We should note that within the last few months, activism has won twice and lost once in shifting government policies. The two wins are the cancellation of the TPP and the failure of the American Health Care Act to get off the ground. The loss has to do with renewing the construction of DAPL.
The TPP was activism's first victim. For while activism delayed the passing of the TPP before the election, Trump's election, which was partially the result of conservative populism, sealed its doom here. But the TPP was not just in trouble in America, other nations started to back away as well (click here). Opposition to the TPP showed that individual issues can bring conservatives and nonconservatives together. I have seen this happen when I have taken the time to talk to counter-protesters at May Day celebrations, I've found that leftists, like myself, and some of the conservatives with whom I've spoken can sometimes agree on what our nation's problems are. Of course, our disagreement comes in what we believed were the solutions. But sharing recognition of the problems again shows that we conservatives and nonconservatives can find some common ground.
As for the Republican replacement of Obamacare, yes, we were told that the Ryan's replacement was dead on arrival. For many groups opposed the replacement though not for the same reasons. We know that some of that opposition was voiced in the angry townhall meetings that Republican legislators had to endure. These legislators saw the rage that people felt about the potential of losing the health insurance they gained through Obamacare. And while the problems caused by the ACA shows that it is not a permanent solution, certain parts, like the increased number of people who now have health insurance, could no longer be sacrificed according.
Activism's loss mentioned above came with Trump's order to continue DAPL construction. For the protests against DAPL were not widespread enough and did not incorporate enough people to put sufficient pressure on the government. It did delay some of the construction when the Army Corps of Engineers agreed to do more extensive studies of the project. But with Trump's election came a presidential directive to approve the immediate continuation of the construction of the pipeline. BTW, we should note here that our President is financially invested in the project.
With this current record, what we should note is that when enough of us make our voices heard, we can still make our government listen. We can still gain victories. Sometimes those victories are small and temporary while there are a few times when those victories decisive and final. The point here is that despite the increased authoritarian nature of our government, we can still put limits on it and change some of its policies. We just have to get enough people to speak as loud and as often as possible. One thing we can be sure of, though we might have a shortage of activists from time to time, there will be no shortage of issues to address during Trump's Presidency.
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Wednesday, October 5, 2016
Comments Which Conservatives Block From Their Blogs For Oct 5, 2016
Sept 30
To Joe Carter and his blogpost on the tradeoffs of the TPP. This appeared in the Acton blog.
It is unfortunate when Christians allow ideology to interfere with the objective reporting of information. IMO, this might explain Carter did in the article above. Whereas Carter lists the main objections to the TPP to be that of the loss of American jobs and currency manipulation, other objections include the right of multinational corporations to sue governments for loss profits over regulations such as those that raise the minimum wage or protect the environment (see http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/joseph-stiglitz-tpp-1.3515452 ). And when such a corporation sues a government, the case is heard in a tribunal established by the TPP (see https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/kill-the-dispute-settlement-language-in-the-trans-pacific-partnership/2015/02/25/ec7705a2-bd1e-11e4-b274-e5209a3bc9a9_story.html?utm_term=.3686f85040de ). That means that the validity of some of our laws will be determined by an outside tribunal rather than by a court whose purpose is to uphold The Constitution. This gives multinational corporations an increased measure of control over any member nation while weakening the national sovereignty of those nations. In addition, another concern Stiglitz voices is that the 6,000 page deal was written in secret.
As for this trade deal spreading employment to those nations where people need jobs. We should note that a lot of the previous offshoring of American jobs performed the same task but was done not with the welfare of the employees of those other nations in mind. It has often been done to increase profits by exploiting workers as they are sometimes underpaid, overworked, and forced to work in unsafe conditions. And when these facts are found, governments are not allowed to sue the same multinational corporations that the TPP empowers to sue the participating governments.
So the question becomes this: Why didn't Carter report these other objections to the TPP seeing that they are made by prominent people? My guess is that 'economic freedom' for Carter has become code for private sector elite privilege over those from their own and other nations. At least that is a possible explanation for Carter failing to mention those other major objections.
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Oct 1
To Joe Carter and his blogpost that claims that the Protestant faith allows for the most economic freedom. This appeared in the Acton blog.
Don't we have the cart before the horse here? Why are we using economic freedom to validate the Christian faith? Such implies that economic freedom stands over the Christian faith as a judge. In addition, how is it that the Protestant ethic requires the same economic freedom of which Carter is speaking? That kind of economic freedom is most likely the product of 19th and 20th century thinking. I am assuming that the main teachers of the kind of economic freedom Carter supports are Hayek and Friedman, neither of whom were protestant. Hayek, for example was raised a Roman Catholic but claimed that he was an agnostic. Friedman pretty much rejected religion. The Protestant ethic precedes both of them by at least a few centuries--that is unless one asserts that the Protestant ethic is scripturally sound.
But what could be said about Carter using the Christian faith to validate a favorite ideology is a serious flaw for all of us. That is because we all have our own pet ideologies and we would like to believe that our pet ideologies are superior to all other ideologies. And, at least, most of us have, from time to time, done what Carter is doing here: that is placing a favorite ideology above the Scriptures. So if we were to rebuke him, we need to acknowledge that our rebuke also applies to ourselves.
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To Abel Upshur and his blogpost about how because the federal government is “the creature of the States,” the federal government’s power should be limited by the states that created it, not The Constitution. This appears in the Imaginative Conservative blog.
I don't know how we can seriously read about The Constitution and the change in the government which it produced without first mentioning the context in which The Constitution was written. To say that our federal government is a creature of the states forgets that it wasn't any official meeting of the states through their representatives that produced the document even though a vast majority of the signers of The Constitution were or had served in the Continental Congress (see http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution_founding_fathers_overview.html ). Thus, some of the signers of The Constitution were private citizens at the time of the signing. The actual role of the states in the creation of the government specified by The Constitution was to accept or reject the document and thus the kind of government it created.
However, what created the federal government consisted of a combination of those who participated in the debates, discussions, and the writing of The Constitution and the historical events that moved these men to write the document. And the events that so moved these men consisted of dissent and Shays Rebellion.
As for the states, we might want to note the following line from Federalist 10 that says:
Thus, if one prefers a republic to the kind of democracy which was the scorn of many of the signers of The Constitution, then one must give significant precedence to the union over the states and thus to the federal government over the state governments.
BTW, we might want to note some of the proposals that the writers of The Constitution tried to block:
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To Bruce Ashford and his blogpost on what principles we should have to be a Christian witness in a changing America. This appeared in the Gospel Coalition website
How many of these the-sky-is-falling," politically apocalyptic post Obergefell articles must we Christians endure? As in all fear-mongering communiques, the intent is to increase our tribal instincts in order to protect ourselves from others. But what people don't understand about tribalism is that its basic ethic is to define what is right and wrong by who does what to whom. Such makes us blind to our own faults.
Let's start with the beginning of the article. Ashford writes the following:
If we work backwards, we see that now we are being marginalized and then there is the concern for our past apathy to racial injustice. Do we see the unflattering association there? When we weren't marginalized, we were apathetic to racial injustice just as some are today. But beyond that, there is also another unfortunate pairing: religious liberty is associated with gender and sexuality and free speech. Well, who was marginalized before gender, meaning gender identity, sexuality, meaning sexual orientation, and free speech? See, the truth is hidden by obscurity. Religious liberty has recently come to mean the right of religiously conservative Christians to discriminate against the LGBT community in response to the Obergefell decision. Might we ask who was being marginalized when we were winning the day on that issue? Was it not homosexuals with some of them seeing the need to live their orientations underground? And so we fought against their rights and equality tooth-and-nail with the belief that our society is not big enough to recognize their rights along with ours. And so we targeted them for marginalization.
Now of course the article talks about much more than the-sky-is-falling apocalyptic scene. And basically, it calls us to isolate ourselves from our neighbors. For when it calls almost every political ideology available to the American public an idol, it calls on us to withdraw from them. In reality, these ideologies either never have been idols or do not have to be treated as idols. That is because it is the individual who makes these ideologies into idols, not the ideologies themselves. It is only when we embrace ideological tribalism that we make these ideologies into false gods. Thus, we don't have to avoid them, we just have to keep them in perspective.
One of the most important questions we Christians must ask ourselves when it comes to our political involvement in the world is this: How are we to share society with others? Are we to share society in ways that give us a superior place so we can impose our religious values on others? Or, are we to share society with others as equals so that we work together to ensure that all of us have an equal place in society? It seems that the former option is more inviting to religiously conservative Christians even though Jesus warns us against "lording it over" others.
To Joe Carter and his blogpost on the tradeoffs of the TPP. This appeared in the Acton blog.
It is unfortunate when Christians allow ideology to interfere with the objective reporting of information. IMO, this might explain Carter did in the article above. Whereas Carter lists the main objections to the TPP to be that of the loss of American jobs and currency manipulation, other objections include the right of multinational corporations to sue governments for loss profits over regulations such as those that raise the minimum wage or protect the environment (see http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/joseph-stiglitz-tpp-1.3515452 ). And when such a corporation sues a government, the case is heard in a tribunal established by the TPP (see https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/kill-the-dispute-settlement-language-in-the-trans-pacific-partnership/2015/02/25/ec7705a2-bd1e-11e4-b274-e5209a3bc9a9_story.html?utm_term=.3686f85040de ). That means that the validity of some of our laws will be determined by an outside tribunal rather than by a court whose purpose is to uphold The Constitution. This gives multinational corporations an increased measure of control over any member nation while weakening the national sovereignty of those nations. In addition, another concern Stiglitz voices is that the 6,000 page deal was written in secret.
As for this trade deal spreading employment to those nations where people need jobs. We should note that a lot of the previous offshoring of American jobs performed the same task but was done not with the welfare of the employees of those other nations in mind. It has often been done to increase profits by exploiting workers as they are sometimes underpaid, overworked, and forced to work in unsafe conditions. And when these facts are found, governments are not allowed to sue the same multinational corporations that the TPP empowers to sue the participating governments.
So the question becomes this: Why didn't Carter report these other objections to the TPP seeing that they are made by prominent people? My guess is that 'economic freedom' for Carter has become code for private sector elite privilege over those from their own and other nations. At least that is a possible explanation for Carter failing to mention those other major objections.
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Oct 1
To Joe Carter and his blogpost that claims that the Protestant faith allows for the most economic freedom. This appeared in the Acton blog.
Don't we have the cart before the horse here? Why are we using economic freedom to validate the Christian faith? Such implies that economic freedom stands over the Christian faith as a judge. In addition, how is it that the Protestant ethic requires the same economic freedom of which Carter is speaking? That kind of economic freedom is most likely the product of 19th and 20th century thinking. I am assuming that the main teachers of the kind of economic freedom Carter supports are Hayek and Friedman, neither of whom were protestant. Hayek, for example was raised a Roman Catholic but claimed that he was an agnostic. Friedman pretty much rejected religion. The Protestant ethic precedes both of them by at least a few centuries--that is unless one asserts that the Protestant ethic is scripturally sound.
But what could be said about Carter using the Christian faith to validate a favorite ideology is a serious flaw for all of us. That is because we all have our own pet ideologies and we would like to believe that our pet ideologies are superior to all other ideologies. And, at least, most of us have, from time to time, done what Carter is doing here: that is placing a favorite ideology above the Scriptures. So if we were to rebuke him, we need to acknowledge that our rebuke also applies to ourselves.
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To Abel Upshur and his blogpost about how because the federal government is “the creature of the States,” the federal government’s power should be limited by the states that created it, not The Constitution. This appears in the Imaginative Conservative blog.
I don't know how we can seriously read about The Constitution and the change in the government which it produced without first mentioning the context in which The Constitution was written. To say that our federal government is a creature of the states forgets that it wasn't any official meeting of the states through their representatives that produced the document even though a vast majority of the signers of The Constitution were or had served in the Continental Congress (see http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution_founding_fathers_overview.html ). Thus, some of the signers of The Constitution were private citizens at the time of the signing. The actual role of the states in the creation of the government specified by The Constitution was to accept or reject the document and thus the kind of government it created.
However, what created the federal government consisted of a combination of those who participated in the debates, discussions, and the writing of The Constitution and the historical events that moved these men to write the document. And the events that so moved these men consisted of dissent and Shays Rebellion.
As for the states, we might want to note the following line from Federalist 10 that says:
Hence, it clearly appears, that the same advantage which a republic has over a democracy, in controlling the effects of faction, is enjoyed by a large over a small republic, is enjoyed by the Union over the States composing it.
Thus, if one prefers a republic to the kind of democracy which was the scorn of many of the signers of The Constitution, then one must give significant precedence to the union over the states and thus to the federal government over the state governments.
BTW, we might want to note some of the proposals that the writers of The Constitution tried to block:
A rage for paper money, for an abolition of debts, for an equal division of propertyIn essence, the government created by The Constitution was meant to prevent sought after changes in the status quo by giving the power required by the federal government to prevent those changes . And that should not surprise us because most of those who participated in the creation of The Constitution were elites from the public and private sectors.
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To Bruce Ashford and his blogpost on what principles we should have to be a Christian witness in a changing America. This appeared in the Gospel Coalition website
How many of these the-sky-is-falling," politically apocalyptic post Obergefell articles must we Christians endure? As in all fear-mongering communiques, the intent is to increase our tribal instincts in order to protect ourselves from others. But what people don't understand about tribalism is that its basic ethic is to define what is right and wrong by who does what to whom. Such makes us blind to our own faults.
Let's start with the beginning of the article. Ashford writes the following:
The past decade has made one thing clear to many evangelicals: the social, cultural, and political ground is shifting beneath them. We’re not “winning the day” with our vision of the good life. Although we’ve seen incremental progress on the pro-life issue, we’re experiencing consistent regression on other important issues, such as religious liberty, human dignity, gender and sexuality, and free speech. And many of us have given little attention to opposing racial injustice.
As we’re marginalized in this uncertain day, the Old Testament offers important lessons for us.
If we work backwards, we see that now we are being marginalized and then there is the concern for our past apathy to racial injustice. Do we see the unflattering association there? When we weren't marginalized, we were apathetic to racial injustice just as some are today. But beyond that, there is also another unfortunate pairing: religious liberty is associated with gender and sexuality and free speech. Well, who was marginalized before gender, meaning gender identity, sexuality, meaning sexual orientation, and free speech? See, the truth is hidden by obscurity. Religious liberty has recently come to mean the right of religiously conservative Christians to discriminate against the LGBT community in response to the Obergefell decision. Might we ask who was being marginalized when we were winning the day on that issue? Was it not homosexuals with some of them seeing the need to live their orientations underground? And so we fought against their rights and equality tooth-and-nail with the belief that our society is not big enough to recognize their rights along with ours. And so we targeted them for marginalization.
Now of course the article talks about much more than the-sky-is-falling apocalyptic scene. And basically, it calls us to isolate ourselves from our neighbors. For when it calls almost every political ideology available to the American public an idol, it calls on us to withdraw from them. In reality, these ideologies either never have been idols or do not have to be treated as idols. That is because it is the individual who makes these ideologies into idols, not the ideologies themselves. It is only when we embrace ideological tribalism that we make these ideologies into false gods. Thus, we don't have to avoid them, we just have to keep them in perspective.
One of the most important questions we Christians must ask ourselves when it comes to our political involvement in the world is this: How are we to share society with others? Are we to share society in ways that give us a superior place so we can impose our religious values on others? Or, are we to share society with others as equals so that we work together to ensure that all of us have an equal place in society? It seems that the former option is more inviting to religiously conservative Christians even though Jesus warns us against "lording it over" others.
Monday, September 12, 2016
ONIM For September 12, 2016
Presidential Election
Christian News
World News
Pick(s) Of The Litter
References
- List of Presidential Candidates
- Republican Platform
- Democratic Platform
- Constitution Party Platform
- Green Party Platform
- Libertarian Party Platform
- America's Party/American Independent Party
- American Freedom Party Platform
- American Solidarity Party Platform
- Constitution Party Website
- Party Of Socialism And Liberation Website
- Socialist Party USA Platform
- Peace And Freedom Party
- Prohibition Party Platform
- Reform Party USA Platform
- Socialist Equality Party Program
- Socialist Workers Party Platform
- Veterans Party Of America Platform
- Workers World Party Program
Christian News
- Christian Militias Help Fight ISIS Into Retreat In Iraq -- Christian Today (UK)
- Donald Trump To Speak To Conservative Christians At Family Values Summit -- Christian Today (UK)
- This Is Why 800 Christians Left Their Old Churches, And How They Chose New Ones -- Christianity Today
- How Churches Rebuilt A Town After Its Fertilizer Plant Exploded -- Christianity Today
- Are Ethnic Minorities Safe In White Christian Spaces? -- Reformed African American Network
- X-Rated Counterfeit Grace And Impact Of Spectacularly Boring Monogamy -- Mortification Of Spin
- Franklin Graham Tells Maine: Vote The Bible -- Newsmax
- New Evangelical Group Seeks To Distance Christians From Trump -- Yahoo News
- A Baptists Pastor's Plea To Love Our Muslim Neighbors -- Huffington Post
- Presiding Bishop Offers Election Message, Encourages Voting As A Christian Obligation -- Episcopal News Service
- Egypt's New Law On Churches Angers Christian Critics -- Seattle Times
- Rev. Graham: Obama Promotes 'Ungodly Sexual Behavior'--Now There Is All-Out War On Religious Liberty -- CNS News
World News
- Israel Takes Steps Toward New Settlement In Volatile City -- Yahoo News
- Trump's Real Endgame: A White Nationalist Media Empire? -- Washington Post
- Israel Launches 'Dozens' Of Gaza Strikes, Draws Turkey's Ire -- Yahoo News
- Armed, Confederate Flag-Waving White Lives Matter Protesters Rally Outside Houston NAACP -- Washington Post
- Va. Gov. Terry McAuliffe Restores Voting Rights Of Felons -- Yahoo News
- Olympic Runners Who Helped Each Other After Falling Down Just Won A Major Honor -- Yahoo News
- Trooper Fatally Shoots Unarmed Deaf & Mute Man -- RT
- No Charges For New Jersey Cop Who Fatally Shot Black Man With Hands Up -- Business Insider
- Cancer Patient Beaten To Death Outside Illinois Treatment Center -- Yahoo News
- Why Did Clinton Just Tap A Pro-TPP, Pro-KXL, Pro-Fracking Politician To Head Her Transition Team? -- Democracy Now
- Clinton Campaign Slams 'Utterly Flawed' AP Report On Foundation Owners -- Yahoo News
- Are Jews Being Pressured To Renounce Israel -- Newsmax
- Attack On American University In Afghanistan Leaves 13 Dead -- Yahoo News
- Burkini Ban: Police In Nice Force Woman To Remove Part Of Clothing -- CNN
- A Black Homeowner Called 911 To Report A Carjacking. He Wound Up Getting Shot By Police -- Washington Post
- A Historic Victory: Grad Students At Private Universities Win Right To Unionize -- Waging Nonviolence
- U.S. Farmers Risk Losing Everything Because Of Absurd Immigration Procedures -- Huffington Post
- On Immigration Policy, Partisan Differences But Also Some Common Ground -- Pew Research Center
- Pentagon Has No Idea Where Hundreds Of Thousands Of Guns Went In Iraq And Afghanistan -- Common Dreams
- President Aligns With Big Business To Smash Opposition To The TPP -- Common Dreams
- Bernie Sanders Launches New Organization, But Key Staffers Quit In Protest -- Democracy Now
- Right To Protest Also Means Freedom From Militarized Police -- USA Today
- Burkini Ban Suspended: French Court Declares Law Forbidding Swimwear Worn By Muslim Women 'Clearly Illegal' -- Independent
- French Resorts Defiant As Top Court Suspends Burkini Ban -- Yahoo News
- How A Group of High Schoolers Used Lacrosse To Raise Over $1 Million For Veterans -- Yahoo News
- Why So Many Americans Are Leaving Their Religion -- Huffington Post
- Democratic Pundits Downplay Serious Ethical Issues Raised By The Clinton Foundation -- The Intercept
- Commentary: Transgender Ruling And 'Deeply Troubling' Executive Action -- Chicago Tribune
- This Is Why America Can't Have Nice Things -- The Week
- The Problems With Libertarianism -- Huffington Post
- Opinion: Jews No Longer Prioritize Social Justice? Look At What They Are Doing In L.A. -- The Los Angeles Times
- Transgender North Carolinians Get Restroom-Access Win -- Yahoo News
- US Approves Fracking California's Santa Barbara Channel -- The Eco Report
- Why The Bedrocks of L.A.'s Civil Rights Movements Won't Embrace Black Lives Matter -- Los Angeles Times
- How Colin Kaepernick Is Bravely Speaking Truth To Power -- CNN
- NYPD Ignored Court-Imposed Rules While Spying On American Muslims -- Huffington Post
- Human Rights Watch: Palestinians Abuse Media, Activists -- Miami Herald
- DOJ Urged To Improve Data Collection On Deaths In Police Custody -- The Hill
- The Teacher Pay Gap Is Wider Than Ever -- Economic Policy Institute
- Scientists Conclude Both Presidential Candidates May Be Psychopaths--But Claim That Could Be A Good Thing -- Daily Mail
- Israel's Primer On How To Make The Palestinians Feel Fear -- Haaretz
- Noam Chomsky On Religion In Politics -- Truthout
- A Record Number Of Americans Now Dislike Hillary Clinton -- Washington Post
- Israeli Cop Charged With Assaulting Palestinian At Jerusalem Checkpoint -- Haaretz
- Israel Police Chief: 'Natural' To Suspect Ethiopians Of Crime -- BBC
- A Man Broke The Law. Then Police Pepper-Sprayed His Elderly Mother -- Washington Post
- Glenn Greenwald: Obama Has Bombed 7 Nations, But Clinton Claims He Hasn't Been Aggressive Enough -- Democracy Now
- Clinton Promises Military Force Against Hackers In Most Hawkish Speech Yet -- Sputnik News
- Fewer Unions, Lower Pay For Everybody -- The Atlantic
- The Intellectuals We Abandon -- Truthdig
- I Support Israel, Which Is Why I Don't Support US Aid To Israel -- Boston Globe
- US Soccer Star Joins Kaepernick In National Anthem Protest -- Yahoo News
- U.S. Investigating Potential Covert Russian Plan To Disrupt November Elections -- Washington Post
- In Post-Olympics Brazil, A Political Coup Is No Game -- Democracy Now
- Video Raises Questions About Israeli Police Shooting -- ABC News
- 20 Marines Face Discipline After Death Of Muslim Recruit -- Detroit Free Press
- Obama Administration Orders ND Pipeline Construction To Stop -- The Hill
- Jennifer Parker: Trump's Immigration Plan Preys On Fear, Divides Americans -- Morning Call
- U.S. To Track Religious Discrimination In Schools As Anti-Muslim Sentiment Grows -- Washington Post
Pick(s) Of The Litter
- Israel/Occupied Palestinian Territory: Escalation Of The Campaign Of Attacks Against Prominent Palestinian Human Rights Organizations -- FIDH
- Kareem Abdul Jabaar: Trump Has No Credibility With Black Voters -- Yahoo News
- Native Activist Winona LaDuke: Pipeline Company Enbridge Has No Right To Destroy Our Future -- Democracy Now
- Italy Rescuers Toil Through The Night Seeking Quake Survivors As Death Toll Hits 159 -- Yahoo News
- 'Blunt Discrimination' By Police And 'Crisis Levels' Of Racism: A Senior U.N. Official Reflects On America -- Los Angeles Times
- Ending Private Prisons At The Federal Level Marks A Major Movement Victory -- Waging Nonviolence
- Why America's 'Nones' Left Religion Behind -- Pew Research Center
- Europeans Back Anti-ISIS Campaign But Have Doubts About Use Of Force In Fighting Terror -- Pew Research Center
- Nestlé Continues To Extract Water From Ontario Town Despite Drought: Activists -- The Globe And Mail
- Chris Hedges: TPP Is The Most Brazen Corporate Power Grab In American History -- Alternet
- Chicago's Black Community Stunned By Latest Police Shooting -- Los Angeles Sentinel
- Ferguson's 'Debtors Prison' Racket Has Been Reined In. Now Its Police Force May Be Falling Apart -- Huffington Post
- Colin Kaepernick Protests National Anthem Over Treatment Of Minorities -- ABC News
- With Echos Of Wounded Knee, Tribes Mount Prairie Occupation To Block North Dakota Pipeline -- Los Angeles Times
- Justice Dept. Focuses On Police Treatment Of Mentally Ill -- Seattle Times
- In St. Louis Schools, Water Fountains Are Symbols Of Inequality Again -- Washington Post
- An Innocent Black Man Was Punched, Tasered, And Arrested By Police Officers. A Jury Awarded Him $18 -- Washington Post
- Cops Taunted, Victim Disrespected And The Violence Goes On -- Chicago Tribune
- UN Body Says Sioux Must Have Say In Pipeline Project -- Seattle Times
- Israel Quietly Legalizes Pirate Outputs In The West Bank -- New York Times
- Palestinians Are Fighting For Their Lives; Israel Is Fighting For The Occupation -- Haaretz
- An Aspiring Police Officer Who Went Undercover In A Jail For 2 Months Describes Why 'Violence Is Almost Necessary' Behind Bars -- Yahoo News
- Poor Children Incarcerated When Families Can't Pay Juvenile Court Fees -- Common Dreams
- Daniel Berrigan's 1973 Prophecy: Israel Is Becoming 'The Tomb Of The Jewish Soul' -- Mondoweiss
- Never Forget: America's Forgotten Mass Lynching: When 237 Black Sharecroppers Were Murdered In Arkansas -- Black Main Street
- Police Probing Mysterious Death Of Ferguson Protests Leader -- CBS News
- Canine Expert Decries 'Egregious" & "Horrific Dog Attacks On Native Americans Defending Burial Site -- Democracy Now
References
Monday, July 11, 2016
ONIM For July 11, 2016
Christian News
World News
Pick(s) Of The Litter
- Should Christians Evanvelize Muslim Refugees -- Christian Today (UK)
- United Reform Church To Allow Same-Sex Marriages -- Christian Today (UK)
- Russia's Newst Law: No Evangelizing Outside Of Church -- Christianity Today
- Iowa Churches Cannot Discriminate During Services 'Open To The Public' -- Christianity Today
- Does This New Bill Threaten California's Christian Colleges' Religious Freedom? Christianity Today
- Processing Pain --Reformed African American Network
- My Two Worlds -- Reformed Africn American Network
- Is The Declaration Of Independence A 'Christian' Document? -- The Gospel Coalition
World News
- Muslim Doctor Shot Near Texas Mosque Before Prayer -- The Daily Beast
- Sanders Wages Fight For Democrats To Show 'Strong Opposition' To Trans-Pacific Trade Deal -- ABC News
- Israel Destroys Palestinian Village For The 100th Time -- Aljazeera
- California Drought Causing Trees To Die By The 'Millions,' Scientist Says -- ABC News
- TSA Sued For Injuring, Jailing Disabled Teen -- Yahoo News
- Elie Wiesel Hides Ethnic Cleansing Behind A Prayer Shawl -- Haaretz
- Elie Wiesel's Moral Imagination Never Reached Palestine -- Chicago Tribue
- Professor Peter Philips: We Face A Century Of Fascism -- American Herald Tribune
- Silencing America As It Prepares For War -- Counterpunch
- John Pilger--A World War Has Begun: Break The Silence -- YouTube
- Bombing Near 1 Of Islam's Holiest Sites In Saudi Kills 4 -- Yahoo News
- Former Pharmaceutical Exec Who Quit To Care For Ailing Sister Explains 'Logical' Decision -- ABC News
- Amnesty Documents 'Chilling' Abuses By Armed Groups In Syria -- ABC News
- Bosnian Muslims In Southern California May Not Fit The Stereotype But They Feel The Prejudice -- Los Angeles Times
- How Black Lives Matter Used Toronto's Gay Pride Parade To Make A Statement -- The Christian Science Monitor
- How Black Lives Matter Halted A Gay Pride Parade In Toronto -- Los Angeles Times
- In Trump, GOP Activists See Opening To Move Party Right On Israel -- CNN
- What America's 25 Most Profitable Companies Pay In Taxes -- Forbes
- In Rare Twist, Palestinian Man Rescues Wounded Israelis -- ABC News
- Justice Dept. Closes Clinton Email Probe With No Charges -- Yahoo News
- Is Israel Preparing For War Against Hezbollah? -- Huffington Post
- Sanders Booed By House Democrats -- Politico
- ISIS' Global Suicide-Bombing Campaign Is Only Just Beginning -- Yahoo News
- Hillary Cheated -- Counterpunch
- What Will It Take To Stop Extrajudicial Killings In East Africa? -- Waging Nonviolence
- Veterans Lead Fights Against Sexual Assault In The Military -- Waging Nonviolence
- Black Lives Matter Co-Founder Alicia Garza Reflects On The Movement's First Three Years -- Truthdig
- Lawyer Asks Israel To Destroy The Homes Of Palestinian's Killer -- The Washington Post
- The US Needs Its Own Chilcot Report -- The Guardian
- Bernie Sanders And The Dance Of The Seven Veils -- Counterpunch
- Occupation Isn't Democratic: Platform Debate Over Israel Obstructs Peace -- Huffington Post
- Phoenix Police Use Tear Gas, Pepper Spray During Civil Rights Rally -- Yahoo News
- Police Union Criticizes Obama Shooting Response, Calls For Hate Crime Investigation -- Yahoo News
- Economic Growth, Climate Change, And Capitalism -- ZNet
- The Brexit & Spain: Europe On The Edge? -- ZNet
- Why Is The Western Media Ignoring The New Cold War? -- ZVideo
- Government Fees That Perpetuate Poverty -- Acton Blog
- Robert Scheer And Larry Gross Discuss The Rise Of The U.S. Gay Community -- Truthdig
- Black Lives Matter Activist Arrested At Baton Rouge Protest -- Yahoo News
- Black Reporter's Arrest During Rochester, New York, Protest Captured On Live TV -- Yahoo News
- Cop Likely To Face Charges in 'Damning' Road-Rage Slay Video -- New York Post
- Boycott Of Mall Of Louisiana Planned Friday Following Police Shooting of Alton Sterling -- BR Proud
- Unpaid Interns Fare Worse In The Job Market -- Economic Policy Institute
- 'Fraud, Sell Out' : Some Of Bernie Sanders' Supporters Are Now Turning On Him -- Forward Progressives
- Stopped 52 Times By Police: Was It Racial Profiling? -- Yahoo News
- Russians Ask "Why Do You Demonize Us When We Are So Much Like You?" -- OpEd News
- Tear Gas, 102 Arrested, 21 Cops Injured In Black Lives Matter Protests In St. Paul -- RT
Pick(s) Of The Litter
- Elie Wiesel: 1928 - 2016 -- Yahoo News
- Israelis Mourn Elie Wiesel As One Of Their Own -- ABC News
- Holocaust Survivors Condemn Israel For 'Gaza Massacre,' Call For Boycott -- Haaretz
- Red Cross Built Exactly 6 Homes For Haiti With Nearly A Half A Billion Dollars In Donations -- Huffington Post
- Alton Sterling Shot, Killed By Louisiana Cops During Struggle After He Was Selling Music Outside Baton Rouge Store -- New York Daily News
- Aftermath Of Black Man's Shooting By Minnesota Police Caught On Video -- The Guardian
- Trevor Noah Breaks Down Why It's Possible To Be Pro-Cop And Pro-Black -- Truthdig
- As Police Killings Of Minorities Mount, Attacks On Police Like The One In Dallas, While Awful, Are Also Sadly Predictable -- Counterpunch
- The Massive Toll Of Police Brutality -- ZNet
- Chicago Muslims Use Billboards To Condemn Violence In Orlando, Saudi Arabia And Other Places -- Chicago Tribune
- Dallas Sniper Shooting: 5 Police Officers Slain, Suspect Id'd As Army Vet Micah Johnson -- Yahoo News
- Missouri Cop 'Fighting For His Life' After Being Shot In Traffic Stop, Official Says -- Yahoo News
- Authorities: 911 Caller Ambushed, Shot Officer In Georgia -- Yahoo News
- Baghdad Blast Killed 292, Many Buried Alive -- Yahoo News
- The United States And NATO Are Preparing For A Major War With Russia -- The Nation
- Anti-TPP Amendment Fails At Heated Dem Platform Meeting -- Common Dreams
- Legal Experts Raise Alarm Over Shocking Use Of 'Killer Robot' In Dallas -- Common Dreams
- 117 Countries Slam American Police BrutalityAt UN Human Rights Council -- Mint Press News
Monday, February 1, 2016
ONIM For February 1, 2016
Christian News
World News
Pick(s) Of The Litter
- Britain First Condemned By UK Churches -- Christian Today (UK)
- Clergy Could Soon Be Allowed To Take Services In Jeans And Hoodies -- Christian Today (UK)
- Ancient New Testament Manuscripts Discovered In Greek Library -- Christian Today (UK)
- ISIS Releases 16 Assyrian Christian Hostages -- Christian Today (UK)
- Two Ways Christians Distort Islam (And Two Ways Muslism Distort Christianity) -- Christianity Today
- Most Pastors Aren't Voting Trump As Primaries Approach -- Christianity Today
- Morocco Declaration: Muslim Nations Should Protect Christians From Persecution -- Christianity Today
- Why Donald Trump Threatens To Trump The Gospel -- Christianity Today
- Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders And The Populist Uprising Of 2016: What Should Christians Do? -- The Christian Post
- The Suicide Of The Liberal Church -- Truthdig
- Intimately Unmarried -- Reformed African American Network
- Trump Lands Endorsement Of Christian University Leader -- Yahoo News
- Baptist Pastor Says God Wants Syrian Refugees Destroyed, 'Even Their Women, Children And Animals' -- The New Civil Rights Movement
- Pope Francis: World's Powerful Risk Hell By Ignoring The Poor -- Religion News Service
World News
- Ralph Nader & Abby Martin On US Rigged Corporate Elections -- Media Roots
- New Thinking On Rescuing Our Politics From Plutocrats -- Moyers & Company
- The Wrong Laws Are Enforced: Zinn -- Facebook Page
- Cops Body-Slam Teen In Stockton, California -- Facebook Page
- Bristol Cable Founders: ‘We’re Holding People To Account For Their Actions’ -- The Guardian
- Governor Snyder Lied: Flint Water Switch Was Not About Saving Money, Records Show -- Motor City Muckraker
- 5 Disturbing Revelations From Governor Snyder's E-Mails About Flint Water Crisis -- Motor City Muckraker
- Bernie Sanders Responds To Bill Clinton & 'Liberal' About His 'Pie In The Sky' Policies (Video) -- EgberToWillies.com
- Sexual Assault Reporting Rising At U.S. Service Academies -- Military Times
- Interview With Noam Chomsky: Is European Integration Unraveling? -- Truthout
- Hundreds Gather To Stop Cancer Patient Being Evicted From Home -- ITV News
- Experts Warn That The US Is Underestimating A Greater Jihadist Threat Than ISIS -- Yahoo News
- Rick Snyder Donor Picked To Lead Investigation Of Flint Water Crisis -- Think Progress
- Putin Calls Out Obama On A Big Lie -- The Greenville Post
- Obama Bans Solitary Confinement For Juveniles In Federal Prisons -- NPR
- Senator Elizabeth Warren Calls For Action To Root Out Influence Of Money In Politics -- YouTube
- Academics Want You To Read Their Work For Free -- The Atlantic
- Dangerous Levels Of Lead Found In An Ohio City's Water System -- Think Progress
- Bernie Sanders Blocks Obama's FDA Nominee Over Big Pharma Ties -- U.S. Uncut
- Flint Water Crisis: Investigation Will Be 'Exhaustive, Independent' Says Attorney General -- Yahoo News
- Duke Without Mi Gente -- The Chronicle
- Hillary Clinton Doing Finance Industry Fundraiser Just Before Iowa -- The Intercept
- Tekoa Stabbing Victims Says Attacker Wasn't Out To Kill Her -- The Times Of Israel
- The Clintons' Shameful Hypocrisy On Racism -- Socialist Worker
- Saudi Arabia Is Killing Civilians With US Bombs -- Counterpunch
- The Secrets Of Charles Kock's Political Ascent -- Politico
- A Film About The Nation's Biggest Slave Revolt Just Made History At Sundance -- U.S. Uncut
- Growing Up As A Black Kid In Nazi Germany -- Vice
- Wall Street Is Hosting Huge Fundraisers For Hillary Clinton Just Before Iowa -- U.S. Uncut
- Radioactive Water From Fukushima Is Leaking Into The Pacific -- Truthout
- Why Capitalism Will Eat Democracy -- Social Europe
- What's On The Road Ahead For BLM In The Bay? -- Socialist Worker
- Almost 12 Years After Calling A Reporter, DOJ Whistleblower Slapped With Ethics Charges -- The Intercept
- Bernie Sanders: The Socialist Outsider Who Took Center Stage -- RDWolff.com
- Trump Calls For "Closing The Internet," Says Believing In "Freedom Of Speech" Is "Foolish" -- The Free Thought Project
- Boston College Students Receive Disciplinary Warning For Protesting Racism -- Think Progress
- UN's Ban On Palestinian Violence: It Is 'Human Nature' To React To Occupation -- Haaretz
- Chicago Police Have Been Sabotaging Their Dash Cams -- New York Magazine
- Campaign To Organzie Thousands Of Faculty, Grad Workers At Pitt Underway -- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
- Chicago Police Officer Plans To Sue Teenager He Shot And Killed -- Think Progress
- Bernie Sanders Opens Up About God -- Huffington Post
- Liberal Pundits Aren't Amused By Bernie Sanders' Campaign Anymore--They're Terrified -- In These Times
- Retreating Clinton Campaign Torches Iowa Town To Slow Advance Of Sanders Volunteers -- The Onion
- Green Party Candidate Jill Stein's Message To Bernie Sanders Supporters -- YouTube
- The World The Settlers Made -- Mondoweiss
- Video Of Mountie Taking Down Teen Sparks Police Brutality Claims -- CTV News Vancouver Island
- Corporate Crime Runs Rampant Thanks To 'Rigged' System: Elizabeth Warren -- Common Dreams
- Rabin's Death Was Natanyahu's Victory: An Explosive New Film Argues That Bibi Is Morally Culpable For The 1995 Assassination -- Salon
- After Living In Norway, America Feels Backward. Here's Why -- Moyers & Company
Pick(s) Of The Litter
- Canada Will Sign TPP Trade Deal Feb. 4, But Ratification Not Certain -- CBC News
- Pennsylvania Announces Plan For Strongest Methane Rules In The Nation -- Environmental Defense Fund
- How Two-Party Political Systems Bolster Capitalism -- Truthout
- Flint Reels As Families Struggle Through Water Crisis -- The Guardian
- There Is No Excuse For How Universities Treat Adjuncts -- The Atlantic
- Their Socialism And Ours: On Sanders -- The North Star
- Teen Shot By Chicago Cop Called 911 Three Times Asking For Help -- Yahoo News
- Iceland Boycotts Israel -- Global Research
- Bankers Celebrate: Wall St. Lawyer Appointed Top Regulator -- Liberation
- Christie On NJ Floods: 'Want Me To Go Down There With A Mop' -- 6 ABC Action News
- Israel's Occupation Continues Because Economic And Political Elites Around The World Benefit From It -- In These Times
- Noam Chomsky Interview: 'Enormous Sense Of Hopelessness And Anger' Reflected In Appeal Of Trump And Sanders -- Smashing Interviews
- Note To Hillary: Clintonomics Was A Disaster For Most Americans -- The Nation
- List Of 162 Palestinians Killed Since October 1st -- International Middle East Media Center
- Sex Assault On Teen In Florida Prison Spurs Federal Lawsuit -- Orlando Sentinel
- Seattle Seeks Millions From Monsanto To Cleanup PCBs From Duwamish -- The Seattle Times
- Nearly 90 Percent Of People Killed In Recent Drone Strikes Were Not The Target -- Huffington Post
- Navajo Water Contamination More Horrific Than Flint Michigan's -- The Narcosphere
- Boko Haram Burns Kids Alive In Nigeria, 86 Dead -- Yahoo News
Monday, January 11, 2016
ONIM For January 11, 2016
Christian News
World News
Pick(s) Of The Litter
- 5 Really Bad Reasons Christians Avoid Apologetics -- Christian Today (UK)
- Church Must Repent Of Second Class Treatment Of Gays, Anglican Leaders Warn Primates -- Christian Today (UK)
- Armed Men Kidnap Missionary In Mali, Christian Radio Station Attacked -- Christian Today (UK)
- Christians In The Philippines Suffering New Levels Of Violence And Intimidation -- Christian Today (UK)
- Ukraine Debates Celebrating Christmas Twice Over Crimea -- Christianity Today
- More Women Sue Bill Gothard And IBLP Alleging Sexual Abuse -- Christianity Today
- Wheaton College Recommends Terminating Tenured Professor Over 'Same God' Comments -- Christianity Today
- Thousands Protest Norwegian Embassies For Return Of 5 Christian Children Seized By CPS -- The Christian Post
- Marco Rubio Forms Religious Freedom Advisory Board With Rick Warren, Samuel Rodriguez -- The Christian Post
- John Piper Offers 7 Reasons Not To Play The Lottery -- The Christian Post
- Race And The American Church--A Brief Summary From Colonialism To WW II -- Reformed African American Network
- Evangelical Witness In An Age Of Mass Incarceration -- Reformed African American Network
- Black Lives And The 'Perfect Victim' Illusion -- Reformed African American Network
World News
- Today's Students Are Anything But Coddled -- Times Higher Education
- An 'Extremist' In The United States -- The Wire
- Cleveland Officer Who Shot Tamir Rice WIll Not Face Charges -- The Guardian
- Killed ISIS Commander's Cell Phone Shows Direct Ties To Turkish Intelligence -- I take Liberty With My Coffee
- NYC Spent $1 Million To Fire OWS Teacher And Failed -- Popular Resistance
- Palestinian Journalist On Hunger Strike To Protest Admin Detention -- +972
- "Comfort Women": Japan's 70 Year-Old Sex Slavery Controversy, Explained -- Vox
- Bigoted Bakers Who Wouldn't Make Cake For Lesbian Couple Forced To Pay Huge Fine -- Bipartisan Report
- 12,000 Oil Smuggling Trucks Photographed Crossing Into Turkey From Iraq -- Mint Press News
- The Trans-Pacific Trade Scam -- The Fifth Column
- Economic Update: Capitalism And/Or Socialism -- Democracy At Work
- These 7 Household Names Make A Killing Off Of The Prison-Industrial Complex -- U.S. Uncut
- NASA Rover Spots Claw Of 'Living Alien' On Mars -- Yahoo News
- Challenging War And Racism After Paris -- Socialist Worker
- Newly Released Emails Reveal Coordination After Teen's Death -- Yahoo
- Republican Bill Seeks To Limit Local Photo ID Cards -- Milwaukee Wisconsin Journal Sentinel
- Hundreds Of Muslim Workers Fired After Dispute Over Prayers -- CBS Evening News
- What's Happening In Oregon Is Treason, Our Founders Wrote Explicitly Against Insurrection -- Addicting Info
- Hundreds Of Armed Right-Wing Militia Members Take Over Federal Building -- U.S. Uncut
- Oregon Militia Threatens Showdown With US Agents At Wildlife Refuge -- The Guardian
- CNN Analyst: White Militiamen Aren't A Threat Like Black Protesters Because 'They're Not Looting Anything' -- Raw Story
- Where Is The 24/7 Coverage Of Right-\ Wing Milita Takeover Of Federal Building -- EbertoWillies.Com
- Mexico Mayor Killed Less Than A Day After Taking Office -- Huffington Post
- Netanyahu's Speech At Scene Of Tel Aviv Shooting: A Shameful, Fear-Spreading Horror Show -- Haaretz
- China's Communists Are Stamping Out Labor Activism -- The Washington Post
- The Nation That Executed 47 People In 1 Day Sits On The U.N. Human Rights Council -- Huffington Post
- Germany Follows Scotland's Lead And Opts To Ban GMOs -- True Activist
- Illinois Considers Allowing Recall Vote On Chicago Mayor -- CBS News
- Venezuela Passes Law Banning GMOs, By Popular Demand -- ZNet
- Some Women Are More Invisible -- ZNet
- Top 7 Middle East Foreign Policy Challenges In 2016 -- ZNet
- Novel About Jewish-Palestinian Love Affair Is Barred From Israeli Curriculum -- The Guardian
- 2016: California's Staggering Leak Could Spew Methane For Months -- Inside Climate News
- Photo Of Police Sergeant's Kind Act Helps Homeless Man Find Shelter -- Yahoo
- Pro-Monsanto Lobbyist Says Weedkiller Is Safe To Drink, Then Panics When Offered A Glass -- Alt Health Works
- Las Vegas Police Kill Unarmed Man After Mistaking Cellphone For A Gun -- Democracy Now
- Supreme Court Justice Scalia: Constitution Says Government Can Favor Religion -- Crux
- EPA Confirms Activists' Longtime Claims: Neonnicotinoid Pesticide Threatens Honeybees -- Truthout
- Cop Savagely Beats Hawaiian Man After He Performes Native 'Healing Prayer' Near Seal On The Beach -- Raw Story
- Missouri Bill Defines Sex Between Lobbyists And Lawmakers As A Gift -- The Kansas City Star
- North Carolina Legalizes Call Girls For Politicians -- Addicting Info
- This NAFTA Lawsuit Over Keystone XL Proves "Free Trade" Deals Kill Democracy -- Common Dreams
- Saudi Arabia Kicked Off The New Year By Executing 47 People In One Day -- Dead State
- Jeb Bush Calls For End Of Federal Food Stamp Program As Part Of Welfare Overhaul -- The Washington Post
- After WTO Ruling, U.S. Tosses Meat Origin Labeling Law, Leaving Consumers In The Dark -- Democracy Now
- Muslim Woman Gets Kicked Out Of Donald Trump Rally For Being Muslim -- Think Progress
- Woman Removed From Donald Trump Rally Wanted To Show 'Muslims Are Not That Scary' -- Huffington Post
- Supreme Court Case Could Weaken Government Workers Unions -- Yahoo News
- Israel Grants Golan-Heights Oil Drilling Licence To Dick Cheney-Linked Company -- Business Insider
- 18 Guatemala Ex-Military Leaders Arrested For Crimes Against Humanity During U.S.-Backed Dirty War -- Democracy Now
- Texas Open-Carry Gun Law Allows Firearms In Psychiatric Hospitals -- Huffington Post
- Raising NY State Minimum Wage To $15 By July 2021 Would Lift Wages For 3.2 Million Workers -- Economic Policy Institute
- Migrant Crises And Syria War Fueled By Competing Gas Pipelines -- Mint Press News
Pick(s) Of The Litter
- In America, Only The Rich Can Afford To Write About Poverty -- The Guardian
- Sadistic Cops Make K-9 Maul Suicidal Teen--Caught Planning And Celebrating It In Texts -- Alternet
- Chomsky: Greece Faces "Savage Response" For Taking On Austerity "Class War" -- Democracy Now
- A Palestinian Mother Of Four, Shot 17 Times For Being A Bad Driver -- Haaretz
- UN Supports Sovereignty For Palestine And Slams Israel -- Redress Information & Analysis
- Lots Of Men Don't Think Rape Is Rape -- Science Of Us
- Why Police Are So Violent Toward Black Men -- Slate
- During Paris Climate Summit, Obama Signed Exxon-Koch- Backed Bill Expediting Pipeline Permits -- Raging Chicken Press
- The IMF Confirms That 'Trickle-Down' Ecnomics Is, Indeed, A Joke -- Pacific Standard
- Company Behind Keystone XL Pipeline Sues U.S. Government -- NPR
- The NRA Gave These 9 Senators Over $22 Million To Vote Down Gun Laws -- Reverb Press
- The Deceptive Debate Over What Causes Terrorism Against The West -- The Intercept
- How An Unelected Official Contaminated Flint's Water To Save Money -- Democracy Now
- Hilary Emails Reveal True Motive For Libya Intervention -- Foreign Policy Journal
- NYPD Cop Claims He Was Punished For Not Stopping Enough Black, Hispani Teens In Subways -- Daily News
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