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India and Pakistan: Breaking the ice?

Nuya Bidness — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:11:42 +0000

Here is a perfect example of the irresponsibility of scientists. The so called circumcision study has had to be called to an early end. The scientists in the study were purposely putting woman in direct contact to contract AIDS from known carriers. It started with very dubious research conducted by scientists with a nefarious agenda. In other words, they manipulated the data to reflect their desired outcome. By fabricating false data they have increased the spread of AIDS and put millions more at risk. All involved should be prosecuted for their crime and they should be made to compensate the people they so callously and cavalierly sentenced to death. This is some of the worst abuse of science since the Tuskegee Airman fiasco. If they had been working on a legitimate vaccine for the prevention of aids and had been acting in good faith, the study would never have been allowed, it should have never been allowed.

Frank Schaeffer: The Real Lesson Of Iran Beware Americas Republican Mullahs

Nuya Bidness — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:31:45 +0000

The Republicans are faulting President Obama for not taking a “strong enough stand” in support of the freedom marchers in Iran. Yet if the Republican/Religious Right/Neoconservative agenda had come to full fruition over the last 35 years the Republicans would have plunged America into our own version of the misbegotten theocracy destroying Iran today. I know. As a former Religious Right leader I worked to make America “safe” for “Christian values” and dangerous to everyone else. Thankfully I, and those like me, failed.

Had we succeeded America would be another version of Iran. Instead of people like James Dobson and Pat Robertson having become marginalized they’d be sitting in Washington advising whomever was the next Republican president. Instead of environmental protection and new mileage standards for cars there would be new anti-gay laws on the books.

What are the real lessons of Iran for the USA?

1) Don’t mix religion and politics.

2) Thank God for the separation of church and state.

3) The Republicans are utter hypocrites.

Until I got out of the religious right (in the mid-1980s) I was both a leader of the so-called pro-life movement and a part of a Republican Party hate machine masquerading as the moral conscience of America.

If the far right of the Republican Party and we of the Religious Right had had our way by now there would be a constitutional amendment and/or laws forcing prayer in schools, disenfranchising gay men and women, banning all abortions under penalty of death, banning gay men and women from serving in the military, launching a neoconservative led and religious right backed holy war against Islam, fixing Israel’s borders permanently to incorporate all the land taken in 1967 forever into a “Greater Israel” based on the “fact” that “God gave the Jews” the land “forever,” capital punishment would be used routinely to punish a variety of crimes including being gay, civil rights for blacks, women, gays, unions would be in retreat, and — other than enforcing “morality” - George W. Bush’s style of “free market” non-governance would be permanent.

The Bible bill? Yahoo! News

Nuya Bidness — Fri, 22 May 2009 14:15:23 +0000

Republicans are going to try to pray away all the damage that they have done to the country. When the clock strikes midnight on Dec. 31, 2009, Rep. Paul Broun (R-Ga.) hopes you’ll be ringing in “the Year of the Bible.”

More attempts by republicans to divide and conquer.

Corruption Undercuts U.S. Hope for Afghan Police

Nuya Bidness — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 10:09:39 +0000

Corruption in the Afghanistan government is so prevalent that the country is completely crippled. The American soldiers in charge of training the Afghan police force are frustrated at trying to bring law and order in a place where criminals run...