WND Israel tour just got better

WASHINGTON – WND’s November Israel tour just got more attractive for anyone still undecided about joining WND founder Joseph Farah, New York Times bestselling author Joel Richardson and Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Famer Richie Furay.

Laurie Cardoza-Moore, filmmaker, Israel advocate and founder of Proclaiming Justice to the Nations, is on board as another expert on the unique history and future of the Jewish state.

It was Cardoza-Moore’s suggestion that the tour theme for 2015 be “Israel Indivisible.”

“I think this tour will be the best opportunity for Americans to get to know Israel in an intimate way this year,” said Farah, an Arab-American and former Middle East correspondent who has led tours of several hundred each in 2013 and 2014. “I was really excited about the opportunity to see Israel with my good friends Joel Richardson and Richie Furay, but now, with the addition of Laurie to the team, I can hardly wait to leave.”

The tour is scheduled for Nov. 2, so there is still time to register and save money on air fares that will rise by the end of July. Check out the website for the details or call WND’s travel partner Coral Tours right now at 866-267-2511.

Farah says a trip to Israel this year is very timely because of the spiritual and cultural darkness surrounding America at this moment in history.

“If you want to understand what’s happening to America today, with the retreat from morality and the breaking down of our culture, you should understand there’s a precedent for all of what we are experiencing,” Farah said. “The precedent is ancient Israel. And the good news is that God doesn’t forsake His people. Israel is living proof of that. It’s the only nation in the history of the world to be resurrected from the dead just as it was prophesied in the Bible. Now I don’t want America to go through the kind of judgment Israel experienced. But that’s what is ahead of us without a change of spiritual course.”

Israel, Farah says, is perhaps the best proof in the world today that God is still on the throne – still at work, still forgiving people, still fulfilling His promises.

An earlier WND Israel tour

“Yet the world takes Israel’s existence today for granted. Even Christians and Jews take Israel’s existence for granted,” Farah says. “Let me tell you something: If you want to shake up your spiritual life and find a closer relationship with your Creator, come to Israel with me this fall. You will never be the same person, again. To coin a phrase, it will ‘fundamentally transform’ you – in a good way.”

Farah says this year’s group will be smaller and more intimate than the 2013 and 2014 trips, but he thinks that will make it even more special for participants.

Laurie Cardoza-Moore

“Everyone on this tour will know everyone else by the end of 10 days,” says Farah. “That will make it a once-in-a-lifetime experience for all, with new friends and long-lasting relationships started.”

Farah brings his unique experience as an Arab-American and former Middle East correspondent to the tour. Joel Richardson brings his biblical scholarship to the tour, having written best-selling books like “The Islamic Antichrist,” “Mideast Beast” and his latest “When a Jew Rules the World.” Richie Furay brings his pastoral love and world-renowned musical excellence as he demonstrated in the pioneer rock group Buffalo Springfield and his own super-group Poco. And Laurie Cardoza-Moore brings her passion for the land and the people and her excellent communication skills.

“What a team,” proclaims Farah. “I can’t wait. Do you feel that tug on your heart to join us? That’s God speaking to you. Don’t resist. Don’t put it off. Consider this message from me as confirmation of all you are feeling and have been feeling and will continue to feel until you listen to that still small voice and just do it! It’s time for you to go to Israel and experience the miracle of that land as I have countless times over the last 35 years.”

Check out all the details at WNDIsraeltour.com or call our travel partner Coral Tours right now at 866-267-2511.

Listen to an invitation from Richardson:

See a video about the trip:

Media wishing to interview Joseph Farah, please contact media@wnd.com.

from PropagandaGuard https://propagandaguard.wordpress.com/2015/06/28/wnd-israel-tour-just-got-better/

from WordPress https://toddmsiebert.wordpress.com/2015/06/28/wnd-israel-tour-just-got-better/

Non-politician wins conservative straw poll

Dr. Ben Carson, the famed brain surgeon, won a presidential straw poll conducted at the Western Conservative Summit, beating out other Washington outsiders former Hewlett-Packard Chief Executive Officer Carly Fiorina and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker.

Carson received 26 percent of the 871 votes cast, with Fiorina at 23 percent and Walker was at 22 percent. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, who was represented by his father, Rafael Cruz, followed with 11 percent – the only other candidate to make it into double-digits at the Colorado conference Sunday.

Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, all presidential candidates in 2012, got 2 percent, 1 percent and 2 percent respectively despite having addressed the event in person.

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush received just four total votes.

Carson dazzled the crowd by roaming the stage and speaking without notes.

“The professional politicians say you can’t do it because you’re not a politician,” he said. “I say I can do it because I’m not a politician.”

Another candidate who addressed the group, former New York Gov. George Pataki, got no votes at the conference.

from PropagandaGuard https://propagandaguard.wordpress.com/2015/06/28/non-politician-wins-conservative-straw-poll/

from WordPress https://toddmsiebert.wordpress.com/2015/06/28/non-politician-wins-conservative-straw-poll/

Bernie Sanders recruited socialists to Congress

U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt.

U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., an avowed progressive and a 2016 presidential candidate, has not been shy about his affinity for socialism.

“Do you hear me cringing?” he said rhetorically when Yahoo News asked him last year if he accepted the label “democratic socialist.” “Do you hear me running under the table?”

Now WND has found that Sanders maintained a close working relationship with the Democratic Socialists of America, or DSA, even helping to raise funds and recruit new members to the socialist group.

Sanders was a central player in the ushering of DSA-supported candidates into Congress and later helped rebrand and incorporate that legislative axis within the Congressional Progressive Caucus, or CPC.

The DSA is the largest socialist organization in the United States and is the principal U.S. affiliate of Socialist International, the worldwide organization of social democratic, socialist and labor parties.

Rewind to 1998. That year, in the January/February issue of Chicago DSA’s New Ground publication, veteran DSA activist Ron Baiman identified Sanders and Democratic Rep. Barney Frank of Massachusetts as leaders of the Progressive Caucus in Congress, which, Baiman related, the DSA “helped to organize.”

Until November 2002, the website of the CPC was openly hosted by the DSA, demonstrating the close ties between the two likeminded groups.

Following negative publicity about the CPC website being hosted by the socialist organization, the list of CPC names was moved to Sanders’ own website and was later relocated to its own site.

WND reported as early as 1998 on the DSA and the progressive congressional faction. WND reported at the time the DSA website featured “The Internationale,” the worldwide anthem of communism and socialism.

Another song on the site was “Red Revolution,” sung to the tune of “Red Robin.” The lyrics include:

“When the Red Revolution brings its solution along, along, there’ll be no more lootin’’ when we start shootin’ that Wall Street throng. …”

“Are you sleeping? Are you sleeping? Bourgeoisie, Bourgeoisie. And when the revolution comes, We’ll kill you all with knives and guns, Bourgeoisie, Bourgeoisie.”

Sanders and the DSA

The ties between Sanders and the DSA go back to at least 1988, WND found.

On Oct. 24, 1988, The Nation magazine, identifying Sanders as “the socialist Mayor of Burlington, Vermont,” reported he had been endorsed for Congress by both the Democratic Socialists of America and the progressive founders of Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream.

The DSA endorsed Sanders for every one of his subsequent elections and has openly helped to raise funds for him over the years.

In 2006, for example, the DSA boasted in its literature about the socialist group’s “involvement in Bernie Sanders’ pivotal independent 2006 Senate campaign in Vermont.”

Indeed, the DSA held “Elect Sanders” house parties in Atlanta; Boston; Detroit; Portland, Maine; Boulder, Colorado; Indianapolis; Columbus, Ohio; Ithaca, New York; Springfield, Massachusetts; Washington, D.C.; and New York City.

“DSAers wanting to hold Sanders house parties should contact me at fllewellyn@dsausa.org,” wrote one senior DSA activist in the socialist group’s July 2006 newsletter.

That same year, Sanders spoke at a Detroit fundraiser for DSA’s Political Action Committee. Thefundraiser was connected by telephone link to a simultaneous DSA fundraising event in Atlanta.

DSA literature notes that in January 2006, DSA Detroit Chair David Green “took Bernie Sanders to tour Stan Ovshinsky’s United Solar Ovonics plant in Auburn Hills northwest of Detroit.”

“The plant makes successful, cost-efficient solar panels and is pioneering the hydrogen fuel cell,” added the DSA.

In the fall of 2006, Sanders was the featured speaker at several DSA “urban parties” also meant to garner support for his senatorial run while raising awareness about the DSA and recruiting new members to the group.

One New York City event was held Sept. 19, 2006, at the home of DSA activists Gene and Laurel Eisner on Manhattan’s Upper West Side.

“The questions and comments actually had to be cut off to let Bernie get to the plane,” reported the DSA.

DSA reported the Sanders events helped to recruit new members to the socialist organization.

“Sanders support work provides a natural vehicle in any locality for DSA to reach out to – and potentially recruit – unaffiliated socialists and independent radicals.”

DSA website and Sanders

The issue of the CPC being hosted on the DSA website rose again in June 2000 in connection with a heated dispute on the House floor between Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham, R-Calif., Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Ore., and David R. Obey, D- Wis., over the “merits of the F-22 fighter plane.”

When Cunningham stood to defend himself, he included in his argument the fact the DSA website had a link to the CPC, which DeFazio then led.

In 2000, the relationship between the CPC and DSA was an open secret.

In an Aug. 10, 2000, letter to the editor published in The Kentucky Post, it was reported that then-Democratic Rep. Ken Lucas had received campaign funds from Democratic Reps. Marcy Kaptur, John Lewis, George Miller, Nancy Pelosi and Charles Rangel, “among others on the far-left.”

The writer remarked that “those five names stand out because they are all members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus – a group closely aligned with the Democratic Socialists of America.”

The CPC still had not moved to its own website on April 23, 2002. Balint Vazsonyi responded thusly in the Washington Times to the hypothetical question: “‘What?’ I hear you say. ‘Socialists in the Congress of the United States?’”

Dozens, dear reader, dozens. And they make no secret of it. Although of late it has been refurbished and the address altered, they have their own Web site. They call themselves members of the Progressive Caucus, until recently an arm of the Democratic Socialists of America, itself an arm of the Socialist International. The Progressive Caucus may be a separate entity now, but the details of its program, as advertised on the website, are indistinguishable from that of the Socialist International.

To their credit, they make no secret of it. Only the rest of us prefer not to believe it.

In a follow-up article in November 2002, Vazsonyi dug deeper into the continued presence of the CPC on the DSA website. He discussed the issue of constitutionality and the ramifications of the relationship:

The Socialist International carries the torch for Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, V.I. Lenin, Leon Trotsky, and Josef Stalin. Pay no attention to the desperate attempts by socialists to distance themselves from Stalin. For our purposes, it suffices to observe that every single tenet of the Socialist International is the exact opposite of the principles upon which America was founded, and which define the U.S. Constitution.

For our purposes, it suffices also to observe that members of the U.S. Congress are required to furnish an oath whereby they will preserve, protect, and defend said Constitution.

The CPC moved its website in late 2002.

With additional research by Brenda J. Elliott.

from PropagandaGuard https://propagandaguard.wordpress.com/2015/06/28/bernie-sanders-recruited-socialists-to-congress/

from WordPress https://toddmsiebert.wordpress.com/2015/06/28/bernie-sanders-recruited-socialists-to-congress/

Trump: ‘We look like we’re beggars’ in Iran talks

(THE HILL) — GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump says the Obama administration is making the U.S. “look like we’re beggars” as they pursue a long-term deal on Iran’s nuclear program.

“We look like we’re beggars. We look like we’re sitting there begging,” Trump told John Catsimatidis on Sunday during “The Cats Roundtable” on New York’s AM 970.

“The Persians … are very good negotiators. The people representing Iran are master negotiators. They’re dealing with fools. They’re dealing with fools,” he said, adding that Obama is “not a negotiator.”

from PropagandaGuard https://propagandaguard.wordpress.com/2015/06/28/trump-we-look-like-were-beggars-in-iran-talks/

from WordPress https://toddmsiebert.wordpress.com/2015/06/28/trump-we-look-like-were-beggars-in-iran-talks/

Here we stand: Evangelicals issue marriage declaration

(Christianity Today) A coalition of evangelical leaders assembled by the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission has released the following:

As evangelical Christians, we dissent from the court’s ruling that redefines marriage. The state did not create the family, and should not try to recreate the family in its own image. We will not capitulate on marriage because biblical authority requires that we cannot. The outcome of the Supreme Court’s ruling to redefine marriage represents what seems like the result of a half-century of witnessing marriage’s decline through divorce, cohabitation, and a worldview of almost limitless sexual freedom. The Supreme Court’s actions pose incalculable risks to an already volatile social fabric by alienating those whose beliefs about marriage are motivated by deep biblical convictions and concern for the common good.

Read the history of the attacks on marriage and the family, from the days of Karl Marx and Margaret Sanger to those now pushing for mandatory recognition of same-sex “marriage,” in “Takedown: From Communists to Progressives, How the Left has Sabotaged Family and Marriage.”

from PropagandaGuard https://propagandaguard.wordpress.com/2015/06/28/here-we-stand-evangelicals-issue-marriage-declaration/

from WordPress https://toddmsiebert.wordpress.com/2015/06/27/here-we-stand-evangelicals-issue-marriage-declaration/

Was Turkey Behind Syria Sarin Attack?

From the Archive: Turkey’s history of “deep state” intelligence may have resurfaced in 2013, according to journalist Seymour Hersh, as Turkish-backed, Al-Qaeda-affiliated terrorists learned to make sarin and may have used it in Syria to trick the U.S. into joining that civil war, as Robert Parry reported in 2014. By Robert Parry (Originally published on April 6, 2014) In August 2013,…
from Propaganda Guard
http://propagandaguard.blogspot.com/2015/06/was-turkey-behind-syria-sarin-attack.html

Here we stand: Evangelicals issue marriage declaration

(Christianity Today) A coalition of evangelical leaders assembled by the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission has released the following:

As evangelical Christians, we dissent from the court’s ruling that redefines marriage. The state did not create the family, and should not try to recreate the family in its own image. We will not capitulate on marriage because biblical authority requires that we cannot. The outcome of the Supreme Court’s ruling to redefine marriage represents what seems like the result of a half-century of witnessing marriage’s decline through divorce, cohabitation, and a worldview of almost limitless sexual freedom. The Supreme Court’s actions pose incalculable risks to an already volatile social fabric by alienating those whose beliefs about marriage are motivated by deep biblical convictions and concern for the common good.

Read the history of the attacks on marriage and the family, from the days of Karl Marx and Margaret Sanger to those now pushing for mandatory recognition of same-sex “marriage,” in “Takedown: From Communists to Progressives, How the Left has Sabotaged Family and Marriage.”

from Propaganda Guard http://propguard.tumblr.com/post/122638066858
from Tumblr http://lisahcnease.tumblr.com/post/122638076937