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Highlights

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
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All Africa
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Behind/Homefront
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iafrica.com
Int. Herald Tribune
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IOL (S. Africa)
Information
-- Clearinghouse

Institute for Policy Studies
Intervention
Islam Online
Khilafah
Korean Dictionary
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Marumushi Map
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National Vanguard
News Making News
Newsweek
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Occupation Watch
One World One Heart
Polling Report
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Reuters
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SF BayView
Segye Times
Serendipity
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The Voice
The Final Call
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Time Magazine
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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


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Amazon.com
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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)



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May-June 2006

Our World Today
the good and the bad...



General News ...

Some of the Front and Center

Chae In-taek
Brother against brother


“Fry beans with bean stalks as fuel. Beans wept sadly in the wok. From the same root we both grew. What’s the big hurry in the grill?”

Eighteen centuries ago, the Chinese poet Cao Zhi composed the famous “Quatrain of Seven Steps” for his brother, Cao Pi, the Emperor Wen of Wei. The poem was composed extemporaneously after Cao Pi threatened to punish Cao Zhi if he failed to produce a poem within seven strides. Cao Zhi compared the situation of a powerful brother persecuting the other, despite being born to the same parents, to beans and bean stalks.

The meaning of the poem can be applied to Islam and Christianity today...

Jonathan Tirone
Annan Urges U.S.-Iran Direct Talks in Atomic Dispute


President Ahmadinejad
Text of Iranian President Ahmadinejad's letter to President George W. Bush


Arnaud de Borchgrave
Global storm warning


Cheong-Pyeong
True Parent’s calligraphy
at the Dedication Ceremony of

Cheong-Shim International Academy


淸遠淸情淸和萬世之福地
Cheong-Won, Cheong-Jeong, Cheong-Hwa Man Sei ji bok-ji

Clarity afar, Clear Warm-heartedness, and Clear Harmony
An Abundant World of Blessed Lands
(The copious Accolades of this Blessed Land)


깨끗해서 그 자취가 속세로부터 먼 곳에 떨어져 있고, 맑은 정취, 깨끗하고 온화함이 영원히 복된 곳이다.

참 사랑, 참 화목은 속세로부터 먼 곳에 있으며, 그 곳은

True love & harmony brings us here remote from the mundane life; clarity, purity of heart, and beauteous harmony bring us to the eternal Kingdom of Heaven.

True love and harmony is distant from the mundane life; here lies the eternal Kingdom of Heaven.

Cheong-Pyeong
Midnight Prayer
Entering January 1st 2006

The sixth year of Cheon-il Guk


Moon Sun-Myung Moksa Nim (Cham Pumo Nim):
... 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
...



Some of the Good ...

Sarah Webb
Short film delivers nanotech for the masses

Newsweek
What Makes a High School Great?

Gold stars: The answer depends on the school, and the student. With its annual list, NEWSWEEK honors top schools that help regular kids succeed in college...

Cheong Shim Students
Sky Blue Dreams :
An online Journal of CSIA Students

Donald Greenlees
Indonesia's cultural war :
Riots over Playboy part of larger debate

SATURDAY, APRIL 15, 2006 -- JAKARTA Ponti Carolus, the publisher of the Indonesian edition of Playboy magazine that stirred Islamic militants into a rock-throwing protest during the past week, has one thing in common with many Western guys: he says he reads Playboy for the articles.

Francesco Sisci
Why the West must reOrient





Some of the Mid-lands ...

Kevin Zeese
The Corporate-U.S. Takeover of the Iraq Economy

John Maxwell
Haitian Election Sends World a Message

News Target
The link between monosodium glutamate (MSG) and obesity

Wikipedia
Monosodium glutamate





Some of the Bad ...

Mike Davis
A HISTORY OF THE CAR BOMB
PART 1: The poor man's air force

"You have shown no pity to us! We will do likewise. We will dynamite you!" - anarchist warning (1919)

On a warm September day in 1920 in New York, a few months after the arrest of his comrades Sacco and Vanzetti, a vengeful Italian anarchist named Mario Buda parked his horse-drawn wagon near the corner of Wall and Broad streets, directly across from J P Morgan Company. He nonchalantly climbed down and disappeared, unnoticed, into the lunchtime crowd...

BBC
Student murder in Russia 'racist'

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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

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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.


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What is Institutionalised Terror ?

Internation Herald Tribune
Mossad murdered 530 Iraqi scientists

Numerous reports for many months have stated that with collaboration from American occupation forces, Israel’s espionage apparatus, Mossad, slaughtered at least 530 Iraqi scientists and academic professors.

Internation Herald Tribune
An Indictment of America
-- Editorial

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. . . .

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Historisists... Ain't that odd ?

Warren Hedges
New Historicism Explained

Jill Lepore
GOODBYE, COLUMBUS
When America won its independence,
what became of the slaves who fled for theirs?

IHT
And now, 'The Da Vinci Ruling'

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

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.

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Israeli-Palestinian Re-unification...

Mike Whitney
Why Israel must Renounce Violence

Homeostatic Truths
May we see in the enemy the face of our Father

Surah 41. Ha Mim Sajdah: Revelations Well Expounded
http://www.ishwar.com/islam/holy_quran_(pickthall)/sura041.html

34
The good deed and the evil deed are not alike. Repel the evil deed with one which is better, then lo! he, between whom and thee there was enmity (will become) as though he was a bosom friend.

35
But none is granted it save those who are steadfast, and none is granted it save the owner of great happiness.

Nur AbdurRashid
Impotence

Phyllis Bennis
Hamas Wins the Palestinian Elections

Ali Abunimah
Hamas Election Victory: A Vote for Clarity

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North and South Korean Re-unification...

All Empires dot Com
North Korea claims they have
dug up the mausoleum of Tang-gun,
and date it at 5067 year ago.

Kim Rahn / Korean Times
Changing face of Korea seen in evolution of common terms

Push to change everyday language to reflect more multi-racial identity

Ryu Jin / Korean Times
School offers fast track for languages

Kim Rahn / Korean Times
Robert Kim Arrives in Homeland After 9 Yrs

Lee Jin-Woo / Korean Times
Uri Criticizes GNP for Inflaming Ideology Issues

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

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African Re-unification ...

Richard Stockton College
Chinua Achebe: The Lecture Heard Around The World

Chinua Achebe
An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness

Thalif Deen
Taylor, the Most and Least Wanted Man

Manning Marable
Inheritance, Wealth And Race

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

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"

African-Union.Org
African Union in a Nutshell

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)

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.

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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

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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

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

Homeostatic Truths
My Favorite Sun-Myung Moon

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Frontlines / Sexual Identity ...

The New Yorker
Faith Matters:
Gay Bishops / Episcopal Church

This week in the magazine, Peter J. Boyer writes about how the election of a gay bishop has divided the Episcopal Church. Here, with Matt Dellinger, Boyer discusses the controversy and the changing face of religion in America...

SikhPal.com
Sikh Religion versus Gay Marriage

Associated Press
Hong Kong turns down gay marriage

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

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Frontlines / Species-Race Identity ...

Ruth Gledhill
Pope condemns geneticists 'who play at being God'

THE Pope will deliver a blistering attack on the “satanic” mores of modern society today, warning against an “inane apologia of evil” that is in danger of destroying humanity.

In a series of Good Friday meditations that he will lead in Rome, the Pope will say that society is in the grip of a kind of “anti-Genesis” described as “a diabolical pride aimed at eliminating the family”. He will pray for society to be cleansed of the “filth” that surrounds it and be restored to purity, freed from “decadent narcissism”.

Particular condemnation is reserved for scientific advances in the field of genetic manipulation. Warning against the move to “modify the very grammar of life as planned and willed by God”, the Pope will lead prayers against “insane, risky and dangerous” ventures in attempting “to take God’s place without being God”.

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

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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

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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

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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

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