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Jul 04 2011

Make the bastard scream

The blood of Dresden

By pulsemedia.org, June 25, 2011 at 10:08 pm … Following is an extract from Armageddon in Retrospect by Kurt Vonnegut in which he describes the scenes of ‘obscene brutality’ he witnessed as a prisoner of war …  [more]

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Jul 02 2011

Sort of domestic terror

Creeping Shariah: Stealth Threat or Conspiracy Theory?

By Gefilte, 01 July 2011 … I wanted to find out what the kerfluffle over “creeping Shariah” was all about. After all, this is a Republican worry in thirteen states which have introduced …  [more]

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Jul 02 2011

Keeping it real

The Damaging Three Words of the Declaration of Independence

By , 07/ 2/11 08:30 AM ET … When I moved to San Francisco decades ago, I was invited to any number of July 4th gatherings. They all had…  [more]

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Jul 02 2011

Holier than all the martyrs

A racist, messianic rabbi is the ruler of Israel

By Sefi Rachlevsky, 02:11 01.07.11 … When King Lior parted from the evildoers, who had detained him for an hour of questioning, he turned to Mercaz Harav Yeshiva, where he was…  [more]

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Jul 02 2011

Fides quaer ens intellectum

All good reasoning proceeds from prior commitments and beliefs

By , Friday 1 July 2011 22.29 BST … Over 40 years ago, I was taking part in a seminar during which the Australian Jesuit theologian Gerald O’Collins defined…  [more]

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Jul 01 2011

Sound familiar?

The invasion of Australia

By John Pilger, Friday 1 July 2011 21.15 BST … The City of Sydney council has voted to replace the words “European arrival” in the official record with “invasion”. The deputy lord mayor, Marcelle Hoff,…  [more]

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