Clooney in the Sudan

Focus is on Clooney's malaria, the easier, kind of salacious "news."



What is interesting though (buried in the article) is reference to his involvement in a joint project between Google, and the United Nations; an effort to prevent the outbreak of war.

Amplify’d from www.nydailynews.com

Clooney was in Sudan in December to work with Google and the UN on a human rights project that combines satellite imagery analysis and field reports to prevent a new war from occurring in the troubled country. "We want to let potential perpetrators of genocide and other war crimes know that we're watching, the world is watching," he said in a statement at the time. "War criminals thrive in the dark. It's a lot harder to commit mass atrocities in the glare of the media spotlight." Read more at www.nydailynews.com

 

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At 6,000 years old, wine press is oldest yet found

This means we were drinking wine for 500 years before we started wearing shoes.

Amplify’d from news.yahoo.com

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Archeologists have unearthed the oldest wine-making facility ever found, using biochemical techniques to identify a dry red vintage made about 6,000 years ago in what is now southern Armenia.

The team found the world's oldest leather shoe, about 5,500 years old, at the same cave complex last year. Read more at news.yahoo.com

 

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What Americans know about religion

Amplify’d from www.irfwp.org

Atheists and agnostics, Jews and Mormons are among the highest-scoring groups on a new survey of religious knowledge, outperforming evangelical Protestants, mainline Protestants and Catholics on questions about the core teachings, history and leading figures of major world religions.

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Christmas sermons of Pope Benedict and Archbishop Rowan Williams

Christmas sermons of Pope Benedict and Archbishop Rowan Williams

Christmas sermons of Pope Benedict and Archbishop Rowan Williams

I published this article today

Amplify’d from www.digitaljournal.com

The three core tragedies associated with Christianity's early break from Judaism are: 1. Christianity's resultant other-worldliness, 2. Christianity's difficulty to access the person they follow and worship, and get a clearer sense and understanding of what this particular Israeli was trying to explain and demonstrate, and 3. The mismatch to have a religion with such influence in world affairs itself be so deeply other-worldly in its core worldview.

This disconnect, and this "half-ness" was strongly evident in the Christmas sermons of two of the most powerful religious leaders in the world today, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, head of the Church of England, and Pope Benedict XVI, head of the Roman Catholic Church.

The enduring breach between Judaism and Christianity cripples the voice of spiritual guidance needed in our time. Read more at www.digitaljournal.com

 

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Tens of Thousands of Pilgrims Flock to Bethlehem on Christmas

Cooperation instead of violence benefits everyone

Amplify’d from www.voanews.com

Still, Christmas was marked by a rare spirit of cooperation between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. Israeli officials say about 100,000 tourists visited Bethlehem on the holiday, twice as many as last year. A lull in violence brought the biggest turnout in a decade, and it was a peaceful Christmas in the Holy Land.

Slide show of Chirstmas Around the World Read more at www.voanews.com

 

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Emergency in Sunnyside

See if you can read the writing on the lead truck. There for assurance in case Con Ed can't get the job done.