Al Zawahiri calls Obama a house...

“WICHITA, KAN.  - A Wichita, Kansas preacher says he will not remove a message on his church sign that says President-Elect Barack Obama is a Muslim. The sign is staying up despite the fact that Obama is a Christian. The sign at Spirit One Christian Center reads, “America we have a Muslim president. This is sin against the Lord.” Obama supporters reportedly got into a shouting match with parishioners outside the church on Sunday.”   [Article from here.] Although I think it is debatable whether Barack Obama is a genuine Christian or not, and also debatable whether he is a Muslim or not, or an unregenerate New Age interfaith ‘mongrel’ mix [which I think is the most likely] I find this church’s ignorance and short-sightedness outstanding -...

You just knew that they were like broncos at a rodeo, waiting for the gate to open. Probably even before the polls closed, when the exit polls suggested two-thirds of the voters considered the economy the main issue – and we already knew from previous polling that most of those folks were going to vote for Barack Obama – network executives across the US knew it was over. Obama would win, and win big. Once the polls closed on the west coast, which the world knew was painted in red, Obama’s electoral-vote count would surge past the magic threshold of 270. All that was left to do was count down the seconds. But that hardly made it an anti-climax. What followed, in the hours that carried America into its new era, was something not seen in a long time. Crowds impatient for change in...

I use liberal not quite in the American sense, where it is used as an alternative label to left-wing, as opposed to the right-wing conservatives. I use it in a more general sense to include all those who care about human rights, liberty, dignity - people from all across the political spectrum who have been galvanised and unified by disgust at the outgoing President's disregard for these...

Transition news from The States:CHICAGO - PRESIDENT-ELECT Barack Obama plans to tape a weekly address to the country not just for radio listeners, as US presidents have done so for years, but for YouTube viewers as well.It is the first visible result of a major transition-team effort to make Mr Obama's conversations with the electorate more direct, reported the Miami Herald.In addition, members and supporters of the White House media upgrade want more input opportunities for the public.Many of the changes, if adopted, would curb the power of a traditional but often unpopular middleman between presidents and the populace: the mainstream media.Connecting the White House hearth to the American home, the late president Franklin D. Roosevelt talked to people through the radio in the 1930s,...

from the Taliban (cheers to Mr Camel)...The ground realities in Afghanistan and the expectations of the people of America expressed through their votes demand that Obama should shun all policies followed by Bush once and for all. He should respect the rights of the people to independence and observe the norms of human rights. In short, he should set out on a policy that will have a message of peace for the war-stricken world which has been victimized by the arrogance and tyranny of...

Last night [the 13th-14th November] I suddenly saw a vision of cock robin with a large hole in his chest  and was reminded of the famous nursery rhyme -’who killed Cock Robin’. As I asked God what this vision meant, I understood it was to do with Barack Obama being assassinated and this sense increased more and more as I meditated upon it. I could not then see/understand at the time the connection with Obama in the vision’s symbology - it did not make any sense then  to me beyond the his being killed bit.  However, as I could not remember the rhyme beyond the first two lines last night,  I resolved to look the rhyme up on the net later today to see if I could get any further clarity and insight. It was then I discovered what some folklore...

rather marvellously, a bunch of pranksters have produced 1 million copies of a fake New York Times giving it out to commuters who believed, until they checked the date, that indeed, war in Iraq is over. July 4th, 2009, will be a special day if these guys are to be listened to. Their aim is to remind President Elect Barack Obama what he promised throughout his campaign and is essentially...

...Barack Obama is nothing more than a kaafir, who is vehement in violating the rights of Almighty Allah (SWT) in terms of His legislation and hence should be treated with much hostility calibrated according to the Qur'an and Sunnah.As for those so-called Muslims who view his election as a ‘victory' for Islam and Muslims, it seems as if they have forgotten the very foundations of this Deen which stipulate the necessity of dissociating oneself (Muslim) from the camp of the disbelievers as well as rejecting taghout both of which are central components of Barack Obama and his evil administration....Anjum Choudhary's full US Election...

Home Comment at end 14th November, 2008 SHARIA FINANCE? OUR TOLERANCE … IGNORANCE WILL BE THE DEATH OF US Guess who’s bailing out Barclay’s? If you are a Barclay’s Bank customer think on this the next time you log on to check your statement or pop into your local branch: remember to bow humbly to Shariah Jihadists from the Persian Gulf. Because such financing is how YOUR bank is choosing to bail itself out of its current financial crisis. A third of Barclay’s will now be owned by and seriously in hoc to Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, a member of Abu Dhabi’s royal family, and others. The deal bolsters Barclays’ cushion against losses, meeting a new government benchmark set as part of the U.K. bank rescue plan (copied by the USA).  And...

There is seemingly a new craze in certain ‘church’ circles of prophesying after the event - that is, a ‘prophet’ publicly claiming soon after a major newsworthy event that God had really told them about it days, weeks or months before, but they had for whatever reason omitted to tell any of us until now - afterwards. This practice seems particularly prevalent in the NAR of late. After ‘prophet’ Chuck Pierce’s success at it, after ‘prophetess’ Sharon Stone’s success at it, after prophet Bob Jones and prophet Kim Clement’s success at it, and crucially after pathological liar Todd Bentley’s success this summer at telling huge whoppers - the one who more than most proved how gullible, foolish, unwise and...

Home Tony Blair Office: ‘Obama’s Obligation & Opportunity‘ Blair BBC video, 9th Nov: Following the meeting last Sunday in Egypt which failed to come to a hoped-for Israeli/Palestinian settlement, he says “there is an agreed strategy and unified international position … two-state and other agreement platforms upon which to build … got to take the essential practical steps”  … And on Gaza -  “for security reasons … turned out to be well founded … I wasn’t able to go … of course I want to go to Gaza” Comment at end 13th November 2008 SO WHAT ARE YOU REALLY SAYING, MR BLAIR? Yes, if it’s Wednesday it must be Africa - America later. In the run-up to meeting President-Elect Obama later today in...

I found this following article from Fox News [excerpts below, and bold emphasises mine] interesting. I also find it rather ironic that one group of ’Christians’ was going through the charade of ostensiblly doing battle in the spiritual realm and waging spiritual warfare for  Barack Obama and against John McCain and Sarah Palin, and another group [eg the NAR] was doing spiritual warfare against  Barack Obama on the other side of the ‘church’. Apart from a lot of theatrics, empty words, divesionary time wasting, false promises and even falser theology - who are these guys fighting against exactly - each other?! “KISUMU, Kenya - Believers across Kenya are praying for Barack Obama - literally. … But one prominent preacher is taking his...

Watching American President elect, Barack Obama, speak after winning, broughttears to my eyes. Earlier I had watched John Mcain concede defeat graciously andI said to myself, "democracy is truly amazing. Here is democracy at work." I felt greatly inspired but sad too. Inspired that Americans could elect apresident without killing each other and embracing each other and be matureenough to concede defeat and pledge to work together. Deeply sad because somethingthat big would never happen in Zimbabwe, where those who rule believe that onlythey should rule forever. Sad because in Zimbabwe as in most African countries rivalry is not tolerated, it is reviled and seen as treachery. For nine months now we have gone without a government. Robert Mugabe believes his ZANU PF...

In my job I'm sometimes surprised by the expectation that I should persuade people to take web engagement seriously.I think the argument is already won - you really don't have to look too hard to find examples of the web being used to engage, influence, and change lives around the world. The Obama campaign showed the web playing a crucial role in the election of the most powerful man in the world. Videos deliverd via the internet are being used to radicalise young men in Afghanistan. And - in our daily lives - social media is profoundly changing the way we communicate with each other. This is mainstream media now.I was at the eDemocracy conference yesterday as part of a panel talking about government web engagement. The conference is a worthy exercise, bringing together practitioners to...

JavaSE 6u10 - Java(TM) Runtime Environment Installation Changes to the default installation directory have implications for developers and implementors. The latest update (10) of the JRE installs itself as a directory called "jre6", previously it would have installed itself as "jre1.6.0_10". Thanks to "patch-in-place" it now upgrades the install rather than installs a seperate, yet newer, version. When downloading update 11 it overwrites the directory called "jre6" with the latest version. By default it will patch the jre6 directory, and you'll be left with 6u11. There are ways around this, specifically if you chose to statically install either 6u10 or 6u11. Of course as long as you use the installer interface...

Would you want to be guarding Barack Obama?From William Hill:BOOKIES CONDEMN BARACK ASSASSINATION BETSAFTER receiving over one hundred requests from gamblers looking to bet that Barack Obama will be the target of an assassination attempt or terrorist attack, bookmakers William Hill have issued a statement confirming that under no circumstances will they even contemplate offering such odds.'We have no interest whatsoever in betting on the possible death or serious injury of any politician (or anyone else for that matter) in any circumstances' said William Hill spokesman Graham Sharpe.'I cannot imagine why any reputable bookmaker would even consider taking such a bet or any punter contemplate placing one.'A RECORD £10million-plus total was gambled on the outcome of the US Presidential...

"I think the answer is going to be, they can be as securely guarded on U.S. soil as anywhere else," Tribe said. "We can't put people in a dungeon forever without processing whether they deserve to be...

Remember that nonsense a while ago about Barack Obama possibly being the Antichrist? Well, it's back. Only this time, it's not the Protestant fundamentalists making the running but the good old Whore of Babylon herself. Via the Times' Faith Central, I discover that Catholic novelist Michael O'Brien - a Candian, to boot - distributed an anxious-sounding newsletter a few days before the election addressing the vital question of whether "the One" was, in fact, the Evil One.Fans of his apocalyptic novel Father Elijah (not a work I am familiar with) have apparently been writing to O'Brien drawing attention to imagined similarities between Obama and an Antichrist figure in the book:During the past year I have read a number of his pronouncements, and saw the smoke and mirrors beneath the...

A few things about Obama and his presidency… His funding came from the same places Bush got his funding, the same places Clinton got his. These interests will want a return on their investment. Obama, and the Democrats will oblige. There is not going to be any real change, just a few changes around the edges....

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Obama Transition SiteThe Obama Administration will call on Americans to serve in order to meet the nation's challenges. President-Elect Obama will expand national service programs like AmeriCorps and Peace Corps and will create a new Classroom Corps to help teachers in underserved schools, as well as a new Health Corps, Clean Energy Corps, and Veterans Corps. Obama will call on citizens of all ages to serve America, by developing a plan to require 50 hours of community service in middle school and high school and 100 hours of community service in college every year. Obama will encourage retiring Americans to serve by improving programs available for individuals over age 55, while at the same time promoting youth programs such as Youth Build and Head Start.Land of the free? Free to do what...

Thanks to the diligence of the Daily Telegraph (Barack Obama: the 50 facts you might not know) we are aware that the President-Elect (1) has visited the UK at least once. Specifically “He visited Wokingham, Berks, in 1996 for the stag party of his half-sister's fiancé, but left when a stripper arrived”.Would his candidacy have survived a YouTube moment of that event if he hadn’t in fact left? We can only wonder at his forward campaign planning.And yes I did notice Obama is left-handed. So I believe is Senator McCain, or so I surmised from seeing how they took notes at one of their debates.I also note that he has read all the Harry Potter books (‘Accio Presidency’ would explains a lot!). And that his favourite TV show is ‘The Wire’ which plug, if it encourages more people...

Four years ago I drew a comparison between the US Presidential Election result and the 1992 British General Election. This year the comparison seems even more apt. The footage we saw of the celebrations in Chicago and elsewhere in the US as Obama was confirmed as the winner brought back memories of how we all felt in the UK on the night of May 1st 1997.I just hope that Barack Obama doesn't turn into Tony...

You may not have realised it but Obama is the first ever black President of the United States. What's that you say? People just wont stop saying it? Oh, OK.Now, this is quite an important thing to happen, of course it is. It's difficult to overstate how important having a black President for the first time is, but there's a real problem with how the Obama victory is getting re-interpreted and, I think, we're in danger of rewriting history before the ink's even dry.Anyone who saw the very poor BBC coverage on election night will know that a) the corporation doesn't seem to have a clue what they're doing and b) after the result was in the only thing they had to say about Obama was that he was black and he had won. Literally nothing else.Now this annoyed me at the time. It's one of the many...

This is an interesting election statement by Dr George O Wood. I agree with the most part of it - he talks a lot of sense - though he and I differ on what is true revival and spiritual awakening, and where it springs from. “The election, at long last, is over. As fellow believers, we offer to our new leaders the pledge of our prayers and our commitment to be good citizens in this wonderful land that the Lord has privileged us to live in. In this moment as I talk with you, I do not know the results of the election because this was recorded prior to the election. I wanted to bring these comments to you without knowing who won – because our responsibilities as Christians transcend politics – and we must be who we are regardless of who wins. The first century Christians lived in...