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Love for Jesus Can Bring Christians, Muslims Together

Muslims also love and revere Jesus as one of God's greatest messengers to mankind...

(WASHINGTON, DC) - “Behold! The angels said: ‘O Mary! God giveth thee glad tidings of a Word from Him. His name will be Jesus Christ, the son of Mary, held in honor in this world and the Hereafter and in (the company of) those nearest to God.’”

Before searching for this quote in the New Testament, you might first ask your Muslim co-worker, friend or neighbor for a copy of the Quran, Islam’s revealed text. The quote is from verse 45 of chapter 3 in the Quran.

Authenticity

“And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

(MIAMI) - Authenticity is one of the most important qualities to teach young people.

To be truly who you are, to be comfortable in your own skin and to walk your talk, is essential to not just personal happiness but is also requisite for building a better, more just and humane world. Unfortunately, teaching authenticity is challenging in a society that is dominated by hypocrisy.

The Man that was Blue

In 1949 working in an isolated logging camp in Northern Idaho near the Montana border, when there arrived a very tall and thin blue man assigned to sleep in the same bunk house as I.

(THE DALLES) - I once met a man who's skin was blue. To say, I knew, is wrong, for no one probably ever knew him.

Spanish Language Placed on Twitter After English and Chinese, Ahead of Japanese

Twitter acts as a social soundtrack for the TV, which is still the media king.

(MADRID) - In the social network Twitter Spanish is the second most used language, just behind English Chinese, and ahead of Japanese.

The data has been provided by the director of the Instituto Cervantes, Victor Garcia de la Concha, at the headquarters of the Center for diffusion of a language spoken in the world by 495 million people and that has grown in the last decade by 800% in Internet, standing on third.

`Lobbying Elites: The Fast Track to Extinction`

Elites will continue to encourage us to 'exercise your democratic right' to vote and to lobby because once our political effort has been so channeled, our dissent is easily dissipated and thus ignored.

(TASMANIA, Aust.) - As we evaluate the outcomes of the recent UN climate negotiations in Warsaw, one lesson that we are invited to learn, again, relates to our strategy for getting effective action taken on the ongoing climate catastrophe and other critical environmental problems.

Is lobbying elites to change their behaviour an effective strategy for change?

Cliché Mania: Profanity`s Quagmire

I rather wish those cliché-mongers could alter their ways and revisit their paucity of expressing things with precision. To me, that would be a Christmas present unto themselves.

(SALEM) - Earlier this week I attended a Men's Retreat held out at the Oregon Coast. Its aim was to explore ourselves in depth and where we were heading in retirement. We touched on our relationships with our parents, our spouses and siblings, and most of all, ourselves.

Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde Respond to Salem-News.com Article

The Council knows this process is not any easy one for the Tribal community but the Council is committed to getting through it with diligence and compassion.

(GRANDE RONDE, OR) - The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde is conducting an enrollment audit. The audit fulfills one of the tasks assigned in the Tribal Strategic Plan for 2010, which was adopted in August of 2009. That plan was formulated after nearly two years of development that began with a Strategic Futures conference in 2007 involving Tribal leaders and members.

The plan directed Enrollment to audit all enrollment files and applications, track reasons for denials, and audit blood quantum records with the goal of strengthening the Grand Ronde Family Tree.

Preface: Hijacking The Holy Qur`an And Its Religion Islam - Muslims and Imperial Mobilization

The substance of these modern techniques of mind manipulation and behavior control is examined in the companion volume on Modernity.

(LOS ANGELES) - This book which you now hold in your hands, Hijacking The Holy Qur'an And Its Religion Islam – Muslims and Imperial Mobilization 1st Edition 2013, is a broad compendium of topics at the intersection of religion of Islam and political science. It is a case study in social engineering and is not intended as an advocacy of Islam. Volume I is abridged version.

This present compilation is broadly focused on demonstrating how the religion of Islam has systematically been misused for “imperial mobilization” and narrow self-interests, and how its singular scripture, the Holy Qur'an, has itself contributed to that state of affairs.

Knockout Game

"I was hit with one punch that knocked me to the cold concrete..." - Pennsylvania schoolteacher Jim Addlespurger

(CLEVELAND) - The "knockout game" is a dangerous trend popular among teens that holds dire consequences for innocent people that are targeted.

It involves knocking people out for the fun of it when they do not expect to be attacked. Women and children have been victims to this "prank" according to media reports.

Mass Disenrollment Hits the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde

“This isn’t just about me and my family. This is about the other 900 tribal members who will find a letter of potential disenrollment in their mailbox. This is about all of us,” - family spokesperson, Mia Prickett

(GRANDE RONDE, OR) - Up to 1,000 members (nearly 20% of the membership) of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde Community of Oregon will be receiving letters of potential disenrollment, resulting in what could be the largest termination of American Indian citizenship in United States history.

15 members of the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde have already been disenrolled, and 79 cases are pending the outcome of hearings scheduled for December.