Sep 28 2010
… From “Junkets for Jesus” by Jeff Sharlet, Mother Jones, Monday Sep. 27, 2010 3:00 AM PDT … THE OLDEST AND MOST politically influential Christian conservative organization in Washington is known to the public, if at all, for one thing: adultery. In particular, that of three Republican politicians, Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.), Gov. Mark Sanford …
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Sep 21 2010
MEC Analytical Group 21 September 2010 War talk We are grateful to Richard Dalton for bringing to our attention the account below of an exchange of views on 17 September on the prospect of another war between Israel and Lebanon. Jeffrey White of the generally pro-Israeli Washington Institute for Near East Policy (where the exchange …
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Sep 16 2010
What’s Real About the Rapture? By John R. Coats, author of “Original Sinners: A New Interpretation of Genesis” September 16, 2010 09:34 AM My maternal grandparents lived in a small northeast-Texas town with a communal zeitgeist more aboriginal than modern. Everyone believed. “Is there really a God?” would have been as silly a question as …
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Sep 12 2010
Why does the US government think burning Qurans is less civilised than drone attacks on civilian populations?
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Sep 10 2010
And said unto them, It is written , My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves. (Matthew 21:13, Mark 11:17, and Luke 19:46)
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Sep 05 2010
Note: The following piece by Israel Shamir, a contemporary Israeli intellectual, was resurrected April 18, 2010 after Wiesel’s open letter appeared in the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, International Herald Tribune, and New York Times… +++ Elie Wiesel wrote a letter to President Obama demanding hands off Jewish hold on Jerusalem. He recycled his own …
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Sep 01 2010
Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 1:57 PM Subject: Chas Freeman’s Brilliant Speech in Oslo TO: Distinguished Recipients FM: John Whitbeck Miraculously, almost instantly after I circulated the interview with Chas Freeman earlier today, one of my distinguished recipients sent me the text of his speech in Oslo this morning, to which I had referred in …
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