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I just heard that the White House Press Room is closed for renovations for the next nine months. Here is the real story for when it reopens. I am predicting that the remodeled press room will not be able to accommodate as many reporters as the current press room. A physical result from the conscience efforts by this administration to destroy any attempts of real questioning by the American people. They want the American people pacified. Control the major news outlets and corrupt the field of journalism, so that the reporters minds are fat and lazy. News reporters won't have an investigative bone in their bodies, but they will look great, and will be ready to accept the biggest pile of bullshit you could ever think of from the Public Relations of the holiest king of kings since Jesus Christ. They are in the process of MTVifying the news. Turning it into a ratings bonanza of infotainment full of glitz, glamour, suspense, explosions, and war. But not gory war; make it PG so as to not offend the delicate senses of the blessedly peaceful people whom Bush convinced to vote for him by feeding on their fears about being labeled a gay lover. They fill the news director's chair with Bush's own policy makers, and redefine news model from providing the truth on matters that affect the viewers' lives to the stories Bush wants you to believe is the truth, stories that titillate, and stories that scare you into submission. And boy are they doing it well. Fox News is their illegitimate mouthpiece, and the rest of the networks, except for PBS, have been neutered to look good enough for airing on TRL. The neuter-resistant PBS has to be choked to death because it's an MTV world, people. No time to really care about anything anymore because there's so much bullshit to pass off as news now. 24 hours of waiting for the next video of a rocket exploding, or that all-too-important footage of Jacko in his pajamas walking into court. It's replacing the stories that do affect our lives, which are now considered liberal. Unless you recite the crap Bush's crew spews word for word from their bullet points, you must be a liberal. We might as well be back in the 1950's labeling them communists. It keeps the media on the defensive because, gosh, they wouldn't want to be thought of as opinionated. I guess they don't want to be thought of as smart enough to come up with any real questions for our government on any real matters or thought of as having the guts to ask the real questions, like "With the way our political system is currently organized, it takes an outrageous amount of money in order for anyone to wage an effective campaign for office. With most of that money coming from big money corporations and special interests, what incentive do you, [insert politician's name here], have to side with the voters' wishes over your donor's interests when your donors' interests conflict with those of the American people?" That could have been worded better, but you get the point. Our government has taken away the checks and balances in our Constitution, and continues to do so with the news media, one facet of that being my prediction of their press room. Fewer seats will mean fewer chances of real questions from ever-more dumber and spineless reporters. While they're at it, they might as well go ahead and change the name from Press Room to Please Room. Am I a liberal conspiracy theorist making all this up? I quote our faithful leader speaking to a relic of the olden days of journalism on the last day of the old press room. On 8/2/2006, Bush said, "Is that Sam Donaldson? You're a has-been! I don't have to answer to has-beens." Mr. President, I couldn't have said it better myself.
Despite a Supreme Court decision, Jerusalem's Temple Mount, Judaism's holiest site, was closed to Jews on the Fast of Tisha B'Av, which mourns the destruction of the Holy Temple.
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According to Professor Nahum Rakover, former Deputy Attorney General of Israel:
PM Olmert gushed to Suddeutsche Zeitung, the German daily newspaper, that he would welcome the rush of German soldiers in a stabilization force to occupy South Lebanon.
Can you believe it? Asking the fox to guard the chicken house!
so my take on the jewishwar at this point is... about a year and a half ago I wrote an essay about Iran being the stronghold of the anti-USA movement, so its no surprise to me that Iran is behind Huzzbulah... and that the anti-American movement is successfully accomplishing with Israel/Huzzbalah exactly what they accomplished with 9/11 (and the Cole, Embassy, MarineBase, etc., attacks leading up to it)... they created a PR move...
as important as PR was at the beginnings of mass communications, during WW II , in our modern world of mass communications PR is the main ingredient...
and the PR move the anti-Americans meant to accomplish with 9/11 is/was... make the Americans seem to respond inappropriately disporportionately... so that thousands and then millions of bodies will join the original hundreds of bodies of the anti-American movement... and throw a little jihid in for added stimulation...
the end of the Moslem Empire's glory days ended in 1912... their last empire, the Ottomon Empire, died... and from its remaining territory, about the size of Texas 6X, the western powers carved out the countries of Iraq, Syria, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia... these countries didn't exist before that (the territory of Iran was there but it was called Persia)... and that process we call Empirialism, and it led into 1914-16 which we refer to as WW I... which co-incided with the British, whose powers relied on its waterway abilities, being challenged and replaced by Germany when waterway abilities gave way to the advantages of that new entity 'the railroad'...
ok... I'm getting off track here (track, railroad, get it?)... ok, 9/11 was orchestrated to make USA respond in a way that would get more bodies to enlist into the anti-American movement... that was trap #1... and along down the line we site Trap #5: get Israel to seem to respond inappropriately disporportionately...
(on this chessboard, with Israel being essentially America's fort in the MiddleEast, America and Israel are the same color, let's say white... Iran and Huzzbalah (Huzzbalah being the anti-Americans' stateless puppet so that no state, in this case Iran, can be directly blamed and attacked... it's become clear to the anti-Americans that their militias must be shadow militias possessing no state location for counterattacks) are the other color, let's say black...
and Russia is probably black too, since its unlikely Huzzbalah nor Iran are manufacturing some of the equipment their using, its likely Iran's oil money is purchasing it off Russia... you know, Russia was so pissed at the USA when Reagan refered to them as the Evil Empire that they had to restrain themselves from attacking us then and there)
...so to get Israel to seem to respond inappropriately disporportionately... Huzzbalah stands behind Lebannon human shields and fires rockets into Israel... so when Israel finally can't take it no more and fires back, Huzzbalah/Iran rolls out the video cameras and says "look at the innocents Israel slaughtered"
...and Israel realizes if they cease fire those innocents will have died for nothing, because Huzzbalah will re-arm and everything will go back to square one... so Israel tries to finish it once and for all believing that as horrible as the collaterial damage is it is less than will occur if Huzzbalah gets to re-arm...
...and Israel announces to the innocents to evacuate, get out of the way, and for one reason or another they won't and can't (I heard one Labanese woman on the BBC saying "we are poor farmers, we have no way to get out of town, the taxis are charging too much to take us to Tyre"... can you imagine? a taxi driver, or anyone with a car, wanting to charge more than the price of a tank of gas to evacuate innocents?)
...until finally Huzzbalah rolls out mobile rocket launchers into the streets surrounding a building where a half hundred innocents huddle in a basement... and when Israel fires upon the location where Huzzbalah is firing from, and the building goes down, Iran/Huzzbalah score their biggest PR move yet, they get a halfceasefire, a lotta video footage of slaughtered children, and the entire world hating Israel...
...at this point, if WW III does go down (if it hasn't, as Newt suggests, already started... do you know WW II wasn't declared WW II until 1945) I'm thinking maybe it will go down like this... the Sunnis are basically to the west of Iraq, the Arab countries and so on, who are still allied with USA and who the USA are going to want to hold onto as allies... while the Sheites are basically to the east of Iraq, Iran and so on... so the civil war between sunni and sheite in Iraq would make a natural dividing line, with USA behind the Arab Sunnis and Russia behind Iran Sheites etc. ...
...except, its nuts for the Sunnis and Sheites to so divide themselves if the goal is to bring back the glory days of the Moslem Empire (prior to Ottomon's 1912 demise, with its tales of Armenian marches and Young Turks, I think but I'm not sure that the height of the Moslem Empire's glory days was around the 1600s... Ali Baba and Aladdan and flying carpets over Bagdad and mighty Sultans and all those white steed turbined tales... the Moslims accepted their Empire was over until they came to know, upon causing the demise of the USSR Superpower with the Afgan war, that with courage and faith in Allah they can cause the demise of superpowers, so the committment to bringing down the West and the USA superpower was actualized...)
...I think the theory behind USA attacking Iraq was good... show great strength/power to the MiddleEast, shock and awe, but with that great power liberate a people under dictatorship, then show compassion/mercy/generousity by giving the country and its resources back to her own people... a great PR move against those who would create an antiAmerican movement... "the USA is good, it is a friend, be friends with the USA"... only the administration and pentagon etc. proved inept to accomplish it successfully... so with insurgents pouring into Iraq from Iran and Syria instability arrived/arrives and good ol' colateral damage escalates (the last few weeks collaterial damage in Iraq has been in the thousands, dwarfing the collateral damage in the jewish war, though not as widely covered)... USA looks evil and the anti-Americans look righteous...
...at this point I suppose we are going to have to attack Iran... possibly the overall war would actually become easier for the USA if the Iran stronghold/safehouse is eliminated... trying to stabilize Iraq while Iran exists is like trying to fill with water a bucket that has a hole...
...except, at this point, maybe the anti-American movement has been too successful, maybe there are too many territories now willing to offer their space as safehouses for insurgency agents, maybe even Russia will offer itself as an anti-Americans' safehouse...
...are you aware of the selffulfilling prophesies in your own life?... when I was in grammar school I use to put myself to sleep with a character tale about myself... in the tale I was the strongest boy in school but no body liked me and no body talked to me and so no body really knew me until one day a certain girl noticed me and joy was realized as we danced down the armrail of Two Guys From Harrison's escalator but then I lost her and so... anyway, don't analyze that too deeply since I left out a lot of details... I'm only trying to make a point that we are aware of a script about ourselves because we wrote the script and then we live it out and one day we realize we are just a story we created... can you so put your finger on your self furfulling prophesy? Basic Shakespear psychology oh player on a stage...
...so everyone thinks its strange that the Biblical prophecy, the Biblical script for endtimes, seems to be playing out today... but it couldn't be otherwise, humankind indoctrinated its self with this script... and if we continue to selffulfill it, our next steps are to irradicate the farm land so that we all starve, and to release germ warfare so that there are plagues, and then the bugs will feast...
(heck, if there's little enough food, and every one is diseased, it might even resemble the zombicannabilism we romantisize in our wasteland movies... I remember when RoadWarrior was released, it was a scary thing to me, I knew it was a script everyone would embrace to fulfill, the breakdown of law and order, the gangs and violence, the gasoline...)
...but the problem with the Biblical script... besides all the horrors of Armageddon it promises... is that the only portion of the script we don't control is the end... leading up to the end, the fire and diseases and famine and war, heck even the globalization mark of the beast crowning of a proclaimed Anti-Christ, all that we can make happen, all that we can control... but that end part, the part where, after everything has become just too too horrible and painful, you know, the big finale where the Savior Messiah comes riding down on a cloud from Heaven to fix everything, that part is out of our control, that part we can't make happen, that's when we're finally going to admit we should have chosen a different script to fulfill...
maybe the only culture on earth who doesn't have some version of that endtimes script is the Chinese... maybe when its all over they'll pick up the marbles... which might be a good thing if it helps us avoid Albert Einstein's prophesy: "I don't know how WW III will be fought, but I do know how WW IV will be fought: with sticks and stones."
...and even if there is a God up there... heck, even if the fanatics who believe the gods were spacemen and advanced civilizations are hovering up there watching us... even if there is some great higher power in the sky with the power to fix everything... I don't think they, or He, will... because we all know what a human's purpose is... the age old question "Do I have a purpose? Do people have a purpose? Does life and the Universe have a purpose?" We all know the answer to that question every day when we raise our children... a human's purpose is 'to grow up.' And humans grow up when they face their own problems and, without any help from mom or dad, solve their own problem, no matter how uncomfortable or how much it might hurt. And I reckon any Eye in the Sky, like any good parent, like any good authority figure, will not take away from us our opportunity to grow up.
Tony Blair revealed, in his speech to the Los Angeles World Affairs Council, he just doesn't get it (or is at least ordered to appear that way like President Bush). The war on terrorism is a war against Nazi-Muslims, plain and simple.
I want to write about the encouraging diplomacies over the weekend...
...inspite of Russia's hatred of us, and China's investments in Iran that they could use a healthy Iran to pay off, its possible that Rice convinced them that it might be in their best interests, while they are more in missle range to the Islamic extremists than we are and might, in the long run... for one thing Islam teaches is patience even when a plan of world domination might take multigeneration to fruit... find themselves swallowing the same ChineseRocket RussiaWarhead venom that they would now supply the snake with, to instead side with the USA...
...so if Russia and China get on board with us, maybe WW III can be avoided... maybe the immediate post-coldwar vision can still manifest, that of simple economic wars in a world of business...
...unless Syria gets nuts with their chemical missles and destroy TelVi/Jerusleum and Israel retaliates with nukes... but we'd probably even survive that as long as the big 5 stick together...
I'm not crazy about guys who make points with sarcasm, and the dumbest form of sacrasm, name-calling, over information...I love the art of comedy to get past people's defensive-opinion-walls, but political times are too critcal nowadays to simply use comedy as distraction... finding the truth should be the only importance when the flame is at the fuse..
...did Iran supply the misleading charts that convinced the USA that Iraq had WMD capible of deployment within 48 hours?
I hear over and over, in regards to the USA occupying Iraq, "how would USAers feel if some foreign power occupied our USA, wouldn't we hate/resent them and want to fight them off?" To which I ask, "What if, in some fantasy scenario, President Bush found a way to dissolve the Congress, Senate, Judicial Courts, etc., and have himself declared Dictator for life, and the military and police backed up his power and all USA citizens lost their rights and privacy etc. ... and then the British and/or French invaded the USA to liberate us from the Bush Dictator... would we hate/resent the British and/or French occupying our land and try to fight them off? or would we, as did France for the British and Yanks, welcome their efforts to free us?
I think some guys try to come off as serious commentaries while at the same time, so that they will be memorible and gain fame, use theater, costumes like cigars and sunglasses, and little red bowties and baseball caps... which is fine if you own up to the fact you're doing theater and not serious news, the way that Stewert and Colbert own up to the fact that they are doing theater, but once you try to pretend that you're a serious news guy when your not, you're misinforming and doing damage, since many people would much rather get their news as entertainment if they really believe they are getting their news, which they're not... so, as always, the main problem with our country is the misinformed voters... and today Liebermann showed his colors when, prior to having any evidence to why his website crashed, he got his people right on the news networks to accuse, to millions of tv viewers, his opponeunt of being an unscruplous sabeteur...
By Joel Bainerman
In the second week of July 2006, Arab Knesset member Talab El-Sana told the Israeli press:
“The war in Lebanon is an American war. Israel is nothing more than a US subcontractor, doing America's work in the Middle East. The United States is using Israelis and Lebanese to further its own ends. The US has nullified Israel's ability to make independent decisions.”
Could the war in Lebanon had more to do with protecting oil pipelines than and America’s geo-strategic goals than Hezbollah shooting rockets into northern Israel?
Germany looks increasingly likely to agree to send troops to Lebanon with debate already raging in the country about the merits of the move six decades after the Holocaust.
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Ruvy in Jerusalem
Aug 16, 2006 at 2:53 pm
@ comment 225.
The attack on the USS Liberty was not an accident. There was a unit on board passing coordinates to the Egyptians about our military movements in the Sinai. So our gunships attacked the ship and destroyed the communications section, in particluar.
There was a time when our military would not tolerate crap from anybody, a time that has passed, unfortunately.
A revealing message from Israeli Yehoshua Friedman.
Rabbi Friedman and his wife Janet are among the original founders of Kochav HaShachar, a Jewish Pioneering Community in the Israelite Tribal Territory of Eretz Binyamin (Land of Benjamin), located in what is today known as the Shomron (Samaria).
The following photos and words are shared with us from Israeli Yuval Zaliouk (who is from Haifa but also has a home near Toledo, Ohio). See for yourself how the Israelis, by the grace of God, have made the desert blossom as a rose.
I can no longer maintain respect for my fellow humans who would fight and kill innocents to maintain a foothold on a piece of land. There within their minds, washed by religious teachings, they remain motivated to stubbornly stake themselves deep into the sands. Stuck in their positions like pride ridden children they consistently fail to make peace and perpetually cast blame at each other across high political walls, challenging the nuances of each sides’ histories. Haphazardly they kill children and other innocent and helpless bystanders with their actions. Decade after decade the world watches and debates and voices raise over each other in simultaneous fume, desperate pleas, gratuitous questions The reign of human stupidity in the Middle East must end soon.
Israel upon being violated, Muslim Arabs upon being violated, for some fifty-three years have been at each others’ throats in a seemingly never ending war motivated by the occupation of that same chunk of desert, that “holy land.” Eighteen hundred years ago believers fought for these same sands. Their battles reoccurred over centuries. Their weapons were more discriminate than bombs and machine guns. With their spears and swords, and arrows and clubs of the bloody Crusades, they saw each others’ faces and heard each other cry out in pain as they wrought death and received mortality.
So here we humans are centuries later, lessons not learned, never taught. The big picture never realized. The real problem never addressed: our ridiculous beliefs. Now the weapons are indiscriminate and kill innocents for whom an entire war is their oppressor, not just their fathers’ enemy with a different uniform. The weapons now used, the result of designs made to kill more people with less effort, are clumsy and slaughter children and women. These are the aerial bombs dropped without bravery or honor from safe above, the helicopter launched missiles targeting apartment buildings to attempt to kill one man, machine guns fired from above sway back and forth are used for “crowd control,” mortars with inexact targeting, clumsy rockets exploding somewhere near their targets. In the Crusades women and children would flee Jerusalem proper and hide in the desert, while Arab women and children remained at their encampments, safe from the deadly specific goals of their brave and honorable, yet religiously motivated men.
I propose a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian and Arab dilemma. Four years ago, I wrote and published an opinion titled Where the Red Stripes Are (Liberal Oasis, 2002). When I showed the piece to my Jewish wife, she reacted with incredulity, and with amusement that implied I could not be serious. She clearly did not understand that I had contemplated the proposal for years and was serious. My idea was extreme and I admit it. But four years later my wife turns to me and says “you might be right about that.” I surmise that only an Atheist could come-up with such a proposal, not because an Atheist holds little respect for religious belief (that is the case with most of us Atheists, if we are being direct and honest) but because an Atheist remains neutral between religious parties " I want peace and prosperity for all Arabs, and all Jews with zero favoritism. I want the horrors to end for all sides.
Where the Red Stripes Are: The Forbidden Zone:
I propose that every man, woman, and child, and all livestock and pets, from north of the Red Sea, to the western banks of the Dead Sea, north and east to Damascus and an approximately three-hundred mile selection of the Mediterranean coast be evacuated to separate corners of the Earth, to new lands apart from their warring factions and their religious differences. Not one human will be left in the area. Most inhabitants would leave voluntarily upon realizing their dilemma. As the evacuation proceeds to its’ end, many will stubbornly want to stay behind, they would have to be removed non-lethally but with force if need be. The evacuation would take years to conclude. Painstaking effort must be taken to insure that not one human is left within the “zone.”
Post evacuation the entire quarantined area would be irradiated with low altitude radiation dispersing weapons. This action would preserve all land mass, all religious symbols, shrines, churches, synagogues, mosques, the Wailing Wall, the Dome of the Rock, every building, every wall, every sacred object, but the purpose would be realized assuredly: rendering that historically blood soaked region uninhabitable by humans for a thousand years.
The region demarcated with red strips on every map,would sit as a forbidden zone, but more importantly as a monument for the benefit of humankind future to the ineptitude and violence inspired by religious dogma, symbolism and zealotry. A monument to religious humankinds’ preponderance for stupidity. A lesson for every child in a geography class, who will learn by no choice (when faced with broad red stripes on a map), of the stupid people who could not get-along, who warred like frothing dogs for generations, over religious icons and perceived sacred possessions.
Thou shall not carry graven images. Thou shall not worship false idols. Sound familiar? To Christians and some Jews it does, they are pronouncements from the Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount. The Christians’ Philosopher in Chief knew that he nor anyone wishing to follow him needed anything (any building, any statue or carved image) to worship his god and practice his teachings. He knew these materialistic things would corrupt his message. He wanted genuine faith requiring only body and “soul.”
If Jesus did exist, (contrary to the predominant lack of historical evidence from all historians and writers of that time and place) he seemed to be predicting what might happen if “false idols,” and “graven images,” became the norm of his following. Point in fact those multiple battles spanning centuries over possession of the “Holy Land,” the hundreds of thousands that have laid dead from those battles over fictitiously deemed “sacrosanct,” land.
Consider that if Jesus Christ, Abraham, or Mohamed were alive and witness to the Middle East today, they might very well agree and recommend the same solution.
The way the public was decieved was stupid, childish. I'm talking about the way that the Bush crime family managed to convince enough of his constituency (not very well informed Red Staters) that Saddam Hussien was involved with Nine Eleven and Al Queda.
Here are but four examples of speeches given. To the unattentive ear (those who would get bored in class)it would certainly sound like there was definitely a relationship, prior to our invasion and occupation of Iraq. Bush got his panties all in a twist at the press conferance yesterday, over this, loudly declaring no one implied the relationship. Read, just these segments of official speeches, just from Bush. Remember; Cheney, Rice, Wolfowitz were all over the media, droping the same kind of nuanced teasers.
"On September the 11th, 2001, the American people saw what terrorists could do, by turning four airplanes into weapons. We will not wait to see what terrorists or terrorist states could do with chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear weapons. Saddam Hussein can now be expected to begin another round of empty concessions, transparently false denials. No doubt, he will play a last-minute game of deception. The game is over."
Note: Same paragraph, as if same subject.
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"The threat comes from Iraq. It arises directly from the Iraqi regime's own actions -- its history of aggression, and its drive toward an arsenal of terror. Eleven years ago, as a condition for ending the Persian Gulf War, the Iraqi regime was required to destroy its weapons of mass destruction, to cease all development of such weapons, and to stop all support for terrorist groups. The Iraqi regime has violated all of those obligations. It possesses and produces chemical and biological weapons. It is seeking nuclear weapons. It has given shelter and support to terrorism, and practices terror against its own people. The entire world has witnessed Iraq's eleven-year history of defiance, deception and bad faith.
We also must never forget the most vivid events of recent history. On September the 11th, 2001, America felt its vulnerability -- even to threats that gather on the other side of the earth. We resolved then, and we are resolved today, to confront every threat, from any source, that could bring sudden terror and suffering to America. "
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"We know that the regime has produced thousands of tons of chemical agents, including mustard gas, sarin nerve gas, VX nerve gas. Saddam Hussein also has experience in using chemical weapons. He has ordered chemical attacks on Iran, and on more than forty villages in his own country. These actions killed or injured at least 20,000 people, more than six times the number of people who died in the attacks of September the 11th."
"Some citizens wonder, after 11 years of living with this problem, why do we need to confront it now? And there's a reason. We've experienced the horror of September the 11th. We have seen that those who hate America are willing to crash airplanes into buildings full of innocent people. Our enemies would be no less willing, in fact, they would be eager, to use biological or chemical, or a nuclear weapon."
"Members of Congress are nearing an historic vote. I'm confident they will fully consider the facts, and their duties.
"The attacks of September the 11th showed our country that vast oceans no longer protect us from danger. Before that tragic date, we had only hints of al Qaeda's plans and designs. Today in Iraq, we see a threat whose outlines are far more clearly defined, and whose consequences could be far more deadly. Saddam Hussein's actions have put us on notice, and there is no refuge from our responsibilities.
We did not ask for this present challenge, but we accept it. Like other generations of Americans, we will meet the responsibility of defending human liberty against violence and aggression. By our resolve, we will give strength to others. By our courage, we will give hope to others. And by our actions, we will secure the peace, and lead the world to a better day."
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"Our mission in Iraq is a great undertaking and part of a larger mission that the United States accepted now more than two years ago. September 11, 2001, changed everything for this country. We came to recognize our vulnerability to the threats of the new era. We saw the harm that 19 evil men could do, armed with little more than airline tickets and box cutters and driven by a philosophy of hatred. We lost some 3,000 innocent lives that morning, in scarcely two hours' time.
Since 9/11, we've learned much more about what these enemies intend for us. One member of al Qaeda said 9/11 was the "beginning of the end of America." And we know to a certainty that terrorists are doing everything they can to gain even deadlier means of striking us. From the training manuals we found in the caves of Afghanistan to the interrogations of terrorists that we've captured, we have learned of their ambitions to develop or acquire chemical, biological or nuclear weapons. And if terrorists ever do acquire that capability -- on their own or with help from a terror regime -- they will use it without the slightest constraint of reason or morality."
The defeatist Kadima party of LEFTIST criminals, bought and paid for by foreigners, is the furthest thing from balance and horribly reflects this harsh reality: Israeli society is mentally and spiritually unbalanced and about to fall under EUROPEAN OCCUPATION, having been sold out by the likes of Shimon Peres, Ariel Sharon, Yossi Beilin and other traitors.
What is wrong with Black America? The African-American community is not only facing a crisis, they are in a crisis and too many don't seem to care and get angry whenever someone dares to disturb their complacency with calls for necessary change; Whenever someone expects more of them than less than mediocre performance or attitude, and encourages them to stop just moseying along to nowhere and develop a proper sense of direction, mission and purpose with R-E-S-P-E-C-T.
Two prominent Christian Zionists are Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson.
Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson and Osama bin Ladin have a lot in common. Take this quiz and see if you can identify statements made by these men.
In today's wars, there are no morals, and it is clear that mankind has descended to the lowest degrees of decadence and oppression.
Jerry Falwell or Pat Robertson
Osama bin Ladin
America is polluting the whole world.
Jerry Falwell or Pat Robertson
Osama bin Ladin
The government is committed to supporting God's religion, the country remains a strong bulwark for religion, and the people are among the most protective of God's religion, and the keenest to fulfill His laws.
Jerry Falwell or Pat Robertson
Osama bin Ladin
One-world opinion is taking the side of the Palestinians, not the side of Israel.
Jerry Falwell or Pat Robertson
Osama bin Ladin
There will never be world peace until God's house and God's people are given their rightful place of leadership at the top of the world.
Jerry Falwell or Pat Robertson
Osama bin Ladin
The government does not cease to cry over matters affecting religion, without making any serious effort to serve the interests of the religious community.
Jerry Falwell or Pat Robertson
Osama bin Ladin
We are on the brink of our destruction, and if we do not awaken now, it will be too late. We have been victimized by traitorous behavior on the part of our leaders.
Jerry Falwell or Pat Robertson
Osama bin Ladin
The media strives to keep the people occupied with minor matters, and to stir their emotions and desires until corruption becomes widespread among believers.
Jerry Falwell or Pat Robertson
Osama bin Ladin There is no way that a United
There is no way that a United Nations, treaties, or any other human instrument can bring about peace. Such things mean nothing when one nation desires the land and resources of another.
Jerry Falwell or Pat Robertson
Osama bin Ladin
We have allowed rampant secularism.... We have insulted God at the highest levels of government.
Jerry Falwell or Pat Robertson
Osama bin Ladin
One particular report described the gaps and the shortcoming in the philosophy of the government, the situation of the law within the country and the arbitrary declaration of what is lawful and unlawful regardless of divine law as instituted by God.
Jerry Falwell or Pat Robertson
Osama bin Ladin
Priorities of spiritual work are lost while blasphemy and polytheism continue its grip and control. We should be alert to these atrocious plans carried out by the government.
Jerry Falwell or Pat Robertson
Osama bin Ladin
America is in imminent peril... rotting from within.
Jerry Falwell or Pat Robertson
Usama bin Ladin
The American people have put themselves at the mercy of a disloyal government, and this is most evident in Clinton's administration. The American government is leading the country towards hell.
Jerry Falwell or Pat Robertson
Osama bin Ladin
The termites are in charge now, and that is not the way it ought to be, and the time has arrived for a godly fumigation.
Jerry Falwell or Pat Robertson
Osama bin Ladin
If America is not suffering the irrevocable judgment of God, she is dangerously close.
Jerry Falwell or Pat Robertson
Osama bin Ladin
Americans have committed unprecedented stupidity. We anticipate a black future for America.
Jerry Falwell or Pat Robertson
Osama bin Ladin
If the judges appointed by man will not deal with those who take innocent human life, then God is going to enter in and bring justice. And when that happens many of the innocent will suffer along with the guilty.
Jerry Falwell or Pat Robertson
Osama bin Ladin
All these crimes and sins committed by Americans are a clear declaration of war on God.
Jerry Falwell or Pat Robertson
Osama bin Ladin
A condition like this will bring about the destruction of your nation. It'll bring about terrorist bombs; it'll bring earthquakes, tornadoes and possibly a meteor.
Jerry Falwell or Pat Robertson
Osama bin Ladin
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Dean
Sep 02, 2006 at 3:05 am
The answers:
1. In today's wars, there are no morals, and it is clear that mankind has descended to the lowest degrees of decadence and oppression.
Correct answer: Osama bin Ladin
In today's wars, there are no morals, and it is clear that mankind has descended to the lowest degrees of decadence and oppression. They rip us of our wealth and of our resources and of our oil. Our religion is under attack. They kill and murder our brothers. They compromise our honor and our dignity and dare we utter a single word of protest against the injustice, we are called terrorists.
May 1998 interview, Frontline
2. America is polluting the whole world.
Correct answer: Pat Robertson
God in his great mercy has blessed America, and made this a haven for Christians and Jews alike. But we've gone away from our Christian heritage. And God has little obligation at the present time to spare America, because we are polluting the world with our television programs, our movies and so forth, our books. We are polluting the whole world. We've made the world drunk, if you will, with the wine of our fornication. The whole world has been affected by Hollywood.
The 700 Club, December 7, 1995
3. The government is committed to supporting God's religion, the country remains a strong bulwark for religion, and the people are among the most protective of God's religion, and the keenest to fulfill His laws.
Correct answer: Osama bin Ladin
All gratitude to Allah, our relationship with our brother Mujahideen in Afghanistan is a deep and broad relationship where blood and sweat have mixed as have the links over long years of struggle against the Soviets, it is not a passing relationship, nor one based on personal interests.
They are committed to support the religion approved by Allah, and that country remains as the Muslims have known it, a strong bulwark for Islam, and its people are among the most protective of the religion approved by Allah, and the keenest to fulfil His laws and to establish an Islamic state.
November 1996 interview, Nida'ul Islam
4. One-world opinion is taking the side of the Palestinians, not the side of Israel.
Correct answer: Jerry Falwell
Since the Antichrist will not be revealed before Jesus comes, I believe conditions are falling in place, i.e., one-world government, so he can rule the world after Jesus comes. But we're moving toward a one-world government through the United Nations, through the world court and a growing world opinion. The problem is that the one-world opinion is taking the side of the Palestinians, not the side of Israel.
"What is Next in the End-Time Drama," 9/9/01
5. There will never be world peace until God's house and God's people are given their rightful place of leadership at the top of the world.
Correct answer: Pat Robertson
There will never be world peace until God's house and God's people are given their rightful place of leadership at the top of the world. How can there be peace when drunkards, drug dealers, communists, atheists, New Age worshipers of Satan, secular humanists, oppressive dictators, greedy moneychangers, revolutionary assassins, adulterers, and homosexuals are on top?
The New World Order
6. The government does not cease to cry over matters affecting religion, without making any serious effort to serve the interests of the religious community.
Correct answer: Osama bin Ladin
The external policy of the Saud regime towards Islamic issues is a policy which is tied to the British outlook from the establishment of Saudi Arabia until 1364 ah (1945 ac), then it became attached to the American outlook after America gained prominence as a major power in the world after the Second World War.
It is well known that the policies of these two countries bear the greatest enmity towards the Islamic world.... The regime does not cease to cry in the open over matters affecting the Muslims without making any serious effort to serve the interests of the Muslim community apart from small efforts in order to confuse people and throw some dust into their eyes.
November 1996 interview, Nida'ul Islam
7. We are on the brink of our destruction, and if we do not awaken now, it will be too late. We have been victimized by traitorous behavior on the part of our leaders.
Correct answer: Jerry Falwell
In spite of all these outward worldly signs of our national success, we are actually on the brink of our destruction, and if we do not awaken now, it will be too late.
We have never been so prosperous. Yet, we have never been so secular and pagan. We are becoming both amoral and immoral. We are making secularism our national religion. The government and the courts have become, not neutral to religion as the Founders intended, but openly hostile to Christianity.
And, as we look with sadness at our internal demise, we cannot any longer ignore that external enemies are growing. This administration has given our military and nuclear secrets to the Chinese and they to other American foes. We have been victimized by traitorous behavior on the part of our leaders.
"A National Rebirth Needed," 8/6/00
8. The media strives to keep the people occupied with minor matters, and to stir their emotions and desires until corruption becomes widespread among believers.
Correct answer: Osama bin Ladin
It is not a concealed fact that the police states in the Arab world rely on some foundations in order to protect themselves. Among these organisations is the security organisation as they spend generously on it, and its foremost mission is to spy on its own people in order to protect the person of the ruler....
The media sector is in the same category as it strives to beatify the persons of the leaders, to drowse the community, and to fulfill the plans of the enemies through keeping the people occupied with the minor matters, and to stir their emotions and desires until corruption becomes widespread among believers.
November 1996 interview, Nida'ul Islam
9. There is no way that a United Nations, treaties, or any other human instrument can bring about peace. Such things mean nothing when one nation desires the land and resources of another.
10. Correct answer: Pat Robertson
There is no way that a United Nations, a League of Nations, peace treaties, disarmament treaties, or any other human instrument can bring about peace. Such things mean nothing when one nation desires the land and resources of another. A lasting peace will never be built upon man's efforts, because man is sinful, vicious, and wicked. Until men are changed and Satan's power is removed, there will not be peace on earth.
Answers to 200 of Life's Most Probing Questions
11. We have allowed rampant secularism.... We have insulted God at the highest levels of government.
Correct answer: Pat Robertson
[on the September 11 terrorist attacks] We have allowed rampant secularism and occult, etc. to be broadcast on television. We have permitted somewhere in the neighborhood of 35 to 40 million unborn babies to be slaughtered in our society. We have a court that has essentially stuck its finger in God's eye and said we're going to legislate you out of the schools. We're going to take your commandments from off the courthouse steps in various states. We're not going to let little children read the commandments of God. We're not going to let the Bible be read, no prayer in our schools. We have insulted God at the highest levels of our government. And, then we say 'why does this happen?' It is happening because God Almighty is lifting His protection from us.
"The 700 Club," 9/13/01
12. One particular report described the gaps and the shortcoming in the philosophy of the government, the situation of the law within the country and the arbitrary declaration of what is lawful and unlawful regardless of divine law as instituted by God.
Correct answer: Osama bin Ladin
One particular report, the glorious Memorandum Of Advice, ... described the gaps and the shortcoming in the philosophy of the regime and suggested the required course of action and remedy. The report gave a description of .... the situation of the law within the country and the arbitrary declaration of what is Halal and Haram (lawful and unlawful) regardless of the Shari'ah as instituted by Allah.
The Ladenese Epistle: Declaration of War, Dec 1996
13. Priorities of spiritual work are lost while blasphemy and polytheism continue its grip and control. We should be alert to these atrocious plans carried out by the government.
Correct answer: Osama bin Ladin
In the shadow of these discussions and arguments truthfulness is covered by the falsehood, and personal feuds and partisanship created among the people increasing the division and the weakness of the Ummah; priorities of the Islamic work are lost while the blasphemy and polytheism continue its grip and control over the Ummah. We should be alert to these atrocious plans carried out by the Ministry of Interior.
The Ladenese Epistle: Declaration of War, Dec 1996
14. America is in imminent peril... rotting from within.
Correct answer: Jerry Falwell
I do not believe the Republicans or the Democrats have the solution to America's moral and spiritual dilemma. Only a pervasive and national spiritual awakening can prevent us entering the post-Christian era as we go simultaneously into the 21st century. I believe America is in imminent peril. We are rotting from within.
"Rebuilding America's Walls," 7/6/97
15. The American people have put themselves at the mercy of a disloyal government, and this is most evident in Clinton's administration. The American government is leading the country towards hell.
Correct answer: Osama bin Ladin
I say to [the American people] that they have put themselves at the mercy of a disloyal government, and this is most evident in Clinton's administration ... . We believe that this administration represents Israel inside America. Take the sensitive ministries such as the Ministry of Exterior and the Ministry of Defense and the CIA, you will find that the Jews have the upper hand in them. They make use of America to further their plans for the world, especially the Islamic world....
The American government is leading the country towards hell. ... We say to the Americans as people and to American mothers, if they cherish their lives and if they cherish their sons, they must elect an American patriotic government that caters to their interests not the interests of the Jews.
May 1998 interview, Frontline
16. The termites are in charge now, and that is not the way it ought to be, and the time has arrived for a godly fumigation.
Correct answer: Pat Robertson
It is interesting, that termites don't build things, and the great builders of our nation almost to a man have been Christians, because Christians have the desire to build something. He is motivated by love of man and God, so he builds. The people who have come into (our) institutions (today) are primarily termites. They are into destroying institutions that have been built by Christians, whether it is universities, governments, our own traditions, that we have.... The termites are in charge now, and that is not the way it ought to be, and the time has arrived for a godly fumigation.
New York Magazine, August 18, 1986
17. If America is not suffering the irrevocable judgment of God, she is dangerously close.
Correct answer: Jerry Falwell
America is living by a standard of relative morality. Young people who do not know what is right will follow their animal nature. If young people do not believe in absolute truth and absolute morality, they will fornicate, rob and indulge their selfish pleasures. Absolute truth and absolute morality are the basis of the Declaration of Independence. These are selfevident truths and inalienable rights.
If America is not suffering the irrevocable judgment of God because she has broken her covenant with God, then I believe she is dangerously close.
"America Made a Deal with God," 7/6/97
18. Americans have committed unprecedented stupidity. We anticipate a black future for America.
Correct answer: Osama bin Ladin
We are certain - with the grace of Allah - that we shall prevail over the Jews and over those fighting with them. Today however, our battle against the Americans is far greater than our battle was against the Russians. Americans have committed unprecedented stupidity. They have attacked Islam and its most significant sacrosanct symbols.... We anticipate a black future for America. Instead of remaining United States, it shall end up separated states and shall have to carry the bodies of its sons back to America.
May 1998 interview, Frontline
19. If the judges appointed by man will not deal with those who take innocent human life, then God is going to enter in and bring justice. And when that happens many of the innocent will suffer along with the guilty.
Correct answer: Pat Robertson
[on abortion providers] The word I got is that if the judges appointed by man will not deal with those who take innocent human life, then the Lord is going to enter in and bring justice. And when that happens many of the innocent will suffer along with the guilty.
"The 700 Club," January 1, 1996
20. All these crimes and sins committed by Americans are a clear declaration of war on God.
Correct answer: Osama bin Ladin
All these crimes and sins committed by the Americans are a clear declaration of war on God, his messenger, and Muslims. And ulema have throughout Islamic history unanimously agreed that the jihad is an individual duty if the enemy destroys the Muslim countries.... On that basis, and in compliance with God's order, we issue the following fatwa to all Muslims: The ruling to kill the Americans and their allies -- civilians and military -- is an individual duty for every Muslim who can do it in any country in which it is possible to do it, in order to liberate the al-Aqsa Mosque and the holy mosque [Mecca] from their grip, and in order for their armies to move out of all the lands of Islam, defeated and unable to threaten any Muslim.
Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders, February 23, 1998
21. A condition like this will bring about the destruction of your nation. It'll bring about terrorist bombs; it'll bring earthquakes, tornadoes and possibly a meteor.
Correct answer: Pat Robertson
[on Gay Day at Disney World] "I would warn Orlando that you're right in the way of some serious hurricanes and I don't think I'd be waving those flags in God's face if I were you, This is not a message of hate; this is a message of redemption. But a condition like this will bring about the destruction of your nation. It'll bring about terrorist bombs; it'll bring earthquakes, tornadoes and possibly a meteor."
"The 700 Club" June 6, 1998
The American, British and Jewish peoples are in serious trouble. Beyond Babylon: Europe's Rise and Fall warns that due to our idolatry and immorality, our nations are prophesied to fall and fall hard - if we don't turn from our ways and remember our Hebrew roots and biblical responsibilities.
How can the Church of God go forward when so many are running in circles and playing politics, squandering precious time and money as the fascist EU rises?
My,My, McCaine I think its time, you changed your party affiliations, you done as much damage as could be expcted from a politician of your caliber, think democrate and change PLEASE. Paul Boisseree
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ModerateTruth
Sep 28, 2006 at 9:57 am
Olberman gets it right! Keith Olberman has the best Digg of the day, maybe the last 6 years, with his follow up on Clinton's assertion that is was the Bushies who did not follow on Al Qaeda. You have got to see this!
"The power of the executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law, and particularly to deny him the judgment of his peers, is in the highest degree odious, and the foundation of all totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist.” " Sir Winston Churchill
SO WHERE HAS THE “FREE” GONE FROM THE “LAND OF THE FREE”
That these are worrying times is not argued by many people and yet today, it seems to me that the greatest loss of freedoms is in the countries that pride themselves on the freedom given their citizens, e.g America and Australia.
This article, on the recently passed Military Commissions Act by the US Congress is a real eye opener. One wonders if the people of America, whom I assumed actually stood for they say they do, realise it’s implications.
I hope Australians also soon start to realise just what we are losing in the blind trust so many are giving Howard, Ruddock et al.
Read on:-
How Did We Sink So Low In Just 6 Years? - By Mike Whitney
“This is how a nation loses its moral compass, its identity, its freedom.” Rep Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) ? How did things get this bad?
The “Military Commissions Act” which passed the Republican-led Congress yesterday is a bigger blow to the Constitution and our core values than any piece of legislation in our 200 year history.
It is 100 times worse than Bin Laden's crimes on 9-11. ??In a 253 to 168 “party-line” vote, the congress repealed habeas corpus and approved the torturing of prisoners in American custody.
It is breathtaking assault on human rights and personal liberty and puts the United States well-outside the community of civilized nations. It will ultimately be up to the Supreme Court to decide whether to strike down this "affront to democracy" or let the law stand as is. ??
If the bill passes the Senate, the administration will be able to arrest whomever it chooses and lock them up indefinitely without due process. Suspects in Bush’s war on terror will no longer have the right to challenge the terms of their detention or to even know why they have been incarcerated. ??
The congressmen who supported this mockery have put their contempt for freedom on full display. They have rescinded the oldest and most treasured principle in American jurisprudence dating back 800 years to the Magna Carta.
Habeas corpus is the fundamental protection that the one has from the tyrannical and erratic actions of the state. ??The proposed legislation allows the president to apply the moniker of “enemy combatant” to any terror “suspect” taken into US custody and strip him of all his human rights. The president is under no obligation to file charges or provide evidence of guilt. The arrest is completely arbitrary and depends entirely on the discretion (whims?) of the executive. It is a flat rejection of the basic belief that “men are innocent until proven guilty”. ??
Here’s what Winston Churchill said about habeas corpus, “The power of the executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law, and particularly to deny him the judgment of his peers, is in the highest degree odious, and the foundation of all totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist.” ??
The bill is another example of Bush's lawyerly “hairsplitting” which is aimed at gutting the clearly articulated provisions of the Geneva Conventions so that he can carry out his torture-regime with impunity.
There is nothing “vague” about “cruel, inhuman and degrading” treatment. It is a standard that has never been challenged in its 57 year history. Until now. ??
According to the Washington Post the bill “would give the executive branch substantial leeway in deciding how to comply with treaty obligations that fall short of ‘grave breaches’ of the conventions.”
Geneva was designed to protect prisoners from physical or psychological harm. It is intentionally broad to prevent any punishment that involves the inflicting of pain on detainees.
Bush has turned Geneva on its head in an effort to maximize detainee suffering while complying with the letter of the law. To that end, the administration has said that “the term ‘cruel and inhuman’ should only apply to techniques resulting in ‘severe’ physical or mental pain....The abused detainee’s symptoms would have to include ‘serious and non-transitory mental harm.”’ (Wa Post)
There’s no reason for Bush to pursue this particular track except to expand his personal power and put himself above the law. Injustice only fuels radicalism and undermines the stated goals in the war on terror.
The congress fully understands the implications of their support.
They’re giving Bush a free pass to torment and abuse as he sees fit while providing him with the legal cover he needs for his “alternative techniques” (“outrages to human dignity”)
Their vote makes them equally complicit in the inevitable hooding, sense deprivation, hypothermia, stress positions, isolation and water-boarding of countless victims of Bush’s deplorable war of terror.
Like Lady Macbeth the Congress’ avers: “I am in blood ??Stepped in so far that, should I wade no more, ??Returning were as tedious as go o’er.” (Macbeth 3. 4)
The country is in the advanced stages of moral decay.
The Military Commissions Act is not a law at all; it is an expression of Congress’ intention to carry out war crimes against defenseless victims in their charge. The men who supported this bill should be held accountable for its inevitable and appalling consequences.”
The question I would ask, as an avid student of history is "Could it be that this is just another nail on the coffin of the world’s shortest lived empire- that of the United States of America and which history may well say lasted just 75 years or so from 1945?"
Tradition - even empty, hollow, shallow - has assisted Jewry to preserve this Day, however imperfectly; yet others might dismiss such "worship" as vain and such "devotions" as void. Liberal, Hellenist, humanists who have nothing to do with God and are ignorant of or deny His Word as a general rule, as hypocritical & unacceptable as professing Christianity on the pagan days of Christmas and Easter ...
Who Murdered Yitzhak Rabin?: The Root & Branch Information Services is serializing the book Who Murdered Yitzhak Rabin?, by Mr. Barry Chamish, with permission of the author, to commemorate the upcoming eleventh anniversary of the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin (November 4, 1995 -- November 4, 2006).
Speaking out against radical Islamism and advocating dialogue and diplomatic relations with Israel are apparently "crimes" punishable by death in Bangladesh. Fearless journalist Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury is on trial for sedition, a capital offence, because of those stands. His trial begins October 12. That is hardly the worst part of his story.
Salah was one of the first to warn about the rise of Islamist radicalism in Bangladesh, explaining how it was carefully incubated in Madrassahs and encouraged by corrupt authorities. The world was surprised when bombs began going off all over Dhakka some time later, but Salah was not surprised at all.
When the US pressed Bangladesh to recognize Israel, Salah supported the move through his newspapers. He established contact with an Israeli dialogue group, IFLAC, and attempted to...
Eddie Daniels went to Robben Island for sabotage operations - not because he was some harmless philosopher. Some still just don't get it that despotic black rule destroys everything the white folks built up that benefited everybody. South African Traitor Sells Story
Unclean traditional Christianity teaches the religious lie that Jesus "did away with" the dietary laws, sinning against both God and man. Don't you believe them! Reject such sloppy swill!
Both converted Jews, Israelites and Gentiles in the early Sabbath-keeping Church of God faithfully kept the dietary laws God has given for all mankind, recognizing Father knows best, just as the Church of God does today and the whole world will tomorrow.
democrats, republicans, right, left, conservative, liberal....they're are all the same. all the problems we had ten, twenty and fifty years ago
are still around, and all these guys can do is point your finger. this country needs a BIG change. representatives who actually represent the people, not tell the people how to feel about what; candidates that aren't going to be in government just because they're rich, or because their family is rich. this country needs a party that doesn't waste $150 million (republican) or $53 million (democratic) of tax payers' money on a national convention. Hysteria surrounding drug use and the war on drugs has led to overfilled prisons which serve only as a breeding grounds for violence and sodomy to drug users that may have been recreational users, or may have been nonviolent addicts...not to mention the fact that we still have a serious drug problem and violence surrounding the illegal drug industry is still very much present - making it illegal makes drugs scarce, which drives up profit for dealers. also, we can't tax it or regulate it, because the only places it exists were driven underground. aaand the fact that when addicts get out of prison, they're not rehabilitated. because they need medical and psychological help, not punishment. drug addiction is a complex social problem that the drug war turns it's back on. oh yeah, and the cost. as of right now, october 24, 2006, the government has spent $41 billion dollars in the war on drugs this year.
a vote for the lesser of two evils is still a vote for evil. and in america, we don't have to choose between two people. let's get rid of these big suits with their massive funding and the theatrics. america needs a change. it's obvious.
this is all how I feel, not how "my party" feels. i'm not speaking for a party. but i have found a party that gives me hope for the future of this country. if you don't even consider this party by looking at its official website (www.lp.org), then it's very likely that you're brainwashed. get some fresh air, take off your bumper stickers and the sign out of your yard for a minute, give yourself a rest from all the bickering, and consider what's really important. first figure out what's currently wrong with our government. something is definitely wrong, because the "majority" was only the "majority" by less than one percent in the last election. listen a lot - to every possible candidate, and think a lot, before you give your vote to some guy you think will be slightly better than the other one.
hitler's army generals and commanders deserved to die, because they contributed to the evil of his reign. they should have listened to their gut feelings that said that killing innocent people is wrong. in fact, hitler would have been powerless without those people who contributed. it's absolutely crucial that the people stand up for themselves, and for what's right. don't just go along because of what one says, versus what the other says. think for yourself, and speak for yourself, not for some party. just check it out, is all i'm saying.
The bleeding wound of Gaza should have been cauterized years ago, turned into a crater, and its vile inhabitants destroyed or expelled to their many Arab countries of origin. Israel could have offered overwhelming evidence to the world media of the Gazans preparation and declarations of war, going on the offensive for once, and taking the preemptive strike any self-respecting nation would exercise immediately.
john ketchup kerry. Are we to understand his comments corcerning Iraq and education. So why was the ketchup man in Vietnam? Maybe a lack of effort to apply oneself. The dipstick got purple hearts using heinz ketchup bottles for suspositories.
sr
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Ms spellbee
Oct 31, 2006 at 10:32 pm
SR U DF. Concerning. Corcerning?
Thanks,
Sister Spellbee,
Church of the stinking stagnant toilet waters.
Bingo every thursday 10am-3pm.
Flying carpet rides on muslim prayer rugs after bingo.
Where else but in Israel could thousands of Jews be forcibly removed from their homes and their property and businesses looted by Nazi-Muslims with covert world approval? Where else but in Israel could Jewish holy sites be utterly vandalized, destroyed and occupied by Nazi-Muslims like Joseph's Tomb? Where else but in Israel would Jews be violently forbidden to pray or read the Bible at a holy site, even Judaism's most holy site - the Temple Mount - with successive governments rewarding terrorist threats and punishing innocent Jews against both secular and religious law? Why the woeful neglect and abominable apathy of Jews and Israelis that enables such deplorable conditions to continue?
I don't understand why political & charity automated phone calls continue to be allowed to persons who have placed their names on the national Do Not Call directory. If anyone has gone out of their way to fill out all the information & jump through all the hoops required to sign up for this, in order not to be bothered by would-be whiners, peddlers, pimps, & panhandlers, then they obviously do not want exceptions to be made for ANYBODY, & that includes politicians either pleading for votes or trying to smear their opponents or perpetrate dirty tricks, as well as various so-called 'charities' begging for funds.
Intruding on personal privacy should ALWAYS be a matter of Opt-In, NOT Opt-Out. The burden should NOT be on the individual wanting to preserve their privacy, but on the organization trying to violate it!
And once signed up, there should be NO EXCEPTIONS.
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227 - David Ben-Ariel
Mel Gibson/Abe Foxman
228 - Dave Gotwald
I just heard that the White House Press Room is closed for renovations for the next nine months. Here is the real story for when it reopens. I am predicting that the remodeled press room will not be able to accommodate as many reporters as the current press room. A physical result from the conscience efforts by this administration to destroy any attempts of real questioning by the American people. They want the American people pacified. Control the major news outlets and corrupt the field of journalism, so that the reporters minds are fat and lazy. News reporters won't have an investigative bone in their bodies, but they will look great, and will be ready to accept the biggest pile of bullshit you could ever think of from the Public Relations of the holiest king of kings since Jesus Christ. They are in the process of MTVifying the news. Turning it into a ratings bonanza of infotainment full of glitz, glamour, suspense, explosions, and war. But not gory war; make it PG so as to not offend the delicate senses of the blessedly peaceful people whom Bush convinced to vote for him by feeding on their fears about being labeled a gay lover. They fill the news director's chair with Bush's own policy makers, and redefine news model from providing the truth on matters that affect the viewers' lives to the stories Bush wants you to believe is the truth, stories that titillate, and stories that scare you into submission. And boy are they doing it well. Fox News is their illegitimate mouthpiece, and the rest of the networks, except for PBS, have been neutered to look good enough for airing on TRL. The neuter-resistant PBS has to be choked to death because it's an MTV world, people. No time to really care about anything anymore because there's so much bullshit to pass off as news now. 24 hours of waiting for the next video of a rocket exploding, or that all-too-important footage of Jacko in his pajamas walking into court. It's replacing the stories that do affect our lives, which are now considered liberal. Unless you recite the crap Bush's crew spews word for word from their bullet points, you must be a liberal. We might as well be back in the 1950's labeling them communists. It keeps the media on the defensive because, gosh, they wouldn't want to be thought of as opinionated. I guess they don't want to be thought of as smart enough to come up with any real questions for our government on any real matters or thought of as having the guts to ask the real questions, like "With the way our political system is currently organized, it takes an outrageous amount of money in order for anyone to wage an effective campaign for office. With most of that money coming from big money corporations and special interests, what incentive do you, [insert politician's name here], have to side with the voters' wishes over your donor's interests when your donors' interests conflict with those of the American people?" That could have been worded better, but you get the point. Our government has taken away the checks and balances in our Constitution, and continues to do so with the news media, one facet of that being my prediction of their press room. Fewer seats will mean fewer chances of real questions from ever-more dumber and spineless reporters. While they're at it, they might as well go ahead and change the name from Press Room to Please Room. Am I a liberal conspiracy theorist making all this up? I quote our faithful leader speaking to a relic of the olden days of journalism on the last day of the old press room. On 8/2/2006, Bush said, "Is that Sam Donaldson? You're a has-been! I don't have to answer to has-beens." Mr. President, I couldn't have said it better myself.
229 - David Ben-Ariel
I received this strong warning from Jerusalem by my Jewish friend and Israelite brother, Aryeh Gallin, and felt compelled to share it:
Tel Aviv and Washington, D.C. put on warning
230 - David Ben-Ariel
Police Bar Non-Muslims From Temple Mount Despite Court Order
13:23 Aug 04, '06 / 10 Av 5766 by Ezra HaLevi
Despite a Supreme Court decision, Jerusalem's Temple Mount, Judaism's holiest site, was closed to Jews on the Fast of Tisha B'Av, which mourns the destruction of the Holy Temple.
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According to Professor Nahum Rakover, former Deputy Attorney General of Israel:
Jews Must Demand Rights to Temple Mount.
231 - David Ben-Ariel
PM Olmert gushed to Suddeutsche Zeitung, the German daily newspaper, that he would welcome the rush of German soldiers in a stabilization force to occupy South Lebanon.
Can you believe it? Asking the fox to guard the chicken house!
Ehud Olmert Playing with German Fire
232 - Miike Marks
so my take on the jewishwar at this point is... about a year and a half ago I wrote an essay about Iran being the stronghold of the anti-USA movement, so its no surprise to me that Iran is behind Huzzbulah... and that the anti-American movement is successfully accomplishing with Israel/Huzzbalah exactly what they accomplished with 9/11 (and the Cole, Embassy, MarineBase, etc., attacks leading up to it)... they created a PR move...
as important as PR was at the beginnings of mass communications, during WW II , in our modern world of mass communications PR is the main ingredient...
and the PR move the anti-Americans meant to accomplish with 9/11 is/was... make the Americans seem to respond inappropriately disporportionately... so that thousands and then millions of bodies will join the original hundreds of bodies of the anti-American movement... and throw a little jihid in for added stimulation...
the end of the Moslem Empire's glory days ended in 1912... their last empire, the Ottomon Empire, died... and from its remaining territory, about the size of Texas 6X, the western powers carved out the countries of Iraq, Syria, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia... these countries didn't exist before that (the territory of Iran was there but it was called Persia)... and that process we call Empirialism, and it led into 1914-16 which we refer to as WW I... which co-incided with the British, whose powers relied on its waterway abilities, being challenged and replaced by Germany when waterway abilities gave way to the advantages of that new entity 'the railroad'...
ok... I'm getting off track here (track, railroad, get it?)... ok, 9/11 was orchestrated to make USA respond in a way that would get more bodies to enlist into the anti-American movement... that was trap #1... and along down the line we site Trap #5: get Israel to seem to respond inappropriately disporportionately...
(on this chessboard, with Israel being essentially America's fort in the MiddleEast, America and Israel are the same color, let's say white... Iran and Huzzbalah (Huzzbalah being the anti-Americans' stateless puppet so that no state, in this case Iran, can be directly blamed and attacked... it's become clear to the anti-Americans that their militias must be shadow militias possessing no state location for counterattacks) are the other color, let's say black...
and Russia is probably black too, since its unlikely Huzzbalah nor Iran are manufacturing some of the equipment their using, its likely Iran's oil money is purchasing it off Russia... you know, Russia was so pissed at the USA when Reagan refered to them as the Evil Empire that they had to restrain themselves from attacking us then and there)
...so to get Israel to seem to respond inappropriately disporportionately... Huzzbalah stands behind Lebannon human shields and fires rockets into Israel... so when Israel finally can't take it no more and fires back, Huzzbalah/Iran rolls out the video cameras and says "look at the innocents Israel slaughtered"
...and Israel realizes if they cease fire those innocents will have died for nothing, because Huzzbalah will re-arm and everything will go back to square one... so Israel tries to finish it once and for all believing that as horrible as the collaterial damage is it is less than will occur if Huzzbalah gets to re-arm...
...and Israel announces to the innocents to evacuate, get out of the way, and for one reason or another they won't and can't (I heard one Labanese woman on the BBC saying "we are poor farmers, we have no way to get out of town, the taxis are charging too much to take us to Tyre"... can you imagine? a taxi driver, or anyone with a car, wanting to charge more than the price of a tank of gas to evacuate innocents?)
...until finally Huzzbalah rolls out mobile rocket launchers into the streets surrounding a building where a half hundred innocents huddle in a basement... and when Israel fires upon the location where Huzzbalah is firing from, and the building goes down, Iran/Huzzbalah score their biggest PR move yet, they get a halfceasefire, a lotta video footage of slaughtered children, and the entire world hating Israel...
...at this point, if WW III does go down (if it hasn't, as Newt suggests, already started... do you know WW II wasn't declared WW II until 1945) I'm thinking maybe it will go down like this... the Sunnis are basically to the west of Iraq, the Arab countries and so on, who are still allied with USA and who the USA are going to want to hold onto as allies... while the Sheites are basically to the east of Iraq, Iran and so on... so the civil war between sunni and sheite in Iraq would make a natural dividing line, with USA behind the Arab Sunnis and Russia behind Iran Sheites etc. ...
...except, its nuts for the Sunnis and Sheites to so divide themselves if the goal is to bring back the glory days of the Moslem Empire (prior to Ottomon's 1912 demise, with its tales of Armenian marches and Young Turks, I think but I'm not sure that the height of the Moslem Empire's glory days was around the 1600s... Ali Baba and Aladdan and flying carpets over Bagdad and mighty Sultans and all those white steed turbined tales... the Moslims accepted their Empire was over until they came to know, upon causing the demise of the USSR Superpower with the Afgan war, that with courage and faith in Allah they can cause the demise of superpowers, so the committment to bringing down the West and the USA superpower was actualized...)
...I think the theory behind USA attacking Iraq was good... show great strength/power to the MiddleEast, shock and awe, but with that great power liberate a people under dictatorship, then show compassion/mercy/generousity by giving the country and its resources back to her own people... a great PR move against those who would create an antiAmerican movement... "the USA is good, it is a friend, be friends with the USA"... only the administration and pentagon etc. proved inept to accomplish it successfully... so with insurgents pouring into Iraq from Iran and Syria instability arrived/arrives and good ol' colateral damage escalates (the last few weeks collaterial damage in Iraq has been in the thousands, dwarfing the collateral damage in the jewish war, though not as widely covered)... USA looks evil and the anti-Americans look righteous...
...at this point I suppose we are going to have to attack Iran... possibly the overall war would actually become easier for the USA if the Iran stronghold/safehouse is eliminated... trying to stabilize Iraq while Iran exists is like trying to fill with water a bucket that has a hole...
...except, at this point, maybe the anti-American movement has been too successful, maybe there are too many territories now willing to offer their space as safehouses for insurgency agents, maybe even Russia will offer itself as an anti-Americans' safehouse...
...are you aware of the selffulfilling prophesies in your own life?... when I was in grammar school I use to put myself to sleep with a character tale about myself... in the tale I was the strongest boy in school but no body liked me and no body talked to me and so no body really knew me until one day a certain girl noticed me and joy was realized as we danced down the armrail of Two Guys From Harrison's escalator but then I lost her and so... anyway, don't analyze that too deeply since I left out a lot of details... I'm only trying to make a point that we are aware of a script about ourselves because we wrote the script and then we live it out and one day we realize we are just a story we created... can you so put your finger on your self furfulling prophesy? Basic Shakespear psychology oh player on a stage...
...so everyone thinks its strange that the Biblical prophecy, the Biblical script for endtimes, seems to be playing out today... but it couldn't be otherwise, humankind indoctrinated its self with this script... and if we continue to selffulfill it, our next steps are to irradicate the farm land so that we all starve, and to release germ warfare so that there are plagues, and then the bugs will feast...
(heck, if there's little enough food, and every one is diseased, it might even resemble the zombicannabilism we romantisize in our wasteland movies... I remember when RoadWarrior was released, it was a scary thing to me, I knew it was a script everyone would embrace to fulfill, the breakdown of law and order, the gangs and violence, the gasoline...)
...but the problem with the Biblical script... besides all the horrors of Armageddon it promises... is that the only portion of the script we don't control is the end... leading up to the end, the fire and diseases and famine and war, heck even the globalization mark of the beast crowning of a proclaimed Anti-Christ, all that we can make happen, all that we can control... but that end part, the part where, after everything has become just too too horrible and painful, you know, the big finale where the Savior Messiah comes riding down on a cloud from Heaven to fix everything, that part is out of our control, that part we can't make happen, that's when we're finally going to admit we should have chosen a different script to fulfill...
maybe the only culture on earth who doesn't have some version of that endtimes script is the Chinese... maybe when its all over they'll pick up the marbles... which might be a good thing if it helps us avoid Albert Einstein's prophesy: "I don't know how WW III will be fought, but I do know how WW IV will be fought: with sticks and stones."
...and even if there is a God up there... heck, even if the fanatics who believe the gods were spacemen and advanced civilizations are hovering up there watching us... even if there is some great higher power in the sky with the power to fix everything... I don't think they, or He, will... because we all know what a human's purpose is... the age old question "Do I have a purpose? Do people have a purpose? Does life and the Universe have a purpose?" We all know the answer to that question every day when we raise our children... a human's purpose is 'to grow up.' And humans grow up when they face their own problems and, without any help from mom or dad, solve their own problem, no matter how uncomfortable or how much it might hurt. And I reckon any Eye in the Sky, like any good parent, like any good authority figure, will not take away from us our opportunity to grow up.
233 - David Ben-Ariel
Tony Blair revealed, in his speech to the Los Angeles World Affairs Council, he just doesn't get it (or is at least ordered to appear that way like President Bush). The war on terrorism is a war against Nazi-Muslims, plain and simple.
Tony Blair's speech concedes defeat
234 - Mike Marks 99
I want to write about the encouraging diplomacies over the weekend...
...inspite of Russia's hatred of us, and China's investments in Iran that they could use a healthy Iran to pay off, its possible that Rice convinced them that it might be in their best interests, while they are more in missle range to the Islamic extremists than we are and might, in the long run... for one thing Islam teaches is patience even when a plan of world domination might take multigeneration to fruit... find themselves swallowing the same ChineseRocket RussiaWarhead venom that they would now supply the snake with, to instead side with the USA...
...so if Russia and China get on board with us, maybe WW III can be avoided... maybe the immediate post-coldwar vision can still manifest, that of simple economic wars in a world of business...
...unless Syria gets nuts with their chemical missles and destroy TelVi/Jerusleum and Israel retaliates with nukes... but we'd probably even survive that as long as the big 5 stick together...
I'm not crazy about guys who make points with sarcasm, and the dumbest form of sacrasm, name-calling, over information...I love the art of comedy to get past people's defensive-opinion-walls, but political times are too critcal nowadays to simply use comedy as distraction... finding the truth should be the only importance when the flame is at the fuse..
...did Iran supply the misleading charts that convinced the USA that Iraq had WMD capible of deployment within 48 hours?
I hear over and over, in regards to the USA occupying Iraq, "how would USAers feel if some foreign power occupied our USA, wouldn't we hate/resent them and want to fight them off?" To which I ask, "What if, in some fantasy scenario, President Bush found a way to dissolve the Congress, Senate, Judicial Courts, etc., and have himself declared Dictator for life, and the military and police backed up his power and all USA citizens lost their rights and privacy etc. ... and then the British and/or French invaded the USA to liberate us from the Bush Dictator... would we hate/resent the British and/or French occupying our land and try to fight them off? or would we, as did France for the British and Yanks, welcome their efforts to free us?
I think some guys try to come off as serious commentaries while at the same time, so that they will be memorible and gain fame, use theater, costumes like cigars and sunglasses, and little red bowties and baseball caps... which is fine if you own up to the fact you're doing theater and not serious news, the way that Stewert and Colbert own up to the fact that they are doing theater, but once you try to pretend that you're a serious news guy when your not, you're misinforming and doing damage, since many people would much rather get their news as entertainment if they really believe they are getting their news, which they're not... so, as always, the main problem with our country is the misinformed voters... and today Liebermann showed his colors when, prior to having any evidence to why his website crashed, he got his people right on the news networks to accuse, to millions of tv viewers, his opponeunt of being an unscruplous sabeteur...
235 - David Ben-Ariel
The Israelis are on the frontlines in the "war against terrorism," but can the Jews save the world?
God Save Us From Islam and Europe!
236 - David Ben-Ariel
Was the war in Lebanon fought over oil?
By Joel Bainerman
In the second week of July 2006, Arab Knesset member Talab El-Sana told the Israeli press:
“The war in Lebanon is an American war. Israel is nothing more than a US subcontractor, doing America's work in the Middle East. The United States is using Israelis and Lebanese to further its own ends. The US has nullified Israel's ability to make independent decisions.”
Could the war in Lebanon had more to do with protecting oil pipelines than and America’s geo-strategic goals than Hezbollah shooting rockets into northern Israel?
237 - David Ben-Ariel
Germany mulls sending troops to Lebanon
Germany looks increasingly likely to agree to send troops to Lebanon with debate already raging in the country about the merits of the move six decades after the Holocaust.
238 - Ruvy in Jerusalem
@ comment 225.
The attack on the USS Liberty was not an accident. There was a unit on board passing coordinates to the Egyptians about our military movements in the Sinai. So our gunships attacked the ship and destroyed the communications section, in particluar.
There was a time when our military would not tolerate crap from anybody, a time that has passed, unfortunately.
239 - David Ben-Ariel
Strangers in our own Land?
A revealing message from Israeli Yehoshua Friedman.
Rabbi Friedman and his wife Janet are among the original founders of Kochav HaShachar, a Jewish Pioneering Community in the Israelite Tribal Territory of Eretz Binyamin (Land of Benjamin), located in what is today known as the Shomron (Samaria).
240 - David Ben-Ariel
Gush Katif - Like You've Never Seen it Before!
The following photos and words are shared with us from Israeli Yuval Zaliouk (who is from Haifa but also has a home near Toledo, Ohio). See for yourself how the Israelis, by the grace of God, have made the desert blossom as a rose.
241 - J. Mason
I can no longer maintain respect for my fellow humans who would fight and kill innocents to maintain a foothold on a piece of land. There within their minds, washed by religious teachings, they remain motivated to stubbornly stake themselves deep into the sands. Stuck in their positions like pride ridden children they consistently fail to make peace and perpetually cast blame at each other across high political walls, challenging the nuances of each sides’ histories. Haphazardly they kill children and other innocent and helpless bystanders with their actions. Decade after decade the world watches and debates and voices raise over each other in simultaneous fume, desperate pleas, gratuitous questions The reign of human stupidity in the Middle East must end soon.
Israel upon being violated, Muslim Arabs upon being violated, for some fifty-three years have been at each others’ throats in a seemingly never ending war motivated by the occupation of that same chunk of desert, that “holy land.” Eighteen hundred years ago believers fought for these same sands. Their battles reoccurred over centuries. Their weapons were more discriminate than bombs and machine guns. With their spears and swords, and arrows and clubs of the bloody Crusades, they saw each others’ faces and heard each other cry out in pain as they wrought death and received mortality.
So here we humans are centuries later, lessons not learned, never taught. The big picture never realized. The real problem never addressed: our ridiculous beliefs. Now the weapons are indiscriminate and kill innocents for whom an entire war is their oppressor, not just their fathers’ enemy with a different uniform. The weapons now used, the result of designs made to kill more people with less effort, are clumsy and slaughter children and women. These are the aerial bombs dropped without bravery or honor from safe above, the helicopter launched missiles targeting apartment buildings to attempt to kill one man, machine guns fired from above sway back and forth are used for “crowd control,” mortars with inexact targeting, clumsy rockets exploding somewhere near their targets. In the Crusades women and children would flee Jerusalem proper and hide in the desert, while Arab women and children remained at their encampments, safe from the deadly specific goals of their brave and honorable, yet religiously motivated men.
I propose a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian and Arab dilemma. Four years ago, I wrote and published an opinion titled Where the Red Stripes Are (Liberal Oasis, 2002). When I showed the piece to my Jewish wife, she reacted with incredulity, and with amusement that implied I could not be serious. She clearly did not understand that I had contemplated the proposal for years and was serious. My idea was extreme and I admit it. But four years later my wife turns to me and says “you might be right about that.” I surmise that only an Atheist could come-up with such a proposal, not because an Atheist holds little respect for religious belief (that is the case with most of us Atheists, if we are being direct and honest) but because an Atheist remains neutral between religious parties " I want peace and prosperity for all Arabs, and all Jews with zero favoritism. I want the horrors to end for all sides.
Where the Red Stripes Are: The Forbidden Zone:
I propose that every man, woman, and child, and all livestock and pets, from north of the Red Sea, to the western banks of the Dead Sea, north and east to Damascus and an approximately three-hundred mile selection of the Mediterranean coast be evacuated to separate corners of the Earth, to new lands apart from their warring factions and their religious differences. Not one human will be left in the area. Most inhabitants would leave voluntarily upon realizing their dilemma. As the evacuation proceeds to its’ end, many will stubbornly want to stay behind, they would have to be removed non-lethally but with force if need be. The evacuation would take years to conclude. Painstaking effort must be taken to insure that not one human is left within the “zone.”
Post evacuation the entire quarantined area would be irradiated with low altitude radiation dispersing weapons. This action would preserve all land mass, all religious symbols, shrines, churches, synagogues, mosques, the Wailing Wall, the Dome of the Rock, every building, every wall, every sacred object, but the purpose would be realized assuredly: rendering that historically blood soaked region uninhabitable by humans for a thousand years.
The region demarcated with red strips on every map,would sit as a forbidden zone, but more importantly as a monument for the benefit of humankind future to the ineptitude and violence inspired by religious dogma, symbolism and zealotry. A monument to religious humankinds’ preponderance for stupidity. A lesson for every child in a geography class, who will learn by no choice (when faced with broad red stripes on a map), of the stupid people who could not get-along, who warred like frothing dogs for generations, over religious icons and perceived sacred possessions.
Thou shall not carry graven images. Thou shall not worship false idols. Sound familiar? To Christians and some Jews it does, they are pronouncements from the Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount. The Christians’ Philosopher in Chief knew that he nor anyone wishing to follow him needed anything (any building, any statue or carved image) to worship his god and practice his teachings. He knew these materialistic things would corrupt his message. He wanted genuine faith requiring only body and “soul.”
If Jesus did exist, (contrary to the predominant lack of historical evidence from all historians and writers of that time and place) he seemed to be predicting what might happen if “false idols,” and “graven images,” became the norm of his following. Point in fact those multiple battles spanning centuries over possession of the “Holy Land,” the hundreds of thousands that have laid dead from those battles over fictitiously deemed “sacrosanct,” land.
Consider that if Jesus Christ, Abraham, or Mohamed were alive and witness to the Middle East today, they might very well agree and recommend the same solution.
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242 - J. Mason
The way the public was decieved was stupid, childish. I'm talking about the way that the Bush crime family managed to convince enough of his constituency (not very well informed Red Staters) that Saddam Hussien was involved with Nine Eleven and Al Queda.
Here are but four examples of speeches given. To the unattentive ear (those who would get bored in class)it would certainly sound like there was definitely a relationship, prior to our invasion and occupation of Iraq. Bush got his panties all in a twist at the press conferance yesterday, over this, loudly declaring no one implied the relationship. Read, just these segments of official speeches, just from Bush. Remember; Cheney, Rice, Wolfowitz were all over the media, droping the same kind of nuanced teasers.
"On September the 11th, 2001, the American people saw what terrorists could do, by turning four airplanes into weapons. We will not wait to see what terrorists or terrorist states could do with chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear weapons. Saddam Hussein can now be expected to begin another round of empty concessions, transparently false denials. No doubt, he will play a last-minute game of deception. The game is over."
Note: Same paragraph, as if same subject.
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"The threat comes from Iraq. It arises directly from the Iraqi regime's own actions -- its history of aggression, and its drive toward an arsenal of terror. Eleven years ago, as a condition for ending the Persian Gulf War, the Iraqi regime was required to destroy its weapons of mass destruction, to cease all development of such weapons, and to stop all support for terrorist groups. The Iraqi regime has violated all of those obligations. It possesses and produces chemical and biological weapons. It is seeking nuclear weapons. It has given shelter and support to terrorism, and practices terror against its own people. The entire world has witnessed Iraq's eleven-year history of defiance, deception and bad faith.
We also must never forget the most vivid events of recent history. On September the 11th, 2001, America felt its vulnerability -- even to threats that gather on the other side of the earth. We resolved then, and we are resolved today, to confront every threat, from any source, that could bring sudden terror and suffering to America. "
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"We know that the regime has produced thousands of tons of chemical agents, including mustard gas, sarin nerve gas, VX nerve gas. Saddam Hussein also has experience in using chemical weapons. He has ordered chemical attacks on Iran, and on more than forty villages in his own country. These actions killed or injured at least 20,000 people, more than six times the number of people who died in the attacks of September the 11th."
"Some citizens wonder, after 11 years of living with this problem, why do we need to confront it now? And there's a reason. We've experienced the horror of September the 11th. We have seen that those who hate America are willing to crash airplanes into buildings full of innocent people. Our enemies would be no less willing, in fact, they would be eager, to use biological or chemical, or a nuclear weapon."
"Members of Congress are nearing an historic vote. I'm confident they will fully consider the facts, and their duties.
"The attacks of September the 11th showed our country that vast oceans no longer protect us from danger. Before that tragic date, we had only hints of al Qaeda's plans and designs. Today in Iraq, we see a threat whose outlines are far more clearly defined, and whose consequences could be far more deadly. Saddam Hussein's actions have put us on notice, and there is no refuge from our responsibilities.
We did not ask for this present challenge, but we accept it. Like other generations of Americans, we will meet the responsibility of defending human liberty against violence and aggression. By our resolve, we will give strength to others. By our courage, we will give hope to others. And by our actions, we will secure the peace, and
lead the world to a better day."
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"Our mission in Iraq is a great undertaking and part of a larger mission that the United States accepted now more than two years ago. September 11, 2001, changed everything for this country. We came to recognize our vulnerability to the threats of the new era. We saw the harm that 19 evil men could do, armed with little more than airline tickets and box cutters and driven by a philosophy of hatred. We lost some 3,000 innocent lives that morning, in scarcely two hours' time.
Since 9/11, we've learned much more about what these enemies intend for us. One member of al Qaeda said 9/11 was the "beginning of the end of America." And we know to a certainty that terrorists are doing everything they can to gain even deadlier means of striking us. From the training manuals we found in the caves of Afghanistan to the interrogations of terrorists that we've captured, we have learned of their ambitions to develop or acquire chemical, biological or nuclear weapons. And if terrorists ever do acquire that capability -- on their own or with help from a terror regime -- they will use it without the slightest constraint of reason or morality."
243 - David Ben-Ariel
The defeatist Kadima party of LEFTIST criminals, bought and paid for by foreigners, is the furthest thing from balance and horribly reflects this harsh reality: Israeli society is mentally and spiritually unbalanced and about to fall under EUROPEAN OCCUPATION, having been sold out by the likes of Shimon Peres, Ariel Sharon, Yossi Beilin and other traitors.
Shimon Peres plots with Rome against Jerusalem
244 - David Ben-Ariel
Diversity Demands: Segregate Now!
245 - David Ben-Ariel
HELP DANNY AND ITZIK HALAMISH
246 - David Ben-Ariel
What is wrong with Black America? The African-American community is not only facing a crisis, they are in a crisis and too many don't seem to care and get angry whenever someone dares to disturb their complacency with calls for necessary change; Whenever someone expects more of them than less than mediocre performance or attitude, and encourages them to stop just moseying along to nowhere and develop a proper sense of direction, mission and purpose with R-E-S-P-E-C-T.
Black to Africa (Facing the Crisis in Black America)
247 - David Ben-Ariel
Understanding the relationship between Christian Zionists, Jews and Israel
Christian Zionists, Jews, and Israel
248 - David Ben-Ariel
The Vatican again exposes its inherent hostility towards Jews and Israel
Vatican Envoy Bares Teeth Against Christian Zionists
249 - Dean
Two prominent Christian Zionists are Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson.
Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson and Osama bin Ladin have a lot in common. Take this quiz and see if you can identify statements made by these men.
In today's wars, there are no morals, and it is clear that mankind has descended to the lowest degrees of decadence and oppression.
Jerry Falwell or Pat Robertson
Osama bin Ladin
America is polluting the whole world.
Jerry Falwell or Pat Robertson
Osama bin Ladin
The government is committed to supporting God's religion, the country remains a strong bulwark for religion, and the people are among the most protective of God's religion, and the keenest to fulfill His laws.
Jerry Falwell or Pat Robertson
Osama bin Ladin
One-world opinion is taking the side of the Palestinians, not the side of Israel.
Jerry Falwell or Pat Robertson
Osama bin Ladin
There will never be world peace until God's house and God's people are given their rightful place of leadership at the top of the world.
Jerry Falwell or Pat Robertson
Osama bin Ladin
The government does not cease to cry over matters affecting religion, without making any serious effort to serve the interests of the religious community.
Jerry Falwell or Pat Robertson
Osama bin Ladin
We are on the brink of our destruction, and if we do not awaken now, it will be too late. We have been victimized by traitorous behavior on the part of our leaders.
Jerry Falwell or Pat Robertson
Osama bin Ladin
The media strives to keep the people occupied with minor matters, and to stir their emotions and desires until corruption becomes widespread among believers.
Jerry Falwell or Pat Robertson
Osama bin Ladin There is no way that a United
There is no way that a United Nations, treaties, or any other human instrument can bring about peace. Such things mean nothing when one nation desires the land and resources of another.
Jerry Falwell or Pat Robertson
Osama bin Ladin
We have allowed rampant secularism.... We have insulted God at the highest levels of government.
Jerry Falwell or Pat Robertson
Osama bin Ladin
One particular report described the gaps and the shortcoming in the philosophy of the government, the situation of the law within the country and the arbitrary declaration of what is lawful and unlawful regardless of divine law as instituted by God.
Jerry Falwell or Pat Robertson
Osama bin Ladin
Priorities of spiritual work are lost while blasphemy and polytheism continue its grip and control. We should be alert to these atrocious plans carried out by the government.
Jerry Falwell or Pat Robertson
Osama bin Ladin
America is in imminent peril... rotting from within.
Jerry Falwell or Pat Robertson
Usama bin Ladin
The American people have put themselves at the mercy of a disloyal government, and this is most evident in Clinton's administration. The American government is leading the country towards hell.
Jerry Falwell or Pat Robertson
Osama bin Ladin
The termites are in charge now, and that is not the way it ought to be, and the time has arrived for a godly fumigation.
Jerry Falwell or Pat Robertson
Osama bin Ladin
If America is not suffering the irrevocable judgment of God, she is dangerously close.
Jerry Falwell or Pat Robertson
Osama bin Ladin
Americans have committed unprecedented stupidity. We anticipate a black future for America.
Jerry Falwell or Pat Robertson
Osama bin Ladin
If the judges appointed by man will not deal with those who take innocent human life, then God is going to enter in and bring justice. And when that happens many of the innocent will suffer along with the guilty.
Jerry Falwell or Pat Robertson
Osama bin Ladin
All these crimes and sins committed by Americans are a clear declaration of war on God.
Jerry Falwell or Pat Robertson
Osama bin Ladin
A condition like this will bring about the destruction of your nation. It'll bring about terrorist bombs; it'll bring earthquakes, tornadoes and possibly a meteor.
Jerry Falwell or Pat Robertson
Osama bin Ladin
250 - Dean
The answers:
1. In today's wars, there are no morals, and it is clear that mankind has descended to the lowest degrees of decadence and oppression.
Correct answer: Osama bin Ladin
In today's wars, there are no morals, and it is clear that mankind has descended to the lowest degrees of decadence and oppression. They rip us of our wealth and of our resources and of our oil. Our religion is under attack. They kill and murder our brothers. They compromise our honor and our dignity and dare we utter a single word of protest against the injustice, we are called terrorists.
May 1998 interview, Frontline
2. America is polluting the whole world.
Correct answer: Pat Robertson
God in his great mercy has blessed America, and made this a haven for Christians and Jews alike. But we've gone away from our Christian heritage. And God has little obligation at the present time to spare America, because we are polluting the world with our television programs, our movies and so forth, our books. We are polluting the whole world. We've made the world drunk, if you will, with the wine of our fornication. The whole world has been affected by Hollywood.
The 700 Club, December 7, 1995
3. The government is committed to supporting God's religion, the country remains a strong bulwark for religion, and the people are among the most protective of God's religion, and the keenest to fulfill His laws.
Correct answer: Osama bin Ladin
All gratitude to Allah, our relationship with our brother Mujahideen in Afghanistan is a deep and broad relationship where blood and sweat have mixed as have the links over long years of struggle against the Soviets, it is not a passing relationship, nor one based on personal interests.
They are committed to support the religion approved by Allah, and that country remains as the Muslims have known it, a strong bulwark for Islam, and its people are among the most protective of the religion approved by Allah, and the keenest to fulfil His laws and to establish an Islamic state.
November 1996 interview, Nida'ul Islam
4. One-world opinion is taking the side of the Palestinians, not the side of Israel.
Correct answer: Jerry Falwell
Since the Antichrist will not be revealed before Jesus comes, I believe conditions are falling in place, i.e., one-world government, so he can rule the world after Jesus comes. But we're moving toward a one-world government through the United Nations, through the world court and a growing world opinion. The problem is that the one-world opinion is taking the side of the Palestinians, not the side of Israel.
"What is Next in the End-Time Drama," 9/9/01
5. There will never be world peace until God's house and God's people are given their rightful place of leadership at the top of the world.
Correct answer: Pat Robertson
There will never be world peace until God's house and God's people are given their rightful place of leadership at the top of the world. How can there be peace when drunkards, drug dealers, communists, atheists, New Age worshipers of Satan, secular humanists, oppressive dictators, greedy moneychangers, revolutionary assassins, adulterers, and homosexuals are on top?
The New World Order
6. The government does not cease to cry over matters affecting religion, without making any serious effort to serve the interests of the religious community.
Correct answer: Osama bin Ladin
The external policy of the Saud regime towards Islamic issues is a policy which is tied to the British outlook from the establishment of Saudi Arabia until 1364 ah (1945 ac), then it became attached to the American outlook after America gained prominence as a major power in the world after the Second World War.
It is well known that the policies of these two countries bear the greatest enmity towards the Islamic world.... The regime does not cease to cry in the open over matters affecting the Muslims without making any serious effort to serve the interests of the Muslim community apart from small efforts in order to confuse people and throw some dust into their eyes.
November 1996 interview, Nida'ul Islam
7. We are on the brink of our destruction, and if we do not awaken now, it will be too late. We have been victimized by traitorous behavior on the part of our leaders.
Correct answer: Jerry Falwell
In spite of all these outward worldly signs of our national success, we are actually on the brink of our destruction, and if we do not awaken now, it will be too late.
We have never been so prosperous. Yet, we have never been so secular and pagan. We are becoming both amoral and immoral. We are making secularism our national religion. The government and the courts have become, not neutral to religion as the Founders intended, but openly hostile to Christianity.
And, as we look with sadness at our internal demise, we cannot any longer ignore that external enemies are growing. This administration has given our military and nuclear secrets to the Chinese and they to other American foes. We have been victimized by traitorous behavior on the part of our leaders.
"A National Rebirth Needed," 8/6/00
8. The media strives to keep the people occupied with minor matters, and to stir their emotions and desires until corruption becomes widespread among believers.
Correct answer: Osama bin Ladin
It is not a concealed fact that the police states in the Arab world rely on some foundations in order to protect themselves. Among these organisations is the security organisation as they spend generously on it, and its foremost mission is to spy on its own people in order to protect the person of the ruler....
The media sector is in the same category as it strives to beatify the persons of the leaders, to drowse the community, and to fulfill the plans of the enemies through keeping the people occupied with the minor matters, and to stir their emotions and desires until corruption becomes widespread among believers.
November 1996 interview, Nida'ul Islam
9. There is no way that a United Nations, treaties, or any other human instrument can bring about peace. Such things mean nothing when one nation desires the land and resources of another.
10. Correct answer: Pat Robertson
There is no way that a United Nations, a League of Nations, peace treaties, disarmament treaties, or any other human instrument can bring about peace. Such things mean nothing when one nation desires the land and resources of another. A lasting peace will never be built upon man's efforts, because man is sinful, vicious, and wicked. Until men are changed and Satan's power is removed, there will not be peace on earth.
Answers to 200 of Life's Most Probing Questions
11. We have allowed rampant secularism.... We have insulted God at the highest levels of government.
Correct answer: Pat Robertson
[on the September 11 terrorist attacks] We have allowed rampant secularism and occult, etc. to be broadcast on television. We have permitted somewhere in the neighborhood of 35 to 40 million unborn babies to be slaughtered in our society. We have a court that has essentially stuck its finger in God's eye and said we're going to legislate you out of the schools. We're going to take your commandments from off the courthouse steps in various states. We're not going to let little children read the commandments of God. We're not going to let the Bible be read, no prayer in our schools. We have insulted God at the highest levels of our government. And, then we say 'why does this happen?' It is happening because God Almighty is lifting His protection from us.
"The 700 Club," 9/13/01
12. One particular report described the gaps and the shortcoming in the philosophy of the government, the situation of the law within the country and the arbitrary declaration of what is lawful and unlawful regardless of divine law as instituted by God.
Correct answer: Osama bin Ladin
One particular report, the glorious Memorandum Of Advice, ... described the gaps and the shortcoming in the philosophy of the regime and suggested the required course of action and remedy. The report gave a description of .... the situation of the law within the country and the arbitrary declaration of what is Halal and Haram (lawful and unlawful) regardless of the Shari'ah as instituted by Allah.
The Ladenese Epistle: Declaration of War, Dec 1996
13. Priorities of spiritual work are lost while blasphemy and polytheism continue its grip and control. We should be alert to these atrocious plans carried out by the government.
Correct answer: Osama bin Ladin
In the shadow of these discussions and arguments truthfulness is covered by the falsehood, and personal feuds and partisanship created among the people increasing the division and the weakness of the Ummah; priorities of the Islamic work are lost while the blasphemy and polytheism continue its grip and control over the Ummah. We should be alert to these atrocious plans carried out by the Ministry of Interior.
The Ladenese Epistle: Declaration of War, Dec 1996
14. America is in imminent peril... rotting from within.
Correct answer: Jerry Falwell
I do not believe the Republicans or the Democrats have the solution to America's moral and spiritual dilemma. Only a pervasive and national spiritual awakening can prevent us entering the post-Christian era as we go simultaneously into the 21st century. I believe America is in imminent peril. We are rotting from within.
"Rebuilding America's Walls," 7/6/97
15. The American people have put themselves at the mercy of a disloyal government, and this is most evident in Clinton's administration. The American government is leading the country towards hell.
Correct answer: Osama bin Ladin
I say to [the American people] that they have put themselves at the mercy of a disloyal government, and this is most evident in Clinton's administration ... . We believe that this administration represents Israel inside America. Take the sensitive ministries such as the Ministry of Exterior and the Ministry of Defense and the CIA, you will find that the Jews have the upper hand in them. They make use of America to further their plans for the world, especially the Islamic world....
The American government is leading the country towards hell. ... We say to the Americans as people and to American mothers, if they cherish their lives and if they cherish their sons, they must elect an American patriotic government that caters to their interests not the interests of the Jews.
May 1998 interview, Frontline
16. The termites are in charge now, and that is not the way it ought to be, and the time has arrived for a godly fumigation.
Correct answer: Pat Robertson
It is interesting, that termites don't build things, and the great builders of our nation almost to a man have been Christians, because Christians have the desire to build something. He is motivated by love of man and God, so he builds. The people who have come into (our) institutions (today) are primarily termites. They are into destroying institutions that have been built by Christians, whether it is universities, governments, our own traditions, that we have.... The termites are in charge now, and that is not the way it ought to be, and the time has arrived for a godly fumigation.
New York Magazine, August 18, 1986
17. If America is not suffering the irrevocable judgment of God, she is dangerously close.
Correct answer: Jerry Falwell
America is living by a standard of relative morality. Young people who do not know what is right will follow their animal nature. If young people do not believe in absolute truth and absolute morality, they will fornicate, rob and indulge their selfish pleasures. Absolute truth and absolute morality are the basis of the Declaration of Independence. These are selfevident truths and inalienable rights.
If America is not suffering the irrevocable judgment of God because she has broken her covenant with God, then I believe she is dangerously close.
"America Made a Deal with God," 7/6/97
18. Americans have committed unprecedented stupidity. We anticipate a black future for America.
Correct answer: Osama bin Ladin
We are certain - with the grace of Allah - that we shall prevail over the Jews and over those fighting with them. Today however, our battle against the Americans is far greater than our battle was against the Russians. Americans have committed unprecedented stupidity. They have attacked Islam and its most significant sacrosanct symbols.... We anticipate a black future for America. Instead of remaining United States, it shall end up separated states and shall have to carry the bodies of its sons back to America.
May 1998 interview, Frontline
19. If the judges appointed by man will not deal with those who take innocent human life, then God is going to enter in and bring justice. And when that happens many of the innocent will suffer along with the guilty.
Correct answer: Pat Robertson
[on abortion providers] The word I got is that if the judges appointed by man will not deal with those who take innocent human life, then the Lord is going to enter in and bring justice. And when that happens many of the innocent will suffer along with the guilty.
"The 700 Club," January 1, 1996
20. All these crimes and sins committed by Americans are a clear declaration of war on God.
Correct answer: Osama bin Ladin
All these crimes and sins committed by the Americans are a clear declaration of war on God, his messenger, and Muslims. And ulema have throughout Islamic history unanimously agreed that the jihad is an individual duty if the enemy destroys the Muslim countries.... On that basis, and in compliance with God's order, we issue the following fatwa to all Muslims: The ruling to kill the Americans and their allies -- civilians and military -- is an individual duty for every Muslim who can do it in any country in which it is possible to do it, in order to liberate the al-Aqsa Mosque and the holy mosque [Mecca] from their grip, and in order for their armies to move out of all the lands of Islam, defeated and unable to threaten any Muslim.
Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders, February 23, 1998
21. A condition like this will bring about the destruction of your nation. It'll bring about terrorist bombs; it'll bring earthquakes, tornadoes and possibly a meteor.
Correct answer: Pat Robertson
[on Gay Day at Disney World] "I would warn Orlando that you're right in the way of some serious hurricanes and I don't think I'd be waving those flags in God's face if I were you, This is not a message of hate; this is a message of redemption. But a condition like this will bring about the destruction of your nation. It'll bring about terrorist bombs; it'll bring earthquakes, tornadoes and possibly a meteor."
"The 700 Club" June 6, 1998
251 - David Ben-Ariel
The American, British and Jewish peoples are in serious trouble. Beyond Babylon: Europe's Rise and Fall warns that due to our idolatry and immorality, our nations are prophesied to fall and fall hard - if we don't turn from our ways and remember our Hebrew roots and biblical responsibilities.
British-Israelites and Jews in grave danger
252 - David Ben-Ariel
Germany prepares for more than the EU presidency. Is the world ready?
Germany to Take the EU Bull by the Horns
253 - David Ben-Ariel
Do Jews represent all 12 Tribes of Israel? Are the Anglo-Saxons Israelite in origin? Are Jews merely Khazar converts?
Not All Twelve Tribes of Israel are Jewish?
254 - David Ben-Ariel
Bittersweet message ignites a national debate and international controversy
Death to the American, British & Jewish Peoples?
255 - David Ben-Ariel
Will Germany lead Europe back to the future?
Bavarian Pope Entrusts Germany To Lead Europe, Others Wary Of The Grand Inquisitor
256 - David Ben-Ariel
How can the Church of God go forward when so many are running in circles and playing politics, squandering precious time and money as the fascist EU rises?
Politics in the Church of God Prevents Progress
257 - Paul Boisseree
My,My, McCaine I think its time, you changed your party affiliations, you done as much damage as could be expcted from a politician of your caliber, think democrate and change PLEASE. Paul Boisseree
258 - ModerateTruth
Olberman gets it right! Keith Olberman has the best Digg of the day, maybe the last 6 years, with his follow up on Clinton's assertion that is was the Bushies who did not follow on Al Qaeda. You have got to see this!
259 - Anthony Fountain
"The power of the executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law, and particularly to deny him the judgment of his peers, is in the highest degree odious, and the foundation of all totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist.” " Sir Winston Churchill
SO WHERE HAS THE “FREE” GONE FROM THE “LAND OF THE FREE”
That these are worrying times is not argued by many people and yet today, it seems to me that the greatest loss of freedoms is in the countries that pride themselves on the freedom given their citizens, e.g America and Australia.
This article, on the recently passed Military Commissions Act by the US Congress is a real eye opener. One wonders if the people of America, whom I assumed actually stood for they say they do, realise it’s implications.
I hope Australians also soon start to realise just what we are losing in the blind trust so many are giving Howard, Ruddock et al.
Read on:-
How Did We Sink So Low In Just 6 Years? - By Mike Whitney
“This is how a nation loses its moral compass, its identity, its freedom.” Rep Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) ? How did things get this bad?
The “Military Commissions Act” which passed the Republican-led Congress yesterday is a bigger blow to the Constitution and our core values than any piece of legislation in our 200 year history.
It is 100 times worse than Bin Laden's crimes on 9-11. ??In a 253 to 168 “party-line” vote, the congress repealed habeas corpus and approved the torturing of prisoners in American custody.
It is breathtaking assault on human rights and personal liberty and puts the United States well-outside the community of civilized nations. It will ultimately be up to the Supreme Court to decide whether to strike down this "affront to democracy" or let the law stand as is. ??
If the bill passes the Senate, the administration will be able to arrest whomever it chooses and lock them up indefinitely without due process. Suspects in Bush’s war on terror will no longer have the right to challenge the terms of their detention or to even know why they have been incarcerated. ??
The congressmen who supported this mockery have put their contempt for freedom on full display. They have rescinded the oldest and most treasured principle in American jurisprudence dating back 800 years to the Magna Carta.
Habeas corpus is the fundamental protection that the one has from the tyrannical and erratic actions of the state. ??The proposed legislation allows the president to apply the moniker of “enemy combatant” to any terror “suspect” taken into US custody and strip him of all his human rights. The president is under no obligation to file charges or provide evidence of guilt. The arrest is completely arbitrary and depends entirely on the discretion (whims?) of the executive. It is a flat rejection of the basic belief that “men are innocent until proven guilty”. ??
Here’s what Winston Churchill said about habeas corpus, “The power of the executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law, and particularly to deny him the judgment of his peers, is in the highest degree odious, and the foundation of all totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist.” ??
The bill is another example of Bush's lawyerly “hairsplitting” which is aimed at gutting the clearly articulated provisions of the Geneva Conventions so that he can carry out his torture-regime with impunity.
There is nothing “vague” about “cruel, inhuman and degrading” treatment. It is a standard that has never been challenged in its 57 year history. Until now. ??
According to the Washington Post the bill “would give the executive branch substantial leeway in deciding how to comply with treaty obligations that fall short of ‘grave breaches’ of the conventions.”
Geneva was designed to protect prisoners from physical or psychological harm. It is intentionally broad to prevent any punishment that involves the inflicting of pain on detainees.
Bush has turned Geneva on its head in an effort to maximize detainee suffering while complying with the letter of the law. To that end, the administration has said that “the term ‘cruel and inhuman’ should only apply to techniques resulting in ‘severe’ physical or mental pain....The abused detainee’s symptoms would have to include ‘serious and non-transitory mental harm.”’ (Wa Post)
There’s no reason for Bush to pursue this particular track except to expand his personal power and put himself above the law. Injustice only fuels radicalism and undermines the stated goals in the war on terror.
The congress fully understands the implications of their support.
They’re giving Bush a free pass to torment and abuse as he sees fit while providing him with the legal cover he needs for his “alternative techniques” (“outrages to human dignity”)
Their vote makes them equally complicit in the inevitable hooding, sense deprivation, hypothermia, stress positions, isolation and water-boarding of countless victims of Bush’s deplorable war of terror.
Like Lady Macbeth the Congress’ avers: “I am in blood ??Stepped in so far that, should I wade no more, ??Returning were as tedious as go o’er.” (Macbeth 3. 4)
The country is in the advanced stages of moral decay.
The Military Commissions Act is not a law at all; it is an expression of Congress’ intention to carry out war crimes against defenseless victims in their charge. The men who supported this bill should be held accountable for its inevitable and appalling consequences.”
The question I would ask, as an avid student of history is "Could it be that this is just another nail on the coffin of the world’s shortest lived empire- that of the United States of America and which history may well say lasted just 75 years or so from 1945?"
Carpe diem
Tony
Tony Fountain
Professional Speaker, auctioneer and author
Sydney NSW Australia
260 - David Ben-Ariel
Tradition - even empty, hollow, shallow - has assisted Jewry to preserve this Day, however imperfectly; yet others might dismiss such "worship" as vain and such "devotions" as void. Liberal, Hellenist, humanists who have nothing to do with God and are ignorant of or deny His Word as a general rule, as hypocritical & unacceptable as professing Christianity on the pagan days of Christmas and Easter ...
Yom Kippur at Sdot Yam
261 - David Ben-Ariel
WHO MURDERED YITZHAK RABIN? Introduction
Who Murdered Yitzhak Rabin?: The Root & Branch Information Services is serializing the book Who Murdered Yitzhak Rabin?, by Mr. Barry Chamish, with permission of the author, to commemorate the upcoming eleventh anniversary of the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin (November 4, 1995 -- November 4, 2006).
262 - David Ben-Ariel
"Who Murdered Yitzhak Rabin?" Chapter One
Did Shimon Peres get away with murder?
263 - David Ben-Ariel
Speaking out against radical Islamism and advocating dialogue and diplomatic relations with Israel are apparently "crimes" punishable by death in Bangladesh. Fearless journalist Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury is on trial for sedition, a capital offence, because of those stands. His trial begins October 12. That is hardly the worst part of his story.
Salah was one of the first to warn about the rise of Islamist radicalism in Bangladesh, explaining how it was carefully incubated in Madrassahs and encouraged by corrupt authorities. The world was surprised when bombs began going off all over Dhakka some time later, but Salah was not surprised at all.
When the US pressed Bangladesh to recognize Israel, Salah supported the move through his newspapers. He established contact with an Israeli dialogue group, IFLAC, and attempted to...
Muslim moderate journalist Salah Choudhury faces death
264 - David Ben-Ariel
Many traditional ideas are based upon biblical misunderstandings. The "rapture" is one of them. The word isn't even found in the Bible
Don't Fall for the Rapture!
265 - Zedd
NORTH KOREA
Why cant they test nucs?
Why cant they have any?
Who CAN have them? A list would help and reasons why too.
Thanks
266 - David Ben-Ariel
Eddie Daniels went to Robben Island for sabotage operations - not because he was some harmless philosopher. Some still just don't get it that despotic black rule destroys everything the white folks built up that benefited everybody.
South African Traitor Sells Story
267 - David Ben-Ariel
Unclean traditional Christianity teaches the religious lie that Jesus "did away with" the dietary laws, sinning against both God and man. Don't you believe them! Reject such sloppy swill!
Both converted Jews, Israelites and Gentiles in the early Sabbath-keeping Church of God faithfully kept the dietary laws God has given for all mankind, recognizing Father knows best, just as the Church of God does today and the whole world will tomorrow.
Jesus Upheld Jewish Dietary Laws!
268 - matt
democrats, republicans, right, left, conservative, liberal....they're are all the same. all the problems we had ten, twenty and fifty years ago
are still around, and all these guys can do is point your finger. this country needs a BIG change. representatives who actually represent the people, not tell the people how to feel about what; candidates that aren't going to be in government just because they're rich, or because their family is rich. this country needs a party that doesn't waste $150 million (republican) or $53 million (democratic) of tax payers' money on a national convention. Hysteria surrounding drug use and the war on drugs has led to overfilled prisons which serve only as a breeding grounds for violence and sodomy to drug users that may have been recreational users, or may have been nonviolent addicts...not to mention the fact that we still have a serious drug problem and violence surrounding the illegal drug industry is still very much present - making it illegal makes drugs scarce, which drives up profit for dealers. also, we can't tax it or regulate it, because the only places it exists were driven underground. aaand the fact that when addicts get out of prison, they're not rehabilitated. because they need medical and psychological help, not punishment. drug addiction is a complex social problem that the drug war turns it's back on. oh yeah, and the cost. as of right now, october 24, 2006, the government has spent $41 billion dollars in the war on drugs this year.
a vote for the lesser of two evils is still a vote for evil. and in america, we don't have to choose between two people. let's get rid of these big suits with their massive funding and the theatrics. america needs a change. it's obvious.
this is all how I feel, not how "my party" feels. i'm not speaking for a party. but i have found a party that gives me hope for the future of this country. if you don't even consider this party by looking at its official website (www.lp.org), then it's very likely that you're brainwashed. get some fresh air, take off your bumper stickers and the sign out of your yard for a minute, give yourself a rest from all the bickering, and consider what's really important. first figure out what's currently wrong with our government. something is definitely wrong, because the "majority" was only the "majority" by less than one percent in the last election. listen a lot - to every possible candidate, and think a lot, before you give your vote to some guy you think will be slightly better than the other one.
hitler's army generals and commanders deserved to die, because they contributed to the evil of his reign. they should have listened to their gut feelings that said that killing innocent people is wrong. in fact, hitler would have been powerless without those people who contributed. it's absolutely crucial that the people stand up for themselves, and for what's right. don't just go along because of what one says, versus what the other says. think for yourself, and speak for yourself, not for some party. just check it out, is all i'm saying.
269 - David Ben-Ariel
Call for Preemptive Strike against Gaza
The bleeding wound of Gaza should have been cauterized years ago, turned into a crater, and its vile inhabitants destroyed or expelled to their many Arab countries of origin. Israel could have offered overwhelming evidence to the world media of the Gazans preparation and declarations of war, going on the offensive for once, and taking the preemptive strike any self-respecting nation would exercise immediately.
270 - David Ben-Ariel
Yitzhak Rabin was sacrificed by the Israeli oligarchy for their German-Jesuit masters intent on occupying Jerusalem.
Shimon Peres Came to Power Over Rabin's Dead Body
Vatican Linked to the Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin
271 - David Ben-Ariel
Ariel Sharon: Return to the Temple Mount!
272 - sr
john ketchup kerry. Are we to understand his comments corcerning Iraq and education. So why was the ketchup man in Vietnam? Maybe a lack of effort to apply oneself. The dipstick got purple hearts using heinz ketchup bottles for suspositories.
sr
273 - Ms spellbee
SR U DF. Concerning. Corcerning?
Thanks,
Sister Spellbee,
Church of the stinking stagnant toilet waters.
Bingo every thursday 10am-3pm.
Flying carpet rides on muslim prayer rugs after bingo.
Refreshments available.
274 - David Ben-Ariel
Where else but in Israel could thousands of Jews be forcibly removed from their homes and their property and businesses looted by Nazi-Muslims with covert world approval? Where else but in Israel could Jewish holy sites be utterly vandalized, destroyed and occupied by Nazi-Muslims like Joseph's Tomb? Where else but in Israel would Jews be violently forbidden to pray or read the Bible at a holy site, even Judaism's most holy site - the Temple Mount - with successive governments rewarding terrorist threats and punishing innocent Jews against both secular and religious law? Why the woeful neglect and abominable apathy of Jews and Israelis that enables such deplorable conditions to continue?
Israel's Betrayal of the Jews
275 - Nancy
I don't understand why political & charity automated phone calls continue to be allowed to persons who have placed their names on the national Do Not Call directory. If anyone has gone out of their way to fill out all the information & jump through all the hoops required to sign up for this, in order not to be bothered by would-be whiners, peddlers, pimps, & panhandlers, then they obviously do not want exceptions to be made for ANYBODY, & that includes politicians either pleading for votes or trying to smear their opponents or perpetrate dirty tricks, as well as various so-called 'charities' begging for funds.
Intruding on personal privacy should ALWAYS be a matter of Opt-In, NOT Opt-Out. The burden should NOT be on the individual wanting to preserve their privacy, but on the organization trying to violate it!
And once signed up, there should be NO EXCEPTIONS.