a religious apocalyptic theodicy is an explanation which- you know, revelation is the book of revelation- of a great cosmic conflict. and what this does- you've got to take it in this context. it's written around the year '90 or '92 of the common era in the first century- the christian community is brand new and it's in turmoil. it's just beginning to break the umbilical cord with judaism. roman persecution is intense. anger by the jews, who haven't accepted christianity- tensions within that community. a very difficult time. competition, still, with the roman mystery cults. so what is this religion meant to do? it's meant to bolster christian spirit in the face of martyrdom. so an apocalyptic theodicy- a religious one- says, "yes, you're suffering. yes, it hurts. yes, change is a bummer. but on the cosmic level, this is wonderful, because what's happening in heaven is the beginning of the end time, and that shows that just around the corner, you will be saved, you'll be vanquished." so you can bear up under it, and that's what we see. now the branch davidians, this is a classic religiou

it's because of the original revelation that joseph smith had, and they believe that this is a ration that furthers god's plan. they disagree with the conformity- to go back to our amish idea- with the civil law of the united states. and to show you this, just as i picked up the newspaper and look around for these things in the newspaper, you might have seen this also- another newspaper just two days ago, chicago tribune, i pick up and on the third page, "mormon women uniting to help sisters, wives escape polygamy." and it's a group here called the tapestry of polygamy. rather- you know, one has to be careful here because the latter day saints, the gentleman is quite right, that church does not practice it. but obviously, it's an extremely difficult thing because these women have gotten together and they even have their own website, which i guess doesn't mean much anymore- i'm happy to share that with you. but you know, here's some of the comments that comes out, the difficulty between the secular and the sacred, which we're working here, when people probably, for the most part, legit

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. >> coming up on the show, bombshell revelation about the assassination of robert f. kennedy. a witness claims what she saw isn't what history ended up writing. >> and remember just last week, the state department declared the war on terror over? one senior official did well, our next guest the former senior advisor at the u.s. special command says that couldn't be further from the truth. what does he know that the administration doesn't? right back. i love cash back.

also been backed by the result of a british led polygraph test article that even has more on the revelations. polonium can poison a man and relations between two countries in two thousand and six former russian spy and fierce kremlin critic aleksandr litvinenko was poisoned with polonium in a top london hotel britain accuses russian state duma deputy andrey lugovoy of being behind the moder and wants him extradited six years after his son was killed seventy three year old while the litvinenko says it's time to speak out why should be used as a witness alexander died in my arms he wrote important information on the tissue as he died because. do you understand through my gesture the room was bugged he didn't want anybody to hear and what was on the tissue when the plane he wrote to the murder was and the rest there are reveal it only in court as up with a plan that will do you k. like the truth. it will live the court is objective. and russia. even more. the only accusation up to now from alexander litvinenko was that putin ordered the poisoning when you will and this statement revealed after

on the relationship between moscow and london for a start but it also new revelations keep coming out extraordinarily and this is the latest one that i'm sure you've got for here is the u.k.'s chief suspect of course in the murder of. alexander litvinenko has passed a lie detector test that was administered in moscow but boy british experts it was a three hour procedure according to look up where he was asked a lot of wide variety of questions as one is in these situations they included did you do anything to lead to the death of alexander litvinenko. no did you in any way have a pause in the death of alexander litvinenko again no have you ever had any dealings with polonium which was of course the radioactive substance polonium two hundred ten with which it was found that it was poisoned again look i know the perspex but then analyze that data they found that it wasn't lies and in their professional opinion he's telling the truth and we spoke to look our void little bit and he told us how this lie detector test came about and what it means to him let's have that traditions because i

were you surprised by this revelation from dr. spitzer?ly didn't know it was going to happen. i went to visit him at his home in princeton, and i wanted to speak with him more generally about his place in the history of psychiatry. as you mentioned, before the commercial break, he spearheaded the effort to declassify homosexuality as a mental illness in 1973 and then in 2001, dropped this bombshell that was very damaging to a lot of people. and so he's obviously an iconoclast. and i was curious about both his role in the 1973 declassification of homosexuality and then what led him to undertake the 2001 study. and then as we spoke, he started to express regret for both having conducted his study and also how it had been used by the ex-gay movement. >> so it was both about seeing the impact of how his study was used in the real world, but also some regret about the scientific basis of his findings? >> that's right. after his study was published, he endured a barrage of criticism from his colleagues in the psychiatric and psychological commun

. >> the revelation over the weekend have only heightened the view that rendition such of this would have been sanctioned at the highest level, and they follow all the documents that were revealed following the fall of muammar gaddafi. >> this is not the subject of a metropolitan police academy. he is expected to speak to detectives in due course. >> our correspondent, john donaldson. it is the reaction in tripoli? >> the libyan government for the moment is keeping out of this. certainly his position is that he says he is not seeking any sort of financial settlement. he is not seeking damages. what he wants from the british, including jack straw, is an apology and admission of guilt. we now have three potential court cases. one against jack straw, a senior british intelligence officer, and the british foreign office. >> the government is keeping out of it, but none the less the is this prove the relations between britain and libya? does this prove the relations between britain and libya? >> believe it does. back in 2000, britain and the united states was alleging he was a terrorist.

wasteful government spending bore down on the general services administration today in the wake of revelations it spent huge sums of money on meetings, incentive gifts and bonuses, but a key figure in the first hearing was listening not saying much. mike emanuel has that story. >> reporter: it was the first of four hearings this week on what many called outrageous spending at the general services administration or gsa and the executive believed to be at the center of the more than $820,000 las vegas conference in october, 2010 replied to chairman darrell issa's five questions the same way. >> mr. chairman, on the advice of counsel i respectfully decline to answer based upon my fifth amendment constitutional privilege. >> reporter: jeff neeley is on his leave from his job. he quickly left capitol hill after the hearing. the western regions conference included a clown, a mind reader and has received tremendous attention with much of it captured on camera. neeley's wife's photos reveal the lavishly good time they had in las vegas. a leading democrat called the situation in defensivible and intole

as much as the revelations of the church committee. >> was that -- this is the -- >> yes, this is an amendment to legislation that created the -- may have created the intelligence committees. >> i see. liz, is there any other anecdotes you'd like to oh preserve for the library? >> well, i'm sure more will come to mind but -- oh, yeah. the only other one i'd like to mention is -- you asked about my election and campaign for election to congress and i was very much opposed to the war and when i got to washington -- i think just before we were inaugurated or sworn in, i should say, the carpet bombing of hanoi took place. >> christmas party. >> and carpet bombing. >> and i decided that i would not go into the white house and shake the president's hand after that. and i didn't. >> you worked for john lindsay, did you? what did you do for john lindsay? >> i worked as one of his assistance. there was a job assistant to the mayor and my job was to bely ly ace son and then i worked on development for mayor lindsay. actually, when i was in congress, it was a very much more bipartisan endeavor

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secret documents will have to be revealed by m i six and m i five arena outram the court with her revelationsand walter is doing the same they have no choice soon they'll be no more secrets left alive to promises to reveal more secrets in court and makes it clear his son's once close circle of friends won't like them. why didn't you disclose the information to them because if i had do you think i would be sitting here today talking to you if you didn't agree our t.v. montem at channel. remember we have plenty more in store for you twenty four seven at r.t. dot com here's what we have lined up there right now just a doomsday or signs of spring bloggers are going. green cloud of pollen. of the russian capital pictures on our website. also the commercial that caused the diplomatic row and adverted edges dutchwoman to stop husbands from twenty twelve. and ukraine find out why. today. again flared up. these are the images the world. trade canada. operation. well look. like it's technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia we've got the huge earth covered. the yellow sea has

while diplomas struggle to start a war it's a man living in this tiny italian crowd whose shocking revelations could bring the two sides closer together six years after his son was killed seventy three year old while the litvinenko says it's time to speak out for help i should be used as a witness if you're alexander died in my arms that he wrote important information on a tissue as he died because they might you understand why gesture the room was bugged he didn't want anybody to hear and what was on the tissue. on the p. road to the murder was and the rest but i'll reveal it only in court as up with the u.k. like the truth. he will live. and russia. to be even more. the only accusation up to now from alexander litvinenko was that putin ordered the poisoning when your. statement revealed after he died never exist until the very last moment i was there and such as he would recover. he hardly spoken english and the letter was written in. english someone did it for him before now butter wasn't lined with the victim's close circle all point the finger at former f.s.b. officer. saying he poured co

the press debd revels the 15th amendment in flesh and flood. and later joseph rainy of south carolina won a special election to the u.s. house of representatives becoming the first african-american to serve in our institution. the arrival of revels and rainy ranks among the great paradoxes in american history. just a decade earlier, these african-american' congregsnal seats were hold by slave holders. menards background and experiences forshadowed those who would shortly follow him into congress. he was young. the he was just 30 years old when he made that speech on the house floor. like a lot of the men who would follow him in the 1870s and 1880s. he was born into a mixed-race family. he was exceedingly well-et educated. and like all those who would follow him in the next decade, he was from a reconstructed republican government in the south. and as did menard, african-americans elected after him found allies among republicans on capitol hill. menard's contested election too was a preview of what awaited other black politicians. such cases sky

. >>> a shocking revelation from actor ryan o'neal. he is battling stage four prostate cancer. up about his diagnosis during an interview with "people" magazine. although he said he was shocked by the news, the 74-year-old said he is confident he can recover. in 2009, his long-time partner, farrah fawcett, lost her battle to cancer. >>> certain products are being pulled from the shelves. >> dole says a random sample of its bagged salads tested positive for salmonella. now, it is recalling more than 700 cases of its seven lettuces, bagged salad. the produce was sold in 15 states, including maryland, pennsylvania and virginia. the salads also have a use-by date of april 11th. so far, no illnesses have been reported. vic? >> thank you very much. the company says consumers should throw out the recalled salads. >>> very soon, the check will no longer be in the mail for millions of people who receive social security benefits. starting next year, they will begin phasing out paper checks for all benefit programs. instead, recipients will have to get payments electronically, through dir

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this is why this is this program is so interesting the revolution was prompted at least in part by revelations from wiki leaks the wiki leaks released some cables at the time about corruption in the chain is in the government's hold then president ben ali who's been in power since one thousand eight hundred seven and that was the first really hard evidence in documentation that the people of tunisia had seen that their government was so corrupt and the government couldn't suppress that information. is an entirely different cloth from his predecessor he's a doctor and he's also a human rights activist and in fact during the reign of the previous president ben ali he was exiled and imprisoned and so he is seen to have some of the greatest moral authority of all the arab leaders at the moment during his imprisonment he was kept in solitary confinement which he considers to be torture he talks quite a lot about that during the program and he's determined there will be no more torture during the program he recalls a time when he was invited to the u.s. to talk about the human rights situation in tu

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watch as revelers torched this overturned car. and it wasn't just cars.ome burned anything they could find. by the time it was over, two dozen arrests and no serious injuries. meanwhile louisville mourn their loss gracefully and without incident. all this after a basketball game a big one, as kentucky won the battle of the bluegrass state to advance to the ncaa final. for thousands, the only intention was to celebrate. police in riot gear tried to close the street but they were outnumbered and showed restraint. the mob prevailed. the crowd and the fires burning themselves out. as you might expect, police met today to make adjustments in preparation for tomorrow's game with kansas. several hundred police will out. on the treat tomorrows to hopefully keep order. >> thanks. >>> day two of the mega millions guessing game. people are wondering, who is holding the tickets in the record $656 million drawing. in the three places where the tickets were told, the curiosity and the clues are really the talk of the town. abc's david kerley is on the case. >> reporter

important because otherwise these sort of after the after the older ministrations out of power revelations really don't need all that much jason could hear thoughts thank you very much indeed jason that's the news editor at antiwar dot com joining us live from the usa thank you. pyongyang is criticize the u.s. over its decision to suspend food aid to north korea calling it an overreaction beyond limit provisions were promised in return for the common stopping communist state stopping nuclear and missile tests with career is refused to hold back its plans to launch a satellite in mid april and is reportedly invited outside experts to prove it's doing it for purely peaceful purposes however the u.s. and south korea believe the launch is really a long range missile test. co-founder of a campaign to end the korean war says washington is acting against international law but involving food aid in its political standoff. just a week or two before we heard the administration in washington saying if this was a good deal it was going to get food to the neediest people in north korea and now we're pl

secret documents will have to be revealed by m i six and m i five was arena outram real with her revelations and walter is doing the same they have no choice really resume they'll be no more secrets left for the ultra promises to reveal more secrets in court and makes it clear his son's once close circle of friends won't like many. but sure why didn't you disclose the information to them because if i had do you think i would be sitting here today talking to you you did a great sure r. t. monkey matter channel eataly of all today from the anchor also explain to r.t. why he thinks his son was a victim of what he called a grounder spygate and what of that further interview by logging on to our website at r.t. dot com. now the yellow sea has become an area of international focus as russia and china stage military maneuvers becomes right after the u.s. and the philippines conducted joint war games in disputed waters not far from the chinese coast raising tensions with beijing parties that has been asking has been following developments. i'm standing on board the russian destroyer deadmeat all bee

with her revelations and walter is doing the same they have no choice soon they'll be no more secrets left of ultra promises to reveal more secrets in court and makes it clear his son's once close circle of friends won't like many of. the should disclose the information to them. as if i had. a talking to you and you could sit in a great show of r r t month or match channel. and also explain to our to you why he thinks his son's death was the result of a ground spine game you can watch the full interview with him by logging on to our dot com. a look now at some more of friday's world news for you syrian anti-government rebels have turned to kosovo for advice three high ranking activists are on a visit to the breakaway republic they aim to hold meetings with kosovo's former rebels and learn from their separate war with serbia late one nine hundred ninety s. the anti also opposition has been criticized for its inability to present a unified front having a number of splits since the start of the thirteen month long upright. a major shopping street in london has been cordoned off amid repo

london martin mccauley an expert on russia at the university of london believes the revelation could open a new much more positive chapter and relations between the kremlin and downing street i would see it as a positive step forward of course the next step is for scotland yard common to look at the evidence and to say whether they think it's a step forward to examine it and so on and so forth and then after that when we for the british government then to make a move because the lugovoy case litvinenko case really russian relations for several years both countries need to move forward so therefore if this problem could be removed then one could look forward to a much more positive chapter in the russian relations. xander living in course while there are two men on friday to find out what he thinks of the mystery surrounding his son's death and who could be behind it. and massive explosion at an alleged rebel bomb making law has killed up to seventy people in the syrian city of hama our state t.v. says militants accidentally triggered an explosion resulting in a blast that leveled an

as much as the revelations of the church committee. >> is that the hughes/ryan? wasn't that the hughes/ryan -- this is the -- >> yeah, this is an amendment to legislation that created the -- may have created the intelligence committees. >> liz is there any other anecdotes you'd like to preserve for the library? >> well, i'm sure more will come to mind, but -- oh, yeah, well, the only other one i'd like to mention is that when you asked about my election and campaign for election to congress, and i was very much opposed to the war. and when i got to washington, i think just as we -- just before we were inaugurated or sworn in, i should say, the carpet bombing of hanoi took place. >> christmas bombing. >> christmas pomg and carpet bombing. and i decided that i would not go to the white house and shake the president's hand after that. and i didn't. >> you worked for john lindsey, didn't you? what did you do for him? >> i worked as one of his assistant assistants. assistant to the mayor. my job was to be liaison to the parks cultural affairs recreation department, an

secret documents will have to be revealed by m i six and m i five was arena outram real with her revelations and walter is doing the same they have no choice really resume will be no more secrets left to the ultra promises to reveal more secrets in court and makes it clear his son's once close circle of friends won't like many. but sure why didn't you disclose the information to them because if i had do you really think i would be sitting here talking to you if you didn't a great sure r. t. monkey match channel eataly. also explain to artie why he thinks his son was a victim of what he called a grand spy game he watched that additional interview by logging onto our website at r.t. dot com. a controversial cyber security act is now a step closer to becoming law putting u.s. congress' approval process now heads to the senate or the white house had already threatened to veto the bill internet users stunned the proposal accusing it of breaching americans' privacy what is going to chicken reports now from washington. cisco would make it legal for service providers like google microsoft facebook t

he believed this revelation is part of a pattern of deceit, he called it, that shows us the real george zimmerman. the credibility of zimmerman because, remember, it's his version against nobody else's if this trial goes on, potentially, he has to make a self-defense claim in court. >> schieffer: all right, well thank you very much, mark. remembering the dark days in l.a. how violence forced a change in a divided city and what hasn't changed in 20 years. a major league ball player is arrested for a hate crime. and why new yorkers grabbed their cameras today when the "cbs evening news" continues. ♪ you make me happy [ female announcer ] choose the same brand your mom trusted for you. children's tylenol, the #1 brand of pain and fever relief recommended by pediatricians and used by moms decade after decade. mine hurt more! mine stopped hurting faster... [ female announcer ] neosporin® plus pain relief starts relieving pain faster and kills more types of infectious bacteria. neosporin® plus pain relief. for a two dollar coupon, visit neosporin.com. if you sleep in your contact lenses. luck

they call it the revel. the resort opened today in a.c.ope it's enough to turn things around. the recession hit the city hard. gambling revenue fell about $2 billion in the past five years. frankly, it wasn't doing that well before. atlantic city has been a mess for a long time. competition from casinos in nearby states has not helped at all. the latest edition to the a.c. board walk has some new features designed to set it apart. rick leventhal is live in a.c. tonight. gambling just part of this place. my understanding, this resort is loaded, rick. >> it is, shep. and the first new hotel casino to open atlantic city in nearly 10 years believes the secret says may be attracting non-gamblers here. casino 135,000 square feet, impressive. wide open, designed like a theater. also views of the ocean from the casino floor. there is 5,000 seat theater, a spa, 14 restaurants, 10 pools, plenty of bars. also 1800 high end rooms. the ceo says that they are looking for groups, conventions, and vacationers. >> everybody in atlantic city understands tod

revel is the 12th casino in atlantic city.nearly 1900 ocean view rooms and there is shopping, restaurants, night clubs. gamblers are already giving the tables a go. a new jersey man was the first customer when it opened at 7:00 this morning. he bought $400 worth of chips and within ten minutes had won $1500 at a roulette table. >>> cosmetic company avon rejected a $10 billion takeover from fragrance company cody. avon says the offer under values the company. avon's profit has shrunk over the last three years but cody says avon's yearly revenue sales of $11 billion would be big business, a big boon in fact to the current annual revenue of $4 billion. cody also says it doesn't want a hostile takeover. >>> the world's biggest auction houses are gearing up for spring sales. >> a stunning eight carat blue diamond is among the prized items. the rare stone is part of sotheby's spring sale that includes more than 3,000 items and is worth an estimated $11.5 million. the auction runs through wednesday. >>> the whopper is getting new com