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		<title>Closing in on The Coming Antichrist</title>
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<p> <P>Even though the fascination with the identity of the Antichrist has been a major aspect of bible prophecy for hundreds of years, the twentieth and twenty first century has witnessed more focus on the end time Antichrist debate more than any other time primarily because the rise of the internet has created more exposure and access to information related to the development of the new world order than at any other time in history.</P><P>The &#8220;New <span id="more-9"></span>World Order&#8221; whilst a political term used by the likes of Barack Obama, Henry Kissinger and George Bush Senior, is a term with a more sinister meaning which at the heart involves the creation of a final socialist world government system that will full the biblical prophecy of a final world empire dictatorship that will enslave mankind into a demonic economic system called the Mark of the Beast.</P><P>Whilst there are literally countless interpretations of Daniel and Revelation&#8217;s end time prophecies there are 5 major categories of belief which have had a significant influence over biblical eschatology.</P><P>1. A EUROPEAN SUPER STATE</P><P>The traditional and classical view is that this final world empire will be a european super state, arising out of the European Union. Some of the world&#8217;s greatest prophecy scholars such as Dave Hunt, David Breese and the late John F Walvoord and Dwight Pentecost believed that this final empire would be a Revived Roman Empire according to the prophecies of Daniel.</P><P>David Breese one of the most respected end time researchers in decades comments on Europe&#8217;s plans to protect her interests. He says &#8220;Europe will immediately realise the necessity of developing a strong military establishment, an all European army to guard their overflowing coffers&#8230;&#8230;The second mission of a European military establishment must also be to protect the energy routes from the Middle East. A high percentage..nearly 100%&#8230;of the oil that heats and energises Europe comes from the oil rich lands of the countries surrounding the Persian Gulf. Should these supplies be threatened, all other considerations would need to be set aside in favour of guaranteeing the uninterrupted flow of Mid East oil. Without this, homes would become cold, automobiles would be parked by the curb, and the airplanes would no longer fly. The pipeline from the Middle East must always be held as a major consideration by the planners of Europe&#8217;s future.&#8221;. It is thus interesting to see that in July 2008, French president, Nicholas Sarkozy led the inauguration of the Mediterranean Union; an economic and trade union between the southern hemisphere nations of the European Union and the nations of North Africa and the Western side of the Middle East basin.</P><P>2. THE CLUB OF ROME MODEL</P><P>The modernist viewpoint is that the final world empire will consist of 10 bio regions (known as the Club of Rome model) in that the earth has been divided into blocs where the idea is that the national sovereignty of nations will be subject to a regional union. The 10 bioregions governed by 10 political leaders would then report to a supreme world leader as alluded to in Revelation 17:12-13.</P><P>Some of these regions it is believed already have been formed such as the European Union, the South American Union, the African Union and the Arab League. There is also presently recent controversy regarding the North American Union which is a supposed planned union between the United States, Canada and Mexico which will surpass the previous NAFTA agreements. Reports even suggest that there are plans to create a centralised currency across these 3 countries called the Amero which will replace all 3 national currencies.</P><P>3. AMERICA: GUARDIAN OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER</P><P>An alternative modernist view point is that America is the final world empire. Adherents of this viewpoint believe that the traditional view which places Europe as the primary power in the last days, has significant failings. They believe that the power of Freemasonry migrated from England to the United States and that the symbology on the American Dollar bill justifies this. Much of this view is also tied in with the interpretation of Revelation 18 description of a last days end time commercial Babylon which bears the hallmarks of the United States because of its military, political and commercial strength on the world stage.</P><P>Jack Van Impe, Stan Deyo, Tim Mchyde and others have championed this view that the last days commercial Babylon is not applicable to a literal rebuilding of the ancient city in Iraq as championed by Dr Charles Dwyer or the seven hilled city of Rome as mentioned by Dave Hunt in his book &#8220;A Woman Rides the Beast&#8221;, but symbolic of the world greatest super power, the United States.</P><P>4. AN ISLAMIC ECONOMIC AND MILITARY ALLIANCE</P><P>A more recent view which is enjoying a significant amount of coverage is the belief that the Antichrist and his empire will be a confederation of Islamic nations led by the long awaited Islamic Madhi. This view championed by Rodrigo Silva and Joel Richardson author of &#8220;Antichrist: Islam&#8217;s Awaited Messiah&#8221; is based on reviewing Islamic prophetical teachings known as &#8220;hadith&#8221; which refer to the final coming of the Al-Madhi (a return of Jesus Christ) to overthrow the Al-Dajaal (a Syrian/Jewish Antichrist) and establish a new world Islamic order. Scholars who hold to the islamic view believe that the biblical final world empire will be an Islamic confederation which will use its significant oil reserves as a secret weapon to bring the world economy crashing down under Islamic domination.</P><P>5. THE VATICAN AND THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH</P><P>Finally, there is the traditional medieval view that the Antichrist is linked to the Roman Catholic Church and Jesuit order. This view which was born out of the persecution of the early reformers by Rome even today has significant appeal. Malachi Martins book the &#8220;The Keys to this Blood&#8221; is one of the best documented insights into the Vatican&#8217;s struggle for world supremacy and the internal state of the Roman Catholic Church with a specific split amongst high ranking clergy between those holding onto the historical teachings of the apostles and the early church fathers, and those who wish for many of the church&#8217;s teachings to be changed under new liberal new age philosophies which encompass a universalist religion unification ideal.</P><P>The discussion over the Antichrist identity is even more heated with the outright bizarre of beliefs to the most sophisticated. History has seen many labelled the Antichrist such as Roman Emperor Nero, Charlemagne King of the Holy Roman Empire, Napoleon Bonaparte, Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler, and within in recent times, Henry Kissinger, Mikhail Gorbachev, Pope John Paul II, Saddam Hussein, Vladimir Putin, King Juan Carlos of Spain, Karl Von Habsburg of the Habsburg Dynasty, Javier Solana of the European Union, Prince Charles of Wales and more recently and controversially, Barack Obama.</P><P>Does the Bible as well as the secular New World Order publications shed any light on who the Antichrist will be? What will be his lineage? European, Muslim, Jewish, Merovingian stock etc.</P><P>The understanding and interpretation of prophecy can be be enhanced with the analysis of secular documentation such as the new age bible &#8220;The Keys of Enoch&#8221; and other heavy weight illuminati inspired epistles such as Alice Bailey&#8217;s &#8220;Externalisation of the Hierarchy&#8221; and the Masonic writings of Albert Pike in &#8220;Morals and Dogma&#8221; .</P><P>It is within these materials that the true nature of the coming final world empire will be revealed which will provide significant clarity to the debate.<BR /></P> <!--more--> <H3>Watch the video related to Socialist Scholar</H3>
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<p>University of Iceland on the Tyranny of the Status Quo. He participated in a lively television debate on August 31, 1984 with leading socialist intellectuals, including President Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson. When they complained that a fee was charged for attending his lecture at the University and that hitherto, lectures by visiting scholars had been free-of-charge, Friedman replied that previous lectures had not been free-of-charge in a meaningful sense: Lectures always have related costs. &#8230;  <H3>Help answer the question about Socialist Scholar</H3>Can we all agree that the key to being successful is to surround yourself with knowledgeable people?<br />You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time</p>
<p>Radical and Socialist Influences:</p>
<p>Saul Alinsky<br />
Bill Ayers<br />
Carl Davidson<br />
Frank Marshall Davis<br />
Democratic Socialists of America<br />
Bernardine Dohrn<br />
Gamaliel Foundation<br />
New Party<br />
Socialist Scholars Conference</p>
<p>Political Allies and Advisors:</p>
<p>Ali Abunimah<br />
Mohamed Salim Al-Churbaji<br />
David Axelrod<br />
Gregg Craig<br />
Jim Johnson<br />
Marilyn Katz<br />
Anthony Lake<br />
Robert Malley<br />
Alice Palmer<br />
Eli Pariser<br />
George Soros<br />
Cass Sunstein<br />
Dorothy Tillman<br />
Joyce Wheeler<br />
Tim Wheeler</p>
<p>Religious Affiliations:</p>
<p>Louis Farrakan<br />
Rev. Joseph Lowery<br />
James Meeks<br />
Rev. Otis Moss<br />
Rev. Michael Pfleger<br />
Rev. Al Sharpton<br />
Jim Wallis<br />
Rev. Jeremiah Wright</p>
<p>Organizational Affiliations:</p>
<p>ACORN<br />
Arab American Action Network<br />
Davis, Miner, Barnhill &amp; Galland, P.C.<br />
International Crisis Group<br />
MoveOn<br />
National Council of La Raza<br />
Planned Parenthood Federation of America<br />
Project Vote<br />
Sojourners</p>
<p>Academic Affiliations:</p>
<p>Rashid Khalidi<br />
Edward Said<br />
Cornel West </p>
<p>Foundations:</p>
<p>Joyce Foundation<br />
Woods Fund of Chicago</p>
<p>Money Scandals:</p>
<p>Nadhmi Auchi<br />
Robert Blackwell, Jr.<br />
Tony Rezko</p>
<p>Family:</p>
<p>Michelle Obama<br />
Raila Odinga<br />
mr_cj_jr: Wow ruffle your feathers? All of those on the list support and endorse Obama, does the truth hurt?<br />
Mr. CJ: &quot;Edit: No you didn&#039;t. But, you made yourself look foolish by turning my question into something negative.&quot; So you are finally admitting that those names on the list are negative, thanks for agreeing<br />
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<p>Reece Woodstock was one of the main researchers who contributed to the release of the Antichrist Identity Report in 2008. <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.theantichristidentity.com"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.theantichristidentity.com">http://www.theantichristidentity.com</a></a></p>
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What is art? There exists not one but hundreds of definitions of art offered by renowned artists, scholars, and philosophers throughout the ages. Considered literally, art refers to any specialized skill, or human activities encompassing a wide range of fields like literature, music, painting, or sculpting. It’s the end but not the means that constitutes [...]]]></description>
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<p>What is art? There exists not one but hundreds of definitions of art offered by renowned artists, scholars, and philosophers throughout the ages. Considered literally, art refers to any specialized skill, or human activities encompassing a wide range of fields like literature, music, painting, or sculpting. It’s the end but not the means that constitutes the success of art. A lot many artists believe in the cult of art for art’s sake. Howe<span id="more-10"></span>ver, this function of art has been subjected to severe criticism by some of the noted scholars of the late 19th century who believed in the instructional quality of art. To them, art existed not just for aesthetic pleasure but was also associated with the purpose of converting the mind into a particular trend of thought. </p>
<p>Theories abound as to the true purpose of art. Whether didactic or aesthetic, there is no denying that art casts its influence on the observer’s mind. Times have changed and with it, artistry has undergone multiple changes too. If Romanticism and Classicism influenced art works of yester years, it is Realism, Impressionism, Fauvism, Dadaism, and Surrealism that have laid their impact on contemporary art. No wonder, contemporary art is distinctly different from the art works of earlier generations. </p>
<p>The fields encompassing contemporary art remains the same even today but its essence has been infused with modernity. As in earlier times, contemporary art too covers the fields of music, painting, sculpting, literature, to name a few. New styles along with an eagerness for experimentation have found greater expression in contemporary art works. However in case of paintings, there often crops up a dilemma as to symbols represented on the canvas. Contemporary paintings often appear complex to the common eye, a fact often relished by some of the distinguished artists.  </p>
<p>Nevertheless, the revival of some of the Asian art forms of China and Vietnam has breathed a fresh lease of life into the contemporary art scenario. Contemporary art exhibitions featuring some of the masterpieces of Oriental art are being widely appreciated by art connoisseurs across the world. The impact of Socialist Realism and the New Culture Movement is pretty evident in the oil paintings by Chinese artists.  Not just China, but Vietnam too, has soaked up the western influence of Impressionism into its cultural fabric. A lot many of Vietnamese paintings depict the daily, simple world of the villages as observed through the human eye. The Vietnamese painter, Nguyen Thanh Binh, is renowned for using human element in all his canvases. Nonetheless, the influence of the Romantics does not lag behind. Paintings portraying the beauty of autumn, the green fields, the lotus pool abound.</p>
<p>Notwithstanding the influence of Oriental art on its western counterpart, there can be no denying the impact of the latter on the former.  In fact, both these diverse art forms have imbibed features of each other. The French Impressionist and Viennese art nouveau have been chiefly influenced by Japanese prints. The history of Japan post 19th century, has cast an impression not only on visual arts but on European ceramics as well.  </p>
<p>This intermingling of existing art traditions has thus given way to further innovations in the contemporary art scenario. Herein crops up avenues for the birth of new art genres with fresh appeal. This would certainly not deter people from admiring the older art forms. As a matter of fact, <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.vietnamartist.com">contemporary art</a> has been and will be constantly inspired by their masters.  </p>
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<p>University of Iceland on the Tyranny of the Status Quo. He participated in a lively television debate on August 31, 1984 with leading socialist intellectuals, including President Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson. When they complained that a fee was charged for attending his lecture at the University and that hitherto, lectures by visiting scholars had been free-of-charge, Friedman replied that previous lectures had not been free-of-charge in a meaningful sense: Lectures always have related costs. &#8230;  <H3>Help answer the question about Socialist Scholar</H3>How do people rationalize and excuse Obama?<br />and the radical associates he&#039;s had?  He&#039;s running for President of the United States!  Google Obama and any of these radicals below.  Come on people!  How can he have fooled so many???</p>
<p>Radical and Socialist Influences:</p>
<p>Saul Alinsky<br />
Bill Ayers<br />
Carl Davidson<br />
Frank Marshall Davis<br />
Democratic Socialists of America<br />
Bernardine Dohrn<br />
Gamaliel Foundation<br />
New Party<br />
Socialist Scholars Conference</p>
<p>Political Allies and Advisors:</p>
<p>Ali Abunimah<br />
Mohamed Salim Al-Churbaji<br />
David Axelrod<br />
Gregg Craig<br />
Jim Johnson<br />
Marilyn Katz<br />
Anthony Lake<br />
Robert Malley<br />
Alice Palmer<br />
Eli Pariser<br />
George Soros<br />
Cass Sunstein<br />
Dorothy Tillman<br />
Joyce Wheeler<br />
Tim Wheeler</p>
<p>Religious Affiliations:</p>
<p>Louis Farrakan<br />
Rev. Joseph Lowery<br />
James Meeks<br />
Rev. Otis Moss<br />
Rev. Michael Pfleger<br />
Rev. Al Sharpton<br />
Jim Wallis<br />
Rev. Jeremiah Wright</p>
<p>Organizational Affiliations:</p>
<p>ACORN<br />
Arab American Action Network<br />
Davis, Miner, Barnhill &amp; Galland, P.C.<br />
International Crisis Group<br />
MoveOn<br />
National Council of La Raza<br />
Planned Parenthood Federation of America<br />
Project Vote<br />
Sojourners</p>
<p>Academic Affiliations:</p>
<p>Rashid Khalidi<br />
Edward Said<br />
Cornel West </p>
<p>Foundations:</p>
<p>Joyce Foundation<br />
Woods Fund of Chicago</p>
<p>Money Scandals:</p>
<p>Nadhmi Auchi<br />
Robert Blackwell, Jr.<br />
Tony Rezko</p>
<p>Proof???</p>
<p>GOOGLE +Obama [any of the above]</p>
<p>I know it&#039;s the internet, and there are a lot of toolbag bloggers out there.  But open your eyes!  This guy is Mr Socialist to a T!  Throw in some racism and anti-Americanism and pro-terrorism and it is a bad combination.</p>
<p>No wonder Bush won twice with the losers the Dems come up with!<br />
I predict this question will not last a day before the Lib censors get it pulled to protect their chosen one.<br />
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<p>Suzanne Macguire is an Internet marketing professional with keen interest in contemporary art and the role of the renowned Vietnam artist <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.vietnamartist.com">Do Duy Tuan</a> in the field of Vietnamese painting.</p>
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In painting world there are so many styles that are very popular. But before giving an account of different popular styles we need to know what the term “style” means. In fact, there is not any certain definition of “style”. It may be understood in the aesthetic terms as what to paint or which physical [...]]]></description>
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<p>In painting world there are so many styles that are very popular. But before giving an account of different popular styles we need to know what the term “style” means. In fact, there is not any certain definition of “style”. It may be understood in the aesthetic terms as what to paint or which physical technique implied in painting. Aesthetic movements like realism, romanticism and impressionism belong to this explanation of style. To <span id="more-15"></span>further understand it, we may say that style is said to be the ways an artist paints and applies colors and texture. The perspective and the way in which an artist looks at the things visible and invisible characterize his or her style.</p>
<p>Scholarly discourse on style has given more technical term “movement” or “school” to which an artist can be associated with. Inclusion of an artist to certain school or movement may be done by the deliberate affiliation of the artist to such movement or by the art historians. </p>
<p>Some of the popular painting styles are discussed under following heads:</p>
<p>Constructivism: This movement had started in Russia in the wake of socialism. It was not purely an art but was a fusion of art and architecture. This movement was principal inspiration in raising many socialist establishments in Russia after the October revolution. Constructivism was on high in the period between 1919 to 1934. The chief proponents of this style of art were Alexander Rodcheckno, Liubov Popava, Vladimir Tatlin and Olga rozanova.</p>
<p>Fauvism: This is painting style in which proponents believed in the use of color as a massive emotional force. This style was marked by expression of feelings in colors with severe roughness and clumsiness. The use of simplified lines to expressively reveal the subject and theme of the painting was also used to be the attempt of the artists. They preferred spontaneity and freshness over the finish in any work of art. Pioneer of this art style was Gustave Moreau.</p>
<p>Classicism: This term refers to the paintings style employed by the ancient Roman and Greek painters. Classicism is characterized by the simplicity and adherence to the basic rules and principles of painting. This art style is refined and elegant, disciplined by order and symmetry. Classicism is unique style which does not encourage self expression and individuality. Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael and Mantegna were the painters who tried to imitate this ancient style of art.</p>
<p>Besides, there are so many other styles and schools which are significant and have expressed different thoughts and subjects of the self and society in a unique way. Noteworthy of them are- abstract art, aboriginal art, aestheticism, art brut, art nouveau, baroque, Byzantine art, cubism, dada, dragging, encaustic, paintings, expressionism, gothic paintings, impressionism, mannerism, marbling, minimalism, modernism, neoclassicism, orientalism, primitivism, ragging &#038; stippling, realism, spattering, surrealism, symbolism, theorem paintings and wood graining.</p>
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<p>US Embassy in Bolivia Tells Fulbright Scholar and Peace Corps Volunteers to Spy on Venezuelans and Cubans in BoliviaAn American Fulbright scholar and Peace Corps volunteers in Bolivia say the US embassy told them to spy on Venezuelans and Cubans in Bolivia. We go to Bolivia to speak with the Fulbright scholar Alexander van Schaick and Jean Friedman-Rudovsky, the reporter who broke the story for ABC News. [includes rush transcript] &#8230; bolivia venezuela us bush oil chavez socialism democracy now &#8230;  <H3>Help answer the question about Socialist Scholar</H3>What do you think about this statement on Obama? Read the whole statement and then answer.?<br />Barack Obama first appeared on the national political scene as a uniter with hope and promise in his words. In 2004 when he gave his now-famous keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention, Americans saw Obama emerge as someone special and unique. He was young and oozed poise and charisma. Without a doubt, the Democrat Party had their future presidential candidate in its sights.</p>
<p>Today, the Democrat National Party is stuck with nothing more than a leftist ideologue politician who uses empty words to astound those who sought after him.<br />
Obama has lost his &quot;Angel of Light&quot; status, and he will never get it back. Today we see the Senator for what he is, a Marxist socialist with ties to highly questionable people. By November he will not be electable.</p>
<p>It is obvious that Obama welcomed Rev. Jeremiah Wright into his personal and professional life as long as it was politically expedient. Indeed, he sought to have him there. Americans are not so naive as to fail to notice that certain cast members in the Obama drama life were Wright&#039;s doing. The Reverend knows who is who in Chicago, and he opened doors for his highly-talented prodigy.</p>
<p>Obama&#039;s close business affiliation with Tony Rezko, now on trial for corruption, is just the tip of the iceberg. Then there is William Ayers &quot;I don&#039;t regret setting the bombs&quot; In a most perverse twist of fate, we have a radical home grown terrorist who should be behind prison bars to this day. Instead, he is a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Amazing! Yet Obama claims to know less about Ayers than he did Wright.</p>
<p>During the campaign we&#039;ve become privy to quite a few things we did not know about Obama. It is enough to conclude that he is not made of presidential timber. Americans ought to be opened-minded, but we must be informed as well.</p>
<p>Mr. Goodbar (in this case, Mr. Obama) had people fainting at his campaign events. What happened to their messianic figure? Looking for the wrong kinda love in the wrong places; like in the movie, Democrats have wound up dancing with the devil.</p>
<p>Barack Obama&#039;s image was created by the media and based solely on his charisma. We have now seen enough of this elitist counterfeit to draw an educated conclusion: The real Obama can be known through the words of his bigoted, anti-American ex-pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright.</p>
<p>Wright did us all a huge favor by making appearances throughout this past week. He provided us insight into the mind of Barack Obama. Through the personage of Wright, Americans have come face-to-face with the man who wants to become President. There is nothing left to ponder. America gets it. The heart of the suave, charming and well-spoken senator from Chicago is as twisted as the man who spiritually damaged Obama (and countless others) beyond repair.</p>
<p>In the midst of all this political disarray, Hillary Clinton will be tossed aside to satisfy the base of the Democrat Party. If Obama does not emerge the winner at the DNC Convention, Al Sharpton will conduct another Million Man March. Heaven forbid&#8230;</p>
<p>Be warned, however! Do not forget Rev. Wright&#039;s words: He will heckle and dog Obama throughout the entire campaign; should he win the Oval Office in November, Wright has promised to make matters even worse.</p>
<p>Obama betrayed his followers, clinging to the worst side of human nature, harboring hate and bigotry behind the facade of an attractive, promising personality. He can denounce Wright to Kingdom Come, but people will never trust the man again.</p>
<p>For 20 years, Barack Obama sat in a church were Black Liberation theology was preached and practiced. It is not Christianity, but Marxism with Holy Scripture tossed in here and there to make hate speech sound like the language of a noble mission.</p>
<p>&quot;The goals of BT are to turn religion into sociology, Christianity into a political agenda, Jesus into a black Marxist rebel, and the gospel into violent revolution. They are more interested in politics than preaching the gospel.&quot;</p>
<p>From The Truth About Black Liberal Theology — Dr. Robert A. Morey, an internationally-recognized scholar in the fields of theology and apologetics, 1994.</p>
<p>Obama stayed at Trinity United Church for two decades without denouncing what he heard and witnessed. By doing and saying nothing, he allowed Rev. Wright&#039;s demeaning and tragic conduct to continue before his little girls and wife, the latter of whom adopted notions that America was a bad country.</p>
<p>Where, is this man who would take on the ultimate responsibility for all of America&#039;s citizens, was the protection and concern for his own precious family? If Obama had been a dutiful father and husband, he would have sheltered them from such bitterness and corruptive hatred.</p>
<p>Why did Obama permit Wright to taint the spirit of his immediate family and fill their minds with hateful thoughts regarding people who were not of color? Obama&#039;s cold and calculating actions (and inactions) were rites of passage within Chicago&#039;s left<br />
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Chinese oil paintings since the beginning of the fall, and &#8220;realism&#8221; and &#8220;realist painting&#8221; has a natural link, or from a certain sense, the beginning of the period of Chinese oil paintings is the &#8220;realist painting.&#8221; Chinese oil painting in the way of development, &#8220;realism&#8221; and &#8220;realist painting&#8221; has [...]]]></description>
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<p>Chinese oil paintings since the beginning of the fall, and &#8220;realism&#8221; and &#8220;realist painting&#8221; has a natural link, or from a certain sense, the beginning of the period of Chinese oil paintings is the &#8220;realist painting.&#8221; Chinese oil painting in the way of development, &#8220;realism&#8221; and &#8220;realist painting&#8221; has always been associated with it. </p>
<p>     Chinese oil paintings and the history of<span id="more-8"></span> the development of China&#8217;s social and cultural development, changes in the history closely linked, it is accompanied by a knowledge of Western and other natural and cultural knowledge to enter China. The starting point for the development of Chinese oil paintings, is well documented from the Ming Dynasty in Ningbo, Zhejiang Jiajingnianjian the Portuguese in the establishment of the Hong Kong Trade Shuangyu base, the painting will bring this art form in China. Later in the Wanlinianjian (European Renaissance painting at this time is an important period in the history of the development), due to religious reasons, the Italian missionary Matteo Ricci to a painting of God, Our Lady of the paintings to China. According to records, the 1610 Tour Wen-hui&#8217;s &#8220;portrait of Matteo Ricci&#8221; has realistic approach, clearly the relationship between brightness, which can be deduced, You Wenhui of China earlier study and practice of European oil paintings. To the Qing Dynasty, many Western missionaries for the court is satisfied that, with the Qing Emperor Kangxi in Beijing between the missionaries and Gongtinghuashi Lang Shining as the representative, he worked in China, the life of 51, after Emperor Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong three dynasties . He used the Western oil painting concepts to the performance of the Chinese characters &#8220;Xiangfeirongzhuang map&#8221;, opened a real painting with Chinese content of the precedent. Some scholars believe that this also is China&#8217;s realist painting &#8220;The first map.&#8221; The development of early Chinese oil paintings are generally three ways, first missionary to preach the culture, and second, followed by the court to accommodate the culture of painting, and the third is in the cultural and economic exchanges in the &#8220;civil painting.&#8221; Chinese oil paintings start from the beginning with &#8220;realism&#8221; style. Some scholars from the Guangdong exported start painting on that Guangdong is the birthplace of Chinese oil paintings, where you can find Chinese realist painting at the initial start of the cultural and artistic works. Some scholars from the Shanghai Museum soil Hill Bay Exploration focus on painting, oil painting that China&#8217;s modern master Xu Yong-ching, Ding stunning, ZHOU Xiang, Zhang Hui charge, Zhang Yuguang, such as Ren Bonian, &#8220;have received here in Western art education . Territories Bay Hill painting in the Museum, is the court in the northern West painting interrupted,&#8221;the Guangzhou coastal export oil painting after painting&#8221;in the re-rise of China and Turkey. Although the time across a century, but the history of Shanghai has once again chosen to Western painting East wind of a historic turn for the better, but also laid the future Shanghai will become the basis of a major Chinese oil paintings. &#8220;Soil Bay Hill Museum paintings produced sculptures, practice painting, oil painting and home-made paints, specialized manual sketching, realistic atmosphere rich, To become &#8220;China&#8217;s cradle of Western painting.&#8221; Chinese oil painting in the process of development, Transocean Xunmeng, gains Western Modernist painting of the first practice, also gains the Lingqi realist painting, mechanical Moreover, the two can not be separated. &#8220;Westernization Movement&#8221; to promote Chinese painting in the spread of emerging art education has driven the rise of realism style. The rise of Western painting groups also promote the development of China&#8217;s realist painting. Founded in Shanghai in 1915&#8217;s &#8220;Oriental Art&#8221; in the form of groups to promote the spread of Western painting, to promote a scientific attitude to artistic creation, to stand as the main means of painting, drawing Dan Gaoxiang take into account indoor and outdoor paint, and actively promote outdoor Painting, further carry forward the style of realism. After the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War, Chinese oil paintings into a tortuous and difficult period of development. This &#8220;difficult&#8221; and the people&#8217;s suffering, linked to national survival. Is the most significant artists, in particular, a number of important artists in this period of adversity, in the baptism of war, inspired by passion, real life experience to the suffering and national disaster, in-depth, experience in the rear shoulder Anti-Japanese National Salvation of the great historical mission, this generation of artists in the blood flow to the country and the nation&#8217;s destiny, art and life of passion, and the development of Chinese oil paintings were integrated into the subjects of great practical and enhanced the art of profound practical significance. </p>
<p>After new China was founded, the reality of the revolution consciously become the mainstream of Chinese painting art, artists, &#8220;as the keynote optimism to the revolution, depicting the revolutionary war and socialist construction in the history of life thriving scene. Uncertainties, accurate and powerful, many Painter common pursuit of the arts realm. &#8220;Realist realistic painting was exceptional conditions have been greatly developed. 1955, the Ministry of Culture decided to organize the Central Academy of Fine Arts oil painting courses, employing Soviet the teaching oil painting. courses taught sketching teaching system, students focus on improving the basis for sketching and modeling capability, that art comes from life, to encourage students observe the life and works of attention to the social function, the requirements reflect the fiery creation of real life, and guide students to Themes and topics of the master plot of concern. There is no doubt that this course actively promote the development of China&#8217;s realist painting, after training a group of Chinese oil painting industry active in the backbone. Of course, after training in the arts reflect on this practice, there are experts believe the other hand, sketching their teaching methods &#8220;and not a sketch of China&#8217;s experience in teaching the integration of China&#8217;s sketch of teaching methods and style of the sketch based on a single. &#8220;In subsequent years, advocates of revolution and revolutionary realism, the combination of romanticism, political and artistic standard, facing the reality of China through ups and realist painting, distort, to reflect on the years and rational thinking. During a return to the reality of the &#8220;native intelligence&#8221;, advocated by honest approach to the grim portrait of life, to the performance of simple theme Native revealed living in difficult environment in the people&#8217;s heat and warmth of the noble dignity. During a realist painting of China&#8217;s serious reflection, in summing up both positive and negative lessons for China on the basis of realistic painting of the new knowledge and new exploration. After the seemingly silent and variables, the Chinese contemporary realist painting is still active, being mature. &#8220;This door&#8221;origin&#8221;in the growing depletion of the art form has been dissolved in Chinese people&#8217;s aesthetic habits, renewable pleasing to the Chinese oil paintings. Realist painters who are not in order to make an example, it inadvertently to the contemporary Fufan Art presents a necessary accomplishment: To master a kind of art form, is bound to a long-term extraordinary efforts. &#8221; </p>
<p>Realist painting walked all the way, hastened the birth of modern Western art of the genre, in the time of the birth of Chinese oil paintings, but also a realist deep zone de Patinagem de traces the art of oil painting. Or that Chinese oil paintings come out in time, undoubtedly have the impression of Western painting and after all the art schools affected, but in essence said that the Chinese oil painting at the starting time of the basic characteristics of a &#8220;realist painting.&#8221; China&#8217;s realist painting of Faren and foreign missionaries preaching the culture is closely linked to that of imported Western painting is not only oil paintings, watercolors, copper engraving, and other kinds of painting, the study of Chinese oil paintings of realism started to explore the introduction of Western art, Depend on a variety of types of art painting and its artistic spirit. The study of Chinese realist painting, but also explore the Westernization Movement, Restoration Reform Movement, the New Culture Movement and other Chinese political and cultural development background, when Kang Youwei Although the history of Western painting there were misreading, but the realism of the Western oil paintings still have problems Insights, in his &#8220;Travels 11 countries in Europe,&#8221; Rafael praised the painting as &#8220;T Yi Yi Miao, lively, more Rao Yun Xiang, Cheng Yi also God,&#8221; and &#8220;show its health-Yun, who must have independence &#8220;And&#8221; far from angry, Shenmiao forced true, the name is true also, &#8220;These kind words are&#8221; realistic. &#8221; Kang Youwei respected realist &#8220;classic&#8221; and his words deep. Chen Duxiu in the &#8220;art of revolution &#8211; by Lu Zheng,&#8221; also said, &#8220;the painter must be realistic, and be able to play to their talent, painting their paintings, ancient Kejiu not charged.&#8221; Chen Duxiu on the &#8220;art revolution&#8221; And &#8220;realism&#8221; and &#8220;spirit of realism,&#8221; the idea of the May 4th Movement in the new culture of science, carry forward the spirit of democracy have had a profound impact. Chinese oil paintings in the development process, from time to time there are &#8220;local&#8221; and &#8220;outside,&#8221; the academic struggles and the &#8220;local&#8221; to the advent of Chinese oil paintings dating back over 2,000 years ago with Oil for painting pottery patterns. Academic issues can still explore. And the general sense, of &#8220;realism oil paintings and Chinese oil painting&#8221;, often starting in the cultural missionaries to preach. Of course, in recent years, there are writings discussed how the evolution of classical realist painting to contemporary &#8220;as a new&#8221; painting, which involves China should advance with the times realist painting of a problem.</p>
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<p>She earned her bachelor&#8217;s degree at University of Tennessee, a JD from Harvard Law School, and bachelors and masters degrees at Balliol College, Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. She was the first woman to serve as president of the student body at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. &#8230; &#8220;rhodes scholar&#8221; &#8220;universal health care&#8221; communist commnism socialist socialism nationalization nau &#8220;north american union&#8221; cfr spp commmunist communism obama clinton bush globalist &#8220;nancy-ann min &#8230;  <H3>Help answer the question about Socialist Scholar</H3>Would you invite and welcome the following to your home?<br />Radical and Socialist Influences:</p>
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<p>Global Warming is hailed as the new cause for this generation to fight against, to unite us all to save the world from. But is this a genuine threat to our world or is this just another scientific fad that is being over popularized by the media. In my opinion the only thing getting hotter is the rhetoric. Today the theory of global warming is taught much the same way that the theory of evolution has been taught; from the basis that it is an ac<span id="more-11"></span>cepted fact, not just one of many scientific theories. The main figurehead of the global warming movement is widely recognized as former Vice President Al Gore, who gained notoriety for his docudrama <em>An Inconvenient Truth</em>.  This article will address not only the alleged facts of the film, but also the motivations behind the making of this film and the blatant hypocrisy that is Al Gore.</p>
<p>Global warming has little to do with saving the planet, and much more to do with controlling the population through taxation and fees. The cornerstone of the global warming argument is a report published in 1995 by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (I.P.C.C.), supported by over 2,500 scientists it reports that the global warming we are seeing today may not be natural. Governments around the globe have referenced this report to guide policy affecting everything from our use of “fossil fuels” to taxes and fees. In the United Kingdom “green taxes” have been imposed netting the government over £21.9 billion in revenues in 2005. (Watson, 2007)  The State of California has added an $11.00 per-year fee on registering late model cars, trucks, and SUV’s. This fee is in order to fund “alternative fuel research” with 17 Million new cars sold in California each year and the law affecting cars over six years old or newer. Now California stands to make billons in new revenue thanks to the global warming hysteria. This hysteria is supported by the weather, according to the alarmist if it is unseasonably warm; it’s because of global warming, if it’s too cold that’s global warming too. Hurricanes, tornados, earth quakes, and all other natural occurring acts of nature have all been tied to global warming according to the doomsters. Radicals like Al Gore would like to raise energy prices so high that many of Americas working poor would not be able to afford at in the winter, when pressed on this real issue his response is “It’s going to save you money, and it’s going to make the economy stronger.” (Shogren, 2007) Global Warming is more about expanding governmental powers, then saving the world.</p>
<p>In the 1970’s the scientific consensus was that the world was quickly being plunged into a new ice age Time and Newsweek magazines printed articles about the impending ice age that was going to freeze the majority of the United States and Europe. Newsweek’s story <em>The cooling world</em> published in April 1975 was urging governments to start long term economic planning and stockpiling of supplies.  The alarmists point out how thousands died in a heat wave in France and blame global warming caused by human accelerated climate change as the reason for this tragedy. However, climate change was not cited when a cold snap killed 25,000 people in the UK soon after (Monckton, 2007). In a span of thirty years, the world has gone from an impending ice age to a state of global warming. A recent article in National Geographic magazine points out that 36 million years ago the earth was far hotter than our current temperatures (Shea, 2008). The preachers of the new faith of climate change seem to forget the fact that the earth has historic patterns of warm and cold cycles, not brought on by man.</p>
<p>Al Gore and other alarmists are profiting both politically and financially from the creation of the global warming catastrophe, and what of this scientific consensus. If you read the book or watch the film <em>An Inconvenient Truth,</em> you would think that all scientists agree that the world is warming. However many have rejected the idea Indeed, many scientists now say that there has been no discernible human effect on temperature at all (Monckton, 2007) .</p>
<p>The much quoted I.P.C.C. report and the backbone of the Global Warming religion shows a total increase of just 0.6 degrees in the entire 20th century.  The fact is that the entire globe is not rising at a steady temperature; regions of the world are actually cooling. Greenland has cooled at a much faster rate, and at a shorter time period then the I.P.C.C. reported rise of 0.6 degrees. Cooling at a rate of 2.2 degrees per decade since measurements started in 1987, Greenland may be the most compelling evidence that there is some form of clement change happening unfortunately for Al Gore it is trending in the wrong direction (Petr Chylek, 2004).</p>
<p>In my opinion, the best evidence that global warming is more about creating hysteria and revenue generation is that there are countless intellectuals, scholars, and politicians that have compelling evidence against global warming, and they are not selling DVD’s.   “The best evidence supporting natural causes of temperature fluctuations are the changes in cloudiness, which correspond strongly with regular variations in solar activity. The current warming is likely part of a natural cycle of climate warming and cooling that’s been traced back almost a million years. It accounts for the Medieval Warm Period around 1100 A.D., when the Vikings settled Greenland and grew crops, and the Little Ice Age, from about 1400 to 1850 A.D., which brought severe winters and cold summers to Europe, with failed harvests, starvation, disease, and general misery” (Singer, 2007)</p>
<p>Dr. John Christy, professor of Atmospheric Science at the University of Alabama at Huntsville said: &#8220;I remember as a college student at the first Earth Day being told it was certain that by the year 2000, the world would be starving and out of energy. Such doomsday prophecies grabbed headlines, but have proven to be completely false&#8221; (Stossel, 2007).</p>
<p>The United Nations I.P.C.C. report  according to Gore says that “The vast majority of scientists agree that global warming is real, it’s already happening and that it is the result of our activities and not a natural occurrence. “ However when you read the report it says that a group of scientists stated that “this era of global warming is unlikely to be entirely natural in origin” (I.P.C.C., 1995).  But what does Al Gore have to gain from this manipulation? Power, fame, influence, what sparked Al Gore to become the environmentalist? It was not his love of nature, and clean technology.</p>
<p>Al Gore has been profiting from the environment for a number of years, as matter of fact his family has a long history of working with the environment. Most of it has been extracting oil and minerals out of the ground, while destroying the surrounding environment he loves so dearly. The Gore family trust has owned as much as a quarter of a million to one million dollar in Occidental Oil Company stock (Silverstein, 2000). “Nowhere is Al Gore&#8217;s environmental hypocrisy more glaring than when it comes to his relationship with Occidental (petroleum). While on the one hand talking tough about his &#8220;big oil&#8221; opponents and waxing poetic about indigenous peoples in his 1992 book &#8220;<em>Earth in the Balance</em>,&#8221; the Elk Hills sale and other deals show that money has always been more important to Al Gore than ideals.”  Elk Hills is tied to the most famous bribery scandal in U.S. history, the Tea Pot Dome Scandal of 1922. Tea Pot Dome was the name of one of the oil fields that Albert Fall was bribed into leasing to Pan-American Petroleum (the company now known as ARCO), the other was Elk Hills. “Gore succeeded where Albert Fall failed in selling the Navy’s 47,000 acre reserve to Occidental Oil 75 years later; giving Occidental an 87 percent increase in the first quarter of 1997 and causing the Gore family stock to sky rocket” (Mesler, 2000).</p>
<p>While Al Gore and his cronies tell Americans and the world that conservation is the key to slowing global warming; he and his wife live in a 10,000-square foot home in Nashville, Tennessee, this home consumes 20 times the energy of an average American home (Williams, 2007).  Al Gore also maintains a 4,000-square-foot residence in Arlington, VA, and a third home in Carthage Tenn. (home of the families Zinc mine). “While there are green energy programs in both Tennessee and Virginia that cost just a few extra pennies per kilowatt hour, public records show that Gore has yet to sign any of his properties up for such programs. Gore seems have failed at even convincing his own party to go green as the Democratic National Committee also has yet to pay the additional two pennies a kilowatt hour (as of 2006)” (Schweizer, 2006).</p>
<p>The Gore family home in Carthage is also home to one of the dirtiest zinc mines in the United States, and Al Gore was receiving $20,000 per month up until 2003 from Pasminco Zinc a company that has been cited for polluting the nearby Caney Fork River. Al Gore has profited over the lifetime of the mine to the tune of over $570,000.  Now the mining did stop in 2003, but not because Gore was upset about the environmental impact, the mineral rights lease ran out.  In a letter Gore wrote to Pasminco he said, “We would like for you to engage with us in a process of ensure that the mine becomes a global example of environmental best practices”. Gore was silent for nearly thirty years of mining while Pasminco Zinc released toxic substances into local waterways (Theobald, 2006). In all that time Al gore never spoke out against the mine, never worked to clean it up, never refused the money, in the end he did was he always does, he wrote a letter. Actions do speak louder than words.</p>
<p>For many global warming is defining this generation, it is being touted as the new evil we should rise up and conquer. But this is not Communism or a Fascist Nazi party imposing its ideals on our allies. It is a theory touted by men who will profit from it. We as Americans should strive to be more informed and find out the reason why men like Gore are so intent on pushing this theory&#8230;Because it is profitable and has netted Al Gore not only renewed political relevance, but a Nobel peace prize, and redemption for his presidential campaign loss. While we should be good stewards of this earth, we should also beware of false truths, global warming has become the new religion of the socialist movement and it has dangerous implications for our country and world.</p>
<p>Resources:</p>
<p>Monkton, T. V. (2007). <em>“Consensus”?What “Consensus”?</em> Washington D.C.: Science and Public Policy Institute.</p>
<p>Harris, T. (2006 , June 12). Scientists respond to Gore&#8217;s warnings of climate catastrophe. <em>Canadian Free Press</em> , p. 1.</p>
<p>I.P.C.C. (1995). <em>United Nations I.P.C.C. Report.</em> New York: United Nations.</p>
<p>Mesler, B. (2000, August 29). <em>Al Gore: The Other Oil Candidate.</em> Retrieved November 22, 2007, from CorpWatch: <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=468">http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=468</a></p>
<p>Shea, N. (2008, February) <em>Hot Penguin</em>, National Geographic Magazine.</p>
<p>William, N (2007, February) <em>Gores Personal energy Use is his own &#8220;Inconvenient Truth&#8221; </em>Tennessee Center for Policy Research.</p>
<p>Newman, L. (2006, June 9). <em>The inconvenient truth about Al Gore</em>. Retrieved November 22, 2007, from Socalistworkers.org: <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.socialistworker.org/2006-2/593/593_04_Inconvenient.shtml">http://www.socialistworker.org/2006-2/593/593_04_Inconvenient.shtml</a></p>
<p>Newsweek. (1975, April 28). The Cooling World. <em>Newsweek</em> , p. 64.</p>
<p>Petr Chylek, J. E. (2004). Global Warming and The Greenland Ice Sheet. <em>Climatic Change Kluwer Academic Publishers.</em> , 201-221.</p>
<p>Schweizer, P. (2006, December 7). Gore isn&#8217;t quite as green as he&#8217;s led the world to believe. <em>USA Today</em> .</p>
<p>Sheehan, J. M. (1996, July). <em>United Nations&#8217; Experts Doctor Evidence</em>. Retrieved November 23, 2007, from Our Civilisation: <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.ourcivilisation.com/aginatur/hot.htm">http://www.ourcivilisation.com/aginatur/hot.htm</a></p>
<p>Shogren, E. (2007, March 22). Al Gore Testifies Before Congress on Global Warming. <em>NPR</em> , pp. 13-16.</p>
<p>Silverstein, K. (2000, May 22). Gore&#8217;s Oil Money . <em>The Nation</em> .</p>
<p>Singer, S. F. (2007, March 19). <em>A Review Of &#8216;The Great Global Warming Swindle&#8217; </em>. Retrieved November 24, 2007, from Our Civilisation: <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.ourcivilisation.com/aginatur/swindle.htm">http://www.ourcivilisation.com/aginatur/swindle.htm</a></p>
<p>Stossel, J. (2007, April 20). <em>The Global Warming Myth?</em> Retrieved November 24, 2007, from ABC News: <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=3061015">http://www.abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=3061015</a></p>
<p>Theobald, B. (2006, April). <em>Environmentalist Gore allowed zinc mine.</em> Retrieved November 23, 2007, from USA Today: <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-03-18-goremine_N.htm">http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-03-18-goremine_N.htm</a></p>
<p>Watson, S. (2007, September 4). The Global Warming Tax Scam Kicks In. <em>Infowars.net</em> .</p>
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<p>. Excerpt from von Hayek, Friedrich &amp; Robert Bork www.ideachannel.com &#8230; Descartes Constitution Madisonian Originalism Law Oligopoly Monopoly Academic Academia Activist Activism Judge Yale Professor Chicago University Capitalism Capitalist Socialism Socialist Marx Marxist Marxism Fabian Fabianism Mercantilist Mercantilism Democracy Democratic Liberal Liberalism Libertarian Libertarianism Keynes Keynesian Keynesianism Economy Economics Economist Laissez-faire Invisible Hand Philosophy Free &#8230;  <H3>Help answer the question about Socialist Scholar</H3>As an anti-Israeli, pro-Palestinian supporter?<br />How does it feel to be in aligned with all the Arab countries (some of the worst human rights abusers), the communist Soviet Bloc countries, despots like Stalin,Mao Pol Pot who masscred millions, the Chavez&#039;s, the Castro&#039;s, the Ahmedenijad&#039;s and of course the socialist scholars like Noam Chomsky, Ilan Pappe and everyone&#039;s favourite MP George Galloway. Does it not bother you that you are in agreement with these individuals when it comes to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict?<br />
TJTB &#8211; I&#039;m not saying Israel (their govt and military) are without blood on their hands. But you are using the term Zionist wrong. 95% of Jews are Zionists &#8211; they believe in a Jewish state in Israel. The left has somehow taken the term &quot;zionist&quot; and warped its definition.<br />
Robyn, are you crazy? You think Hitler would support the Jews. I should have included him in the despots. The others you mention pale in comparison to the atrocities of the Left.<br />
Violet, yes the Arab countries are FAR worse human rights abusers than Israel. Even the anti-Semitic UN Human Rights Council would agree on that. As would Amnesty Intl and Human Rights Watch.<br />
I generally side with Israel. I&#039;ve done alot of reading on the subject, studied the history, read the works of the New Historians, even Pappe and Chomsky. I&#039;ve drawn my own conclusion from that. But it doesn&#039;t hide the fact that my heart weeps for the innocent people in West Bank and Gaza who have to endure violence, seizures of their homes and land at the hands of the IDF and rabid Orthodox settlers. I want them all to live in peace and humane conditions. But that can&#039;t happen until Hamas and Hezbollah are destroyed, the UN mission is revamped and the Palestinian kids are no longer indoctrinated with hate of Jews and Israel.<br />
Darqwon, thanks for your answer but I don&#039;t think its that narrow when I state the truth &#8211; the left wing socialist/communist countries post WWII sided with Palestine&#039;s position. It also seems today that almost all leftist thinkers are very pro Palestine while most right wing thinkers are pro Israel. Also to add to your point I believe there is common ground but Hamas chooses not to seek it. They want nothing less than the Jews destroyed. You can&#039;t negotiate with people who think that way. Its like banging your head against a brick wall hoping to put a hole through it.<br />
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