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A Warning For America From South Africa
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January 2005
A Warning For America From South Africa
By Gemma Meyer (Gemma Meyer is the pseudonym of a South African journalist. She and her husband, a former conservative member of parliament, still reside in South Africa.)
People used to say that South Africa was 20 years behind the rest of t...
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Misinterpreting the Mideast Crisis as an Apocalypse
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 Why is it that some Christian congregations can rejoice at the recent bloodshed of innocent lives in the Middle East? It's unthinkable that people, totally misusing the Bible and the Book of Revelation, can be that crass and bloodthirsty. The same could be said as people chose to interpret Hur...
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Is Everybody In?
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Streams of gray sedans flood in, and flood out. Burger King wrappers on the floor and on the ground. Lite music, shallow humor from lifeless DJs, coffee in your mugs and in your mouths. In each and every car I wonder when they died, and if I'm dying too. They're killing me, they're killing you.
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The Java Crisis
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 Last night I was listening to an alternative news segment about immigration. It seems that the government has compiled a database of immigrants who are here legally, and is making the database available for corporations to cross reference when hiring a new employee. The idea seemed pret...
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The Bitch, British Weather, and Blackpool! UK News Review
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Well Darlings,
As I write this it does look as if today might be more bearable than many have been in the past few weeks. The sun, which wasn't there this morning when I arose, is threatening to appear through the cloud, but there is a pleasant cool breeze which I feel sure will temper it should it succee...
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German-EU grows restless over the Middle East
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 The EU is itchin' for a fight, frustrated, getting too big for its britches, and feels the growing need for some piece of the global action and fast.
Michael Shtender-Auerbach offers a convincing argument in the EUOBSERVER that NATO is dead, the UN is ineffective, and categorically state...
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Congress Bravely Salutes the Flag of Expedience
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In all their majesty, the House and Senate have drawn their shrinking reputations up to full height, cleared their money-grubbing throats, considered with terror the upcoming fall elections and given us a law that serves no one.
They have made it a federal crime to take a pregnant minor to an...
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Privatizing the Public Pocket
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This was the administration that was going to revolutionize government by privatizing damned near everything and they've made a pretty good move in that direction. To hear them tell it, government was the problem and private business and industry the solution.
Made sense. Every gene...
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A Nation of Law, Unless It's Inconvenient
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We love law in this country even though we detest lawyers. Every chance we get we boast about being a nation of laws, pointing out with a certain drama and piety that law is what separates us from the less civilized. We smugly take the less civilized to mean everyone else.
It was not Bill Clinton's infi...
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FBI Agent Joseph Kennedy
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PBS archives bring us these few important words as we consider the far-flung interests and involvements of this most corrupt man.
"Joseph Kennedy was designated one of two Special Service contacts to the FBI's Boston office in 1943. In this capacity he reported things he thought the FBI might wan...
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