China our friend?
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China our friend?
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Monday Apr 7th, 2008 2:00 PM
IS the Arab Euro-dollar really a good subject for movie banter? Somehow, somebody thought so. In ''Rollover,''(1981) Kris Kristofferson and Jane Fonda play a banker and a board chairman who confer incessantly about financial matters at the multi-multi-megabuck level.
A talk about Arab Euro-dollars crisis ensues as Arab's buy up US debt and then dump them in a free fall. That didn't happen in reality but China is on the brink of doing that!
Prior to 1980, the United States was a net exporter, selling more goods overseas than it imported. But over the last 25 years, the situation has reversed. The trade deficit today has grown to record levels (now almost 6% of gross domestic product), with the biggest import-export imbalances coming from China, Japan and Southeast Asian nations. But what has changed over the last 25 years is that foreign governments, rather than U.S. citizens, have been buying this U.S. debt (in the form of Treasurys). Now, approximately half of this country's debt is held outside the United States, primarily by China, Japan and Southeast Asian nations.
Like the United States now with China; claiming to be China's friend while China's civil rights activist, Hu Jia, sentenced to prison for seven months. He managed to use the Internet and telephone to chronicle the harassment of dissidents in his country before he was hauled off to jail last December. Neutrality is treachery and the neutral is a traitor! So even the US is neutral nation in the world is using this as a cover to get their friendship and money, while betraying us to our enemies.
Ted Rudow III,MA
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While they reject and condemn the pure, simple, they readily accept the absolutely abnormal and perverted relationship of in the filthy habit of anal sex of the homosexuals--or as God called them, the sodomites--and which the Mosaic Law condemns with such fury.Who now today are cloaked with the modern, legitimate sexual term of "homosexuals."
Even many churches today are accepting the sodomites and legalizing the so-called "marriages" of "men with men, working that which is unseemly" ( Rom.1:27 ), which God said would result in the affliction of their own bodies, God's curses of diseases such as AIDS.And if there were ever any people who are self-righteous, it is the sodomites!--Brazenly bragging about their sodomy and demanding recognition and privileges and government benefits.
If "to the pure all things are pure" and "all things are lawful unto me," and if, under this Law of grace and Love, extramarital sex and all of these other things are lawful, then where do things like sodomy fit in? If you are truly pure and loving, you wouldn't do such things, because they're definitely not good for you physically or spiritually, and they're hurtful. Just because "all things are lawful" unto us doesn't mean that we can go around murdering or killing or torturing people! That's not love!
Ted Rudow III,MA
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Post a reply to this comment Michael Rizzo
RE: Rudow's comment
Sodomy is fantastic.(?)
posted 4/07/08
San Francisco was born on gold and greed, during the California Gold Rush, and the old city died in the quake and the fire. Thank God it did, for it was one of the wickedest cities on Earth! San Francisco, the old city was gone, as well as much of its evil.
Later on the 1960' and 1970',San Francisco became the mecca of hippiedom, where thousands of lost and wandering young people came to "turn on, tune in, and drop out.But, as often happens, the Gospel divides the sheep from the goats, and the goats began to multiply.
San Francisco changed from the city of peace and love to the city of unclean sex and sodomy as the goats not only rejected our message but rejected the Lord and His message, and even that of love between two sexes. Now it's a city full of homosexuals and lesbians, and often very militant ones at that, who hate those who are "straight."
So San Francisco is again ripe for God's judgments, like Sodom and Gomorrah of old. Having known the light and the truth and having rejected it and despised it, their time is "always ready" for judgment (John 7:6).
Ted Rudow III,MA
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posted 2/04/08 @ 9:13 AM PST
Originally posted by
Michael Rizzo
RE: Rudow's comment
Sodomy is fantastic.
Is that so? OK, I guess you're free to speak your mind.
My turn: How is this lifestyle making the world, or America, a better place? Any chance we might go distinct if we all embrace what you promote? And finally, (hint, hint) what does your mother and father have to say about all of this?
Monday, April 07, 2008
Saturday, April 05, 2008
Their wealth
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Andres Oppenheimer: Trade rhetoric
By Andres Oppenheimer -
Saturday, April 5, 2008 SANTIAGO, Chile --
Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, who seem to be competing over who is the fiercest critic of the U.S. free-trade deals with Mexico and other Latin American countries, should pay a visit to this South American capital. It would only take them a few minutes to realize how wrong they are.They would only need to walk out of their hotels and look at the traffic on the streets to see the Jeep Cherokees, Ford Explorers and other U.S.-made cars that have become increasingly visible in Chile since the Jan. 1, 2004, start of the U.S.-Chile free trade agreement.....
Saturday, April 5, 2008
Their wealth
The overall situation for the people in South and Central America and the Dominican Republic is characterized by high levels of poverty and a growing gap between the rich and poor a gap that is also widening in the United States. Trade is vitally important to the development of these countries. However, a recent joint statement of Central American and U.S.Catholic bishops observed that trade is about more than economics; it is about people's lives and livelihoods.
The trade rules that make up the South and Central American Free Trade Agreement severely limit the ability of these countries to use the very tools that the United States used in the past (and still uses) to built and maintain our competitive economy.She refuses to surrender her wealth to the poor of the World, refuses to give, but is selfishly luxuriating in all kinds of extravagance, opulencea and luxuries--$20,000 bathtubs, $250,000 automobiles that guzzle the gas like mechanical drunkards, gorging themselves with food and throwing half of it away, wasting over one-half of the World's priceless resources while millions are starving!
Ted Rudow III,MA
Andres Oppenheimer: Trade rhetoric
By Andres Oppenheimer -
Saturday, April 5, 2008 SANTIAGO, Chile --
Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, who seem to be competing over who is the fiercest critic of the U.S. free-trade deals with Mexico and other Latin American countries, should pay a visit to this South American capital. It would only take them a few minutes to realize how wrong they are.They would only need to walk out of their hotels and look at the traffic on the streets to see the Jeep Cherokees, Ford Explorers and other U.S.-made cars that have become increasingly visible in Chile since the Jan. 1, 2004, start of the U.S.-Chile free trade agreement.....
Saturday, April 5, 2008
Their wealth
The overall situation for the people in South and Central America and the Dominican Republic is characterized by high levels of poverty and a growing gap between the rich and poor a gap that is also widening in the United States. Trade is vitally important to the development of these countries. However, a recent joint statement of Central American and U.S.Catholic bishops observed that trade is about more than economics; it is about people's lives and livelihoods.
The trade rules that make up the South and Central American Free Trade Agreement severely limit the ability of these countries to use the very tools that the United States used in the past (and still uses) to built and maintain our competitive economy.She refuses to surrender her wealth to the poor of the World, refuses to give, but is selfishly luxuriating in all kinds of extravagance, opulencea and luxuries--$20,000 bathtubs, $250,000 automobiles that guzzle the gas like mechanical drunkards, gorging themselves with food and throwing half of it away, wasting over one-half of the World's priceless resources while millions are starving!
Ted Rudow III,MA
Friday, April 04, 2008
Our white sample
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"America has had much to reflect upon during the approach of the interrelated 40th anniversaries of the final report of the Kerner Commission, the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and the round of riots that followed in Washington, Baltimore, Chicago and more than 100 other cities across the nation. We have heard Sen. Barack Obama's insightful speech on race and the reactions it provoked...........
Friday, April 4, 2008 said:
Our White sample
America has had much to reflect upon during 40th anniversaries of the the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Our White sample of war, weapons, brutality, cruelty, selfishness, and the desire to dominate others were the rule. Africa-Americans, they were overdeveloped 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.
The world's first great Civilization was Black--Egypt, the world's first great power--the Sons of Ham in the Land of Ham. The White powers of the Western World as the vast majority of the world's populations who are poor, starving, sick, oppressed, exploited, misused, insulted, injured, incensed, and fed up with it. The day of Black and White is about over.--The whole world is about to go colour!-- Change is a good thing!
Ted Rudow III,MA
King and Kerner: Unfinished agenda
By Edward W. Brooke -
Friday, April 4, 2008
Story appeared in EDITORIALS section
"America has had much to reflect upon during the approach of the interrelated 40th anniversaries of the final report of the Kerner Commission, the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and the round of riots that followed in Washington, Baltimore, Chicago and more than 100 other cities across the nation. We have heard Sen. Barack Obama's insightful speech on race and the reactions it provoked...........
Friday, April 4, 2008 said:
Our White sample
America has had much to reflect upon during 40th anniversaries of the the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Our White sample of war, weapons, brutality, cruelty, selfishness, and the desire to dominate others were the rule. Africa-Americans, they were overdeveloped 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.
The world's first great Civilization was Black--Egypt, the world's first great power--the Sons of Ham in the Land of Ham. The White powers of the Western World as the vast majority of the world's populations who are poor, starving, sick, oppressed, exploited, misused, insulted, injured, incensed, and fed up with it. The day of Black and White is about over.--The whole world is about to go colour!-- Change is a good thing!
Ted Rudow III,MA
Wednesday, April 02, 2008
Hillary Clinton won't quit
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Wednesday April 2, 2008
Hillary' "vast right-wing conspiracy"
Hillary Clinton has stated that there is a "vast right-wing conspiracy" pursuing an agenda of Clinton bashing for personal power and profit.She is right about the conspiracy. She is right about the pursuit of power and profit. She is wrong about where it originates. Bill Clinton, a Quigley student, Rhodes Scholar, is following the Quigley blueprint. It wasn't sent to me in the vast right-wing conspiracy newsletter. It is in the book, "Tragedy and Hope". Who better to know than Bill, one of their own. There you have it in their own words. Now you have this confirmation from their own mouth, which they'll deny, of course, just like they do the Protocols. We were really going to do such a thing, they'll say,we'd certainly never publish a book on it, or allow one to published on it. Well, if you don't believe they're doing such a thing and youdon't believe the book, just look around at the evidence that surrounds you, which is getting more and more obvious every day !
Ted Rudow III,MA
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Wednesday April 2, 2008
Hillary' "vast right-wing conspiracy"
Hillary Clinton has stated that there is a "vast right-wing conspiracy" pursuing an agenda of Clinton bashing for personal power and profit.She is right about the conspiracy. She is right about the pursuit of power and profit. She is wrong about where it originates. Bill Clinton, a Quigley student, Rhodes Scholar, is following the Quigley blueprint. It wasn't sent to me in the vast right-wing conspiracy newsletter. It is in the book, "Tragedy and Hope". Who better to know than Bill, one of their own. There you have it in their own words. Now you have this confirmation from their own mouth, which they'll deny, of course, just like they do the Protocols. We were really going to do such a thing, they'll say,we'd certainly never publish a book on it, or allow one to published on it. Well, if you don't believe they're doing such a thing and youdon't believe the book, just look around at the evidence that surrounds you, which is getting more and more obvious every day !
Ted Rudow III,MA
Tuesday, April 01, 2008
Kurds
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Kurds live in Iraq, Turkey, Iran and Syria but they have no physical nation to call their own. As a result, many have become estranged from each other, integrated into the mainstream of their respective societies and some don't even speak Kurdish. All in this mountainous territory. They should have a country to themselves really. And as soon as this war began between Iraq and Iran, the Kurds went wild. So Iraq at one time was having so much trouble with the Kurds, they were really getting dangerous. I think there are about four million Kurds, something very close to a million in each of these four countries. The question of an independent Kurdish state remains open. For the most part, Kurds in Iraq, Turkey, Iran and Syria today are not talking about independence, but rather about equal civil rights and the need to establish federated political states.
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Kurds live in Iraq, Turkey, Iran and Syria but they have no physical nation to call their own. As a result, many have become estranged from each other, integrated into the mainstream of their respective societies and some don't even speak Kurdish. All in this mountainous territory. They should have a country to themselves really. And as soon as this war began between Iraq and Iran, the Kurds went wild. So Iraq at one time was having so much trouble with the Kurds, they were really getting dangerous. I think there are about four million Kurds, something very close to a million in each of these four countries. The question of an independent Kurdish state remains open. For the most part, Kurds in Iraq, Turkey, Iran and Syria today are not talking about independence, but rather about equal civil rights and the need to establish federated political states.
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Kurds live in Iraq, Turkey, Iran and Syria — but they have no physical nation to call their own. As a result, many have become estranged from each other, integrated into the mainstream of their respective societies — and some don’t even speak Kurdish. All in this mountainous territory. They should have a country to themselves really. And as soon as this war began between Iraq and Iran, the Kurds went wild. So Iraq at one time was having so much trouble with the Kurds, they were really getting dangerous. I think there are about four million Kurds, something very close to a million in each of these four countries. The question of an independent Kurdish state remains open. For the most part, Kurds in Iraq, Turkey, Iran and Syria today are not talking about independence, but rather about equal civil rights and the need to establish federated political states.
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Kurds live in Iraq, Turkey, Iran and Syria — but they have no physical nation to call their own. As a result, many have become estranged from each other, integrated into the mainstream of their respective societies — and some don’t even speak Kurdish. All in this mountainous territory. They should have a country to themselves really. And as soon as this war began between Iraq and Iran, the Kurds went wild. So Iraq at one time was having so much trouble with the Kurds, they were really getting dangerous. I think there are about four million Kurds, something very close to a million in each of these four countries. The question of an independent Kurdish state remains open. For the most part, Kurds in Iraq, Turkey, Iran and Syria today are not talking about independence, but rather about equal civil rights and the need to establish federated political states.
Ted Rudow III,MA
Menlo Park
Friday, March 28, 2008
Kurds deserve their own state
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Kurds live in Iraq, Turkey, Iran and Syria, but they have no physical nation to call their own.
As a result, many have become estranged from each other, integrated into the mainstream of their respective societies, and some don’t even speak Kurdish, all in this mountainous territory.
They should have a country to themselves, really. And as soon as the eight-year war began between Iraq and Iran, the Kurds were caught in the middle of it.
The question of an independent Kurdish state remains open. For the most part, Kurds in Iraq, Turkey, Iran and Syria today are not talking about independence, but rather about equal civil rights and the need to establish federated political states.
Ted Rudow III
Menlo Park
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Kurds live in Iraq, Turkey, Iran and Syria, but they have no physical nation to call their own.
As a result, many have become estranged from each other, integrated into the mainstream of their respective societies, and some don’t even speak Kurdish, all in this mountainous territory.
They should have a country to themselves, really. And as soon as the eight-year war began between Iraq and Iran, the Kurds were caught in the middle of it.
The question of an independent Kurdish state remains open. For the most part, Kurds in Iraq, Turkey, Iran and Syria today are not talking about independence, but rather about equal civil rights and the need to establish federated political states.
Ted Rudow III
Menlo Park
Thursday, March 27, 2008
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Although the world had never been completely free from war prior to 1914, until then, war had never been universal. But from 1914 to 1918, with World War I, total war was waged, and then again from 1939 to 1945, with World War II. In the latter, only 12 small nations of the Earth were not actually or technically involved and altogether 93 million people served in the armed forces of both sides.
At the 21st session of the International Red Cross in 1969, it was reported that more than 90 million people have been killed in wars since the 20th century began, over $2 trillion have been spent on arms and 130 conflicts on five continents have been waged. The Iraq war is running a tab of $12 billion a month — $16 billion including military action in Afghanistan. And they maintain, the economic downturn resulting from it is likely to be the greatest since the Great Depression. “That total, itself well in excess of $1 trillion, is not included in our estimated $3 trillion cost of the war,” Joseph E. Stiglitz, a Nobel Prize-winning economist said. So we are spending more on this war than all the wars combined in the 20th century.
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Editor,
Although the world had never been completely free from war prior to 1914, until then, war had never been universal. But from 1914 to 1918, with World War I, total war was waged, and then again from 1939 to 1945, with World War II. In the latter, only 12 small nations of the Earth were not actually or technically involved and altogether 93 million people served in the armed forces of both sides.
At the 21st session of the International Red Cross in 1969, it was reported that more than 90 million people have been killed in wars since the 20th century began, over $2 trillion have been spent on arms and 130 conflicts on five continents have been waged. The Iraq war is running a tab of $12 billion a month — $16 billion including military action in Afghanistan. And they maintain, the economic downturn resulting from it is likely to be the greatest since the Great Depression. “That total, itself well in excess of $1 trillion, is not included in our estimated $3 trillion cost of the war,” Joseph E. Stiglitz, a Nobel Prize-winning economist said. So we are spending more on this war than all the wars combined in the 20th century.
Ted Rudow III,MA
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Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Voodoo economic!
Voodoo economic!
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The CDO market is a $2 trillion market. The write-downs that have related to subprime loans underlying some of those securities have only amounted to about $120 billion. So when you look at the differentiation between what's valued and what's out there, you're talking about a lot of potential catastrophe to come. Voodoo economic!
The Dollar, the "greenback", it's like the Green Pig is the god of America, it is America's idol that they worship. Beware of the Green Pig which the moneymakers have unleashed upon the world and the world refuse it! The money crisis, the dollar crisis is their creation. Like those that clothe themselves in dollars they think are green, they think they are alive and young and growing like the green things of the earth, but they shall find that this greenness only exists in their imagination, and when exposed to the light of day, the truth of God, it turns to grey ashes, burnt out fires, dead grey ashes!
Ted Rudow III,MA
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Tuesday, March 25, 2008 wrote:
Greed
The CDO market is a $2 trillion market. The write-downs that have related to subprime loans underlying some of those securities have only amounted to about $120 billion. So when you look at the differentiation between what's valued and what's out there, you're talking about a lot of potential catastrophe to come. Voodoo economic!
The Dollar, the "greenback", it's like the Green Pig is the god of America, it is America's idol that they worship. Beware of the Green Pig which the moneymakers have unleashed upon the world and the world refuse it! The money crisis, the dollar crisis is their creation. Like those that clothe themselves in dollars they think are green, they think they are alive and young and growing like the green things of the earth, but they shall find that this greenness only exists in their imagination, and when exposed to the light of day, the truth of God, it turns to grey ashes, burnt out fires, dead grey ashes!
Ted Rudow III,MA
Monday, March 24, 2008
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President Bush said each one of us would get a $600 check. Now, if we spend that money at Wal-Mart, all the money will go to China, if we spend it on computers, most of the money will go to Korea or India. If we spend it on gasoline it will all go to the Arabs and none of these scenarios will help the American economy. We need to keep that money here in America; so the only way to keep that money here at home is to drink beer, gamble or spend it on prostitution. Currently it seems that these are the only businesses still left in the United States.
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President Bush said each one of us would get a $600 check. Now, if we spend that money at Wal-Mart, all the money will go to China, if we spend it on computers, most of the money will go to Korea or India. If we spend it on gasoline it will all go to the Arabs and none of these scenarios will help the American economy. We need to keep that money here in America; so the only way to keep that money here at home is to drink beer, gamble or spend it on prostitution. Currently it seems that these are the only businesses still left in the United States.
Ted Rudow III,MA
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Thursday, March 20, 2008
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And five years later, here we are.There were no weapons of mass destruction. We were not greeted as liberators. The war did not pay for itself. The smoking gun was not a mushroom cloud. There was no connection to 9/11. The course we stayed led over a cliff.Worse, Iraq has become a recruiting station for Islamic terrorists---
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Bush and Cheney and their crew lied day after day, week after week, month after month, and the media flooded the U.S. and the world with their lies about weapons of mass destruction which they claimed they knew the specific amounts and locations of with lies about Iraq producing atomic bombs, with lies about Iraqi drones that could carry bombs and chemicals all the way to the U.S, on and on and on! It's disgusting that Bush could lie his way into the Iraq War, causing the death of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and the death of 4,000 American soldiers, not to mention the tens of thousands wounded on both sides, and not suffer any consequences for it! Congress hasn't impeached him after all, they lie as much as he does and the American people are either ignorant, apathetic, powerless, or figure they can't do anything about the whole affair, so they don't even try.
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Issue date: 3/18/08 Section: Opinion
"Zionism: a political movement for establishing and developing a national homeland for Jews in Palestine. Today, in a region with the largest refugee population in the world, exists a few million hungry, homeless, malnourished Palestinians fighting for their lives. Their voices are unheard of to the rest of the world because their faces and lives have no value to the Zionist regime of Israel. It's nearly impossible to grasp the hardships and difficulties Palestinians face because they are treated as third-class citizens.----
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Ted Rudow III,MA 3/20/08
Israeli psychologist Nofer Ishai-Karen and psychology professor Joel Elitzur interviewed 21 Israeli soldiers who served in the Occupied Territories. They found that the soldiers routinely engaged in murder, assault, threats and humiliation, and many of them enjoyed it.
"The truth is that I love this mess--I enjoy it. It is like being on drugs," one soldier told them. Another said, "What is great is that you don't have to follow any law or rule. You feel you are the law, you decide. Once you go into the Occupied Territories, you are God."
The conquerors and occupiers, thinking of themselves as gods, often start acting like devils instead. As the saying goes, absolute power corrupts absolutely, especially those without the Lord in their heart and without wise, godly counselors by their side.
The conquest that was intended to make someplace a heaven on earth turns it into a hell on earth instead for the poor occupants, who suffer injustice and death. The occupiers suffer too, of course--for the injustice and death they impose on others, knowingly or unknowingly. They have to live with themselves for the rest of their life, and many soldiers and occupiers can't.
Ted Rudow III,MA
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Green Paper Pig II
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Green Paper Pig II
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Thursday Mar 20th, 2008 10:21 AM
"The nation’s fifth largest investment bank Bear Stearns nearly collapsed last week. It was saved only after the Federal Reserve took extraordinary measures to help JPMorgan purchase the eighty-five-year-old firm. The Fed has become the lender of last resort for other investment banks in a move that marks one of the broadest expansions of the Fed’s lending authority since the 1930s.
Glass-Steagall was a law put in place after the Great Depression that created what they call a firewall or a separation between investment banking and commercial retail banking, the idea being that you want to contain the potential breakout of problems in the financial system so that it can’t spread like wildfire and roughshod across different segments of the industry, more or less like it has across the different segments of the US financial industry in the last, say, ten to twelve months with absolutely devastating results, which is still ongoing.
So, Glass-Steagall is part of an old regulatory framework that has been systematically torn down. The tearing down of that framework has allowed global financial markets to integrate, which has allowed vast savings to pour into the United States, new financial products to be innovated by Wall Street and all kinds of different financial firms, without regulation outside the core of the banking system, which built up and built up and built up and was celebrated and celebrated and celebrated as the efficiency and the genius of the free market, until, of course, with no brakes and no skid marks at the scene of the accident, it hit a brick wall.
Everybody Bear Stearns does business with was bailed out. Bear Stearns was taken out by the Federal Reserve and JPMorgan, which then served Bear Stearns’s still-warm remains to JPMorgan Chase. And they are now devouring them, and it’s being celebrated as a rescue. And for the 30 percent of all shares held by its employees, it is a devastating blow that has taken away retirement plans, hopes for the future, etc., etc. So they bailed out Wall Street. But now we have the Federal Reserve coming in to basically take out, not bail out, one firm to support all the other firms, immediately making available to them all kinds of access to cash and support they never got before, which, by the way, would have saved Bear Stearns, and in so doing—blasé, private meeting, no transparency—rewriting American financial legislation. It’s kind of surreal at this point.
People have had no control over what has actually happened. They come in, they do their jobs. Like Enron, like WorldCom, like Global Crossing, it’s what they do. And what’s the—looking down the road, what’s the potential expansion of this crisis, because other financial institutions have been talked about of having similar problems, having huge exposures on these CDOs? What’s your sense of what’s going to happen in the future?
The CDO market is a $2 trillion market. The write-downs that have related to subprime loans underlying some of those securities have only amounted to about $120 billion. So when you look at the differentiation between what’s valued and what’s out there, you’re talking about a lot of potential catastrophe to come."
Max Fraad Wolff, economist, writer, teaches at the New School University here in New York, writes for The Indypendent and Huffington Post and Asia Times; Nomi Prins, former investment banker at Bear Stearns
The Dollar, the "greenback", it's like the Green Pig is the god of America, it is America's idol that they worship. Beware of the Green Pig which the moneymakers have unleashed upon the world and the world refuse it! The money crisis, the dollar crisis is their creation.
Like those that clothe themselves in dollars they think are green, they think they are alive and young and growing like the green things of the earth, but they shall find that this greenness only exists in their imagination, and when exposed to the light of day, the truth of God, it turns to grey ashes, burnt out fires, dead grey ashes!
So green and greedy, gluttonous, wasteful, selfish! There was no such thing as the American dollar until it was dreamed up by Washington! What does it mean? There's something strange about that word dollar! The dollar has the whole world in the doldrums! The world, who's been beating the drums to the dollar, is now in the doldrums because of its false worship of its fallen idol, which is what they deserve!
Ted Rudow III,MA
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And five years later, here we are.There were no weapons of mass destruction. We were not greeted as liberators. The war did not pay for itself. The smoking gun was not a mushroom cloud. There was no connection to 9/11. The course we stayed led over a cliff.Worse, Iraq has become a recruiting station for Islamic terrorists---
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Bush and Cheney and their crew lied day after day, week after week, month after month, and the media flooded the U.S. and the world with their lies about weapons of mass destruction which they claimed they knew the specific amounts and locations of with lies about Iraq producing atomic bombs, with lies about Iraqi drones that could carry bombs and chemicals all the way to the U.S, on and on and on! It's disgusting that Bush could lie his way into the Iraq War, causing the death of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and the death of 4,000 American soldiers, not to mention the tens of thousands wounded on both sides, and not suffer any consequences for it! Congress hasn't impeached him after all, they lie as much as he does and the American people are either ignorant, apathetic, powerless, or figure they can't do anything about the whole affair, so they don't even try.
Ted Rudow III,MA
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"Zionism: a political movement for establishing and developing a national homeland for Jews in Palestine. Today, in a region with the largest refugee population in the world, exists a few million hungry, homeless, malnourished Palestinians fighting for their lives. Their voices are unheard of to the rest of the world because their faces and lives have no value to the Zionist regime of Israel. It's nearly impossible to grasp the hardships and difficulties Palestinians face because they are treated as third-class citizens.----
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Ted Rudow III,MA 3/20/08
Israeli psychologist Nofer Ishai-Karen and psychology professor Joel Elitzur interviewed 21 Israeli soldiers who served in the Occupied Territories. They found that the soldiers routinely engaged in murder, assault, threats and humiliation, and many of them enjoyed it.
"The truth is that I love this mess--I enjoy it. It is like being on drugs," one soldier told them. Another said, "What is great is that you don't have to follow any law or rule. You feel you are the law, you decide. Once you go into the Occupied Territories, you are God."
The conquerors and occupiers, thinking of themselves as gods, often start acting like devils instead. As the saying goes, absolute power corrupts absolutely, especially those without the Lord in their heart and without wise, godly counselors by their side.
The conquest that was intended to make someplace a heaven on earth turns it into a hell on earth instead for the poor occupants, who suffer injustice and death. The occupiers suffer too, of course--for the injustice and death they impose on others, knowingly or unknowingly. They have to live with themselves for the rest of their life, and many soldiers and occupiers can't.
Ted Rudow III,MA
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Green Paper Pig II
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Green Paper Pig II
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Thursday Mar 20th, 2008 10:21 AM
"The nation’s fifth largest investment bank Bear Stearns nearly collapsed last week. It was saved only after the Federal Reserve took extraordinary measures to help JPMorgan purchase the eighty-five-year-old firm. The Fed has become the lender of last resort for other investment banks in a move that marks one of the broadest expansions of the Fed’s lending authority since the 1930s.
Glass-Steagall was a law put in place after the Great Depression that created what they call a firewall or a separation between investment banking and commercial retail banking, the idea being that you want to contain the potential breakout of problems in the financial system so that it can’t spread like wildfire and roughshod across different segments of the industry, more or less like it has across the different segments of the US financial industry in the last, say, ten to twelve months with absolutely devastating results, which is still ongoing.
So, Glass-Steagall is part of an old regulatory framework that has been systematically torn down. The tearing down of that framework has allowed global financial markets to integrate, which has allowed vast savings to pour into the United States, new financial products to be innovated by Wall Street and all kinds of different financial firms, without regulation outside the core of the banking system, which built up and built up and built up and was celebrated and celebrated and celebrated as the efficiency and the genius of the free market, until, of course, with no brakes and no skid marks at the scene of the accident, it hit a brick wall.
Everybody Bear Stearns does business with was bailed out. Bear Stearns was taken out by the Federal Reserve and JPMorgan, which then served Bear Stearns’s still-warm remains to JPMorgan Chase. And they are now devouring them, and it’s being celebrated as a rescue. And for the 30 percent of all shares held by its employees, it is a devastating blow that has taken away retirement plans, hopes for the future, etc., etc. So they bailed out Wall Street. But now we have the Federal Reserve coming in to basically take out, not bail out, one firm to support all the other firms, immediately making available to them all kinds of access to cash and support they never got before, which, by the way, would have saved Bear Stearns, and in so doing—blasé, private meeting, no transparency—rewriting American financial legislation. It’s kind of surreal at this point.
People have had no control over what has actually happened. They come in, they do their jobs. Like Enron, like WorldCom, like Global Crossing, it’s what they do. And what’s the—looking down the road, what’s the potential expansion of this crisis, because other financial institutions have been talked about of having similar problems, having huge exposures on these CDOs? What’s your sense of what’s going to happen in the future?
The CDO market is a $2 trillion market. The write-downs that have related to subprime loans underlying some of those securities have only amounted to about $120 billion. So when you look at the differentiation between what’s valued and what’s out there, you’re talking about a lot of potential catastrophe to come."
Max Fraad Wolff, economist, writer, teaches at the New School University here in New York, writes for The Indypendent and Huffington Post and Asia Times; Nomi Prins, former investment banker at Bear Stearns
The Dollar, the "greenback", it's like the Green Pig is the god of America, it is America's idol that they worship. Beware of the Green Pig which the moneymakers have unleashed upon the world and the world refuse it! The money crisis, the dollar crisis is their creation.
Like those that clothe themselves in dollars they think are green, they think they are alive and young and growing like the green things of the earth, but they shall find that this greenness only exists in their imagination, and when exposed to the light of day, the truth of God, it turns to grey ashes, burnt out fires, dead grey ashes!
So green and greedy, gluttonous, wasteful, selfish! There was no such thing as the American dollar until it was dreamed up by Washington! What does it mean? There's something strange about that word dollar! The dollar has the whole world in the doldrums! The world, who's been beating the drums to the dollar, is now in the doldrums because of its false worship of its fallen idol, which is what they deserve!
Ted Rudow III,MA
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Lied
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Bush and Cheney
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Tuesday Mar 18th, 2008 3:53 PM
Bush and Cheney and their crew lied day after day, week after week, month after month, and the media flooded the U.S. and the world with their lies about weapons of mass destruction—
—which they claimed they knew the specific amounts and locations of—with lies about Iraq producing atomic bombs, with lies about Iraqi drones that could carry bombs and chemicals all the way to the U.S, on and on and on!
It's disgusting that Bush could lie his way into the Iraq War, causing the death of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and the death of 4,000 American soldiers, not to mention the tens of thousands wounded on both sides, and not suffer any consequences for it! Congress hasn't impeached him—after all, they lie as much as he does—and the American people are either ignorant, apathetic, powerless, or figure they can't do anything about the whole affair, so they don't even try.
Ted Rudow III,MA
Bush and Cheney
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Tuesday Mar 18th, 2008 3:53 PM
Bush and Cheney and their crew lied day after day, week after week, month after month, and the media flooded the U.S. and the world with their lies about weapons of mass destruction—
—which they claimed they knew the specific amounts and locations of—with lies about Iraq producing atomic bombs, with lies about Iraqi drones that could carry bombs and chemicals all the way to the U.S, on and on and on!
It's disgusting that Bush could lie his way into the Iraq War, causing the death of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and the death of 4,000 American soldiers, not to mention the tens of thousands wounded on both sides, and not suffer any consequences for it! Congress hasn't impeached him—after all, they lie as much as he does—and the American people are either ignorant, apathetic, powerless, or figure they can't do anything about the whole affair, so they don't even try.
Ted Rudow III,MA
Monday, March 17, 2008
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George W. Bush said each American would get a $600 check as part of a stimulus package. If we spend the money at Wal-Mart, it will all go to China. If we spend it on computers, it will go mostly to Korea or India. If we spend it on gasoline, it will go to the Arab countries. None of these scenarios will help the U.S. economy.
We need to keep the money in America. Currently, it seems that the only way to that is to drink beer, gamble or spend it on prostitution, the only businesses still left in the United States.
Ted Rudow III,MA, Menlo Park, California
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Hillary Clinton has stated that there is a “vast right-wing conspiracy” pursuing an agenda of Clinton bashing for “personal power and profit.” She is right about the conspiracy. She is right about the pursuit of power and profit. She is wrong about where it originates.
When Bill Clinton accepted the Democratic Party’s nomination for president he said that the man who started him on the road to his “New Covenant” was Carroll Quigley. He taught at Harvard. His book, “Tragedy and Hope,” documents the existence of a powerful international “network” whose goal was “nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands...able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole.”
Quigley acknowledged the intellectual originators of the plot as John Ruskin of England’s Oxford University and his pet pupil, Cecil Rhodes. Rhodes had some major league help from the Rothschild banking empire. He “left part of his fortune to found the Rhodes Scholarships at Oxford” to train young and ambitious students for the “secret society.” Bill Clinton, a Quigley student, Rhodes Scholar, is following the Quigley blueprint. It wasn’t sent to me in the vast right-wing conspiracy newsletter. It is in the book, “Tragedy and Hope.” Who better to know than Bill, one of their own. There you have it in their own words. Now you have this confirmation from their own mouth, which they’ll deny, of course, just likethey do the Protocols. “If we were really going to do such a thing,” they’ll say, “we’d certainly never publish a book on it, or allow one to be published on it.” Well, if you don’t believe they’re doing such a thing and you don’t believe the book, just look around at the evidence that surrounds you, which is getting more and more obvious every day as they’re getting more and more blatant.
Ted Rudow III,MA
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George W. Bush said each American would get a $600 check as part of a stimulus package. If we spend the money at Wal-Mart, it will all go to China. If we spend it on computers, it will go mostly to Korea or India. If we spend it on gasoline, it will go to the Arab countries. None of these scenarios will help the U.S. economy.
We need to keep the money in America. Currently, it seems that the only way to that is to drink beer, gamble or spend it on prostitution, the only businesses still left in the United States.
Ted Rudow III,MA, Menlo Park, California
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Hillary Clinton has stated that there is a “vast right-wing conspiracy” pursuing an agenda of Clinton bashing for “personal power and profit.” She is right about the conspiracy. She is right about the pursuit of power and profit. She is wrong about where it originates.
When Bill Clinton accepted the Democratic Party’s nomination for president he said that the man who started him on the road to his “New Covenant” was Carroll Quigley. He taught at Harvard. His book, “Tragedy and Hope,” documents the existence of a powerful international “network” whose goal was “nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands...able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole.”
Quigley acknowledged the intellectual originators of the plot as John Ruskin of England’s Oxford University and his pet pupil, Cecil Rhodes. Rhodes had some major league help from the Rothschild banking empire. He “left part of his fortune to found the Rhodes Scholarships at Oxford” to train young and ambitious students for the “secret society.” Bill Clinton, a Quigley student, Rhodes Scholar, is following the Quigley blueprint. It wasn’t sent to me in the vast right-wing conspiracy newsletter. It is in the book, “Tragedy and Hope.” Who better to know than Bill, one of their own. There you have it in their own words. Now you have this confirmation from their own mouth, which they’ll deny, of course, just likethey do the Protocols. “If we were really going to do such a thing,” they’ll say, “we’d certainly never publish a book on it, or allow one to be published on it.” Well, if you don’t believe they’re doing such a thing and you don’t believe the book, just look around at the evidence that surrounds you, which is getting more and more obvious every day as they’re getting more and more blatant.
Ted Rudow III,MA
Menlo Park
Sunday, March 16, 2008
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To the pure
If "to the pure all things are pure" and "all things are lawful unto me," and if, under this Law of grace and Love, extramarital sex and all of these other things are lawful, then where do things like sodomy fit in? If you are truly pure and loving, you wouldn't do such things, because they're definitely not good for you physically or spiritually, and they're hurtful. Just because "all things are lawful" unto us doesn't mean that we can go around murdering or killing or torturing people or give them AIDS! That's not love!
Ted Rudow III,MA
Matters of the 'M' word
Sunday, March 16, 2008
To the pure
If "to the pure all things are pure" and "all things are lawful unto me," and if, under this Law of grace and Love, extramarital sex and all of these other things are lawful, then where do things like sodomy fit in? If you are truly pure and loving, you wouldn't do such things, because they're definitely not good for you physically or spiritually, and they're hurtful. Just because "all things are lawful" unto us doesn't mean that we can go around murdering or killing or torturing people or give them AIDS! That's not love!
Ted Rudow III,MA
Saturday, March 15, 2008
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President Bush said each one of us would get a rebate check. Now, if we spend that money at Wal-Mart, all the money will go to China; if we spend it on computers, most of the money will go to Korea or India; if we spend it on gasoline it will all go to the Arabs, and none of these scenarios will help the American economy.
We need to keep that money here in America, so the only way to keep that money here at home is to drink beer, gamble or spend it on prostitution. It seems that these are the only businesses still left in the United States!
Ted Rudow III,MA
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Reports have been made that Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama will not “rule out” using private military companies like Blackwater Worldwide in Iraq. Obama also has no plans to sign on to legislation that seeks to ban the use of these forces in U.S. war zones by Jan. 2009.
Despite their anti-war rhetoric, both senators Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have adopted the congressional Democratic position that would leave open the option of keeping tens of thousands of U.S. troops in Iraq for many years. Those who would reach such a lofty office in the eyes of the world have entangled themselves deeply in the affairs of this world.
Those who are elected to this office that is so highly esteemed among men have few choices left to them. When in their hearts they know exactly where they stand, and which way they’ll go when the showdown comes as many Democratic and Republican leaders have.
They are prisoners of the compromises they have made to attain the office, prisoners of their advisers and counselors, prisoners of the policies of their party and the values of their nation.
They are heavily influenced by superdelegates as well and will bow down to their will.
Ted Rudow III,MA
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President Bush said each one of us would get a rebate check. Now, if we spend that money at Wal-Mart, all the money will go to China; if we spend it on computers, most of the money will go to Korea or India; if we spend it on gasoline it will all go to the Arabs, and none of these scenarios will help the American economy.
We need to keep that money here in America, so the only way to keep that money here at home is to drink beer, gamble or spend it on prostitution. It seems that these are the only businesses still left in the United States!
Ted Rudow III,MA
Menlo Park
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Reports have been made that Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama will not “rule out” using private military companies like Blackwater Worldwide in Iraq. Obama also has no plans to sign on to legislation that seeks to ban the use of these forces in U.S. war zones by Jan. 2009.
Despite their anti-war rhetoric, both senators Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have adopted the congressional Democratic position that would leave open the option of keeping tens of thousands of U.S. troops in Iraq for many years. Those who would reach such a lofty office in the eyes of the world have entangled themselves deeply in the affairs of this world.
Those who are elected to this office that is so highly esteemed among men have few choices left to them. When in their hearts they know exactly where they stand, and which way they’ll go when the showdown comes as many Democratic and Republican leaders have.
They are prisoners of the compromises they have made to attain the office, prisoners of their advisers and counselors, prisoners of the policies of their party and the values of their nation.
They are heavily influenced by superdelegates as well and will bow down to their will.
Ted Rudow III,MA
Menlo Park
Friday, March 14, 2008
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March 12, 2008
By Rahul Kanakia
"I don’t trust Barack Obama. His stump speech tells Americans that we can rise above our differences. He says that politics does not have to be a fight. Instead, we can just sit down and talk out our problems. And if I just have the audacity to hope, then no dilemma is without a solution. If that is what he really thinks, he is just being naive and he will be an ineffectual president.--Our president should be someone who doesn’t need to rely on flowing rhetoric to accomplish her aims. She should be so certain that what she is doing is right that she is willing to knock the opposition to the ground, and then kick them when they’re down.It doesn’t matter whether you agree with me or not. Over the next two months Hillary Clinton is going to systematically destroy Barack Obama." Email Rahul at rahkan@stanford.edu.
Ted Rudow III,MA
Hillary Clinton has stated that there is a "vast right-wing conspiracy" pursuing an agenda of Clinton bashing for "personal power and profit." She is right about the conspiracy. She is right about the pursuit of power and profit. She is wrong about where it originates.
When Bill Clinton accepted the Democratic Party's nomination for president he said that the man who started him on the road to his "New Covenant" was Carroll Quigley. He taught at Harvard. His book,"Tragedy and Hope",documents the existence of a powerful international "network" whose goal was "nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands" (see page 324) "able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole."
Quigley acknowledged the intellectual originators of the plot as John Ruskin of England's Oxford University and his pet pupil, Cecil Rhodes. Rhodes had some major league help from the Rothschild banking empire. He "left part of his fortune to found the Rhodes Scholarships at Oxford" to train young and ambitious students for the "secret society". Bill Clinton, a Quigley student, Rhodes Scholar, is following the Quigley blueprint. It wasn't sent to me in the vast right-wing conspiracy newsletter. It is in the book, "Tragedy and Hope."
Who better to know than Bill,one of their own. There you have it in their own words! Now you have this confirmation from their own mouth, which they'll deny, of course, just like they do the Protocols. "If we were really going to do such a thing," they'll say, "we'd certainly never publish a book on it, or allow one to be published on it."
Well, if you don't believe they're doing such a thing and you don't believe the book, just look around at the evidence that surrounds you, which is getting more and more obvious every day as they're getting more and more blatant!
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"I don’t trust Barack Obama. His stump speech tells Americans that we can rise above our differences. He says that politics does not have to be a fight. Instead, we can just sit down and talk out our problems. And if I just have the audacity to hope, then no dilemma is without a solution. If that is what he really thinks, he is just being naive and he will be an ineffectual president.--Our president should be someone who doesn’t need to rely on flowing rhetoric to accomplish her aims. She should be so certain that what she is doing is right that she is willing to knock the opposition to the ground, and then kick them when they’re down.It doesn’t matter whether you agree with me or not. Over the next two months Hillary Clinton is going to systematically destroy Barack Obama." Email Rahul at rahkan@stanford.edu.
Ted Rudow III,MA
Hillary Clinton has stated that there is a "vast right-wing conspiracy" pursuing an agenda of Clinton bashing for "personal power and profit." She is right about the conspiracy. She is right about the pursuit of power and profit. She is wrong about where it originates.
When Bill Clinton accepted the Democratic Party's nomination for president he said that the man who started him on the road to his "New Covenant" was Carroll Quigley. He taught at Harvard. His book,"Tragedy and Hope",documents the existence of a powerful international "network" whose goal was "nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands" (see page 324) "able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole."
Quigley acknowledged the intellectual originators of the plot as John Ruskin of England's Oxford University and his pet pupil, Cecil Rhodes. Rhodes had some major league help from the Rothschild banking empire. He "left part of his fortune to found the Rhodes Scholarships at Oxford" to train young and ambitious students for the "secret society". Bill Clinton, a Quigley student, Rhodes Scholar, is following the Quigley blueprint. It wasn't sent to me in the vast right-wing conspiracy newsletter. It is in the book, "Tragedy and Hope."
Who better to know than Bill,one of their own. There you have it in their own words! Now you have this confirmation from their own mouth, which they'll deny, of course, just like they do the Protocols. "If we were really going to do such a thing," they'll say, "we'd certainly never publish a book on it, or allow one to be published on it."
Well, if you don't believe they're doing such a thing and you don't believe the book, just look around at the evidence that surrounds you, which is getting more and more obvious every day as they're getting more and more blatant!
Hillary
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By Rahul Kanakia
"I don’t trust Barack Obama. His stump speech tells Americans that we can rise above our differences. He says that politics does not have to be a fight. Instead, we can just sit down and talk out our problems. And if I just have the audacity to hope, then no dilemma is without a solution. If that is what he really thinks, he is just being naive and he will be an ineffectual president.--Our president should be someone who doesn’t need to rely on flowing rhetoric to accomplish her aims. She should be so certain that what she is doing is right that she is willing to knock the opposition to the ground, and then kick them when they’re down.It doesn’t matter whether you agree with me or not. Over the next two months Hillary Clinton is going to systematically destroy Barack Obama." Email Rahul at rahkan@stanford.edu.
Ted Rudow III,MA
Hillary Clinton has stated that there is a "vast right-wing conspiracy" pursuing an agenda of Clinton bashing for "personal power and profit." She is right about the conspiracy. She is right about the pursuit of power and profit. She is wrong about where it originates.
When Bill Clinton accepted the Democratic Party's nomination for president he said that the man who started him on the road to his "New Covenant" was Carroll Quigley. He taught at Harvard. His book,"Tragedy and Hope",documents the existence of a powerful international "network" whose goal was "nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands" (see page 324) "able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole."
Quigley acknowledged the intellectual originators of the plot as John Ruskin of England's Oxford University and his pet pupil, Cecil Rhodes. Rhodes had some major league help from the Rothschild banking empire. He "left part of his fortune to found the Rhodes Scholarships at Oxford" to train young and ambitious students for the "secret society". Bill Clinton, a Quigley student, Rhodes Scholar, is following the Quigley blueprint. It wasn't sent to me in the vast right-wing conspiracy newsletter. It is in the book, "Tragedy and Hope."
Who better to know than Bill,one of their own. There you have it in their own words! Now you have this confirmation from their own mouth, which they'll deny, of course, just like they do the Protocols. "If we were really going to do such a thing," they'll say, "we'd certainly never publish a book on it, or allow one to be published on it."
Well, if you don't believe they're doing such a thing and you don't believe the book, just look around at the evidence that surrounds you, which is getting more and more obvious every day as they're getting more and more blatant!
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/03/14/18485633.php
Hillary
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Friday Mar 14th, 2008 3:02 PM
Hillary Clinton has stated that there is a "vast right-wing conspiracy" pursuing an agenda of Clinton bashing for "personal power and profit." She is right about the conspiracy. She is right about the pursuit of power and profit. She is wrong about where it originates.
When Bill Clinton accepted the Democratic Party's nomination for president he said that the man who started him on the road to his "New Covenant" was Carroll Quigley. He taught at Harvard. His book,"Tragedy and Hope",documents the existence of a powerful international "network" whose goal was "nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands" (see page 324) "able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole."
Quigley acknowledged the intellectual originators of the plot as John Ruskin of England's Oxford University and his pet pupil, Cecil Rhodes. Rhodes had some major league help from the Rothschild banking empire. He "left part of his fortune to found the Rhodes Scholarships at Oxford" to train young and ambitious students for the "secret society". Bill Clinton, a Quigley student, Rhodes Scholar, is following the Quigley blueprint. It wasn't sent to me in the vast right-wing conspiracy newsletter. It is in the book, "Tragedy and Hope."
Who better to know than Bill,one of their own. There you have it in their own words! Now you have this confirmation from their own mouth, which they'll deny, of course, just like they do the Protocols. "If we were really going to do such a thing," they'll say, "we'd certainly never publish a book on it, or allow one to be published on it."
Well, if you don't believe they're doing such a thing and you don't believe the book, just look around at the evidence that surrounds you, which is getting more and more obvious every day as they're getting more and more blatant!
Ted Rudow III,MA
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By Rahul Kanakia
"I don’t trust Barack Obama. His stump speech tells Americans that we can rise above our differences. He says that politics does not have to be a fight. Instead, we can just sit down and talk out our problems. And if I just have the audacity to hope, then no dilemma is without a solution. If that is what he really thinks, he is just being naive and he will be an ineffectual president.--Our president should be someone who doesn’t need to rely on flowing rhetoric to accomplish her aims. She should be so certain that what she is doing is right that she is willing to knock the opposition to the ground, and then kick them when they’re down.It doesn’t matter whether you agree with me or not. Over the next two months Hillary Clinton is going to systematically destroy Barack Obama." Email Rahul at rahkan@stanford.edu.
Ted Rudow III,MA
Hillary Clinton has stated that there is a "vast right-wing conspiracy" pursuing an agenda of Clinton bashing for "personal power and profit." She is right about the conspiracy. She is right about the pursuit of power and profit. She is wrong about where it originates.
When Bill Clinton accepted the Democratic Party's nomination for president he said that the man who started him on the road to his "New Covenant" was Carroll Quigley. He taught at Harvard. His book,"Tragedy and Hope",documents the existence of a powerful international "network" whose goal was "nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands" (see page 324) "able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole."
Quigley acknowledged the intellectual originators of the plot as John Ruskin of England's Oxford University and his pet pupil, Cecil Rhodes. Rhodes had some major league help from the Rothschild banking empire. He "left part of his fortune to found the Rhodes Scholarships at Oxford" to train young and ambitious students for the "secret society". Bill Clinton, a Quigley student, Rhodes Scholar, is following the Quigley blueprint. It wasn't sent to me in the vast right-wing conspiracy newsletter. It is in the book, "Tragedy and Hope."
Who better to know than Bill,one of their own. There you have it in their own words! Now you have this confirmation from their own mouth, which they'll deny, of course, just like they do the Protocols. "If we were really going to do such a thing," they'll say, "we'd certainly never publish a book on it, or allow one to be published on it."
Well, if you don't believe they're doing such a thing and you don't believe the book, just look around at the evidence that surrounds you, which is getting more and more obvious every day as they're getting more and more blatant!
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/03/14/18485633.php
Hillary
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Friday Mar 14th, 2008 3:02 PM
Hillary Clinton has stated that there is a "vast right-wing conspiracy" pursuing an agenda of Clinton bashing for "personal power and profit." She is right about the conspiracy. She is right about the pursuit of power and profit. She is wrong about where it originates.
When Bill Clinton accepted the Democratic Party's nomination for president he said that the man who started him on the road to his "New Covenant" was Carroll Quigley. He taught at Harvard. His book,"Tragedy and Hope",documents the existence of a powerful international "network" whose goal was "nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands" (see page 324) "able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole."
Quigley acknowledged the intellectual originators of the plot as John Ruskin of England's Oxford University and his pet pupil, Cecil Rhodes. Rhodes had some major league help from the Rothschild banking empire. He "left part of his fortune to found the Rhodes Scholarships at Oxford" to train young and ambitious students for the "secret society". Bill Clinton, a Quigley student, Rhodes Scholar, is following the Quigley blueprint. It wasn't sent to me in the vast right-wing conspiracy newsletter. It is in the book, "Tragedy and Hope."
Who better to know than Bill,one of their own. There you have it in their own words! Now you have this confirmation from their own mouth, which they'll deny, of course, just like they do the Protocols. "If we were really going to do such a thing," they'll say, "we'd certainly never publish a book on it, or allow one to be published on it."
Well, if you don't believe they're doing such a thing and you don't believe the book, just look around at the evidence that surrounds you, which is getting more and more obvious every day as they're getting more and more blatant!
Ted Rudow III,MA
Thursday, March 13, 2008
If we spend it on gasoline it will all go to the Arabs.....
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If we spend it on gasoline it will all go to the Arabs.....
President Bush said each one of us would get a $600 check. Now, if we spend that money at Wal-Mart, all the money will go to China, if we spend it on computers, most of the money will go to Korea or India. If we spend it on gasoline it will all go to the Arabs.....and none of these scenarios will help the American economy. We need to keep that money here in America .....so the only way to keep that money here at home is to drink beer, gamble, or spend it on prostitution. Currently it seems that these are the only businesses still left in the U.S.!
Ted Rudow III,MA
California Assembly kills Nunez oil tax plan
Thursday, March 13, 2008
If we spend it on gasoline it will all go to the Arabs.....
President Bush said each one of us would get a $600 check. Now, if we spend that money at Wal-Mart, all the money will go to China, if we spend it on computers, most of the money will go to Korea or India. If we spend it on gasoline it will all go to the Arabs.....and none of these scenarios will help the American economy. We need to keep that money here in America .....so the only way to keep that money here at home is to drink beer, gamble, or spend it on prostitution. Currently it seems that these are the only businesses still left in the U.S.!
Ted Rudow III,MA
Monday, March 10, 2008
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Editor - The most dangerous turn in the Democratic primary campaign is the Sen. Hillary Clinton camp's decision to couple her with Sen. John McCain as having "passed the commander in chief threshold." How did McCain...
Hillary Clinton wants to be president of the United States. Such a position requires a closer look at Hillary Clinton's background and beliefs and her attempts to implement them. As you may know, a California state appellate court recently ruled that it is illegal for parents in the Golden State to Homeschool their children without the appropriate state teaching credentials. With the potentiality of Hillary Clinton in the White House and her belief in children having the right to sue their parents, look closely at the United Nations World Summit on Children" that took place in September 1990. This summit came out with an international treaty, the Charter of the Rights of the Child," which was signed by all the U.N. member countries. By reading some articles of this treaty, one can see the world plan that aims at removing the child from the influence of his parents, and putting him under State control.
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Editor - The most dangerous turn in the Democratic primary campaign is the Sen. Hillary Clinton camp's decision to couple her with Sen. John McCain as having "passed the commander in chief threshold." How did McCain...
Hillary Clinton wants to be president of the United States. Such a position requires a closer look at Hillary Clinton's background and beliefs and her attempts to implement them. As you may know, a California state appellate court recently ruled that it is illegal for parents in the Golden State to Homeschool their children without the appropriate state teaching credentials. With the potentiality of Hillary Clinton in the White House and her belief in children having the right to sue their parents, look closely at the United Nations World Summit on Children" that took place in September 1990. This summit came out with an international treaty, the Charter of the Rights of the Child," which was signed by all the U.N. member countries. By reading some articles of this treaty, one can see the world plan that aims at removing the child from the influence of his parents, and putting him under State control.
Ted Rudow III,MA
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March 10, 2008
By Devin Banerjee
“Our economy is structurally sound [and] the long-term fundamentals are sound,” said U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson at the Arrillaga Alumni Center Friday evening. Paulson’s remarks came the same day Wall Street tanked to 2006 levels amidst a sluggish February employment report that heightened fears of recession..........
Ted Rudow III,MA
President Bush said each one of us would get a $600 check. Now, if we spend that money at Wal-Mart, all the money will go to China, if we spend it on computers, most of the money will go to Korea or India.
If we spend it on gasoline it will all go to the Arabs.....and none of these scenarios will help the American economy. We need to keep that money here in America .....so the only way to keep that money here at home is to drink beer, gamble, or spend it on prostitution. Currently it seems that these are the only businesses still left in the U.S.!
The American people have been making war and making money in their war jobs and their high salaries at the expenses of the poor Iraqis. In fact, almost all American industries, even non-war industries, are making money at the expense of the poor of other nations of the world.
No ungodly leader can solve the problem of having both peace and plenty without war. God is the only One Who can give them peace and plenty at the same time.--I mean all that they need. As long as a nation demands more than they need, in other words more than plenty, they demand absolute excess, extravagant luxury.--They have to rob the poor to get it, and to rob the poor to get it they have to wage war. America has been living in luxury at the world's expense while other nations are starving.
Ted Rudow III,MA
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March 10, 2008
By Devin Banerjee
“Our economy is structurally sound [and] the long-term fundamentals are sound,” said U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson at the Arrillaga Alumni Center Friday evening. Paulson’s remarks came the same day Wall Street tanked to 2006 levels amidst a sluggish February employment report that heightened fears of recession..........
Ted Rudow III,MA
President Bush said each one of us would get a $600 check. Now, if we spend that money at Wal-Mart, all the money will go to China, if we spend it on computers, most of the money will go to Korea or India.
If we spend it on gasoline it will all go to the Arabs.....and none of these scenarios will help the American economy. We need to keep that money here in America .....so the only way to keep that money here at home is to drink beer, gamble, or spend it on prostitution. Currently it seems that these are the only businesses still left in the U.S.!
The American people have been making war and making money in their war jobs and their high salaries at the expenses of the poor Iraqis. In fact, almost all American industries, even non-war industries, are making money at the expense of the poor of other nations of the world.
No ungodly leader can solve the problem of having both peace and plenty without war. God is the only One Who can give them peace and plenty at the same time.--I mean all that they need. As long as a nation demands more than they need, in other words more than plenty, they demand absolute excess, extravagant luxury.--They have to rob the poor to get it, and to rob the poor to get it they have to wage war. America has been living in luxury at the world's expense while other nations are starving.
Ted Rudow III,MA
Friday, March 07, 2008
More palatable?
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/03/07/18484210.php
More palatable?
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Friday Mar 7th, 2008
They're setting off suicide bombs in Israel and killing many innocent people. The Lord said, "Thou shalt not kill," and He do not sympathize with those who shed innocent blood through acts of terrorism.
All men will receive a recompense for the works of their hands, whether those works were good or evil (Jeremiah 25:14).I yearn to comfort and reach all those caught up in this fierce and bloody conflict
Terrorists are not always little armed individuals or groups who commit atrocities. The biggest and worst terrorists are nations who commit atrocities with their armies, who wage what they call "war" but which differs from terrorism only in scale, for war is often terrorism on a massive scale, conducted with planes and tanks and bombs and tens of thousands of soldiers. Yet war is somehow considered more palatable by the world, for it is conducted by national terrorists, while terrorism is condemned because it is conducted by individual terrorists.
Palestinians from their land, it surrounds or occupies their cities, makes use of them as cheap labor, like the slaves of old, and humiliates or slaughters their men, women, and children. Israeli terrorism is both very evident and very quiet—evident in that it occupies Palestinian lands brazenly, and has for more than fifty years, and quiet in that many little acts of terrorism happen every day in out-of-the-way corners that make no news or no waves.
"Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God."
Ted Rudow III,MA
More palatable?
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Friday Mar 7th, 2008
They're setting off suicide bombs in Israel and killing many innocent people. The Lord said, "Thou shalt not kill," and He do not sympathize with those who shed innocent blood through acts of terrorism.
All men will receive a recompense for the works of their hands, whether those works were good or evil (Jeremiah 25:14).I yearn to comfort and reach all those caught up in this fierce and bloody conflict
Terrorists are not always little armed individuals or groups who commit atrocities. The biggest and worst terrorists are nations who commit atrocities with their armies, who wage what they call "war" but which differs from terrorism only in scale, for war is often terrorism on a massive scale, conducted with planes and tanks and bombs and tens of thousands of soldiers. Yet war is somehow considered more palatable by the world, for it is conducted by national terrorists, while terrorism is condemned because it is conducted by individual terrorists.
Palestinians from their land, it surrounds or occupies their cities, makes use of them as cheap labor, like the slaves of old, and humiliates or slaughters their men, women, and children. Israeli terrorism is both very evident and very quiet—evident in that it occupies Palestinian lands brazenly, and has for more than fifty years, and quiet in that many little acts of terrorism happen every day in out-of-the-way corners that make no news or no waves.
"Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God."
Ted Rudow III,MA
Thursday, March 06, 2008
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Sen. John McCain got the support of Texas pastor John Hagee, an evangelical Christian who has made support for the state of Israel a centerpiece of his ministry.Hagee endorsed McCain ,saying he did so because McCain is a pro-life, pro-Israel politician who has pledged to secure the country's borders There's a rabidly Zionist bunch of Christians in the U.S. which is also adamantly opposed to Iran getting the bomb, in case it might attack Israel. John Hagee is very liberal with his ministry's money when it comes to Israel. A Religious News Service report stated that Hagee raised over $1 million to help Soviet Jews resettle in Israel. He believes that Jews already have a covenant with God and a relationship to God and do not need to come to the cross. This certainly is a shocking statement in the light of Jesus words that no man comes to the Father but through me (John 14:6).
Ted Rudow III,MA
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March 6, 2008
By Kai Stinchcombe
"The framers of the Constitution considered jury trials the last bulwark of a free people. Thomas Jefferson called the jury trial “the only anchor yet imagined by man by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution.” If “the consent of the governed” is the name, jury trials are the game. Citizens judge the facts and interpret the law, not the government.----The solution to problems with the jury system is more justice for citizens, not less. When juries are biased, as often happened in the pre-Civil Rights South, the solution should be to balance the make-up of juries, not reduce their power. The government should develop laws that the people believe in and then let the people enforce them. If the government cannot enforce laws with juries, those laws shouldn’t exist.The jury is the final protection of a free society against an overweening government — your liberties are protected by the judgments of the people, not the inclinations of the rulers.Kai speeds. Contact him at kstinch "at" stanford.edu
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The only way that the president can get a dictatorial control on the country is to get control of the Supreme Court. You see, it's supposed to be a balanced government: You know, the legislative branch, Congress; the judicial branch, the Court; and the executive branch, the President. If any two of those can get together, they can control the other. Well, it's not likely the Supreme Court and Congress are going to make a dictator because there are plenty of both of them. It's not likely that the President is going to be able to control the Congress too well and become a dictatorship. But, if he can get control of five men!--In order to become a dictator in the United States, you only have to control five men.
There have been several men who have had that kind of majority to work with, but they were benign Presidents. They were good men who were trying to do the country good and they weren't trying to be a dictator. But there have been two men in American history, both of whom wanted to be dictators and they wanted to get control of the country, and they did it the same way.
I have the feeling that Bush is one of the ones who want to be King! A ruler and leader gets a little puffed up in his head and begins to think he's really a god. God won't stand for it.
Ted Rudow III,MA
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"BMW: "Hard top. Firm bottom. It's so L.A."
Travelocity: "It shouldn't take highly developed gaydar to figure out which hotels are for you."
42 Below Vodka: "Drink it straight. Or gay."
If you recognize these pitches, it's because you've perused gay media. The tactic of these marketers is called niche advertising, and it's very lucrative.
High-profile national advertisers establish symbiotic relationships with producers of niche media publications and (in this case) the product is a capitalistically rationalized version of gay-for-pay.---
Ted Rudow III,MA 3/06/08
Sexual promiscuity: Moral fidelity among homosexuals is almost unknown. Despite what the gay rights people would like to have you believe about the acceptability of their lifestyle, the homosexual way of life commonly involves "cruising" or some other form of search for young, fresh sexual partners. During the course of one research study on AIDS, it was discovered the average homosexual interviewed had had 550 sexual partners. The AIDS victims averaged 1,100 different sexual partners, with some reporting as many as 20,000. This means that every day sexually addicted homosexuals are out looking for attractive young men and boys whom they can introduce to the world of sodomy and oral sex. One homosexual quoted in The Gay Report said, "Sex is very important in my life. If I was really hungry and had to make a choice of a steak dinner or a cute young boy, I would take the youth or young male every time." Another said, "I think that sex between older men and young boys is a beautiful thing if the child wants it."
It has been argued that heterosexuals are more prone to molest children because only 30 to 45 percent of all sexual offenses committed against children under fourteen were homosexual. But if homosexuals constitute only 10 percent of the population, then they are very disproportionately involved in child sexual abuse. And if more realistic estimates that homosexuals constitute only 2 percent of the population are correct, their involvement in 30 to 45 percent of crimes against children is quite remarkable!
An insatiable quest for the erotic: Although the homosexual community does not discuss this aspect of their sex life freely with "straight" (non-homosexual) people, the known practices of the homosexual clearly indicate that his sex drive is rarely satisfied. And two men are often given to demanding greater degrees of experimentation than a man and woman. This is often unhealthy, of course. One doctor, an acknowledged homosexual, pointed to an increase in hospital emergency rooms of cases of "rectal abscesses and infections of the intestines." He further stated that "damage to the wallof the intestine can lead to peritonitis, which can develop into a life-and-death-situation, as can a ripped colon. We're seeing a lot of that now, too." Upon questioning, he indicated that this increase was caused by homosexuals forcing objects of larger and larger size into each other's anal canal. Doctors have removed "whiskey glasses, bananas, coke bottles" and almost "anything that will fit." Another doctor, deeply concerned about the homosexual community because he was one himself, said, "There's a near epidemic of syphilis and gonorrhea--in the throat," and he went on to point out that most homosexuals don't realize that the throat is as vulnerable to venereal disease as the rectum. In addition to syphilis and gonorrhea, the gay male community has experienced outbreaks of ailments such as hepatitis (a liver infection) and amebiasis (infection from amoebas), shigellosis (bacterial dysentery), and giardiasis (intestinal parasites).
Ted Rudow III,MA
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Sen. John McCain got the support of Texas pastor John Hagee, an evangelical Christian who has made support for the state of Israel a centerpiece of his ministry.Hagee endorsed McCain ,saying he did so because McCain is a pro-life, pro-Israel politician who has pledged to secure the country's borders There's a rabidly Zionist bunch of Christians in the U.S. which is also adamantly opposed to Iran getting the bomb, in case it might attack Israel. John Hagee is very liberal with his ministry's money when it comes to Israel. A Religious News Service report stated that Hagee raised over $1 million to help Soviet Jews resettle in Israel. He believes that Jews already have a covenant with God and a relationship to God and do not need to come to the cross. This certainly is a shocking statement in the light of Jesus words that no man comes to the Father but through me (John 14:6).
Ted Rudow III,MA
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March 6, 2008
By Kai Stinchcombe
"The framers of the Constitution considered jury trials the last bulwark of a free people. Thomas Jefferson called the jury trial “the only anchor yet imagined by man by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution.” If “the consent of the governed” is the name, jury trials are the game. Citizens judge the facts and interpret the law, not the government.----The solution to problems with the jury system is more justice for citizens, not less. When juries are biased, as often happened in the pre-Civil Rights South, the solution should be to balance the make-up of juries, not reduce their power. The government should develop laws that the people believe in and then let the people enforce them. If the government cannot enforce laws with juries, those laws shouldn’t exist.The jury is the final protection of a free society against an overweening government — your liberties are protected by the judgments of the people, not the inclinations of the rulers.Kai speeds. Contact him at kstinch "at" stanford.edu
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
The only way that the president can get a dictatorial control on the country is to get control of the Supreme Court. You see, it's supposed to be a balanced government: You know, the legislative branch, Congress; the judicial branch, the Court; and the executive branch, the President. If any two of those can get together, they can control the other. Well, it's not likely the Supreme Court and Congress are going to make a dictator because there are plenty of both of them. It's not likely that the President is going to be able to control the Congress too well and become a dictatorship. But, if he can get control of five men!--In order to become a dictator in the United States, you only have to control five men.
There have been several men who have had that kind of majority to work with, but they were benign Presidents. They were good men who were trying to do the country good and they weren't trying to be a dictator. But there have been two men in American history, both of whom wanted to be dictators and they wanted to get control of the country, and they did it the same way.
I have the feeling that Bush is one of the ones who want to be King! A ruler and leader gets a little puffed up in his head and begins to think he's really a god. God won't stand for it.
Ted Rudow III,MA
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Gay media: Judging by the cover
Michael RizzoI
"BMW: "Hard top. Firm bottom. It's so L.A."
Travelocity: "It shouldn't take highly developed gaydar to figure out which hotels are for you."
42 Below Vodka: "Drink it straight. Or gay."
If you recognize these pitches, it's because you've perused gay media. The tactic of these marketers is called niche advertising, and it's very lucrative.
High-profile national advertisers establish symbiotic relationships with producers of niche media publications and (in this case) the product is a capitalistically rationalized version of gay-for-pay.---
Ted Rudow III,MA 3/06/08
Sexual promiscuity: Moral fidelity among homosexuals is almost unknown. Despite what the gay rights people would like to have you believe about the acceptability of their lifestyle, the homosexual way of life commonly involves "cruising" or some other form of search for young, fresh sexual partners. During the course of one research study on AIDS, it was discovered the average homosexual interviewed had had 550 sexual partners. The AIDS victims averaged 1,100 different sexual partners, with some reporting as many as 20,000. This means that every day sexually addicted homosexuals are out looking for attractive young men and boys whom they can introduce to the world of sodomy and oral sex. One homosexual quoted in The Gay Report said, "Sex is very important in my life. If I was really hungry and had to make a choice of a steak dinner or a cute young boy, I would take the youth or young male every time." Another said, "I think that sex between older men and young boys is a beautiful thing if the child wants it."
It has been argued that heterosexuals are more prone to molest children because only 30 to 45 percent of all sexual offenses committed against children under fourteen were homosexual. But if homosexuals constitute only 10 percent of the population, then they are very disproportionately involved in child sexual abuse. And if more realistic estimates that homosexuals constitute only 2 percent of the population are correct, their involvement in 30 to 45 percent of crimes against children is quite remarkable!
An insatiable quest for the erotic: Although the homosexual community does not discuss this aspect of their sex life freely with "straight" (non-homosexual) people, the known practices of the homosexual clearly indicate that his sex drive is rarely satisfied. And two men are often given to demanding greater degrees of experimentation than a man and woman. This is often unhealthy, of course. One doctor, an acknowledged homosexual, pointed to an increase in hospital emergency rooms of cases of "rectal abscesses and infections of the intestines." He further stated that "damage to the wallof the intestine can lead to peritonitis, which can develop into a life-and-death-situation, as can a ripped colon. We're seeing a lot of that now, too." Upon questioning, he indicated that this increase was caused by homosexuals forcing objects of larger and larger size into each other's anal canal. Doctors have removed "whiskey glasses, bananas, coke bottles" and almost "anything that will fit." Another doctor, deeply concerned about the homosexual community because he was one himself, said, "There's a near epidemic of syphilis and gonorrhea--in the throat," and he went on to point out that most homosexuals don't realize that the throat is as vulnerable to venereal disease as the rectum. In addition to syphilis and gonorrhea, the gay male community has experienced outbreaks of ailments such as hepatitis (a liver infection) and amebiasis (infection from amoebas), shigellosis (bacterial dysentery), and giardiasis (intestinal parasites).
Ted Rudow III,MA
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Wednesday, March 05, 2008
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As Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) regained some of the momentum she had lost to Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) in the protracted fight for the Democratic presidential nomination Tuesday night, Stanford supporters from both camps offered positive outlooks on the evening’s results and were optimistic about what the future holds.
Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain clinched his party’s nomination with sweeping victories in all four states that voted last night — Ohio, Rhode Island, Texas and Vermont — prompting his main challenger, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, to concede the GOP nomination. But the Democratic picture is far murkier after last night’s results.---
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Sen. John McCain got the support of Texas pastor John Hagee, an evangelical Christian who has made support for the state of Israel a centerpiece of his ministry.Hagee endorsed McCain ,saying he did so because McCain is a pro-life, pro-Israel politician who has pledged to secure the country's borders
There's a rabidly Zionist bunch of Christians in the U.S. which is also adamantly opposed to Iran getting the bomb, in case it might attack Israel. John Hagee is very liberal with his ministry’s money when it comes to Israel. A Religious News Service report stated that Hagee raised over $1 million to help Soviet Jews resettle in Israel. He believes that Jews already have a covenant with God and a relationship to God and do not need to come to the cross. This certainly is a shocking statement in the light of Jesus’ words that “no man comes to the Father but through me” (John 14:6).
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As Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) regained some of the momentum she had lost to Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) in the protracted fight for the Democratic presidential nomination Tuesday night, Stanford supporters from both camps offered positive outlooks on the evening’s results and were optimistic about what the future holds.
Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain clinched his party’s nomination with sweeping victories in all four states that voted last night — Ohio, Rhode Island, Texas and Vermont — prompting his main challenger, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, to concede the GOP nomination. But the Democratic picture is far murkier after last night’s results.---
Ted Rudow III,MA
Sen. John McCain got the support of Texas pastor John Hagee, an evangelical Christian who has made support for the state of Israel a centerpiece of his ministry.Hagee endorsed McCain ,saying he did so because McCain is a pro-life, pro-Israel politician who has pledged to secure the country's borders
There's a rabidly Zionist bunch of Christians in the U.S. which is also adamantly opposed to Iran getting the bomb, in case it might attack Israel. John Hagee is very liberal with his ministry’s money when it comes to Israel. A Religious News Service report stated that Hagee raised over $1 million to help Soviet Jews resettle in Israel. He believes that Jews already have a covenant with God and a relationship to God and do not need to come to the cross. This certainly is a shocking statement in the light of Jesus’ words that “no man comes to the Father but through me” (John 14:6).
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Summer Olympics '08: A time for glory and protest?
Summer Olympics '08: A time for glory and protest?
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With protesters labeling the Games as the "Genocide Olympics," we could be witnessing a huge display of politics in action in Beijing come summertime. This is not the first time politics and this international sporting event have clashed....
Ted Rudow III,MA
The Olympics are the worship of man, the worship of his body. Fairs are the worship of his mind, his mental achievements and creations and the works of his hands. But sports are the worship of man's body; education is the worship of his mind; business is the worship of the works of his hands; and churches and Churchianity are the worship of his spirit, his own spirit, not God or God's Spirit; and war is the ultimate that all of these lead to! The ultimate manifestation of all of these is War!--His physical prowess, his mechanical ingenuity, his tactical genius and his indomitable spirit!
War is the ultimate combination of the worship of all these things, at what man considers his greatest, using the best of all of these!--Man at his best, which is his worst!--WAR! His most destructive worst, his greatest strength, his greatest genius, his greatest inventive power and his greatest spirit, patriotism or whatever you want to call it, is used for war and a competitive spirit against others who are doing the same!
The Olympics is a sports fair, a flesh fair, flesh peddlers! See how this competitive sports thing has been the final stages of every great civilisation and empire!--The worship of the body!
Ted Rudow III,MA
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"As gay-rights groups call for marital equality and opponents warn of a public backlash, societal decay and religious conflict, the California Supreme Court is prepared for an epic three-hour hearing Tuesday on the constitutionality of the state law defining marriage as the union of a man and a woman."
The issue of homosexuality from a Biblical standpoint, delving into gay lifestyles, practices and inroads into modern society, in an attempt to discover why God equated the practice of homosexuality with the ancient wicked cities of Sodom and Gomorrah.--Why homosexuality (Sodomy) and those who flaunt it are abhorrent in His sight. Why Is Sodomy So Offensive to God? The starting point for understanding both human sexuality in general and homosexuality in particular should be the account of the creation of man and woman in Genesis 1 and 2. Chapter 1 deliberately notes that the man made in God's image was created male and female, connecting this with the command to reproduce ( Gen. 1:27,28 ). The creation of male and female, of husband and wife who bear children together, was meant to be a beautiful physical illustration of the Lord's relationship with His Bride, the Church, out of which would come new souls for His Kingdom. A homosexual relationship, on the other hand, negates it!
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With protesters labeling the Games as the "Genocide Olympics," we could be witnessing a huge display of politics in action in Beijing come summertime. This is not the first time politics and this international sporting event have clashed....
Ted Rudow III,MA
The Olympics are the worship of man, the worship of his body. Fairs are the worship of his mind, his mental achievements and creations and the works of his hands. But sports are the worship of man's body; education is the worship of his mind; business is the worship of the works of his hands; and churches and Churchianity are the worship of his spirit, his own spirit, not God or God's Spirit; and war is the ultimate that all of these lead to! The ultimate manifestation of all of these is War!--His physical prowess, his mechanical ingenuity, his tactical genius and his indomitable spirit!
War is the ultimate combination of the worship of all these things, at what man considers his greatest, using the best of all of these!--Man at his best, which is his worst!--WAR! His most destructive worst, his greatest strength, his greatest genius, his greatest inventive power and his greatest spirit, patriotism or whatever you want to call it, is used for war and a competitive spirit against others who are doing the same!
The Olympics is a sports fair, a flesh fair, flesh peddlers! See how this competitive sports thing has been the final stages of every great civilisation and empire!--The worship of the body!
Ted Rudow III,MA
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"As gay-rights groups call for marital equality and opponents warn of a public backlash, societal decay and religious conflict, the California Supreme Court is prepared for an epic three-hour hearing Tuesday on the constitutionality of the state law defining marriage as the union of a man and a woman."
The issue of homosexuality from a Biblical standpoint, delving into gay lifestyles, practices and inroads into modern society, in an attempt to discover why God equated the practice of homosexuality with the ancient wicked cities of Sodom and Gomorrah.--Why homosexuality (Sodomy) and those who flaunt it are abhorrent in His sight. Why Is Sodomy So Offensive to God? The starting point for understanding both human sexuality in general and homosexuality in particular should be the account of the creation of man and woman in Genesis 1 and 2. Chapter 1 deliberately notes that the man made in God's image was created male and female, connecting this with the command to reproduce ( Gen. 1:27,28 ). The creation of male and female, of husband and wife who bear children together, was meant to be a beautiful physical illustration of the Lord's relationship with His Bride, the Church, out of which would come new souls for His Kingdom. A homosexual relationship, on the other hand, negates it!
Ted Rudow III,MA
Monday, March 03, 2008
The threat is to Israel
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The threat is to Israel
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Monday Mar 3rd, 2008 2:21 PM
In 2003, the Iranians sent a very comprehensive offer of negotiations to Washington. In that offer, they actually listed the points that they would be willing to negotiate, and they included the nuclear program in Iran; Iran’s support for Hezbollah, Hamas and Islamic jihad, and even the Beirut Declaration, in which Arab states proposed that they all recognize Israel in exchange for the recognition of—
the establishment of a Palestinian state. So all the agenda items that we claim to be interested in were in this offer, which was delivered by the Swiss ambassador in Tehran to Washington. Not only did we not reply to that offer, but we actually reprimanded the Swiss ambassador for having the temerity to bring it to us.
Now, that was the policy of the old government in Tehran, the government headed by President Khatami. The policy was, let’s extend a hand of friendship to the United States, let’s offer to negotiate. The other hard-liners then said, you tried that, and it didn’t work. We’ve got to try another policy, which is, you’ve got to make life as miserable as you can for the United States, because the policy of trying have a dialogue with them didn’t produce any results.
Is US policy today shoring up Ahmadinejad? I think so, and I even think that, not just shoring him up, we helped bring him to power. So I think that actually helped create the climate in which a conservative, militantly anti-American figure like Ahmadinejad was able to rise. It’s because when we had a more moderate president who was talking about the dialogue of civilizations, we just pushed him aside and didn’t talk to him.
STEPHEN KINZER
Iran’s not a threat to the U.S., just as Iraq wasn’t a threat to the U.S. The threat is to Israel, which has always worried about any of its neighbors getting ahold of nuclear weapons. Israel, of course, has many nuclear weapons. So Israel is egging on the U.S. to do something about it, and is hinting that if the U.S. doesn’t stop the Iranian nuclear program, then Israel will—the same way it stopped Iraq’s nuclear program years ago, by blowing up their reactor. The U.S. professes that it supports democracy in the Middle East yet when there was a democratic government in Iran the U.S. destroyed it.
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The threat is to Israel
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Monday Mar 3rd, 2008 2:21 PM
In 2003, the Iranians sent a very comprehensive offer of negotiations to Washington. In that offer, they actually listed the points that they would be willing to negotiate, and they included the nuclear program in Iran; Iran’s support for Hezbollah, Hamas and Islamic jihad, and even the Beirut Declaration, in which Arab states proposed that they all recognize Israel in exchange for the recognition of—
the establishment of a Palestinian state. So all the agenda items that we claim to be interested in were in this offer, which was delivered by the Swiss ambassador in Tehran to Washington. Not only did we not reply to that offer, but we actually reprimanded the Swiss ambassador for having the temerity to bring it to us.
Now, that was the policy of the old government in Tehran, the government headed by President Khatami. The policy was, let’s extend a hand of friendship to the United States, let’s offer to negotiate. The other hard-liners then said, you tried that, and it didn’t work. We’ve got to try another policy, which is, you’ve got to make life as miserable as you can for the United States, because the policy of trying have a dialogue with them didn’t produce any results.
Is US policy today shoring up Ahmadinejad? I think so, and I even think that, not just shoring him up, we helped bring him to power. So I think that actually helped create the climate in which a conservative, militantly anti-American figure like Ahmadinejad was able to rise. It’s because when we had a more moderate president who was talking about the dialogue of civilizations, we just pushed him aside and didn’t talk to him.
STEPHEN KINZER
Iran’s not a threat to the U.S., just as Iraq wasn’t a threat to the U.S. The threat is to Israel, which has always worried about any of its neighbors getting ahold of nuclear weapons. Israel, of course, has many nuclear weapons. So Israel is egging on the U.S. to do something about it, and is hinting that if the U.S. doesn’t stop the Iranian nuclear program, then Israel will—the same way it stopped Iraq’s nuclear program years ago, by blowing up their reactor. The U.S. professes that it supports democracy in the Middle East yet when there was a democratic government in Iran the U.S. destroyed it.
Ted Rudow III,MA
Saturday, March 01, 2008
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As usual, the Republicans are out to protect the rich--and to hell with the poor! The only thing they think of with their little narrow minds is, how can I hang on to my money--my investments--my big dollars in the banks--to protect all my interests? The rich are notoriously shortsighted when it comes to protecting their riches. They think by hanging onto them, they can protect them. But God's method of protecting them is to give to the poor--give them out--keep it in circulation--literally socialization! You're going to have to be better to the poor, or you're going to go bankrupt. You cannot amass all this wealth in the hands of a few rich and get away with it. ( Luke 12:15-21. ) The rust of their money is going to be a testimony against them. ( James 5:1-3. ) Why is the rust a testimony against them? Something that isn't used gets rusty--because they didn't put it to use and keep it in circulation.
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Little narrow
As usual, the Republicans are out to protect the rich--and to hell with the poor! The only thing they think of with their little narrow minds is, how can I hang on to my money--my investments--my big dollars in the banks--to protect all my interests? The rich are notoriously shortsighted when it comes to protecting their riches. They think by hanging onto them, they can protect them. But God's method of protecting them is to give to the poor--give them out--keep it in circulation--literally socialization! You're going to have to be better to the poor, or you're going to go bankrupt. You cannot amass all this wealth in the hands of a few rich and get away with it. ( Luke 12:15-21. ) The rust of their money is going to be a testimony against them. ( James 5:1-3. ) Why is the rust a testimony against them? Something that isn't used gets rusty--because they didn't put it to use and keep it in circulation.
Ted Rudow III,MA
Friday, February 29, 2008
Prisoners of the compromises
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Prisoners of the compromises
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Friday Feb 29th, 2008 7:49 AM
Jeremy Scahill reports Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama will not “rule out” using private military companies like Blackwater Worldwide in Iraq.
Obama also has no plans to sign on to legislation that seeks to ban the use of these forces in US war zones by January 2009.
Despite their antiwar rhetoric, both Obama and Senator Hillary Clinton have adopted the congressional Democratic position that would leave open the option of keeping tens of thousands of US troops in Iraq for many years. Those who would reach such a lofty office in the eyes of the world have entangled themselves deeply in the affairs of this world. Those who are elected to this office that is so highly esteemed among men have few choices left to them.
When in their hearts they know exactly where they stand, and which way they’ll go when the showdown comes as many Democratic and Republican leaders have. They are prisoners of the compromises they have made to attain the office, prisoners of their advisers and counselors, prisoners of the policies of their party and the values of their nation. They are heavily influenced by Superdelegate as well and will bow down to their will!
Ted Rudow III,MA
Prisoners of the compromises
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Friday Feb 29th, 2008 7:49 AM
Jeremy Scahill reports Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama will not “rule out” using private military companies like Blackwater Worldwide in Iraq.
Obama also has no plans to sign on to legislation that seeks to ban the use of these forces in US war zones by January 2009.
Despite their antiwar rhetoric, both Obama and Senator Hillary Clinton have adopted the congressional Democratic position that would leave open the option of keeping tens of thousands of US troops in Iraq for many years. Those who would reach such a lofty office in the eyes of the world have entangled themselves deeply in the affairs of this world. Those who are elected to this office that is so highly esteemed among men have few choices left to them.
When in their hearts they know exactly where they stand, and which way they’ll go when the showdown comes as many Democratic and Republican leaders have. They are prisoners of the compromises they have made to attain the office, prisoners of their advisers and counselors, prisoners of the policies of their party and the values of their nation. They are heavily influenced by Superdelegate as well and will bow down to their will!
Ted Rudow III,MA
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
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President George W. Bush publicly stated yesterday that the U.S. economy was not in a recession and that he believed it would not fall into a downturn. Given that economic reports show that U.S. consumer confidence has slumped to its worst in five years, and home prices fell 8.9 percent last year, his view is not one that everyone shares — including a number of scholars at Stanford.
Emeritus Economics Prof. Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel-prize winning economist who formerly served as vice president and chief economist of the World Bank, said Tuesday that the U.S. economy is probably in a recession with the housing-market collapse dragging down consumer spending.----
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The credit storm which began in July when two Bear Stearns hedge funds were forced to liquidate, has continued to intensify. Last week the noose tightened around auction-rate securities, a little-known part of the market that requires short-term funding to set rates for long-term municipal bonds. The $330 billion ARS market has dried up overnight pushing up rates as high as 20 per cent on some bonds -- a new benchmark for short term debt. Auction-rate securities are now headed for extinction just like the other previously-vital parts of the structured finance paradigm.
The $2 trillion market for collateralized debt obligations (CDOs), the multi-trillion dollar mortgage-backed securities market (MBSs) and the $1.3 asset-backed commercial paper (ABCP) market have all shut down draining a small ocean of capital from the financial system and pushing many of the banks and hedge funds closer to default.
Number of famous economists, they are each planning to be somewhere else when the crash comes which they predict will topple the rich nations like tumbling tenpins into an economic chaos that will make the Great Depression of the Thirties look like good times. It is the arrogance of one, the unyieldedness of the other, the greed of one, the selfishness of the other, the blindness of one, the hardness of the other, and all of these things in some of those involved! In this case, the love of money is at the root of this evil, for it is what drives the forces at work.
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President George W. Bush publicly stated yesterday that the U.S. economy was not in a recession and that he believed it would not fall into a downturn. Given that economic reports show that U.S. consumer confidence has slumped to its worst in five years, and home prices fell 8.9 percent last year, his view is not one that everyone shares — including a number of scholars at Stanford.
Emeritus Economics Prof. Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel-prize winning economist who formerly served as vice president and chief economist of the World Bank, said Tuesday that the U.S. economy is probably in a recession with the housing-market collapse dragging down consumer spending.----
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The credit storm which began in July when two Bear Stearns hedge funds were forced to liquidate, has continued to intensify. Last week the noose tightened around auction-rate securities, a little-known part of the market that requires short-term funding to set rates for long-term municipal bonds. The $330 billion ARS market has dried up overnight pushing up rates as high as 20 per cent on some bonds -- a new benchmark for short term debt. Auction-rate securities are now headed for extinction just like the other previously-vital parts of the structured finance paradigm.
The $2 trillion market for collateralized debt obligations (CDOs), the multi-trillion dollar mortgage-backed securities market (MBSs) and the $1.3 asset-backed commercial paper (ABCP) market have all shut down draining a small ocean of capital from the financial system and pushing many of the banks and hedge funds closer to default.
Number of famous economists, they are each planning to be somewhere else when the crash comes which they predict will topple the rich nations like tumbling tenpins into an economic chaos that will make the Great Depression of the Thirties look like good times. It is the arrogance of one, the unyieldedness of the other, the greed of one, the selfishness of the other, the blindness of one, the hardness of the other, and all of these things in some of those involved! In this case, the love of money is at the root of this evil, for it is what drives the forces at work.
Ted Rudow III,MA
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
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Three young men, all former soldiers in the Israeli Defense Force, founded “Breaking the Silence” to do just that. It is a forum for former combat veterans — most of them in their 20s and early 30s — to talk about the way a brutal occupation made them brutes. Soldiers Avichai Sharon, Yehuda Shaul and Noam Chayut organized an exhibition of photographs and soldiers’ testimonies from their military service in the West Bank city of Hebron. They acted for the sake of their own mental health and, they say, to force Israel to confront the truth about its policies.
“What haunts me? It’s the memories of 6-year-old, 7-year-old Palestinian children watching with tears in their eyes (video) when you’re tossing their rooms, breaking their walls, taking their father and slamming him into the wall before arresting--Responsibility is to every human being in the world, and for sure for Americans, because in the end of the day for all what Israel does, there is only one country in the world that, you know, the chief of staff and the prime minister of Israel has to report in the end of the day, and that’s the United States of America.”
One of the main supporters of the backward policies is AIPAC, or the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, that describes itself as the most important organization affecting the U.S. relationship with Israel. With a budget of $65 million, and membership now standing at over 100,000, it is no wonder that congressional staffers consider it one of the most powerful and effective lobbies on Capitol Hill. Including AIPAC’s support for U.S. military aid to Israel, which amounts to over $3 billion per year.
Ted Rudow III,MA
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Sports should be secondary. Why give athletics an increase in funding? Academics are important and the university should facilitate the students with faculty and classes/courses. Let's facilitate the students' educational career instead of the seemingly habitual and persistent impediment of invaluable educational growth.
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The only escape for me, I thought, was sports. So I practiced and practiced basketball until I received many offers included West Point! I recieved an athletic scholarship to attend the University of California at Berkeley, in 1970.
The Vietman War was going on, and Berkeley was the hot-bed of radical resistance. I was on the honor roll and was voted first-team all-Northern California freshman in basketball, Captain and Most Valuable Player in 1971.
I felt pressures on many sides to really put out all my time and energy towards becoming a basketball star in college and pressing toward a professional career. On the other hand, deep within my heart, I felt that there was something wrong with all this!I felt caught between two worlds,one with the teachings of Jesus and His commandment to love thy neighbor,while in the other world, I was told to gain a near-manical desire to win and to physically punish my opponent in a defeat!
Time after time,scientists and social scientists had determine that sports actually aggravate conflict and aggression,as well damage bodies! My former U.C. Berkeley basketball coach,(1970-2), was verbally abusive and he got fired for hitting a player at another college! Did you know that the Nicargua-El Salvador war,in which 20,000 people were killed,started over a football game? In fact,Ernest Hemingway,who spent so much time in Latin America and Spain,said you could eliminate most Latin American wars and their causes by simply banning football or soccer!
Competitive Sports is war in disguised.
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Three young men, all former soldiers in the Israeli Defense Force, founded “Breaking the Silence” to do just that. It is a forum for former combat veterans — most of them in their 20s and early 30s — to talk about the way a brutal occupation made them brutes. Soldiers Avichai Sharon, Yehuda Shaul and Noam Chayut organized an exhibition of photographs and soldiers’ testimonies from their military service in the West Bank city of Hebron. They acted for the sake of their own mental health and, they say, to force Israel to confront the truth about its policies.
“What haunts me? It’s the memories of 6-year-old, 7-year-old Palestinian children watching with tears in their eyes (video) when you’re tossing their rooms, breaking their walls, taking their father and slamming him into the wall before arresting--Responsibility is to every human being in the world, and for sure for Americans, because in the end of the day for all what Israel does, there is only one country in the world that, you know, the chief of staff and the prime minister of Israel has to report in the end of the day, and that’s the United States of America.”
One of the main supporters of the backward policies is AIPAC, or the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, that describes itself as the most important organization affecting the U.S. relationship with Israel. With a budget of $65 million, and membership now standing at over 100,000, it is no wonder that congressional staffers consider it one of the most powerful and effective lobbies on Capitol Hill. Including AIPAC’s support for U.S. military aid to Israel, which amounts to over $3 billion per year.
Ted Rudow III,MA
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Letter | Academics are more important than sports for the university?
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Sports should be secondary. Why give athletics an increase in funding? Academics are important and the university should facilitate the students with faculty and classes/courses. Let's facilitate the students' educational career instead of the seemingly habitual and persistent impediment of invaluable educational growth.
Jesus Angulo
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The only escape for me, I thought, was sports. So I practiced and practiced basketball until I received many offers included West Point! I recieved an athletic scholarship to attend the University of California at Berkeley, in 1970.
The Vietman War was going on, and Berkeley was the hot-bed of radical resistance. I was on the honor roll and was voted first-team all-Northern California freshman in basketball, Captain and Most Valuable Player in 1971.
I felt pressures on many sides to really put out all my time and energy towards becoming a basketball star in college and pressing toward a professional career. On the other hand, deep within my heart, I felt that there was something wrong with all this!I felt caught between two worlds,one with the teachings of Jesus and His commandment to love thy neighbor,while in the other world, I was told to gain a near-manical desire to win and to physically punish my opponent in a defeat!
Time after time,scientists and social scientists had determine that sports actually aggravate conflict and aggression,as well damage bodies! My former U.C. Berkeley basketball coach,(1970-2), was verbally abusive and he got fired for hitting a player at another college! Did you know that the Nicargua-El Salvador war,in which 20,000 people were killed,started over a football game? In fact,Ernest Hemingway,who spent so much time in Latin America and Spain,said you could eliminate most Latin American wars and their causes by simply banning football or soccer!
Competitive Sports is war in disguised.
Ted Rudow III,
Friday, February 22, 2008
A HIDDEN HAND?--SATAN?
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'Nat'-ural Philosophy: Hail SATANford Hail
February 22, 2008
By Nat Hillard
Satanists of Stanford University, unite! From today forward, we shall no longer lie in the shadows. Standing against the backdrop of White Plaza, an enormous banner reads “may the love of SATAN be with you.” The name “Jesus” has been crossed out, and SATAN has, very cleverly, been placed above it on a new piece of paper.----
A HIDDEN HAND?--SATAN?
The kingdom of darkness is real and is the spiritual source of all opposition to God.
The lord of this diabolical kingdom is the "prince of the air," more commonly known as Satan, or the Devil. With a horde of wicked spirits at his command, he is called the "god of this [fallen] world" ( 2 Corinthians 4:4 ). As this world's ruler, his task is to oppose all of God's efforts to redeem Man. The battlefield here is primarily the human mind. Using a variety of techniques, Satan's strategy is to fill us with lies, to convince us that black is white and evil is good, to justify sin and blind us to our need for a Saviour, to distort our image of God and erase or trivialise our image of Satan, convincing us that he either doesn't exist or that he's a cartoon imp in red pajamas. Put simply, "to blind the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, Who is the image of God, should shine unto them" ( 2 Corinthians 4:4 ).
Given its power over the heart of Man, music is among the most potent of these techniques. And it's worth noting that both the Scriptures and church tradition suggest that music comes quite naturally to Satan, that very possibly, before his fall, he was in charge of music in Heaven. (See Isaiah 14:11 ; Ezekiel 28:13-15 .)
Of course, any style of music can be perverted by evil. Many of the elements this presentation examines are found in other musical forms as well. The reason for our focus on rock is both its unparalleled popularity and the manner in which it has given place to evil. Subtly at first, and then with increasing blatancy as rock's celebrants have been brought under its rhythmic sway, it has become one of the most potent weapons in Satan's arsenal of deception.
Fortunately, Satan's proven tendency for over-achieving has resulted in a blatancy that, when examined by an objective inquirer, can be used to expose the Devil's presence and purposes--hence this presentation.
And one last point before we begin to dust rock music for Satan's fingerprints--2 Corinthians tells us that Satan can transform himself into an angel of light ( 2 Corinthians 11:14 )--that he can, in other words, appear as something beautiful, even Christ-like. Don't be fooled! Satan doesn't just manifest his power through a Hitler or a Charles Manson. He can use your favourite guitarist, a pretty pop singer, maybe even you! Anyone who resists the will of God is fertile soil for his seeds of deception.
Satan had a great deal of control over Mankind until Jesus. On the cross, Jesus' thorn-torn brow and pierced body provided the perfect blood sacrifice for our sins. Now Satan's once mighty power is broken over anyone who believes on that blood, in Jesus and His sacrifice for us. It's no wonder Satan hates it. Can we find this demonic hatred in rock music? Sadly, yes.
Ted Rudow III,MA
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February 22, 2008
By Nat Hillard
Satanists of Stanford University, unite! From today forward, we shall no longer lie in the shadows. Standing against the backdrop of White Plaza, an enormous banner reads “may the love of SATAN be with you.” The name “Jesus” has been crossed out, and SATAN has, very cleverly, been placed above it on a new piece of paper.----
A HIDDEN HAND?--SATAN?
The kingdom of darkness is real and is the spiritual source of all opposition to God.
The lord of this diabolical kingdom is the "prince of the air," more commonly known as Satan, or the Devil. With a horde of wicked spirits at his command, he is called the "god of this [fallen] world" ( 2 Corinthians 4:4 ). As this world's ruler, his task is to oppose all of God's efforts to redeem Man. The battlefield here is primarily the human mind. Using a variety of techniques, Satan's strategy is to fill us with lies, to convince us that black is white and evil is good, to justify sin and blind us to our need for a Saviour, to distort our image of God and erase or trivialise our image of Satan, convincing us that he either doesn't exist or that he's a cartoon imp in red pajamas. Put simply, "to blind the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, Who is the image of God, should shine unto them" ( 2 Corinthians 4:4 ).
Given its power over the heart of Man, music is among the most potent of these techniques. And it's worth noting that both the Scriptures and church tradition suggest that music comes quite naturally to Satan, that very possibly, before his fall, he was in charge of music in Heaven. (See Isaiah 14:11 ; Ezekiel 28:13-15 .)
Of course, any style of music can be perverted by evil. Many of the elements this presentation examines are found in other musical forms as well. The reason for our focus on rock is both its unparalleled popularity and the manner in which it has given place to evil. Subtly at first, and then with increasing blatancy as rock's celebrants have been brought under its rhythmic sway, it has become one of the most potent weapons in Satan's arsenal of deception.
Fortunately, Satan's proven tendency for over-achieving has resulted in a blatancy that, when examined by an objective inquirer, can be used to expose the Devil's presence and purposes--hence this presentation.
And one last point before we begin to dust rock music for Satan's fingerprints--2 Corinthians tells us that Satan can transform himself into an angel of light ( 2 Corinthians 11:14 )--that he can, in other words, appear as something beautiful, even Christ-like. Don't be fooled! Satan doesn't just manifest his power through a Hitler or a Charles Manson. He can use your favourite guitarist, a pretty pop singer, maybe even you! Anyone who resists the will of God is fertile soil for his seeds of deception.
Satan had a great deal of control over Mankind until Jesus. On the cross, Jesus' thorn-torn brow and pierced body provided the perfect blood sacrifice for our sins. Now Satan's once mighty power is broken over anyone who believes on that blood, in Jesus and His sacrifice for us. It's no wonder Satan hates it. Can we find this demonic hatred in rock music? Sadly, yes.
Ted Rudow III,MA
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Castro
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Restrictions and oppression.Castro has done both good and evil, both godly and ungodly things, and in his old age he seeks to make amends and to do better before he passes on. Cuba desires and needs a Latin government, one that will allows Cuba to flourish and grow, while keeping evil and iniquity under control and in check. He has done much good for them, because he cares for them and wishes to see them prosper and do well. Many of the people chafe under the unnecessary restrictions and oppression. They do not need American-style democracy imposed upon them, but they do need more freedom. America fought him over the decades, and he vowed he would not change or give up, and he became rigid. But the world around him changed and Cuba changed, and his rigidity and inflexibility that once kept and preserved his people now works against them. But he nears the end of his days and Cuba too will change. Castro has become an has been, for he has grown set in his ways over the years, sometimes out of necessity.
Ted Rudow III,MA
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It's starting
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Wednesday Feb 20th, 2008 5:10 PM
It's starting to become like Eastern Europe used to be in the days of the Soviet Union, when there were police informants all over the place, people who were recruited to inform the authorities about anything suspicious so it could be checked out.
Except nowadays governments are recruiting their entire populations to keep an eye out for anyone suspicious!
It hasn't gotten as bad as the Soviet Union was, of course, but it has had an effect on people and on society as a whole. There's more fear, less tolerance for differences, and certainly less tolerance for people who might appear to be "difference"
If it suits their purposes, governments don't have to wait for terrorists to come along to create "incidents," you know. Hitler certainly didn't, when he wanted to seize more power in Germany. He and his officers arranged for some people to set fire to the German parliament building, and then he blamed it on the communists. Not long afterwards, new laws were passed "for the Protection of the People and the State," new crackdowns were enacted, and Hitler's dictatorship was well on the way. So it wouldn't be the first time that a government used terrorism as a pretext!
Ted Rudow III,MA
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... "What changes minds is real sacrifice. Getting clubbed by policemen who then throw you in jail while you’re still bleeding. Or fleeing to Canada, never knowing if you will return to the country of your birth. Non-violent protest is not passive. It involves people radically changing their lives for something they passionately believe. Generally all that happens is a couple gatherings in White Plaza between classes. And even when something a bit more spectacular, like a hunger strike, happens, it’s brief and easy to ignore. All this protesting is lame — and everyone knows it’s lame — and that’s why you never get anywhere."
It's starting to become like Eastern Europe used to be in the days of the Soviet Union, when there were police informants all over the place, people who were recruited to inform the authorities about anything suspicious so it could be checked out. Except nowadays governments are recruiting their entire populations to keep an eye out for anyone suspicious!
It hasn't gotten as bad as the Soviet Union was, of course, but it has had an effect on people and on society as a whole. There's more fear, less tolerance for differences, and certainly less tolerance for people who might appear to be "difference"
If it suits their purposes, governments don't have to wait for terrorists to come along to create "incidents," you know. Hitler certainly didn't, when he wanted to seize more power in Germany. He and his officers arranged for some people to set fire to the German parliament building, and then he blamed it on the communists. Not long afterwards, new laws were passed "for the Protection of the People and the State," new crackdowns were enacted, and Hitler's dictatorship was well on the way. So it wouldn't be the first time that a government used terrorism as a pretext!
Ted Rudow III,MA
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Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Restrictions and oppression.Castro has done both good and evil, both godly and ungodly things, and in his old age he seeks to make amends and to do better before he passes on. Cuba desires and needs a Latin government, one that will allows Cuba to flourish and grow, while keeping evil and iniquity under control and in check. He has done much good for them, because he cares for them and wishes to see them prosper and do well. Many of the people chafe under the unnecessary restrictions and oppression. They do not need American-style democracy imposed upon them, but they do need more freedom. America fought him over the decades, and he vowed he would not change or give up, and he became rigid. But the world around him changed and Cuba changed, and his rigidity and inflexibility that once kept and preserved his people now works against them. But he nears the end of his days and Cuba too will change. Castro has become an has been, for he has grown set in his ways over the years, sometimes out of necessity.
Ted Rudow III,MA
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/02/20/18480652.php
It's starting
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Wednesday Feb 20th, 2008 5:10 PM
It's starting to become like Eastern Europe used to be in the days of the Soviet Union, when there were police informants all over the place, people who were recruited to inform the authorities about anything suspicious so it could be checked out.
Except nowadays governments are recruiting their entire populations to keep an eye out for anyone suspicious!
It hasn't gotten as bad as the Soviet Union was, of course, but it has had an effect on people and on society as a whole. There's more fear, less tolerance for differences, and certainly less tolerance for people who might appear to be "difference"
If it suits their purposes, governments don't have to wait for terrorists to come along to create "incidents," you know. Hitler certainly didn't, when he wanted to seize more power in Germany. He and his officers arranged for some people to set fire to the German parliament building, and then he blamed it on the communists. Not long afterwards, new laws were passed "for the Protection of the People and the State," new crackdowns were enacted, and Hitler's dictatorship was well on the way. So it wouldn't be the first time that a government used terrorism as a pretext!
Ted Rudow III,MA
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... "What changes minds is real sacrifice. Getting clubbed by policemen who then throw you in jail while you’re still bleeding. Or fleeing to Canada, never knowing if you will return to the country of your birth. Non-violent protest is not passive. It involves people radically changing their lives for something they passionately believe. Generally all that happens is a couple gatherings in White Plaza between classes. And even when something a bit more spectacular, like a hunger strike, happens, it’s brief and easy to ignore. All this protesting is lame — and everyone knows it’s lame — and that’s why you never get anywhere."
It's starting to become like Eastern Europe used to be in the days of the Soviet Union, when there were police informants all over the place, people who were recruited to inform the authorities about anything suspicious so it could be checked out. Except nowadays governments are recruiting their entire populations to keep an eye out for anyone suspicious!
It hasn't gotten as bad as the Soviet Union was, of course, but it has had an effect on people and on society as a whole. There's more fear, less tolerance for differences, and certainly less tolerance for people who might appear to be "difference"
If it suits their purposes, governments don't have to wait for terrorists to come along to create "incidents," you know. Hitler certainly didn't, when he wanted to seize more power in Germany. He and his officers arranged for some people to set fire to the German parliament building, and then he blamed it on the communists. Not long afterwards, new laws were passed "for the Protection of the People and the State," new crackdowns were enacted, and Hitler's dictatorship was well on the way. So it wouldn't be the first time that a government used terrorism as a pretext!
Ted Rudow III,MA
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
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Everyone was under observation in Orwell’s 1984, being watched at any time, and that’s how it’s becoming in many big cities around the world — and little ones as well. The fear of criminals or terrorists has infected society after society, and instead of teaching their citizens right from wrong or providing enough money and jobs for them so that they don’t have to turn to crime, they’re investing in surveillance equipment instead, so they can catch them when they do wrong.
It’s a culture of fear. Americans are afraid of terrorists or terrorism, and their government plays on those fears. In fact, it manipulates their fears, and even works to heighten them. That’s what helps to keep politicians in office: “Vote for me, because I can protect you. My opponent, on the other hand, is soft on terrorism.” And many people just don’t realize that they’re being bamboozled — that they’re giving up their money, their freedom, their privacy, their rights, to protect them from a threat that’s less likely to strike them than a bolt of lightning.
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Editor,
Everyone was under observation in Orwell’s 1984, being watched at any time, and that’s how it’s becoming in many big cities around the world — and little ones as well. The fear of criminals or terrorists has infected society after society, and instead of teaching their citizens right from wrong or providing enough money and jobs for them so that they don’t have to turn to crime, they’re investing in surveillance equipment instead, so they can catch them when they do wrong.
It’s a culture of fear. Americans are afraid of terrorists or terrorism, and their government plays on those fears. In fact, it manipulates their fears, and even works to heighten them. That’s what helps to keep politicians in office: “Vote for me, because I can protect you. My opponent, on the other hand, is soft on terrorism.” And many people just don’t realize that they’re being bamboozled — that they’re giving up their money, their freedom, their privacy, their rights, to protect them from a threat that’s less likely to strike them than a bolt of lightning.
Ted Rudow III,MA
Menlo Park
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
What goes up,must come down!
What goes up,must come down!
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All great societies pass this way eventually, running up unsustainable debts and printing (or minting) currency in an increasingly desperate attempt to maintain the illusion of prosperity. And all, eventually, find themselves between the proverbial devil and deep blue sea: Either they simply collapse under the weight of their accumulated debt, as did the U.S. and Europe in the 1930s, or they keep running the printing presses until their currencies become worthless and their economies fall into chaos.
This is a big blow to the money men, the rich stock investors in New York and the U.S.A. and around the world. It starts with the U.S., then it sort of dominoes. How it will go this time, of course, nobody knows except the Lord, but we know there’s going to be a Crash, and a worldwide Crash, and this could be the beginning of the real crash.
How long can they stand that? And the U.S. itself has the biggest deficit it has ever had, amounting to nearly $5,132,265,067,831.71 current debt held by the public and Intragovernmental Holdings $4,105,743,221,110.40, total public debt outstanding of $9,238,008,288,942.11. Dollars that the United States owes and can’t pay. There has to come a day of reckoning, and it looks like it’s about to come.
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All great societies pass this way eventually, running up unsustainable debts and printing (or minting) currency in an increasingly desperate attempt to maintain the illusion of prosperity. And all, eventually, find themselves between the proverbial devil and deep blue sea: Either they simply collapse under the weight of their accumulated debt, as did the U.S. and Europe in the 1930s, or they keep running the printing presses until their currencies become worthless and their economies fall into chaos.
This is a big blow to the money men, the rich stock investors in New York and the U.S.A. and around the world. It starts with the U.S., then it sort of dominoes. How it will go this time, of course, nobody knows except the Lord, but we know there’s going to be a Crash, and a worldwide Crash, and this could be the beginning of the real crash.
How long can they stand that? And the U.S. itself has the biggest deficit it has ever had, amounting to nearly $5,132,265,067,831.71 current debt held by the public and Intragovernmental Holdings $4,105,743,221,110.40, total public debt outstanding of $9,238,008,288,942.11. Dollars that the United States owes and can’t pay. There has to come a day of reckoning, and it looks like it’s about to come.
Ted Rudow III,MA
Sunday, February 17, 2008
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They are hypocritical
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who has acknowledged using steroids during his years as a champion body builder, said he doesn't regret using the performance-enhancing drugs. Schwarzenegger has acknowledged taking steroids, but pointed out that they were legal at the time. With such violent films as "The Terminator" (1984), he delivers the oft-quoted, straight-faced line "I'll be back" to a desk clerk and now he used that line in his speeches! Horrible!
Another case, that because of Clemens' friendship with President George W. Bush's father, former President George H.W. Bush, some predicted the pitcher will be pardoned should Clemens be indicted or convicted of anything related to the hearing.
They are hypocrite pretending to be everybody's friend and nobody's enemy, when in their hearts they know exactly where they stand, and which way they'll go when the showdown comes, as many Republican leaders have. It's the spirit of competition and pride, proving you're better than the other guy. So they take steriods! But the world just loves it!
Ted Rudow III,MA
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Sunday, February 17, 2008
They are hypocritical
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who has acknowledged using steroids during his years as a champion body builder, said he doesn't regret using the performance-enhancing drugs. Schwarzenegger has acknowledged taking steroids, but pointed out that they were legal at the time. With such violent films as "The Terminator" (1984), he delivers the oft-quoted, straight-faced line "I'll be back" to a desk clerk and now he used that line in his speeches! Horrible!
Another case, that because of Clemens' friendship with President George W. Bush's father, former President George H.W. Bush, some predicted the pitcher will be pardoned should Clemens be indicted or convicted of anything related to the hearing.
They are hypocrite pretending to be everybody's friend and nobody's enemy, when in their hearts they know exactly where they stand, and which way they'll go when the showdown comes, as many Republican leaders have. It's the spirit of competition and pride, proving you're better than the other guy. So they take steriods! But the world just loves it!
Ted Rudow III,MA
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Prisoners of the policies of their party
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February 13, 2008
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"The United States has never had, and possibly will never have again, a vice president as powerful as Dick Cheney. Perhaps he will only be remembered by political scientists and White House history buffs, but remembered he will be. Now as Cheney serves his last year in office, it is time to analyze the mark he has left on the White House. ------
Ted Rudow III,MA
America is too far gone for that now, especially for the types of Christians who seek to become vice-president of that nation. The Lord advised His followers that 'No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please Him who hath chosen him to be a soldier' (2 Timothy 2:4). Those who would reach such a lofty office in the eyes of the world have entangled themselves deeply in the affairs of this world, and have separated themselves from Him.
Those who are elected to this office that is so highly esteemed among men have few choices left to them. They are prisoners of the compromises they have made to attain the office, prisoners of their advisers and counselors, prisoners of the policies of their party and the values of their nation. They are heavily influenced by Superdelegate as well and will bow down to their will!
Ted Rudow III,MA
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"The United States has never had, and possibly will never have again, a vice president as powerful as Dick Cheney. Perhaps he will only be remembered by political scientists and White House history buffs, but remembered he will be. Now as Cheney serves his last year in office, it is time to analyze the mark he has left on the White House. ------
Ted Rudow III,MA
America is too far gone for that now, especially for the types of Christians who seek to become vice-president of that nation. The Lord advised His followers that 'No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please Him who hath chosen him to be a soldier' (2 Timothy 2:4). Those who would reach such a lofty office in the eyes of the world have entangled themselves deeply in the affairs of this world, and have separated themselves from Him.
Those who are elected to this office that is so highly esteemed among men have few choices left to them. They are prisoners of the compromises they have made to attain the office, prisoners of their advisers and counselors, prisoners of the policies of their party and the values of their nation. They are heavily influenced by Superdelegate as well and will bow down to their will!
Ted Rudow III,MA
Monday, February 11, 2008
Corporatocracy
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I voted for Sen. Barack Obama. But there is another side to the story.In the U.S., we know that the two final presidential candidates, Republican and Democrat alike, are going to each have to raise something like half a billion dollars. And that’s not going to come from us. Primarily that’s going to come from the people who own and run our big corporations. So the G8 is this group of countries that represent the biggest multinational corporations in the world and really serve at their behest.It doesn’t really matter whether we have a Democrat or a Republican in the White House or running Congress; the empire goes on, because it’s really run by what I call the corporatocracy, which is a group of men who run our biggest corporations. They really are the equivalent of the emperor, because they do not serve at the wish of the people, they’re not democratically elected, they don’t serve any limited term. They essentially answer to no one, except their own boards. They are the power behind this. Today, corporations exist for the primary purpose of making large profits, making a few very rich people a lot richer. That shouldn’t be.
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I voted for Sen. Barack Obama. But there is another side to the story.In the U.S., we know that the two final presidential candidates, Republican and Democrat alike, are going to each have to raise something like half a billion dollars. And that’s not going to come from us. Primarily that’s going to come from the people who own and run our big corporations. So the G8 is this group of countries that represent the biggest multinational corporations in the world and really serve at their behest.It doesn’t really matter whether we have a Democrat or a Republican in the White House or running Congress; the empire goes on, because it’s really run by what I call the corporatocracy, which is a group of men who run our biggest corporations. They really are the equivalent of the emperor, because they do not serve at the wish of the people, they’re not democratically elected, they don’t serve any limited term. They essentially answer to no one, except their own boards. They are the power behind this. Today, corporations exist for the primary purpose of making large profits, making a few very rich people a lot richer. That shouldn’t be.
Ted Rudow III,MA
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Tuesday, February 05, 2008
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Obama
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Tuesday Feb 5th, 2008 9:20 AM
I am voted for Barack Obama. But there is another side to the story!
"In the U.S., we know that the next two final presidential candidates, Republican and Democrat alike, are going to each have to raise something like half a billion dollars. And that's not going to come from me and you. Primarily that's going to come from the people who own and run our big corporations. So the G8 is this group of countries that represent the biggest multinational corporations in the world and really serve at their behest.--It doesn't really matter whether we have a Democrat or a Republican in the White House or running Congress; the empire goes on, because it's really run by what I call the corporatocracy, which is a group of men who run our biggest corporations. They really are the equivalent of the emperor, because they do not serve at the wish of the people, they're not democratically elected, they don't serve any limited term. They essentially answer to no one, except their own boards. They are the power behind this. Today corporations exist for the primary purpose of making large profits, making a few very rich people a lot richer. That shouldn't be."John Perkins,"The Secret History of the American Empire: Economic Hit Men, Jackals, and the Truth about Global "
The rich of the world were eager to loan money to the poor nations of the world, for the money came with strings—strings which would become chains of immense debt over time. After the poor nations had spent their loans, often squandering them at the economic marketplaces of the rich nations, they had little to repay them with. But the interest was due month after month, year after year, and that often required taking out more loans, with more interest, and growing indebtedness, dependence, poverty, and economic slavery.
Ted Rudow III,MA
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By Stuart Baimel
"Clinton, compared to Obama, has shown herself to be far humbler(?) in her ambitions for the presidency, focusing on solutions and results rather than grand, gauzy rhetoric.--The American people will find a Hillary Clinton presidency to be humble(?) and bipartisan, much like her seven and a half years in the Senate. -------
Ted Rudow III,MA
I am voted for Barack Obama. But there is another side to the story!
"In the U.S., we know that the next two final presidential candidates, Republican and Democrat alike, are going to each have to raise something like half a billion dollars. And that's not going to come from me and you. Primarily that's going to come from the people who own and run our big corporations. So the G8 is this group of countries that represent the biggest multinational corporations in the world and really serve at their behest.--It doesn't really matter whether we have a Democrat or a Republican in the White House or running Congress; the empire goes on, because it's really run by what I call the corporatocracy, which is a group of men who run our biggest corporations. They really are the equivalent of the emperor, because they do not serve at the wish of the people, they're not democratically elected, they don't serve any limited term. They essentially answer to no one, except their own boards. They are the power behind this. Today corporations exist for the primary purpose of making large profits, making a few very rich people a lot richer. That shouldn't be."John Perkins,"The Secret History of the American Empire: Economic Hit Men, Jackals, and the Truth about Global "
The rich of the world were eager to loan money to the poor nations of the world, for the money came with strings—strings which would become chains of immense debt over time. After the poor nations had spent their loans, often squandering them at the economic marketplaces of the rich nations, they had little to repay them with. But the interest was due month after month, year after year, and that often required taking out more loans, with more interest, and growing indebtedness, dependence, poverty, and economic slavery.
Ted Rudow III,MA
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He stands tall and proud on podiums during state primaries and caucuses, both in victory and defeat.
His ebullient smile and flaming confidence are invariable constants, despite the oppositions, despite the setbacks and despite America's critical wariness in envisioning him sitting in the Oval Office....
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Ted Rudow III,MA
I am voted for Barack Obama. But there is another to the story! "In the U.S., we know that the next two final presidential candidates, Republican and Democrat alike, are going to each have to raise something like half a billion dollars. And that's not going to come from me and you. Primarily that's going to come from the people who own and run our big corporations. So the G8 is this group of countries that represent the biggest multinational corporations in the world and really serve at their behest.--It doesn't really matter whether we have a Democrat or a Republican in the White House or running Congress; the empire goes on, because it's really run by what I call the corporatocracy, which is a group of men who run our biggest corporations. They really are the equivalent of the emperor, because they do not serve at the wish of the people, they're not democratically elected, they don't serve any limited term. They essentially answer to no one, except their own boards. They are the power behind this. Today corporations exist for the primary purpose of making large profits, making a few very rich people a lot richer. That shouldn't be."John Perkins,"The Secret History of the American Empire: Economic Hit Men, Jackals, and the Truth about Global "
The rich of the world were eager to loan money to the poor nations of the world, for the money came with strings--strings which would become chains of immense debt over time. After the poor nations had spent their loans, often squandering them at the economic marketplaces of the rich nations, they had little to repay them with. But the interest was due month after month, year after year, and that often required taking out more loans, with more interest, and growing indebtedness, dependence, poverty, and economic slavery.
Ted Rudow III,MA
Class of 1996
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Tuesday Feb 5th, 2008 9:20 AM
I am voted for Barack Obama. But there is another side to the story!
"In the U.S., we know that the next two final presidential candidates, Republican and Democrat alike, are going to each have to raise something like half a billion dollars. And that's not going to come from me and you. Primarily that's going to come from the people who own and run our big corporations. So the G8 is this group of countries that represent the biggest multinational corporations in the world and really serve at their behest.--It doesn't really matter whether we have a Democrat or a Republican in the White House or running Congress; the empire goes on, because it's really run by what I call the corporatocracy, which is a group of men who run our biggest corporations. They really are the equivalent of the emperor, because they do not serve at the wish of the people, they're not democratically elected, they don't serve any limited term. They essentially answer to no one, except their own boards. They are the power behind this. Today corporations exist for the primary purpose of making large profits, making a few very rich people a lot richer. That shouldn't be."John Perkins,"The Secret History of the American Empire: Economic Hit Men, Jackals, and the Truth about Global "
The rich of the world were eager to loan money to the poor nations of the world, for the money came with strings—strings which would become chains of immense debt over time. After the poor nations had spent their loans, often squandering them at the economic marketplaces of the rich nations, they had little to repay them with. But the interest was due month after month, year after year, and that often required taking out more loans, with more interest, and growing indebtedness, dependence, poverty, and economic slavery.
Ted Rudow III,MA
The Stanford Daily
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Tuesday February 5, 2008
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February 5, 2008
By Stuart Baimel
"Clinton, compared to Obama, has shown herself to be far humbler(?) in her ambitions for the presidency, focusing on solutions and results rather than grand, gauzy rhetoric.--The American people will find a Hillary Clinton presidency to be humble(?) and bipartisan, much like her seven and a half years in the Senate. -------
Ted Rudow III,MA
I am voted for Barack Obama. But there is another side to the story!
"In the U.S., we know that the next two final presidential candidates, Republican and Democrat alike, are going to each have to raise something like half a billion dollars. And that's not going to come from me and you. Primarily that's going to come from the people who own and run our big corporations. So the G8 is this group of countries that represent the biggest multinational corporations in the world and really serve at their behest.--It doesn't really matter whether we have a Democrat or a Republican in the White House or running Congress; the empire goes on, because it's really run by what I call the corporatocracy, which is a group of men who run our biggest corporations. They really are the equivalent of the emperor, because they do not serve at the wish of the people, they're not democratically elected, they don't serve any limited term. They essentially answer to no one, except their own boards. They are the power behind this. Today corporations exist for the primary purpose of making large profits, making a few very rich people a lot richer. That shouldn't be."John Perkins,"The Secret History of the American Empire: Economic Hit Men, Jackals, and the Truth about Global "
The rich of the world were eager to loan money to the poor nations of the world, for the money came with strings—strings which would become chains of immense debt over time. After the poor nations had spent their loans, often squandering them at the economic marketplaces of the rich nations, they had little to repay them with. But the interest was due month after month, year after year, and that often required taking out more loans, with more interest, and growing indebtedness, dependence, poverty, and economic slavery.
Ted Rudow III,MA
Obama
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Obama for president: It's no 'fairy tale'
Abstract:
He stands tall and proud on podiums during state primaries and caucuses, both in victory and defeat.
His ebullient smile and flaming confidence are invariable constants, despite the oppositions, despite the setbacks and despite America's critical wariness in envisioning him sitting in the Oval Office....
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Ted Rudow III,MA
I am voted for Barack Obama. But there is another to the story! "In the U.S., we know that the next two final presidential candidates, Republican and Democrat alike, are going to each have to raise something like half a billion dollars. And that's not going to come from me and you. Primarily that's going to come from the people who own and run our big corporations. So the G8 is this group of countries that represent the biggest multinational corporations in the world and really serve at their behest.--It doesn't really matter whether we have a Democrat or a Republican in the White House or running Congress; the empire goes on, because it's really run by what I call the corporatocracy, which is a group of men who run our biggest corporations. They really are the equivalent of the emperor, because they do not serve at the wish of the people, they're not democratically elected, they don't serve any limited term. They essentially answer to no one, except their own boards. They are the power behind this. Today corporations exist for the primary purpose of making large profits, making a few very rich people a lot richer. That shouldn't be."John Perkins,"The Secret History of the American Empire: Economic Hit Men, Jackals, and the Truth about Global "
The rich of the world were eager to loan money to the poor nations of the world, for the money came with strings--strings which would become chains of immense debt over time. After the poor nations had spent their loans, often squandering them at the economic marketplaces of the rich nations, they had little to repay them with. But the interest was due month after month, year after year, and that often required taking out more loans, with more interest, and growing indebtedness, dependence, poverty, and economic slavery.
Ted Rudow III,MA
Class of 1996
Monday, February 04, 2008
U.S can't sustain
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All great societies pass this way eventually, running up unsustainable debts and printing (or minting) currency in an increasingly desperate attempt to maintain the illusion of prosperity. They simply collapse under the weight of their accumulated debt, as did the United States and Europe in the 1930s, or they keep running the printing presses until their currencies become worthless and their economies fall into chaos. The United States has the biggest deficit it has ever had, amounting to nearly $9.2 trillion. There has to come a day of reckoning, and it looks like it's about to come.
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All great societies pass this way eventually, running up unsustainable debts and printing (or minting) currency in an increasingly desperate attempt to maintain the illusion of prosperity. They simply collapse under the weight of their accumulated debt, as did the United States and Europe in the 1930s, or they keep running the printing presses until their currencies become worthless and their economies fall into chaos. The United States has the biggest deficit it has ever had, amounting to nearly $9.2 trillion. There has to come a day of reckoning, and it looks like it's about to come.
Ted Rudow III,MA
Menlo Park
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