Recruiting in churches: Is this legal?

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Sunday April 17, 2005 · 3:11 PM PDT

2005/04/17 · 15:11

Please look at this young man's post, with pictures, of a "Men's Night Out" which was actually a recruiting effort at a fundamentalist church. I'm not sure what to say. I don't write diaries often at all but I wanted to let everyone know about this. Take a look. Recruiting in church

via Rigorous Intuition, which calls it 'sad' and 'disturbing' and I have to say it creeped me out.

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Standing up to Scaife: Jack Warne Carlton

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Thursday January 20, 2005 · 8:00 PM PST

2005/01/20 · 20:00

From Editor and Publisher

The date was October 10, 1973. Jack Carlton was the night copy editor at Tribune Review, owned by Richard Mellon Scaife.

After reading a wire service report on the Agnew resignation, a reporter at the Tribune-Review named Jude Dippold said, quite presciently, "One down and one to go." Of course, the "one to go" was President Richard Nixon, then embroiled in the Watergate scandal.

Word quickly got back to Scaife, who had purchased the paper four years earlier, and who had donated $1 million to Nixon's 1972 campaign against George McGovern. Two days later, Dippold was fired. The Columbia Journalism Review declared that the reason was that "his political views didn't mesh with editorial policy."

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Monday December 13, 2004 · 9:45 PM PST

2004/12/13 · 21:45

How does $7,000 a month and a European vacation every three months sound to you? This is what is being offered to 25 retired Colombian army and police officers to guard oil infrastructure in Iraq. via Kaleej Times Online

BOGOTA - A US company has recruited 25 retired Colombian police and army officers to provide security for oil infrastructure in Iraq, according to the newspaper El Tiempo.

According to an one of the men who spoke on condition of anonymity,

"On Friday, 16 Colombians will leave for Iraq with one-year contracts, renewable for six months," the source said. "In addition to the salary of 7,000 dollars, vacations in Europe every three months and life insurance were offered," he said.

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Wednesday December 08, 2004 · 11:49 PM PST

2004/12/08 · 23:49

Will this undercover operative soon be fair game?

A senior CIA operative who handled sensitive informants in Iraq asserts that CIA managers asked him to falsify his reporting on weapons of mass destruction and retaliated against him after he refused.

The operative, who remains under cover, asserts in a lawsuit made public yesterday that a co-worker warned him in 2001 "that CIA management planned to 'get him' for his role in reporting intelligence contrary to official CIA dogma."

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Homeless Iraq War Vets

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Tuesday December 07, 2004 · 11:51 PM PST

2004/12/07 · 23:51

We're seeing something I never thought I'd see again in my lifetime: a new generation of homeless veterans. What happens to them once they return home seems not to be anyone's priority, and they're living in their cars, on the streets, and in homeless shelters.
Via Iraq'd :
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GOP Using Multi-Pronged Strategy

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Sunday December 05, 2004 · 7:25 PM PST

2004/12/05 · 19:25

This tells of the GOP's efforts to bring all good men to the aid of their Party's Supreme Court nominees, whoever they may be.
Wouldn't it be nice if they actually did as much work preparing and planning for battle as they do for political gain?

Via PR Watch

The Hill reports on a "sophisticated, multipronged plan" to support whomever George Bush nominates to the Supreme Court, after the expected resignation of ailing Chief Justice William Rehnquist. The plan includes "pre-emptive" press releases, "to deflect liberal efforts to define the nominee," and public statements and floor speeches by Senate Republicans. Conservative groups are also involved; the Coalition for a Fair Judiciary "would handle grassroots work," and the Federalist Society "would provide substantive arguments for use in Senate and media debates." The "business community" is expected "to fund the communications campaign." On the other side, "People for the American Way and the Alliance for Justice are preparing a multimillion-dollar effort to publicize the [nominee's] record."

Kim Jong-Il cult coming to an end?

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Wednesday November 24, 2004 · 10:27 PM PST

2004/11/24 · 22:27

Kim Jong-Il
Pictures of the North Korean dictator are coming down, and badges with his picture are no longer worn.

The apparent downsizing of the Kim cult of personality has led to speculation that changes may be taking place in the power structure of the tightly controlled communist country.

Anda very interesting development :

North Korea wants urgently to restart six-party talks on its nuclear programs but is still demanding of its certain conditions be met, a top U.N. official told South Korea's Yonhap news agency on Thursday.

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Recruiting in churches: Is this legal?

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GOP Using Multi-Pronged Strategy

Kim Jong-Il cult coming to an end?