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Seventh day adherents might just ponder that they resolutely hold to the day which was a main mark of the Old Covenant, identifying God's Old Covenant people who placed their trust in the sufficiency of that particular covenant to save them. The Christian, on the other hand, prefers to be associated with the Day of the Lord which identifies them as followers of Jesus Christ whom they look to as Saviour, Lord and Master - and who is fully sufficient for salvation. Despite all of the above, if Christians prefer to assemble on the seventh day (Saturday) they do no...

Is Walmart a beautiful example of unfettered capitalism or really a joint venture with the Chinese government based on an artificially devalued currency that crushes the competition. Is Elizabeth Dole a communist for trying to do something about the Yuan? http://dole.senate.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressReleases.Detail&PressRelease_id=354&Month=2&Year=2005 Should you care that Walmart is the 8th leading trading partner with China, a communist regime that bans all religions including Christianity? Does it matter that we depend on China and the Saudi Royals? Are cheap products the be all end all? What about moral values? Do costs to taxpayers for WalMart employees? http://timwest.blogs.com/the_new_libertarian/2005/01/what_walmart_co.html http://www.wal-martchina.com/english/index.htm http://en.ce.cn/subject/RetailinginChina/Developmenttrend/200411/26/t20041126_2433136.shtml

With the USA being the sole super power in modern world some organizations look as servicing its sole interests. They are biased in their estimates, I mean. Take HRW for instance. They initiated a big cry over the alleged tortures of prisoners in Egypt, Syria and some other countries. The timing looks strange. I see it this way. After the leakage into mass media of the reports on monstrous humiliations of the Iraqi war prisoners by the GIs HRW ‘got the order’ to divert attention of the world community. The ‘beacon of democracy’ can’t find itself in this disgrace alone....