Thursday, October 29, 2009

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Celebrating the dead?

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Samhain

As winter approached, the ancient Celts of Ireland would hold a grand feast consisting of the perishable foods they would be unable to preserve for the winter, said Jennifer Rycenga, professor of humanities at SJSU.

"Even though the exact date has changed, there is evidence that in ancient Celtic cultures there was a celebration that occurred around this time," Rycenga said....

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Comments in Other Articles 10/29/09
The true name of Halloween is "Samhain." This was the Celtic Lord of the Dead! For 3 days from Oct 29-31, the Celtic people, along with their priestly class called Druids, would hold an ancient rite which would mark the beginning and the end of the year.
Usually a week before the rites of Samhain began, the Druid had ordered the people of the Celtic tribe to disperse throughout the countryside and gather thousands of wicker reed.This is a very strong and durable stick. Wicker furniture has been made from it and most of us are familiar with it.
They would then construct a giant human effigy that would stand from 30 to 50 feet, as the Wicker Man. Many cages had been built within it. Each prisoner would be tied to one of the cages. Then the Druids began their idea of fun and games.
Yet, I have seen many Christian churches throughout this nation hold Halloween Parties within the church building. Every single one of these things is directly from the celebration of Samhain. You are simply trying to turn something evil into something good! Isaiah 5:20. We pray this helps you to NOT be a partaker of this "holiday.
Ted Rudow III,MA
Class of 1996

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What women want in male dominated sports

Abstract: I am guilty of eavesdropping. I overheard a male student complain about women's sports, and he doesn't agree that women can play sports. I am sure he is not alone in his way of thinking. Like the student, many other men are overwhelmed by a powerful woman, so in these men's defense they rely on their muscles to do the rationalizing.... Ted Rudow III,MA 10/29/09
Sports really foster the spirit of competition. It's the spirit of the world the "me first" spirit--do what's best for yourself, win no matter who you have to hurt or step on in order to get ahead of the next guy. That's the spirit of the world, which is just the opposite of what Jesus wants to teach people--to love your neighbor as yourself.
Of course, some form of sports is fine. It's good exercise and can be good fun. But things in the world are so different, and when athletes get to the professional level where they're being paid to win, it gets extremely competitive. It becomes almost a life-and-death spirit.
It's a spiritual thing. It's the spirit of competition and pride, proving you're better than the other guy. They do it by sheer brawn, by their own strength, which really feeds their pride. It's their idea of success. Winning means success in the world, so to win is a very big motivator. But the world just loves it!
See how this competitive sports thing has been the final stages of every great civilization and empire. What young men and woman does the media glorify and glamorize the most? There about second. Is it the scholars? No probably about third. But the ones it builds memorials for and commemorates on special days and glamorizes as the greatest heroes of all time are its most murderous war-mongering soldiers.
Ted Rudow III,MA
class of 1996

Friday, October 23, 2009

Lying

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/10/23/18626469.php


Someone is lying
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Friday Oct 23rd, 2009
In the Senate, legislation giving doctors $247 billion in increased Medicare fees over the next decade nearly collapsed on Tuesday amid bipartisan concern over growing federal deficits. Meanwhile, in the House Democratic leaders have cut the cost of their healthcare bill from more than $1 trillion to $871 billion over the next decade

TomDispatch.com.,It says, “According to [Department of Defense] projections, the baseline military budget—just the bare bones, not those billions in war-fighting extras—is projected to increase by 2.5% each year for the next 10 years. In other words, in the next decade the basic Pentagon budget will grow by at least $133.1 billion.” To date, Americans have paid $915 billion for the US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. That’s as of September 30th of this year. In the fiscal year 2010 budget, we will pay $704 billion in military expenditures; $130 billion of that is for the US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The politicians are all preaching everything's hunky-dory, everything is recovering, everything is good, then you know they've got to be lying. Somebody's lying, because it couldn't be that good with all these huge corporations and governments folding and going bankrupt!

Ted Rudow III,MA

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Interracial couple faces an old-fashioned judgment call

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Interracial couple faces an old-fashioned judgment call

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What year is it?

2009.

Oh, I must have forgotten and slipped into the past, where racial discrimination was allowed in local government.

Phew, I am relieved - but only for a moment.

Earlier this month, Keith Bardwell, a Louisiana justice of the peace, refused to sign the marriage license of interracial couple Beth Humphrey, who is white, and Terence McKay, who is black....
10/21/09
My Dentist and his family are from Hawaii and went to school with President Obama! These cultures are some of the world's most beautiful and peaceful cultures-- religions, art, sciences, philosophies, and beautiful, peaceful, pastoral ways of life, which the White came to destroy, and to makes slaves of them.
They have nearly wrecked the world. It was these White who invaded, and all but
destroyed the much more learned religious philosophical and peaceful civilisations of Southern Europe, the Near East, the Far East, and around the globe with their predatory, warlike brutality!
Americans at that--who were the first to use the nightmarish atomic bomb on whole populations of civilians in crowded cities, killing and horribly maiming tens of thousands of defenseless men, women, and children, old and young.
I know that this equality, this oneness of the races, this love between the brethren, this better world, cannot be found only through the path of legislation and politics. It certainly cannot be found through the path of violence and killing, and the destruction of our young people. It cannot be found when the brothers
are pitted one against another in useless, wasteful neighborhood wars.
I know that to become a reality is to love, the supernatural Love of God!
Ted Rudow III,MA
class of 1996

How media resorts to seducing you

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Wednesday, October 21, 2009




How media resorts to seducing you

Abstract:
The top three things the media loves to cover are sex, violence and conflict.

What's more newsworthy? The large group of advocates fighting for peace or the crashing of the event by protesters?

Yesterday, an article ran about an oil tax rally that was interrupted by several protesters....

10/14/09
Meanwhile their media, like the band on the Titanic, plays on to pacify the public and assure them that America is still the greatest. They have their own version of the Roman games--the great scandals and sports events that serve as diversions lest people think too deeply about their society and its problems. Bread and games were what pacified the Roman masses; in America it's Big Macs and TV.
Come out of her, my people, the Lord's children. The rest of the world needs you and your message! Forsake the foolish and live!

Ted Rudow III,MA
Class of 1996

Saturday, October 17, 2009

Money-making?

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/10/17/18625803.php


Money-making?
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Saturday Oct 17th, 2009
Harold Hapin is having a memorial in Monday as he died of a diabetic coma. Medi-Cal will no longer pay for these benefits and services for most adults although, there are some exceptions. It was said that he was worried that he couldn't get the pills for his illnesses.

The pharmaceutical companies are some of the biggest, wealthiest corporations in the world, and they're generally driven by profit rather than philanthropy. Doctors and nurses may be moved by compassion and their oath to help the sick and diseased, but they're often constrained as to how far they can go because of the price of medicine and supplies.
As a result, there's a lot of unnecessary suffering and death, and a general focus on medical cures rather than preventive health care in the first place—informing people how to eat the right food, get the right exercise and get enough sleep, avoid abusing their bodies and all that sort of thing. And naturally, that same focus on medical money-making leads to this sort of situation, because it's profitable, while ignoring relatively low-cost treatments that do work but don't make money!
Ted Rudow III,MA

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Obama's double standard on nuclear weapons

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Obama's double standard on nuclear weapons

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President Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for accomplishments that as of now are

unaccomplished.

The five-member Norwegian Nobel Committee reasoned that Obama deserved the award for fostering peace and cooperation in the global community.

Obama has certainly taken steps in that direction, but has he really done anything to warrant such a prize?

Obama joins Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson and Jimmy Carter as Nobel Peace

Prize-winning presidents....

Ted Rudow III,MA
10/14/09
President Obama has ruled out a significant reduction of U.S. troops in Afghanistan. In a bipartisan meeting with congressional leaders Tuesday, Obama rejected a U.S. withdrawal and said he is still considering an assessment requesting up to 40,000 additional troops.

If you step back a moment and think about it, you will realize that you are constantly being propagandized to approve war -- not just the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, but war generically.

You really wonder about American intelligence sometimes. They're so ignorant of the rest of the world, the last thing they need to be doing is meddling in Afghanistan, Iraq and the Middle East. The news media sanitize it. The government sanitizes war because it doesn't want you to see the coffins. It's far time that we get out of Afghanistan, Iraq and the Middle East.

Ted Rudow III, MA
Class of 1996

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/10/13/18625376.php


Pressure of the Zionist lobby
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Tuesday Oct 13th, 2009

"The Israeli Prime Minister has a lot more influence over the foreign policy of the United States in the Middle East than he has in his own country."




The strength of the Israelis in the U.S. as early as 1942, is such that at the
Biltmore Hotel in New York a maximalist convention decides that it is necessary to move from the "Jewish homeland in Palestine" (promised by Balfour : a slow colonization by buying land under British or American protection) to the creation of a "sovereign Jewish state".

The duplicity which characterizes the whole history of political zionism is expressed in the "interpretations" of what was to be the outcome of Herzl's efforts : "The Balfour Declaration" (in 1917). The formula of a "national Jewish homeland" is taken up again at the Congress of Basle. Lord Rothschild had prepared a declaration advocating "the national principle of the Jewish people". Balfour's final declaration does not talk any more about all Palestine, but only about the "establishment in Palestine of a national homeland for the Jewish people". In actual fact everybody says "homeland" (as if it were a spiritual and cultural center), and, in reality, thinks "State", as did Herzl himself. Lloyd George wrote in his book : "The Truth About the Peace Treaties", (Ed. Gollancz 1938, vol. 2, pp. 1138 39) : "There could be no doubt about what the members of the cabinet had in mind at the time... Palestine would become an independent state." It is significant that General Smuts, a member of the War Cabinet, declared in Johannesburg on 3 November 1915 : "Over the coming generations, you will see the emergence over there (in Palestine) once again, of a great Jewish
Truman swept aside his scruples for electoral reasons and it was to be the same with his successors. On the subject of the power of the Zionist lobby and of the "Jewish vote", President Truman himself had declared in 1946, to a group of diplomats : "I am sorry gentlemen, but I have to answer to hundreds of thousands of people who are expecting the success of Zionism. I don't have thousands of Arabs among my electors."

Source: William Eddy, F.P. Roosevelt and Ibn Saoud, N.Y. "American Friends of the Middle East", 1954 p. 31 (or 39)

And Obama “couldn’t withstand the pressure of the Zionist lobby, which led to a retreat from his previous positions on halting settlement construction and defining an agenda for the negotiations and peace.”

Saturday, October 10, 2009

No more war

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From Daily News Group readers
Posted: 10/09/2009 11:34:03 PM PDT
Updated: 10/09/2009 11:34:21 PM PDT

No more wars

Dear Editor: President Obama has ruled out a significant reduction of U.S. troops in Afghanistan. In a bipartisan meeting with congressional leaders Tuesday, Obama rejected a U.S. withdrawal and said he is still considering an assessment requesting up to 40,000 additional troops.

If you step back a moment and think about it, you will realize that you are constantly being propagandized to approve war — not just the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, but war generically.

You really wonder about American intelligence sometimes. They're so ignorant of the rest of the world, the last thing they need to be doing is meddling in Afghanistan, Iraq and the Middle East. The news media sanitize it. The government sanitizes war because it doesn't want you to see the coffins. It's far time that we get out of Afghanistan, Iraq and the Middle East.

Ted Rudow III, MA

Wednesday, October 07, 2009

Dollar

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/10/07/18624751.php


Dollar
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Wednesday Oct 7th, 2009
The dollar’s future as the world’s top currency was thrown into doubt on Tuesday as a report said Arab state­s had launched secret moves with China and Russia to stop using the greenback for oil trading. Arab states have launched moves with China, Russia, Japan and France to stop using the dollar for oil trades, British daily The Independent reported on Tuesday, but this was denied by Kuwait.

They must not fear the American Dollar! The Green pig is only a monster of the imagination! It only exists if you believe in it. If you resist it in the name of God, it evaporates and is no more! So he's very wise to put his money in gold, because the dollar is going to evaporate when the people lose faith in it, and it will be gone. The green pig gobbles everybody up that believes in it, and tramples everybody in the mud that thinks it exists! But for those who know it's just a monster of imagination, it vanishes.--It's nothing. The Green Pig is the American dollar!
America itself is like A Green Pig, and the Green Pig is like America--huge and powerful and young and green and greedy, gluttonous, wasteful, selfish! But it only exists if you believe it exists, like its dollar, the "greenback," or the American dollar. It's like this Green Pig is the god of America, it is America's idol that they worship. It is not even as good as the golden calf, because it doesn't even exist! It has no power at all over you unless you're one of its worshippers. The moneymakers are its high priests and its priesthood, and it was created in their temples and they control it and they manipulate it as they will to their own advantage.
Ted Rudow III,MA

Saturday, October 03, 2009

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Posted: 10/02/2009 10:15:00 PM PDT
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A world proliferation of arms

Dear Editor: War is a lucrative business, not just for the little arms dealers in Third World countries but for the biggest arms dealers of all — the governments of the world. The U.S. alone sold $36 billion in weaponry last year, not to mention the billions of dollars of guns, bullets, tanks and other weaponry it gave to its friends and allies.

The manufacture and sale of weapons of various types is a trillion-dollar industry around the world. Imagine what a huge amount that is, and it's all dedicated to the pursuit of violence, destruction, war and death. What a different world it would be if all that money was devoted to food, clothing, shelter and medical care for the poor and needy.

The governments and warriors of the world would say that's impossible nowadays, but the things that are impossible with men are possible with God. Some $2.4 trillion, or 4.4 percent of the global economy, "is dependent on violence," according to the Global Peace Index, referring to "industries that create or manage violence—" the defense industry.

Ted Rudow III,MA

Thursday, October 01, 2009

War is

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War is a lucrative
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Thursday Oct 1st, 2009
War is a lucrative business, not just for the little arms dealers in third world countries, but for the biggest arms dealers of all—the governments of the world.
The U.S. alone sold $36 billion in weaponry last year, not to mention the billions of dollars of guns, bullets, tanks and other weaponry it gave to its friends and allies.
The manufacture and sale of weapons of various types is a trillion-dollar industry around the world. Imagine what a huge amount that is, and it's all dedicated to the pursuit of violence, destruction, war and death! What a different world it would be if all that money was devoted to food, clothing, shelter and medical care for the poor and needy.
The governments and warriors of the world would say that's impossible nowadays, but the things that are impossible with men are possible with God. Some $2.4 trillion (£1.5tr), or 4.4% of the global economy, "is dependent on violence," according to the Global Peace Index, referring to "industries that create or manage violence"—or the defense industry.—Jorn Madslien, BBC News, June 3, 2009
Ted Rudow III,MA