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Tuesday, June 27, 2006 |
World Peace Forum: "It seems to me that there are three terrible dangers facing the world.
- The first, global warming, everyone seems to know about because it has received so much attention, although despite its urgent importance there has been only relatively modest political action so far.
- The second threat is the very real and increasing dangers of nuclear proliferation, and the dangers of terrorists acquiring nuclear materials and weapons.
The collapse of the May 2005 non-proliferation talks, mostly due to U.S. intransigence, is a tragedy. And, despite the importance of nuclear proliferation, I doubt if one in a thousand are even aware of or concerned with the issue. The Bush administration failed to send a single high-ranking official to the May talks, even though they were held in New York with 153 nations in attendance.
- The third issue, the weaponization of space, may represent the greatest and most urgent danger for the very future and the survival of our civilization.
There is already an abundance of irrefutable evidence that the United States intends to place weapons in space, beginning as early as 2008. Both the Russians and the Chinese know this, and both understand that although they strongly oppose the weaponization of space, they will have no choice but to deploy their own offensive and defensive space weapons, regardless of the potentially cataclysmic consequences."
Campaign for Cooperation in Space: "If the United Nations General Assembly fails to approve a Space Preservation Treaty by October 24, 2005, then the General Assembly shall convene a Space Preservation Treaty Conference to ban all space-based weapons and warfare in space."
Remember that many deranged fundamentalists, and George W. Bush is one of them, are looking forward to Armageddon. They are not Christians simply because they endanger God's creation.
BaltimoreSun: "For thousands of years, prophets have predicted the end of the world. Today, various religious groups, using the latest technology, are trying to hasten it. Their end game is to speed the promised arrival of a messiah. For some Christians this means laying the groundwork for Armageddon."
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AlterNet: "A videotaped recording of a Marine singing about a shootout with an Iraqi family has war critics up in arms about U.S. troops' open hostility to Muslims and Arabs."
RINF: "Despite the 'yes, sir' attitude of senior military officers toward the Bush administration's illegal policies, there is resistance within the US military to the War on Iraq. Military personnel know they have the right and duty to refuse illegal orders, including the order to deploy to an illegal War. They know the United States executed German and Japanese military officers and civilians for their participation in wars of aggression in World War II. They know that the Nuremberg principles adopted by the international community after World War II require civilians and military personnel to stop their government from committing illegal acts. Those in the military who dissent and resist what they know are illegal actions of the Bush administration are persons of the highest courage and conscience."
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© Copyright 2006 Hetty Litjens.
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