http://www.realliberalchristianchurch.org/wordpress Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:34:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 http://www.realliberalchristianchurch.org/wordpress/2009/07/03/aptly-named-boat-spirit-of-humanity-blocked-by-israel-how-telling.html http://www.realliberalchristianchurch.org/wordpress/2009/07/03/aptly-named-boat-spirit-of-humanity-blocked-by-israel-how-telling.html#comments Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:34:31 +0000 Tom Usher http://www.realliberalchristianchurch.org/wordpress/?p=3250 If Israel won't let aid into Palestine, then the U.S. shouldn't be giving Israel aid. Stopping aid to Israel would not put Israel in any worse shape than the vast majority of other nations. Israel makes plenty of money without U.S. aid.Israel is blocking humanitarian ships, such as the Spirit of Humanity, from reaching Gaza. It's criminal. The Israeli navy has no right to block ships from reaching Gaza. It's a violation of international law.Technorati Tags: aid, blocked, criminal, Gaza, humanitarian, international law, Israel, Israeli navy, Palestine, Spirit of Humanity, U.S., violation]]> http://www.realliberalchristianchurch.org/wordpress/2009/07/03/aptly-named-boat-spirit-of-humanity-blocked-by-israel-how-telling.html/feed 2 http://www.realliberalchristianchurch.org/wordpress/2009/07/03/iraq-oil-and-china.html http://www.realliberalchristianchurch.org/wordpress/2009/07/03/iraq-oil-and-china.html#comments Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:27:36 +0000 Tom Usher http://www.realliberalchristianchurch.org/wordpress/?p=3249 So, British Petroleum with China National Petroleum Corp. have been awarded the first contract for foreign corporations to develop an Iraqi oil field in some 30 years. Isn't it interesting that China is involved. What's the point there? Let the Chinese take the first brunt from insurgents.

Let the Chinese show the true costs of doing the work there.

Set China up for a fall that will be the result of some secret plan in the works.

Otherwise, who in the West is heavily invested in China National Petroleum Corp.? Why fight China's influence in Africa but turn around and let China into Iraq after spending hundreds of billions to bring Iraq under the Empire? Well, bring China under the Empire too.

Suck China in. Make them have a stake in Iraq and the Anglo-American-Israel Empire.

Draw them away from Iran and Russia.

Defuse the criticism that George W. Bush and Dick Cheney went into Iraq for what Cheney called "the prize" of oil.

Make Obama look like a more even-handed ruler.

(See: "Iraq Approves BP-Led Bid to Develop Rumaila Oil Field," by Anthony DiPaola and Caroline Alexander. Bloomberg. July 1, 2009.) Technorati Tags: Africa, Anglo-American-Israel Empire, Anthony DiPaola, Bloomberg, bloomberg.com, BP, British Petroleum, Caroline Alexander, Cheney, China, China National Petroleum, Chinese, Dick Cheney, Empire, George W. Bush, insurgents, invested, Iran, Iraq, Iraqi oil, Obama, Rumaila, Russia, secret plan, the prize, the West]]> http://www.realliberalchristianchurch.org/wordpress/2009/07/03/iraq-oil-and-china.html/feed 0 http://www.realliberalchristianchurch.org/wordpress/2009/07/03/iran-update-u-s-u-k-israel-anglo-american-israeli-empire-axis-of-evil.html http://www.realliberalchristianchurch.org/wordpress/2009/07/03/iran-update-u-s-u-k-israel-anglo-american-israeli-empire-axis-of-evil.html#comments Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:56:17 +0000 Tom Usher http://www.realliberalchristianchurch.org/wordpress/?p=3248 The so-called terrorists are and also are not the enemy of the Empire. Without them, there would be no Empire. The Empire expands based upon the perception of violent and other threats by the general population against them. Of course, the mask is coming off those of the general population who know full well what is really going on but simply wink at the leaders they help to select in the furtherance of expanding the worldly empire so they, the general public, may gain their share of the spoils of war.What is Jundallah and what does it have to do with Iran's current problems? Jundallah is a Sunni groups in Sistan-Baluchistan Province of Iran and based in Balochistan in Pakistan just across the border from Iran. Jundallah gets support from the MEK (Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization, aka MKO) and from the U.S., which also helps sponsor the MEK albeit through secret, shadow government, channels. The U.S. neocon false-Zionists use the MEK against Iran.Fomenting sectarian strife is an old and still widely used tactic of the worldly imperialist, the U.S. along with the U.K. and Israel in the Anglo-American-Israeli Empire/Axis of Evil. The U.K. had two of its special ops troops caught red handed dressed up as Arabs in Iraq riding around with materials for planting bombs. (See: "Compilation: British Forces Conduct False-Flag Bombings in Iraq." Physics911. October 4, 2005.) That was a little before the so-called terrorist, insurgent bombing of the Golden Domed Shia mosque in Iraq. That set off huge sectarian strife. Divide and conquer. Divide and rule. All's fair in love and war. Hardly.The Sunni Jundallah claimed responsibility for the Shia Zahedan mosque bombing that occurred three weeks before the recent Iranian presidential elections. (See: "Iran executes three men for mosque bombing." BBC. May 30, 2009.)These people are funded from all sorts of "untraceable" sources including the poppy, opium, heroin...]]> http://www.realliberalchristianchurch.org/wordpress/2009/07/03/iran-update-u-s-u-k-israel-anglo-american-israeli-empire-axis-of-evil.html/feed 1 http://www.realliberalchristianchurch.org/wordpress/2009/07/02/update-honduras.html http://www.realliberalchristianchurch.org/wordpress/2009/07/02/update-honduras.html#comments Fri, 03 Jul 2009 05:18:27 +0000 Tom Usher http://www.realliberalchristianchurch.org/wordpress/?p=3247 I added another comment over on http://rebelreports.com/post/133319827, which when I added my first two comments, I hadn't noticed that the blog is Jeremy Scahill's, who very nearly single-handedly brought down the infamous Blackwater. Well, Blackwater changed leadership and its name and lost a few legal battles, but it's still around. Jeremy though is still watching them like a hawk and rightly so.Anyway, the post over there and the comment replies have proven very helpful to me in deciding where to take my at least initial stand as explained below. Without knowing all the details, I must say that if you have characterized things correctly here, and I have no reason at this point to conclude otherwise, it would appear that the survey was surely not illegal.As for the general being fired for insubordination, if the President has that power and is the final arbiter, then the court had no business reinstating the general.My other questions above, no doubt, will take more work to answer.On other matters raised in this thread, it is my understanding that Zelaya would not even have been president at the time any 4th ballot box or question would have been put to the whole people. It is clear that the military powers and those behind them feared the people choosing a constitutional convention to rewrite the constitution. In other words, they feared the consent of the majority of the governed. The arguments in this thread that Zelaya was illegally seeking a new constitution are erroneous on their face. He was seeking a new constitution, but that is not illegal under natural or divine law. The only people who would block it are those who fear power in the hands of the people. Yes, the people can become a mob; however, they do so usually in the face of other lawlessness and where truth is suppressed. The ignorant become an unruly law or are those...]]> http://www.realliberalchristianchurch.org/wordpress/2009/07/02/update-honduras.html/feed 0 http://www.realliberalchristianchurch.org/wordpress/2009/07/02/zoecarnate-com-to-link-to-the-real-liberal-christian-church-and-christian-commons-project.html http://www.realliberalchristianchurch.org/wordpress/2009/07/02/zoecarnate-com-to-link-to-the-real-liberal-christian-church-and-christian-commons-project.html#comments Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:04:01 +0000 Tom Usher http://www.realliberalchristianchurch.org/wordpress/?p=3246 Michael Morrell has decided to add us to his huge link site:Great points, Tom. You're in! We're linking you on our next site update. Feel free to link http://zoecarnate.com too.Thanks!MikeOn Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 2:01 AM, Tom Usherwrote:Thank you, Mike, for getting back to me so quickly. I've actually spent most of the day visiting links from your site. They've lead me to some very helpful articles and discussions. Why zoecarnate.com? The RLCC site is such a radical departure from the mainstream that they won't bother considering the themes on the site. Your list shows that you know many people believe Jesus is a radical. The Real Liberal Christian Church teaches that Jesus is about getting at the root cause (making the whole tree good). Keeping with his analogy, we each are to undergo a systemic transformation you might say. Visitors to your site, I should think, would be more inclined to probe and think rather than summarily dismiss the site without even so much as looking. The main idea of the site is semantics. You may say semantical theology. We call it Isaiah/Jesus-Liberal Theology. At the top of the site, we quote Isaiah. "The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said to be bountiful." (Isaiah 32:5). Isaiah also said, "Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!" (Isaiah 5:20). The language has been corrupted for a very long time. People behaving in vile ways are often called liberals. Isaiah's real liberal (hence our name, in part) does not engage in vile behavior (harmful, unwholesome, disease promoting) but rather brings forth real bounty through God that is a true benefit to the people. The churl is the stingy one, the hoarder...]]> http://www.realliberalchristianchurch.org/wordpress/2009/07/02/zoecarnate-com-to-link-to-the-real-liberal-christian-church-and-christian-commons-project.html/feed 0