It’s emblematic of the turbulent and Orwellian times we live in that you choose to write about "comedy" while the US/Israeli Axis wipes Lebanon off the face of the earth. It's easy these days to see who is on the side of the AIPAC and who is on the side of humanity.
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John Francis Lee
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Hi Tina, Paul Craig Roberts, the Assisstant Secretary of the Treasury under the late, great President Reagan said ' During Bush's presidency the US has experienced the slowest job creation on record (going back to 1939). During the past five years private business has added only 958,000 net new jobs to the economy, while the government sector has added 1.1 million jobs. Moreover, as many of the jobs are not for a full work week, "the country ended 2005 with fewer private sector hours worked than it had in January 2001." ' This is what I have been writing for years, …
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I'm sorry but I think that organized religion has shown itself to be just large, another corrupt institution. The only voice heard from "Christianity" has been that of the Christian Taleban. The problem was well addressed by Doris 'Granny D' Haddock in her essay We Are Resolved to Follow Our National Dream ' Where authority and power flow down from above, from heaven to the White House to husbands and ayatollahs, the free and joyful living of people can be quite the enemy. ' And that's what organized religion is about... authority flowing down from above, and the resultant self-oppression of …
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When I was young one’s religious beliefs were one’s own private business. And that’s the way it must become again if America is to stumble back from the shocking, awful reality if has willfully abandoned itself to. No “progressive religion” for me thanks. I think religion is great stuff. It's the institutionalization of it all that kills the spirit, that fosters the tax-deductible, top-down degeneracy that passes for religion wherever the fanatics gain control, whether it be in Afghanistan, Israel or the USA. And the silence of the "mainstream religions" is deafening. If they don't stand up against racism and murder, …
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Tony Benn makes a very good point about media as religion at Democracy Now. Amy Goodman as Martin Luther. It doesn't get better than that. AMY GOODMAN: Perhaps one thing that has changed more than most other things has been the power of the media. What role do you see it playing now, as the sword or the shield? TONY BENN: Well, I'm an old broadcaster myself. My first job was in the BBC as a producer in the North American Service in 1949, and I think the media have replaced religion, because, in the old days in Britain, you see, …
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