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"= Vox Populi ©" |
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19 Nov 2003 10:48:48 AM |
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Re: Personal Bankruptcy Filings Jump 7.8 Pct. |
Daniel Packman wrote:
In article <OnAub.5287$sb4.5145@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net>,
<howard@brazee.net> wrote:
... if most religions are false, those followers are relying on
something that doesn't exist.
False or true has nothing to do with whether a religion works. That
is, it works if it makes people feel better,
Masturbation makes people feel better, Danny ... than again so
do alcohol and recreational drugs ... for a while anyway
enriches their life,
At the expense of others ...
and
makes them do nice things.
Therein lies the problem, if people must be "made" to
do nice things, then they have an inherent genetic defect
that would be best excised from the gene pool ...
Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't.
Still no reason to tolerate, much less encourage or support,
ignorance, superstition and quackery.
--
"This would be the best of all possible worlds,
if there were no religions in it."
- John Adams
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| User: "Uncle Samuel stars@bars" |
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| Title: Re: Personal Bankruptcy Filings Jump 7.8 Pct. |
20 Nov 2003 11:57:20 AM |
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On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 10:18:15 -0700, "=> Vox Populi ©" <vox@popu.li>
wrote:
UNSC violations poxie - read 'em and weep.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,62873,00.html
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| User: "= Vox Populi ©" |
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| Title: Re: Personal Bankruptcy Filings Jump 7.8 Pct. |
20 Nov 2003 12:12:18 PM |
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Uncle Samuel wrote:
On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 10:18:15 -0700, "=> Vox Populi ©" <vox@popu.li>
wrote:
UNSC violations poxie - read 'em and weep.
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THE FOLLOWING ARE THE RESOLUTIONS VETOED BY THE UNITED STATES DURING THE PERIOD
OF SEPTEMBER, 1972, TO MAY, 1990 TO PROTECT ISRAEL FROM COUNCIL CRITICISM:
* . . . condemned Israel's attack against Southern Lebanon and Syria..."
* . . . affirmed the rights of the Palestinian people to self-determination,
statehood and equal protections. . . "
* . . . condemned Israel's air strikes and attacks in southern Lebanon and its
murder of innocent civilians. . . "
* . . . called for self-determination of Palestinian people. . . "
* . . deplored Israel's altering of the status of Jerusalem, which is recognized
as an international city by most world nations and the United Nations . . . "
* . . . affirmed the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people . . . "
* . . . endorsed self-determination for the Palestinian people . . . "
* . . . demanded Israel's withdrawal from the Golan Heights . . . "
* . . . condemned Israel's mistreatment of Palestinians in the occupied West
Bank and Gaza Strip and its refusal to abide by the Geneva convention protocols
of civilized nations.
* . . . condemned an Israeli soldier who shot eleven Moslem worshippers at the
Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount near Al-Aqsa Mosque in the Old City of Jerusalem. .
.. "
* . . . urged sanctions against Israel if it did not withdraw from its invasion
of Lebanon ... "
* . . . urged sanctions against Israel if it did not withdraw from its invasion
of Beirut. . . "
* . . . urged cutoff of economic aid to Israel if it refused to withdraw from
its occupation of Lebanon. . . "
* . . . condemned continued Israeli settlements in occupied territories in the
West Bank and Gaza Strip, denouncing them as an obstacle to peace. . . "
* . . . deplores Israel's brutal massacre of Arabs in Lebanon and urges its
withdrawal. . . "
* . . . condemned Israeli brutality in southern Lebanon and denounced the
Israeli 'Iron Fist' policy of repression. . . "
* . . . denounced Israel's violation of human rights in the occupied
territories. . . "
* . . . deplored Israel's violence in southern Lebanon. . . "
* . . . deplored Israel's activities in occupied Arab East Jerusalem that
threatened the sanctity of Muslim holy sites. . . "
* . . . condemned Israel's hijacking of a Libyan passenger airplane. . . "
* . . . deplored Israel's attacks against Lebanon and its measures and practices
against the civilian population of Lebanon. . . "
* . . . called on Israel to abandon its policies against the Palestinian
intifada that violated the rights of occupied Palestinians, to abide by the
Fourth Geneva Conventions, and to formalize a leading role for the United
Nations in future peace negotiations. . . "
* . . . urged Israel to accept back deported Palestinians, condemned Israel's
shooting of civilians, called on Israel to uphold the Fourth Geneva Convention,
and called for a peace settlement under UN auspices. . . "
* . . . condemned Israel's . . incursion into Lebanon. . . "
* . . . deplored Israel's . . . commando raids on Lebanon. . . "
* . . . deplored Israel's repression of the Palestinian intifada and called on
Israel to respect the human rights of the Palestinians. . . "
* . . . deplored Israel's violation of the human rights of the Palestinians. . .
"
* . . . demanded that Israel return property confiscated from Palestinians
during a tax protest and allow a fact-finding mission to observe Israel's
crackdown on the Palestinian intifada . . . "
* . . . called for a fact-finding mission on abuses against Palestinians in
Israeli-occupied lands. . . "
In "Deliberate Deceptions: Facing the Facts About US-Israeli Relationship"
author/former Congressman Paul Findley makes the point that Israel, with
the collusion of the power elite on our continent, has been successful over
the decades in keeping the United Nations on the sidelines in efforts to find a
solution to the Middle East problem and to create real peace:
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| User: "Uncle Samuel stars@bars" |
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| Title: Re: Personal Bankruptcy Filings Jump 7.8 Pct. |
20 Nov 2003 01:24:51 PM |
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On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 11:12:18 -0700, "=> Vox Populi ©" <vox@popu.li>
wrote:
UNSC violations poxie - read 'em and weep.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,62873,00.html
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| User: "= Vox Populi ©" |
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| Title: Re: Personal Bankruptcy Filings Jump 7.8 Pct. |
20 Nov 2003 01:46:55 PM |
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Uncle Samuel wrote:
On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 11:12:18 -0700, "=> Vox Populi ©" <vox@popu.li>
wrote:
UNSC violations poxie - read 'em and weep.
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- Israel's continuous violation of UN Resolutions
United Nations Security Council Resolution 270
AUGUST 26, 1969
1. Condemns the premeditated air attack by Israel on villages in southern
Lebanon in violation of its obligations under the Charter and Security Council
resolutions ...
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United Nations Security Council Resolution 347
APRIL 24, 1974
1. Condemns Israel's violation of Lebanon's territorial integrity and
sovereignty and calls once more on the Government of Israel to refrain from
further military actions and threats against Lebanon ...
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United Nations Security Council Resolution 425
March 19, 1978
Calls upon Israel immediately to cease its military action against Lebanese
territorial integrity and withdraw forthwith its forces from all Lebanese
territory ...
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United Nations Security Council Resolution 450
JUNE 14, 1979
1. Strongly deplores acts of violence against Lebanon that have led to the
displacement of civilians, including Palestinians, and brought about destruction
and loss of innocent lives ...
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United Nations Security Council Resolution 481
JUNE 19, 1981
2. Condemns all actions contrary to the provisions of the above-mentioned
resolutions that have prevented the full implementation of UNIFIL's mandate,
causing death, injury and destruction to the civilian population as well as
among the peace-keeping force ...
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--
United Nations Security Council Resolution 617
JULY 29, 1988
The Security Council, Recalling its resolutions 425 (1978), 426 (1978), 501
(1982), 508 (1982), 509 (1982) and 520 (1982), as well as all its resolutions on
the situation in Lebanon ...
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United Nations Security Council Resolution 799
DECEMBER 18, 1992
Having learned with deep concern that Israel, the occupying Power, in
contravention of its obligations under the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949,
deported to Lebanon on 17 December 1992, hundreds of Palestinian civilians from
the territories occupied by Israel since 1967, including Jerusalem ...
- SG Reports & General Assembly Votes
U N Secretary General Report on the Qana "Incident"
May 7, 1996
Findings: 13. (d) The distribution of point impact detonations and air bursts
makes it improbable that impact fuses and proximity fuses were employed in
random order, as stated by the Israeli forces...
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U N General Assembly Vote on Financing of UNIFIL
JUNE 26, 1996
[The Assembly] would stress that Israel should abide by the terms of resolution
51/233, request the Secretary-General to take the necessary measures to ensure
the full implementation of its paragraph 8, to the effect that Israel should pay
for costs resulting from the Qana incident.....
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Report of the Secretary-General on The UNIFIL
JULY 20, 1996
18. In UNIFIL's area of deployment more than 120 civilians were killed by
Israeli fire and an estimated 500 were wounded. Most of these casualties
occurred on 18 April as a result of the shelling of a United Nations compound at
Qana, in which more than 100 Lebanese were killed and many more wounded....
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Report of the Secretary-General on The UNIFIL
JULY 16, 1999 - JANUARY 15, 2000
7. There were other reports of serious incidents from outside the area of
operation. On 1 September, two civilians were killed in Libbaya by IDF/DFF
shelling. On 16 December, 15 school children were injured, some of them
seriously
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| User: "Uncle Samuel stars@bars" |
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| Title: Re: Personal Bankruptcy Filings Jump 7.8 Pct. |
20 Nov 2003 09:08:43 PM |
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On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 12:46:55 -0700, "=> Vox Populi ©" <vox@popu.li>
wrote:
UNSC violations poxie - read 'em and weep.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,62873,00.html
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| User: "cor" |
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| Title: Re: Personal Bankruptcy Filings Jump 7.8 Pct. |
21 Nov 2003 01:19:16 PM |
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OK, Uncle Bozo, how is this relatad to Colorado state wide politics?
Uncle Samuel wrote:
On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 12:46:55 -0700, "=> Vox Populi ©" <vox@popu.li>
wrote:
UNSC violations poxie - read 'em and weep.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,62873,00.html
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| User: "Uncle Samuel stars@bars" |
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| Title: Re: Personal Bankruptcy Filings Jump 7.8 Pct. |
21 Nov 2003 06:39:39 PM |
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On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 11:19:16 -0800, cor
<corDELETETHISTOANSWER@exchangenet.net> wrote:
OK, Uncle Bozo, how is this relatad to Colorado state wide politics?
Hi moron, this is boulder.general and I did not set the groups
protocol on this thread.
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| User: "= Vox Populi ©" |
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| Title: Re: Intellectual Bankruptcy Filings Jump 9.8 Pct. |
21 Nov 2003 12:28:59 AM |
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Uncle Samuel wrote:
On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 12:46:55 -0700, "=> Vox Populi ©" <vox@popu.li>
wrote:
UNSC violations poxie - read 'em and weep.
http://www.fauxnews.com/uttercrap/fascist/propaganda/lies/andmorecrap.asp
--
- Israel's continuous violation of UN Resolutions
United Nations Security Council Resolution 270
AUGUST 26, 1969
1. Condemns the premeditated air attack by Israel on villages in southern
Lebanon in violation of its obligations under the Charter and Security Council
resolutions ...
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
--
United Nations Security Council Resolution 347
APRIL 24, 1974
1. Condemns Israel's violation of Lebanon's territorial integrity and
sovereignty and calls once more on the Government of Israel to refrain from
further military actions and threats against Lebanon ...
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
--
United Nations Security Council Resolution 425
March 19, 1978
Calls upon Israel immediately to cease its military action against Lebanese
territorial integrity and withdraw forthwith its forces from all Lebanese
territory ...
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
United Nations Security Council Resolution 450
JUNE 14, 1979
1. Strongly deplores acts of violence against Lebanon that have led to the
displacement of civilians, including Palestinians, and brought about destruction
and loss of innocent lives ...
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
--
United Nations Security Council Resolution 481
JUNE 19, 1981
2. Condemns all actions contrary to the provisions of the above-mentioned
resolutions that have prevented the full implementation of UNIFIL's mandate,
causing death, injury and destruction to the civilian population as well as
among the peace-keeping force ...
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
--
United Nations Security Council Resolution 617
JULY 29, 1988
The Security Council, Recalling its resolutions 425 (1978), 426 (1978), 501
(1982), 508 (1982), 509 (1982) and 520 (1982), as well as all its resolutions on
the situation in Lebanon ...
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
--
United Nations Security Council Resolution 799
DECEMBER 18, 1992
Having learned with deep concern that Israel, the occupying Power, in
contravention of its obligations under the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949,
deported to Lebanon on 17 December 1992, hundreds of Palestinian civilians from
the territories occupied by Israel since 1967, including Jerusalem ...
- SG Reports & General Assembly Votes
U N Secretary General Report on the Qana "Incident"
May 7, 1996
Findings: 13. (d) The distribution of point impact detonations and air bursts
makes it improbable that impact fuses and proximity fuses were employed in
random order, as stated by the Israeli forces...
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
--
U N General Assembly Vote on Financing of UNIFIL
JUNE 26, 1996
[The Assembly] would stress that Israel should abide by the terms of resolution
51/233, request the Secretary-General to take the necessary measures to ensure
the full implementation of its paragraph 8, to the effect that Israel should pay
for costs resulting from the Qana incident.....
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
--
Report of the Secretary-General on The UNIFIL
JULY 20, 1996
18. In UNIFIL's area of deployment more than 120 civilians were killed by
Israeli fire and an estimated 500 were wounded. Most of these casualties
occurred on 18 April as a result of the shelling of a United Nations compound at
Qana, in which more than 100 Lebanese were killed and many more wounded....
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
--
Report of the Secretary-General on The UNIFIL
JULY 16, 1999 - JANUARY 15, 2000
7. There were other reports of serious incidents from outside the area of
operation. On 1 September, two civilians were killed in Libbaya by IDF/DFF
shelling. On 16 December, 15 school children were injured, some of them
seriously.
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| User: "Uncle Samuel stars@bars" |
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| Title: Re: Intellectual Bankruptcy Filings Jump 9.8 Pct. |
22 Nov 2003 04:06:24 PM |
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On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 23:28:59 -0700, "=> Vox Populi ©" <vox@popu.li>
wrote:
Uncle Samuel wrote:
On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 12:46:55 -0700, "=> Vox Populi ©" <vox@popu.li>
wrote:
UNSC violations poxie - read 'em and weep.
http://www.fauxnews.com/uttercrap/fascist/propaganda/lies/andmorecrap.asp
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