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4/23/2009 10:00:00 AM
The 'religion' of capitalism
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The world has been deceived by the "religion" of capitalism. People had put their faith in a system that promised them ever-increasing profits. The financial "high priests" - the investment bankers, hedge fund operators, and others, promised continual growth. Meanwhile people, companies, banks, institutions, and national governments poured their money into investments that assured financial blessings. They believed, they had faith, and now they see that their faith was misplaced. The financial system that they believed in and thought was solid and strong was only an illusion.
The high priests were repackaging toxic debt and selling it to banks, financial institutions, and nations as if it were gold. Their sleight of hand had people taken in by the belief that if you bought into their system, you were guaranteed rewards. People believed, and they acted on that belief.
America can no longer say, "This is the way it's going to be." The U.S. doesn't have the financial power it used to, because its economy has been greatly weakened. The American government has discredited itself in its interactions with the rest of the world in the way it started its war with Iraq based on lies and false information, its mistreatment of its European allies, its continued unflinching support of Israel despite Israel's violations of international law, its torture of prisoners, and because of its hubris and blatant disregard for the opinions and desires of other nations.
Ted Rudow III,MA
Menlo Park, Calif.
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
10,000 nuclear weapons
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From Daily News Group readersPeninsula readers' letters: April 22
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Posted: 04/21/2009 10:42:42 PM PDT
Dear Editor: Well, the Iranians aren't very disposed to kowtow to U.S. might, because they did that for nearly 25 years — a fact many Americans either don't know or conveniently forget. The U.S. overthrew the democratically elected government of Iran back in the 1950s — so much for democracy — and arranged for the Shah to take over, and he did for nearly 25 years. The Iranians didn't care much for the Shah, who was a U.S. puppet, and they certainly don't care much for the U.S. puppeteer.So the Iranians aren't likely to back down on their demands for what they say is a peaceful nuclear program, nor is the U.S. likely to believe them if they do, barring a miracle in either case. The Iranians are determined that they will get nuclear power, and will eventually craft a bomb. It's not just the U.S. government, or parts of it, that's opposed to Iran meddling with nuclear power. Israel is very opposed to it too, since it has the monopoly on nuclear weapons and military might in the Mideast, and wants to keep it that way. And there's a rabidly Zionist bunch of Christians in the U.S. who are also adamantly opposed to Iran getting the bomb, in case it might attack Israel. They're afraid Israel's destruction would hinder or frustrate the Lord's return — as if the Lord needed their help to fulfill his prophecies.So here you see the U.S., which has 10,000 nuclear weapons of various types and has been engaged in constant wars, and Israel, which has at least 200 nuclear weapons and has repeatedly fought its neighbors, calling Iran, with no nuclear weapons, a threat to world peace and a menace to civilization.
Ted Rudow III,MA
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Dear Editor: Well, the Iranians aren't very disposed to kowtow to U.S. might, because they did that for nearly 25 years — a fact many Americans either don't know or conveniently forget. The U.S. overthrew the democratically elected government of Iran back in the 1950s — so much for democracy — and arranged for the Shah to take over, and he did for nearly 25 years. The Iranians didn't care much for the Shah, who was a U.S. puppet, and they certainly don't care much for the U.S. puppeteer.So the Iranians aren't likely to back down on their demands for what they say is a peaceful nuclear program, nor is the U.S. likely to believe them if they do, barring a miracle in either case. The Iranians are determined that they will get nuclear power, and will eventually craft a bomb. It's not just the U.S. government, or parts of it, that's opposed to Iran meddling with nuclear power. Israel is very opposed to it too, since it has the monopoly on nuclear weapons and military might in the Mideast, and wants to keep it that way. And there's a rabidly Zionist bunch of Christians in the U.S. who are also adamantly opposed to Iran getting the bomb, in case it might attack Israel. They're afraid Israel's destruction would hinder or frustrate the Lord's return — as if the Lord needed their help to fulfill his prophecies.So here you see the U.S., which has 10,000 nuclear weapons of various types and has been engaged in constant wars, and Israel, which has at least 200 nuclear weapons and has repeatedly fought its neighbors, calling Iran, with no nuclear weapons, a threat to world peace and a menace to civilization.
Ted Rudow III,MA
Teapot calling the kettle black
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April 22,2009
Teapot calling the kettle black
Dear Editor: Well, the Iranians aren’t very disposed to kowtow to U.S. might, because they did that for nearly 25 years — a fact many Americans either don’t know or conveniently forget. The U.S. overthrew the democratically elected government of Iran back in the 1950s — so much for democracy — and arranged for the Shah to take over, and he did for nearly 25 years. The Iranians didn’t care much for the Shah, who was a U.S. puppet, and they certainly don’t care much for the U.S. puppeteer.
So the Iranians aren’t likely to back down on their demands for what they say is a peaceful nuclear program, nor is the U.S. likely to believe them if they do, barring a miracle in either case. The Iranians are determined that they will get nuclear power, and will eventually craft a bomb. It’s not just the U.S. government, or parts of it, that’s opposed to Iran meddling with nuclear power. Israel is very opposed to it too, since it has the monopoly on nuclear weapons and military might in the Mideast, and wants to keep it that way.
And there’s a rabidly Zionist bunch of Christians in the U.S. who are also adamantly opposed to Iran getting the bomb, in case it might attack Israel. They’re afraid Israel’s destruction would hinder or frustrate the Lord’s return — as if the Lord needed their help to fulfill his prophecies.
So here you see the U.S., which has 10,000 nuclear
LETTERS, page 9 weapons of various types and has been engaged in constant wars, and Israel, which has at least 200 nuclear weapons and has repeatedly fought its neighbors, calling Iran, with no nuclear weapons, a threat to world peace and a menace to civilization!
Ted Rudow III,MA
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Serving Atherton, East Palo Alto, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, Menlo Park, Mountain View, Portola Valley, Stanford, Sunnyvale, Woodside
April 22,2009
Teapot calling the kettle black
Dear Editor: Well, the Iranians aren’t very disposed to kowtow to U.S. might, because they did that for nearly 25 years — a fact many Americans either don’t know or conveniently forget. The U.S. overthrew the democratically elected government of Iran back in the 1950s — so much for democracy — and arranged for the Shah to take over, and he did for nearly 25 years. The Iranians didn’t care much for the Shah, who was a U.S. puppet, and they certainly don’t care much for the U.S. puppeteer.
So the Iranians aren’t likely to back down on their demands for what they say is a peaceful nuclear program, nor is the U.S. likely to believe them if they do, barring a miracle in either case. The Iranians are determined that they will get nuclear power, and will eventually craft a bomb. It’s not just the U.S. government, or parts of it, that’s opposed to Iran meddling with nuclear power. Israel is very opposed to it too, since it has the monopoly on nuclear weapons and military might in the Mideast, and wants to keep it that way.
And there’s a rabidly Zionist bunch of Christians in the U.S. who are also adamantly opposed to Iran getting the bomb, in case it might attack Israel. They’re afraid Israel’s destruction would hinder or frustrate the Lord’s return — as if the Lord needed their help to fulfill his prophecies.
So here you see the U.S., which has 10,000 nuclear
LETTERS, page 9 weapons of various types and has been engaged in constant wars, and Israel, which has at least 200 nuclear weapons and has repeatedly fought its neighbors, calling Iran, with no nuclear weapons, a threat to world peace and a menace to civilization!
Ted Rudow III,MA
Monday, April 20, 2009
Right-wing extremists use fear to recruit
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Abstract: Beware of a resurgence in radicalization and recruitment of right-wing extremists. This was the message in a report by the Department of Homeland Security on April 7. The report follows a warning on left-wing extremists, which was released in January. According to an article on CNN....
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Ted Rudow III,MA
U.S. economy will collapse, especially right now, as bad as things are. Usually presidents use War as a remedy for a Depression. They certainly won't get us out of a war already in progress that's barely keeping our heads above water to keep us from going into a full-scale Depression! So they're sure as hell not going to get us out of this war. Not if they can help it. They will lie and lie and lie and say they're doing it!
I read that book, The War Goes On, by Sholem Asch, He wrote on the conditions in post-WWI Germany which brought Hitler to power. He showed the picture of Germany--what was wrong with Germany--what happened to Germany and why Hitler was created--the monster was created to devour the lesser monster--so they created a bigger Monster! So similar to the conditions of the United States today.--If you ever have a chance to read it, you'll get a picture of what America is like today.--Same thing! I have never seen so many swastikas flying,--you know, those red, white, and blue swastikas?
The American flag is going to be the swastika of America. It's already being used just like the swastika was being used in Germany--to show patriotism, loyalty, love for Fatherland: "We are the true Germans. We're the ones who really want peace. We're the ones who really want to save the Fatherland. The rest of you guys are a bunch of radicals, and disloyal traitors and Commies!
Ted Rudow III,MA
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Monday, April 20, 2009
Right-wing extremists use fear to recruit
Abstract: Beware of a resurgence in radicalization and recruitment of right-wing extremists. This was the message in a report by the Department of Homeland Security on April 7. The report follows a warning on left-wing extremists, which was released in January. According to an article on CNN....
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Ted Rudow III,MA
U.S. economy will collapse, especially right now, as bad as things are. Usually presidents use War as a remedy for a Depression. They certainly won't get us out of a war already in progress that's barely keeping our heads above water to keep us from going into a full-scale Depression! So they're sure as hell not going to get us out of this war. Not if they can help it. They will lie and lie and lie and say they're doing it!
I read that book, The War Goes On, by Sholem Asch, He wrote on the conditions in post-WWI Germany which brought Hitler to power. He showed the picture of Germany--what was wrong with Germany--what happened to Germany and why Hitler was created--the monster was created to devour the lesser monster--so they created a bigger Monster! So similar to the conditions of the United States today.--If you ever have a chance to read it, you'll get a picture of what America is like today.--Same thing! I have never seen so many swastikas flying,--you know, those red, white, and blue swastikas?
The American flag is going to be the swastika of America. It's already being used just like the swastika was being used in Germany--to show patriotism, loyalty, love for Fatherland: "We are the true Germans. We're the ones who really want peace. We're the ones who really want to save the Fatherland. The rest of you guys are a bunch of radicals, and disloyal traitors and Commies!
Ted Rudow III,MA
Class of 1996
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Deny that freedom
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/04/18/18590317.php
Deny that freedom
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Saturday Apr 18th, 2009
Either way, we should candidly confront the phenomenon he represents. If one believes that Lieberman utterances sound fascist, one has to ask oneself: is there a possibility that a fascist regime might come to power in Israel.
After the Holocaust which Nazi fascism brought upon us? Can one even imagine that Israelis would become something like the Nazis? When Yeshayahu Leibowitz coined, many years ago, the term "Judeo-Nazis", the entire country blew up. Even many of his admirers thought that this time the turbulent professor had gone too far.
And I hate to bring up the bad “F” word, but, you know, there is a model for this, and Mussolini had it in Italy, and it’s called “fascism. It’s where your big corporate interests throw in with government, destroy the freedom of the rest of the people, and preserve their power. Everybody forgets, private corporations and banks did quite well, made out quite well in Italy and Germany in those days, you know? And I am really worried about this assault on their democracy which America has spent billions to deny that freedom!
Ted Rudow III,MA
Deny that freedom
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Saturday Apr 18th, 2009
Either way, we should candidly confront the phenomenon he represents. If one believes that Lieberman utterances sound fascist, one has to ask oneself: is there a possibility that a fascist regime might come to power in Israel.
After the Holocaust which Nazi fascism brought upon us? Can one even imagine that Israelis would become something like the Nazis? When Yeshayahu Leibowitz coined, many years ago, the term "Judeo-Nazis", the entire country blew up. Even many of his admirers thought that this time the turbulent professor had gone too far.
And I hate to bring up the bad “F” word, but, you know, there is a model for this, and Mussolini had it in Italy, and it’s called “fascism. It’s where your big corporate interests throw in with government, destroy the freedom of the rest of the people, and preserve their power. Everybody forgets, private corporations and banks did quite well, made out quite well in Italy and Germany in those days, you know? And I am really worried about this assault on their democracy which America has spent billions to deny that freedom!
Ted Rudow III,MA
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Our economy
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/04/15/18589210.php
Our economy?
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Wednesday Apr 15th, 2009
No, not unless they meet OUR terms. No give, no bending, inflexible, brittle, and the reason is, we don't want to get out! We can't get out or our economy will collapse, especially right now, as bad as things are. I mean, this would be the unheard of thing! Usually presidents use War as a remedy for a Depression.
They certainly won't get us out of a war already in progress that's barely keeping our heads above water to keep us from going into a full-scale Depression! So they're sure as hell not going to get us out of this war! Not if they can help it!
They will lie and lie and lie and say they're doing it! I read that book, The War Goes On!, although it was book that a teacher in high school recommended, by Sholem Asch, He wrote on the conditions in post-WWI Germany which brought Hitler to power. He showed the picture of Germany--what was wrong with Germany--what happened to Germany and why Hitler was created--the monster was created to devour the lesser monster--so they created a bigger Monster!
IN HIS BOOK HE DESCRIBES THE CONDITIONS THERE, AND I'LL TELL YOU, THE CONDITIONS IN GERMANY AT THAT TIME WERE SO SIMILAR TO THE CONDITIONS OF THE UNITED STATES TODAY!--If you ever have a chance to read it, you'll get a picture of what America is like today!--Same thing! I have never seen so many swastikas flying,--you know, those red, white, and blue swastikas? Everywhere the swastikas are flying to show that they're a red-blooded, red-white-and-blue America! On the cars--American flag stickers flying, homes flying the flag, and all the hard-hats showing how patriotic they are! WHY ALL THIS SUDDEN DESPERATE SHOW OF AMERICANISM? "We are AMERICANS, THIS is our swastika! "The American flag is going to be the swastika of America! It's already being used just like the swastika was being used in Germany--to show patriotism, loyalty, love for Fatherland: "We are the true Germans! We're the ones who really want peace! We're the ones who really want to save the Fatherland! The rest of you guys are a bunch of radicals, and disloyal traitors and Commies!
http://tedriii.blogspot.com/
Our economy?
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Wednesday Apr 15th, 2009
No, not unless they meet OUR terms. No give, no bending, inflexible, brittle, and the reason is, we don't want to get out! We can't get out or our economy will collapse, especially right now, as bad as things are. I mean, this would be the unheard of thing! Usually presidents use War as a remedy for a Depression.
They certainly won't get us out of a war already in progress that's barely keeping our heads above water to keep us from going into a full-scale Depression! So they're sure as hell not going to get us out of this war! Not if they can help it!
They will lie and lie and lie and say they're doing it! I read that book, The War Goes On!, although it was book that a teacher in high school recommended, by Sholem Asch, He wrote on the conditions in post-WWI Germany which brought Hitler to power. He showed the picture of Germany--what was wrong with Germany--what happened to Germany and why Hitler was created--the monster was created to devour the lesser monster--so they created a bigger Monster!
IN HIS BOOK HE DESCRIBES THE CONDITIONS THERE, AND I'LL TELL YOU, THE CONDITIONS IN GERMANY AT THAT TIME WERE SO SIMILAR TO THE CONDITIONS OF THE UNITED STATES TODAY!--If you ever have a chance to read it, you'll get a picture of what America is like today!--Same thing! I have never seen so many swastikas flying,--you know, those red, white, and blue swastikas? Everywhere the swastikas are flying to show that they're a red-blooded, red-white-and-blue America! On the cars--American flag stickers flying, homes flying the flag, and all the hard-hats showing how patriotic they are! WHY ALL THIS SUDDEN DESPERATE SHOW OF AMERICANISM? "We are AMERICANS, THIS is our swastika! "The American flag is going to be the swastika of America! It's already being used just like the swastika was being used in Germany--to show patriotism, loyalty, love for Fatherland: "We are the true Germans! We're the ones who really want peace! We're the ones who really want to save the Fatherland! The rest of you guys are a bunch of radicals, and disloyal traitors and Commies!
http://tedriii.blogspot.com/
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
"Religion" of capitalism
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Tuesday, Apr. 14, 2009 - 12:00 am | Page 13A
Amid all the news reports about failed financial gadgets like credit-default swaps and mortgage-backed securities, you'll find an occasional story that reveals the human face of this recession. Here's one example from Stark County, Ohio: Almost 700 people recently lined up to apply for a job as a junior high school janitor. Officials in Stark County were surprised that so many seasoned workers, including people in their late 40s and 50s, were vying for a $15-an-hour job with little room for professional growth or promotion. But in a county with more than 10 percent unemployment, the job hunters had few other options.Ironically, while those 700 people were standing in line for a single job, few people were paying attention to a company a stone's throw away that could soon be providing job hunters with a lot more options. 3-D Service, in Massillon, Ohio, does repair work and maintenance on wind turbine power systems and components. It's one of hundreds of companies across Ohio, and thousands across America, that are part of the "new energy future" that President Obama and major business leaders keep talking about. These companies are poised for rapid growth – if America passes a federal law to cap global warming pollution, a move that will reinvent our energy supply and create new businesses to cater to it.-------------------
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The world has been deceived by the "religion" of capitalism. People had put their faith in a system that promised them ever-increasing profits. The financial "high priests"—the investment bankers, hedge fund operators, and others—promised continual growth; meanwhile people, companies, banks, institutions, and national governments poured their money into investments that assured financial blessings. They believed, they had faith, and now they see that their faith was misplaced. The financial system that they believed in and thought was solid and strong was only an illusion. The "high priests" were repackaging toxic debt and selling it to banks, financial institutions, and nations as if it were gold. Their sleight of hand had people taken in by the belief that if you bought into their system, you were guaranteed rewards. People believed, and they acted on that belief.
America can no longer say, "This is the way it's going to be".The U.S. doesn't have the financial power it used!
Ted Rudow III,MA
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Tuesday, Apr. 14, 2009 - 12:00 am | Page 13A
Amid all the news reports about failed financial gadgets like credit-default swaps and mortgage-backed securities, you'll find an occasional story that reveals the human face of this recession. Here's one example from Stark County, Ohio: Almost 700 people recently lined up to apply for a job as a junior high school janitor. Officials in Stark County were surprised that so many seasoned workers, including people in their late 40s and 50s, were vying for a $15-an-hour job with little room for professional growth or promotion. But in a county with more than 10 percent unemployment, the job hunters had few other options.Ironically, while those 700 people were standing in line for a single job, few people were paying attention to a company a stone's throw away that could soon be providing job hunters with a lot more options. 3-D Service, in Massillon, Ohio, does repair work and maintenance on wind turbine power systems and components. It's one of hundreds of companies across Ohio, and thousands across America, that are part of the "new energy future" that President Obama and major business leaders keep talking about. These companies are poised for rapid growth – if America passes a federal law to cap global warming pollution, a move that will reinvent our energy supply and create new businesses to cater to it.-------------------
.....................................................................
The world has been deceived by the "religion" of capitalism. People had put their faith in a system that promised them ever-increasing profits. The financial "high priests"—the investment bankers, hedge fund operators, and others—promised continual growth; meanwhile people, companies, banks, institutions, and national governments poured their money into investments that assured financial blessings. They believed, they had faith, and now they see that their faith was misplaced. The financial system that they believed in and thought was solid and strong was only an illusion. The "high priests" were repackaging toxic debt and selling it to banks, financial institutions, and nations as if it were gold. Their sleight of hand had people taken in by the belief that if you bought into their system, you were guaranteed rewards. People believed, and they acted on that belief.
America can no longer say, "This is the way it's going to be".The U.S. doesn't have the financial power it used!
Ted Rudow III,MA
Saturday, April 11, 2009
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Obama clearly sees that the American system has failed in some ways, and has fallen far short of where it should be in others, and he wants to shake things up and change things.
Yet he has not fully realized how difficult it is to change the course in which the US is going, and how time-consuming it will be.
Obama is no exception. He knows the Lord, although he does not place a high priority on his relationship with Him. It's not that he considers it unimportant; it's just that he considers politics one thing and his religious life quite another, and he is often more motivated by practical considerations and influenced by his counselors than he is by the Lord.
They tell themselves many things in many situations to justify their little compromises or deals, and after a while, compromising becomes a habit, what they consider a necessary evil.
He also governs a nation that is reaping what it has sown for many years. It oppressed other nations economically, robbing the poor to care for the rich, and now its own economic system is in deep trouble. It built its finances like a house of cards, and those cards are now collapsing. It bought and consumed and chased after wealth, making mammon and greed its gods, and now its gods have failed it. It has overextended itself financially and militarily, and now finds itself in trouble in many areas, and disliked in many countries.
Obama comes into office bearing more, because America must reap what it has sown. The nation that has sown poverty, injustice and destruction abroad will taste the same at home.
Ted Rudow III, MA
Menlo Park, United States
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“It all evokes too many memories of the Great Depression, and the long lines of job seekers in front of the auto plants in the 1930s. It’s quite a contrast with the gentle treatment of Wall Street.” — Helen Thomas.
Somebody was saying in the paper the other day that it’s usually about a 50- to 60-year cycle between major crashes. The Crash of ’29 followed one that was in 1869. This is almost 80 years! They called it a panic then, whereas they try to give it nice-sounding names nowadays. You notice most of them didn’t call it a crash, they didn’t call it a panic, they just called it a drop. Well, the nice thing about it is, if it follows the pattern of ’29, the prices should go down with the incomes. People are out of work, so they have very little income. Prices drop so far that even when the income drops you can still afford to live. Gold has immediately shot up. Now the next thing to crash is the banks! The federal government didn’t allow the banks to reopen until they could prove they were solvent. And of course hundreds of them never reopened at all, because they were bankrupted.
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Obama clearly sees that the American system has failed in some ways, and has fallen far short of where it should be in others, and he wants to shake things up and change things.
Yet he has not fully realized how difficult it is to change the course in which the US is going, and how time-consuming it will be.
Obama is no exception. He knows the Lord, although he does not place a high priority on his relationship with Him. It's not that he considers it unimportant; it's just that he considers politics one thing and his religious life quite another, and he is often more motivated by practical considerations and influenced by his counselors than he is by the Lord.
They tell themselves many things in many situations to justify their little compromises or deals, and after a while, compromising becomes a habit, what they consider a necessary evil.
He also governs a nation that is reaping what it has sown for many years. It oppressed other nations economically, robbing the poor to care for the rich, and now its own economic system is in deep trouble. It built its finances like a house of cards, and those cards are now collapsing. It bought and consumed and chased after wealth, making mammon and greed its gods, and now its gods have failed it. It has overextended itself financially and militarily, and now finds itself in trouble in many areas, and disliked in many countries.
Obama comes into office bearing more, because America must reap what it has sown. The nation that has sown poverty, injustice and destruction abroad will taste the same at home.
Ted Rudow III, MA
Menlo Park, United States
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Editor,
“It all evokes too many memories of the Great Depression, and the long lines of job seekers in front of the auto plants in the 1930s. It’s quite a contrast with the gentle treatment of Wall Street.” — Helen Thomas.
Somebody was saying in the paper the other day that it’s usually about a 50- to 60-year cycle between major crashes. The Crash of ’29 followed one that was in 1869. This is almost 80 years! They called it a panic then, whereas they try to give it nice-sounding names nowadays. You notice most of them didn’t call it a crash, they didn’t call it a panic, they just called it a drop. Well, the nice thing about it is, if it follows the pattern of ’29, the prices should go down with the incomes. People are out of work, so they have very little income. Prices drop so far that even when the income drops you can still afford to live. Gold has immediately shot up. Now the next thing to crash is the banks! The federal government didn’t allow the banks to reopen until they could prove they were solvent. And of course hundreds of them never reopened at all, because they were bankrupted.
Ted Rudow III,MA
Tuesday, April 07, 2009
U.S. internment camps
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What might happen if you lost all of your material possessions?
The Rev. Bob Oshita, head of The Buddhist Church of Sacramento Hongwanji Betsuin, has congregants who know.
The temple's membership of 1,300 is 70 percent Japanese American. During Oshita's 25 years at the temple, he has ministered to many who wandered back from U.S. internment camps after World War II
"It's really been all about greed," he says, calling the lead-up to the crisis a time when people wanted to get something for nothing and take all they could....There was so much lack of integrity and no sense of how you are affecting others - that interdependence. In a way, maybe people feel they don't represent anything anymore except themselves.....What will emerge will hopefully be more realistic. And hopefully more holistic" in leading Americans to recognize the global connections and appreciate them, he says.
He tells the story of a newscast that illustrates the conundrum of humans facing loss. After a flood in the Northwest, one man's car was swept away by the torrent of floodwaters. The man's house was destroyed. But the man and his family were saved, having been rescued from the car. "His face was so happy" that he and has family were alive, Oshita says, and the man expressed his gratitude.
- Maria Henson mhenson@sacbee.com
04/06/2009
I was thinking about cities being on the brink and going bankrupt: But can you imagine what would happen in a city the size of New York with millions of people in it if suddenly they couldn't pay the garbage men or the train drivers or the truck or the bus drivers, subway drivers electrical workers, water men, all the various utilities, school teachers--if suddenly the whole city went totally bankrupt. Well, you can imagine what would happen if suddenly nobody in a city that size got paid and they couldn't buy their food, or the water stopped running, the sewage stopped flowing and the lights went out? Now what do you think would happen?--Riots, brother?--No!--There'd be war!
The tables are once more being over turned as the rich are beginning to themselves be destroyed by their own riches and evil pollution of the earth!
Ted Rudow III,MA
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What might happen if you lost all of your material possessions?
The Rev. Bob Oshita, head of The Buddhist Church of Sacramento Hongwanji Betsuin, has congregants who know.
The temple's membership of 1,300 is 70 percent Japanese American. During Oshita's 25 years at the temple, he has ministered to many who wandered back from U.S. internment camps after World War II
"It's really been all about greed," he says, calling the lead-up to the crisis a time when people wanted to get something for nothing and take all they could....There was so much lack of integrity and no sense of how you are affecting others - that interdependence. In a way, maybe people feel they don't represent anything anymore except themselves.....What will emerge will hopefully be more realistic. And hopefully more holistic" in leading Americans to recognize the global connections and appreciate them, he says.
He tells the story of a newscast that illustrates the conundrum of humans facing loss. After a flood in the Northwest, one man's car was swept away by the torrent of floodwaters. The man's house was destroyed. But the man and his family were saved, having been rescued from the car. "His face was so happy" that he and has family were alive, Oshita says, and the man expressed his gratitude.
- Maria Henson mhenson@sacbee.com
04/06/2009
I was thinking about cities being on the brink and going bankrupt: But can you imagine what would happen in a city the size of New York with millions of people in it if suddenly they couldn't pay the garbage men or the train drivers or the truck or the bus drivers, subway drivers electrical workers, water men, all the various utilities, school teachers--if suddenly the whole city went totally bankrupt. Well, you can imagine what would happen if suddenly nobody in a city that size got paid and they couldn't buy their food, or the water stopped running, the sewage stopped flowing and the lights went out? Now what do you think would happen?--Riots, brother?--No!--There'd be war!
The tables are once more being over turned as the rich are beginning to themselves be destroyed by their own riches and evil pollution of the earth!
Ted Rudow III,MA
Monday, April 06, 2009
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In January, a bill was introduced to the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate to give Washington, D.C., congressional representation. But those in D.C. shouldn't hold their breaths.
On Feb. 25, Sen. John Ensign introduced an amendment to the bill "to restore Second Amendment rights in the District of Columbia....
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I was thinking about cities being on the brink and going bankrupt: But can you imagine what would happen in a city the size of New York with millions of people in it if suddenly they couldn't pay the garbage men or the train drivers or the truck or the bus drivers, subway drivers electrical workers, water men, all the various utilities, school teachers--if suddenly the whole city went totally bankrupt. Well, you can imagine what would happen if suddenly nobody in a city that size got paid and they couldn't buy their food, or the water stopped running, the sewage stopped flowing and the lights went out? Now what do you think would happen?--Riots, brother?--No!--There'd be war!
The tables are once more being over turned as the rich are beginning to themselves be destroyed by their own riches and evil pollution of the earth! The rich United States and Europe are beginning to have their money system collapsing because they have built it on paper and now even mere electronic impulses instead of real valuables such as the gold and silver from whence it came. The paper empires of the paper tigers of paper money, paper stocks, paper bonds, paper cheques, paper securities, paper deeds and paper contracts are beginning to burn like a wick and raw goods that used to feed it!
Ted Rudow III,MA
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In January, a bill was introduced to the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate to give Washington, D.C., congressional representation. But those in D.C. shouldn't hold their breaths.
On Feb. 25, Sen. John Ensign introduced an amendment to the bill "to restore Second Amendment rights in the District of Columbia....
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I was thinking about cities being on the brink and going bankrupt: But can you imagine what would happen in a city the size of New York with millions of people in it if suddenly they couldn't pay the garbage men or the train drivers or the truck or the bus drivers, subway drivers electrical workers, water men, all the various utilities, school teachers--if suddenly the whole city went totally bankrupt. Well, you can imagine what would happen if suddenly nobody in a city that size got paid and they couldn't buy their food, or the water stopped running, the sewage stopped flowing and the lights went out? Now what do you think would happen?--Riots, brother?--No!--There'd be war!
The tables are once more being over turned as the rich are beginning to themselves be destroyed by their own riches and evil pollution of the earth! The rich United States and Europe are beginning to have their money system collapsing because they have built it on paper and now even mere electronic impulses instead of real valuables such as the gold and silver from whence it came. The paper empires of the paper tigers of paper money, paper stocks, paper bonds, paper cheques, paper securities, paper deeds and paper contracts are beginning to burn like a wick and raw goods that used to feed it!
Ted Rudow III,MA
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Saturday, April 04, 2009
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San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom discussed state policies at a town hall meeting in Palo Alto Wednesday evening. Newsom is running to replace Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2010.
By: Devin Banerjee
Published: April 2, 2009
Newsom aims to target youth through social networking
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom continued his statewide tour of town halls Wednesday evening, discussing a variety of state issues in a packed Palo Alto High School gymnasium. The mayor opened a gubernatorial exploratory committee in July of last year, 28 months ahead of the 2010 election that will replace incumbent California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.
The audience was diverse — from business suits to high school sweatshirts — as were the questions on the table, which attendees submitted on index cards. State health care, education and water management dominated the hour-long session, along with same-sex marriage rights and the proposed high-speed rail system.
While Newsom has become known for hard-left stances — most notably his forceful campaign against the recent ban on same-sex marriage — he continually emphasized on Wednesday that he is not strictly ideological, but instead "open to evidence" that contradicts his own beliefs.
"I don't want to cast aspersions on people that disagree," Newsom said specifically of the gay marriage debate. "Good people disagree."
Newsom, a supporter of Hillary Clinton who backed Barack Obama for President after Clinton bowed out of last year's race...............
A house of cards
Saturday Apr 4th, 2009
Obama clearly sees that the American system has failed in some ways, and has fallen far short of where it should be in others, and he wants to shake things up and change things. Yet he has not fully realized how difficult it is to change the course in which the U.S. is going, and how time-consuming it will be.
Obama is no exception. He knows the Lord, although he does not place a high priority on his relationship with Him. It's not that he considers it unimportant; it's just that he considers politics one thing and his religious life quite another, and he is often more motivated by practical considerations and influenced by his counselors than he is by the Lord. They tell themselves many things in many situations to justify their little compromises or deals, and after a while, compromising becomes a habit, what they consider a necessary evil.
He also governs a nation that is reaping what it has sown for many years. It oppressed other nations economically, robbing the poor to care for the rich, and now its own economic system is in deep trouble. It built its finances like a house of cards, and those cards are now collapsing. It bought and consumed and chased after wealth, making mammon and greed its gods, and now its gods have failed it. It has overextended itself financially and militarily, and now finds itself in trouble in many areas, and disliked in many countries. Obama comes into office bearing more, because America must reap what it has sown. The nation that has sown poverty, injustice and destruction abroad will taste the same at home
A house of cards
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San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom discussed state policies at a town hall meeting in Palo Alto Wednesday evening. Newsom is running to replace Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2010.
By: Devin Banerjee
Published: April 2, 2009
Newsom aims to target youth through social networking
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom continued his statewide tour of town halls Wednesday evening, discussing a variety of state issues in a packed Palo Alto High School gymnasium. The mayor opened a gubernatorial exploratory committee in July of last year, 28 months ahead of the 2010 election that will replace incumbent California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.
The audience was diverse — from business suits to high school sweatshirts — as were the questions on the table, which attendees submitted on index cards. State health care, education and water management dominated the hour-long session, along with same-sex marriage rights and the proposed high-speed rail system.
While Newsom has become known for hard-left stances — most notably his forceful campaign against the recent ban on same-sex marriage — he continually emphasized on Wednesday that he is not strictly ideological, but instead "open to evidence" that contradicts his own beliefs.
"I don't want to cast aspersions on people that disagree," Newsom said specifically of the gay marriage debate. "Good people disagree."
Newsom, a supporter of Hillary Clinton who backed Barack Obama for President after Clinton bowed out of last year's race...............
A house of cards
Saturday Apr 4th, 2009
Obama clearly sees that the American system has failed in some ways, and has fallen far short of where it should be in others, and he wants to shake things up and change things. Yet he has not fully realized how difficult it is to change the course in which the U.S. is going, and how time-consuming it will be.
Obama is no exception. He knows the Lord, although he does not place a high priority on his relationship with Him. It's not that he considers it unimportant; it's just that he considers politics one thing and his religious life quite another, and he is often more motivated by practical considerations and influenced by his counselors than he is by the Lord. They tell themselves many things in many situations to justify their little compromises or deals, and after a while, compromising becomes a habit, what they consider a necessary evil.
He also governs a nation that is reaping what it has sown for many years. It oppressed other nations economically, robbing the poor to care for the rich, and now its own economic system is in deep trouble. It built its finances like a house of cards, and those cards are now collapsing. It bought and consumed and chased after wealth, making mammon and greed its gods, and now its gods have failed it. It has overextended itself financially and militarily, and now finds itself in trouble in many areas, and disliked in many countries. Obama comes into office bearing more, because America must reap what it has sown. The nation that has sown poverty, injustice and destruction abroad will taste the same at home
A house of cards
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A house of cards
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Saturday Apr 4th, 2009
Obama clearly sees that the American system has failed in some ways, and has fallen far short of where it should be in others, and he wants to shake things up and change things. Yet he has not fully realized how difficult it is to change the course in which the U.S. is going, and how time-consuming it will be.
Obama is no exception. He knows the Lord, although he does not place a high priority on his relationship with Him. It's not that he considers it unimportant; it's just that he considers politics one thing and his religious life quite another, and he is often more motivated by practical considerations and influenced by his counselors than he is by the Lord. They tell themselves many things in many situations to justify their little compromises or deals, and after a while, compromising becomes a habit, what they consider a necessary evil.
He also governs a nation that is reaping what it has sown for many years. It oppressed other nations economically, robbing the poor to care for the rich, and now its own economic system is in deep trouble. It built its finances like a house of cards, and those cards are now collapsing. It bought and consumed and chased after wealth, making mammon and greed its gods, and now its gods have failed it. It has overextended itself financially and militarily, and now finds itself in trouble in many areas, and disliked in many countries. Obama comes into office bearing more, because America must reap what it has sown. The nation that has sown poverty, injustice and destruction abroad will taste the same at home.
Ted Rudow III,MA
A house of cards
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Saturday Apr 4th, 2009
Obama clearly sees that the American system has failed in some ways, and has fallen far short of where it should be in others, and he wants to shake things up and change things. Yet he has not fully realized how difficult it is to change the course in which the U.S. is going, and how time-consuming it will be.
Obama is no exception. He knows the Lord, although he does not place a high priority on his relationship with Him. It's not that he considers it unimportant; it's just that he considers politics one thing and his religious life quite another, and he is often more motivated by practical considerations and influenced by his counselors than he is by the Lord. They tell themselves many things in many situations to justify their little compromises or deals, and after a while, compromising becomes a habit, what they consider a necessary evil.
He also governs a nation that is reaping what it has sown for many years. It oppressed other nations economically, robbing the poor to care for the rich, and now its own economic system is in deep trouble. It built its finances like a house of cards, and those cards are now collapsing. It bought and consumed and chased after wealth, making mammon and greed its gods, and now its gods have failed it. It has overextended itself financially and militarily, and now finds itself in trouble in many areas, and disliked in many countries. Obama comes into office bearing more, because America must reap what it has sown. The nation that has sown poverty, injustice and destruction abroad will taste the same at home.
Ted Rudow III,MA
Thursday, April 02, 2009
Behold the black horse
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Behold the black horse
by Ted Rudow III,MA
Thursday Apr 2nd, 2009
“And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, ‘Come and see.’ And I beheld, and to a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand. And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, ‘A measure of wheat for a penny; and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine’” (Revelation 6:5-6 KJV.).
This black horse’s rider with the pair of balances in his hand symbolizes the rich capitalists who have a major impact on world conditions through their manipulation of national economies. Only one other verse in the Bible pictures a man with balances or scales: “The merchant uses dishonest scales; he loves to defraud” (Hosea 12:7 NIV).
Another prophet, Amos, also said the merchants — the wealthy capitalists of his day who were robbing the poor instead of helping them — “set forth wheat, making the ephah [unit of measure] small, and the shekel [price] great and falsifying the balances by deceit ... that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail” (Amos 8:4-6 KJV).
The black horse, then, represents famine and poverty perpetrated by the rich who refuse to share with those in need. Oil and wine, throughout the Scriptures, symbolize abundance or luxury.
The fact that the oil and wine were “hurt not” indicates a situation where wealth and luxury exist alongside famine and poverty — and the gulf between rich and poor is only growing.
Behold the black horse
by Ted Rudow III,MA
Thursday Apr 2nd, 2009
“And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, ‘Come and see.’ And I beheld, and to a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand. And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, ‘A measure of wheat for a penny; and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine’” (Revelation 6:5-6 KJV.).
This black horse’s rider with the pair of balances in his hand symbolizes the rich capitalists who have a major impact on world conditions through their manipulation of national economies. Only one other verse in the Bible pictures a man with balances or scales: “The merchant uses dishonest scales; he loves to defraud” (Hosea 12:7 NIV).
Another prophet, Amos, also said the merchants — the wealthy capitalists of his day who were robbing the poor instead of helping them — “set forth wheat, making the ephah [unit of measure] small, and the shekel [price] great and falsifying the balances by deceit ... that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail” (Amos 8:4-6 KJV).
The black horse, then, represents famine and poverty perpetrated by the rich who refuse to share with those in need. Oil and wine, throughout the Scriptures, symbolize abundance or luxury.
The fact that the oil and wine were “hurt not” indicates a situation where wealth and luxury exist alongside famine and poverty — and the gulf between rich and poor is only growing.
Auto plants
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Auto plants
by Ted Rudow III,MA
Thursday Apr 2nd
"It all evokes too many memories of the Great Depression, and the long lines of job seekers in front of the auto plants in the 1930s. It’s quite a contrast with the gentle treatment of Wall Street."Helen Thomas
Somebody was saying in the paper the other day that it's usually about a 50 to 60 year cycle between major crashes. The Crash of '29 followed one that was in 1869. This is almost 80 years! They called it a panic then, whereas they try to give it nice-sounding names nowadays. You notice most of them didn't call it a crash, they didn't call it a panic, they just called it a drop.
Well, the nice thing about it is, if it follows the pattern of '29, the prices should go down with the incomes. People are out of work, so they have very little income. Prices drop so far that even when the income drops you can still afford to live. Gold has immediately shot up.
Now the next thing to crash is the banks! The Federal Government didn't allow the banks to reopen until they could prove they were solvent. And of course hundreds of them never reopened at all, because they were bankrupted.
Ted Rudow III,MA
Auto plants
by Ted Rudow III,MA
Thursday Apr 2nd
"It all evokes too many memories of the Great Depression, and the long lines of job seekers in front of the auto plants in the 1930s. It’s quite a contrast with the gentle treatment of Wall Street."Helen Thomas
Somebody was saying in the paper the other day that it's usually about a 50 to 60 year cycle between major crashes. The Crash of '29 followed one that was in 1869. This is almost 80 years! They called it a panic then, whereas they try to give it nice-sounding names nowadays. You notice most of them didn't call it a crash, they didn't call it a panic, they just called it a drop.
Well, the nice thing about it is, if it follows the pattern of '29, the prices should go down with the incomes. People are out of work, so they have very little income. Prices drop so far that even when the income drops you can still afford to live. Gold has immediately shot up.
Now the next thing to crash is the banks! The Federal Government didn't allow the banks to reopen until they could prove they were solvent. And of course hundreds of them never reopened at all, because they were bankrupted.
Ted Rudow III,MA
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THE GREAT AND POWERFUL RICH by their evil wisdom were even so smart with their evil knowledge and lies called higher education, propaganda and advertising, that they even convinced lots of poor people that they were right and persuaded them to voluntarily give up some of the few things they had to make them even poorer and the rich even richer, so the rich could have more and more and the poor less and less. These are called "taxes" and "profits" and "interest."
THEY EVEN MADE THE POOR PEOPLE FIGHT THESE WARS FOR THEM, when all the poor really wanted was peace and enough to eat and wear and a place to sleep!
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THE GREAT AND POWERFUL RICH by their evil wisdom were even so smart with their evil knowledge and lies called higher education, propaganda and advertising, that they even convinced lots of poor people that they were right and persuaded them to voluntarily give up some of the few things they had to make them even poorer and the rich even richer, so the rich could have more and more and the poor less and less. These are called "taxes" and "profits" and "interest."
THEY EVEN MADE THE POOR PEOPLE FIGHT THESE WARS FOR THEM, when all the poor really wanted was peace and enough to eat and wear and a place to sleep!
Ted Rudow III,MA
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Democratic President 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, which he hasn’t! Despite their antiwar rhetoric, Obama has 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.
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Editor,
Democratic President 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, which he hasn’t! Despite their antiwar rhetoric, Obama has 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.
Ted Rudow III,MA
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Dear Editor: Democratic President 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 January 2009.
Despite their anti-war rhetoric, Obama and congressional Democrats have taken a 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.
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.
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Dear Editor: Democratic President 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 January 2009.
Despite their anti-war rhetoric, Obama and congressional Democrats have taken a 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.
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.
Ted Rudow III,MA
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Dear Editor:
Democratic President 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 January 2009.
Despite their anti-war rhetoric, Obama and congressional Democrats have taken a 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. 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.
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Dear Editor:
Democratic President 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 January 2009.
Despite their anti-war rhetoric, Obama and congressional Democrats have taken a 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. 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.
Ted Rudow III, MA
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Israel deliberately destroyed the few factories the Gazans still had functioning, systematically crushing what was left of their shattered economy. In the majority of instances, the Israelis did this simply because they wanted to inflict as much pain and suffering as possible on the Palestinian population of Gaza. Israeli politicians hate to have to give anything up. When it looks like they might actually have to negotiate with the Palestinians or reach a deal that would involve any sort of sacrifice on Israel's part, the Israeli military gets into the act and starts bullying the Palestinians more than usual, trying to provoke them.
They'll make a raid, or arrest some Palestinians, or bomb someone they've labeled a terrorist, and keep doing that sort of thing until they provoke a violent reaction from the Palestinians. Then, of course, the Israelis don't have to give up anything or negotiate anymore - at least for a while - because they will say, "Look, the Palestinians obviously aren't serious about peace! See how violent and bloodthirsty they are?" But it's obvious who the victim is and who the rogue state is as well.
Ted Rudow III, MA California, United States
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Israel deliberately destroyed the few factories the Gazans still had functioning, systematically crushing what was left of their shattered economy. In the majority of instances, the Israelis did this simply because they wanted to inflict as much pain and suffering as possible on the Palestinian population of Gaza. Israeli politicians hate to have to give anything up. When it looks like they might actually have to negotiate with the Palestinians or reach a deal that would involve any sort of sacrifice on Israel's part, the Israeli military gets into the act and starts bullying the Palestinians more than usual, trying to provoke them.
They'll make a raid, or arrest some Palestinians, or bomb someone they've labeled a terrorist, and keep doing that sort of thing until they provoke a violent reaction from the Palestinians. Then, of course, the Israelis don't have to give up anything or negotiate anymore - at least for a while - because they will say, "Look, the Palestinians obviously aren't serious about peace! See how violent and bloodthirsty they are?" But it's obvious who the victim is and who the rogue state is as well.
Ted Rudow III, MA California, United States
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Wednesday, March 25, 2009
It's about power!
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It's about power
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Wednesday Mar 25th, 2009
The global economic crisis isn't about money - it's about power. How Wall Street insiders are using the bailout to stage a revolution
MATT TAIBBI
That guy — the Patient Zero of the global economic meltdown — was one Joseph Cassano, the head of a tiny, 400-person unit within the company called AIG Financial Products, or AIGFP. Cassano, by contrast, was just a greedy with a knack for selective accounting who ran his scam right out in the open, thanks to Washington's deregulation of the Wall Street casino. "It's all about the regulatory environment," says a government source involved with the AIG bailout. A CDO is like a box full of diced-up assets. They can be anything: mortgages, corporate loans, aircraft loans, credit-card loans, even other CDOs. So as X mortgage holder pays his bill, and Y corporate debtor pays his bill, and Z credit-card debtor pays his bill, money flows into the box.The key idea behind a CDO is that there will always be at least some money in the box, regardless of how dicey the individual assets inside it are... What the inventors of the CDO did is divide up the box into groups of investors and put that $10 into its own level, or "tranche." They then convinced ratings agencies like Moody's and S&P to give that top tranche the highest AAA rating — meaning it has close to zero credit risk.
A demonstration to those in high standing of who is really the boss. Even the big money boys are as pawns in the hands of the puppeteer. The puppeteer's total power works by fear. The puppeteer sends a strong signal that it is indeed he who holds the bag and manipulates the strings, and all must yield to his gestures and signals, else they will be tangled up and put out of commission. his ability to keep the marionettes moving and flowing and dancing in apparent sync and coordination.
Ted Rudow III,MA
It's about power
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Wednesday Mar 25th, 2009
The global economic crisis isn't about money - it's about power. How Wall Street insiders are using the bailout to stage a revolution
MATT TAIBBI
That guy — the Patient Zero of the global economic meltdown — was one Joseph Cassano, the head of a tiny, 400-person unit within the company called AIG Financial Products, or AIGFP. Cassano, by contrast, was just a greedy with a knack for selective accounting who ran his scam right out in the open, thanks to Washington's deregulation of the Wall Street casino. "It's all about the regulatory environment," says a government source involved with the AIG bailout. A CDO is like a box full of diced-up assets. They can be anything: mortgages, corporate loans, aircraft loans, credit-card loans, even other CDOs. So as X mortgage holder pays his bill, and Y corporate debtor pays his bill, and Z credit-card debtor pays his bill, money flows into the box.The key idea behind a CDO is that there will always be at least some money in the box, regardless of how dicey the individual assets inside it are... What the inventors of the CDO did is divide up the box into groups of investors and put that $10 into its own level, or "tranche." They then convinced ratings agencies like Moody's and S&P to give that top tranche the highest AAA rating — meaning it has close to zero credit risk.
A demonstration to those in high standing of who is really the boss. Even the big money boys are as pawns in the hands of the puppeteer. The puppeteer's total power works by fear. The puppeteer sends a strong signal that it is indeed he who holds the bag and manipulates the strings, and all must yield to his gestures and signals, else they will be tangled up and put out of commission. his ability to keep the marionettes moving and flowing and dancing in apparent sync and coordination.
Ted Rudow III,MA
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
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By: Nikhil Joshi
Published: March 16, 2009
We are at a critical juncture, say economic and political leaders
A Friday the 13th gathering of economic and political leaders, mostly from the Bush era, the annual Stanford Institute of Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) Economic Summit was marked by a sense of urgency. Speakers stressed the need to find out why the economy has tumbled, as well as how to take bold corrective action.
The summit featured a group that has shaped the world economy for years, and is now pondering ways to kick start a recovery - former Secretaries of State Condoleezza Rice and George Shultz, former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, former Bush chief economic advisor Edward Lazear and Wells Fargo Chairman Richard Kovacevich, along with an assortment of the most influential economics professors in the country.
Condoleezza Rice
In her first on-campus public address since returning to Stanford, Rice drew on her experience at the top of the State Department and called on the U.S. to take a strong leadership role in pushing a global recovery, lest developing economies that are on “the cusp” snap away from the liberal capitalist model.
Rice framed her remarks by saying that this is more than an economic crisis – it is a crisis of governance, and is calling into question which model of development governments should employ to best serve their people.
The former Secretary of State warned strongly against turning inward in tough economic times, noting that one of her deepest regrets from her time in the Bush administration was the government’s failure to implement immigration reform. Rice also voiced concern that America could lapse into a destructive, protectionist trade philosophy.
According to Rice, this isn’t just a recession; it is an international crisis that is calling globalism into question in some parts of the world. She argued that countries in Eastern Europe and Latin America, for example, are in particular danger because of aggressive policies in recent years, such as the Estonian flat tax.
“It is my belief that these countries have democratic institutions that are strong enough to survive these pressures,” Rice said, “but we should not underestimate the degree to which they are under pressure.”
Several times, Rice returned to the specific challenges and successes she faced while in government.
“Oil warped international politics in a way that nothing else did,” she said.
Rice was especially proud of the Bush administration’s foreign assistance program, the Millennium Challenge, which included large grants in the hundreds of millions of dollars that were tied to governance benchmarks, such as shortening the number of days it takes to open a business. She expressed hope that the U.S. would not sharply curtail foreign assistance in the midst of the current financial troubles.
Rice concluded her talk by discussing the American psyche, a theme that was repeated throughout the day. But Rice added an international flavor, saying that the U.S. needs to project a confident, optimistic image not for just its own sake, but for the health of the global economy.
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I was thinking about cities being on the brink and going bankrupt: But can you imagine what would happen in a city the size of New York with millions of people in it if suddenly they couldn’t pay the garbage men or the train drivers or the truck or the bus drivers, subway drivers electrical workers, water men, all the various utilities, school teachers–if suddenly the whole city went totally bankrupt. Well, you can imagine what would happen if suddenly nobody in a city that size got paid and they couldn’t buy their food, or the water stopped running, the sewage stopped flowing and the lights went out? Now what do you think would happen?–Riots, brother?–No!–There’d be war!
The tables are once more being over turned as the rich are beginning to themselves be destroyed by their own riches and evil pollution of the earth! The rich United States and Europe are beginning to have their money system collapsing because they have built it on paper and now even mere electronic impulses instead of real valuables such as the gold and silver from whence it came. The paper empires of the paper tigers of paper money, paper stocks, paper bonds, paper cheques, paper securities, paper deeds and paper contracts are beginning to burn like a wick without the oil and raw goods that used to feed it!
Cities
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Front » News • Top Headlines
Economic summit talks recession, features Rice
By: Nikhil Joshi
Published: March 16, 2009
We are at a critical juncture, say economic and political leaders
A Friday the 13th gathering of economic and political leaders, mostly from the Bush era, the annual Stanford Institute of Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) Economic Summit was marked by a sense of urgency. Speakers stressed the need to find out why the economy has tumbled, as well as how to take bold corrective action.
The summit featured a group that has shaped the world economy for years, and is now pondering ways to kick start a recovery - former Secretaries of State Condoleezza Rice and George Shultz, former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, former Bush chief economic advisor Edward Lazear and Wells Fargo Chairman Richard Kovacevich, along with an assortment of the most influential economics professors in the country.
Condoleezza Rice
In her first on-campus public address since returning to Stanford, Rice drew on her experience at the top of the State Department and called on the U.S. to take a strong leadership role in pushing a global recovery, lest developing economies that are on “the cusp” snap away from the liberal capitalist model.
Rice framed her remarks by saying that this is more than an economic crisis – it is a crisis of governance, and is calling into question which model of development governments should employ to best serve their people.
The former Secretary of State warned strongly against turning inward in tough economic times, noting that one of her deepest regrets from her time in the Bush administration was the government’s failure to implement immigration reform. Rice also voiced concern that America could lapse into a destructive, protectionist trade philosophy.
According to Rice, this isn’t just a recession; it is an international crisis that is calling globalism into question in some parts of the world. She argued that countries in Eastern Europe and Latin America, for example, are in particular danger because of aggressive policies in recent years, such as the Estonian flat tax.
“It is my belief that these countries have democratic institutions that are strong enough to survive these pressures,” Rice said, “but we should not underestimate the degree to which they are under pressure.”
Several times, Rice returned to the specific challenges and successes she faced while in government.
“Oil warped international politics in a way that nothing else did,” she said.
Rice was especially proud of the Bush administration’s foreign assistance program, the Millennium Challenge, which included large grants in the hundreds of millions of dollars that were tied to governance benchmarks, such as shortening the number of days it takes to open a business. She expressed hope that the U.S. would not sharply curtail foreign assistance in the midst of the current financial troubles.
Rice concluded her talk by discussing the American psyche, a theme that was repeated throughout the day. But Rice added an international flavor, saying that the U.S. needs to project a confident, optimistic image not for just its own sake, but for the health of the global economy.
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I was thinking about cities being on the brink and going bankrupt: But can you imagine what would happen in a city the size of New York with millions of people in it if suddenly they couldn’t pay the garbage men or the train drivers or the truck or the bus drivers, subway drivers electrical workers, water men, all the various utilities, school teachers–if suddenly the whole city went totally bankrupt. Well, you can imagine what would happen if suddenly nobody in a city that size got paid and they couldn’t buy their food, or the water stopped running, the sewage stopped flowing and the lights went out? Now what do you think would happen?–Riots, brother?–No!–There’d be war!
The tables are once more being over turned as the rich are beginning to themselves be destroyed by their own riches and evil pollution of the earth! The rich United States and Europe are beginning to have their money system collapsing because they have built it on paper and now even mere electronic impulses instead of real valuables such as the gold and silver from whence it came. The paper empires of the paper tigers of paper money, paper stocks, paper bonds, paper cheques, paper securities, paper deeds and paper contracts are beginning to burn like a wick without the oil and raw goods that used to feed it!
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Cities
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Tuesday Mar 24th, 2009 9:13 AM
I was thinking about cities being on the brink and going bankrupt: But can you imagine what would happen in a city the size of New York with millions of people in it if suddenly they couldn't pay the garbage men or the train drivers or the truck or the bus drivers, subway drivers electrical workers, water men, all the various utilities, school teachers--if suddenly the whole city went totally bankrupt.
Well, you can imagine what would happen if suddenly nobody in a city that size got paid and they couldn't buy their food, or the water stopped running, the sewage stopped flowing and the lights went out? Now what do you think would happen?--Riots, brother?--No!--There'd be war!
The tables are once more being over turned as the rich are beginning to themselves be destroyed by their own riches and evil pollution of the earth! The rich United States and Europe are beginning to have their money system is collapsing because they have built it on paper and now even mere electronic impulses instead of real valuables such as the gold and silver from whence it came! The paper empires of the paper tigers of paper money, paper stocks, paper bonds, paper cheques, paper securities, paper deeds and paper contracts are beginning to burn like a wick without the oil and raw goods that used to feed it!
Ted Rudow III,MA
Cities
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Tuesday Mar 24th, 2009 9:13 AM
I was thinking about cities being on the brink and going bankrupt: But can you imagine what would happen in a city the size of New York with millions of people in it if suddenly they couldn't pay the garbage men or the train drivers or the truck or the bus drivers, subway drivers electrical workers, water men, all the various utilities, school teachers--if suddenly the whole city went totally bankrupt.
Well, you can imagine what would happen if suddenly nobody in a city that size got paid and they couldn't buy their food, or the water stopped running, the sewage stopped flowing and the lights went out? Now what do you think would happen?--Riots, brother?--No!--There'd be war!
The tables are once more being over turned as the rich are beginning to themselves be destroyed by their own riches and evil pollution of the earth! The rich United States and Europe are beginning to have their money system is collapsing because they have built it on paper and now even mere electronic impulses instead of real valuables such as the gold and silver from whence it came! The paper empires of the paper tigers of paper money, paper stocks, paper bonds, paper cheques, paper securities, paper deeds and paper contracts are beginning to burn like a wick without the oil and raw goods that used to feed it!
Ted Rudow III,MA
Sunday, March 22, 2009
Rogue state?
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/03/22/18580657.php
Rogue state?
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Sunday Mar 22nd, 2009
Israel deliberately destroyed the few factories the Gazans still had functioning, systematically crushing what's left of their shattered economy. But in the majority of instances the Israelis did it simply because they wanted to inflict as much pain and suffering as possible on the Palestinian population of Gaza.
Israeli politicians hate to have to give anything up. When it looks like they might actually have to negotiate with the Palestinians or reach a deal that would involve any sort of sacrifice on Israel's part, the Israeli military gets into the act and starts bullying the Palestinians more than usual, trying to provoke them.
They'll make a raid, or arrest some Palestinians, or bomb someone they've labeled a terrorist, and keep doing that sort of thing until they provoke a violent reaction from the Palestinians. Then, of course, the Israelis don't have to give up anything or negotiate anymore—at least for a while—because, "Look, the Palestinians obviously aren't serious about peace! See how violent and bloodthirsty they are!" But as the man says, it's obvious who the victim is and who the rogue state is as well!
Rogue state?
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Sunday Mar 22nd, 2009
Israel deliberately destroyed the few factories the Gazans still had functioning, systematically crushing what's left of their shattered economy. But in the majority of instances the Israelis did it simply because they wanted to inflict as much pain and suffering as possible on the Palestinian population of Gaza.
Israeli politicians hate to have to give anything up. When it looks like they might actually have to negotiate with the Palestinians or reach a deal that would involve any sort of sacrifice on Israel's part, the Israeli military gets into the act and starts bullying the Palestinians more than usual, trying to provoke them.
They'll make a raid, or arrest some Palestinians, or bomb someone they've labeled a terrorist, and keep doing that sort of thing until they provoke a violent reaction from the Palestinians. Then, of course, the Israelis don't have to give up anything or negotiate anymore—at least for a while—because, "Look, the Palestinians obviously aren't serious about peace! See how violent and bloodthirsty they are!" But as the man says, it's obvious who the victim is and who the rogue state is as well!
Friday, March 20, 2009
Pride and greed
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"Israel mulls toughening"
Israel's policy is indeed "Wipe them out, and then we won't have to worry about their rights and all that sort of thing anymore." That was the US policy in Vietnam too, to literally try to wipe them out. And if it hadn't been for world opinion, they would have. But the world was horrified at the things the US did there. And that's exactly what is happening now to Israel. The same thing that happened to the US in Vietnam is now beginning to turn the tide of world opinion totally against Israel. Israel is being exposed. She has no idea of evacuating any lands but is going to gobble up more. Read it in the papers. Rather than give the Palestinians just a little bit of land, their own land, they'd rather fight and die.Pride and greed. They don't want to have to admit that the land belongs to the Palestinians and they aren't willing to share it with them - think of it!
Ted Rudow III, MA California, United States
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Agence France Presse (AFP)
"Israel mulls toughening"
Israel's policy is indeed "Wipe them out, and then we won't have to worry about their rights and all that sort of thing anymore." That was the US policy in Vietnam too, to literally try to wipe them out. And if it hadn't been for world opinion, they would have. But the world was horrified at the things the US did there. And that's exactly what is happening now to Israel. The same thing that happened to the US in Vietnam is now beginning to turn the tide of world opinion totally against Israel. Israel is being exposed. She has no idea of evacuating any lands but is going to gobble up more. Read it in the papers. Rather than give the Palestinians just a little bit of land, their own land, they'd rather fight and die.Pride and greed. They don't want to have to admit that the land belongs to the Palestinians and they aren't willing to share it with them - think of it!
Ted Rudow III, MA California, United States
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Sunday, March 15, 2009
A few bones to pacify the dogs?
A few bones to pacify the dogs?
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Bernard L. Madoff entered a federal courtroom in Manhattan on Thursday to admit that he had run a vast Ponzi scheme that robbed thousands of investors of their life savings. He admitted his guilt for the first time in public, and apologized to his victims, dozens of whom were squeezed into the courtroom benches behind him, before being handcuffed and led away to jail to await sentencing.
But under capitalism, selfishness and greed of the rich is given a license and they run the government, which was heightened by George W. Bush's example. This bailout is really not a bailout at all; it's a parting gift to the people that Bush once referred to jokingly as "my base." It's what European colonial rulers used to do when they finally realized they had to hand over power; they would loot the Treasury on the way out the door.
They make the laws, what chance do the poor have? They supposedly vote, so what? They vote for one greedy capitalist or another. Every one of the men running for office are rich men, what are they going to do for the poor? Throw'm out a few crumbs? A few bones to pacify the dogs?
Ted Rudow III,MA
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Bernard L. Madoff entered a federal courtroom in Manhattan on Thursday to admit that he had run a vast Ponzi scheme that robbed thousands of investors of their life savings. He admitted his guilt for the first time in public, and apologized to his victims, dozens of whom were squeezed into the courtroom benches behind him, before being handcuffed and led away to jail to await sentencing.
But under capitalism, selfishness and greed of the rich is given a license and they run the government, which was heightened by George W. Bush's example. This bailout is really not a bailout at all; it's a parting gift to the people that Bush once referred to jokingly as "my base." It's what European colonial rulers used to do when they finally realized they had to hand over power; they would loot the Treasury on the way out the door.
They make the laws, what chance do the poor have? They supposedly vote, so what? They vote for one greedy capitalist or another. Every one of the men running for office are rich men, what are they going to do for the poor? Throw'm out a few crumbs? A few bones to pacify the dogs?
Ted Rudow III,MA
Throw'm out a few crumbs?
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Bernard L. Madoff entered a federal courtroom in Manhattan on Thursday to admit that he had run a vast Ponzi scheme that robbed thousands of investors of their life savings. He admitted his guilt for the first time in public, and apologized to his victims, dozens of whom were squeezed into the courtroom benches behind him, before being handcuffed and led away to jail to await sentencing.
But under capitalism, selfishness and greed of the rich is given a license and they run the government, which was heightened by George W. Bush's example. This bailout is really not a bailout at all; it's a parting gift to the people that Bush once referred to jokingly as "my base." It's what European colonial rulers used to do when they finally realized they had to hand over power; they would loot the Treasury on the way out the door.
They make the laws, what chance do the poor have? They supposedly vote, so what? They vote for one greedy capitalist or another. Every one of the men running for office are rich men, what are they going to do for the poor? Throw'm out a few crumbs? A few bones to pacify the dogs?
Ted Rudow III,MA
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Dear Editor:
Bernard L. Madoff entered a federal courtroom in Manhattan on Thursday to admit that he had run a vast Ponzi scheme that robbed thousands of investors of their life savings. He admitted his guilt for the first time in public, and apologized to his victims, dozens of whom were squeezed into the courtroom benches behind him, before being handcuffed and led away to jail to await sentencing.
But under capitalism, selfishness and greed of the rich is given a license and they run the government, which was heightened by George W. Bush's example. This bailout is really not a bailout at all; it's a parting gift to the people that Bush once referred to jokingly as "my base." It's what European colonial rulers used to do when they finally realized they had to hand over power; they would loot the Treasury on the way out the door.
They make the laws, what chance do the poor have? They supposedly vote, so what? They vote for one greedy capitalist or another. Every one of the men running for office are rich men, what are they going to do for the poor? Throw'm out a few crumbs? A few bones to pacify the dogs?
Ted Rudow III,MA
Saturday, March 14, 2009
A few bones
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The treasury on the way out the door.
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Saturday Mar 14th, 2009
Bernard L. Madoff entered a federal courtroom in Manhattan on
Thursday to admit that he had run a vast Ponzi scheme that robbed
thousands of investors of their life savings.
He admitted his guilt for the first time in public, and apologized to his victims, dozens of whom were squeezed into the courtroom benches behind him, before being
handcuffed and led away to jail to await sentencing.
But under Capitalism, where selfishness and greed of the rich is
given a license and they run the government which was heighten by
Bush's example! This bailout is really not a bailout at all; it’s a
parting gift to the people that the Bush—that George Bush once referred
to jokingly as “my base.” It to what European colonial rulers used to
do when they finally realized they had to hand over power; they would
loot the treasury on the way out the door.
They make the laws, what chance do the poor have? They supposedly
vote, so what? They vote for one greedy capitalist or another. Every
one of the men running for office are rich men, what are they going to
do for the poor? Throw'm out a few crumbs? A few bones to pacify the
dogs?
Ted Rudow III,MA
The treasury on the way out the door.
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Saturday Mar 14th, 2009
Bernard L. Madoff entered a federal courtroom in Manhattan on
Thursday to admit that he had run a vast Ponzi scheme that robbed
thousands of investors of their life savings.
He admitted his guilt for the first time in public, and apologized to his victims, dozens of whom were squeezed into the courtroom benches behind him, before being
handcuffed and led away to jail to await sentencing.
But under Capitalism, where selfishness and greed of the rich is
given a license and they run the government which was heighten by
Bush's example! This bailout is really not a bailout at all; it’s a
parting gift to the people that the Bush—that George Bush once referred
to jokingly as “my base.” It to what European colonial rulers used to
do when they finally realized they had to hand over power; they would
loot the treasury on the way out the door.
They make the laws, what chance do the poor have? They supposedly
vote, so what? They vote for one greedy capitalist or another. Every
one of the men running for office are rich men, what are they going to
do for the poor? Throw'm out a few crumbs? A few bones to pacify the
dogs?
Ted Rudow III,MA
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Amerika the whore
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Amerika the Whore
by Ted Rudow III,MA
Thursday Mar 12th, 2009
We have to warn Europe she's got to cut her anchor to Amerika or she'll sink! She must not give Amerika all these artificial respirations and transfusions! Why should Europe save Amerika? They should just cut her loose and let her die!--Otherwise they'll bleed themselves to death! We've got to tell Europe to let Amerika go! They're putting their eggs in the wrong basket!
THEY CAN'T SEEM TO GET OVER THE "AMERIKAN DREAM," but that's not where God's going! They need to get on with their Socialism, and damn the Fascism of Amerika!They're trying to respect her! She doesn't deserve respect: She's an old Whore! Europe is trying to be married to Amerika, when they should cut her loose like a Whore!
BUT THE CAPITALISTIC FINANCIERS OF EUROPE: THEY'RE ALL LIKE A WHOLE BUNCH OF PIMPS! (Or Panders: Those who solicit business for a whore, and share in her wages and profits.)--They've got a whole lot invested in this Whore, and they don't want to lose it. So they try to save her so they can save their investments,so they can save her and continue to make a little money on her. She thinks she's their owner, but they're her owner, and unless they rescue her, she'll die; but they're trying to rescue her to save their own investments. She's going to die anyway, and they're going to lose anyway, so the quicker they cut her loose, the better!
IT'S TOTALLY ARTIFICIAL FOR THEM TO SUPPORT THE DOLLAR! If they'd just let the dollar sink down to where it belongs, Amerika would sink! But the whole trouble is, they each own too much of a share in the Whore, and they don't want to lose their investments. So the money pimps get together and agree to support her dollars when she's sick and not earning them any money. They think she's going to get well again, and they don't realize she's just going to die!
(REV.18:23b)" for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived."
Ted Rudow III,MA
Amerika the Whore
by Ted Rudow III,MA
Thursday Mar 12th, 2009
We have to warn Europe she's got to cut her anchor to Amerika or she'll sink! She must not give Amerika all these artificial respirations and transfusions! Why should Europe save Amerika? They should just cut her loose and let her die!--Otherwise they'll bleed themselves to death! We've got to tell Europe to let Amerika go! They're putting their eggs in the wrong basket!
THEY CAN'T SEEM TO GET OVER THE "AMERIKAN DREAM," but that's not where God's going! They need to get on with their Socialism, and damn the Fascism of Amerika!They're trying to respect her! She doesn't deserve respect: She's an old Whore! Europe is trying to be married to Amerika, when they should cut her loose like a Whore!
BUT THE CAPITALISTIC FINANCIERS OF EUROPE: THEY'RE ALL LIKE A WHOLE BUNCH OF PIMPS! (Or Panders: Those who solicit business for a whore, and share in her wages and profits.)--They've got a whole lot invested in this Whore, and they don't want to lose it. So they try to save her so they can save their investments,so they can save her and continue to make a little money on her. She thinks she's their owner, but they're her owner, and unless they rescue her, she'll die; but they're trying to rescue her to save their own investments. She's going to die anyway, and they're going to lose anyway, so the quicker they cut her loose, the better!
IT'S TOTALLY ARTIFICIAL FOR THEM TO SUPPORT THE DOLLAR! If they'd just let the dollar sink down to where it belongs, Amerika would sink! But the whole trouble is, they each own too much of a share in the Whore, and they don't want to lose their investments. So the money pimps get together and agree to support her dollars when she's sick and not earning them any money. They think she's going to get well again, and they don't realize she's just going to die!
(REV.18:23b)" for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived."
Ted Rudow III,MA
Amerika the whore
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Amerika the Whore
by Ted Rudow III,MA
Thursday Mar 12th, 2009
We have to warn Europe she's got to cut her anchor to Amerika or she'll sink! She must not give Amerika all these artificial respirations and transfusions! Why should Europe save Amerika? They should just cut her loose and let her die!--Otherwise they'll bleed themselves to death! We've got to tell Europe to let Amerika go! They're putting their eggs in the wrong basket!
THEY CAN'T SEEM TO GET OVER THE "AMERIKAN DREAM," but that's not where God's going! They need to get on with their Socialism, and damn the Fascism of Amerika!They're trying to respect her! She doesn't deserve respect: She's an old Whore! Europe is trying to be married to Amerika, when they should cut her loose like a Whore!
BUT THE CAPITALISTIC FINANCIERS OF EUROPE: THEY'RE ALL LIKE A WHOLE BUNCH OF PIMPS! (Or Panders: Those who solicit business for a whore, and share in her wages and profits.)--They've got a whole lot invested in this Whore, and they don't want to lose it. So they try to save her so they can save their investments,so they can save her and continue to make a little money on her. She thinks she's their owner, but they're her owner, and unless they rescue her, she'll die; but they're trying to rescue her to save their own investments. She's going to die anyway, and they're going to lose anyway, so the quicker they cut her loose, the better!
IT'S TOTALLY ARTIFICIAL FOR THEM TO SUPPORT THE DOLLAR! If they'd just let the dollar sink down to where it belongs, Amerika would sink! But the whole trouble is, they each own too much of a share in the Whore, and they don't want to lose their investments. So the money pimps get together and agree to support her dollars when she's sick and not earning them any money. They think she's going to get well again, and they don't realize she's just going to die!
(REV.18:23b)" for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived."
Ted Rudow III,MA
Amerika the Whore
by Ted Rudow III,MA
Thursday Mar 12th, 2009
We have to warn Europe she's got to cut her anchor to Amerika or she'll sink! She must not give Amerika all these artificial respirations and transfusions! Why should Europe save Amerika? They should just cut her loose and let her die!--Otherwise they'll bleed themselves to death! We've got to tell Europe to let Amerika go! They're putting their eggs in the wrong basket!
THEY CAN'T SEEM TO GET OVER THE "AMERIKAN DREAM," but that's not where God's going! They need to get on with their Socialism, and damn the Fascism of Amerika!They're trying to respect her! She doesn't deserve respect: She's an old Whore! Europe is trying to be married to Amerika, when they should cut her loose like a Whore!
BUT THE CAPITALISTIC FINANCIERS OF EUROPE: THEY'RE ALL LIKE A WHOLE BUNCH OF PIMPS! (Or Panders: Those who solicit business for a whore, and share in her wages and profits.)--They've got a whole lot invested in this Whore, and they don't want to lose it. So they try to save her so they can save their investments,so they can save her and continue to make a little money on her. She thinks she's their owner, but they're her owner, and unless they rescue her, she'll die; but they're trying to rescue her to save their own investments. She's going to die anyway, and they're going to lose anyway, so the quicker they cut her loose, the better!
IT'S TOTALLY ARTIFICIAL FOR THEM TO SUPPORT THE DOLLAR! If they'd just let the dollar sink down to where it belongs, Amerika would sink! But the whole trouble is, they each own too much of a share in the Whore, and they don't want to lose their investments. So the money pimps get together and agree to support her dollars when she's sick and not earning them any money. They think she's going to get well again, and they don't realize she's just going to die!
(REV.18:23b)" for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived."
Ted Rudow III,MA
Saturday, March 07, 2009
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In November 2008, California voters ruled against gay marriage, but the fight for its reversal wages on. Oral arguments involving the legality of Proposition 8, which recognizes marriage as strictly between a man and a woman, will be made in front of the California Supreme Court today....
3/06/09
AIDS was first identified in the USA in 1981. The epidemic has now spread to every part of the USA and to all sectors of society. It is thought that more than one million people are living with HIV in the USA and that more than half a million have died after developing AIDS.
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 GIVING THEM AIDS! That's not love!
Ted Rudow III,MA
class of 1996
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Campus weighs in on same-sex marriage case
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In November 2008, California voters ruled against gay marriage, but the fight for its reversal wages on. Oral arguments involving the legality of Proposition 8, which recognizes marriage as strictly between a man and a woman, will be made in front of the California Supreme Court today....
3/06/09
AIDS was first identified in the USA in 1981. The epidemic has now spread to every part of the USA and to all sectors of society. It is thought that more than one million people are living with HIV in the USA and that more than half a million have died after developing AIDS.
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 GIVING THEM AIDS! That's not love!
Ted Rudow III,MA
class of 1996
Wednesday, March 04, 2009
Gestapo-like
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/03/04/18574939.php
Gestapo-like
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Wednesday Mar 4th, 2009
The proposed National Animal Identification System (NAIS) would force even the smallest healthy farms to buy expensive new computer tracking equipment, and potentially would subject them to gestapo-like tactics by the USDA if they are in even slight technical non-compliance.
And all this just to fatten the pockets of the RFID chip manufacturers, and to make it LOOK like something is being done to make our food safer.
This is something they've been working on for years. They've already got this whole new credit system in the works. The whole World will soon buy on this credit system with no currency, no cheques, no paper money. You won't even need any more credit cards, because you will be your own credit card! You will have your invisible electronic number in your hand or in your forehead which can somehow be read by the cashier, or whoever you're buying goods from, who will then tap your number into his machine to see if you really have that much credit and to charge that up to your account and so on! Revelation 13:16 it says, "in the right hand, or in the forehead,"
Ted Rudow III,MA
Gestapo-like
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Wednesday Mar 4th, 2009
The proposed National Animal Identification System (NAIS) would force even the smallest healthy farms to buy expensive new computer tracking equipment, and potentially would subject them to gestapo-like tactics by the USDA if they are in even slight technical non-compliance.
And all this just to fatten the pockets of the RFID chip manufacturers, and to make it LOOK like something is being done to make our food safer.
This is something they've been working on for years. They've already got this whole new credit system in the works. The whole World will soon buy on this credit system with no currency, no cheques, no paper money. You won't even need any more credit cards, because you will be your own credit card! You will have your invisible electronic number in your hand or in your forehead which can somehow be read by the cashier, or whoever you're buying goods from, who will then tap your number into his machine to see if you really have that much credit and to charge that up to your account and so on! Revelation 13:16 it says, "in the right hand, or in the forehead,"
Ted Rudow III,MA
Tuesday, March 03, 2009
Economic crisis has deeper roots than once believed
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Paul Krugman writes for the New York Times.
Paul Krugman: Economic crisis has deeper roots than once believed
Tuesday, Mar. 3, 2009 Page 13A
Remember the good old days, when we used to talk about the "subprime crisis" – and some even thought that this crisis could be "contained"? Oh, the nostalgia! Today we know that subprime lending was only a small fraction of the problem. Even bad home loans in general were only part of what went wrong. We're living in a world of troubled borrowers, ranging from shopping mall developers to European "miracle" economies.
And new kinds of debt trouble just keep emerging.
How did this global debt crisis happen?
Why? Bernanke cited "the depth and sophistication of the country's financial markets" (which, among other things, have allowed households easy access to housing wealth). Depth, yes. But sophistication? Well, you could say that American bankers, empowered by a quarter-century of deregulatory zeal, led the world in finding sophisticated ways to enrich themselves by hiding risk and fooling investors....
Nor is the damage confined to the original borrowers. In America, the housing bubble mainly took place along the coasts, but when the bubble burst, demand for manufactured goods, especially cars, collapsed – and that has taken a terrible toll on the industrial heartland. Similarly, Europe's bubbles were mainly around the continent's periphery, yet industrial production in Germany – which never had a financial bubble but is Europe's manufacturing core – is falling rapidly, thanks to a plunge in exports.
If you want to know where the global crisis came from, then, think of it this way: We're looking at the revenge of the glut.
And the saving glut is still out there. In fact, it's bigger than ever, now that suddenly impoverished consumers have rediscovered the virtues of thrift and the worldwide property boom, which provided an outlet for all those excess savings, has turned into a worldwide bust.
One way to look at the international situation right now is that we're suffering from a global paradox of thrift: Around the world, desired saving exceeds the amount businesses are willing to invest.
And the result is a global slump that leaves everyone worse off.
So that's how we got into this mess. And we're still looking for the way out.
03/03/2009 :
Then the big mortgage banks, the last stop in guaranteeing mortgages, started to go under. The two huge state-supported U.S. mortgage banks, Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae—responsible for more than $5 trillion in mortgages—had to be nationalized, along with the world's largest insurance company, AIG.
Banks which had previously handled trillions in investments were finding that they were becoming insolvent almost overnight. Because of the global reach of these companies, this became a crash even more severe than the series of banking failures that led to the Great Depression in the 1930s.
This financial crisis has spread through the entire banking structure of the West. It has moved from a crisis of insolvency to a crisis of confidence in the banking system—everyone wants their money out because no one trusts their banks. The essential trust that allowed the goldsmiths to lend on the basis of their borrowed gold has begun to evaporate.
The International Monetary Fund warned that the world!
Ted Rudow III,MA
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Paul Krugman: Economic crisis has deeper roots than once believed
Tuesday, Mar. 3, 2009 Page 13A
Remember the good old days, when we used to talk about the "subprime crisis" – and some even thought that this crisis could be "contained"? Oh, the nostalgia! Today we know that subprime lending was only a small fraction of the problem. Even bad home loans in general were only part of what went wrong. We're living in a world of troubled borrowers, ranging from shopping mall developers to European "miracle" economies.
And new kinds of debt trouble just keep emerging.
How did this global debt crisis happen?
Why? Bernanke cited "the depth and sophistication of the country's financial markets" (which, among other things, have allowed households easy access to housing wealth). Depth, yes. But sophistication? Well, you could say that American bankers, empowered by a quarter-century of deregulatory zeal, led the world in finding sophisticated ways to enrich themselves by hiding risk and fooling investors....
Nor is the damage confined to the original borrowers. In America, the housing bubble mainly took place along the coasts, but when the bubble burst, demand for manufactured goods, especially cars, collapsed – and that has taken a terrible toll on the industrial heartland. Similarly, Europe's bubbles were mainly around the continent's periphery, yet industrial production in Germany – which never had a financial bubble but is Europe's manufacturing core – is falling rapidly, thanks to a plunge in exports.
If you want to know where the global crisis came from, then, think of it this way: We're looking at the revenge of the glut.
And the saving glut is still out there. In fact, it's bigger than ever, now that suddenly impoverished consumers have rediscovered the virtues of thrift and the worldwide property boom, which provided an outlet for all those excess savings, has turned into a worldwide bust.
One way to look at the international situation right now is that we're suffering from a global paradox of thrift: Around the world, desired saving exceeds the amount businesses are willing to invest.
And the result is a global slump that leaves everyone worse off.
So that's how we got into this mess. And we're still looking for the way out.
03/03/2009 :
Then the big mortgage banks, the last stop in guaranteeing mortgages, started to go under. The two huge state-supported U.S. mortgage banks, Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae—responsible for more than $5 trillion in mortgages—had to be nationalized, along with the world's largest insurance company, AIG.
Banks which had previously handled trillions in investments were finding that they were becoming insolvent almost overnight. Because of the global reach of these companies, this became a crash even more severe than the series of banking failures that led to the Great Depression in the 1930s.
This financial crisis has spread through the entire banking structure of the West. It has moved from a crisis of insolvency to a crisis of confidence in the banking system—everyone wants their money out because no one trusts their banks. The essential trust that allowed the goldsmiths to lend on the basis of their borrowed gold has begun to evaporate.
The International Monetary Fund warned that the world!
Ted Rudow III,MA
Monday, March 02, 2009
Predatory lending
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/03/02/18574605.php
Predatory lending
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Monday Mar 2nd, 20889
Predatory lending is a pejorative term used to describe practices of some lenders. There are no legal definitions in the United States for predatory lending, though there are laws against many of the specific practices commonly identified as predatory, and various federal agencies use the term as a catch-all term for many specific illegal activities in the loan industry.
Consumer advocates argue that borrowers, especially but not only unsophisticated borrowers, are not aware of their ability to negotiate, and might even be under the mistaken impression that the lender is placing the borrower's interests above its own.
When taxpayers gave Bank of America Corporation a $45 billion
bailout, the company was supposed to use the funds to help jumpstart
the economy. To date, this has not been the case. Instead the bank
has misspent on executive salaries and corporate jets. Then Bank of
America took even more money from cash-strapped states by not paying
for workers' healthcare. Bank of America' Platinum Plus charges 59.41%. It's just plain greed and selfishness as a result, their industries will fail, factories will close, unemployment will rise, and the next Great Depression will have started. The crash is going to happen.
Ted Rudow III,MA
Predatory lending
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Monday Mar 2nd, 20889
Predatory lending is a pejorative term used to describe practices of some lenders. There are no legal definitions in the United States for predatory lending, though there are laws against many of the specific practices commonly identified as predatory, and various federal agencies use the term as a catch-all term for many specific illegal activities in the loan industry.
Consumer advocates argue that borrowers, especially but not only unsophisticated borrowers, are not aware of their ability to negotiate, and might even be under the mistaken impression that the lender is placing the borrower's interests above its own.
When taxpayers gave Bank of America Corporation a $45 billion
bailout, the company was supposed to use the funds to help jumpstart
the economy. To date, this has not been the case. Instead the bank
has misspent on executive salaries and corporate jets. Then Bank of
America took even more money from cash-strapped states by not paying
for workers' healthcare. Bank of America' Platinum Plus charges 59.41%. It's just plain greed and selfishness as a result, their industries will fail, factories will close, unemployment will rise, and the next Great Depression will have started. The crash is going to happen.
Ted Rudow III,MA
Predatory lending
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/03/02/18574605.php
Predatory lending
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Monday Mar 2nd, 20889
Predatory lending is a pejorative term used to describe practices of some lenders. There are no legal definitions in the United States for predatory lending, though there are laws against many of the specific practices commonly identified as predatory, and various federal agencies use the term as a catch-all term for many specific illegal activities in the loan industry.
Consumer advocates argue that borrowers, especially but not only unsophisticated borrowers, are not aware of their ability to negotiate, and might even be under the mistaken impression that the lender is placing the borrower's interests above its own.
When taxpayers gave Bank of America Corporation a $45 billion
bailout, the company was supposed to use the funds to help jumpstart
the economy. To date, this has not been the case. Instead the bank
has misspent on executive salaries and corporate jets. Then Bank of
America took even more money from cash-strapped states by not paying
for workers' healthcare. Bank of America' Platinum Plus charges 59.41%. It's just plain greed and selfishness as a result, their industries will fail, factories will close, unemployment will rise, and the next Great Depression will have started. The crash is going to happen.
Ted Rudow III,MA
Predatory lending
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Monday Mar 2nd, 20889
Predatory lending is a pejorative term used to describe practices of some lenders. There are no legal definitions in the United States for predatory lending, though there are laws against many of the specific practices commonly identified as predatory, and various federal agencies use the term as a catch-all term for many specific illegal activities in the loan industry.
Consumer advocates argue that borrowers, especially but not only unsophisticated borrowers, are not aware of their ability to negotiate, and might even be under the mistaken impression that the lender is placing the borrower's interests above its own.
When taxpayers gave Bank of America Corporation a $45 billion
bailout, the company was supposed to use the funds to help jumpstart
the economy. To date, this has not been the case. Instead the bank
has misspent on executive salaries and corporate jets. Then Bank of
America took even more money from cash-strapped states by not paying
for workers' healthcare. Bank of America' Platinum Plus charges 59.41%. It's just plain greed and selfishness as a result, their industries will fail, factories will close, unemployment will rise, and the next Great Depression will have started. The crash is going to happen.
Ted Rudow III,MA
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
You also reap!
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Paul Krugman: American-style nationalization could save banks?
By Paul Krugman
New York Times
Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2009 - 12:00 am | Page 19A
Comrade Greenspan wants us to seize the economy's commanding heights.OK, not exactly. What Alan Greenspan, the former Federal Reserve chairman – and a staunch defender of free markets – actually said was, "It may be necessary to temporarily nationalize some banks in order to facilitate a swift and orderly restructuring." I agree.The case for nationalization rests on three observations. First, some major banks are dangerously close to the edge – in fact, they would have failed already if investors didn't expect the government to rescue them if necessary.Second, banks must be rescued. The collapse of Lehman Brothers almost destroyed the world financial system, and we can't risk letting much bigger institutions like Citigroup or Bank of America implode.Third, while banks must be rescued, the U.S. government can't afford, fiscally or politically, to bestow huge gifts on bank shareholders.------
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AMERICA'S DOLLAR-BASED ECONOMY IS GOING TO CRASH!--And I don't think it's going to be very long from now. America, with her foolish & selfish economic policies, has robbed the poor to feed the rich, & she can't get away with it forever! You simply cannot get away from God's economic laws & God's laws of retribution, His promise that "whatsoever you sow, that shall you also reap!" ( Gal.6:7 .) America has sown repression economically, so she's going to reap depression!--God's judgements on her for her selfishness & cruelty to the poor & her unwillingness to share her ill-gotten gains & wealth with them! So she's going to get it & be hurt economically, just as she has hurt others!
Ted Rudow III,MA
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Paul Krugman: American-style nationalization could save banks?
By Paul Krugman
New York Times
Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2009 - 12:00 am | Page 19A
Comrade Greenspan wants us to seize the economy's commanding heights.OK, not exactly. What Alan Greenspan, the former Federal Reserve chairman – and a staunch defender of free markets – actually said was, "It may be necessary to temporarily nationalize some banks in order to facilitate a swift and orderly restructuring." I agree.The case for nationalization rests on three observations. First, some major banks are dangerously close to the edge – in fact, they would have failed already if investors didn't expect the government to rescue them if necessary.Second, banks must be rescued. The collapse of Lehman Brothers almost destroyed the world financial system, and we can't risk letting much bigger institutions like Citigroup or Bank of America implode.Third, while banks must be rescued, the U.S. government can't afford, fiscally or politically, to bestow huge gifts on bank shareholders.------
......................................................
AMERICA'S DOLLAR-BASED ECONOMY IS GOING TO CRASH!--And I don't think it's going to be very long from now. America, with her foolish & selfish economic policies, has robbed the poor to feed the rich, & she can't get away with it forever! You simply cannot get away from God's economic laws & God's laws of retribution, His promise that "whatsoever you sow, that shall you also reap!" ( Gal.6:7 .) America has sown repression economically, so she's going to reap depression!--God's judgements on her for her selfishness & cruelty to the poor & her unwillingness to share her ill-gotten gains & wealth with them! So she's going to get it & be hurt economically, just as she has hurt others!
Ted Rudow III,MA
Monday, February 23, 2009
Turning back the clock
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/02/23/18572791.php
Turning back the clock
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Monday Feb 23rd, 2009
EU foreign ministers on Monday called on the incoming Israeli government to relaunch the Middle East peace process with the Palestinians, though some voiced fears over having right-winger Benjamin Netanyahu at the helm.
Benjamin Netanyahu failed Monday to persuade top rivals to join his cabinet, increasing the chances of a far right-wing Israeli coalition that is likely to put the brakes on the sputtering Middle East peace process
But we were hoping maybe the Israelis were civilised enough and maybe even concerned about World opinion or U.S. opinion enough--although they don't seem to be--that surely they wouldn't dare do what they did!--But they did! Turning back the clock and establish Fascism has become a serious player.
Turning back the clock
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Monday Feb 23rd, 2009
EU foreign ministers on Monday called on the incoming Israeli government to relaunch the Middle East peace process with the Palestinians, though some voiced fears over having right-winger Benjamin Netanyahu at the helm.
Benjamin Netanyahu failed Monday to persuade top rivals to join his cabinet, increasing the chances of a far right-wing Israeli coalition that is likely to put the brakes on the sputtering Middle East peace process
But we were hoping maybe the Israelis were civilised enough and maybe even concerned about World opinion or U.S. opinion enough--although they don't seem to be--that surely they wouldn't dare do what they did!--But they did! Turning back the clock and establish Fascism has become a serious player.
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Did Charley make a monkey out of you?
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Saturday, February 21, 2009
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2/21/2009
Did Charley make a monkey out of you?
To the Editor:
The doctrine of delusion (known as evolution) has become the general theme of modern so-called "science," and is therefore no longer true science, but pure, imaginary, evolutionary bunk. Evolution is now referred to as the "great principle" of biology. But a principle, according to the dictionary, is a foundation truth, or fact, and the basis of other truths. And if you know anything about evolution at all, you know it has never been proven to be either a truth or a fact, much less the foundation or the basis of other truths.
It is clear that Charles Darwin's hidden agenda for science was to drive out of the thinking of all scientists any concept of divine special creation, divine intervention into the world, and divine teleology (purpose, plan or goal) in the natural world. This amounts to redefining science wrongly to make it an automatic weapon against Christian faith. Darwin's theory has often been criticized by secular scientists, but his agenda for science has long enjoyed universal success in the secular establishment.
Once I was a tadpole long and thin, then I was a baboon with my tail tucked in, then I was a monkey in a tropical tree and now I am professor with college degree.
Did Charley make a monkey out of you?
Ted Rudow III,MA
Menlo Park, Calif.
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Letters to the Editor
2/21/2009
Did Charley make a monkey out of you?
To the Editor:
The doctrine of delusion (known as evolution) has become the general theme of modern so-called "science," and is therefore no longer true science, but pure, imaginary, evolutionary bunk. Evolution is now referred to as the "great principle" of biology. But a principle, according to the dictionary, is a foundation truth, or fact, and the basis of other truths. And if you know anything about evolution at all, you know it has never been proven to be either a truth or a fact, much less the foundation or the basis of other truths.
It is clear that Charles Darwin's hidden agenda for science was to drive out of the thinking of all scientists any concept of divine special creation, divine intervention into the world, and divine teleology (purpose, plan or goal) in the natural world. This amounts to redefining science wrongly to make it an automatic weapon against Christian faith. Darwin's theory has often been criticized by secular scientists, but his agenda for science has long enjoyed universal success in the secular establishment.
Once I was a tadpole long and thin, then I was a baboon with my tail tucked in, then I was a monkey in a tropical tree and now I am professor with college degree.
Did Charley make a monkey out of you?
Ted Rudow III,MA
Menlo Park, Calif.
Friday, February 20, 2009
The present world economic
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When taxpayers gave Bank of America Corporation a $45 billion
bailout, the company was supposed to use the funds to help jumpstart
the economy. To date, this has not been the case. Instead the bank
has misspent on executive salaries and corporate jets. Then Bank of
America took even more money from cash-strapped states by not paying
for workers' healthcare. You can see the signs of it in the media and
the newspaper all the time. Of course, most of the time only educated
economists can interpret that financial mumbo-jumbo, but everybody
can understand that the real causes of the present world economic
crisis are greed and selfishness. And it's about to bring the world
to absolute depression and chaos. It's just plain greed and
selfishness as a result, their industries will fail, factories will
close, unemployment will rise, and the next Great Depression will
have started. The crash is going to happen.
That is certain! The chain reaction has begun, and though it may take
a few months for the world economy to completely hit the bottom, it
will surely happen!
Ted Rudow III, MA
Menlo Park, United States
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When taxpayers gave Bank of America Corporation a $45 billion
bailout, the company was supposed to use the funds to help jumpstart
the economy. To date, this has not been the case. Instead the bank
has misspent on executive salaries and corporate jets. Then Bank of
America took even more money from cash-strapped states by not paying
for workers' healthcare. You can see the signs of it in the media and
the newspaper all the time. Of course, most of the time only educated
economists can interpret that financial mumbo-jumbo, but everybody
can understand that the real causes of the present world economic
crisis are greed and selfishness. And it's about to bring the world
to absolute depression and chaos. It's just plain greed and
selfishness as a result, their industries will fail, factories will
close, unemployment will rise, and the next Great Depression will
have started. The crash is going to happen.
That is certain! The chain reaction has begun, and though it may take
a few months for the world economy to completely hit the bottom, it
will surely happen!
Ted Rudow III, MA
Menlo Park, United States
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hat have we learned in two millennia?
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Editor,
"The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled,
public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be
tempered and controlled and the assistance to foreign lands should be
curtailed, lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to
work, instead of living on public assistance."
— Cicero 55 BC
If the United States had taken all that money it spent on the
Vietnamese war, the two Iraqi wars and Afghanistan war, trillions of
dollars now and still counting. If they had just given that money to
those Vietnamese, Iraqi and the Afghani people, it would have given
everybody enough money to live on for the rest of their lives. If the
West would spend as much money on the poor of the world as they spend
on arms, it would solve all the world's poverty problems!
Ted Rudow III,MA
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Editor,
"The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled,
public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be
tempered and controlled and the assistance to foreign lands should be
curtailed, lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to
work, instead of living on public assistance."
— Cicero 55 BC
If the United States had taken all that money it spent on the
Vietnamese war, the two Iraqi wars and Afghanistan war, trillions of
dollars now and still counting. If they had just given that money to
those Vietnamese, Iraqi and the Afghani people, it would have given
everybody enough money to live on for the rest of their lives. If the
West would spend as much money on the poor of the world as they spend
on arms, it would solve all the world's poverty problems!
Ted Rudow III,MA
__._,_.___
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
So what have we learned in 2 millennia?
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So what have we learned in 2 millennia?
"The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled,public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands
should be curtailed, lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance."
- Cicero - 55 BC
If the U.S. had taken all that money it spent on the Vietnamese war, the 2 Iraqi wars and Afghanistan war,
trillions of dollars now and still counting. If they had just given that money to those Vietnamese, Iraqi and the Afghans people, it would have given everybody enough money to live on for the rest of their lives. If the West would spend as much money on the poor of the world as they spend on arms, it would solve all the world's poverty problems!
Ted Rudow III,MA
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So what have we learned in 2 millennia?
"The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled,public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands
should be curtailed, lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance."
- Cicero - 55 BC
If the U.S. had taken all that money it spent on the Vietnamese war, the 2 Iraqi wars and Afghanistan war,
trillions of dollars now and still counting. If they had just given that money to those Vietnamese, Iraqi and the Afghans people, it would have given everybody enough money to live on for the rest of their lives. If the West would spend as much money on the poor of the world as they spend on arms, it would solve all the world's poverty problems!
Ted Rudow III,MA
Friday, February 13, 2009
Freedom?
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President Obama made a promise to Planned Parenthood they expect him to keep. “The first thing I’d do as president is sign the Freedom of Choice Act. That’s the first thing I’d do.”
Those pro-abortion groups are raising big money. Seventy-five percent of women say they have abortions because it interferes with their career. You don’t murder somebody just because he or she interferes with your career. Many of these parents have feelings of guilt and emotional and physical problems. Abortion weakens instead of strengthens a marriage. Seventy percent of all relationships fail after abortions. The most powerful statement on abortion was when the handicapped woman said, “What is the point of all of these tests on pregnant women? To get rid of people like me?”
Ted Rudow III,MA
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2009
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President Obama made a promise to Planned Parenthood they expect him to keep. “The first thing I’d do as president is sign the Freedom of Choice Act. That’s the first thing I’d do.”
Those pro-abortion groups are raising big money. Seventy-five percent of women say they have abortions because it interferes with their career. You don’t murder somebody just because he or she interferes with your career. Many of these parents have feelings of guilt and emotional and physical problems. Abortion weakens instead of strengthens a marriage. Seventy percent of all relationships fail after abortions. The most powerful statement on abortion was when the handicapped woman said, “What is the point of all of these tests on pregnant women? To get rid of people like me?”
Ted Rudow III,MA
Freedom?
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Editor,
President Obama made a promise to Planned Parenthood they expect him to keep. “The first thing I’d do as president is sign the Freedom of Choice Act. That’s the first thing I’d do.”
Those pro-abortion groups are raising big money. Seventy-five percent of women say they have abortions because it interferes with their career. You don’t murder somebody just because he or she interferes with your career. Many of these parents have feelings of guilt and emotional and physical problems. Abortion weakens instead of strengthens a marriage. Seventy percent of all relationships fail after abortions. The most powerful statement on abortion was when the handicapped woman said, “What is the point of all of these tests on pregnant women? To get rid of people like me?”
Ted Rudow III,MA
February
13
2009
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Editor,
President Obama made a promise to Planned Parenthood they expect him to keep. “The first thing I’d do as president is sign the Freedom of Choice Act. That’s the first thing I’d do.”
Those pro-abortion groups are raising big money. Seventy-five percent of women say they have abortions because it interferes with their career. You don’t murder somebody just because he or she interferes with your career. Many of these parents have feelings of guilt and emotional and physical problems. Abortion weakens instead of strengthens a marriage. Seventy percent of all relationships fail after abortions. The most powerful statement on abortion was when the handicapped woman said, “What is the point of all of these tests on pregnant women? To get rid of people like me?”
Ted Rudow III,MA
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Did Charley make a monkey out of you?
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Remembering Darwin on his 200th birthday
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"Charles Darwin."
Yeshe Mengesha, a senior health science major, blinked and repeated the name. After some hints from a friend and a light of recognition, she frowned and asked, "Isn't he the one that said people came from monkeys?"
Today is "Darwin Day," celebrating a man whose revolutionary ideas about evolution are sometimes misunderstood....
Ted Rudow III,MA 2/12/09
This doctrine of delusion has become the general theme of modern so-called "science," and is therefore no longer true science, but pure, imaginary, evolutionary bunk. Evolution is now referred to as the "great principle" of biology. But a principle, according to the dictionary, is a foundation truth, or fact, and the basis of other truths. And if you know anything about evolution at all, you know it has never been proven to be either a truth or a fact, much less the foundation or the basis of other truths.
It is clear that Charles Darwin's hidden agenda for science was to drive out of the thinking of all scientists any concept of divine special creation, divine intervention into the world, and divine teleology (purpose, plan or goal) in the natural world. This amounts to redefining science wrongly to make it an automatic weapon against Christian faith. Darwin's theory has often been criticized by secular scientists, but his agenda for science has long enjoyed universal success in the secular establishment.
Once I was a tadpole long and thin, then I was a baboon with my tail tucked in, then I was a monkey in a tropical tree and now I am professor with college degree. Did Charley make a monkey out of you?
Ted Rudow III,MA
class of 1996
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Remembering Darwin on his 200th birthday
Abstract:
"Charles Darwin."
Yeshe Mengesha, a senior health science major, blinked and repeated the name. After some hints from a friend and a light of recognition, she frowned and asked, "Isn't he the one that said people came from monkeys?"
Today is "Darwin Day," celebrating a man whose revolutionary ideas about evolution are sometimes misunderstood....
Ted Rudow III,MA 2/12/09
This doctrine of delusion has become the general theme of modern so-called "science," and is therefore no longer true science, but pure, imaginary, evolutionary bunk. Evolution is now referred to as the "great principle" of biology. But a principle, according to the dictionary, is a foundation truth, or fact, and the basis of other truths. And if you know anything about evolution at all, you know it has never been proven to be either a truth or a fact, much less the foundation or the basis of other truths.
It is clear that Charles Darwin's hidden agenda for science was to drive out of the thinking of all scientists any concept of divine special creation, divine intervention into the world, and divine teleology (purpose, plan or goal) in the natural world. This amounts to redefining science wrongly to make it an automatic weapon against Christian faith. Darwin's theory has often been criticized by secular scientists, but his agenda for science has long enjoyed universal success in the secular establishment.
Once I was a tadpole long and thin, then I was a baboon with my tail tucked in, then I was a monkey in a tropical tree and now I am professor with college degree. Did Charley make a monkey out of you?
Ted Rudow III,MA
class of 1996
Law of love
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Old Testament hypocrisy?
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It seems to me that there are a lot of pickers and choosers in the world. Poets and preachers shuffle through the pages of the Bible, picking and choosing what suits them best, like shoppers at a clearance rack. Did you find something that fits?
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Jesus defined the "Law of Love" in general terms in this important passage in the New Testament. He expressed it another time in His famous "golden rule": "So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the law and the prophets" (Matthew 7:12). The apostle Paul echoed this principle when he wrote: "The entire law is summed up in a single command: Love your neighbor as yourself" (Galatians 5:14). These biblical passages express the heart and soul of all of God's laws and should guide all our actions and interaction with others. I refer to them as "God's Law of Love."
It is our understanding from these and other Scriptures that loving God first and foremost and loving others result in the ultimate fulfillment and completion of biblical law, including the Ten Commandments. If we as Christians love the Lord with all our heart, soul, and mind, and our neighbor as ourselves, we will naturally fulfill the spirit of all the other laws. For example, we won't put other gods before Him or take His name in vain. To love our neighbors as ourselves precludes murdering them, stealing from them, lying to them, or coveting what they have.
The motivation for us-as Christians-to obey these commandments should not be out of a fear of divine judgment, but rather because we are compelled by our love for God and others to exhibit consideration and kindness to our neighbors. I refrain from activities forbidden by the Ten Commandments because they would not be in accordance with our love for God and others.
I believe that through the Lord's salvation, and because of His Law of Love as expressed in the verses listed above, Christians are released from the hundreds of rules under the Mosaic laws in the Old Testament and are no longer required to observe them. For example, we refrain from eating foods classified in the Bible as "unclean," or engaging in unhealthy habits such as smoking or overconsumption of alcohol or food, because to do so would hinder our health-and thus our ability to minister to others. However, I do not feel bound to refrain from those practices as religious ordinances.
I therefore hold as a basic tenet that if a person's actions are motivated by unselfish, sacrificial love-the love of God for others-and are not intentionally hurtful to others, these actions are in accordance with Scripture and are lawful in the eyes of God. "The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace. Against such there is no law" (Galatians 5:22-23).
Ted Rudow III,MA
class of 1996
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Old Testament hypocrisy?
Abstract:
It seems to me that there are a lot of pickers and choosers in the world. Poets and preachers shuffle through the pages of the Bible, picking and choosing what suits them best, like shoppers at a clearance rack. Did you find something that fits?
Why not read a little deeper into Mr....
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Ted Rudow III,MA 2/11/09
Jesus defined the "Law of Love" in general terms in this important passage in the New Testament. He expressed it another time in His famous "golden rule": "So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the law and the prophets" (Matthew 7:12). The apostle Paul echoed this principle when he wrote: "The entire law is summed up in a single command: Love your neighbor as yourself" (Galatians 5:14). These biblical passages express the heart and soul of all of God's laws and should guide all our actions and interaction with others. I refer to them as "God's Law of Love."
It is our understanding from these and other Scriptures that loving God first and foremost and loving others result in the ultimate fulfillment and completion of biblical law, including the Ten Commandments. If we as Christians love the Lord with all our heart, soul, and mind, and our neighbor as ourselves, we will naturally fulfill the spirit of all the other laws. For example, we won't put other gods before Him or take His name in vain. To love our neighbors as ourselves precludes murdering them, stealing from them, lying to them, or coveting what they have.
The motivation for us-as Christians-to obey these commandments should not be out of a fear of divine judgment, but rather because we are compelled by our love for God and others to exhibit consideration and kindness to our neighbors. I refrain from activities forbidden by the Ten Commandments because they would not be in accordance with our love for God and others.
I believe that through the Lord's salvation, and because of His Law of Love as expressed in the verses listed above, Christians are released from the hundreds of rules under the Mosaic laws in the Old Testament and are no longer required to observe them. For example, we refrain from eating foods classified in the Bible as "unclean," or engaging in unhealthy habits such as smoking or overconsumption of alcohol or food, because to do so would hinder our health-and thus our ability to minister to others. However, I do not feel bound to refrain from those practices as religious ordinances.
I therefore hold as a basic tenet that if a person's actions are motivated by unselfish, sacrificial love-the love of God for others-and are not intentionally hurtful to others, these actions are in accordance with Scripture and are lawful in the eyes of God. "The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace. Against such there is no law" (Galatians 5:22-23).
Ted Rudow III,MA
class of 1996
Monday, February 09, 2009
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The Israeli Consul General comes to SJSU
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The Spartan Daily's live coverage of a visit to SJSU by Akiva Tor, the Consul General of Israel for the Pacific Northwest. Things became quite heated at times, with accusations misleading statements by the audience and chants of "free Palestine." Recorded Thursday, 2-5-2008....
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2/09/09 The inhuman Gaza War was a reflection of Barak's own inhuman character. He waged the war as a part of his election campaign. When the anti-war demonstrators marched through the streets of Tel-Aviv and shouted: "Don't buy votes / with the blood of babies" they were not so far off the mark. Like Netanyahu, Barak is a documented failure. There is also a pessimistic version: Fascism has become a serious player in the Israeli public domain. The three main parties have now legitimized it. This phenomenon must be stopped before it is too late.
The Israelis are out to exterminate the Palestinians. You can see, what you have to expect from them when they get their way and can do whatever they want to do. You can look forward to slaughter, massacre and extermination of their enemies. The Israelis and the U.S. are making themselves to stink in the eyes and the ears , the nostrils of the whole world!
Ted Rudow III,MA
class of 1996
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The Israeli Consul General comes to SJSU
Abstract:
The Spartan Daily's live coverage of a visit to SJSU by Akiva Tor, the Consul General of Israel for the Pacific Northwest. Things became quite heated at times, with accusations misleading statements by the audience and chants of "free Palestine." Recorded Thursday, 2-5-2008....
.....................................................................
2/09/09 The inhuman Gaza War was a reflection of Barak's own inhuman character. He waged the war as a part of his election campaign. When the anti-war demonstrators marched through the streets of Tel-Aviv and shouted: "Don't buy votes / with the blood of babies" they were not so far off the mark. Like Netanyahu, Barak is a documented failure. There is also a pessimistic version: Fascism has become a serious player in the Israeli public domain. The three main parties have now legitimized it. This phenomenon must be stopped before it is too late.
The Israelis are out to exterminate the Palestinians. You can see, what you have to expect from them when they get their way and can do whatever they want to do. You can look forward to slaughter, massacre and extermination of their enemies. The Israelis and the U.S. are making themselves to stink in the eyes and the ears , the nostrils of the whole world!
Ted Rudow III,MA
class of 1996
Spartan Daily
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The Israeli Consul General comes to SJSU
Abstract:
The Spartan Daily's live coverage of a visit to SJSU by Akiva Tor, the Consul General of Israel for the Pacific Northwest. Things became quite heated at times, with accusations misleading statements by the audience and chants of "free Palestine." Recorded Thursday, 2-5-2008....
.....................................................................
2/09/09 The inhuman Gaza War was a reflection of Barak's own inhuman character. He waged the war as a part of his election campaign. When the anti-war demonstrators marched through the streets of Tel-Aviv and shouted: "Don't buy votes / with the blood of babies" they were not so far off the mark. Like Netanyahu, Barak is a documented failure. There is also a pessimistic version: Fascism has become a serious player in the Israeli public domain. The three main parties have now legitimized it. This phenomenon must be stopped before it is too late.
The Israelis are out to exterminate the Palestinians. You can see, what you have to expect from them when they get their way and can do whatever they want to do. You can look forward to slaughter, massacre and extermination of their enemies. The Israelis and the U.S. are making themselves to stink in the eyes and the ears , the nostrils of the whole world!
Ted Rudow III,MA
class of 1996
News
Opinion
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Monday, February 9, 2009
The Israeli Consul General comes to SJSU
Abstract:
The Spartan Daily's live coverage of a visit to SJSU by Akiva Tor, the Consul General of Israel for the Pacific Northwest. Things became quite heated at times, with accusations misleading statements by the audience and chants of "free Palestine." Recorded Thursday, 2-5-2008....
.....................................................................
2/09/09 The inhuman Gaza War was a reflection of Barak's own inhuman character. He waged the war as a part of his election campaign. When the anti-war demonstrators marched through the streets of Tel-Aviv and shouted: "Don't buy votes / with the blood of babies" they were not so far off the mark. Like Netanyahu, Barak is a documented failure. There is also a pessimistic version: Fascism has become a serious player in the Israeli public domain. The three main parties have now legitimized it. This phenomenon must be stopped before it is too late.
The Israelis are out to exterminate the Palestinians. You can see, what you have to expect from them when they get their way and can do whatever they want to do. You can look forward to slaughter, massacre and extermination of their enemies. The Israelis and the U.S. are making themselves to stink in the eyes and the ears , the nostrils of the whole world!
Ted Rudow III,MA
class of 1996
Sunday, February 08, 2009
Fascism has become a serious player
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Fascism has become a serious player
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Sunday Feb 8th, 2009
The inhuman Gaza War was a reflection of Barak’s own inhuman character. He waged the war as a part of his election campaign. When the anti-war demonstrators marched through the streets of Tel-Aviv and shouted: “Don’t buy votes / with the blood of babies” they were not so far off the mark.
Like Netanyahu, Barak is a documented failure. There is also a pessimistic version: Fascism has become a serious player in the Israeli public domain. The three main parties have now legitimized it. This phenomenon must be stopped before it is too late.
The Israelis are out to exterminate the Palestinians You can see, what you have to expect from them when they get their way and can do whatever they want to do. You can look forward to slaughter, massacre and extermination of their enemies. The Israelis and the U.S. are making themselves to stink in the eyes and the ears , the nostrils of the whole world!
Ted Rudow III,MA
Fascism has become a serious player
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Sunday Feb 8th, 2009
The inhuman Gaza War was a reflection of Barak’s own inhuman character. He waged the war as a part of his election campaign. When the anti-war demonstrators marched through the streets of Tel-Aviv and shouted: “Don’t buy votes / with the blood of babies” they were not so far off the mark.
Like Netanyahu, Barak is a documented failure. There is also a pessimistic version: Fascism has become a serious player in the Israeli public domain. The three main parties have now legitimized it. This phenomenon must be stopped before it is too late.
The Israelis are out to exterminate the Palestinians You can see, what you have to expect from them when they get their way and can do whatever they want to do. You can look forward to slaughter, massacre and extermination of their enemies. The Israelis and the U.S. are making themselves to stink in the eyes and the ears , the nostrils of the whole world!
Ted Rudow III,MA
Saturday, February 07, 2009
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Dear Editor,
Sports really fosters the spirit of competition. It's the spirit of the world, the "me first" spirit - do what's best for yourself, win no matter who you have to hurt or step on in order to get ahead of the next guy. That's the spirit of the world, which is just the opposite of what Jesus wants to teach people - to love your neighbour as yourself.
Of course, partaking in some form of sports is fine. It's good exercise and can be good fun. But things in the world are so different, and when athletes get to the professional level where they're being paid to win, it gets extremely competitive. It becomes almost a life-and-death spirit.
It's a spiritual thing. It's the spirit of competition and pride, proving you're better than the other guy. They do it by sheer brawn, by their own strength, which really feeds their pride.
It's their idea of success. Winning means success in the world, so to win is a very big motivator. But the world just loves it!
Ted Rudow III, MA
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Saturday, February 07, 2009
Dear Editor,
Sports really fosters the spirit of competition. It's the spirit of the world, the "me first" spirit - do what's best for yourself, win no matter who you have to hurt or step on in order to get ahead of the next guy. That's the spirit of the world, which is just the opposite of what Jesus wants to teach people - to love your neighbour as yourself.
Of course, partaking in some form of sports is fine. It's good exercise and can be good fun. But things in the world are so different, and when athletes get to the professional level where they're being paid to win, it gets extremely competitive. It becomes almost a life-and-death spirit.
It's a spiritual thing. It's the spirit of competition and pride, proving you're better than the other guy. They do it by sheer brawn, by their own strength, which really feeds their pride.
It's their idea of success. Winning means success in the world, so to win is a very big motivator. But the world just loves it!
Ted Rudow III, MA
PO Box 1222
Menlo Park, CA 94026
USA
Tedr77@aol.com
Thursday, February 05, 2009
Freedom?
"The Freedom of Choice Act"
Ted Rudow III,MA said...
President Obama made a promise to Planned Parenthood they expect him to keep."The first thing I’d do as President is sign the Freedom of Choice Act. That’s the first thing I’d do."
Freedom of Choice Act - Declares that it is the policy of the United States that every woman has the fundamental right to choose to: (1) bear a child; (2) terminate a pregnancy prior to fetal viability; or (3) terminate a pregnancy after fetal viability when necessary to protect her life or her health.
Prohibits a federal, state, or local governmental entity from: (1) denying or interfering with a woman's right to exercise such choices; or (2) discriminating against the exercise of those rights in the regulation or provision of benefits, facilities, services, or information. Provides that such prohibition shall apply retroactively.
Authorizes an individual aggrieved by a violation of this Act to obtain appropriate relief, including relief against a governmental entity, in a civil action.
Those pro-abortion groups are raising big money. 75% of the women say they have abortions because it interferes with their career. You don't murder somebody just because he or she interferes with your career. Many of these parents have feelings of guilt and emotional and physical problems. Abortion weakens instead of strengthens a marriage. 70% of all relationships fail after abortions.
The most powerful statement on abortion was when the handicapped woman said, "What is the point of all of these tests on pregnant women?--To get rid of people like me?"
Ted Rudow III,MA said...
President Obama made a promise to Planned Parenthood they expect him to keep."The first thing I’d do as President is sign the Freedom of Choice Act. That’s the first thing I’d do."
Freedom of Choice Act - Declares that it is the policy of the United States that every woman has the fundamental right to choose to: (1) bear a child; (2) terminate a pregnancy prior to fetal viability; or (3) terminate a pregnancy after fetal viability when necessary to protect her life or her health.
Prohibits a federal, state, or local governmental entity from: (1) denying or interfering with a woman's right to exercise such choices; or (2) discriminating against the exercise of those rights in the regulation or provision of benefits, facilities, services, or information. Provides that such prohibition shall apply retroactively.
Authorizes an individual aggrieved by a violation of this Act to obtain appropriate relief, including relief against a governmental entity, in a civil action.
Those pro-abortion groups are raising big money. 75% of the women say they have abortions because it interferes with their career. You don't murder somebody just because he or she interferes with your career. Many of these parents have feelings of guilt and emotional and physical problems. Abortion weakens instead of strengthens a marriage. 70% of all relationships fail after abortions.
The most powerful statement on abortion was when the handicapped woman said, "What is the point of all of these tests on pregnant women?--To get rid of people like me?"
Emperor Obama?
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Thursday, February 5, 2009
Emperor Obama should wear clothes
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I did not doubt for a moment what the outcome of our last election would be. Nor did I question, like some, whether or not America was ready to elect its first black president; I knew the time had come.
What I did not expect was for the world to hoist our star quarterback, Barack, on its collective shoulders and flaunt him through the village streets in a ticker-tape parade of ridiculous triumph....
Ted Rudow III,MA 2/03/09
Despite their anti-war rhetoric, President Barack Obama have adopted the congressional Democratic position that would leave open the option of keeping tens of thousands of U.S. troops in Iraq. 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.
Ted Rudow III,MA
class of 1996
News
Opinion
Sports
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Emperor Obama should wear clothes
Abstract:
I did not doubt for a moment what the outcome of our last election would be. Nor did I question, like some, whether or not America was ready to elect its first black president; I knew the time had come.
What I did not expect was for the world to hoist our star quarterback, Barack, on its collective shoulders and flaunt him through the village streets in a ticker-tape parade of ridiculous triumph....
Ted Rudow III,MA 2/03/09
Despite their anti-war rhetoric, President Barack Obama have adopted the congressional Democratic position that would leave open the option of keeping tens of thousands of U.S. troops in Iraq. 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.
Ted Rudow III,MA
class of 1996
Monday, February 02, 2009
Super bowl?
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/02/02/18567777.php
Super bowl?
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Monday Feb 2nd, 2009 8:56 AM
Sports really foster the spirit of competition. It's the spirit of the world the "me first" spirit--do what's best for yourself, win no matter who you have to hurt or step on in order to get ahead of the next guy. That's the spirit of the world, which is just the opposite of what Jesus wants to teach people--to love your neighbor as yourself.
Of course, some form of sports is fine. It's good exercise and can be good fun. But things in the world are so different, and when athletes get to the professional level where they're being paid to win, it gets extremely competitive. It becomes almost a life-and-death spirit.
It's a spiritual thing. It's the spirit of competition and pride, proving you're better than the other guy. They do it by sheer brawn, by their own strength, which really feeds their pride. It's their idea of success. Winning means success in the world, so to win is a very big motivator. But the world just loves it! See how this competitive sports thing has been the final stages of every great civilization and empire. What young men does the media glorify and glamorize the most? There about second. Is it the scholars? No probably about third. But the ones it builds memorials for and commemorates on special days and glamorizes as the greatest heroes of all time are its most murderous war-mongering soldiers.
Ted Rudow III,MA
Super bowl?
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Monday Feb 2nd, 2009 8:56 AM
Sports really foster the spirit of competition. It's the spirit of the world the "me first" spirit--do what's best for yourself, win no matter who you have to hurt or step on in order to get ahead of the next guy. That's the spirit of the world, which is just the opposite of what Jesus wants to teach people--to love your neighbor as yourself.
Of course, some form of sports is fine. It's good exercise and can be good fun. But things in the world are so different, and when athletes get to the professional level where they're being paid to win, it gets extremely competitive. It becomes almost a life-and-death spirit.
It's a spiritual thing. It's the spirit of competition and pride, proving you're better than the other guy. They do it by sheer brawn, by their own strength, which really feeds their pride. It's their idea of success. Winning means success in the world, so to win is a very big motivator. But the world just loves it! See how this competitive sports thing has been the final stages of every great civilization and empire. What young men does the media glorify and glamorize the most? There about second. Is it the scholars? No probably about third. But the ones it builds memorials for and commemorates on special days and glamorizes as the greatest heroes of all time are its most murderous war-mongering soldiers.
Ted Rudow III,MA
Super bowl?
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/02/02/18567777.php
Super bowl?
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Monday Feb 2nd, 2009 8:56 AM
Sports really foster the spirit of competition. It's the spirit of the world the "me first" spirit--do what's best for yourself, win no matter who you have to hurt or step on in order to get ahead of the next guy. That's the spirit of the world, which is just the opposite of what Jesus wants to teach people--to love your neighbor as yourself.
Of course, some form of sports is fine. It's good exercise and can be good fun. But things in the world are so different, and when athletes get to the professional level where they're being paid to win, it gets extremely competitive. It becomes almost a life-and-death spirit.
It's a spiritual thing. It's the spirit of competition and pride, proving you're better than the other guy. They do it by sheer brawn, by their own strength, which really feeds their pride. It's their idea of success. Winning means success in the world, so to win is a very big motivator. But the world just loves it! See how this competitive sports thing has been the final stages of every great civilization and empire. What young men does the media glorify and glamorize the most? There about second. Is it the scholars? No probably about third. But the ones it builds memorials for and commemorates on special days and glamorizes as the greatest heroes of all time are its most murderous war-mongering soldiers.
Ted Rudow III,MA
Super bowl?
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Monday Feb 2nd, 2009 8:56 AM
Sports really foster the spirit of competition. It's the spirit of the world the "me first" spirit--do what's best for yourself, win no matter who you have to hurt or step on in order to get ahead of the next guy. That's the spirit of the world, which is just the opposite of what Jesus wants to teach people--to love your neighbor as yourself.
Of course, some form of sports is fine. It's good exercise and can be good fun. But things in the world are so different, and when athletes get to the professional level where they're being paid to win, it gets extremely competitive. It becomes almost a life-and-death spirit.
It's a spiritual thing. It's the spirit of competition and pride, proving you're better than the other guy. They do it by sheer brawn, by their own strength, which really feeds their pride. It's their idea of success. Winning means success in the world, so to win is a very big motivator. But the world just loves it! See how this competitive sports thing has been the final stages of every great civilization and empire. What young men does the media glorify and glamorize the most? There about second. Is it the scholars? No probably about third. But the ones it builds memorials for and commemorates on special days and glamorizes as the greatest heroes of all time are its most murderous war-mongering soldiers.
Ted Rudow III,MA
Super bowl
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Spartan Daily writers Stephanie Vallejo and Jessica Ayala weigh in with their predictions for Sunday's big game between Arizona and Pittsburgh.
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Ted Rudow III,MA 2/02/09
Sports really foster the spirit of competition. It's the spirit of the world the "me first" spirit--do what's best for yourself, win no matter who you have to hurt or step on in order to get ahead of the next guy. That's the spirit of the world, which is just the opposite of what Jesus wants to teach people--to love your neighbor as yourself.
Of course, some form of sports is fine. It's good exercise and can be good fun. But things in the world are so different, and when athletes get to the professional level where they're being paid to win, it gets extremely competitive. It becomes almost a life-and-death spirit. For example, the soccer players in the World Cup practically ran themselves to exhaustion, suffered injuries and bruises, and still kept playing, because they wanted to win no matter what it cost them physically.
It's a spiritual thing. It's the spirit of competition and pride, proving you're better than the other guy. They do it by sheer brawn, by their own strength, which really feeds their pride. It's their idea of success. Winning means success in the world, so to win is a very big motivator. It just seems to be sort of an instinct with men especially to want to compete and to win. When they watch the World Cup or other sports events, it's almost like an extension of those human desires to compete and win. That's why some people get so into it, because they can relate to that drive to compete. The physical exertion, and then finally the goal, is exhilarating for some people.
But the world just loves it! See how this competitive sports thing has been the final stages of every great civilization and empire. What young men does the media glorify and glamorize the most? There about second. Is it the scholars? No probably about third. But the ones it builds memorials for and commemorates on special days and glamorizes as the greatest heroes of all time are its most murderous war-mongering soldiers.
Ted Rudow III,MA
class of 1996
News
Opinion
Sports
Student Culture
Super Bowl Super Coverage
Abstract:
Spartan Daily writers Stephanie Vallejo and Jessica Ayala weigh in with their predictions for Sunday's big game between Arizona and Pittsburgh.
Post Comment
Ted Rudow III,MA 2/02/09
Sports really foster the spirit of competition. It's the spirit of the world the "me first" spirit--do what's best for yourself, win no matter who you have to hurt or step on in order to get ahead of the next guy. That's the spirit of the world, which is just the opposite of what Jesus wants to teach people--to love your neighbor as yourself.
Of course, some form of sports is fine. It's good exercise and can be good fun. But things in the world are so different, and when athletes get to the professional level where they're being paid to win, it gets extremely competitive. It becomes almost a life-and-death spirit. For example, the soccer players in the World Cup practically ran themselves to exhaustion, suffered injuries and bruises, and still kept playing, because they wanted to win no matter what it cost them physically.
It's a spiritual thing. It's the spirit of competition and pride, proving you're better than the other guy. They do it by sheer brawn, by their own strength, which really feeds their pride. It's their idea of success. Winning means success in the world, so to win is a very big motivator. It just seems to be sort of an instinct with men especially to want to compete and to win. When they watch the World Cup or other sports events, it's almost like an extension of those human desires to compete and win. That's why some people get so into it, because they can relate to that drive to compete. The physical exertion, and then finally the goal, is exhilarating for some people.
But the world just loves it! See how this competitive sports thing has been the final stages of every great civilization and empire. What young men does the media glorify and glamorize the most? There about second. Is it the scholars? No probably about third. But the ones it builds memorials for and commemorates on special days and glamorizes as the greatest heroes of all time are its most murderous war-mongering soldiers.
Ted Rudow III,MA
class of 1996
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