Does baptism matter? Most Americans have come to the conclusion that it does not, a person can be saved and go to heaven baptized or not. It is such a settled conviction with most that they are not willing to give the study of the topic the time of day. It is ridiculous to even consider it as they see it. Only the spiritually blinded, only the cult faction, could think otherwise from their point
Prosecutor's Office from Spanish Supreme Tribunal has asked its Criminal Court to modify the doctrine it stated over March 11th bombings in the revision of the National Court's sentence in the "Operation Nova" case. The latter is the most important police operation against Islamist terrorism carried out after March 11th bombings.
With that doctrine, considers the Prosecutor, all of the 20 detained
By Chen Xinning in Brisbane, Australia
On August 2nd, 2008, New Tang Dynasty Television (NTDTV) Queensland Branch, along with Sound of Hope Radio Network (SOH) Brisbane Branch in Australia, held a press conference and rally about the recent incident of Eutelsat suddenly cutting off NTDTV’s and SOH’s broadcast signals to China. People from all walks of [...]
Reuters12 June 2008By Daniel Wallis
Western donors have failed to condemn war crimes by Ethiopian forces during a year-old campaign against separatist fighters in the country’s eastern Ogaden region, Human Rights Watch said on Thursday.
“The Ethiopian army’s answer to the rebels has been to viciously attack civilians in the Ogaden,” said Georgette Gagnon, Africa director of
Sunni clerics in Saudi Arabia sharply attacked Hezbollah as a secret arm of the Shiite Iranian government whose real aim is to destroy the power of Sunnis in the Middle East. They insisted many Muslims have been fooled by the Shiites who claim to lead the fight against Israel. The Shiites were accused to [...]
American President George W. Bush should call on Israel to end its economic blockade of the Gaza Strip, Human Rights Watch (HRW) and two other rights groups said in a letter to the president. The international rights organization said that Bush's visit to the Middle East must be productive in light the current tensions plaguing the region. The two Israeli human rights organizations, Gisha Legal Ce
Bijender Sharma writes: Human Rights groups have condemned Lhasa’s Intermediate People’s Court’s arbitrary decision for sentencing 30 Tibetans for their alleged involvement in the series of peaceful protests in Tibet last month.
Thirty Tibetans were sentenced to imprisonment ranging from three years to life imprisonment, Chinese state media Xinhua reported on 29 April.
His Holiness the Dalai [...]
John McCain’s campaign officials are calling on Barack Obama to condemn remarks made by an introductory speaker who called McCain “a warmonger” at a North Dakota campaign stop Friday.
Written by James Thompson - a psychologist and social justice activist in Houston - for People's Weekly World : The American Psychological Association's (APA) Council of Representatives has introduced new wording in a resolution to clarify the ethical responsibilities of psychologists in harsh interrogation techniques, according to the March edition of its publication The National Psychologist. This action was a response to resounding condemnation by APA's members who objected to the participation of psychologists in the Bush administration's open defiance of international law banning torture. Critics argued that resolutions passed in 2006 and this past summer at the APA convention left loopholes which would permit the participation of psychologists in interrogat
More proof that they're worthless:
The UN Security Council failed to reach an agreement overnight Thursday on issuing an official condemnation over the deadly shooting attack in Jerusalem's Mercaz Harav Yeshiva because of Libyan opposition.
"Most members (of the council) wanted to condemn (the attack) but Libya blocked it," Israel's ambassador to the UN, Dan Gillerman, told reporters.In other
Mashiach must definitely be on the way. A report from Amnesty International which accuses the Palestinians (both the good ones and the bad ones) of human rights violations! And even the BBC manages to write 8 paragraphs before it mentions that everything is Israel's fault.It is interesting to see that both the BBC and Amnesty are putting this report out just before Israel sit down with their 'moderate' peace partner to give away the coutry. Apparently even the 'moderates' are not all that nice really.If we have too much more reporting like this I'll know that they have all done teshuvah. Or I'll be sure that Mashiach is here. (Or perhaps, since the Israeli politicians are clearly unable to say anything bad against our 'peace partners' or anything good about Israel, G-d has found other shelichim who can do it instead).Make sure you are sitting down when you read this.Feud 'hurting Palestinian rights'Fighting between the two main factions in the Palestinian territories is fuel
There has been a call to step up police stop and searches of black people and this is a subject that will always cause an outcry, but that did not worry Keith Jarrett, the president of the National Black Police Association who has asked for this return to stop and search. Jarrett has angered many race campaigners including Milena Buyum from the National Assembly against Racism, and has given a warning that this could very well alienate ethnic minorities even more.
Nick Clegg, Liberal Democrat Home Affairs spokesman has also added that it will only increase tensions, and could cause further distrust to the police. The Mirror has said that it is this kind of policy of targeting young black men that caused the Brixton Riots of 1981, and I can tell you first hand that that was not a great time as I lived in Stockwell Park Estate at the time.
I know that this is a very sore subject for people, but it is something that had to be reported, please do add your views.
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Rich Gardella and the NBC News Investigative Unit have picked up on my recent postings here on the CTBlog about the growing infighting pitting Sunni insurgents (including avowed jihadists) against Al-Qaida's "Islamic State of Iraq": "In a development experts call a significant shift, Iraqi insurgent groups are speaking out against al-Qaida and its brutally violent tactics. Last week, two groups, Asaeb al-Iraq al-Jihadiya (aka 'the Iraqi Jihad Union') and the 1920 Revolution Brigades (aka 'Hamas in...(read more)
If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans by Ann Coulter
It's a funny thing. Recent atheist tracts by Dawkins, Harris, as well a bunch of anti-religious right-books suggest that the world would be better if people weren't religious. They also lead one to believe that religious people are kind of kooky. So, atheists can wish that people were atheists, and atheists can criticize the religious; but, when religious people criticize other religious people or insinuate that theirs is the correct world view or that the world would be a better place if everybody thought as they did, they're some kind of haters.
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Nigerian princes and bank executives have banded together to condemn the millions of spam e-mails sent in their name to Americans and others around the world that announce phony business opportunities or solicit money with a promise to repay more than what was lent.
“Sometimes we ask our friends from America and around the world for help-always careful to pay back, of course. But now people are reluctant to enter even the most beneficial commitments because of all these scams,” Bank executive Hamed Ali, spokesman for the Coalition of Nigerian Band Executives and Princes (CONBEP) explained. He went on to say that he'll be sending an email to kind people around the world asking for donations to CONBEP.
Indonesia on Friday blocked a Security Council action by which the members would condemn remarks by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad earlier this week about the destruction of Israel but the council would meet again next Monday for further discussions. The French delegation circulated a draft press statement that would have the council "strongly condemn" Ahmadinejad's remarks about the destruction of Israel and reaffirm Israel's rights and obligations as a full and long-standing UN member. Council diplomats said Indonesia had reservations, Qatar did not have instructions and South Africa was silent.
Washington -- The United States and the inter-American community are united in condemning human rights repression in Cuba and Venezuela.
The State Department said in a new human rights report, released April 5, that Cuba had at least 283 political prisoners and detainees at the end of 2006.
The report said thousands more citizens in Cuba served sentences in 2006 for “dangerousness,” in the absence of any criminal activity. In addition, the report said beatings and abuse of detainees and prisoners, including human rights activists, were carried out with impunity, and that harsh and life-threatening prison conditions included denial of medical care.
The Cuban government uses the concept of "dangerousness" in an attempt to justify detaining its citizens, saying these people supposedly have a “special inclination” to commit crimes.
In a separate development, a human rights body of the Organization of American States (OAS) says in its own new report that the Cuban people endure a
A group of protesters Wednesday accused visiting World Trade Organization head Pascal Lamy of trying to pressure developing countries to change their stance on stalled global trade talks.According to AFP, Lamy was in Indonesia to address a workshop on progress in the development agenda of the Doha round of trade talks, held at an upmarket hotel in central Jakarta.Four protesters were arrested by hotel security after they tried to unfurl a banner in the lobby.Fellow members of the Institute for Global Justice group handed in a letter addressed to Lamy in which the group expressed concern about the WTO negotiations, particularly on the issue of agriculture.
Labour-dominated West Dunbartonshire Council has hit the headlines for the wrong reasons again:
A council faces the threat of takeover by a Scottish Executive hit squad, after a watchdog delivered a devastating assessment of poor management and political leadership. West Dunbartonshire's councillors and officials are heavily criticised by Audit Scotland in a report saying there is a culture of
