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  • Living together: an interview with Tariq Ramadan
    31 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Oscar Reyes
    Tariq Ramadan is one Europe’s leading progressive Muslim scholars. He talked to Oscar Reyes about integration, multiculturalism and the role of the global justice movement after the London bombings.
    The British government says the London terror attacks have nothing to do with its foreign policy, the press chastises talk of the alienation among young Muslims, and Muslim leaders say the attacks have nothing to do with Islam. What steps need to be taken to move beyond these (…)

  • MILLENNIUM CRISIS + E-MAIL from another PLANET +
    30 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Millennium Crisis E-Mail from another Planet An FBI report titled, Megiddo ( site of Armageddon ) was a controversial Millennium terrorist report prepared in 1999 and sent to law enforcement to prepare them for possible acts of violence in 2000. It was controversial because it fingered Christian fundamentalist groups, the agency claimed they were still sensitive about the implications of the Oklahoma city bombings. From a distant point in space, it appears the FBI did not take into (…)

  • Venezuela’s President Chavez is to be commended for being the truth-teller!
    29 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Mary MacElveen
    In light of Pat Robertson calling for the assassination of President Hugo Chavez then apologizing for it, what I have witnessed is the sounds of silence coming from all of our elected leaders, be they Democrat or Republican, chiming in unison that this was wrong.
    Then again, it goes hand in hand with the culture of death we are living with in this country.
    Yes, you heard me correctly ... this is a culture of death where the benefactors are the rich and the powerful (…)

  • Latin Nations Call for Punishment of Pat Robertson
    29 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Source: La Jornada (Mexico)
    sent & translated by Luis Martin
    Foreign Ministers of the Latin American countries belonging to the
    Rio Group expressed confidence that U.S. authorities will set in
    motion the "appropiate legal processes" to punish the call of
    evangelical telepreacher Pat Robertson to assassinate Venezuelan
    president Hugo Chavez.
    The declaration, signed by diplomats of 19 Latin American and
    Caribbean nations meeting in Bariloche, Argentina states, in relevant
    part: (…)

  • Expelling the Demons of the Opiate (Reposted for Pat Robertson)
    27 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    www.valenzuelasveritas.blogspot.com
    Originally published February 2005
    Writer’s Note: This is a social criticism and commentary on religion, meant to stir thought and insight into a different way of seeing the world. My wish is not to offend anyone’s beliefs, only to open minds to new realms of understanding and to what just might be possible. I do not claim to be right, or to know the truth. Quite simply, I wish only for the reader to absorb this essay with an open mind, willing to (…)

  • Pat and Hugo: The Real Story - Part 1 Rev. Robertson’s Call to Assassinate Hugo Chavez
    26 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    For BBC Television and the Guardian newspapers of Britain, Greg Palast has conducted two award-winning investigations of both Pat Robertson and Hugo Chavez, President of Venezuela. To understand who these guys are — why Robertson would shoot at Chavez, and why Chavez would laugh at Robertson, read on...
    WHY DICK CHENEY WON’T PLAY IN HUGO CHAVEZ’ BAND
    There’s so much BS and baloney thrown around about Venezuela that I may be violating some rule of US journalism by providing some facts. (…)

  • Rev. Jesse Jackson Condemns Pat Robertson’s Calls to Kill Venezuela President
    25 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By: Cleto Sojo
    U.S. civil rights leader Reverend Jesse Jackson Sr., condemned calls by conservative Christian Coalition leader Pat Robertson’s to assassinate Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
    “These comments are morally reprehensible and dangerously suggestive. The international community repudiates Robertson’s remarks, and calls upon him to retract his remarks,” Jackson said in a press release.
    “Calling for the assassination of world leaders is inciteful and wildly provocative. It is (…)

  • Christian Coalition leader Pat Robertson calls for assassination of Venezuelan president
    25 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By John Levine and David Walsh
    Pat Robertson, the Christian fundamentalist politician and broadcaster with close ties to the Bush administration, has publicly called for the assassination of the president of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez.
    Robertson issued his Mafia-like appeal for the US government to “take out” Chavez on his television show “The 700 Club,” broadcast to over one million viewers on his own Christian Broadcast Network and Disney’s ABC Family Network. After a ten-minute news clip (…)

  • Human Rights and Religious Groups Condemn Pat Robertson’s Attack on Venezuela
    25 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By: Venezuelanalysis.com
    Caracas, Venezuela, August 23, 2005 -The U.S.-based Human Rights group Global Exchange and the National Council of Churches issued separate statements in which they condemned fundamentalist televangelist Pat Robertson’s call for the assassination of Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez.
    Global Exchange said it strongly condemns the actions of Bush supporter Pat Robertson in his call for the assassination of democratically-elected President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela. (…)

  • Pat Robertson - There’s no fool like an old fool!
    24 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Pat Robertson - There’s no fool like an old fool! (23.08.2005)
    Republican "Christian" broadcaster Pat Robertson has suggested that the U.S. government should assassinate Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez!
    Pat Robertson told viewers of his "The 700 Club" show that "We have the ability to take him out, and I think the time has come that we exercise that ability" and that "We don’t need another $200 billion war to get rid of one strong-arm dictator. It’s a whole lot easier to have some of (…)