Det danske Fredsakademi
Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 3 Oktober
2008 / Time Line October 3, 2008
Version 3.5
2. Oktober 2008, 4. Oktober 2008
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Den tyske nobelfredsprissmodtager Carl von Ossietzky
fødes 1899.
/ Die deutsche Friedensnobelpreisträger Carl von Ossietzky
geboren wurde, 1899.
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International lov
ABM-traktaten
træder i kraft, 1972.
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Første
britiske
atomvåbenforsøg på Monte Belloøerne
ved Australien, 1952.
/ The first British nuclear weapons tests in the Montebello Islands
in Australia, 1952.
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Are You Ready for President Palin?
By Don Monkerud
Despite setting extremely low expectations, Republicans showed
relief that Sarah Palin didn't blow the vice presidential
debate.
The difference between the two candidates was glaring. Senator
Biden has participated in many momentous decisions since entering
Congress in 1972. Being mayor of a town of 6300 at the remote edge
of the U.S. and the governor of Alaska for 20 months pales in
comparison.
"My experience as mayor will be of great use to the country," Sarah
said, before she gushed excitedly over meeting Biden at the end of
the debate. Agree or disagree with his positions, Biden was elegant
in his arguments. Sarah was a Lulu.
Hearing the debate on the radio missed Sarah's winks and frozen
smiles, but focused on what was said. Sarah sounded like a bright,
if immature, 19-year-old on the college debate team. She avoided
questions, changed or evaded the subject, delivered well-rehearsed
statements, and went off on totally unrelated subjects. She avoided
details and gave vast platitudes about "victory," "mavericks,"
"greed," "U.S. exceptionalism," and "energy independence."
With John McCain refusing to release his medical records that
include malignant melanoma, Sarah Palin could be a malignant mole
away from the White House. Americans must ask themselves, "Should
this woman become president?" Even the staunchly conservative
William Buckley publication, National Review, urged her to resign
as a candidate because "Palin is a problem."
She wooed voters with folksy language and mentioned the "Talibani."
Is this a nickname for a terrorist organization in insular Alaska?
I liked her pledge for total "victory," especially, "McCain knows
how to win a war!" Wow, did he learn in Vietnam?
A more thoughtful and experienced person would look at the cost of
victory and ask whether the sacrifice was worth it. Unfortunately,
there's no way to achieve victory in Iraq or Afghanistan. They want
to rule themselves and bombing them won't change that.
Sarah upheld McCain's position of refusing to talk to leaders of
countries that we have conflicts with. Most of us resolve conflicts
by understanding differences and reaching an agreement. Can we
agree on a settlement? McCain's policy of never talking to someone
you disagree with is like getting divorced, "and never speaking to
the 'SOB' again." Not productive if your well being depends upon
ending the conflict.
Sarah's pandering to the Jewish vote - she's against "a second
holocaust" - were melodramatic, especially after Israeli Prime
Minister Ehud Olmert resigned days after he admitted taking
hundreds of thousands of dollars from an American political
supporter. Olmert said Israel should withdraw from "almost all" of
the land it seized in a 1967 war if it wants peace with Syria and
the Palestinians. Sarah didn't even mention peace.
Sarah's insistence on escaping the past and only looking to the
future ignores the possibility of learning from our mistakes. It
also overlooks criminal malfeasance in Bush's deregulation
machinery. Claiming she's different from Bush and harping on
ignoring the past and forging blindly ahead, doesn't speak well for
determining what went wrong and fixing it. Nor bring justice to
those wronged.
Biden's insistence that McCain doesn't disagree with any
significant polices of the Bush Administration stumped Sarah. She
changed the subject; she couldn't think of any differences. You had
to love her "dog-gone-it" moment, evidently a folksy Christian
curse in her Wasilla Assembly of God Church. Lucky for her, the
moderator didn't ask her to describe her belief in "The Rapture,"
which she promotes in the Third Wave / New Apostolic Reformation
movement.
Her pleas to increase the power of the vice president echoes Dick
Cheney's creation of secret domestic and foreign military
operations, torture, spying on Americans and lying to Congress.
Biden, who has long called for firing Cheney, pointed out the evil
of Cheney's tenure. Sarah, on the other hand, would give Cheney
even more power. Does she foresee more power for herself under an
aging McCain?
Biden devastated McCain's claim to "maverick," by pointing out
"McCain has been no maverick on what matters to people's lives,"
including voting for Bush's debt-burdened budgets, as well as
supporting his war in Iraq and voting against healthcare,
education, and programs for the poor.
Carefully protected from press interviews, Palin sports a pregnant
teenage daughter while advocating parental responsibility, no birth
control, no abortion and abstinence. She has a mentally retarded
baby yet her husband takes off to race snowmobiles while she hits
the campaign trail. She's against "earmarks," but leads all states
in the U.S. for earmark dollars per citizen. She "knows foreign
policy" because some people in her state can see Russia on the
horizon. She hadn't left the U.S. until last year, visited New York
once, and was recently introduced to Henry Kissinger. She's ready
to become president?
Americans are notorious for being anti-intellectual, opposing
reasoned arguments and relying on faith and intuition. They loved
Bush because they would rather have a beer with him than his
opponent. They need to reconsider.
If Americans elect Sarah to be next in line to become president, we
are in serious trouble. Her nomination already makes us the
laughing stock of the world.
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Til Ugeskrfit for Læger
I forbindelse med et større formidlingsprojekt omkring Mahatma Gandhi herunder genudgivelse af Gandhis erindringer: Mine forsøg med sandheden, er jeg faldet over følgende ukendte pjece, der er registreret således:
Gandhi, Mahatma: Om Vaccination, Kopper og Læger.
- [Holte] : Landsforeningen mod Tvangsvaccination [Dansk
Antivaccinationsforening], Udateret, [1928?], - 15 s.
; Smaaskrift ; 3). Date's Tryk, København.
Fra forordet: Afsnit fra A Guide to health og kapitel XII i den engelske Hind Swaraj udgave fra 1908.
Ikke i Bogfortegnelsen, Ej i KB og Statsbiblioteket.
Se også: Austin, R. F. E.: Vaccination og Kopper, Foredrag holdt i
Grundtvigs Hus i Efteraaret 1924.
Landsforeningen mod Tvangsvaccination, 1928. Smaaskrift ; 1)
Sidstnævnte er oplysninger fra KB.
Jeg har ikke kunnet finde flere informationer om Landsforeningen mod Tvangsvaccination eller Dansk
Antivaccinationsforening.
Derfor er spørgsmålet: Er der nogen af Ugeskriftets vidende læsere der har kendskab til denne forening og dens aktiviteter?
I givet fald vil jeg gerne oplyses derom.
Mine forsøg med sandheden
http://www.fredsakademiet.dk/library/unge_indien.pdf
og,
http://www.fredsakademiet.dk/library/unge_indien.pdf
Med venlig hilsen,
Holger Terp
Ikke optaget, redaktionen henviser til annonceafdelingen!
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