LA: Protest Dick Cheney
Bob Morris @ Jan 13th 2004 21:48 - Category: Unfiled ;
LA: Protest Dick Cheney
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Archive for January 13th, 2004
Rev. Moon: owner of UPI,…
Bob Morris @ Jan 13th 2004 16:56 - Category: Unfiled ;
Rev. Moon: owner of UPI, the Washington Times, and hard core Bush supporter, wants gays dead
Rev. Moon advocates genocide against gays
“There will be a purge on God’s orders, and evil will be eliminated like shadows,” the Unification Church leader Rev. Sun Myong Moon, the owner and primary funder of money-losing right-wing Washington Times, said last week. (The comments were posted online by Rev. Moon’s webmaster and picked up by blogger John Gorenfeld.) “Gays will be eliminated, the 3 Israels will unite. If not then they will be burned. We do not know what kind of world God will bring but this is what happens. It will be greater than the communist purge but at God’s orders.”
How should the media be responding to this call for genocide? Have any major media outlets been covering this story? Why not?
A Google news search shows this story only being covered by blogs (so far).
Moon is a politically well-connected nut case.
When President Bush added North Korea to his list of “Axis of Evil” nations, the influence of the self-declared reincarnation of Jesus Christ, the “Reverend” Sun Myung Moon of the Unification Church, loomed largely over the White House decision-making process.
George W. Bush has a strong personal and financial connection with the cult-like Moonie church, say sources. Critics say the Moonie church opposes Christianity and the American way.
In fact, the Bush family may have received as much as $10 million from the Moonies in recent years. Rev. Sun Myung Moon considers himself a personal friend of our new president, according to newspaper reports.
A sane view of Cuba…
Bob Morris @ Jan 13th 2004 07:55 - Category: Unfiled ;
A sane view of Cuba from a Presidential candidate
“We ought to find a way to normalize relations with Cuba (and) end the embargo,” Kucinich said.
The line of questioning about Cuba prompted the one time during the interview where Kucinich notably paused before answering a question.
Kucinich said flatly that he was not an advocate for Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. But when asked if he considered Cuba a police state or repressive regime, Kucinich waited for about 20 seconds before responding as follows: “He’s had some practices in dealing with political dissidents that I don’t approve of. I don’t believe Castro is beyond criticism . . . (but) I do think it would be helpful for the U.S. to have some process of constructive engagement.”
Winning the hearts and minds…
Bob Morris @ Jan 13th 2004 07:53 - Category: Unfiled ;
Winning the hearts and minds of Britain
Oops!
US jet accidentally drops unarmed bomb in Britain. The United States Air Force is investigating how one of its fighter jets dropped an unarmed bomb onto the countryside in northern England last week, a spokesman said on Monday.
This could be big
Bob Morris @ Jan 13th 2004 07:51 - Category: Unfiled ;
This could be big
Law on Berlusconi immunity rejected.
Italy’s top court annuls PM Silvio Berlusconi’s immunity from prosecution, paving the way for a corruption trial to resume.
They’re H-E-E-RE
Bob Morris @ Jan 13th 2004 00:08 - Category: Unfiled ;
They’re H-E-E-RE
You can help put the bible back in the public schools!
This initiative will make the State of California provide the students in the public grade schools with Bibles.
Sigh…
Joe Hartley, reader and friend, comments:
I assume they also want to put the 1662 BCP (book of common prayer) back into the schools, since it is generally regarded (along with the King James verison of the Bible and Shakespeare) as unifying the English language. This edition is the one, I think, that contains my favorite ecumenical line from the prayers of the people: “Deliver us from the Bishop of Rome and all his abominations.”
Can you imagine elementary school kids trying to decipher the KJV?
If they DON’T want to teach the Bible as religion and ethical guidance, why is the lead “put the Bible back in school!”?
War inna Babylon
Bob Morris @ Jan 13th 2004 00:06 - Category: Unfiled ;
War inna Babylon
Sections of the ruling class appear not at all pleased with Dubya of late.
Vice President Dick Cheney once dismissed talk of federal fiscal worries by saying, “deficits don’t matter,” former Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill says in a controversial new book on his two years in the Bush White House.
He recently has said “President Bush was so disengaged in cabinet meetings that he ‘was like a blind man in a roomful of deaf people” and pointblank said the Iraq invasion was planned days after Bush took office.
O’Neill, a former highly respected CEO of Alcoa before becoming Treasury Secretary, cerainly knows they will do everything they can to destroy him, yet he is speaking out anyway.
The Bubble of American Supremacy
George Soros, in The Atlantic, “argues that the heedless assertion of American power in the world resembles a financial bubble—and the moment of truth may be here.” This is an excerpt from his new book. More on this later.
Army War College article says invasion of Iraq was ’strategic error’
A report published by the Army War College calls the Bush administration’s war on terrorism unfocused and says the invasion of Iraq was “a strategic error.”
The research paper by Jeffrey Record, a professor at the Air War College at Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery, said the president’s strategy “promises much more than it can deliver” and threatens to spread U.S. military resources too thin. Record also wrote that Saddam Hussein’s Iraq did not present a threat to the United States and was a distraction from the war on terrorism.
