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Death is celebrated in good spirits for Dia de los Muertos



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Spartan Daily Tania Rojas (far right) takes the time to pose for a picture with other participants of the Dia de los Muertos Celebration in downtown San Jose on Sunday morning.

It may come as a surprise to some that Cinco de Mayo is not the only popular holiday in Mexican culture.



Hundreds of people showed up across the street of El Plaza de Cesar Chavez in downtown San Jose on Sunday to march down to the Martin Luther King Jr. library  for a pre-celebration of Dia de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, as it's known here in the U.S. This may be the oldest celebrated holiday in Mexico and the Mesoamerican regions with evidence dating back to the Spanish Conquest.



This particular holiday typically starts on Nov. 2 in Mexico, but can begin as early as Oct. 27 in other countries. Dia de los Muertos is a time to recognize the dead and to remember all of those who have passed on, particularly dear friends and family members. Lolo Minako recognized one of her ancestors during the abnormal, jovial holiday.



“My great grandmother is a very special person that we lost and she was kind of a soulmate to us,” Minako said. “This is a good time for me to remember and honor her memory.”



Minako was dressed up for the occasion in her olive green and black dress and white face paint, and stood about nine feet tall on a pair of stilts that she said didn't take long to learn to use.





Next to Minako was Chiquy Boom, another stilt walker who came out to celebrate the festivities to honor the dead.



“It signifies the memory of the people we have lost dearly,” Boom said. “To me, this holiday is very important because I take the time to recognize my mom and all the close friends that have passed away. It’s a way to keep them alive in our hearts and in our minds.”



A group of Aztec dancers put on a show to commemorate the holiday by performing a traditional ritual honoring the goddess Mictecacihuatl, Queen of the Underworld, or Lady of the Dead. The Aztecs believed the deceased preferred to be celebrated rather than mourned, so during the festival they first honored los angelitos, the deceased children, then those who passed away as adults.



Across the plaza was a group of people putting the final touches on their costumes and applying face paint, including event volunteer Tania Rojas who said she’s been part of the Dia de los Muertos event since she was in a stroller.



“I grew up around this,” Rojas said. “I’m getting a different version since I'm in the United States, but to me, it’s a lot about family and being unified, working together to remember the people that meant a lot to you in the past.”



Unlike most people in the U.S. who view death as a sorrowful and painful experience, someone such as Rojas said she likes to celebrate life through death because it’s something inevitable.



“You can't do anything about it,” Rojas said. “The best way to (deal with death) is to embrace it through celebrating how awesome someone was. It kind of motivates you to leave a mark in someone’s life.”



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by Ted Rudow III, MA



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. A druid was a member of the priestly class in Britain, Ireland, and Gaul, and possibly other parts of Celtic western Europe, during the Iron Age. Very little is currently known about the ancient druids because they left no written accounts about themselves. The druids then also appear in some of the medieval tales from Christianised Ireland like the Táin Bó Cúailnge, where they are largely portrayed as sorcerers who opposed the coming of Christianity. 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. A wicker man was a large wicker statue of a human used by the ancient Druids (priests of Celtic paganism) for human sacrifice by burning it in effigy, according to Julius Caesar in his Commentarii de Bello Gallico. In modern times the figure has been adopted for festivals as part of some neopagan-the med ceremonies, notably without the human sacrifice element. 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!



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With less than a year left in his final term, president Hamid Karzai insists that he is eager to leave the presidential palace and lead a quieter life. It turns out, though, he may just be moving next door; to a lavish new home yard from the complex that has been the seat of his power for more than a decade.

Now the U.S. is between a rock and a hard place. Let the Afghan drug lords and warlords, who are now provincial governors and even cabinet officials, keep dealing in drugs and getting away with all sorts of criminal activities — kidnapping, rape, and murder. So the U.S. hasn’t exactly been a virtuous liberator, because while it proclaims how it has installed a new, more democratic government in Afghanistan, what it has actually done is set the drug lords and warlords free to operate again, who control most of the country outside Kabul, the capital. The U.S. has also taken advantage of Afghanistan’s lawlessness to convert its bases there into what one human rights advocate called “an enormous U.S. jail.” They have several large jails and detention facilities there, and smaller ones at more than 20 compounds around the country, where they hold more than 1,500 prisoners — Afghans and other nationalities. Nobody is really sure how many there are, because the U.S. military won’t say. The U.S. uses the fact that they can do whatever they want in Afghanistan to build all sorts of secret prisons there, because they have so many secret prisoners now, what the U.S. military calls “ghost detainees.”













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The Obama administration's drone and targeted killing policy will come under scrutiny at the United Nations today with a report concluding at least 400 Pakistani civilians have been killed by drone strikes over the past decade. Another 200 victims have been deemed "probable non-combatants." The report also looks at U.S. drone attacks in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Yemen and Somalia, as well as Israel’s use of drones in Gaza.





The U.N. report comes at a time when U.S. drone policy is facing unprecedented public criticism. Earlier this week, Amnesty International said some civilian drone killings in Pakistan may amount to war crimes. Human Rights Watch criticized U.S. drone strikes in Yemen. On Wednesday, Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif urged President Obama to end drone strikes in Pakistan.



President Obama did not directly address the U.S. drone war and probe of the U.S. drone war. US Drone Strike Statistics estimate 370 drone strikes.

Total strikes: 370 Total reported killed: 2,548 - 3,549, Civilians reported killed: 411 - 890, Children reported killed: 168 - 197. Pakistan has repeatedly protested these attacks as an infringement of its sovereignty and because civilian deaths have also resulted, including women and children, which has further angered the Pakistani government and people. Strikes under the Bush Administration: 52, Strikes under the Obama Administration: 318

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Saturday Oct 26th, 2013 2:31 PM

The Obama administration’s drone and targeted killing policy will come under scrutiny at the United Nations today with a report concluding at least 400 Pakistani civilians have been killed by drone strikes over the past decade. Another 200 victims have been deemed "probable non-combatants." The report also looks at U.S. drone attacks in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Yemen and Somalia, as well as Israel’s use of drones in Gaza.





The U.N. report comes at a time when U.S. drone policy is facing unprecedented public criticism. Earlier this week, Amnesty International said some civilian drone killings in Pakistan may amount to war crimes. Human Rights Watch criticized U.S. drone strikes in Yemen. On Wednesday, Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif urged President Obama to end drone strikes in Pakistan.



President Obama did not directly address the U.S. drone war and probe of the U.S. drone war. US Drone Strike Statistics estimate 370 drone strikes.

Total strikes: 370 Total reported killed: 2,548 - 3,549, Civilians reported killed: 411 - 890, Children reported killed: 168 - 197. Pakistan has repeatedly protested these attacks as an infringement of its sovereignty and because civilian deaths have also resulted, including women and children, which has further angered the Pakistani government and people. Strikes under the Bush Administration: 52, Strikes under the Obama Administration: 318

Stop the drone strikes!



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Dear Editor: The total debt of the U.S. alone is $17 trillion. It's hard to even conceive of how much money that really is. Well, that is precisely how fragile and shaky the present dollar-based capitalistic system is. It is so delicate and artificial that almost anything could cause it to come tumbling down.



America's behaving like a drunk, all right. And that's only the "official" national debt; the unofficial national debt is much more than $17 trillion, not to mention the many more trillions that U.S. businesses and consumers owe. It took 150 years for the U.S. to reach the first trillion dollars of national debt.



How long do you think it will take the rest of the world to wise up to the fact that those growing trillions will never be repaid, that the U.S. can't go on living on borrowed money forever? As one economist put it, "Things that can't go on forever, don't." The crash will come, and those who've been "living deliciously" may find themselves struggling to fight off poverty. It's gotten to the point that even the International Monetary Fund is issuing warnings to the U.S. about the state of its economy.



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A new report by the Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan to be released to Congress concludes that over the past decade there has been $30 billion wasted. Taxpayers have spent a total of $206 billion on contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan. More than $40 billion of this was awarded to Kellogg Brown & Root, who, along with 21 other companies, accounted for more than half of the total. An additional $38.5 billion went to "miscellaneous foreign contractors."

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Debt-ridden U.S.



Dear Editor: The total debt of the U.S. alone is $17 trillion. It's hard to even conceive of how much money that really is. Well, that is precisely how fragile and shaky the present dollar-based capitalistic system is. It is so delicate and artificial that almost anything could cause it to come tumbling down.



America's behaving like a drunk, all right. And that's only the "official" national debt; the unofficial national debt is much more than $17 trillion, not to mention the many more trillions that U.S. businesses and consumers owe. It took 150 years for the U.S. to reach the first trillion dollars of national debt.



How long do you think it will take the rest of the world to wise up to the fact that those growing trillions will never be repaid, that the U.S. can't go on living on borrowed money forever? As one economist put it, "Things that can't go on forever, don't." The crash will come, and those who've been "living deliciously" may find themselves struggling to fight off poverty. It's gotten to the point that even the International Monetary Fund is issuing warnings to the U.S. about the state of its economy.



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To fight off poverty

by Ted Rudow III, MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )

Friday Oct 18th, 2013 10:58 AM

The total debt of the U.S. alone is 17 trillion dollars! It's hard to even conceive of how much money that really is. Well, that is precisely how fragile and shaky the present dollar-based capitalistic system is. It is so delicate and artificial that almost anything could cause it to come tumbling down.





America's behaving like a drunk, all right.The official national debt of the U.S. is over $17 trillion now, an unimaginable amount! And that's only the "official" national debt; the unofficial national debt is much more, not to mention the many more trillions that U.S. businesses and consumers owe. It took 150 years for the U.S. to reach the first trillion dollars of national debt.



How long do you think it will take the rest of the world to wise up to the fact that those growing trillions will never be repaid? So the U.S. can't go on living on borrowed money forever. As one economist put it, "Things that can't go on forever, don't." The crash will come, and those who've been "living deliciously" may find themselves struggling to fight off poverty. It's gotten to the point that even the IMF is issuing warnings to the U.S. about the state of its economy!

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With the recent, “League of Denial”, I want to comment. My parents are sport fanatics! My Grandfather, Bill Grimm on my mother side, with my Great-Uncle, Warren O. “Wedge” Grimm were named “Walter Camp’s All-American” in America football on the West Coast. The only escape for me, I thought was sports. So I practiced and practiced basketball until I received few athletic scholarships included West Point but I decided to attend the University of California at Berkeley, in 1970.

The Vietnam War was going on, and Berkeley was the hot-bed of radical resistance. It also was one of the top academic schools in the United States. I was on the honour roll and was voted first-team all-Northern California freshman in basketball, Captain and Most Valuable Player in 1971 and still hold the freshmen rebound record of 17.3 per game. 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 neighbour, while in the other world, I was told to gain a near-maniacal desire to win and to physically punish my opponent in a defeat.

Sports really foster the spirit of competition. 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. See how this competitive sports thing has been the final stages of every great civilisation and empire.





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With the recent, "League of Denial", I want to comment. My parents are sport fanatics! My Grandfather, Bill Grimm on my mother side, with my Great-Uncle,Warren O. "Wedge" Grimm were named "Walter Camp's All-American" in America football on the West Coast. The only escape for me, I thought was sports. \

So I practiced and practiced basketball until I received few athletic scholarships included West Point but I decided to attend the University of California at Berkeley, in 1970.

The Vietnam War was going on, and Berkeley was the hot-bed of radical resistance. It also was one of the top academic schools in the United States. I was on the honor roll and was voted first-team all-Northern California freshman in basketball, Captain and Most Valuable Player in 1971 and still hold the freshmen rebound record of 17.3 per game. 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.

Sports really foster the spirit of competition. 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. See how this competitive sports thing has been the final stages of every great civilization and empire.

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With the recent, "League of Denial", I want to comment. My parents are sport fanatics! My Grandfather, Bill Grimm on my mother side, with my Great-Uncle,Warren O. "Wedge" Grimm were named "Walter Camp's All-American" in America football on the West Coast. The only escape for me, I thought was sports. \

So I practiced and practiced basketball until I received few athletic scholarships included West Point but I decided to attend the University of California at Berkeley, in 1970.

The Vietnam War was going on, and Berkeley was the hot-bed of radical resistance. It also was one of the top academic schools in the United States. I was on the honor roll and was voted first-team all-Northern California freshman in basketball, Captain and Most Valuable Player in 1971 and still hold the freshmen rebound record of 17.3 per game. 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.

Sports really foster the spirit of competition. 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. See how this competitive sports thing has been the final stages of every great civilization and empire.

Ted Rudow III, MA



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Sunday Oct 6th, 2013 2:55 PM





With less than a year left in his final term, President Hamid Karzai insists that he is eager to leave the presidential palace and lead a quieter life. It turns out, though, he may just be moving next door, to a lavish new home yards from the complex that has been the seat of his power for more than a decade.



Now the U.S. is between a rock and a hard place. Let the Afghan drug lords and warlords, who are now provincial governors and even cabinet officials, keep dealing drugs and getting away with all sorts of other dirty work—kidnapping, crime, rape, and murder. So the U.S. hasn’t exactly been a virtuous liberator, because while it proclaims how it’s installed a new, more democratic government in Afghanistan, what it’s actually done is set the drug lords and warlords free to operate again, who control most of the country outside Kabul, the capital.

The U.S. has also taken advantage of Afghanistan’s lawlessness to convert its bases there into what one human rights advocate called “an enormous U.S. jail.” They have several large jails and detention facilities there, and smaller ones at more than 20 compounds around the country, where they hold more than 1,500 prisoners—Afghans and other nationalities. Nobody is really sure how many there are, because the U.S. military won’t say. The U.S. uses the fact that they can do whatever they want in Afghanistan to build all sorts of secret prisons there, because they have so many secret prisoners now, what the U.S. military calls “ghost detainees.”

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Thursday Oct 3rd, 2013 12:27 PM











In the summer of 2013, Ted Cruz embarked on a nationwide tour sponsored by The Heritage Foundation to promote the congressional effort to defend the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, arguing that a shutdown of the government would not be a disaster for America or the Republican PartyOn. September 24, 2013, Cruz began a speech on the floor of the Senate regarding the Affordable Care Act relative to a continuing resolution designed to fund the government and avert a government shutdown.







Cruz promised to keep speaking until he was "no longer able to stand.The fourth-longest speech in United States Senate history, Cruz yielded the floor at noon the following day for the start of the proceeding legislative session after twenty-one hours nineteen minutes.







Cruz learned about free-market economic philosophers such as Milton Friedman, Friedrich Hayek, Frédéric Bastiat and Ludwig von Mises.



Just like Cruz, Ms. Rand was one of the most extreme public intellectuals of the twentieth century. As her central creed, she rejected the idea that people in a community should approach each other with charity, compassion, and altruism. Cruz is headed for same demise!



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Same demise

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Thursday Oct 3rd, 2013 12:27 PM





In the summer of 2013, Ted Cruz embarked on a nationwide tour sponsored by The Heritage Foundation to promote the congressional effort to defend the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, arguing that a shutdown of the government would not be a disaster for America or the Republican PartyOn. September 24, 2013, Cruz began a speech on the floor of the Senate regarding the Affordable Care Act relative to a continuing resolution designed to fund the government and avert a government shutdown.



Cruz promised to keep speaking until he was "no longer able to stand.The fourth-longest speech in United States Senate history, Cruz yielded the floor at noon the following day for the start of the proceeding legislative session after twenty-one hours nineteen minutes.



Cruz learned about free-market economic philosophers such as Milton Friedman, Friedrich Hayek, Frédéric Bastiat and Ludwig von Mises.

Just like Cruz, Ms. Rand was one of the most extreme public intellectuals of the twentieth century. As her central creed, she rejected the idea that people in a community should approach each other with charity, compassion, and altruism. Cruz is headed for same demise!

Ted Rudow III, MA





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Changes

by Ted Rudow III, MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )

Thursday Oct 3rd, 2013 10:46 AM

Changes in man's society always come from the botttom, not the top--changes in economics, politics, or religion, or the earth--because the top does not want to change; it always wants to be on the top. But if they try to seal the pot to preserve the status quo, they cannot, and the pot will explode and destroy because of the fire. There must be this continual change; otherwise there would be stagnation.





There must be this constant circulation or there would be total stagnation and corruption, because that which is at the top is the first to ferment, to sour, to rot, and that which is on the bottom is full of dregs, which if allowed to accumulate would solidify and clot the circulatory process, and that which is on the top would become scum and froth.



There must be constant change and constant stirring and constant circulation to prevent stagnation--either by fire or by sword. Karl Marx was right, this world must change in the dialectics of its materialism in which nothing is permanent, but he was short sighted and did not foresee the unchangeable eternity of the spiritual world which will never change.

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In the U.S. alone, the statistics for violent crime are staggering. According to the FBI, on average a person is murdered every 22 minutes; someone is raped every four minutes, a robbery is committed every 26 seconds. Citing a commission of crime experts, Reuter reports that U.S. crime levels are even higher:

The Council on Crime in America said in its first report that [crime levels] "remain at historic highs."



America is a ticking violent crime bomb, and there is little time remaining to prepare for the blast," said the report, which noted the rise in youthful violence.They said official FBI statistics on crime were only the tips of the iceberg. The report said the crime rate -- based on surveys of victims and not just crimes reported to the police -- show violent crime -- including murder, rape, assault and burglary -- was 5.6 times higher than those reported.

Murders and suicides [in the U.S.] are now occurring at a rate of more than 145 a day, a rate that is rising. In the past 30 years alone, the total exceeds 1,200,000 people, more than all the men killed in all the wars in the history of the United States. And many of these recent victims are not men and women; they are children. By the time the average American child is 15 years old, he or she will have witnessed the violent destruction of more than 35,000 human beings on television, as well as 200,000 other brutal acts.



Even in the "days of Noah," individuals were not subjected to the volume of violence that we are today. The link between violence on film and violence in our streets and homes is irrefutable. The survey found that 77 percent of secondary school teachers thought children were being "desensitized to violence," and choosing to glorify and mimic violent activity in the playground. To a degree Martin Luther King, Jr., never dreamed possible, his prophetic words in 1967 have increased in truth: "The greatest purveyor of violence on earth is my own government."

Ted Rudow III, MA



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