November-December 2006
Our World Today
the good and the bad...
General News
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Some of the Front and Center
Grameen-info.org
Prof. Muhammad Yunus & Grameen Bank
Awarded The Nobel Peace Prize for 2006
US Newswire
Archbishop Milingo:
'We Stand On The Truth'; Convenes Married Priest Convocation
amid Growing International Support; Officiates Mass, Procession, Marriage Renewal; Outlines Future of 'Married Priests Now'
Rebecca U. Cho
Renegade Archbishop Rejects Excommunication
Archbishop Milingo
Married Priests are Longing to Serve Through the Church
The Defining Moment
Married Priests Now!
Interview with Archbishop George Augustus Stallings, Jr., Founder of Imani Temple African-American Catholic Congregation of Washington, D.C.
The Defining Moment
The Second Coming of Christ
Interview with Archbishop George Augustus Stallings, Jr., Founder of Imani Temple African-American Catholic Congregation of Washington, D.C.
Karen Armstrong
We cannot afford to maintain
these ancient prejudices against Islam
The Pope's remarks were dangerous, and will convince many more Muslims that the west is incurably Islamophobic
Daniel A. Bell
China's leaders rediscover Confucianism
BEIJING Marxism no longer serves as Chinese society's guiding ideology. But that doesn't mean the end of ideology. Western experts hope liberal democracy will fill the void, but they will have "joined Karl Marx," as the Chinese used to say, before that happens.
In China, the moral vacuum is being filled by Christian sects, Falun Gong and extreme forms of nationalism. But the government considers that such alternatives threaten the hard-won peace and stability that underpins China's development, so it has encouraged the revival of Confucianism...
Daniel A. Bell is a professor of political philosophy and ethics at Tsinghua University, Beijing, and author of "Beyond Liberal Democracy: Political Thinking for an East Asian Context."
Sanjay Suri
'Taliban taking over'
How *NOT* to win Hearts and Minds
The poppy-eradication program has been a disaster, he said. "It is a direct attack on the livelihood of the farmers, so there is a clear connection between the eradication and this humanitarian crisis. All this is being used by the Taliban to say ... 'When we were there we were maybe hard and cruel, but you could feed the family; now look what's going on.' They are more and more providing support [and] social services to the local population."
The US-led nation-building efforts have failed because of "ineffective and inflammatory military and counter-narcotics policies", the report says. "At the same time, there has been a dramatic underfunding of aid and development programs."
CNN Video
Bank of Hezbollah
How *TO* Win Hearts and Minds
Bob Herbert
The Stranger in the Mirror
... The character of the U.S. has changed. We're in danger of being completely ruled by fear. Most Americans have not shared the burden of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Very few Americans are aware, as the Center for Constitutional Rights tells us, that of the hundreds of men held by the U.S. in Guant�namo Bay, Cuba, many "have never been charged and will never be charged because there is no evidence justifying their detention..."
CNN Video
9/11 -- Turning Point
YouTube
Shock & Awe & 9/11
From: "Hijacking Catastrophe"
Stephen Jones
Proof Thermite was used on 911
Wikipedia
Shock and Awe is: Terror
Arnaud de Borchgrave
Ad hoc warfare
Israel says Hezbollah fighters are "cowards" who hide among civilians. But that happens to be rule one for all guerrilla forces in transition to becoming armies -- e.g., Algeria's FLN "terrorists"; North Vietnam's Vietcong "terrorists"; East Pakistan's Mukti Bahini "terrorists" who became Bangladesh's army; South Africa's ANC "terrorists"; Zionist "terrorists" who fought the British mandate to create Israel. The list is long...
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
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Katie Hafner
Google helps needy and makes a profit at same time
SAN FRANCISCO The ambitious founders of Google, the popular search engine company, have set up a philanthropy, giving it seed money of about $1 billion and a mandate to fight poverty, disease and global warming.
But unlike most charities, this one will be for-profit, allowing it to finance start-up companies, form partnerships with venture capitalists and even lobby Congress. It will also pay taxes.
Carol Hymowitz
'Any College Will Do'
Nation's Top Chief Executives
Find Path to the Corner Office:
Usually Starts at State University
CNN Video
On The Rise: Threadless
Michaele Weissman
Sharing the wealth over coffee
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
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Jim Lobe
Disillusionment builds in US
WASHINGTON - Five years after September 11, 2001, Americans are considerably less enthusiastic about projecting military power abroad, according to a major new survey, the first of a spate of polls that are likely to be released in the run-up to Monday's fifth anniversary of the attacks on New York and the Pentagon.
John Morrison
'Clash of civilizations': Who's to blame?
Asahi Shimbun
Plain talk about Yasukuni and Iraq is required
Some of the Bad
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Dan Glaister
Where have all the black soldiers gone?
African-Americans written out of Pacific war
in Clint Eastwood's new film, veterans say
Chris Hedges
Mutually Assured Destruction in the Middle East
Meg Bortin
For Muslims and the West, antipathy and mistrust
Henry Weinstein
Filmmaker Sues U.S. Over Iraq Detention
Cyrus Kar's civil case is said to be the first to test the legality of Pentagon policies on detainees.
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
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SInformation Clearinghouse
Iraq: The Hidden War
Sami Moubayed
Iraq loses its voice of reason
DAMASCUS - The saddest news coming from Iraq is the decision of the Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani to cease all political activity and restrict himself to his religious duties in Shi'ite Islam. He said this weekend: "I will not be a political leader anymore. I am only happy to receive questions about religious matters."
Dylan Avery
Loose Change 2nd Edition
Internet Detectives
Refuting Loose Change
Angus Reid
Europeans See U.S. as Threat to Global Stability
Sami Moubayed
The new battle in Iraq will be
between Hasani and Muqtada.
Hasani is now a main player in Iraqi Shi'ite politics. With Sistani silent and Muqtada on the rise, he can add a lot of color to Shi'ite politics, and bring about sharp divisions in the Shi'ite community. (Sami Moubayed is a Syrian political analyst.)
John Morrison
'Clash of civilizations': Who's to blame?
Arnaud de Borchgrave
The fifth horseman
Max Hastings
The west's moral erosion has undermined the war on terror
It is essential for the US and its allies to abide by the same rules they seek to impose on others. This principle is being flouted
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
?
Suzanne Goldenberg
Bush stance on al-Qaida suspects
is morally wrong, says Colin Powell
� Geneva convention must be respected
� Setback for White House military tribunals plan
Lindorff/Olshansky
The Case for Impeachment
Wikipedia
Shock and Awe is: Terror
Shock and awe is a military doctrine and a method of unconventional warfare that attempts to destroy an adversary's will to fight through spectacular displays of power. Its authors label it a subset of rapid dominance, a doctrine that advocates defeating an adversary by swift action against all aspects of their ability to resist, rather than by strictly military forces. It is a product of the National Defense University of the United States, and has been notably applied in the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq.
However, "shock" and "awe" are both synonyms of terror. To that extent, or from the perspective of the insurgent forces fighting conventional forces in military theatres such as the Middle East who frequently use terrorist doctrines or methods, or both, shock and awe is difficult to distinguish from terrorism because of the large number of indiscriminate civilian deaths. Mortality due to violence in Iraq since 2003, for example, has been due to coalition forces far more than insurgents.
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
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Warren Hedges
New Historicism Explained
Leslie Fulbright
Members reflect on Black Panthers
Activist group's 40th prompts image review
You Tube
fred hampton - black panthers
You Tube
The Murder of Fred Hampton pt. 1 of 4
You Tube
Malcolm X - The Cointelpro Connection
CNN
Former Black Panther freed (1997)
after 27 years in jail
Find Articles
Falsely Imprisoned Ex-Black Panther
`Geronimo' Pratt To Get $4.5 Mil.
In Settlement - Elmer 'Geronimo' Pratt
Max Hastings
The west's moral erosion has
undermined the war on terror
It is essential for the US and its allies to abide by the same rules they seek to impose on others. This principle is being flouted
Sophia Oracle
The Facts You Don't Know
� Did you know that Sophia Stewart owns the original copyrights (1981, 1983 and 1984) for The Third Eye, the manuscript from which The Terminator and The Matrix franchises were produced?
� Did you know that Sophia Stewart�s book entitled � The Third Eye � was with Fox Studios for five years (1981 �1985)?
� Did you know that Fox Studios released Stewart�s work (The Third Eye) in 1984 as The Terminator and it was not until the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) notified her in 2001 that she learned about the theft?
� Did you know that in 1986, Sophia Stewart submitted The Third Eye to the Wachoski brothers and they never replied?
� Did you know that the 1994-copyrighted script titled The Matrix, owned by the Wachoski brothers, bears no resemblance to the 1999 movie release?...
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...
Jeff Halper
The Problem with Israel
Jeff Halper is the Coordinator of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
US bill meant to twist Hamas's arm
Jerusalem Post
Ahmadinejad: Bombs won't fix world
... The Iranian president also said he did not deny the Holocaust but that he merely "raised questions on it."
"I said that in World War Two sixty million people were killed. They were all humans with self-respect. Why (do we talk of) just six million? If it happened, it is a historic event, so why do they not allow for an independent investigation? Moreover, how are the Palestinians at fault? These questions need to be answered," said Ahmadinejad.
Ed O'Loughlin
Israel will fight court order to free Hamas MP
THE Israeli Government says it will appeal the surprise decision by a military court to order the release of 21 Palestinian MPs seized by its troops and held in prison since June.
The prisoners are all members of the Palestinian Authority ruling party, Hamas, and include three ministers and the Speaker of the parliament, Aziz Dweik.
All were detained in West Bank raids following the June 25 incident in which militants from Hamas and two other Palestinian factions killed two Israeli soldiers and captured a third in an attack on a tank guarding Israel's border with Gaza.
July 17th, 2006 -- Michael Lerner, Gila Svirsky, Uri Avnery and Gideon Levy discuss the political and moral significance of this summer's violence.
Tariq Ali
A protracted colonial war
Thursday July 20, 2006 -- With US support, Israel is hoping to isolate and topple Syria by holding sway over Lebanon
Sandy Tolan
The Palestinian Catastrophe, Then and Now
The Guardian
A new war, but both sides recall old ones
Arnaud de Borchgrave
The Impossible Dream?
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...
Choe Sang-Hun
Tussle over a vanished kingdom
Wikipedia
Ban, Ki-moon
Choe Sang-Hun
South Koreans Rally Against Free Trade Pact With US
Ser Myo-ja
Japan archives support Korea's Dokdo claim
September 14, 2006 ㅡ A South Korean scholar said yesterday he has found a 19th-century map commissioned by the Japanese cabinet that excludes the contested islets called Dokdo from Japanese territory.
Sunwoo Young-jun, the head of the Metropolitan Air Quality Management Office, said yesterday that he found the map at the National Archives of Japan in Tokyo on Aug. 15. He released yesterday a drawing of the map reproduced from a photograph he took of it at the archives.
Mike Whitney
North Korea and the vanishing American Empire
Donald Kirk
N Korea's ace threatens US-Seoul alliance
All Empires dot Com
North Korea claims they have
dug up the mausoleum of Tang-gun,
and date it at 5067 year ago.
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
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Kwaku A. Danso
Ghana & China: Is It Time To Change Our Masters?
BBC
Thousands demand Aristide return
Thousands of people have demonstrated in Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince, demanding the return of exiled former President, Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
Manning Marable
Inheritance, Wealth And Race
Craig S. Smith The New York Times
Migrants reported found in desert
The New York Times
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
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
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Completed Testament
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Good News / bad news
Frontlines / Spiritual-Physical Resurrection
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AllAfrica.com
Zambia: I'm Still Catholic Archbishop - Milingo
Catholic Information Service for Africa (Nairobi) -- September 29, 2006
Posted to the web September 29, 2006 -- Emmanuel Milingo, the renegade former Catholic archbishop of Lusaka, remained defiant on Wednesday, scoffing at the Vatican announcement that he had been excommunicated.
Milingo told a news conference in Washington, USA, that he would continue his campaign to force the Church to accept married priests, Reuters reports.
"We do not accept this excommunication and lovingly return it to His Holiness, our beloved Pope Benedict XVI, to reconsider it and withdraw it and join us in recalling married priests to service once again," Milingo said.
"I'm not excommunicated. Who says? No, I'm not excommunicated. I'm in line with God."
Reverend Sun-Myung Moon
God's Ideal Family - the Model for World Peace:
Inaugural Convocation of
the Universal Peace Federation
Akbar Ahmed
Islam Under Siege
The Defining Moment
The Second Coming of Christ
Interview with Archbishop George Augustus Stallings, Jr., Founder of Imani Temple African-American Catholic Congregation of Washington, D.C.
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
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ReligionAndSpirituality.com
Episcopalian priest leaves over ideology
The denomination has seen a steady stream of defections since its decision to consecrate as a bishop an openly partnered homosexual. That decision was reaffirmed this summer at a national meeting of the denomination.
Douglas Brown
Porn epidemic?
THE INFUSION OF SEX INTO POPULAR CULTURE
HAS BEEN SO SEAMLESS THAT SOME CRITICS
ARE CALLING IT A PUBLIC-HEALTH CRISIS
Lorna Martin at Negril Beach
Sex, Sand and Sugar Mummies
in a Caribbean beach fantasy
A controversial new West End play will explore sex tourism in Jamaica, where lonely women flock for flings with young black men. But are these holiday romances sleazy or simply harmless?
The Associated Press
Philadelphia may evict Boy Scouts council
Neela Banerjee
Episcopal Church backs down on gay bishops
The New Yorker
Faith Matters:
Gay Bishops / Episcopal Church
SikhPal.com
Sikh Religion versus 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
Dennis Prager
Judaism's Sexual Revolution:
Why Judaism (and then Christianity) Rejected Homosexuality
Human sexuality, especially male sexuality, is polymorphous, or utterly wild (far more so than animal sexuality). Men have had sex with women and with men; with little girls and young boys; with a single partner and in large groups; with total strangers and immediate family members; and with a variety of domesticated animals. They have achieved orgasm with inanimate objects such as leather, shoes, and other pieces of clothing, through urinating and defecating on each other (interested readers can see a photograph of the former at select art museums exhibiting the works of the photographer Robert Mapplethorpe); by dressing in women's garments; by watching other human beings being tortured; by fondling children of either sex; by listening to a woman's disembodied voice (e.g., "phone sex"); and, of course, by looking at pictures of bodies or parts of bodies.
There is little, animate or inanimate, that has not excited some men to orgasm. Of course, not all of these practices have been condoned by societies -- parent-child incest and seducing another's man's wife have rarely been countenanced -- but many have, and all illustrate what the unchanneled, or in Freudian terms, the "un-sublimated," sex drive can lead to.
By and large, it is society, not the individual, that chooses whether homosexuality will be widely practiced. A society's values, much more than individual tendencies, determine the extent of homosexuality in that society. Thus, we can have great sympathy for the exclusively homosexual individual while strongly opposing social acceptance of homosexuality. In this way we retain both our hearts and our values...
Even if the majority of men became incapable of making love to women, it would still not be normal. Men are designed to make love to women, and vice versa. The eye provides an appropriate analogy: If the majority of the population became blind, blindness would still be abnormal. The eye was designed to see. That is why I choose the third response -- that homosexuality is unhealthy. This is said, however, with the understanding that in the psychological arena, "illness" can be a description of one's values rather than of objective science (which may simply not exist in this area)...
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
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Video Google
Boyd Graves interview on The Right Side with Armstrong Williams
Boyd Graves
The Smoking Gun of AIDS: In 1977,
a secret federal virus program produced
15,000 gallons of AIDS.
Kihura Nkuba
Polio vaccine genocide in Uganda
Youtopia
IMUSIL/TETRASIL
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 "ecadent 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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