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Bitter end
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Monday Jun 8th, 2009
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday he would strive for "maximum understanding" with Washington on peace issues but gave no sign he intends to bow to its demand to halt settlement expansion. Netanyahu has no intention of risking the collapse of his coalition by ceasing all settlement activity in the Occupied West Bank.
American would be just as quick to go to war, and maybe even quicker, for Israel, or even threaten the world to save Israel, as they would for America, of which Israel is such an integral part! AIPAC, or the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, describes itself as the most important organization affecting the U.S. relationship with Israel. With a budget of $65 million, and membership now standing at over 100,000, it is no wonder that congressional staffers consider it one of the most powerful and effective lobbies on Capitol Hill.
This is what much of the world does not understand: that even now, Israel is an integral part of America. Not only Israel's money, brains, politics and arms are American, but so are her clothes, cars, homes, ads, industries, agriculture, trade, attitudes and sometimes arrogant belligerency are also all-American--even much of her language, movies, etc., for which you cannot blame her, since Israel is American, and her only hope of survival is America. So America and Israel will stick together to the bitter end, as they have proven in every Arab-Israeli war so far!
Monday, June 08, 2009
Friday, June 05, 2009
Somebody's lying
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June 5,2009
Somebody's lying
The Obama administration plans to take the next step in its efforts to resuscitate the American auto industry, sending General Motors, the storied manufacturer, into bankruptcy protection this morning.The court filing in New York - will mark the end of financial independence for the 100-year-old industrial leviathan that once conflated its interests with the country's and that employed more than 1 million people, counting jobs at the company and at its suppliers.The purpose of the bankruptcy is to restructure the automaker, as the government has been attempting do with Chrysler, having GM emerge from the process smaller, with fewer brands, less debt - but also more viable.
We owe $11,326,098,943,773. The deficit will hit $1,000,000,000,000 trillion in the 2009 budget year. It's a drop in the bucket compared to what we owe and how much more we owing every year. The politicians are all preaching everything's hunky-dory, everything is recovering, everything is good, then you know they've got to be lying. Somebody's lying, because it couldn't be that good with all these huge corporations and governments folding and going bankrupt!
Ted Rudow III,MA
Opinion
June 5,2009
Somebody's lying
The Obama administration plans to take the next step in its efforts to resuscitate the American auto industry, sending General Motors, the storied manufacturer, into bankruptcy protection this morning.The court filing in New York - will mark the end of financial independence for the 100-year-old industrial leviathan that once conflated its interests with the country's and that employed more than 1 million people, counting jobs at the company and at its suppliers.The purpose of the bankruptcy is to restructure the automaker, as the government has been attempting do with Chrysler, having GM emerge from the process smaller, with fewer brands, less debt - but also more viable.
We owe $11,326,098,943,773. The deficit will hit $1,000,000,000,000 trillion in the 2009 budget year. It's a drop in the bucket compared to what we owe and how much more we owing every year. The politicians are all preaching everything's hunky-dory, everything is recovering, everything is good, then you know they've got to be lying. Somebody's lying, because it couldn't be that good with all these huge corporations and governments folding and going bankrupt!
Ted Rudow III,MA
Thursday, June 04, 2009
Peace
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Peace
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Thursday Jun 4th, 2009
President Obama delivered a highly anticipated speech in Cairo, Egypt, today.In his speech, Obama defended his decision to escalate the occupation of Afghanistan and refused to apologize for the invasion of Iraq that has led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people.
Obama refused to call for a full Israeli withdrawal from the Occupied Territories, but he said settlement building should stop.
Construction should be halted in all settlements without exception not a house and not hut, not in isolated settlements and not in settlements blocks, neither natural growth nor artificial growth.
Anti-Arab fascism to become prevalent in Israeli society should end. The end of the occupation is needed in order to protest basic democratic rights, also within Israel's own borders. The beginning of peace between the state of Israel and the state of Palestine to arise, between Israel and the entire Arab world.
Ted Rudow III,MA
Peace
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Thursday Jun 4th, 2009
President Obama delivered a highly anticipated speech in Cairo, Egypt, today.In his speech, Obama defended his decision to escalate the occupation of Afghanistan and refused to apologize for the invasion of Iraq that has led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people.
Obama refused to call for a full Israeli withdrawal from the Occupied Territories, but he said settlement building should stop.
Construction should be halted in all settlements without exception not a house and not hut, not in isolated settlements and not in settlements blocks, neither natural growth nor artificial growth.
Anti-Arab fascism to become prevalent in Israeli society should end. The end of the occupation is needed in order to protest basic democratic rights, also within Israel's own borders. The beginning of peace between the state of Israel and the state of Palestine to arise, between Israel and the entire Arab world.
Ted Rudow III,MA
Monday, June 01, 2009
A drop
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Thursday as Israel flatly rejected a US and Palestinian demand that it stop settlement construction in the Occupied West Bank. An end to settlements was a top priority for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas as he sat down with Obama Thursday. The Gaza Strip, which the Jews grabbed, and in this same 1967 War the Jews also grabbed all of Jerusalem. This whole part occupied by the Jews here is called the West Bank.--The West Bank of the Jordan River. This was Jordanian land, it was a part of Jordan, until the 1967 War, at which time the Israelis grabbed all of this, the Gaza Strip, Jerusalem and the entire West Bank of the Jordan River. So now the Israelis have all of Jerusalem and these other areas, and they're populating it as fast as they can, putting settlements in there as fast as they can so they can say, this part was given by the U.N. to the Jews, and this part is part of the land which was supposed to have been given by the U.N. to the Palestinians.
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A drop
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Monday Jun 1st, 2009
The Obama administration plans to take the next step in its efforts to resuscitate the American auto industry, sending General Motors, the storied manufacturer, into bankruptcy protection this morning.
The court filing in New York - will mark the end of financial independence for the 100-year-old industrial leviathan that once conflated its interests with the country's and that employed more than 1 million people, counting jobs at the company and at its suppliers.The purpose of the bankruptcy is to restructure the automaker, as the government has been attempting do with Chrysler, having GM emerge from the process smaller, with fewer brands, less debt - but also more viable.
We owe $11,326,098,943,773. The deficit will hit $1,000,000,000,000 trillion in the 2009 budget year.It's a drop in the bucket compared to what we owe and how much more we owing every year. The politicians are all preaching everything's hunky-dory, everything is recovering, everything is good, then you know they've got to be lying. Somebody's lying, because it couldn't be that good with all these huge corporations and governments folding and going bankrupt!
I mean that shows you how people panic if they lose faith in a government.The Crash has been going on for years, but eventually it hits bottom and goes right through the bottom and the bottom falls out and finito!--And this time I am convinced it's going to be finito to the present economic, monetary and capitalistic system. So it could happen any day!
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Thursday as Israel flatly rejected a US and Palestinian demand that it stop settlement construction in the Occupied West Bank. An end to settlements was a top priority for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas as he sat down with Obama Thursday. The Gaza Strip, which the Jews grabbed, and in this same 1967 War the Jews also grabbed all of Jerusalem. This whole part occupied by the Jews here is called the West Bank.--The West Bank of the Jordan River. This was Jordanian land, it was a part of Jordan, until the 1967 War, at which time the Israelis grabbed all of this, the Gaza Strip, Jerusalem and the entire West Bank of the Jordan River. So now the Israelis have all of Jerusalem and these other areas, and they're populating it as fast as they can, putting settlements in there as fast as they can so they can say, this part was given by the U.N. to the Jews, and this part is part of the land which was supposed to have been given by the U.N. to the Palestinians.
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A drop
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Monday Jun 1st, 2009
The Obama administration plans to take the next step in its efforts to resuscitate the American auto industry, sending General Motors, the storied manufacturer, into bankruptcy protection this morning.
The court filing in New York - will mark the end of financial independence for the 100-year-old industrial leviathan that once conflated its interests with the country's and that employed more than 1 million people, counting jobs at the company and at its suppliers.The purpose of the bankruptcy is to restructure the automaker, as the government has been attempting do with Chrysler, having GM emerge from the process smaller, with fewer brands, less debt - but also more viable.
We owe $11,326,098,943,773. The deficit will hit $1,000,000,000,000 trillion in the 2009 budget year.It's a drop in the bucket compared to what we owe and how much more we owing every year. The politicians are all preaching everything's hunky-dory, everything is recovering, everything is good, then you know they've got to be lying. Somebody's lying, because it couldn't be that good with all these huge corporations and governments folding and going bankrupt!
I mean that shows you how people panic if they lose faith in a government.The Crash has been going on for years, but eventually it hits bottom and goes right through the bottom and the bottom falls out and finito!--And this time I am convinced it's going to be finito to the present economic, monetary and capitalistic system. So it could happen any day!
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Overran this part
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Overran this part
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Thursday May 28th, 2009
Thursday as Israel flatly rejected a US and Palestinian demand that it stop settlement construction in the Occupied West Bank. An end to settlements was a top priority for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas as he sat down with Obama Thursday.
The Gaza Strip, which the Jews grabbed, and in this same 1967 War the Jews also grabbed all of Jerusalem. This whole part occupied by the Jews here is called the West Bank.--The West Bank of the Jordan River. This was Jordanian land, it was a part of Jordan, until the 1967 War, at which time the Israelis grabbed all of this, the Gaza Strip, Jerusalem and the entire West Bank of the Jordan River. So now all of this is dominated by the Israelis, they rule it. But most of the Arabs live up in this area and in this West Bank area, and the Gaza Strip.
So now the Israelis have all of Jerusalem and these other areas, and they're populating it as fast as they can, putting settlements in there as fast as they can so they can say, this part was given by the U.N. to the Jews, and this part is part of the land which was supposed to have been given by the U.N. to the Palestinians.
But the Jews paid absolutely no attention whatsoever to the U.N. decision and just overran this part here, like it never had even been agreed on. The Arabs agreed to it, the U.S. agreed to it, all the major World nations agreed to it, about the only ones who didn't were the Jews!
Overran this part
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Thursday May 28th, 2009
Thursday as Israel flatly rejected a US and Palestinian demand that it stop settlement construction in the Occupied West Bank. An end to settlements was a top priority for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas as he sat down with Obama Thursday.
The Gaza Strip, which the Jews grabbed, and in this same 1967 War the Jews also grabbed all of Jerusalem. This whole part occupied by the Jews here is called the West Bank.--The West Bank of the Jordan River. This was Jordanian land, it was a part of Jordan, until the 1967 War, at which time the Israelis grabbed all of this, the Gaza Strip, Jerusalem and the entire West Bank of the Jordan River. So now all of this is dominated by the Israelis, they rule it. But most of the Arabs live up in this area and in this West Bank area, and the Gaza Strip.
So now the Israelis have all of Jerusalem and these other areas, and they're populating it as fast as they can, putting settlements in there as fast as they can so they can say, this part was given by the U.N. to the Jews, and this part is part of the land which was supposed to have been given by the U.N. to the Palestinians.
But the Jews paid absolutely no attention whatsoever to the U.N. decision and just overran this part here, like it never had even been agreed on. The Arabs agreed to it, the U.S. agreed to it, all the major World nations agreed to it, about the only ones who didn't were the Jews!
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
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Facing a $21.3 billion budget deficit, Gov.
Schwarzenegger is requesting a $6 billion loan from the federal government. California is still living on borrowed money. One of these days the feds are going to start collecting. This is why they were so scared to let California go bankrupt, because too many banks that hold the bonds would fail. They haven't taxed the rich enough and they've spoiled the poor with too much welfare.
Too many businesses would fail, then people would fail, just like a row of dominoes. The politicians are elected by people who don't like higher taxes, so they just keeping living on borrowed money. And because the banks and the capitalists have such faith in their systems and their almighty dollar, they have to keep having faith in that dollar, and therefore they have to keep loaning the money and hoping that they're going to get paid some day - but they won't.
The federal government is already bankrupt!
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Facing a $21.3 billion budget deficit, Gov.
Schwarzenegger is requesting a $6 billion loan from the federal government. California is still living on borrowed money. One of these days the feds are going to start collecting. This is why they were so scared to let California go bankrupt, because too many banks that hold the bonds would fail. They haven't taxed the rich enough and they've spoiled the poor with too much welfare.
Too many businesses would fail, then people would fail, just like a row of dominoes. The politicians are elected by people who don't like higher taxes, so they just keeping living on borrowed money. And because the banks and the capitalists have such faith in their systems and their almighty dollar, they have to keep having faith in that dollar, and therefore they have to keep loaning the money and hoping that they're going to get paid some day - but they won't.
The federal government is already bankrupt!
Ted Rudow III,MA
War is hell
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War is hell
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Tuesday May 26th, 2009
I worked as a volunteer Counselor at the VA Hospital in Menlo Park,CA for 17 years as a musician therapist. I work mostly with Vietnam Vets. I think the way the youth feel is, "Why are we to blame? Why should we die for our parents?
Why should we die and let them live when they caused it? They might as well die with us!" Rather than fight the politicians', the militarists', the war-mongers', their parents' battles and give their lives to save their parents. What a travesty, what a horror!
Well, their parents tell them it's for freedom: "So we won't be oppressed and enslaved by the enemy! He was disgusted in a father like that who wanted to send him into war and everything just to preserve their system. Isn't that a joke? Oppressed and enslaved! How more oppressed and enslaved could you be than to have them send you into the Hell of war? Especially their elders, the ones that send them to war. You would have thought having gone through the horrors of it themselves in the First World War they would have never done it again
It shows the parents don't love those boys, don't love the children, or they'd never send them to war. Better to surrender and be slaves than to go through such horrors as that, mangled bodies! War is Hell! Everybody from General Grant to Rommel said war is Hell! Yes, pride & greed!
Ted Rudow III,MA
War is hell
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Tuesday May 26th, 2009
I worked as a volunteer Counselor at the VA Hospital in Menlo Park,CA for 17 years as a musician therapist. I work mostly with Vietnam Vets. I think the way the youth feel is, "Why are we to blame? Why should we die for our parents?
Why should we die and let them live when they caused it? They might as well die with us!" Rather than fight the politicians', the militarists', the war-mongers', their parents' battles and give their lives to save their parents. What a travesty, what a horror!
Well, their parents tell them it's for freedom: "So we won't be oppressed and enslaved by the enemy! He was disgusted in a father like that who wanted to send him into war and everything just to preserve their system. Isn't that a joke? Oppressed and enslaved! How more oppressed and enslaved could you be than to have them send you into the Hell of war? Especially their elders, the ones that send them to war. You would have thought having gone through the horrors of it themselves in the First World War they would have never done it again
It shows the parents don't love those boys, don't love the children, or they'd never send them to war. Better to surrender and be slaves than to go through such horrors as that, mangled bodies! War is Hell! Everybody from General Grant to Rommel said war is Hell! Yes, pride & greed!
Ted Rudow III,MA
Saturday, May 23, 2009
State lives on borrowed money
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Dear Editor: Facing a $21.3 billion budget deficit, Gov. Schwarzenegger is requesting a $6 billion loan from the federal government. California is still living on borrowed money. One of these days the feds are going to start collecting. This is why they were so scared to let California go bankrupt, because too many banks that hold the bonds would fail. They haven't taxed the rich enough and they've spoiled the poor with too much welfare.
Too many businesses would fail, then people would fail, just like a row of dominoes. The politicians are elected by people who don't like higher taxes, so they just keeping living on borrowed money. And because the banks and the capitalists have such faith in their systems and their almighty dollar, they have to keep having faith in that dollar, and therefore they have to keep loaning the money and hoping that they're going to get paid some day — but they won't.
The federal government is already bankrupt, and if it weren't for people's faith in the government, it would crash right this minute. If you leave capitalism alone long enough, it will destroy itself. It'll collapse of its own weight because of its built-in self-destructiveness, because it's selfish.
Ted Rudow III,MA
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May 22,2009
State lives on borrowed money
Dear Editor: Facing a $21.3 billion budget deficit, Gov.
Schwarzenegger is requesting a $6 billion loan from the federal government. California is still living on borrowed money. One of these days the feds are going to start collecting. This is why they were so scared to let California go bankrupt, because too many banks that hold the bonds would fail. They haven't taxed the rich enough and they've spoiled the poor with too much welfare.
Too many businesses would fail, then people would fail, just like a row of dominoes. The politicians are elected by people who don't like higher taxes, so they just keeping living on borrowed money. And because the banks and the capitalists have such faith in their systems and their almighty dollar, they have to keep having faith in that dollar, and therefore they have to keep loaning the money and hoping that they're going to get paid some day - but they won't.
The federal government is already bankrupt, and if it weren't for people's faith in the government, it would crash right this minute. If you leave capitalism alone long enough, it will destroy itself. It'll collapse of its own weight because of its built-in self-destructiveness, because it's selfish.
Ted Rudow III,MA
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Dear Editor: Facing a $21.3 billion budget deficit, Gov. Schwarzenegger is requesting a $6 billion loan from the federal government. California is still living on borrowed money. One of these days the feds are going to start collecting. This is why they were so scared to let California go bankrupt, because too many banks that hold the bonds would fail. They haven't taxed the rich enough and they've spoiled the poor with too much welfare.
Too many businesses would fail, then people would fail, just like a row of dominoes. The politicians are elected by people who don't like higher taxes, so they just keeping living on borrowed money. And because the banks and the capitalists have such faith in their systems and their almighty dollar, they have to keep having faith in that dollar, and therefore they have to keep loaning the money and hoping that they're going to get paid some day — but they won't.
The federal government is already bankrupt, and if it weren't for people's faith in the government, it would crash right this minute. If you leave capitalism alone long enough, it will destroy itself. It'll collapse of its own weight because of its built-in self-destructiveness, because it's selfish.
Ted Rudow III,MA
Palo Alto Daily News, Redwood Daily News, San Mateo Daily News
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May 22,2009
State lives on borrowed money
Dear Editor: Facing a $21.3 billion budget deficit, Gov.
Schwarzenegger is requesting a $6 billion loan from the federal government. California is still living on borrowed money. One of these days the feds are going to start collecting. This is why they were so scared to let California go bankrupt, because too many banks that hold the bonds would fail. They haven't taxed the rich enough and they've spoiled the poor with too much welfare.
Too many businesses would fail, then people would fail, just like a row of dominoes. The politicians are elected by people who don't like higher taxes, so they just keeping living on borrowed money. And because the banks and the capitalists have such faith in their systems and their almighty dollar, they have to keep having faith in that dollar, and therefore they have to keep loaning the money and hoping that they're going to get paid some day - but they won't.
The federal government is already bankrupt, and if it weren't for people's faith in the government, it would crash right this minute. If you leave capitalism alone long enough, it will destroy itself. It'll collapse of its own weight because of its built-in self-destructiveness, because it's selfish.
Ted Rudow III,MA
Cheney
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Cheney
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Saturday May 23rd, 2009
In an argument of over 600 pages and 1,000 footnotes, Crossing the Rubicon makes the case for official complicity within the U.S. government and names Dick Cheney as the prime suspect in the crimes of 9/11.
That's the reason Cheney has been on the media so often! He is scared.
Bin Laden didn't carry out the attacks on the U.S., nor did the Afghanis, but they're bearing the brunt of American wrath and warfare, and the Arabs and Muslims of the world think it's unjust--and they're right! The US is simply picking on a stubborn little trouble-making individual and country which most of the rest of the world doesn't like either, so they figure they can get away with it without any big problems.
Well, bin Laden has put his finger on a domino, and it's rocking back and forth. If that domino falls, then you may well see some Arab and Muslim nations fall as well, further polarizing the world. It depends on how far the Americans and their British sidekicks go as to whether that domino falls and how many other dominoes it knocks down!
Ted Rudow III,MA
Cheney
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Saturday May 23rd, 2009
In an argument of over 600 pages and 1,000 footnotes, Crossing the Rubicon makes the case for official complicity within the U.S. government and names Dick Cheney as the prime suspect in the crimes of 9/11.
That's the reason Cheney has been on the media so often! He is scared.
Bin Laden didn't carry out the attacks on the U.S., nor did the Afghanis, but they're bearing the brunt of American wrath and warfare, and the Arabs and Muslims of the world think it's unjust--and they're right! The US is simply picking on a stubborn little trouble-making individual and country which most of the rest of the world doesn't like either, so they figure they can get away with it without any big problems.
Well, bin Laden has put his finger on a domino, and it's rocking back and forth. If that domino falls, then you may well see some Arab and Muslim nations fall as well, further polarizing the world. It depends on how far the Americans and their British sidekicks go as to whether that domino falls and how many other dominoes it knocks down!
Ted Rudow III,MA
Thursday, May 21, 2009
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Facing a $21.3 billion budget deficit, Mr. Schwarzenegger is requesting a $6 billion loan from the federal government. California still living on borrowed money. One of these days they're going to start collecting. This is why they were so scared to let California go bankrupt because too many banks would fail that hold bonds and stuff. They haven't taxed the rich enough and they've spoiled the poor with too much welfare.
Too many business's would fail, people would fail, just like a row of dominoes. The politicians are elected officials elected by the people who don't like higher taxes, so they just keeping living on borrowed money. And because the banks and the capitalists have such faith in their systems and their almighty god Dollar, they have to keep having faith in that Dollar, and therefore they have to keep loaning the money and hoping that they're going to get paid some day--but they won't.
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Facing a $21.3 billion budget deficit, Mr. Schwarzenegger is requesting a $6 billion loan from the federal government. California still living on borrowed money. One of these days they're going to start collecting. This is why they were so scared to let California go bankrupt because too many banks would fail that hold bonds and stuff. They haven't taxed the rich enough and they've spoiled the poor with too much welfare.
Too many business's would fail, people would fail, just like a row of dominoes. The politicians are elected officials elected by the people who don't like higher taxes, so they just keeping living on borrowed money. And because the banks and the capitalists have such faith in their systems and their almighty god Dollar, they have to keep having faith in that Dollar, and therefore they have to keep loaning the money and hoping that they're going to get paid some day--but they won't.
The Federal Government is already bankrupt!
Ted Rudow III,MA
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Facing a $21.3 billion budget deficit, Mr. Schwarzenegger is requesting a $6 billion loan from the federal government. California still living on borrowed money. One of these days they're going to start collecting. This is why they were so scared to let California go bankrupt because too many banks would fail that hold bonds and stuff. They haven't taxed the rich enough and they've spoiled the poor with too much welfare.
Too many business's would fail, people would fail, just like a row of dominoes. The politicians are elected officials elected by the people who don't like higher taxes, so they just keeping living on borrowed money. And because the banks and the capitalists have such faith in their systems and their almighty god Dollar, they have to keep having faith in that Dollar, and therefore they have to keep loaning the money and hoping that they're going to get paid some day--but they won't.
The Federal Government is already bankrupt!
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Facing a $21.3 billion budget deficit, Mr. Schwarzenegger is requesting a $6 billion loan from the federal government. California still living on borrowed money. One of these days they're going to start collecting. This is why they were so scared to let California go bankrupt because too many banks would fail that hold bonds and stuff. They haven't taxed the rich enough and they've spoiled the poor with too much welfare.
Too many business's would fail, people would fail, just like a row of dominoes. The politicians are elected officials elected by the people who don't like higher taxes, so they just keeping living on borrowed money. And because the banks and the capitalists have such faith in their systems and their almighty god Dollar, they have to keep having faith in that Dollar, and therefore they have to keep loaning the money and hoping that they're going to get paid some day--but they won't.
The Federal Government is already bankrupt!
Ted Rudow III,MA
Friday, May 15, 2009
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"A History of Service"
By: Kamil Dada
Former Secretary of State George Shultz relates his experiences to The Daily
At 88 years old, and after serving three universities, two presidents and one of the largest companies in the country, one would expect George Shultz to sit back and reflect on his long career as a public servant.
Former Secretary of State and Treasury George Shultz discussed his experiences in politics and weighed in on contemporary issues such as the economic crisis and national security. (MICHAEL LIU/The Stanford Daily)
Shultz also touched upon the nature of torture and waterboarding, given the recent national press attention surrounding declassified documents that reported that former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice gave the nod of approval to then-CIA Director George Tenet to use waterboarding. Shultz pointed to the Geneva Convention that prohibits the use of torture and said that he agreed with it. However, he argued that the Geneva Convention does not particularly identify or define exactly what torture is.
“I don’t want to try and second-guess people who were in the administration or Congress, who in the intense problems right after 9/11 said that we also have to do everything we can to protect the country,” Shultz said. “They probably deviated somewhat from what the Geneva Convention called for.”
He argued that the administration was in a difficult situation and was operating in a setting where it had to protect the country after a major terrorist attack. To that end, he did not believe that legal authorities should investigate or prosecute administrators, such as Rice.=
“I’m not in favor of going back and trying to prosecute people for doing what they regarded as their duty to protect our national security,” he said. “I think it could set a very bad precedent.”
Just over two weeks ago, Rice noted to a student in Roble Hall, in a video made public on YouTube, that President Bush instructed officials that nothing they would do would be outside of their legal obligations under the Convention against Torture.
“So, by definition, if it was authorized by the President, it did not violate our obligations under the Convention,” Rice said to the student.
The comment sparked off a maelstrom of responses in the national spotlight, with some suggesting that Rice implied that a presidential authorization “by definition” grants something legality.
Shultz, however, strongly disagreed with this interpretation of the law.
“The President is never above the law,” he said?
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George Shultz is a member of Bohemian Grove. With its combination of wealth and power, Bohemian Grove’s secrecy has been a target for protest for many years. Few of my family friends are member of the Bohemian Club. My father was inviting to join but turn it down! President Herbert Hoover once called this club “the greatest men’s party on Earth.”“Anybody can be President of the United States, but very few can ever have any hope of becoming President of the Bohemian Club.”- President Richard Nixon, 1972
On July 15, 2000, Austin, Texas-based filmmaker Alex Jones and his cameraman, Mike Hanson, infiltrated the Grove and successfully made it out with documented evidence. With a hidden camera, Jones and Hanson were able to film the Cremation of Care ceremony. The footage was the centerpiece of Jones’ documentary, Dark Secrets: Inside Bohemian Grove. Jones claimed that the Cremation of Care is an “ancient Canaanite, Luciferian, Babylon mystery religion ceremony,” and that the owl statue is Moloch, although ancient descriptions of Moloch suggest a human figure with the head of a bull rather than an owl.
The Grove and Jones’ investigation were covered by Jon Ronson in Channel 4’s four-part documentary, Secret Rulers of the World. Ronson documented his view of the ritual in his book, Them: Adventures With Extremists, writing that it was a startling, immature, and bizarre way for world leaders to spend their summer vacations, but that he did not see evidence of covert Satanism. According to his description of the account it was nothing more than a fraternity-esque ritual, and the only reason one could see it as Satanic was if one were looking for Satanism in it to begin with.
About 30 years ago, Philip Rothschilds ordered one of his mistresses (Ayn Rand) to write an 1100-page book that would describe to all witches how they would take control of the World through the Illuminati: It’s called Atlas Shrugs.”
John Todd–Ex-Grand Druid Witch
Ted Rudow III,MA
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By: Kamil Dada
Former Secretary of State George Shultz relates his experiences to The Daily
At 88 years old, and after serving three universities, two presidents and one of the largest companies in the country, one would expect George Shultz to sit back and reflect on his long career as a public servant.
Former Secretary of State and Treasury George Shultz discussed his experiences in politics and weighed in on contemporary issues such as the economic crisis and national security. (MICHAEL LIU/The Stanford Daily)
Shultz also touched upon the nature of torture and waterboarding, given the recent national press attention surrounding declassified documents that reported that former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice gave the nod of approval to then-CIA Director George Tenet to use waterboarding. Shultz pointed to the Geneva Convention that prohibits the use of torture and said that he agreed with it. However, he argued that the Geneva Convention does not particularly identify or define exactly what torture is.
“I don’t want to try and second-guess people who were in the administration or Congress, who in the intense problems right after 9/11 said that we also have to do everything we can to protect the country,” Shultz said. “They probably deviated somewhat from what the Geneva Convention called for.”
He argued that the administration was in a difficult situation and was operating in a setting where it had to protect the country after a major terrorist attack. To that end, he did not believe that legal authorities should investigate or prosecute administrators, such as Rice.=
“I’m not in favor of going back and trying to prosecute people for doing what they regarded as their duty to protect our national security,” he said. “I think it could set a very bad precedent.”
Just over two weeks ago, Rice noted to a student in Roble Hall, in a video made public on YouTube, that President Bush instructed officials that nothing they would do would be outside of their legal obligations under the Convention against Torture.
“So, by definition, if it was authorized by the President, it did not violate our obligations under the Convention,” Rice said to the student.
The comment sparked off a maelstrom of responses in the national spotlight, with some suggesting that Rice implied that a presidential authorization “by definition” grants something legality.
Shultz, however, strongly disagreed with this interpretation of the law.
“The President is never above the law,” he said?
One Comment on “A History of Service”?
George Shultz is a member of Bohemian Grove. With its combination of wealth and power, Bohemian Grove’s secrecy has been a target for protest for many years. Few of my family friends are member of the Bohemian Club. My father was inviting to join but turn it down! President Herbert Hoover once called this club “the greatest men’s party on Earth.”“Anybody can be President of the United States, but very few can ever have any hope of becoming President of the Bohemian Club.”- President Richard Nixon, 1972
On July 15, 2000, Austin, Texas-based filmmaker Alex Jones and his cameraman, Mike Hanson, infiltrated the Grove and successfully made it out with documented evidence. With a hidden camera, Jones and Hanson were able to film the Cremation of Care ceremony. The footage was the centerpiece of Jones’ documentary, Dark Secrets: Inside Bohemian Grove. Jones claimed that the Cremation of Care is an “ancient Canaanite, Luciferian, Babylon mystery religion ceremony,” and that the owl statue is Moloch, although ancient descriptions of Moloch suggest a human figure with the head of a bull rather than an owl.
The Grove and Jones’ investigation were covered by Jon Ronson in Channel 4’s four-part documentary, Secret Rulers of the World. Ronson documented his view of the ritual in his book, Them: Adventures With Extremists, writing that it was a startling, immature, and bizarre way for world leaders to spend their summer vacations, but that he did not see evidence of covert Satanism. According to his description of the account it was nothing more than a fraternity-esque ritual, and the only reason one could see it as Satanic was if one were looking for Satanism in it to begin with.
About 30 years ago, Philip Rothschilds ordered one of his mistresses (Ayn Rand) to write an 1100-page book that would describe to all witches how they would take control of the World through the Illuminati: It’s called Atlas Shrugs.”
John Todd–Ex-Grand Druid Witch
Ted Rudow III,MA
Capitalism is coming to the end of itself.
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Capitalism is coming to the end of itself.
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Friday May 15th, 2009
Capitalism is coming to the end of itself. It has over-extended itself, it has lived beyond its income. It is living on borrowed money and borrowed time, and some day soon it’s going to have to pay.
The economists have been warning the U.S. government for years. The U.S. government has been living on borrowed time and money for the past 40 years. One reason for the real estate boom is that people begin to have faith in their money. As the price go up, the wages never rise as fast as the prices.
This time they’re not only going to have a big depression, or economic collapse, which in days past benefited the big money boys, but it is also going to bring about the collapse of big investors, governments, everybody. It’s going to take the money down with it.The currency regime will be replaced by a very remarkable credit system in which every person in the world, who belongs to the system, will bear a chip implant, without which he or she can neither buy nor sell.
Ted Rudow III,MA
Capitalism is coming to the end of itself.
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Friday May 15th, 2009
Capitalism is coming to the end of itself. It has over-extended itself, it has lived beyond its income. It is living on borrowed money and borrowed time, and some day soon it’s going to have to pay.
The economists have been warning the U.S. government for years. The U.S. government has been living on borrowed time and money for the past 40 years. One reason for the real estate boom is that people begin to have faith in their money. As the price go up, the wages never rise as fast as the prices.
This time they’re not only going to have a big depression, or economic collapse, which in days past benefited the big money boys, but it is also going to bring about the collapse of big investors, governments, everybody. It’s going to take the money down with it.The currency regime will be replaced by a very remarkable credit system in which every person in the world, who belongs to the system, will bear a chip implant, without which he or she can neither buy nor sell.
Ted Rudow III,MA
Thursday, May 14, 2009
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Capitalism is coming to the end of itself. It has over-extended itself, it has lived beyond its income. It is living on borrowed money and borrowed time, and some day soon it’s going to have to pay. The economists have been warning the U.S. government for years. The U.S. government has been living on borrowed time and money for the past 40 years. One reason for the real estate boom is that people begin to have faith in their money. As the price go up, the wages never rise as fast as the prices.
This time they’re not only going to have a big depression, or economic collapse, which in days past benefited the big money boys, but it is also going to bring about the collapse of big investors, governments, everybody. It’s going to take the money down with it.The currency regime will be replaced by a very remarkable credit system in which every person in the world, who belongs to the system, will bear a chip implant, without which he or she can neither buy nor sell.
Ted Rudow III,MA
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Capitalism is coming to the end of itself. It has over-extended itself, it has lived beyond its income. It is living on borrowed money and borrowed time, and some day soon it’s going to have to pay. The economists have been warning the U.S. government for years. The U.S. government has been living on borrowed time and money for the past 40 years. One reason for the real estate boom is that people begin to have faith in their money. As the price go up, the wages never rise as fast as the prices.
This time they’re not only going to have a big depression, or economic collapse, which in days past benefited the big money boys, but it is also going to bring about the collapse of big investors, governments, everybody. It’s going to take the money down with it.The currency regime will be replaced by a very remarkable credit system in which every person in the world, who belongs to the system, will bear a chip implant, without which he or she can neither buy nor sell.
Ted Rudow III,MA
Monday, May 11, 2009
Mother's Day Should Be a Call to Stop Warfare
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Monday, May 11, 2009
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Mother's Day really was in its origin an antiwar day, an antiwar statement. Julia Ward Howe was sickened by what had happened during the Civil War, the loss of life, the carnage, and she created Mother's Day as a call for women all over the world to come together and create ways of protesting war, of making a kind of alternate government that could finally do away with war as an acceptable way of solving conflict. Countries used to go to war just for pride over some incident because they were offended or one king made a bad remark about another king. But in modern years, recent years, they go to war for commercial reasons, they're trade wars. Nearly every one of America's wars were for some kind of trade advantage or money or for territory-which of course were always fought under different excuses, even as far back as the Civil War. Before every war, there's a long period of mental conditioning and psychological preparation. You never saw how self-righteous nations can get just before a war! So righteous and so convinced that they are right and the other fellow's the criminal, the devil who needs to be conquered! "FROM WHENCE COME WARS?"
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Mother's Day really was in its origin an antiwar day, an antiwar statement. Julia Ward Howe was sickened by what had happened during the Civil War, the loss of life, the carnage, and she created Mother's Day as a call for women all over the world to come together and create ways of protesting war, of making a kind of alternate government that could finally do away with war as an acceptable way of solving conflict. Countries used to go to war just for pride over some incident because they were offended or one king made a bad remark about another king. But in modern years, recent years, they go to war for commercial reasons, they're trade wars. Nearly every one of America's wars were for some kind of trade advantage or money or for territory-which of course were always fought under different excuses, even as far back as the Civil War. Before every war, there's a long period of mental conditioning and psychological preparation. You never saw how self-righteous nations can get just before a war! So righteous and so convinced that they are right and the other fellow's the criminal, the devil who needs to be conquered! "FROM WHENCE COME WARS?"
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Friday, May 08, 2009
Do abortion clinics encourage racist practice?
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Planned Parenthood has accepted a price for my head by accepting money for the cause of aborting black babies. The organization has been targeted by the UCLA student publication, The Advocate, for its questionable practices regarding abortions....
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The protesters just chaining themselves to doorways of abortion clinics isn't going to help those mothers any! They're just trying to stop'm from having abortions. They need to offer them help instead of going to all that expense of those huge rallies and demonstrations. Of course, that's good to wake up the people and stop the mothers, but what is the alternative? How are they going to help the mothers who can't handle their babies? Maybe they're single mothers who have jobs and can't even afford to have their babies, so what are they going to do to help them?
That's where it seems to me the Christian protesters are being a little hypocritical, because it doesn't seem that they're offering real genuine help, such as financial help & babycare or adoption assurance, things like that.
The rich Christians need to put their money where their mouth is & put out more money to help the girls! To the girls it's a problem. A lot of them don't want to have abortions, so what they need is help with their problem. If the Christians don't want them to get an abortion, then what do they want them to do? In a lot of cases, of course, it's just plain selfish women & selfish parents.
The single unwed mothers really can't even afford to have the abortion, but it's cheaper to have an abortion than to have a baby! It's gotten very expensive to have a baby in the U.S. nowadays.Then there's all of the babycare afterwards, & if she has a job, how is she going to take care of her baby?
A lot of women want to have the baby & would like to keep it, but the rules at the adoption agencies are that they can never see the baby again or even know who the adopting parents are! Therefore the girl has no hope for the future that she is ever going to see her baby again, & that's the killer! That really tortures them & frightens them!
If the adoption agencies would break that barrier, so that the adopters are willing to be more unselfish & willing to let the mother see the baby, even come & visit, that would seem to be the ideal solution. Let the rich adopters take care of the baby for her, like grandparents, & let her come see the baby, & when she is able, even allow her to take the child back.
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Do abortion clinics encourage racist practice?
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How much is my life worth? How about my mother's? Or my father's?
Planned Parenthood has accepted a price for my head by accepting money for the cause of aborting black babies. The organization has been targeted by the UCLA student publication, The Advocate, for its questionable practices regarding abortions....
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5/07/09
The protesters just chaining themselves to doorways of abortion clinics isn't going to help those mothers any! They're just trying to stop'm from having abortions. They need to offer them help instead of going to all that expense of those huge rallies and demonstrations. Of course, that's good to wake up the people and stop the mothers, but what is the alternative? How are they going to help the mothers who can't handle their babies? Maybe they're single mothers who have jobs and can't even afford to have their babies, so what are they going to do to help them?
That's where it seems to me the Christian protesters are being a little hypocritical, because it doesn't seem that they're offering real genuine help, such as financial help & babycare or adoption assurance, things like that.
The rich Christians need to put their money where their mouth is & put out more money to help the girls! To the girls it's a problem. A lot of them don't want to have abortions, so what they need is help with their problem. If the Christians don't want them to get an abortion, then what do they want them to do? In a lot of cases, of course, it's just plain selfish women & selfish parents.
The single unwed mothers really can't even afford to have the abortion, but it's cheaper to have an abortion than to have a baby! It's gotten very expensive to have a baby in the U.S. nowadays.Then there's all of the babycare afterwards, & if she has a job, how is she going to take care of her baby?
A lot of women want to have the baby & would like to keep it, but the rules at the adoption agencies are that they can never see the baby again or even know who the adopting parents are! Therefore the girl has no hope for the future that she is ever going to see her baby again, & that's the killer! That really tortures them & frightens them!
If the adoption agencies would break that barrier, so that the adopters are willing to be more unselfish & willing to let the mother see the baby, even come & visit, that would seem to be the ideal solution. Let the rich adopters take care of the baby for her, like grandparents, & let her come see the baby, & when she is able, even allow her to take the child back.
Ted Rudow III,MA
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Imagine what a different world it would be if the US and other nations took the trillion dollars they now spend every year on arms and armies and spent it on food, shelter, health, education and programs that bring life and well-being, rather than death and devastation! Fully half of that amount is spent by the United States, which sells billions of dollars of weaponry to the rest of the world so that they can be guilty of similar waste!
Cutting down on war and weaponry would be a great stimulus package, not only for the economy but for peace! It's not going to happen in the US anytime soon, of course. The weapons makers and the military are just too powerful, and if the president and lawmakers were to try to cut back on military spending, there'd be howls of protest that the US is going soft, that it can't stand up to terrorists, and all the other malarkey that the warmongers and weapons makers are so fond of dishing out.
History certainly shows that, but the US has never been very interested in history, and it seems it's destined to repeat the mistakes that other great nations have made.
Ted Rudow III, MA
Menlo Park, United States
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Imagine what a different world it would be if the US and other nations took the trillion dollars they now spend every year on arms and armies and spent it on food, shelter, health, education and programs that bring life and well-being, rather than death and devastation! Fully half of that amount is spent by the United States, which sells billions of dollars of weaponry to the rest of the world so that they can be guilty of similar waste!
Cutting down on war and weaponry would be a great stimulus package, not only for the economy but for peace! It's not going to happen in the US anytime soon, of course. The weapons makers and the military are just too powerful, and if the president and lawmakers were to try to cut back on military spending, there'd be howls of protest that the US is going soft, that it can't stand up to terrorists, and all the other malarkey that the warmongers and weapons makers are so fond of dishing out.
History certainly shows that, but the US has never been very interested in history, and it seems it's destined to repeat the mistakes that other great nations have made.
Ted Rudow III, MA
Menlo Park, United States
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Hoover Fellow and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has begun engaging the Stanford student body in conversation, opening the floor to many people eager to meet the former Provost—and question the Bush administration’s policies.Rice, who said in a March 4 interview with The Daily that she is “willing to talk about the decisions that we made and the difficulty of those decisions under the circumstances,” has begun with visits to Freshman Sophomore College (FroSoCo) and Roble in recent weeks.Drawing a great deal of attention—as well as careful event planning—Rice has been met with the “respectful engagement” she asked for in March, but also critics and a video camera. Most famously, a YouTube video of Rice at Roble on Tuesday has already received 10,000 hits and national media attention.
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Recent figures underscore the severity of the toll on the U.S. economy. Last week, the International Monetary Fund said global banks and financial institutions have lost an estimated $4.1 trillion during the financial crisis. Of that total, $2.7 trillion in losses originated in the United States. In another report, the IMF also projected the cost to U.S. taxpayers for the Wall Street bailout and other economy spending could be far higher than government officials have claimed. IMF analysts say the taxpayer tab could come out to $1.9 trilllion over the next five years. The figure amounts to around $6,200 for every U.S. citizen, and just over 13 percent of annual gross domestic product.
A lot of the economists have formerly predicted doom, but they’re not doing it now. They’re all trying to be peace prophets, not prophets of doom, but of peace and safety. “When they shall cry, ‘peace and safety,’ then comes sudden destruction.” — 1Thess.5:3. That doesn’t necessarily mean just war. They’ve just had a destruction of the stock market, and that can lead to destruction of the economy. The thing is, the economy was just overinflated, it was just a big balloon ready to burst, and now it’s got to get back down to where it belongs.
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Hoover Fellow and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has begun engaging the Stanford student body in conversation, opening the floor to many people eager to meet the former Provost—and question the Bush administration’s policies.Rice, who said in a March 4 interview with The Daily that she is “willing to talk about the decisions that we made and the difficulty of those decisions under the circumstances,” has begun with visits to Freshman Sophomore College (FroSoCo) and Roble in recent weeks.Drawing a great deal of attention—as well as careful event planning—Rice has been met with the “respectful engagement” she asked for in March, but also critics and a video camera. Most famously, a YouTube video of Rice at Roble on Tuesday has already received 10,000 hits and national media attention.
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Recent figures underscore the severity of the toll on the U.S. economy. Last week, the International Monetary Fund said global banks and financial institutions have lost an estimated $4.1 trillion during the financial crisis. Of that total, $2.7 trillion in losses originated in the United States. In another report, the IMF also projected the cost to U.S. taxpayers for the Wall Street bailout and other economy spending could be far higher than government officials have claimed. IMF analysts say the taxpayer tab could come out to $1.9 trilllion over the next five years. The figure amounts to around $6,200 for every U.S. citizen, and just over 13 percent of annual gross domestic product.
A lot of the economists have formerly predicted doom, but they’re not doing it now. They’re all trying to be peace prophets, not prophets of doom, but of peace and safety. “When they shall cry, ‘peace and safety,’ then comes sudden destruction.” — 1Thess.5:3. That doesn’t necessarily mean just war. They’ve just had a destruction of the stock market, and that can lead to destruction of the economy. The thing is, the economy was just overinflated, it was just a big balloon ready to burst, and now it’s got to get back down to where it belongs.
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Dear Editor: Recent figures underscore the severity of the toll on the U.S. economy. Last week, the International Monetary Fund said global banks and financial institutions have lost an estimated $4.1 trillion during the financial crisis. Of that total, $2.7 trillion in losses originated in the United States. In another report, the IMF also projected the cost to U.S. taxpayers for the Wall Street bailout and other economy spending could be far higher than government officials have claimed. IMF analysts say the taxpayer tab could come out to $1.9 trilllion over the next five years. The figure amounts to around $6,200 for every U.S. citizen, and just over 13 percent of annual gross domestic product.
A lot of the economists have formerly predicted doom, but they're not doing it now. They're all trying to be peace prophets, not prophets of doom, but of peace and safety. "When they shall cry, 'peace and safety,' then comes sudden destruction." — 1Thess.5:3. That doesn't necessarily mean just war. They've just had a destruction of the stock market, and that can lead to destruction of the economy. The thing is, the economy was just overinflated, it was just a big balloon ready to burst, and now it's got to get back down to where it belongs.
Ted Rudow III,MA
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Dear Editor: Recent figures underscore the severity of the toll on the U.S. economy. Last week, the International Monetary Fund said global banks and financial institutions have lost an estimated $4.1 trillion during the financial crisis. Of that total, $2.7 trillion in losses originated in the United States. In another report, the IMF also projected the cost to U.S. taxpayers for the Wall Street bailout and other economy spending could be far higher than government officials have claimed. IMF analysts say the taxpayer tab could come out to $1.9 trilllion over the next five years. The figure amounts to around $6,200 for every U.S. citizen, and just over 13 percent of annual gross domestic product.
A lot of the economists have formerly predicted doom, but they're not doing it now. They're all trying to be peace prophets, not prophets of doom, but of peace and safety. "When they shall cry, 'peace and safety,' then comes sudden destruction." — 1Thess.5:3. That doesn't necessarily mean just war. They've just had a destruction of the stock market, and that can lead to destruction of the economy. The thing is, the economy was just overinflated, it was just a big balloon ready to burst, and now it's got to get back down to where it belongs.
Ted Rudow III,MA
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Dear Editor: Recent figures underscore the severity of the toll on the U.S. economy. Last week, the International Monetary Fund said global banks and financial institutions have lost an estimated $4.1 trillion during the financial crisis. Of that total, $2.7 trillion in losses originated in the United States. In another report, the IMF also projected the cost to U.S. taxpayers for the Wall Street bailout and other economy spending could be far higher than government officials have claimed. IMF analysts say the taxpayer tab could come out to $1.9 trilllion over the next five years. The figure amounts to around $6,200 for every U.S. citizen, and just over 13 percent of annual gross domestic product.
A lot of the economists have formerly predicted doom, but they're not doing it now. They're all trying to be peace prophets, not prophets of doom, but of peace and safety. "When they shall cry, 'peace and safety,' then comes sudden destruction." — 1Thess.5:3. That doesn't necessarily mean just war. They've just had a destruction of the stock market, and that can lead to destruction of the economy. The thing is, the economy was just overinflated, it was just a big balloon ready to burst, and now it's got to get back down to where it belongs.
Ted Rudow III,MA
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Dear Editor: Recent figures underscore the severity of the toll on the U.S. economy. Last week, the International Monetary Fund said global banks and financial institutions have lost an estimated $4.1 trillion during the financial crisis. Of that total, $2.7 trillion in losses originated in the United States. In another report, the IMF also projected the cost to U.S. taxpayers for the Wall Street bailout and other economy spending could be far higher than government officials have claimed. IMF analysts say the taxpayer tab could come out to $1.9 trilllion over the next five years. The figure amounts to around $6,200 for every U.S. citizen, and just over 13 percent of annual gross domestic product.
A lot of the economists have formerly predicted doom, but they're not doing it now. They're all trying to be peace prophets, not prophets of doom, but of peace and safety. "When they shall cry, 'peace and safety,' then comes sudden destruction." — 1Thess.5:3. That doesn't necessarily mean just war. They've just had a destruction of the stock market, and that can lead to destruction of the economy. The thing is, the economy was just overinflated, it was just a big balloon ready to burst, and now it's got to get back down to where it belongs.
Ted Rudow III,MA
Thursday, May 07, 2009
After 39 Years, events surrounding Kent State
. http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/05/07/18593378.php
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Thursday May 7th, 2009
After 39 Years, events surrounding Kent State massacre remain unresolved.Thirty-nine years ago this week, National Guardsmen opened fire on hundreds of unarmed students at an antiwar rally at Kent State University in Ohio, killing four and injuring nine.and her lost generation.
NITLER'S(Nixon) conduct in office during his first term, in ruthlessly crushing the youthful and the forces of peace and freedom, as well as under-mining the economy of the country, seemed to prove him so unpopular and odious that we could hardly see how he could ever get elected again! But by many devious, dastardly and dictatorial devices now being exposed to the world in the Watergate scandal, and by even deceiving his liberal enemies by his about-faces, chameleon changes and back flips in party politics. They managed to fool and lull the American public to sleep with a false sense of security and a don't-rock-the-boat-attitude, Nitler and his Nitzies managed to win again with the help of the ugly Americans!
Now it's like the lamentations of Jeremiah over the ruins of Jerusalem. America today is so like Israel was in the days before her fall, over whom the prophet Jeremiah laments. It's youth's lament over the death of America and the music that died with her and her lost generation.
Ted Rudow III,MA
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Thursday May 7th, 2009
After 39 Years, events surrounding Kent State massacre remain unresolved.Thirty-nine years ago this week, National Guardsmen opened fire on hundreds of unarmed students at an antiwar rally at Kent State University in Ohio, killing four and injuring nine.and her lost generation.
NITLER'S(Nixon) conduct in office during his first term, in ruthlessly crushing the youthful and the forces of peace and freedom, as well as under-mining the economy of the country, seemed to prove him so unpopular and odious that we could hardly see how he could ever get elected again! But by many devious, dastardly and dictatorial devices now being exposed to the world in the Watergate scandal, and by even deceiving his liberal enemies by his about-faces, chameleon changes and back flips in party politics. They managed to fool and lull the American public to sleep with a false sense of security and a don't-rock-the-boat-attitude, Nitler and his Nitzies managed to win again with the help of the ugly Americans!
Now it's like the lamentations of Jeremiah over the ruins of Jerusalem. America today is so like Israel was in the days before her fall, over whom the prophet Jeremiah laments. It's youth's lament over the death of America and the music that died with her and her lost generation.
Ted Rudow III,MA
Panic?
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As swine flu, or the H1N1 flu strain, remains a threat in California, the SJSU community is left to reflect on a disease that, so far, has left the university unaffected, according to an SJSU Public Affairs news release....
5/06/09
Ron Paul, an ob-gyn doctor is 11-term libertarian-like Texas
Republican congressman says simply: "The government shouldn't be in the
medical business." He describes a similar outbreak of swine flu back in
1976 when Democrat Joe Biden was already a senator but Barack Obama was
just a teenager. Paul says he was one of two votes against federal
involvement in flu-fighting back then. "There was a panic," he recalls,
"and they said it was going to sweep the nation and the government came
up with some flu shots and the government was going to inoculate
everybody and save the world from this disaster."
When the pandemic, called "Swine Flu", which man creates it,
you can be sure the governments of the world will have learned a lot
from this one, and they'll capitalize on it. They've found that they
need to work together to combat such diseases, a fact which the
governments will use to help promote a one world government with all of
its unified systems.
They've also found that dictatorial or repressive regimes fight
such diseases better, because they have more control over the
people-they can limit their travel, quarantine their home or apartment
building. So authoritarianism has just been given a new excuse for
existence, or at least an old one that hasn't been used in a while!
Ted Rudow III,MA
class of 1996
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Swine flu, pork connection disproven by authorities
Abstract:
As swine flu, or the H1N1 flu strain, remains a threat in California, the SJSU community is left to reflect on a disease that, so far, has left the university unaffected, according to an SJSU Public Affairs news release....
5/06/09
Ron Paul, an ob-gyn doctor is 11-term libertarian-like Texas
Republican congressman says simply: "The government shouldn't be in the
medical business." He describes a similar outbreak of swine flu back in
1976 when Democrat Joe Biden was already a senator but Barack Obama was
just a teenager. Paul says he was one of two votes against federal
involvement in flu-fighting back then. "There was a panic," he recalls,
"and they said it was going to sweep the nation and the government came
up with some flu shots and the government was going to inoculate
everybody and save the world from this disaster."
When the pandemic, called "Swine Flu", which man creates it,
you can be sure the governments of the world will have learned a lot
from this one, and they'll capitalize on it. They've found that they
need to work together to combat such diseases, a fact which the
governments will use to help promote a one world government with all of
its unified systems.
They've also found that dictatorial or repressive regimes fight
such diseases better, because they have more control over the
people-they can limit their travel, quarantine their home or apartment
building. So authoritarianism has just been given a new excuse for
existence, or at least an old one that hasn't been used in a while!
Ted Rudow III,MA
class of 1996
Wednesday, May 06, 2009
Cuban
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Abstract: For me, it's not easy being a Cuban-American in the U.S., especially here in California. Cubans are very rare in The Golden State. Either that or just really spread out. So if you want to meet a real Cuban quickly and try your luck at dominoes with them, either book a flight to Florida, or go visit the actual country itself, although just trying to get permission to go is an adventure in itself.... Ted Rudow III,MA 5/06/09
HOW MANY EXAMPLES ARE THERE OF COUNTRIES THAT STARTED OFF WITH A LIBERAL DEMOCRATIC NEW REVOLUTIONARY GOVERNMENT WHICH WAS AT FIRST SUPPOSEDLY PRO-U.S. & recognised immediately by the U.S. Government & favoured & helped? I was there when it happened to Castro in Cuba! The U.S. just praised & extolled him to the heavens when he first moved in & ousted Batista--Batista, who was their own little boy but got too hard to control. Instead of letting the U.S. run him, he finally decided to let the Mafia run him, there was more in it for him.
AT FIRST THEY PRAISED & IMMEDIATELY RECOGNISED THE NEW CASTRO GOVERNMENT. But then he gradually turned & showed his Socialism more & more, & his brother & his cousin turned him more & more toward the Communists & he began to nationalise industry & these immense thousand-acre farms. Then he offended the rich when he came all-out in his program to re-distribute the land & the wealth, etc., & reclaim the Cuban possessions for Cubans!
AT FIRST THE U.S. BACKED CASTRO'S REVOLUTION, helped him, helped arm him & glorified him when he came to power. But then it took a turn, he went too far. The U.S. doesn't want a dictatorship, especially when it has become unpopular & World opinion has turned against them by the Jewish media, etc. They want a more liberal democratic government, they don't mind if it's even a little leftist, as long as they can dump this unpopular dictator who has begun to give the U.S. a bad reputation & is turning World opinion against the U.S.
NOW THIS IS THE PATTERN: They at first back the new leftist revolutionary government, which is supposedly going to be a democratic government & supposedly going to be pro-U.S. There's a whole long string of'm! They only keep relations with the U.S. because they're right there on the border & they're afraid, so they have to kind of play along with the U.S.
Ted Rudow III,MA
class of 1996
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Abstract: For me, it's not easy being a Cuban-American in the U.S., especially here in California. Cubans are very rare in The Golden State. Either that or just really spread out. So if you want to meet a real Cuban quickly and try your luck at dominoes with them, either book a flight to Florida, or go visit the actual country itself, although just trying to get permission to go is an adventure in itself.... Ted Rudow III,MA 5/06/09
HOW MANY EXAMPLES ARE THERE OF COUNTRIES THAT STARTED OFF WITH A LIBERAL DEMOCRATIC NEW REVOLUTIONARY GOVERNMENT WHICH WAS AT FIRST SUPPOSEDLY PRO-U.S. & recognised immediately by the U.S. Government & favoured & helped? I was there when it happened to Castro in Cuba! The U.S. just praised & extolled him to the heavens when he first moved in & ousted Batista--Batista, who was their own little boy but got too hard to control. Instead of letting the U.S. run him, he finally decided to let the Mafia run him, there was more in it for him.
AT FIRST THEY PRAISED & IMMEDIATELY RECOGNISED THE NEW CASTRO GOVERNMENT. But then he gradually turned & showed his Socialism more & more, & his brother & his cousin turned him more & more toward the Communists & he began to nationalise industry & these immense thousand-acre farms. Then he offended the rich when he came all-out in his program to re-distribute the land & the wealth, etc., & reclaim the Cuban possessions for Cubans!
AT FIRST THE U.S. BACKED CASTRO'S REVOLUTION, helped him, helped arm him & glorified him when he came to power. But then it took a turn, he went too far. The U.S. doesn't want a dictatorship, especially when it has become unpopular & World opinion has turned against them by the Jewish media, etc. They want a more liberal democratic government, they don't mind if it's even a little leftist, as long as they can dump this unpopular dictator who has begun to give the U.S. a bad reputation & is turning World opinion against the U.S.
NOW THIS IS THE PATTERN: They at first back the new leftist revolutionary government, which is supposedly going to be a democratic government & supposedly going to be pro-U.S. There's a whole long string of'm! They only keep relations with the U.S. because they're right there on the border & they're afraid, so they have to kind of play along with the U.S.
Ted Rudow III,MA
class of 1996
Tuesday, May 05, 2009
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Paul Krugman: Wage cuts squeeze workers and the shaky economy
By Paul Krugman
New York Times
Tuesday, May. 5, 2009 - Page 15A
Wages are falling all across America.
Some of the wage cuts, like the givebacks by Chrysler workers, are the price of federal aid. Others, like the tentative agreement on a salary cut here at the New York Times, are the result of discussions between employers and their union employees. Still others reflect the brute fact of a weak labor market: Workers don't dare protest when their wages are cut, because they don't think they can find other jobs.
Whatever the specifics, however, falling wages are a symptom of a sick economy. And they're a symptom that can make the economy even sicker.
First things first: anecdotes about falling wages are proliferating, but how broad is the phenomenon? The answer is, very.
It's true that many workers are still getting pay increases. But there are enough pay cuts out there that, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the average cost of employing workers in the private sector rose only two-tenths of a percent in the first quarter of this year – the lowest increase on record. Since the job market is still getting worse, it wouldn't be at all surprising if overall wages start falling later this year.
But why is that a bad thing? After all, many workers are accepting pay cuts in order to save jobs. What's wrong with that?
The answer lies in one of those paradoxes that plague our economy right now. We're suffering from the paradox of thrift: Saving is a virtue, but when everyone tries to sharply increase saving at the same time, the effect is a depressed economy. We're suffering from the paradox of deleveraging: Reducing debt and cleaning up balance sheets is good, but when everyone tries to sell off assets and pay down debt at the same time, the result is a financial crisis.
And soon we may be facing the paradox of wages: Workers at any one company can help save their jobs by accepting lower wages, but when employers across the economy cut wages at the same time, the result is higher unemployment.
Here's how the paradox works. Suppose that workers at the XYZ Corp. accept a pay cut. That lets XYZ management cut prices, making its products more competitive. Sales rise, and more workers can keep their jobs. So you might think that wage cuts raise employment – which they do at the level of the individual employer.
But if everyone takes a pay cut, nobody gains a competitive advantage. So there's no benefit to the economy from lower wages. Meanwhile, the fall in wages can worsen the economy's problems on other fronts.
In particular, falling wages, and hence falling incomes, worsen the problem of excessive debt: Your monthly mortgage payments don't go down with your paycheck. America came into this crisis with household debt as a percentage of income at its highest level since the 1930s. Families are trying to work that debt down by saving more than they have in a decade – but as wages fall, they're chasing a moving target. And the rising burden of debt will put downward pressure on consumer spending, keeping the economy depressed.
Things get even worse if businesses and consumers expect wages to fall further in the future. John Maynard Keynes put it clearly, more than 70 years ago: "The effect of an expectation that wages are going to sag by, say, 2 percent in the coming year will be roughly equivalent to the effect of a rise of 2 percent in the amount of interest payable for the same period." And a rise in the effective interest rate is the last thing this economy needs.
Concern about falling wages isn't just theory. Japan – where private-sector wages fell an average of more than 1 percent a year from 1997 to 2003 – is an object lesson in how wage deflation can contribute to economic stagnation.
So what should we conclude from the growing evidence of sagging wages in America? Mainly that stabilizing the economy isn't enough: We need a real recovery.
There has been a lot of talk lately about green shoots and all that, and there are indeed indications that the economic plunge that began last fall may be leveling off. The National Bureau of Economic Research might even declare the recession over later this year.
But the unemployment rate is almost certainly still rising. And all signs point to a terrible job market for many months if not years to come – which is a recipe for continuing wage cuts, which will in turn keep the economy weak.
To break that vicious circle, we basically need more: more stimulus, more decisive action on the banks, more job creation.
Credit where credit is due: President Barack Obama and his economic advisers seem to have steered the economy away from the abyss. But the risk that America will turn into Japan – that we'll face years of deflation and stagnation – seems, if anything, to be rising.
..................................................
05/05/2009
Imagine what a different world it would be if the United States and other nations took the trillion dollars they now spend every year on arms and armies and spent it on food, shelter, health, education and programs that bring life and well-being, rather than death and devastation.
Cutting down on war and weaponry would be a great stimulus package, not only for the economy but for peace. It's not going to happen in the United States anytime soon, of course. The weapons makers and the military are just too powerful, and if the president and lawmakers were to try to cut back on military spending, there'd be howls of protest that the United States is going soft.
Americans have never been very interested in history, and it seems it's destined to repeat the mistakes that other great nations have made.
Ted Rudow III,MA
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Paul Krugman: Wage cuts squeeze workers and the shaky economy
By Paul Krugman
New York Times
Tuesday, May. 5, 2009 - Page 15A
Wages are falling all across America.
Some of the wage cuts, like the givebacks by Chrysler workers, are the price of federal aid. Others, like the tentative agreement on a salary cut here at the New York Times, are the result of discussions between employers and their union employees. Still others reflect the brute fact of a weak labor market: Workers don't dare protest when their wages are cut, because they don't think they can find other jobs.
Whatever the specifics, however, falling wages are a symptom of a sick economy. And they're a symptom that can make the economy even sicker.
First things first: anecdotes about falling wages are proliferating, but how broad is the phenomenon? The answer is, very.
It's true that many workers are still getting pay increases. But there are enough pay cuts out there that, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the average cost of employing workers in the private sector rose only two-tenths of a percent in the first quarter of this year – the lowest increase on record. Since the job market is still getting worse, it wouldn't be at all surprising if overall wages start falling later this year.
But why is that a bad thing? After all, many workers are accepting pay cuts in order to save jobs. What's wrong with that?
The answer lies in one of those paradoxes that plague our economy right now. We're suffering from the paradox of thrift: Saving is a virtue, but when everyone tries to sharply increase saving at the same time, the effect is a depressed economy. We're suffering from the paradox of deleveraging: Reducing debt and cleaning up balance sheets is good, but when everyone tries to sell off assets and pay down debt at the same time, the result is a financial crisis.
And soon we may be facing the paradox of wages: Workers at any one company can help save their jobs by accepting lower wages, but when employers across the economy cut wages at the same time, the result is higher unemployment.
Here's how the paradox works. Suppose that workers at the XYZ Corp. accept a pay cut. That lets XYZ management cut prices, making its products more competitive. Sales rise, and more workers can keep their jobs. So you might think that wage cuts raise employment – which they do at the level of the individual employer.
But if everyone takes a pay cut, nobody gains a competitive advantage. So there's no benefit to the economy from lower wages. Meanwhile, the fall in wages can worsen the economy's problems on other fronts.
In particular, falling wages, and hence falling incomes, worsen the problem of excessive debt: Your monthly mortgage payments don't go down with your paycheck. America came into this crisis with household debt as a percentage of income at its highest level since the 1930s. Families are trying to work that debt down by saving more than they have in a decade – but as wages fall, they're chasing a moving target. And the rising burden of debt will put downward pressure on consumer spending, keeping the economy depressed.
Things get even worse if businesses and consumers expect wages to fall further in the future. John Maynard Keynes put it clearly, more than 70 years ago: "The effect of an expectation that wages are going to sag by, say, 2 percent in the coming year will be roughly equivalent to the effect of a rise of 2 percent in the amount of interest payable for the same period." And a rise in the effective interest rate is the last thing this economy needs.
Concern about falling wages isn't just theory. Japan – where private-sector wages fell an average of more than 1 percent a year from 1997 to 2003 – is an object lesson in how wage deflation can contribute to economic stagnation.
So what should we conclude from the growing evidence of sagging wages in America? Mainly that stabilizing the economy isn't enough: We need a real recovery.
There has been a lot of talk lately about green shoots and all that, and there are indeed indications that the economic plunge that began last fall may be leveling off. The National Bureau of Economic Research might even declare the recession over later this year.
But the unemployment rate is almost certainly still rising. And all signs point to a terrible job market for many months if not years to come – which is a recipe for continuing wage cuts, which will in turn keep the economy weak.
To break that vicious circle, we basically need more: more stimulus, more decisive action on the banks, more job creation.
Credit where credit is due: President Barack Obama and his economic advisers seem to have steered the economy away from the abyss. But the risk that America will turn into Japan – that we'll face years of deflation and stagnation – seems, if anything, to be rising.
..................................................
05/05/2009
Imagine what a different world it would be if the United States and other nations took the trillion dollars they now spend every year on arms and armies and spent it on food, shelter, health, education and programs that bring life and well-being, rather than death and devastation.
Cutting down on war and weaponry would be a great stimulus package, not only for the economy but for peace. It's not going to happen in the United States anytime soon, of course. The weapons makers and the military are just too powerful, and if the president and lawmakers were to try to cut back on military spending, there'd be howls of protest that the United States is going soft.
Americans have never been very interested in history, and it seems it's destined to repeat the mistakes that other great nations have made.
Ted Rudow III,MA
Monday, May 04, 2009
Islamic Awareness Week concludes with talks of misconceptions of Islam
Islamic Awareness Week concludes with talks of misconceptions of Islam
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Islamic Awareness Week concludes with talks of misconceptions of Islam
Abstract:
Students filed in and out of Washington Square Hall on Thursday night to hear what Sheikh Alaeddin Elbakri had to say about life's purpose.
The lecture, titled "The Purpose of Life," was hosted by the Muslim Students Association and was the last event of this year's Islamic Awareness Week, which was held from April 27 to May 1.... 5/04/09
CHRISTIANS PROBABLY KNOW ABOUT AS LITTLE ABOUT ISLAM AS CAN BE KNOWN. When we really think about it we realise how ignorant we are of both their religion and the people. About all we've ever heard has been the very negative and uncomplimentary propaganda by so-called Christians and Christendom and the Western enemies of Islam.
WHAT GOOD HAVE YOU EVER HEARD FROM THE WEST ABOUT THE ARABS? Honestly now, how much good have you ever heard about the Arabs, even before they became famous for their oil? I think the horrible impression that most people have had of the Arabs stems from the Crusades.
WHAT LITTLE THEY REMEMBER IS THAT THE ARABS WERE SOME KIND OF FIERCE CRUEL WARRIORS who the so-called "Christian Crusaders" had to fight to so-call "free" the Holy City, using just as much cruelty against the Arabs as the Arabs were accused of using against Christians. So it's about six of one and half-a-dozen of the other, only the cruelty of one was done in the name of Christ, sad to say, which is even worse, whereas the Arabs were really defending their homeland in the name of God.
RELIGIOUS WARS ARE VERY VERY SAD THINGS. THEY SHOW HOW LITTLE REAL RELIGION THE PEOPLE HAVE who are fighting, how little of God some have and how little love, and they're very sad.
Ted Rudow III,MA
class of 1996
Spartan Daily - Serving San Jose State University since 1934
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Monday, May 4, 2009
Islamic Awareness Week concludes with talks of misconceptions of Islam
Abstract:
Students filed in and out of Washington Square Hall on Thursday night to hear what Sheikh Alaeddin Elbakri had to say about life's purpose.
The lecture, titled "The Purpose of Life," was hosted by the Muslim Students Association and was the last event of this year's Islamic Awareness Week, which was held from April 27 to May 1.... 5/04/09
CHRISTIANS PROBABLY KNOW ABOUT AS LITTLE ABOUT ISLAM AS CAN BE KNOWN. When we really think about it we realise how ignorant we are of both their religion and the people. About all we've ever heard has been the very negative and uncomplimentary propaganda by so-called Christians and Christendom and the Western enemies of Islam.
WHAT GOOD HAVE YOU EVER HEARD FROM THE WEST ABOUT THE ARABS? Honestly now, how much good have you ever heard about the Arabs, even before they became famous for their oil? I think the horrible impression that most people have had of the Arabs stems from the Crusades.
WHAT LITTLE THEY REMEMBER IS THAT THE ARABS WERE SOME KIND OF FIERCE CRUEL WARRIORS who the so-called "Christian Crusaders" had to fight to so-call "free" the Holy City, using just as much cruelty against the Arabs as the Arabs were accused of using against Christians. So it's about six of one and half-a-dozen of the other, only the cruelty of one was done in the name of Christ, sad to say, which is even worse, whereas the Arabs were really defending their homeland in the name of God.
RELIGIOUS WARS ARE VERY VERY SAD THINGS. THEY SHOW HOW LITTLE REAL RELIGION THE PEOPLE HAVE who are fighting, how little of God some have and how little love, and they're very sad.
Ted Rudow III,MA
class of 1996
Panic?
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Panic?
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Monday May 4th, 2009 2:49 PM
Ron Paul,an ob-gyn doctor is 11-term libertarian-like Texas Republican congressman says simply: "The government shouldn't be in the medical business."
He describes a similar outbreak of swine flu back in 1976 when Democrat Joe Biden was already a senator but Barack Obama was just a teenager. Paul says he was one of two votes against federal involvement in flu-fighting back then. "There was a panic," he recalls, "and they said it was going to sweep the nation and the government came up with some flu shots and the government was going to inoculate everybody and save the world from this disaster."
When the pandemic, called "Swine Flu", which man creates it, you can be sure the governments of the world will have learned a lot from this one, and they'll capitalize on it. They've found that they need to work together to combat such diseases, a fact which the governments will use to help promote a one world government with all of its unified systems.
They've also found that dictatorial or repressive regimes fight such diseases better, because they have more control over the people-they can limit their travel, quarantine their home or apartment building. So authoritarianism has just been given a new excuse for existence, or at least an old one that hasn't been used in a while!
Ted Rudow III,MA
Panic?
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Monday May 4th, 2009 2:49 PM
Ron Paul,an ob-gyn doctor is 11-term libertarian-like Texas Republican congressman says simply: "The government shouldn't be in the medical business."
He describes a similar outbreak of swine flu back in 1976 when Democrat Joe Biden was already a senator but Barack Obama was just a teenager. Paul says he was one of two votes against federal involvement in flu-fighting back then. "There was a panic," he recalls, "and they said it was going to sweep the nation and the government came up with some flu shots and the government was going to inoculate everybody and save the world from this disaster."
When the pandemic, called "Swine Flu", which man creates it, you can be sure the governments of the world will have learned a lot from this one, and they'll capitalize on it. They've found that they need to work together to combat such diseases, a fact which the governments will use to help promote a one world government with all of its unified systems.
They've also found that dictatorial or repressive regimes fight such diseases better, because they have more control over the people-they can limit their travel, quarantine their home or apartment building. So authoritarianism has just been given a new excuse for existence, or at least an old one that hasn't been used in a while!
Ted Rudow III,MA
Sunday, May 03, 2009
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Imagine what a different world it would be if the United States and other nations took the trillion dollars they now spend every year on arms and armies and spent it on food, shelter, health, education and programs that bring life and well-being, rather than death and devastation.
Cutting down on war and weaponry would be a great stimulus package, not only for the economy but for peace. It's not going to happen in the United States anytime soon, of course. The weapons makers and the military are just too powerful, and if the president and lawmakers were to try to cut back on military spending, there'd be howls of protest that the United States is going soft.
Americans have never been very interested in history, and it seems it's destined to repeat the mistakes that other great nations have made.
Ted Rudow III,MA
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Posted: 05/1/09
Imagine what a different world it would be if the United States and other nations took the trillion dollars they now spend every year on arms and armies and spent it on food, shelter, health, education and programs that bring life and well-being, rather than death and devastation.
Cutting down on war and weaponry would be a great stimulus package, not only for the economy but for peace. It's not going to happen in the United States anytime soon, of course. The weapons makers and the military are just too powerful, and if the president and lawmakers were to try to cut back on military spending, there'd be howls of protest that the United States is going soft.
Americans have never been very interested in history, and it seems it's destined to repeat the mistakes that other great nations have made.
Ted Rudow III,MA
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Things
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Things
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Tuesday Apr 28th,
This is one religion that rules the whole Earth--Materialism, the worship of things. She's pictured as a beautiful woman adorned with precious jewels & gold & silver & living in luxury. This is man's ideal of the ultimate end in pleasure & luxury, a beautiful woman & riches! So she, Babylon, the Great Whore, is the great Witch that bewitches the whole Earth with her sorceries & her fornication to causes men everywhere to worship money & wealth & riches & material things of the flesh!
It doesn't matter if it's out in Squattersville, Shantytown or Hobo Haven, & it's nothing but a little cardboard hut made of cardboard packing boxes & tin & packing crates! If you worship it & love it & work hardest for it in order to preserve it & keep it above God Himself with no love for God nor your fellow man or neighbour, but just for your little shack, or your little grass shack on Kilikilique, Hawaii,
Even if they don't have a mansion, even if it's just a little cardboard shanty or a grass shack, if it has become your god, your idol, what you worship, what you'd rather have than anything in this World, it's your religion, it's your Whore, it's your Witch that has bewitched you with her craftiness & her demonic power to cause you to worship anything & everything except God, in a spirit of selfishness & greed & not love!--Not self-sacrifice, but only love for yourself.
Things
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Tuesday Apr 28th,
This is one religion that rules the whole Earth--Materialism, the worship of things. She's pictured as a beautiful woman adorned with precious jewels & gold & silver & living in luxury. This is man's ideal of the ultimate end in pleasure & luxury, a beautiful woman & riches! So she, Babylon, the Great Whore, is the great Witch that bewitches the whole Earth with her sorceries & her fornication to causes men everywhere to worship money & wealth & riches & material things of the flesh!
It doesn't matter if it's out in Squattersville, Shantytown or Hobo Haven, & it's nothing but a little cardboard hut made of cardboard packing boxes & tin & packing crates! If you worship it & love it & work hardest for it in order to preserve it & keep it above God Himself with no love for God nor your fellow man or neighbour, but just for your little shack, or your little grass shack on Kilikilique, Hawaii,
Even if they don't have a mansion, even if it's just a little cardboard shanty or a grass shack, if it has become your god, your idol, what you worship, what you'd rather have than anything in this World, it's your religion, it's your Whore, it's your Witch that has bewitched you with her craftiness & her demonic power to cause you to worship anything & everything except God, in a spirit of selfishness & greed & not love!--Not self-sacrifice, but only love for yourself.
Monday, April 27, 2009
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The 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 the 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
Menlo Park, Calif.
Monday, April 27, 2009
Letters to the Editor
4/27/2009 10:00:00 AM
Tea party?
To the Editor:
The 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 the 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
Menlo Park, Calif.
Sunday, April 26, 2009
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By Kathleen Parker
: Sunday, Apr. 26, 2009 | Page 5E
Several years ago, I asked a veteran journalist for advice.
"I'm trying to figure out if I have an ethical conflict," I began.
"If you have to ask, you do," he said.
Simple as that. In posing a question, we often reveal the answer.
Apply the same construct to torture. If we have to ask, it probably is.
Yet, as we've learned with the recent release of Justice Department memos related to interrogation techniques, Bush administration lawyers tortured the English language trying to justify the unjustifiable.
"Enhanced interrogation" wasn't really torture, they decided, as long as the pain administered didn't result in "death, organ failure, or serious impairment of bodily functions."
By that definition, waterboarding – the simulated drowning technique favored by Inquisitors ferreting out heretics – wasn't torture. People might feel like they were going to die, but they weren't really, and so …
In other now-familiar mutations, those held in custody weren't really prisoners, but "detainees" or "alien combatants," and therefore not entitled to humane treatment under the Geneva Conventions.
Granted, it is easy now to sit back and judge these definitions and memos as morally repugnant. It is less easy to place ourselves in the mind-set that dominated the nation immediately after 9/11 and that guided the Bush administration in trying to prevent future attacks.
But we are also reminded that those who objected most strenuously to relaxed definitions of torture and the scrapping of due process even for "alien combatants" were among those most familiar with war and interrogation, including Sen. John McCain and then-Secretary of State Colin Powell. While lawyers sought loopholes, our most admired warriors argued for protection of the laws of war.
Few have put it more clearly than South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, who is also an Air Force colonel and senior instructor at the Air Force JAG School and has served tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan. In a 2006 Newsweek interview, Graham said: "Either we're going to use torture or we're not. And when you say, we won't use torture unless we think we really, really need it, (then) we're not a rule-of-law nation."
It comes down to that. We're either a rule-of-law nation – or we're not. We can't invent definitions of torture for one type of person that wouldn't be acceptable for another, no matter how much we may despise or distrust him. As Graham put it: "I don't love the terrorists, I just love what Americans stand for."
Meanwhile, how trustworthy are the confessions of the tortured? Not very, according to those who know.
Most important, we can hardly present ourselves as arbiters and protectors of human rights when we selectively abuse those in our custody, no matter how compelling our cause. When we parse definitions of "mental pain" and "suffering," we begin to slip down the slope of moral ambiguity where deceit finds company among the dead.
The lawyers who wrote these now-public opinions clearly were looking for ways out of a moral quandary – how to square the means with the end. And doubtless many Americans agree that protecting the United States against terrorist attacks justified nearly any method.
Almost daily, I receive a recycled 2002 quote by Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, who argued in a "60 Minutes" interview that most people would justify torture under certain circumstances:
"Is there anybody who wouldn't use torture to save the life of his child? And if you would, isn't it a bit selfish to say, 'It's OK to save my child's life, but it's not OK to save the life of 1,000 strangers?' That's the way people will think about it."
In his book "Shouting Fire: Civil Liberties in a Turbulent Age," Dershowitz proposes that since torture is a given under those certain circumstances, then "torture warrants" should be issued by a judge.
He is right that most of us would do whatever necessary to save our child, possibly even torture a kidnapper. Likewise, if we stumbled upon someone trying to harm a loved one, we would kill the attacker if necessary to stop him.
But those are both darkly impassioned environments. It is by the cool light of day that we devise our laws. And it is by that same light that we judge our actions.
When we ask if something is torture, the answer is another question: What kind of people should we be?
......................................................
04/26/2009
U.S. counterterrorism officials are reacting angrily to ex-Vice President Dick Cheney's claim that waterboarding 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed 183 times was a "success" that produced actionable intelligence."Cheney is full of crap," one intelligence source with decades of experience said Tuesday.
They've been in cahoots on all their dirty dealings.--George Bush and Dick Cheney, and all the dogs of war who love war and want to wage war. They kill the poor and innocent. To cause George Bush, Dick Cheney to suffer for all the suffering they've brought on the World & to the poor of both Iraq & Jordan & even Turkey.
It's incredible that the governments of the world are on track to invest nearly a trillion dollars a year in killing people. You can't tell me that that amount spent on weapons is for "defense," "self-protection," etc. It's mainly for the most lethal and advanced methods of slaughter and murder that money can buy!
Ted Rudow III,MA
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: Sunday, Apr. 26, 2009 | Page 5E
Several years ago, I asked a veteran journalist for advice.
"I'm trying to figure out if I have an ethical conflict," I began.
"If you have to ask, you do," he said.
Simple as that. In posing a question, we often reveal the answer.
Apply the same construct to torture. If we have to ask, it probably is.
Yet, as we've learned with the recent release of Justice Department memos related to interrogation techniques, Bush administration lawyers tortured the English language trying to justify the unjustifiable.
"Enhanced interrogation" wasn't really torture, they decided, as long as the pain administered didn't result in "death, organ failure, or serious impairment of bodily functions."
By that definition, waterboarding – the simulated drowning technique favored by Inquisitors ferreting out heretics – wasn't torture. People might feel like they were going to die, but they weren't really, and so …
In other now-familiar mutations, those held in custody weren't really prisoners, but "detainees" or "alien combatants," and therefore not entitled to humane treatment under the Geneva Conventions.
Granted, it is easy now to sit back and judge these definitions and memos as morally repugnant. It is less easy to place ourselves in the mind-set that dominated the nation immediately after 9/11 and that guided the Bush administration in trying to prevent future attacks.
But we are also reminded that those who objected most strenuously to relaxed definitions of torture and the scrapping of due process even for "alien combatants" were among those most familiar with war and interrogation, including Sen. John McCain and then-Secretary of State Colin Powell. While lawyers sought loopholes, our most admired warriors argued for protection of the laws of war.
Few have put it more clearly than South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, who is also an Air Force colonel and senior instructor at the Air Force JAG School and has served tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan. In a 2006 Newsweek interview, Graham said: "Either we're going to use torture or we're not. And when you say, we won't use torture unless we think we really, really need it, (then) we're not a rule-of-law nation."
It comes down to that. We're either a rule-of-law nation – or we're not. We can't invent definitions of torture for one type of person that wouldn't be acceptable for another, no matter how much we may despise or distrust him. As Graham put it: "I don't love the terrorists, I just love what Americans stand for."
Meanwhile, how trustworthy are the confessions of the tortured? Not very, according to those who know.
Most important, we can hardly present ourselves as arbiters and protectors of human rights when we selectively abuse those in our custody, no matter how compelling our cause. When we parse definitions of "mental pain" and "suffering," we begin to slip down the slope of moral ambiguity where deceit finds company among the dead.
The lawyers who wrote these now-public opinions clearly were looking for ways out of a moral quandary – how to square the means with the end. And doubtless many Americans agree that protecting the United States against terrorist attacks justified nearly any method.
Almost daily, I receive a recycled 2002 quote by Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, who argued in a "60 Minutes" interview that most people would justify torture under certain circumstances:
"Is there anybody who wouldn't use torture to save the life of his child? And if you would, isn't it a bit selfish to say, 'It's OK to save my child's life, but it's not OK to save the life of 1,000 strangers?' That's the way people will think about it."
In his book "Shouting Fire: Civil Liberties in a Turbulent Age," Dershowitz proposes that since torture is a given under those certain circumstances, then "torture warrants" should be issued by a judge.
He is right that most of us would do whatever necessary to save our child, possibly even torture a kidnapper. Likewise, if we stumbled upon someone trying to harm a loved one, we would kill the attacker if necessary to stop him.
But those are both darkly impassioned environments. It is by the cool light of day that we devise our laws. And it is by that same light that we judge our actions.
When we ask if something is torture, the answer is another question: What kind of people should we be?
......................................................
04/26/2009
U.S. counterterrorism officials are reacting angrily to ex-Vice President Dick Cheney's claim that waterboarding 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed 183 times was a "success" that produced actionable intelligence."Cheney is full of crap," one intelligence source with decades of experience said Tuesday.
They've been in cahoots on all their dirty dealings.--George Bush and Dick Cheney, and all the dogs of war who love war and want to wage war. They kill the poor and innocent. To cause George Bush, Dick Cheney to suffer for all the suffering they've brought on the World & to the poor of both Iraq & Jordan & even Turkey.
It's incredible that the governments of the world are on track to invest nearly a trillion dollars a year in killing people. You can't tell me that that amount spent on weapons is for "defense," "self-protection," etc. It's mainly for the most lethal and advanced methods of slaughter and murder that money can buy!
Ted Rudow III,MA
Friday, April 24, 2009
Corruption Case Exposes Scope of Bribery in Nigeria
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Corruption Case Exposes Scope of Bribery in Nigeria
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Friday Apr 24th, 2009
Last year, Albert Jack Stanley, the former CEO of KBR, which had been a subsidiary of Halliburton, pleaded guilty to bribery in a Texas courtroom for masterminding the payment of more than $180 million to Nigerian officials.
Stanley agreed to a record seven-year prison term and Halliburton and KBR agreed to settle the case by paying more than $500 million in fines – a record for a U.S. company in a bribery case.
Law enforcement officials familiar with the investigation said that in previous interviews, Stanley repeatedly said that then-CEO Cheney had no knowledge of the bribes.In 1998, Kellogg's parent company, Dresser Industries, merged with Halliburton, the oil services giant.
Cheney, then-CEO of Halliburton, arranged the merger during a quail hunting trip. Afterwards, Cheney appointed Stanley to head KBR, a newly formed construction and logistics subsidiary that grew out of the merger.
U.S. counterterrorism officials are reacting angrily to ex-Vice President Dick Cheney's claim that waterboarding 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed 183 times was a "success" that produced actionable intelligence."Cheney is full of crap," one intelligence source with decades of experience said Tuesday.
They've been in cahoots on all their dirty dealings.--George Bush and Dick Cheney, and all the dogs of war who love war and want to wage war. They kill the poor and innocent. To cause George Bush, Dick Cheney to suffer for all the suffering they've brought on the World & to the poor of both Iraq & Jordan & even Turkey.
It's incredible that the governments of the world are on track to invest nearly a trillion dollars a year in killing people. You can't tell me that that amount spent on weapons is for "defense," "self-protection," etc. It's mainly for the most lethal and advanced methods of slaughter and murder that money can buy!
Ted Rudow III,MA
Corruption Case Exposes Scope of Bribery in Nigeria
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Friday Apr 24th, 2009
Last year, Albert Jack Stanley, the former CEO of KBR, which had been a subsidiary of Halliburton, pleaded guilty to bribery in a Texas courtroom for masterminding the payment of more than $180 million to Nigerian officials.
Stanley agreed to a record seven-year prison term and Halliburton and KBR agreed to settle the case by paying more than $500 million in fines – a record for a U.S. company in a bribery case.
Law enforcement officials familiar with the investigation said that in previous interviews, Stanley repeatedly said that then-CEO Cheney had no knowledge of the bribes.In 1998, Kellogg's parent company, Dresser Industries, merged with Halliburton, the oil services giant.
Cheney, then-CEO of Halliburton, arranged the merger during a quail hunting trip. Afterwards, Cheney appointed Stanley to head KBR, a newly formed construction and logistics subsidiary that grew out of the merger.
U.S. counterterrorism officials are reacting angrily to ex-Vice President Dick Cheney's claim that waterboarding 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed 183 times was a "success" that produced actionable intelligence."Cheney is full of crap," one intelligence source with decades of experience said Tuesday.
They've been in cahoots on all their dirty dealings.--George Bush and Dick Cheney, and all the dogs of war who love war and want to wage war. They kill the poor and innocent. To cause George Bush, Dick Cheney to suffer for all the suffering they've brought on the World & to the poor of both Iraq & Jordan & even Turkey.
It's incredible that the governments of the world are on track to invest nearly a trillion dollars a year in killing people. You can't tell me that that amount spent on weapons is for "defense," "self-protection," etc. It's mainly for the most lethal and advanced methods of slaughter and murder that money can buy!
Ted Rudow III,MA
Thursday, April 23, 2009
The 'religion' of capitalism
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.
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The 'religion' of capitalism
To the Editor:
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.
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
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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.
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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
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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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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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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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My View: Energy-saving carbon cap offers a bonus: More jobs
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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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By Maria Henson
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Monday, Apr. 6, 2009 -
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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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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After deadly police shootings, government needs to address gun control
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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
class of 1996
Saturday, April 04, 2009
A house of cards
April 04
A house of cards
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S.F. mayor campaigns in Palo Alto
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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
The Stanford Daily
FRONTNEWSSPORTSFEATURESOPINIONSINTERMISSIONCLASSIFIEDSADVERTISEARCHIVESSUBSCRIBE
Front » News
S.F. mayor campaigns in Palo Alto
AGUSTIN RAMIREZ/The Stanford Daily
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
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/04/04/18586007.php
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
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/04/02/18585413.php
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
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/04/02/18585400.php
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
Powerful rich!
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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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