Saturday, July 30, 2005

H-P loses its way

The Independent-July 30,2005-Menlo Park, Redwood City, San Carlos, Belmont, San Mateo, Foster City,Burlingame
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H-P loses its way
It is a sad story as Hewlett-Packard has dismantled many things that made the company a cut above. I had the chance to meet Mr. Hewlett as he gave to Project Aid-Siberia in the 1990s. He helped millions of people who were without food.
From the very beginning,Hewlett-Packard had a way of doing things thai was contrary to the prevailing management strategies. A companywide commitment to involvement. It will be sorely missed as profit has taken over.
Ted Rudow III,MA

Thursday, July 28, 2005

Castro

Castro criticized international media based in Cuba, accusing some journalists of siding with the American government "and working in full complicity with the office of the U.S. Interests Section to misinform and deceive the world about the Cuban reality."
I really believe Castro loves the Lord. I even heard him say on the radio once what Cubans need to be is more Christian, and I believe he meant it. He really tried to be more Christian by sharing the wealth, the vast wealth and lands of the rich, with Cuba's very poverty-stricken poor. That's what made so many people, especially the rich Americans who nearly owned Cuba, so angry at him, and they haven't forgiven him to this very day.
The U.S. is the one that's making a mess out of Cuba. It's not the fault of the Cubans or Castro. Castro has made his mistakes, but the U.S. is the main one to blame. The U.S. is trying to blame Cuba's poverty and troubles and everything else on Castro, when for 40 years the U.S. has devastated Cuba through American sanctions and embargoes. It's those embargoes that have made it so hard on the Cubans, just like the sanctions … like did to the Iraqis.
It's hurting the poor of Cuba more than anybody, whom they claim they want to help! If the U.S. would just drop the embargoes, Cuba would thrive and prosper even under Castro; but the U.S. doesn't want to. The U.S. is a big bully, and big bullies have a lot of pride and cannot stand to be defied, opposed or challenged!
Ted Rudow III,MA

Saturday, July 23, 2005

Slanted

The Commentator www.thecommentatorjm.com July 2005 Edition
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Slanted
Journalists often have very little say in how their stories come out, and how they're slanted! And, unless they're especially courageous, after a while many reporters will just take the path of least resistance and write their stories in a way that they know they'll have the least trouble.

The result is that most people who watch or read the news wind up with a very distorted, perverse view of what's happening, and that translates into a support of the main aggressor in the conflict, Israel, which has been occupying Palestinian lands for more than 50 years. The poor Palestinians can hardly get a fair break in a lot of the Western media! They get more fair, unbiased coverage in some of the Israeli papers than they do in the American media!

So take what you see on TV news or read in mainstream papers with a healthy dose of skepticism, folks! You may be getting only part of the truth-the part that's designed to leave you thinking or feeling a certain way. It's often news with an agenda or an attitude, designed to make you feel the same way-almost like advertising!

Ted Rudow III,MA, Tedr77@aol.com

Sunday, July 17, 2005

Rove

The White House refused to answer any questions about new evidence of Mr. Rove's role in the matter. A day after new evidence suggested that Mr. Rove had discussed the C.I.A. officer with a reporter from Time magazine in July 2003 without identifying her by name.
The White House silent. This is also the most important psychology of the magician who specializes in tricks known as sleight-of-hand. And Rove is the expert in this!
Rove first evidenced a penchant for dirty tricks during his high school years, when the "classic nerd" pulled mental fakeouts on opponents in debate tournaments. Decades later, pic claims, Rove upped the ante during even more duplicitous stunts to undermine Sen. John McCain in 2000 Republican primaries.
Rove cares not a whit for the trail of political bodies he's left strewn in his wake. I have the feeling that it was sort of going to his head. A leader gets a little puffed up in his head and begins to think he's really a god. Delusion may take on many forms and is commonly understood, such delusions include grandeur, importance, wealth, physical illnesses, auditory or aural hallucinations, religious delusions are common, as well as paranoia, inappropriate moral/ethical values and extreme alienation.
Seem like the same pattern. But as T.S. Eliot said,"The last temptation is the greatest treason,to do the right deed for the wrong reason."
Ted Rudow III,MA

Saturday, July 16, 2005

BRITISH JOURNALIST uncovered a memo to Tony Blair

BRITISH JOURNALIST uncovered a memo to Tony Blair
San Mateo County Times
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Monday, June 20, 2005 News Sports Business Op - Ed Living Features Health BRITISH JOURNALIST uncovered a memo to Tony Blair from his chief of foreign intelligence, written after a series of high-level meetings in Washington back in July of 2002 — months before Colin Powell's famous presentation to the United Nations. Basically, the memo states that the Bush administration was set on ousting Saddam Hussein despite the circumstances. Peace could have been given a chance, but Bush demanded peace only on his terms. He did not want to negotiate a settlement. He preferred confrontation, conflict and conquest. He wanted the world to see just how powerful America is so that no other upstart would try to take on America. His "Christian" conviction has instead become a "lying spirit" in his own mind and in the mouths of his advisers. And his self-righteousness has made him to stink in the nostrils of most of the world. No one loved Saddam, but now Bush has made him a martyr.
America is concerned for its own interests, and especially for the lifestyle of its people. Although the world envies that lifestyle, much of it is based on greed and selfishness, to the point that Americans feel they have a right to run the world and hog its resources. In their pride, they even wage war in the name of peace. But their pride and their arrogance irritate and exasperate many countries of the world. The wealth and riches of the U.S. will be sapped by this war, and the distrust of the rest of the world will bring about more and greater division in finances as well as in political matters.
Ted Rudow III,MAMenlo Park

Pot calling kettle black

San Mateo Daily Journal
Pot calling kettle black
Editor, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice prodded Middle Eastern leaders Monday to reform their governments. In her remarks, Rice strongly rebuked two countries, Syria and Iran, as she called Syria a “police state” that has acted as a foreign master in neighboring Lebanon. On Iran, she said, “The appearance of elections does not mask the organized cruelty of Iran’s theocratic state.” Iran’s not a threat to the United States, just as Iraq wasn’t a threat. The threat is to Israel, which has always worried about any of its inimical neighbors getting a hold of nuclear weapons. Israel, of course, has many nuclear weapons, but doesn’t want its monopoly in that area challenged by atomic ayatollahs. Israel is egging on the United States to do something about it, and is hinting that if the U.S. doesn’t stop the Iranian nuclear program, then Israel will stop it the same way it stopped Iraq’s nuclear program years ago, by blowing up their reactor. The United States has merely used so-called goodness and righteousness as a cloak for invasion and conquest, and beneath the cloak resides much hypocrisy, for America too has much blood on its hands. Beneath this cloak you see the victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the millions who were killed in Vietnam and throughout Southeast Asia, the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis who died in the first Gulf War. However, these countries have pointed out that the United States is guilty of the same, or worse.
Ted Rudow III
The Commentator
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice prodded Middle Eastern leaders recently to reform their governments. In her remarks, Rice strongly rebuked two countries -- Syria and Iran as she called Syria a "police state" that has acted as a foreign master in neighboring Lebanon. On Iran, she said, "The appearance of elections does not mask the organized cruelty of Iran's theocratic state." U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Rice strongly rebuked two countries -- Syria and Iran as she called Syria a "police state" that has acted as a foreign master in neighboring Lebanon. On Iran, she said, "The appearance of elections does not mask the organized cruelty of Iran's theocratic state." Iran’s not a threat to the U.S., just as Iraq wasn’t a threat to the U.S. The threat is to Israel, which has always worried about any of its inimical neighbors getting a hold of nuclear weapons. Israel, of course, has many nuclear weapons, but doesn’t want its monopoly in that area challenged by atomic ayatollahs! So Israel is egging on the U.S. to do something about it, and is hinting that if the U.S. doesn’t stop the Iranian nuclear program, then Israel will, in the same way it stopped Iraq’s nuclear program years ago, by blowing up their reactor. The U.S. has merely used so-called goodness and righteousness as a cloak for invasion and conquest, and beneath the cloak resides much hypocrisy, for America too has much blood on its hands. Beneath this cloak you see the victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the millions who were killed in Vietnam and throughout Southeast Asia, the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis who died in the first Gulf War. However, these countries have pointed out that the U.S. is guilty of the same, or worse, and it's the pot calling the foreign kettle black.

Menlo Park

Thursday, July 14, 2005

Surveillance

Wednesday,July 13 2005 -San Mateo Daily Journal
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Surveillance society of the Antichrist Editor, The Homeland Security department asked major cities Thursday to increase vigilance of their transportation systems after a series of explosions on London transit systems. In San Francisco, Bay Area Rapid Transit system security was increased at all stations, including “significant increase of police and employees on the system and closure of all station bathrooms,” said BART spokesman Jim Allison. “Other security measures not being made public.” Remember when the idea of cameras all over the place, monitoring your every move, would have seemed bizarre, Orwellian or like something out of the Soviet Union? How things change. And the way they change is little by little, with a camera here and there in some necessary spot, until any uproar dies down and the public gets accustomed to seeing them. Meanwhile, they’re told how “secure” they now are and what an asset all this surveillance technology is. Then the cameras spread, and before you know it, they’re all over the place, from the mean streets of Los Angeles to the peaceful streets of Singapore. It doesn’t seem unusual anymore, and hardly even makes the news. People have been programmed to accept them and almost ignore them, because they’re part of modern life. And so the cameras spread and attitudes change more and more, and the world is prepared for the surveillance society of the Antichrist. Ted Rudow III ,MA Menlo Park