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Below are one-paragraph excerpts of important news articles you may
have missed. These news articles include revealing information on new
estimates that the bailout money provided by the US government to Wall
Street and large corporations totals in the multiple trillions of
dollars, evidence that the SEC's charges against Mark Cuban are
politically motivated, indications that intelligence policies under
Pres. Obama may not differ sustantially from those under Pres. Bush,
and more. Each excerpt is taken verbatim from the major media website
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Paulson makes it clear: He's in charge
November 13, 2008, San Francisco Chronicle
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/13/BUUK1439IF.DTL
Henry Paulson's speech Wednesday made it pretty clear: The Treasury
secretary has seized control of the financial system. "He is
absolutely the most powerful person in the country. Maybe the world,"
says Wall Street accounting expert Robert Willens. The most telling
line in his speech came when Paulson was explaining why he did a
180-degree turn with money approved by Congress under the $700 billion
bailout bill. Instead of using it to buy troubled mortgage assets from
banks, as clearly envisioned, he scrapped that idea and used it to
make equity investments in banks. "In consultation with the Federal
Reserve, I determined that the most timely, effective step to improve
credit market conditions was to strengthen bank balance sheets quickly
through direct purchases of equity in banks," he said. If Paulson
bothered consulting with President Bush, he didn't mention it. In
fact, he didn't even mention the president until the tail end of his
speech, when he talked about the global summit Bush is hosting this
weekend. I can understand why Paulson wants to distance himself from
an unpopular president, especially one who has little facility for
complex financial matters. But Bush is [the] president and even
President-elect Barack Obama knows there can be only one president at
a time. And his last name is not Paulson. In September, when Paulson
asked for a $700 billion blank check from Congress to fix the
financial markets, he got a lot of blowback. By the time Congress was
done with his proposal, it had grown from 2 1/2 pages to more than
450. Yet it now appears that Paulson got the blank check he wanted.
Note: Why doesn't Congress have some say in what is done with this
$700 billion? That's over $3,000 for every taxpayer in the U.S. which
is being spent with practically no accountability. Is this what
democracy looks like? For many key articles revealing the hidden
realities of the bailout, click here. (
http://www.wanttoknow.info/bankbailoutnewsarticles )
Warning: King Henry's bailout like Rummy's Iraq
November 10, 2008, MarketWatch (A Wall Street Journal Digital Network
Website)
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/reagonomics...
So you thought Barack Obama's victory signaled the death of
Reaganomics? Wrong, wrong: Reaganomics is very much alive. In a
subtle, bloodless coup, the Reaganomics ideology magically pulled
victory out of the jaws of defeat in the meltdown. The magic happened
fast and quietly, in the shadows, while you were in a trance,
distracted by the election drama. Recently Naomi Klein, author of The
Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (
http://www.amazon.com/Shock-Doctrine-Rise-Disaster-Capitalism/dp/0312427999/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1227025844&sr=1-2
), framed the issue perfectly: "Has the Treasury partially
nationalized the private banks, as we have been told? Or is it the
other way around?" The question was rhetorical, the answer painfully
clear. In a few weeks Wall Street did the old bait and switch,
emerging from an economic and market disaster with new powers, in
total control of America. And thanks to Treasury Secretary Henry
Paulson's brilliant bailout coup, Reaganomics is now the new "sleeper
cell" quietly hidden inside the Obama White House and America's
Treasury, where it will be for a long time to come. Listen closely
folks: You and your government are and will continue being conned out
of trillions. Klein further exposed this insanity in a recent Rolling
Stone article, "The New Trough: The Wall Street bailout looks a lot
like Iraq, a 'free-fraud zone' where private contractors cash in on
the mess they helped create." Paulson's privatization, outsourcing and
management of the $700 billion bailout has the exact same Reaganomics
ideological, strategic and deceptive footprints that President George
W. Bush and former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld used to
privatize, outsource and mismanage the costly Iraq War blunder.
Note: For the powerfully revealing article by Naomi Klein mentioned
in the article above, click here (
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/24012700/the_new_trough ).
For many key articles revealing the hidden realities of the bailout,
click here. ( http://www.wanttoknow.info/bankbailoutnewsarticles )
Financial Crisis Tab Already In The Trillions
November 18, 2008, CNBC
http://www.cnbc.com/id/27719011
Given the speed at which the federal government is throwing money at
the financial crisis, the average taxpayer, never mind member of
Congress, might not be faulted for losing track. CNBC, however, has
been paying very close attention and keeping a running tally of actual
spending as well as the commitments involved. Try $4.28 trillion
dollars. That's $4,284,500,000,000 and more than what was spent on WW
II, if adjusted for inflation, based on our computations from a
variety of estimates and sources. Not only is it an astronomical
amount of money, it's a complicated cocktail of budgeted dollars,
actual spending, guarantees, loans, swaps and other market mechanisms
by the Federal Reserve, the Treasury and other offices of government
taken over roughly the last year, based on government data and news
releases. Strictly speaking, not every cent is a direct result of
what's called the financial crisis, but it is arguably related to it.
Some 68-percent of the sum falls under the Federal Reserve's umbrella,
while another 16 percent is the under the Troubled Asset Relief
Program, TARP, as defined under the Emergency Economic Stabilization
Act, signed into law in early October. The TARP alone is bigger than
virtually any other US government endeavor dating back to the
Louisiana Purchase.
Note: That's over $10,000 per man, woman, and child in the U.S. Click
on the link above to view a highly informative slideshow, the "Biggest
Budget Items in US History," comparing the Wall Street bailout to
famous historic government expenditures, and a chart, the "Financial
Crisis Balance Sheet," detailing the many components of the bailout.
For many key articles revealing the hidden realities of the bailout,
click here ( http://www.wanttoknow.info/bankbailoutnewsarticles ).
Mark Cuban Is Charged With Insider Trading
November 18, 2008, New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/18/business/18insider.html
Mark Cuban, the Internet entrepreneur turned owner of the Dallas
Mavericks basketball team, has never shied from a fight. But now the
pugnacious billionaire is squaring off against his biggest adversary
yet: the federal government. On Monday, the Securities and Exchange
Commission filed a civil suit charging Mr. Cuban with insider trading
for selling shares of a small Internet search company in 2004, just
before its share price fell. [Allegedly] Mr. Cuban saved himself a
$750,000 loss. Scott W. Friestad, the S.E.C.'s deputy director of
enforcement, said the investigation of Mr. Cuban's trading began in
early 2007, but declined to say what had set off the inquiry. A person
close to Mr. Cuban provided what he said was one of a series of e-mail
messages from Jeffrey B. Norris, an S.E.C. lawyer in Fort Worth, who
accused the billionaire of being unpatriotic for helping to finance a
movie named "Loose Change." In the e-mail message, Mr. Norris
described the movie as a "vicious and absurd documentary" that "posits
that President Bush planned the demolition of the World Trade Center
as a pretext for going to war against Iraq." In the e-mail message,
sent from his S.E.C. e-mail address, Mr. Norris said he was informing
Christopher Cox, the chairman of the S.E.C., of Mr. Cuban's actions.
"If this upsets you, I wonder how George Bush feels," Mr. Norris
wrote. "I assume that Mr. Cox would view your involvement with 'Loose
Change' much as I do. After all, he served his country as a Republican
congressman from Orange County for nearly 20 years and was appointed
by President Bush."
Note: This New York Times report clearly suggests that Cuban is being
pursued by the SEC because of his support for the 9/11-truth
documentary Loose Change Final Cut (
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3719259008768610598 ), for
which WantToKnow team member David Ray Griffin (
http://www.wanttoknow.info/aboutus#griffin ) acted as script
consultant. To read the full text of the email from Norris to Cuban,
click here (
http://norris.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/17/insider-trading-or-political-persecution/
). Another project Mark Cuban supports is the highly useful website
for tracking the Wall Street bailout, bailoutsleuth.com (
http://www.bailoutsleuth.com ), which has recently estimated the
bailout to date at over $2.5 trillion!
Intelligence Policy to Stay Largely Intact
November 11, 2008, Wall Street Journal
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122636726473415991.html
President-elect Barack Obama is unlikely to radically overhaul
controversial Bush administration intelligence policies, advisers say,
an approach that is almost certain to create tension within the
Democratic Party. Mr. Obama is being advised largely by a group of
intelligence professionals ... who have supported Republicans. The
intelligence-transition team is led by former National
Counterterrorism Center chief John Brennan and former CIA
intelligence-analysis director Jami Miscik, say officials close to the
matter. Mr. Brennan is viewed as a potential candidate for a top
intelligence post. Ms. Miscik left amid a slew of departures from the
CIA under then-Director Porter Goss. Mr. Brennan is a leading
contender for one of the two jobs, say some advisers. He declined to
comment. Gen. James L. Jones, a former North Atlantic Treaty
Organization commander; Thomas Fingar, the chief of analysis for the
intelligence director; Joan A. Dempsey, who served in top intelligence
and Pentagon posts; former Rep. Tim Roemer of Indiana, who served on
the 9/11 Commission; and [Rep. Jane] Harman have also been mentioned.
Ms. Harman has also been cited as a potential secretary of homeland
security.
Note: According to the New York Times (
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/b/john_o_brennan/index.html
), John O. Brennan, president-elect Obama's intelligence-transition
leader and a top candidate for director of national intelligence or
the CIA in the Obama administration, "[was] a senior adviser to [CIA
Director George] Tenet in 2002 [and] was present at the creation of
the C.I.A.'s controversial detention and interrogation program." Jane
Harman has been the principal Congressional proponent of the Violent
Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violent_Radicalization_and_Homegrown_Terrorism_Prevention_Act_of_2007#Points_of_criticism
), with its McCarthyesque provisions for criminalizing political
thought. For more on increasing threats to civil liberties from
reliable sources, click here (
http://www.wanttoknow.info/civillibertiesnewsarticles ).
Justices Revoke Limits On Navy Use of Sonar
November 13, 2008, Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/12/AR2008111201058.html
In issuing a deliberately narrow ruling yesterday in a controversial
case involving whales and the U.S. Navy, the Supreme Court strongly
indicated that it intends to defer to the military in future disputes
pitting national security against environmental concerns. The justices
voted 6 to 3 to lift restrictions on the Navy's use of sonar off the
Southern California coast, backing the military in a longstanding
battle over whether anti-submarine training harms marine mammals.
Environmentalists say the exercises disrupt habitats and leave the
mammals with permanent hearing loss and decompression sickness. But
the Navy argued that the training missions are essential to detecting
a new generation of "quiet" submarines deployed by China, North Korea
and other potential adversaries. "We do not discount the importance of
plaintiffs' ecological, scientific, and recreational interests in
marine mammals," Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. wrote in the first
decision of the court's current term. "Those interests, however, are
plainly outweighed by the Navy's need to conduct realistic training
exercises to ensure that it is able to neutralize the threat posed by
enemy submarines." Although the majority tailored its decision on
narrow legal grounds and indicated that future environmental disputes
will be decided on a case-by-case basis, the court made sweeping
statements of deference to military judgments. Roberts unquestioningly
accepted the assertion of top Navy officers that the exercises "are of
utmost importance to the Navy and the Nation," writing that "the
proper determination of where the public interest lies does not strike
us as a close question."
Note: For key reports on threats to and abuse of marine mammals,
click here ( http://www.wanttoknow.info/dolphinswhalesnewsarticles ).
For a list of organizations dedicated to protecting marine wildlife,
click here ( http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Square/8538/links.html ).
Ditch the smooth transition. The people voted for change
November 14, 2008, The Guardian (One of the U.K.'s leading
newspapers)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/nov/14/obama-white-house-wall-street
The more details emerge, the clearer it becomes that Washington's
handling of the Wall Street bail-out is not merely incompetent: it is
borderline criminal. In a moment of high panic in September, the US
treasury pushed through a radical change in how bank mergers are taxed
- a change long sought by the industry. Despite the fact that this
move will deprive the government of as much as $140bn in tax revenue,
legislators found out only after the fact. According to the Washington
Post, more than a dozen tax attorneys agree that "[the] treasury had
no authority to issue the [tax change] notice". Of equally dubious
legality are the equity deals the treasury has negotiated with many of
the banks. According to Congressman Barney Frank, one of the
architects of the legislation that enables the deals: "Any use of
these funds for any purpose other than lending - for bonuses, for
severance pay, for dividends, for acquisitions of other institutions
... is a violation of the act." Yet this is exactly how the funds are
being used. Then there is the nearly $2 trillion that America's
central bank, the Federal Reserve, has handed out in emergency loans.
Incredibly, the Fed will not reveal which corporations have received
these loans or what it has accepted as collateral. Bloomberg news
service believes this secrecy violates the law and has filed a federal
suit demanding full disclosure. Yet the Democrats are either openly
defending the administration or refusing to intervene. Obama owes it
to the people who elected him to call this what it is: an attempt to
undermine the electoral process by stealth.
Note: For many key articles revealing the hidden realities of the
bailout, click here. (
http://www.wanttoknow.info/bankbailoutnewsarticles )
Refusing to be Muzzled by LA Auto Show, AFS Trinity Pulls 150 MPG SUV
out of Show
November 7, 2008, MarketWatch (A Wall Street Journal Digital Network
Website)
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/Refusing-Muzzled-LA-Auto-Show...
AFS Trinity Power Corporation today announced it pulled its 150 MPG
plug-in hybrid SUV prototypes out of the LA Auto Show but will
independently exhibit and demonstrate the super fuel-efficient
vehicles on their own elsewhere in downtown LA during the show. The
company's decision followed actions by the LA Auto Show to muzzle AFS
Trinity from highlighting the 150 miles per gallon fuel economy of its
XH150 prototype vehicles. "The suppression by the automakers of
information about technologies such as this raises serious questions
about the judgment, vision, intentions and capabilities of the
leadership of these companies," said Edward W. Furia, Chairman and CEO
of AFS Trinity. "Such conduct by the automakers, who are currently
seeking tens of billions of taxpayer dollars, ostensibly to develop
fuel efficient vehicle technologies, is evidence they are reluctant to
embrace solutions they didn't invent." First shown at the North
American International Auto Show (NAIAS) in Detroit in January, 2008,
two XH150 prototypes have toured the country for the last ten months
and received positive reactions from the American public, national
media, public officials, governors, ... members of Congress as well as
automotive fleet managers and engineers in Austin, Salt Lake City,
Philadelphia, Washington D.C., Seattle, Livermore and Sacramento.
Furia explained that, when AFS Trinity sought exhibition space on the
main floor of the LA Auto Show, the only space that show management
offered was the Kentia Hall basement.
Note: The LA Auto Show is "owned" by the Greater Los Angeles New Car
Dealers Association, which, in turn, is closely associated with the
major auto makers in Detroit. For lots more exciting developments in
automotive and new energy technologies from reliable, verifiable
sources, click here (
http://www.wanttoknow.info/newenergyinventionsnewsarticles ).
Why We Believe
Nov. 3, 2008 Issue, Newsweek
http://www.newsweek.com/id/165678
It wasn't immediately obvious to Walter Semkiw that he was the
reincarnation of John Adams. Semkiw is a doctor. In 1984, a psychic
told the then [skeptical] medical resident and
psychiatrist-in-training that he is the reincarnation of a major
figure of the Revolution, possibly Adams. But one day in 1995, when
Semkiw was the medical director for Unocal 76, the oil company, he
heard a voice in his head intoning, "Study the life of Adams!" Now he
found details much more telling than those silly coincidences he had
learned a dozen years earlier. It was all so persuasive, thought
Semkiw ... that as a man of science and reason whose work requires him
to critically evaluate empirical evidence, he had to accept that he
was Adams reincarnated. If you have never had a paranormal experience
... you are in a lonely minority. According to periodic surveys by
Gallup and other pollsters, fully 90 percent of Americans say they
have experienced such things or believe they exist. Raised as a Roman
Catholic, Semkiw is driven by a what-if optimism. If only people could
accept reincarnation, he believes, Iraq's Sunnis and Shiites might
stop fighting (since they might be killing someone who was once one of
them). He is dismissive of the idea that reincarnation has not been
empirically proved. That was the status of everything science has
since proved, be it the ability of atoms to vibrate in synchrony (the
basis of the laser) or of mold to cure once-lethal infections
(penicillin). Dedicated to the empirical method, Semkiw believes the
world is on the brink of "a science of spirituality."
Note: This article overall is strongly dismissive of paranormal
phenomena, yet it contains some interesting information. For Semkiw's
website on the return of the revolutionaries, click here (
http://www.johnadams.net/ ). For an excellent essay on how science is
sometimes blind to new concepts, click here (
http://www.wanttoknow.info/fluidintelligence ).
Climate change at the poles IS man-made
October 31, 2008, The Independent (One of the U.K.'s leading
newspapers)
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/climate-change...
Changes to the climate due to human activity can now be detected on
every continent, following a study showing that temperature rises in
the Antarctic as well as the Arctic are the result of man-made
emissions of greenhouse gases. It is the first time scientists have
been able to prove the link between the temperature changes in both
polar regions are down to human activity and it also undermines
climate sceptics who believe the warming trend seen in the Arctic in
recent decades is part of the climate's natural variability. The
findings contradict the 2007 report of the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change, which said that Antarctica was the only continent
where the human impact on the climate had not been observed. The new
study shows that Antarctica has been caught up in the changes to the
global climate over the past 60 years and that this warming cannot be
attributed to natural variations. Using four computer models and data
from dozens of weather stations sited around both the North and South
poles, the study conclusively shows that humans are responsible for
the significant increases in temperatures observed in the Arctic and
the Antarctic over the past half century. "We're able for the first
time to directly attribute warming in both the Arctic and the
Antarctic to human influences on the climate," said Nathan Gillett of
the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, who led
the study, published in the journal Nature Geoscience.
Note: For many key reports from reliable sources on the reality of
global warming, click here (
http://www.wanttoknow.info/globalwarmingnewsarticles ).
Line between good, evil is not easily drawn
July 4, 2008, Seattle Post-Intelligencer
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/369659_faith05.html
The great watershed event of this present chapter in American life
has been the 9/11 attacks and all that has ensued in response, both in
Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as here at home. The terms in which the
attacks were understood and the framework in which the U.S. would
respond were laid out very quickly after 9/11 by the president. It was
a battle of good against evil, "us" vs. "them." We Americans were
encouraged to think of ourselves as "good and compassionate," terms in
which the president frequently described us, while those who opposed
us were evil people who "hated our freedom." I can go along with this
a little ways. The attacks of 9/11 were an appalling evil. Where the
line is drawn between good and evil is another matter. The Soviet
dissident and author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote, "If only there were
evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds and it were
necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them.
But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every
human being." Lincoln resisted the temptation that comes in every time
of conflict and fear, in every polarized situation, to draw the line
between good and evil between the two sides. Lincoln famously wrote,
"In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is
something different from the purpose of either party." That is not to
say that Lincoln doubted that slavery was evil. He did not. But he
refused to claim his own side as God's or to depict, as Bush does, any
who opposed him as the embodiment of evil.
Born Without Limbs, Refusing Limitations
March 27, 2008, ABC News
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=4531209
The crowds that 25-year-old Nick Vujicic draws as an evangelist would
have been unimaginable only a few years ago, and impossible had he
been born under other circumstances. "In some third world countries
... I would be seen as cursed, a shame to the family," said Vujicic
(pronounced VOY-chich). "The possibilities of me being killed at my
birth would have been quite high." But Vujicic, who was born without
arms or legs, does have one of the most powerful of all human
attributes: a voice. Through the ministry he calls Life Without Limbs
( http://www.lifewithoutlimbs.org/ ) and a motivational program titled
"Attitude is Altitude," Vujicic said he has made 1,600 speaking
appearances in 12 nations. "No matter who you are, no matter what
you're going through, God knows it," he said. "He is with you. He is
going to pull you through." Like all skilled evangelists, he can
imagine the deepest vulnerabilities of his listeners, especially among
teenage audiences. "I used to think that I needed my circumstance to
change before I had any hope," he said. "I wanted to know that there
was someone else out there in my position, to know that there is hope,
that there is more than just the little box that I see in my life." He
cannot avoid the reasons why people are fascinated by his physical
condition, and he uses it to his advantage in his speeches, often
delivered from a tabletop in front of the audience. He says it lends
credibility "to know that somebody has been through something, that
they've learned something that you know you need to apply in your own
life."
Note: For an amazing five-minute video this man who has overcome
challenges that are almost guaranteed to make your problems seem like
nothing, click here ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yo_24_qTNac ).
Key Articles From Years Past
Intelligence Czar Can Waive SEC Rules
May 23, 2006, BusinessWeek
http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/may2006/nf20060523_2210.htm
President George W. Bush has bestowed on his intelligence czar, John
Negroponte, broad authority, in the name of national security, to
excuse publicly traded companies from their usual accounting and
securities-disclosure obligations. Notice of the development came in a
brief entry in the Federal Register, dated May 5, 2006, that was
opaque to the untrained eye. Unbeknownst to almost all of Washington
and the financial world, Bush and every other President since Jimmy
Carter have had the authority to exempt companies working on certain
top-secret defense projects from portions of the 1934 Securities
Exchange Act. Administration officials told BusinessWeek that they
believe this is the first time a President has ever delegated the
authority to someone outside the Oval Office. It couldn't be
immediately determined whether any company has received a waiver under
this provision. The timing of Bush's move is intriguing. On the same
day the President signed the memo, Porter Goss resigned as director of
the Central Intelligence Agency. Only six days later ... USA Today
reported that the National Security Agency had obtained millions of
calling records of ordinary citizens provided by three major U.S.
phone companies. Negroponte oversees both the CIA and NSA in his role
as the administration's top intelligence official. In addition to
refusing to explain why Bush decided to delegate this authority to
Negroponte, the White House declined to say whether Bush or any other
President has ever exercised the authority and allowed a company to
avoid standard securities disclosure and accounting requirements.
Note: For many revealing reports on government secrecy from major
media sources, click here (
http://www.wanttoknow.info/secrecynewsarticles ).
Obama: I have a deep faith
April 5, 2004, Chicago Sun-Times
http://www.suntimes.com/news/falsani/726619,obamafalsani040504.article
Barack Obama is alone on this Saturday afternoon in the city, his
press secretary nowhere in sight. He's not carrying anything with him.
Not even notes. Yet he appears confident as he answers questions about
his spiritual life, a subject that would make many politicians -- on
or off the campaign trail -- more skittish than a long-tailed cat in a
room full of rocking chairs. If an hourlong conversation about his
faith unnerves him, Obama's not letting on. The first question he
fields without hesitation: What does he believe? "I am a Christian,"
the 42-year-old ... says. "So, I have a deep faith," Obama continues.
"I'm rooted in the Christian tradition. I believe that there are many
paths to the same place, and that is a belief that there is a higher
power, a belief that we are connected as a people. That there are
values that transcend race or culture, that move us forward, and
there's an obligation for all of us individually as well as
collectively to take responsibility to make those values lived." It's
perhaps an unlikely theological position for someone who places his
faith squarely at the feet of Jesus to take, saying essentially that
all people of faith -- Christians, Jews, Muslims, animists, everyone
-- know the same God. That depends, Obama says, on how a particular
verse from the Gospel of John, where Jesus says, "I am the way, the
truth and the life. No one comes to the Father but by me," is heard.
"Alongside my own deep personal faith, I am a follower, as well, of
our civic religion," he says. "I am a big believer in the separation
of church and state. I am a big believer in our constitutional
structure."
Note: For those who want to understand the spiritual beliefs of
Barack Obama, the full article at the link above is highly
recommended. Even better, for the powerful transcript of this
interview between the religion columnist of the Sun-Times and Obama,
click here (
http://www.wanttoknow.info/008/obama_spirituality_interview ).
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