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  • Theocons and Theocrats By Kevin Phillips 04/18/06 ("The Nation")
    19 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Theocons and Theocrats
    By Kevin Phillips
    04/18/06 "The Nation" - [from the May 1, 2006 issue] — Is theocracy in the United States (1) a legitimate fear, as some liberals argue; (2) a joke, given the nation’s rising secular population and moral laxity; (3) a worrisome bias of major GOP constituencies and pressure groups; or (4) all of the above? The last, I would argue.
    The characteristics are not inconsistent. No large nation—no leading world power—could ever resemble theocracies like (…)

  • Growing popularity of Sufism in Iran
    18 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Growing popularity of Sufism in Iran
    Roxana Saberi
    BBC News Tehran
    The lights are dimmed in a home in northern Tehran. The men, women and teenagers gathered in the large living room close their eyes and rock back and forth to the beat of live music.
    As the tambourine and drums beat louder and faster, some members of the group climb to their feet. They begin to swirl slowly in circles and raise their hands to the ceiling. A few fall into trances.
    "You can somehow touch relaxation," (…)

  • FLYING HIGH: A VERY EARLY HISTORY OF SPACE TRAVEL
    16 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Peter Fredson
    April 16, 2006
    People, watching birds, probably wished they too could fly. In ancient times, in many countries, flying Gods were imagined by story tellers, who invested them with immortality, supernatural powers to overcome natural conditions such as gravity, with the ability to live in the sky and travel through space.
    In Ancient Sumer, gods flew in vehicles called Shems, described as rocket-like "rocks” emitting fire. It was thought possible to travel to the sky home (…)

  • Cry Armagaddon and let loose the dogs of war!
    13 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Freddy vs.Jason? Alien vs. Predator?....only movies, and not even good ones at that.
    But what about a new dopey scenario, not invented in Hollywood? BUSH vs. AHMADENIJAD?
    For the first time in history the outdated End Times script is being dusted off by BOTH sides of the international political spectrum, giving rise to possible self fullfillment of an event not only predicted in the Bible but in Islamic text!
    Most who live on this planet realize that mankind often seems obsessed with (…)

  • WHY EASTER BUNNIES LAY COLORED EGGS
    9 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    ABOUT EASTER BUNNIES AND EGGS
    By Peter Fredson
    April 9, 2006
    A nephew in Mexico e-mailed me a question concerning Easter. His wife is a school teacher, and her pupils wanted to know why in the U.S. bunnies and colored eggs are associated with Easter.
    Most of the Mexican pupils were raised as Catholics and they only know of the alleged crucifixion, death, resurrection, and ascension of Christ in connection with Easter symbolism (Las Pascuas). No bunnies, no Easter Eggs. How did (…)

  • VATICAN INFLUENCE ON THE U.S. PRESIDENCY
    8 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    VATICAN INFLUENCE ON THE U.S. PRESIDENCY
    Many Americans are victims of the illusion, carefully crafted, that the Catholic bishops have no significant influence on American presidents. No doubt the degree of influence differs from one president to the next. But they all feel and respond to this influence.
    The National Catholic Reporter, a major national Catholic weekly newspaper, published a most revealing report in its December 29, 1989 issue. Doug Wead, special assistant to President (…)

  • A campaign against Muslims (ISR)
    8 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    ISR Issue 46, March-April 2006 http://www.isreview.org/issues/46/campaign.shtml
    By LEE SUSTAR
    THE CONTROVERSY over a Danish newspaper’s publication of caricatures of Muhammad is the result of an anti-Muslim campaign by the West that justifies everything from Washington’s imperialist “long war” against “terrorism” to vicious crackdowns on immigrants across Europe and the United States.
    Moreover, the crisis highlights the failure of the antiwar movement in the U.S. to defend the civil (…)

  • How the Vatican influences and supports the Bush Administration
    8 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Vatican Connection: How the Roman Catholic Church Influences the Republican Party.
    John M Swomley on how, in the 1996 elections Robert Dole’s endorsement of the Catholic political agenda, along with a similar endorsement by the Republican Party platform, made the Republican Party in effect a religious or sectarian party, how the Catholic bishops took action to aid the Republican Party and how Henry Hyde, in turn, according to the National Catholic Reporter, invited Catholics to help (…)

  • Daniel Pipes, the expert of hate (Voltaire)
    7 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    New world order Daniel Pipes, the expert of hate http://www.voltairenet.org/article136260.html
    Omnipresent expert in television studios and regular commentator of American mainstream newspapers, Daniel Pipes has become the world theorist of the Islamphobia. The son of Richard Pipes, the Sovietologist that resumed the arms race during the Ford Administration, and spiritual son of Robert Strausz-Hupé, the visionary of the new world order, Daniel Pipes, directs a lot of strategic institutes. (…)

  • How the GOP Became God’s Own Party by Kevin Phillips ("Washington Post")
    4 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    04/02/06 "Washington Post" - http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12617.htm
    — Now that the GOP has been transformed by the rise of the South, the trauma of terrorism and George W. Bush’s conviction that God wanted him to be president, a deeper conclusion can be drawn: The Republican Party has become the first religious party in U.S. history.
    We have had small-scale theocracies in North America before — in Puritan New England and later in Mormon Utah. Today, a leading power (…)