Committee will consider the legislation on June 5." However the website Govtrack gives Carson's bill little chance for approval at this juncture, yet, caution might still be called for.

To protect our soldiers, this instance of possible discrimination might warrant concerned citizens to contact their congressional representatives and let them know how discriminatory such a requirement could be.

The possible unwarranted attachment of a diagnosis of mental illness could haunt these men for the rest of their careers, not to mention the fact that such a requirement could be misused in much the same way the Obama Regime has misused other government agencies. Mental illness and its symptoms are often subject only to the whims of the professional administering such a diagnosis.

But, if the bill should pass, it only seems fair that the law should apply to each branch of government service rather than only the military. Especially after a series of governmental instances of:

-Failure to defend the US foreign service on the ground in Benghazi

-Targeting the Tea Party at a number of elected officials behest

-Targeting Christians and other Conservative groups

-Shipping weapons to Mexican gangsters

-Illegally purloining phone records of hundreds of journalists and even an entire media organization

-Doing nothing to limit America's whopping $17 trillion dollar debt

While Rep.Carson's bill as being presented seems configured to ostensibly help members of the military, such a bill could also easily backfire on US military men and especially veterans who while being in need of help, are often required to pay a hefty price as a result.

Some Veterans in need of financial help have recently received letters from the US government indicating a judgment of inability to handle their own affairs which resulted in a subsequent loss of their right to own firearms.

"Please don't let the IRS scandal distract you from the Benghazi scandal?" How about "Please don't let the Benghazi scandal distract you from the IRS scandal," pay equal attention to them BOTH and don't forget about the AP scandal.....

Conservative Refocus/ The Examiner

By Barry Secrest

What do you get from the Obama Regime when journalists repeatedly ask a severely damaging question ten different ways? Ten different answers, all meaning the same thing, and none of them actually answering the question, insisting that the answer is "irrelevant."

Indeed, if the answer is irrelevant, then why not simply voice it?

The question is very simple, so why is it that no one will admit to where the President was when US soil came under fire in Benghazi? Only the President has the authority to act or not act in such foreign hostility situations, as the case may be.

The urgent call came in and the President failed to perform his assigned duties, it's as simple as that. Or is it? According to the Obama Regime, other branches of the government and their underlings made the bad call, being the CIA and the State Department.

It's also the same with the IRS scandal.  According to Senator Claire McCaskill, however, the problem lies only with the IRS, as she indicates with the following quote:

“We should not only fire the head of the IRS, which has occurred, but we’ve got to go down the line and find every single person who had anything to do with this and make sure that they are removed from the IRS and the word goes out that this is unacceptable,” she said. “It is un-American, it is wrong, and it cannot occur again.”

So, why would an entire US revenue agency be devoted to such a non-revenue generating cause as political harassment?

Notice here that the Senator pointedly directs her remarks towards the IRS only and wants an investigation "down the line" and not "up the line."

However, the problem with this argument is that it assumes that political bias, which is clearly not supposed to be an IRS consideration, was being pursued despite the fact that there would be no actual advantage in agency revenue or otherwise in going after only a certain group or individuals.

So, why would an entire US revenue agency be devoted to such a time-wasting, non-revenue generating cause as political harassment? Once one answers that question, and the answer is quite obvious, then we can see this particular argument going up in smoke.

In addition, we do know that the culpable IRS Commissioner resigned in November, as the story was just being hatched for the public to take note of. We also know that this systemic practice of harassment has been hitting both religious and social groups and individuals nationwide, other than those whom are just socio-political in nature, and not just the 501 c groups.

Ultimately, these attacks are almost impossible to be couched as simply an organic bureaucratic contagion that spread by non-verbal, associative contact, alone.  But, according to satirical writer Andy Borowitz of the New Yorker, here is how Borowitz would, with tongue-in-cheek,  imagine how Obama might have attacked these damaging facts which keep coming out,  in covering a fake radio address by Obama summarizing his plight:

 

“Right now, many of you are angry at the government, and no one is angrier than I am,” he said. “Quite frankly, I am glad that I have had no involvement in such an organization.”

The President’s outrage only increased, he said, when he “recently became aware of a part of that government called the Department of Justice.”

“The more I learn about the activities of these individuals, the more certain I am that I would not want to be associated with them,” he said. “They sound like bad news.”

Mr. Obama closed his address by indicating that beginning next week he would enforce what he called a “zero tolerance policy on governing.” “If I find that any members of my Administration have had any intimate knowledge of, or involvement in, the workings of the United States government, they will be dealt with accordingly,” he said.

Now that's satire, my friends.

But,  just remember the following as all of these events unfold and many journalists and pundits try to find any perpetrator other than El Magnifico:

Critical analysis would seem to dictate that even an infectious disease has a defined traceable origin, and so it is with Obama's great trifecta of highly questionable government activities.

But then again, even after all those play-action figures of warrior Obama taking down Osama Bin Laden single-handedly, we can never discount the possibility that this could all simply be Bush's fault in the end, as well....it's just a matter of time and that defense seems to be Obama's best, on an otherwise very weak bench of the usual suspects.

Related from October 2010:

The Un-President And His Anti-Congress: America's Closest Uneasy Allies

Conservative Refocus

Barry Secrest

Finally!

-The Benghazi scandal

-IRS targeting Conservatives, The Tea Party, Christians, Evangelicals, Jews and only Heaven knows who else

-The Obama DOJ actually seized months of phone records of Associated Press journalists secretly

-Obama's EPA also targeted Conservative Groups while giving Liberal and green energy groups carte' blanche

It's as if everything Conservatives have been warning about for the last five years has been proven true and in spades. In the Jon Stewart video above, you get to actually see the gut-reaction of most Liberals upon finding out that their man Obama is not, necessarily, the Messiah they all thought that he was.

More like the Beast, quite frankly.

But, a Liberal Media Star who actually has the intellectual honesty to point out how absurd and completely wrong this Saul Alinsky-style Conservative-Christian-Right-wing targeting is, rather than trying to defend it like many Leftists?

This is the difference between a true old-style Liberal and mindless, Left-Wing, apparatchik-like "Social Liberals." In fact today, in the modern day, Social Liberal is actually code for Socialists or Socialism, a US grouping of pinheads which have grown in number like weeds in the last eight years.

Indeed, Liberals don't always follow the same codes much in the same vein as Conservatives for those who might be surprised at Stewart's reaction.  For instance,  Sen. Rand Paul, a Conservative super-star, has often spoke of himself as a "classical government Liberal" which essentially means less government and more Liberty, a thing completely in opposition to the radical Liberals of today.

Hmmm.... really, many might be saying right now?

Yes, it is true but one must remember that the times and the history dictate the defining of the various ideologies as the meanings sway and blur over the years. The Founders, who set forth the foundation of America, were in fact, classical government Liberals. This is mainly because, in their day, the Founders were bucking the trends of current tradition and thought, and setting off on a completely new path and form of government, which was not at all conventional in its time.

Thus they were the Liberals of their time, but as their ideological brilliance grew and spread into the mainstream of the day, it became more of a foundation of US political tradition, which embarks the term Conservative in the modern day.

We Conservatives may not agree with Stewart on most political points, but at least we can respect him as one of the few on the radicalized Left who stands mostly on principle.  However,  Stewart runs a comedy show, for heaven's sake, albeit one highly successful.

Which leads us to the next big story as it regards principles or rather those who show a rather startling lack of any principles whatsoever.....

In the above clip we can see holder showing opossum-like outrage at Rep. Darrell Issa's audacity at calling him out for sending 1,200 emails with nothing but the "To and From" headers

Apparently, Holder thinks it perfectly normal to delete all the contents of congressionally requested emails, other than the "To and From" headers.

He feigns outrage, in fact, at being questioned about such a normal and typical thing, to him.  A typical Saul Alinksy maneuver, by the way, feigning outrage at the outraged response of doing a clearly outrageous thing.

When Issa challenged him on the blank emails, Holder stated this:

It is inappropriate and too consistent with the way in which you conduct yourself as a member of Congress," the attorney general said. "It is unacceptable. And it's shameful."

Unacceptable and shameful? Quite frankly, Holders idiomatic response could be a neat summary of his frequent and illegitimate escapades as a US Attorney General.

This particular drama is due to the congressional hearing being held on May 15, 2013 over what has become Obama's Towering Inferno of an Administration.

But then, after all of this, the President went and made it "all good" by firing the acting IRS Commissioner. Unfortunately for Obama, there is one, really, really, monster- big problem with Obama's pathetic ploy.

The ceremonial faux IRS execution that took place under the leadership of El Magnifico, was all for show,  ladies and gentlemen.

The fall-guy Commissioner, Steven Miller, who was already slated to leave in June, as interim Commissioner, was fired by Obama today.

However, Obama fall-guy Commissioner Steven Miller was not even in place a at the IRS until November of 2012.

Yes indeed, hired on Nov. 10, 2012 is the actual date.

The IRS targeting took place all the way back into, at least, 2011 and probably before that, as many of those who dissent and got punished, sometimes severely, can factually attest.

No, it would seem that we need to investigate the former commissioner, Douglas Schulman, who was hired in 2008 and left in 2012, when this story truly began percolating out into political circles and the media.

Indeed, he was the bureaucrat in charge of an agency which tried to make anyone who disagreed, or held a different belief or even faith, miserable for not bowing to the President's urgent need to transform America by any and all means available.

Obama apparently thinks the American people are well beyond stupid, and he might be about half correct, at this point. But anyone who thinks this solves the entire problem and absolves the president has drank far too much Kool-aid.

Maybe now would be a good time to revisit Obama's birth certificate too.... I mean , we might as well while we're about it......

Conservative Refocus

Barry Secrest

Well, it appears that the Benghazi dam has broke and all of the information that has been withheld is now gushing forth from no less than government whistleblowers, but how will it affect his Eminence? Many believe that Obama's 2nd term could be cut short, however either way, the Obama agenda has been side-tracked even further, which is a good thing, no doubt.

The question now becomes will the mainstream media beyond Fox and other conservative outlets cover this debacle? Even if the establishment media does try to sidetrack the facts from the hearings, the Regime appears to be in a spate of even more rough-going for the near future. More on this as it developes.

Which also brings us to what could be termed the nadir of Obama-think as can be seen in the Youtube video above. Does this guy even believe himself? We don't think so.

It is, indeed, Interesting that in the midst of El Magnifico's 2nd "executive Order" term, President Obama is urging students to "reject" anyone that warns of government tyranny, especially after the force-passed 20,000 Page regulatory Obamacare debacle that continues to unfold.

But what do other, perhaps, greater Presidents say about government tyranny?

Glad you asked:

When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty~Thomas Jefferson

Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master~George Washington

Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people~John Adams

Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties~Abraham Lincoln

And then we have Barack Obama, who says:

They'll warn that tyranny always lurking just around the corner, you should reject these voices~Barack Obama

Indeed.

Below is the full text:

OBAMA: Unfortunately, you've grown up hearing voices that incessantly warn of government as nothing more than some separate, sinister entity that's at the root of all our problems. Some of these same voices also do their best to gum up the works. They'll warn that tyranny always lurking just around the corner. You should reject these voices. Because what they suggest is that our brave, and creative, and unique experiment in self-rule is somehow just a sham with which we can't be trusted.

We have never been a people who place all our faith in government to solve our problems. We shouldn't want to. But we don't think the government is the source of all our problems, either. Because we understand that this democracy is ours. And as citizens, we understand that it's not about what America can do for us, it's about what can be done by us, together, through the hard and frustrating but absolutely necessary work of self-government. And class of 2013, you have to be involved in that process.

Any questions?

But the miasma of misinformation didn't stop there, none other than Dick "The Landslide" Morris decided to get in on the act of blaming  Conservative Icon Rush Limbaugh, for not being establishment enough and even losing elections for the Republicans who seem to do a bang-up job on their own. However, most CR readers know how attacking El Rushbo flies with this site, so here was our response in defense of Rush:

I like Dick Morris, don't get me wrong, but I love Rush Limbaugh, having practically grown up with him, and it's certainly not Rush's fault that Dick didn't get the landslide for Romney that he predicted in front of God and everyone and then disappeared for a few months, understandably.

I would have never made that prediction,  by the way, despite high hopes.

But Dick did make the prediction and he was stunningly wrong then, just as he's stunningly wrong now. You don't give these illegals amnesty or even free squatting rights without securing the border first "period," Dick, you spectacular pinhead and you should know this by now.

You cannot trust the Radical Democrats to secure the border on a future promise, especially when these 12 million new voters cast their Democratic votes as newly minted citizens, Dick, you inimitable dumbass.

You want identity politics, Dick? Then go over to the Democrats, which by the way, is where you were once long ago as Clinton's chief adviser. Now seriously, can anyone imagine Rush or even me being Obama's chief advisor?

I didn't think so and therein lies Dick's rub.  (and I'm being nice here Dicky)

Does Dick really want to alienate himself by taking on the titular head of American conservatism?

Guess so.

But the rebuttals didn't end there, when Barney Frank decided to take on the Tea Party one more time by comparing the Party to Al Qaeda, of all things.  The Washington Examiner stated the following about Frank's remarks, and  we kindly integrated our remarks right back at Mr. Frank, as follows:

Former Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., responding to al-Qaeda’s criticism of his sexual orientation in the latest issue of their magazine, compared the terrorist organization to the Tea Party and cracked that the two groups are “aligned” with each other against gay marriage.

CR Notes:

This, from the guy who is allied with the Occupy anarchists?

The Tea Party, to my knowledge, is not at all concerned about gay marriage. Marry anyone you want, just don't ask us to sanction it as a traditional marriage, pinhead.

“I wonder how the right wing in America feels about being aligned with al-Qaeda?” Frank said to Buzzfeed, adding that “there is an irony that the most active anti-gay [groups] are al-Qaeda and the American right-wing.”

CR: Indeed? al-Qaeda is an Islamic extremist group predicated on Leftist totalitarian control and constantly defended by Left-Wing groups such as the Democrat Party, the Liberal media, and of course, the President.

That is the true irony, and where might Barney the pervert dinosaur fit into all of that, is the actual question at play.

The latest issue of Al-Qaeda’s Inspire magazine spotlights “Barney Frank, Gay Congressman, Symbol of the American Dream” to argue that the United States is “a nation standing on no values.”

"It sounded like what the Tea Party said when I got married,” Frank replied.

CR: Thou do'st protest to much, quite frankly, Mr. Frank.

Neither I, nor many of my erstwhile bretheren have even thought about you or your churlish singular wit since you got run out of your congressional district. I know that's painful, but we've all been dealing with the banking meltdown that you helped cause.

Plus, we can't all run lucrative male prostitution rings out of our garages, you know. I mean, where we would park our pick-up trucks?

But, remember what you said in early 2008, as the head of the congressional banking committee? "Fannie May and Freddie Mac are healthy, nothing to worry about," right.....we saw what that got us.....double-pinhead

Frank’s comments come about a week after an NPR analyst suggested that “anti-government, right-wing” terrorists attacked the Boston Marathon.

Then, ladies and Gentlemen, there was this:

Since when did Congress begin administering joint resolutional labotomies? Imagine a world without balloons, Liberal Democrat Hank Johnson says. Perchance, imagine a world without elected buffoons, we respond.

He was talking about the federal helium reserve management and it's apparent funding...yeah, we have one of those departments and we probably spend millions on it.

But do we also have a federal elected moron management department? If so, heads should be rolling, and soon. However that action would have to be run through the federal head-rolling reserve department for approval, no doubt.

One glance and any quick listen to Georgia Congressman Hank Johnson, and despite the bedlam lying all around us, you actually begin to feel lucky in ruminating over the fact that despite this type of vacuous leadership, America has still managed to somehow stay afloat.

Now, for those who think the Congressman was just kidding, due to the ultra-high levels of dumb and even dumber, there's this:

The Admiral in this clip should get an award for his unparalleled ability at not falling over in insane, body convulsive, laughter when confronted with unashamed hyper-stupidity. If this guy were a Republican, he would have been long gone or worse.

Maybe it's simply Hank's congressional district:

Stone Mountain.

That would explain much.....

Conservative Refocus Reports

By Barry Secrest

What is it that is now happening to both America and our world?

Our formerly impregnable walls of security have now been breached twice, in a major way, leading to both death and destruction not only to our own people, but also in many ways to our way of life.

Things have been changing quite dramatically in only the last score of years and to such a degree that billions are increasingly searching for answers and the truth, but more often than not, in all the wrong places. But, what if those answers that we so desperately are seeking have always been easily available to us, if we were to but travel all the way back to our roots, as a nation?

It has been true since the beginning of recorded history and even beyond that. In the earliest days of human history, glyphs and mysterious symbols have been etched into the timeless permanency of stone by ancient man. From massive markings often miles in formation made on earth's many plains only to be seen from strikingly unattainable altitudes, to ruins of ancient mystical origin frequently difficult to trace or even decode for modern man.

Humankind has always tried to divine either meaning or portent from past events to include prophetic texts, especially as they might approach future events delving often into the wholly archaic, in many cases.  For instance, Astrology, the use of stars to foretell man's comings and goings, is an ancient system obviously still in use, which fuels millions of internet searches daily, and which can generally be found in most morning papers. What many left-stream editors  probably fail to understand is that ancient mythology holds that the Archangel Michael was the divine being responsible for delivering the precepts of astrology to man.

The Gathering Storm

In that particular vein and on this site, stretching over the years, we have delved into a number of questions that have bedeviled any sort of rational explanation along with a rather startling amount of apostasies that have plagued both America and the world as a whole. From Earthquakes that sparked conspiracy theories of underground nuclear blasts on the US East Coast or para-Presidential security agents who seemed to visually morph into something else altogether unworldly, to even seeming  governmentally involved False-Flag operations which habitually confound the mainstream media to even glance momentarily in a different direction, despite certain evidences to the contrary lying clearly all about.

Meanwhile Peppered in between these articles which seek to question, visitors will find journalistic stories and often unconventional Conservative opinion articles also dealing with everyday political events and what they might mean to each of us, while forever being centered upon traditional precepts.

If there are questions that seem to defy the standard group think model, we atypically, if not unabashedly, ask those questions.

In that vein, Eschatology, also referred to as apocalypticism, is defined by the Oxford Dictionary as "The theological sciences concerned with the four last things: death, judgment, heaven and hell," and which is exactly where our X-files type of extreme curiosity leads us within this particular project.

The Daniel Project

These reasons, among many others, are why we found the documentary titled The Daniel Project (Facebook link) to be an astonishing work that should not be ignored by anyone, especially for those who still hold a belief that the truth is out there.

In America, with the changes wrought both for and by the government in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the subsequent 2008 financial meltdowns, and even the more recent attacks in Boston, a new societal paradigm has emerged largely predicated on a mass governmental breakdown of its historical function reaching mythic proportions.

This new paradigm now encompasses an America comprised of a significant number of citizens readying themselves in myriad ways, from Preppers who seek survival in a post-apocalyptic world to the "End of Days" believers who are dedicated to the proposition of a coming world tribulation period as laid down by biblical scriptures.

The political Left will often laugh at any such precepts offered by religion with a special emphasis on Protestantism and Catholicism, while the mainstream media will more often than not run stories designed to denigrate and debase these same belief systems, while upholding the murderous machinations of fundamentalist Islam.  This, despite a US population that far more often than not holds a belief in a greater truth, or Judeo-Christian God of Goodness, to the tune of about 87%.

This alone, should speak volumes to those who hold a special type of understanding that many of the less spiritually inclined simply cannot fathom, or find stupid beyond belief, as the idiomatic case may be.

"Only the Wise Will Understand"

However, with the hundreds of predictions found throughout both the old and new testaments of the Bible, these prophecies in fact reveal an "astonishing panorama of future events" which appear to be,  even now, coming true, like it or not. So, even if one might be a skeptic, non-believer, or even an Atheist, anyone who views the following predictions from ancient texts will tend to come away with an unsettled spirit if, indeed, they truly hold an open and critical mind.

But, there is that one other element as proclaimed by the biblical Prophet Daniel being "only the wise in the final generation would understand," and this is where we begin within the alarming precepts of the Daniel Project, while focusing on an entirely different type of politics altogether, for a change, which is but one more piece of the puzzle that we have constantly referred to at this site.

As we move through the precepts of the Daniel Project there are several things to note.  As a writer and one unusually familiar with the prophetic texts in combination with world events, I have at times taken the liberty of lending my own research and knowledge within the ideas as presented by the Daniel Project in order to add an additional dimension. The results, while chilling, provide at least a foundation of understanding for those who are unfamiliar but may wish to learn more. Many regular readers may have also noted the additional time between what are normally once per week article additions to this website, however, this is due to the massive amount of additional research required to properly undertake this type of project.

So, behold, as they say, let's look at the evidence as presented by The Daniel Project thus far:

Biblical Prediction #1 and #2-Jews will be exiled, scattered and persecuted throughout the world and then regathered

(Book of Deuteronomy ~ written 2,500 years ago)

To most people living in the western world and especially to western Christians, the extraordinary amount of hatred and cruelty historically lavished on the Jewish people is a thing that routinely inspires confusion. Why do they hate the Jews so?  Throughout time and from ancient Egypt, the Russian Pogroms and, of course, Hitler's nearly successful attempt at Jewish Genocide to the tune of over 6 million dead, Jewish hatred has left many non-Jews and Jews alike often dazed and confused at how a people could engender so much hate.  So, why is this?

Many believe that the answer can be found in Deuteronomy Chapter 12 in which God indicates that the Jews are God's chosen people and also where the verse goes on to exclaim that "whoever blesses the Jews will be blessed and whosoever curses the Jews will be cursed."  When one begins to understand who, exactly, God's chief adversary is, one can also then understand why hatred of the Jews might be a foregone conclusion to this proliferation of hate--it makes sense.  Indeed, a well-worn word was crafted for this very thing which we refer to as "anti-Semitism."

Not missing here is the fact that America, much like Israel, tends to be almost equally hated in much of the world, however there is one particularly stunning school of thought that deals with this phenomenon as well.

The main point being, however, that approximately 600 years prior to the event, it was foretold in the Bible that the Jews would be scattered and persecuted throughout the world--which has subsequently been proven true and is the Genesis of our story, which also includes the Jews regathering over 2,548 years later in Israel...an amazing thing unto itself and yet it was foretold six centuries in advance of the scattering and 2.5 millennia prior to the regathering.

Remarkable.

Biblical Prediction #3- Within the last days, the Jews will be returned to their homeland

(Book of Ezekiel ~ written 2,500 years ago)

Anyone who reads the story of how the United Nations, often now at odds with anything Semitic, helped to create a partition plan allowing the Israeli's to repatriate their homeland in 1947 and directly after World War II, might be astounded. Yet, as promised over 2,500 years ago, the Jews did eventually find their homeland after being scattered the world over, and resettled in Israel in the years following 1948 via UN mandate.

"It was predicted, and it happened" as The Daniel Project's Jacob Prasch will repeatedly assert throughout both this text and in the documentary.

The unsettling thing to remember, within the above heading, is the phrase "within the last days."

Biblical Prediction# 4-Israel will become the center of world tension

(Book of Zechariah ~ written 2,500 years ago)

It's a known fact that in modern times the Muslims and the Arab world at large have always held claim to the lands which Israel now owns and occupies. But does the Arab world, in fact, have a legitimate claim to the land? Do the Native Americans have sole right to all lands possessed by the US government and citizens? Should we, as Americans, just give the land back? That's ridiculous, most Americans would say, and they would be right in doing so.

The struggles for the land of Israel between Arabs, Israelis, Muslims and Jews have gone on almost endlessly throughout time. Indeed, whoever holds the land at any given time, it should be noted, is the one that holds clear rights to the land. Possession is 9/10ths of the law, as they say.

But as to the 4th prediction, can anyone doubt that Israel is not at the center of world tension in this modern day?  When we view the history of this mideast region, these tensions are nothing new, in fact, wars of conquest have been repeatedly fought all the way back to 1,200 BCE with various Rulers taking and retaking and then losing the land that is now Israel throughout its entire history. It wasn't until the British retook the land from the Ottomans, in World War 1, who had in turn seized it from the Syrians about 500 years prior, that the modern-day return of the Israeli's to their homeland could be made possible. However, only after the heinous genocide of WW2 and once again under a UN mandate, did the Israeli's finally return to their homeland.

The fact that all of this was predicted by a man living 2,500 years in advance? Remarkable, once again. How could a Prophet who lived over 2,500 years ago possibly know this would happen and get it exactly right?

Biblical Prediction #5-The lost language of Hebrew will be restored to Israel, as with the shekel also, in the last days

(Book of Zephania, book of Ezekiel ~ written 2,500 years ago)

Language death or linguicide is an actual form of study in linguistics; however, the fascinating thing, for our purposes, is the fact that most instances of language death are rarely if ever reversible. Yet, as we are now learning, the Jewish people seem able to constantly find ways to bedevil prevailing conventions, and so it is with the Hebrew language.

Hebrew, as a commonly spoken tongue, died in the late antiquity period just before the middle ages. So, how did it come back? There is no singular answer to this question; however, experts place the comeback of the language in the time of the 19th century. The Jewish shekel, a form of currency, was also dead for over 1,900 years, and yet somehow found its way back into circulation in 1997.

The operative point here, and truly a goosebump-inspiring notation to be sure, is that the scripture in Ezekiel indicates that "in the last days both the shekel and the Hebrew language will be revived."

"It was predicted and it has happened.

Biblical Prediction# 6 and #7- In the last days, pools of water will appear in the deserts; Fruits, Forests, Vineyards and Olive Groves will arise from the dust

(Books of Isaiah and Ezekiel ~ written 2,500 years ago)

The desert that was Israel was barren of life for almost 2,000 years.  So, how is it that what once was desert wasteland would later become a veritable Garden of Eden? Even better, how is it that for almost 2,500 years prior, these events would be prophesied in two books of the Bible? The several verses speaking to this eventuality speak of firs and the cypress growing in abundance, the earth being filled with fruit. What could not have been predicted was the vast increase in knowledge that has occurred in the last two millennium owing to the art and engineering of advanced irrigation and growing techniques.

Israel pictured above in 1865

Today, according to Wikipedia, Israel is a major exporter of fresh produce and a world leader in agricultural technologies, despite a landmass equivalent to the approximate size of New Jersey. Israel, unlike anywhere else in the largely arid Arab world, has become, in effect, an oasis in the desert.

"It was predicted and once again it happened."~ Jacob Prasch, Bible Expositor

Biblical Prediction #8-Man-made and natural disasters will increase in the End of Days

(Books of Matthew, Mark, and Acts ~ written appx. 1,960 years ago)

“For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places, and there will be famines and sedition; these are the beginning of the labor pains.”~Mark 13:7-8

The key here to remember is that throughout all of history both natural and man-made disasters have always occurred in a diversity of places and times.  However, the four predictions indicated here, and resultantly the scriptures, specify an increase in both intensity and knowledge of these events.

The knowledge comes to us by way of a now highly interconnected international web and media, along with the natural increase in populations of areas which were only sparsely populated in times not far past.

These four major types of signs include:

Environmental- including natural disaster, famines and pestilence, hurricanes, tsunamis and quakes intensified and viraled by both the worldwide web and international media.

Wars and Rumors of Wars- Catastrophes that are man-made, specifically to include ethnic tensions between ethnic nations; civil wars, and governmental breakdowns will occur is a series of chained events.

Astronomical Signs-changes in the sun, meteors, comets and asteroids will all be increasingly visible.

Moral Collapse-Churches, governments and even society itself will exercise moral relativism unlike any other time in modern history.

Just in this sense alone, we can see a convergence of each of these types of events all seemingly occurring with both an increased intensity and frequency. But are we seeing the worst of this convergence now or are there even more horrible events yet to come?

Biblical Prediction#9-Lawlessness, Moral Collapse and Social Breakdown

(Book of Timothy ~ written 1,950 years ago)

As the Arab Spring has either toppled or is toppling empire after Mideast empire, while Islamic Sharia law takes a firm hold on the lands of the Mideast, we have already seen a panoply of Christian persecutions taking place. Christian crucifixions, rapes and even beheadings are at an all-time high in modern history, and this, just in the last five years.  In addition, for the first time in US history, the sitting leader of the Free World was declared the "First Gay US President" by a leading media magazine.

"Perilous times shall come - Times of danger, of persecution, and of trial."

Meanwhile, western society is said to have become "post-Christian and neo-pagan," says Jacob Prasch, which speaks to a prophetic series of cultural breakdowns unparalleled in modern times, but also, within the Christian Church.

"It was predicted, and it is happening now."

Who, in truth, would have thought even only a score of years ago, that published government manuals of today speak to  published warnings of the dangers of so-called Christian extremism and phantom Right-Wing terrorism, which in those days would have been so unthinkable as to leave any administration backing such precepts politically stranded if not completely ruined.

Yet, it is happening right now and right here in an America, with these same very belief systems that actually built America.  Now, Christianity and Judaism are often being held out as both archaic and even reprehensible, in far too many circles. While those things which oppose Judeo-Christian Values are held up as shining examples of both multi-culturalism, acceptance and Progress.

Biblical Prediction#10-Christian Apostasy, Mass Spiritual Delusion, and a Great Leader

(Book of 2nd Timothy ~ written 1,950 years ago)

While an increasingly large number of Churches have, in the recent past, fallen under what many might term the slippery slope of feel-good religions,  the number of individuals who have fallen victim to certain groups which they thought were Protestant only to later learn rather painfully that they were not. Financial con artists and certian so-called Christian Televangelists have turned the Church into a laughing-stock of greedy caricatures, while unabashedly begging for money, and sometimes even much worse.

These groups, while always present in one form or another, have in the modern day reached what could be described as a plague of delusions built largely for financial gain to the proprietor. The Bible refers to this period as "The Great Apostasy" or departure from the truth. According to Jacob Prasch, this is associated with "The man of lawlessness," also a metaphor for the anti-Christ, who God will allow to deceive many of those whom are in search of a new Messiah.

"As the world strains under the weight of humanitarian issues, mankind will desperately seek a new leader, a savior."~Jacob Prasch

Biblical Prediction # 11- A Great Leader to Bring Peace Within A New World Order- and biblical prediction# 12-Resulting in one-world government, a forced financial system, state control

(Book of Revelation~written 1,900 years ago)

The words "A new world order" have been repeated more and more often in the last two decades by political leaders more than any other time in US history. Although author H.G. Wells seemed to first write of such an order in his book of essentially the same name written in 1940 which expounded largely on the wonders of Socialism, George H.W. Bush was the first to use the actual term in a speech in late 1990.

So, how does this tie in with biblical prophecy? Many biblical scholars believe that several Revelation references to "One World Government" dovetail perfectly with the meaning behind the words "new world order" that can be found in Revelation chapter 13: 7, which states:

"The beast was permitted to go to war against the saints and conquer them. He was given ruling authority over every tribe, people, language, and nation"

Biblical experts further believe that the United Nations will be the organization at the heart of such power.  An increasing loss of confidence in the world's leading financial systems and then the various national economies faltering will cause the rise of a single world financial system.  According to Jacob Prasch, this, coupled with a grand convergence of natural calamities and the terror that ensues will cause many individuals to seek security and leadership from both a political and religious leader who claims to have the answers to virtually everything  "and they'll get one."

Prasch notes that this is the man that the scriptures refer to as "the man of sin" or the "anti-Christ" who will act as a sort of "redeemer figure." This individual will be able to bring together all of the world's faiths via a political agenda and a "corrupted world religious system."  Many, in addition, believe that the country which has the greatest capacity to produce such a figure is America, however, this is not necessarily a given, all belying evidence to the contrary.

The problem with the advent of such an individual deemed as a one-world government leader will be the loss of liberties and democracy throughout the world, as the resultant absolute power of such a central goverment over national-regional governments will cause absolute corruption. This is where unconstrained tyranny will take over and man will once again be at the mercy of his own singular government creation, the world over.

Who or what could stand against such a power?

Here also is where a forced financial system, after numerous currency failures, and the much talked about "mark of the Beast" will be set upon each world citizen either in their right hand or forehead. This mark would seem to represent a new financial system or currency which is embedded or marked upon each person in order to buy or trade--which could now be achieved through existing digital micro-technology.

The scriptures further indicate that anyone who does not receive such a mark will be executed.

But then, how could a veritable primitive who lived almost two thousand years ago predict such a thing that appears relatively easily achieved in this modern day?

Biblical Prediction# 13- A Peace Treaty signed yet a military coalition strikes Israel, Tribulation ensues

(Prophet Daniel and the Book of Revelation ~ written over 1,900 years ago)

At this point in human history, the last seven years of the age will have been reached which some refer to as the Tribulation period. The long sought after and all-encompassing peace treaty between Israel and other Middle East states will finally be signed at the beginning of this final seven years.

However, the anti-Christ who initially presented himself as a man of peace and who inaugurated the agreement with Israel will break the peace agreement mid-way through this final seven years. Also, at this time, the Prophet Daniel states that the ancient nation of Persia, which is now modern-day Iran, will rise up against Israel and war will ensue.

Here, it would be prudent to point out, that the Islamic nation of Iran's religious government leaders, not to mention millions of Muslims everywhere, believe in what is known as the 12th Imam or Mahdi who will come back to rule the nations at the end of time. In the prophetic texts of the Koran, this fearful leader will seek to wipe out the nation of Israel and its supporters while heralding a new age.  Indeed, many religious leaders within the Islamic faith, including the theocratic leaders of Iran, believe that chaos is the only thing that will hasten the "Hidden Imam's" return which is what the religious Islamic nation of Iran seems often enough to be hedging its national health upon.

However, it's not just the nation of Iran, but rather the entire Islamic fundamentalist world which often seems intent in forcing its belief systems and law on the nations. Many believe that the Arab spring movement may be the final precurser to an Islamic Caliphate, a confederation of Islamic States which many Islamists are even now touting.

Could this powerful Caliphate eventually come to be the embodiment of the anti-Christ so talked about in Revelation?

The chaos of war, these Islamic fundamentalist leaders believe, will hasten the 12th Imam's return which could  be why Iran often appears to be desperately seeking a nuclear weapon, and at any cost, in order to spark the return of the 12th Imam and initiate a nuclear exchange with Israel. According to Jacob Prasch, "we are told by Ezekiel that Russia, Turkey and the nations of Soviet central Asia will come into some type of military confederation with Iran to invade Israel" but this attack will fail due to a type of divine intervention which will impart natural disasters ostensibly as the attack takes place.

Interesting that these particular alliances only seemed possible in just the last five years....and they were foretold over 2,500 years ago.

Biblical Predictions #14, #15 , #16 & #17-~Physical Signs~The Return, an earthquake which splits The Mount of Olives, water flowing beneath Jerusalem, the Rebuilding of the Jewish Temple and the East gate remains sealed

(Books of Zechariah & Ezekiel ~ written 2,500 years ago)

"And his feet shall stand in that day on the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall split in the middle thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south."~Zech.14:4

The Fissure

With modern technology, we know already that a tectonic fissure exists which runs along the center of the Mount of Olives. According to scriptures, the Messiah's return will herald a great earthquake which both splits and moves the Mountain of ancient history apart. This will also cause fresh water to flow from underneath the Mount and towards the Dead Sea changing the entire environment.  In addition to this, we also know of the fresh streams of waters as verified by archeologists indeed flowing underneath both the city of Jerusalem and the Mount of Olives.

But, how could an ancient prophet of over 2,500 years ago known of this tectonic fissure and a subterranean aquifer in the middle of what was a desert? Even better?  The Biblical prediction that the Dead Sea will teem with sea life after this event unfolds.

According to Jacob Prasch, the Prophet Isaiah foretells that the Messiah Jesus' return will originate at the ancient city of Petra in Jordan, but will culminate in his descending down upon the Mount of Olives making all of these astounding events take place, sequentially.

The Temple

Apocalypticists have long known and have established as a sort of bookmark in time marking the end days, that according to biblical prophecy, the event to watch closely for is the rebuilding of the Great Temple in Jerusalem. Remarkably, the cornerstone of this soon to be rebuilt Temple, weighing 13 tons was presented to the world on May 21st, 2009. The Temple Institute, which is a Levitical organization dedicated to the new Temple's construction, has recently expanded its visitor's center three-fold and continues to gather artifacts to be housed in the new temple.

All the pieces appear to be in place, but can and will it happen?

The East Gate

The golden gate, as it was also called,  holds several deeply religious meanings for the Jews, which is largely why the gate was sealed back in the 1500's by Ottoman conqueror Suleiman the Magnificent. Suleiman also placed a cemetery in front of the gate in order to keep Jewish Holy Priests from being able to enter or exit through the gate, as their entering a cemetery is ostensibly not allowed , which is part of the reason for Suleiman's tactics.

The remarkable thing here is that, once again, the sealing of the gate and the fact that the continuance of this condition was predicted almost 2,000 years before the fact and continues to this day.

Biblical Prediction # 18~ The Kings of the East cross the Euphrates River for a great war

(Books of Ezekiel & Revelation ~ written 2,500 & 1,900 years ago respectively)

I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and billows of smoke. 31 ~The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD.~Joel 2:30-31

The Bible foretells in Revelation that the kings of the East, who many believe is the nation of China and or Russia along with her ancillary nations, will cross the Euphrates in an invasion of  the Mideast and in preparation for war against Israel and perhaps Israel's western allies.

The scriptures, in anticipation of this event, speak to the "angels bound at the River Euphrates" to lead 2oo million men in battle. The remarkable thing here is the fact that going back through ancient history, at no time was there ever a population capable of producing, arming, and supporting such a massive army of men. Yet, in modern day, the Chinese army currently lists an active duty capacity of about 318 million men fit for military service, which is about the size of the currrent US population, if we include illegals.

Interestingly, and at the time of this prophecy of over 1,900 years ago, the population of planet Earth has been estimated at about 100 million  people. So, how could an ancient prophet understand that the Earth would be heavily populated [enough] to support this massive of an army?

According to Jacob Prasch,  The Ataturk dam in Turkey which could block or restrict the flow of the river southward allowing such a massive army's passage possible. Ataturk Dam lies just off the border of Syria.  This possible drying up or stoppage of the Euphrates would also cause crop failures and incredible starvation In Iraq. Prasch further indicates that according to the scriptures, this will cause one of the worst holocausts of all time.

But the Kings of the East will be gathering for a singular reason.....

Biblical Prediction#19~Armegeddon, the war to end all wars

(Books of Revelation, Matthew, Jeremiah, and Zechariah-each written over 1,900 years ago)

Yet another interesting note, this final war to end all wars appears to be in no less than 4 scriptural texts and perhaps even more:

For then there will be great distress, unequaled from the beginning of the world until now--and never to be equaled again. 22 If those days had not been cut short, no one would survive, but for the sake of the elect  those days will be shortened.~Matthew 24:21-22

So which countries might find themselves in such a terrible coalition?

Interestingly, we have already stated such a military confederation, in fact. In the 13th prediction Ezekiel states that "Russia, Turkey and the nations of central Asia will come into some type of military confederation with Iran to invade Israel." The scriptures seem to further allude to weaponry  akin to nuclear technology. We further know that the eastern powers of North Korea, possibly Iran, China, Russia and Pakistan  each has an arsenal of nuclear weaponry.

So, are the pieces of the puzzle now ready to be engaged?

Then they gathered the kings together to the place that in Hebrew is called Armageddon.~Revelation 16:16

Armageddon mentioned here has long been a subject of considerable biblical discussion. The Valley of Megiddo does exist in modern times and is a plain located in Israel that has seen several ancient historical battles. However also, the scriptures clearly indicate that without divine intercession, "man's days would be numbered." a chilling thought when prefaced by the fact that these words were, once again, written at a time when nuclear technology was not even an idea.

And the slain of the LORD shall be at that day from one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth: they shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; they shall be dung upon the ground.~Jeremiah 24:33

So, who will oppose these forces from the East and stand with Israel?

It seems clear that Israel and the US will probably be standing together in these end times, especially if we take into account the fact that "the dead will lie from one end of the world unto the other"--only the US arsenal seems capable of countering the combined might of  Russian and China in a nuclear exchange. But why would these countries align themselves against Israel and America? When we take into account the fact that Israel seems hated the world over and combine this with the fact that the US over the last five years, has been seen by most countries as a weakening super-power--even unto its own leadership, then we can see how this scenario might, indeed, be possible.

Remember that Iran is a nation which is allied with both Russia and China, while also remembering that the Chinese-Russo alliance was only established very recently in history.  But, will Israeli aggression against Iran's nuclear aims cause these forces to gather? Or will an Iranian ballistic missile attack on Israel and an Israeli-American response be the keystone in this prophetic event?

And this shall be the plague with which the LORD will strike all the peoples that wage war against Jerusalem: their flesh will rot while they are still standing on their feet, their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongues will rot in their mouths.~Zechariah 14:12

If Israel saw a force of over 200 million men marching on it, what other avenue of defense other than nuclear technology, might be available? Israel's population alone is only about 8 million people. Now, does this prophecy sound either so absurd or patently impossible?

Biblical Prediction # 20~ Only the wise will understand and escape

(Prophet Daniel~written over 2,100 years ago)

According to Jacon Prasch, the Prophet Daniel indicates that the scriptures clearly state that only the wise will understand these prophecies, which to many, must seem glaringly accurate especially at this point in history. However, Prasch further notes that Daniel also makes it known that "The Wicked" will not understand. Prasch also postulates that according to both Daniel and Jesus, there will be a way to escape this particular hell on earth scenario.

So there you have it, the terrifyingly realistic prophecies as evidenced by  The Daniel Project, which also states that since this work was published, even more signs have occurred which fall into line in support of these prophetic texts.

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Conclusions

Jeremy Hitchen does a masterful job in presenting the movie as a skeptic. Bible Expositor, Jacob Prasch, also presents a stunning panoply of knowledge in describing the events as they unfold, but also as one who originally sought to scientifically disprove the Bible, earlier on in his career.

In putting this article together my very able and extraordinarily educated editor and producer, who has not been formally submerged with the prophetic texts of the Bible, and as a former college academian,  has come away with a feeling of being absolutely blown away by what she has both seen and heard, especially with how ancient biblical texts written over two millennia ago can be so stunningly accurate now, in the modern day.

She was truly frightened as the prophecies came together.

However, we must add that this particular article is only an expansive  summary of what is contained visually within the movie of the same name titled, "The Daniel Project." If you would like to see these texts brought to life,  we would urge you to see the movie for yourself and make your own decisions and conclusions.

"About the time of the end,  a  body of men  will  be raised  up  who will  turn their  attention  to  the Prophecies,and insist on their literal interpretation,  in the midst  of much clamor and opposition."

~Sir Isaac Newton, Mathematician and the father of modern science

Author's note:

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