https://freerepublic.com/tag/by:tlrugit/ en-us Fri, 3 Jul 2009 19:40:05 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2285026/posts “We the People….Take Back Our Country” Glendale Area Independence Tea Party July 3, 2009 3:00 – 7:00 pm 1823 Foothill Boulevard La Canada, CA 91011 $10.00 per person- cash Fully Catered Live Music Glendale Tea Party Patriots https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2285026/posts#comment Fri, 3 Jul 2009 19:40:05 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282740/posts Tea Party Patriots have organized a Tea Party/Independence Day Celebration. Glendale Area Independence Tea Party July 3, 2009 3:00 – 7:00 pm 1823 Foothill Boulevard La Canada, CA 91011 $10.00 per person- cash Fully Catered Live Music Speeches Patriotism https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282740/posts#comment Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:23:33 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2276998/posts There’s going to be a Tea Party Tax Protest / Independence Day Celebration on July 3rd from 3 to 7 pm in La Canada, details here. Admission $10 cash includes hot dogs, hamburgers, drinks and oodles of entertainment including AlfonZo Rachel and other personages of brilliance and renown. Association of Free Citizens https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2276998/posts#comment Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:22:22 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1222630/posts I would like to highlight a comment posted by Bahraini Terp which is well worth highlighting. Thank you Bahraini Terp for this very eloquent response and clarifications on where you (and I as well as most of us regulars here) think Arabs SHOULD stand today: I'd like to slap some myths upside the head here, close the book on things a bit. Isolationist America did a fantastic job of taking in immigrants. No other society has been as open to diverse populations for as long as the United States. That said, American society was able to do this mostly by... Mahmood's Den https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1222630/posts#comment Tue, 21 Sep 2004 18:13:34 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1220920/posts In 1964, the first accord between the Holy See and a communist government was signed. And the myth of dialogue was born. A book by Cardinal Casaroli, published after his death, dismantles it. The same dilemma arises today: resistance, or surrender? ROMA - One September morning forty years ago, a prelate left the Vatican for Budapest. On the 15th of that month in 1964, he signed in the capital of Hungary the first in a series of accords between the Holy See and the communist regimes of the East. The man was Agostino Casaroli (in the photo with Ronald Reagan),... WWW.CHIESA https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1220920/posts#comment Mon, 20 Sep 2004 02:05:34 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1181344/posts Christians Persecuted in Asia. And Even the Buddhists Are on the Enemy’s SideIn six Asian countries in which they are in the majority, the Buddhists collaborate in repressing the other religions. This is documented by the Report 2004 of Aid to the Church in Need ROMA – In the West, Buddhism is synonymous with peace, compassion, wisdom, and ecumenical brotherhood. This is true also in the case of its most noted figure, the Dalai Lama. Moreover, Buddhism has a reputation as a persecuted religion, and Tibet is the emblem of this. But the latest Report on Religious Liberty in the... WWW.CHIESA https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1181344/posts#comment Fri, 30 Jul 2004 01:04:33 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1181316/posts The Kerry Affair: What Ratzinger Wanted from the American BishopsWhat he wanted, but didn’t get. In its entirety, the confidential note in which the prefect of the Holy Office establishes the principle of refusing communion to pro-abortion Catholic politicians ROMA – Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, prefect of the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, was clear with Theodore Cardinal McCarrick, archbishop of Washington and the head of the “domestic policy” commission of the U.S. Catholic bishops’ conference. He was more than clear, he set it down in writing: no eucharistic communion for the politicians who systematically campaign for abortion.... WWW.CHIESA https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1181316/posts#comment Fri, 30 Jul 2004 00:24:00 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1164653/posts The new Christianity is puritanical, visionary, and missionary. It is at the opposite extreme of liberal culture. It is a challenge for the Catholic Church – and it makes Ratzinger and the pope tremble, too ROMA – On June 15, news came from Indianapolis that the Southern Baptists Convention, the most numerous of the U.S. Protestant denominations with 16 million faithful, has separated from the World Baptist Alliance. The reasons for the rift are women pastors, homosexuality, and theological liberalism: the dissenters find these “aberrant concessions” unacceptable. The news is one indication among many of the great transformation happening in... WWW.CHIESA https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1164653/posts#comment Sat, 3 Jul 2004 02:33:15 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1164635/posts From Timbuktu and Bamako comes a lesson for the entire Muslim world: a secular detachment from politics and peace with the other religions. The Muslim president asks for the blessing of the Catholic archbishop ROMA – Is Islam compatible with democracy? Yes and no, replies the Vatican. “La Civiltà Cattolica” – the magazine of the Rome Jesuits printed with authorization from the secretariat of state for each issue – is the “No” voice. In an editorial last February 7, they wrote that because democracy “takes the sovereignty away from Allah and transfers it to the people,” this “for a faithful... WWW.CHIESA https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1164635/posts#comment Sat, 3 Jul 2004 01:45:55 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1156265/posts Enemy Islam. An Interview with the Bishop of Rumbek, SudanMuslim persecution described by an eyewitness. Two million dead in twenty years. “And this is just the beginning. The challenge of Islamism is much worse than communism. Something the next pope will have to fully face” by Sandro Magister • VERSIONE ITALIANA • ROMA – On May 26 in Naivasha, Kenya, the Arab-Islamic government of Khartoum signed a peace agreement with Christian and animist separatists from southern Sudan, ending twenty years of civil war. Other than the south, the accord concerns the three bordering regions of Abyei, the Blue Nile and... WWW.CHIESA https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1156265/posts#comment Sat, 19 Jun 2004 01:37:28 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1156247/posts --snip-- “There is a self-hatred in the West that can be considered only as something pathological. The West attempts in a praiseworthy manner to open itself completely to the comprehension of external values, but it no longer loves itself; it now sees only what is despicable and destructive in its own history, while it is no longer able to perceive what is great and pure there. If it really wants to survive, Europe needs a new – critical and humble, of course – acceptance of itself. “Multiculturalism, which is continually and passionately encouraged and favored, is sometimes mostly the abandonment... WWW.CHIESA https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1156247/posts#comment Sat, 19 Jun 2004 01:21:19 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1156200/posts Bush Brought a Gift for the Pope: The Alliance Between Catholics and Evangelicals It is an absolute novelty in the history of the United States, and has been consolidated with the present administration. The key role of Fr. Richard J. Neuhaus in the inner circle of the White House by Sandro Magister ROMA – The June 4 meeting in the Vatican between George W. Bush and John Paul II brought together noticeably the positions of the two sides: even in the matter of Iraq, over which there was a serious division a year ago. The speech given by the pope... WWW>CHIESA https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1156200/posts#comment Fri, 18 Jun 2004 23:44:35 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1123531/posts In recent months, the United States has weathered scathing international criticism for its inaccurate assessment of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction capabilities. But a new warning from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has showcased a different kind of WMD danger from the former Ba’athist state. According to the UN atomic watchdog, security lapses at Iraqi nuclear facilities have led to the extensive “removal” of radioactive materials by rogue elements. The assessment, formally submitted to the United States three weeks ago by IAEA Director Mohammed ElBaradei, cautions that WMD-related equipment and “contaminated” materiel from Iraq – including “yellowcake,” a radioactive... American Foreign Policy Council https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1123531/posts#comment Sat, 24 Apr 2004 02:53:36 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1121247/posts A German scholar of ancient languages takes a new look at the sacred book of Islam. He maintains that it was created by Syro-Aramaic speaking Christians, in order to evangelize the Arabs. And he translates it in a new way L'Espresso https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1121247/posts#comment Tue, 20 Apr 2004 20:01:52 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1079168/posts ROMA – A Muslim intellectual has achieved star status in French-speaking Europe. He draws crowds of young immigrants and speaks to them with charismatic fervor. He enchants the anti-globalization left and the readers of “Le Monde Diplomatique.” He cites with equal mastery the Koran and Nietzsche, Heidegger and the sayings of the Prophet. He is admired by Fr. Michel Lelong, the leading Islam’s scholar of the Church in France. He sells thousands of cassette recordings of his sermons. His name is Tariq Ramadan. Ramadan lives in Geneva, where he was born 42 years ago. He studied as imam in Cairo... La Civilita Cattolica https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1079168/posts#comment Mon, 16 Feb 2004 18:41:09 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1079165/posts ROMA – In its latest issue, “La Civiltà Cattolica” has fully confirmed its reputation as a two-sided mirror, capable of reflecting both the line of the Vatican secretariat of state, who checks the drafts before printing, and the personal convictions of the Jesuit writers. In the first half of 2003 – when the “French party” had the upper hand in the Vatican – “La Civiltà Cattolica” had free rein, and it put in writing the most bitter criticisms of the Anglo-American war in Iraq, in two editorials dated January 18 and May 17. Then, on October 18, a shocking article... Civilita Cattolica https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1079165/posts#comment Mon, 16 Feb 2004 18:30:56 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1031985/posts (CNN) -- U.S. forces responded Sunday to simultaneous ambushes on convoys in northern Iraq with heavy firepower, killing at least 46 attackers, according to military officials. No Americans were killed in the gunfights, which took place in Samarra, about 75 miles north of Baghdad. Staff Sgt. Bruce Jones described the intense battle Monday from Samarra to CNN anchor Soledad O'Brien. JONES: My mission and my platoon's mission was to actually escort the Iraqi currency exchange into two different banks in Samarra. ... We escorted them in. As soon as we got to that location, we started receiving direct fire via... CNN Access / World https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1031985/posts#comment Tue, 2 Dec 2003 02:45:37 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/885870/posts TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) - At least five factions of the oldest Muslim rebel movement in the Philippines opened talks on reunification Saturday, seeking to strengthen the 1996 peace agreement with the Philippine government, Libyan officials said. A Philippine government representative and the governor of the southern Philippine province of Mindanao were attending the talks, scheduled to last two days, the officials said. The Moro National Liberation Front fought for Muslim self-rule in the southern Philippines in the 1970s. With the help of Libyan mediation, it signed a peace deal with the government in 1996 that granted the region limited autonomy.... Excite news https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/885870/posts#comment Sat, 5 Apr 2003 17:45:19 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/837274/posts China Reform Monitor No. 482, January 27, 2003 American Foreign Policy Council, Washington, D.C. December 17, 2002 U.S. intelligence officials found that North Korea purchased 20 tons of a key chemical used to extract material for nuclear bombs from spent nuclear fuel, reports Bill Gertz in the Washington Times. Responding to the reports based on sensitive intelligence, experts believe the Tributyl Phosphate, known as TBP, will be used by North Korea for the regime's plutonium-based nuclear weapons program. "The fact that North Korea is importing TBP right now is rather ominous," said Gary Milholin, director of the private Wisconsin Project... American Foreign Policy Council https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/837274/posts#comment Thu, 6 Feb 2003 16:31:39 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/829435/posts China Reform Monitor No. 480, January 17, 2003 American Foreign Policy Council, Washington, D.C. Hong Kong fears end of freedom, free enterprise; Economic crisis looms in China Editor: Al Santoli December 18 Hong Kong's September 2002 proposal to outlaw sedition and subversion, known as the Article 23 measures, has sparked rare criticism from the region's business leaders, reports the Far Eastern Economic Review. Article 23 orders Hong Kong to outlaw treason, secession, sedition, possession of state secrets and subversion, but the government's broad definitions are frightening many, including those concerned with the preservation of civil rights. Critics believe the proposal... American Foreign Policy Council https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/829435/posts#comment Sat, 25 Jan 2003 16:29:39 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/778593/posts PARADOX: The US is endangering international efforts to control arms by conducting research into biological cluster bombs and anthrax, British and US scientists say THE GUARDIAN WASHINGTON Respected scientists on both sides of the Atlantic warned on Monday that the US is developing a new generation of weapons that undermine and possibly violate international treaties on biological and chemical warfare. The scientists, specialists in bio-warfare and chemical weapons, say the Pentagon, with the help of the British military, is also working on "non-lethal" weapons similar to the narcotic gas used by Russian forces to end last week's siege in Moscow.... Taipeit Times https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/778593/posts#comment Wed, 30 Oct 2002 14:16:23 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/762137/posts Chinese military harasses U.S. Navy ship; China expands defense/political/economic relations in SE Asia September 3 Chinese Parliamentary chief and former Foreign-Minister Li Peng has begun an 18-day tour of Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines and Australia, reports the official Xinhua news agency. Known as the "Butcher of Tiananmen Square" for his leading role in the violent 1989 suppression the Chinese pro-democracy movement, Li Peng is also credited with building PRC ties to neighboring countries in the post-Tiananmen period. Li's delegation consists of 120 officials, including the Chairman of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Committee and other senior officials responsible for economic, energy,... American Foreign Policy Council https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/762137/posts#comment Thu, 3 Oct 2002 13:23:58 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/732991/posts Russia remains on financial "blacklist" August 7: The results from a July 25-28 poll taken by the All-Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion (VTsIOM) suggest that Emergency Situations Minister Sergei Shoigu could beat out Gennady Zyuganov for second place in a presidential election, robbing the Communist leader of the chance to face President Vladimir Putin again in a runoff, Gazeta.ru reports. Asked to name the five or six Russian politicians they most trust, half the respondents picked Putin, followed by Shoigu (18 percent), Zyuganov (14 percent), Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov (9 percent), Vladimir Zhirinovsky (8 percent) and Moscow... American Foreign Policy Council https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/732991/posts#comment Wed, 14 Aug 2002 13:26:20 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/731700/posts MOSCOW In the Central Asian republic of Turkmenistan, a personality cult envelops the country's first and only leader, President Saparmurat Niyazov, or as he is better known there, Akbar Turkmenbashi, the Great Leader of All Turkmen. There is a city called Turkmenbashi, as well as Turkmenbashi streets, mosques, factories and airports. The president's portrait appears on the country's money, on banners and posters, on bottles of vodka and packets of tea. A golden statue of him atop a 75m arch in the capital, Ashkhabad, rotates so that his arms always point to the sun. Now the time has come for... Taipei Times https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/731700/posts#comment Mon, 12 Aug 2002 13:38:33 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/727849/posts China Reform Monitor No. 460 July 2 China and Russia will jointly launch a counter-terrorism military exercise next month, the Hong Kong Wen Wei Po reports. It is not yet clear how many troops will be deployed. The target of the operations is likely the Central Asian Region. June 22 The Chinese Army's ballistic missile force, the Second Artillery Brigade, has achieved "breakthroughs" in recent combat training exercises, reports the Beijing Huojianbing Bao. The missile brigade used long-distance, inter-theater mobility, focused, high-intensity training, experimental live launches, and scientific, refereed evaluation. The Brigade achieved "five firsts": For the first time, encampment... American Foreign Policy Council, Washington, D.C. https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/727849/posts#comment Mon, 5 Aug 2002 13:39:26 GMT