Jun 10 2011
Texas hoax had the media digging their own grave By Bob Garfield, Thursday 9 June 2011 13.30 BST … Europe woke up to a tremendous disappointment on Wednesday. Despite the lurid promises of the 11 o’clock news, authorities in Texas had failed to unearth 30 dismembered corpses from a property in rural Liberty County. Not …
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Jun 08 2011
Worshipping the Irrational Jesus By Mark Osler, 06/ 8/11 11:42 AM ET … I recently heard a radio preacher explain how it was OK to be rich — that, in fact, it was a mark of being blessed by God. It was a rational argument. It is just common sense, after all: If God likes …
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Jun 07 2011
The people vs The President By Robert Fisk, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 … Syria’s revolt against the rule of President Bashar al-Assad is turning into an armed insurrection, with previously peaceful demonstrators taking up arms to fight their own army and the “shabiha” – meaning “the ghosts”, in English – of Alawi militiamen who have …
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Jun 07 2011
The cynicism of Israeli settlement policy By Ray Close, Tue 6/7/2011 In case anyone has any doubts about the cynical motivation that has often inspired the Israeli Government’s practice of unofficially encouraging the establishment of settlements in occupied territory as a calculated instrument of territorial expansion: You’ll be interested in this anecdote, I think. Coincidentally, four of the …
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Jun 06 2011
The dumping ground for despots welcomes another By Robert Fisk, Tuesday, 7 June 2011 … Saudi Arabia is a great dumping ground for despots. Remember Idi Amin? We Brits loved him once, but when he turned against us and started eating his enemies – and keeping the occasional head in the fridge – we were …
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Jun 06 2011
[tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t_ZjetcSMQ[/tube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t_ZjetcSMQ Obscenities as words of Torah By Yossi Sarid, 01:09 07.06.11 … Go to your computer right now and watch the frightening video clip posted on YouTube as a memento of Jerusalem Day (it’s called “Yom Yeru 2011” ). Not a handful, but hundreds of young people high on hard-core nationalism wave blue-and-white flags; …
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Jun 05 2011
And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. – Isaiah 2:4 (King James Version) Khalil Rabah, from “BIPRODUCT,” 2010. http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/201103/doha.s.new.modern.htm or http://bit.ly/jHKLC3 or http://tinyurl.com/3jsahv2
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