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Some not-so-new news about Iraq from a US west coast alternative
news source:
http://www.indybay.org/news/2004/12/1708314.php keeping count of the dead in Iraq
Interview by Bill Moyers http://www.pbs.org/now/transcript/transcript_shiva.html with Vandana Shiva, about the coca-cola company in India
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from Barry Goldwater
(1909-1998)
US Senator (R-Arizona)
Republican Nominee for US President in l964, often called the Founder of modern Conservatism
"However, on religious issues there can be little or no compromise. There is no position on which people are so immovable as their religious beliefs. There is no more powerful ally one can claim in a debate than Jesus Christ, or God, or Allah, or whatever one calls this supreme being. But like any powerful weapon, the use of God's name on one's behalf should be used sparingly. The religious factions that are growing throughout our land are not using their religious clout with wisdom. They are trying to force government leaders into following their position 100 percent. If you disagree with these religious groups on a particular moral issue, they complain, they threaten you with a loss of money or votes or both.
I'm frankly sick and tired of the political preachers across this country telling me as a citizen that if I want to be a moral person, I must believe in 'A,' 'B,' 'C,' and 'D.' Just who do they think they are? And from where do they presume to claim the right to dictate their moral beliefs to me? And I am even more angry as a legislator who must endure the threats of every religious group who thinks it has some God-granted right to control my vote on every roll call in the Senate. I am warning them today: I will fight them every step of the way if they try to dictate their moral convictions to all Americans in the name of 'conservatism.'"
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http://www.hereinreality.com/carlyle.html - about the Carlyle Group,
american politicians and how they profit from the war in Iraq |
art
talk
Joan
Miró (1893-1983) is
one of the giants of twentieth-century
art, and for many, one of
its most spiritual artists.
Miró’s fellow Catalonian,
Antoni Tàpies, pointed
to one of the keys of Miró’s
greatness: "Miró
offered us the continual,
changing and infinite flux
of nature; faced with immutable
laws, [he offered us] the
rhythms and spontaneous ebb
and flow of the waves in a
living world...
On
creativityadvice from several people about ways to get the creative juices flowing
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