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Highlights Pakistan Earthquake Relief Donate by Mail / Fax USA for UNHCR United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees ... Donations by mail or fax should be sent to the following address: USA for UNHCR 1775 K Street, NW Suite 290 Washington, DC 20006 Fax: 202-296-1081 Please make checks payable to "USA for UNHCR" ------- Oxfam America Oxfam Pakistan Relief Checks, payable to "Oxfam America," can be sent to: Oxfam America P.O. Box 1211 Albert Lea, MN 56007-1211 ------- Friends of Dr. Pak Save Bo Hi Pak ... Sun-Myung Moon Motto 2006 ... The Leaping Hope Inclusive History, The Good and the Bad Exposition / Principle The Second Coming of Elijah Sun-Myung Moon Motto for 2005 Nur abdur Rashid You Come Down Again, Your Own Self... Features: General News - Some of the Good - Some of the Mid-lands - Some of the Bad War(s) On Terror War(s) Of Terror Institutionalized Terror Historisists... Israeli-Palestinian North-South Koreans Africans Completed Testament - Spritual-Physical - Sexual Indentity - Species-Race Identity - Let It Be Humour & Cartoons Music & The Arts UN.ORG Infonation Jacob Lund Fisker GENUINE PROGRESS INDICATOR-- GPI Rosemary Horton Economic Indicators Pacific Research World and U.S. Indices News Sites ABC News Agence France Presse Al-Ahram Aljazeera All Africa Arabic News Arab World News Asia Times BBC Behind/Homefront Black Commentator Black Electorate Black Press USA Buzztracker Map CNN.com Common Dreams Counter Punch Cutting Edge Democracy Now Dick/Gregory.com Discovery Magazine Dissent Magazine Drudge Report Economist Flickr.com Foreign Policy/Focus Four Corners Global Free Press Guardian Haaretz iafrica.com Int. Herald Tribune Independent IOL (S. Africa) Information -- Clearinghouse Institute for Policy Studies Intervention Islam Online Khilafah Korean Dictionary Korea Herald Korea Times Marumushi Map Middle East Online Middle East Times Muslimedia National Vanguard News Making News Newsweek New Yorker Occupation Watch One World One Heart Polling Report Raiders Radio Islam Reliable Alternatives Rense Reuters Roadsters SF BayView Segye Times Serendipity Spiegel The Voice The Final Call The Nation Time Magazine Townhall.com Truth Out UN.org Unknown News UPI Uruknet US News/World Report Washington Times Wikipedia WN Mideast World & I World News, Mapped World Tribune Think Tanks Africa Action AmeriTF-Palestine Family Federation Foreign Policy In Focus Wash-Institute NEP Other Resources Amazon.com Chinese Dictionary Hyperditionary / Thesaurus Korea/English Dictionary Urban Dictionary Previous Reports / Topics The Leaping Hope Morality, Sexuality, and Globalism Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee The Autobiography of Malcolm X Aldous Huxley's Brave New World Mohandas Gandhi Waseem Shehzad Two years after 9/11 William Bunch Why Don't We Have Answers to These 9/11 Questions? Geobopological Survey Assorted Secret Societies (true/false) Click Here for More Stories.

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The pain of the Palestinians and the Koreans need to be resolved, so that all the satanic world can be loved as true Brothers and Sisters. From the Parents' position, all are in the position of Brothers, all nations from one to a hundred and twenty. Sun-Myung Moon Motto 2006 ... Relief Web Pakistan - Earthquake: Situation Report Jennifer Cunningham Thousands need shelter in bitter cold of Kashmir Some of the Good ... Associated Press Vatican seeks to expand Catholic-Jewish talks to include Muslims Francesco Sisci Why the West must reOrient Some of the Mid-lands ... John Maxwell Haitian Election Sends World a Message Korea Times Agent Orange Victims Win Lawsuit Two US Firms Ordered to Pay $62 Million in Medical Compensation Some of the Bad ... Newsweek The Trouble With Boys They're kinetic, maddening and failing at school. Now educators are trying new ways to help them succeed. Return To Previous Reports in this Category / Nov-Dec 2005 War(s) On Terror ... Arnaud de Borchgrave The fifth horseman Published March 17, 2006 -- As President Bush's closest advisers enter their fifth year of 16- to 20-hour days, physical and mental exhaustion appears to have produced a dearth of geopolitical thinking. Mr. Bush still sees translucent light at the end of the Iraqi tunnel he led the coalition into three years ago. Others are afraid this may be the search party looking for survivors -- or Iran's Aladdin lamp showing Shia Iraq how to rub it for a wish back to the dark ages of religious obscurantism. To sort it all out, Congress has asked veteran bipartisan geopolitical thinkers James A. Baker III, the former secretary of state, and Lee H. Hamilton, former chairman of the House International Relations Committee, and co-chairman of the September 11 Commission, to lead an "Iraq Study Group" of 10 prominent Republicans and Democrats. With the president's "war on terror" ratings down to 36 percent, the Iraqi "rethink" group came not a moment too soon. Much bigger threats than civil war in Iraq already loom on horizon 2007. Israel is marking its new frontier with a 420-mile, $2.2 billion barrier that leaves Hamas free to cobble together a state from the patchwork of land left, sans East Jerusalem, which can be neither viable nor contiguous, as pledged by Mr. Bush. Intifada III is now only a matter of time -- with rockets and missiles over the wall. If Pakistan's next elections were held now instead of 2007, Osama bin Laden's Urdu-speaking fan club could easily win a majority -- and inherit control of Pakistan's nuclear arsenal. Today, they already govern two of Pakistan's four provinces... The Associated Press Annan Says US Should Close Gitmo Prison The Observer The drone, the CIA and a botched attempt to kill bin Laden's deputy Return To Previous Reports in this Category / Nov-Dec 2005 War(s) of Terror -- Africa Again? ? BBC Sudan dispute dogs African summit Riek Machar Colonial Britain Hands Over South Sudan to the North Olivier Barlet The modernity of genocide A burning question remains : why the horror ? . . . What is behind the genocides of the twentieth century if it is not the egocentrism and insecurity accompanying the affirmation of the individual's autonomy which characterizes modernity ? The temptation to project onto the other what is ours is strong. And a Rwandan proverb tells us : "Nta wiyanga nk'uwanga undi (Nobody hates himself more than he who hates others)". In their quest to surpass, artists open themselves up to all influences and facilitate the removal of projections. They thus explore a fraternity in which the identities of each and everyone are no longer the centre of human identities : not a fraternity of blood, but a fraternity of sharing. Return To Previous Reports in this Category / Nov-Dec 2005 What is Institutionalised Terror ? Internation Herald Tribune An Indictment of America -- Editorial When Human Rights Watch, a respected organization that has been monitoring the world's behavior since 1978, focuses its annual review on America's use of torture and inhumane treatment, every American should feel a sense of shame. And everyone who has believed in the United States as the staunchest protector of human rights in history should be worried. Many nations - Belarus, Uzbekistan, Zimbabwe, Myanmar, Cuba, Sudan and China to name only some of the worst - routinely trample on human rights in a way that neither the United States nor any of its allies would ever countenance. But the United States wrote the book on human rights; it defined the alternative to tyranny and injustice. So when the vice president of the United States actually lobbies against a bill that bans "cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment," Human Rights Watch is justified in delivering harsh criticism. Daily Kos US Army Admits Use of White Phosphorus as Weapon Dahr Jamail 'Pacified' Fallujah Joseph Lelyveld The Strange Case of Chaplain Yee Asian Times CIA's 'black sites' breed more evil Amnesty International CASE SHEET 12 -- Ethiopian national/UK resident: Benyam Mohammed al Habashi Neil Mackay One victim's story Wikipedia Johan Galtung's Notion of "Structural Violence" Adam Curie Structural Violence and Making Peace: Building a new belief network Peter Beaumont Revealed: grim world of new Iraqi torture camps Ashraf Fahim The perils of colonial justice in Iraq Andrew Buncombe and Kim Sengupta Secret U.S. Jails Hold 10,000 Professor Manning Marable 9/11: Racism in a Time of Terror I think that as Americans, we must also make a clear distinction between "guilt" and "responsibility." The Al Qaeda group is indeed guilty of committing mass murder. But the United States government is largely responsible for creating the conditions for reactionary Islamic fundamentalism to flourish. During Reagan's administration, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) provided over three billion dollars to finance the mujahadeen's guerilla war against the Soviet Union's military presence in Afghanistan. The CIA used Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence, or secret police, to equip and train tens of thousands of Islamic fundamentalists in the tactics of guerilla warfare. . . . There is a clear link between 9/11 and the shameful political maneuvering committed by the U.S. at the United Nations World Conference Against Racism held in Durban, South Africa, only days before the terrorist attacks. There the U.S. government opposed the definition of slavery as "a crime against humanity." It refused to acknowledge the historic and contemporary effects of colonialism and racial segregation on the underdevelopment and oppression of the non-European world. The majority of dark humanity is saying to the United States that racism and militarism are not the solutions to the world's major problems. Transnational capitalism and the repressive neoliberal policies of structural adjustment represent a dead end for the developing world. We can only end the threat of terrorism by addressing constructively the routine violence of poverty, hunger, and exploitation that characterize the daily existence of several billion people on this planet. Racism is, in the final analysis, only another form of violence. . . . Return To Previous Reports in this Category / Nov-Dec 2005 Historisists... Ain't that odd ? Warren Hedges New Historicism Explained What Really Happened? The Fatal Shot Came From a Different Direction Nation of Islam The Murder of Malcolm X The Effect on Black People Multimedia Video Webcast by the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan February 1990, Malcolm X College, Chicago, IL Robert Oscar Lopez Saving Rosa Parks from American Hypocrisy Nkechi Taifa Crack, Congress, and The Million Movement March Russell Simmons Response to Abraham Foxman about the Millions More Movement The Memory Bank Teaching Social Anthropology Web's Biggest The World's Top Anthropology Web Sites Exposition of the Principle The Foundation for the Messiah ... In conclusion, Jacob was victorious in taking responsibility for the indemnity course to pay for Abraham's mistake. By using his wisdom for the sake of God's Will, Jacob triumphed as an individual in his struggle with Esau to win the birthright. He entered Haran and, as a family, triumphed in a twenty-one-year struggle with his uncle Laban to win the birthright. On his way back from Haran to Canaan, Jacob was victorious in the fight with the angel. He was the first fallen man to fulfill the indemnity condition to restore dominion over the angel. Thereupon, he received the name "Israel,"75(Gen. 32:28) signifying that he set the pattern and laid the groundwork upon which the chosen people would be established. After returning to Canaan with these victories, Jacob won Esau's heart, and together they fulfilled the indemnity condition to remove the fallen nature. Jacob thus victoriously completed the model course to bring Satan to submission. Moses, Jesus, and even the people of Israel would walk this course after the pattern set by Jacob. The history of Israel can serve as a good historical source for understanding the course to bring Satan to submission on the national level. For this reason, it is central to the study of the providence of restoration. Return To Previous Reports in this Category / Nov-Dec 2005 Israeli-Palestinian Re-unification ... Phyllis Bennis Hamas Wins the Palestinian Elections Ali Abunimah Hamas Election Victory: A Vote for Clarity Return To Previous Reports in this Category / Nov-Dec 2005 North and South Korean Re-unification ... Ryu Jin / Korean Times Trade Minister Sees 'Small Unification' in Kaesong Complex South Korean enterprises can find good opportunities in the joint industrial complex of Kaesong in North Korean in terms of economy and trade, Seoul�s trade minister said on Sunday. "I have a feeling a small reunification is taking place in the industrial park there," Minister for Trade Kim Hyun-chong said on his recent trip to Kaesong in an interview with Yonhap news agency. "It could be an alternative for South Korean companies." Kim Rahn / Korean Times Robert Kim Arrives in Homeland After 9 Yrs "I was not a spy, nor was I hired by Korea government. I just passed information Baek would need by his request, or voluntarily, but without taking any money in return for the information," Kim told reporters at a press conference at Incheon International Airport. He also said he did not intend to damage U.S. security and the information was not about the nation�s security or defense. "However, as a result, I violated the U.S. government's regulations and I feel sorry to have occasioned the Korean people so much anxiety," he said. He added he does resent either the Korean or the U.S. government. Lee Jin-Woo / Korean Times Uri Criticizes GNP for Inflaming Ideology Issues Ruling Uri Party (Liberal) chairman Moon Hee-sang Tuesday strongly attacked the opposition Grand National Party (Conservative) for taking advantage of an ideological dispute resulting from a sociology professor's pro-North Korean remarks... "The GNP (Conservative) seems to have confused anti-communist policies during the Cold War era with liberal democracy," presidential spokesman Kim Man-soo (Liberal) said. "On the morning of April 9, 1975, eight intellectuals, who were falsely charged as North Korean spies, were executed within 20 hours of the Supreme Court's ruling..." Korean Herald President warns against 'great power politics' Roh to return home tomorrow after 10-day tour NEW YORK - President Roh Moo-hyun yesterday stressed the world must eradicate the legacies of imperialism and avoid "great power politics" in international affairs during his speech before the U.N. World Summit in New York. He called for the multinational body to undergo reform underscoring the importance of it regaining moral authority. An Sang-Nam Why North Korea isn't talking The View from Pyongyang Moon Sun-Myung North and South, East and West; Proclaiming "God's Fatherland and the Era of the Peace Kingdom" in 2004 Return To Previous Reports in this Category / Nov-Dec 2005 African Re-unification ... CNN Mourners pay tribute to Rosa Parks Craig S. Smith The New York Times Migrants reported found in desert The New York Times Veronica Nmoma The Civil War and the Refugee Crisis in Liberia American Historical Review Autobiography of Omar ibn Said, Slave in North Carolina, 1831 (b. 1770?) UNC.edu Portrait of Omar ibn Said Molefi Kete Asante Afrocentricity: Toward a New Understanding of African Thought in this Millennium James Dunn Imhotep, Doctor, Architect, High Priest, Scribe and Vizier to King Djoser Tour Egypt Netjenkhet Djoser, (reigned 2630-2611 BC) the 2nd King of Egypt's 3rd Dynasty Wikipedia The Land of Punt (in Egyptian called "Ta Netjeru", meaning "Land of the Gods"), was a fabled and exotic site in eastern Africa, which carried on extensive trade with Ancient Egypt, China and Arabia. It was also the land to which the ancient Egyptians traced their origin. Wikipedia Khoisan Khoisan is the name for several ethnic groups of southern Africa, where they seem to have appeared many tens of thousands of years ago, and that share some specific physical and linguistic characteristics. They were the original inhabitants of much of southern Africa before the Bantu migrations southward and later European people. Physically, however, the Khoisan, with their short frames, yellow-brown skin, epicanthic eye folds and small arms and feet, were quite distinct from the darker-skinned Africans who constitute the majority of Africa's population. The physical features of the Khoisan are slightly similar to the Mongoloids (who live primarily in East Asia). UPI Niger food crisis raises alarm UPI Severe child malnutrition growing in Niger Emira Woods Mandela's Powerful Message, "Africa's Time Has Come" The fifth and final step is affirming Africa's resource rights. Ninety percent of all U.S. engagement with Africa is in the extractive industries--oil, mining, timber, and minerals. Countries like Nigeria are perhaps the most egregious. In spite of the rich oil flowing onshore and off, the average Nigerian has the same standard of living as his or her grandparents did in 1960, before any oil was drilled. Firestone in Liberia signed 99-year leases to extract rubber for 3 cents per hectare. This rape of Africa is unconscionable. Africa's resources must benefit its own people. Demands of accountability, transparency, and ethics must be made not only on African governments but also on U.S. companies. Life Site UNICEF Nigerian Polio Vaccine Contaminated with Sterilizing Agents Scientist Finds Scientist says things discovered in vaccines are "harmful, toxic" KADUNA, Nigeria, March 11, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A UNICEF campaign to vaccinate Nigeria's youth against polio may have been a front for sterilizing the nation. Dr. Haruna Kaita, a pharmaceutical scientist and Dean of the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences of Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria, took samples of the vaccine to labs in India for analysis... African-Union.Org African Union in a Nutshell The advent of the African Union (AU) can be described as an event of great magnitude in the institutional evolution of the continent. On 9.9.1999, the Heads of State and Government of the Organisation of African Unity issued a Declaration (the Sirte Declaration) calling for the establishment of an African Union, with a view, inter alia, to accelerating the process of integration in the continent, to enable the continent to play its rightful role in the global economy while addressing multifaceted social, economic, and political problems--compounded as they are by certain negative aspects of globalisation... African Front In 2002 the Secretariat of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) was transformed into the Commission of the African Union (AU) LEADERS of the AFRICAN UNION (AU) The AU was the culmination of a 100-year-long process of political and economic integration. The AU retains the privileges and rights of a federated sovereignty, with the mandate to defend its territory, secure the unity of Africans, and protect the people's lives. The AU is also product of the amalgamation of the Organization of African Unity (formed in 1963) with the African Community (formed in 1991). The General Secretariat of the OAU served as the secretariat of the African Community until the formation of the AU. In 2002 the Secretariat of the OAU was transformed into the Commission of the African Union with the mandate to serve as the secretariat of the Pan African Parliament, and to share responsibilities with the NEPAD Secretariat and coordinate some of the work of the other institutions and organs of the African Union. AU Head of State (President of the Pan African Parliament) Gertrude Ibengwe Mongella - January 2004 to Present ... African Front Brief Overview of the HIstory of the African Union Towards African National Sovereignty Nat Hentoff An Ally from Hell CIA's close relationship with Sudan's government enables genocide there to continue. OXFAM The situation in Darfur remains desperate While the country celebrates peace in the North South conflict that has raged for 21 years, another conflict--that in Darfur --continues. Thalif Deen African Force Too Weak to Stop Darfur Killings Todd Bensman The Herero say the 20th century's bleak history of genocide started with them in this small, dusty farming burg in Namibia, once the German colony of South-West Africa. Yvon Neptune Haiti : Letter From Prime Minister Yvon Neptune -- March 04, 2005 Ellen Knickmeyer Ivory Coast: Why the One-Time "Paris of Africa" Is Sliding Into War, and Why It Matters An AP News Analysis Return To Previous Reports in this Category / Nov-Dec 2005 Completed Testament ... Good News / bad news Frontlines / Spiritual-Physical Resurrection ... Reverend Sun-Myung Moon God's Ideal Family - the Model for World Peace: Inaugural Convocation of the Universal Peace Federation Keynote Address -- Reverend Dr. Sun Myung Moon September 12, 2005 - Lincoln Center, New York, New York From 1904 to 1915, the Kaiser's troops systematically exterminated as many as 80,000 Herero, a scarcely known slaughter of Teutonic efficiency that produced forced labor camps, sex slaves and the first academic "studies" of supposed Aryan superiority... Yvon Neptune Haiti : Letter From Prime Minister Yvon Neptune -- March 04, 2005 Ellen Knickmeyer Ivory Coast: Why the One-Time "Paris of Africa" Is Sliding Into War, and Why It Matters An AP News Analysis Return To Previous Reports in this Category / Nov-Dec 2005 Completed Testament ... Good News / bad news Frontlines / Spiritual-Physical Resurrection ... Reverend Sun-Myung Moon God's Ideal Family - the Model for World Peace: Inaugural Convocation of the Universal Peace Federation Keynote Address -- Reverend Dr. Sun Myung Moon September 12, 2005 - Lincoln Center, New York, New York ... The science and technology of the 21st century render it possible to construct a tunnel under the Bering Strait. The construction costs are also not a problem. Think of how much money the world is wasting on war. Humanity needs to realize that we are committing fearful sins in the presence of history and our descendants. Let us take one example. How much money has the United States spent on the war in Iraq during the past three years? It is approaching $200 billion. That budget would be more than enough to complete the Bering Strait project. Why must we continue this insane barbarism, pouring countless dollars into wars that do not accomplish anything more than death? Now is the time, as the prophet Isaiah taught, to beat our swords into ploughshares and spears into pruning hooks. Humankind should end the perverse cycle of sacrificing our children's lives and squandering astronomical sums of money to fight wars only for the sake of war. The time has come for the countries of the world to pool their resources and advance toward the world of peace desired by God, the Master of this great universe... Today we are participating in the inauguration of the Universal Peace Federation. It represents God's victory, the fruit of the True Parents' blood, sweat and tears, and the world's cherished hope. It will carry out the role of an Abel-type United Nations in relation to the existing United Nations. Under the banner of the Universal Peace Federation, we will serve as peace police and peace army to safeguard global peace. I hope that you will put on new armor in this new age and be wise and brave activists in this worldwide peace force, for the sake of humanity's future. Friends of Dr. Pak Background of Bo Hi Pak's Trial and Incarceration in Korea For the past several years Dr. Pak has been working on some projects to raise a large endowment fund for the continued operation of the Korean Cultural Foundation, the Little Angels and the Universal Ballet. In addition he was trying to set up a new foundation called "The Korean Peoples Unification Foundation" in order to promote and realize the dream of the peaceful reunification of the Korean peninsula. He had many other ideas and programs that he wanted to realize for the spiritual and ethical revitalization of the Korean people. As anyone who is acquainted with Dr. Pak knows he is an irrepressible man of action to whom retirement or idleness is an impossibility. For these reasons he was desperately pursuing some ill advised and ill-fated fundraising schemes introduced to him by some church members. To make a long story short Dr. Pak became a victim of international criminal scam artists who defrauded him of all of his money with the promise of huge financial support to the foundations. Bo Hi Pak Excerpt from "Messiah" -- On Reverend Moon's Meeting with President Nixon, Regarding Watergate Rev. Michael Jenkins Building Trust With Religious Leaders in The Holy Land American Clergy Leadership Conference Exchanging the Cross for the Crown Christian Leaders to Carry Cross, Then Take It Down in Effort for Peace and Reconciliation Return To Previous Reports in this Category / Nov-Dec 2005 Frontlines / Sexual Identity ... Associated Press Parents Fume: Kids, Swingers at Same Hotel ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Some teenage soccer players and their parents saw more sights than they wanted when they stayed at a hotel where about 200 swingers were having a New Year's party.. Sharon Hughes A New Face for Gay Pride The Gay Culture II In "The Overhauling of Straight America: Waging Peace Part Two" written in 1987, it outlines the recommended steps to be taken in order for America to accept homosexuality as normal... "To desensitize the public is to help it view homosexuality with indifference instead of with keen emotion...if you can only get them to think that it is just another thing, with a shrug of their shoulders then your battle for legal and social rights is virtually won..." To bring a balance of resource sites I recommend visiting Changing Worldviews' Issues Library under Dr. Christopher Wolfe's and Dr. Warren Throckmorton's interviews with us for links such as People Can Change, and Is Homosexuality Genetic? See: changingworldviews.com/IssuesLibrary.htm#homosexuality Changing World Views Resources on the issue of Homosexuality Matt C. Abbott My priest sources tell me that the archdiocese is about 70 to 90 percent gay Dennis Prager Judaism's Sexual Revolution: Why Judaism (and then Christianity) Rejected Homosexuality When Judaism demanded that all sexual activity be channeled into marriage, it changed the world. The Torah's prohibition of non-marital sex quite simply made the creation of Western civilization possible. Societies that did not place boundaries around sexuality were stymied in their development. The subsequent dominance of the Western world can largely be attributed to the sexual revolution initiated by Judaism and later carried forward by Christianity. This revolution consisted of forcing the sexual genie into the marital bottle. It ensured that sex no longer dominated society, heightened male-female love and sexuality (and thereby almost alone created the possibility of love and eroticism within marriage), and began the arduous task of elevating the status of women. It is probably impossible for us, who live thousands of years after Judaism began this process, to perceive the extent to which undisciplined sex can dominate man's life and the life of society. Throughout the ancient world, and up to the recent past in many parts of the world, sexuality infused virtually all of society. Henry Makow, PhD Let's Reserve Sex for Marriage ... Gay or straight, we are all becoming homosexual because we cannot achieve the spiritual union or permanent intimacy that we really crave. Sex is mistaken for love and replaces it, thereby assuming a deceptive importance. We are obsessed with it. Because it cannot satisfy our real need, we continue to up the ante and become kinkier. We judge people strictly by their sex appeal and are cruelly indifferent to those who are not physically attractive. Women develop eating disorders. The aged naturally are treated with contempt. We compensate for failure to find permanent love by making a public display of our promiscuity. This is supposed to affirm our freedom and identity. TV and movies testify to this perverse trend. In many cases homosexuals now are defining heterosexual norms. ("Sex and the City"; "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy"; "Kinsey: Let's Talk About Sex") We are in constant denial about our malaise and the forces that enslave us. . (See my "Is this Gay Behavior Sick? http://www.savethemales.ca/201101.html ) In contrast, heterosexuality is monogamous, exclusive and private. It is concerned with procreation, nurturing, and personal development. Russell D. Moore Homosexuality, Racism, and the Eclipse of the Gospel Carlton Johnson Cultural diversity and Moral diversity are two different constructs... Steve Chin Marriage is multicultural BigEye.com Sex Education Return To Previous Reports in this Category / Sept-Oct 2005 Frontlines / Species-Race Identity ... Madeleine Bunting There is No Stop Button in the Race for Human Re-Engineering Science will soon give some of us the tools to make ourselves cleverer and stronger. What will it mean for our humanity? Arnaud de Borchgrave Living forever ... "The knowledge and skills embedded in our brains will merge with the vastly greater capacity, speed and knowledge-sharing ability of our own creations." The event Kurzweil envisages -- the "singularity" -- will occur when technological change becomes so rapid and profound that our bodies and brains merge with our machines. Singularity depicts what life will be like after the brain-machine fusion and the shift of our experiences from actual to virtual reality... Bill Sardi Shamed South Korea scientist coerced women for eggs: TV SEOUL (Reuters) - A South Korean scientist whose work on tailored embryonic stem cells has been discredited, coerced junior female colleagues on his team to donate their own eggs for his research, a television network reported late on Tuesday. The donor went back to Hwang's laboratory and conducted the cloning experiment on the eggs that she herself had contributed that morning, her colleague said. Shahar Ilan Does a clone have a soul? Nick Buchan 'Human-brained' monkeys Return To Previous Reports in this Category / Nov-Dec 2005 Words of Wisdom -- Let it be ... Peace in Corporate Life Nur abdur Rashid Longings of the Soul Peace in Family Life Reuters Two NBC affiliates throw book at 'Daniel' LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Two NBC affiliates in Arkansas and Indiana are turning the page on upcoming series "The Book of Daniel," which has been drawing criticism for its portrayal of Christianity. The series depicts an Episcopalian minister, played by Aidan Quinn, struggling with an addiction to Vicodin, among other problems in his diocese. Jesus is actually a character on the series, depicted in imagined conversations with the minister. Nur abdur Rashid The Torque of Remembrance Buddhist Perspectives Filial Piety Return To Previous Reports in this Category / Nov-Dec 2005 Humor / Cartoons ... Paul Krugman Defending Imperial Nudity Hans Christian Andersen understood bad rulers. �The Emperor�s New Suit?doesn�t end with everyone acclaiming the little boy for telling the truth. It ends with the emperor and his officials refusing to admit their mistake. I�ve laid my hands on additional material, which Andersen failed to publish, describing what happened after the imperial procession was over. The talk-show host Bill O�Reilly yelled, �Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!?at the little boy. Calling the boy a nut, he threatened to go to the boy�s house and �surprise?him. Fox News repeatedly played up possible finds of imperial clothing, then buried reports discrediting these stories. Months after the naked procession, a poll found that many of those getting most of their news from Fox believed that the emperor had in fact been clothed... Aaron McGruder The Boondocks Splitting Images Celebrity Look-Alike Agency Return To Previous Reports in this Category / Nov-Dec 2005 Music / The Arts ... InJin Crimson Sketches Cosmica Learning How to Undraw the Line Between Stevie Wonder Hear 3 Songs from "A Time To Love" Bandbuilder.Com Listen to Seal's New Music (SEAL IV) Seal.Com Seals Official Home Site Nur abdur Rashid Spring Breeze Play Lists @ GarageBand.Com / unsigned musicians Instrumentals to study by Sometimes we need some tunes that won't get our minds distracted into the deeper significance of the lyrics. Classical, World, Jazz Aire More music to study by: Sometimes you need to lead off with some classical aire Tell Me Something Good More Music with Lyrics that uplift and inspire Return To Previous Reports in this Category / Nov-Dec 2005 Website of the Week Family Federation for World Peace and Unification Keep "HT-News" Alive: Make a Tax-Deductible Donation Today home / Forum / about us / works / archives / search / links / feedback disclaimer