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THERE IS NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN

King Solomon, reputed to be among the Wisest of the Wise in Religious circles, wrote the title of this article in the opening verses of Ecclesiastes some 3000 years ago. Solomon had 700 wives and 300...

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A HOUSE DIVIDED AGAINST ITSELF CANNOT STAND

Professor Richard Falk is an International Law and International Relations Scholar who taught at Prinston University for 40 years. He is also the United Nations Special Rapporteur for Palestinian...

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ISRAEL’S BOOMING SECRETIVE ARMS TRADE – MERCHANTS OF DEATH

Jonathan Cook is an award winning British Journalist who has lived in Nazareth since 2001. From his unique perspective on the ground, he has written three books on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict....

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SIGNS OF THE TIMES

In the Spirit of ’76, as a demonstrator, I was highly visible at The Liberty Memorial Mall in Penn Valley Park and The Crown Center Hotel in Kansas City the whole time of the Republican National...

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GOD! IS THAT YOU?

You were on your way home when you died. It was a car accident. Nothing particularly remarkable, but fatal nonetheless. You left behind a wife and two children. It was a painless death. The EMTs tried...

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DEATH & RESURRECTION

Halloween, at least in part, originally was a ceremony for the dead, and in the Christian context an interval to honour or pray for those who had died but were still parked, so to speak, in Purgatory,...

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AM I MY BROTHER’S KEEPER?

The following article is re-posted from the Blog of Professor Richard Falk, UN Special Rapporteur for Palestinian Rights under Israeli Military Occupation. I selected and included all the images....

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I AM THAT I AM

TODAY is my Birthday! Thirty-nine years have gone by since that unexpected, Wonder Filled Day when I was ‘Born Again” by the Spirit of God February 1, 1975. I was 29 going on 30, and never experienced...

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BIBLICAL NINEVEH – THE WORLD CITY

It is now 7 months since my last post, February 1st, on the occasion of celebrating the 39th anniversary of being “Born Again,” making me 70 going on 40. Since a Red Line was drawn in that article,...

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JONAH, JESUS, ISIS AND ISRAEL

  The last post to this Blog August 13 was on the Biblical Jonah in the Whale story, in light of ISIS the Islamic militants, the newest, greatest threat to humanity, blowing up the Islamic Mosque...

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TEMPLE MOUNT AND THE BATTLE OF THE GREAT DAY OF GOD ALMIGHTY

The Gold Dome is the most immediately identifiable image dominating the skyline of Jerusalem. It has stood there for 1300 years, longer in TIME than both the 1st and 2nd Jewish Temples. There is a...

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PATIENCE OF JOB – THE MAN/PATIENCE OF JOB – THE WORK OF FAITH

……This is a Work of Faith in progress! Please be patient and revisit in a few days. This is 44 years later! Looks like their high paying Job-Work has been rough on their faces! I liked this Rolling...

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TELLING IT LIKE IT IS: LIP SERVICE TO PEACE – POLICY & ATTITUDES LEADING TO WAR

The following article by Professor Richard Falk is clear, incisive, objective and Righteous. Richard Falk is an International Law and International Relations Scholar who taught at Princeton University...

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War Over Ukraine – Prelude to WWIII/Armageddon?

I am pleased to re-post this article that appeared in Pravda Today, and in other on line news outlets, written by someone I have known for many years. We both arrived at the same conclusion...

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WHEN SANER HEADS PREVAIL

Backtracking From the Brink in Ukraine By Jay Ogilvy Jay Ogilvy Jay Ogilvy joined Stratfor’s editorial board in January 2015. In 1979, he left a post as a professor of philosophy at Yale to join SRI,...

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O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you that kills the prophets, and stones them which...

It was my intention to write and post an article about Pope Francis I Today, the 2nd article on the evolving Papacy. The Papacy and the Vatican Curia is the oldest continuing, functioning government on...

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HAVING EYES THEY WILL NOT SEE

Gideon Levy is a Haaretz columnist and a member of the newspaper’s editorial board. Levy joined Haaretz in 1982, and spent four years as the newspaper’s deputy editor. He is the author of the weekly...

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JEWS AND PALESTINIANS

I start my Day on the computer reading The Jerusalem Post, Haaretz, The Washington Post, and then move on to many other different on line news sites. Why do I start with Israeli news organizations?...

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THE PEOPLE’S POPE – A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS AND REASONS

I just started to write this article when the horrific news out of Paris interrupted it. More interesting for me to note than for others obviously, because it happened on the 1 year anniversary of...

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KINGS OF THE EARTH

S Samuel being dedicated to the service of the LORD and presented to his Father the High Priest When I first learned how to read in the 1st Grade in 1950,  the 1st Book I read cover to cover was the...

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