May 30 2012
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 feet. This will enable us to provide that authentic “tongues of fire” effect without incinerating …
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May 30 2012
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 are appropriate in all circumstances. The story of Saul and the Amalekites is a case in …
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May 30 2012
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 kill non-Jews even if they pose no direct physical threat of violence. Yehuda Weinstein said remarks …
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May 29 2012
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 with Houla. So will the armed opposition to the regime, along with al-Qa’ida and any …
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May 29 2012
Folk musician Doc Watson dies in NC hospital at 89 May 29, 2012, 6:57 PM EST … Doc Watson, the Grammy-award winning folk musician whose lightning-fast style of flatpicking influenced guitarists around the world for more than a half-century, died Tuesday at a hospital in Winston-Salem, according to a hospital spokeswoman and his management company. …
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May 26 2012
Back to the birth certificate … Dear editor: Con-tra-dic-tion: A denial of the truth. The Associated Press published a picture of Loretta Lynn’s birth certificate, which supposedly proves she is actually three years older than she claims to be. Wow! Big deal! It is common for a woman to keep her age secret. But does …
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May 25 2012
Not All Israeli Citizens Are Equal By Yousef Munayyer, May 23, 2012 … I’m a Palestinian who was born in the Israeli town of Lod, and thus I am an Israeli citizen. My wife is not; she is a Palestinian from Nablus in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Despite our towns being just 30 miles apart, we met …
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