News to Know: Obama's health care penalizes marriage & Free speech threatened

1ST WORLD CHRISTIAN PERSECUTION:

• British Christian gets pay cut for posting stance on so-called gay marriage on Facebook - http://www.christianpost.com/news/christian-gets-pay-cut-for-posting-gay-marriage-stance-on-facebook-59206/
• NJ school bullies Christian teacher over Facebook posts on homosexuality -http://action.afa.net/email/online.aspx?cid=1540&mid=22864178&tid=aa&utm_source=smAFA&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1540

OBAMA:

• Obama administration pressed for acountability after killing Americans in air strikes - http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/10/25/killing-anwar-al-awlaki-unexpected-precedent-for-obama-administration/
• Obama's health care law penalizes marriage, analysts say - http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/10/27/obamas-health-care-law-penalizes-marriage-analysts-say/

News to Know: Solyndra, Fake farmers, and government sanctioned kidnapping

• Treasury officials' acknowledge government handling of Solyndra unusual, could violate federal law - http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/10/14/house-panel-looks-at-solyndra-loan-restructuring/

• Fake farmers cash in - http://www.foxbusiness.com/on-air/stossel/blog/2011/10/07/more-fake-farmers-0

• Sweden kidnaps home school children, parents to lose children permanently - http://www.earnedmedia.org/hslda1012.htm

Persecution Update: 14 Oct 2011

Voice of the Martyrs Prayer Update:

• Iran - Pastors receive death threats
• Egypt - Violent clashes leave 25 dead
• Laos - Christian children barred from school

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News to Know: Attorney General incompetent? & US drug shortages

POLITICS:

• Deceit, incompetence, or ignorance? Attorney General denies knowledge of "Fast and Furious" despite memos. -http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/10/13/emails-justice-officials-blank-memos/
  

HEALTH CARE:

• US Hospital drug shortages threaten patient health - http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/10/13/hospital-drug-shortages-threaten-patient-health-prove-costly/
• UK: Wait-lists for medical treatment getting longer - http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/oct/13/nhs-waiting-times-rise-cuts

Who says socialized health care doesn't hurt? Well, it's been a while since any Brit can honestly deny that.

Verseday Thursday: As the Ruin Falls - Lewis

As the Ruin Falls - C. S. Lewis

All this is flashy rhetoric about loving you.
I never had a selfless thought since I was born.
I am mercenary and self-seeking through and through:
I want God, you, all friends, merely to serve my turn.

Peace, re-assurance, pleasure, are the goals I seek,
I cannot crawl one inch outside my proper skin:
I talk of love --a scholar's parrot may talk Greek--
But, self-imprisoned, always end where I begin.

Only that now you have taught me (but how late) my lack.
I see the chasm. And everything you are was making
My heart into a bridge by which I might get back
From exile, and grow man. And now the bridge is breaking.

For this I bless you as the ruin falls. The pains
You give me are more precious than all other gains.

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Retrial ordered for Iranian Pastor facing death sentence

Story update here.

Haven't heard about Pastor Nadarkhani? See these earlier posts.

• Pastor Yousef Nadarkhani faces execution for his Christianity (and what you can do about it)

• Further allegations heaped upon Pastor Nadarkhani

News to Know: Emperor Obama & Nadarkhani Trial

AMERICAN TYRANNY:

• Secret Panel can put Americans on a "kill list" - http://runronpaul.com/obama/secret-panel-can-put-americans-on-kill-list/
• Ron Paul says Obama should be impeached for killing American without due process - http://runronpaul.com/mainstream-media/ron-paul-says-obama-should-be-impeached-for-al-qaeda-killing/
• Obama's impeachment a possibility, says Ron Paul - http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1011/65035.html
• Ron Paul, civil liberties groups decry killing of American without a trial - http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/09/30/cair-decries-killing-american-militant-without-due-process/
• US Government obtains secret court order for email data of Wikileaks volunteer - http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/10/10/us-government-obtains-secret-court-order-for-email-data-wikileaks-volunteer/?intcmp=trending

NADARKHANI TRIAL:

• Update: Further allegations heaped upon Pastor Nadarkhani - http://www.persecution.net/ir-2011-10-06.htm
• Full Story of Youcef Nadarkhani - http://presenttruthmn.com/the-ministry/youcef-nadarkhani/