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The Pennsylvania Democratic Party cancelled their public gathering of candidates and elected officials so that Democrats and their candidates can avoid trying to defend President Obama’s indefensible record.

Since Democrats ditched their meeting, below are a few questions the voters are asking and their candidates need to answer:

Bob Casey: Do you still agree with Barack Obama 98% of the time?

Kathleen Kane: Do you want to model the Attorney General’s office like Barack Obama’s Justice Department including programs like the ‘Fast and Furious’ debacle? Should Eric Holder step down for this failure?

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Camping has been making headlines with his spectacular claims that the world will end May 21st around 6:00 p.m. but skeptics and cult watch groups that keep an eye of various religious groups such as Camping’s and the Jehovah’s Witnesses, have said Camping has made false predictions in the past.

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As was expected, Newt Gingrich announced his candidacy Wednesday via his Twitter page.

Gingrich appeared on the conservative talk show “The Sean Hannity Show” where he said Obama “can’t afford to run in a fair election.”

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Dr. Neil H. Hollander, 55, of Huntingdon Valley, was sentenced today to one year and one day in prison for health care fraud, mail fraud...

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Full story here]]> WT General Discussions & IssuesThu, 17 Feb 2011 16:14:14 -0600 http://westmorelandtimes.com/news/westmorelandforum/read.php?2,19,19#msg-19 http://westmorelandtimes.com/news/westmorelandforum/read.php?2,19,19#msg-19Borders bookstores closing 30% of its stores, filing bankruptcy

The book chain Borders Group, Inc. is seeking a $450 million loan for bankruptcy. As a result, it may also be closing more than thirty percent of its stores nationwide. The company’s income has been on a downward slope since 2006.

Some financial analysts say the close is likely a result of the current economic times and competition in the area of internet giants such as Amazon.

Borders has long been considered as the second choice for Americans when it comes to book sales, although some have criticized the chain for being slow in developing special software such as e-readers for digital books.]]> WT General Discussions & IssuesWed, 16 Feb 2011 06:57:28 -0600 http://westmorelandtimes.com/news/westmorelandforum/read.php?2,13,13#msg-13 http://westmorelandtimes.com/news/westmorelandforum/read.php?2,13,13#msg-13
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A court in the town of Gorno-Altaisk is continuing hearings in a trial against Alexander Kalistratov, local leader of Jehovah’s Witnesses.

Kalistratov is charged with disseminating banned literature which the Supreme Court of the Altay Republic (Russia) says incited religious enmity and hatred between the latter part of 2008 and 2009.

Jehovah’s Witnesses headed by the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania, with headquarters in New York, has a little more than 200,000 members of the religious sect throughout Russia. Much of their literature has been banned because the government considers it to be extremist.

According to a press release by the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania, “Kalistratov was accused of violating Article 282(1) of the Russian Federation Criminal Code (‘Inciting Hatred or Hostility, and the Debasing of Human Dignity’).”

Jehovah’s Witnesses “Declaration of Facts”

Jehovah’s Witnesses have been imprisoned for similar charges in other countries. Some reviewers of their literature say it is not uncommon for the Witness publications to contain commentary which may be deemed by particular governments and ethnic groups as inciting extremism and hatred. One example sent to Westmoreland Times is the 1934 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses which contains a “Declaration of Facts” with such wording as: “It has been the commercial Jews of the British-American empire that have built up and carried on Big Business as a means of exploiting and oppressing the peoples of many nations.” (Awake magazine, July 8, 1998, pages 13-14, a quote from the Watchtower Society’s 1933 declaration.) The declaration can also be read in the 1974 Yearbook.

The same magazine says: “German Witnesses were disappointed that the language of the ‘Declaration’ was not more explicit in tone.” You can view the pages here: page 13, page 14. An English translation of the entire “Declaration of Facts” can be viewed here.

Some have pointed out that the language in the Watchtower’s declaration appears to side with Germany’s government at the time of Hitler. Example: “Instead of being against the principles advocated by the government of Germany, we stand squarely for such principles.”

Additional information from the 1934 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses can be read here.

Divisions Among Jehovah’s Witnesses

The Jehovah’s Witness group has suffered several splits from many who no longer agree with the religious headquarters’ views on a variety of topics. In its early history, it has been estimated that around 75 percent of the membership left the organization. In Romania alone, between 30 and 300-thousand individuals formed the “Association of True Faith Jehovah’s Witnesses.”

In the United States, the Kingdom Witness Theocratic Bible Institute located in Pittsburgh was established, the Christian Witnesses of Jah, and others have formed due to doctrinal differences or major changes in official doctrinal statements by the Watchtower Society.

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According to authorities, Andre Munday, age 21, from Lindenwold, admitted to shooting and killing David Dunbar, age 33, of Philadelphia. Police said Munday shot Dunbar from behind, after being ordered by a higher ranking gang member, Kenneth Adams Jr.

The charge, aggravated manslaughter, took place back in 2009.

Munday is expected to be sentenced in February, while Adams is expected to be sentenced in March and may be facing 24 years prison.]]> WT General Discussions & IssuesThu, 27 Jan 2011 02:33:34 -0600 http://westmorelandtimes.com/news/westmorelandforum/read.php?2,11,11#msg-11 http://westmorelandtimes.com/news/westmorelandforum/read.php?2,11,11#msg-11
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Richard A. Zangari, 44, of Philadelphia, was sentenced to 18 months in prison for threatening to kill an Assistant District Attorney in Philadelphia and threatening to destroy the Philadelphia Police Administration Building, announced United States Attorney Zane D. Memeger. Zangari pleaded guilty, on July 8, 2010, to two counts of using an instrumentality of interstate commerce to make threats, and one count of interstate communication of a threat to kill.

According to the U.S. Federal Government, last year, Zangari called the National Security Agency (NSA) and left a voice mail message stating, “yes hello, I’m down here in Philadelphia, guess what, got a van standing by with Semtex and barrels of explosives to blow up Philadelphia Police Headquarters sky high.” Investigators learned that Zangari called the NSA nearly 70 times between January and April 2010, leaving similar disturbing messages on each occasion. Approximately 50 telephone calls were made from the same phone number to the NSA office during the weekend beginning February 26, 2010. On each of the occasions that the male called, he left a message on the voice mail system of the NSA. In each of the calls the male caller identified himself as “Richard A. Zangari from Philadelphia.”

In addition to the prison term, U.S. District Court Judge Cynthia M. Rufe ordered Zangari to complete three years of supervised release to include intensive inpatient treatment at a mental health facility. Zangari is not permitted in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania without express permission.]]> WT General Discussions & IssuesThu, 27 Jan 2011 02:33:04 -0600 http://westmorelandtimes.com/news/westmorelandforum/read.php?2,3,3#msg-3 http://westmorelandtimes.com/news/westmorelandforum/read.php?2,3,3#msg-3 Danny General Discussions & IssuesWed, 19 Jan 2011 17:08:49 -0600