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Prisoners of the compromises
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Friday Feb 29th, 2008 7:49 AM
Jeremy Scahill reports Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama will not “rule out” using private military companies like Blackwater Worldwide in Iraq.
Obama also has no plans to sign on to legislation that seeks to ban the use of these forces in US war zones by January 2009.
Despite their antiwar rhetoric, both Obama and Senator Hillary Clinton have adopted the congressional Democratic position that would leave open the option of keeping tens of thousands of US troops in Iraq for many years. Those who would reach such a lofty office in the eyes of the world have entangled themselves deeply in the affairs of this world. Those who are elected to this office that is so highly esteemed among men have few choices left to them.
When in their hearts they know exactly where they stand, and which way they’ll go when the showdown comes as many Democratic and Republican leaders have. They are prisoners of the compromises they have made to attain the office, prisoners of their advisers and counselors, prisoners of the policies of their party and the values of their nation. They are heavily influenced by Superdelegate as well and will bow down to their will!
Ted Rudow III,MA

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Experts assess future, Bush’s fiscal policy

February 27, 2008
By Kamil Dada
President George W. Bush publicly stated yesterday that the U.S. economy was not in a recession and that he believed it would not fall into a downturn. Given that economic reports show that U.S. consumer confidence has slumped to its worst in five years, and home prices fell 8.9 percent last year, his view is not one that everyone shares — including a number of scholars at Stanford.
Emeritus Economics Prof. Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel-prize winning economist who formerly served as vice president and chief economist of the World Bank, said Tuesday that the U.S. economy is probably in a recession with the housing-market collapse dragging down consumer spending.----
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The credit storm which began in July when two Bear Stearns hedge funds were forced to liquidate, has continued to intensify. Last week the noose tightened around auction-rate securities, a little-known part of the market that requires short-term funding to set rates for long-term municipal bonds. The $330 billion ARS market has dried up overnight pushing up rates as high as 20 per cent on some bonds -- a new benchmark for short term debt. Auction-rate securities are now headed for extinction just like the other previously-vital parts of the structured finance paradigm.
The $2 trillion market for collateralized debt obligations (CDOs), the multi-trillion dollar mortgage-backed securities market (MBSs) and the $1.3 asset-backed commercial paper (ABCP) market have all shut down draining a small ocean of capital from the financial system and pushing many of the banks and hedge funds closer to default.
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. It is the arrogance of one, the unyieldedness of the other, the greed of one, the selfishness of the other, the blindness of one, the hardness of the other, and all of these things in some of those involved! In this case, the love of money is at the root of this evil, for it is what drives the forces at work.
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Ravages of war

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Three young men, all former soldiers in the Israeli Defense Force, founded “Breaking the Silence” to do just that. It is a forum for former combat veterans — most of them in their 20s and early 30s — to talk about the way a brutal occupation made them brutes. Soldiers Avichai Sharon, Yehuda Shaul and Noam Chayut organized an exhibition of photographs and soldiers’ testimonies from their military service in the West Bank city of Hebron. They acted for the sake of their own mental health and, they say, to force Israel to confront the truth about its policies.


“What haunts me? It’s the memories of 6-year-old, 7-year-old Palestinian children watching with tears in their eyes (video) when you’re tossing their rooms, breaking their walls, taking their father and slamming him into the wall before arresting--Responsibility is to every human being in the world, and for sure for Americans, because in the end of the day for all what Israel does, there is only one country in the world that, you know, the chief of staff and the prime minister of Israel has to report in the end of the day, and that’s the United States of America.”


One of the main supporters of the backward policies is AIPAC, or the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, that 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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Sports should be secondary. Why give athletics an increase in funding? Academics are important and the university should facilitate the students with faculty and classes/courses. Let's facilitate the students' educational career instead of the seemingly habitual and persistent impediment of invaluable educational growth.
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The only escape for me, I thought, was sports. So I practiced and practiced basketball until I received many offers included West Point! I recieved an athletic scholarship to attend the University of California at Berkeley, in 1970.
The Vietman War was going on, and Berkeley was the hot-bed of radical resistance. I was on the honor roll and was voted first-team all-Northern California freshman in basketball, Captain and Most Valuable Player in 1971.
I felt pressures on many sides to really put out all my time and energy towards becoming a basketball star in college and pressing toward a professional career. On the other hand, deep within my heart, I felt that there was something wrong with all this!I felt caught between two worlds,one with the teachings of Jesus and His commandment to love thy neighbor,while in the other world, I was told to gain a near-manical desire to win and to physically punish my opponent in a defeat!
Time after time,scientists and social scientists had determine that sports actually aggravate conflict and aggression,as well damage bodies! My former U.C. Berkeley basketball coach,(1970-2), was verbally abusive and he got fired for hitting a player at another college! Did you know that the Nicargua-El Salvador war,in which 20,000 people were killed,started over a football game? In fact,Ernest Hemingway,who spent so much time in Latin America and Spain,said you could eliminate most Latin American wars and their causes by simply banning football or soccer!
Competitive Sports is war in disguised.
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A HIDDEN HAND?--SATAN?

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Satanists of Stanford University, unite! From today forward, we shall no longer lie in the shadows. Standing against the backdrop of White Plaza, an enormous banner reads “may the love of SATAN be with you.” The name “Jesus” has been crossed out, and SATAN has, very cleverly, been placed above it on a new piece of paper.----

A HIDDEN HAND?--SATAN?
The kingdom of darkness is real and is the spiritual source of all opposition to God.
The lord of this diabolical kingdom is the "prince of the air," more commonly known as Satan, or the Devil. With a horde of wicked spirits at his command, he is called the "god of this [fallen] world" ( 2 Corinthians 4:4 ). As this world's ruler, his task is to oppose all of God's efforts to redeem Man. The battlefield here is primarily the human mind. Using a variety of techniques, Satan's strategy is to fill us with lies, to convince us that black is white and evil is good, to justify sin and blind us to our need for a Saviour, to distort our image of God and erase or trivialise our image of Satan, convincing us that he either doesn't exist or that he's a cartoon imp in red pajamas. Put simply, "to blind the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, Who is the image of God, should shine unto them" ( 2 Corinthians 4:4 ).
Given its power over the heart of Man, music is among the most potent of these techniques. And it's worth noting that both the Scriptures and church tradition suggest that music comes quite naturally to Satan, that very possibly, before his fall, he was in charge of music in Heaven. (See Isaiah 14:11 ; Ezekiel 28:13-15 .)
Of course, any style of music can be perverted by evil. Many of the elements this presentation examines are found in other musical forms as well. The reason for our focus on rock is both its unparalleled popularity and the manner in which it has given place to evil. Subtly at first, and then with increasing blatancy as rock's celebrants have been brought under its rhythmic sway, it has become one of the most potent weapons in Satan's arsenal of deception.
Fortunately, Satan's proven tendency for over-achieving has resulted in a blatancy that, when examined by an objective inquirer, can be used to expose the Devil's presence and purposes--hence this presentation.
And one last point before we begin to dust rock music for Satan's fingerprints--2 Corinthians tells us that Satan can transform himself into an angel of light ( 2 Corinthians 11:14 )--that he can, in other words, appear as something beautiful, even Christ-like. Don't be fooled! Satan doesn't just manifest his power through a Hitler or a Charles Manson. He can use your favourite guitarist, a pretty pop singer, maybe even you! Anyone who resists the will of God is fertile soil for his seeds of deception.
Satan had a great deal of control over Mankind until Jesus. On the cross, Jesus' thorn-torn brow and pierced body provided the perfect blood sacrifice for our sins. Now Satan's once mighty power is broken over anyone who believes on that blood, in Jesus and His sacrifice for us. It's no wonder Satan hates it. Can we find this demonic hatred in rock music? Sadly, yes.
Ted Rudow III,MA

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Restrictions and oppression.Castro has done both good and evil, both godly and ungodly things, and in his old age he seeks to make amends and to do better before he passes on. Cuba desires and needs a Latin government, one that will allows Cuba to flourish and grow, while keeping evil and iniquity under control and in check. He has done much good for them, because he cares for them and wishes to see them prosper and do well. Many of the people chafe under the unnecessary restrictions and oppression. They do not need American-style democracy imposed upon them, but they do need more freedom. America fought him over the decades, and he vowed he would not change or give up, and he became rigid. But the world around him changed and Cuba changed, and his rigidity and inflexibility that once kept and preserved his people now works against them. But he nears the end of his days and Cuba too will change. Castro has become an has been, for he has grown set in his ways over the years, sometimes out of necessity.
Ted Rudow III,MA



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It's starting
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Wednesday Feb 20th, 2008 5:10 PM
It's starting to become like Eastern Europe used to be in the days of the Soviet Union, when there were police informants all over the place, people who were recruited to inform the authorities about anything suspicious so it could be checked out.
Except nowadays governments are recruiting their entire populations to keep an eye out for anyone suspicious!
It hasn't gotten as bad as the Soviet Union was, of course, but it has had an effect on people and on society as a whole. There's more fear, less tolerance for differences, and certainly less tolerance for people who might appear to be "difference"
If it suits their purposes, governments don't have to wait for terrorists to come along to create "incidents," you know. Hitler certainly didn't, when he wanted to seize more power in Germany. He and his officers arranged for some people to set fire to the German parliament building, and then he blamed it on the communists. Not long afterwards, new laws were passed "for the Protection of the People and the State," new crackdowns were enacted, and Hitler's dictatorship was well on the way. So it wouldn't be the first time that a government used terrorism as a pretext!
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... "What changes minds is real sacrifice. Getting clubbed by policemen who then throw you in jail while you’re still bleeding. Or fleeing to Canada, never knowing if you will return to the country of your birth. Non-violent protest is not passive. It involves people radically changing their lives for something they passionately believe. Generally all that happens is a couple gatherings in White Plaza between classes. And even when something a bit more spectacular, like a hunger strike, happens, it’s brief and easy to ignore. All this protesting is lame — and everyone knows it’s lame — and that’s why you never get anywhere."

It's starting to become like Eastern Europe used to be in the days of the Soviet Union, when there were police informants all over the place, people who were recruited to inform the authorities about anything suspicious so it could be checked out. Except nowadays governments are recruiting their entire populations to keep an eye out for anyone suspicious!
It hasn't gotten as bad as the Soviet Union was, of course, but it has had an effect on people and on society as a whole. There's more fear, less tolerance for differences, and certainly less tolerance for people who might appear to be "difference"
If it suits their purposes, governments don't have to wait for terrorists to come along to create "incidents," you know. Hitler certainly didn't, when he wanted to seize more power in Germany. He and his officers arranged for some people to set fire to the German parliament building, and then he blamed it on the communists. Not long afterwards, new laws were passed "for the Protection of the People and the State," new crackdowns were enacted, and Hitler's dictatorship was well on the way. So it wouldn't be the first time that a government used terrorism as a pretext!
Ted Rudow III,MA

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Everyone was under observation in Orwell’s 1984, being watched at any time, and that’s how it’s becoming in many big cities around the world — and little ones as well. The fear of criminals or terrorists has infected society after society, and instead of teaching their citizens right from wrong or providing enough money and jobs for them so that they don’t have to turn to crime, they’re investing in surveillance equipment instead, so they can catch them when they do wrong.


It’s a culture of fear. Americans are afraid of terrorists or terrorism, and their government plays on those fears. In fact, it manipulates their fears, and even works to heighten them. That’s what helps to keep politicians in office: “Vote for me, because I can protect you. My opponent, on the other hand, is soft on terrorism.” And many people just don’t realize that they’re being bamboozled — that they’re giving up their money, their freedom, their privacy, their rights, to protect them from a threat that’s less likely to strike them than a bolt of lightning.


Ted Rudow III,MA


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All great societies pass this way eventually, running up unsustainable debts and printing (or minting) currency in an increasingly desperate attempt to maintain the illusion of prosperity. And all, eventually, find themselves between the proverbial devil and deep blue sea: Either they simply collapse under the weight of their accumulated debt, as did the U.S. and Europe in the 1930s, or they keep running the printing presses until their currencies become worthless and their economies fall into chaos.


This is a big blow to the money men, the rich stock investors in New York and the U.S.A. and around the world. It starts with the U.S., then it sort of dominoes. How it will go this time, of course, nobody knows except the Lord, but we know there’s going to be a Crash, and a worldwide Crash, and this could be the beginning of the real crash.


How long can they stand that? And the U.S. itself has the biggest deficit it has ever had, amounting to nearly $5,132,265,067,831.71 current debt held by the public and Intragovernmental Holdings $4,105,743,221,110.40, total public debt outstanding of $9,238,008,288,942.11. Dollars that the United States owes and can’t pay. There has to come a day of reckoning, and it looks like it’s about to come.

Ted Rudow III,MA

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Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who has acknowledged using steroids during his years as a champion body builder, said he doesn't regret using the performance-enhancing drugs. Schwarzenegger has acknowledged taking steroids, but pointed out that they were legal at the time. With such violent films as "The Terminator" (1984), he delivers the oft-quoted, straight-faced line "I'll be back" to a desk clerk and now he used that line in his speeches! Horrible!
Another case, that because of Clemens' friendship with President George W. Bush's father, former President George H.W. Bush, some predicted the pitcher will be pardoned should Clemens be indicted or convicted of anything related to the hearing.
They are 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. It's the spirit of competition and pride, proving you're better than the other guy. So they take steriods! But the world just loves it!
Ted Rudow III,MA

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February 13, 2008
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"The United States has never had, and possibly will never have again, a vice president as powerful as Dick Cheney. Perhaps he will only be remembered by political scientists and White House history buffs, but remembered he will be. Now as Cheney serves his last year in office, it is time to analyze the mark he has left on the White House. ------

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America is too far gone for that now, especially for the types of Christians who seek to become vice-president of that nation. The Lord advised His followers that 'No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please Him who hath chosen him to be a soldier' (2 Timothy 2:4). Those who would reach such a lofty office in the eyes of the world have entangled themselves deeply in the affairs of this world, and have separated themselves from Him.
Those who are elected to this office that is so highly esteemed among men have few choices left to them. They are prisoners of the compromises they have made to attain the office, prisoners of their advisers and counselors, prisoners of the policies of their party and the values of their nation. They are heavily influenced by Superdelegate as well and will bow down to their will!
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I voted for Sen. Barack Obama. But there is another side to the story.In the U.S., we know that the two final presidential candidates, Republican and Democrat alike, are going to each have to raise something like half a billion dollars. And that’s not going to come from us. Primarily that’s going to come from the people who own and run our big corporations. So the G8 is this group of countries that represent the biggest multinational corporations in the world and really serve at their behest.It doesn’t really matter whether we have a Democrat or a Republican in the White House or running Congress; the empire goes on, because it’s really run by what I call the corporatocracy, which is a group of men who run our biggest corporations. They really are the equivalent of the emperor, because they do not serve at the wish of the people, they’re not democratically elected, they don’t serve any limited term. They essentially answer to no one, except their own boards. They are the power behind this. Today, corporations exist for the primary purpose of making large profits, making a few very rich people a lot richer. That shouldn’t be.
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by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Tuesday Feb 5th, 2008 9:20 AM
I am voted for Barack Obama. But there is another side to the story!

"In the U.S., we know that the next two final presidential candidates, Republican and Democrat alike, are going to each have to raise something like half a billion dollars. And that's not going to come from me and you. Primarily that's going to come from the people who own and run our big corporations. So the G8 is this group of countries that represent the biggest multinational corporations in the world and really serve at their behest.--It doesn't really matter whether we have a Democrat or a Republican in the White House or running Congress; the empire goes on, because it's really run by what I call the corporatocracy, which is a group of men who run our biggest corporations. They really are the equivalent of the emperor, because they do not serve at the wish of the people, they're not democratically elected, they don't serve any limited term. They essentially answer to no one, except their own boards. They are the power behind this. Today corporations exist for the primary purpose of making large profits, making a few very rich people a lot richer. That shouldn't be."John Perkins,"The Secret History of the American Empire: Economic Hit Men, Jackals, and the Truth about Global "
The rich of the world were eager to loan money to the poor nations of the world, for the money came with strings—strings which would become chains of immense debt over time. After the poor nations had spent their loans, often squandering them at the economic marketplaces of the rich nations, they had little to repay them with. But the interest was due month after month, year after year, and that often required taking out more loans, with more interest, and growing indebtedness, dependence, poverty, and economic slavery.
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"Clinton, compared to Obama, has shown herself to be far humbler(?) in her ambitions for the presidency, focusing on solutions and results rather than grand, gauzy rhetoric.--The American people will find a Hillary Clinton presidency to be humble(?) and bipartisan, much like her seven and a half years in the Senate. -------


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I am voted for Barack Obama. But there is another side to the story!
"In the U.S., we know that the next two final presidential candidates, Republican and Democrat alike, are going to each have to raise something like half a billion dollars. And that's not going to come from me and you. Primarily that's going to come from the people who own and run our big corporations. So the G8 is this group of countries that represent the biggest multinational corporations in the world and really serve at their behest.--It doesn't really matter whether we have a Democrat or a Republican in the White House or running Congress; the empire goes on, because it's really run by what I call the corporatocracy, which is a group of men who run our biggest corporations. They really are the equivalent of the emperor, because they do not serve at the wish of the people, they're not democratically elected, they don't serve any limited term. They essentially answer to no one, except their own boards. They are the power behind this. Today corporations exist for the primary purpose of making large profits, making a few very rich people a lot richer. That shouldn't be."John Perkins,"The Secret History of the American Empire: Economic Hit Men, Jackals, and the Truth about Global "
The rich of the world were eager to loan money to the poor nations of the world, for the money came with strings—strings which would become chains of immense debt over time. After the poor nations had spent their loans, often squandering them at the economic marketplaces of the rich nations, they had little to repay them with. But the interest was due month after month, year after year, and that often required taking out more loans, with more interest, and growing indebtedness, dependence, poverty, and economic slavery.
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I am voted for Barack Obama. But there is another to the story! "In the U.S., we know that the next two final presidential candidates, Republican and Democrat alike, are going to each have to raise something like half a billion dollars. And that's not going to come from me and you. Primarily that's going to come from the people who own and run our big corporations. So the G8 is this group of countries that represent the biggest multinational corporations in the world and really serve at their behest.--It doesn't really matter whether we have a Democrat or a Republican in the White House or running Congress; the empire goes on, because it's really run by what I call the corporatocracy, which is a group of men who run our biggest corporations. They really are the equivalent of the emperor, because they do not serve at the wish of the people, they're not democratically elected, they don't serve any limited term. They essentially answer to no one, except their own boards. They are the power behind this. Today corporations exist for the primary purpose of making large profits, making a few very rich people a lot richer. That shouldn't be."John Perkins,"The Secret History of the American Empire: Economic Hit Men, Jackals, and the Truth about Global "
The rich of the world were eager to loan money to the poor nations of the world, for the money came with strings--strings which would become chains of immense debt over time. After the poor nations had spent their loans, often squandering them at the economic marketplaces of the rich nations, they had little to repay them with. But the interest was due month after month, year after year, and that often required taking out more loans, with more interest, and growing indebtedness, dependence, poverty, and economic slavery.
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All great societies pass this way eventually, running up unsustainable debts and printing (or minting) currency in an increasingly desperate attempt to maintain the illusion of prosperity. They simply collapse under the weight of their accumulated debt, as did the United States and Europe in the 1930s, or they keep running the printing presses until their currencies become worthless and their economies fall into chaos. The United States has the biggest deficit it has ever had, amounting to nearly $9.2 trillion. There has to come a day of reckoning, and it looks like it's about to come.

Ted Rudow III,MA
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