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One can call Mahmoud Ahmadinejad many things, but a dictator he is by no means. He doesn't even have the power to appoint his own cabinet ministers. It's a presidency with very limited power.
And to claim that he is in a position to threaten the United States or Israel is just bizarre, frankly.
The Israelis and the pro-Israel interests in the United States have lobbied to make sure that there is no dialogue or there's no rapprochement between the United States and Iran. And the Iranians have done similar things. They have undermined every US foreign policy initiatives in the Middle East that they feared would be beneficial to Israel.
The US isn't really against terrorists; it's just against terrorists who aren't its friends and allies. After all, if it were against terrorists, it would be against Israel, against the various Israeli governments which have thrown the Palestinians off their land and seized it.

Ted Rudow III,MA
Menlo Park,United States
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Thursday, September 27, 2007

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Iran's 25,000-strong Jewish

"The central committee of Iran's 25,000-strong Jewish community, which has in the past expressed unease over Ahmadinejad's stance on the Holocaust, added its voice to the condemnation of his hostile reception in New York,Iranian Jews strongly condemn such impoliteness and willfulness, as such behavior has targeted Iran's president who legally represents Iranians," it said in a statement".
On the another hand, AIPAC, or the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, describes itself as the most important organization affecting the U.S. relationship with Israel. With a budget of $65 million, and membership now standing at over 100,000, it is no wonder that congressional staffers consider it one of the most powerful and effective lobbies on Capitol Hill. Including AIPAC's support for U.S. military aid to Israel, which amounts to over $3 billion per year.
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Reaction to Ahmadinejad visit

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Speak now or forever hold your peace

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If Mahmoud Ahmadinejad spoke at SJSU, would you listen?

Would you skip your class? Would you tell your friends and encourage them to go?

Would you attend the Iranian president's opportunity to stand before a microphone? Would you sit under the bright lights of the Morris Dailey Auditorium, maybe not sure of what to expect, because Ahmadinejad hasn't been afforded the same grandiose amount of media attention as he was Monday? He was given the opportunity, partially, to speak at Columbia University amid much controversy within the school and by political figureheads elsewhere....


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"The central committee of Iran's 25,000-strong Jewish community, which has in the past expressed unease over Ahmadinejad's stance on the Holocaust, added its voice to the condemnation of his hostile reception in New York,Iranian Jews strongly condemn such impoliteness and willfulness, as such behavior has targeted Iran's president who legally represents Iranians," it said in a statement".
On the another hand, AIPAC, or the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, describes itself as the most important organization affecting the U.S. relationship with Israel. With a budget of $65 million, and membership now standing at over 100,000, it is no wonder that congressional staffers consider it one of the most powerful and effective lobbies on Capitol Hill. Including AIPAC's support for U.S. military aid to Israel, which amounts to over $3 billion per year.
"It is widely acknowledged that the reps and senators are ticked at AIPAC, and their hostility seems to be growing these days. With upwards of 60% of their campaign contributions coming directly or indirectly from the Israel Lobby, the Democratic congressmen are not free to respond to their antiwar base." John Walsh
Some Muslims see a new Crusade in the making, waged jointly by the Jewish Israelis and the Christian Americans.
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One can call Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad many things, but a dictator he is not. He doesn't even have the power to appoint his own cabinet ministers. It's a presidency with very limited power. And to claim that he is in a position to threaten the United States or Israel is just bizarre.

The Israelis and the pro-Israel interest in the United States have lobbied to make sure that there is no dialogue or there's no rapprochement between the United States and Iran. And the Iranians have done similar things. They have undermined every U.S. initiative in the Middle East they feared would be beneficial to Israel.

The U.S. isn't really against terrorists; it's just against terrorists who aren't its friends and allies. After all, if it were against terrorists, it would be against Israel, against the various Israeli governments that have thrown the Palestinians off their land and seized it.

Ted Rudow III,MA

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Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Iranian Voice

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Iranian voice
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Wednesday Sep 26th, 2007 7:39 PM


"The central committee of Iran's 25,000-strong Jewish community, which has in the past expressed unease over Ahmadinejad's stance on the Holocaust, added its voice to the condemnation of his hostile reception in New York,Iranian Jews strongly condemn such impoliteness and willfulness,
as such behavior has targeted Iran's president who legally represents Iranians," it said in a statement. "
On the another hand, AIPAC, or the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, describes itself as the most important organization affecting the U.S. relationship with Israel. With a budget of $65 million, and membership now standing at over 100,000, it is no wonder that congressional staffers consider it one of the most powerful and effective lobbies on Capitol Hill. Including AIPAC's support for U.S. military aid to Israel, which amounts to over $3 billion per year.
"It is widely acknowledged that the reps and senators are ticked at AIPAC, and their hostility seems to be growing these days. With upwards of 60% of their campaign contributions coming directly or indirectly from the Israel Lobby, the Democratic congressmen are not free to respond to their antiwar base." John Walsh
Some Muslims see a new Crusade in the making, waged jointly by the Jewish Israelis and the Christian Americans.
Ted Rudow III,MA

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Let the cream rise and the rest will perish

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Surreal.

This was the scene at Columbia University in Manhattan on Monday.

As if a hologram of the man who is often said to be one of the most dangerous in the world was in the auditorium.

Only it wasn't a hologram. It really was Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, unshaken, despite the scathing preamble Columbia University President Lee Bollinger spoke toward him before the Middle East leader approached the podium....


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One can call Ahmadinejad many things, but a dictator he is by no means. He can't even -- he doesn't even have the power to appoint his own cabinet ministers. It's a presidency with very limited power. And to claim that he is in a position to threaten the United States or Israel is just bizarre, frankly.
And ever since, the Israelis and the pro-Israel interest in the United States have lobbied to make sure that there is no dialogue or there's no rapprochement between the United States and Iran. And the Iranians have done similar things. They have undermined every US foreign policy initiative in the Middle East that they feared would be beneficial to Israel.
U.S. isn't really against terrorists; it's just against terrorists who aren't its friends and allies! After all, if it were against terrorists, it would be against Israel, against the various Israeli governments which have thrown the Palestinians off their land and seized it.
Ted Rudow III,MA
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Dictator?

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One can call Ahmadinejad many things, but a dictator he is by no means. He can't even -- he doesn't even have the power to appoint his own cabinet ministers. It's a presidency with very limited power. And to claim that he is in a position to threaten the United States or Israel is just bizarre, frankly. And ever since, the Israelis and the pro-Israel interest in the United States have lobbied to make sure that there is no dialogue or there's no rapprochement between the United States and Iran. And the Iranians have done similar things. They have undermined every US foreign policy initiative in the Middle East that they feared would be beneficial to Israel. U.S. isn't really against terrorists; it's just against terrorists who aren't its friends and allies! After all, if it were against terrorists, it would be against Israel, against the various Israeli governments which have thrown the Palestinians off their land and seized it.
Ted Rudow III,MA

Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Ahmadinejad

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Ahmadinejad
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Tuesday Sep 25th, 2007 12:34 PM
One can call Ahmadinejad many things, but a dictator he is by no means. He can’t even -- he doesn't even have the power to appoint his own cabinet ministers.
It's a presidency with very limited power. And to claim that he is in a position to threaten the United States or Israel is just bizarre, frankly.
And ever since, the Israelis and the pro-Israel interest in the United States have lobbied to make sure that there is no dialogue or there’s no rapprochement between the United States and Iran. And the Iranians have done similar things. They have undermined every US foreign policy initiative in the Middle East that they feared would be beneficial to Israel.
U.S. isn't really against terrorists; it's just against terrorists who aren't its friends and allies! After all, if it were against terrorists, it would be against Israel, against the various Israeli governments which have thrown the Palestinians off their land and seized it.
Ted Rudow III,MA

3,798 dead

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Wild dogs bite and chew on a human corpse lying in a war-torn Iraqi street. One of the dogs grips the head in its jaws, pulls hard and trots off into an alley with the head.

"When I saw that, reality kicked in," wrote Michael James Yurchison of Ohio in an e-mail....


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Sixteen gallons of oil. That's how much the average American soldier in Iraq and Afghanistan consumes daily -- either directly, through the use of Humvees, tanks, trucks, and helicopters, or indirectly, by calling in air strikes. Multiply this figure by 162,000 soldiers in Iraq, 24,000 in Afghanistan, and 30,000 in the surrounding region (including sailors aboard U.S. warships in the Persian Gulf) and you arrive at approximately 3.5 million gallons of oil: the daily petroleum tab for U.S. combat operations in the Middle East war zone.


So the Pentagon is being transformed from protecting America's oil supply so that the "American way of life" can be preserved, as Bush's father once said, to preserving the "Pentagon's way of life" -- war. Well, there's not much difference most of the time. The Pentagon's way of life is the American way of life. And when America's way of life starts getting more expensive because oil becomes much more expensive, America will again resort to war to keep the oil flowing -- although that won't be the excuse they use. There will doubtless be some "tyrant" to overthrow, some "evildoer" with weapons of mass destruction, some "dictatorship" that needs "democracy" -- imposed by force, of course -- en route to liberating the oil fields and wells that are the real reason for the war. The question is whether Russia and China and Europe and other nations will let America seize the oil it needs when they need it too. We shall see.


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Monday, September 24, 2007

Radical left?

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The radical left aren't killing thousands upon thousands in Iraq those nice short-haired clean-cut soldier kids, and some of them are doing it with a relish.They're the worst filth of all.They're even dirtier than the left, because they are going over there where they don't belong and self-righteously murdering the poor and destroying that nation. So the world's worst problem today, in spite of what they think, is not the radical left youth, or the so-called criminal youth, but they who are slaughtering the poor, the weak and the defenseless.The ones who look like beautiful vessels on the shelf are even worse than the useless, worthless and good for nothing:They are downright destructive and dangerous!
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Friday, September 21, 2007

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Countries like China and Japan produce like mad and sell like mad and have huge trade balances, because they export more than they import. But the United States, they are such gluttons they guzzle down everything and consume everything, especially oil. The oil consumption in the US has not gone down the slighest bit. They're not conserving a bit, instead they're actually using more. Let the companies raise the prices, even put more tax on oil, and they still buy more. Raising prices is not going to slow those people down one iota from taking their Sunday afternoon drive or their vacation or their weekend trip, not a bit. The only thing that'll even stop them is rationing, and they're going to come to it one of these days. However, you and I know the American driver has an idea that rather than have their gasoline rationed and their vacations shortened and their big cars shortened, they would much prefer to go to war and steal it, grab off a few countries (Iraq and now Iran?) that have oil, and they can do it under the excuse of saving Israel.
Ted Rudow III,MA
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Thursday, September 20, 2007

"Pimps"

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"Pimps"
by Ted Rudow III,MA
Thursday Sep 20th, 2007 3:40 PM
Americans with less-than-stellar credit, customers were people who may have been late on credit card payments, maybe even filed bankruptcy in the previous years, but still wanted that shot at the American dream: a home of one's own. Lenders, flush with cash and eager to exploit new markets so they could, in turn, lend more money and increase their profits, were only too happy to oblige.

Four of the five metro areas expected to experience the highest foreclosure rates for subprime mortgages originated in 2006 are California cities. They can't seem to get over the "American Dream, but the Capitalistic financiers of the world, they don't want to lose their investments.
So the money "pimps" get together and agree to support her dollars when she's sick and not earning them any money.They think she's going to get well again, and they don't realize she's just going to die, and they're pouring their money down drain! They have been making money from her hire, and they've been investing in her wages, but her wages and dollars are going to turn to ashes.
"For thy merchants were the great men of the Earth, and by thy sorceries (the deceitfulness of riches and the witchcraft of wealth!) were all nations deceived!",Revelation 18:23b
Ted Rudow III,MA

Wednesday, September 19, 2007

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Carrissa Bishop-Sage, a sophomore comparative religions major, said the first student she met at SJSU last year was a Muslim. Bishop-Sage said she asked the student about Islam and researched the religion.

Bishop-Sage said, "It made a lot of sense" to her, and she converted to Islam in January....


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The 22-country Arab League will send envoys on a historic first mission to Israel this week to discuss a sweeping Arab peace initiative and how it might prop up embattled Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Israeli and Arab diplomats. What little we have been told is pure anti-Arab propaganda. Nothing good is ever said by the West about the Arabs; I never heard anything good in school about the Arabs. I think is it racism, but try as they will, Israel will never willingly withdraw from the Israeli-occupied Arab territories and has said flatly she will never give up Jerusalem, and because the Arabs have said they will never be satisfied with anything short of an Israeli withdrawal from Arab territories, including and particularly Jerusalem, nothing less than forced intervention by one of the superpowers can solve the situation. Because Arab patience has reached its limits with Israeli refusal to abide by the unenforced U.N. Resolution No.242 in which virtually the whole world, including America, agreed that Israel should withdraw from Arab lands. America will fight for the possession of Israel and Arab oil.
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Ills of oil consumption

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Countries such as China and Japan produce like mad and sell like mad and have huge trade balances, because they export more than they import. But we in the United States are such gluttons we guzzle down everything and consume everything, especially oil. Oil consumption in the U.S. has not gone down the slightest bit. We’re not conserving a bit, instead we’re actually using more. The oil companies raise prices, we even raise taxes on oil, and we still buy more.

Raising prices is not going to slow people down one iota from taking their Sunday afternoon drive or their vacation or their weekend trip, not a bit. The only thing that will even stop them is rationing, and we’re going to come to it one of these days.

However, the American driver, rather than see gasoline rationed and vacations shortened and big cars shortened, I’m sure, would much prefer to go to war and steal oil, grab off a few countries (Iraq and now Iran?) that have oil, all under the excuse of saving Israel.

Ted Rudow III,MA

Menlo Park

Tuesday, September 18, 2007

"Under God"?

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Look how they've attacked each major field that proves the existence of a perfect God: The first thing they attacked was religion itself!--Various religions were just religions, probably fabrications of man, so how could you say which was right or wrong? In other words, there were no religious absolutes.
Then they had to work on philosophy too, because that contained love, so they had to debunk philosophy, to try to prove there was no perfect philosophy, no particular philosophy was either right or wrong.
History is another thing which really proves the existence of God--God's laws of retribution & fulfilled prophecy, the rise & fall of empires because of either righteousness or wickedness. So they had to debunk History: "They were all villains!--There weren't any good or heroic men!"--The diabolical subtleness of the fiendish devilish attacks on the proofs of the existence of God! It makes me furious!
They even did the same with music, to where music was no longer music, it was just noise! It didn't have to be harmony, it didn't have to be pleasant, because there were no rules! Look at art: Modernistic art is total confusion--no rules, no beauty, no nothing! It doesn't even have to mean anything. See, if you can prove to people there's no meaning to a thing, then there's no order, no purpose, no plan, & there's no Planner.
In the same way they attacked creation: They had to try to prove there was no order to things, no laws, no plan, no purpose.--Therefore, there was no Planner or Anybody that gave orders. So Creation just became a meaningless chaotic evolution: "It all just happened by accident."
Their whole theme song is: "It ain't necessarily so."--Beginning with the Bible, they've gone right on down the line through everything.--"There's nothing that's true, so there is no Truth", in other words.
Ted Rudow III,MA


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posted 9/17/07 @ 7:34 PM PST I like how you put your opinion.
It was to the point and clear.
I also agree that "under God" should not be taken out.
That is ridiculous. People can be dismised from saying it, rather than completely abolishing.
We can't just delete 53 years of repeating the same Pledge of Allegiance, and suddenly be banned from saying those words that are memorized permanently in our minds and hearts forever.
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Monday, September 17, 2007

Euros

Euros
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com ) Sunday Sep 16th, 2007 9:04 PM
Number of famous economists, they are each planning to be somewhere else when the crash comes which they predict will topple the rich nations like tumbling tenpins into an economic chaos that will make the Great Depression of the Thirties look like good times.
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They says the big bust really began clear back in 1973 and there will soon be a colossal deflation with the collapse of the Dollar followed by a price inflation which will make today look like stability! One economist predicts that when the people begin to wake up to what's happening to their money, they're going to start cashing in their stocks and bonds and spending their savings to try to get their money's worth, so that banks, corporations and even governments will go broke as people begin to realise their paper money is really worth nothing at all! Modern economists ignore the even more dangerous social and political signs and the most vital of all financial forecasting factors. Your money is losing its value faster than they can print it, and it soon won't be worth any more than the paper it's printed on. Already investors are fleeing from paper money into gold.The sad result is that the United States now owns far less gold than official figures pretend. The dollar marked a new record low against the euro amid growing expectations that the Federal Reserve will cut U.S. interest rates next week and fears that the credit crunch is threatening the health of the U.S. economy.The euro was up 0.5% against the greenback, at $1.3904, after earlier touching $1.3913 -- its highest level since the European currency was launched in January 1999.
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To go to war to steal it.

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Editor - Oil consumption in the United States has not gone down in the slightest. Let the companies raise the prices; people still buy more. Raising prices is not going to slow people down from taking their Sunday afternoon drive or their vacation or their weekend trip, not a bit. The only thing that'll stop them is rationing. However, American drivers, rather than have their gasoline rationed and their vacations shortened, would much prefer to go to war to steal it.
TED RUDOW III,MA Menlo Park

Friday, September 14, 2007

Rationing?

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Ted Rudow III,MA

Rationing?

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by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com ) Friday Sep 14th, 2007 8:44 AM
Countries like China and Japan produce like mad and sell like mad and have huge trade balances, because they export more than they import. But the United States, they are such gluttons they guzzle down everything and consume everything and especially oil!
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The oil consumption in the U.S. has not gone down the slighest bit. They're not conserving a bit, instead they're actually using more. Let the companies raise the prices, even put more tax on oil, and they still buy more. Raising prices is not going to slow those people down one iota form taking their Sunday afternoon drive or their vacation or their weekend trip, not a bit. The only thing that'll even stop them is rationing, and they're going to come to it one of these days. However, if you and I know the American driver have an idea that rather than have their gasoline rationed and their vacations shortened and their big cars shortened, they would I'm sure much prefer to go to war and steal it, grab off a few countries (Iraq and now Iran?) that have oil, and they can do it under the excuse of saving Israel.

Thursday, September 13, 2007

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Abstract: Worldwide, the signs are everywhere. Ice is melting left and right. Once-majestic glaciers are rapidly disappearing. Sea levels are rising. Polar bears are drowning. Our planet is heating up at rates never before seen. Am I worried? You better believe it. And yet, I find myself more concerned by the general public's mental and physical inertia when it comes to this deadly phenomenon we call "global warming....
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Saving the world by cleaning up the environment is one thing the Antichrist will be able to get almost everyone to agree upon. He'll have grand plans to save the world from climate change, from war, from financial disaster, and more--the savior who's come to save and preserve the things that are seen, all the while he's planning to subvert and capture the things that are unseen, the souls of men.
The Enemy is working behind the scenes to help create these different crises and stir up concern about them--the environment in this case, but you can be sure that he has some serious wars and financial crises and perhaps some pandemics or plagues in his dirty little bag of tricks to try in the future. He's trying to set the stage and arrange the circumstances for a desperate world to cry out, "Who will save us from this disaster?!" And he has just the candidate for the job--the Antichrist.

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Ted Rudow III,MA Anti-Americanism

We sympathize with those who lost their loved ones and their livelihoods, and with the poor children who lost their parents, or the people who were left injured, maimed or burned. The Lord Himself grieves for them, and His heart is greatly touched by this calamity. At the same time, there are lessons to learn from this tragedy, for both America and the world. One is that advanced technology is no guarantee of the safety and security of a nation; only the Lord is. Many nations have sympathy for America in the face of her great loss, but as Americans lash out aggressively at anyone they think is against them, anyone they perceive as being hostile, then the sympathy will fade fast. And in the end, many countries will be more anti-American than they ever were in the past. Why will there be anti-Americanism? Because of the actions and attitudes of Americans themselves, sad to say. Instead of seeing themselves as others see them, many will persist in looking at the world only through a nationalistic American lens and viewpoint, so they'll reap antagonism instead of support.
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Wednesday, September 12, 2007

George Bush

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To move the world along toward the End quickly, that man is George Bush. That does not mean that he is the best man, but that he is best for that position for now, to turn the world against America. America will get the leader that she deserves. She has become an ungodly nation, and the majority of her people will elect an ungodly ruler to lead them”for "strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. But wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat" (Matthew 7:13,14). Judge not by the outward appearance of the candidates, but by their heart and actions. For there are those among these contenders who will draw nigh to Him with their mouth, and honor Him with their lips, but their heart is far from Him (Matthew 15:8). Many have left the idealism of their youth behind and have turned aside toward glory, power, and even covetousness.
Ted Rudow III,MA

Any parting words for Gonzales?

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The words of politicians, Orwell wrote, are "designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind." In "1984" is a chilling depiction of how the power of the state could come to dominate the lives of individuals through cultural conditioning. It incessantly relays messages from the party and simultaneously allows the dreaded "thought police to tune into the activities of any individual at any given time."
Ted Rudow III,MA

Tuesday, September 11, 2007

9/11

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Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Anti-Americanism
We sympathize with those who lost their loved ones and their livelihoods, and with the poor children who lost their parents, or the people who were left injured, maimed or burned. The Lord Himself grieves for them, and His heart is greatly touched by this calamity. At the same time, there are lessons to learn from this tragedy, for both America and the world. One is that advanced technology is no guarantee of the safety and security of a nation; only the Lord is. Many nations have sympathy for America in the face of her great loss, but as Americans lash out aggressively at anyone they think is against them, anyone they perceive as being hostile, then the sympathy will fade fast. And in the end, many countries will be more anti-American than they ever were in the past. Why will there be anti-Americanism? Because of the actions and attitudes of Americans themselves, sad to say. Instead of seeing themselves as others see them, many will persist in looking at the world only through a nationalistic American lens and viewpoint, so they'll reap antagonism instead of support.
Ted Rudow III,MA

Monday, September 10, 2007
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/09/10/18446664.php
America's good memory?
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com ) Monday Sep 10th, 2007 11:56 AM
"It was desirable to make sure that the Japanese were the ones to do this so that there should remain no doubt in anyone's mind as to who were the aggressors" Henry Stimson,Secretary of War Arthur McClenn was a officer in Naval intelligence and believed that war with Japan soon. He develop a 8 Point Plan, a pre-war plan that would allow Japanese attack on U.S. He gave it to Roosevelt in secrecy. The day after McClenn gave the plan to him, he acted it out! Thus U.S acted before the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor! The only way America can have plenty is with war. American economy, Western economy, Capitalist economy can thrive only on war. God is the only One who can give them peace and plenty at the same time.--I mean all that they need. As long as a nation demands more than they need, in other words more than plenty, they demand absolute excess, extravagant luxury.--They have to rob the poor to get it, and to rob the poor to get it they have to wage war. Almost all American industries, even non-war industries, are making money at the expense of the poor of other nations of the world. So the Iraqi war is the same.The only thing that would ever stir up the Americans to really howl is if their favourite TV show got pre-empted, or if the government should clamp down on their gasoline.
Ted Rudow III,MA

Saturday, September 08, 2007

The Stanford Daily

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BREAKING NEWS: Donald Rumsfeld headed to Stanford
Former Secretary of Defense will be Hoover visiting fellowAugust 30, 2007By Patrick K. Fitzgerald Former Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld will be joining the ranks of the Hoover Institution as a distinguished visiting fellow, the University announced Friday afternoon. According to Hoover Director John Raisian, Rumsfeld will serve on a task force pertaining to national security, ideology and terrorism in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.---
Ted Rudow III,MA Why will there be anti-Americanism? Because of the actions and attitudes of Americans themselves, sad to say. Instead of seeing themselves as others see them, many will persist in looking at the world only through a nationalistic American lens and viewpoint, so they'll reap antagonism instead of support. The U.S. is the proudest nation on the face of the Earth, and in their pride they even wage war in the name of peace. They hold so much power in the world today due to their military might and financial power, and they are able to push their agendas and get other countries to buy into them. But their pride and their arrogance irritate and exasperate many countries of the world, and this war will bring about more and more division between the governments of the world. Money markets will continue to become more and more unstable. 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. The economies will fall now. They will come up for a few more gasps of air, but this has been the fatal blow that will bring them down. There's still a little time left in which the economies will float above the crisis, but not for long. They will be surfacing for gasps of air, but then submerging again, much as a drowning man who goes down longer and longer after each desperate gasp at the surface, until he surfaces no more. Ted Rudow III,MA

Friday, September 07, 2007

9-11-6th anniversary

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/09/07/18446248.php
9/11-6TH Anniversary
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com ) Friday Sep 7th, 2007 3:50 PM
Why will there be anti-Americanism? Because of the actions and attitudes of Americans themselves, sad to say. Instead of seeing themselves as others see them, many will persist in looking at the world only through a nationalistic American lens and viewpoint, so they'll reap antagonism instead of support.
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The U.S. is the proudest nation on the face of the Earth, and in their pride they even wage war in the name of peace. They hold so much power in the world today due to their military might and financial power, and they are able to push their agendas and get other countries to buy into them. But their pride and their arrogance irritate and exasperate many countries of the world, and this war will bring about more and more division between the governments of the world. Money markets will continue to become more and more unstable. 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. The economies will fall now. They will come up for a few more gasps of air, but this has been the fatal blow that will bring them down. There's still a little time left in which the economies will float above the crisis, but not for long. They will be surfacing for gasps of air, but then submerging again, much as a drowning man who goes down longer and longer after each desperate gasp at the surface, until he surfaces no more. Ted Rudow III,MA

Wednesday, September 05, 2007

Delay

Sacbee: Opinion NewsletterBlogs Cartoons Daily Debate Editorials Forum Letters Kathryn Jean Lopez: Politics' sinful use of religionFriday, August 31, 2007 DelayFormer Rep. Tom DeLay was on the Chris Matthews' Hardball, discussed the political career of Sen. Larry Craig of Idaho, as fellow Republicans called for his resignation and party leaders ousted him from his committee leadership posts amid the fallout over his arrest in a men's room and his guilty plea in the case. A growing of Republican leaders including, former Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Tex.),I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Representative Randy Cunningham, a Republican from San Diego and others yet to be name, have already been indicted. Delay is hypocrite, pretending to be everybody's friend and nobody's enemy, when in their hearts they know exactly where they stand, and which way they'll go when the showdown comes, as many Republican leaders have. May God damn it for its subtle treacherous "neutrality" with the world--pretending to be a friend of both God and the world at the same time!
Ted Rudow III,MA

Sunday, September 02, 2007

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/09/02/18445385.php
Blessed are the peacemakers
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Sunday Sep 2nd, 2007 7:27 PM
The country whose warmongers daily slaughter or support the slaughter of innocents is more than deserving of such punishments and terror. These who strike fear daily into the hearts of poor, struggling third world nations, who have done nothing to ease the sufferings of the Palestinians, these deserve to have their own people, their own country, their own government, their own economy, hurt. And those who would sacrifice some of their own people to gain political or economic benefits are the most wicked of all.
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Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God. Blessed are you who promote peace, who fight for peace, who strive to live the love and peace that He preached. Those who thirst for blood, the warmongers, are the curse.
Ted Rudow III,MA