Chevron Oil Profits Break Records Again

Chevron Oil Profits Break Records Again

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Chevron Fourth-Quarter Earnings Rise to $4.14 Billion, Highest Profit in Company’s History The national average is $2.33 a gallon, about 20 cents per gallon higher than December 2. Further price rises over the short-term are likely. Regular gas at Atlanta Chevron stations is currently $2.39. Do these companies deserve our our tax dollars? To Review: Condoleezza Rice was a Board member of Chevron from 1991-2001 (she was also on the boards of Charles Schwab, Hewlett Packard, and Transamerica Corp.). Chevron…

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Faith-based Initiatives

Faith-based Initiatives

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Spirituality can be a harmonizing, liberating, life-giving force for understanding, compassion, and wisdom, or it can be a tool for manipulation, control, oppression and greed. When “religion” is used to increase cruelty, hate and exploitation, it is in fact profoundly anti-religious and should be exposed as such. The use of religion to justify or promote harmful behavior and heinous crimes against other human beings is, I think, a profound misunderstanding of the nature of faith. The faithful, to be faithful,…

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Quotations of the Day

Quotations of the Day

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Different statements resonate at different times. These shimmered today. A person has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it, and one’s religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification. — D.H. Lawrence It was once said that the moral test of Government is how that Government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life,…

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Ralph Reed in GA? No way

Ralph Reed in GA? No way

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Amazing. Ralph Reed, former Director of the (contra-)Christian Coalition, is still running for Lt. Governor of Georgia. Before you even think about voting for him, consider this information from Think Progress: TIGUA CASINO — CORNYN PART OF ABRAMOFF, REED, SCANLON SCHEME TO CLOSE TIGUA CASINO: Abramoff, Scanlon, and Reed (”an avowed foe of gambling”) secretly helped then Texas Attorney General Cornyn shut down the Tigua tribe’s Texas casino. They then exploited “the financial crisis they were helping to create for…

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More Bush Propaganda

More Bush Propaganda

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Propaganda: False or partly false information used by a government or political party intended to sway the opinions of the population. Another of the White House renaming ceremonies has taken place. Ve vill now be usink Rove(Goebbels?)-approved “Terrorist Surveillance Program”R in all discussions of illegal, warrantless und intrusive domestic eavesdropping, spying und surveillance of U.S. citizens. Wasn’t our terrorist surveillance program called FISA? The Bush administration is not the first to use this desensitizing and misdirecting method, nor the first…

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Leadership Needed for Economic Justice

Leadership Needed for Economic Justice

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“The age of warrior kings and of warrior presidents has passed. The nuclear age calls for a different kind of leadership….a leadership of intellect, judgment, tolerance and rationality, a leadership committed to human values, to world peace, and to the improvement of the human condition. The attributes upon which we must draw are the human attributes of compassion and common sense, of intellect and creative imagination, and of empathy and understanding between cultures.” – William Fulbright Don’t give me any…

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