Florida Governor Charlie Crist   
TALLAHASSEE, FL (AP) -- Eager to embrace all constituencies, Florida Governor Charlie Crist now has a boxed Jewish scroll on his office door at the state Capitol. The mezuzah, an encased portion of sacred Jewish parchment, was placed on the door by the governor with a rabbi's assistance.
According to Jewish custom, displaying a mezuzah adds God's protection to a house. Crist often describes his office as "the people's house."
The mezuzah contains two prayers written on a parchment scroll and attached to the threshold of a room, building or home as a blessing. The word is Hebrew for "doorpost."
A lobbyist for the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida calls the display inappropriate
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WASHINGTON- A new poll suggests that 55 percent of white evangelical Republicans would consider voting for a conservative third-party candidate if the 2008 presidential race pits Hillary
Clinton against Rudy Giuliani.
The Pew Research Center says the margin of error was plus or minus 2.5 percentage points.
Giuliani is the leading GOP contender in most national polls, but his views on abortion, gays and guns are considered too liberal by many Christian conservatives.
Christian conservative leaders have discussed launching a third-party bid if the former New York mayor is nominated, although some argue that doing so would guarantee a Democratic victory.
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By CURT ANDERSON
MIAMI (AP) — A group of men accused of plotting to destroy Chicago's Sears Tower were in the final stages of forming a homegrown terrorist cell dedicated to waging an Islamic holy war before they were arrested, a prosecution terrorism expert testified Tuesday.
Raymond Tanter, a Georgetown University professor and terrorism scholar for 40 years, said suspected ringleader Narseal Batiste and the other six had nearly completed the "radicalization process" and moved toward acts of terrorism before their arrests in June 2006.
Hallmarks of this process include religious conversion, operation within a military-style hierarchy and adoption of goals shared by al-Qaida and other terrorist groups to destroy U.S. landmarks, Tanter said. The final stage — which he called "jihadization" — means the group is ready to plan, recruit and prepare for an attack.
"I believe that Mr. Batiste falls in the jihadization, or final stage of the radicalization process," Tanter said, adding the other members of the "Liberty City Seven" also fall into that category.
Evidence introduced at trial shows that Batiste "was talking only about violent jihad" and not other meanings of the Arabic word, such as self-examination, Tanter said.
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Over the years, many have wondered about the agenda of secretive groups such as the Council on Foreign Relations.
There's no question the CFR is a club for wealthy elite power brokers who want – or already do – rule the world. But how do they plan to do it? How do spin-off groups like the Trilateral Commission and those with interlocking memberships such as the Bilderbergers plan to create a one-world government?  
Some, including author Daniel Estulin in his new book, "The True Story of the Bilderberg Group," have offered evidence of plans by the globalists to depopulate the world, to crush the middle class and to reduce most people to mere serfs.
And, just two weeks ago, a senior fellow at the CFR let the cat out of the bag in praising China's draconian one-child population control program.
Walter Russell Mead, author of "God and Gold: Britain, America and the Making of the Modern World," explained how China doesn't own the future because it will face a serious worker shortage in 43 years.
"Thanks to the one-child policy, China's population may have peaked – and the U.S. is still rapidly growing," he wrote in the L.A. Times. ...   more »

Senate panel overwhelmingly passes measure empowering U.N. 
The United Nations' Law of the Sea Treaty, a wide-ranging measure critics say will grant the U.N. control of the 70 percent of the planet under its oceans, is now headed to the full Senate for ratification.
The measure passed the Senate Foreign Relations committee today by a 17-4 vote.
"If you want a U.N. on steroids, you want the Law of the Sea Treaty," Sen. Trent Lott, R-Miss., has said. "I am absolutely convinced it undermines U.S. sovereignty."
A two-thirds vote is required for approval, meaning only 34 "no" votes can kill it.
This is not the first time LOST has come up. International negotiators drafted it in 1982 in an attempt to establish a comprehensive legal regime for international management of the seas and their resources. President Ronald Reagan, however, refused to sign LOST because he realized that the treaty doesn't serve U.S. interests.
In 1994, however, President Clinton signed a revised version of the treaty and forwarded it to the Senate. The record shows the Senate was not convinced the 1994 changes corrected the problems, and it has deferred action on the treaty ever since.
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CFR, Bilderbergers, Trilateral Commission insiders usually run for, win White House, shows new book
WASHINGTON – It started in 1952.
Nearly every person elected as president of the United States since then – and nearly every opponent – has belonged to a secretive, globalism-oriented organization known as the Council on Foreign Relations.
Some presidents and their challengers have belonged to additional clubs of internationalists – the Bilderberg Group and the Trilateral Commission. Running mates, too, more often than not have had ties to the groups.
That the groups exert enormous influence on public policy is indisputable. What is disputed is whether such groups are, as adherents and members argue, just discussion forums for movers and shakers, or, as critics have long alleged, secret societies shaping a new world order from behind the scenes. On that last point at least, no one could challenge the critics: All these groups operate in considerable secrecy, away from the scrutiny of the American public.
Regardless of how one characterizes them, the fact that virtually all presidents belong to the same secret clubs prompts the author of a new book to wonder if the 2008 election will also be a contest between globalist insiders. Judging ...   more »

Video 'games' in Second Life include rape dungeons, sex playgrounds
Authorities in the United Kingdom are tracking child sex predators on virtual online fantasy sites like Second Life, where realistic 3-D video "games" include rape dungeons and sex playgrounds for kids.
On these sites, investigators say, "avatars," or virtual personalities, are created where fantasies, including sexual ones, can be acted out in realistic fashion.
Games such as 'Second Life' feature avatars who often engage in sexual activity
On Second Life, where some 7 percent of young people between the ages of 12 and 24 regularly visit a virtual world, there is an area called "Wonderland," where children can be seen in a playground offering sex. Other areas offer characters a chance to rape women in clubs and dungeons.
In 1998, police in the UK broke up a private Internet club called "Wonderland" where more than 200 pedophiles in 13 countries had exchanged about 750,000 images of child sex abuse.
The Second Life site was created in 2003 in San Francisco and hosts advertising from major corporations including Coca Cola, eBay and Vodafone.
Authorities in England are debating whether to outlaw computer-generated imagery of child abuse, hard-core porn and torture scenes. ...   more »