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American Methodists Must Be Fearless About Divestment

DIVEST-ACT-NOW-METHODIST VT

Enough of this inter-faith lah-di-dah? True Christians everywhere – not just the Methodists – need to stiffen the sinew and toughen up. Why continue all this inter-faith lah-di-dah with religious delinquents?

April 30th, 2012 | Posted in Americas,Asia,Editors Picks,Europe,Israel,Living,Middle East,Palestine,World | Read More »

Confessions of a Drone

droneface

They told me I was the best, better than any human. I didn’t hesitate. I didn’t flinch. I didn’t think.

April 29th, 2012 | Posted in Of Interest | Read More »

Counting shekels versus the feeding of lambs and sheep…

nuns_calling

We probably should reflect that on Easter morning, the Apostles, those first Bishops led by Simon Peter, the first Pope, were hiding or trying to get out of Jerusalem as quickly as possible.

April 29th, 2012 | Posted in Religion | Read More »

VT Film Festival – I Killed Myself When I Was Young

death curve

- Early race car drivers did not wear seat belts so if they got killed they could fly directly to heaven in the express lane.

April 27th, 2012 | Posted in Editors Picks,History,Living | Read More »

Thanking 60 MINUTES and Begging for More

60 minutes

“When Hillary Clinton visited Jerusalem and said the wall was not against the Palestinian people, she killed us too! Christians who do not care kill us too!”

April 27th, 2012 | Posted in Arts & Entertainment,Causes,Education,History,Living,Of Interest,Peace,Religion | Read More »

It’s Anzac Day 2012 – A VT Salute to the Aussies and Kiwis

gallipolismall

We salute all the poor souls who charged into nothingness, for nothingness.

April 25th, 2012 | Posted in Editors Picks,History,Living,World War I | Read More »

Love – Hate With Walmart Tells Story of “Middlecrass” Humans

walmart

An Associated Press report exposing the government bribing culture of Walmart Stores, Biggest business in North America, popped up over the business news recently. Read the reader’s comments after the story.

April 24th, 2012 | Posted in Education,Living,Of Interest | Read More »

The Green Monster Turns 100

green monster

And then it happened ~ I heard the crack of the ball hitting the bat and as I ran toward first base, I glanced over my left shoulder and, lo and behold, there was my hit ball rising in an arc toward the Green Monster in left field ~ I couldn’t believe it !

April 22nd, 2012 | Posted in Arts & Entertainment,Editors Picks,Humor,Living,Of Interest | Read More »

A Day in The Life at Strawberry Fields and IMAGINING a FREE Vanunu Mordechai

vanunu

The good news is that the restrictions that have denied Mordechai Vanunu his inalienable human rights expire before June 1st, but the bad news concerns continuing failures of Corporate Media to report on Israel’s Nuclear Whistle Blower.

April 22nd, 2012 | Posted in Arts & Entertainment,Causes,Education,History,Living,Of Interest,Peace,Religion | Read More »

Seems Like Yesterday

This Was The End

This coming April 30th, 2012, it will be 37 years since Saigon and South Vietnam fell to the communists.

April 21st, 2012 | Posted in History,Vietnam War | Read More »

Afghanistan Is Not a US Colony!

Afghanistan

A country robbed of peace and bereft of aspirations, Afghanistan seems to be plunging more and more into a pitiful morass of grievances brought about by the military madness the US troops exhibit in the beleaguered land with brazen-faced contumely.

April 20th, 2012 | Posted in Of Interest | Read More »

Torture on Trial

torture on trial

Cases come in by the thousands from all over the world. A man was beaten and whipped. A woman was beaten and raped.

April 20th, 2012 | Posted in Americas,Causes,Environment,Living,Peace,World | Read More »

Mother Earth Day 2012

mother earth

To fully understand Earth, we must see her as fully human and capable of feelings; She’s alive, she’s breathing, and she’s beautiful, finite and hurting ~ and many have died for her.

April 20th, 2012 | Posted in Editors Picks,Environment,Living,Of Interest | Read More »

Popular Travel Guide Posts Video on Israeli Lies

steves

Rick Steves, Travel Guru on PBS, has been everywhere, and now reveals on the web what he has learned about Israelis behavior by posting a video that belongs among the archives of what I call the VT educational program.

April 19th, 2012 | Posted in Arts & Entertainment,Education,Food, Wine & Travel,Living,Of Interest | Read More »

Jolie Film a Propaganda Flop

jolieblood

Angelina Jolie’s film “In the Land of Blood and Honey” has already flopped in Serbia – the film’s premiere attracted just 13 people.

April 19th, 2012 | Posted in Editors Picks,Living | Read More »

Remember Minuteman Isaac Davis

The famous Minuteman statue based on Isaac Davis

Today, April 19, 2012 is the 237th anniversary of the first shots fired in the American Revolution. Isaac Davis was a husband and father of four who took a musket ball to the heart on that fateful day in Massachusetts in 1775.

April 19th, 2012 | Posted in History,Of Interest | Read More »

Is Peace Getting in the Way of Our War Plans?

nucleariran

What a bizarre circumstance this is. The irrational Iranians are behaving too reasonably. The unmovable Iranians seem to be compromising too readily.

April 19th, 2012 | Posted in Causes,Living,Of Interest,Peace | Read More »

How The US Uses Sexual Humiliation As a Political Tool

The US Supreme Court  held the Fourth Amendment does not prohibit jails from strip-searching all inmates, including people jailed for minor offenses. (Fernando Botero series)

The Supreme Court of the United States has ruled that it is now legitimate for police to strip search any person, regardless of the reason for the arrest. Under the pretext of security concerns, U.S. capitalism is using all the tools at its disposal to attain full control of its population.

April 18th, 2012 | Posted in Causes,Civil Liberties and Freedom,Corruption,Editors Picks,Foreign Relations,Government,Legislation,Living,Peace,Politics | Read More »

The Nobelist, the Zionists and Where it Hurts Most

german Nobelist Gunter Grass

The new poem by German Nobelist Gunter Grass warning the world of a dangerous nuclear Israel left the Israelis with a bitter feeling of rage and revenge in their encounter with truth and the Germans with angst over ties now teetering on the brink of rupture.

April 15th, 2012 | Posted in Iran,Of Interest | Read More »

What Propelled Vietnam War?

vietnam-war-hell

An E-mail debate about of the details of the Vietnam war crossed my mail via Dick Fogut a noteworthy octogenarian patriot and friend responding to Kevin Barrett. Who wrote, among other things:

April 14th, 2012 | Posted in History,Living,Vietnam War | Read More »

To: President Obama, New York Corporate News Desks and my Cyber-Attackers

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A few hours after “21 April 2012: Global Call to Free Mordechai Vanunu, Israel’s Nuclear Whistle Blower and a New York Event” PRWEB Press Release went live, I received my first of the usual cyber attacks that have come at me since I went online in 2005, and I seize this opportunity to address them once again.

April 13th, 2012 | Posted in Arts & Entertainment,Causes,Education,History,Living,Of Interest,Peace | Read More »

Tebow Column Was Error, Mistake I Was Wrong

easter

This is not a defense for stupid thinking, it’s an outright admission, a mea culpa, a repentant confession. I wrote a bad column about Tim Tebow, the media and Easter, the other day, and I’ve been catching flak ever since. Deservedly so.

April 13th, 2012 | Posted in Living,Of Interest,Religion | Read More »

Between Kafka & Kabul

SGGA interview

I have been working with Sarah Gillespie for the last five years. Sarah is an incredible singer songwriter, a very unique combination of poetic power coupled with natural compositional skills.

April 11th, 2012 | Posted in Arts & Entertainment,Editors Picks,Living,Of Interest | Read More »

Debunking Civil War Myths – Long Proven Wrong

Sesquicentennial of the War 2010-2015

- The Victors Write the War History, but Should Their Lies be Immortal?

April 10th, 2012 | Posted in Civil War,Editors Picks,History,Living | Read More »

Tim Tebow, Bible Study, and Easter = Surprise Consequences

easter

There is one thing for sure; anyone seriously aspiring to be a Christian studies to “show himself approved.” A Christian does not take lightly the role of a devoted follower of Jesus Christ. It is a serious calling that presupposes great benefits for all of mankind.

April 9th, 2012 | Posted in Living,Of Interest,Religion | Read More »

Pastor Hagee’s Million Christians United For Israel

HAGEE1

CUFI now has as much influence with our Republican Congress as does the Jewish Zionist lobby, AIPAC.

April 8th, 2012 | Posted in Americas,Causes,Editors Picks,Europe,Iran,Israel,Living,Middle East,Palestine,Peace,World | Read More »

Hate Crime or Terrorism? The Ku Klux Klan Still Kill At Will

Shaima Alawadi

Once upon a time in America back in the nineteenth century, there was a far-right organization known as Ku Klux Klan that adhered to primitively radical and hidebound ideas including white supremacy and brutalized and persecuted the colored race through an act of terrorism.

April 8th, 2012 | Posted in Of Interest | Read More »

THE JEFFERSON BIBLE: A Rational Christianity and Earth Day 2012

Source-Bible

From 1904 until 1950, facsimile copies of “THE JEFFERSON BIBLE: The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth Extracted Textually from the Gospels in Greek, Latin, French and English” were distributed to every newly elected member of the Senate on the very day they swore their oath of office.

April 7th, 2012 | Posted in Arts & Entertainment,Book Reviews,Causes,Education,Environment,History,Living,Of Interest,Peace,Religion | Read More »

Group of Retired Vets Stands Fast in Fight for Homeless

homeless veterans

Every Sunday for the last four years, 70-year-old Bob Rosebrock has faithfully manned his post at the corner of Wilshire and San Vicente boulevards, just feet from a sprawling park at the West Los Angeles Veterans Affairs campus.

April 7th, 2012 | Posted in Of Interest | Read More »

Lee Whitnum’s “whore for AIPAC” comment draws protests – from whores!

whores

Calling Congress-critters rolling in Zionist dough “whores” is an insult to prostitutes everywhere.

April 7th, 2012 | Posted in Humor,Of Interest | Read More »

 

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