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From Raw Story: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/10/gop-congressional-candidate-declares-violent-revolution-on-table/

By Stephen C. Webster
Sunday, October 24th, 2010 — 7:21 pm

Pastor Stephen Broden, a Texas Republican running for Congress and frequent guest on the Glenn Beck program (pictured right with RNC Chairman Michael Steele), has a history of making surprising statements … But this one takes the cake.

He’s running for US Congress in a strongly Democratic district of Dallas, and he’s not going to win — at least, not if the recent polling is any indicator. Ten days out from election day, Broden was trailing Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX) by almost 30 percent, according to The New York Times.

So, he’s doing what any longshot contender would do: throwing a “hail mary” to the fringe.

In an apparent appeal to the party’s most radical elements, Broden declared during a recent television interview that if Republicans do not win control of Congress in 2010, violent revolution — while not the “first option” — is “on the table.”

Supporters were quick to distance themselves from the long-shot tea party favorite. Even Glenn Beck, who has hosted Broden six times since August of last year, denounced his support for the south Dallas pastor, telling listeners, “I can’t stand with you at all if you are saying stuff like that.”

Continue reading at: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/10/gop-congressional-candidate-declares-violent-revolution-on-table/

Gee, maybe, just maybe this advocate for the violent overthrow of the the US Government should be treated the same way they treated Lefties under Joe McCarthy and during the 1960s.  He sounds at least as dangerous as Fred Hampton or Little Bobby.  At the very least he should lose the tax exemption.

From Excite:  http://apnews.excite.com/article/20101024/D9J23OP00.html

Oct 24, 10:02 AM (ET)

By RACHEL ZOLL

Pressure is on to change the Roman Catholic Church in America, but it’s not coming from the usual liberal suspects. A new breed of theological conservatives has taken to blogs and YouTube to say the church isn’t Catholic enough.

Enraged by dissent that they believe has gone unchecked for decades, and unafraid to say so in the starkest language, these activists are naming names and unsettling the church.

– In the Archdiocese of Boston, parishioners are dissecting the work of a top adviser to the cardinal for any hint of Marxist influence.

– Bloggers are combing through campaign finance records to expose staff of Catholic agencies who donate to politicians who support abortion rights.

– RealCatholicTV.com, working from studios in suburban Detroit, is hunting for “traitorous” nuns, priests or bishops throughout the American church.

“We’re no more engaged in a witch hunt than a doctor excising a cancer is engaged in a witch hunt,” said Michael Voris of RealCatholicTV.com and St. Michael’s Media. “We’re just shining a spotlight on people who are Catholics who do not live the faith.”

John Allen, Vatican analyst for the National Catholic Reporter, has dubbed this trend “Taliban Catholicism.” But he says it’s not a strictly conservative phenomenon – liberals can fit the mindset, too, Allen says. Some left-leaning Catholics are outraged by any exercise of church authority.

Yet on the Internet and in the church, conservatives are having the bigger impact.

Among Voris’ many media ventures is the CIA – the Catholic Investigative Agency – a program from RealCatholicTV to “bring to light the dark deeds of evil Catholics-in-name-only, who are hijacking the Church for their own ends, not the ends of Christ.”

In an episode called “Catholic Tea Party,” Voris said: “Catholics need to be aware and studied and knowledgeable enough about the faith to recognize a heretical nun or a traitorous priest or bishop when they see one – not so they can vote them out of office, but so they can pray for them, one, and alert as many other Catholics as possible to their treachery, too.”

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What’s the matter?  How come Jesus didn’t provide?  Maybe god hates you?

(AP) – 2 hours ago

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GARDEN GROVE, Calif. (AP) — Crystal Cathedral founder the Rev. Robert H. Schuller on Sunday tearfully asked his parishioners for help in overcoming the megachurch’s bankruptcy and tens of millions in debt.

Schuller, 84, made the plea from the pulpit as he spoke publicly for the first time since the church filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Oct. 18.

“I need more help from you,” Schuller said, according to the Orange County Register. “If you are a tither, become a double-tither. If you are not a tither, become a tither. This ministry has earned your trust. This ministry has earned your help.”

Schuller’s voice cracked with emotion as he told congregants about his family home and cornfield in Iowa getting flattened by a tornado when he was a teenager.

“I learned from my father that tough times never last,” Schuller said. “Tough people do.”

Citing debts of more than $43 million, the Orange County-based church that also produces the long-running “Hour of Power” television show declared bankruptcy last week.

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From Yahoo News:  http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101024/ap_on_re_us/us_california_church_abuse

SAN DIEGO – Attorneys for nearly 150 people who claim sexual abuse by Roman Catholic priests released thousands of pages of previously sealed internal church documents Sunday that detail complaints against the clerics and include medical records and correspondence between priests and their superiors.

A retired San Diego Superior Court judge ruled late Friday that roughly 10,000 pages of internal records could be made public after a yearslong legal battle with the Diocese of San Diego. The records are from the personnel files of 48 priests who were either credibly accused or convicted of sexual abuse or were named in a civil lawsuit.

The 144 plaintiffs settled with the diocese in 2007 for nearly $200 million, but the agreement stipulated that an independent judge would review the priests’ sealed personnel records and determine what could be made public.

Attorneys for the plaintiffs said Sunday the files show how much the diocese knew about abusive priests, starting decades before any allegations became public, and that some church leaders shuffled priests from parish to parish or overseas despite credible complaints against them.

Donna Daly, a spokeswoman for the diocese, did not immediately return a call on Sunday.

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From The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/25/us/politics/25transgender.html?hp
By JESSE McKINLEY and MALIA WOLLAN
Published: October 24, 2010

SAN FRANCISCO — Theresa Sparks, a candidate for the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, is running on what some might see as a conservative platform: she is pro-development and anti-loitering, pro-police and anti-grime. She has been endorsed by the mayor, the city’s firefighters’ union and the county deputy sheriff’s association.

But that is not what sets Ms. Sparks apart; it is her past. Until a decade ago, Ms. Sparks was a man, before a gender reassignment surgery. And while her sex may have changed, her politics did not.

“This district really needs someone with a strong business background, a strong economic background and a really wide diversity of experience,” said Ms. Sparks, who is an experienced engineer, a United States Navy veteran and the former chief executive of Good Vibrations, a sex toy company. “And I’m really the only person who has that in this race.”

If elected, Ms. Sparks would be the first transgender supervisor in San Francisco — the liberal enclave where Harvey Milk was elected as one of the nation’s first openly gay officials in 1977, and perhaps the only place where Ms. Sparks might be considered right-of-center. But she is not the only transgender person campaigning for public office this fall. And unlike in years past, when such candidates were often considered mere curiosities, several are within striking distance of historic victories.

Across San Francisco Bay, for example, Victoria Kolakowski was the leading vote-getter in a June election for Superior Court judge in Alameda County; a victory in a runoff next month would make her the first transgender trial court judge in the nation.

“I want people to know that we are capable of being everything,” Ms. Kolakowski said.

In Oklahoma, Brittany Novotny, a 30-year-old Democrat, is competitive in the Republican-leaning 84th District for the State House of Representatives, despite supporters of her opponent who have ridiculed her as a “confused it.” And there are transgender incumbents in Oregon — where the mayor of Silverton, Stu Rasmussen, is seeking a fourth term, and her second as a woman — and Hawaii, where Kim Coco Iwamoto is seeking to return to the State Board of Education.

Continue reading at:  http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/25/us/politics/25transgender.html?hp

Having come of age in the 1960s I am familiar with all the Secret Police ploys used to destroy the progressive movement.

When Freedom Riders and Voter Registration workers were murdered by Klansmen there were FBI informants involved in the murders.

It doesn’t require a paranoid belief in Conspiracy Theories to think that there is a connection between J. Edgar Hoover calling Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. “The most dangerous man in America” and his murder by some one with resources he couldn’t have had on his own.

We know about the murdering of all those Black Panthers.  The Freedom of Information Act revealed the illegal actions by the Secret Police involved in Cointelpro.  Actions so criminal that people  had cases dismissed due to legal impropriety on the part of these Secret Police.

Leonard Peltier is a political prisoner due to a police frame up as is Mumia.

The US government does all it can to silence and destroy dissenters, dissidents and those who expose its plots and war crimes.

So it comes as no surprise that Julian Assange has someone of the utmost credibility in his corner, Danial Ellsberg.

Today’s New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/24/world/24london.html?scp=4&sq=Daniel%20Ellsberg&st=cse

WikiLeaks Founder Gets Support in Rebuking U.S. on Whistle-Blowers

By JOHN F. BURNS and RAVI SOMAIYA
Published: October 23, 2010

LONDON — Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, and Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers, lashed out together on Saturday at the Obama administration’s aggressive pursuit of whistle-blowers, including those responsible for the release of secret documents on the Iraq war.

Mr. Assange also said that WikiLeaks, which released the trove of almost 400,000 Iraq war documents on Friday, would shortly be posting an additional 15,000 remaining secret documents on the Afghan war.

Mr. Assange, speaking at a news conference in a London hotel a stone’s throw from the headquarters of Britain’s foreign intelligence agency, MI6, was joined by Mr. Ellsberg, 79, the former military analyst who leaked a 1,000-page secret history of the Vietnam War in 1971 that became known as the Pentagon Papers.

Mr. Ellsberg, who said he had flown overnight from California to attend, described Mr. Assange admiringly as “the most dangerous man in the world” for challenging governments, particularly the United States. He said the WikiLeaks founder had been “pursued across three continents” by Western intelligence services and compared the Obama administration’s threat to prosecute Mr. Assange to his own treatment under President Richard M. Nixon.

Both men hit out at what they described as the Obama administration’s aggressive pursuit of whistle-blowers, which Mr. Ellsberg said put the United States on a path to the kind of repressive legal framework that Britain has under its broad Official Secrets Act. He said the criminal investigations under President Obama of three Americans accused of leaking government secrets represented a new low.

The three men he was referring to were Pfc. Bradley Manning, a former military intelligence analyst suspected of providing the documents on Afghanistan and Iraq to WikiLeaks; Thomas Drake, an official with the National Security Agency who was indicted this year; and Shamai Kedem Leibowitz, an F.B.I. linguist who pleaded guilty to leaking five classified documents in late 2009.

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From The Advocate: http://advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2010/10/23/NJ_Town_Backdrop_for_Gay_Attacks/

By Advocate.com Editors

10/23/2010

Three men are facing bias crime charges in relation to two separate murders against a transgender woman and a gay man in New Jersey this year. Authorities are investigating the deaths of 27-year-old Arthur Downey, and 28-year-old Victoria Carmon White, both in Maplewood, N.J.

John Staten, 30, was arrested Tuesday for the beating death of Downey, according to the Star-Ledger newspaper. Staten and Downey spoke on a chat service less than 24 hours before meeting in person on March 15. Acting Essex County Prosecutor Robert Laurino said Friday that Downey died of asphxia and blunt force trauma.

So far, Staten has been charged with murder, felony murder, burglary, and weapons offenses, but Laurino said they will determine whether to also charge him for a bias crime.

White was fatally shot nine times in her apartment, according to Laurino. Marquise L. Foster, 25, and Alrashim N. Chambers, 23, and two other people reportedly met White at a night club, hours before she was murdered. An altercation at her apartment led to her death, according to reports. The two other unidentified people are not implicated in the shooting, but arrest warrants for Foster and Chambers were issued earlier this week. Garden State Equality has offered a $2,000 reward for information leading to their arrests.
US – Marquise Foster – One of the two suspects wanted for the murder of Victoria Carmen White, surrenders…

[2010-10-24 Baristanet]

http://www.baristanet.com/2010/10/suspect-surrenders-in-transgender-murder-case/

Suspect Surrenders in Transgender Murder Case

BY Debbie Galant

SUNDAY, OCT 24, 2010 12:02AM

This just in from the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office. Marquise Foster, one of two suspects wanted in the Sept. 12 murder of Victoria Carmen White, has turned himself in. White, a transgendered woman from Newark, was originally identified as James White< http://www.baristanet.com/2010/09/maplewood-murder-victim-transgender-female/ >.

Acting Essex County Prosecutor Robert D. Laurino announced today that Marquise Foster, 25, of North Plainfield surrendered at approximately 8 pm tonight without incident. Foster was wanted for the murder of Victoria Carmen White, a 28-year-old transgender Newark woman. Ms. White was murdered in Maplewood on Sept. 12.

Chief Assistant Essex County Prosecutor Thomas Fennelly, head of the homicide unit, said Foster turned himself in at the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office with the help of an attorney. He is being held at the Essex County Correctional Facility. Bail has been set at $1 million. A second suspect, Alrashim Chambers, remains at large. Chambers is also charged with murder.

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From The Anti-Fascist Encyclopedia: http://www.antifascistencyclopedia.com/allposts/an-omen-by-the-name-of-phyllis-schlafly

10/21/2010

” … The problem is not so much Schlafly as it is the veneer of ill-deserved respectability that cloaks her activism. . … Schlafly’s long-stated positions have always placed her more comfortably along side the likes of John Birch Society founder Robert Welch — whose organization Schlafly belonged to in the late 1960s — and swift boat-smears purveyor Jerome Corsi. … “

By Asher Smith
Zimbio | September 27, 2010

Sharron Angle, staunch opponent of the fluoridation of the American water supply, has a clear path to victory in the Nevada senate race against unpopular majority leader Harry Reid. Joining her in the world’s greatest deliberative body may be Christine O’Donnell, who has accused President Clinton of orchestrating the murder of Vince Foster, has admitted to practicing witchcraft and has publicly asked why, if Darwinian evolution is scientific reality, she has yet to see a monkey evolve into a Homo sapiens before her eyes.

Truly, this is the year to be celebrating to ascendancy of the conservative woman. Luckily, the political action group Citizens United — yes, that Citizens United group, which recently prevailed against the Federal Election Committee in a high profile Supreme Court decision — is doing just that. Their most recent show of support includes a video that compares President Obama to mobsters while featuring an unedited, uncritiqued clip of a tea partier calling him — in what I’m sure was not meant to be racially motivated — a “gangsta.”

That, however, is far from the most offensive thing about this line of reasoning. No, that honor would go to the extensive call-outs in the video lauding the career and accomplishments of conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly, alongside the likes of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher.

At a late July fundraiser and again during an interview with Talking Points Memo, Schlafly sent Democratic activists hurtling toward their moral indignation machines. Calling out the nation’s unmarried women, Schlafly attempted to explain their overwhelming support of President Obama during the 2008 election with words recorded by Kathleen Gray of the Detroit Free Press:

“Do you know what the second-biggest demographic group that voted for Obama — obviously the blacks were the biggest demographic group. But do you all know what was the second-biggest? Unmarried women. 70 percent of unmarried women voted for Obama, and this is because when you kick your husband out, you’ve got to have big brother government to be your provider.”

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From Alternet: http://www.alternet.org/media/148585/new_feminist_coalition_slams_sexed-up_images_of_girls_/

By Sarah Seltzer

10/23/2010

Feminists launch a movement to push back at pole-dancing for preteens and hypersexed images of girls — without being anti-sex.

It was the photo shoot that produced a thousand groans: a provocative, sexed-up Glee spread in GQ. Staged and shot by controversial (and notoriously creepy) photographer Terry Richardson, it featured Glee‘s three straight white stars in problematic poses: a fully clothed Cory Monteith flanked by his scantily clad female co-stars Lea Michelle and Dianna Agron. The two young women were seductively photographed with their mouths agape and skin showing, both dressed in outfits that seemed half porn film, half high-school.

For feminist media watchdogs, the photos’ aesthetic of teen fantasy meets blatant adults-only allusion represents a troubling trend: the sexualization of girls. It’s a trend that includes pole dancing kits, thongs and padded bras packaged for the prepubescent set (not to mention those high-heels for toddlers) and the yearly phenomenon jokingly known as “slut-o-ween” in which women and young girls are encouraged to wear scanty costumes. And then there are even more systemic problems like advertisements’ ubiquitous sexist messages, and ritualized media scandals around young female celebrities. After all, “edgy” magazine spreads such as the Glee fiasco have become a rite of passage for young women in the entertainment world who want to make a splash. Agron and Michelle were following the same cookie-cutter trajectory that stars like Miley Cyrus and Britney Spears have taken: baring midriffs and pouting at the cameras to signal sophistication and availability.

As a result of this saturated media environment, a massive coalition of women’s groups are launching a movement called SPARK, to “take sexy back” and encourage young women to critique and protest the way they are portrayed in the media and marketed to by advertisers. SPARK (“Sexualization protest: action, resistance, knowledge”) held its kickoff summit on Friday at Hunter College in New York. A slew of big names riled up the crowd of women young and old, including actress Geena Davis, sex educator Amber Madison, and trailblazing filmmaker and writer Jean Kilbourne. Representatives from dozens of prominent women’s organizations organized and attended the event, as did a large contingent of teenage girls. A livestream and chat broadcast speeches to viewers around the country.

SPARK is not opposed to girls being sexual or having sex. In fact, Women’s Media Center’s Jamia Wilson had the audience repeat the mantra “we are not anti-sex” several times during her early-morning speech. Instead, the message is about rejecting a standardized, commercialized and denigrating take on what girls ought to do to be sexy: lose weight, purchase stilettos, or make out with other girls for male amusement, for instance. “Sex and and sexuality are an important and vital part of life,” Wilson said. “Sexy is not just a look, but a feeling.”

Continue reading at:  http://www.alternet.org/media/148585/new_feminist_coalition_slams_sexed-up_images_of_girls_/