2012 archive
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Jun 01 2012
Tall tales and paranoid fears
The GOP Sees Dead People — Voting
By Scott Keyes, Thursday, May 31, 2012, at 12:35 PM ET … When Americans go to the polls this November, they better have some ID. If they don’t, millions of them won’t… [more]Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2012/06/01/tall-tales-and-paranoid-fears/
Jun 01 2012
When wood is chopped, chips fly
Hymns to the Violence: The NYT’s Love Letter to Obama’s Murder Racket
By Chris Floyd, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 14:21 … I must, at last, admit defeat. I simply have no words, no rhetorical ammunition, no conceptual frameworks that could… [more]
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May 30 2012
A religious experience
Preparing for Pentecost
Announced by Archdruid Eileen (Beaker Folk of Husborne Crawley), Saturday, 26 May 2012 … It looks like we’re all set for Pentecost then. The flame-throwers will be fired into the Moot House at a height of nine… [more]
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May 30 2012
Exterminist rhetoric
How Christian fundamentalists plan to teach genocide to schoolchildren
By Katherine Stewart, Wednesday 30 May 2012 10.15 EDT … The Bible has thousands of passages that may serve as the basis for instruction and inspiration. Not all of them… [more]Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2012/05/30/exterminist-rhetoric/
May 30 2012
The seven laws of Noah?
No charges on ‘racist’ King’s Torah text
By Donald Macintyre, Wednesday 30 May 2012 … Israel’s Attorney General has decided not to prosecute two rabbis who wrote a controversial religious text proposing circumstances in which it is permissible to… [more]Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2012/05/30/the-seven-laws-of-noah/
May 29 2012
We huffed and puffed
The West is horrified by children’s slaughter now. Soon we’ll forget
By Robert Fisk, Tuesday 29 May 2012 … Bashar al-Assad will get away with it. He got away with Deraa. He got away with Homs. And he’ll get away… [more]Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2012/05/29/we-huffed-and-puffed/