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Thomas Richards: 11/23/10 I am very very tired of covering this Vatican issue. I think I've made my point with what I've done so far. The Vatican is just so obviously filthy and corrupt that I really think it's no longer necessary for me to continue. The Vatican connections and intrigue never end. Truly, "All Roads Lead to Rome."
I've also become increasingly sickened by reading everything the Papacy is doing and so I will only update here every once in a while. Roman Catholicism has ruined the very term "Christianity". They have said they are Christians. Even claiming they are the first Christians and Peter was the first Pope. And now they show themselves to be filled with abominations (again). Therefore people think "christianity" is wickedness. And people are so backwards that even many non catholic christians will say I'm wrong for having this web site up. Well, John the Baptist was at the gate of the King calling him out for his wickedness every day until it cost him his head. And what did Jesus say about John the Baptist? That he was the greatest prophet that ever lived (Luke 7:28, Matt 11:11)
So on top of that you have all these mega church pastors saying they're homosexuals or committing lewd acts in genera so you have many Catholic lay folks pointing their fingers at them, attempting to justify the crimes catholic clergy are perpetrating on children. Most church folks in general have just become lukewarm. I wish they were at least like John the baptist. Who was never born again of the Spirit like the Apostles were. I really can't even continue with what I'm saying because the world is in such darkness that there are so many who would love to put words in my mouth or twist what I say to mean something I would never intend. I also have many other strange opponents who claim to be exposing the Vatican... AND me. People who are on false doctrines. And other deranged people. I know that may sound mean or judgmental but it's just the simple truth. A lot of them are such liars that I just don't have the time or the patience to point them all out.
I feel like I'm done with this chapter of my life. It's been 10 long years since I put spirituallsmart.com together. And now I just want to focus on Jesus (Yeshua the Messiah) and my life. I've been through a lot over the past ten years. I pray He has mercy on me. And I pray He has mercy on you too. Thank you for reading.
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Thomas Richards, What Happened To "SPIRITUALLYSMART.COM"?
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Thomas Richards, What Happened To "SPIRITUALLYSMART.COM"?
that ye should not obey the truth?" (Galatians 5:7 KJV)
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And what about your "tlthe5th" YouTube Channel! http://www.youtube.com/user/tlthe5th
Where did they go, Thomas Richards? Did you fear what they might do to you for speaking the Word of God? Did the persecution get too "hot" for you? Don't you fear God's "Hell"?
"What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light: and what ye hear in the ear, that preach ye upon the housetops. And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell." (Matthew 10:27-28 KJV)
This is a very serious matter, Thomas Richards! Don’t you know the Scriptures?
"Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it. For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?" (Matthew 16:24-26 KJV)
You have forsaken your "Spiritually Smart Ministry" because of fear... and therefore you have "denied Christ"!
"Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven. But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven. Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword." (Matthew 10:32-34 KJV)
Pick up that sword, Thomas Richards, and get your "Spiritually Smart Ministry" back on the Internet! I mean, after all, you said it yourself: "Once Saved, Not Always Saved!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3BYv2X77ik
(See "Thomas Richards Is Not Spiritually Smart!" and "Tony Alamo: My Brother The Messianic Jew!" for more on this subject.)..
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Mali man dies after French police use Taser
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Mali man dies after French police use Taser
An immigrant from Mali has died after French police shot him twice with a Taser electric stun gun during a fracas, officials say.
Police said the 38-year-old man had attacked officers with a hammer at a Paris apartment block after being asked for identity papers.
He was also tear-gassed and struck with a baton, an official added.
French prosecutors have ordered an inquiry to determine the exact cause of death.
However, correspondents say the death will revive controversy over the use of Tasers, which fire darts carrying a 50,000 volt shock.
The incident happened in the early hours of Tuesday when police were called to an argument at an apartment in the Paris suburb of Colombes involving the Malian, who was allegedly staying illegally in France.
When officers tried to check the man's identity papers he "flipped out" and grabbed a hammer, injuring four officers who chased him, a police source told the French news agency AFP.
Police, who described the man as overweight, shot him twice with Tasers and used tear gas and a baton to subdue him.
The man was eventually arrested but collapsed as police were bringing him out of the building in a lift, the source said.
Paramedics were unable to revive him.
"From initial reports it seems that, faced with the aggression and violence of this person, police officers were obliged to use an electric charge pistol," Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux said.
The BBC's Christian Fraser in Paris says the use of the Taser has been controversial in France and this latest incident will bring further questions about whether it is a safe and proportionate response.
French human rights group Raidh called for an immediate ban on the guns pending the investigation.
It also demanded to know why the suspect had been shot twice.
Antoine di Zazzo, director of SMP Technologies which distributes the Taser in France, told AFP: "Only this man's autopsy will be able to say whether our pistol is responsible for his death."
The use of the stun weapon has caused controversy around the world.
A five-year study in Australia published in October found that police there had used Taser guns against people with mental illness in a disproportionately high number of cases.
In June, a Canadian inquiry ruled that officers were not justified in using a Taser gun five times on a Polish immigrant at Vancouver airport in 2007.
The inquiry found that the shocks and the ensuing struggle with police had "contributed substantially" to the death of Robert Dziekanski.
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Religious liberty advocates applaud dwindling support for defamation of religions resolution
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Religious liberty advocates applaud dwindling support for defamation of religions resolution
Opposition to a defamation of religions resolution is accelerating among member countries of the United Nations General Assembly, despite the measure's annual passage for more than a decade, religious liberty experts said.
The measure, first introduced in 1999, seeks to curtail speech offensive to the religious sensibilities of listeners. What religious liberty advocates find troubling is its arbitrary enforcement and capacity to restrict freedom of religious expression, the International Religious Liberty Association (IRLA)'s board of experts said in a statement last year.
The oldest association dedicated to freedom of conscience for people of all faiths and persuasions, the IRLA is routinely vocal in its opposition to the defamation of religions resolution.
Dwindling support for the measure is encouraging, said Barry Bussey, director of UN relations for the IRLA and the Seventh-day Adventist world church. "We are seeing numbers in the right direction," Bussey said. "We are now only 13 votes away from defeating this problematic resolution."
In 2005, 101 UN member countries voted to support the resolution, 53 voted against it and 20 abstained, Bussey said. This year, 76 voted Yes, 64 No and more than twice as many countries abstained when compared to five years ago, he said.
"As we've raised the problems with the resolution, more country delegates recognize the pitfalls," Bussey said.
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Shocker! TSA's nude scans would miss taped-on bombs
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Shocker! TSA's nude scans would miss taped-on bombs
Peer-reviewed paper says terrorists could fool clothes-penetrating tools
By Jerome R. Corsi
© 2010 WorldNetDaily
A new peer-reviewed scientific study says the backscatter full-body imaging X-ray machines being used by the federal Transportation Security Administration could be fooled by terrorists who simply would mold explosives to conform to their bodies.
WND obtained an advance copy of the report, titled "An evaluation of airport X-ray backscatter units based on image characteristics," in which University of California scientists Leon Kaufman and Joseph Carlson demonstrated that packages of explosives contoured to the body or worn along the sides likely would not be detected by TSA X-ray units built to "see" hard edges and anatomical features, and used primarily to image the front and back of the body.
The article comes from Dr. David Brenner of Columbia's Center for Radiological Research, whose research includes estimating the risks of low dose X-ray exposures.
WND previously reported that Brennan has cautioned that it is "quite likely" that radiation from screening machines being installed nationwide by the TSA to use on airline passengers will cause cancer, especially among high-risk groups that include frequent fliers and children.
The issue has erupted into headlines and protests during this month as the agency rolled out new requirements that demand passengers go through a scanning process through which essentially nude images are produced for TSA agents to screen, or submit to a hands-on full-body pat-down that includes agents touching private areas of the passengers' bodies.
Lawsuits already have been filed over the apparent violations of the 4th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and various organizations are encouraging passengers simply to quit flying.
In sharing with WND a pre-publication copy of the Kaufman-Carlson paper, Brenner stressed once again that the TSA is depending upon government-sponsored research and manufacturers' specifications to deny or minimize risk, instead of independent scientific research published in peer reviewed journals.
The TSA declined to respond to a WND request for comment on the contents of the study.
"Even if the [X-ray] exposure were to be increased significantly, normal anatomy would make a dangerous amount of plastic explosive with tapered edges difficult if not possible to detect," Kaufman and Carlson wrote.
A further disadvantage is that the X-ray backscatter units are not effective at detecting explosive packages that are contoured to supplement the natural features of the body, even when the explosive packages are concealed on the front or the back of a person.
"It is very likely that a large (15-20 centimeter in diameter), irregularly-shaped, centimeter-thick pancake with beveled edges, taped to the abdomen, would be invisible to this technology, ironically, because of its large volume, since it is easily confused with normal activity," they noted. "Thus, a third of a kilo of PETN [explosives], easily picked up in a competent pat down, would be missed by backscatter 'high technology.'"
The authors used the X-ray backscatter technology to demonstrate how 40 grams of PETN, "a purportedly dangerous amount," could be made to fit into a 1.25 mm-thick pancake to be "virtually invisible" to the x-ray technology currently being used by the TSA.
By comparison, the "shoe bomber" was carrying 40 grams of PETN, and the "Christmas bomber" was carrying 80 grams of PETN, both amounts considered sufficient to blow a hole in an aircraft’s skin.
Studies conducted by Kaufman and Carlson have demonstrated how human subjects carrying as much as 320 grams of PETN plastic explosive could design packages to wear on their bodies that would be undetectable to the X-ray backscatter machines currently being used by TSA, "depending upon the geometry [of the hidden packages] and the detector efficiency in the backscatter unit."
To illustrate the point, Kaufman and Carlson demonstrated how a terrorist could tape to his abdomen a tapered pancake-shaped package, 20 centimeters in diameter and one centimeter thick at the center, filled with 320 grams of PETN plastic explosive and that the X-ray backscatter full-body scanning units being used by TSA could confuse it with normal anatomy.
They further demonstrated that a pancake-designed package 1.25 millimeters thick at the center, containing 40 grams of PETN, would be invisible to the TSA X-ray machines if taped to a terrorist's side at or just above the waist.
Regarding the potential to conceal explosives and weapons along the sides of the body, Kaufman and Carlson concluded: "It is also easy to see that an object such as a wire or a box-cutter blade, taped to the side of the body, or even a small gun in the same location, will be invisible."
Kaufman and Carlson's article was accepted on Nov. 9, 2010, for publication by Springer Science and Business Media.
A screen capture of the article’s abstract is shown below:
John Whitehead of the Rutherford Institute, who sued the government over the issue, told WND the procedures were instituted through the work of President Obama.
"Legislation has been proposed to mandate full-body scanners and make them the primary screening method in all U.S. airports by 2013, but Congress has yet to act on it," Whitehead said in a commentary.
"So we can thank President Obama for this frontal assault on our Fourth Amendment rights. Mind you, this is the same man who insisted that 'we will not succumb to a siege mentality that sacrifices the open society and liberties and values that we cherish as Americans,'" Whitehead said.
There seems to be considerable doubt about the constitutionality of the searches, too. Even Mo McGowan, a former director of TSA security operations, was uncertain.
"We're not dictating these events that are occurring. Events are happening across the world … driving us as a society to have to go to these measures," he said.
"I mean, nobody likes having their 4th Amendment violated going through a security line," he said. "But the truth of the matter is we're going to have to do it."
The procedures have been the focus of warnings even by the networks, who noted in their reports that even government officials admit such scanners would not have stopped the so-called "Christmas Day" bomber:
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Cancun climate talks start with a call to the gods
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Cancun talks start with a call to the gods
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Juliet Eilperin
With United Nations climate negotiators facing an uphill battle to advance their goal of reducing emissions linked to global warming, it's no surprise that the woman steering the talks appealed to a Mayan goddess Monday.
Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, invoked the ancient jaguar goddess Ixchel in her opening statement to delegates gathered in Cancun, Mexico, noting that Ixchel was not only goddess of the moon, but also "the goddess of reason, creativity and weaving. May she inspire you -- because today, you are gathered in Cancun to weave together the elements of a solid response to climate change, using both reason and creativity as your tools."
She called for "a balanced outcome" which would marry financial and emissions commitments from industrialized countries aimed at combating climate change with "the understanding of fairness that will guide long-term mitigation efforts."
"Excellencies, the goddess Ixchel would probably tell you that a tapestry is the result of the skilful interlacing of many threads," said Figueres, who hails from Costa Rica and started her greetings in Spanish before switching to English. "I am convinced that 20 years from now, we will admire the policy tapestry that you have woven together and think back fondly to Cancun and the inspiration of Ixchel."
Delegates from 193 countries are gathered in Cancun for the two-week meeting, which kicked off today at 10:20 a.m. local time, or 11:20 a.m. Eastern. Mexican President Felipe Calderon, a major proponent of action on climate change, attended the opening.
Two weeks from now, we'll have a sense of whether Ixchel -- and the delegates -- were listening to Figueres's appeal.
Who do you think should be taking the lead on climate change? Join the discussion here.
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