When It's About Us
"What Kind of a Church Can Prevent a Holocaust?"
( Presumably a church aware when a holocaust happens e.g. the true nature and extent of deaths in Iraq. Even the numbers from Just Foreign Policy approaching 1.5 million ignore .5 million from sanctions, those in the war against Iran sponsored by the US, and the effects of exploiting sectarianism to promote conflict. aina will give you information on how Kurds killed pacifist Iraqi Christians, something that presumably would have been curtailed in a state which was not split in the fashion of India, Korea, or Vietnam. And were deaths in their severance not holocausts as well ? Or those in Korea and Vietnam from the U.S. bombing their hapless self chosen 'enemy' ?)
As last standing superpower, it's always about us. Making deals with murderous tyrants so we can consume foreign resources; propping up and later deposing dictators to control oil or bolster our arms industry; manipulating international human rights instruments to invade other states under the guise of humanitarian intervention--it's always about us. The hypocrisy of U.S. policy, foreign and domestic, includes not a small amount of Christian dominion philosophy. It comes up every day in administrative policy and court rulings against the indigenous self-determination of American Indians, Palestinians and West Papuans. Even the Obama Administration condones genocide by arming Uganda, Rwanda, Israel and Indonesia. While it is comforting to suggest we need to speak out against other people's atrocities, it is more important to put our own house in order.
by Jay Taber on Sat Apr 06, 2013 at 01:34:28 PM EST
mixture of vagueness and sheer incompetence is the most marked characteristic of modern English prose, and especially of any kind of political writing.
This week's featured item on As The Right Turns is a tale of
influential Christian Nationalist writer David Barton, whose distorted
and politically opportunistic versions of history have become increasingly controversial. The Texas Freedom Network flags (with a hat tip to Right Wing Watch)
Barton's explanation of why white settlers had to wipe out Native
American tribes and why the plains buffalo needed to be exterminated.
Author Nathan Lean has an important essay at Salon.com
about the vulgar anti-Muslim words and views of "New Atheist" figures
Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris. These prominent figures have, Lean
reports, drifted off into views that are variously indistinguishable
from those of the Christian Right, and even of contemporary neo-Nazis.
http://www.globalpossibilities.org/tag/water/
MOB Photo of the Day #102 (04/12/2013)
Randy Moyer hasn’t been able to work in 14 months.
He’s seen more than 40 doctors, has 10 prescriptions to his name and no less than eight inhalers stationed around his apartment.
Moyer said he began transporting brine, the wastewater from gas wells that have been hydraulically fractured, for a small hauling company in August 2011. He trucked brine from wells to treatment plants and back to wells, and sometimes cleaned out the storage tanks used to hold wastewater on drilling sites. By November 2011, the 49-year-old trucker was too ill to work. He suffered from dizziness, blurred vision, headaches, difficulty breathing, swollen lips and appendages, and a fiery red rash that covered about 50 percent of his body. Read more: http://www.timesonline.com/
His story was recently included in the short film Fracking Our Future. Watch the video here: http://vimeo.com/63270096
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This is really happening in Arkansas. Exxon is really doing this.
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"What Kind of a Church Can Prevent a Holocaust?"
( Presumably a church aware when a holocaust happens e.g. the true nature and extent of deaths in Iraq. Even the numbers from Just Foreign Policy approaching 1.5 million ignore .5 million from sanctions, those in the war against Iran sponsored by the US, and the effects of exploiting sectarianism to promote conflict. aina will give you information on how Kurds killed pacifist Iraqi Christians, something that presumably would have been curtailed in a state which was not split in the fashion of India, Korea, or Vietnam. And were deaths in their severance not holocausts as well ? Or those in Korea and Vietnam from the U.S. bombing their hapless self chosen 'enemy' ?)
As last standing superpower, it's always about us. Making deals with murderous tyrants so we can consume foreign resources; propping up and later deposing dictators to control oil or bolster our arms industry; manipulating international human rights instruments to invade other states under the guise of humanitarian intervention--it's always about us. The hypocrisy of U.S. policy, foreign and domestic, includes not a small amount of Christian dominion philosophy. It comes up every day in administrative policy and court rulings against the indigenous self-determination of American Indians, Palestinians and West Papuans. Even the Obama Administration condones genocide by arming Uganda, Rwanda, Israel and Indonesia. While it is comforting to suggest we need to speak out against other people's atrocities, it is more important to put our own house in order.
by Jay Taber on Sat Apr 06, 2013 at 01:34:28 PM EST
mixture of vagueness and sheer incompetence is the most marked characteristic of modern English prose, and especially of any kind of political writing.
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Senators Demand DOJ Release Secret Spy Court Rulings
At issue, the lawmakers said, is section 215 of the Patriot Act. The sweeping power, one of the most controversial in the law, allows the secret FISA court to authorize broad warrants for most any type of record, including those held by banks, internet companies, libraries and doctors. The government does not have to show a connection between the items sought under a section 215 warrant and a suspected terrorist or spy: the authorities must assert the documents would be relevant to an investigation. Those who receive such an order are not allowed to tell anyone, ever, that such records were requested.
Surveillance Court’s Opinions Must Remain Secret
The statement came in response to a lawsuit demanding the administration disclose a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court opinion issued as early as last year. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) was briefed on the opinion as a member of the Intelligence Committee and was authorized last year to reveal that the surveillance had “circumvented the spirit of the law” and was “unreasonable under the Fourth Amendment.” .... the government said that disclosure of the secret opinion should be barred because it “implicates classified intelligence sources and methods.” (.pdf)
( Isn't that equivalent to a 'guilty' plea ? )
http://www.globalpossibilities.org/tag/water/
Video of flaring a gas well, post fracking.
Video
clip shows how large these Marcellus well pads are. Video shows
flaring the gas well, after fracking has been completed. Note the two
black structures known as "reserve pits" in the background that hold for
water/fluid used during the fracking process. The flaring can
sometimes take weeks depending on the composition of the gas when the
well is being made ready for production.
Length: 0:12
Real Coastal Warriors shared Marcellus Outreach Butler's photo.
Randy Moyer hasn’t been able to work in 14 months.
He’s seen more than 40 doctors, has 10 prescriptions to his name and no less than eight inhalers stationed around his apartment.
Moyer said he began transporting brine, the wastewater from gas wells that have been hydraulically fractured, for a small hauling company in August 2011. He trucked brine from wells to treatment plants and back to wells, and sometimes cleaned out the storage tanks used to hold wastewater on drilling sites. By November 2011, the 49-year-old trucker was too ill to work. He suffered from dizziness, blurred vision, headaches, difficulty breathing, swollen lips and appendages, and a fiery red rash that covered about 50 percent of his body. Read more: http://www.timesonline.com/
His story was recently included in the short film Fracking Our Future. Watch the video here: http://vimeo.com/63270096
Solve Your Most Annoying Skin Problems with These Household Concoctions
Nurse Rise ~ Nurses for Safe Water shared The Other 98%'s photo.
We're relying on you to spread the word - please click LIKE & SHARE: http://bit.ly/exxoncoverup
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