Did you hear this?
Each morning I open the laptop, check emails, news, blogs, and am shocked at what I see. So much news, so many things that interest me and so many things that I want to share with you readers. Many of you are nice enough to email me tips on things I somehow miss, much appreciated. The world truly is getting smaller and it's much harder to keep atrocities hidden these days, and that's a very good thing. This morning I read:
Baptist tortured and killed for sharing beliefs:
The manager of a Christian bookstore in the Gaza Strip who was found dead last weekend was first publicly beaten and tortured by Islamic gunmen accusing him of spreading Christianity,
This proves that "terrorism is a part of Islam and anyone who denies it is a disbeliever"
A moment of honesty from Muslim blogger "Caravan of Martyrs". Terrifying & horrifying honesty. Quoting a book "caravanofmartyrs" says:“Terrorism is a part of Islaam; And whosoever denies that, he has disbelieved” ...Therefore, we are obliged to have ta’assie (resemblance) to the messengers and to the messenger Muhammad (saw), to always speak the Haq [truth] wherever we are and not to fear any consequences.
A General is endangering the lives of our special ops forces:
A crusading three-star general has sparked outrage within the Army Special Forces and Marine Special Operations Command by publicly condemning and twice bringing legal actions against members of their forces.Rep. Walter B. Jones, North Carolina Republican said the general’s action had “damaged the lives of many of our special operators and deserve to be investigated.” (Washington Times)
The Washington Post obscures the truth about Blackwater, no one is surprised.
You can still burn Old Glory in the USA, but you better not burn a foreign flag, like a Mexican flag.
Today, just over 18 years since the SCOTUS gave the green light to scumbags and hippies everywhere to desecrate the American Flag , 46-year old David Bohmfalk is in a legal mess with the city of San Antonio, TX for exercising his First Amendment rights and burning a flag — albeit the Mexican flag. [snip]I guess the ACLU is too busy to step in and actually do what they are supposed to do, you know — help fight for the civil liberties of Americans.
Giuliani 'doesn't deserve to live' - Terrorists threaten presidential candidate, cite Rudy's war stance, Arafat treatment..., according to Palestinian terror leaders. Well, if the terrorists and Palestinians don't like Rudy, that's one more reason we SHOULD like him. Just this week some other terrorists expressed their support for Hillary Clinton.
Right Truth reader Paul
asked me to share "Seven million died in the 'forgotten' holocaust" by Eric Margolis:
Five years ago, I wrote about the unknown Holocaust in Ukraine. I was shocked to receive a flood of mail from young Americans and Canadians of Ukrainian descent telling me that until they read my column, they knew nothing of the 1932-33 genocide in which Josef Stalin's Soviet regime murdered seven million Ukrainians and sent two million more to concentration camps.How, I wondered, could such historical amnesia afflict so many? For Jews and Armenians, the genocides their people suffered are vivid, living memories that influence their daily lives. Yet today, on the 70th anniversary of the destruction of a quarter of Ukraine's population, this titanic crime has almost vanished into history's black hole.
So has the extermination of the Don Cossacks by the communists in the 1920s, the Volga Germans in 1941 and mass executions and deportations to concentration camps of Lithuanians, Latvians, Estonians and Poles. At the end of World War II, Stalin's gulag held 5.5 million prisoners, 23% of them Ukrainians and 6% Baltic peoples.
Almost unknown is the genocide of two million of the USSR's Muslim peoples: Chechens, Ingush, Crimean Tatars, Tajiks, Bashkirs and Kazaks. The Chechen independence fighters who today are branded as "terrorists" by the U.S. and Russia are the grandchildren of survivors of Soviet concentration camps.Add to this list of forgotten atrocities the murder in Eastern Europe from 1945-47 of at least two million ethnic Germans, mostly women and children, and the violent expulsion of 15 million more Germans, during which two million German girls and women were raped.
Among these monstrous crimes, Ukraine stands out as the worst in terms of numbers. (read it all)
Don't miss " House Foreign Affairs Committee: Yes , It Was a Genocide" at Gates of Vienna.
Britannica Blog has a new forum "Target Iran? (New Blog Forum: October 8 - 12)". Go check it out. There are some excellent speakers/participants. Asking question like, "Is Iran really a threat?; Can we negotiate with Iran?; Are America and Israel really to blame for our conflict with Iran?; Is military action imminent?" Go here to check out the articles already posted.
Other reading:
Hmm..Do we need God?, Woman Honor Thyself
Show Me Your Browser, 123Beta
JS: I heard the interview but I haven't had time to write anything on it yet. I had to be gone all afternoon and evening, just now getting back to the computer. It proves what many of us have been saying all along. We are not conspiracy nuts after all.
Angel: You are so welcome. Stay brave in New York Angel.
Posted by: Debbie | October 11, 2007 at 10:47 PM
Debbie, I'm surprised you haven't posted this article yet from:
http://commonsenseamerica.net/blog1/index.php?paged=2
In an interview last night on CNN’s “Larry King Live,” the former president of Mexico, Vicente Fox, confirmed the existence of a government plan to create the amero as a new regional currency to replace the U.S. dollar, the Canadian dollar and the Mexican Peso.
It possibly was the first time a leader of Mexico, Canada or the U.S. openly confirmed a plan to create a regional currency. Fox explained the current regional trade agreement is intended to evolve into other previously hidden aspects of integration.
According to a transcript published by CNN, King, near the end of the broadcast, asked Fox a question e-mailed from a listener, a Ms. Gonzalez from Elizabeth, N.J.: “Mr. Fox, I would like to know how you feel about the possibility of having a Latin America united with one currency?”
Fox answered in the affirmative, admitting he and President Bush had agreed to pursue the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas – a free-trade zone extending throughout the Western Hemisphere – and that part of the plan was to institute a regional currency from Canada to the tip of South America.
“Long term, very long term,” he said. “What we proposed together, President Bush and myself, it’s ALCA, which is a trade union for all the Americas.”
ALCA is the acronym for the Area de Libre Comercio de las Américas, the name of the FTAA in Spanish.
King, evidently startled by Fox’s revelation of the currency, asked pointedly, “It’s going to be like the euro dollar, you mean?”
“Well, that would be long, long term,” Fox repeated.
Fox noted the FTAA plan had been thwarted by Hugo Chavez, the radical socialist president of Venezuela.
“Everything was running fluently until Hugo Chavez came,” Fox commented. “He decided to combat the idea and destroy the idea.”
Fox explained that he and Bush intended to proceed incrementally, establishing FTAA as an economic agreement first and waiting to create an amero-type currency later – a plan Fox also suggested was in place for NAFTA itself.
“I think the process to go, first step is trading agreement,” Fox said. “And then further on, a new vision, like we are trying to do with NAFTA.”
Posted by: JS | October 11, 2007 at 07:09 PM
depressing but necessary overview Deb!..thanks for the effort to do this.:)
Posted by: Angel | October 11, 2007 at 01:19 PM