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		<title>Closing in on The Coming Antichrist</title>
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<p> <P>Even though the fascination with the identity of the Antichrist has been a major aspect of bible prophecy for hundreds of years, the twentieth and twenty first century has witnessed more focus on the end time Antichrist debate more than any other time primarily because the rise of the internet has created more exposure and access to information related to the development of the new world order than at any other time in history.</P><P>The &#8220;New <span id="more-9"></span>World Order&#8221; whilst a political term used by the likes of Barack Obama, Henry Kissinger and George Bush Senior, is a term with a more sinister meaning which at the heart involves the creation of a final socialist world government system that will full the biblical prophecy of a final world empire dictatorship that will enslave mankind into a demonic economic system called the Mark of the Beast.</P><P>Whilst there are literally countless interpretations of Daniel and Revelation&#8217;s end time prophecies there are 5 major categories of belief which have had a significant influence over biblical eschatology.</P><P>1. A EUROPEAN SUPER STATE</P><P>The traditional and classical view is that this final world empire will be a european super state, arising out of the European Union. Some of the world&#8217;s greatest prophecy scholars such as Dave Hunt, David Breese and the late John F Walvoord and Dwight Pentecost believed that this final empire would be a Revived Roman Empire according to the prophecies of Daniel.</P><P>David Breese one of the most respected end time researchers in decades comments on Europe&#8217;s plans to protect her interests. He says &#8220;Europe will immediately realise the necessity of developing a strong military establishment, an all European army to guard their overflowing coffers&#8230;&#8230;The second mission of a European military establishment must also be to protect the energy routes from the Middle East. A high percentage..nearly 100%&#8230;of the oil that heats and energises Europe comes from the oil rich lands of the countries surrounding the Persian Gulf. Should these supplies be threatened, all other considerations would need to be set aside in favour of guaranteeing the uninterrupted flow of Mid East oil. Without this, homes would become cold, automobiles would be parked by the curb, and the airplanes would no longer fly. The pipeline from the Middle East must always be held as a major consideration by the planners of Europe&#8217;s future.&#8221;. It is thus interesting to see that in July 2008, French president, Nicholas Sarkozy led the inauguration of the Mediterranean Union; an economic and trade union between the southern hemisphere nations of the European Union and the nations of North Africa and the Western side of the Middle East basin.</P><P>2. THE CLUB OF ROME MODEL</P><P>The modernist viewpoint is that the final world empire will consist of 10 bio regions (known as the Club of Rome model) in that the earth has been divided into blocs where the idea is that the national sovereignty of nations will be subject to a regional union. The 10 bioregions governed by 10 political leaders would then report to a supreme world leader as alluded to in Revelation 17:12-13.</P><P>Some of these regions it is believed already have been formed such as the European Union, the South American Union, the African Union and the Arab League. There is also presently recent controversy regarding the North American Union which is a supposed planned union between the United States, Canada and Mexico which will surpass the previous NAFTA agreements. Reports even suggest that there are plans to create a centralised currency across these 3 countries called the Amero which will replace all 3 national currencies.</P><P>3. AMERICA: GUARDIAN OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER</P><P>An alternative modernist view point is that America is the final world empire. Adherents of this viewpoint believe that the traditional view which places Europe as the primary power in the last days, has significant failings. They believe that the power of Freemasonry migrated from England to the United States and that the symbology on the American Dollar bill justifies this. Much of this view is also tied in with the interpretation of Revelation 18 description of a last days end time commercial Babylon which bears the hallmarks of the United States because of its military, political and commercial strength on the world stage.</P><P>Jack Van Impe, Stan Deyo, Tim Mchyde and others have championed this view that the last days commercial Babylon is not applicable to a literal rebuilding of the ancient city in Iraq as championed by Dr Charles Dwyer or the seven hilled city of Rome as mentioned by Dave Hunt in his book &#8220;A Woman Rides the Beast&#8221;, but symbolic of the world greatest super power, the United States.</P><P>4. AN ISLAMIC ECONOMIC AND MILITARY ALLIANCE</P><P>A more recent view which is enjoying a significant amount of coverage is the belief that the Antichrist and his empire will be a confederation of Islamic nations led by the long awaited Islamic Madhi. This view championed by Rodrigo Silva and Joel Richardson author of &#8220;Antichrist: Islam&#8217;s Awaited Messiah&#8221; is based on reviewing Islamic prophetical teachings known as &#8220;hadith&#8221; which refer to the final coming of the Al-Madhi (a return of Jesus Christ) to overthrow the Al-Dajaal (a Syrian/Jewish Antichrist) and establish a new world Islamic order. Scholars who hold to the islamic view believe that the biblical final world empire will be an Islamic confederation which will use its significant oil reserves as a secret weapon to bring the world economy crashing down under Islamic domination.</P><P>5. THE VATICAN AND THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH</P><P>Finally, there is the traditional medieval view that the Antichrist is linked to the Roman Catholic Church and Jesuit order. This view which was born out of the persecution of the early reformers by Rome even today has significant appeal. Malachi Martins book the &#8220;The Keys to this Blood&#8221; is one of the best documented insights into the Vatican&#8217;s struggle for world supremacy and the internal state of the Roman Catholic Church with a specific split amongst high ranking clergy between those holding onto the historical teachings of the apostles and the early church fathers, and those who wish for many of the church&#8217;s teachings to be changed under new liberal new age philosophies which encompass a universalist religion unification ideal.</P><P>The discussion over the Antichrist identity is even more heated with the outright bizarre of beliefs to the most sophisticated. History has seen many labelled the Antichrist such as Roman Emperor Nero, Charlemagne King of the Holy Roman Empire, Napoleon Bonaparte, Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler, and within in recent times, Henry Kissinger, Mikhail Gorbachev, Pope John Paul II, Saddam Hussein, Vladimir Putin, King Juan Carlos of Spain, Karl Von Habsburg of the Habsburg Dynasty, Javier Solana of the European Union, Prince Charles of Wales and more recently and controversially, Barack Obama.</P><P>Does the Bible as well as the secular New World Order publications shed any light on who the Antichrist will be? What will be his lineage? European, Muslim, Jewish, Merovingian stock etc.</P><P>The understanding and interpretation of prophecy can be be enhanced with the analysis of secular documentation such as the new age bible &#8220;The Keys of Enoch&#8221; and other heavy weight illuminati inspired epistles such as Alice Bailey&#8217;s &#8220;Externalisation of the Hierarchy&#8221; and the Masonic writings of Albert Pike in &#8220;Morals and Dogma&#8221; .</P><P>It is within these materials that the true nature of the coming final world empire will be revealed which will provide significant clarity to the debate.<BR /></P> <!--more--> <H3>Watch the video related to Socialist Scholar</H3>
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<p>University of Iceland on the Tyranny of the Status Quo. He participated in a lively television debate on August 31, 1984 with leading socialist intellectuals, including President Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson. When they complained that a fee was charged for attending his lecture at the University and that hitherto, lectures by visiting scholars had been free-of-charge, Friedman replied that previous lectures had not been free-of-charge in a meaningful sense: Lectures always have related costs. &#8230;  <H3>Help answer the question about Socialist Scholar</H3>Can we all agree that the key to being successful is to surround yourself with knowledgeable people?<br />You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time</p>
<p>Radical and Socialist Influences:</p>
<p>Saul Alinsky<br />
Bill Ayers<br />
Carl Davidson<br />
Frank Marshall Davis<br />
Democratic Socialists of America<br />
Bernardine Dohrn<br />
Gamaliel Foundation<br />
New Party<br />
Socialist Scholars Conference</p>
<p>Political Allies and Advisors:</p>
<p>Ali Abunimah<br />
Mohamed Salim Al-Churbaji<br />
David Axelrod<br />
Gregg Craig<br />
Jim Johnson<br />
Marilyn Katz<br />
Anthony Lake<br />
Robert Malley<br />
Alice Palmer<br />
Eli Pariser<br />
George Soros<br />
Cass Sunstein<br />
Dorothy Tillman<br />
Joyce Wheeler<br />
Tim Wheeler</p>
<p>Religious Affiliations:</p>
<p>Louis Farrakan<br />
Rev. Joseph Lowery<br />
James Meeks<br />
Rev. Otis Moss<br />
Rev. Michael Pfleger<br />
Rev. Al Sharpton<br />
Jim Wallis<br />
Rev. Jeremiah Wright</p>
<p>Organizational Affiliations:</p>
<p>ACORN<br />
Arab American Action Network<br />
Davis, Miner, Barnhill &amp; Galland, P.C.<br />
International Crisis Group<br />
MoveOn<br />
National Council of La Raza<br />
Planned Parenthood Federation of America<br />
Project Vote<br />
Sojourners</p>
<p>Academic Affiliations:</p>
<p>Rashid Khalidi<br />
Edward Said<br />
Cornel West </p>
<p>Foundations:</p>
<p>Joyce Foundation<br />
Woods Fund of Chicago</p>
<p>Money Scandals:</p>
<p>Nadhmi Auchi<br />
Robert Blackwell, Jr.<br />
Tony Rezko</p>
<p>Family:</p>
<p>Michelle Obama<br />
Raila Odinga<br />
mr_cj_jr: Wow ruffle your feathers? All of those on the list support and endorse Obama, does the truth hurt?<br />
Mr. CJ: &quot;Edit: No you didn&#039;t. But, you made yourself look foolish by turning my question into something negative.&quot; So you are finally admitting that those names on the list are negative, thanks for agreeing<br />
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<p>Reece Woodstock was one of the main researchers who contributed to the release of the Antichrist Identity Report in 2008. <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.theantichristidentity.com"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.theantichristidentity.com">http://www.theantichristidentity.com</a></a></p>
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		<title>Exuberance of the Orient and the Western in Contemporary Art</title>
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What is art? There exists not one but hundreds of definitions of art offered by renowned artists, scholars, and philosophers throughout the ages. Considered literally, art refers to any specialized skill, or human activities encompassing a wide range of fields like literature, music, painting, or sculpting. It’s the end but not the means that constitutes [...]]]></description>
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<p>What is art? There exists not one but hundreds of definitions of art offered by renowned artists, scholars, and philosophers throughout the ages. Considered literally, art refers to any specialized skill, or human activities encompassing a wide range of fields like literature, music, painting, or sculpting. It’s the end but not the means that constitutes the success of art. A lot many artists believe in the cult of art for art’s sake. Howe<span id="more-10"></span>ver, this function of art has been subjected to severe criticism by some of the noted scholars of the late 19th century who believed in the instructional quality of art. To them, art existed not just for aesthetic pleasure but was also associated with the purpose of converting the mind into a particular trend of thought. </p>
<p>Theories abound as to the true purpose of art. Whether didactic or aesthetic, there is no denying that art casts its influence on the observer’s mind. Times have changed and with it, artistry has undergone multiple changes too. If Romanticism and Classicism influenced art works of yester years, it is Realism, Impressionism, Fauvism, Dadaism, and Surrealism that have laid their impact on contemporary art. No wonder, contemporary art is distinctly different from the art works of earlier generations. </p>
<p>The fields encompassing contemporary art remains the same even today but its essence has been infused with modernity. As in earlier times, contemporary art too covers the fields of music, painting, sculpting, literature, to name a few. New styles along with an eagerness for experimentation have found greater expression in contemporary art works. However in case of paintings, there often crops up a dilemma as to symbols represented on the canvas. Contemporary paintings often appear complex to the common eye, a fact often relished by some of the distinguished artists.  </p>
<p>Nevertheless, the revival of some of the Asian art forms of China and Vietnam has breathed a fresh lease of life into the contemporary art scenario. Contemporary art exhibitions featuring some of the masterpieces of Oriental art are being widely appreciated by art connoisseurs across the world. The impact of Socialist Realism and the New Culture Movement is pretty evident in the oil paintings by Chinese artists.  Not just China, but Vietnam too, has soaked up the western influence of Impressionism into its cultural fabric. A lot many of Vietnamese paintings depict the daily, simple world of the villages as observed through the human eye. The Vietnamese painter, Nguyen Thanh Binh, is renowned for using human element in all his canvases. Nonetheless, the influence of the Romantics does not lag behind. Paintings portraying the beauty of autumn, the green fields, the lotus pool abound.</p>
<p>Notwithstanding the influence of Oriental art on its western counterpart, there can be no denying the impact of the latter on the former.  In fact, both these diverse art forms have imbibed features of each other. The French Impressionist and Viennese art nouveau have been chiefly influenced by Japanese prints. The history of Japan post 19th century, has cast an impression not only on visual arts but on European ceramics as well.  </p>
<p>This intermingling of existing art traditions has thus given way to further innovations in the contemporary art scenario. Herein crops up avenues for the birth of new art genres with fresh appeal. This would certainly not deter people from admiring the older art forms. As a matter of fact, <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.vietnamartist.com">contemporary art</a> has been and will be constantly inspired by their masters.  </p>
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<p>University of Iceland on the Tyranny of the Status Quo. He participated in a lively television debate on August 31, 1984 with leading socialist intellectuals, including President Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson. When they complained that a fee was charged for attending his lecture at the University and that hitherto, lectures by visiting scholars had been free-of-charge, Friedman replied that previous lectures had not been free-of-charge in a meaningful sense: Lectures always have related costs. &#8230;  <H3>Help answer the question about Socialist Scholar</H3>How do people rationalize and excuse Obama?<br />and the radical associates he&#039;s had?  He&#039;s running for President of the United States!  Google Obama and any of these radicals below.  Come on people!  How can he have fooled so many???</p>
<p>Radical and Socialist Influences:</p>
<p>Saul Alinsky<br />
Bill Ayers<br />
Carl Davidson<br />
Frank Marshall Davis<br />
Democratic Socialists of America<br />
Bernardine Dohrn<br />
Gamaliel Foundation<br />
New Party<br />
Socialist Scholars Conference</p>
<p>Political Allies and Advisors:</p>
<p>Ali Abunimah<br />
Mohamed Salim Al-Churbaji<br />
David Axelrod<br />
Gregg Craig<br />
Jim Johnson<br />
Marilyn Katz<br />
Anthony Lake<br />
Robert Malley<br />
Alice Palmer<br />
Eli Pariser<br />
George Soros<br />
Cass Sunstein<br />
Dorothy Tillman<br />
Joyce Wheeler<br />
Tim Wheeler</p>
<p>Religious Affiliations:</p>
<p>Louis Farrakan<br />
Rev. Joseph Lowery<br />
James Meeks<br />
Rev. Otis Moss<br />
Rev. Michael Pfleger<br />
Rev. Al Sharpton<br />
Jim Wallis<br />
Rev. Jeremiah Wright</p>
<p>Organizational Affiliations:</p>
<p>ACORN<br />
Arab American Action Network<br />
Davis, Miner, Barnhill &amp; Galland, P.C.<br />
International Crisis Group<br />
MoveOn<br />
National Council of La Raza<br />
Planned Parenthood Federation of America<br />
Project Vote<br />
Sojourners</p>
<p>Academic Affiliations:</p>
<p>Rashid Khalidi<br />
Edward Said<br />
Cornel West </p>
<p>Foundations:</p>
<p>Joyce Foundation<br />
Woods Fund of Chicago</p>
<p>Money Scandals:</p>
<p>Nadhmi Auchi<br />
Robert Blackwell, Jr.<br />
Tony Rezko</p>
<p>Proof???</p>
<p>GOOGLE +Obama [any of the above]</p>
<p>I know it&#039;s the internet, and there are a lot of toolbag bloggers out there.  But open your eyes!  This guy is Mr Socialist to a T!  Throw in some racism and anti-Americanism and pro-terrorism and it is a bad combination.</p>
<p>No wonder Bush won twice with the losers the Dems come up with!<br />
I predict this question will not last a day before the Lib censors get it pulled to protect their chosen one.<br />
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<p>Suzanne Macguire is an Internet marketing professional with keen interest in contemporary art and the role of the renowned Vietnam artist <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.vietnamartist.com">Do Duy Tuan</a> in the field of Vietnamese painting.</p>
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<p>In painting world there are so many styles that are very popular. But before giving an account of different popular styles we need to know what the term “style” means. In fact, there is not any certain definition of “style”. It may be understood in the aesthetic terms as what to paint or which physical technique implied in painting. Aesthetic movements like realism, romanticism and impressionism belong to this explanation of style. To <span id="more-15"></span>further understand it, we may say that style is said to be the ways an artist paints and applies colors and texture. The perspective and the way in which an artist looks at the things visible and invisible characterize his or her style.</p>
<p>Scholarly discourse on style has given more technical term “movement” or “school” to which an artist can be associated with. Inclusion of an artist to certain school or movement may be done by the deliberate affiliation of the artist to such movement or by the art historians. </p>
<p>Some of the popular painting styles are discussed under following heads:</p>
<p>Constructivism: This movement had started in Russia in the wake of socialism. It was not purely an art but was a fusion of art and architecture. This movement was principal inspiration in raising many socialist establishments in Russia after the October revolution. Constructivism was on high in the period between 1919 to 1934. The chief proponents of this style of art were Alexander Rodcheckno, Liubov Popava, Vladimir Tatlin and Olga rozanova.</p>
<p>Fauvism: This is painting style in which proponents believed in the use of color as a massive emotional force. This style was marked by expression of feelings in colors with severe roughness and clumsiness. The use of simplified lines to expressively reveal the subject and theme of the painting was also used to be the attempt of the artists. They preferred spontaneity and freshness over the finish in any work of art. Pioneer of this art style was Gustave Moreau.</p>
<p>Classicism: This term refers to the paintings style employed by the ancient Roman and Greek painters. Classicism is characterized by the simplicity and adherence to the basic rules and principles of painting. This art style is refined and elegant, disciplined by order and symmetry. Classicism is unique style which does not encourage self expression and individuality. Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael and Mantegna were the painters who tried to imitate this ancient style of art.</p>
<p>Besides, there are so many other styles and schools which are significant and have expressed different thoughts and subjects of the self and society in a unique way. Noteworthy of them are- abstract art, aboriginal art, aestheticism, art brut, art nouveau, baroque, Byzantine art, cubism, dada, dragging, encaustic, paintings, expressionism, gothic paintings, impressionism, mannerism, marbling, minimalism, modernism, neoclassicism, orientalism, primitivism, ragging &#038; stippling, realism, spattering, surrealism, symbolism, theorem paintings and wood graining.</p>
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<p>US Embassy in Bolivia Tells Fulbright Scholar and Peace Corps Volunteers to Spy on Venezuelans and Cubans in BoliviaAn American Fulbright scholar and Peace Corps volunteers in Bolivia say the US embassy told them to spy on Venezuelans and Cubans in Bolivia. We go to Bolivia to speak with the Fulbright scholar Alexander van Schaick and Jean Friedman-Rudovsky, the reporter who broke the story for ABC News. [includes rush transcript] &#8230; bolivia venezuela us bush oil chavez socialism democracy now &#8230;  <H3>Help answer the question about Socialist Scholar</H3>What do you think about this statement on Obama? Read the whole statement and then answer.?<br />Barack Obama first appeared on the national political scene as a uniter with hope and promise in his words. In 2004 when he gave his now-famous keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention, Americans saw Obama emerge as someone special and unique. He was young and oozed poise and charisma. Without a doubt, the Democrat Party had their future presidential candidate in its sights.</p>
<p>Today, the Democrat National Party is stuck with nothing more than a leftist ideologue politician who uses empty words to astound those who sought after him.<br />
Obama has lost his &quot;Angel of Light&quot; status, and he will never get it back. Today we see the Senator for what he is, a Marxist socialist with ties to highly questionable people. By November he will not be electable.</p>
<p>It is obvious that Obama welcomed Rev. Jeremiah Wright into his personal and professional life as long as it was politically expedient. Indeed, he sought to have him there. Americans are not so naive as to fail to notice that certain cast members in the Obama drama life were Wright&#039;s doing. The Reverend knows who is who in Chicago, and he opened doors for his highly-talented prodigy.</p>
<p>Obama&#039;s close business affiliation with Tony Rezko, now on trial for corruption, is just the tip of the iceberg. Then there is William Ayers &quot;I don&#039;t regret setting the bombs&quot; In a most perverse twist of fate, we have a radical home grown terrorist who should be behind prison bars to this day. Instead, he is a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Amazing! Yet Obama claims to know less about Ayers than he did Wright.</p>
<p>During the campaign we&#039;ve become privy to quite a few things we did not know about Obama. It is enough to conclude that he is not made of presidential timber. Americans ought to be opened-minded, but we must be informed as well.</p>
<p>Mr. Goodbar (in this case, Mr. Obama) had people fainting at his campaign events. What happened to their messianic figure? Looking for the wrong kinda love in the wrong places; like in the movie, Democrats have wound up dancing with the devil.</p>
<p>Barack Obama&#039;s image was created by the media and based solely on his charisma. We have now seen enough of this elitist counterfeit to draw an educated conclusion: The real Obama can be known through the words of his bigoted, anti-American ex-pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright.</p>
<p>Wright did us all a huge favor by making appearances throughout this past week. He provided us insight into the mind of Barack Obama. Through the personage of Wright, Americans have come face-to-face with the man who wants to become President. There is nothing left to ponder. America gets it. The heart of the suave, charming and well-spoken senator from Chicago is as twisted as the man who spiritually damaged Obama (and countless others) beyond repair.</p>
<p>In the midst of all this political disarray, Hillary Clinton will be tossed aside to satisfy the base of the Democrat Party. If Obama does not emerge the winner at the DNC Convention, Al Sharpton will conduct another Million Man March. Heaven forbid&#8230;</p>
<p>Be warned, however! Do not forget Rev. Wright&#039;s words: He will heckle and dog Obama throughout the entire campaign; should he win the Oval Office in November, Wright has promised to make matters even worse.</p>
<p>Obama betrayed his followers, clinging to the worst side of human nature, harboring hate and bigotry behind the facade of an attractive, promising personality. He can denounce Wright to Kingdom Come, but people will never trust the man again.</p>
<p>For 20 years, Barack Obama sat in a church were Black Liberation theology was preached and practiced. It is not Christianity, but Marxism with Holy Scripture tossed in here and there to make hate speech sound like the language of a noble mission.</p>
<p>&quot;The goals of BT are to turn religion into sociology, Christianity into a political agenda, Jesus into a black Marxist rebel, and the gospel into violent revolution. They are more interested in politics than preaching the gospel.&quot;</p>
<p>From The Truth About Black Liberal Theology — Dr. Robert A. Morey, an internationally-recognized scholar in the fields of theology and apologetics, 1994.</p>
<p>Obama stayed at Trinity United Church for two decades without denouncing what he heard and witnessed. By doing and saying nothing, he allowed Rev. Wright&#039;s demeaning and tragic conduct to continue before his little girls and wife, the latter of whom adopted notions that America was a bad country.</p>
<p>Where, is this man who would take on the ultimate responsibility for all of America&#039;s citizens, was the protection and concern for his own precious family? If Obama had been a dutiful father and husband, he would have sheltered them from such bitterness and corruptive hatred.</p>
<p>Why did Obama permit Wright to taint the spirit of his immediate family and fill their minds with hateful thoughts regarding people who were not of color? Obama&#039;s cold and calculating actions (and inactions) were rites of passage within Chicago&#039;s left<br />
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<p>A constitution is the supreme law of a free country. It is the system by which a government of a country functions. Constitution of India was adopted in the in the constituent assembly on 26th November 1949. It is document that contains set of instructions and policies that a government in power of India must follow. Indian constitution came into force on 26th January 1950, the republic day of India, defining India as a republic union of state<span id="more-14"></span>s. Indian constitution also defines the fundamental rights, directive principles and fundamental duties of a citizen of India. Constitution of India declared India as a state to be sovereign, democratic republic but later in the amendment of constitution of 1976 the India was added to be a socialist and secular state.</p>
<p>The constitution of India is the longest written official book than any other of an independent country. <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.famousinindia.com/indian_constitution.html">Indian constitution</a> is considered the best constitution that an independent country has in the world. It is a well drafted book that is a result of research of years. India is still a young independent country and hence the makes of India constitution have adopted several effective articles and laws from different constitutions of other countries. It has given a permeable that is just a complete crux about it. Preamble of India is again considered the best in the world. It contains 22 sections including 395 articles, 12 schedules and 83 amendments.</p>
<p>The committee that drafted the constitution of India was headed by Dr. B.R. Ambedkar and other six members as Jahwahar Lal Nehru, C. Rajagopalachari, Rajendra Prasad, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad and Shyama Prasad Mukherjee. All these members were great politicians and major scholars of India. Indian constitution is written in the hand writing of Dr. Ambedkar.</p>
<p>Indian constitution is the best official draft one must read to know how a democratic and independent republic nation works. It will provide a deep insight of the laws and principles that Indian government follows to run the union of India.</p>
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<p>Complete video at: fora.tv Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet, gives his perspective on capitalism, Marxism, and the widening global gap between rich and poor. &#8212;&#8211; The Aspen Institute and co-chairs Margot Pritzker and Richard Blum, in collaboration with the Conservancy for Tibetan Art and Culture, are proud to present a substantive symposium that embraces Tibetan and Himalayan art, culture, science, medicine, spiritual practice, and history. The three-day program &#8211; featuring His &#8230;  <H3>Help answer the question about Socialist Scholar</H3>Do people actually understand Obama&#039;s &quot;free&quot; health care plan?<br />Let&#039;s start out by not quibbling with America&#039;s socialists&#039; false claim health-care service is a human right regardless of ability to pay and that it should be free.</p>
<p>Before we buy into this socialist agenda, we might check out just what happens when health-care services are &quot;free.&quot; Let&#039;s look at our neighbor to the north &#8212; Canada.</p>
<p>The Fraser Institute, a Vancouver, B.C.-based think tank, has done yeoman work keeping track of Canada&#039;s socialized health-care system. It has just come out with its 13th annual waiting-list survey. It shows the average time a patient waited between referral from a general practitioner to treatment rose from 16.5 weeks in 2001-02 to 17.7 weeks in 2003. Saskatchewan had the longest average waiting time of nearly 30 weeks, while Ontario had the shortest, 14 weeks.</p>
<p>Walter E. Williams, the John M. Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics at George Mason University, is an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute.</p>
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Waiting lists also exist for diagnostic procedures such as computer tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and ultrasound. Depending on province and diagnostic procedure, the wait can range from two to 24 weeks.</p>
<p>As reported in a December 2003 article by Kerri Houston for the Frontiers of Freedom Institute titled &quot;Access denied: Canada&#039;s health-care system turns patients into victims&quot;, in some cases, patients die on the waiting list because they become too sick to tolerate a procedure. Miss Houston says hip-replacement patients often end up non-ambulatory while waiting an average of 20 weeks, and that&#039;s after waiting 13 weeks just to see the specialist. The wait to get diagnostic scans followed by the wait for the radiologist to read them just might explain why Cleveland, Ohio, became Canada&#039;s hip-replacement center.</p>
<p>Adding to Canada&#039;s medical problems is the exodus of doctors. According to a March 2003 story in Canada News, about 10,000 doctors left Canada in the 1990s. Compounding that exodus is the drop in medical school graduates. According to Miss Houston, Ontario has turned to nurses to replace its bolting doctors. It is &quot;creating&quot; 369 new nurse practitioner positions to take up the doctor shortage.</p>
<p>Some patients avoided long waits for medical services by paying for private treatment. In 2003, British Columbia enacted Bill 82, an &quot;Amendment to Strengthen Legislation and Protect Patients.&quot; On its face, Bill 82 is to &quot;protect patients from inadvertent billing errors.&quot; That&#039;s on its face. But according to a January 2004 article by Nadeem Esmail for the Fraser Institute&#039;s Forum and titled &quot;Oh to be a prisoner,&quot; Bill 82 would disallow anyone from paying the clinical fees for private surgery, where previously only patients were forbidden to do so. The bill also empowers the government to levy fines of up to $20,000 on physicians who accept these fees or allow such a practice. That means it is now against Canadian law to opt out of the health-care system and pay for your own surgery.</p>
<p>Health care can have a zero price to the user, but that doesn&#039;t mean it&#039;s free or has a zero cost. The problem with a good or service having a zero price is that demand will exceed supply.</p>
<p>When price isn&#039;t allowed to make demand equal supply, other measures must be taken. One way to distribute the demand is by queuing &#8212; making people wait. Another is to have a medical czar who decides who is eligible, under what conditions, for a particular procedure &#8212; for example, no hip replacement or renal dialysis for people over 70 or no heart transplants for smokers.</p>
<p>I&#039;m wondering just how many Americans would like Canada&#039;s long waiting lists, medical czars deciding what treatments we get and an exodus of doctors.</p>
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<p>Chinese oil paintings since the beginning of the fall, and &#8220;realism&#8221; and &#8220;realist painting&#8221; has a natural link, or from a certain sense, the beginning of the period of Chinese oil paintings is the &#8220;realist painting.&#8221; Chinese oil painting in the way of development, &#8220;realism&#8221; and &#8220;realist painting&#8221; has always been associated with it. </p>
<p>     Chinese oil paintings and the history of<span id="more-8"></span> the development of China&#8217;s social and cultural development, changes in the history closely linked, it is accompanied by a knowledge of Western and other natural and cultural knowledge to enter China. The starting point for the development of Chinese oil paintings, is well documented from the Ming Dynasty in Ningbo, Zhejiang Jiajingnianjian the Portuguese in the establishment of the Hong Kong Trade Shuangyu base, the painting will bring this art form in China. Later in the Wanlinianjian (European Renaissance painting at this time is an important period in the history of the development), due to religious reasons, the Italian missionary Matteo Ricci to a painting of God, Our Lady of the paintings to China. According to records, the 1610 Tour Wen-hui&#8217;s &#8220;portrait of Matteo Ricci&#8221; has realistic approach, clearly the relationship between brightness, which can be deduced, You Wenhui of China earlier study and practice of European oil paintings. To the Qing Dynasty, many Western missionaries for the court is satisfied that, with the Qing Emperor Kangxi in Beijing between the missionaries and Gongtinghuashi Lang Shining as the representative, he worked in China, the life of 51, after Emperor Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong three dynasties . He used the Western oil painting concepts to the performance of the Chinese characters &#8220;Xiangfeirongzhuang map&#8221;, opened a real painting with Chinese content of the precedent. Some scholars believe that this also is China&#8217;s realist painting &#8220;The first map.&#8221; The development of early Chinese oil paintings are generally three ways, first missionary to preach the culture, and second, followed by the court to accommodate the culture of painting, and the third is in the cultural and economic exchanges in the &#8220;civil painting.&#8221; Chinese oil paintings start from the beginning with &#8220;realism&#8221; style. Some scholars from the Guangdong exported start painting on that Guangdong is the birthplace of Chinese oil paintings, where you can find Chinese realist painting at the initial start of the cultural and artistic works. Some scholars from the Shanghai Museum soil Hill Bay Exploration focus on painting, oil painting that China&#8217;s modern master Xu Yong-ching, Ding stunning, ZHOU Xiang, Zhang Hui charge, Zhang Yuguang, such as Ren Bonian, &#8220;have received here in Western art education . Territories Bay Hill painting in the Museum, is the court in the northern West painting interrupted,&#8221;the Guangzhou coastal export oil painting after painting&#8221;in the re-rise of China and Turkey. Although the time across a century, but the history of Shanghai has once again chosen to Western painting East wind of a historic turn for the better, but also laid the future Shanghai will become the basis of a major Chinese oil paintings. &#8220;Soil Bay Hill Museum paintings produced sculptures, practice painting, oil painting and home-made paints, specialized manual sketching, realistic atmosphere rich, To become &#8220;China&#8217;s cradle of Western painting.&#8221; Chinese oil painting in the process of development, Transocean Xunmeng, gains Western Modernist painting of the first practice, also gains the Lingqi realist painting, mechanical Moreover, the two can not be separated. &#8220;Westernization Movement&#8221; to promote Chinese painting in the spread of emerging art education has driven the rise of realism style. The rise of Western painting groups also promote the development of China&#8217;s realist painting. Founded in Shanghai in 1915&#8217;s &#8220;Oriental Art&#8221; in the form of groups to promote the spread of Western painting, to promote a scientific attitude to artistic creation, to stand as the main means of painting, drawing Dan Gaoxiang take into account indoor and outdoor paint, and actively promote outdoor Painting, further carry forward the style of realism. After the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War, Chinese oil paintings into a tortuous and difficult period of development. This &#8220;difficult&#8221; and the people&#8217;s suffering, linked to national survival. Is the most significant artists, in particular, a number of important artists in this period of adversity, in the baptism of war, inspired by passion, real life experience to the suffering and national disaster, in-depth, experience in the rear shoulder Anti-Japanese National Salvation of the great historical mission, this generation of artists in the blood flow to the country and the nation&#8217;s destiny, art and life of passion, and the development of Chinese oil paintings were integrated into the subjects of great practical and enhanced the art of profound practical significance. </p>
<p>After new China was founded, the reality of the revolution consciously become the mainstream of Chinese painting art, artists, &#8220;as the keynote optimism to the revolution, depicting the revolutionary war and socialist construction in the history of life thriving scene. Uncertainties, accurate and powerful, many Painter common pursuit of the arts realm. &#8220;Realist realistic painting was exceptional conditions have been greatly developed. 1955, the Ministry of Culture decided to organize the Central Academy of Fine Arts oil painting courses, employing Soviet the teaching oil painting. courses taught sketching teaching system, students focus on improving the basis for sketching and modeling capability, that art comes from life, to encourage students observe the life and works of attention to the social function, the requirements reflect the fiery creation of real life, and guide students to Themes and topics of the master plot of concern. There is no doubt that this course actively promote the development of China&#8217;s realist painting, after training a group of Chinese oil painting industry active in the backbone. Of course, after training in the arts reflect on this practice, there are experts believe the other hand, sketching their teaching methods &#8220;and not a sketch of China&#8217;s experience in teaching the integration of China&#8217;s sketch of teaching methods and style of the sketch based on a single. &#8220;In subsequent years, advocates of revolution and revolutionary realism, the combination of romanticism, political and artistic standard, facing the reality of China through ups and realist painting, distort, to reflect on the years and rational thinking. During a return to the reality of the &#8220;native intelligence&#8221;, advocated by honest approach to the grim portrait of life, to the performance of simple theme Native revealed living in difficult environment in the people&#8217;s heat and warmth of the noble dignity. During a realist painting of China&#8217;s serious reflection, in summing up both positive and negative lessons for China on the basis of realistic painting of the new knowledge and new exploration. After the seemingly silent and variables, the Chinese contemporary realist painting is still active, being mature. &#8220;This door&#8221;origin&#8221;in the growing depletion of the art form has been dissolved in Chinese people&#8217;s aesthetic habits, renewable pleasing to the Chinese oil paintings. Realist painters who are not in order to make an example, it inadvertently to the contemporary Fufan Art presents a necessary accomplishment: To master a kind of art form, is bound to a long-term extraordinary efforts. &#8221; </p>
<p>Realist painting walked all the way, hastened the birth of modern Western art of the genre, in the time of the birth of Chinese oil paintings, but also a realist deep zone de Patinagem de traces the art of oil painting. Or that Chinese oil paintings come out in time, undoubtedly have the impression of Western painting and after all the art schools affected, but in essence said that the Chinese oil painting at the starting time of the basic characteristics of a &#8220;realist painting.&#8221; China&#8217;s realist painting of Faren and foreign missionaries preaching the culture is closely linked to that of imported Western painting is not only oil paintings, watercolors, copper engraving, and other kinds of painting, the study of Chinese oil paintings of realism started to explore the introduction of Western art, Depend on a variety of types of art painting and its artistic spirit. The study of Chinese realist painting, but also explore the Westernization Movement, Restoration Reform Movement, the New Culture Movement and other Chinese political and cultural development background, when Kang Youwei Although the history of Western painting there were misreading, but the realism of the Western oil paintings still have problems Insights, in his &#8220;Travels 11 countries in Europe,&#8221; Rafael praised the painting as &#8220;T Yi Yi Miao, lively, more Rao Yun Xiang, Cheng Yi also God,&#8221; and &#8220;show its health-Yun, who must have independence &#8220;And&#8221; far from angry, Shenmiao forced true, the name is true also, &#8220;These kind words are&#8221; realistic. &#8221; Kang Youwei respected realist &#8220;classic&#8221; and his words deep. Chen Duxiu in the &#8220;art of revolution &#8211; by Lu Zheng,&#8221; also said, &#8220;the painter must be realistic, and be able to play to their talent, painting their paintings, ancient Kejiu not charged.&#8221; Chen Duxiu on the &#8220;art revolution&#8221; And &#8220;realism&#8221; and &#8220;spirit of realism,&#8221; the idea of the May 4th Movement in the new culture of science, carry forward the spirit of democracy have had a profound impact. Chinese oil paintings in the development process, from time to time there are &#8220;local&#8221; and &#8220;outside,&#8221; the academic struggles and the &#8220;local&#8221; to the advent of Chinese oil paintings dating back over 2,000 years ago with Oil for painting pottery patterns. Academic issues can still explore. And the general sense, of &#8220;realism oil paintings and Chinese oil painting&#8221;, often starting in the cultural missionaries to preach. Of course, in recent years, there are writings discussed how the evolution of classical realist painting to contemporary &#8220;as a new&#8221; painting, which involves China should advance with the times realist painting of a problem.</p>
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