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Calling kettle black
by Ted Rudow III, MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Wednesday Jul 31st, 2013 11:47 AM
World Leaders have often used smokescreens, red herrings or other clever diverting tactics to distract the public mind from important but embarrassing issues. This is also a very common military device: to create a diversion, such as a pretended attack in one sector when actually the main drive is going to be in another.
This has been the favourite trick of despots and dictators throughout the ages: get the people's minds off their internal problems and needs and altercations by creating a much more frightening bugaboo, such as an external war or fear of their neighbours, or causing them to focus their fears on some scapegoat leader, class, race, sect or supposed problem.
It is easy to see why he and his cohorts would have done everything in their pernicious power to get and out of the papers for awhile. Illegally boring into the private affairs of its citizens and scandalously destroying their personal freedoms, while at the same time he tries to hide his evil-doing!
Ted Rudow III, MA
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The Hate Crime Statistics Act defines hate crimes as acts in which individuals are victimised because of their “race, religion, sexual orientation, or ethnicity.”
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The Hate Crime Statistics Act defines hate crimes as acts in which individuals are victimised because of their “race, religion, sexual orientation, or ethnicity.”
Why is there anti-Americanism? Because of American policies toward other nations and people! They were under-developed in war, weapons, brutality, cruelty, selfishness, and the desire to dominate others! Actually they were over-developed in some of the world’s most beautiful and peaceful cultures, which the White came to destroy, and to make slaves of them.
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As celebrities like Tom Cruise and Hugh Jackman celebrated Walmart at its annual meeting, workers and activists converged to demand sweeping changes at the company's U.S. stores and global factories. Around a hundred striking workers with the group OUR Walmart arrived in a caravan from across the country to protest what they allege to be retaliation against those seeking to change company practices on wages, safety and unions.
Walmart is one of only a few major retailers that has refused to sign on to the new safety standards after the latest Dhaka tragedy. The Tazreen Fashion fire in 2012 killed 117 workers and left hundreds injured, and the recent building collapse in Rana Plaza killed 1,127 and left more than 600 or 700 injured. And at that shareholder meeting, no one gave any condolence to those families.
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Letters to the Editor: June 19, 2013
No Apologies
As celebrities like Tom Cruise and Hugh Jackman celebrated Walmart at its annual meeting, workers and activists converged to demand sweeping changes at the company's U.S. stores and global factories. Around a hundred striking workers with the group OUR Walmart arrived in a caravan from across the country to protest what they allege to be retaliation against those seeking to change company practices on wages, safety and unions.
Walmart is one of only a few major retailers that has refused to sign on to the new safety standards after the latest Dhaka tragedy. The Tazreen Fashion fire in 2012 killed 117 workers and left hundreds injured, and the recent building collapse in Rana Plaza killed 1,127 and left more than 600 or 700 injured. And at that shareholder meeting, no one gave any condolence to those families.
—Ted Rudow III
Palo Alto
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When justice becomes injustice
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When justice becomes injustice
Ted Rudow III, MA, Encina Ave, Palo Alto, CA
“An eye for an eye” has always been the motto of those who live under the Mosaic Law–injury for injury, injustice for injustice, death for death. There was love and mercy and forgiveness even under the Mosaic Law, but those who practice it today have focused on justice and judgment rather than mercy and forgiveness, and their justice has become injustice and their judgment has become the slaughter of the innocent and the butchery of the helpless.
Such is the situation in the Mideast today, where the Palestinians suffer at the hands of the Israelis. There’s been talk of “peace” for years now, and that’s about all it’s been–talk. The Israelis have remained the same as always. They let the Palestinians have a few status symbols, things like their own airport and passports and government buildings here and there, but a lot of good it did the Palestinians! The poor Palestinians have been hoping for change for years, but there’s been very little change.
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Fifty years later
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Fifty years later
by Ted Rudow III, MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Wednesday Jul 24th, 2013
Broadcast the night after thanksgiving in 1960, Edward R. Murrow’s “Harvest of Shame” exposed us to the callous exploitation of the migrant workers who pick our fruit and vegetables. This is an American story that begins in Florida and ends in New Jersey and New York State with the harvest. It is a 1960’s “Grapes of Wrath” that begins at the Mexican border in California and ends in Oregon and Washington. It is the story of men and women and children who work 136 days of the year and average nine hundred dollars a year.
Believe it or not, more than fifty years later, the life of a migrant laborer is still an ordeal. And not just for adults. Perhaps as many as half a million children, some as young as seven years old, are out in the fields and orchards working nine to ten hour days under brutal conditions. That was one of the most traumatic things growing up. You see, being poor is in and of itself not traumatic. It's an inconvenience, but being poor and powerless to withstand the mistreatment, to watch my mom and dad be mistreated and are being fooled about the wages and exactly stolen from us.There was no way for us to complain. No way for us to appeal to anyone. the racial humiliation, the racial snubs and epithets. Well, the verbal mistreatment of my mom, and, was something that's very, was very hard to take.
NAFTA, signed by President Clinton in 1993. That devastated the Mexican countryside. Just in the commodity of corn. Which is a staple in Mexico. Everybody grows corn in Mexico. And they grow it for their local use, for themselves. And then the excess, they tried to sell it in the local market. So when NAFTA opened the borders to North American corn, those small corner farmers in Mexico couldn't help to compete with U.S. farmers. They're highly mechanized and highly subsidized.
Ted Rudow III, MA
Fifty years later
by Ted Rudow III, MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Wednesday Jul 24th, 2013
Broadcast the night after thanksgiving in 1960, Edward R. Murrow’s “Harvest of Shame” exposed us to the callous exploitation of the migrant workers who pick our fruit and vegetables. This is an American story that begins in Florida and ends in New Jersey and New York State with the harvest. It is a 1960’s “Grapes of Wrath” that begins at the Mexican border in California and ends in Oregon and Washington. It is the story of men and women and children who work 136 days of the year and average nine hundred dollars a year.
Believe it or not, more than fifty years later, the life of a migrant laborer is still an ordeal. And not just for adults. Perhaps as many as half a million children, some as young as seven years old, are out in the fields and orchards working nine to ten hour days under brutal conditions. That was one of the most traumatic things growing up. You see, being poor is in and of itself not traumatic. It's an inconvenience, but being poor and powerless to withstand the mistreatment, to watch my mom and dad be mistreated and are being fooled about the wages and exactly stolen from us.There was no way for us to complain. No way for us to appeal to anyone. the racial humiliation, the racial snubs and epithets. Well, the verbal mistreatment of my mom, and, was something that's very, was very hard to take.
NAFTA, signed by President Clinton in 1993. That devastated the Mexican countryside. Just in the commodity of corn. Which is a staple in Mexico. Everybody grows corn in Mexico. And they grow it for their local use, for themselves. And then the excess, they tried to sell it in the local market. So when NAFTA opened the borders to North American corn, those small corner farmers in Mexico couldn't help to compete with U.S. farmers. They're highly mechanized and highly subsidized.
Ted Rudow III, MA
Friday, July 19, 2013
US poor denied state-run medical service
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US poor denied state-run medical service
Ted Rudow III, MA, Encina Ave, Palo Alto, CA
California lawmakers improperly stopped funding certain medical services that rural and other specialised health clinics provided to low-income residents under the state’s Medicaid program. A three-judge panel of the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the finding of a trial judge and said federal law requires states participating in Medicaid to reimburse clinics serving migrant workers, homeless people and other poor populations for “a panoply of medical services to under-served communities” that includes chiropractic care, dental care, optometry, podiatry and speech therapy.
To save money, the Legislature in 2009 eliminated coverage for adults receiving those services through the state’s Medicaid programme, known as Medi-Cal, saying they were optional because they were not provided by medical doctors. They even convinced lots of poor people that they were right and persuaded them to voluntarily give up some of the few things they had to make them even poorer and the rich even richer, so the rich could have more and more and the poor less and less.
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US poor denied state-run medical service
Ted Rudow III, MA, Encina Ave, Palo Alto, CA
California lawmakers improperly stopped funding certain medical services that rural and other specialised health clinics provided to low-income residents under the state’s Medicaid program. A three-judge panel of the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the finding of a trial judge and said federal law requires states participating in Medicaid to reimburse clinics serving migrant workers, homeless people and other poor populations for “a panoply of medical services to under-served communities” that includes chiropractic care, dental care, optometry, podiatry and speech therapy.
To save money, the Legislature in 2009 eliminated coverage for adults receiving those services through the state’s Medicaid programme, known as Medi-Cal, saying they were optional because they were not provided by medical doctors. They even convinced lots of poor people that they were right and persuaded them to voluntarily give up some of the few things they had to make them even poorer and the rich even richer, so the rich could have more and more and the poor less and less.
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Sunday, July 14, 2013
They were over-developed
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They were over-developed
by TedRudow III, MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Sunday Jul 14th, 2013 12:12 PM
Stand-your-ground laws are frequently criticized and called "shoot first" laws by critics, including the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. In Florida, the law has resulted in self-defense claims tripling. The law's critics argue that Florida's law makes it very difficult to prosecute cases against people who shoot others and then claim self-defense.
The shooter can argue that he felt threatened, and in most cases, the only witness who could have argued otherwise is the victim who was shot and killed. Many states have some form of Stand Your Ground law including, California.
The Hate Crime Statistics Act defines hate crimes as acts in which individuate arevictimized because of their "race, religion, sexual orientation, or ethnicity." This definition fate to convey a deeper sense of the severity of hate crimes or their impact on individual victims, their families and communities.
As defined in California Penal Code section 422 55, hate crime means "a criminal act committed, in whole or in part, because of one or more of the following actual or perceived characteristics: (1) Disability. (2) Gender. (3) Nationality, (4) Race or ethnicity, (5) religion (6) Sexual orientation, (7) Association with a person or group with one or more of these actual or perceived characteristics.
Why is there anti-Americanism?--Because of American policies toward other nations and people! They were not only hated foreigners. Under-developed in war, weapons, brutality, cruelty, selfishness, and the desire to dominate others! Actually they were over-developed in 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.
Ted Rudow III, MA
http://tedriii.blogspot.com
They were over-developed
by TedRudow III, MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Sunday Jul 14th, 2013 12:12 PM
Stand-your-ground laws are frequently criticized and called "shoot first" laws by critics, including the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. In Florida, the law has resulted in self-defense claims tripling. The law's critics argue that Florida's law makes it very difficult to prosecute cases against people who shoot others and then claim self-defense.
The shooter can argue that he felt threatened, and in most cases, the only witness who could have argued otherwise is the victim who was shot and killed. Many states have some form of Stand Your Ground law including, California.
The Hate Crime Statistics Act defines hate crimes as acts in which individuate arevictimized because of their "race, religion, sexual orientation, or ethnicity." This definition fate to convey a deeper sense of the severity of hate crimes or their impact on individual victims, their families and communities.
As defined in California Penal Code section 422 55, hate crime means "a criminal act committed, in whole or in part, because of one or more of the following actual or perceived characteristics: (1) Disability. (2) Gender. (3) Nationality, (4) Race or ethnicity, (5) religion (6) Sexual orientation, (7) Association with a person or group with one or more of these actual or perceived characteristics.
Why is there anti-Americanism?--Because of American policies toward other nations and people! They were not only hated foreigners. Under-developed in war, weapons, brutality, cruelty, selfishness, and the desire to dominate others! Actually they were over-developed in 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.
Ted Rudow III, MA
http://tedriii.blogspot.com
Friday, July 12, 2013
The disenfranchised poor
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The disenfranchised poor
Ted Rudow III, MA, Encina Ave, Palo Alto, CA
Proposition 8, known informally as Prop 8, was a California ballot proposition and a state constitutional amendment passed in the November 2008 California state elections. The proposition was created by opponents of same-sex marriage in advance of the California Supreme Court’s previous ruling in In re Marriage Cases which legalise same-sex marriage, overriding the statute (Proposition 22 in 2000) by ruling it unconstitutional.
The very thing we rebelled about in the revolutionary war—taxation without representation. It is like the Senate of the U.S., which has only two representatives for each state, regardless of size or population, instead of like the House of Representatives, where the number of representatives is determined by the population of each state.
There the House can counterbalance the Senate and can nullify anything the Senate does, if it doesn’t like it. No law can be passed, no money appropriated for anything — without the consent of the House — the true representatives of the people. It is no longer truly representative as it should be, because in the first place, it takes a rich man to be able to run for such an office, and it takes a long-time resident of any state or country to be able to register to vote. The voting process is made so difficult that only the most determined manage to be able to use it — usually those with some political log to roll; largely property owners, or again, the rich, as opposed to the poor; longtime resident property owners, as opposed to the shifting, migratory, labour force.
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Ted Rudow III, MA, Encina Ave, Palo Alto, CA
Proposition 8, known informally as Prop 8, was a California ballot proposition and a state constitutional amendment passed in the November 2008 California state elections. The proposition was created by opponents of same-sex marriage in advance of the California Supreme Court’s previous ruling in In re Marriage Cases which legalise same-sex marriage, overriding the statute (Proposition 22 in 2000) by ruling it unconstitutional.
The very thing we rebelled about in the revolutionary war—taxation without representation. It is like the Senate of the U.S., which has only two representatives for each state, regardless of size or population, instead of like the House of Representatives, where the number of representatives is determined by the population of each state.
There the House can counterbalance the Senate and can nullify anything the Senate does, if it doesn’t like it. No law can be passed, no money appropriated for anything — without the consent of the House — the true representatives of the people. It is no longer truly representative as it should be, because in the first place, it takes a rich man to be able to run for such an office, and it takes a long-time resident of any state or country to be able to register to vote. The voting process is made so difficult that only the most determined manage to be able to use it — usually those with some political log to roll; largely property owners, or again, the rich, as opposed to the poor; longtime resident property owners, as opposed to the shifting, migratory, labour force.
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Ted Rudow III, MA, Encina Ave, Palo Alto, CA
Proposition 8, known informally as Prop 8, was a California ballot proposition and a state constitutional amendment passed in the November 2008 California state elections. The proposition was created by opponents of same-sex marriage in advance of the California Supreme Court’s previous ruling in In re Marriage Cases which legalise same-sex marriage, overriding the statute (Proposition 22 in 2000) by ruling it unconstitutional.
The very thing we rebelled about in the revolutionary war—taxation without representation. It is like the Senate of the U.S., which has only two representatives for each state, regardless of size or population, instead of like the House of Representatives, where the number of representatives is determined by the population of each state.
There the House can counterbalance the Senate and can nullify anything the Senate does, if it doesn’t like it. No law can be passed, no money appropriated for anything — without the consent of the House — the true representatives of the people. It is no longer truly representative as it should be, because in the first place, it takes a rich man to be able to run for such an office, and it takes a long-time resident of any state or country to be able to register to vote. The voting process is made so difficult that only the most determined manage to be able to use it — usually those with some political log to roll; largely property owners, or again, the rich, as opposed to the poor; longtime resident property owners, as opposed to the shifting, migratory, labour force.
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Published: Friday, July 12, 2013
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The disenfranchised poor
Ted Rudow III, MA, Encina Ave, Palo Alto, CA
Proposition 8, known informally as Prop 8, was a California ballot proposition and a state constitutional amendment passed in the November 2008 California state elections. The proposition was created by opponents of same-sex marriage in advance of the California Supreme Court’s previous ruling in In re Marriage Cases which legalise same-sex marriage, overriding the statute (Proposition 22 in 2000) by ruling it unconstitutional.
The very thing we rebelled about in the revolutionary war—taxation without representation. It is like the Senate of the U.S., which has only two representatives for each state, regardless of size or population, instead of like the House of Representatives, where the number of representatives is determined by the population of each state.
There the House can counterbalance the Senate and can nullify anything the Senate does, if it doesn’t like it. No law can be passed, no money appropriated for anything — without the consent of the House — the true representatives of the people. It is no longer truly representative as it should be, because in the first place, it takes a rich man to be able to run for such an office, and it takes a long-time resident of any state or country to be able to register to vote. The voting process is made so difficult that only the most determined manage to be able to use it — usually those with some political log to roll; largely property owners, or again, the rich, as opposed to the poor; longtime resident property owners, as opposed to the shifting, migratory, labour force.
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Thursday, July 11, 2013
Things haven't change
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/07/11/18739674.php
Things haven't change
by Ted Rudow III, MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Thursday Jul 11th, 2013 11:48 AM
"An eye for an eye" has always been the motto of those who live under the Mosaic Law--injury for injury, injustice for injustice, death for death. There was love and mercy and forgiveness even under the Mosaic Law, but those who practice it today have focused on justice and judgment rather than mercy and forgiveness, and their justice has become injustice and their judgment has become the slaughter of the innocent and the butchery of the helpless.
Such is the situation in the Mideast today, where the Palestinians suffer at the hands of the Israelis. Though neither side is blameless and some on both sides have shed innocent blood, those to delivered and of old are most guilty. For even of old said "Thou shalt not kill," but they have created legions of widows and orphans whose cries rise unto. Those who have sown violence and death will also reap it, for whatsoever a man sows, that will he also reap. Applicable both to those who sow good and those who sow evil.
There's been talk of "Peace, peace" for years now, and that's about all it's been--talk. Now sudden destruction has come upon the area, as travail upon a woman with child. It was inevitable, just like a woman going into labor when she's ready to deliver a child. The Israelis have remained the same as always. They let the Palestinians have a few status symbols, things like their own airport and passports and government buildings here and there, but a lot of good it did the Palestinians! The poor Palestinians have been hoping for change for years, but there's been very little change.
Ted Rudow III, MA
http://tedriii.blogspot.com
Things haven't change
by Ted Rudow III, MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Thursday Jul 11th, 2013 11:48 AM
"An eye for an eye" has always been the motto of those who live under the Mosaic Law--injury for injury, injustice for injustice, death for death. There was love and mercy and forgiveness even under the Mosaic Law, but those who practice it today have focused on justice and judgment rather than mercy and forgiveness, and their justice has become injustice and their judgment has become the slaughter of the innocent and the butchery of the helpless.
Such is the situation in the Mideast today, where the Palestinians suffer at the hands of the Israelis. Though neither side is blameless and some on both sides have shed innocent blood, those to delivered and of old are most guilty. For even of old said "Thou shalt not kill," but they have created legions of widows and orphans whose cries rise unto. Those who have sown violence and death will also reap it, for whatsoever a man sows, that will he also reap. Applicable both to those who sow good and those who sow evil.
There's been talk of "Peace, peace" for years now, and that's about all it's been--talk. Now sudden destruction has come upon the area, as travail upon a woman with child. It was inevitable, just like a woman going into labor when she's ready to deliver a child. The Israelis have remained the same as always. They let the Palestinians have a few status symbols, things like their own airport and passports and government buildings here and there, but a lot of good it did the Palestinians! The poor Palestinians have been hoping for change for years, but there's been very little change.
Ted Rudow III, MA
http://tedriii.blogspot.com
Wednesday, July 10, 2013
Reveal the truth
Wednesday, July 10, 2013
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Published: Monday, July 8, 2013
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Reveal the truth
Ted Rudow III, MA, Encina Ave, Palo Alto, CAForty-one years ago, Beacon Press lost a Supreme Court case brought against it by the U.S. government for publishing the first full edition of the Pentagon Papers. It is now well known how The New York Times first published excerpts of the top-secret documents in June 1971, but less well known is how the Beacon Press, a small non-profit publisher came to publish the complete 7,000 pages that exposed the true history of U.S. involvement in Vietnam.
In his 1972 dissenting opinion in the Gravel case, Supreme Court Justice Douglas said, “The story of the Pentagon Papers is a chronicle of the suppression of vital decisions to protect the reputations and political hides of men who work an amazingly successful scheme of deception on the American people.” My message is to them: Don’t wait ’til the war has started. Don’t wait ’til the bombs have fallen against Iran, or earlier Iraq. Don’t wait ’til the engine of this war is unstoppable. Before the war, take the risk. Reveal what you know to be the truth.
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Monday, July 08, 2013
The poor less and less
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/07/08/18739494.php
The poor less and less
by Ted Rudow III, MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Monday Jul 8th, 2013
California lawmakers improperly stopped funding certain medical services that rural and other specialized health clinics provided to low-income residents under the state’s Medicaid program, a federal appeals court ruled Friday. A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the finding of a trial judge and said federal law requires states participating in Medicaid to reimburse clinics serving migrant workers, homeless people and other poor populations for “a panoply of medical services to under-served communities” that includes chiropractic care, dental care, optometry, podiatry and speech therapy.
To save money, the Legislature in 2009 eliminated coverage for adults receiving those services through the state’s Medicaid program, known as Medi-Cal, saying they were optional because they were not provided by medical doctors.The great and powerful rich, propaganda and advertising, that they even convinced lots of poor people that they were right and persuaded them to voluntarily give up some of the few things they had to make them even poorer and the rich even richer, so the rich could have more and more and the poor less and less.
Ted Rudow III, MA
http://tedriii.blogspot.com/
Friday, July 05, 2013
No longer
RaisetheFist.com
Proposition 8, known informally as Prop 8, was a California ballot proposition and a state constitutional amendment passed in the November 2008 California state elections. The proposition was created by opponents of same-sex marriage in advance of the California Supreme Court's previous ruling in In re Marriage Cases" which legalize same-sex marriage, overriding the statute (Proposition 22 in 2000) by ruling it unconstitutional.
The very thing we rebelled about in the Revolutionary War--taxation without representation. It is like the Senate of the U.S., which has only two representatives for each state, regardless of size or population, instead of like the House of Representatives, where the number of representatives is determined by the population of each state.
There the House can counterbalance the Senate and can nullify anything the Senate does, if it doesn't like it. No law can be passed, no money appropriated for anything--without the consent of the House--the true representatives of the people. Is no longer truly representative as it should be, because in the first place, it takes a rich man to be able to run for such an office, and it takes a long-time resident of any state or country to be able to register to vote. The voting process is made so difficult that only the most determined manage to be able to use it--usually those with some political log to roll; largely property owners, or again, the rich, as opposed to the poor; longtime resident property owners, as opposed to the shifting, migratory, labour force.
Ted Rudow III, MA
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Thursday, July 04, 2013
The truth
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The truth
by Ted Rudow III, MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Thursday Jul 4th, 2013
Forty-one years ago, Beacon Press lost a Supreme Court case brought against it by the U.S. government for publishing the first full edition of the Pentagon Papers. It is now well known how The New York Times first published excerpts of the top-secret documents in June 1971, but less well known is how the Beacon Press, a small nonprofit publisher affiliated with the Unitarian Universalist Association, came to publish the complete 7,000 pages that exposed the true history of U.S. involvement in Vietnam.
In his 1972 dissenting opinion in the Gravel case, Supreme Court Justice Douglas said, "The story of the Pentagon Papers is a chronicle of the suppression of vital decisions to protect the reputations and political hides of men who work an amazingly successful scheme of deception on the American people." And he went on to say in that decision that he had no choice but to hold that it was the government that is lawless, not the press.
So my message is to them: Don’t do what I did. Don’t wait 'til the war has started. Don't wait 'til the bombs have fallen against Iran, or earlier Iraq. Don't wait ’til the engine of this war is unstoppable. Before the war, take the risk. Reveal what you know to be the truth.
Ted Rudow III, MA
http://tedriii.blogspot.com/
U.S.
Anti-War
The truth
by Ted Rudow III, MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Thursday Jul 4th, 2013
Forty-one years ago, Beacon Press lost a Supreme Court case brought against it by the U.S. government for publishing the first full edition of the Pentagon Papers. It is now well known how The New York Times first published excerpts of the top-secret documents in June 1971, but less well known is how the Beacon Press, a small nonprofit publisher affiliated with the Unitarian Universalist Association, came to publish the complete 7,000 pages that exposed the true history of U.S. involvement in Vietnam.
In his 1972 dissenting opinion in the Gravel case, Supreme Court Justice Douglas said, "The story of the Pentagon Papers is a chronicle of the suppression of vital decisions to protect the reputations and political hides of men who work an amazingly successful scheme of deception on the American people." And he went on to say in that decision that he had no choice but to hold that it was the government that is lawless, not the press.
So my message is to them: Don’t do what I did. Don’t wait 'til the war has started. Don't wait 'til the bombs have fallen against Iran, or earlier Iraq. Don't wait ’til the engine of this war is unstoppable. Before the war, take the risk. Reveal what you know to be the truth.
Ted Rudow III, MA
http://tedriii.blogspot.com/
Wednesday, July 03, 2013
Syria
Syria
by indybay.org Wed Jun 19 14:44:
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. 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.
When people fail to pay attention to the truth they are apt to become strongly deluded and believe a lie instead. This has been the favorite trick of despots and dictators throughout the ages. They get people's minds off their problems and needs and altercations by creating a much more frightening bugaboo, such as an external war or fear of their neighbors, or causing them to focus their fears.
The American government can be amazingly hypocritical when it comes to promoting human rights. Another pointed out that human rights activists in the Middle East say they can't even use the word democracy anymore as become a dirty word because of what people have seen going. Maybe other nations would have a little more respect for the United States if they saw it promoting freedom and human rights and democracy among its allies.
Ted Rudow III, MA
http://tedriii.blogspot.com/
RaisetheFist.com
by indybay.org Wed Jun 19 14:44:
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. 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.
When people fail to pay attention to the truth they are apt to become strongly deluded and believe a lie instead. This has been the favorite trick of despots and dictators throughout the ages. They get people's minds off their problems and needs and altercations by creating a much more frightening bugaboo, such as an external war or fear of their neighbors, or causing them to focus their fears.
The American government can be amazingly hypocritical when it comes to promoting human rights. Another pointed out that human rights activists in the Middle East say they can't even use the word democracy anymore as become a dirty word because of what people have seen going. Maybe other nations would have a little more respect for the United States if they saw it promoting freedom and human rights and democracy among its allies.
Ted Rudow III, MA
http://tedriii.blogspot.com/
RaisetheFist.com
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