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To YOU it's paradoxical. But what did you expect? The countries of the Allied Forces set up a government selected of people who had such virulent anti-tolerant ideas, that were totally against religion, and the Middle-Eastern mindset, and were highly oppressive of religious Jews and religious Muslims, it was virtually impossible for anything to result but conflict and intolerance. Stop deliberately picking leaders who are bound to cause conflict, and you might have a better chance of conflict. But then, since no-one could doubt that picking such leaders could result in conflict, it's impossible to know this, without accepting that people who would only start conflicts were intentionally chosen, because the countries of Western Europe WANTED continual conflict in the Middle East. You made your bed. Now you don't want to lie in it?

Lemkin wrote:-

Generally speaking, genocide does not necessarily mean the immediate destruction of a nation, except when accomplished by mass killings of all members of a nation. It is intended rather to signify a coordinated plan of different actions aiming at the destruction of essential foundations of the life of national groups, with the aim of annihilating the groups themselves. The objectives of such a plan would be the disintegration of the political and social institutions, of culture, language, national feelings, religion, and the economic existence of national groups, and the destruction of the personal security, liberty, health, dignity, and even the lives of the individuals belonging to such groups.

Are Messianic Jewish people still Jewish ?

I believe if the US, Canada, Mexico and Central America formed an EU type of union, making membership contingent on the political and social well being of a country (which the EU enforces), that the economic and political problems we now see in Mexico and CentralAmerica would be essentially solved.

So, building a fence and trying to keep 'them' and 'their problems' out is only putting a bandaid on a problem that could actually be cured.

Looks like our neighbor to the south is having quite a few crimminal problems. THey are not only asking for help from the UN but from the US.

Since this has already been spilling over to the US and could spill over even more, what are your thoughts on this situation.

After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.
John Calvin Coolidge, Jr. 30th President of the United States of America.

I honestly believe that Israel and Iran are about to go at it...Not good for anyone..

My assertion is that if one is going to make claims concerning God then one might want to be prepared for this obvious follow up question and have a better reply than "God has always been".

There was a heroine there

bolted from her car, yanked her pistol out and shot at Major Hasan.

She ran toward him, continuing to fire, and both she and Major Hasan went down with several bullet wounds

Mr. Medley said

However, you can research for yourself cases of NDE that have been document throughout the years. There's some logical indication for you. These people are announced "dead" for lack of a better term, on the operating table, they experience everything that goes on in the room- the doctor marking the time of death, family members talking, nurses moving about, and so on... But then they regain consciousness and are able to recount the full experience, including dialogue between hospital staff. How is that possible unless the soul survives death?

"Hidden Agendas"..., John Pilger..., He's actually a pom..., but no matter.

In the first place, the french had been fighting with what became the South Vienamese long before we go there.

The Taliban is a cancer eating Pakistan from within. I firmly believe this, whether some moderate Pakistanis do or not. Some are apparently slow to understand the Taliban's ultimate mission is to take over the country and spread their twisted vision of Islamic radicalism to the whole region.

We helped Great Britain in its war against Hitler before our own involvement.

Question—Islam, I hear you----what do you want ???

Iran has repeatedly said it is interested in nuclear power,....not bombs,.....

assumptions are being made if they have one they automatically have the other,....

and should anycountry be attacked either literally or otherwise for what it might do?
In law,....no one can be charged with a crime until they actually take steps to do the thing,.....

and why are we here entitled to using nuclear power but other's are denied that same right?

There is absolutely no problem at all with my comparison. People do that all the time in every thread.

Has this "prestigious" award done its dash?

"I'll increase your pain in labor"

Or each other.

Afghanistan was a war forced upon the US after we were attacked by Osama Bin Ladin who was given refuge and support by the Taliban. Completely different that invading a sovereign nation that had not attacked us, against international law and for a variety of reasons that kept/keep changing as the old reasons don't fly anymore.

I've heard from at least three different blokes from completely separate backgrounds that girls who ride horses are an incredible lay. I even developed a hypothesis, since I don't think it has anything to do with the physical nature of it and these guys didn't want to elaborate much more than to just shake me by the shoulders and tell me, they're just amazing in bed is all. I think it's because if you can bond with half a ton of muscle trying to gallop you into every overhanging branch on the trail and make it your best friend, you can bond sexually and make incredible orgasms.

Cadillac Records
Fuelled by the terrific sounds of the ’50s, and starring Beyonce Knowles, Adrien Brody, Cedric the Entertainer and Jeffrey Wright.

Cadillac Records tells the story of the Chicago record label Chess, which helped launch the careers of such pop icons as Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.

Brody (The Pianist) plays Leonard Chess, one of the 1950s’ most influential music producers. He lured some of the world’s most talented and eminent blues artists into his recording studio. But giving these artists an opportunity to connect with an audience, and in turn become the mega-stars Chess believed they could be, wasn’t an easy task – not when so many of them had such easy access to booze and drugs. But as we all know, the climb to the top isn’t without effort.

Pop sensation Beyonce Knowles plays legendary singer Etta James, Jeffrey Wright (Quantum of Solace) is Muddy Waters, Gabrielle Union (Bring it On) is Geneva Wade, Mos Def (16 Blocks) is Chuck Berry and last, but not least, newcomer Eamonn Walker is Howlin' Wolf

Armageddon
I have heard others say it is getting close. And I tend to feel myself that were getting close .. However no one will be sure until you see the armies lining up on the battle fields..

Also there are plans in the works for the third temple.. vendel Jones the man that Indiana Jones, raiders of the lost ark movie was biased on claims he will have the ark of the covenant by September.. also they have all the blocks, temple tools and items already made.. there just waiting for the go ahead.. this is the temple that the anti christ is going to set in and proclaim him self GOD. These things make me think it’s close. Not a man saying ..it’s close.

Think I like the simple idea put forward in a junky american movie

Pay it forward........but then dont just stop at one good deed.

Thats when i started to embrace the eastern philosophies, moreso than the christianity that had been instilled in me as a child at school.

Before the Sahara was a desert it was apperently a grassland only about 20k yrs ago , the nomadic pastorialistic ppls on that grassland were basically locked into this migrational movement around that grassland enviroment ,following herds of cows migrational ungulates in what seems like a symbiosis of some sort ?.

Then i am suggesting that the ppls who wrote the fist bible stories a few thousand years later were obviously concerned that their ancestors were being punished by a over jealous god and a devil serpent had tricked them , not realising at the time that it was nothing more than enviromental change causing an upheaval of the previous partnership style of nomadic lifestyle now thrown into disequalibrum .

The following is a list of ancient Semitic peoples.
• Akkadians — migrated into Mesopotamia in the late 4th millennium BC and amalgamate with non-Semitic Mesopotamian (Sumerian) populations into the Assyrians and Babylonians of the Late Bronze Age.[2][3]
• Eblaites — 23rd century BC
• Aramaeans — 16th to 8th century BC[4][5] / Akhlames (Ahlamu) 14th century BC[6]
• Ugarites, 14th to 12th centuries BC
• Canaanite language speaking nations of the early Iron Age:
o Amorites
o Ammonites
o Edomites
o Hebrews/Israelites — founded the nation of Israel which later split into the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah. The remnants of these people became the Jews and Samaritans.
o Moabites
o Phoenicians — founded Mediterranean colonies including Carthage
• Old South Arabian speaking peoples
o Sabaeans of Yemen — 9th to 1st c. BC
• Ethio-Semitic speaking peoples
o Aksumites — 4th c. BC to 7th c. AD
• Arabs, Old North Arabian speaking Bedouins
o Gindibu's Arabs 9th c. BC
o Lihyanites — 6th to 1st c. BC
o Thamud people — 2nd to 5th c. AD
o Ghassanids — 3rd to 7th c. AD
o Nabataeans — adopted Arabic in the 4th century AD

" The bible is nothing more then one gigantic astrological allegory. Every main story in there..adam and eve, noah, jesus...are all nothing but stories about the sun and stars and constellations. "

whats the bit about the eating of the fruit of the tree of knowledge all about then , does that relate to astronomy aswell ?

The phrase “with all due respect” is it a double edged sword?

The Reckoning: The Battle for the International Criminal Court.

The Reckoning follows the ICC’s (International Criminal Court) Prosecutor as he and his team confront the most challenging of armed conflict situations, compiling evidence of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide in order to build cases against leaders of the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda, militia leaders in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and the President of Sudan.

"I am in him and you are in me"(Jesus). This understanding has been around way before Jesus' time, and is even found in eastern philosophy.

That's quite detailed information. But it is NOT mentioned in every discussion of Santa Claus.

Illustrations of lavishly bearded Santas (and his predecessors), showing figures clothed in red suits (and hats), with white fur trimming, held together with broad black belts, were also common long before Coca-Cola’s advertisement first appeared, as evidenced by these examples from, 1906, 1908 and 1925, respectively; http://www.snopes.com/holidays/christmas/santa/cocacola.asp

What in heaven's name, is your problem? Why isnt a collective of people governing better than giving all the power to corporations and to individual enterprise (ie. market domination)? Why is that word, socialism, so profane to Americans?

Frankly, I'd be surprised if an anthropologist doesn't say that Xmas is the most important time of the year (it certainly is to businesses), and that since the main figure "around" in our time is Santa, that the most important mythological figure of Western society is Santa Claus.

They might even go so far as to say that Santa is an old man because our society is misogynistic, and that he wears a red suit, because it is the colour of blood, showing how Santa was a violent and vicious god, and that our society fought vicious wars in the name of Santa, like World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan.

I am interested in searching among more than one ethnicity, but not all of them. It would be nice if an advanced search allowed the user to select more than one option for ethnicity, just like it does for "Search Type", "Body Type", "Smarts", and "Income".

Perhaps allowing someone to select multiple ethnicities on their profile (just as I have suggested above for the search feature) would be helpful to those who identify with more than one ethnicity but aren't necessarily a "mixed race". (i.e. Asian/Indian or Caucasian/European).

Afghanistan needs to find its own way to democracy:
Malalai Joya
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Broadcast: 30/06/2009
Reporter: Kerry O'Brien
Malalai Joya spent much of her childhood in refugee camps in Iran and Pakistan, before returning to Afghanistan in the 1990s, working to promote women's health and education. Joya was elected to parliament, has survived assassination attempts, travels with a bodyguard, but may stand again at the August election. A secular Muslim, she's a critic of fundamentalists in the Taliban and the northern alliance and says her country needs to find its own way to democracy without military intervention.

Transcript
KERRY O'BRIEN, PRESENTER: Malalai Joya spent much of her childhood in refugee camps in Iran and Pakistan before returning to her Afghanistan home in the Taliban-era of the late nineties, working underground to promote women's health and education for girls. She burst into the public eye with a brief but electrifying public appearance at a constitutional assembly in Kabul in 2003 called Loya Jirga.

A meeting dominated by the powerful men of Afghanistan, including the former Mujahedeen commanders and even some ex-Taliban officials. She was 23, and all of five feet tall. 90 seconds into her address she was shut down and thrown out of the assembly. Here's what she had to say.

MALALAI JOYA, AFGHAN PARLIAMENTARIAN: My name is Malalai Joya from the Farah Province. With the permission of all those present - and in respect of the martyrs who were killed I would like to speak. I wish to criticise my compatriots in this room. Why would you allow criminals to be present at this Loya Jirga?

War lords are responsible for our country's situation. Afghanistan is the centre for national and international conflicts. They oppress women and have ruined our country. They should be prosecuted. They might be forgiven by the Afghan people but not by history.


KERRY O'BRIEN: It would be fair to say that many of the men in that room had never been spoken to like that by a woman before.

Malalai Joya was subsequently elected to parliament, but not allowed to speak, has survived assassination attempts, travels with a permanent bodyguard, moves from safe house to safe house but may stand again at the national elections in August.

A secular Muslim, she's a fierce critic of fundamentalists in both the Taliban and the Northern Alliance and says her country needs to find its own way to democracy without the military intervention of America and its allies including Australia. She's here promoting her book, "Raising My Voice", and I spoke with her in Sydney.

KERRY O'BRIEN: Malalai Joya we've heard a lot about the bad things - the negatives - after you spoke out at Afghanistan's constitutional assembly in 2003. Threats to your life, the need to travel in disguise with bodyguards. What were the positives, what were the good things that came from you speaking out?

MALALAI JOYA: As you ask about my speech after Loya Jirga, the positive points I want to say that lots of support came from the innocent, poor suffering people of my country, men and women around Afghanistan. And the main positive points was that the masks of these fundamentalist war lords and criminals has been peeled for the great people around the world as they deceive them, and they are in power after 9/11 tragedy. These fundamentalist war lords of Northern Alliance become imposed on our people and continue their crimes and violence against men and women of our country.

And I got international support from different countries around the world in the US and here in Australia.

KERRY O'BRIEN: What difference did it make for you, becoming a member of parliament?

MALALAI JOYA: From the beginning in parliament when I want to talk they turn off the microphone, they threaten me these war lords, as majority of seats of parliament belongs to war lords, drug lords and criminals who destroyed Afghanistan. But today unfortunately they are in parliament and even made Amnesty Law, that criminal forgive themselves despite international condemnation. But it was easy for them to pass this law, and one reason that they expel me form parliament was that because inside of parliament I raised my voice against this.

KERRY O'BRIEN: How many assassination attempts have there been?

MALALAI JOYA: Until 2003, five times they did assassination attempts against me. Has now changing the houses and it’s up to the area that how much it is secure and how many I could spend there.

KERRY O'BRIEN: What was the attempt that came closest to succeeding?

MALALAI JOYA: One that was very close was when I went to my home village in Farah Province. When we want to return - when I went there friends and enemies all become aware that I'm there, but when we return in our way on approach they put bomb, We were lucky that before we arrived in exploded. In many times their planning has been exposed when they are planning to kill me they don't know that in every corner of Afghanistan I have my supporters and among their meetings sometimes their planning gets exposed. For example, when they want to beat me in parliament.

KERRY O'BRIEN: What real gains have been made since the fall of the Taliban for girls and for women?

MALALAI JOYA: There are not only Taliban who committed many crimes against men and women in our country. Especially women during the 30 Years War, they were the main and first victims and still many violences against them. But after 9/11 tragedy unfortunately because the US and its allies brought into power these fundamentalist Northern Alliance, who are mentally the same like Taliban but physically has been changed. They are in power and control Afghanistan.

There's no justice in Afghanistan. Even in front of the court of Laghman Province a woman burn herself because her husband do violence against her and when she go to the court there is no justice. Always these fundamentalists mix Islam with politics and use it as a weapon against women of my country.

This is a picture from 1967. That how the girls - groups by groups enjoy on the streets of Kabul as they wish. They wear clothes without scarf, and they're going to schools without worrying that someone will kidnap or rape or kill them. The US and its allies want to pretend to the people around the world, to show them this is the first time we brought women's right to Afghanistan, which is quite - lies.

KERRY O'BRIEN: But haven't there been basic human rights established for women in the constitution since 2001?

MALALAI JOYA: We have in our constitution rights for women and even some shortcomings of the constitution have, especially regarding the woman issue - it's not very clear. But if we put this constitution in practice, then should be hopefully positive changes slowly come in Afghanistan. But the problem is that today in Afghanistan we have jungle law. There is no freedom of press, while we have in our constitution and this freedom that even inside of parliament two journalists have been beaten just because they show the crimes of the war lords through TV or dare to write about their crimes or to talk about them. Some of them has been killed, like Shaima Rezayee has been killed. Like Zakia Zaki in Parwan in her house has been killed as she was a brave woman who always said the truth. Shokiba Sanga Amaaj in Kabul under the eyes and nose of the thousands of US troops has been killed. Ajmal Naqshbandi was a young journalist by Taliban has been kidnapped and become beheaded.

KERRY O'BRIEN: Will the election change anything?

MALALAI JOYA: Our people has no hope on this election. It's a showcase for US Government under the shield of gun war lords, drug lords, awful corruption and occupation forces, has no legitimacy at all.

KERRY O'BRIEN: But do you...

MALALAI JOYA: Only one puppet can't be replaced with another puppet.

KERRY O'BRIEN: You have been critical of President Barack Obama for increasing the American military presence in Afghanistan. But without the Americans, and NATO in Afghanistan, wouldn't your country simply descend again into a dangerous civil war, essentially between the war lords and the Taliban and Al Qaeda?

MALALAI JOYA: Everyone is talking about this time the civil war happen but what's going on today - let's do talk about - itself is like a civil war. Today our people are between two enemies, internal enemies Taliban, who are anti-US terrorists - and Northern Alliance, who are pro-US terrorists.

KERRY O'BRIEN: Where will your people, as you call them, find the strength and the power to defeat both the fundamentalists of the Northern Alliance, the war lords and the Taliban?

MALALAI JOYA: I strongly believe that no nation can donate liberation to another nation. This is the responsibility of our own people to fight for their rights to achieve values like democracy and women's rights, human rights in our country. It's a prolonged struggled, it's a risky struggle full of hardships and challenges but I trust on my people. On the history of my country.

KERRY O'BRIEN: Let me put this proposition - and this is what you are arguing against - that the only way to a true democracy has to be a very slow very painful one, maybe over decades, but that it can only happen, if in the short-term, America and NATO work to beat the Taliban and give your people a chance then to focus on democratically overcoming the war lords and the fundamentalists?

MALALAI JOYA: Only the democratic-minded men and women in some parties in Afghanistan, modern parties, democratically-minded intellectuals ... we have a democrat men and women of my country, they are the only alternative for the bright future of Afghanistan as people trust on them and they don't have bloody hands and they really believe in democracy.

KERRY O'BRIEN: You have been banned from attending the parliament, even though you are still a member of parliament. Will you run in the next election?

MALALAI JOYA: Many requests coming from people from different parts of Afghanistan. When directly underground I have an appointment with them. When they are calling me and even they are asking me to run for the presidential election and also for parliamentary election that what we can do. But as they wish I will do that, but at least now I am not sure about my tomorrow as these enemies, these fundamentalists, these war lords. As they know I never do compromise with them and they threat me more today and I have to be careful, but as much as I can, but as I am young I have energy. I wish to be alive as I have lots of hopes for the future of my country to do something for them, and more in the future.

KERRY O'BRIEN: Are you saying it is possible still, that you will run in the election and that you might even contest the presidential election?

MALALAI JOYA: I trust my people. I love my people and of course they wish I will do that but let's see that for the future. Now I can't say anything, as you know that as Brecht saying that those who do struggle may fail but those who do not has already failed. Just as I do my responsibility as much as I could serve my people. I don't have this dream that one day to be President of my country but if my people want - as today I'm a member of parliament, tomorrow as they wish I will do.

KERRY O'BRIEN: Malalia Joya thank you very much for talking to us.

Transcript of interview; http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2009/s2612972.htm
A video of the interview is also available at the above page.

In the process and in reaching this harmonious life within what you perceive as the realm of the natural environment that is void of the turmoil created by mans eternal material desires, undermines the reality of physical birth from genetic parents, undermines sexual freedom, has undermined the concept of each's ability to build on their own merits such as material successes, have also brought disillusionment in the reality of crimes and justification through the Justice of the Courts as having detached from the world environment. It undermines the reality of LIFE and FREEDOM of your own decisions by your actions to make for a better lifestyle while still experiencing your individuality in self and respecting the differences in others. Have come under delusion of grandeur and have hypnotised yourself into believing a false presence of peace, love & harmony. Man is only capable of conditional love and not unconditional love.

I wasn't saying anything at all about the existence of either a "god" or a "God". All I am asking is why buddhists, or Buddhists, if you prefer, perform rituals seemingly aimed at physical statues of Buddha, when what has been said so far in this thread is that Buddhists don't acknowledge a "God".

The five most common mudras are the Abhaya Mudra (right hand raised and palm facing out, with the left hand down toward the hips and also facing out, symbolizing peaceful intentions and peacemaking); the Bhumisparsha mudra (all five fingers of the right hand reaching to touch the ground, symbolizing the enlightenment of the Buddha under the Bodhi tree); the Dhyana mudra (one or both hands in the lap, symbolizing wisdom, possibly supplemented by ritual objects such as an alms bowl); the Dharmachakra mudra (the thumb and index finger of both hands touch at their tips to form a circle, symbolizing the Wheel of Dharma); and the Varada mudra (both hands at waist level, palms out, right hand up and left hand down).

The matter of being responsible for one's pets is separate from the consideration of how many pets one has. I believe the government should police irresponsible pet ownership, not multiple-pet ownership. An irresponsible owner of a single dog can lead to a whole lot of nasty piles on the sidewalk.

Illegal dog-keeping has been blamed by authorities on a spate of rabies outbreaks across China

Of course, we're talking about a society where the number of children a couple is allowed to produce is under regulation. It's hard to comprehend.

While pampered pedigree dogs are a regular sight on the streets of major cities like Guangzhou and Beijing, the boom has spiked the number of strays as pets get abandoned.

TOO MUCH TROUBLE? Every year, people in the United States abandon millions of cats and dogs. Why? They may find that a pet needs more care than they expected. Or they may decide to go on vacation and don't want to take a pet along. Maybe they bought a pet while on vacation and don't want to take it home.
TOUGH LUCK. Most abandoned pets aren't as lucky as Kitty. Many starve to death. Others get sick and die. Lots get killed on highways. And many get picked up as strays and end up being "put to sleep."
TROUBLE FOR WILDLIFE. Some abandoned dogs and cats do learn to kill wild animals to survive. That's good for them but bad for wildlife. More trouble comes from pets that are allowed to run loose--like some of the dogs in this story. Each year, dogs and cats on the loose kill millions of songbirds and other small animals.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EPG/is_n5_v30/ai_18188210/?tag=content;col1

If you have problems logging in to POF as I have you may need to install INTERNET EXPLORER and adjust your settings from there.I could not adjust from FIREFOX and am surprised that POF admin could not advise me to that end.I have been locked out for months.Cheers

The West Australian newspaper reports Mr Rossiter attempted to commit suicide in the early 1990s.

Mr Rossiter said he had swallowed painkillers and tried to drown himself while severely depressed and in pain after being badly injured in a fall from a 30-metre building in 1988.

He became a quadriplegic last year when he was struck by a car while cycling.

I had a MRI a while back and as I am claustrophobic I was given a sedative for it. I felt sick when I saw the machine and even though my head didn’t have to go in, and I was doped up, I ended up clenching my teeth so hard I chipped one, broke into a dripping sweat, and then shook so much they had to keep starting again and redoing it.

Well this certainly was good for a chuckle. Talk about something being "completely misrepresented." You're stating that a human being "invented" "the divine human soul" and "invented" "an afterlife." Does no one else see the ridiculousness of this?

I examine the validity of dialogue in the prevention of Iran's nuclear arms ambitions after 8 utterly useless years of diplomacy with supposedly moderate and hardline regimes

America was founded upon Judeo-Christian ideals and values.

Our laws and government are based upon Judeo/Christian principles that provide for freedoms of religion without a State religion.

The CIA, RAW and mossad are heavily involved in the turmoil in Northern Pakistan, each to its' own ends. The plan is to balkanize Pakistan. The US will get the big prize, Balockistan: rich in gas, oil, copper and uranium and a port on the Arabian Sea. Isrral will be the only nuclear power in the Middle-East and India will have gotten rid of its' major enemy.

Correct me if im wrong but i i wasnt aware of Any Terrorism attacks as yet carried out here!!!

Australia,1978 February 13: Hilton bombing: A bomb is detonated outside the Commonwealth Heads of Government Regional Meeting in Sydney, killing two people. Three Ananda Marga members are later arrested and jailed for the attack, but later released due to lack of proof.

Lack of proof? Try none at all! I'm no supporter of anything except truth. I was in the Vic Police at the time and later privy to Intelligence. It was always a widely held view that this 'attack' had been staged by ASIS. (Our own Internal Security Organisation). They planted the bomb and then in a routine search were going to 'find it' before it did any damage to bolster their case for more funding.

Even though we are huge targets when we travel over seas. We have even seen news stories of guys/terrorists spewing thier hatered against Australia on many currant affairs shows.
I have worked at Melbounre uni and heard the hatered and rasism towards my own country. How they believe, in taking over sydney road, would just be the start of muslim take over.

we need to kick them towel heads out etc let them kill each other off we should

It's got me thinking why an army base ? Why not civilians in the streets like other times . The Australian army is with the US and UK in wars in the middle east . These fellahs have targeted an army base here . I don't know...?