May 25, 2008
Concentration camps in America
Editor:
I certainly hope that what this article is talking about
doesn�t happen. How would one find out, if their name is on the FEMA list of
people, to be put in concentration camps in America? If this does happen, I
suspect that people over fifty will be on the list. The New World Order is
against people that aren�t productive to this planet. That includes people on
welfare, etc.
I am so nervous, that I am considering a move to Boquete,
Panama. Fortune magazine rates Boquete, Panama, as the fourth best place in the
world to retire. Boquete is 500 miles from Panama City in the Boquete
highlands. The valley is beautiful.
Barbara
May 19, 2008
John Hagee
Editor:
You were a little hard on Hagee, I think. Being a Baptist, I
do not agree with some of Hagee's theology, but I do sympathize with his
support of Israel.
I do not believe, and neither does Hagee, that we can
somehow usher in the second coming by anything we do as people, or as nations.
Bible prophecy tells us only what God will do. God is Omnipotent and does not
need our help. In other words, He is coming again, and there is nothing we can
do to hurry it along. We can only get our lives in order.
I do not want to get into a theological argument, but He
said we shall not know the day or hour; He did not say we would not know the
month or year. He gave us many signs of His future (second) coming in Matthew
24. In His Revelation to John, He said, "Blessed is he who reads and those
who hear the words of the prophecy, and heed the things which are written in it
. . ."
In Luke 20, Jesus was talking to the Pharisees about His
FIRST Coming, which they failed to realize was immediately before them in the
person of Jesus Christ Himself:
"The kingdom of God is not coming with signs to be
observed . . . For behold, the kingdom of God is in your midst." Luke
20-21 NASB
Then in Luke 22 et seq., speaking to His disciples, Jesus
addressed his future SECOND Coming:
And He said to the disciples, "The days WILL COME when
you will long to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see
it." Luke 22 NASB
Furthermore, most New Testament admonitions are addressed to
us as individuals, not to nations. Therefore, �do unto others as you would have
others do unto you� applies to you and me, not to the U.S. and Israel (not to
say that it may not also be wise public policy in most instances).
John Wood
May 18, 2008
California Supreme Court ruling on gay marriage
Editor:
This letter is in response to the articles concerning
the California Supreme Court ruling to overturn the gay marriage
ban. Although I am a heterosexual male, I would like to comment
on this so-called "controversial" issue.
According to societal standards, a homosexual person is one who is sexually attracted to others of the same sex.
Except for a genetic variation of nature, they are virtually identical to their
heterosexual counter parts. They feel the very same kind of attraction to
the same sex as heterosexuals feel about the opposite sex. Now,
granted, there are those people who freely choose this behavior as a form of
"life style" but that accounts for a very small population of
homosexuals. In fact, if one is not genetically predisposed for this
behavior then by definition they are not truly homosexual but rather some
deviant variation of perverted behavior. Some would argue that the
Bible condemns homosexuality but I believe (through the
persistence of science) this behavior will be proven to result from natural
genetic variation. One can draw on the example of retarded
people {no offense intended} who by no action of their own are born
comparatively slow or deficient in mental, physical, or emotional
growth. Homosexual people are therefore entitled to engage in sexual
behavior consistent with their genetic makeup so long as it is between
consenting adults. To deny them this right would be the same as denying
heterosexuals their right to consensual sex. Some would argue that
sexuality is strictly for the purpose of reproduction but yet the animal
kingdom has many variations of species who also cannot reproduce.
Human beings are sexual beings as was intended by their creator and to
suggest that a genetic variation of nature somehow makes homosexuals less human
is indeed an inhuman concept.
May 16, 2008
Re: The �pro-family� ruse and
other Christianist machinations
Editor:
Contrary
to Mr. Seesholtz's hysteria ("The pro-family ruse"), no one in
Michigan has lost any benefit, and in fact -- because of broader benefits
eligibility criteria implemented by public employers to comply with the state
marriage amendment -- more people, not fewer, are now eligible for
coverage under govt employees' healthcare plans than were before
the amendment.
Gary
Glenn
May 14, 2008
Peter Morici
Editor:
This guy is a shill for the Feds and a bourgeois
apologist. He acts as though he doesn't know these statistics from the Labor
Dept. have been cooked. And he calls the shit he writes an
"analysis." This garbage does not belong on any progressive website.
This fool had an article reprinted in my local newspaper a
few weeks ago, The Providence Journal. If he was picked-up by that rag, what
does that tell you about what he is putting out.
He has also been printed on Counterpunch, among others. I
can't understand why. He is so misleading.
John St Lawrence
Johnston, RI
May 12, 2008
Re: Perhaps 60 percent of today�s
oil price is pure speculation
Editor:
Super article!
Vern
& Dianne Downey
May 8, 2008
John Hagee
Editor:
John Hagee is also a bigot based on what he said recently about
Catholics, the Catholic Church, and the Pope. When John McCain was questioned
about this after Hagee endorsed him, the Senator from Arizona refused to
distance himself from the good preacher. It is for this reason that I will not
cast my vote for McCain in the November election even though I voted Republican
in the past.
Furthermore, Hagee claims to be a Christian but at the same
time insists Christ was not divine. Perhaps the man is a false prophet
that Christ warned about in the New Testament.
Mike Reisch
May 7, 2008
John Hagee
Editor:
You forgot to mention Hagee�s money scandal, taking over $1 million $$$
annually from his ministries for personal gain: http://open-letter-for-pastor-hagee.org/
Bernie
May 7, 2008
What is the truth?
Editor:
I just read the article about John Hagee ad one of his
quotes is, "those who live by the Koran have
a scriptural mandate to kill Christians and Jews"). . . . Is this truly
mandated by the Koran?
How is this different than Christians striking Iran first?
Both gods are into violence, then. Any wonder WHY more
and more people want nothing to do with a God of violence? Religion is
another way of twisting minds and making people do things they would not
normally do. As I get older, I am freeing myself from the shackles of
worshiping at the feet of governments and gods. Shame on this gluttonous
zealot for spewing his hate via all those stations. All those mindless
people throwing money at a preacher, it's no wonder politicians jump on the
bandwagon. . . . ..supporting him in a speech guarantees the sheep will support
you in the voting booth! Masterful!
Kathy
Apr 25, 2008
Re: What the Iraq war is about
Everything of yours I've read, I like. And a belated thanks for those,
too.
But this is just superb. I think you nailed it. It's like you cut
through the whole horrible mess to reveal the essential, awful truth. Your few,
calm words say it all and are devastating.
I'm emailing the links to my contacts. I'm sure the progressives
will appreciate it, and I hope the conservatives will find it
compelling.
So thank you, thank you; and please continue. And thanks to Global
Research and Online Journal.
Merlin Montgomery
Olympia, WA
PS: If you originated using quagmire as a verb ("The
Bush Regime has quagmired America . . ."), you deserve a prize for that
alone. Somebody should put it on T shirts.
M
Carter & Hamas
Editor:
Many Americans who do not support their own administration
in some matters do support Israel because it is a democracy and we identify
with the Israelis, who are like us. Mr. Carter is a PAST President, although he
seems to have a difficult time thinking of himself as such. He should not be
making foreign policy, certainly not consorting with HAMAS, which his
government calls "a terrorist organization," and which, indeed
,behaves like a terrorist organization. Mr Carter, who could not successfully
rescue Americans seized from our embassy in Iran when he was President,
represented only himself in his consultations with HAMAS, not the people of the
United States or its government.
Grace Leach-Urrows
Connecticut
Apr 24, 2008
Thank you, President Carter
Mr. President:
I appreciate all you
do in furthering the peace effort. After reading your book: "Palastine,
Peace Not Apartheid" I understand why you are so hated. It
is because you have exposed the propaganda that made it seem like it was all
the fault of Palestinians.
J.S.
Apr 22, 2008
Thank you
Editor:
I just finished reading "Is the CIA behind the
China-bashing Olympics protests?" and while I will need to read further,
it was enlightening. Thanks for having it up to share!
Re: Did the Secret Service set up Barack Obama for
assassination?
Editor:
Have you lost your mind What a bunch of rubbish!!!
Mike Heenan
Apr 12, 2008
The CIA and the anti-China protest
Editor:
In his article, "Is the CIA
behind the China-bashing Olympics protests?" (April 11, 2008), Larry
Chin suggests that yes, they are.
As an American, I view the CIA's legendary incompetence with
a mixture of pride and dismay -- pride because my society is too open and
democratic to be truly good at spying and dirty dealings, dismay because
occasionally even those dark arts come in handy.
But if Mr. Chin is right, and the anti-China protests are
indeed being organized by the CIA, then I am extremely proud that, for once,
our intelligence agency has done something good and done it well. China
richly deserves all the criticism it gets for its imperialism, tacit support of
genocide, and brutalization of poor Chinese peasants. Organizing grassroots
protests against such a powerful evil is a much better use of the CIA's time
and money than trying to assassinate Fidel Castro with an exploding seashell.
Noah Smith
Re: America at a critical turning point
Editor:
It would be difficult to disagree that a crisis approaches
us. I totally disagree that Obama is better than McCain. They are both crap.
Neither one is better than the other and it does not make a dime's worth of
difference which one is elected. The same applies to Senator Hillary.
If you cannot see that we have no real choice except to vote
for a write in candidate then you are among those who will help to destroy any
possibility of reviving what once was the United States of America: a
confederation of fully sovereign states which gave to the US federal government
certain limited rights to act on behalf of those sovereign states.
Mike Tedesco
Apr 9, 2008
Re: John McCain's "heroism" in the proper context
Editor:
I have little if any sympathy for John McCain and I don't belief I am
less humane for that. McCain, in a 1997 interview with 60 Minutes said, "
I am a war criminal. I have killed innocent women and children". How many
is anyone's guess. Any suffering McCain has experience due to his capture is on
his own making. It's called "karma".
Jerry Giacomo
Apr 9, 2008
Re: America at a critical turning point
Mr. Payne:
Your suggested
solutions, to the mentioned problems, is far from connected to the reality of
the issues. You solution does not address the systemic source of the problem.
In essence, it is a Band Aid placed upon a gunshot wound that is spurting
blood. The reason that we are here, today, is that there are too many Band Aid
solutions placed upon mortal wounds to our country.
The system is
rotten to the core -- to the core!
Apr 8, 2008
Re: McCan't
Ediitor:
Not only eloquent, but true!
To put it eloquently, John McChicanery sucks.
Even some diehard "Repugnikans" are seeing the truth!
Apr 2, 2008
Mukasey lies
Editor:
You know, there is another -- more probable and plausible,
if less palatable -- explanation for Mukasey's recent "misspeak" on a
pre-9/11 intercept.
Mukasey wasn't there at the time, thus his current
"knowledge" of that event could only have come to him from the
Administration "insiders" who were. That's the more probable and
plausible. The less palatable is that he seemed actually to believe it! And because
of that missed intercept, 3000 did not go home that night.
Perhaps someone could suggest to the Attorney General that
he might benefit from a visit with former Secretary of State Colin Powell.
Sam Woolsey
Re: Knocking down false gods
Editor and Mr. Morici:
Why are we throwing away over 200 years of this nations
legacy of escaping overseas rule because of greedy CEOs and the
capitalists who back them. I believe we are throwing away are super power
status with both hands, and in doing so, we have been decreasing our standard
of living closer and closer to that of a third world's just to supply a
money train to a chosen few.?
I have always been a big buy American fan (support Roger
Simmermaker's book and site) and I would always repeat "How long will it
be before we will not be able to celebrate our beloved July 4th holiday?"
or "if free trade was so good for us than how come we went from union
wage and benefits paying G.M. as this nation's largest employer to non-union
low wage benefits skirting Wal-Mart?" or "Are we a market or a
nation?"
There are SO many others issues of about this misguided
utopia mindset of a "global" world that Americans forget, such as
wasting millions of gallons of fossil fuel and increasing acid rain just to
tanker those cheaper goods to our soil. Or how about importing the
Longhorned Beetles and Emerald Ash Borers from China that are decimating
the trees in the Midwest and costing the states billions? Better yet, the thought
of our trading "friends" like, China, Korea and Japan torturing and
consuming dogs, cats and horses as we supply their coffers and try to stop
animal abuse here at the same time. As far as Japan goes, all one needs to do
is read "Unjust Enrichment" subtitled -How Japan's Companies
Built Postwar Fortunes Using American POWS" by Linda Goetz Holmes to
understand holding hands and singing Kum-Buy-Ya is not going to change other
nation's thousand year old cultures simply because we ask them to do so.
My father served on 3 submarines in WWII and his father was
deaf in one ear being a machine gunner during WWI to defend all of our
ancestor's sacrifices and accomplishments. It's about time we ditch this
"penny wise and pound foolish" buying mentality of saving a few
bucks by importing at the cost of our sovereignty. The founders of this great
nation must be rolling over in their graves because of the snot-nosed self
serving politicians we have running it today.
Thanks again for your candid words. I am forwarding your
excellent article. I was recently interviewed by a cable station writer to whom
I
spoke these same words to. It's nice to know that there are
those who are in agreement, especially those that can reach the masses.
Sincerely,
Barbara Toncheff
Chagrin Falls, Oh
Suburb of now the now rust-belt city Cleveland
Mar 28, 2008
Improper accounting practices and risky loans
Editor:
Mar 28, 2008
Improper accounting practices & risky loans
Editor:
According to the article: "senior management at the Irvine, Calif.-based
lender failed to take appropriate steps to manage rising risks caused by the
company's aggressive approach to originating loans, often to borrowers who
couldn't afford them" and further "New Century had a brazen obsession
with increasing loan originations, without due regard to the risks associated
with that business strategy."
Until recently I was an underwriter for a sub-prime mortgage company
that is about to close. It seems that most media outlets and government
officials fain ignorance about the real underlying cause of the problem. There
is either a tendency to blame the borrower or act as though no one in the
industry {or outside of it} saw this coming. They fail to mention that those
who gained the most financially got off scot free while leaving the mess behind
for everyone else to clean up. In my former company, the sales managers and
loan officers "held the keys to the safe" while deciding which
guidelines to ignore sometimes going so far as to bribe fellow underwriters to "look
the other way". Sales managers often overrode an underwriter's decision
they did not agree with. Other times fellow underwriters would be threatened
with their job for "impeding company growth and progress" just
because they refused to go along with the flagrant disregard of guidelines . I
complained to the sales managers about the bribing but all I got was a formal
write-up for making "inappropriate comments".
There was absolutely no support from the owner of the company all the
way to the human resource representative. This company is as corrupt as they
come. I can't tell you the number of sexual affairs that occurred between
married and unmarried people; primarily among the management staff {at the
workplace itself}. Promotions were strictly political thus moving people
"up the ladder" who never proved themselves worthy or were on a final
written warning to be terminated {for poor performance}. As a result of the
corrupt management of this company, I and several hundred others were laid off.
I believe the federal government needs to investigate this company and bring to
trial those corrupt individuals who broke the law. This would set an example
for the rest of the mortgage industry that absolute corruption corrupts
absolutely.
Joe Bialek
Cleveland, Ohio
Mar
27, 2008
Re:
Learning to listen: Cultural
perspectives on Rev. Wright
Editor:
This is long winded goblygook! Obama went to this
church for a long time and the pastor preaches anger and hate tastefuly.
Thats ok you know that�s why americans go to church
to get that good feeling on Sunday.
Thomas
G. Batson
Mar 27, 2008
Rev. Wright
Editor:
I get this spin and the angle you�re coming from but if doesn�t make it
right. Sure they have a lot to be angry for, but so do the Jews as well as
Native American Indians. Why is it that African-Americans still feel like they
are owed something? My generation wasn�t there, my father wasn�t there and yet
today there are still those who feel like we owe them something. I get angry
when I hear that, because in every civilization there were those who were dealt
a bad hand. It happens to all kinds, but African Americans are the ones with
their hands out? I am not buying it.
Mar 26, 2008
Rush Limbaugh
Editor:
Why not cancel the
election and just allow Rush Limbaugh to appoint the President? Where's
the outrage?
Carl Miller
Re: Bush isn�t a moron, he�s a cunning sociopath
Editor:
I found your article about Bush being a sociopath and I 100%
concur with your diagnosis.
Cheney is too.
They both have shown a HUGE lack of empathy for people they
don't know . . . and both are mass murderers and terrorists who have no
restraint when it comes to a Power
(or money) grab.
And I have never hurt an animal in my Life . . . but Bush
was blowing up frogs with firecrackers and he took Joy in BRANDING someone's
arse with a red hot POKER.
I could NEVER brand someone like that (but that
branding is the least of what "W" did)
And I miss the Twin Towers.
Thank you for your braveness and honesty as you clearly
defined George W. Bush for what he is: A cunning sociopath
Stu
Gibson
