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Dear Editor: The stock market crash of 1929 was the most devastating crash in U.S. history, taking into consideration the full extent and duration of its fallout. Four phrases — Black Thursday, Black Friday, then Black Monday and Black Tuesday — are commonly used to describe this collapse of stock values. But the catastrophic downturn on Oct. 28-29, 1929 precipitated widespread alarm and the onset of an unprecedented and long-lasting economic depression for the United States and the world. This stock market collapse continued for a month.

Today, the only news you see in the headlines is "slight gain in this," "not diving quite as fast in that." Any time the economy stops going down so fast, they say, "oh, recovery." That's recovery? Some little tiny grain of encouraging news makes the headlines, but the huge monumental losses taken by the banks and businesses are hidden in a little 2-inch notice in a column on the financial page. They're trying to keep it out of the headlines because they don't want to scare the public into a panic.

The big corporations fail, business fails, everything fails and it's said the government will pay. Trouble is, the government itself is broke and borrowing the money to pay. And do you know where the U.S. gets this money from?

Ted Rudow III,MA

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The stock-market crash of 1929 was the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States, taking into consideration the full extent and duration of its fallout.
Four phrases — Black Thursday, Black Friday, then Black Monday, and Black Tuesday — are commonly used to describe this collapse of stock values.
But the catastrophic downturn of Monday, Oct. 28, and Tuesday, Oct. 29, precipitated widespread alarm and the onset of an unprecedented and long-lasting economic depression for the United States and the world. This stock market collapse continued for a month.
Today, the only news you see in the headlines is: "Slight gain in this! Not diving quite as fast in that!" Any time the economy stops going down so fast, they say, "Oh, recovery!"
That's recovery? Some little tiny grain of encouraging news makes the headlines, but the huge monumental losses taken by the banks and businesses are hidden in a little two-inch notice in a column on the financial page. They're trying to keep it out of the headlines because they don't want to scare the public into a panic.
The big corporations fail, business fails, everything fails, the government will pay. But the trouble is, the government itself is broke and borrowing the money to pay.
And do you know where the U.S. gets this money from?
Ted Rudow III,MA

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Dear Editor: The stock market crash of 1929 was the most devastating crash in U.S. history, taking into consideration the full extent and duration of its fallout. Four phrases — Black Thursday, Black Friday, then Black Monday and Black Tuesday — are commonly used to describe this collapse of stock values. But the catastrophic downturn on Oct. 28-29, 1929 precipitated widespread alarm and the onset of an unprecedented and long-lasting economic depression for the United States and the world. This stock market collapse continued for a month.

Today, the only news you see in the headlines is "slight gain in this," "not diving quite as fast in that." Any time the economy stops going down so fast, they say, "oh, recovery." That's recovery? Some little tiny grain of encouraging news makes the headlines, but the huge monumental losses taken by the banks and businesses are hidden in a little 2-inch notice in a column on the financial page. They're trying to keep it out of the headlines because they don't want to scare the public into a panic.

The big corporations fail, business fails, everything fails and it's said the government will pay. Trouble is, the government itself is broke and borrowing the money to pay. And do you know where the U.S. gets this money from?

Ted Rudow III,MA

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These events, these natural disasters that men sometimes call "acts of God" not only serve to fulfill His word, but they also act as chastisements or judgments on those who have strayed or have been disobedient, as well as turning many to Him. They soften hard hearts, change rebellious wills, cause the poor and needy to cry out for mercy, and gather many to Him, where they no longer have to face the trials and tribulations, sickness and pain of life on Earth.
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"But if you-- first of all, if you look at the way in which we have been fighting wars since the end of World War II,.. We constantly find new enemies, we constantly find reasons to fight war. We're basically a nation perpetually at war. .."I mean, the wars that we fight are being paid for by money that we borrow from China, Japan, Saudi Arabia, and a variety of other countries as ours should be described — as permanent war-fighting states, then you see that the character of the country changes in all sorts of radical and fundamental ways."Glenn Greenward
The U.S. is also more interested in power and control than it is in peace and programs for the poor. It wants to be feared around the world so that it can have its way with other nations; by rattling its saber, it imagines it can make others toe the line and do its bidding, supply its needs, or go along with its policies.
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The pagan feast of Halloween is foreign to Christian tradition and has become a superstitious and empty way of imposing mindless triviality.The day has its origin in the Celtic New Year which celebrated the return of the spirits of the dead to their homes. Hence, those who observe Halloween, though they are probably ignorant of what they are doing and why they are doing it, are in reality celebrating death, the devil and hell.The observance of Halloween is mixed with Christian festivities whose meanings are totally contrary to Halloween. On November 1, Christians celebrate belief in the Communion of Saints. On November 2, we make visits to the cemetery as a religious and profoundly human gesture, inspired by our hope in the resurrection.I encourage Christians to celebrate the Christian truths of these days with renewed faith as a response to the real concerns of mankind today.Tim Storey
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The true name of Halloween is "Samhain." This was the Celtic Lord of the Dead! For 3 days from Oct 29-31, the Celtic people, along with their priestly class called Druids, would hold an ancient rite which would mark the beginning and the end of the year.

Yet, I have seen many Christian churches throughout this nation hold Halloween Parties within the church building. Every single one of these things is directly from the celebration of Samhain. You are simply trying to turn something evil into something good! Isaiah 5:20. We pray this helps you to NOT be a partaker of this "holiday.

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Celebrating the dead?

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Samhain

As winter approached, the ancient Celts of Ireland would hold a grand feast consisting of the perishable foods they would be unable to preserve for the winter, said Jennifer Rycenga, professor of humanities at SJSU.

"Even though the exact date has changed, there is evidence that in ancient Celtic cultures there was a celebration that occurred around this time," Rycenga said....

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The true name of Halloween is "Samhain." This was the Celtic Lord of the Dead! For 3 days from Oct 29-31, the Celtic people, along with their priestly class called Druids, would hold an ancient rite which would mark the beginning and the end of the year.
Usually a week before the rites of Samhain began, the Druid had ordered the people of the Celtic tribe to disperse throughout the countryside and gather thousands of wicker reed.This is a very strong and durable stick. Wicker furniture has been made from it and most of us are familiar with it.
They would then construct a giant human effigy that would stand from 30 to 50 feet, as the Wicker Man. Many cages had been built within it. Each prisoner would be tied to one of the cages. Then the Druids began their idea of fun and games.
Yet, I have seen many Christian churches throughout this nation hold Halloween Parties within the church building. Every single one of these things is directly from the celebration of Samhain. You are simply trying to turn something evil into something good! Isaiah 5:20. We pray this helps you to NOT be a partaker of this "holiday.
Ted Rudow III,MA
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What women want in male dominated sports

Abstract: I am guilty of eavesdropping. I overheard a male student complain about women's sports, and he doesn't agree that women can play sports. I am sure he is not alone in his way of thinking. Like the student, many other men are overwhelmed by a powerful woman, so in these men's defense they rely on their muscles to do the rationalizing.... Ted Rudow III,MA 10/29/09
Sports really foster the spirit of competition. It's the spirit of the world the "me first" spirit--do what's best for yourself, win no matter who you have to hurt or step on in order to get ahead of the next guy. That's the spirit of the world, which is just the opposite of what Jesus wants to teach people--to love your neighbor as yourself.
Of course, some form of sports is fine. It's good exercise and can be good fun. But things in the world are so different, and when athletes get to the professional level where they're being paid to win, it gets extremely competitive. It becomes almost a life-and-death spirit.
It's a spiritual thing. It's the spirit of competition and pride, proving you're better than the other guy. They do it by sheer brawn, by their own strength, which really feeds their pride. It's their idea of success. Winning means success in the world, so to win is a very big motivator. But the world just loves it!
See how this competitive sports thing has been the final stages of every great civilization and empire. What young men and woman does the media glorify and glamorize the most? There about second. Is it the scholars? No probably about third. But the ones it builds memorials for and commemorates on special days and glamorizes as the greatest heroes of all time are its most murderous war-mongering soldiers.
Ted Rudow III,MA
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by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Friday Oct 23rd, 2009
In the Senate, legislation giving doctors $247 billion in increased Medicare fees over the next decade nearly collapsed on Tuesday amid bipartisan concern over growing federal deficits. Meanwhile, in the House Democratic leaders have cut the cost of their healthcare bill from more than $1 trillion to $871 billion over the next decade

TomDispatch.com.,It says, “According to [Department of Defense] projections, the baseline military budget—just the bare bones, not those billions in war-fighting extras—is projected to increase by 2.5% each year for the next 10 years. In other words, in the next decade the basic Pentagon budget will grow by at least $133.1 billion.” To date, Americans have paid $915 billion for the US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. That’s as of September 30th of this year. In the fiscal year 2010 budget, we will pay $704 billion in military expenditures; $130 billion of that is for the US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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

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What year is it?

2009.

Oh, I must have forgotten and slipped into the past, where racial discrimination was allowed in local government.

Phew, I am relieved - but only for a moment.

Earlier this month, Keith Bardwell, a Louisiana justice of the peace, refused to sign the marriage license of interracial couple Beth Humphrey, who is white, and Terence McKay, who is black....
10/21/09
My Dentist and his family are from Hawaii and went to school with President Obama! These cultures are some of the world's most beautiful and peaceful cultures-- religions, art, sciences, philosophies, and beautiful, peaceful, pastoral ways of life, which the White came to destroy, and to makes slaves of them.
They have nearly wrecked the world. It was these White who invaded, and all but
destroyed the much more learned religious philosophical and peaceful civilisations of Southern Europe, the Near East, the Far East, and around the globe with their predatory, warlike brutality!
Americans at that--who were the first to use the nightmarish atomic bomb on whole populations of civilians in crowded cities, killing and horribly maiming tens of thousands of defenseless men, women, and children, old and young.
I know that this equality, this oneness of the races, this love between the brethren, this better world, cannot be found only through the path of legislation and politics. It certainly cannot be found through the path of violence and killing, and the destruction of our young people. It cannot be found when the brothers
are pitted one against another in useless, wasteful neighborhood wars.
I know that to become a reality is to love, the supernatural Love of God!
Ted Rudow III,MA
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How media resorts to seducing you

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How media resorts to seducing you

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The top three things the media loves to cover are sex, violence and conflict.

What's more newsworthy? The large group of advocates fighting for peace or the crashing of the event by protesters?

Yesterday, an article ran about an oil tax rally that was interrupted by several protesters....

10/14/09
Meanwhile their media, like the band on the Titanic, plays on to pacify the public and assure them that America is still the greatest. They have their own version of the Roman games--the great scandals and sports events that serve as diversions lest people think too deeply about their society and its problems. Bread and games were what pacified the Roman masses; in America it's Big Macs and TV.
Come out of her, my people, the Lord's children. The rest of the world needs you and your message! Forsake the foolish and live!

Ted Rudow III,MA
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Money-making?
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Saturday Oct 17th, 2009
Harold Hapin is having a memorial in Monday as he died of a diabetic coma. Medi-Cal will no longer pay for these benefits and services for most adults although, there are some exceptions. It was said that he was worried that he couldn't get the pills for his illnesses.

The pharmaceutical companies are some of the biggest, wealthiest corporations in the world, and they're generally driven by profit rather than philanthropy. Doctors and nurses may be moved by compassion and their oath to help the sick and diseased, but they're often constrained as to how far they can go because of the price of medicine and supplies.
As a result, there's a lot of unnecessary suffering and death, and a general focus on medical cures rather than preventive health care in the first place—informing people how to eat the right food, get the right exercise and get enough sleep, avoid abusing their bodies and all that sort of thing. And naturally, that same focus on medical money-making leads to this sort of situation, because it's profitable, while ignoring relatively low-cost treatments that do work but don't make money!
Ted Rudow III,MA

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Obama's double standard on nuclear weapons

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President Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for accomplishments that as of now are

unaccomplished.

The five-member Norwegian Nobel Committee reasoned that Obama deserved the award for fostering peace and cooperation in the global community.

Obama has certainly taken steps in that direction, but has he really done anything to warrant such a prize?

Obama joins Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson and Jimmy Carter as Nobel Peace

Prize-winning presidents....

Ted Rudow III,MA
10/14/09
President Obama has ruled out a significant reduction of U.S. troops in Afghanistan. In a bipartisan meeting with congressional leaders Tuesday, Obama rejected a U.S. withdrawal and said he is still considering an assessment requesting up to 40,000 additional troops.

If you step back a moment and think about it, you will realize that you are constantly being propagandized to approve war -- not just the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, but war generically.

You really wonder about American intelligence sometimes. They're so ignorant of the rest of the world, the last thing they need to be doing is meddling in Afghanistan, Iraq and the Middle East. The news media sanitize it. The government sanitizes war because it doesn't want you to see the coffins. It's far time that we get out of Afghanistan, Iraq and the Middle East.

Ted Rudow III, MA
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Pressure of the Zionist lobby
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Tuesday Oct 13th, 2009

"The Israeli Prime Minister has a lot more influence over the foreign policy of the United States in the Middle East than he has in his own country."




The strength of the Israelis in the U.S. as early as 1942, is such that at the
Biltmore Hotel in New York a maximalist convention decides that it is necessary to move from the "Jewish homeland in Palestine" (promised by Balfour : a slow colonization by buying land under British or American protection) to the creation of a "sovereign Jewish state".

The duplicity which characterizes the whole history of political zionism is expressed in the "interpretations" of what was to be the outcome of Herzl's efforts : "The Balfour Declaration" (in 1917). The formula of a "national Jewish homeland" is taken up again at the Congress of Basle. Lord Rothschild had prepared a declaration advocating "the national principle of the Jewish people". Balfour's final declaration does not talk any more about all Palestine, but only about the "establishment in Palestine of a national homeland for the Jewish people". In actual fact everybody says "homeland" (as if it were a spiritual and cultural center), and, in reality, thinks "State", as did Herzl himself. Lloyd George wrote in his book : "The Truth About the Peace Treaties", (Ed. Gollancz 1938, vol. 2, pp. 1138 39) : "There could be no doubt about what the members of the cabinet had in mind at the time... Palestine would become an independent state." It is significant that General Smuts, a member of the War Cabinet, declared in Johannesburg on 3 November 1915 : "Over the coming generations, you will see the emergence over there (in Palestine) once again, of a great Jewish
Truman swept aside his scruples for electoral reasons and it was to be the same with his successors. On the subject of the power of the Zionist lobby and of the "Jewish vote", President Truman himself had declared in 1946, to a group of diplomats : "I am sorry gentlemen, but I have to answer to hundreds of thousands of people who are expecting the success of Zionism. I don't have thousands of Arabs among my electors."

Source: William Eddy, F.P. Roosevelt and Ibn Saoud, N.Y. "American Friends of the Middle East", 1954 p. 31 (or 39)

And Obama “couldn’t withstand the pressure of the Zionist lobby, which led to a retreat from his previous positions on halting settlement construction and defining an agenda for the negotiations and peace.”

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Posted: 10/09/2009 11:34:03 PM PDT
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No more wars

Dear Editor: President Obama has ruled out a significant reduction of U.S. troops in Afghanistan. In a bipartisan meeting with congressional leaders Tuesday, Obama rejected a U.S. withdrawal and said he is still considering an assessment requesting up to 40,000 additional troops.

If you step back a moment and think about it, you will realize that you are constantly being propagandized to approve war — not just the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, but war generically.

You really wonder about American intelligence sometimes. They're so ignorant of the rest of the world, the last thing they need to be doing is meddling in Afghanistan, Iraq and the Middle East. The news media sanitize it. The government sanitizes war because it doesn't want you to see the coffins. It's far time that we get out of Afghanistan, Iraq and the Middle East.

Ted Rudow III, MA

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Dollar
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Wednesday Oct 7th, 2009
The dollar’s future as the world’s top currency was thrown into doubt on Tuesday as a report said Arab state­s had launched secret moves with China and Russia to stop using the greenback for oil trading. Arab states have launched moves with China, Russia, Japan and France to stop using the dollar for oil trades, British daily The Independent reported on Tuesday, but this was denied by Kuwait.

They must not fear the American Dollar! The Green pig is only a monster of the imagination! It only exists if you believe in it. If you resist it in the name of God, it evaporates and is no more! So he's very wise to put his money in gold, because the dollar is going to evaporate when the people lose faith in it, and it will be gone. The green pig gobbles everybody up that believes in it, and tramples everybody in the mud that thinks it exists! But for those who know it's just a monster of imagination, it vanishes.--It's nothing. The Green Pig is the American dollar!
America itself is like A Green Pig, and the Green Pig is like America--huge and powerful and young and green and greedy, gluttonous, wasteful, selfish! But it only exists if you believe it exists, like its dollar, the "greenback," or the American dollar. It's like this Green Pig is the god of America, it is America's idol that they worship. It is not even as good as the golden calf, because it doesn't even exist! It has no power at all over you unless you're one of its worshippers. The moneymakers are its high priests and its priesthood, and it was created in their temples and they control it and they manipulate it as they will to their own advantage.
Ted Rudow III,MA

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A world proliferation of arms

Dear Editor: War is a lucrative business, not just for the little arms dealers in Third World countries but for the biggest arms dealers of all — the governments of the world. The U.S. alone sold $36 billion in weaponry last year, not to mention the billions of dollars of guns, bullets, tanks and other weaponry it gave to its friends and allies.

The manufacture and sale of weapons of various types is a trillion-dollar industry around the world. Imagine what a huge amount that is, and it's all dedicated to the pursuit of violence, destruction, war and death. What a different world it would be if all that money was devoted to food, clothing, shelter and medical care for the poor and needy.

The governments and warriors of the world would say that's impossible nowadays, but the things that are impossible with men are possible with God. Some $2.4 trillion, or 4.4 percent of the global economy, "is dependent on violence," according to the Global Peace Index, referring to "industries that create or manage violence—" the defense industry.

Ted Rudow III,MA

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War is a lucrative
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Thursday Oct 1st, 2009
War is a lucrative business, not just for the little arms dealers in third world countries, but for the biggest arms dealers of all—the governments of the world.
The U.S. alone sold $36 billion in weaponry last year, not to mention the billions of dollars of guns, bullets, tanks and other weaponry it gave to its friends and allies.
The manufacture and sale of weapons of various types is a trillion-dollar industry around the world. Imagine what a huge amount that is, and it's all dedicated to the pursuit of violence, destruction, war and death! What a different world it would be if all that money was devoted to food, clothing, shelter and medical care for the poor and needy.
The governments and warriors of the world would say that's impossible nowadays, but the things that are impossible with men are possible with God. Some $2.4 trillion (£1.5tr), or 4.4% of the global economy, "is dependent on violence," according to the Global Peace Index, referring to "industries that create or manage violence"—or the defense industry.—Jorn Madslien, BBC News, June 3, 2009
Ted Rudow III,MA

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Warning: President Obama wants to brainwash students across the nation into getting the most out of their education, he said in a speech delivered Tuesday.

Actually, encouraging students to get the most out of their education is probably an issue that conservatives and liberals alike can agree on.

Even so, many conservatives are shaking in their boots - worried that President Obama has a sneaky plan to brainwash American students with his liberal agenda.

Before the speech was delivered, it was available on the Internet for parents to preview - for those parents who were particularly concerned.



If the speech is available for preview, do we really think this is about a hidden agenda?

It probably isn't, but why don't we take a look at the speech, for those who aren't convinced.

He begins the speech talking about his memories of his education, and the responsibilities of students across the nation to do well in school.

He also said how important education is for finding your strengths and talents.

Obama said there are no excuses for not doing well in school or getting your homework done - no matter what a student's circumstances are.

He provided examples of students across the country who have succeeded in their education despite moving from foster home to foster home, or even having brain cancer.

Then, he acknowledged that school isn't always easy, students might not always like every subject and to become really good at something takes practice.

Obama ends the speech by saying he is doing everything he can to get students the tools to they need for a good education, but at the same time, students need to do their part and fulfill their responsibilities as a student.

If you ask me, this doesn't sound like a hidden political agenda - just a genuine concern for the nation's children to get the education they deserve.

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Ted Rudow III,MA
September 21, 2009

My Dentist and his family are from Hawaii and went to school with President Obama! It sad me that Scott Abramson,who is member of 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. For too long, policies that support Israeli militarism and occupation have gone unchallenged. Political voices raising even minor disagreements with prevailing policies are silenced or subject to campaigns of intimidation.
I know that this equality, this oneness of the races, this love between the brethren, this better world, cannot be found only through the path of legislation and politics. It certainly cannot be found through the path of violence and killing, and the destruction of our young people. It cannot be found when the brothers are pitted one against another in useless. I know that to become a reality is to love, the supernatural Love of God! Love the person, even if you don't like his point of view!
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction…."Martin Luther King, Jr.,
Ted Rudow III,MA
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Starving student faces the challenges of Ramadan

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As a part of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, I, along with Muslims all throughout the world, have been fasting from sunrise to sunset for 30 straight days, since Aug. 22.

Ramadan is the ninth and holiest month in the Islamic calendar in which Muslims fast and purify themselves through good deeds and by offering extra prayer...
Ted Rudow III,MA
Christians probably know about as little about Islam as can be know. 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 Muslims? 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 Muslims 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.
Many Muslims have watched in anger as their fellows have been killed around the world. The Israelis have killed many innocent Palestinians, and the U.S. has supplied the arms for their slaughter. Muslims have seen the U.S. kill many innocents as well, first in Iraq, where they bombed and butchered tens of thousands in the Gulf War, and great multitudes since then in the siege of that nation through sanctions.
Ted Rudow III,MA
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Light
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
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My Dentist and his family are from Hawaii and went to school with President Obama! It sad me that Scott Abramson,who is member of 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. For too long, policies that support Israeli militarism and occupation have gone unchallenged. Political voices raising even minor disagreements with prevailing policies are silenced or subject to campaigns of intimidation.
I know that this equality, this oneness of the races, this love between the brethren, this better world, cannot be found only through the path of legislation and politics. It certainly cannot be found through the path of violence and killing, and the destruction of our young people. It cannot be found when the brothers are pitted one against another in useless. I know that to become a reality is to love, the supernatural Love of God! Love the person, even if you don't like his point of view!
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction...."Martin Luther King, Jr.,
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Today is Sept. 15, which means that 9/11 was four days ago. It took me by surprise this year.

Well, not the fact that it passed. That happens every year. What got me was that it has been eight years since the attack.

It certainly doesn't seem like eight years ago when I turned the dial to KSJO early in the morning, bleary-eyed and on my way to Evergreen Valley College....


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It's a time of reflection for many in the selfish western world. The towers have fallen and are yet falling--not only these physical towers, but also the towers of democracy and of the free world. Given the U.S. government's pledge to wage a war against terrorism, it is important to look at its definitions.
According to both the Department of Defense (DOD) and the FBI, terrorism is "the unlawful use of force or violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives." The DOD definition adds that a goal of terrorism can be "inculcating fear," include the use of biological, chemical or nuclear devices as well as the act of "assassination." The latter would suggest that assassinating Osama bin Laden would be a terrorist act,
We all have heard the saying, "One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter." And indeed, Osama bin Laden and his comrades were hailed as freedom fighters in the 1980s by the American government. 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!
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President Obama left little doubt last week that health care reform to him is a moral issue that needs to rise above the partisan bickering that plagues Washington. As usual, the Republicans are out to protect the rich - and to hell with the poor. The only thing they think of with their little narrow minds is, how can I hang on to my money, my investments, my big dollars in the banks to protect all my interests?

The rich are notoriously short-sighted when it comes to protecting their riches. They think by hanging on to them, they can protect them. You're going to have to be better to the poor, or you're going to go bankrupt.You cannot amass all this wealth in the hands of a few rich and get away with it (Luke 12:15-21).

Our country can't go on robbing the poor and helping the rich, and get by with it. That's what this American economy has been doing for years. We've been robbing the poor - not as much at home as we have even abroad, because of our high prices that they can't afford to pay!

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One year after the collapse of Lehman Brothers set off a series of federal interventions, the government is the nation’s biggest lender, insurer, automaker and guarantor against risk for investors large and small. Federal spending is a bigger share of the nation’s economy — 26 percent — than at any time since World War II.

Simply funding the banking system without reforming it is an expensive and dangerous game. President Barack Obama and Congress could truly fix things by dividing the Wall Street mega-banks under a new Glass-Steagall Act.

But will they?

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But one year after the collapse of Lehman Brothers set off a series of federal interventions, the government is the nation’s biggest lender, insurer, automaker and guarantor against risk for investors large and small. Between financial rescue missions and the economic stimulus program, government spending accounts for a bigger share of the nation’s economy — 26 percent — than at any time since World War II.

The government is financing 9 out of 10 new mortgages in the United States. Under both the Bush and Obama administrations, the government, from the Federal Reserve to the Treasury Department, has flushed the banking systems and other components of the financial markets with $17.5 trillion worth of loans, guarantees, and other forms of support.
But in his speech on Monday, Mr. Obama has step up pressure on Wall Street to accept tougher oversight. Simply funding the banking system without reforming it is an expensive and dangerous game. Obama is capable of truly fixing things—by dividing up the Wall Street mega-banks with a new Glass Steagall Act. But will they? We have been deceived just recently."For thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived".REV.18:23b
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President Obama left little doubt Wednesday night that health care reform to him is a moral issue that needs to rise above the partisan bickering that plagues Washington. As usual, the Republicans are out to protect the rich — and to hell with the poor. The only thing they think of with their little narrow minds is, how can I hang on to my money — my investments — my big dollars in the banks — to protect all of my interests?

The rich are notoriously shortsighted when it comes to protecting their riches. They think by hanging on to them, they can protect them. You're going to have to be better to the poor, or you're going to go bankrupt. You cannot amass all this wealth in the hands of a few rich and get away with it, (Luke 12:15-21.)

Our country can't go on robbing the poor and helping the rich, and get by with it.
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Dear Editor: It's a time of reflection for many in the selfish western world. The towers have fallen and are yet falling — not only these physical towers, but also the towers of democracy and of the free world. Given the U.S. government's pledge to wage a war against terrorism, it is important to look at its definitions.

According to both the Department of Defense (DOD) and the FBI, terrorism is "the unlawful use of force or violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives." The DOD definition adds that a goal of terrorism can be "inculcating fear," include the use of biological, chemical or nuclear devices as well as the act of "assassination." The latter would suggest that assassinating Osama bin Laden would be a terrorist act. We all have heard the saying, "One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter." And indeed, Osama bin Laden and his comrades were hailed as freedom fighters in the 1980s by the American government. 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!

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Health care reform a moral issue

Dear Editor: President Obama left little doubt Wednesday night that health care reform to him is a moral issue that needs to rise above the partisan bickering that plagues Washington. As usual, the Republicans are out to protect the rich — and to hell with the poor. The only thing they think of with their little narrow minds is, how can I hang on to my money — my investments — my big dollars in the banks — to protect all of my interests?

The rich are notoriously shortsighted when it comes to protecting their riches. They think by hanging on to them, they can protect them. You're going to have to be better to the poor, or you're going to go bankrupt. You cannot amass all this wealth in the hands of a few rich and get away with it, (Luke 12:15-21.)

Our country can't go on robbing the poor and helping the rich, and get by with it.

Ted Rudow III,MA

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by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Friday Sep 11th, 2009
It's a time of reflection for many in the selfish western world. The towers have fallen and are yet falling--not only these physical towers, but also the towers of democracy and of the free world. Given the U.S. government's pledge to wage a war against terrorism, it is important to look at its definitions.

According to both the Department of Defense (DOD) and the FBI, terrorism is "the unlawful use of force or violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives." The DOD definition adds that a goal of terrorism can be "inculcating fear," include the use of biological, chemical or nuclear devices as well as the act of "assassination." The latter would suggest that assassinating Osama bin Laden would be a terrorist act,
We all have heard the saying, "One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter." And indeed, Osama bin Laden and his comrades were hailed as freedom fighters in the 1980s by the American government. 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!
Ted Rudow III,MA

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Israel approved Monday the building of 455 settler homes in the occupied West Bank, a move opposed by its US ally and Palestinians but which could pave the way for a construction moratorium sought by Washington.
A Defense Ministry list of the first such building permits since Prime Minister Benjamin Ne­tanyahu took office in March showed the homes would be erected in areas Israel says it intends to keep in a future peace deal with the Palestinians.
There are some Jews who have a sense of fair-mindedness and realise that what their brethren are doing to the Palestinians in Israel is just as bad as what the Nazis did to them. The Jews went to Israel and stole the Palestinians' country and committed the same kind of atrocities against the Palestinians that the Germans did against the Jews.--Except for the Holocaust. But in Palestine, the Israeli takeover was a small holocaust for the Palestinians.
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In a chilling forecast, the White House is predicting a 10-year federal deficit of $9 trillion — more than the sum of all previous deficits since America's founding. And it says by the next decade's end the national debt will equal three-quarters of the entire U.S. economy.

You'll recall that President Obama announced that he had found budget savings of $17 billion. The American empire is clearly overstretched and over-indebted. When an empire is new and fresh and growing, people believe in saving, hard work, and frugality. When an empire is old and decaying, they think the government should spend "whatever it takes" to take care of them. This attitude helps destroy the empire — thus making room for the next one. Americans have found a president willing to go along with history.

Instead of scaling down, he is scaling up. Instead of reducing America's indebtedness, he is increasing it. Instead of going for safety, he's going for broke. America goes on living in a fairy tale!
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Dear Editor: In a chilling forecast, the White House is predicting a 10-year federal deficit of $9 trillion — more than the sum of all previous deficits since America's founding. And it says by the next decade's end the national debt will equal three-quarters of the entire U.S. economy.

You'll recall that President Obama announced that he had found budget savings of $17 billion. The American empire is clearly overstretched and over-indebted. When an empire is new and fresh and growing, people believe in saving, hard work, and frugality. When an empire is old and decaying, they think the government should spend "whatever it takes" to take care of them. This attitude helps destroy the empire — thus making room for the next one. Americans have found a president willing to go along with history.

Instead of scaling down, he is scaling up. Instead of reducing America's indebtedness, he is increasing it. Instead of going for safety, he's going for broke. America goes on living in a fairy tale, a land of make-believe in which prosperity never ceases. But it will one of these days.

Ted Rudow III,MA

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Nary a week goes by without some Bible enthusiast chastising us heathens on our wicked ways.

Dr Clarence Charles implores the Jamaican authorities to enforce the biblical mandate on abortion in his letter of the same title. The success of the Cayman islands, he tells us, is directly due to the willingness of the people to adhere to God's laws on abortion.

In my intense search of the good book, I was unable to find this mandate. However, I did find other mandates that may yield immeasurable prosperity to the people of Cayman and Jamaica. I exhort the people of Jamaica and Guyana to follow the mandate of Leviticus 24:14, which dictates that blasphemers be stoned to death. We could climb to great heights of morality if, as instructed in Leviticus 20:10, we stoned to death all adulterers. If we follow just these two mandates, I guarantee that Jamaica would be the most prosperous country in the world.

So, Dr Charles, why stop at the so-called mandate on abortion? Let us not pick and choose from the Biblical buffet. Let us stuff ourselves with all the Biblical mandates.

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A federal appeals court in San Francisco ruled that a Native American from Canada is not entitled to a religious exemption from prosecution for selling bald eagle feathers into the United States. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a two-year prison sentence for Leonard Antoine, a member of the Cowichan Band of the Salish Indian Tribe in British Columbia, Canada.
Federal program in the United States allows for limited possession of bald eagle parts by Native Americans. Circuit Judge Alex Kozinski wrote, "The government has a compelling interest in eagle protection that justifies limiting supply to eagles that pass through the repository, even though religious demand exceeds supply as a result.
What is more valuable human rights or animal rights? An unborn eagle or an unborn child? If you chose the unborn child, sorry you are wrong--at least accounting to the law of the land. U.S Code Title 16 section 668, the eagle takes precedence. A person who kills, damgages,tranports a bald eagle, its egg, or nest is subject to a fine of up to $5,000 or imprisonment for up one year or both(first offense) .
Whereas, not only is there no penalty for aborting an unborn child? Although the U.S. puts on a pretence and a hypocritical veneer of begin Christian, I frankly believe that the U.S. is more guilty than because she's had more Light, more Gospel, more genuine Christianity in the past,and therefore is more responsible! America is worse because she pretends to be religious and she pretends to believe in God & she pretends to be Christian when she's not!
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by Ted Rudow III,MA
Wednesday Aug 26th, 2009
In a chilling forecast, the White House is predicting a 10-year
federal deficit of $9 trillion — more than the sum of all previous
deficits since America’s founding.
And it says by the next decade’s end
the national debt will equal three-quarters of the entire U.S. economy.
You'll recall that President Obama announced that he had found
budget savings of $17 billion. The American empire is clearly
overstretched and over-indebted. When an empire is new and fresh and
growing, people believe in saving, hard work, and frugality. When an
empire is old and decaying, they think the government should spend
"whatever it takes" to take care of them. This attitude helps destroy
the empire—thus making room for the next one.Americans have found a
president willing to go along with history.
Instead of scaling down, he is scaling up. Instead of reducing
America's indebtedness, he is increasing it. Instead of going for
safety, he's going for broke. America goes on living in a fairy tale, a
land of make-believe in which prosperity never ceases. But it will one
of these days.
Ted Rudow III,MA

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Talk is cheap
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Thursday Aug 20th, 2009
Fourteen-year-old Juma Ismail lives 50 kilometers from the Mediterranean but had never seen the sea. The Palestinian youth had never set eyes on an Israeli civilian or an airport.
Juma’s horizons expanded this summer, when he left Jalazoun refugee camp in the Occupied West Bank with “Birthright Replugged” on a trip taking Palestinian refugee children to Israel to visit the villages of their ancestors.
The entire world represented at the UN and the leaders of Europe had all agreed on this also. World public opinion had also recognised that this was the only solution: That the Palestinians and their rights should be recognised as an independent Palestinian state on the Israeli occupied West Bank of the Jordan.
But they say,"That is Israel. We will never give up Jerusalem. But everything is negotiable. We want to talk, we want to negotiate."
Israel has been saying this for the last 61 years because she knows as long as she keeps talking and keeps everybody else only talking, nothing will be done about it!

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When the immigrating Jews were a very tiny group of guests in the Arab country of Palestine under the British, the Arabs, always noted for their hospitality, were usually kind and helpful and did much to encourage some of their settlements. But as their number grew and the Balfour Declaration was issued, pledging the world's Jews a homeland in Palestine, the Arabs began to see what was taking place.
The Jews were no longer considering themselves guests of the Palestinians Arabs but invaders of Palestine and conquerors of the Arabs, so fighting frequently broke out between them, in spite of all the British did to try to stop it.
Finally, during World War II, Britain issued the famous White Paper restricting Jewish immigration into Palestine for the duration of the war as Britain already had enough problems on her hands contending with Hitler without fighting with the Jews and Arabs, too, both of whom by this time were trying to throw off British rule and seize Palestine for themselves.
Britain finally had to pull out as she eventually did on May 15, 1948 under a UN arrangement to divide the land between the Jews and the Arabs. But it never worked. The Jews of Palestine immediately declared themselves the independent state of Israel and began launching a full-scale war against its Arab inhabitants, which still continues!
Although outnumbered ten to one, the Jews were plentifully armed with the most modern weapons and masterminded by the most brilliant minds of Europe and America. Western news media, propaganda sources and politicians fostered and favored this view, and even Christian religionists were persuaded that this was the long-awaited Biblically-predicted regathering and return of the Jews and ordained by God!
The Palestine-Israeli war is an American war being fought with American weapons for the American territory of an American colony - Israel!

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Israel’s foreign minister warned on Monday against attempting to impose a Middle East deal, saying the most peace talks can achieve for the coming year is improving security and the Palestinian economy. “The Palestinians’ radical and uncompromising positions on Jerusalem, the right of return and the settlement blocs create an unbridgeable gap between us and them,” Avigdor Lieberman told a delegation of US Democratic lawmakers




When the immigrating Jews were a very time group of guests in the Arab Country of Palestine under the British, the Arabs, always noted for their hospitality, were usually kind and helpful to them and did much to encourage some of their settlements. But as their number grew and the Balfour Declaration was made, pledging the world's Jews a homeland in Palestine, the Arabs began to see what was taking place!
The Jews were no longer considering themselves guests of the Palestinians Arabs but invaders of Palestine and conquerors of the Arabs, so fighting frequently broke out between them in spite of all the British could do to stop it. The Jews of Palestine immediately declared themselves the independent state of Israel and began launching a full-scale war with its Arab inhabitants, which still goes on! Western news media, propaganda sources and politicians fostered and favoured this view, and even Christian religionists were persuaded that this was the long-awaited Biblically-predicted regathering and return of the Jews and ordained by God! The Palestine-Israeli war is an American War with fighting with American weapons for the American territory of an American colony--Israel!

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How countries turn fascist
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Monday Aug 10th, 2009
Historian Robert Paxton, who is probably the world's pre-eminent scholar on the subject of how countries turn fascist.The word has been bandied about by so many people so wrongly for so long that, as Paxton points out, "Everybody is somebody else's fascist."



"Fascism is a system of political authority and social order intended to reinforce the unity, energy, and purity of communities in which liberal democracy stands accused of producing division and decline."
The U.S. is supporting of Communist Government,(ie-China), as well as lots of Fascist, Anti-Communist governments. The only requirement now seems to be not as to whether you are but are you pro-U.S.? As long as you're pro-U.S. you can be Fascist or Communist or who knows what, as long as you're at least pretending to be!
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Iraq is in a slightly better state, but it's a mess as well, and remains in much worse shape than when Saddam Hussein was in charge. I mean, even Saddam had trouble running Iraq and keeping the peace, and he was brutal with anyone who caused trouble - and even with those who didn't.
But with him and his government gone, all the different factions can do as they want and they often try to do it to others before others try to do it to them!
The only thing going for Iraq at the moment is that, after decades of war and suffering war with Iran, then with the US during the first Gulf War, then after a decade of sanctions, then with the present war with
the US and occupation, the Iraqis are mostly too tired to go on fighting, and anxious to get on with their lives again. That doesn't mean the country is at peace, but at least the desire is there.

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Official propaganda
Is telling the world that the Israeli public is united in opposition to President Obama.

That is totally false.
The majority of Israelis is waiting impatiently for Obama to “impose”on Netanyahua peace solution.
Mr. President,
You have our support!

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Iraq is in a little better state, but it's a mess as well, in much worse shape than when Saddam was in charge. I mean, even Saddam had trouble running Iraq and keeping the peace, and he was brutal with anyone who caused trouble, and even with those who didn't. But with him and his government gone, all the different factions can do as they want—and they often try to do it to others before others try to do it to them!

The only thing going for Iraq at the moment is that, after decades of war and suffering—first war with Iran, then with the U.S. in the first Gulf War, then after a decade of sanctions, then with the present war with the U.S. and occupation—the Iraqis are mostly too tired to go on fighting, and anxious to get on with their lives again. That doesn't mean the country is at peace, but at least the desire is there.

Ted Rudow III,MA

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There are a number of similarities between the rise of right and the rise of Hitler and his Nazis, his prototypes: I was impressed by this through a documentary I had seen the night before on Hitler's dealings with the Jews in his rise to power prior to and during World War II, You may say that it's almost unbelievable that a nation as civilised, intellectual, highly educated, scientific, and advanced as Germany could ever be guilty of such horrible atrocities against a helpless minority of its own people who had lived there for generations and consider themselves as Germans in all walks of life! But the most highly educated and so-called most advanced civilisation on the face of the Earth became the most bestial and barbaric in its reign of terror against this pitiful minority of its own people just because a fanatical and persuasive orator convinced the Germans that the Jews were their deadly enemies and a terrible danger to their country!
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There are a number of similarities between the rise of the right and the rise of Hitler and his Nazis, his prototypes: I was impressed by this through a documentary I had seen the night before on Hitler's dealings with the Jews in his rise to power prior to and during World War II, You may say that it's almost unbelievable that a nation as civilised, intellectual, highly educated, scientific, and advanced as Germany could ever be guilty of such horrible atrocities against a helpless minority of its own people who had lived there for generations and consider themselves as Germans in all walks of life! But the most highly educated and so-called most advanced civilisation on the face of the Earth became the most bestial and barbaric in its reign of terror against this pitiful minority of its own people just because a fanatical and persuasive orator convinced the Germans that the Jews were their deadly enemies and a terrible danger to their country!
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Editor,


The Californian government has decided that they will no longer accommodate certain needs for the poor including pediatric services, dental services, optometrist and optician services, ophthalmology (doctor services for the eyes) will continue to be covered, etc.


Medi-Cal will no longer pay for these benefits and services for most adults although, there are some exceptions. They are $26 billion in debt, so they cut billions for the poor and disabled.


What usually happens in a case like this where the rich get so rich that they persecute, oppress, exploit and suppress the poor, grind them down until they don't even have enough to eat or a decent place to lay their heads?
Ted Rudow III ,MA


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July 27,2009
A Pointless war
If there was ever a pointless war, it's the one in Afghanistan! The U.S. has no reason to be there, other than to keep the Taliban out of power. But they're doing a pretty poor job of that, as the Taliban are winning hearts and minds all over the country, while U.S. troops and the Afghan government are constantly losing ground, not to mention the support of the people.
They're also losing the lives of their soldiers in a war that they'll lose in the end, one fought for purposes that were never very clear, and which has cost the U.S. tens of billions of dollars that have mostly been misspent or wasted. And in the end, Afghanistan will be as big a mess as ever.
Ted Rudow III,MA

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America has been living in luxury at the world's expense while other nations are starving. America has had high prices on everything and yet has refused to pay high prices for goods because other nations are so poor and they are glad to get anything. Other nations sell their labour and goods at rock-bottom prices, starvation prices and work at starvation wages and America reaps the benefits. America buys their goods at their cheap prices and sells them hers at sky high prices. So America lives in luxury while they live in poverty and starvation. You think God's going to bless them? No!
Ted Rudow III,MA

The poor

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The poor
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Thursday Jul 23rd, 2009
The Californian Gov. has decided that they will no longer for certain needs for the poor included: Podiatric services, Dental services,Optometric and optician services ophthalmology [doctor services for the eyes] will continue to be covered),Etc.

Medi-Cal will no longer pay for the following benefits and services for most adults (there are some exceptions): They are 26 billions in debt, so the cut billions for the poor and disabled.
What usually happens in a case like that where the rich get so rich that they persecute, oppress, exploit and suppress the poor, grind them down till they don't even have enough to eat or a decent place to lay their heads?
Ted Rudow III,MA

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Do not be deceived through the false words of those who would not discern the signs of the times. For while some cry peace and safety as they give false readings of the times, sudden destruction is on the horizon for those who do not discern. She will appear as a minister of righteousness, as an angel of light, and she will deceive many. She would seek to deceive even the very elect, but be ye not deceived. The majority of the people won't rise up until their sleep, their comfort, their security is actually threatened! Then when they do rise, it is to put their stamp of approval on rightism to protect their greed.

Ted Rudow III,MA

Freezing?

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Freezing?
by Ted Rudow III,MA
Saturday Jul 11th, 2009
It could not be any clearer that Prime Minister Netanyahu and his cabinet intend to fight President Obama's settlement policy.
Netanyahu, in an effort to detract from the conversation, even went so far as to say: "I think that the more we spend time arguing about this, the more we waste time instead of moving towards peace." In his talks with Secretary of State Clinton, Israeli Foreign Minister Lieberman said bluntly: "We cannot accept this vision absolutely, completely freezing these settlements."
President Bush was the first to publicly suggest that some settlements might have to remain in place. It remains to
be seen if the Obama administration will stand firm on its repeated insistence that a complete freeze on all settlement construction, in accordance with the 2003 Road Map agreement to which Israel is a signatory.
What's the use in talking about dividing the land between the Palestinians and the Israeli if Israeli the are continued to build. That's what their whole idea is. They're all mobilised against the Palestinians. U.S. policy regarding settlements has been consistently opposed to their existence and their expansion, but no U.S. administration has gone beyond rhetorical condemnation. The rest of the World is going to be infuriated, too. The U.S. is being totally repressive, oppressive, biased, unfair, aggressive, everything.--All the bad words you can think of in preventing the poor little Palestinians from having their own state.
Ted Rudow III,MA

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Do the right thing in Honduras
July 8,2009
Dear Editor: Ousted Honduras President Manuel Zelaya has vowed to return to Honduras within the next few days in an attempt to reclaim power. Zelaya was forced out of office and exiled to Costa Rica in a military coup d'etat on Sunday.

There's a communiqué, issued by a popular front against the coup, saying that Battalion 316 is operating again. Battalion 316. This goes back to the Reagan years with John Negroponte, who was ambassador to Honduras at the time. He was involved in organizing the Honduran branch of the Iran-Contra war. And the Baltimore Sun ran a series of articles that made it quite clear he was involved in the cover-up of a number of death squad executions and more than 100 disappearances by Battalion 316.

Honduras was effectively an outpost of the United States' worst campaigns during the Cold War. The United States built a huge air base in Honduras and a training center for the Central Americans it hoped to train to fight - not their own battles but U.S. battles in Central America. The U.S. has always felt it had a perfect right to do anything it wanted to do in Latin American. That was its backyard and for the sake of good security it had a right to do as it pleased down there.

President Barack Obama says - and he does so very clearly and strongly and admirably - that he doesn't want to return to the dark policies of the past. We hope that Obama will be honest and do the right thing.

Ted Rudow III,MA

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Dear Editor: Ousted Honduras President Manuel Zelaya has vowed to return to Honduras within the next few days in an attempt to reclaim power. Zelaya was forced out of office and exiled to Costa Rica in a military coup d'etat on Sunday.

There's a communiqué, issued by a popular front against the coup, saying that Battalion 316 is operating again. Battalion 316. This goes back to the Reagan years with John Negroponte, who was ambassador to Honduras at the time. He was involved in organizing the Honduran branch of the Iran-Contra war. And the Baltimore Sun ran a series of articles that made it quite clear he was involved in the cover-up of a number of death squad executions and more than 100 disappearances by Battalion 316.

Honduras was effectively an outpost of the United States' worst campaigns during the Cold War. The United States built a huge air base in Honduras and a training center for the Central Americans it hoped to train to fight — not their own battles but U.S. battles in Central America. The U.S. has always felt it had a perfect right to do anything it wanted to do in Latin American. That was its backyard and for the sake of good security it had a right to do as it pleased down there.

President Barack Obama says — and he does so very clearly and strongly and admirably — that he doesn't want to return to the dark policies of the past. We hope that Obama will be honest and do the right thing.

Ted Rudow III,MA

The right thing

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The right thing
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Thursday Jul 2nd, 2009
The ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya has vowed to return to Honduras within the next few days in an attempt to reclaim power. Zelaya was forced out of office and exiled to Costa Rica in a military coup d’etat on Sunday.

There’s a communiqué, was issued by the—by a popular front against the coup, saying that Battalion 316 is operating again. Battalion 316. This goes back to the Reagan years with John Negroponte, Negroponte, who was ambassador to Honduras at the time. He was involved in organizing the Honduran branch of the Iran-Contra war. And the Baltimore Sun ran a series of articles that were quite clear that he was involved in the cover-up of a number of death squad executions, over a hundred disappearances by Battalion 316.
Honduras was effectively an outpost of the United States’s sort of the worst campaigns during the Cold War.They build a huge air base in Honduras and a training center there for the Central Americans it hopes to train to fight--not their own battles but U.S. battles in Central America. The U.S. has always felt it had a perfect right to do anything it wanted to do in Latin American. That was its back yard,and for the sake of good security it had a right to do as it pleased down there! President Barack Obama says—he does it very clearly and strongly and admirably—that he doesn’t want to return to the dark policies of the past. We hope that Obama will be honest and do the right thing.
Ted Rudow III,MA

Free Gaza

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Free Gaza
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Tuesday Jun 30th, 2009
The Free Gaza boat the "Spirit of Humanity" departed Cyprus at 7:30am on Monday, 29 July. Twenty-one human rights and solidarity workers representing eleven different countries were aboard. The passengers include Nobel laureate Mairead Maguire and former U.S. congresswoman Cynthia McKinney. The ship also carries three tons of medical aid, children's toys, and rehabilitation and reconstruction kits for twenty family homes.




Over 2,400 homes were destroyed in Gaza during the Israeli massacre in December/January, 490 of them by F-16 airstrikes, as well as 30 mosques, 29 educational institutions, 29 medical centers, 10 charitable organizations, and 5 cement factories. Each kit carries a small amount of supplies for a single family, representing sectors of civil society currently being blockaded by Israel: Agriculture, Building & Reconstruction, Education, Electricity, Health, and Water & Sanitation. Although over 4 billion dollars in aid was promised to Gaza in the aftermath of the Israeli onslaught, little humanitarian aid and no reconstruction supplies have been allowed in.
Israel has seizes Human Rights Boat in International Waters. Human rights activists in custody - "Spirit of Humanity" was carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza - Nobel Prize Winner among seized activists. Please release the human rights

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Goverments going bankrupt, still these great proclamations that "prosperity is here! We're having a recovery right now!" "Aha, it's back again, everything's fine & everybody's happy & employment is up!"--It sounds like the same old kind of story!
The peace prophets are all rosy! Does that remind you of anything? All you have to do is go back & read the Bible. What was going on in the last days of Israel when Israel was about on its last legs? There was only one Prophet of doom & all the others were prophesying "Peace, peace & everything's going to be better & don't worry!"--All the Devil's false peace prophets! ( Jer.8:11,15 )
Ted Rudow III,MA

For his fellow man

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For his fellow man
by Ted Rudow III,MA
Sunday Jun 28th, 2009 12:46 PM
Most of these problems are caused by Man's own injustices and foolishness over the years, sometimes centuries. When the population of a country mishandles its water, soil, trees and natural resources, erosion and desolation often result. But while the Western World spends hundreds of millions of dollars on storing or destroying these surpluses, and on lavish exercise and dieting programs to lose weight, and subsidises and pays farmers not to grow crops, the poor nations of the World starve!

Even when the rich of the World are touched to help the needy, the roads into famine-stricken areas are often either disintegrating or virtually non-existent, trucks and heavy vehicles are a rarity and break down continually, and few planes are available to fly in relief. And this is not to speak of the greedy and corrupt officials and middlemen siphoning off a large part of this.
In short, the countries which need help the most have an infrastructure which is so undeveloped and officials so corrupt that it makes it almost impossible to help them. Man's selfishness, that's all it is--man being selfish and not looking out for his fellow man. God help us!
Ted Rudow III,MA

Tough times

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Tough economic times
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77@aol,com )
Saturday Jun 20th, 2009
Tough economic times have brought about unrest and problems all over the world. There are all sorts of situations and all sorts of causes, but one of the main causes is inequality: The poor see the rich being helped and bailed out while they receive very little in comparison.
So the poor demonstrate and try to get at least a little more help, and if they can't, they often help themselves through theft, robbery, looting and crime. It's building up slowly now, but if conditions worsen, it could grow quickly and result in more widespread discontent and disorder, or even the overthrow of some governments.
And the U.S., which is one of the most unequal societies in the world when it comes to the distribution of wealth, is worried about its own citizens! The rich are worried about the poor and the militant, and right wing and left wing are increasingly alienated from each other. So the U.S. government is drawing up its contingency plans, bringing home some troops that were stationed abroad, and even going so far as to build camps that could be used in case of "natural disasters," or to house "an emergency influx of immigrants," or to support "new programs"—possible detention camps, though you'll probably never hear the government call them that!
Tough times can also lead to tough government actions and tyranny. It's a time of upheaval, flux and change for the world, just as the 1930s were, the Great Depression period before World War II. First came the Roaring '20s, then came the Depression '30s, and then came the years of war of the '40s. History doesn't always repeat itself, of course, but it can sometimes.
Ted Rudow III,MA

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Rewarding lies


Editor,


The Obama administration’s sweeping new proposal to restrict executive pay is likely to be a humbling exercise for seven of the nation’s largest companies, which have received billions of dollars in federal assistance to survive the economic crisis.


As for me, Social Security was cut two times in the last few months.The people that know how to trick and rob others, steal, cheat and to get more than their share. Their lies, propaganda and advertising have caused the poor that they were right and persuaded them to voluntarily give up some of the few things they had to make them even poorer and the rich even richer, so the rich could have more and more and the poor less and less.

Ted Rudow III,MA

Thorny?

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Thorny?
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Monday Jun 15th, 2009
In his address, Netanyahu reiterated his readiness to meet Arab leaders and urged Palestinians to resume peace talks. But on the thorny issue of Palestinian refugees, Netanyahu repeated long-standing Israeli policy by saying they could not return to areas in Israel from which they were forced to flee during the 1948 war that led to Israel's creation.

Netanyahu's speech was not well-received by Palestinians. "Oh, it doesn't matter that there are two million Palestinians living in cardboard and tin-can shacks in refugee camps virtually off of garbage," many of whom had fine homes and farms and lands in Palestine. It doesn't matter, obviously, or to the United States. It doesn't matter that two million poor Palestinians are kicked out of their own homes and their own country and have nothing and nowhere to go and nowhere to live and nothing to eat, as long as the [Israelis] get what they want!.
To most of the World and the Palestinians it looks like Israel is the real criminal and the robber, because the Jews have stolen a whole country and thrown out two million of its owners.The United States and Britain helped the Jews steal a whole country and thousands of Palestinian homes and made millions of Palestinian people homeless and hungry, but of course the [Israelis] couldn't be criminals! They're not criminals.--That's legitimate for whole countries to do things like that. It's perfectly all right for whole countries to carry on wars and murder millions of people, that's all right.
Ted Rudow III,MA

Double standard

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Dear Editor: Lebanon’s Western-backed March 14 coalition has defeated a stiff challenge by the Hezbollah-led opposition in national elections to retain its parliamentary ma­jority. The March 14 bloc’s win will reassure its supporters in Washington and Saudi Arabia, while the opposition defeat is a blow for Iran and Syria, which support Hezbollah and were hoping to counter U.S. influence in Lebanon.
  When they elected a pro-Communist president, Eisenhower sent in the Marines. And Lebanon's had nothing but grief ever since. And the same thing happened in Vietnam. When it looked like they were about to have a pro-Communist government there, the U.S. stepped in to make sure they didn't.Because of America's double standard in regard to Israel, whenever an American president or his representative speaks on any international topic, the words are discounted. The world knows that we have a double standard. The world knows that our word is no good.
Ted Rudow III,MA

Double standard

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Double standard
Dear Editor:
Lebanon's Western-backed March 14 coalition has defeated a stiff challenge by the Hezbollah-led opposition in national elections to retain its parliamentary majority. The March 14 bloc's win will reassure its supporters in Washington and Saudi Arabia, while the opposition defeat is a blow for Iran and Syria, which support Hezbollah and were hoping to counter U.S. influence in Lebanon.
When they elected a pro-Communist president, Eisenhower sent in the Marines. And Lebanon's had nothing but grief ever since. And the same thing happened in Vietnam. When it looked like they were about to have a pro-Communist government there, the U.S. stepped in to make sure they didn't.Because of America's double standard in regard to Israel, whenever an American president or his representative speaks on any international topic, the words are discounted. The world knows that we have a double standard. The world knows that our word is no good.
Ted Rudow III,MA

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The economic downturn has had a significant impact on Stanford’s budget, but with the dust settling on some of the largest changes, the cuts have become far clearer.As reported, Stanford’s budget for 2009-2010 projects a 30 percent loss in value for the University endowment. Administrators have also emphasized that due to this drop in value, and the necessity of covering funding shortfalls that must be maintained even before they might be cut, levels of spending from the endowment must rapidly reduce. Already, the University plans to move for its 2010-2011 budget to pay out 15 percent less per endowment share.This dramatic loss in endowment value, and consequent necessity to reduce endowment spending to sustainable levels, has forced many specific cuts in University units and schools to conform to reduced funding.Cutting the budget has also, however, initiated a strategic response from high-level University administrators, which is playing out in a variable manner.In an interview with The Daily, President John Hennessy reiterated that given the loss, Stanford would have to adjust itself to a new paradigm, and not focus upon returning to the same conditions that existed prior to the recession.“If you said that to continue operations we have to replenish the whole endowment before we do anything else, that could take a decade or two,” Hennessy said.He added that he hoped the University would be able to transition rapidly into a growth mindset.“We want to focus on new things, rather than replenishing the endowment coffers,” Hennessy said.Hennessy also emphasized the value of “doing this in a way that forces people to contemplate the scale and scope of the cut........
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The Obama administration’s sweeping new proposal to restrict executive pay is likely to be a humbling exercise for seven of the nation’s largest companies, which have received billions of dollars in federal assistance to survive the economic crisis.
As for me, Social Security was cut two times in the last few months.The people that know how to trick and rob others, steal, cheat and to get more than their share!
Their lies, propaganda and advertising have cause the poor that they were right and persuaded them to voluntarily give up some of the few things they had to make them even poorer and the rich even richer, so the rich could have more and more and the poor less and less!
Ted Rudow III,MA

Lebanon's Western-backed March 14 coalition

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Lebanon's Western-backed March 14 coalition
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Monday Jun 8th, 2009
Beirut, Lebanon - Lebanon's Western-backed March 14 coalition has defeated a stiff challenge by the Hezbollah-led opposition in national elections to retain its parliamentary majority. The March 14 bloc's win will reassure its supporters in Washington and Saudi Arabia, while the opposition defeat is a blow for Iran and Syria, which support Hezbollah and were hoping to counter US influence in Lebanon.

When they elected a pro-Communist president, Eisenhower sent in the Marines!--And Lebanon's had nothing but grief ever since. And the same thing happened in Vietnam! When they looked like they were about to have a pro-Communist government, the U.S. stepped in to make sure they didn't!
Because of America's double standard in regard to Israel, whenever an American president or his representative speaks on any international topic, the words are discounted. The world knows that we have a double standard. The world knows that our word is no good.