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Clipmarks | Vietnam Clips Israeli Rabbi Outdoes Ahmadinejad clipped by: thisnamecantbetaken clippers remarks: It is interesting that Haaretz felt it necessary to add that Netanyahu?s comments ?stopped short of a condemnation.? It appears that we live in a world permeated with double standards. Even while claiming adherence to ?universal? sets of ethical teaching (such as the Ten Commandments), we regularly accept and/or excuse behavior by blood relatives that we would condemn when practiced by those to whom we are unrelated. What is terrorism? It is something the ?other? does, not us. Where is mass murder committed? It is in Rwanda, in Darfur, in Bosnia, but not in Iraq or Vietnam or Nicaragua. Who are the torturers? Not us. President Bush told us that water-boarding does not count, and those that wrote the memos saying ?intensive interrogation? was legal while international law was obsolete, now teach at our most prestigious universities. We are good. They are bad. We deserve to live. They deserve to die. It appears that we live in a world permeated with double standards. Clip Source: mwcnews.net Back in October of 2005 the Western media, starting with the New York Times, mistranslated a speech by Ahmadinejad. Ahmadinejad?s statement that ?the occupying regime over Jerusalem? will one day ?vanish from the pages of time? somehow became a desire that Israel should be ?wiped off the the map.? Now let us fast forward to August 29, 2010. On that day the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported on a speech made by Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, the spiritual leader the Israeli political party, Shas. Shas is a major political movement in Israel. Rabbi Yosef said that the Palestinians and their leaders are ?evil and damnable.? That ?God should strike them with a plague.? And just in case God doesn?t get them all, Israel ?must send missiles to them and annihilate them.? He finished up with ?Abu Mazen (aka Mahmoud Abbas) and all these evil people should perish from this world.? One is tempted to ask if the spiritual leader of Shas was trying to mimic the New York Times distorted image of Ahmadinejad? zum Artikel... Vietnam Veterans Want CIA Sanctioned clipped by: thisnamecantbetaken clippers remarks: http://www.courthousenews.com/2010/08/27/VetsvCIA.pdf Clip Source: www.courthousenews.com The Vietnam Veterans of America asked a federal judge to impose sanctions on the Central Intelligence Agency, for failing to produce documents on the CIAs testing of hundreds of kinds of drugs - including sarin and phosgene nerve gas and LSD - on thousands of soldiers. The Vietnam Veterans of America sued the CIA in January 2009, claiming the agency had experimented on soldiers testing the effects of mind-controlling drugs. The underlying federal complaint claims that at least 7,800 soldiers were subjected to "at least 250, but as many as 400 chemical and biological agents." This original complaint, filed in January 2009, claimed that "this vast program of human experimentation, shrouded in secrecy," was done without informed consent of the soldier-guinea pigs. "In 1970, defendants provided Congress with an alphabetical list showing that they had tested 145 drugs during Projects Bluebird, Artichoke, MKULTRA and MKDELTA." Oral arguments in the case are to begin Sept. 29. zum Artikel... A Faithful Nation clipped by: debbyski clippers remarks: "But straight is the path and narrow is the way. Even the first time around, judging by the reaction, the Gospels were pretty unwelcome news to an awful lot of people. Taking seriously the actual message of Jesus, though, should serve at least to moderate the greed and violence that mark this culture. Its hard to imagine a con much more audacious than making Christ the front man for a program of tax cuts for the rich or war in Iraq. If some modest part of the 85 percent of us who are Christians woke up to that fact, then the world might change. It is possible, I think. Yes, the mainline Protestant churches that supported civil rights and opposed the war in Vietnam are mostly locked in a dreary decline as their congregations dwindle and their elders argue endlessly about gay clergy and same-sex unions. For Christians, the plainspoken message of the Gospels is clear enough. If you have any doubts, read the Sermon on the Mount." Clip Source: www.harpers.org Depending on which poll you look at and how the question is asked, somewhere around 85 percent of us call ourselves Christian. The question is, what kind of Christian nation? if the theology makes it harder to love the neighbor a little farther away?particularly the poor and the weak?then its a problem. And the dominant theologies of the moment do just that. They undercut Jesus, muffle his hard words, deaden his call, and in the end silence him. Privatize Social Security? Keep health care for people who can afford it? File those under ?God helps those who help themselves.? The power of the Christian right rests largely in the fact that they boldly claim religious authority, and by their very boldness convince the rest of us that they must know what theyre talking about. Theyre like the guy who gives you directions with such loud confidence that you drive on even though the road appears to be turning into a faint, rutted track. zum Artikel... Für die Inhalte dieses Feeds ist alleine der jeweilige Autor/Anbieter verantwortlich. Die Inhalte stellen nicht die Meinung von EasyRSS dar. Dies ist eine automatisch generierte E-Mail. Bitte antworten Sie nicht auf diese E-Mail. Wenn Sie Feedback an EasyRSS senden wollen, nutzen Sie bitte das Feedback Forumlar. 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