Thursday, March 31, 2011

New Beginning?

Wednesday March 30, 2011 The Berkeley Daily Planet Front Page Opinion Columnists Arts & Entertainment Contents Full Text Letters to the Editor Tuesday March 29, 2011 McKenna; Government Education is an Oxymoron; Football Safety Hearings; Stonewalled by Stonemountain; Berkeley High School and the Lack of Shops; Obama Didn't Tell the Full Story; New Beginning? New Beginning? Despite Obama's attempts to reach out to some Latin American leftists, Ivan Briscoe, the security analyst, believes elements within the US military’s Southern Command are advocating a "hard-line military response" to security problems in the region, even though this strategy has failed in the past. Guatemala, another impoverished Central American country, recently followed this "hard-line" approach when authorities declared a state of emergency to battle drug gangs. Structural problems in Central America, leaving average people with few viable options, can be traced to the mentality of local elites, says Carlos Velazquez, the El Salvadorian political researcher. The history of Central America is so sad that it's almost too tragic to relate and how it's coming to a head to a new beginning is yet to be seen! Ted Rudow III, MA

Monday, March 28, 2011

The Reality

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http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/03/28/18675800.php Tax cuts by Ted Rudow III, MA Monday Mar 28th, 2011 As many as 500,000 protesters marched in London on Saturday to protest Britain’s deepest cuts to public spending since World War II. The protests come after U.K. officials estimated corporate taxes would be reduced even as it tackles a $235 billion deficit and plans to cut more than 300,000 public sector jobs. Meanwhile, in the United States protesters gathered in 40 cities on Saturday to oppose tax cuts for the wealthy amid budget cuts to public services. When you’re rich and lose money on a leveraged investment, you are a victim of the bad economy and deserved to be bailed out. When you’re poor and lose money on a risky investment, you’re a financially incompetent yahoo who chases get rich quick schemes. A classist quote: Alan Simpson, co-chair of the President’s deficit reduction commission, said that people who rely on Social Security are “lesser people,” according to Firedoglake.com. The cleverest form of dictatorship: They tell you you're free when you're really a slave without even a slave's security!--Like in the U.S. Only a country that is rich and safe can afford to be a democracy, for democracy is the most expensive and nefarious kind of government ever heard of on Earth! Ted Rudow III, MA

Sunday, March 20, 2011

Stop this war

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by Ted Rudow III, MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com ) Sunday Mar 20th, 2011
The 8th anniversary of the U.S. war in Iraq - a war that continues in its destructive violence on the ground, as well as in the physical, emotional, moral and spiritual suffering inflicted on the Iraqi people, U.S. military personnel, and families of fallen soldiers.

According to Iraq Body Count, there were 4,036 Iraqi civilian deaths by violence in 2010. Also in 2010, sixty U.S. military were killed in Iraq. For the second year in a row, the U.S. military has lost more troops to suicide than it has to combat in Iraq and Afghanistan. Coalition deaths in Afghanistan for 2010 were 711. The war goes on. And now another war in Libya! Other views drew allusions to other US-led wars, including Vietnam, saying that air attacks by French, US and British forces amounted to a "cold war" on Islam. Noam Chomsky in his book, The New Military Humanism (Common Courage Press). Indeed, the scholar-activist finds scant evidence in human history of wars fought out of a sense of compassion. The U.S., with its long record of aggression, epitomizes the hypocrisy of nations that have instigated wars under altruistic pretexts, he argues. Stop this war!
Ted Rudow III, MA

Saturday, March 19, 2011

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Ted Rudow III, MA,Encina Ave,Palo Alto, CAWhile the battles rage in Libya, calls are growing on the international community to impose a no-fly zone to cripple Gaddafi's air force, the reality is “there's a lot of, frankly, loose talk about some of these military options, and let's just call a spade a spade. A no-fly zone begins with an attack on Libya to destroy the air defenses." (Secretary of Defense Robert Gates)It is not merely Libya's sweet crude oil the globalists are itching to get their hands on. In fact, physically capturing Libya's oil plays a minor role. They are interested in not only destabilising the entire Middle East, including the crown jewel Saudi Arabia, but also sending the world economy into a death spiral. $200 a barrel oil price will surely do more damage to the world economy than any other single event.

Thursday, March 17, 2011

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James Madison's often quoted dictum, "No nation can preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare," reflected a view that was widely shared by the Founders. That concept was a basis for our Constitution's provision that only Congress can declare war. Yet, today, America's presidents start wars as if they were kings in old Europe. (Those wars, it should be noted, were a major reason our forefathers risked all to leave Europe.)
United States produces 9.0% the world total oil. In 2009, the U.S. imported about 52% of the crude oil and refined petroleum products that it used. In other words, America could have saved that much oil simply by being more conservative in their consumption rather than having to go to war to try to get back. But they'd rather go to war & lose tens of thousands of lives, & all the billions of dollars a war will cost, & God only knows what else!
We take a stand for the principle in Thomas Jefferson's first inaugural address: "Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations - entangling alliances with none. Imagine how much this war is costing them! If they would double the price of gasoline for years & years, that still will only be a minute drop in the bucket to what this war is costing them.
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Wednesday, March 16, 2011

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CommentWhile the battles rage in Libya, calls are growing in the international community to impose a no-fly zone to cripple Gadhafi's air force. \"But the reality is -- and people -- there's a lot of, frankly, loose talk about some of these military options. And let's just call a spade a spade: a no-fly zone begins with an attack on Libya to destroy the air defenses,\" Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said.

It is not merely Libya's sweet crude oil the globalists are itching to get their hands on. In fact, physically capturing Libya's oil plays a minor role. They are interested in not only destabilizing the entire Middle East, including the crown jewel Saudi Arabia, but also sending the world economy into a death spiral. The $200-barrel oil prices will surely do more damage to the world economy than any other single event short of some global catastrophe.

The media plays its part by demonizing Gadhafi in much the same way it demonized Saddam Hussein, who eventually went to the gallows as a reward for his dutiful service to the CIA. Henry Kissinger, a close Rockefeller confidant, said it best when he explained that presented with the right crisis, the American people will beg to be enslaved.

And $6-per-gallon gasoline -- or higher -- and its engineered reverberations throughout the economy portends just such a crisis.

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Salman HaqqiFor the past couple of weeks or so, the revolution in Egypt has captured the attention and hearts of people around the world as each day brought a new twist to the Hosni Mubarak saga and finally his inevitable end.Last Sunday I sat in the newsroom and followed the Super Bowl on mute from a live streaming feed that occupied half of my computer screen.On the other half of the computer screen, I cycled through YouTube clips of the protests in Cairo and coverage from Al-Jazeera.................................................................................................................................

Ted Rudow IIIWhile the battles rage in Libya, calls are growing in the international community to impose a no-fly zone to cripple Gadhafi's air force. "But the reality is -- and people -- there's a lot of, frankly, loose talk about some of these military options. And let's just call a spade a spade: a no-fly zone begins with an attack on Libya to destroy the air defenses," Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said.
It is not merely Libya's sweet crude oil the globalists are itching to get their hands on. In fact, physically capturing Libya's oil plays a minor role. They are interested in not only destabilizing the entire Middle East, including the crown jewel Saudi Arabia, but also sending the world economy into a death spiral. The $200-barrel oil prices will surely do more damage to the world economy than any other single event short of some global catastrophe.
The media plays its part by demonizing Gadhafi in much the same way it demonized Saddam Hussein, who eventually went to the gallows as a reward for his dutiful service to the CIA. Henry Kissinger, a close Rockefeller confidant, said it best when he explained that presented with the right crisis, the American people will beg to be enslaved.
And $6-per-gallon gasoline -- or higher -- and its engineered reverberations throughout the economy portends just such a crisis.
Ted Rudow III, MA
Class of 1996
Palo Alto

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Dear Editor: While the battles rage in Libya, calls are growing in the international community to impose a no-fly zone to cripple Gadhafi's air force. "But the reality is -- and people -- there's a lot of, frankly, loose talk about some of these military options. And let's just call a spade a spade: a no-fly zone begins with an attack on Libya to destroy the air defenses," Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said.
It is not merely Libya's sweet crude oil the globalists are itching to get their hands on. In fact, physically capturing Libya's oil plays a minor role. They are interested in not only destabilizing the entire Middle East, including the crown jewel Saudi Arabia, but also sending the world economy into a death spiral. The $200-barrel oil prices will surely do more damage to the world economy than any other single event short of some global catastrophe.
The media plays its part by demonizing Gadhafi in much the same way it demonized Saddam Hussein, who eventually went to the gallows as a reward for his dutiful service to the CIA. Henry Kissinger, a close Rockefeller confidant, said it best when he explained that presented with the right crisis, the American people will beg to be enslaved.
And $6-per-gallon gasoline -- or higher -- and its engineered reverberations throughout the economy portends just such a crisis.
Ted Rudow III, MA
Palo Alto

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Ridiculous

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Dear Editor,
World-renowned intellectual Noam Chomsky talks about several domestic issues in the United States, including the US deification of former President Ronald Reagan
Reagan felt he had a perfect right to interfere in the affairs of Central America, to side in their wars and choose which sides he wanted to fight on, although he howled and screamed when the former Soviet Union did the same thing elsewhere such as Afghanistan, Poland, etc. He can do it, others may not!
The US has a right to do it. The former USSR doesn't! The US can pitch in and send in troops to defend its borders, but according to American policy, the former USSR does not have that right - which shows how idiotic and ridiculous it is and you wonder why the average citizen can't even see how inconsistently he applies his principles and moral regulations.They apply only to the US' enemies, they don't apply to the US!
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Thursday, March 10, 2011

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The Founders on War
James Madison's often quoted dictum, "No nation can preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare," reflected a view that was widely shared by the Founders. That concept was a basis for our Constitution's provision that only Congress can declare war. Yet, today, America's presidents start wars as if they were kings in old Europe. (Those wars, it should be noted, were a major reason our forefathers risked all to leave Europe.)
United States produces 9.0% the world total oil. In 2009, the U.S. imported about 52% of the crude oil and refined petroleum products that it used. In other words, America could have saved that much oil simply by being more conservative in their consumption rather than having to go to war to try to get back. But they'd rather go to war & lose tens of thousands of lives, & all the billions of dollars a war will cost, & God only knows what else!
We take a stand for the principle inThomas Jefferson's first inaugural address: "Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations - entangling alliances with none.Imagine how much this war is costing them! If they would double the price of gasoline for years & years, that still will only be a minute drop in the bucket to what this war is costing them.
Ted Rudow III, MA .........................................................................................................................Corporate Taxes
Well, corporate income taxes in this country are one-third lower than they were in 2000—even though corporate profits are up 60 percent and corporations have almost $2 trillion in cash. They’re approaching $7,000 of cash for every man, woman and child in the United States. They’re not investing this money. They’re not creating jobs. They are hoarding this money that they have pulled out of the economy. It’s one of the reasons we’re in so much trouble.
Now, as to the argument that our tax rate is too high, it is because of all these special favors. The reason the tax code has grown and grown and grown and grown and grown isn’t because of people like you and me and the audience; it’s because of all these favors being bought from politicians. How we could raise a trillion dollars a year—that would double the revenue we get, it’s equal to the revenue we get from the individual income tax—by shutting down loopholes and favors for businesses, particularly the oil and gas and pharmaceutical industries. The fact is, the very largest corporations, the ones who are the vast majority of wealth in America, they pay an effective tax rate of about 15 percent of their profits.
Ted Rudow III, MA

Tuesday, March 08, 2011

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Editorial“Punish Gadhafi, not Libya”February 28, 2011
Colonel Moammar Gadhafi was a poor boy born in a tent, the son of a nomadic camel trader who roamed the poverty-stricken desert throughout most of his childhood. Significantly enough, he did his early studies by the light of an old oil lamp. Gadhafi In his early teens became active in political demonstrations in favor of Egypt’s Nasser, procuring the necessary materials for his flags, banners and slogans by personally provisioning them from different merchants, and was often harassed by his enemies. At the age of 27 in 1969, he led a successful revolution of the poor as a young army officer, ousted Libya’s corrupt monarchy and became its new head of state. He also promptly ousted the foreign scientific magicians who had helped discover Libya’s lamp of oil far beneath the sands of her desert, and began rubbing that lamp vigorously to produce its black gold and force its powerful genie of foreign oil companies to pay him more than double their former prices, from $1 billion in his first year of 1969 to over $2 billion in 1971 and approximately $3 billion in 1973, amassing the largest gold reserves in the Arab world, and gaining a distinct place of leadership among 100 million Arabs, second only to that of Egypt. He used the magic genie of its power to accrue more wealth and power for both Libya and himself, although the Western magicians would certainly like to bury him alive if they could. But he himself seems to wear some uncanny ring of spiritual authority which causes him to lead a nearly charmed life in opposition to his enemies. To their disgruntled and frustrated chagrin, he keeps gleefully rubbing his new magic lamp and producing its black genie of oil, which has now brought him so much wealth and power. But now Gadhafi has vowed that he would “fight on to the last drop of my blood” and die a “martyr.” We have heard and seen the killings going on in Libya. There needs to be a thorough investigation and if he’s found guilty he must be condemned and punished by the international community.
Ted Rudow III, MAPalo Alto, California, United States

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Dear Editor: James Madison's often quoted dictum, "No nation can preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare," reflected a view that was widely shared by the founders. That concept was a basis for our Constitution's provision that only Congress can declare war. Yet, today, America's presidents start wars as if they were kings in old Europe. (Those wars, it should be noted, were a major reason our forefathers risked all to leave Europe.)

The United States produces 9 percent of the world's total oil. In 2009, the U.S. imported about 52 percent of the crude oil and refined the petroleum products that it used. In other words, America could have saved that much oil simply by being more conservative in its consumption rather than having to go to war to try to get it back. But it would rather go to war and lose tens of thousands of lives and all the billions of dollars a war will cost, and God only knows what else.

We take a stand for the principle in Thomas Jefferson's first inaugural address: "peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none." Imagine how much this war is costing. If they would double the price of gasoline for years and years, that still will only be a minute drop in the bucket to what this war is costing.

Ted Rudow III, MA

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Saturday, March 05, 2011

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Well, corporate income taxes in this country are one-third lower than they were in 2000, even though corporate profits are up 60 percent and corporations have almost $2 trillion in cash. They're approaching $7,000 of cash for every man, woman and child in the United States. They're not investing this money. They're not creating jobs. They are hoarding this money that they have pulled out of the economy. It's one of the reasons we're in so much trouble.
Now, as to the argument that our tax rate is too high, it is because of all these special favors. The reason the tax code has grown and grown and grown and grown and grown isn't because of people like you and me; it's because of all these favors being bought from politicians. We could raise a trillion dollars a year — that would double the revenue we get, equivalent to the revenue we get from the individual income tax — by shutting down loopholes and favors for businesses, particularly the oil and gas and pharmaceutical industries. The fact is, the very largest corporations, the ones who hold the vast majority of wealth in America, pay an effective tax rate of about 15 percent of their profits.
Ted Rudow III, MA

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Well, corporate income taxes in this country are one-third lower than they were in 2000, even though corporate profits are up 60 percent and corporations have almost $2 trillion in cash. They’re approaching $7,000 of cash for every man, woman and child in the United States. They’re not investing this money. They’re not creating jobs. They are hoarding this money that they have pulled out of the economy. It’s one of the reasons we’re in so much trouble.
Now, as to the argument that our tax rate is too high, it is because of all these special favors. The reason the tax code has grown and grown and grown and grown and grown isn’t because of people like you and me; it’s because of all these favors being bought from politicians. We could raise a trillion dollars a year — that would double the revenue we get, equivalent to the revenue we get from the individual income tax — by shutting down loopholes and favors for businesses, particularly the oil and gas and pharmaceutical industries. The fact is, the very largest corporations, the ones who hold the vast majority of wealth in America, pay an effective tax rate of about 15 percent of their profits.


Ted Rudow III, MA
Palo Alto

Friday, March 04, 2011

Muslim Wall

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by Ted Rudow III, MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com ) Friday Mar 4th, 2011
We should call this really the Muslim Wall. They’re not all Arabs, but are all united by the common religious bond of Islam. All the countries which are Muslim or half-Muslim, I found the wall is roughly a thousand miles wide most of the way and extends about 7,000 miles, all the way from the West African coast to the border of China!
So the wide Muslim Wall is indeed very, very long, about twice as long as the mainland African and Asian Muslim Wall! This extends the Muslim Wall to the astounding length of about 15,000 miles—three-fifths of the way around the world—dividing the bulk of Asia and Europe from the bulk of southern Africa and Australia. Islam has continued to spread throughout the East, and the South, toward Africa, and even in the West. It has strengthened itself as well, in anger against the continued Western inroads in the Middle East, the oppression and conquest of Muslim nations, and in fervor to oppose the Western lifestyle, which has become more decadent and unrighteous as the years have passed. There has been a hardening of attitudes toward the West, especially toward America, because of its policies toward Muslim nations, and its support of despots and dictators in the Muslim world, its wars upon Muslim nations, as well as its support for Israel. The wall has swept on, growing in influence and strength and power.
Ted Rudow III, MA

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Ted Rudow III, MA, a member of the Palo Alto High School community,
Well, corporate income taxes in this country are one-third lower than they were in 2000—even though corporate profits are up 60 percent and corporations have almost $2 trillion in cash. They’re approaching $7,000 of cash for every man, woman and child in the United States. They’re not investing this money. They’re not creating jobs. They are hoarding this money that they have pulled out of the economy. It’s one of the reasons we’re in so much trouble.
Now, as to the argument that our tax rate is too high, it is because of all these special favors. The reason the tax code has grown and grown and grown and grown and grown isn’t because of people like you and me and the audience; it’s because of all these favors being bought from politicians. How we could raise a trillion dollars a year—that would double the revenue we get, it’s equal to the revenue we get from the individual income tax—by shutting down loopholes and favors for businesses, particularly the oil and gas and pharmaceutical industries. The fact is, the very largest corporations, the ones who are the vast majority of wealth in America, they pay an effective tax rate of about 15 percent of their profits.

Thursday, March 03, 2011

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Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011 By Op Ed
I have never tried to convert anyone in my life. I am one of the most open-minded people you will ever meet. I rarely even tell people that I’m Catholic.But I have felt isolated for being Catholic and pro-life since the first week I came to Stanford. I vividly remember my first few days here, how I had gone to MemChu a few times because I was a little lost and lonely. The news of where I had gone on my walk was met with odd glances and uncomfortable silences. Later that night in the Lag dining hall, some kid made the mistake of revealing that he had signed up on the pro-life e-mail list. And at least 10 people went at him for being so conservative, so close-minded. ........I am scared of revealing my other isolated world when I feel like no one will support me in doing so.I write this not to complain, but to share my story in hopes that it might reach someone feeling like I do, even if a different reason is the cause. Be blessed. Courtney Crisp ‘11


Ted Rudow III says:March 3, 2011 Pro-abortion is because they’re in it for the money. Some doctors make a fortune on abortions!–There are so many & it’s easier! In the U.S. alone, where some 1.5 million abortions take place every year, at an average cost of $300 each, abortions are an annual $500 million industry!The anti-abortion demonstrators can now be prosecuted under the “Anti-Racketeering Law,” RICO, placing them in the same category as gangs & criminals! It was a unanimous Supreme Court decision, think of it! A spokeswoman for Operation Rescue called the decision “a complete travesty of justice. The Supreme Court justices obviously do not understand how far-reaching this case is. This opens the floodgates for RICO to be used against anybody who uses free speech in a way that offends somebody else, or freedom of religion or freedom of assembly,” she said.

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Colonel Moammar Gahdafi was a poor boy born in a tent, the son of a nomadic camel trader who roamed the poverty-stricken desert throughout most of his childhood. Significantly enough, he did his early studies by the light of an old oil lamp.

Colonel Moammar Gadhafi
In his early teens, he became active in political demonstrations in favour of Egypt's Nasser, procuring the necessary materials for his flags, banners and slogans by personally provisioning them from different merchants, and was often harassed by his enemies.
At the age of 27 in 1969, he led a successful revolution of the poor as a young army officer, ousted Libya's corrupt monarchy and became its new head of state. He also promptly ousted the foreign scientific magicians who had helped discover Libya's lamp of oil far beneath the sands of her desert, and began rubbing that lamp vigorously to produce its black gold and force its powerful genie of foreign oil companies to pay him more than double their former prices, from US$1 billion in his first year of 1969 to over US$2 billion in 1971 and approximately US$3 billion in 1973, amassing the largest gold reserves in the Arab world, and giving him a distinct place of leadership among its 100 million Arabs, second only to that of Egypt.
He used the magic genie of its power to accrue more wealth and power for both Libya and himself, although the Western magicians would certainly like to bury him alive if they could. But he himself seems to wear some uncanny ring of spiritual authority which causes him to lead a nearly charmed life in opposition to his enemies. To their disgruntled and frustrated chagrin, he keeps gleefully rubbing his new magic lamp and producing its black genie of oil which has now brought him so much wealth and power.
But now Colonel Moammar Gadhafi has vowed that he would "fight on to the last drop of my blood" and die a "martyr". We have heard and seen the killings going on in Libya. There needs to be a thorough investigation and if he's found guilty he must be condemned and punished by the international community.
Ted Rudow III, MA

California, USA

Tedr77@aol.com



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