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After killing more than 320 Palestinians and injuring close to 1,000 this past Saturday by dropping 100 tons of bombs on the Gaza Strip, the Israeli Southern Command GOC announced that the Israeli army will "send Gaza decades into the past" in terms of weapons capabilities while achieving "the maximum number of enemy casualties."

Despite these echoes from failed uses of force in the past, the current Jewish-Israeli consensus nevertheless favors Israeli military attacks on Gaza. "The goal of our military actions is to force peace on them," stated member of Knesset Yakov Margi (Shas) in a parliamentary discussion of Gaza.

This attitude demonstrates that neither historical examples nor Israel's own failure to achieve "peace" through destruction have a visible impact on Israeli public opinion or government policies.

The Jewish violation of the cease-fire has complicated the whole picture more than ever. The Arabs can no longer negotiate a fair political settlement from a position of strength and military advantage.

The Palestinians-Israeli war is an American war with American-Jewish soldiers fighting with weapons for the American territory of an American colonyĆ¢€”Israel. The Americans have to win to save their [Israelis'] territory.

-- Ted Rudow III,MA, Menlo Park, Calif.

Sunday, December 28, 2008

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The culture of the world is enamoured with the smooth and the slick, with being big and successful, while humility and love run against the grain. Though Jesus was God, He didn't flaunt His power or position or rights. Instead, He made Himself nothing. His birthplace is a testimony to that. He didn't just take a low place, He took the lowest, and the point is that His commission was to serve. It was to preach salvation to the poor. He came not to be served, but to serve, to give His life as a ransom for many.

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to Afghanistan

It helps when you can so easily forget the past and tune out reality.

The war in Afghanistan, which began on Oct. 7, 2001, was launched by the United States with the United Kingdom in response to the September 2001 attacks. The U.S. military is currently planning to send around 20,000 extra troops to the country in spring 2009.

So now that the invasion of Afghanistan is not over, Americans can forget that the country is as bad off as it ever was — although Afghan men can shave, of course. And when that time comes, Iraq too will be forgotten or relegated to the back pages of the papers, along with the multitudes who died in both of the Gulf wars. America will move on, leaving a legacy of death and destruction, and Americans will forget — but God won't.

Ted Rudow III,MA

Menlo Park

Sunday, December 21, 2008

Never ending war!

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Never ending war
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Sunday Dec 21st, 2008
Maybe it's because they have such a short attention span and memory. As one journalist commented, a short memory is a great boost to self-esteem. It helps when you can so easily forget the past and tune out reality. The War in Afghanistan, which began on October 7, 2001 as the U.S. military operation Operation Enduring Freedom, was launched by the United States with the United Kingdom in response to the September 11, 2001 attacks. The US military is currently planning to send around 20,000 extra troops to the country in Spring 2009.

So now that the invasion of Afghanistan is not over, Americans can forget that the country is as bad off as it ever was-although Afghan men can shave, of course. And when that time comes, Iraq too will be forgotten or relegated to the back pages of the papers, along with the multitudes who died in Gulf War I and II, the many children and innocents who died from 12 years of sanctions, and the thousands who are continuing to suffer and die from the depleted uranium shells littering the landscape and the unexploded cluster bombs scattered far and wide.
America will move on, leaving a legacy of death and destruction, and Americans will forget-but God won't.
Ted Rudow II,MA

Friday, December 19, 2008

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Dear Editor,
The culture of the world is enamoured with the smooth and the slick,
with being big and successful, while humility and love run against
the grain.

Though Jesus was God, He didn't flaunt His power or position or
rights. Instead, He made Himself nothing. His birthplace is a
testimony to that. He didn't just take a low place, He took the
lowest, and the point is that His commission was to serve. It was to
preach salvation to the poor. He came not to be served, but to serve,
to give His life as a ransom for many.

Ted Rudow III, MA
PO Box 1222
Menlo Park, CA 94026
USA
Tedr77@aol.com

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Letter to the Editor: Auto bailout
To the Editor:

The Bush administration said that it was prepared to intervene to
prevent the collapse of General Motors and Chrysler after Republican
senators blocked a compromise proposal to rescue the automakers. That
they would be remembered for decades as the party of Herbert Hoover
if the industry collapsed.

Everything is moving a lot faster today that it did in 1929. From '29
to '32, President Hoover kept talking like the politicians are
talking now, right until he got fired! For three years, from
October '29 to November '32 in the election that FDR won, Hoover kept
saying, "It wasn't the government's fault, we're doing everything we
can." He repeated this for three whole years as things got worse and
worse, until things finally hit absolute bottom!

I wouldn't be surprised now if it takes half that time. People are
better informed, people know the history more, they're going to be
more scared. If they've got any sense at all they're going to start
worrying about the banks and pulling their money out.

And once the banks fail, businesses fail, manufacturers fail,
industries fail and unemployment skyrockets! It will be worldwide and
worse than ever.

Ted Rudow III,MA

Menlo Park, Calif.

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

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Spending millions on weapons of war does nothing for prosperity or quality of life
Unlike your editorial of December 12, I don't find it bad news that there is a delay in a major order for the Ministry of Defence. It would be even better news if the order was cancelled.

Like John Watson (Letters, December 10), I am saddened if not surprised to read of the devastation and oppression around the world. Most of this can be attributed to the policies pursued by western governments, the US and UK in particular.

Jacques Diouf, director-general of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation, has highlighted the fact that the world spent £820bn on weapons in 2006. I have a cutting from the Herald (April 13, 2006) in which the American journalist Ted Rudow III declared: "American economy, western economy, capitalist economy can thrive only on war." He went on to predict depression and economic collapse. This was more than two and a half years ago, and since then expenditure on warfare has steadily increased.It is estimated that, in the US, 50 cents in every dollar of tax goes to the military. Here, large amounts are spent not only on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan but also on such military items as Trident and the aircraft carriers and other warships being built on the Clyde and elsewhere. Large sums are spent at Aldermaston, Porton Down and at other sites where weapons of mass destruction are made, and on research and development into more efficient ways of killing human beings. In all, how much of each pound of our tax goes to the military?

At this time of year, people are wishing for peace and good will. What an indictment of our government, our society and capitalism that such vast resources are squandered on warfare and preparations for continuing warfare. Jobs are vitally important, particularly at this time, but how sad it is that so many are dependent on the manufacture of weapons of war. It would make sense to send that industry's workers home on full pay. The armaments they produce may be technically brilliant but they do nothing to increase prosperity or enhance quality of life.

The civil manufacturing sector has been neglected and is crying out for investment, with more than one million jobs wiped out. Would that the "big items" were turbines or others to assist in the development of renewable energy, not weapons of war.
Ron Mackay, Milton of Campsie, East Dunbartonshire.

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

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SAN FRANCISCO -- The age of the dinosaurs ended abruptly about 65 million years ago when some catastrophic event drove them to extinction, and now a vehement controversy over their disappearance is emerging anew........
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There is no proof for evolution. It has to be believed, therefore it's a faith, therefore it's a religion! So they're teaching a new compulsory religion in today's hallowed halls of higher learning. Even the great high priest and founding father of this new false faith, Charles Darwin himself, confessed that "the belief (note the emphasis on belief) in natural selection (evolution) must at present be grounded entirely on general considerations. Does biological evolution exist? The surprising answer is yes!Microevolution happens within species, when small adaptations either take place to accommodate environment or are brought about by breeding.Once I was a tadpole long and thin, then I was a baboon with my tail tucked in, then I was a monkey in a tropical tree and now I am professor with college degree. Did Charley make a monkey out of you?
Ted Rudow III,MA

Sunday, December 14, 2008

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The Bush administration said on Friday that it was prepared to intervene to prevent the collapse of General Motors and Chrysler after Republican senators blocked a compromise proposal to rescue the automakers. That they would be remembered for decades as the party of Herbert Hoover if the industry collapsed Everything is moving a lot faster today that it did in 1929! From '29 to '32, President Hoover kept talking like the politicians are talking now, right until he got fired! For three years, from October '29 to November '32, the election that put FDR in. He kept saying, "It wasn't the government's fault, we're doing everything we can," for three whole years as things got worse and worse, until things finally hit absolute bottom! From the '29 Crash to the bottom in '32 was about three years. I wouldn't be surprised if it takes half that time. People are better informed, people know the history more, they're going to be more frighten.
Ted Rudow III,MA

Saturday, December 13, 2008

Car bailout

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by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Saturday Dec 13th, 2008
The Bush administration said on Friday that it was prepared to intervene to prevent the collapse of General Motors and Chrysler after Republican senators blocked a compromise proposal to rescue the automakers. That they would be remembered for decades as the party of Herbert Hoover if the industry collapsed.

Everything is moving a lot faster today that it did in 1929! From '29 to '32, President Hoover kept talking like the politicians are talking now, right until he got fired! For three years, from October '29 to November '32, the election that put FDR in. He kept saying, "It wasn't the government's fault, we're doing everything we can," for three whole years as things got worse and worse, until things finally hit absolute bottom! From the '29 Crash to the bottom in '32 was about three years.
I wouldn't be surprised if it takes half that time. People are better informed, people know the history more, they're going to be more sacred. If they've got any sense at all they're going to start worrying about the banks and pulling their money out!--And once the banks fail, businesses fail, manufacturers fail, industries fail and unemployment skyrockets! It will be worldwide and worse than ever!
Ted Rudow III,MA

Tuesday, December 09, 2008

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By The Editorial BoardIn case it wasn’t already clear that Barack Obama is going to have a lot to deal with when he takes office, the Government Accountability Office, Congress’s investigative agency, has released a list of 13 urgent issues for him and the next Congress. The 13, listed alphabetically by the G.A.O., are:
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In fact, almost all American industries, even non-war industries, are making money at the expense of the poor of other nations of the world. America–huge green and greedy, gluttonous, wasteful, selfish. Its dollar, the “greenback,” or the American dollar that is sinking American!
The car industry, a quick bankruptcy is impossible. Chapter 11 would take years to unfold during which time the companies would lose unrecoverable market share. Airlines don’t compare to auto manufacturers with independent suppliers providing credit and some four thousand parts needed every day; just one missing part can prevent assembly of a whole car.
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.The American people have been making war and making money in their war jobs and their high salaries at the expenses of the poor Iraqi!

— Ted Rudow III,MA


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A demonstration to those in high standing of who is really the boss. Even the big money boys are as pawns in the hands of the puppeteer. The puppeteer's total power works by fear. The puppeteer sends a strong signal that it is indeed he who holds the bag and manipulates the strings, and all must yield to his gestures and signals, else they will be tangled up and put out of commission. his ability to keep the marionettes moving and flowing and dancing in apparent sync and coordination.
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Sunday, December 07, 2008

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The atmosphere: You're supposed to feel festive. It's the holiday season. Instead, you feel rushed, tired and sick of all the crowds in the stores, gridlock on the streets and packages cutting into your calf as...
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Christmas Day gets lost in the days and weeks surrounding it. In fact, many Christmas cards and signs simply state 'Season's Greetings' with no mention of Christmas. Now it's a 'holiday tree' rather than a 'Christmas tree'. They even call it 'XMAS' to cross Jesus out of Christmas. In other words, to take Christ out of Christmas. In some cities, all you ever see are signs of 'Xmas Holidays', 'Xmas Sale', 'Xmas Shopping', 'Xmas, Xmas, Xmas'. They wouldn't think of putting up 'Christmas', that's the name of Jesus Christ! And, of course, they've got a new god called Santa Claus, who is really the big department store! One of the horrible horrors of it is that when they teach their children about Santa Claus, and then they start teaching them about Jesus, the truth and the real story and meaning of Christmas, the poor kids think, "Oh, this is just another stupid idiotic fairytale like the one you told me about Santa Claus!" There's so much more to Christmas than trees, decorations!
Ted Rudow III,MA

Saturday, December 06, 2008

Pearl Harbor

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Pearl Harbor
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Saturday Dec 6th, 2008 6:56 PM
Americans who went to war to resist the Japanese economic development of Southeast Asia. Probably if they'd left the Japanese alone--and of course if the Japanese had left the Americans alone, which is where they made their biggest mistake, attacking Pearl Harbor--the whole of Southeast Asia would be better off!

Of course the Americans were just waiting for an excuse to go to war with Japan. They had already been fighting a trade war with Japan, which in those days was not much hotter than the one they're fighting with Japan right now! So they were all gung-ho for war, not only the Japanese but the Americans.
It's said that Roosevelt allowed the attack on Pearl Harbor even though he had advance warning of it! The Japanese were too smart, too clever, could make things too cheap and could undersell the Americans all the time. And of course they used the excuse that Japan was conquering the East.
Ted Rudow III,MA

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.....But no. Instead, he told Gibson that his "biggest regret" was a mistake made by others: intelligence analysts who got it wrong about Iraq.

The only inference we can draw is that if the intelligence had been more skeptical of Saddam's WMD prowess, there might not have been an Iraq War. Karl Rove recently sounded this same revisionist theme, saying that "absent weapons of mass destruction" there likely would have been no invasion.

But there was plenty of skeptical intel about Iraq's alleged WMD, particularly its nuclear program – the potential "mushroom cloud" that Condoleezza Rice so chillingly evoked. Shaky or ambiguous reports – such as the bogus document about Iraq's attempt to buy yellowcake uranium in Niger – were presented as gospel. International nuclear inspectors, meanwhile, were inside Iraq doing their job.

There's another problem with the way Bush is trying to rewrite history. After U.S. forces combed Iraq for WMD and established that none existed, the administration came up with other backdated rationales for the invasion. Vice President Cheney even kept insisting on some link with 9/11 that only he could perceive; after a while, nobody paid him any attention.

The president spoke of having created a democracy in the heart of the Middle East, one that would shoot tendrils of freedom to take root throughout the region – which is a hard story to sell when the war's greatest geopolitical impact has been to strengthen theocratic Iran to the point that it dares to dream of ancient Persian glory.

Bush pats himself on the back for keeping his eye on the ball – the "war against ideological thugs." But those ideological thugs are ensconced somewhere, probably in the lawless frontier territories of Pakistan, rebuilding their murderous networks and plotting new attacks. I'm betting that they don't regret Bush's decision to invade Iraq, either.
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In fact, almost all American industries, even non-war industries, are making money at the expense of the poor of other nations of the world. America--huge green and greedy, gluttonous, wasteful, selfish. Its dollar, the "greenback," or the American dollar that is sinking American! The car industry, a quick bankruptcy is impossible. Chapter 11 would take years to unfold during which time the companies would lose unrecoverable market share. Airlines don’t compare to auto manufacturers with independent suppliers providing credit and some four thousand parts needed every day; just one missing part can prevent assembly of a whole car. 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.The American people have been making war and making money in their war jobs and their high salaries at the expenses of the poor.
Ted Rudow III,MA

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Stanford University’s financial investments have continued to lose traction, sliding further down the nation’s slippery economic slope into what Provost John Etchemendy Ph.D. ‘82 — the University’s chief budgetary officer — is calling a “worsened” investment climate.

In light of the investment declines, Etchemendy and University President John Hennessy will immediately cut their own salaries by 10 percent, according to an email sent by the provost to some 12,000 faculty and staff members on Tuesday. A recent report by The Chronicle of Higher Education found that Hennessy brought home a total compensation of $701,501 during the 2006-2007 year.

Each of Stanford’s deans has also volunteered to take a salary reduction.

In addition, Etchemendy and Hennessy may axe further into Stanford’s general funds budget, chopping as much as $100 million from the $800 million budget over the next two years. This prediction has been upped from the administrators’ October estimate of a $45 million cut per year.

“We now anticipate a need for deeper, permanent reductions in the general funds budget, which funds most of our faculty and staff salaries, central administrative operations and non-research expenses,” Etchemendy wrote in Tuesday’s email.

Last month, the provost asked each unit of the University to submit reduction scenarios for a three percent cut, a five percent cut and a seven percent cut. Those three numbers have now been upped respectively to five, seven and 10, “in the context of an overall plan to eliminate 15 percent over the next two years.”

Still, Etchemendy noted that he is being cautious, and that the reductions may not be that severe.

“The ultimate cuts may not have to be this deep,” he said, “but we would be irresponsible not to prepare for this eventuality.”

Part of this preparation will include “unavoidable” layoffs, according to the provost. At the same time, he and the president will try to reduce the impact of layoffs by implementing hiring freezes to preserve some employment, providing a retirement incentive program in certain units and granting some employees the option to permanently reduce their work hours. Where layoffs are the only option, an “enhanced severance program” may also be provided.

Additional details on these programs will be provided in January, according to Tuesday’s email.

Stanford’s budget cuts will also delay or halt campus construction projects. In an interview with The Daily early last month, the provost explained how University officials decide which projects will continue and which will not.

“Any project that is currently underway is going to keep moving,” Etchemendy said. “Further, we will move forward any project that is a donor-supported project with a naming gift, because of the donor’s expectations.”

Although he did not mention specifics, the provost said the remainder of Stanford’s construction projects will be prioritized according to “academic need,” then halted and delayed starting from the bottom.

On Tuesday, following similar announcements recently made at Dartmouth and Brown, Harvard University announced that its endowment plummeted 22 percent in four months from its Jun. 30 value of $36.9 billion. Stanford budget officials have not yet announced the recent activity in Stanford’s endowment, which, at over $17.2 billion as of earlier this year, ranks third in higher education behind Harvard’s and Yale’s.




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Robbing the poor

In fact, almost all American industries, even non-war industries, are making money at the expense of the poor of other nations of the world. America–huge green and greedy, gluttonous, wasteful, selfish. Its dollar, the “greenback,” or the American dollar that is sinking American!

The car industry, a quick bankruptcy is impossible. Chapter 11 would take years to unfold during which time the companies would lose unrecoverable market share. Airlines don’t compare to auto manufacturers with independent suppliers providing credit and some four thousand parts needed every day; just one missing part can prevent assembly of a whole car.
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.The American people have been making war and making money in their war jobs and their high salaries at the expenses of the poor Iraqi!



Thursday, December 04, 2008

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Students and community members walk past the Paseo de San Antonio Ferris wheel on Tuesday night as part of Christmas in the Park.



Twinkling red and green lights, uplifting holiday music and laughing children can be seen and heard long before reaching Plaza de Cesar Chavez in downtown San Jose.

Surrounding a 25-foot Christmas tree, displays depicting motorized bears, reindeer and elves captivate old and young passersby alike. A light of joy washes upon children's faces as the snow machines sprinkle white snow-like material into the air. Christmas in the Park, a free event running from Nov. 28 to Jan. 1 has, for 29 years, been a part of downtown San Jose's community, said Martie Degutis, vice president of the Christmas in the Park board of directors--/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
2/03/08 I think the commercializing of Christmas by the merchants, it's hypocritical, and it's polluting our children's minds with the wrong meaning of Christmas, the wrong purpose of Christmas, the wrong things.
The Christmas tree itself even can be made to symbolise the beauty of life and living. In Wintertime the evergreen, even in the midst of death and decay, is sort of a symbol of everlasting life. If you can constantly make it a reminder of Jesus.
If the true meaning of Christmas doesn't get lost in the Christmas tree somewhere and its decorations then good! Somehow you can manage to make the true meaning of Christmas and Christ and Jesus and His birth still shine through then I'm all for it, the more it glorifies Jesus! The more it extols Christ!
Ted Rudow III,MA
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Tuesday, December 02, 2008

The dark side of credit

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Dear Editor: Instead of lending 10 times the value of their underlying assets, investment banks started lending out 30 times their asset value. They were getting colossal quantities of almost free money. “Leveraged buyouts” (LBOs) became the name of the corporate game. Groups of investors would get together, target a company, borrow to buy it, sell it at a profit, and move on. Hedge funds flipped multibillion-dollar companies the way amateur property speculators in California flipped houses.
But it was all based on credit, and the dark side of credit is debt. All of this leveraging works only as long as the underly­ing assets, the collateral for the loan, retain their value. Using leverage seemed like free money. But when assets decline in value, the ugly side of debt appears in the form of “de-lever­aging.”
“And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, ‘Come and see.’ And I beheld, and to a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand. And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, ‘A mea­sure of wheat for a penny; and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine’” (Revelation 6:5-6 KJV.).
This black horse’s rider with the pair of balances in his hand symbolizes the rich capitalists who have a major impact on world conditions through their manipulation of national economies. Only one other verse in the Bible pictures a man with balances or scales: “The merchant uses dishonest scales; he loves to defraud” (Hosea 12:7 NIV).
Ted Rudow III,MA

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The best immediate indicator of what an Obama administration might look like can be found in the people he surrounds himself with and who he appoints to his Cabinet. And, frankly, when it comes to foreign policy, it is not looking good. Obama has a momentous opportunity to do what he repeatedly promised over the course of his campaign: Bring actual change. But the more we learn about who Obama is considering for top positions in his administration, the more his inner circle resembles a staff reunion of President Bill Clinton’s White House. Unstable global financial markets, waves of bankruptcy, deepening unemployment, economic busts, markets plunging, collapsing consumer confidence, banking systems crashing — it does not seem that there is any place on earth immune from the financial crisis. Who will be able to rescue the world from this mess? Where have all the leaders gone? Who is capable? Though he’s unknown to most people, his presence can be felt as he manipulates and put things in line and sets the stage for his grand entrance. There is a strongman behind the scenes (not Obama) who is bringing to the attention of the world the need for a savior, someone to come forward and take the reins. But it will cost your soul?


Ted Rudow III,MA

Monday, December 01, 2008

Yield to the rich — shame on him

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On Jan. 31, 1975, it was raining, I was driving and I passed a truck. We hit another car, head-on. When I emerged from the coma, I had to relearn how to walk, talk, read and write. I spent almost one year in therapy, learning to cope with only my left side working.
Now, after three surgeries and kidney and heart problems because of diabetes, I am very disabled and have not worked in seven years. Social Security is all that I have, and to think a foreign-born ex-bodybuilder is going to cut tools for the disabled and cut their income to yield to the rich — shame on him!
– Ted Rudow III, M.A.
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Sunday, November 23, 2008

Wherehave all the leaders gone?

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Where have all the leaders gone?
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Sunday Nov 23rd,
But the best immediate indicator of what an Obama administration might look like can be found in the people he surrounds himself with and who he appoints to his Cabinet. And, frankly, when it comes to foreign policy, it is not looking good.
Obama has a momentous opportunity to do what he repeatedly promised over the course of his campaign: bring actual change. But the more we learn about who Obama is considering for top positions in his administration, the more his inner circle resembles a staff reunion of President Bill Clinton's White House.
Unstable global financial markets, waves of bankruptcy, deepening unemployment, economic busts, markets plunging, collapsing consumer confidence, banking systems crashing—it does not seem that there is any place on earth immune from the financial crisis. Who will be able to rescue the world from this mess? Where have all the leaders gone? Who is capable?
Though he's unknown to most people, his presence can be felt as he manipulates and put things in line and sets the stage for his grand entrance.There is a strongman behind the scenes (not Obama) who is bringing to the attention of the world the need for a savior, someone to come forward and take the reins. But it will cost your soul?

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Bush and his band of thieves

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Bush and his band of thieves

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November 18, 2008
"We’re now two weeks into President-elect Barack Obama’s (It still feels weird to say that. It really does.) transition, which is probably the most-watched in the past 25 years or so. We’ve read — or at least I have — story after story in the media reminding us of Bill Clinton’s supposedly disastrous transition, and how Obama should avoid his mistakes. Obama, who does seem to be moving quite a bit faster than Clinton, selected his Chief of Staff quickly. Rahm Emanuel, a centrist once associated with the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) and serious policy wonk, is an excellent choice for the job. He’s also filled several other staff positions with loyalists like Valerie Jarrett. Despite leftist criticism, Emanuel’s selection indicates Obama’s desire to govern from the center.----
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Many people have been asking us, “Could Bush actually pardon himself?”. Would it be despicable? Would it be shameless and cowardly? Yes, that and that too what we saw in Iraq in the Green Zone and what we’re seeing in the US Treasury. It’s sort of the Green Zoning of the US Treasury. It has been very much a corporate war. So these sort of corporate welfare bums now want to use the language of anti-protectionism to go into other countries.
This bailout is really not a bailout at all; it’s a parting gift to the people that the Bush—that George Bush once referred to jokingly as “my base.” . It to what European colonial rulers used to do when they finally realized they had to hand over power; they would loot the treasury on the way out the door.
Two of the most modern and significant are Hitler and Nitler, the term we prefer to use for Hitler’s American presidential heir. Hitler was an expert at distracting his people’s attention from their real problems. Another trick from a whole bag of tricks by Bush and his band of thieves? It doesn’t matter to him and his if other governments fall and political careers are tragically destroyed and lives lost as long as his own power is preserved!–Like Hitler!

Bush and his band of thieves

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Bush and his band of thieves
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Wednesday Nov 19th, 2008 10:02 AM
Many people have been asking us, "Could Bush actually pardon himself?". Would it be despicable? Would it be shameless and cowardly? Yes, that and that too what we saw in Iraq in the Green Zone and what we’re seeing in the US Treasury.
It’s sort of the Green Zoning of the US Treasury. It has been very much a corporate war. So these sort of corporate welfare bums now want to use the language of anti-protectionism to go into other countries
This bailout is really not a bailout at all; it’s a parting gift to the people that the Bush—that George Bush once referred to jokingly as “my base.” . It to what European colonial rulers used to do when they finally realized they had to hand over power; they would loot the treasury on the way out the door.
Two of the most modern and significant are Hitler and Nitler, the term we prefer to use for Hitler's American presidential heir. Hitler was an expert at distracting his people's attention from their real problems. Another trick from a whole bag of tricks by Bush and his band of thieves? It doesn't matter to him and his if other governments fall and political careers are tragically destroyed and lives lost as long as his own power is preserved!--Like Hitler!
Ted Rudow III,MA

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Margaret Colgate Love: In defense of pardon
As President Bush's term nears its end, rumors abound that he will grant a lot of final pardons. Hundreds of clemency applications have been filed with the Justice Department in the past year, a reflection of the popular belief that pardoning is an end-of-term phenomenon in which all presidents indulge. Media reports have identified prominent individuals who are seeking Bush's mercy, and there is speculation about a blanket amnesty for those engaged in counterterrorism efforts.Yet presidential pardons have rarely been concentrated in the weeks between Election Day and the inauguration of a new president. There was no precedent for the torrent of irregular grants issued by Bill Clinton on his last day in office, many of which were the product of special pleading by Clinton friends and family.Historically, pardoning has occurred regularly over the course of a president's term, more frequently in the middle than at either end.........


11/19/2008
Many people have been asking us, "Could Bush actually pardon himself?". Would it be despicable? Would it be shameless and cowardly? Yes, that and that too what we saw in Iraq in the Green Zone and what we’re seeing in the US Treasury. It’s sort of the Green Zoning of the US Treasury. It has been very much a corporate war. So these sort of corporate welfare bums now want to use the language of anti-protectionism to go into other countries. This bailout is really not a bailout at all; it’s a parting gift to the people that the Bush—that George Bush once referred to jokingly as “my base.” . It to what European colonial rulers used to do when they finally realized they had to hand over power; they would loot the treasury on the way out the door. Two of the most modern and significant are Hitler and Nitler, the term we prefer to use for Hitler's American presidential heir. Hitler was an expert at distracting his people's attention from their real problems.
Ted Rudow III,MA

November 18
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To compare Rose Parks' stand to same-sex marriage in a civil right mode is ludicrous. If "to the pure all things are pure" and "all things are lawful unto me," and if, under this Law of grace and Love, extramarital sex and all of these other things are lawful, then where do things like sodomy fit in? If you are truly pure and loving, you wouldn't do such things, because they're definitely not good for you physically or spiritually, and they're hurtful. Just because "all things are lawful" unto us doesn't mean that we can go around murdering or killing or torturing people! That's not love!
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Dear Editor: The new Congress is different from the last one as far as the balance of power is concerned, but its fear of the pro-Israel lobby will be unabated. True, the influence of the Zionist evangelicals will be much diminished, but the American Israel Public Affairs Committee is alive and kicking, and its kicks will be as painful as ever. The new doorkeeper, who bears the ringing Israeli name Rahm Emanuel, grew up in a Jewish home, speaks Hebrew and rushed to the aid of the Israeli army during the first Gulf War.

I don't know his views on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but he certainly will not block the path of the Israeli prime minister to the President Obama. There is no chance for progress toward Israeli-Palestinian peace without American pressure on the Israeli government. That has been true for decades, and that remains true today. So America and Israel will stick together to the bitter end, as they have proven in every Israeli-Palestinian war so far. But that end together may be sooner than they think, because of recent developments. We shall see.

Ted Rudow,III,MA

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Published: Sunday, Nov. 16, 2008 | Page 1B

We're tied up in knots about gay people tying the knot.

The election is over, voters approved Proposition 8, and gay people are prevented from legally marrying in California.

But they refuse to be bridesmaids at heterosexual-only weddings.

Gay people are fighting intolerance with intolerance. They stayed largely in the closet in an election campaign that was about them – but waged with ads largely devoid of their images. And now they are out.

They are flexing their muscle, a little late for Election 2008, but not too late to underscore their unwillingness to retreat on the right to marry, no matter what the vote results say.

It made national news this week when the artistic director of Sacramento's California Musical Theatre resigned under pressure after his $1,000 donation to the "Yes on 8" campaign was made public.-----

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To compare Rose Parks stand to same sex marriage in a civil right mode is ludicrous. If "to the pure all things are pure" and "all things are lawful unto me," and if, under this Law of grace and Love, extramarital sex and all of these other things are lawful, then where do things like sodomy fit in? If you are truly pure and loving, you wouldn't do such things, because they're definitely not good for you physically or spiritually, and they're hurtful. Just because "all things are lawful" unto us doesn't mean that we can go around murdering or killing or torturing people or give them AIDS! That's not love!

Ted Rudow III,MA

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The new Congress is different from the last one as far as the balance of power is concerned, but its fear of the pro-Israel lobby will be unabated. True, the influence of the Zionist evangelicals will be much diminished, but the American Israel Public Affairs Committee is alive and kicking, and its kicks will be as painful as ever. The new door­keeper, who bears the ringing Israeli name Rahm Emanuel, grew up in a Jewish home, speaks Hebrew and rushed to the aid of the Israeli army during the first Gulf War.
I don’t know his views on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but he certainly will not block the path of the Israeli prime minister to the President Obama. There is no chance for progress toward Israeli-Palestinian peace without American pressure on the Israeli government. That has been true for decades, and that remains true today. So America and Israel will stick together to the bitter end, as they have proven in every Israeli-Palestinian war so far. But that end together may be sooner than they think, because of recent developments.
We shall see.
Ted Rudow,III.MA

Thursday, November 13, 2008

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Matthew KimelIssue date: 11/13/08 Section: News

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A groups of trainees in the U.S. Marine Corps Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps march down Market street to the applause of onlookers.



Veterans and several hundred citizens of the greater San Jose area participated in the 90th annual Veterans Day celebration Tuesday with a parade along Santa Clara and Market streets.

"I think (the parades) are important, especially on this date," said Bill Milam, who was a ground electronics server in the Vietnam War. "This is the official date of the Armistice of World War I."

A memorial ceremony took place at 11 a.m. at the intersection of South Market Street and Park Avenue prior to the beginning of the festivities. San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed was one of several speakers.
Reed thanked veterans for their services and said Veterans Day was the "most important holiday of the year."

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On Nov.11,1919,the nation celebrated the first anniversary of the armistice ending World War I. Almost everywhere,it was a time for joy. Lt.Warren O. "Wedge" Grimm (March 9, 1888 - November 11, 1919) was an All-American at the University of Washington and an officer in the United States Army, he served with distinction as part of the American Expeditionary Force Siberia stationed in Russia in 1918-1919.
He was assassinated on November 11, 1919, by members of the IWW (Wobblies) during the Centralia Massacre in Washington State. My Grandfather, Bill Grimm also server in the Great War but he was safe. He later became another All-American at the University of Washington.
You know, it's like all the cheers are gone, the cheers of the throngs to the passing parade, to the soldiers as they go to war. All the glory and the glamour as they march off to war as the people throng and cheer them--all of a sudden it's hushed.--And then there they lie, silently, the biggest parade of all, nobody cheers any more, nobody cares, nobody even remembers. What terrible things wars are. They lose their governments, countries and colonies and economies. They all lose everything. They all lose. Nobody win, you know?
Ted Rudow III,MA
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" I think it’s absolutely correct that every major and minor city is either building a stadium or arena or being asked to estimate somewhere around $2 billion a year of public money going into these buildings, a very, very small percentage of which comes back in terms of, you know, tax benefits or actually benefits to the cities. You know, when the Yankees and the Mets first announced their deals, Mayor Bloomberg said, “Oh, you know, we don’t make subsidies; we make investments, and we get our money back.” Neil Demaus This is the same thing that Bush did! President Bush, who will go down in history as the great tax cutter, owes almost all of his fortune to a tax increase that was funneled into his pocket.What happened is, an oil man named Eddie Chiles wanted to sell his money-losing Texas Rangers baseball team. So George Bush put together a group of very wealthy investors to buy the team. He put up himself $600,000 of borrowed money
A perfect picture of the certain self-destruction of corrupt Capitalism by its own selfish weakness and rottenness and cruelty, as predicted by both Marx and the Bible! So there you have it, in the plain Words of Scripture, especially in Revelation 17 and 18!--Read it! And even so shall be her own destruction! 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! American affluence is the dream of every country the world over, and her luxuries, sins and violence, from her music to her crimes, are imitated by nations around the world!
Ted Rudow III,MA

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By: Paul Craft
November 13, 2008
"This Stanford Life: The cult of investment banking"
I first came across the plaque this past summer. Returning from
Jackson Library at the Graduate School of Business, I noticed a black
marble square that read, "Corporate and Foundation Investors. The
Stanford Graduate School of Business gratefully acknowledges the
following donors for their generous support of the school." It then
proceeded to list big-time corporations and the investment banking
stalwarts: Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch and the like.

But by late September, the plaque was gone. In its place was a large
rectangle of butcher paper and, underneath the paper, a bare stone
wall. Until recently, the butcher paper remained taped to the wall.
In the last few weeks, the GSB replaced it with an updated, "2007-
2008" sponsors plaque, which lacked any of the big Wall Street names.

September's financial crisis didn't just unexpectedly alter on-campus
recruitment cycles and tighten the job market — the crisis altered
the landscape of American elite universities. The implosion humbled
or outright destroyed institutions that Stanford students have long
worshiped with reverence.

The September crisis just may have ended the cult of investment
banking as we know it — and possibly for the better.

The collapse's short-term effects have been amply documented by
college newspapers, including The Daily. Hiring is down. Firms are
more conservative about recruiting. The Cornell Sun — serving a
student body close to Stanford in the pecking order of elite
recruiting — had some interesting statistics. According to Cornell
Finance Professor Charles Chang, the big Wall Street firms recently
hired back about 80 percent of interns. This year they could only
hire 40 percent of interns.--------

Contact Paul at pcraft "at" stanford.edu.

" I think it's absolutely correct that every major and minor city is
either building a stadium or arena or being asked to estimate
somewhere around $2 billion a year of public money going into these
buildings, a very, very small percentage of which comes back in terms
of, you know, tax benefits or actually benefits to the cities. You
know, when the Yankees and the Mets first announced their deals,
Mayor Bloomberg said, "Oh, you know, we don't make subsidies; we make
investments, and we get our money back." Neil Demaus
This is the same thing that Bush did! President Bush, who will go
down in history as the great tax cutter, owes almost all of his
fortune to a tax increase that was funneled into his pocket.What
happened is, an oil man named Eddie Chiles wanted to sell his money-
losing Texas Rangers baseball team. So George Bush put together a
group of very wealthy investors to buy the team. He put up himself
$600,000 of borrowed money. The partners then gave him a 10 percent
stake as the managing partner.Then they held a special election in
January of the year in question to increase the sales tax in the town
of Arlington, Texas, by one half-cent. That money was used to build a
new baseball stadium. It's an incredibly nice baseball stadium.–
A perfect picture of the certain self-destruction of corrupt
Capitalism by its own selfish weakness and rottenness and cruelty, as
predicted by both Marx and the Bible! So there you have it, in the
plain Words of Scripture, especially in Revelation 17 and 18!–Read
it! And even so shall be her own destruction! 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!
American affluence is the dream of every country the world over, and
her luxuries, sins and violence, from her music to her crimes, are
imitated by nations around the world!
Ted Rudow III,MA

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Occupied East Jerusalem

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Occupied East Jerusalem
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Tuesday Nov 11th, 2008
Outgoing Prime Minister Ehud Olmert reiterated on Monday that Israel
must give up most of the Arab territories it has held since 1967,
including Occupied East Jerusalem, if it wants peace.
"This government, any government, owes it to tell the truth and that
truth will force us to separate from many parts of the homeland in
Judaea and Samaria [the Occupied West Bank], in Jerusalem and on the
Golan Heights," Olmert said in a speech to Parliament. "There were
times when we wanted to seal our presence on every inch of land - and
I was one of those people - but we were wrong."
Jewish Israel in Arab Palestine was a literal, aggressive, and
belligerent military invasion by European and American Jews! Then let
Israel and Palestine solve their problems on their own. It will save
their food, their oil, their environment and their lives as well as
world peace. And without America, Israel will be forced to make peace
with her neighbours as Olmert said.The Arabs and Israelis actually
need each other and have what each other needs.
Let there be peace in Jerusalem!

Monday, November 10, 2008

Election

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Election
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Monday Nov 10th, 2008

The new Congress is different from the last one as far as the balance of power is concerned, but its fear of the pro-Israel lobby will be unabated. True, the influence of the Zionist Evangelicals will be much diminished, but AIPAC is alive and kicking, and its kicks will be as painful as ever.
The new doorkeeper, who bears the ringing Israeli name Rahm Emmanuel (Rahm means high, Emmanuel means God with Us), is the son of an Irgun underground veteran. Rahm grew up in a Jewish home, speaks Hebrew and rushed to the aid of the Israeli army during the first Gulf War.
I don’t know his views on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but he certainly will not block the path of the Israeli Prime Minister to the President.There is no chance for progress towards Israeli-Palestinian peace without American pressure on the Israeli government. That has been true for decades, and that remains true today. So America and Israel will stick together to the bitter end, as they have proven in every
Israeli-Palestinian war so far. But that end together may be sooner than they think, because of recent developments. We shall see!

Election

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By: Mark Donig
Published: November 10, 2008
Steal This Column: A retroactive diary of Election Night",
They don’t call me the Bill Simmons of The Daily for nothing. In fact, they don’t call me the Bill Simmons of The Daily at all. Regardless, in the spirit of the nation’s second-most popular syndicated columnist (behind only our very own Stuart Baimel of “Stu’s Views” fame), I give to you Election Night: a running diary.

.........................................................................................................................
The new Congress is different from the last one as far as the balance of power is concerned, but its fear of the pro-Israel lobby will be unabated. True, the influence of the Zionist Evangelicals will be much diminished, but AIPAC is alive and kicking, and its kicks will be as painful as ever.The new doorkeeper, who bears the ringing Israeli name Rahm Emmanuel (Rahm means high, Emmanuel means God with Us), is the son of an Irgun underground veteran. Rahm grew up in a Jewish home, speaks Hebrew and rushed to the aid of the Israeli army during the first Gulf War.
I don’t know his views on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but he certainly will not block the path of the Israeli Prime Minister to the President.There is no chance for progress towards Israeli-Palestinian peace without American pressure on the Israeli government. That has been true for decades, and that remains true today. So America and Israel will stick together to the bitter end, as they have proven in every
Israeli-Palestinian war so far! But that end together may be sooner than they think, because of recent developments. We shall see!

Sunday, November 09, 2008

Obama picks

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By Charles P. Henry
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......Neither McCain nor Obama said one word about redistributing wealth to those most in need – the growing numbers of poor people (the highest in the developed world). Can we really expect peace and prosperity while maintaining a permanent underclass? Can we afford to put more of them in jail when we already have the largest prison population in the world?

Let's remember all of Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream. It didn't stop with the content of the individual's character. Many like to freeze King's legacy in place at the Lincoln Memorial in 1963. Yet King moved beyond individual prejudice to tackle what he called the triple evils of militarism, racism and poverty. Electing Obama and ending the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq give us a head start on the first two. Let's not forget the third. After all, they are linked. Racism and war have been major causes of global poverty. Let America be America."

Charles P. Henry is a professor and chair of African American studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author and editor of seven books and dozens of articles on black politics, public policy and human rights.
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11/09/2008
The new Congress is different from the last one as far as the balance of power is concerned, but its fear of the pro-Israel lobby will be unabated. True, the influence of the Zionist Evangelicals will be much diminished, but AIPAC is alive and kicking, and its kicks will be as painful as ever.The new doorkeeper, who bears the ringing Israeli name Rahm Emmanuel (Rahm means high, Emmanuel means God with Us), is the son of an Irgun underground veteran. Rahm grew up in a Jewish home, speaks Hebrew and rushed to the aid of the Israeli army during the first Gulf War. I don't know his views on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but he certainly will not block the path of the Israeli Prime Minister to the President.There is no chance for progress towards Israeli-Palestinian peace without American pressure on the Israeli government. That has been true for decades, and that remains true today. So America and Israel will stick together to the bitter end, as they have proven in every Israeli-Palestinian war so far! But that end together may be sooner than they think, because of recent developments. We shall see!
Ted Rudow III,MA

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In recent history America was even making pennies out of aluminum when copper was scarce.--And of course paper coinage is quite a modern invention in fairly recent history, which came in with the invention of paper and printing press. Nevertheless, for the past few years the world has continued to drift dreamily along, still believing in the power and value of the American dollar, supposedly backed by the power, worth and word of the American government. So that, since America went off both the gold and silver standard and no longer has to exchange either for her dollars, the world has continued to drift dreamily along on pure faith in the paper tiger of America, the Green Paper Pig, the dollar, and that it's worth what its government says it is worth! When actually the dollar is really worthless and without any intrinsic value whatsoever with no backing or redeemability in coinage of actual value such as gold and silver! If you think that past generations and cultures were foolish for worshipping gods of gold and silver and wood and stone, give a second thought to modern man who has been worshipping gods made only of paper, and very thin paper at that, for a good many years now! But he's now beginning to lose faith in his paper gods, these worthless currencies, and they're beginning to fall! They'll soon be worth so little they'll be cast away as worthless, and only things, services, goods, products and materials of actual value and usefulness will be considered of any worth.
Ted Rudow III,MA

Saturday, November 08, 2008

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Friday, November 7, 2008

.....Some say the inglorious success of Prop. 8, the brutally regressive measure that removes the rights of very specific people who love very specific other people from ever marrying them, can be blamed on multiple factors. Some say it was Gavin Newsom's smugness and political recklessness. Some blame Feinstein for daring to support Prop. 8's defeat. Some blame the black and Latino communities for their shocking and rather heartbreaking support of what essentially amounts to a civil rights abuse of the very kind they themselves fought so hard to overcome. Or maybe it's all those sad, white, central portions of the state, the huge chunks of voters who live in places without much culture or perspective or major universities, who only hear certain strains of spiteful rhetoric and thin fearmongering, whose general lack of education means they apparently still believe certain flavors of love will poison everyone's soup and ruin the sanctity of the time-honored 50-percent heterosexual missionary position Christian divorce rate. And I must say -- and you might not want to hear this -- a big chunk of blame for 8's passage has to go to the No on 8 campaign's initial arrogance, followed by their utterly limp reaction when the Yes campaign started attacking and gaining real steam. As one of my politically savvy Chronicle colleagues put it, "No on 8 was a bad campaign. Bad bad bad. Inept, amateurish, incompetent and, above all, guilty of committing the first and worst sin of politics: taking the voters for granted." .....................

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No matter what scientific names they call it, it's still spiritual power. If they were able to scientifically analyse it they'd probably call it natural, and in a way these are natural forces, natural powers.--that there really are such things. The people who let him and his flies, his dirty little demons, hang around today. But there are literally spiritual forces behind the scenes with which they're dealing, and that in so doing they're really playing with fire! They're really taking chances. They could get possessed or a lot of other things could possibly happen.I'm not condemning them who has some kind of satanic perversion or demonic impulse that drive them into that kind of a relationship. It's really sad and I feel sorry for them! But I know that if they will sincerely pray and ask the Lord to free them and deliver them from that spirit, He will! The first thing to remember is that you can't do much for people who don't want to be delivered. ( Mk.1:23-26 ; Mt.8:29 ).
Ted Rudow III,MA

Friday, November 07, 2008

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Mark PowellIssue date: 11/6/08 Section: Opinion


Barack Obama will be our next commander-in-chief. And I'll never fully understand.

I'll never fully understand why hundreds of people congregated at the John Carlos and Tommie Smith Statue on Tuesday night, just a few moments after Sen. Obama secured his spot as this country's 44th president.

I'll never fully understand the absolute, unadulterated joy that beamed from the faces of the SJSU African-American students who made the impromptu trek from the dorms to the symbolic statue.

They were in Heaven.

I'll never fully understand their angelic singing, their strong "O-ba-ma!" chants or the palpable buzz that their presence created.

I'll never fully understand because I'll never really know what black people have been through - no matter how many History Channel programs I've viewed or how many black friends I have.

Honestly, I only have a couple.

I'll never fully understand because I'll never be told by my parents that they faced racism, that they had basic opportunities taken away from them because they couldn't control the color of their skin - that they prayed the U.S. would someday have a president that shared their ethnicity.

I'll never fully understand because I'll never look back through my family's history and see photos of "Whites Only" bathrooms or read accounts of expulsions from restaurants.

I was born and raised in a city in California's central valley. I'm half white, half whiter.

I'm not ashamed of my background, but I'm aware that I've had less to fight for than people of color. I'm aware that friends from back home would probably never vote for a black man. Any black man.

I'll never fully understand why those teens from Jena, La., sought vengeance after six nooses were hung in their 21st-century neighborhood.......
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Ted Rudow III,MA

Bush and others will be judged accordingly for the darkness that they are spreading. The poor of the world who are being ravaged by the violence and the destruction and the sectarian hatred, those whose lives and happiness are being stolen from them by the selfishness of others, will be rewarded accordingly in the next life. As sad and heartbreaking a time as it will be, it must come so that it can pass.
If he pushes for war and special executive police powers before the end of his term, it'll be a very difficult time for people everywhere, but especially for the poor people in the Mideast. It's beyond words, beyond description. But it has to get worse before it can get better. The world has to fall into gross darkness before the coming of the light.
Bush and his so-called Christianity is as far from Christ and real Christianity as darkness is from the light. Bush's testimony is so contrary to real Christian values that he is working against them, and by doing so is hastening the advance of an anti-Christ world and solidifying anti-Christ sentiment within the world. May Obama appease his war-like spirit and bring peace!
Ted Rudow III,MA
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Wednesday, November 05, 2008

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BECAUSE DARKNESS CANNOT STAND THE LIGHT and wrong cannot bear the right, and the big lie cannot tolerate the truth, and them that are bound bitterly resent the freedom of the free; because by all of these the wrongful majority are exposed for their sins of darkness, evil, deception, greed and the enslavement of the exploited, they must, therefore, furiously endeavor to smother the light, say that wrong is right, attempt to shout down and drown out the voice of truth, frustrate and bind the free, and exterminate them that would terminate and expose the System's own hypocrisy. As the lawyer said to the hippie in "Easy Rider," they have to kill you because you're free, and it proves they're not, and they can't stand being reminded that they're slaves of the chains of conformity forged by their own hands!
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Monday, November 03, 2008

Even great villains

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By: Fatima Wagdy
November 3, 2008
"Classes held on Election Day, despite criticism",

Election Day is right around the corner - an historic day that happens only once every four years. On such a day, some students ask: Should they even have class at all? The response from professors, apparently, has been an overwhelming, “Yes, you should.”

At Stanford, no specific policy exists that dictates whether or not class should be held on Election Day. Many students and professors agree that there is no need to cancel class next Tuesday, but other students feel that class should be canceled and that Election Day should be a national holiday.

Some believe canceling class would be unnecessary because of the demographics of Stanford students. Most Stanford students do not live close to their voting districts and would therefore have to vote absentee even if they lived in California. Many other students live out of state, so they would have to vote absentee anyway--.

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There’s also a distinction that needs to be made between a person’s personality characteristics & his leadership characteristics. If we were to judge all politicians on their publicly displayed personalities, most of them would probably rate pretty high. This is particularly true of presidential candidates, because in order to be a candidate for the presidency, you usually have to be able to portray yourself as somewhat charismatic. You have to have some kind of personal appeal, some kind of personality, the ability to relate to people & get along with people, because most Americans, at least, judge candidates more on their personalities than on the political issues they stand for.
On the other hand, when we are talking about someone’s leadership role & what they have accomplished or have not accomplished as a politician or leader, we are not necessarily criticising their personality & their personal traits of sympathy or kindness or tender-heartedness for their wife, their children & victims of natural disasters. Presidents & politicians & highly-placed leaders can appear to be very human & display some of the nicest, sweetest characteristics. That’s part of their job! Of course, such displays are often politically motivated, but sometimes they do show their natural disposition & personality coming out, which works to their political advantage.
So you need to realise that there is often more than meets the eye.There have been many human interest stories of even great villains who have shown themselves to be very sweet & kind with their wives or their children. People are just amazed & say, “Oh, how could that possibly be true when they were such villains?”

Sunday, November 02, 2008

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America is a sick society, where schoolchildren are slaughtering each other, serial killers roam the streets, nearly two million people are locked up in prisons and jails, gangs and drugs and violence are commonplace, abortion is astronomical, and the worship of Mammon long ago overtook the worship of God.

Many Americans are Christians and love the Lord, but a lot also have a form of godliness without the power thereof, self-righteousness without real righteousness. So they’re sort of insulated against their problems and they don’t see how serious things have become until something like a high school massacre happens to wake them up and jolt them from their lethargy for a moment or two.

But then they settle back down to their comfortable chairs and couches in front of the television, ready to be entertained and lulled asleep, without realizing how their culture is collapsing around them. After all, America is the world’s sole remaining superpower, isn’t it? Yet they’re losing their own children as well as the respect of the rest of the world. Superpowers come, and they also go. Empires rise, and they also fall. And the bigger and more arrogant they are, the harder they fall!'

— Ted Rudow III, MA, Menlo Park, CA

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As the U.S. economy struggles to keep its head above water, Stanford will ax some $45 million from its general funds budget for each of the next two fiscal years, President John Hennessy told The Daily on Thursday.The $800 million general funds budget pays most faculty and staff salaries, core administrative operations and other non-research expenses.






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America is a sick society, where schoolchildren are slaughtering each other, serial killers roam the streets, nearly two million people are locked up in prisons and jails, gangs and drugs and violence are commonplace, abortion is astronomical, and the worship of Mammon long ago overtook the worship of God.
Many Americans are Christians and love the Lord, but a lot also have a form of godliness without the power thereof, self-righteousness without real righteousness. So they’re sort of insulated against their problems and they don’t see how serious things have become until something like a high school massacre happens to wake them up and jolt them from their lethargy for a moment or two.
But then they settle back down to their comfortable chairs and couches in front of the television, ready to be entertained and lulled asleep, without realizing how their culture is collapsing around them. After all, America is the world’s sole remaining superpower, isn’t it? Yet they’re losing their own children as well as the respect of the rest of the world.
Superpowers come, and they also go.

Monday, October 27, 2008

Behold, the Black horse

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“And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, ‘Come and see.’ And I beheld, and to a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand. And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, ‘A measure of wheat for a penny; and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine’” (Revelation 6:5-6 KJV.).

This black horse’s rider with the pair of balances in his hand symbolizes the rich capitalists who have a major impact on world conditions through their manipulation of national economies. Only one other verse in the Bible pictures a man with balances or scales: “The merchant uses dishonest scales; he loves to defraud” (Hosea 12:7 NIV).

Another prophet, Amos, also said the merchants — the wealthy capitalists of his day who were robbing the poor instead of helping them — “set forth wheat, making the ephah [unit of measure] small, and the shekel [price] great and falsifying the balances by deceit ... that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail” (Amos 8:4-6 KJV).

The black horse, then, represents famine and poverty perpetrated by the rich who refuse to share with those in need. Oil and wine, throughout the Scriptures, symbolize abundance or luxury.

The fact that the oil and wine were “hurt not” indicates a situation where wealth and luxury exist alongside famine and poverty — and the gulf between rich and poor is only growing.

Ted Rudow III,MA

Friday, October 24, 2008

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Friday Oct 24th, 2008 10:17 AM
But on Thursday, almost three years after stepping down as chairman of the Federal Reserve, a humbled Mr. Greenspan admitted that he had put too much faith in the self-correcting power of free markets and had failed to anticipate the self-destructive power of wanton mortgage lending.

Greenspan was drawn into the circle of Ayn Rand, controversial author of "The Fountainhead" and "Atlas Shrugged." Rand's followers, known as Objectivists, were intense believers in Rand's celebration of rugged individualism and the triumph of capitalism over socialism. Rand warned us this would happen. In the classic, Atlas Shrugged, she wrote about governmental powers manipulating markets in order to advance political concerns. Like the book, we do not seem to have the political will to take the correct, but painful, road to recovery. By propping up the financial system with the band-aids of trading restrictions and an explosion of the government's already untenable balance sheet, the necessary adjustments to the financial system are prevented from occurring.
This book was written on Philip Rothschilds' order as one of his mistresses, (Ayn Rand) would write an 1100-page book that would describe to all witches how they would take control of the World through the Illuminati! Sometimes fiction is just as strange as truth.

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"Lately I have been feeling like I am out of shape. To remedy this situation, I decided to play some sports...................
If competitiveness is all that is needed to be a sport, then we would have to include shopping. Have you ever seen people at the mall on the day after Thanksgiving? They get pretty competitive over who gets what item. I once saw two women get in a fistfight over the last camcorder on the shelf.

Now, I have to hope ESPN does not see this article and show live coverage of Black Friday this November.

I am a sports fan, and when I turn on ESPN, I expect to see sports, not silly games. I like poker, but it does not belong on a sports channel. ...................

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10/22/08
The whole thing is a worship of the flesh and the worship of man with a competitive spirit of war, the very essence of contention and competition and struggle: warfare, and the perfect preparation for it! DID YOU KNOW THAT THE NICARAGUA-EL SALVADOR WAR, IN WHICH 20,000 PEOPLE WERE KILLED, STARTED OVER A FOOTBALL GAME? In fact, Ernest Hemingway, the world famous writer, who spent so much of his time in Latin America and Spain, said you could eliminate most Latin American wars and their causes by simply banning football or soccer! Those games get them so worked up into a frenzy against each other that nothing but a total all-out war can truly satisfy the spirit of it! THE ULTIMATE FULFILLMENT OF SPORTS IS WAR!--Destroying the other guy's body that your body might live! War is the ultimate fulfillment of the competitive spirit: the destruction of others for self-preservation. Sports is war in disguise, and the Olympics disguised all this under the totally false and contrary theme song of "Peace"! That's their theme!--Isn't that something! So they speak peace while war is in their hearts, and they talk peace while they prepare for war--prepare their bodies for war.
THEREFORE, THE WORSHIP OF SPORTS IN ALL NATIONS IS A SECRET WORSHIP OF WAR, the ultimate of all man's creations!--Destruction!--And it is supported by the warmongers! Sports have become the most nationalistic and patriotic of all the games, aside from its ultimate game, which is war! It is worshipped by the brutal, the violent and the cruel; and the sports the world loves best are the most brutal, the most violent, the most cruel and the most destructive, especially war! America is the greatest advocate on earth of both sports and war, and therefore the guiltiest of all! All these are an abomination to the Lord: Sports, supernationalism, and war! A curse be upon them! Let them be accursed by every Child of God! And may God damn those that destroy the earth!--The "good sports" of war!--The wasters of the world! Man's favourite sport is war!
Ted Rudow III,MA
Class of 1996


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1984 in 2006
1984 in 2008
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
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You are fulfill this warning that I warn in Sept 29,2004! 1984 in here!
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1984 in 2004: Fear sets political agenda



September 29, 2004
By Ted Rudow Banned Books Week has been observed since 1982, with the purpose of reminding people of their freedom to read whatever they want. This year’s event takes place through Oct. 2, with the theme, “Elect to Read a Banned Book.”


In Orwell’s book “1984,” the main character worked for the “Ministry of Truth,” dedicated to eliminating every vestige of the truth and replacing it with what the government said was truth. The leading protagonist, Winston Smith, enters his flat in the dingy building ironically named Victory Mansions and is immediately conscious of the “Big Brother” poster with the inscription “Big Brother is Watching You.”The “Party” has taken over all aspects of life and is intent on eradicating individuality.

Winston is painfully aware of the telescreen, which is both a receiver and transmitter at the same time. 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.

“War is important for consuming the products of human labour; if this work were being used to increase the standard of living, the control of the party over the people would decrease. War is the economic basis of a hierarchical society.”

Sounds just like some governments today, and like many politicians (and now Stanford Daily) . Fear is the devil’s favorite weapon, and it works as well with governments as it does with individual people. Currently it’s a day of fear — of “terror.” Nations and people are terrified of terrorism, and many are quite willing to give up all sorts of freedoms — many of the very freedoms we are supposedly “fighting for” — to avoid it.

The prophetic novel, about a government that controls the masses by spreading propaganda, cracking down on subversive thought and altering history to suit its needs, was intended to be read as a warning about the evils of totalitarianism.

In “1984,” the state remained perpetually at war against a vague and ever-changing enemy. The war took place largely in the abstract, but it served as a convenient vehicle to fuel hatred, nurture fear and justify the regime’s autocratic practices

Sound familiar? Sometimes fiction is just as strange as truth.

Ted Rudow lives in Menlo Park, Calif.

Friday, October 17, 2008

Klein takes on capitalist policies

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Best-selling author and celebrated journalist Naomi Klein (right), author of “The Shock Doctrine,” spoke before an enthusiastic audience last night in Kresge Auditorium. Klein, a long-time critic of neo-liberal economic policies, addressed the current economic crisis at length.Naomi Klein, author of “The Shock Doctrine,” spoke to a crowd of around 300 people in Kresge Auditorium last night. She discussed the issues of disaster capitalism and the rise of democratic reconstruction worldwide.Klein is a Canadian journalist and syndicated columnist who is known for her best-seller “The Shock Doctrine,” as well as her previous book “No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies.” She shared the stage with Political Science Prof. Terry Karl.
"She took on the economic policies of revered experts such as Stanford’s own Milton Friedman, as well as others. She claimed that this economic crash should be seen as a negation of their ideology.“The crash on Wall Street for Friedmanism is like the fall of the Berlin Wall for authoritarian communism,” she said.In the lecture, Klein also focused on the idea of a “disaster capitalism complex,” the idea that, in times of crisis — such as natural disasters or economic breakdown — it is much easier to make economic policy changes that are not supported by the people.......
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In 1933, in the wake of the 1929 stock market crash and during a nationwide commercial bank failure and the Great Depression, two members of Congress put their names on what is known today as the Glass-Steagall Act (GSA). This act separated investment and commercial banking activities. At the time, “improper banking activity”, or what was considered overzealous commercial bank involvement in stock market investment. The bill that ultimately repealed the Act was introduced in the Senate by Phil Gramm (R-TX) and in the House of Representatives by James Leach (R-IA) in 1999. Without forcing a veto vote, this bipartisan, veto proof legislation was signed into law by President Bill Clinton on November 12, 1999.
And I hate to bring up the bad “F” word, but, you know, there is a model for this, and Mussolini had it in Italy, and it’s called “fascism.It’s where your big corporate interests throw in with government, destroy the freedom of the rest of the people, and preserve their power. Everybody forgets, private corporations and banks did quite well, made out quite well in Italy and Germany in those days, you know? And I am really worried about this assault on our democracy.


Ted Rudow III,MA

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Despite everything that was accomplished by the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s, inequality still exists in the United States. The people facing the most discrimination in this country today are gays and lesbians. They cannot give blood, cannot openly serve in the U.S. military and, in most of the country, cannot marry.--

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How much is the Lord going to stand of this filth? Sodomites even have gotten the Courts in California to bless their unions and celebrate their love together, to ask God's blessing on their union! How horrible! How blasphemous! They've even discussed having role models in the gay community, people you should look up to and emulate. How disgusting and sickening! It's absolute demon-possession!

They are mocking God, the Bible and are creating anarchy where there are no absolutes. No wonder both Gibbon and Toynbee concluded that homosexuality was one of the moral sins that contributed to the decline of the Roman Empire, and America now.
Ted Rudow III,MA
Class of 1996

Wednesday, October 08, 2008

Wars for oil

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October 6, 2008


Let’s be honest: If a guy tells you that the first thing he noticed about you was your attractive brain, do you know what that would make him? If youanswered either “a liar” or “not smooth,” you would be correct.The same can be said of men - and women - all across America with regard to our views on Sarah Palin. Just because we have not yet noticed Sarah Palin’s brain does not necessarily mean that she doesn’t have one. I would venture to say that the fact is all of us (except for most of us) know that Sarah Palin is going to be one of the super-awesomest vice presidents ever.How do all of us (except for the vast majority of us) know she’ll be so great? Her political views? Of course not. Her readiness? Don’t be ridiculous. Her appeal to Joe Six-Pack? Uhh, no.............................


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When the shortage had becomes very severe and the West’s war machine couldn’t operate because the shortage becomes so serious, then it will precipitate the Oil War in the West’s last desperate effort to secure the oil that it needs to survive in its present rich, industrialised condition which was invasion of Iraq!
What you may not know yet is that Gov. Palin is a huge proponent of oil drilling in Alaska. McCain, a fervent supporter of the war in Iraq was asked by a hawkish supporter when the United States would “send an airmail message to Iran,” McCain responded: “You know that old Beach Boys song, Bomb Iran?”Then, to the tune of the song “Barbara Ann,” he sang: “Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran.”
It’s really pitiful that so many American Christians support the most un-Christian thing imaginable - war - under the illusion that it’s God’s will and God’s way. They’re stuck way back in the Old Testament era, thinking that the US is a modern Israel, performing God’s will.


Ted Rudow III,MA

October 8, 2008
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Senator McCain constantly reiterating this need for US energy independence, as if more drilling would give us that, which is another topic, but his admittance essentially that we are engaging in wars for oil, and if we don't want to do that, in his framework, we're going to need to drill more in the United States—I think a clear admission that we are, of course, engaged in wars for oil and will continue to do so. I think it's quite clear that the invasion of Iraq was a war not for the United States to potentially get a greater supply of oil, but rather for Exxon, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, BP/Shell, to get their hands on Iraqi oil, believed to be the second or the largest remaining conventional source of oil.

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