Book Review - The Harbinger: The ancient mystery that holds the secret of America's future

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Book Review - The Harbinger: The ancient mystery that holds the secret of America's future

 Jonathan Cahn's new book The Harbinger provides contemporary evidence that shows how God's Divine hand is involved in significant world events.



Book Information





Author

Jonathan Cahn



Publisher

Frontline Pub Inc



Publication Date

2012-01-03



ISBN

161638610X



Recommendation

John Miller recommends this book.



Paperback, 272 pages Jonathan Cahn in his book The Harbinger   published January 3, 2012 unveils a stunning connection between the tragedy of 9/11 and an ancient prophecy from Isaiah 9:10The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.



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“The bricks have fallen down, But we will rebuild with hewn stones; The sycamores are cut done, But we will replace them with cedars”



Written in spellbinding narrative style, Cahn records the dialogue between two fictional characters. A journalist named Baruch Nouriel Kaplan and an elusive prophet that guides Nouriel through a series of seals and clues to discover a compelling connection between the oft quoted passage from Isaiah and the events surrounding and following 9/11.



While the characters are fictional, the message and premise of the book are based on well documented facts, both ancient and modern, that come together with precision that is only possible when an Invisible Hand, so self evident to the Founding Fathers, is guiding the events.



The fundamental premise of the book is that the passage from Isaiah unwittingly quoted by such notable leaders as Tom Daschle, John Edwards, and President Obama  in an attempt to inspire the nation to move beyond tragedy was in actuality a vow of defiance (as was the case in ancient Israel) because it failed to acknowledge the real problem—a nation founded by the Divine Favor had turned against Him in arrogant defiance.



Credible commentaries corroborate Cahn’s assertion that Isaiah 9:10The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.



See All...—used unwittingly by politicians ancient and modern—was a vow of defiance as opposed to an inspirational rallying cry. Jamison Fausset & Brown note in their commentary that it was a “self-confident unwillingness to see the judgments of God” .



Instead of seeing the early Assyrian invasion for what it was—a divine warning of God’s impending judgment if they did not return to Him—the ancient leaders of Israel spun it as an opportunity to shore up defenses, apart from God, by rebuilding with hewn stones instead of brick, and replacing the lowly sycamores with stately cedars.



Similarly, Cahn points out, the United States has displayed a self-confident unwillingness to acknowledge the judgment of God following instead a destructive path leading farther and farther from its Judeo-Christian heritage. Paradoxically, the United States has followed quite literally the defiant rallying cry of its ancient forbearers replacing the fallen rubble of 9/11 with a hewn “Freedom Stone” on the site of Ground Zero and the uprooted sycamore at St. Paul’s Chapel with a cedar called the "Tree of Hope."



Ironically, St. Paul’s Chapel, the site where the first fully constituted American government met for a prayer service to “commit the new government…to the holy protection and blessing of the Most High” on the occasion of George Washington’s inauguration, is the only building adjacent Ground Zero that remained virtually undamaged. Washington words that day have proven prophetic as attested to by the destruction surrounding the site after 9/11: “The propitious smiles of heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right which heaven itself hath ordained” (Washington’s Inaugural Address) .



Perhaps, Cahn’s most compelling connection is the alignment of both the Biblical Holy Days and the Seventh Year of Release known as the Shemitah to hallmark economic meltdowns following 9/11. The last day of Shemitah (Year of Release 2000 – 2001) September 17, 2001 on the eve of the Day of Trumpets marked the largest single day point drop in the DOW when the markets reopened after 9/11. Seven years later on September 29, again on the last day of Shemitah when debts are to be released, CNN reported that the DOW set a new record when it dropped 777 points wiping out $1.2 trillion in market value in one day. It is highly improbable that the two largest corrections in the market would coincidently occur on the last day deadline of the year of release exactly seven years apart.



When one overlays the contents of The Harbinger  on the prophetic framework outlined in the United States & Britain in Prophecy that has been a central component of the Church’s message for decades, one gets the distinct impression that national judgment is at hand absent repentance of the type described by God to Solomon in response to his temple consecration prayer: “If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land” (2. Chronicles 7:14).



Such repentance does not appear forthcoming on a national level, but this book may well motivate individuals to humble themselves before the mighty hand of God.







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BLOGGER'S NOTE: Another, contrary review of the book may be found here.

It’s Official: The “Children of 9/11″ Are Spoiled Dhimmi Morons & Propagandists

A very interesting post from the very interesting website http://www.debbieschlussel.com/ about the TV coverage of the 9/11 attackes. This follows this post anlayzing the 9/11 attacks. This follows this article about the recent news about the former ban on offshore drilling which would encourage American energy independence and prevent money from going to hostile countries such as Iran   and Venezuela. For more that you can do to get involved click HERE and read this very interesting book HERE!

It’s Official: The “Children of 9/11″ Are Spoiled Dhimmi Morons & Propagandists

By Debbie Schlussel



I’m sure I will get loudly attacked by every moron on the left (and right). But if the kids I saw on TV last night are at all representative of the children who lost a parent on 9/11, they are a bunch of spoiled morons, politically correct dhimmis, and Islamic propagandists.









(Thanks to Reader “Doda McCheesle” for the Graphic)



Last night, after telling you about the NBC special, “The Children of 9/11,” I watched it.  I predicted it would cry over Muslims as “victims” of 9/11 and never mention that they were the perpetrators (or who the perpetrators were at all).  And it was even more “vomitous” than I originally diagnosed before watching it.  Osama Bin Laden’s ghost is smiling from his watery grave about his victory over America and the West–a victory that keeps on giving.



Plenty of kids lose a parent. Their families don’t get a $4 million windfall as compensation (and, instead, they are struggling). And they don’t go around telling the rest of us not to hate their parents’ murderers because not all murderers are bad guys, that just a few hijacked their religion. But that’s what these kids did, last night, and not just the Muslim ones.



About 3,060 kids lost a parent in the 9/11 terrorist attacks. I hope and pray that the eleven we saw last night do not represent them. If even they cannot face who it is that murdered their parents, I doubt the rest of America’s kids will. And that’s yet another reason why we are doomed against the Islamic threat to the West. And, come on, was there not one American kid who joined the U.S. Army or went to West Point after his father was murdered on 9/11? If there was, he wasn’t deemed the kind of person whose agenda needed to air on NBC’s “Children of 9/11.”



Hosted and narrated by Mariska Hargitay, the NBC special showed us a child of 9/11 who is paying tribute to her father by becoming a . . . pro wrestler? Huh? Yup, that’s how Thea Trinidad a/k/a “Rosita” is remembering that some ghost took her father, a wrestling fan and amateur wrestler, on 9/11. I say, “some ghost,” because the men who perpetrated the 9/11 attacks were 19 Islamic terrorists, but that’s never mentioned. Not even once in the entire hour.



Then, there’s Caitlin Langone, who remembers her father and what happened to him by bleaching her hair pastel green and getting tattoos all over her body. Are you frickin’ kiddin’ me? This is how they remember the 9/11 attacks? Morons. Spoiled morons. But, hey, $4 million buys a lot of tattoos and sexy pro wrestling costumes and very little in the way of learning about the Islamic threat that took their parents. I feel sorry that these kids lost a parent, but if they cannot face facts about why their parents are gone and who did it, I cannot feel too bad for them, as they are beyond help. It’s not the circumstances that happen to you. It’s what you do about it.



On “The Children of 9/11,” we’re lectured in Islamic propaganda by Ms. Hargitay, who tells us about the “60 innocent Muslims” who died in the 9/11 attacks. How the heck does she or anyone know they were “innocent”? Did they ask their ghosts to condemn Hezbollah and HAMAS? A lot more Jews and Christians and people of many ethnic groups died. But none of them gets a special mention like Muslims. In fact, it appears that no Jewish kids of 9/11 were featured. Why? Maybe NBC believes in the Muslim BS that Jews stayed home on 9/11 because they knew of the attacks (absolutely false).



Then, we are shown the Chowdhury family and their mother Baraheen Ashrafi. We’re told how their dad, Mohammed, was a poor waiter in the World Trade Center and how Farquad and Fahina Chowdhury, the kids, are upset that so many people area against Islam and think Muslims did the attacks. Um, guess what? Muslims did perpetrate the attacks, you idiots.



But, even worse than the Muslims who tell us how peaceful and innocent they are (but aren’t asked to condemn a single Islamic terrorist group), are the Burnett girls. Their father, Thomas, was on United Flight 93, which crashed in Pennsylvania after passengers fought off their Muslim attackers and foiled their plans. But the Burnett girls, Halley, Madison and Anna Clare Burnett, want you to know that Muslims are peaceful and innocent and that their father would not want us to think negatively about Muslims. They also make sure to tell us that Muslims are loyal U.S. citizens and innocent just like the rest of us. Do you think their father’s soul is nodding in agreement from his mass Islamic-made grave in Pennsylvania? Or is he turning over in his grave that while his family got $4 million, it didn’t do much good in educating them about his murderers and the threat their co-religionists pose to America?



Another 9/11 orphan, Rodney Ratchford, is struggling to get by, even though he was apparently his mother’s sole surviving immediate family member. Why? What happened to the $4 million he got? The special didn’t really address that, after raising the question.



Like I said, these are spoiled brats, morons, and propagandists, not brilliant or insightful people. They were the ones whose parents died on 9/11 because of fate, not because they were destined to become great spokespeople about those who murdered their parents and the threat their co-religionists continue to present and escalate on U.S. shores.



But it begs the question: if the children of the victims of 9/11 cannot even remember what happened to their parents–and more important, who did it–how can we expect that of the rest of the country?



Answer: we can’t. And, again, that’s why we’re doomed. Kids who lost their parents to Nazis in World War II–and the rest of the American people–knew who took their lives.



Now, we are just a nation of idiots. Some of the idiots are $4 million richer, though. And they have tattoos and green hair.

9/11: By the numbers

A very interesting post from  the very interesting website www.jihadwatch.org about the 9/11 attacks. This follows this post about TV coverage about 9/11. . This follows this article about the recent news about the former ban on offshore drilling which would encourage American energy independence and prevent money from going to hostile countries such as Iran   and Venezuela. For more that you can do to get involved click HERE and read this very interesting book HERE!

Nine eleven: By the numbers


Number of years since the attacks: 10



Number of Muslim hijackers: 19



Number of airplanes hijacked: 4



Number of intended targets: 4



Number of targets struck: 3



Number of murder victims: 2,977



Estimated financial cost of the attacks: $3.3 trillion (source)



Number of apologies from Muslims, Muslim countries, or Muslim organizations for the attacks: Zero

It’s Official: Forget 9/11; It’s “Be Kind to Muslims” Week on TV, Etc.

A very interesting post from www.debbieschlussel.com about TV coverage about 9/11. This follows this post about Libya's new al-Qaeda friendly government. This follows this article about the recent news about the former ban on offshore drilling which would encourage American energy independence and prevent money from going to hostile countries such as Iran   and Venezuela. For more that you can do to get involved click HERE and read this very interesting book HERE!

It’s Official: Forget 9/11; It’s “Be Kind to Muslims” Week on TV, Etc.

By Debbie Schlussel

By Debbie Schlussel




Forget any accurate coverage of the 9/11 attacks and who perpetrated them–19 Arab Muslims. This week on TV and in newspapers is “Be Kind to Muslims” week. The 9/11 coverage on TV, which began this week, is an absurd pander-fest to a huge group of extremists in America–Muslims–and how they are the “real victims.” The whitewash is so obnoxious, it’s beyond disgusting. It began, last night, with the dopey, saccharine Linda Ellerbee’s “coverage” on Nickelodeon, last night. As is typical with Ellerbee (and her dumb bright orange high-top Chuck Taylor tennis shoes), last night was another pander-fest to Muslims, featuring Akbar Ahmed, an Islamic studies professor who is a well-known apologist for Islamic extremism.







(Thanks to Reader “Doda McCheesle” for the Graphic)



And on Sunday, Soledad O’Brien hosts a CNN special, “Unwelcome: The Muslims Next Door.”  Hmmm . . . I’ll bet there’s nothing in this show about the multiple violent, Holocaust-denying, anti-Semitic death threats I’ve gotten from Muslims since 9/11. And I’ll bet she doesn’t ask a single Muslim in the show whether he or she will condemn HAMAS and Hezbollah.  ‘Cuz they won’t.  Uh, Soledad, here’s a tip:  that and other reasons, like honor killings (which I’ll bet also won’t be mentioned), are why Muslims should be unwelcome here.  But, sadly, they are all too welcome, because, as I pointed out, 25% of all Muslims currently in America came here between 2000 and 2011.  So her “unwelcome” stuff is BS. Soledad O’Brien = moron, liar, propagandist. No surprise for the Al-Crescent News Network. Here’s a preview of this BS:







Below is a USA Today summary of all the “TV Remembers 9/11″ crap to which we’ll be subjected. I call it crap because not a single show–NOT ONE–talks about the Islamic threat. Instead, the few shows that mention Islam and Muslims are apologist and pandering. PBS a/k/a Palestinian Broadcasting Service, tells us, on “America Remembers – 9/11,” about



efforts of American Muslims to get beyond the mistrust sowed by the attacks.



And “The Space Between” a fictional movie about 9/11 tells us



the story of a flight attendant (Oscar winner Melissa Leo) who accompanies a young Pakistani-American boy (Anthony Keyvan) from Texas to NYC, where his father works in the World Trade Center.



Yes, because of all the kids of 9/11 victims about whom they could have made a fictional movie about, they chose a Muslim kid. Again, 9/11 is all about the Muslims–as victims, NOT as the perpetrators that they were and continue to be. And supporters of Al-Qaeda and violence against Americans (as I noted, this week, the Pew Research survey of Muslims in America showed that 1/3 of them support Al-Qaeda to some degree, as well as suicide bombings).

Pew Report: 1/3 of US Muslims Support Al Qaeda, Suicide Bombs; 25% Came to US Under Bush, Obama

A very interesting post from www.debbieschlussel.com about the views of Muslims in the United States. This follows this post about keeping the Ground Zero mosque from getting federal tax dollars.  This follows this post  about Miss USA 2010 and this article about the recent news about the former ban on offshore drilling which would encourage American energy independence and prevent money from going to hostile countries such as Iran   and Venezuela. For more that you can do to get involved click HERE and read this very interesting book HERE!

Pew Report: 1/3 of US Muslims Support Al Qaeda, Suicide Bombs; 25% Came to US Under Bush, Obama


By Debbie Schlussel



The mainstream media is hyping the latest Pew Research Center survey on Muslims in America (which is not as extensive or detailed as its 2007 predecessor, which is referenced in my analysis below, also) as showing that Muslims in America are “mainstream,” “moderate,” and “middle class,” just like you and me. But a close look at the survey (I read all 136 pages) reveals that Muslims in America (who often lie to deceive the infidels, per taqiyya) are in fact every bit as radical and extremist as I’ve diagnosed for the last couple of decades.  And that they haven’t changed much in the four years since the last survey in 2007.  I’ve used both the 2007 and 2011 surveys below, and have noted the years in parentheses, so you know where I’m getting the data for my analysis.  The survey shows stark evidence of how President Bush opened the floodgates to Muslim aliens.  Oh, and those Muslims he helped, after seeking their endorsement in his Presidential race–they are extremely liberal and support even bigger government and entitlements than we have now . . . by vast majorities.







Despite the fact that extremist Muslims leaders, including Ihsan Bagby and Ingrid Matteson, served as advisors to massage the results (in 2007 and reportedly again in 2011), the study still shows that a high number of U.S. Muslims support Al-Qaeda, deny that 9/11 was committed by Arabs, and admit that being a devout Muslim conflicts with a modern, Western lifestyle. The study also shows a disturbing number of young U.S. Muslims who support the use of homicide bombings to achieve goals. They are the future of Islam in America. And, finally, the report shows that at least one of every three Muslim immigrants (28%-40%) in America in 2007 came here during the Bush Administration, the ultimate evidence that Bush pandered to Islam and ignored 9/11. Thanks, George W. You’re a pal. And a good number more came here under Obama, with



Here are some of the results–and remember that these numbers would be even higher if all Muslims answered the survey truthfully. Remember, also, that Pew is liberal and tried to present the results in the most favorable light to Muslims, and yet the numbers still present a different picture:



* Disturbing Numbers of Muslims Support Suicide Bombings: 19% of American Muslims said suicide bombings are okay (2011). And the number jumps in other categories: 18% of foreign born Muslims said suicide bombings are generally okay. And (in 2007–figures not available in 2011) 22% of foreign born Arab Muslims said suicide bombings are okay. Yup, nearly one out of four Arab Muslims in America says it’s okay to blow you up. And those are the ones who openly said so to Pew. Again, the number is far higher in reality. In 2011, 31% of Muslims aged 18-29 said suicide bombings are okay–that’s one in three young Muslims in America, who thinks it’s okay to blow you and your families up.



* Third of U.S. Muslims Support Al-Qaeda: Despite the claims of Barack Obama and many Muslim leaders after Osama Bin Laden was killed, almost half of U.S. Muslims support Al-Qaeda. While 70% of U.S. Muslims view Al-Qaeda, which murdered 3,000 Americans on 9/11, “very unfavorably,” the other 30% view Al-Qaeda favorably, only somewhat unfavorably, or don’t know/refused to answer (which means they support Al-Qaeda). Yup, that means that 30% didn’t have too much of a problem with Al-Qaeda.



* Half of Muslims Are Muslim First, American Last, only 1/4 Are American First: 49% of U.S. Muslims said they think of themselves as Muslims first, not Americans (up from 47% in 2007). If you add the 7% who refused to answer/don’t know, it’s 56%. If you add those who said they are “both” first, it’s 74% who do not identify as American first. While 44% say they display the U.S. flag, their flag displays are just props, since only 26% of U.S. Muslims said they are American first. Among Muslims aged 18-29–the future Muslims in America–only 25% said they think of themselves as American first. 60% said they are Muslim first, 5% refused to answer (which means they are Muslim first) and 10% said “both equally” (which means they are Muslim first). Even among those Muslims who said they are American first, 15% supported suicide bombings, and 39% didn’t believe that Arabs perpetrated the 9/11 attacks. So much for being “American first.”



* Almost Half of Muslims Don’t Want to Be Americans: 28% of U.S. Muslims said that Muslims should not adopt American customs. That number jumps to 44% if you count the Muslims who said they should both adopt American customs AND remain distinct and not adopt American customs.



* 9/11 Truthers – Majority of American Muslims Don’t Believe Arabs Perpetrated 9/11 Attacks: Yes, the majority of Muslims in America are 9/11 Truthers. The 2011 survey didn’t address this question, but the 2007 survey did. 60% U.S. Muslims don’t believe Arabs committed the 9/11 attacks. (The number jumps to 78% among Arab Muslim immigrants.) So who do they think did it? The survey doesn’t address that because it would make Muslims look like the Jew-haters and America-haters that they are. But we know the drill. 8% of Muslims believe that Jews, Israel, the Mossad, the CIA, and/or the U.S. government committed the attacks. 52% wouldn’t say, which means they also believe Jews and the U.S. did it.



* More Than a 1/3 of U.S. Muslims Think Islamic Extremism is Okay: 35% of U.S. Muslims said they are not concerned about Islamic extremism around the world. 36% said there is a great deal/fair amount of extremism among U.S. Muslims. 40% said they are not concerned about Islamic extremism in the U.S.



* Bush Opened the Floodgates to Muslim Immigration Even After the 9/11 Attacks, But They Did Not Come Here b/c of Persecution: 28% of all Muslim immigrants in the U.S. in 2007 came here from 2000-2007 (2007). 40% of Muslim immigrants currently in the U.S. came here from 2000-2011. Most of that is the Bush Administration (some in the second figure from Obama, but most of it from Bush). Shukran [Thanks], George. Miss him yet? In 2007, 18% of all Muslims in the U.S. were immigrants who came here during the Bush Administration (2007). In 2011, that figure jumps to Muslim immigrants making up 25% of the U.S. Muslim population. Yup, one in every four Muslims in the U.S. came here during Bush and Obama (mostly Bush). And, contrary to the oft-made claim, only 20% of U.S. Muslim immigrants say they came here for persecution reasons and had it just fine over there. The rest came here on student visas (so, why are they still here?) and for economic opportunities, because they were sponsored by Muslim family members, etc.



* Most Muslims Never Discriminated Against in America: Despite the hype and lies of HAMAS’ CAIR Action Network and other Muslim groups, only 20% of Muslims in the U.S. say they’ve been the victim of “anti-Muslim” discrimination or that it’s a problem.



* Muslims Are NOT Wealthy Contributors to American Society: Despite the claims by Muslim propagandists and misguided left-wing Republicans like New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Michigan Governor Rick Snyder, most Muslims in America are not wealthy and contributors of jobs and other benefits to American society. They are takers. Only 22% of U.S. Muslims make $75,000 or more per year (down from 26% in 2007), below the U.S. total population average of 28%. 45% (up from 35% in 2007) of Muslims make less than $30,000 per year, whereas only 36% of the general population is at that salary level. 40% of U.S. Muslims are unemployed and 18% are only employed part-time.



* 31% of Muslims said there is conflict with being a devout Muslim and living in a modern society. That’s scary since 18-29 year olds are the most devout group of Muslims and, therefore, the most unable to adapt to modern Western mores and customs.



* Most Muslims Not Singled Out by Airport Security. Most Muslims say they were never singled out by airport security. And therein lies the problem. They should be singled out.



* Memo to Islamo-pandering Republicans – Most Muslims are Big-Government Liberal Democrats: More evidence to stop listening to GOP Islamo-scumbag Grover Norquist a/k/a Jihad Grover. 70% of Muslims are Democrats or Democrat-leaning. Only 11% are Republican or Republican-leaning, and of those 11% (2011 survey). 71% voted for John Kerry, 14% for Bush (2007 survey). 68% support bigger government than we already have and more services, and 73% think the government should do more for the needy (2011 survey). Only 21% want smaller government, and only 17% say government can’t afford to do more for the poor (2007 survey). Yup, these are NOT Tea Partiers and definitely not conservatives. But they might be Paulnuts.



* Contrary to Islamo-propagandist Mohammed Zuhdi Jasser’s claims, most U.S. Muslims pray daily and attend mosque.  Frank Gaffney’s and Daniel Pipes’ favorite Muslim propagandist and fraud, Mohammed Zuhdi Jasser–in trying to back up his claim that most Muslims in America are peaceful–frequently claims that most American Muslims neither pray daily nor attend a mosque (where they are usually poisoned with hate).  But the survey shows his claims are bunk.  Pew’s results show that 66% of Muslims pray daily, that only 8% never pray, and that only 19% never attend mosque.

NO FEDERAL FUNDS FOR GROUND ZERO MOSQUE!!

A very interesting post from www.dickmorris.com about keeping the Ground Zero mosque from getting federal tax dollars. This follows this post about Egyptian Coptic churches not protesting against Israel.   This follows this post  about Miss USA 2010 and this article about the recent news about the former ban on offshore drilling which would encourage American energy independence and prevent money from going to hostile countries such as Iran   and Venezuela. For more that you can do to get involved click HERE and read this very interesting book HERE!

NO FEDERAL FUNDS FOR GROUND ZERO MOSQUE!!!

By Dick Morris And Eileen McGann


The ground zero mosque, called Park 51, has applied for a $5 million grant of federal funds from the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation. The Corporation, set up to rebuild lower Manhattan after 9-11 is actively considering the grant request. Imagine! A federal entity set up to rebuild lower Manhattan giving tax money to a mosque designed to celebrate the attacks that killed 3,000 Americans!



The ground zero mosque will offer courses in Shariah Law and will doubtless spawn hundreds of new terrorists eager to pick up where the 9-11 hijackers left off.



Officially, the federal funds would not go to religious activities, but to “fund social service programs for all the residents of Lower Manhattan such as domestic violence prevention, Arabic and other foreign language classes, programs and services for homeless veterans, two multi-cultural art exhibits and immigration services,” according to its grant application.



he sponsors of the mosque have no business rubbing the noses of the victims’ families in the dirt by building the mosque right next to the site of 9-11. But there is especially no justification for using our tax money to make it possible.



Please CLICK HERE to sign an online petition to the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation to urge them to refuse the grant request! Keep some sense of proportion and decency!

Blocking The Path To 9/11 (2008)

A review by http://www.conservativebookclub.com/ of this movie from www.blockingthepath.com/main.html

The DVD the Clinton Crew Won't Let You See
"Blocking 'The Path to 9/11'" DVD
by Citizens United

Praised by conservatives, largely discounted by the mainstream media, and viciously attacked by the Clinton machine, the 2006 mini-series "The Path to 9/11" remains one of the most controversial programs in television history. Do you remember the uproar over its portrayal of Bill Clinton failing to kill Osama bin Laden when he had the chance? Now, Blocking 'The Path to 9/11' exposes how liberals protecting the Clintons censored the original mini-series -- and why "The Path to 9/11" still has not been released on DVD.

Blocking 'The Path to 9/11' examines the incredible untold true story behind the controversy that erupted in 2006 around "The Path to 9/11." Using interviews with the film's writer, producer, director, and editors, as well as the head of the 9/11 Commission and numerous terrorism experts, the documentary sets the historical record straight on what really happened to the film and what allowed 9/11 to occur.
In 2006, five years after the attacks on 9/11, the Disney/ABC television network was set to broadcast a two-night, prime-time, mini-series depicting the real-life history that lead to our nation's darkest day. The $40 million project, which took no sponsors, was supposed to be considered groundbreaking and extraordinary for its cinematic achievement as well as its sincere intent to educate the public in a nonpartisan fashion. But something menacing was going on behind the scenes. . .
Now Blocking 'The Path to 9/11' exposes how the powerful Democrats, fighting to protect the legacy of the family they presumed would lead them in the 2008 election, successfully attacked "The Path to 9/11" and got Disney/ABC to edit and then censor the film. With footage from the original film that was never before broadcast, this documentary shows you what the Clintons and their friends prevented America from seeing in 2006.
Blocking 'The Path to 9/11' also exposes the news media's incompetence, bias, and complicity in the plot to destroy "The Path to 9/11." This documentary skewers liberal media hacks like MSNBC's Keith Olbermann who perpetuated flat out lies about the film in pursuing their pro-Clinton agenda.
For all those who seek the truth about 9/11 and want to learn the real story behind this shocking saga, Blocking 'The Path to 9/11' is mandatory viewing.

United 93: The flight and movie that changed the world

I wanted to send you this article about a recommended movie in this season to get from the video store or library. If you haven't seen it yet, it might be worth seeing and if you have, it might be worth re-watching. Also, from our church, now is a good time to review our publication The Middle East in Bible Prophecy. Anyway, I hope you find this interesting. http://www.gnmagazine.org/booklets/ME/


The flight that changed the world -- and the movie about it
by George Will

WASHINGTON -- In most movies made to convey dread, the tension flows from uncertainty about what will happen. In ``United 93,'' terror comes from knowing exactly what will happen. People who associate cinematic menace with maniacs wielding chain saws will find that there can be an almost unbearable menace in the quotidian -- in the small talk of passengers waiting in the boarding area with those who will murder them, in the routine shutting of the plane's door prior to push-back from the gate at Newark Airport on Sept. 11.But two uncertainties surrounded ``United 93'': Would it find an audience? Should it?It has found one, which is remarkable, given that in 2005 most moviegoers -- 57 percent -- were persons 12 to 29 years old. Twenty-nine percent were persons 12 to 24. These age cohorts do not seek shattering, saddening experiences to go with their popcorn. In its first weekend, ``United 93'' was the second most watched movie, with the top average gross per theater among major releases. It was on 1,795 screens, and 71 percent of viewers were 30 or older.To the long list of Britain's contributions to American cinema -- Charles Chaplin, Bob Hope, Cary Grant, Stan Laurel, Deborah Kerr, Vivien Leigh, Maureen O'Hara, Ronald Colman, David Niven, Boris Karloff, Alfred Hitchcock and others -- add Paul Greengrass, writer and director of ``United 93.'' He imported into Hollywood the commodity most foreign to it: good taste. This is especially shown in the ensemble of unknown character actors, and non-actors who play roles they know -- a real pilot plays the pilot, a former flight attendant plays the head flight attendant -- and several persons who play on screen the roles they played on 9/11.Greengrass' scrupulosity is evident in the movie's conscientious, minimal and minimally speculative departures from the facts about the flight that were painstakingly assembled for the ``The 9/11 Commission Report.'' This is emphatically not a ``docu-drama'' such as Oliver Stone's execrable ``JFK,'' which was ``history'' as a form of literary looting in which the filmmaker used just enough facts to lend a patina of specious authenticity to tendentious political ax-grinding.A New York Times Story on the ``politics of heroism" deals with the question of whether the movie is ``inclusive." Well, perhaps ``United 93" did violate some egalitarian nicety by suggesting that probably not all the passengers were equally heroic. Amazingly, no one has faulted the movie for ethnic profiling: All the hijackers are portrayed as young, fervently devout Islamic males. Report Greengrass to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.In a movie as spare and restrained as its title, the only excess is the suggestion, itself oblique, that the government responded even more confusedly that morning than was to be expected. Most government people, like the rest of us, were in the process of having their sense of the possible abruptly and radically enlarged.Going to see ``United 93'' is a civic duty because Samuel Johnson was right: People more often need to be reminded than informed. After an astonishing 7 years without a second terrorist attack, this nation perhaps has become dangerously immune to astonishment. The movie may quicken our appreciation of the measures and successes -- many of which must remain secret -- that have kept would-be killers at bay.The editors of National Review were wise to view ``United 93'' in the dazzling light still cast by a Memorial Day address, ``The Soldier's Faith,'' delivered in 1895 by a veteran of Ball's Bluff, Antietam and other Civil War battles. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. said why understanding that faith is important: ``In this snug, over-safe corner of the world ... we may realize that our comfortable routine is no eternal necessity of things, but merely a little space of calm in the midst of the tempestuous untamed streaming of the world, and in order that we may be ready for danger. ... Out of heroism grows faith in the worth of heroism.''The message of the movie is: We are all potential soldiers. And we all may be, at any moment, at the war's front, because in this war the front can be anywhere.The hinge on which the movie turns are 13 words that a passenger speaks, without histrionics, as he and others prepare to rush the cockpit, shortly before the plane plunges into a Pennsylvania field. The words are: ``No one is going to help us. We've got to do it ourselves.'' Those words not only summarize this nation's situation in today's war, but also express a citizen's general responsibilities in a free society.