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JUST THE FACTS | Richard Rives
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When the church rightfully ran for the hills
Oct. 27, 2010 - Richard Rives recalls early Christianity's faithful, the
Nazareans
Running Time: 03:24Modern Christianity: Man's own religion?
Oct. 20, 2010 - Richard Rives sees atheists gaining ground over church's paganism
Running Time: 03:39Christianity cannot forget its Founding Fathers
Oct. 13, 2010 - Richard Rives worries children of Abraham have lost their identity
Running Time: 02:03Christians celebrate Caesar's pagan religion
Oct. 6, 2010 - Richard Rives says church's top 3 festivals tied to Augustus
Running Time: 02:11Blessing or curse, you choose
Sept. 29, 2010 - Richard Rives calls Christians to heed same warning given to Israelites
Running Time: 03:30Christianity corrupted over time
Sept. 22, 2010 - Richard Rives sees religious history like 'pass it on' party game
Running Time: 03:0God is in no way 'tolerant'
Sept. 15, 2010 - Richard Rives explains people today mistake Jesus' mission
Running Time: 03:29Christians left defenseless in evolution debate
Even famous apologists miss God's sign pointing to creation
Running Time: 02:34You call yourself a Christian?
Richard Rives challenges many who take up Jesus' name
Running Time: 02:58Battling Satan in borrowed armor
Richard Rives explains how Christians' blind trust endangers them
Running Time: 02:38Pastors trained to undermine Jesus' message
Richard Rives says defending modern faith turns away unbelievers
Running Time: 03:0Moral relativism sweeps stealthily through church
Richard Rives warns things unacceptable now proclaimed 'Christian'
Running Time: 02:32Pastors taught to explain away Bible
Richard Rives reveals deception creeping into church
Running Time: 03:10Church traditions: Centuries of deceit
Richard Rives asks, 'Who are we going to believe?'
Running Time: 02:35Watch pastors dance the 'Sunday shuffle'
Richard Rives' questions set preachers to sidesteppin'
Running Time: 02:51Is the Christian cross a pagan idol?
Richard Rives challenges history behind church's symbol
Running Time: 04:08How quickly Christianity is corrupted
Richard Rives reveals pagan influence on 2nd century church
Running Time: 01:52When Christianity went wrong
Richard Rives shows how early church compromised faith
Running Time: 03:34From which of God's laws are Christians exempt?
Dec 29, 2009 - Richard Rives explains connection between heaven and Ten Commandments
Running Time: 02:50From which of God's laws are Christians exempt?
Jan 20, 2010 - Richard Rives explains connection between heaven and Ten Commandments
Running Time: 02:54Selling Easter to the highest bidder
March 31, 2010 - Richard Rives argues Christians have been sold a bill of pagan goods
Running Time: 02:20Why would Christians celebrate that?
March 24, 1010 - Richard Rives explains pagan origin of eggs, bunnies at Easter
Running Time: 02:13Christians, it's time to celebrate ... the goddess
March 17, 2010 Richard Rives reveals holy holidays set to honor
Aphrodite
Running Time: 02:08Church renames Jesus' resurrection after pagan god
March 10, 2010 - Richard Rives explains how synod coopted worship of
sun queen
Running Time: 02:46Christians duped by 'another Jesus'
March 3, 2010 - Richard Rives shows ancient swap that still fools believers today
Running Time: 02:09How the chuch was corrupted by its pagan leader
Feb. 23, 2010 - Richard Rives explains ways 1st 'Christian' emperor led faith astray
Running Time: 02:15How the church was corrupted by a pagan leader
Feb. 23, 2010 - Richard Rives explains ways 1st 'Christian' emperor led faith astray
Running Time: 02:15Jesus forgives, so people can do whatever, right?
Feb 17, 2010 - Richard Rives shows Christianity does not negate God's law
Running Time: 02:13Thou shalt not make my law so complicated
Feb. 10, 2010 - Richard Rives demonstrates how people wriggle out of obedience
Running Time: 02:53How Christianity was almost drowned out
Feb 3, 2010 - Richard Rives contends for faith against Roman Empire's might
Running Time: 01:56Did church 'fathers' corrupt Christ's teaching?
Jan 27, 2010 - Richard Rives explains how tradition, theology can replace truth
Running Time: 02:03Flee to the mountains
Oct 7, 2009 - Richard Rives unlocks lessons from 1st century Christian fugitives
Running Time: 02:53Moses' Seat
Sept 23, 2009 - Richard Rives answers whether Christians must obey 10 Commandments
Running Time: 03:44Hath God said
Oct 14, 2009 - Richard Rives explains how faithful are still tempted today
Running Time: 02:40The Ten Commandments
Sept 30, 2009 - Richard Rives warns Christians not to neglect the Creator's laws
Running Time: 02:40'The fear of the Lord'
Oct 21, 2009 - Richard Rives corrects common misunderstanding of popular phrase
Running Time: 02:50Why 'Christian rest' on Sunday doesn't cut it
Jan 13, 2009 - Richard Rives claims faithful have no excuse for dodging Sabbath
Running Time: 03:09Who says legalism is a bad thing?
Oct 28, 2009 - Richard Rives makes case for embracing obedience to God's law
Running Time: 01:59Protestants condemn Christmas
Dec 23, 2009 - Richard Rives remembers forefathers' ban on 'pagan' holiday
Running Time: 02:49The god who was actually born Dec. 25
Dec 16, 2009 - Richard Rives explains pagan origins of 'Christ'-mas
Running Time: 02:21The pagan cave in Bethlehem
Dec 9, 2009 - Richard Rives exposes false worship at birthplace of Jesus
Running Time: 02:07Choos you this day
Dec 2, 2009 - Richard Rives warns of pagan gods celebrated in church holidays
Running Time: 02:12Casting down imaginations
Nov 25, 2009 - Richard Rives points out pagan roots of Christmas, Easter, Sunday worship
Running Time: 02:10If Jesus is the image of the invisible God
Nov 4, 2009 - Richard Rives unpacks implications of Christ at work on Sinai
Running Time: 01:58The Lord of the Sabbath
Nov 18, 2009 - Richard Rives explains why Christians still observe day of rest
Running Time: 02:07Philosophy and vain deceit
Nov 11, 2009 - Richard Rives wrestles with modern arguments against Scripture
Running Time: 02:16
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Communication With 50 Nuke Missiles Dropped in ICBM Snafu
The Air Force swears there was no panic. But for three-quarters of an hour Saturday morning, launch control officers at F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming couldn’t reliably communicate or monitor the status of 50 Minuteman III nuclear missiles.
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Communication With 50 Nuke Missiles Dropped in ICBM Snafu
The Air Force swears there was no panic. But for three-quarters of an hour Saturday morning, launch control officers at F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming couldn’t reliably communicate or monitor the status of 50 Minuteman III nuclear missiles. Gulp.
Backup security and communications systems, located elsewhere on the base, allowed the intercontinental ballistic missiles to be continually monitored. But the outage is considered serious enough that the very highest rungs on the chain of command — including the President — are being briefed on the incident today.
A single hardware failure appears to have been the root cause of the disruption, which snarled communications on the network that links the five launch control centers and 50 silos of the 319th Missile Squadron. Multiple error codes were reported, including “launch facility down.”
It was a “significant disruption of service,” an Air Force official familiar with the incident tells Danger Room. But not unprecedented: “Something similar happened before at other missile fields.”
A disruption of this magnitude, however, is considered an anomaly of anomalies.
“Over the course of 300 alerts — those are 24-hour shifts in the capsule — I saw this happen to three or four missiles, maybe,” says John Noonan, a former U.S. Air Force missile launch officer who first tweeted word of the issue. “This is 50 ICBMs dropping off at once. I never heard of anything like it.”
“There are plans and procedures available to deal with individual broken missiles,” Noonan adds, “but they are wholly inadequate to handle an entire squadron of missiles dropping offline.”
The incident comes at a particularly tricky time for the Obama administration, which is struggling to get the Senate to ratify a nuclear arms reduction treaty with Russia. In conservative political circles, there’s a distrust of the nuclear cuts — and a demand that they be matched with investments in atomic weapon upgrades. Saturday’s shutdown will undoubtedly bolster that view.
The disruption is also dark news for the Air Force, which has been hustling to restore the “zero defects” culture that was the hallmark of its nuclear forces during the Cold War.
After a series of mishaps — including nosecone fuses mistakenly sent to Taiwan, and warheads temporarily MIA — the Air Force has made restoring confidence in its nuclear enterprise a top priority. Officers have been fired and disciplined for nuclear lapses. The Air Force’s top general and civilian chief have been replaced. A new Global Strike Command has been put in place, to oversee all nuclear weapons. Nuclear Surety Inspections, once relatively lax, have become pressure cookers. These days, a few misfiled papers or a few out-of-place troops means the entire wing flunks the NSI.
“Any anecdotal exposure of a weakness … could result in an unsafe, unsure, unsecure or unreliable nuclear weapon system,” Maj. Gen. Don Alston, who oversees the Air Force’s entire ICBM arsenal, told Danger Room last year. “And I am not encouraged when people can rationalize: ‘but for that mistake, we were, y’know, kicking ass.’ Well, but for that mistake, you would have passed. But you didn’t. You failed. Tough business. And it needs to stay that way.”
Yet the Air Force official claims there was “no angst” about Saturday’s incident.
“Every crew member and every maintainer seemed to follow their checklists and procedures in order to establish normal communications,” the official says. “I haven’t detected anyone being particularly upset with what happened.”
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- Video: Robots Now Guarding Nevada Nuke Site
- Fewer Nukes, More Cash: Energy Dep't Wants $175 Billion
- After Losing Nukes, Air Base Flunks Security Tests
- General to Nuclear Crews: Get it Right. Or Else
- Air Force Fires Nuke Commander, Finally
- Bosses Nuked, Some Air Force Missileers Cheer
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Size does matter | Man charged with indecent exposure argues his genitals not big enough to warrant a charge
Man charged with indecent exposure argues his genitals not big enough to warrant a charge
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A MAN who exposed his genitals in a pub told police he shouldn't be charged because "he only had a small appendage".
Toowoomba man Timothy Scott Clark dropped his pants in view of patrons of the Southern Hotel on the night of September 9. Several people took photographs, Toowoomba Magistrates was told on Tuesday.
But when police arrived to arrest him he told them he didn’t think he would be charged in the circumstances “as he only had a small appendage”, police prosecutor Sergeant Greg Lewis told the court, according to reports.
Regardless, Clark was charged with drunk and disordely behaviour and, perhaps fearing his evidence wouldn't stand up in court, he failed to appear yesterday.
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He was fined $300 and no conviction was recorded.
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