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  • A RUEFUL LOOK AT GULLIBILITY
    3 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A RUEFUL LOOK AT GULLIBILITY
    By Peter Fredson
    There are many ways by which people learn the ways of the world. Experience is the prime teacher, but we also learn from other people. They can tell us about the hazards of life from fanged animals, smoking, taking drugs, imbibing alcohol, indulging in unprotected sex, speeding automobiles, smooth talking salespeople, scam artists, firearms, pedophiles, telemarketers, overindulging, bar room brawls, credit cards, and a host of other (…)

  • IS SIMPLE TRUST TOO SIMPLISTIC?
    1 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    SIMPLE TRUST
    By Peter Fredson
    June 1, 2005
    I live in a small town where voter apathy is at least 50% and on a rainy day will go even lower. I have very few complaints about the administration of this town. The public utilities are well managed. The water is quite drinkable except when our river gets very low, and then the water smells faintly like the bottom of a fish tank. The streets are swept often, the street lighting is adequate, potholes are fixed fairly soon, trash is removed on (…)

  • IT REALLY IS A CRUSADE
    28 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Gary Leupp
    [Gary Leupp is Professor of History at Tufts University, and Adjunct Professor of Comparative Religion]
    Days after the 9-11 attacks, George W. Bush informed Americans, "This crusade, this war on terrorism, is going to take awhile." As a Yale history major, he ought to have known what the medieval Crusades were all about: Christians against Muslims, mostly for control of Palestine, fought with all the viciousness and duplicity reflected in the recent film "The Kingdom of (…)

  • VATICAN & GOVERNMENT - HOMOGENESIS
    26 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Donald Newsom BloginService.com
    The end of Rome.
    Is it just me, or do I see perversions all throughout the Church(s), The Vatican, The White House, The Military, Skull & Bones Society, The Cabal, and Upper Levels of Government Agencies.
    If there is a separation of church and state.... these guys don’t know it yet. It’s a homorgy going on everywhere we expect decent, moral leaders to govern (protect and serve). They must be getting confused with the "Serve" part.
    I’m getting (…)

  • Why Do Americans Hate Muslims?
    26 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Why Do Americans Hate Muslims? Reem Al-Faisal, Arab News May 26, 2005 A few weeks ago an American I met at a friends house asked a much repeated query, “Why do you the Muslims hate the Americans?” To which I answered in the same way as all the preceding instances in which this question was posed to me: “We don’t hate the Americans, we might disagree with a certain US policy and dislike recent American actions in the Muslim world but we surely don’t hate the American people.”
    The American (…)

  • FBI Memo Reports Guantanamo Guards Flushing Koran
    26 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    FBI Memo Reports Guantanamo Guards Flushing Koran Wed May 25, 2005
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An FBI agent wrote in a 2002 document made public on Wednesday that a detainee held at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, had accused American jailers there of flushing the Koran down a toilet.
    The release of the declassified document came the week after the Bush administration denounced as wrong a May 9 Newsweek article that stated U.S. interrogators at Guantanamo had flushed a Koran down (…)

  • College Faculty, Students Oppose War
    24 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    College Faculty, Students Oppose War Bill Gallagher May 24, 2005 "As Christians we are called to be peacemakers, and to initiate war only as a last resort. We believe your administration has launched an unjust and unjustified war in Iraq." — An open letter to President George W. Bush from concerned faculty, staff and emeriti of Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Mich.
    DETROIT - Hallelujah! It’s time for rejoicing. When one-third of the faculty members of this distinguished Christian college (…)

  • In the news: Newsweek scandal...
    20 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The red cross confirmed similar behavior in U.S. controlled prisions regarding the holy book of the muslim: The Quoran.
    Newsweek was obviously forced to withdraw.
    See Spiegel Magazin (in German): http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,356663,00.html

  • NEWSWEEK DISSEMBLED, MUSLIMS DISMEMBERED!
    19 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "Newsweek Dissembled, Muslims Dismembered!"
    By Ann Coulter FrontPageMagazine.com | May 19, 2005
    When ace reporter Michael Isikoff had the scoop of the decade, a thoroughly sourced story about the president of the United States having an affair with an intern and then pressuring her to lie about it under oath, Newsweek decided not to run the story. Matt Drudge scooped Newsweek, followed by the Washington Post.
    When Isikoff had a detailed account of Kathleen Willey’s nasty sexual (…)

  • Newsweek report on Quran matches many earlier accounts
    16 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    RAW STORY
    Contrary to White House assertions, the allegations of religious desecration at Guantanamo published by Newsweek May 6 are common among ex-prisoners and have been widely reported outside the United States, RAW STORY has learned.
    Advertisement Several former detainees at the Guantanamo and Bagram airbase prisons have reported instances of their handlers sitting or standing on the Quran, throwing or kicking it in toilets, and urinating on it.
    Where the Newsweek report likely (…)