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RECENT ARTICLES
Mortality after the 2003 invasion of Iraq: a cross-sectional cluster sample survey
from The Lancet , 12 October 2006
Great piece of writing by Uri Avnery - Israel military
23.8.06
Alice in Nuclear Blunderland
Greenpeace
March 8, 2006
The Case for Impeachment
Why we can no longer afford George W. Bush
Lewis H. Lapham - Harper's Magazine
February 27, 2006.
Iran and the Bomb
By Immanuel Wallerstein
Feburary 15, 2006
Great piece of writing by Uri Avnery - Israel military
GREAT PIECE OF WRITING BY URI AVNERY - ISRAEL MILITARY
Uri Avnery
23.8.06
Good Morning, Elijahu!
A STORY has it that Oscar Wilde once attended the premiere of a
colleague's play and every few minutes raised his hat. When asked
about this odd behavior, he replied: "I am a courteous person. I raise
my hat when I meet an old acquaintance."
If I wore a hat, I would have to raise it every few minutes these days
when I view TV talk shows, listen to the radio or read the papers. I
keep meeting things I wrote years ago, and especially things I have
written since the beginning of this war.
For example: for decades I have warned again and again that the
occupation is corrupting our army. Now the papers are full of learned
articles by respected commentators, who have discovered - surprise!
surprise! - that the occupation has corrupted our army.
In such cases we say in Hebrew: "Good morning, Elijahu!" You have
woken up at long last.
If there is a touch of irony in my remark, I do apologize. After all,
I wrote in the hope that my words would convince the readers - and
especially people of the Israeli establishment - and that they would
pass them on. When this is happening now, I am quite happy about the
plagiarism.
But it is important to spell out how the occupation has "corrupted our
army". Otherwise it is just an empty slogan, and we shall learn
nothing from it.
A PERSONAL flashback: in the middle of the 1948 war I had an
unpleasant experience. After a day of heavy fighting, I was sleeping
soundly in a field near the Arab village Suafir (now Sapir). All
around me were sleeping the other soldiers of my company, Samson's
Foxes. Suddenly I was woken up by a tremendous explosion. An Egyptian
plane had dropped a bomb on us. Killed: none. Wounded: 1.
How's that? Very simple: we were all lying in our personal foxholes,
which we had dug, in spite of our fatigue, before going to sleep. It
was self-evident to us that when we arrived anywhere, the first thing
to do was dig in. Sometimes we changed locations three times a day,
and every time we dug foxholes. We knew that our lives depended on it.
Not anymore. In one of the most deadly incidents in the Second Lebanon
War, 12 members of a company were killed by a rocket near Kfar Giladi,
while sitting around in an open field. The soldiers later complained
that they had not been led to a shelter. Have today's soldiers never
heard of a foxhole? Have they been issued with personal shovels at
all?
Inside Lebanon, why did the soldiers congregate in the rooms of
houses, where they were hit by anti-tank missiles, instead of digging
foxholes?
It seems that the army has been weaned from this practice. No wonder:
an army that is dealing with "terrorists" in the West Bank and Gaza
does not need to take any special precautions. After all, no air force
drops bombs on them, no artillery shells them. They need no special
protection.
THAT IS true of all our armed forces on land, in the air and on the
sea. It is certainly a luxury to fight against an enemy who cannot
defend himself properly. But it is dangerous to get used to it.
The navy, for example. For years now it has been sailing along the
shores of Gaza and Lebanon, shelling at pleasure, arresting fishermen,
checking ships. It never dreamed that the enemy could shoot back.
Suddenly it happened - and on live television, too. Hizbullah hit it
with a land-to-sea missile.
There was no end to the surprise. It was almost considered as
Chutzpah. What, an enemy who shoots back? What next? And why did Army
Intelligence not warn us that they have such an unheard of thing, a
land-to-sea missile?
IN THE air as on the sea. For years now, Air Force pilots shoot and
bomb and kill at will. They are able to hit a moving car with great
precision (together with the passers-by, of course.) Their technical
level is excellent. But what? Nobody is shooting at them while they
are doing this.
The Royal Air Force boys during the blitz ("the few to whom so many
owe so much") had to confront the determined pilots of the Luftwaffe,
and most of them were killed. Later, the British and Americans who
bombed Germany ran the gauntlet of murderous flak.
But our pilots have no such problems. When they are in action over the
West Bank and Gaza, there are no enemy pilots, no surface-to-air
missiles, no flak. The sky belongs to them, and they can concentrate
on their real job: to destroy the infrastructure of life and act as
flying executioners, "eliminate" the objects of "targeted
liquidations", feeling only a "slight bang on the wing" while
releasing a one-ton bomb over a residential area.
Does that create a good air force? Does that prepare them for battle
with a real enemy? In Lebanon the pilots have not (yet) met
anti-aircraft fire. The only helicopter shot down was hit by anti-tank
fire while landing troops. But what about the next war everybody is
speaking about?
AND THE ground troops? Were they prepared for this war?
For 39 years now they have been compelled to carry our the jobs of a
colonial police force: to run after children throwing stones and
Molotov cocktails, to drag away women trying to protect their sons
from arrest, to capture people sleeping at home. To stand for hours at
the checkpoints and decide whether to let a pregnant woman reach the
hospital or send back a sick old man. At the worst, they have to
invade a casbah, to face untrained "terrorists" who have nothing but
Kalashnikovs to fight against the tanks and airplanes of their
occupiers, as well as courage and an unbelievable determination.
Suddenly these soldiers were sent to Lebanon to confront tough, well
trained and highly motivated guerilla fighters who are ready to die
while carrying out their mission. Fighters who have learned to appear
from an unexpected direction, to disappear into well-prepared bunkers,
to use advanced and effective weapons.
"We were not trained for this war!" the reserve soldiers now complain.
They are right. Where could they have been trained? In the alleys of
Jabalieh refugee camp? In the well-rehearsed scenes of embraces and
tears, while removing pampered settlers with "sensitivity and
determination"? Clearly it was easier to blockade Yasser Arafat and
his few untrained bodyguards in the Mukata'ah compound in Ramallah
than to conquer Bint Jbeil over and over again.
That applies even more to the tanks. It is easy to drive a tank along
the main street of Gaza or over a row of houses in a refugee camp,
facing only stone-throwing boys, when the opponent has no trained
fighters or half-way modern weapons. It's a hell of a difference
driving the same tank in a built-up area in Lebanon, when a trained
guerilla with an effective anti-tank weapon can lurk behind every
corner. That's a different story altogether. The more so as our army's
most modern tank is not immune from missiles.
The deepest rot appeared in the logistics system. It just did not
function. And why should it? There is no need for complex logistics to
bring water and food to the soldiers at the Kalandia checkpoint.
THE SIMPLE truth is that for decades now our army has not faced a
serious military force. The last time was 24 years ago, during the
First Lebanon War, when it fought against the Syrian army.
At the time we said in my magazine, Haolam Hazeh, that the war was a
complete military failure, a fact that was suppressed by all the
military commentators. In that war, too, our army did not reach its
targets on time according to the plan: it reached them either late or
not at all. In the Syrian sector the army did not reach its assigned
objective at all: the Beirut-Damascus road. In the Palestinian sector,
it reached that road much too late, and only after violating the
agreed cease-fire.
The last serious war of our army was the Yom Kippur war. After the
initial disgraceful setbacks, it did indeed attain an impressive
victory. But that was only six years into the occupation. Now, 33
years later, we see the full damage done by the cancer called
occupation, which by now has spread to all the organs of the military
body.
How to stop the cancer?
The military commentator Ze'ev Schiff has a patent medicine. Schiff
generally reflects the views of the army high command. (Perhaps over
the last 40 years, there may have been instances when he voiced
opinions that were not identical with those of the General Staff, but
if so, they have escaped me.) He proposes to shift the burden of
occupation from the army to the Border Police.
Sounds reasonable, but is completely unrealistic. How can Israel
create a second big force to maintain the occupation, on top of the
army, which already costs something approaching 12 billion dollars a
year?
But, thank goodness, there is another remedy. An amazingly simple one:
to free ourselves from the occupation once and for all. To get out of
the occupied territories in agreement and cooperation with the
Palestinians. To make peace with the Palestinian people, so they can
establish their independent state side by side with Israel.
And, while we are at it, to make peace with Syria and Lebanon, too.
So that the "Defense Army for Israel", as it is officially called in
Hebrew, can go back to its original purpose: to defend the recognized
international borders of the State of Israel.
News Alert from TheocracyWatch
NEWS ALERT FROM THEOCRACY WATCH
Dear Friends of TheocracyWatch,
As the midterm elections approach, things are heating up around the
country. Is the Christian right going to lose its hold on Congress? What
kinds of desperate measures might those in power take? The New York
Times (10/17/06) reports that Ken Blackwell, Ohio Secretary of State who is
running for Governor and supported by the Patriot Pastors - a
theocratic group in Ohio - is behind by double digits and is, in his
desperation, trying to disqualify his opponent, Ted Strickland on very strange
grounds.
(http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/17/opinion/17tues1.html?_r=2&hp=&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print)
Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author Chris Hedges sees war with
Iran looming on the not-too-distant horizon. Meanwhile, the scandals
and revelations just will not go away.
Yours for democracy,
Joan and the staff at TheocracyWatch
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SECTION 1 MIXING RELIGION AND POLITICS
----Bush Faith-Based Initiative was used for GOP Campaigns, Former
White House Official Charges in new book, Americans United, October 12,
2006
White House Faith-Based Office is deplorable sham and should be shut
down, says AU Director Lynn
A new book by a former staffer in the White House Office of Faith-Based
and Community Initiatives details how the much-ballyhooed Bush
faith-based initiative was cynically manipulated by Republican operatives to
help GOP candidates locked in close races.
http://www.au.org/site/News2?abbr=pr&page=NewsArticle&id=8621&JServSessionIdr007=zc0z20ryx2.app7b
-----Former White House Staffers Charges of Politicization of
Faith-Based Initiative is Supported By Americans United Research, Americans
United, October 16, 2006
A key assertion by former White House staffer David Kuo — his claim
that the faith-based initiative was used for partisan purposes — is
supported by information in the new book, Piety & Politics: The
Right-Wing Assault on Religious Freedom Americans, by United Executive Director
Barry W. Lynn.
In the book, which was published Oct. 3, Lynn writes: James Towey,
until recently the head of the White House faith-based office, denies there
is a political dimension to the initiative. Unfortunately for Towey,
there is and he is up to his neck in it. In 2002 and 2004 Towey made a
series of campaign appearances alongside Republican congressional and
gubernatorial candidates whom polls showed were locked in tight races.
(End quote)
Lynn based his information in part on a story that ran in the AU Church
& State magazine in October of 2002. That piece, Faith-Based Flimflam,
detailed how the White House was using the initiative to sway religious
voters in a series of close House and Senate races.
http://www.au.org/site/News2?abbr=pr&page=NewsArticle&id=8623&JServSessionIdr007=0vwf4bnj22.app5b
-----On Tempting Faith: Seductive Distractions from Fact? Talk To
Action, October 13, 2006
On March 25, 2005 in a New York Times op ed, Maureen Dowd wrote: Oh my
God, we really are in a theocracy (end quote), and liberals turned in
dread towards the mysterious religious right that apparently came from
nowhere to dominate the US federal government. Time passed.... Now, the
widely touted new book, Tempting Faith, by David Kuo, as described in
ongoing series by Keith Olberman, seems to assure us that it was all a
dream, that Republicans are not of the religious right and hold
evangelicals in contempt , milking them like cattle for votes (according to
Kuo, evangelicals got little more in return from George W. Bush than hugs,
conference calls, the National Day Of Prayer, and cufflinks, pens, and
pads of paper). Tom Frank, in What is The matter With Kansas, used a
very similar argument. It has been previously tested and found eminently
marketable: Kuo is no fool. But, is the perception accurate? Some hope
that the current scandal-fest will make evangelicals dispirited a!
nd they will stop voting - and so the GOP will be hounded from office
and the religious right will dissolve under the dashed water of
Foley\'s smutty emails like the witch in The Wizard Of Oz: I\'m melting! I\'m
melting!
http://www.talk2action.org/story/2006/10/13/15050/437
-----Four-Part Series in Boston Globe investigates influence of
Christian Right on Bush administration foreign policy
This story is the first of four parts. It was reported and written by
Farah Stockman, Michael Kranish, and Peter S. Canellos of the Globe
Staff, and Globe correspondent Kevin Baron.
LAKARTINYA, Kenya -- The herders of this remote mountain village know
little about America, but have learned from those who run a US-funded
aid program about the American God. -- A Christian God. -- The US
government has given $10.9 million to Food for the Hungry, a faith-based
development organization, to reach deep into the arid mountains of northern
Kenya to provide training in hygiene, childhood illnesses, and clean
water. The group has brought all that, and something else that
increasingly accompanies US-funded aid programs: regular church service and
prayer.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2006/10/08/bush_brings_faith_to_foreign_aid/
-----David Barton -- New Stealth Campaign for the GOP, Talk To Action,
October 10, 2006
David Barton, the notorious Christian historical revisionist and
longtime Texas GOP activist, is once again barnstorming the nation on the
payroll of the Republican National Committee. As he did in 2004, Barton is
now speaking in churches on behalf of GOP candidates…
Barton maintains his main contention is that the separation of church
and state was never intended by the founders of our nation; he says it
was created by the Supreme Court in the 20th Century. The back cover of
his 1989 book, The Myth of Separation, proclaims: This book proves that
separation of church and state is a myth.(end quote) Barton is also on
the board of advisers of the Providence Foundation, a Christian
Reconstructionist group that advocates America as a Christian nation. Barton
may find his contention about the IRS rules were, like his claims about
American history, wrong, and if churches follow his interpretation,
they may put their tax status in jeopardy.
http://www.talk2action.org/story/2006/10/10/19281/863
----- Faith-Based Profits, New York Times, October 16, 2006
Mary Rosati, a novice training to be a nun in Toledo, Ohio, says that
after she received a diagnosis of breast cancer, her mother superior
dismissed her. If Ms. Rosati had had a nonreligious job, she might have
won a lawsuit against her diocese (which denies the charge). But a
federal judge dismissed her suit under the Americans With Disabilities Act,
declining to second-guess the ecclesiastical decision– of the church.
This story of Ms. Rosati is one of many that Diana Henriques told in a
recent Times series examining the fast-changing legal status of
churches and religious-affiliated institutions. The series showed that the
wall between church and state is being replaced by a platform that raises
religious organizations to a higher legal plane than their secular
counterparts.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/16/opinion/16mon1.html?_r=2&th&emc=th&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
SECTION 2 A CULTURE OF DEATH AND ARMAGEDDEN
----- The Bush Nuclear Apocalypse, Chris Hedges, Truthdig, October 9,
2006
Note of the Editor: The former Middle East bureau chief for The New
York Times and author of the bestseller _War Is a Force That Gives Us
Meaning_ reports on the Bush plan for Iran, and how a callous war,
conceived by zealots, will lead to a disaster of biblical proportions.
The aircraft carrier Eisenhower, accompanied by the guided-missile
cruiser USS Anzio, guided-missile destroyer USS Ramage, guided-missile
destroyer USS Mason and the fast-attack submarine USS Newport News, is, as
I write, making its way to the Straits of Hormuz off Iran. The ships
will be in place to strike Iran by the end of the month. It may be a
bluff. It may be a feint. It may be a simple show of American power. But I
doubt it.
War with Iran—a war that would unleash an apocalyptic scenario in the
Middle East—is probable by the end of the Bush administration. It
could begin in as little as three weeks.
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/200601009_bushs_nuclear_apocalypse/
-----Apocalypse Sooner Or Later? Bush, Iran, & the End-Times Lobby,
Talk To Action, October 10, 2006
Is the Bush Administration intent on provoking the End Times via an
attack on Iran? That is impossible to know, and former US House Majority
leader Dick Armey denied it in a 2002 BBC interview, but why would The
Bush Administration court the Pastor John Hagee new apocalypse-lobby,
CUFI [Christians United For Israel], and -by extension- the End Times
voters Hagee reaches? Sara Posner muses, in The American Prospect : Could
it be that the central requirement for their breathlessly anticipated
Armageddon -- that the United States confront Iran -- happens to
dovetail so nicely with the neoconservative war agenda? (End quote)
http://www.talk2action.org/story/2006/10/10/132848/48
SECTION 3 VOTER GUIDES
-----Barry Lynn on Politics and the Pulpit, Talk To Action, October 14,
2006
Barry Lynn on Politics and the Pulpit discusses voter guides, a tool
used by the Christian Coalition to encourage members of evangelical
churches to vote Republican while the guides maintain the appearance of
being nonpartisan.
http://www.talk2action.org/story/2006/10/13/134933/68
SECTION 4 CONGRESS
HR 810 STEM CELL RESEARCH ENHANCEMENT ACT OF 2005
-----Neoconservatism, the Catholic Church and Stem Cells, Talk To
Action, October 15, 2006
But for this one week I will focus upon the issue of Stem Cell
Research, by reviewing the current book by Eve Herold, Stem Cell Wars (in which
my personal story is discussed). the Catholic Church (to which I
belong) and the growing alliance among those on the Catholic Right with
neoconservatives...
Over the past few weeks two significant events concerning the research
have occurred; the first being required reading for those who want to
understand the stem cell debate. Coming on the heels of the veto of the
bi-partisan supported HR810 by President Bush, (this legislation would
have significantly increased the number of available hESC lines
available for research), a book for which I was profiled was released, Stem
Cell Wars. The book lays bare much of the dissembling by the Religious
Right on this important issue.
http://www.talk2action.org/story/2006/10/15/151651/45
CANDIDATES AND CAMPAIGNS
-----Ken Blackwell - Campaign Tour With Larry Pratt (a Christian
Reconstructionist), Talk To Action, October 6, 2006
The Akron Beacon-Journal coverage of the planned campaign tour of GOP
gubernatorial candidate Ken Blackwell with Larry Pratt raises the
profile of questions concerning his possible connection to Christian
Reconstructionist ideology, his alleged ties to the Council For National
Policy, and his real association with Larry Pratt, head of Gun Owners Of
America (Gun Owners Of America has its own radio show, and you can listen,
via RealPlayer, to a recent show featuring Pratt talking up and making
a donations pitch for the Ken Blackwell Gubernatorial campaign).
http://www.talk2action.org/story/2006/10/6/142946/80
SCANDALS
-----Foley Follies: Religious Right Blames The Left For Page Scandal,
Wall of Separation, October 10, 2006
Days after the scandal broke, the Dobson Focus on the Family Action
issued a press release – and found not only a way to exonerate House
Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) but to blame the entire sorry incident on
liberals who supposedly celebrate obscenity.
The Dobson release reads: Those truly interested in protecting children
from online predators should spend less time calling for Speaker
Hastert to step down, and more time demanding that the Justice Department
enforce existing laws that would limit the proliferation of the kind of
filth that leads grown men to think it is perfectly OK to send lurid
e-mails to 16-year-old boys... If any lasting cultural good could come out
of this awful incident, it would be Americans discarding the
politically correct notion fed to us by those on the left that obscenity is just
another form of free speech. (End quote)
http://blog.au.org/2006/10/foley_follies_r.html
-----The Religious Right Crusade for Decency, AlterNet, October 11,
2006
The Christian right has done its best to keep America obsessed with
clean, friendly family values. But what constitutes decency -- and where
does the Foley scandal fit in?
First-amendment specialist Frederick S. Lane explains all of this --
which he dubs the decency wars in his latest book, The Decency Wars: The
Campaign to Cleanse American Culture. This highly comprehensive history
book chronicles the advancement of the moralistic influence of the
Religious Right and evangelical on American public policy. I talked with
Lane shortly after the unveiling of the Foley-pages sex scandal.
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/42779/
SECTION 5 EDUCATION
-----AASA on Religion in Schools, Talk To Action, October 15, 2006
The American Association of School Administrators has devoted an entire
issue of The School Administrator to the issue of what is and isn\'t
allowed in terms of religion and public schools. They have invited folks
like Charles Haynes to write articles on the subject which contains
much good advice:
When school leaders ask how they should handle religion in public
schools, religious liberty attorney Oliver Thomas begins his answer with
this advice: The time to buy the fire truck is before the fire.(end quote)
http://www.talk2action.org/story/2006/10/15/235121/07
-----Evangelizing Good News Clubs quietly proliferate in public
elementary schools, JewsOnFirst.org, October 9, 2006
The Christian Right believes in getting them while they are young. Last
year, religious right groups embarked on a five-year campaign to
implant after-school _Good News Club_ in every public elementary school in
the United States. Mathew Staver, a leader of the club initiative and
President of Liberty Counsel, wrote: Classrooms are full of unchurched
children waiting to hear about a Savior who loves them and forgives sin...
(Good News Clubs are) high-powered Sunday school which can now be
established in the public schools immediately after School.(end quote)
http://www.jewsonfirst.org/goodnewsclubs.php
SECTION 6 TO BE A WOMAN, JEWISH, MUSLIN, GAY, WICCAN, MINORITY...
-----Liberty Sunday: Gay Bashing for Republican Victory, Talk To
Action, October 16, 2006
The Liberty Sunday rally on October 15, 2006 continued the orchestrated
campaign of gay bashing for Republican victory in the midterm
elections.
Tony Perkins, leader of the Family Research Council which staged the
event, told the audience, especially the viewers in other states, to vote
their values, especially in states where gay marriage is on the ballot.
And if they live in one of those states... they should call ten people
on election day. Perkins said that for gay rights activists, tolerance
is a one way street, and that the protestors want to silence the voice
of the church, even to the point of intimidating voters.
Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney strode onstage live accompanied by
his wife Ann. He had been scheduled to appear by video.
http://www.talk2action.org/story/2006/10/16/10925/259
-----Key Architect Said Religious Right Born In Racist Opposition To
Civil Rights Act, Talk To Action, October 13, 2006
In 1990 Randall Balmer, author of the new book Thy Kingdom Come: An
Evangelical Lament, was invited (inexplicably, he says) to meeting of key
religious right leaders and was suprised to hear key architect of the
religious right during the 1970s Paul Weyrich emphatically state that
what really started the movement going on there in the 1970s was not
outrage against Roe v. Wade but, rather, outrage over a move by the Carter
Administration justice dept. to enforce the Civil Rights Act by
rescinding the tax exempt status of Bob Jones University for its rules against
interracial dating.
http://www.talk2action.org/story/2006/10/13/95114/284
-----The Coming Gay Republican Purge, Max Blumenthal, The Nation,
October 12, 2006
Immediately after the Mark Foley scandal broke, some anti-Republican
gay-rights activists composed a memo containing the names of closeted gay
Republican Congressional staffers and sent it to leading
Christian-right advocacy groups. The founder and chairman of one of those groups, the
Rev. Don Wildmon of the American Family Association, told me he has
received that memo, which he referred to simply as The List.
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20061030/blumenthal
-----A video from Equality Ohio: Which Vision for Ohio?
...division, intolerance, persecution, theocracy or love, inclusion,
fairness, Democracy
http://www.equalityohio.org/twovisions.htm
-----Plan B and Plan B, Truthout, October 10, 2006
Just as women have finally won a concession from the Bush FDA that
makes the emergency contraceptive known as Plan B available without a
prescription, new reports abound that fundamentalist Christians are mounting
an effort to end the use of all contraceptives.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/101006R.shtml
SETION 7 ENVIRONMENT
-----Texans Pray for Halt to Power Plants, Truthout, October 12, 2006
Texans are grappling with the issue of building nineteen new coal
burning power plants. They are not the first state to be struggling with
foul air, but they are the first to go to the Lord in prayer about it. On
October 19, a variety of people in Texas will come together to pray.
Some will be prayer veterans, while others may be praying for the first
time in many years ... or ever. The people who care about God\'s earth
no longer fit into convenient stereotypes - Republican or Democrat,
conservative or liberal. What they share is a common concern for their
neighbors.
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/101206EA.shtml
-----Must see!!! Moyers on America: Is God Green?
A new holy war is growing within the conservative evangelical
community, with implications for both the global environment and American
politics. For years liberal Christians and others have made protection of the
environment a moral commitment. Now a number of conservative
evangelicals are joining the fight, arguing that man\'s stewardship of the planet
is a biblical imperative and calling for action to stop global warming.
But they are being met head-on by opposition from their traditional
evangelical brethren who adamantly support the Bush administration in
downplaying the threat of global warming and other environmental perils.
The political stakes are high: Three out of every four white evangelical
voters chose George W. Bush in 2004. Is God Green? explores how a
serious split among conservative evangelicals over the environment and
global warming could reshape American politics.
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/moyersonamerica/green/
-----Believers Preach Gospel of Green, Los Angeles Times , October 10,
2006
In Hollywood, the white knight in the fight against global warming is
Al Gore, whose film, An Inconvenient Truth, was received with great
media hoopla when it arrived in theaters earlier this year. But in much of
the rest of America, the man spearheading the battle against
catastrophic climate change is someone you would never see at the Ivy, hobnobbing
with the Bush-hating, abortion-allowing, carbon footprint calculating
nabobs of Hollywood elitism.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/101106O.shtml
SECTION 8 REPUBLICANS AND CHRISTIANS AGAINST THIS ADMINISTRATION
-----Mr. President, We Christians are not Nuts, Dailykos, October 15,
2006
You will have to excuse my short time and fuse this afternoon, as I
just came in from worship and am on my way to meet with a group of pastors
concerned about the direction of this great nation, but I did want all
my rowdy friends here to know one thing in spite of what the current
leadership in Washington may say and think.
We Christians are not *nuts* Mr. President. We are not *goofy* Mr.
Rove. We do not deserve your ridicule . And we will not be pawns in your
power hungry political games…
I encourage everyone, especially God fearing people of faith, to watch
60 Minutes tonight as David Kuo, the former No. 2 official in the
faith-based initiatives program, pulls back the veils of deception from this
administration. Then I encourage us all to join together and take our
country back.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/10/15/133957/57
SECTION 9 JESUS CAMP CONTINUED
-----Jesus Camp -- youth pastor directly linked to fascist brand of
charismatic movement, Dailykos, October 7, 2006
I just bought tickets to see Jesus Camp, the documentary film about a
charismatic Christian kids camp run by youth pastor Becky Fischer.
Fischer, already in spin control mode, has an FAQ on the Web site of her
ministry, Kids in Ministry International, in which she basically accuses
the film of being a hatchet job.
However, my journalist instinct got the better of me, so I decided to
delve a little more into what makes this ministry tick-- and the links I
have found are disturbing. Especially from my unique perspective as a
charismatic ( i.e., tongue-talking) Christian who is a Democrat.
Although she does not advertise it, Fischer has direct ties to a brand of
charismatic Christianity that is nothing more than fascism in Christian
dress.
There is a good reason that Fischer does not advertise her links to
this group. The gist of it is that Jesus cannot come back until a
*revived* church takes over the world and everything in it. God has supposedly
been looking for a *covenant people* since losing control of the world
to Satan in the Garden of Eden. These people, under submission to
restored apostles and prophets, will be his *extension* in the world to take
back authority from the devil. Christians are *little gods* with all of
the authority of Jesus. The church thus has the responsibility to take
over the world and put down all opposition to it. Anyone who rebels
against the church, along with other *evildoers* must convert or be
punished. Once the church has purged all evil from the world, Jesus can come
back.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/10/7/13262/6542
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PROTEST AT THE FONTAINE DES INNOCENTS
Saturday, November 11, 2006
Saturday October 28th AAW rally cancelled.We demonstrate our opposition to US foreign policy and its doctrine of permanent war - on the second and fourth Saturday of each month from 3pm to 5pm at the Fontaine des Innocents (Metro/RER: Chatelet Les Halles).
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testing css
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another test
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