The video combines two events both held at Revival Fires Ministry of Dr. Cecil Todd of Branson West, Missouri. The first event is from the summer of 2008 and the second event is from November 2008.
Navy chaplain LCDR Brian K. Waite appears in uniform at the 2008 Revival Fires campmeeting in violation of military regulations. The Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) has already exposed Waite’s diploma mill education, anti-Muslim writings, and plagiarism scandal, but he remains a Navy chaplain. It is against regulations for military personnel to participate in uniform at either religious or political events, and this campmeeting was clearly both.
Susan Chira, foreign editor of The New York Times, and Gideon Rose, managing editor of Foreign Affairs Magazine, join Martin Savidge to discuss the weeks top stories: As the post-election protests wind down in Iran, the authorities seem to be getting their way, while in Iraq, a new round of violence is sweeping the country as American troops pull back.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy recently declared that burqas are not welcome in France. To some, the burqa represents the suppression of women. Yet many Muslim women embrace it. Should states have control over what people wear?
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The small Central American nation of Honduras is facing a Constitutional crisis. Honduras’ leftist President has dismissed his military chief after the general refused to back plans for changes to the Constitution. The Honduran Supreme Court then ruled that the general be reinstated.
President Manuel Zelaya wants to hold a public vote on amending the charter so that it better serves the poor. But he has faced stiff resistance from the congress, courts and the military, who say that Zelaya is trying to consolidate his hold on the presidency.
Honduras’ leftist president hurled insults Friday at congressional leaders who are considering whether to oust him from power in a standoff over his push to revamp the constitution.
President Manuel Zelaya is promoting a Sunday referendum on constitutional changes that has plunged the country into crisis by setting the president at odds with the military, the courts and the legislature that have branded the vote illegal.
Many shops and gasoline stations were closed Friday in the capital, Tegucigalpa, after the city’s leading business chamber advised its members to stay shut for fear of disturbances. Some schools closed and supermarkets were filled with panic buyers.
The president led thousands of supporters to the country’s main airport, where they seized referendum ballots to keep them from being destroyed at court order.
Then he returned to the presidential palace and lashed out at Congress early Friday for plans to investigate his mental stability and possibly declare him unfit to govern. Lawmakers are also investigating whether Zelaya undermined the rule of law by refusing to abide by a Supreme Court order reinstating the military chief he fired.
He referred to Congressional President Roberto Micheletti — a member of his own Liberal Party — as “a pathetic, second-class congressman who got that job because of me, because I gave you space within my political current.”