SacBee

SacBee
Subcribe: Home Delivery Special!

Sign In | Register Now | PressClub Site HelpMy Account | Sign Out | PressClub Site Help

Rex Babin Cartoons



News
Business
Local
Medical



Ground Zero Circus

Published: Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2010

Buy Cartoon
More Cartoons



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.

"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 Rdow III,MA









Read more: http://www.sacbee.com/2010/08/18/2966182/ground-zero-circus.html#Comments_Container#ixzz0wz7RDCDW

What Christians Know about Islam

The Planet
The Berkeley Daily Planet


Current Issue
Previous Issue
Search The Planet
Contact Us


Front Page
Opinion
Columnists
Arts & Entertainment
Contents
Full Text

Letters to the Editor


Tuesday August 17, 2010


What Christians Know about Islam; Some Questions about the Fall School Bond Measure; Gay Marriage; Eyesore On Telegraph; Correcting My Mistake;Dorothy Bryant’s Letter on Mental Health

What Christians Know about Islam

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.

"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

Big brother Obama?

MercuryNews.com
eEdition / Subscriber Services
Mobile | Mobile Alerts | RSS




HOME

NEWS breaking news
obituaries
crime and courts
bay area news
data center
science
earthquakes
politics / government

Peninsula readers' letters: Aug. 14

From Daily News Group readers
Posted: 08/13/2010 11:47:06 PM PDT






Big Brother Obama?

Dear Editor: White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs defends the Obama administration's record and his comments on the so-called professional left. On a range of issues including accountability for torture, detention of terrorism suspects and use of lethal force against civilians, there is a very real danger that the Obama administration will enshrine permanently within the law policies and practices that were widely considered extreme and unlawful during the Bush administration.

And in fact, in some cases, you see this administration going even further than the last administration did. Some of what was going on under the last administration was going on despite federal law that prohibited it. That was true, for example, with the warrantless wiretapping program.

And then Congress authorized the warrantless wiretapping that President Bush had authorized. So now you have a statute that authorizes precisely what Bush was doing illegally between 2001 and 2006. But what we had hoped was that the constitutionality of that statute would be tested in the courts.

Big Brother wants to keep an eye on you. He believes in being his "brother's keeper," but it's not for any sort of benign purpose -- or at least, it won't be in the end. It'll end up being for the purpose of control, and he'll use as many methods as possible -- hidden cameras, microphones, chips sensors or whatever.

Ted Rudow III,MA

Metro santa cruz

metro santa cruz
News, music, movies, events & restaurants in Santa Cruz, California from Metro Santa Cruz weekly


SANTA CRUZ COUNTY
SILICON VALLEY
SONOMA / NAPA / MARIN



08.11.10

home | metro santa cruz index | letters to the editor


Letters to the Editor


Iranian Story Replayed



KUDOS to Ted Rudow III ("A Familiar Story," Posts, Aug. 4). He told the story of capitalism at work. Our government had the Shah in its pocket, and so as not to lose that position, the CIA made short shrift of Mosaddegh. I was in junior high school when it happened, and learned my first lesson about American politics and our lip service to it.  Unfortunately, that scenario played out many times in the 20th century, and still continues. Remember what happened to the last democratically elected leader of Haiti? He was kidnapped and exiled. The story goes on.

Joan Quilter

Santa Cruz

BP

The Daily Star

Home About Us Advertise Archives Forum Classifieds ePaper Live TV Contact us


Search



  Daily Star Sections
  Middle East

  Lebanon

  Middle East News
  Politics

  Business

  Editorial

  Opinion

  Law

  Arts & Culture

  Forbes Features

  SCI & TECH

  Health

  Odd News

  Lebanon Examiner

  Spotlight

  Special Reports

  Interviews

  Readers' Letters

 




Reader's feedback published on 07/08/2010
The Daily Star is pleased to provide a forum for debate on a range of subjects, from local cultural activities to international politics.
Dozens, sometimes even hundreds, of letters fall into the editor’s mailbox daily. In order to keep the letters timely, The Daily Star generally produces a special letters section. When the influx of letters is particularly large, extra space is made available accordingly.
If you would like to submit a letter for publication, please remember to include your full name (first and last) and address, including city. The Daily Star typically only publishes letters under 400 words, and these are subject to editing. The Daily Star will not acknowledge unsolicited submissions.




Read more: http://www.dailystar.com.lb/letters.asp?edition_id=10#ixzz0wLH2idbJ
(The Daily Star :: Lebanon News :: http://www.dailystar.com.lb)



The Daily Star
“IMF: Low oil prices could restrain GCC growth”
July 28, 2010

The history of the company we now call BP over the last hundred years has really traced the arc of global transnational capitalism. The Anglo-Persian Oil Company, guaranteed itself, or won the right to own, all of Iran’s oil.
So, nobody in Iran had any right to drill for oil or extract oil or sell oil.
Then, soon after that find was made, the British government decided to buy the company. So the Parliament passed a law and bought 51 percent of that company. And all during the 1920s and 1930s and 1940s, the entire standard of living that people in England enjoyed was supported by oil from Iran.
So that became a fundamental foundation of British life. And then, after World War II, when the winds of nationalism and Anti-colonialism were blowing throughout the developing world, Iranians developed this idea: we’ve got to take our oil back. It was Mosaddegh’s desire, supported by a unanimous vote of the democratically elected parliament of Iran, to nationalize what was then the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company. They carried out the nationalization.
The British and their partners in the United States fiercely resisted this. And when they were unable to prevent it from happening, they organized the overthrow of Mosaddegh in 1953. So that overthrow not only produced the end of the Mosaddegh government, but the end of democracy in Iran, and that set off all these other following consequences.

Ted Rudow III, MA
Menlo Park, California, United States

International Herald Tribune and The Daily Star are available every morning in: Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Qatar, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Oman



Read more: http://www.dailystar.com.lb/letters.asp?edition_id=10#ixzz0wLGtCf2f
(The Daily Star :: Lebanon News :: http://www.dailystar.com.lb)

Flip-flopper

SacBee

Subcribe: Home Delivery Special!

Sign In | Register Now | PressClub Site HelpMy Account | Sign Out | PressClub Site Help







Rex Babin Cartoons





News
Business
Local

Weather | Traffic 83° F








Flip-flopper



Published: Sunday, Aug. 08, 2010

Buy Cartoon
More Cartoons



Add a comment (max 1500 characters)




08/09/2010

These double two-faced politicians who just follow after anybody that's going to pay'm or give'm power or make'm part of their government! They don't have any religion anyhow, they don't have any God! Their god is already Mammon and they might as well worship this gal as somebody else!
Ted Rudow III,MA

History of BP

Press j to Skip Navigation Back to Old Site Archive Podcast Witness Story Idea Rss Weather | Dhaka
T: 31C | H: 79%

The Daily Star
Your Right To Know
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Home Business Sports Arts & Entertainment Travel IT & Telecom Science Advertisement
Print Rates Online Rates Classifieds Sections
Star City Star Health Star Chittagong Urban Environment Book Reviews Strategic Issues City In Frame Supplements Archive Magazines
The Star Forum Star Campus Rising Star Star Insight Today's paper Front Page Editorial Metropolitan National International Op-Ed Letters Literature Podcast Life Style Witness Monday, August 9, 2010
Letters
History of BP
Ted Rudow III,MA, On e-mailThe history of the company we now call BP over the last hundred years has really traced the arc of global transactional capitalism. The Anglo-Persian oil company, guaranteed itself, or won the right to own, all of Iran's oil. So, nobody in Iran had any right to drill for oil or extract oil or sell oil.

Then, the British government decided to buy the company. So, Parliament passed a law and bought 51 percent of that company. And all during the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s, the entire standard of living that people in England enjoyed was supported by oil from Iran. So, that became a fundamental foundation of British life.

After World War II, when the winds of nationalism and anti-colonialism were blowing throughout the developing world, Iranians developed this idea: “we've got to take our oil back.” It was Mosaddegh's desire, supported by a unanimous vote of the democratically elected parliament of Iran, to nationalise what was then the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company.

The British and their partners in the United States fiercely resisted this. And when they were unable to prevent it from happening, they organised the overthrow of Mosaddegh in 1953. So that overthrow not only produced the end of the Mosaddegh government, but the end of democracy in Iran, and that set off all these other following consequences.

Saturday
August
07
2010


San Mateo Daily Journal



  Home
  Local News
  State / National / World
  Sports
  Opinion / Letters
  Business
  Arts / Entertainment
  Lifestyle
  Obituaries
  Calendar
  Special
  Submit Event



Click here for locations of where to find Daily Journal news racks.



VISIT US ON FACEBOOK! Click here



Follow us on Twitter!




The importance of in-home support services
August 07, 2010,

Editor,


As part of his budget plan, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has proposed eliminating In-Home Support Services, the state’s fastest-growing social services program, which pays caregivers to help the disabled and the frail elderly. Nearly half a million disabled Californians get subsidized home care.


Without IHSS, many current clients would be forced to move to skilled-nursing centres. Nursing homes cost five times as much per IHSS client. The number of skilled-nursing-centre beds has dwindled through the years as IHSS’ success has grown at helping the elderly continue living independently.


Now after over 35 years of being disabled, certain things had not been fullfilled. But it is a lot better. That day, Jan. 31,1975 we drove in the rain. I passed a truck.We hit another car head on. We lay on the side of the farm road one hour before the ambulance came.


I had big a gash on the left side of my neck,so blood was flowing out for that length of time. So it real miracle that I lived to reach the hospital. I was in a coma for ten days. The doctors told my parents there was no hope of my recovery, and that if I got out of the coma,I would spent rest of my life in a convalescent home, but the Lord had other plans. People prayed for me and I came out of the coma.    


When I emerged from the coma, I had to re-learn how to walk, talk, read and write. I spent almost one year in therapy, learning to cope with only my left side working. I also felt very condemn as I almost killed someone. I was virtually helpless and IHSS not only cared for my physical needs, but they also worked with me to regain all communication and mobility skills, which for I’m eternally greatful.



Ted Rudow III,MA


Menlo Park

A Familiar Story

MetroActive
News, music, movies & restaurants from the editors of the Silicon Valley's #1 weekly newspaper.
Serving San Jose, Palo Alto, Los Gatos, Campbell, Sunnyvale, Mountain View, Fremont & nearby cities.

SANTA CRUZ
SILICON VALLEY
SONOMA / NAPA / MARIN



A Familiar Story

THE HISTORY of the company we now call BP over the last hundred years has really traced the arc of global transnational capitalism. The Anglo-Persian Oil Company, guaranteed itself, or won the right to own, all of Iran's oil. So, nobody in Iran had any right to drill for oil or extract oil or sell oil.

Then, soon after that find was made, the British government decided to buy the company. So the Parliament passed a law and bought 51 percent of that company. And all during the 1920s and 1930s and 1940s, the entire standard of living that people in England enjoyed was supported by oil from Iran. So that became a fundamental foundation of British life.

And then, after World War II, when the winds of nationalism and anti-colonialism were blowing throughout the developing world, Iranians developed this idea: we've got to take our oil back. It was Mosaddegh's desire, supported by a unanimous vote of the democratically elected parliament of Iran, to nationalize what was then the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company. They carried out the nationalization.

The British and their partners in the United States fiercely resisted this. And when they were unable to prevent it from happening, they organized the overthrow of Mosaddegh in 1953. So that overthrow not only produced the end of the Mosaddegh government, but the end of democracy in Iran, and that set off all these other following consequences.

Ted Rudow III,

Menlo Park,

Syria

The Planet
The Berkeley Daily Planet Current
Front Page
Opinion
Columnists
Arts & Entertainment
Contents
Full Text


Letters to the Editor


Monday August 02, 2010


*** Syria
Before World War 1, Lebanon was a part of Syria and had been a part of Syria for hundreds of years! Lebanon had not been independent since almost the times when Israel was independent. For hundreds of years it had been occupied by Romans, Arabs or Turks or somebody. And when World War 1 rolled around, Lebanon was a part of Syria and had been a part of Syria for hundreds of years. Which, of course, was the idea in the World War 1 settlement. They gave Israel or Palestine to the British, and they gave Lebanon to the French. I think they called it the Levant. Syria was one of the defeated powers because they had worked with the Germans, so they ripped off Lebanon from Syria and they ripped off Palestine from the Turks! Neither one of them had been an independent country for centuries. So the point is that both Israel and Lebanon are artificial countries! Palestine had been a country for generations, but it was under the Turks and the Arabs. But both were the artificial creations of the conquering powers, particularly Lebanon. They hadn't been free or independent for hundreds of years, it was a part of Syria. So when Lebanon had their big civil war, the Arabs agreed that Syria should move in to Lebanon and settle it and stop the civil war and enforce peace, and they did. Of course, this aggravated the Israelis because they didn't get a piece of the action! Well, they did move in for awhile, but then they got forced out by the UN and World opinion. So finally they just invaded Lebanon against the UN and World opinion and grabbed the bottom half anyway. They're all such a bunch of liars and pretenders, particularly Israel and the U.S.!
Ted Rudow III,MA

The History of BP

The history of the company we now call BP over the last hundred years has really traced the arc of global transnational capitalism. The Anglo-Persian Oil Company, guaranteed itself, or won the right to own, all of Iran’s oil. So, nobody in Iran had any right to drill for oil or extract oil or sell oil.

Then, soon after that find was made, the British government decided to buy the company. So the Parliament passed a law and bought 51 percent of that company. And all during the 1920s and 1930s and 1940s, the entire standard of living that people in England enjoyed was supported by oil from Iran. So that became a fundamental foundation of British life.

And then, after World War II, when the winds of nationalism and anti-colonialism were blowing throughout the developing world, Iranians developed this idea: we’ve got to take our oil back. It was Mosaddegh's desire, supported by a unanimous vote of the democratically elected parliament of Iran, to nationalize what was then the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company. They carried out the nationalization.

The British and their partners in the United States fiercely resisted this. And when they were unable to prevent it from happening, they organized the overthrow of Mosaddegh in 1953. So that overthrow not only produced the end of the Mosaddegh government, but the end of democracy in Iran, and that set off all these other following consequences.

Ted Rudow III,MA

Short memory

MercuryNews Com
eEdition / Subscriber Services
Mobile | Mobile Alerts | RSS




Home

News breaking news
obituaries
crime and courts
bay area news

Peninsula POWERED BY


Peninsula readers' letters: July 30
From Daily News Group readers
Posted: 08/02/2010 11:00:00 PM PDT
Updated: 08/02/2010 11:11:23 PM PDT






Short memory

Dear Editor: Hiroshima is going to mark the 65th anniversary of the world's first atomic bombing with condemnation of a global trend toward nuclear proliferation. Meanwhile, a new medical study has found dramatic increases in infant mortality, cancer and leukemia in the Iraqi city of Fallujah, which was bombarded by U.S. Marines in 2004.

According to the report, there's been a four-fold increase in all cancers and a 12-fold increase in cancer in children under the age of 14. Infant mortality in Fallujah is more than four times higher than in neighboring Jordan, eight times higher than in Kuwait. The report says the types of cancer are "similar to the Hiroshima survivors who were exposed to ionizing radiation from the bomb and uranium in the fallout."

The U.S. is no paragon of virtue, but the funny thing is that most Americans don't realize it, or if they do, then they don't generally care much about it. They maintain a mental image of America the righteous, the virtuous, spreading peace and democracy everywhere it goes. Maybe it's because they have such a short attention span and memory. As one journalist commented, a short memory is a great boost to self-esteem. It helps when you can so easily forget the past and tune out of reality.

Ted Rudow III,MA

Syria

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/08/02/18655175.php

Syria
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Ted77 [at] aol.com )
Monday Aug 2nd, 2010




Before World War 1, Lebanon was a part of Syria and had been a part of Syria for hundreds of years! Lebanon had not been independent since almost the times when Israel was independent.

For hundreds of years it had been occupied by Romans, Arabs or Turks or somebody. And when World War 1 rolled around, Lebanon was a part of Syria and had been a part of Syria for hundreds of years.

Which, of course, was the idea in the World War 1 settlement. They gave Israel or Palestine to the British, they gave Lebanon to the French. I think they called it the Levant. Syria was one of the defeated powers because they had worked with the Germans, so they ripped off Lebanon from Syria and they ripped off Palestine from the Turks! Neither one of them had been an independent country for centuries.

So the point is that both Israel and Lebanon are artificial countries! Palestine had been a country for generations, but it was under the Turks and the Arabs. But both were the artificial creations of the conquering powers, particularly Lebanon. They hadn't been free or independent for hundreds of years, it was a part of Syria. So when Lebanon had their big civil war, the Arabs agreed that Syria should move in to Lebanon and settle it and stop the civil war and enforce peace, and they did. Of course, this aggravated the Israelis because they didn't get a piece of the action! Well, they did move in for awhile, but then they got forced out by the UN and World opinion. So finally they just invaded Lebanon against the UN and World opinion and grabbed the bottom half anyway.
They're all such a bunch of liars and pretenders, particularly Israel and the U.S.!
http://tedriii.blogspot.com/

The Daily Star

The Daily StarYour Right To Know
Sunday, August 1, 2010


Home
Business
Sports
The Star
Forum
Star Campus
Rising Star
Star Insight
Today's paper
Front Page
Editorial
Metropolitan
National
International
Op-Ed
Letters

Latest News
Friday, July 30, 2010
Letters






Online Voices




Readers' instant comments on The Daily Star Online reports. Log on to thedailystar.net to leave your comments.



Share on





Print
Send
Share
Clip Rate the story







readers rating 3 / 5


The history of the company we now call BP over the last hundred years has really traced the arc of global transnational capitalism. The Anglo-Persian Oil Company, guaranteed itself, or won the right to own, all of Irans oil. So, nobody in Iran had any right to drill for oil or extract oil or sell oil.

Then, soon after that find was made, the British government decided to buy the company. So the Parliament passed a law and bought 51 percent of that company. And all during the 1920s and 1930s and 1940s, the entire standard of living that people in England enjoyed was supported by oil from Iran. So that became a fundamental foundation of British life.

And then, after World War II, when the winds of nationalism and anti-colonialism were blowing throughout the developing world, Iranians developed this idea: we've got to take our oil back. It was Mosaddegh's desire, supported by a unanimous vote of the democratically elected parliament of Iran, to nationalize what was then the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company. They carried out the nationalization.

The British and their partners in the United States fiercely resisted this. And when they were unable to prevent it from happening, they organized the overthrow of Mosaddegh in 1953. So that overthrow not only produced the end of the Mosaddegh government, but the end of democracy in Iran, and that set off all these other following consequences.



Ted Rudow III,MA

SacBee

SacBee
Subcribe: Home Delivery Special!

Sign In | Register Now | PressClub Site HelpMy Account | Sign Out | PressClub Site Help

Rex Babin Cartoons



News
Business
Local
Medical
Elections
Weather | Traffic 74° F


Comments (2) | Recommend (3)| Print



Gusher

Published: Wednesday, Jul. 28, 2010

Buy Cartoon
More Cartoons

07/30/2010

The history of the company we now call BP over the last hundred years has really traced the arc of global transnational capitalism. The Anglo-Persian Oil Company, guaranteed itself, or won the right to own, all of Iran’s oil.
So, nobody in Iran had any right to drill for oil or extract oil or sell oil.
Then, soon after that find was made, the British government decided to buy the company. So the Parliament passed a law and bought 51 percent of that company. And all during the 1920s and 1930s and 1940s, the entire standard of living that people in England enjoyed was supported by oil from Iran. So that became a fundamental foundation of British life.
And then, after World War II, when the winds of nationalism and anti-colonialism were blowing throughout the developing world, Iranians developed this idea: we’ve got to take our oil back. It was Mosaddegh's desire, supported by a unanimous vote of the democratically elected parliament of Iran, to nationalize what was then the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company. They carried out the nationalization.
The British and their partners in the United States fiercely resisted this. And when they were unable to prevent it from happening, they organized the overthrow of Mosaddegh in 1953. So that overthrow not only produced the end of the Mosaddegh government, but the end of democracy in Iran, and that set off all these other following consequences.
Ted Rudow III,MA








Read more: http://www.sacbee.com/2010/07/28/2918756/gusher.html#Comments_Container#ixzz0vI68mZOQ

Stealing $10 billion

Friday
July
30
2010


San Mateo Daily Journal

  Home
  Local News
  State / National / World
  Sports
  Opinion / Letters
  Business
  Arts / Entertainment
  Lifestyle
  Obituaries
  Calendar
  Special
  Submit Event



Stealing $10 billion
July 30, 2010, 02:52 AM Letter




Editor,


Goldman Sachs has agreed to pay $550 million to resolve a civil fraud lawsuit over selling a mortgage investment that was established to fail. The penalty is only one-twentieth of the $10 billion in bonuses the firm handed out last year. If you’re a con man and you defraud somebody out of maybe $50,000, you’re going to jail. I mean it’s not like you’re going to have to pay the money back and you can walk on your merry way. That’s not the way it works. But on Wall Street, if you commit a massive crime, such as stealing a billion dollars, you get to walk away from it. They began stealing things that belonged to others so they themselves could have more. But there will be no escape for them as there will be no place to go and nowhere to hide. They can’t stop the world and get off as they wish they could.





Ted Rudow III,MA


Menlo Park

BP

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/07/29/18654924.php


The history of the company we now call BP over the last hundred yearsby Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Thursday Jul 29th, 2010
The history of the company we now call BP over the last hundred years has really traced the arc of global transnational capitalism. The Anglo-Persian Oil Company, guaranteed itself, or won the right to own, all of Iran’s oil.
So, nobody in Iran had any right to drill for oil or extract oil or sell oil.
Then, soon after that find was made, the British government decided to buy the company. So the Parliament passed a law and bought 51 percent of that company. And all during the 1920s and 1930s and 1940s, the entire standard of living that people in England enjoyed was supported by oil from Iran. So that became a fundamental foundation of British life.
And then, after World War II, when the winds of nationalism and anti-colonialism were blowing throughout the developing world, Iranians developed this idea: we’ve got to take our oil back. It was Mosaddegh's desire, supported by a unanimous vote of the democratically elected parliament of Iran, to nationalize what was then the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company. They carried out the nationalization.
The British and their partners in the United States fiercely resisted this. And when they were unable to prevent it from happening, they organized the overthrow of Mosaddegh in 1953. So that overthrow not only produced the end of the Mosaddegh government, but the end of democracy in Iran, and that set off all these other following consequences.
Ted Rudow III,MA

Inflation and deflation in our economy

Wednesday
July
28
2010


San Mateo Daily Journal


Home
Local News
State / National / World
Sports
Opinion / Letters
Business
Arts / Entertainment
Lifestyle
Obituaries
Calendar



Inflation and deflation in our economy
July 27, 2010, 02:37 AM Letter

Editor,


In the great economic depression of the late ’20s and ’30s, people had no economic guarantees on wages. The auto business was one of the first places where people cut their spending, because it’s a luxury to buy a new car.


It was a vicious cycle, a downward spiral that just couldn’t stop, and industry kept cutting prices to where people could afford to still buy. This was the deflation. Inflation at home mostly hurts the rich, but it mostly helps the poor, except for those who are on set incomes, like pensions. That’s why the rich are trying to bring about deflation. The very rich, however, profit from the deflation, because their dollars grow in value even though they’re doing nothing with them.


We’re on a crash course to bankruptcy again, but the government thinks it’s going to patch it all up instead of curing the disease: Which is that they’re hanging onto their riches instead of putting them into circulation. In the past, deflation and depression have frequently led to a vicious circle of nationalism, xenophobia, the disintegration of states and even war which is happening today.





Ted Rudow III,MA


Menlo Park

Role of Israel

 
The Daily Star
Committed to PEOPLE'S RIGHT TO KNOW




Sunday, July 25, 2010 11:21 PM GMT+06:00  

 
Print Friendly Version
Published On: 2010-07-23
Letters


Role of Israel

Ted Rudow III, MA, On e-mail

For many Israelis, the very thought of non-violent Palestinian protest goes so far against the grain as to be incomprehensible, lethally suspicious, a violation of a bedrock narrative.

In many cases, Israeli media have actively ignored or obscured non-violent Palestinian protest. Last month, hundreds of Israelis and Palestinians marched together through the streets of Silwan, East Jerusalem, protesting a plan by Jerusalem mayor Nir Barkat to evict Arab residents and raze 22 houses for a settler-oriented tourism project.

At a time when use of overwhelming force has cost Israel dearly in its world standing, what will it take for Israelis to rethink the idea that what they have can only be maintained by force? A new kind of leader. A Gandhi, a Dr. King. The only way the Palestinians will ever get their independence is with the help of outsiders. The US never could have won its independence if it hadn't had the help of several other European nations, particularly France.

The Daily Star

The Daily Star

Home About Us Advertise Archives Forum Classifieds ePaper Live TV Contact us


Search



  Daily Star Sections
  Middle East

  Lebanon

  Middle East News
  Politics

  Business

  Editorial

  Opinion

  Lebanon Examiner

  Readers' Letters

 




Reader's feedback published on 24/07/2010
The Daily Star is pleased to provide a forum for debate on a range of subjects, from local cultural activities to international politics.
Dozens, sometimes even hundreds, of letters fall into the editor’s mailbox daily. In order to keep the letters timely, The Daily Star generally produces a special letters section. When the influx of letters is particularly large, extra space is made available accordingly.
If you would like to submit a letter for publication, please remember to include your full name (first and last) and address, including city. The Daily Star typically only publishes letters under 400 words, and these are subject to editing. The Daily Star will not acknowledge unsolicited submissions.




Read more: http://dailystar.com.lb/letters.asp?edition_id=10#ixzz0ucaELALm
(The Daily Star :: Lebanon News :: http://www.dailystar.com.lb)



Editorial
“Much blame to go around for Gaza”
July 16, 2010

Read more: http://dailystar.com.lb/letters.asp?edition_id=10#ixzz0uca0xnPX
(The Daily Star :: Lebanon News :: http://www.dailystar.com.lb)



It may well be more difficult for Israelis to comprehend the idea of Palestinian non-violence than for Palestinians to do so. For many Israelis, the very thought of non-violent Palestinian protest goes so far against the grain as to be incomprehensible, lethally suspicious, a violation of a bedrock narrative.
In many cases, Israeli media have actively ignored or obscured non-violent Palestinian protest. Last month, hundreds of Israelis and Palestinians marched together through the streets of Silwan, East Jerusalem, protesting against a plan by Jerusalem mayor Nir Barkat to evict Arab residents and raze 22 houses for a settler-oriented tourism project.
At a time when use of overwhelming force has cost Israel dearly in its world standing, what will it take for Israelis to rethink the idea that what they have can only be maintained by force? A new kind of leader. A Gandhi, a Dr. King.
The only way the Palestinians will ever get their independence is with the help of outsiders. The United States never could have won its independence if it hadn’t had the help of several other European nations, particularly France.

Ted Rudow III, MA
Menlo Park, California, United States

International Herald Tribune and The Daily Star are available every morning in: Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Qatar, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Oman

Read more: http://dailystar.com.lb/letters.asp?edition_id=10#ixzz0ucZu5Nmp
(The Daily Star :: Lebanon News :: http://www.dailystar.com.lb)

The Independent & The Independent on Sunday

The Independent & The Independent on Sunday




Letters

21° London Hi 22°C / Lo 12°C
Query: Go Popular Topics




Headlines


Twitter
Follow The Independent on Twitter |



News
UK
Home News
UK Politics
Crime
This Britain
World
from The Independent & The Independent on Sunday
Home > Opinion > Letters
"Letters: the burka";



Letters: the burka



Tuesday, 20 July 2010



Palestinians need outside help



It may well be more difficult for Israelis to comprehend the idea of Palestinian non-violence than for Palestinians to do so. For many Israelis, the very thought of non-violent Palestinian protest goes so far against the grain as to be incomprehensible, lethally suspicious, a violation of a bedrock narrative.

In many cases, Israeli media have actively ignored or obscured non-violent Palestinian protest. Last month, hundreds of Israelis and Palestinians marched together through the streets of Silwan, East Jerusalem, protesting over a plan by the Jerusalem Mayor, Nir Barkat, to evict Arab residents and raze 22 houses for a settler-oriented tourism project.

At a time when use of overwhelming force has cost Israel dearly in its world standing, what will it take for Israelis to re-think the idea that what they have can be maintained only by force, a new kind of leader, a Gandhi, a Dr King?

The only way the Palestinians will ever get their independence is with the help of outsiders. The US never could have won its independence if it hadn't had the help of several European nations, particularly France.

Ted Rudow III,MA

Menlo Park, California, USA





__._,_.___

Leaving the scene of a crime

Search All NYTimes.com

International Herald Tribune
New York Times

Opinion




World
U.S.
N.Y. / Region
Business
Technology
Science
Health
Sports
Opinion

Letters
The Public Editor
Global Opinion



Letters to the International Herald Tribune



A Bad Idea for Israel



Published: July 20, 2010
Leaving the scene of a crime

Regarding the article “Goldman agrees to pay $550 million in S.E.C. suit” (July 17): If you get caught defrauding somebody out of, say, $50,000, you’re going to jail. You can’t pay the money back and walk on your merry way. But on Wall Street, if you commit a massive crime, you get to walk away from it.

Ted Rudow III, MA
Menlo Park, California



__._,_.___

The Planet

The Berkeley Daily Planet Current

Current Issue
Previous Issue
Search The Planet
Contact Us

Letters to the Editor


Tuesday July 20, 2010




Wall Street Crooks;Nuclear Weapons Are History;New Ghandi?; Loss of City Revenue; Deflation;;Down with Voting Machines ;Tea Party is even Worse Than You Think;End Corporate Influence;Reduce Oil Addiction through Livable Communities Act;Cell Phones;

 


Wall Street Crooks

 



Goldman Sachs has agreed to pay $550 million to resolve a civil fraud lawsuit over selling a mortgage investment that was established to fail. It was representative of everything that investment banks, in general, were into for the last twenty years, but also because it was a special case, because Goldman is politically connected in a way that no other company in America really is. The penalty is only one-twentieth of the $10 billion in bonuses the firm handed out last year. 

 



     "I want to bet against this stuff. Can you make a deal full of, you know, credit default swaps, or a synthetic credit default swap, full of subprime-referenced entities that I can bet against?"  If you defraud somebody, just somebody off the street, if you’re a con man and you defraud somebody out of a thousand dollars, $50,000, you’re going to jail. I mean, it’s not like, you know, you’re going to have to pay the money back and you can walk on your merry way. That’s not the way it works. But on Wall Street, if you commit a massive crime, if you steal not a thousand dollars, but a billion dollars, you get to walk away from it.

 



      They began stealing from each other the things that belonged to others or tricking them out of some of these things so they themselves could have more. But there will be no escape for them as there'll be no place to go and nowhere to hide, as they can't stop the world and get off as they'll wish they could!

 



Ted Rudow III,MA

***

New Ghandi?

 



It may well be more difficult for Israelis to comprehend the idea of Palestinian non-violence than for Palestinians to do so. For many Israelis, the very thought of non-violent Palestinian protest goes so far against the grain as to be incomprehensible, lethally suspicious, a violation of a bedrock narrative. ;

 



In many cases, Israeli media have actively ignored or obscured non-violent Palestinian protest. Last month, hundreds of Israelis and Palestinians marched together through the streets of Silwan, East Jerusalem, protesting a plan by Jerusalem mayor Nir Barkat to evict Arab residents and raze 22 houses for a settler-oriented tourism project.

 



At a time when use of overwhelming force has cost Israel dearly in its world standing, what will it take for Israelis to rethink the idea that what they have can only be maintained by force? A new kind of leader. A Gandhi, a Dr. King. The only way the Palestinians will ever get their independence is with the help of outsiders.

 



The U.S. never could have won its independence if it hadn't had the help of several other European nations, particularly France.;

 



Ted Rudow III,MA

 



***


Deflation

 



In the great economic depression of the late 20's and 30's , they had no economic guarantees on wages.The auto business was one of the first places where people cut their spending, because it's a luxury to buy a new car. ;       It was a vicious cycle, a downward spiral that just couldn't stop, and industry kept cutting prices to where people could afford to still buy. This was the deflation. Inflation at home mostly hurts the rich, but it mostly helps the poor, except for those who are on set incomes, like pensions. That's why the rich are trying to bring about deflation. The very rich, however, profit from the deflation, because their dollars grow in value even though they're doing nothing with them.    ;        We're on a crash course to bankruptcy again, but they think they're going to patch it all up instead of curing the disease: which is that they're hanging onto their riches instead of putting them into circulation. In the past, deflation and depression have frequently led to a vicious circle of nationalism, xenophobia, the disintegration of states, and even war which is happening today.
Ted Rudow III,MA

The Daily Star

ails)



Weather | Dhaka
T: 30C | H: 74%




The Daily Star
Your Right To Know
Tuesday, July 20, 2010


Home
Business
Sports

Editorial
Metropolitan
National
International
Op-Ed
Letters
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Letters


Deflation





Ted Rudow III,MA, On e-mail
In the great economic depression of the late 20's and 30's , they had no economic guarantees on wages. The auto business was one of the first places where people cut their spending, because it's a luxury to buy a new car.

It was a vicious cycle, a downward spiral that just couldn't stop, and industry kept cutting prices to where people could afford to still buy. This was the deflation. Inflation at home mostly hurts the rich, but it mostly helps the poor, except for those who are on set incomes, like pensions. That's why the rich are trying to bring about deflation. The very rich, however, profit from the deflation, because their dollars grow in value even though they're doing nothing with them.

We're on a crash course to bankruptcy again, but they think they're going to patch it all up instead of curing the disease: which is that they're hanging onto their riches instead of putting them into circulation. In the past, deflation and depression have frequently led to a vicious circle of nationalism, xenophobia, the disintegration of states, and even war which is happening today.

Wall St.

San Francisco Examiner



View today's E-Dition




Tuesday, July 20, 2010 | Last Update 7:44 PDT



Home News Politics Local Opinion Economy Sports Lifestyle Buy, Sell & More Jobs Homes Cars Nation World Under the Dome Ken Garcia Beltway Confidential Weather Mobile Site Contact



Opinion



Letters from our readers: Columnist’s claim is not quite right


July 20, 2010


Wall Street vs. Main Street

Goldman Sachs agreed to pay $550 million to resolve a civil fraud lawsuit over selling a mortgage investment that was set up to fail. The penalty is only one-twentieth of the $10 billion in bonuses the firm handed out last year.

If you defraud somebody off the street for $1,000 or $50,000, you’re going to jail. It’s not like you just have to pay the money back and you can go on your merry way. But on Wall Street, if you commit a massive crime and steal a billion dollars, you get to walk away from it.

Ted Rudow III,MA
Menlo Park

The Daily Star

The Daily Star

Home About Us Advertise Archives Forum Classifieds ePaper Live TV Contact us


Search



  Daily Star Sections
  Middle East

  Lebanon

  Middle East News
  Politics


 




Reader's feedback published on 17/07/2010
The Daily Star is pleased to provide a forum for debate on a range of subjects, from local cultural activities to international politics.
Dozens, sometimes even hundreds, of letters fall into the editor’s mailbox daily. In order to keep the letters timely, The Daily Star generally produces a special letters section. When the influx of letters is particularly large, extra space is made available accordingly.
If you would like to submit a letter for publication, please remember to include your full name (first and last) and address, including city. The Daily Star typically only publishes letters under 400 words, and these are subject to editing. The Daily Star will not acknowledge unsolicited submissions.





Read more: http://dailystar.com.lb/letters.asp?edition_id=10#ixzz0ty90iPlb
(The Daily Star :: Lebanon News :: http://www.dailystar.com.lb)



Editorial
“Arabs and Israelis misread Turkey”
July 2, 2010

Israel’s policy is that in order to overcome this problem of the rights of the poor Palestinians it will just liquidate the poor. The logic goes: “Wipe them out, and then we won’t have to worry about their rights and all that sort of thing anymore.” That was the US policy in Vietnam, too – to literally try to wipe them out. And if it hadn’t been for world opinion, they would have. But the world was horrified at the things the US did there. And that’s just what is happening now to Israel.
Israel is being exposed. The country has no plans for evacuating any occupied lands, but is rather going to gobble up more.
There is all this talk about peace and all this talk about UN patrol forces and so on, but observers say it looks to them by the way the Israelis are digging in, that they’re not planning to leave some areas at all. That means they would have to carry out what they used to call during Hitler’s days, “total population relocation” – or genocide. The Israelis have always driven out refuges. Now they want to get rid of the millions who are still left.

Ted Rudow III, MA
Menlo Park, California, United States
International Herald Tribune and The Daily Star are available every morning in: Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Qatar, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Oman















Read more: http://dailystar.com.lb/letters.asp?edition_id=10#ixzz0ty8nTaH6
(The Daily Star :: Lebanon News :: http://www.dailystar.com.lb)

New Gandhi?

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/07/17/18654079.php

New Gandhi?
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Saturday Jul 17th, 2010




It may well be more difficult for Israelis to comprehend the idea of Palestinian non-violence than for Palestinians to do so. For many Israelis, the very thought of non-violent Palestinian protest goes so far against the grain as to be incomprehensible, lethally suspicious, a violation of a bedrock narrative.



In many cases, Israeli media have actively ignored or obscured non-violent Palestinian protest. Last month, hundreds of Israelis and Palestinians marched together through the streets of Silwan, East Jerusalem, protesting a plan by Jerusalem mayor Nir Barkat to evict Arab residents and raze 22 houses for a settler-oriented tourism project.
At a time when use of overwhelming force has cost Israel dearly in its world standing, what will it take for Israelis to rethink the idea that what they have can only be maintained by force? A new kind of leader. A Gandhi, a Dr. King. The only way the Palestinians will ever get their independence is with the help of outsiders. The U.S. never could have won its independence if it hadn't had the help of several other European nations, particularly France.
Ted Rudow III,MA

SacBee

SacBee
Subcribe: Home Delivery Special!

Sign In | Register Now | PressClub Site HelpMy Account | Sign Out | PressClub Site Help



Rex Babin Cartoons





News
Business
Local
Elections





Assorted Train Wrecks



Published: Sunday, Jul. 11, 2010

Buy Cartoon
More Cartoons


During the Great Depression in 1933, the act that was passed — the Glass-Steagall Act and the bank act that was a part of that — transformed the landscape. It disallowed banks to take risks and hold our customer deposits. And it gave an incentive to banks who held deposits that they would be supported by the government, that the FDIC was created to back our money. But then they would also not be allowed to speculate and trade and create esoteric, complex instruments that are difficult to understand and don't have a market and can collapse an entire economy. That was a big bill.



1956 there was a Bank Holding Act. That said banks can't merge across state lines, they can't buy insurance companies, they can't by investment banks. They want to do plain banking, they do plain banking.



That was as a solidification of the Glass-Steagall Act. That was strengthening the act.



This latest banking bill does none of that. This allows all of that complexity; it allows banks to hold insurance companies and investment back and trade and speculate and have government backing for deposits.



Two major things were not addressed in the new bill, the most important things. First of all, it does nothing to put the firewall back up between regular banking commercial activity and those investment firms on Wall Street. That distinction was critical to protect all of us from this kind of collapse. This bill does not fix it.
Ted Rudow III,MA









Read more: http://www.sacbee.com/2010/07/11/2880459/assorted-train-wrecks.html#ixzz0tg9QLdIG

SFGate

SFGateHome of the San Francisco Chronicle

Subscribe to the weekend Chronicle


SFGate



Home
News
Sports
Business
Entertainment











Letters to the editor



Bob Egelko writes ("Races could test voters' views on death penalty," July 13) that for decades, capital punishment was a driving force in California politics, swaying elections for governor and the U.S. Senate and...

Read Full Story






July 14, 2010

During the Great Depression in 1933, the act that was passed — the Glass-Steagall Act and the bank act that was a part of that — transformed the landscape. It disallowed banks to take risks and hold our customer deposits. And it gave an incentive to banks who held deposits that they would be supported by the government, that the FDIC was created to back our money. But then they would also not be allowed to speculate and trade and create esoteric, complex instruments that are difficult to understand and don't have a market and can collapse an entire economy. That was a big bill.



1956 there was a Bank Holding Act. That said banks can't merge across state lines, they can't buy insurance companies, they can't by investment banks. They want to do plain banking, they do plain banking.



That was as a solidification of the Glass-Steagall Act. That was strengthening the act.



This latest banking bill does none of that. This allows all of that complexity; it allows banks to hold insurance companies and investment back and trade and speculate and have government backing for deposits.



Two major things were not addressed in the new bill, the most important things. First of all, it does nothing to put the firewall back up between regular banking commercial activity and those investment firms on Wall Street. That distinction was critical to protect all of us from this kind of collapse. This bill does not fix it.



The second thing is that it does not do anything serious about these institutions, these investment companies and others that are too big to fail. And too big to be safe for America. It does not handle that. So the two biggest issues are not resolved.Pretending this is somehow the kind of reform we needed to avoid the financial collapse is really not being honest with the American people
Ted Rudow III,MA.

Post-Reagan

The Berkeley Daily Planet


The Berkeley Daily Planet Current

Current Issue
Previous Issue
Search The Planet
Contact Us



Tuesday
July 13, 2010


Letters to the Editor


Tuesday July 13, 2010


Pelosi Backs Two Ferries for Berkeley;Post-Verdict Riots;Anarchism?The Post-Reagan Era;Arizona Cracks Down Again; The Walls Came Tumbling Down;Planning to Plan Downtown; Coal Kills; Mayor's proposed Downtown Area Plan Ballot Measure; Kenneth Thiesen’s 2008 Opinion; Feminists for Life 



The Post-Reagan Era   
"It just boggles me to hear people say and write: The post-Reagan era encompassed one of the greatest economic expansions in history, without, yet, realizing that a synonym for expansion is to bubble and that it was the bursting of that unregulated, unmonitored bubble that brought on the economic misery we are in today, paying for that alleged “greatest economic expansion in history.” 
Keith Kreitman  
When Ronald Reagan became president, he brought into the office something that had been lacking in the previous three administrations: confidence. His programs were innovative (to be sure), and he was an eloquent orator. Simply put, Americans (in general) trusted his leadership, and he capitalized on that. "Reaganomics" instituted sweeping tax cuts, particularly for the upper-income taxpayers. The Reagan advisers assessed (correctly I believe) that more money in the hands of those with a surplus would be reinvested in the economy. The American economy boomed for nearly eight years, but President Reagan left the White House having bloated our economy with debt. The largest deficits in the history of any economy (nearly $2.2 trillion) were accumulated during the longest period of uninterrupted economic growth.
 "He's a warmonger, he's a militarist, he's rash and he's going to get us into a war"--so the people voted for him! They voted for war! Definitely a vote for rearmament, a vote for war, a vote for do something about the hostages, a vote for do something about the economy, a vote against high taxes, a vote for cutting taxes. All the things that Reagan has promised to do were things that you can see now the American people were in the mood for and are popular issues but in the end it lead to bankruptcy today!  
 Ted Rudow III,MA ***

Banking-bill inadequate

Palo Alto WeeklyPalo Alto Weekly "Best Of" Reader Poll
Vote for your favorite shops, restaurants, businesses and activities in the 2010 Best Of contest.

PaloAltoOnline.com  Town Square           Login | Register
Sign up for eBulletins
Join UsFollow Us




Home
News
  Palo Alto Weekly
  The Almanac
  Mountain View Voice
Fogster Classifieds
Town Square Forums
Sports



Spectrum - Friday, July 9, 2010 Send this story
Print this story

 
 
Adjust text size

Letters



Banking-bill inadequate



Editor,



During the Great Depression in 1933, the act that was passed — the Glass-Steagall Act and the bank act that was a part of that — transformed the landscape. It disallowed banks to take risks and hold our customer deposits. And it gave an incentive to banks who held deposits that they would be supported by the government, that the FDIC was created to back our money. But then they would also not be allowed to speculate and trade and create esoteric, complex instruments that are difficult to understand and don't have a market and can collapse an entire economy. That was a big bill.



1956 there was a Bank Holding Act. That said banks can't merge across state lines, they can't buy insurance companies, they can't by investment banks. They want to do plain banking, they do plain banking.



That was as a solidification of the Glass-Steagall Act. That was strengthening the act.



This latest banking bill does none of that. This allows all of that complexity; it allows banks to hold insurance companies and investment back and trade and speculate and have government backing for deposits.



Two major things were not addressed in the new bill, the most important things. First of all, it does nothing to put the firewall back up between regular banking commercial activity and those investment firms on Wall Street. That distinction was critical to protect all of us from this kind of collapse. This bill does not fix it.



The second thing is that it does not do anything serious about these institutions, these investment companies and others that are too big to fail. And too big to be safe for America. It does not handle that. So the two biggest issues are not resolved.



Pretending this is somehow the kind of reform we needed to avoid the financial collapse is really not being honest with the American people.



Ted Rudow III,MA



Palo Alto

Obama the warlord

The Standard

Friday, July 9, 2010 31°C 69%

Newsfeeds


Contact Us

About Us

Print Advertising

Online Advertising

Subscriptions
Archive

Site Search

Street Points

Obama the warlord

Friday, July 09, 2010

US President Barack Obama is basically continuing with the policies of George W Bush in Afghanistan.
Obama escalated the war, went along with this policy of the troop surge and ordered more drone attacks on civilians in Pakistan.

Afghanistan has a puppet leader, Hamid Karzai, who has grown very wealthy through corruption and believes that he has genuine support.

Why the surprise that people are so hostile to the United States in that part of the world?

Ted Rudow

© 2010 The Standard, The Standard Newspapers Publishing Ltd..
Contact Us | About Us | Newsfeeds | Subscriptions | Print Ad. | Online Ad. | Street Pts

Home | Top News | Local | Business | China | ViewPoint | CityTalk | World | Sports | People | Central Station | Spree | Features
The Standard

Trademark and Copyright Notice: Copyright 2005, The Standard Newspaper Publishing Ltd., and its related entities. All rights reserved. Use in whole or part of this site's content is prohibited. Use of this Web site assumes acceptance of the Terms of Use and Copyright Policy. Please also read our Ethics Statement.

The Unwinnable War

MetroActive

News, music, movies & restaurants from the editors of the Silicon Valley's #1 weekly newspaper.
Serving San Jose, Palo Alto, Los Gatos, Campbell, Sunnyvale, Mountain View, Fremont & nearby cities.

METRO SANTA CRUZ
METRO SILICON VALLEY
THE BOHEMIAN



MOVIE AND TV ARTS BLOG
NORTH BAY BOHEMIAN'S BOHOBLOG
BOHOBEAT
CITY SOUND INERTIA
CRUZLOG
SV411: SILICON VALLEY NEWS BLOG
LIVE FEED
SILICON ALLEYS

06.30.10

home | metro santa cruz index | letters to the editor

Letters to the Editor



The Unwinnable War



OBAMA basically continued with Bush's policies. Let's be blunt about this. In Afghanistan, he went beyond Bush. He escalated the war. He went along with this policy of the surge. And he ordered more drone attacks on civilians in Pakistan in his one year in office than Bush had done during his last term. So, for the people of that region, Obama's presidency has been a total disaster. And it's not working.

They have a puppet leader, Karzai, who's developing his own sort of dynamic, because he's grown very wealthy through corruption and thinks that he has genuine support.

One man's terrorist is another's freedom fighter, and what some governments consider potential terrorists are simply those who don't agree with government policies.

And the ones who are saying that this is an unwinnable war are absolutely right. It's a stalemated war. They can't win it unless they destroy half the population of the country. So that is what people see. And then, why are they surprised that people are so hostile to the United States in that part of the world?

Ted Rudow III, MA

Menlo Park

__._,_.___n

The Berkeley Daily Planet

The Berkeley Daily Planet
The Berkeley Daily Planet Current Issu


Tuesday
July 06, 2010

Front Page
Opinion
Columnists
Arts & Entertainment
Contents
Full Text
Letters to the Editor


Tuesday July 06, 2010


Tearing Down Libraries is Waste, Not Green; Bates and Council Thumb Their Noses at the Public; Anger Management; Fire Wall?; Intimidation; Guns; Palin’s Opinion; Afghanistan — the U.S. between a rock and a hard place Tearing Down Libraries is Waste, Not Green 


*** Fire Wall?
In the Great Depression in 1933, the act that was passed—the Glass-Steagall Act and the bank act that was a part of the connector to that—transformed the landscape. It disallowed banks to take risks and hold our customer deposits. And it gave an incentive to banks that held deposits that they would be supported by the government, that the FDIC was created to back our money. But then they would also not be allowed to speculate and trade and create esoteric, complex instruments that are difficult to understand and don’t have a market and can collapse an entire economy. That was a big bill. 
1956, there was a Bank Holding Act. That said, banks can’t merge across state lines, they can’t buy insurance companies, they can’t by investment banks. They wanna do plain banking, they do plain banking. That was as a solidification of the Glass-Steagall Act. That was strengthening the act. This does none of that. This allows all of that complexity, it allows banks to hold insurance companies and investment back and trade and speculate and have government backing for deposits.
Two major things were not addressed in the new bill, the most important things: first of all, it does nothing to put the fire wall back up between regular banking commercial activity and those investment firms on Wall Street. That distinction was critical to protect all of us from this kind of collapse. This bill does not fix it. The second thing is it does not do anything serious about these institutions, these investment companies and others that are too big to fail. And too big to be safe for America. It does not handle that. So the two biggest issues are not resolved—pretend this is somehow the kind of reform we needed to avoid the financial collapse is really not being honest with the American people. 
Ted Rudow III,MA 


Afghanistan—the U.S. between a rock and a hardplace 

Afghanistan now produces 90 percent of the world’s opium, which ends up on the streets of the world as heroin. According to one U.S. report, the area devoted to poppy production has nearly tripled in the last two years, and the country is on the verge of becoming a narcotics state. You can see why—drugs are about the only thing that poor country has that anyone else wants tobuy! 

The funny thing is, the U.S. is acting as the chief drug lord there, in a way, because it made it possible for all the smaller drug lords to come to power. Now the U.S. is between a rock and a hard place. So the U.S. hasn’t exactly been a virtuous liberator, because while it proclaims how it’s installed a new, more democratic government in Afghanistan, what it’s actually done is set the drug lords and warlords free to operate again, who control most of the country outside Kabul, thecapital.  

The U.S. has also taken advantage of Afghanistan’s lawlessness to convert its bases there into what one human rights advocate called “an enormous U.S. jail.” You see, since 9/11, one of the strategies of the U.S. in its “war on terror” has been to lock up anyone considered a suspect on any sort of grounds whatsoever, and where better to do it than Afghanistan, where there’s no legal system to challenge them and very few lawyers or human rights advocates to harass them and complain. Especially in the U.S., where most Americans stopped caring about Afghanistan a long timeago! 

Ted Rudow III,MA 

Fourth of July

SacBee

Subcribe: Home Delivery Special!

Sign In | Register Now | PressClub Site HelpMy Account | Sign Out | PressClub Site Help



Rex Babin Cartoons





News
Business
Local
Elections
Weather | Traffic 77° F






Remember the Troops



Published: Sunday, Jul. 04, 2010

Buy Cartoon
More Cartoons


07/05/2010

To equate the Fourth of July with Christianity is absurd! I do not like the spreading of American-style democracy at the hands of the bloodthirsty and warlike Americans themselves. This does not lead to more Christianity, but to a nation drifting further.

Has America brought more Christianity and Christian values to Iraq or Afghanistan, or other nations it has attacked in one way or another in recent years? No, the opposite is true. America cannot impose righteousness on others. That is a personal affair, not something that can be imposed in a national crusade.

Many people want to go to the United States to lust after things! It's not to fulfill some dream of freedom! Materialism, "the devotion to material wealth and possessions at the expense of spiritual or intellectual values," is virtually synonymous with capitalism, the profit-driven system that dominates the economies and nations of today.
Ted Rudow III,MA

"That was the U.S. policy in Vietnam

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/07/01/18652433.php

"That was the U.S. policy in Vietnam "
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Thursday Jul 1st,


Israel's policy is that in order to overcome this problem of the rights of the poor Palestinians she will just liquidate the poor!--"Wipe them out, and then we won't have to worry about their rights and all that sort of thing anymore"
."That was the U.S. policy in Vietnam too, to literally try to wipe them out. And if it hadn't been for world opinion, they would have. But the world was horrified at the things the U.S. did there. And that's just what is happening now to Israel.
Israel is being exposed. She has no idea of evacuating any lands but is going to gobble up more.--Read it in the papers!
There is all this talk about peace and all this talk about UN patrol forces and so on, but the guys writing the papers say it looks to them by the way the Israelis are digging in, that they're not planning to leave some areas at all. That means they would have to have what they used to call during Hitler's days, total population relocation--or genocide!
The Israelis have alway driven refuges. Now they want to get rid of the million who are still left!
Ted Rudow III,MA

The Berkeley Daily Planet

The Berkeley Daily Planet
The Berkeley Daily Planet Current Issue The Berkeley Daily Planet The Berkeley Daily Planet Current Issue

Tuesday
June 29, 2010




Front Page
Opinion
Columnists
Arts & Entertainment
Contents
Full Text







Letters to the Editor


Tuesday June 29, 2010


Walgreens Wants to Sell Beer and Wine; Supreme Angst;Wall Street Reform;Corporate Takeover; Take Down the Wall;Measure C Vote Explained; CEAC To Look at Restaurant Smoke;Obama Sacks McChrystal;Petraeus Replaces McChrystal;Think About It; Capitelli Letter;Obama’s War  





Obama’s War 

 

Obama basically continued with Bush’s policies. Let’s be blunt about this. In Afghanistan, he went beyond Bush. He escalated the war. He went along with this policy of the surge. And he ordered more drone attacks on civilians in Pakistan in his one year in office than Bush had done during his last term. So, for the people of that region, Obama’s presidency has been a total disaster. And it’s not working. 

They have a puppet leader, Karzai, who’s developing his own sort of dynamic, because he’s grown very wealthy through corruption and thinks that he has genuine support. 

One man's terrorist is another's freedom fighter, and what some governments consider potential terrorists are simply those who don't agree with government policies.  

And the ones who are saying that this is an unwinnable war are absolutely right. It’s a stalemated war. They can’t win it unless they destroy half the population of the country. So that is what people see. And then, why are they surprised that people are so hostile to the United States in that part of the world?  

 

Ted Rudow III,MA 

SacBee

SacBee
Subcribe: Home Delivery Special!

Sign In | Register Now | PressClub Site HelpMy Account | Sign Out | PressClub Site Help


Rex Babin Cartoons





News
Business
Local
Elections





Pension Reform



Published: Sunday, Jun. 27, 2010

Buy Cartoon
More Cartoons



They're so deluded by the deceitfulness of riches, and you'll never convince the rich to share with the poor--never! 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.
Ted Rudow III,MA

Obama's war

Mercury News
eEdition / Subscriber Services
Mobile | Mobile Alerts | RSS




Home

News breaking news
obituaries
crime and courts
bay area news
data center
science
earthquakes
politics / government

Peninsula readers' letters: June 26

From Daily News Group readers


Posted: 06/26/2010 12:27:29 AM PDT
Updated: 06/26/2010 12:27:3
Obama escalated Bush's war

Dear Editor: President Obama basically continued with Bush's policies. Let's be blunt about this. In Afghanistan, he went beyond Bush. He escalated the war. He went along with this surge policy. And he ordered more drone attacks on civilians in Pakistan in his one year in office than Bush had done during his last term. So, for the people of that region, Obama's presidency has been a total disaster. And it's not working.

They have a puppet leader, Hamid Karzai, who's developing his own sort of dynamic, because he's grown very wealthy through corruption and thinks that he has genuine support. One man's terrorist is another's freedom fighter, and what some governments consider potential terrorists are simply those who don't agree with government policies.

And the ones who are saying this is an unwinnable war are absolutely right. It's a stalemated war. They can't win it unless they destroy half the population of the country. So that is what people see. And then, why are they surprised that people are so hostile to the United States in that part of the world?

Ted Rudow III,MA

The Daily Star

The Daily Star

Home About Us Advertise Archives Forum Classifieds ePaper Live TV Contact us


Search



  Daily Star Sections
  Middle East

  Lebanon

  Middle East News
  Politics


 




Reader's feedback published on 26/06/2010
The Daily Star is pleased to provide a forum for debate on a range of subjects, from local cultural activities to international politics.
Dozens, sometimes even hundreds, of letters fall into the editor’s mailbox daily. In order to keep the letters timely, The Daily Star generally produces a special letters section. When the influx of letters is particularly large, extra space is made available accordingly.
If you would like to submit a letter for publication, please remember to include your full name (first and last) and address, including city. The Daily Star typically only publishes letters under 400 words, and these are subject to editing. The Daily Star will not acknowledge unsolicited submissions.





Read more: http://dailystar.com.lb/letters.asp?edition_id=10#ixzz0ru5XrDjp
(The Daily Star :: Lebanon News :: http://www.dailystar.com.lb)



Compiled by Daily Star staff
“Obama fires McChrystal, names Petraeus as replacement”
June 24, 2010

Obama basically continued with Bush’s policies. Let’s be blunt about this. In Afghanistan, he went beyond Bush. He escalated the war. He went along with this policy of the surge. And he ordered more drone attacks on civilians in Pakistan in his one year in office than Bush had done during his last term. So, for the people of that region, Obama’s presidency has been a total disaster. And it’s not working.
They have a puppet leader, Hamid Karzai, who’s developing his own sort of dynamic, because he’s grown very wealthy through corruption and thinks that he has genuine support. One man’s terrorist is another’s freedom fighter, and what some governments consider potential terrorists are simply those who don’t agree with government policies. And the ones who are saying that this is an unwinnable war are absolutely right. It’s a stalemated war. They can’t win it unless they destroy half the population of the country. So that is what people see. And then, why are they surprised that people are so hostile to the United States in that part of the world?

Ted Rudow III, MA
Menlo Park, California, United States

International Herald Tribune and The Daily Star are available every morning in: Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Qatar, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Oman



Read more: http://dailystar.com.lb/letters.asp?edition_id=10#ixzz0ru5LCwOL
(The Daily Star :: Lebanon News :: http://www.dailystar.com.lb)

US dilemma in Afghanistan

Mercury News

Subscribe to our Newspaper
Mobile | Mobile Alerts | RSS




Home

News breaking news
obituaries
crime and courts
bay area news
data center
science
earthquakes
politics / government
california
nation / world


Peninsula readers' letters: June 24

From Daily News Group readers


Posted: 06/23/2010 11:27:28 PM PDT
Updated: 06/23/2010 11:27:29 PM PDT



US dilemma in Afghanistan

Dear Editor: In Afghanistan, the U.S. is between a rock and a hard place. Afghanistan now produces 90 percent of the world's opium, which ends up on the streets of the world as heroin. According to one U.S. report, the area devoted to poppy production has nearly tripled in the last two years, and the country is on the verge of becoming a narcotics state. You can see why — drugs are about the only thing that poor country has that anyone else wants to buy.

The funny thing is, the U.S. is acting as the chief drug lord there, in a way, because it made it possible for all the smaller drug lords to come to power.

The U.S. hasn't exactly been a virtuous liberator, because while it proclaims how it's installed a new, more democratic government in Afghanistan, what it's actually done is set the drug lords and warlords free to operate again and control most of the country outside Kabul, the capital.

The U.S. has also taken advantage of Afghanistan's lawlessness to convert its bases there into what one human rights advocate called "an enormous U.S. jail." You see, since the Sept. 11 terrorist attack, one of the strategies of the U.S. in its "war on terror" has been to lock up anyone considered a suspect on any sort of grounds whatsoever, and where better to do it than in Afghanistan, where there's no legal system to challenge them and very few lawyers or human rights advocates to harass them and complain. Especially in the U.S., where most Americans stopped caring about Afghanistan a long time ago.

Ted Rudow III,MA

SacBee

SacBee
Subcribe: Home Delivery Special!

Sign In | Register Now | PressClub Site HelpMy Account | Sign Out | PressClub Site Help

Rex Babin Cartoons



News
Business
Local
Elections



McChrystal

Published: Wednesday, Jun. 23, 2010

Buy Cartoon
More Cartoons



Obama basically continued with Bush’s policies. Let’s be blunt about this. In Afghanistan, he went beyond Bush. He escalated the war. He went along with this policy of the surge. And he ordered more drone attacks on civilians in Pakistan in his one year in office than Bush had done during his last term. So, for the people of that region, Obama’s presidency has been a total disaster. And it’s not working.

They have a puppet leader, Karzai, who’s developing his own sort of dynamic, because he’s grown very wealthy through corruption and thinks that he has genuine support. One man's terrorist is another's freedom fighter, and what some governments consider potential terrorists are simply those who don't agree with government policies.
And the ones who are saying that this is an unwinnable war are absolutely right. It’s a stalemated war.They can’t win it unless they destroy half the population of the country. So that is what people see. And then, why are they surprised that people are so hostile to the United States in that part of the world?
Ted Rudow III,MA

Obama's war

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/06/23/18651663.php


Obama's war
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Wednesday Jun 23rd, 2010
Obama basically continued with Bush’s policies. Let’s be blunt about this. In Afghanistan, he went beyond Bush. He escalated the war. He went along with this policy of the surge. And he ordered more drone attacks on civilians in Pakistan in his one year in office than Bush had done during his last term. So, for the people of that region, Obama’s presidency has been a total disaster. And it’s not working.

They have a puppet leader, Karzai, who’s developing his own sort of dynamic, because he’s grown very wealthy through corruption and thinks that he has genuine support. One man's terrorist is another's freedom fighter, and what some governments consider potential terrorists are simply those who don't agree with government policies.
And the ones who are saying that this is an unwinnable war are absolutely right. It’s a stalemated war.They can’t win it unless they destroy half the population of the country. So that is what people see. And then, why are they surprised that people are so hostile to the United States in that part of the world?

Hooked on war

Tuesday
June 22, 2010

The Berkeley Daily Planet The Berkeley Daily Planet Current Issue


Front Page
Opinion
Columnists
Arts & Entertainment
Contents
Full Text







Letters to the Editor


Thursday June 17, 2010


Republicans? In Berkeley?; President Obama's Speech; Oil Hell; Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill; Lackeys; Energy Policy; Hooked on War 





Hooked on War 

 

US and Afghan officials claim to have discovered more than $1 trillion in untapped copper, iron, and lithium deposits in Afghanistan, enough to significantly bolster the future development of the war ravaged country. But there remains skepticism about Afghanistan's mineral wealth, as some critics argue that the extent of un-mined deposits is being inflated to garner support for the war. 

Yes, America is hooked on war, and although some Americans might not realize that, you can be sure the rest of the world does, as it looks at Afghanistan, Iraq, and other places around the world where the U.S. has fought wars, threatened to fight wars, sent armed forces, or launched missiles in their stead. 

America spends more on its military budget than most of the rest of the nations of the world combined, and yet many Americans would tell you that the U.S. is a peace-loving nation that only goes to war to bring about peace, and that only uses its military to keep the peace. 

It's like Orwell said: "War is peace" to them. More than that, though, war is profit to many U.S. weapons makers and manufacturers, who make enormous amounts of money selling arms and material not only to the U.S. government but to many others around the world. 


Ted Rudow III,MA 

Ike got it right

Palo Alto Weekly
Palo Alto Weekly "Best Of" Reader Poll
Vote for your favorite shops, restaurants, businesses and activities in the 2010 Best Of contest.



PaloAltoOnline.com Town Square





Home
News
  Palo Alto Weekly
  The Almanac
  Mountain View Voice
Fogster Classifieds
Town Square Forums
Sports



Spectrum - Friday, June 18, 2010

Letters



Ike got it right



Editor,



The amount of money the United States has spent on wars in Afghanistan and Iraq surpassed the $1 trillion mark last week, according to the National Priorities Project Cost of War counter. To date, more than $747 billion has been appropriated for the war in Iraq and $299 billion for the war in Afghanistan. The U.S. is spending more than $136 billion on the wars this year.



Former President Dwight D. "Ike" Eisenhower highlighted the wanton waste of war when he declared, "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone.



"It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. ... Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron. ... Is there no other way the world may live?"



Ted Rudow III,MA

A waste

Thursday
June
17
2010


San Mateo Daily Journal

  Home
  Local News
  State / National / World
  Sports
  Opinion / Letters
  Business




Letter: A waste
June 17, 2010, 03:28 AM




Editor,


The amount of money the United States has spent on wars in Afghanistan and Iraq surpassed the $1 trillion mark recently, according to the National Priorities Project Cost of War counter. To date, over $747 billion has been appropriated for the war in Iraq and $299 billion for the war in Afghanistan. The U.S. is spending over $136 billion on the wars this year. Former President General Dwight D. Eisenhower highlighted the wanton waste of war when he declared: “Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron. Is there no other way the world may live?”





Ted Rudow III.MA


Menlo Park

Sac Bee

SacBeeSubcribe: Home Delivery Special!

Sign In | Register Now | PressClub Site HelpMy Account | Sign Out | PressClub Site Help




Rex Babin Cartoons





News
Business
Local
Elections
Environment





Sac County Cuts



Published: Tuesday, Jun. 15, 2010

Buy Cartoon
More Cartoons

06/15/2010

The amount of money the United States has spent on wars in Afghanistan and Iraq surpassed the $1 trillion mark recently, according to the National Priorities Project Cost of War counter. To date, over $747 billion has been appropriated for the war in Iraq and $299 billion for the war in Afghanistan. The U.S. is spending over $136 billion on the wars this year.

Former President General Dwight D. Eisenhower highlighted the wanton waste of war when he declared: "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron. Is there no other way the world may live?"
Ted Rudow III,MA

B

Support for war?

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/06/15/18650783.php

Support for war?
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Tuesday Jun 15th, 2010


US and Afghan officials claim to have discovered more than $1 trillion in untapped copper, iron, and lithium deposits in Afghanistan, enough to significantly bolster the future development of the war ravaged country. But there remains skepticism about Afghanistan's mineral wealth, as some critics argue that the extent of un-mined deposits is being inflated to garner support for the war.

Yes, America is hooked on war, and although some Americans might not realize that, you can be sure the rest of the world does, as it looks at Afghanistan, Iraq, and other places around the world where the U.S. has fought wars, threatened to fight wars, sent armed forces, or launched missiles in their stead.

America spends more on its military budget than most of the rest of the nations of the world combined, and yet many Americans would tell you that the U.S. is a peace-loving nation that only goes to war to bring about peace, and that only uses its military to keep the peace.
It's like Orwell said: "War is peace" to them. More than that, though, war is profit to many U.S. weapons makers and manufacturers, who make enormous amounts of money selling arms and material not only to the U.S. government but to many others around the world.

War cost

Mercury News

Subscribe to our Newspaper
Mobile | Mobile Alerts | RSS




Home

News breaking news
obituaries
crime and courts
bay area news
data center
science
earthquakes
politics / government


Peninsula POWERED BY
Palo Alto Daily News





Peninsula readers' letters: June 15



From Daily News Group readers
Posted: 06/14/2010 11:50:26 PM PDT






Costly war machine

Dear Editor: The amount of money the United States has spent on wars in Afghanistan and Iraq surpassed the $1 trillion mark recently, according to the National Priorities Project Cost of War counter. To date, over $747 billion has been appropriated for the war in Iraq and $299 billion for the war in Afghanistan. The U.S. is spending over $136 billion on the wars this year.

Former President General Dwight D. Eisenhower highlighted the wanton waste of war when he declared: "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron. Is there no other way the world may live?"

Ted Rudow III,MA

SacBee

SacBeeSubcribe: Home Delivery Special!





Rex Babin Cartoons



News
Business
Local
Elections
Environment



Whitman Fiorina

Published: Sunday, Jun. 13, 2010

Buy Cartoon
More Cartoons

06/13/2010

God doesn't mine them being rich materially at the same time, if they keep giving it away as fast as they can, so He can keep giving them more.But if they get rich just to get wealth, He will not bless them!

Ted Rudow III,MA

Israel's aggression

Weather | Dhaka
T: 29C | H: 84%




The Daily Star
Your Right To Know
Sunday, June 13, 2010


Home
Business
Sports

The Star
Editorial
Metropolitan
National
International
Op-Ed
Letters
Israel's aggression



Ted Rudow III, MA, On e-mail
Israel claimed that a flotilla of pro-Palestinian activists seeking to bust the Gaza blockade was a provocation and that the aid it was carrying was “unnecessary.” “I don't see the need for any ship with these materials. We allow these materials into Gaza,” Colonel Moshe Levy told reporters at the Kerem Shalom crossing in reference to the 10,000 tonnes of building materials and other supplies the activists say were aboard a flotilla heading toward Gaza.

The Mideast has been in turmoil, with Palestinians pitted against Israelis over the issue of Jerusalem and a Palestinian home­land. Such is the situation in the Mideast today, where the Palestinians suffer at the hands of the Israelis.

The Daily Star

The Daily Star

Home About Us Advertise Archives Forum Classifieds ePaper Live TV Contact us


Search



  Daily Star Sections
  Middle East

  Lebanon

  Middle East News
  Politics

  Business

  Editorial

  Opinion







Reader's feedback published on 012/06/2010
The Daily Star is pleased to provide a forum for debate on a range of subjects, from local cultural activities to international politics.
Dozens, sometimes even hundreds, of letters fall into the editor’s mailbox daily. In order to keep the letters timely, The Daily Star generally produces a special letters section. When the influx of letters is particularly large, extra space is made available accordingly.
If you would like to submit a letter for publication, please remember to include your full name (first and last) and address, including city. The Daily Star typically only publishes letters under 400 words, and these are subject to editing. The Daily Star will not acknowledge unsolicited submissions.






Read more: http://www.dailystar.com.lb/letters.asp?edition_id=10#ixzz0qkDXxb9B
(The Daily Star :: Lebanon News :: http://www.dailystar.com.lb)



Agence France Presse (AFP)
“MV Rachel Corrie activists expelled as Israel fights pressure for raid inquiry”
June 7, 2010

Between the two World Wars, Palestine was under the control of the British, who did much to improve the country and the plight of its pitifully poor people, about two-thirds of them Muslims and one-third Christians. The Jews were an extremely small minority. Before WWI the total Jewish population of Palestine was less than 50,000, but under the British occupation, with the Balfour Declaration and liberal Jewish immigration policies, the Jewish population of Palestine grew very rapidly. By World War II there were nearly a million Jews in Palestine, and after World War II the Jewish population boomed and doubled to over two million and is now well on its way to five million. Palestinians under the British, 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 inked, pledging the world’s Jews a homeland in Palestine, they began to see what was taking place. The guests of the Palestinians came to be seen as invaders and conquerors of Palestine, so fighting frequently broke out between them in spite of all the British tried to do to stop it.
The three-sided war of Cyprus in which British, Greeks and Turks were all fighting each other and where, for the same reason, Britain finally had to pull out as she eventually did out of Palestine on May 15, 1948 under a UN arrangement to divide the land between the Jews and the Arabs. But it never worked. The Jewish Israel in Palestine was a literal, aggressive, and belligerent military invasion by European and American Jews. However, it was not looked upon as such by most of the Western Jewish world, but rather seen as a rightful return of the Jews to their legitimate homeland after their expulsion nearly 2,000 years ago.
So America and Israel will stick together to the bitter end, as they have proven in every Palestinian-Israeli war so far. The Western 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.

Ted Rudow III, MA
Menlo Park, California,
United States

International Herald Tribune and The Daily Star are available every morning in: Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Qatar, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Oman


he