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"An eye for an eye" has always been the motto of those who live under the Mosaic Law--injury for injury, injustice for injustice, death for death. There was love and mercy and forgiveness even under the Mosaic Law, but those who practice it today have focused on justice and judgment rather than mercy and forgiveness, and their justice has become injustice and their judgment has become the slaughter of the innocent and the butchery of the helpless.





Such is the situation in the Mideast today, where the Palestinians suffer at the hands of the Israelis. Though neither side is blameless and some on both sides have shed innocent blood, those to delivered and of old are most guilty. For even of old said "Thou shalt not kill," but they have created legions of widows and orphans whose cries rise unto. Those who have sown violence and death will also reap it, for whatsoever a man sows, that will he also reap. Applicable both to those who sow good and those who sow evil.

There's been talk of "Peace, peace" for years now, and that's about all it's been--talk. Now sudden destruction has come upon the area, as travail upon a woman with child. It was inevitable, just like a woman going into labor when she's ready to deliver a child. The Israelis have remained the same as always. They let the Palestinians have a few status symbols, things like their own airport and passports and government buildings here and there, but a lot of good it did the Palestinians! The poor Palestinians have been hoping for change for years, but there's been very little change.

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Calling kettle black

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Calling kettle black

by Ted Rudow III, MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )

Wednesday Jul 31st, 2013 11:47 AM

World Leaders have often used smokescreens, red herrings or other clever diverting tactics to distract the public mind from important but embarrassing issues. This is also a very common military device: to create a diversion, such as a pretended attack in one sector when actually the main drive is going to be in another.



This has been the favourite trick of despots and dictators throughout the ages: get the people's minds off their internal problems and needs and altercations by creating a much more frightening bugaboo, such as an external war or fear of their neighbours, or causing them to focus their fears on some scapegoat leader, class, race, sect or supposed problem.

It is easy to see why he and his cohorts would have done everything in their pernicious power to get and out of the papers for awhile. Illegally boring into the private affairs of its citizens and scandalously destroying their personal freedoms, while at the same time he tries to hide his evil-doing!

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Stand-your-ground laws are frequently criticised and called “shoot first” laws by critics, including the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. In Florida, the law has resulted in self-defense claims tripling. The law’s critics argue that Florida’s law makes it very difficult to prosecute cases against people who shoot others and then claim self-defense. The shooter can argue that he felt threatened, and in most cases, the only witness who could have argued otherwise is the victim who was shot and killed. Many states have some form of Stand Your Ground law including California.

The Hate Crime Statistics Act defines hate crimes as acts in which individuals are victimised because of their “race, religion, sexual orientation, or ethnicity.”

Why is there anti-Americanism? Because of American policies toward other nations and people! They were under-developed in war, weapons, brutality, cruelty, selfishness, and the desire to dominate others! Actually they were over-developed in some of the world’s most beautiful and peaceful cultures, which the White came to destroy, and to make slaves of them.



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As celebrities like Tom Cruise and Hugh Jackman celebrated Walmart at its annual meeting, workers and activists converged to demand sweeping changes at the company's U.S. stores and global factories. Around a hundred striking workers with the group OUR Walmart arrived in a caravan from across the country to protest what they allege to be retaliation against those seeking to change company practices on wages, safety and unions.



Walmart is one of only a few major retailers that has refused to sign on to the new safety standards after the latest Dhaka tragedy. The Tazreen Fashion fire in 2012 killed 117 workers and left hundreds injured, and the recent building collapse in Rana Plaza killed 1,127 and left more than 600 or 700 injured. And at that shareholder meeting, no one gave any condolence to those families.



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“An eye for an eye” has always been the motto of those who live under the Mosaic Law–injury for injury, injustice for injustice, death for death. There was love and mercy and forgiveness even under the Mosaic Law, but those who practice it today have focused on justice and judgment rather than mercy and forgiveness, and their justice has become injustice and their judgment has become the slaughter of the innocent and the butchery of the helpless.

Such is the situation in the Mideast today, where the Palestinians suffer at the hands of the Israelis. There’s been talk of “peace” for years now, and that’s about all it’s been–talk. The Israelis have remained the same as always. They let the Palestinians have a few status symbols, things like their own airport and pass­ports and govern­ment buildings here and there, but a lot of good it did the Palestinians! The poor Palestinians have been hoping for change for years, but there’s been very little change.









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Wednesday Jul 24th, 2013 

Broadcast the night after thanksgiving in 1960, Edward R. Murrow’s “Harvest of Shame” exposed us to the callous exploitation of the migrant workers who pick our fruit and vegetables. This is an American story that begins in Florida and ends in New Jersey and New York State with the harvest. It is a 1960’s “Grapes of Wrath” that begins at the Mexican border in California and ends in Oregon and Washington. It is the story of men and women and children who work 136 days of the year and average nine hundred dollars a year.



Believe it or not, more than fifty years later, the life of a migrant laborer is still an ordeal. And not just for adults. Perhaps as many as half a million children, some as young as seven years old, are out in the fields and orchards working nine to ten hour days under brutal conditions. That was one of the most traumatic things growing up. You see, being poor is in and of itself not traumatic. It's an inconvenience, but being poor and powerless to withstand the mistreatment, to watch my mom and dad be mistreated and are being fooled about the wages and exactly stolen from us.There was no way for us to complain. No way for us to appeal to anyone. the racial humiliation, the racial snubs and epithets. Well, the verbal mistreatment of my mom, and, was something that's very, was very hard to take.

NAFTA, signed by President Clinton in 1993. That devastated the Mexican countryside. Just in the commodity of corn. Which is a staple in Mexico. Everybody grows corn in Mexico. And they grow it for their local use, for themselves. And then the excess, they tried to sell it in the local market. So when NAFTA opened the borders to North American corn, those small corner farmers in Mexico couldn't help to compete with U.S. farmers. They're highly mechanized and highly subsidized.

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Ted Rudow III, MA, Encina Ave, Palo Alto, CA

California lawmakers improperly stopped funding certain medical services that rural and other specialised health clinics provided to low-income residents under the state’s Medicaid program. A three-judge panel of the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the finding of a trial judge and said federal law requires states participating in Medicaid to reimburse clinics serving migrant workers, homeless people and other poor populations for “a panoply of medical services to under-served communities” that includes chiropractic care, dental care, optometry, podiatry and speech therapy.

To save money, the Legislature in 2009 eliminated coverage for adults receiving those services through the state’s Medicaid programme, known as Medi-Cal, saying they were optional because they were not provided by medical doctors. 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.



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They were over-developed

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Sunday Jul 14th, 2013 12:12 PM

Stand-your-ground laws are frequently criticized and called "shoot first" laws by critics, including the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. In Florida, the law has resulted in self-defense claims tripling. The law's critics argue that Florida's law makes it very difficult to prosecute cases against people who shoot others and then claim self-defense.

The shooter can argue that he felt threatened, and in most cases, the only witness who could have argued otherwise is the victim who was shot and killed. Many states have some form of Stand Your Ground law including, California.

The Hate Crime Statistics Act defines hate crimes as acts in which individuate arevictimized because of their "race, religion, sexual orientation, or ethnicity." This definition fate to convey a deeper sense of the severity of hate crimes or their impact on individual victims, their families and communities.

As defined in California Penal Code section 422 55, hate crime means "a criminal act committed, in whole or in part, because of one or more of the following actual or perceived characteristics: (1) Disability. (2) Gender. (3) Nationality, (4) Race or ethnicity, (5) religion (6) Sexual orientation, (7) Association with a person or group with one or more of these actual or perceived characteristics.

Why is there anti-Americanism?--Because of American policies toward other nations and people! They were not only hated foreigners. Under-developed in war, weapons, brutality, cruelty, selfishness, and the desire to dominate others! Actually they were over-developed in some of the world's most beautiful and peaceful cultures-- religions, art, sciences, philosophies, and beautiful, peaceful, pastoral ways of life, which the White came to destroy, and to makes slaves of them.

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Proposition 8, known informally as Prop 8, was a California ballot proposition and a state constitutional amendment passed in the November 2008 California state elections. The proposition was created by opponents of same-sex marriage in advance of the California Supreme Court’s previous ruling in In re Marriage Cases which legalise same-sex marriage, overriding the statute (Proposition 22 in 2000) by ruling it unconstitutional.

The very thing we rebelled about in the revolutionary war—taxation without representation. It is like the Senate of the U.S., which has only two representatives for each state, regardless of size or population, instead of like the House of Representatives, where the number of representatives is determined by the population of each state.

There the House can counterbalance the Senate and can nullify anything the Senate does, if it doesn’t like it. No law can be passed, no money appropriated for anything — without the consent of the House — the true representatives of the people. It is no longer truly representative as it should be, because in the first place, it takes a rich man to be able to run for such an office, and it takes a long-time resident of any state or country to be able to register to vote. The voting process is made so difficult that only the most determined manage to be able to use it — usually those with some political log to roll; largely property owners, or again, the rich, as opposed to the poor; longtime resident property owners, as opposed to the shifting, migratory, labour force.















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Ted Rudow III, MA, Encina Ave, Palo Alto, CA

Proposition 8, known informally as Prop 8, was a California ballot proposition and a state constitutional amendment passed in the November 2008 California state elections. The proposition was created by opponents of same-sex marriage in advance of the California Supreme Court’s previous ruling in In re Marriage Cases which legalise same-sex marriage, overriding the statute (Proposition 22 in 2000) by ruling it unconstitutional.

The very thing we rebelled about in the revolutionary war—taxation without representation. It is like the Senate of the U.S., which has only two representatives for each state, regardless of size or population, instead of like the House of Representatives, where the number of representatives is determined by the population of each state.

There the House can counterbalance the Senate and can nullify anything the Senate does, if it doesn’t like it. No law can be passed, no money appropriated for anything — without the consent of the House — the true representatives of the people. It is no longer truly representative as it should be, because in the first place, it takes a rich man to be able to run for such an office, and it takes a long-time resident of any state or country to be able to register to vote. The voting process is made so difficult that only the most determined manage to be able to use it — usually those with some political log to roll; largely property owners, or again, the rich, as opposed to the poor; longtime resident property owners, as opposed to the shifting, migratory, labour force.















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Things haven't change

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Things haven't change

by Ted Rudow III, MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )

Thursday Jul 11th, 2013 11:48 AM

"An eye for an eye" has always been the motto of those who live under the Mosaic Law--injury for injury, injustice for injustice, death for death. There was love and mercy and forgiveness even under the Mosaic Law, but those who practice it today have focused on justice and judgment rather than mercy and forgiveness, and their justice has become injustice and their judgment has become the slaughter of the innocent and the butchery of the helpless.



Such is the situation in the Mideast today, where the Palestinians suffer at the hands of the Israelis. Though neither side is blameless and some on both sides have shed innocent blood, those to delivered and of old are most guilty. For even of old said "Thou shalt not kill," but they have created legions of widows and orphans whose cries rise unto. Those who have sown violence and death will also reap it, for whatsoever a man sows, that will he also reap. Applicable both to those who sow good and those who sow evil.

There's been talk of "Peace, peace" for years now, and that's about all it's been--talk. Now sudden destruction has come upon the area, as travail upon a woman with child. It was inevitable, just like a woman going into labor when she's ready to deliver a child. The Israelis have remained the same as always. They let the Palestinians have a few status symbols, things like their own airport and pass­ports and govern­ment buildings here and there, but a lot of good it did the Palestinians! The poor Palestinians have been hoping for change for years, but there's been very little change.

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Ted Rudow III, MA, Encina Ave, Palo Alto, CAForty-one years ago, Beacon Press lost a Supreme Court case brought against it by the U.S. government for publishing the first full edition of the Pentagon Papers. It is now well known how The New York Times first published excerpts of the top-secret documents in June 1971, but less well known is how the Beacon Press, a small non-profit publisher came to publish the complete 7,000 pages that exposed the true history of U.S. involvement in Vietnam.

In his 1972 dissenting opinion in the Gravel case, Supreme Court Justice Douglas said, “The story of the Pentagon Papers is a chronicle of the suppression of vital decisions to protect the reputations and political hides of men who work an amazingly successful scheme of deception on the American people.” My message is to them: Don’t wait ’til the war has started. Don’t wait ’til the bombs have fallen against Iran, or earlier Iraq. Don’t wait ’til the engine of this war is unstoppable. Before the war, take the risk. Reveal what you know to be the truth.









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The poor less and less

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The poor less and less

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Monday Jul 8th, 2013





California lawmakers improperly stopped funding certain medical services that rural and other specialized health clinics provided to low-income residents under the state’s Medicaid program, a federal appeals court ruled Friday. A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the finding of a trial judge and said federal law requires states participating in Medicaid to reimburse clinics serving migrant workers, homeless people and other poor populations for “a panoply of medical services to under-served communities” that includes chiropractic care, dental care, optometry, podiatry and speech therapy.





To save money, the Legislature in 2009 eliminated coverage for adults receiving those services through the state’s Medicaid program, known as Medi-Cal, saying they were optional because they were not provided by medical doctors.The great and powerful rich, propaganda and advertising, that they even convinced lots of poor people that they were right and persuaded them to voluntarily give up some of the few things they had to make them even poorer and the rich even richer, so the rich could have more and more and the poor less and less.

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The very thing we rebelled about in the Revolutionary War--taxation without representation. It is like the Senate of the U.S., which has only two representatives for each state, regardless of size or population, instead of like the House of Representatives, where the number of representatives is determined by the population of each state.

There the House can counterbalance the Senate and can nullify anything the Senate does, if it doesn't like it. No law can be passed, no money appropriated for anything--without the consent of the House--the true representatives of the people. Is no longer truly representative as it should be, because in the first place, it takes a rich man to be able to run for such an office, and it takes a long-time resident of any state or country to be able to register to vote. The voting process is made so difficult that only the most determined manage to be able to use it--usually those with some political log to roll; largely property owners, or again, the rich, as opposed to the poor; longtime resident property owners, as opposed to the shifting, migratory, labour force.

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Forty-one years ago, Beacon Press lost a Supreme Court case brought against it by the U.S. government for publishing the first full edition of the Pentagon Papers. It is now well known how The New York Times first published excerpts of the top-secret documents in June 1971, but less well known is how the Beacon Press, a small nonprofit publisher affiliated with the Unitarian Universalist Association, came to publish the complete 7,000 pages that exposed the true history of U.S. involvement in Vietnam.



In his 1972 dissenting opinion in the Gravel case, Supreme Court Justice Douglas said, "The story of the Pentagon Papers is a chronicle of the suppression of vital decisions to protect the reputations and political hides of men who work an amazingly successful scheme of deception on the American people." And he went on to say in that decision that he had no choice but to hold that it was the government that is lawless, not the press.

So my message is to them: Don’t do what I did. Don’t wait 'til the war has started. Don't wait 'til the bombs have fallen against Iran, or earlier Iraq. Don't wait ’til the engine of this war is unstoppable. Before the war, take the risk. Reveal what you know to be the truth.

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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 reality. In Orwell's book 1984, the main character worked for the Ministry of Truth, dedicated to eliminating every vestige of the truth and replacing it with what the government said was truth.



When people fail to pay attention to the truth they are apt to become strongly deluded and believe a lie instead. This has been the favorite trick of despots and dictators throughout the ages. They get people's minds off their problems and needs and altercations by creating a much more frightening bugaboo, such as an external war or fear of their neighbors, or causing them to focus their fears.

The American government can be amazingly hypocritical when it comes to promoting human rights. Another pointed out that human rights activists in the Middle East say they can't even use the word democracy anymore as become a dirty word because of what people have seen going. Maybe other nations would have a little more respect for the United States if they saw it promoting freedom and human rights and democracy among its allies.

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No longer

by Ted Rudow III, MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )

Friday Jun 28th, 2013 4:05 PM

Proposition 8, known informally as Prop 8, was a California ballot proposition and a state constitutional amendment passed in the November 2008 California state elections. The proposition was created by opponents of same-sex marriage in advance of the California Supreme Court's previous ruling in In re Marriage Cases" which legalize same-sex marriage, overriding the statute (Proposition 22 in 2000) by ruling it unconstitutional.



The very thing we rebelled about in the Revolutionary War--taxation without representation. It is like the Senate of the U.S., which has only two representatives for each state, regardless of size or population, instead of like the House of Representatives, where the number of representatives is determined by the population of each state.

There the House can counterbalance the Senate and can nullify anything the Senate does, if it doesn't like it. No law can be passed, no money appropriated for anything--without the consent of the House--the true representatives of the people. Is no longer truly representative as it should be, because in the first place, it takes a rich man to be able to run for such an office, and it takes a long-time resident of any state or country to be able to register to vote. The voting process is made so difficult that only the most determined manage to be able to use it--usually those with some political log to roll; largely property owners, or again, the rich, as opposed to the poor; longtime resident property owners, as opposed to the shifting, migratory, labour force.

Ted Rudow III, MA

http://tedriii.blogspot.com/

Despots’ favourite trick

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Despots’ favourite trick

by Ted Rudow III, MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )

Thursday Jun 27th, 2013 

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 reality. In Orwell’s book “1984,” the main character worked for the “ministry of truth,” dedicated to eliminating every vestige of the truth and replacing it with what the government said was truth.





When people fail to pay attention to the truth they are apt to become strongly deluded and believe a lie instead. This has been the favourite trick of despots and dictators throughout the ages. They get people’s minds off their problems and needs and altercations by creating a much more frightening bugaboo, such as an external war or fear of their neighbours, or causing them to focus their fears.



The American government can be amazingly hypocritical when it comes to promoting human rights. Maybe other nations would have a little more respect for the United States if they saw it promoting freedom and human rights and democracy among its allies.

Ted Rudow III, MA



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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 reality. In Orwell’s book “1984,” the main character worked for the “ministry of truth,” dedicated to eliminating every vestige of the truth and replacing it with what the government said was truth.

When people fail to pay attention to the truth they are apt to become strongly deluded and believe a lie instead. This has been the favourite trick of despots and dictators throughout the ages. They get people’s minds off their problems and needs and altercations by creating a much more frightening bugaboo, such as an external war or fear of their neighbours, or causing them to focus their fears.

The American government can be amazingly hypocritical when it comes to promoting human rights. Maybe other nations would have a little more respect for the United States if they saw it promoting freedom and human rights and democracy among its allies.



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Terrorists are not always little armed individuals or groups who commit atrocities. The biggest and worst terrorists are nations who commit atrocities with their armies, who wage what they call “war” but which differs from terrorism only in scale, for war is often terrorism on a massive scale, conducted with planes and tanks and bombs and tens of thousands of soldiers.



Yet war is somehow considered more palatable by the world, for it is conducted by national terrorists, while terrorism is condemned because it is conducted by individual terrorists. My heart goes out to each side, and I long to see the senseless killing, maiming and destruction stop.



Israel is the occupying power, for it has driven the Palestinians from their land, it surrounds or occupies their cities, makes use of them as cheap labor, like the slaves of old, and humiliates or slaughters their men, women, and children. Israeli terrorism happens every day in out-of-the-way corners that make no news or no waves.




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As celebrities including Tom Cruise and Hugh Jackman celebrated Wal-Mart at its annual meeting last week, workers and activists converged to demand sweeping changes at the company’s U.S. stores and global factories. Around 100 striking workers with the group OUR Wal-Mart arrived in a caravan from across the country to protest what they allege to be retaliation against those seeking to change company practices on wages, safety and unions.



Wal-Mart is one of only a few major retailers that have refused to sign on to the new safety standards after the Dhaka tragedy. Tazreen Fashions fire killed 112 workers and left hundreds injured. And in Rana Plaza, it killed 1,127 and left more than 600 or 700 injured for lifetime. And in that shareholder meeting, they haven’t even given any condolence for those families. They haven’t felt sad. No word for those.





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Dear Editor: As celebrities including Tom Cruise and Hugh Jackman celebrated Walmart at its annual meeting last week, workers and activists converged to demand sweeping changes at the company's U.S. stores and global factories. Around 100 striking workers with the group OUR Walmart arrived in a caravan from across the country to protest what they allege to be retaliation against those seeking to change company practices on wages, safety and unions.



Walmart is one of only a few major retailers that have refused to sign on to the new safety standards after the Dhaka tragedy, in which the Tazreen Fashion factory fire killed 112 workers and left hundreds injured. In last week's shareholders meeting, Walmart didn't even give any condolence for those families.



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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 reality. In Orwell’s book “1984,” the main character worked for the “Ministry of Truth,” dedicated to eliminating every vestige of the truth and replacing it with what the government said was truth.



When people fail to pay attention to the truth they are apt to become strongly deluded and believe a lie instead. This has been the favorite trick of despots and dictators throughout the ages. They get people’s minds off their problems and needs and altercations by creating a much more frightening bugaboo, such as an external war or fear of their neighbors, or causing them to focus their fears.

The American government can be amazingly hypocritical when it comes to promoting human rights. Another pointed out that human rights activists in the Middle East say they can’t even use the word “democracy” anymore — it’s become a dirty word because of what people have seen going. Maybe other nations would have a little more respect for the United States if they saw it promoting freedom and human rights and democracy among its allies.

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Dear Editor: As celebrities including Tom Cruise and Hugh Jackman celebrated Walmart at its annual meeting last week, workers and activists converged to demand sweeping changes at the company's U.S. stores and global factories. Around 100 striking workers with the group OUR Walmart arrived in a caravan from across the country to protest what they allege to be retaliation against those seeking to change company practices on wages, safety and unions.



Walmart is one of only a few major retailers that have refused to sign on to the new safety standards after the Dhaka tragedy, in which the Tazreen Fashion factory fire killed 112 workers and left hundreds injured. In last week's shareholders meeting, Walmart didn't even give any condolence for those families.



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As celebrities including Tom Cruise and Hugh Jackman celebrated Wal-Mart at its annual meeting last week, workers and activists converged to demand sweeping changes at the company’s U.S. stores and global factories. Around 100 striking workers with the group OUR Walmart arrived in a caravan from across the country to protest what they allege to be retaliation against those seeking to change company practices on wages, safety and unions.



Wal-Mart is one of only a few major retailers that have refused to sign on to the new safety standards after the Dhaka tragedy. In the fire, in Tazreen Fashion fire, it has killed 112 workers and left hundreds injured. And in Rana Plaza, it killed 1,127 and left more than 600 or 700 injured for lifetime. And in that shareholder meeting, they haven’t even given any condolence for those families. They haven’t felt sad. No word for those.

One worker said,"We didn’t want to go up in the factory this morning, but the management forced us to go up and said there was no problem with the building. Just after that, I sat on my table to work, and the building just collapsed. I couldn’t even leave. I was trapped at my table. Inside at about 9:10 a.m., the building collapsed, and we were trapped inside since then and up to now. It is 10:18 p.m. Eleven hours, we were trapped. We did not want to enter the building, but the owners pushed us to get in and work."



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Poor Afghanistan has really suffered, and it’s now suffering worse than ever. The poor, the women, children, and old folks suffer the most because they have so little already and are so needy, so often they don’t survive. And the men go off to fight and often they don’t make it either. War is horrible, so in a way, the U.S. is reaping what it sowed in Afghanistan — war. The Afghans themselves are reaping what they’ve sowed in many ways. Now don’t get me wrong — there are many poor innocents in Afghanistan, and I’m not speaking of them. But the Afghans as a whole have been lawless, ruthless and bloodthirsty for centuries.



So both the U.S. and the Afghans are suffering for their sins, and the longer U.S. keeps up this war, the more they’ll both suffer. Please pray for the innocent, the helpless and needy Afghans, that they can find peace and refuge from the war.

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Terrorists are not always little armed individuals or groups who commit atrocities. The biggest and worst terrorists are nations who commit atrocities with their armies, who wage what they call “war” but which differs from terrorism only in scale, for war is often terrorism on a massive scale, conducted with planes and tanks and bombs and tens of thousands of soldiers.





Yet war is somehow considered more palatable by the world, for it is conducted by national terrorists, while terrorism is condemned because it is conducted by individual terrorists. My heart goes out to each side, and I long to see the senseless killing, maiming and destruction stop.

Israel is the occupying power, for it has driven the Palestinians from their land, it surrounds or occupies their cities, makes use of them as cheap labor, like the slaves of old, and humiliates or slaughters their men, women, and children. Israeli terrorism is both very evident and very quiet—evident in that it occupies Palestinian lands brazenly, and has for more than sixty years, and quiet in that many little acts of terrorism happen every day in out-of-the-way corners that make no news or no waves.

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The ones that send them to war. You would have thought having gone through the horrors of it themselves in the World War I, they would have never done it again. At least the children who had to go through the war, those men that had to go through the hell would never have wanted to send their children into war again, but they did!



But I think this younger generation is fed up with the war. They’ve seen the horrors and heard the wars. I think that they’re just going to flatly refuse to fight, flatly refuse to go to war.How can a leader be a Christian and order billions to be spent on such nightmare armaments? If you refuse to fight, then your enemy has nothing to fight about and there wouldn’t be any wars, if you just flatly refused to fight. The Quakers teach if the enemy wants to take over, let them take over. Give peace chance.













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Poor Afghanistan has really suffered, and it's now suffering worse than ever. The poor, the women, children, and old folks suffer the most because they have so little already and are so needy, so often they don't survive. And the men go off to fight and often they don't make it either. War is horrible



So in a way, the U.S. is reaping what it sowed in Afghanistan war. The Afghans themselves are reaping what they've sowed in many ways. Now don't get me wrong there are many poor innocents in Afghanistan, and I'm not speaking of them. But the Afghans as a whole have been a lawless bunch of bandits for centuries, ruthless and bloodthirsty.

So both the U.S. and the Afghans are suffering for their sins, and the longer the U.S. keeps up this war, the more they both suffer. Please pray for the innocent, the helpless and needy Afghans, that they can find peace and refuge from the war.

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U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is heading to Capitol Hill, where he’s expected to be grilled over by the Justice Department’s decision to secretly seize the work, home and cell phone records used by almost a hundred reporters and editors at the Associated Press. Holder defended the move as a necessary step in a criminal probe of leaks of classified information.



It is one more assault in a long series of assault against freedom of information and freedom of the press. And I would, of course, throw in the persecution of Julian Assange at WikiLeaks and Bradley Manning as part of that process. Anyone who challenges the official narrative, who digs out cases of torture, war crimes — which is, of course, what Manning and Assange presented to the American public — is going to be ruthlessly silenced.











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Poor Afghanistan has really suffered, and it’s now suffering worse than ever. The poor, the women, children, and old folks suffer the most because they have so little already and are so needy, so often they don’t survive. And the men go off to fight and often they don’t make it either. War is horrible



So in a way, the U.S. is reaping what it sowed in Afghanistan—war. The Afghans themselves are reaping what they’ve sowed in many ways. Now don’t get me wrong—there are many poor innocents in Afghanistan, and I’m not speaking of them. But the Afghans as a whole have been a lawless bunch of bandits for centuries, ruthless and bloodthirsty.

So both the U.S. and the Afghans are suffering for their sins, and the longer the U.S. keeps up this war, the more they’ll both suffer. Please pray for the innocent, the helpless and needy Afghans, that they can find peace and refuge from the war.

Ted Rudow III, MA



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Monday May 27th, 2013 12:03 PM

The ones that send them to war. You would have thought having gone through the horrors of it themselves in the First World War they would have never done it again.

At least the children who had had to go through the war, those men that had to go through the Hell would never have wanted to send their children into war again, but they did! It doesn't seem to take them long to forget the horrors and Hell of war.

Especially their elders, it's their parents who are to blame, the politicians, militarists and greedy rich. Proud politicians, selfish parents. But I think this younger generation is fed up with the war. They've seen the horrors and heard the wars. Some of them have been through the horror or war already, Vietnam and whatnot. I think that they're just going to flatly refuse to fight, flatly refuse to go to war.

How can a leader be a Christian and order billions to be spent on such nightmare armaments? How can he be a Christian and order boys to the battle? That's what the Pacifists teach, the Quakers teach, that it takes two to make a fight. If you refuse to fight, then your enemy has nothing to fight about and there wouldn't be any wars, if you just flatly refused to fight. The Quakers teach if the enemy wants to take over, let them take over. Give peace chance.



Ted Rudow III, MA



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U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is heading to Capitol Hill , where he's expected to be grilled over the Justice Department's decision to secretly seize the work, home and cellphone records used by almost a hundred reporters and editors at the Associated Press. On Tuesday, Holder defended the move as a necessary step in a criminal probe of leaks of classified information.





The use of the Espionage Act, to essentially silence whistleblowers within the government Kiriakou, Drake and others, although Kiriakou went to jail on pled out on another charge the FISA Amendment Act, which allows for warrantless wiretapping, the National Defense Authorization Act, which allows for the stripping of American citizens of due process and indefinite detention. And it is one more assault in a long series of assault against freedom of information and freedom of the press. And I would also, of course, throw in the persecution of Julian Assange at WikiLeaks and Bradley Manning as part of that process.all of these measures to essentially shut down the freedom of information, including the persecution of Assange and Manning, as symptomatic of a reconfiguration of our society into a totalitarian security and surveillance state,



One where anyone who challenges the official narrative, who digs out cases of torture, war crimes which is, of course, what Manning and Assange presented to the American publics going to be ruthlessly silenced.

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Nearly 10 and 11 million households now have upside-down mortgages, and for the first time ever, mortgage debt is bigger than the total value of homeowner equity [cash invested]—bigger by $836 billion. Even if a small fraction of these borrowers were to default on their mortgages in the near future, either because of negative shocks to borrowers’ ability to pay or due to strategic defaults, it could result in another sharp decline in home prices and impede the ongoing recovery in the housing market.



Out of those 10 million mortgages that are underwater, about 3 million remain “severely underwater,” which means the initial loan-to-value ratio (LTV) is 125% or more (in other words, the value of the mortgage is at least 25% higher than that of the property). While seriously delinquent mortgages (at least 60 days) have declined, the percentage of loans in foreclosure has remained stubbornly high, at about 10% of underwater mortgages.

They spend money they don’t have and they borrow. Where do they get so much cash? How can they buy such fancy cars and big TVs and all this fancy furniture and all these things they’ve got? How can they afford it? They can’t afford it! They buy it on credit. And they’re all in debt up to their ears. Rich people have borrowed themselves into debts that they can never repay. Poor people the same. Middle class people the same. So if the slightest little thing gets out of balance or goes off in any way, the whole thing crashes like a bunch of dominoes!

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Dear Editor: U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is heading to Capitol Hill, where he's expected to be grilled over the Justice Department's decision to secretly seize the work, home and cellphone records used by almost 100 reporters and editors at the Associated Press. On Tuesday, Holder defended the move as a necessary step in a criminal probe of leaks of classified information.



We have the Espionage Act to essentially silence whistleblowers within the government, the FISA Amendment Act to allow for warrantless wiretapping, and the National Defense Authorization Act to strip American citizens of due process and indefinite detention; now we have one more assault in a long series of assaults against freedom of information and freedom of the press.



I would also throw in the persecution of Julian Assange at WikiLeaks and Bradley Manning as part of a process to essentially shut down the freedom of information, as symptomatic of a reconfiguration of our society into a totalitarian security and surveillance state. One where anyone who challenges the official narrative, who digs out cases of torture and war crimes -- which is, of course, what Manning and Assange presented to the American public -- is going to be ruthlessly silenced.



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Dear Editor: U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is heading to Capitol Hill, where he's expected to be grilled over the Justice Department's decision to secretly seize the work, home and cellphone records used by almost 100 reporters and editors at the Associated Press. On Tuesday, Holder defended the move as a necessary step in a criminal probe of leaks of classified information.



We have the Espionage Act to essentially silence whistleblowers within the government, the FISA Amendment Act to allow for warrantless wiretapping, and the National Defense Authorization Act to strip American citizens of due process and indefinite detention; now we have one more assault in a long series of assaults against freedom of information and freedom of the press.



I would also throw in the persecution of Julian Assange at WikiLeaks and Bradley Manning as part of a process to essentially shut down the freedom of information, as symptomatic of a reconfiguration of our society into a totalitarian security and surveillance state. One where anyone who challenges the official narrative, who digs out cases of torture and war crimes -- which is, of course, what Manning and Assange presented to the American public -- is going to be ruthlessly silenced.



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U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is heading to Capitol Hill , where he’s expected to be grilled over the Justice Department’s decision to secretly seize the work, home and cellphone records used by almost a hundred reporters and editors at the Associated Press. On Tuesday, Holder defended the move as a necessary step in a criminal probe of leaks of classified information.


The use of the Espionage Act, to essentially silence whistleblowers within the government—Kiriakou, Drake and others, although Kiriakou went to jail on—pled out on another charge—the FISA Amendment Act, which allows for warrantless wiretapping, the National Defense Authorization Act, which allows for the stripping of American citizens of due process and indefinite detention. And it is one more assault in a long series of assault against freedom of information and freedom of the press.


And I would also, of course, throw in the persecution of Julian Assange at WikiLeaks and Bradley Manning as part of that process all of these measures to essentially shut down the freedom of information, as symptomatic of a reconfiguration of our society into a totalitarian security and surveillance state. One where anyone who challenges the official narrative, who digs out cases of torture, war crimes—which is, of course, what Manning and Assange presented to the American public—is going to be ruthlessly silenced.

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U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is heading to Capitol Hill , where he’s expected to be grilled over the Justice Department’s decision to secretly seize the work, home and cellphone records used by almost a hundred reporters and editors at the Associated Press. On Tuesday, Holder defended the move as a necessary step in a criminal probe of leaks of classified information.



The use of the Espionage Act, to essentially silence whistleblowers within the government—Kiriakou, Drake and others, although Kiriakou went to jail on—pled out on another charge—the FISA Amendment Act, which allows for warrantless wiretapping, the National Defense Authorization Act, which allows for the stripping of American citizens of due process and indefinite detention. And it is one more assault in a long series of assault against freedom of information and freedom of the press.



And I would also, of course, throw in the persecution of Julian Assange at WikiLeaks and Bradley Manning as part of that process all of these measures to essentially shut down the freedom of information, as symptomatic of a reconfiguration of our society into a totalitarian security and surveillance state. One where anyone who challenges the official narrative, who digs out cases of torture, war crimes—which is, of course, what Manning and Assange presented to the American public—is going to be ruthlessly silenced.

Ted Rudow III

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Espionage Act

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Wednesday May 22nd, 2013

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is heading to Capitol Hill , where he’s expected to be grilled over the Justice Department’s decision to secretly seize the work, home and cellphone records used by almost a hundred reporters and editors at the Associated Press. On Tuesday, Holder defended the move as a necessary step in a criminal probe of leaks of classified information.





The use of the Espionage Act, to essentially silence whistleblowers within the government—Kiriakou, Drake and others, although Kiriakou went to jail on—pled out on another charge—the FISA Amendment Act, which allows for warrantless wiretapping, the National Defense Authorization Act, which allows for the stripping of American citizens of due process and indefinite detention. And it is one more assault in a long series of assault against freedom of information and freedom of the press. And I would also, of course, throw in the persecution of Julian Assange at WikiLeaks and Bradley Manning as part of that process as symptomatic of a reconfiguration of our society into a totalitarian security and surveillance state.



One where anyone who challenges the official narrative, who digs out cases of torture, war crimes—which is, of course, what Manning and Assange presented to the American public—is going to be ruthlessly silenced.

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Bangladesh's economic, financial and social data read like a recipe for mass misery. Bangladesh has low life expectancy, low adult literacy—and suffers some of the most frequent major natural disasters in the world. Yet, Bangladeshis are reportedly the happiest people on the face of the planet. This is despite having a GDP of just $1,483. Many impoverished Bangladeshis truly do appear to laugh in the face of adversity.



A man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth! True happiness and purpose in life come from loving and helping others in some way, in giving rather than receiving, in sharing rather than hoarding, in making the world a better place, in “being a force of nature instead of a feverish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy,” as one writer put it! That’s what brings on happiness.









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Monday May 13th, 2013
Perhaps the hardest-hit country would be Bangladesh, where thousands of people already die from floods each year. An estimated 12 million people were driven from their homes in Bangladesh and parts of India as the annual monsoons reached their full impact. The rains and flooding in India, Nepal and Bangladesh were blamed for 445 deaths.

And in northern Bangladesh and northeastern and northern India, monsoonal floods have cost millions their homes and dozens their lives since the start of August; the floods are bigger and faster than ever with too little vegetation and soil left in the Himalayan foothills to soak up the rain.

Bangladesh's economic, financial and social data reads like a recipe for mass misery. Bangladesh has low life expectancy, low adult literacy-and suffers some of the most frequent major natural disasters in the world. Yet, Bangladeshis are reportedly the happiest people on the face of the planet

This is despite having a GDP of just $1,483. Many impoverished Bangladeshis truly do appear to laugh in the face of adversity.

A man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth! True happiness and purpose in life come from loving and helping others in some way, in giving rather than receiving, in sharing rather than hoarding, in making the world a better place, in "being a force of nature instead of a feverish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy," as one writer put it! That's what brings on happiness.

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Dear Editor: The death toll in Bangladesh has topped 600 after an eight-story garment factory building collapsed with thousands of workers inside. Cracks had been found in the building, but workers say the factory owners forced them to go to work anyway.



Protests broke out in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka as angry workers blocked key highways, marched on several factories, and rallied outside the headquarters of Bangladesh's main manufacturers group. The disaster comes exactly five months after a massive fire killed at least 112 garment workers at Bangladesh's Tazreen factory, which made clothing sold by Wal-Mart, among other companies.



Bangladesh now is the second-largest garment exporter in the world, right after China. Chinese garment factories are moving to Bangladesh because of the low wages -- 14 to 24 cents an hour. The workers work 14 hours a day, often seven days a week. Bangladesh is sacrificing all of these young women, who receive starvation wages. There is no right to organize in Bangladesh.



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Dear Editor: The death toll in Bangladesh has topped 600 after an eight-story garment factory building collapsed with thousands of workers inside. Cracks had been found in the building, but workers say the factory owners forced them to go to work anyway.



Protests broke out in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka as angry workers blocked key highways, marched on several factories, and rallied outside the headquarters of Bangladesh's main manufacturers group. The disaster comes exactly five months after a massive fire killed at least 112 garment workers at Bangladesh's Tazreen factory, which made clothing sold by Wal-Mart, among other companies.



Bangladesh now is the second-largest garment exporter in the world, right after China. Chinese garment factories are moving to Bangladesh because of the low wages -- 14 to 24 cents an hour. The workers work 14 hours a day, often seven days a week. Bangladesh is sacrificing all of these young women, who receive starvation wages. There is no right to organize in Bangladesh.



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by Ted Rudow III, MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )

Thursday May 2nd, 2013

The death toll in Bangladesh has topped 200 after an eight-story garment factory building collapsed with thousands of workers inside. More than 1,000 people were injured, and an unknown number of workers are still trapped in the wreckage. Cracks had been found in the building, but workers say the factory owners forced them to go to work anyway.



Protests broke out in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka today as angry workers blocked key highways, marched on several factories, and rallied outside the headquarters of Bangladesh’s main manufacturers group. The disaster comes exactly five months after a massive fire killed at least 112 garment workers at Bangladesh’s Tazreen factory, which made clothing sold by Wal-Mart, among other companies.



Bangladesh now is the second-largest garment exporter in the world, right after China. And as a matter of fact, the Chinese garment factories are moving to Bangladesh because of the low wages, 14 cents an hour up to about 24 cents an hour. The workers are hard-working; they work 14 hours a day. They’ll work often seven days a week. Bangladesh is sacrificing all of these young women, who are just being brutalized, starvation wages. There is no right to organize in Bangladesh.



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Ted Rudow III, MA, Encina Ave, Palo Alto, CA







So there have been plenty of presidents who slaughtered millions! The Civil War was one of the most horrendous wars. It had the highest casualty rate, considering the population, of any war that the US has ever fought, virtually pitting brother against brother, fathers against sons, just slaughtering each other. The question they need to put to the American public is: “Is that oil really worth American blood and the lives of your boys? Is it worth fighting and dying for just to keep the price of gasoline down so you can go for more joy rides?– Is it worth your boys?” Well, as far as I’m concerned, it’s not worth it!

A great columnist has said that if they’d put the presidents, kings and the politicians into the battlefield, they’d never have any more wars. –Because it’s not the people who make the wars who have to fight them. If the people who actually made the wars and got the world into wars had to themselves personally fight them, there’d never be another war!





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