Promoting Child Porn in the Classroom

I heard about this story over the weekend and felt that my readers need to know this information.

 The headline reads:  “Obama’s Safe Schools Czar Is Promoting Child Porn in the Classroom – Jennings and the GLSEN Reading List”.

 The Safe School Czar is Kevin Jennings.  Jennings was the founder and Executive Director of GLSEN (Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network).  He just recently stepped down to become Obama’s “Safe School” Czar.

 Here is their mission statement from their website:

OUR MISSION

The Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network strives to assure that each member of every school community is valued and respected regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity/expression.

We believe that such an atmosphere engenders a positive sense of self, which is the basis of educational achievement and personal growth. Since homophobia and heterosexism undermine a healthy school climate, we work to educate teachers, students and the public at large about the damaging effects these forces have on youth and adults alike. We recognize that forces such as racism and sexism have similarly adverse impacts on communities and we support schools in seeking to redress all such inequities.

 GLSEN seeks to develop school climates where difference is valued for the positive contribution it makes in creating a more vibrant and diverse community. We welcome as members any and all individuals, regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity/expression or occupation, who are committed to seeing this philosophy realized in K-12 schools.

I agree that every child should be valued and respected regardless of sexual orientation and that there should be no bullying in the schools, period.  However, I do not feel that the schools should be promoting a gay lifestyle and or any particular lifestyle.  They should stick to teaching the fundamentals of Reading, Writing, Math, Science, and History.

According to this article at Gateway Pundit, GLSEN and Jennings is pushing for their recommended reading list be introduced in our school systems.  GLSEN says their reading list is related to their mission:  “Through GLSEN’s BookLink, you can review and order any of our published works and other pre-screened videos and publications related to GLSEN’s mission or other LGBT issues in education.”  THIS READING LIST IS ON THE GLSEN WEB-SITE UNDER “EDUCATORS”.

I cannot include the entire write-up about these books here, because they are sexually explicit, so at the end, I will provide the Gateway Pundit web-site if you want to read more about them.

Here is the list of books they recommend for grades 7 – 12 (12 to 17 year olds):

Reflections of a Rock Lobster – At the age of six, the author frequently performed fellatio on his fellow first-graders in the school restroom, part of a busy homosexual childhood.  He describes his exploits in this book.  Two twelve-year-old boys turn up the volume on a Christian song to drown out the noises of them having sex.

 Queer 13 – A man masturbates and explicitly ejaculates as he sits on a hill overlooking his hometown.  That theme is repeated throughout the book.  A 13-year-old boy has a violent sexual encounter with an older man, which causes the boy to become desperate for sex, and he sends up spending the rest of the year being promiscuous.

Revolutionary Voices – There is an illustration about the change from “boy to man”, showing two boy scouts pointing at and looking at two adult men engaging in anal sex.  The writer is unhappy that she was forced to stop masturbating in public when she turned nine years old.  An interview with a “sex-worker” who praises prostitution as a way to raise one’s self-esteem and have empowering sexual experiences. 

In Your Face – describes how a sudden and impulsive sexual encounter was the healthiest relationship he’s ever had, and then regrets the incestuous relationship he had with his cousin.  The narrator describes how at the age of 16 he began having sex with a 25-year-old man he met at a gay youth group.

Passage of Pride – A 15-year-old boy embarks on an intense sexual relationship with a much older adult man.  A woman recalls how as a teenager she had a sexual affair with an adult teacher at her high school, which greatly boosted the girl’s self-esteem. 

Growing Up Gay / Growing Up Lesbian – A gay priest recalls a life-changing incident at the age of ten, when he felt his penis begin to harden after meeting a new friend. 

Being Different – A group of 9 and 10 year old boys all get erections together in a tent. 

The Full Spectrum – A 5 year old girl and a six year old girl engage in sex games.

From:  http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2009/12/breaking-obamas-safe-schools-czar-is-promoting-porn-in-the-classroom-kevin-jennings-and-the-glsen-reading-list/

 This does not sound like material that promotes what they state in their mission statement.  These books seem to promote the sexualization of children in general, regardless of the orientation. 

 We need to be very vocal to our school boards and the Federal Board of Education, the President and all our representatives in Congress about how wrong this is and that we will NOT tolerant it! 

 Pray folks!  We need to spend hours in prayer and fasting!  Our country is at WAR!  Not just with Afghanistan and Iraqi terrorists.  Our country is at war with Satan himself who is trying to corrupt our country from the inside out.

The Principles of Freedom

The video says it ALL:

Equal Rights not Equal Things

Our Constitution protects equal rights.  Socialism or Communism tries to ensure equal things.  The peculiar thing about this is that under a communist regime, all average citizens are equally poor and only the tyrannical leaders have the wealth.  There has not been one successful example of a communist country where the majority of the citizens enjoy a comfortable abundant lifestyle. 

In the book, “The 5000 Year Leap”, it says, “The goal of society is to provide “equal justice,” which means protecting the rights of the people equally:

• At the bar of justice, to secure their rights.
• At the ballot box, to vote for the candidate of their choice.
• At the public school, to obtain their education.
• At the employment office, to compete for a job.
• At the real estate agency, to purchase or rent a home.
• At the pulpit, to enjoy freedom of religion.
• At the podium, to enjoy freedom of speech.
• At the microphone or before the TV camera, to present views on the issues of the day.
• At the meeting hall, to peaceably assemble.
• At the print shop, to enjoy freedom of the press.
• At the store, to buy the essentials or desirable things of life.
• At the bank, to save and prosper.
• At the tax collector’s office, to pray no more than their fair share.
• At the probate court, to pass on to their heirs the fruits of their labors.

I learned about an interesting person from the past.  His name was Eldridge Cleaver.  Influenced by Marxists teaching, he became the Minister of Information for the Black Panthers in 1967.  The Black Panthers were a violent domestic terrorist group with the goal of bringing down the U.S. economy and social structure in order to ensure equal rights for black people under a communist America.

After a confrontation with police, Eldridge and his wife fled to Cuba and spent the next eight years under Communist regimes in Cuba and Algeria.  After eight years under these communist regimes, Eldridge asked to be allowed back into the United States.  He said “He’d rather be in jail in the U.S., than a free man anywhere else in the world”.  After paying his final debt to society, Eldridge spent the rest of his life educating people (especially college students) on the fraudulent fallacies of communism. 

As a Christian, I’ve often been asked by progressives how I can be Christian and not want good things for those less fortunate, like healthcare, food stamps, Medicaid, etc.  I struggled with the answer to that until I realized that the Bible does NOT say anywhere that the government should help the poor, hungry, and un-clothed.  It says that Christians should.  Christians still do, but I believe they did even more back before the government took over the job.  Families took care of their elderly.  Churches and communities took care of their poor.

As it stands, we have created a society of people who expect the government to provide for them.  We have become an entitled society.  We need to put a halt to this before we dig our grave of freedom any deeper. 

As a citizen and a Christian, we need to make a difference by voting conservatives into office that will work to reduce the size of the federal government, work to re-established free markets, and work to empower citizens to be prosperous.  These people need to believe in and enforce the Constitution of the United States.  These people need to know the difference between equal rights and equal things.

If you are one of these people, pray that God will give you the courage and resources to run for office, especially on the federal level.

Parents! Don’t Lose Your Rights

The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child was adopted by the United Nations 20 years ago this past Friday (11/20) and over those twenty years the only two countries who had not ratified the treaty were Somalia and the United States.  Reuters reported on Friday that the Somalia government has agreed to ratify the treaty;  that leaves the United States as the only country to NOT ratify it.

In that same article, UNICEF spokeswoman Veronique Taveau told a news briefing in Geneva on Friday: “The United States has indicated that a very important review process is going on at the moment in order to arrive as quickly as possible at a ratification.”  It also stated: Mark Kornblau, a spokesman for the U.S. mission to the United Nations in New York, said Thursday the administration of President Obama was “committed to undertaking a thorough and thoughtful review of the Convention of the Rights of the Child.”

There is no doubt that at some point in the not so distant future, there will be a big push to have this treaty ratified.  If you have read my articles, you know why we do NOT want to have this treaty ratified.  If you have not read my main article about the treaty, click here and here.  If signed, the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child would become the law of the land in regards to children.  Parents would no longer have a right or say in many areas.  An article at the Huffington Post says it best: “This was the first document to enshrine children’s rights not as someone’s daughter or son, but as distinct members of our society requiring special protection and rights.”

The following are taken from the www.ParentalRights.org web-site.  If you have not gone there to learn more about how you can help.  I urge you to do so.

Ten things you need to know about the structure of the CRC:

• It is a treaty which creates binding rules of law.  It is no mere statement of altruism.
• Its effect would be binding on American families, courts, and policy-makers.
• Children of other nations would not be impacted or helped in any direct way by our ratification.
• The CRC would automatically override almost all American laws on children and families because of the U.S. Constitution’s Supremacy Clause in Article VI.
• The CRC has some elements that are self-executing, while others would require implementing legislation.  Federal courts would have the power to determine which provisions were self-executing.
• The courts would have the power to directly enforce the provisions that are self-executing.
• Congress would have the power to directly legislate on all subjects necessary to comply with the treaty.  This would constitute the most massive shift of power from the states to the federal government in American history.
• A committee of 18 experts from other nations, sitting in Geneva, has the authority to issue official interpretations of the treaty which are entitled to binding weight in American courts and legislatures.  This effectively transfers ultimate authority for all policies in this area to this foreign committee.
• Under international law, the treaty overrides even our Constitution.
• Reservations, declarations, or understandings intended to modify our duty to comply with this treaty will be void if they are determined to be inconsistent with the object and purpose of the treaty.

Ten things you need to know about the substance of the CRC:

• Children would have the ability to choose their own religion while parents would only have the authority to give their children advice about religion.
• The best interest of the child principle would give the government the ability to override every decision made by every parent if a government worker disagreed with the parent’s decision.
• A child’s “right to be heard” would allow him (or her) to seek governmental review of every parental decision with which the child disagreed.
• According to existing interpretation, it would be illegal for a nation to spend more on national defense than it does on children’s welfare.
• Children would acquire a legally enforceable right to leisure.
• Christian schools that refuse to teach “alternative worldviews” and teach that Christianity is the only true religion “fly in the face of article 29″ of the treaty.
• Allowing parents to opt their children out of sex education has been held to be out of compliance with the CRC.
• Children would have the right to reproductive health information and services, including abortions,  without parental knowledge or consent.
• Parents would no longer be able to administer reasonable spankings to their children.
• A murderer aged 17 years and 11 months and 29 days at the time of his crime could no longer be sentenced to life in prison.

You need to get involved with this issue.  Pray about it everyday.  Go to http://www.congress.org/ and let your Senators know how you feel.  Tell as many other parents as you can about this treaty and urge them to also get involved.  We do not want to have our parental rights taken away!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-and-marc-kielburger/marking-uncrc-anniversary_b_365697.html

http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE5AJ3QR20091120 

Witch Trial of the 21st Century

Mass Hysteria or Crowd Psychology

Between 1480 and 1700, there was mass hysteria in Europe and the American colonies regarding witches.  The hunt was on and the witch trials began which resulted in the executions of a multitude of individuals.  People believed during that time that when bad things happened – famine, bad crops, natural disasters – it meant God was angry and they believed witches were responsible.

In our century, the witch is carbon dioxide and the witch hunters believe that it is responsible for global warming that threathens to bring the earth to extinction.

Only problem is:  there is no truth to the whole global warming / climate change catastrophe hysteria.  Carbon Dioxide makes up less than 1% of our  atmospheric gases and any gradual rise will not threaten our planet.  Carbon Dioxide levels have varied over the centuries according to geological studies.  Dudley J. Hughes, a geologist, wrote in his article entitled, “Carbon Dioxide Levels are a Blessing, Not a Problem” that studies of ice cores from glaciers and sedimentary rocks that cover the Earth suggests that the Earth’s atmosphere in ancient times had considerably more CO2 than today.  It has also been shown that CO2 is also needed for plant growth.  More CO2 means more plant life, less CO2 means less plant life.  People and animals on Earth are dependent on CO2.  It is crucial for life on our plant.  IT IS NOT A POLLUTANT!

So why are there so many people all around the world intent on making all of us believe that carbon dioxide is a pollutant and that we need to get rid of as much of it as possible.

Crowd Psychology.

Some Social Psychologists says that with crowd psychology ordinary people can typically gain power by acting collectively.  Historically, large groups of people have been able to bring about dramatic and sudden social change in a manner that bypasses due proccess.  Some big examples of this is blood-letting in past centuries, the witch trials, now global warming/climate change.

Here is what Dudley Hughes wrote about blood-letting:

For centuries, bloodletting was an accepted medical procedure administered by physicians to treat patients for most illnesses. In today’s world, we find it almost inconceivable that such a practice was condoned by entire populations.

Similarly, the claim that increased carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere is causing “global warming” has been accepted as “fact” in many countries worldwide. This belief has no more scientific foundation than the bloodletting of past generations.

The question is:  How do we turn this around?  People in very high places believe all this and are forcing the rest of Earth’s population to accept it and make drastic changes in our livestyle.

Their propaganda contnues foward.  Al Gore has a new book called “Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis”.  In the book he quotes Deuteronomy 30:19 which says, “I’m offering you a choice of life or death – You can choose either blessings or curses”.

His book also uses slight of hand with Photoshop to show you planet Earth with hurricanes, no polar cap and hardly any Florida.  Here they are side by side:

                

Don’t follow the Mass Hysteria.

Don’t follow the Crowd Psychology.

Think for yourself.  Follow the research.  Research by scientists – not computer models.

Christians need to pray.  Pray for those involved in this hoax from the very top.  Some people genuinely believe in this global warming crisis.  Others have more sinister agendas and are using this as a means to an end.

Check out this article about the hoax:  http://conservativehideout.com/wordpress/?p=2184

Words are Weapons: Use the Right Ammunition

Today, I wanted to share an article from another blog that I follow.  When I read it last week it inspired me and really follows along with what I believe and how I try to be here at FaithfulinPrayer.  So I got permission from the writer to share his work here.  It is written by Jeff Pollack and his blog (Jeff Pollack’s Lean and Hungry Look) is at http://asonofliberty.wordpress.com/.  He has some really great articles.

Words are Weapons: Use the Right Ammunition

Words are weapons.

The most powerful words have the ability to inspire, lift up, encourage and inform.

Equally, there are powerful words to dishearten, destroy hope and mislead.

Words are used to express incredible concepts like freedom and liberty, independence and community, compassion and love.

Today, with Twitter and Facebook and other internet social communities words are truly ubiquitous — everywhere you turn someone has an opinion and the means to broadcast it.

That’s good. I think.

We are each equally entitled to our opinions whether they are based on facts or rumors, conjecture or well-thought reason, logic or irrational fears.

What is bothersome is the clutter we must wade through to find the real nuggets — the 24 caret concept among the fool’s gold.

Presently we — conservatives and Constitutionalists — are engaged in a great civil war the result of which may well determine whether government “of the people, by the people, for the people” will endure or perish from the earth.

Our opponents — no, they are our enemies — the liberals, progressives, statists utilize words to demonize us, to marginalize us and to make us seem contemptible in the eyes of our fellow citizens.

We have every right to be angry at these tactics for, truth be told, they are a despicable way to promote public discourse. There is a natural inclination to fight fire with fire, give tit for tat, to engage in mutual assured destruction.

That bothers me. It seems unseemly to carry the banner of our Founding Fathers and the Constitution — quite probably the greatest, most reasoned, document in the history of mankind — into battle using invective and mindless name calling.

I believe we are better than that, better than them. I believe the truths of the Constitution are self-evident and the wisdom of the Founding Fathers is unimpeachable. I believe that when you are defending the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God a higher, more enlightened, certainly more civil, level of language is demanded.

When we are defending every individual’s inalienable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, when we are fighting to defend the free enterprise system, when we seek to reign in an out-of-control government that is burdening us and our children and their children and their children with unimaginable debt, how does it serve us to do so from the gutter?

When you defend the Constitution, when you believe in American exceptionalism, when you honor the sacrifices of every person — in the military and in civilian life — who contributed to this country being the “shining city on the hill”, the beacon of freedom and hope for people throughout the world, I can only urge you to do so with dignity, with fullness of heart, with language befitting the cause.

There’s an old song, popular during World War II, that I remember listening to countless times on that big 78-rpm vinyl disk. Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition.

How Can YOU Save the United States?

I’ve recently been reading how our Founding Fathers have said that a Republic whose citizens are without virtue and morality is destined to fall.

Well I think you can definitely agree that virtue and morality in the United States is far below what it was in the 1700s or even the early 20^th century.  This could possibly explain the sad state our government is in and why we are so close to losing more of our freedoms.

Benjamin Franklin wrote on April 17, 1787:
Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.  As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters (Smyth – Writings of Benjamin Franklin)

Samuel Adams wrote:
I thank God that I have lived to see my country independent and free.  She may long enjoy her independence and freedom if she will.  It depends on her virtue.

Then I turn my thoughts to our desire as conservatives to return the U.S. government to the founding principles of the Constitution and wonder how successful we’ll be without somehow returning our nation to a nation of virtues and morals.

Even if we vote more people of virtue and morals into office in our federal government, will there be enough to change the culture and morality of the country?  Would the liberals, progressives and morally corrupt people in Washington and in the country allow this to happen?

I only see one way to turn this country back to a country of virtues and morals.  It starts from within individuals.

It comes down to True Christians.

FIRST, it comes down to us Christians having a transformational relationship with our Lord. 

• A relationship where we spend more time praying and reading God’s Word.  In other words – communicating with God so that our relationship grows stronger.
•  A relationship where we allow God to transform us into the image of His Son. 
•  A relationship where we love the things of the world less and the things of God more.  We have to come off the fence.
•  A relationship where we take responsibility for the decisions we make and return to seeking God’s will for our lives. 

For example:  when a Christian chooses to marry someone, their marriage should be FOREVER and they WORK at making it a loving relationship with Christ in the center of it.  They bring up their children in a loving home to have a close relationship with God and to have virtues and morals.  The family needs to become strong again and there should be a 0 (zero) % divorce rate among Christians.

SECOND, we need to share our faith with others both in word and in deed.  We should evangelize by our actions and works of LOVE which declare the Glory of God.  We should also evangelize by telling people about God.  Every Christian should be able to tell someone else about God’s Love and how they too can have a relationship with the creator of the universe.

I’m NOT saying that we shouldn’t write our Representatives, and I’m NOT saying that we shouldn’t participate in civil protests like the Tea Parties and Townhall meetings.  As Christians, it is our responsibility to be involved in political matters concerning our cities, counties, states, and federal government.  It is our lack of involvement that has gotten us where we are today.

I AM saying that without a true Spiritual Revival in the hearts of every Christian in this country, we will fall short of the mark and lose our United States sovereignty and liberties that we hold so dear.

It is my desire and intent to allow God to transform me.  My prayer for every Christian who reads this article is that you too will get serious about a true transformed life in Christ.  I know I have kept one foot in the World and one foot with Christ.  I want to be changed and transformed.  What about you?

A Country-Wide Revival Begins with You!

Anarchy to Tyranny

In his book “The 5000 Year Leap”, W. Cleon Skousen says that one problem America’s Founding Fathers had to solve was the human tendency to rush toward tyranny. 

We have seen this happen in different civilizations throughout history. 

The Israelites went from the dawn of time (with Adam) to approximately 1020 B.C. with a People’s Law type government.  The people were divided into family groups, tribal groups, etc.  Problems that arose were solved on the level where they originated.  They only went to Moses on the bigger problems.  Their system of justice was based on reparation to the victim instead of fines or punishment, except in cases of capital crimes like 1^st degree murder where the penalty was death.  In time, however, they demanded a king and King Saul was chosen as the 1^st king.

The Roman Empire became a Republic in 509 B.C.  As time progressed however, they began to enact socialistic laws redistributing land and money to the poor.  By 27 B.C., they had their 1^st emperor, Augustus/Octavianus. 

The Anglo-Saxon Empire in Great Britain practiced People’s Law up until about the Battle of Hastings.  They considered themselves free men and again all problems were resolved at the level of the people; then came the monarchs.

Our founders had 180 years to come up with just the right formula for a Republic in the hopes to protect the United States from suffering the same fate that many other Republics suffered.  They worked to make this new government balanced, so that it would forever be a government “of the people, by the people, and for the people”.

Here is the way I believe most citizens in the U.S. look at the federal government:

 

 

They see the President as the highest branch and he/she is over the other two branches of government.  We have seen this many times in recent history (and probably for many decades) where the President pressures Congress to pass some piece of legislation, and depending who has the majority in Congress, they get their way.

 Here is the way our Constitution set up the federal government:

 

 

Equal branches of the federal government, each with different powers and duties.  They put checks and balances in place so that no one branch of government was more powerful than the other.  The Executive Branch is supposed to be the problem solving wing.  They come up with ideas to solve the problems of the union. The Judicial Branch is supposed to be the guardian of the Constitution as the Founders originally set it up.  They determine if the solutions the Executive Branch came up with are constitutional and if we can afford it. The Legislative Branch is to enact legislation to put these ideas into law based on the wishes of the people.

Our federal government is so off the Constitutional track right now.  No wonder, the People no longer have confidence that anyone in Washington knows what they are doing and the People believe that those in Washington are NOT there for the People.  

James Madison wrote in Federalist Papers, No. 45:
The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined.  Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite . . . The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties, and properties of the people, and the internal order, improvement, and prosperity of the State.

Over the past 233 years, the Judicial Branch has not done what it is supposed to do, which is protect the Constitution.  Numerous laws have been passed that were quite un-Constitutional and they have not spoken out.  Under Franklin D. Roosevelt, when they did speak out, FDR threatened to stack the court (put more of his judges on it) and the court backed down. 

Some other things the Founding Fathers warned against to keep “the People” from giving away their freedoms and rights to a strong federal government were:

1.  To avoid becoming a “welfare state” where the federal government takes care of all the people from beginning to end.
2. They warned against excessive taxation and deficit spending.
3. They warned against Utopian schemes of re-distribution of wealth and central ownership.
4. They wanted citizens to be enlightened.  They wanted widespread education about the American system of government.  Jefferson wrote:  “If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.”  “Let our countrymen know that the people alone can protect us against these evils [of misgovernment]. 

When the new elections come up in 2010, who are you going to vote for?  When choosing someone to go to Washington, we need to choose a true Conservative, no matter their party.  We need to choose someone who will work to scale back the federal government.  We need to choose someone who will work within the Constitution as the Founding Fathers wrote it and interpreted it.

 The People CAN make a difference.  We need to stand together and make our voices heard!

 

 

The Road to Global Governance

How many years away from global governance do you think we are?  Before this year, I didn’t give it much thought.  In actuality, it could be much closer than we think.  In fact, as it turns out, we have been on a road to global governance since at least 1913 and some say it has been since the creation of the Secret Society in 1891 by Cecil Rhodes, Alfred Milner, and others in London. 

So what would it take to convince the citizens and leaders of the United States and the rest of the world to give up their sovereignty to a global government?  A world-wide CRISIS?  Well someone came up with the Environment and then in most recent years, climate change due to human produced Carbon Dioxide.

A couple of words you may want to add to your vocabulary are Agenda 21 and Sustainable Development (sustainability).   At the U.N. Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro on June 3 – 14, 1992, the participants drew up a blueprint to achieve sustainable development by way of global governance.  They have a plan to implement Agenda21 and an entire division at the United Nations called the Division for Sustainable Development.  What better way to path the way than by promoting it as an Environmental Issue.

Related treaties to further Agenda 21:  the Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) which was signed by President Bush (1) and ratified by the Senate in 1992; and the Convention on Biological Diversity which President Bush (1) would not sign but was later signed by President Clinton.  Vice-President Gore campaigned heavily to get the Senate to ratify the treaty, but was defeated and the treaty still stands unsigned. 

Here are some of the principles outlined in Agenda 21:

Principle 1 – Human beings are at the centre of concerns of sustainable development.  They are entitled to a healthy and productive life in harmony with nature.

Principle 4 – In order to achieve sustainable development, environmental protection shall constitute an integral part of the development process and cannot be considered in isolation from it.

Principle 5 – All States (countries) and all people shall cooperate in the essential task of eradicating poverty as an indispensable requirement for sustainable development, in order to decrease the disparities in standards of living and better meet the needs of the majority of the people of the world.

Principle 8 – To achieve sustainable development and a higher quality of life for all people, States (countries) should reduce and eliminate unsustainable patterns of production and consumption and promote appropriate demographic policies. 

(Demographic – vital or social statistics of a human population, as the number of births or deaths). 

In the book “Stumbling toward Sustainability” on page 99 it talks about that phrase “promote appropriate demographic policies” and says:  “One might wonder why the United States should care about population growth.  After all, the population ‘problem’ has traditionally been described solely as an issue for developing countries, particularly for countries with over a billion inhabitants such as China or India or wracked by poverty such as Bangladesh.  As this Chapter explains, population growth should be of major concern to Americans for reasons both global and local.  Population size and growth are a root cause of a wide range of pressing environmental problems, from climate change and ozone depletion at the global level to local concerns such as air and water pollution, traffic congestion, sprawl, and loss of local environmental amenities”. 

Principle 11 – States (countries) shall enact effective environmental legislation.  Environmental standards, management objectives and priorities should reflect the environmental and developmental context to which they apply.  Standards applied by some countries may be inappropriate and of unwarranted economic and social cost to other countries, in particular developing countries.

Principle 12 – States (countries) should cooperate to promote a supportive and open international economic system that would lead to economic growth and sustainable development in all countries, to better address the problems of environmental degradation.

Principle 15 – In order to protect the environment, the precautionary approach shall be widely applied by State (country) according to their capabilities.  Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason for postponing cost-effective measures to prevent environmental degradation.

Here is the entire Agenda 21:  http://www.activeremedy.org.uk/pages/files/other/UN_AGREEMENTS.pdf  and http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/documents/agenda21/english/Agenda21.pdf
Here is a timeline to global governance you might find interesting:  http://sovereignty.net/p/gov/timeline.html

This December in Copenhagen is the United Framework Convention on Climate Change.  They will be pushing for every country to sign the new Copenhagen Climate Treaty which is a combination of an amended Kyoto Protocol and a new Copenhagen Protocol. 

I’m still in the process of reading through all this information.  I will share what I am learning as I go.  I believe everything this current administration is doing is setting the stage for us to enter into a global government which includes nationalizing health care, passing the energy bill, devaluing the dollar, and totally collapsing our economy. 

As a Christian, you need to stay alert on different legislation coming down the pike.  You need to know what is happening at the United Nations.  Email or call your Senators and let them know you do not want any of the treaties ratified.  Most important, however, is prayer.  Every single day you need to pray for our country; its citizens and its leaders.

Here is an interview between Lord Christopher Monckton and Glenn Beck regarding the Copenhagen Climate Treaty and a World Government:

Save Your Teenager! – The National Guard Youth Challenge Program

I want to let you know about a program available in every state that can help teenagers (both boys and girls) who are struggling in our current school systems and/or the society in general.

The National Guard Youth Challenge Program (YCP) is the name of the program.  There are two parts of the program.  The residential phase is five and half months at the National Guard camp.  This is followed by a 12-month mentoring phase back at home. 

There is an array of different types of teens who attend this voluntary program.  Some, like my oldest son, have fallen so far behind in school that there is no way they will be able to graduate and end up dropping out.  Others are already starting down the wrong road, hanging out with the wrong type of crowd, acting out and getting into minor trouble with the law.  Whatever is causing your teen to struggle and not be able to graduate from high school, this program can give you new hope that your teen can succeed in life.

There are 8 Core Principles of the Program:

1. Life Coping Skills – aimed at increasing self-esteem and self-discipline.  Includes: classes on substance abuse, anger management, stress management, team building skills, parenting and budgeting.
2. Academic Excellence – increase reading and math abilities and prepare them for the GED test.
3. Job Skills – career assessment and interest inventories, job-specific skills awareness, development of individual resumes, completing job applications and preparation for interviews.
4. Responsible Citizenship – Cultural awareness, violence prevention, promoting justice and the honor code.
5. Leadership/Followership – Skills necessary to be a good follower, a valued member of society, and gains exposure to the traits of good leaders.
6. Health & Hygiene – understaning the positive correlation between good health and hygiene habits.  Tobacco education, substance abuse, nutrition and sexual responsibility are also covered.
7. Physical Fitness – participate in a program of physical fitness training – includes military style PT, running and organized sports.
8. Service to the Community – Cadets develop an understanding of the benefits gained through volunteering.  Cadets volunteer a minimum of 40 hours performing services for community agencies.

Eligibility Qualifications:

• 16 – 19 years of age
• A resident of the state where you are applying
• A U.S. Citizen
• Drug free
• No felony convictions
• High school dropout or potential dropout

Being the National Guard, it is very disciplined and structured.  The officers assign your teen to a platoon and each platoon has a couple of Cadres who oversee the group of teens.  They learn to become a team or unit.  It is a tough program, but every teen who graduates is stronger, smarter, and has an extreme sense of accomplishment. 

On Day One, the teens kiss their parents goodbye and hurry off to join other groups of teens (cadets).  They are assigned their room, given physicals, and have their hair shaved (boys only).  The parents attend an orientation meeting with the program’s chief officer. 

Then you do not see or hear from your teen for two weeks.  It is the longest two weeks of your life and probably theirs also.  They call this two week period “Pre-Challenge”.  The kids call it “hard core” because they wake up at 5:00 a.m. and spend much of their day exercising, working the obstacle course, and taking tests to determine their grade level.  The educational staff develops an educational program to teach you’re teen at the level where they are at.

Then the day finally comes . . . your first phone call.  They only have a few minutes because they have 200+ teens trying to make their first call home.  You would think that would be a bad thing, but trust me you are very thankful that the phone call is short, because you’re teen spends the entire 10-15 minutes begging you to come get them and tells you how bad it is and how horrible the people are, and how good they will be if you’ll just let them come home.  The funny thing is that the chief tried to warn you about this call on orientation day and they warn you again in a letter sent to the parents prior to the phone call.  But it is anguish to listen to your teen begging you that way but having to stay firm and strong, letting them know you love them but they have to stay.

The good news is that in about another week or two, your teen will start thanking you for not coming to get them.  The first two to three weeks is always the hardest.  Most of the teens are away from home this long for the first time in their life.  They are extremely homesick.  They are living in a very disciplined environment and for many of them, this is the first discipline that have really experienced.  Many are out of shape physically, and this is the first time they are made to really exercise and get in shape.  So yes, at the time of the first phone call, they are ready to call it quits.  Like I said, thank God the first phone call is only a few minutes long.

During the residential phase, they have two family days, which are really great.  Families come and set up grills and coverings and tables to have a picnic with their teen. The first time you see your teenager, they are marching down the road to the parade field in formation with their platoon.  It made me cry.  Then they perform on the parade field with their platoon.  After the program, they join their family and you get to spend several hours with them before the whistles blow and the cadets have to get back to their barracks and the families pack up and go home.  It was hard parting that first time.  The cadets also get two home passes during this time.  During these times together, you start to see the changes in your teen’s maturity level and behavior.

In my son’s class of 210 teens, 63 teens earned their GED.  I was so happy when I learned that my son was in that group.  About three months into the program, I had my doubts that he was going to make it, but he really put a lot of effort into the later part and passed his practice GED tests and therefore qualified to take the GED and passed.  When they tested him during pre-challenge, he tested at a 7.8 grade level.  On the last month there, he tested at a 12.1 grade level.  All of the teens there come up several grade levels. 

Before leaving the residential phase, they have to set up an action plan for what they want to accomplish when they return home.  They work with their mentor to put their plan into action.  My son got a part time job and next week starts college.  All this accomplished at age 16.

This program is amazing!  It gives hope to teens and parents who are facing a drop out situation.  If you have a teenager who does not look as if they will be able to graduate from high school or is just floundering in life, look into this program.  You will not be disappointed with the results.  If you know of someone in this situation, please let them know about it.  It will change the life of your teenagers.

Having my son attend this program, has been the best thing I have ever done.  Now my other two teens want to go there when they turn 16.

Here is their website:  http://www.ngycp.org/site/