http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/peace/ en-us Fri, 25 Dec 2009 05:01:44 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414832/posts With the Christmas season and its promise of "Peace on earth, goodwill toward men" upon us, and protectionist sentiment stirring in Washington, it is appropriate to revisit the question of whether free trade promotes world peace. Advocates of free trade have long argued that its benefits are not merely economic. Free trade also encourages people and nations to live in peace with one another. Free trade raises the cost of war by making nations more economically interdependent. Free trade makes it more profitable for people of one nation to produce goods and services for people of another nation than to... CATO http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414832/posts#comment Fri, 25 Dec 2009 05:01:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411310/posts Arab honour is at the root of Arab rejectionism and intransigence. It prevents Arabs from accepting blame or compromising. It also prevents Arabs from losing land to Israel or ending the conflict. Arab honour is closely linked to Islamic concepts of jihad and dhimmitude. Arab honour impells them to seek domination. Failure to dominate, dishonours them. Accepting responsibility is an anathema to their honour.. Muslim violence against the publication in Denmark of cartoons featuring Mohammed is a prime example of their refusal to accept the rule of law or western norms that are at odds with what their honour demands.... ISRAPUNDIT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411310/posts#comment Sat, 19 Dec 2009 20:32:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407462/posts Video can be found at this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-LwgTbgbHE Just wanted to share this video the University Republicans made in response to Obama accepting the Nobel Peace Prize. The group went around campus for a couple hours asking students what they "intend" to do to receive a Nobel Peace Prize; for their responses, students were given edible, chocolate Prizes. :-) We wanted to make a serious and entertaining policy critique while showing the various student responses. There are some student responses at the beginning; then a hypocrisy-and-inaction montage of news clips; then back to student responses after Professor Pape's commentary at... YouTube http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407462/posts#comment Mon, 14 Dec 2009 22:37:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407153/posts A group of Islamic militants forced villagers to watch as they stoned a man to death for adultery, it has emerged. The group, Hizbul Islam, also shot dead a man they claimed was a murderer. But the verdict was so shocking that it prompted a gun battle between rivals within the group that left three militants dead, witnesses said. Daily Mail http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407153/posts#comment Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:58:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406319/posts A Border Crossing by Ari Bussel The Jordan River A family friend is a professor at the University of Oregon in Eugene. The city is located at the confluence of the McKenzie and the Willamette rivers. I vividly remember looking at awe at a river, thinking of God’s power, the enormity of nature and the fragility of man. Thursday, I was standing near the Jordan River, gazing at the water surface. It was a serene picture, playing with my senses. The water still like glass, on the opposite bank two men fished, the distance shorter than the cement-Los Angeles River.... "Postcards from Israel - Postcards from America" http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406319/posts#comment Sat, 12 Dec 2009 23:13:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405036/posts Accepting Peace Prize, Obama Evokes 'Just War'2009-12-10 16:05:18 (4 hours ago) Posted By: Intellpuke President Obama, accepting the Nobel Peace Prize here in Oslo, Norway, on Thursday, acknowledged the age-old tensions between war and peace but argued that his recent decision to escalate the conflict in Afghanistan was justified to protect the world from terrorism and extremism. “We must begin by acknowledging the hard truth,” said President Obama. “We will not eradicate violent conflict in our lifetimes. There will be times when nations - acting individually or in concert - will find the use of force not only necessary but... Free Internet Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405036/posts#comment Fri, 11 Dec 2009 01:09:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-rlc/2404964/posts Earlier today in Oslo, Norway, President Barack Obama finally, formally accepted his Nobel Prize for "peace." But where are the internationally-acclaimed prizes for "liberty" and "justice"? These are far worthier goals -- far loftier ideals. Politically speaking, and in other ways too, what the world needs above all else -- today and always -- is individual liberty and universal justice! If the Nobel Committee is going to embrace questionable, unworthy goals and dubious, lowly ideals, why not sink all the way down to giving out renowned awards for international "security," or even multinational "stability"? Clearly there are times when peace... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-rlc/2404964/posts#comment Thu, 10 Dec 2009 23:36:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404851/posts OSLO – President Barack Obama's decision to break with tradition and not follow the lead of past Nobel Peace Prize winners bewildered some Norwegians. Others thought he was being impolite. Obama had quite a whirlwind day Thursday — he signed the Nobel guest book, huddled with Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg, met with King Harald V and Queen Sonja, and delivered an acceptance speech after he was formally presented with the prize. He also was joining the king and queen at an evening banquet. Yahoo News/Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404851/posts#comment Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:58:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404490/posts The text of President Obama's Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, delivered Thursday in Oslo, Norway, as provided by the White House: Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Distinguished Members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, citizens of America, and citizens of the world: I receive this honor with deep gratitude and great humility. It is an award that speaks to our highest aspirations — that for all the cruelty and hardship of our world, we are not mere prisoners of fate. Our actions matter, and can bend history in the direction of justice. And yet I would be remiss if I did... Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404490/posts#comment Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:23:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403547/posts Large circulation Japanese daily Yomiuri Shimbun's reporter in Washington, D.C., Mr. Etsunari Kurose, reports in Japanese that Americans are not so hot on the idea of Obama receiving that award in Oslo, Norway.66% of registered voters in a very recent Quinnipiac Poll said Mr. Obama did not have the right to receive that award. Only 26% said that he did. Yomiuri Shimbun News Via Yahoo!Japan http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403547/posts#comment Wed, 9 Dec 2009 09:37:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402015/posts It is difficult to turn on a TV or radio or pick up a newspaper these days without finding some pundit or other deploring the dismal prospects for Israeli-Palestinian peace or the dreadful living conditions of the Palestinians. Even supposedly neutral news reporters regularly repeat this sad tale. “Very little is changing for the Palestinian people on the ground,” I heard BBC World Service Cairo correspondent Christian Fraser tell listeners three times in a 45-minute period the other evening. Nothing could be farther from the truth. I had spent that day in the West Bank’s largest city, Nablus. The city... National Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402015/posts#comment Mon, 7 Dec 2009 15:14:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2397602/posts Oslo (dpa) -- US President Barack Obama will likely spend two nights in Oslo next week where he is to receive his Nobel Peace Prize, the Norwegian Nobel Committee said Tuesday. "What can be confirm today is that that he will arrive on Wednesday the 9th, and he will arrive 'late evening' it is said," Geir Lundestad, secretary of the committee, told broadcaster NRK. Obama is due on December 10 to receive his Nobel Peace Prize. He was cited by the five-member Norwegian Nobel Committee for "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples." The day before... deutsche press via email, no link http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2397602/posts#comment Tue, 1 Dec 2009 14:56:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2396529/posts "People are discouraged," said Susan Lamont, a Santa Rosa resident who drives a Subaru wagon plastered with bumper stickers. Donations that fund the nonprofit center were down 10 percent last year and another 20 percent this year, a trend that has crimped budgets for many nonprofit groups. But political activism has also waned, with many on the left now merely signing e-mail petitions, which Lamont considers a "worthless effort." Santa Rosa DePressed Democrat http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2396529/posts#comment Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:35:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2387338/posts When Hemnecher Amen, a student, joined a protest outside the White House recently, it was the latest visible opposition here to US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Hardly anyone took any notice. "There's a lot of apathy and a growing disconnectedness to what's going on in world affairs," the frustrated Howard University junior said as around 200 people, including a handful of students, gathered for the march. "Students are more interested in trying to get a job and make money." With the US military several years into two faraway wars, American students like Amen are taking to the streets less... Telegraph (U.K.) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2387338/posts#comment Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:53:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2385820/posts President Barack Obama was surprisingly given the Nobel Peace Prize "primarily for his work on and commitment to nuclear disarmament," according to Agot Valle, a Norwegian politician who served on the award committee. Valle told the Wall Street Journal that the stewards of the prize wanted to "support" Obama's goal, as expressed recently at the U.N., "of a world without nuclear weapons." It's tough to think of a goal more widely espoused than the dream of an H-bomb-free planet. President Ronald Reagan and activist Jane Fonda, political opposites, came together on this one — in his second term, Reagan stunned... Time Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2385820/posts#comment Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:42:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2385272/posts SIERRA VISTA — From the founding of America through today, the citizens of the nation owe veterans a debt of gratitude, an Army colonel said Wednesday. Speaking at the end of Sierra Vista’s 15th annual Veterans Day parade, Col. Timothy Faulkner said no less a person than President George Washington noted the need to appreciate veterans after the Revolutionary War. Faulkner, Fort Huachuca’s garrison commander, said it was Washington who set the tone that carries through to today when he said, “We owe veterans a debt of gratitude, indeed a debt of honor.” And the colonel noted that from Valley... Sierra Vista Herald/Bisbee Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2385272/posts#comment Fri, 13 Nov 2009 03:47:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2384443/posts Any commemoration in the Knesset of the anniversary of Rabbi Meir Kahane's assassination would be harmful to the peace process, the US Embassy told The Jerusalem Post Wednesday. The American comments came after the Post obtained a series of e-mails in which an embassy official told Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin's office that the possibility of such a ceremony was "something that Senator [George] Mitchell and his team are following with concern." Following a Post report describing Rivlin's denial that he had allowed MK Michael Ben-Ari to commemorate Kahane in the Knesset plenum, the US administration contacted Rivlin's office to keep... Jerusalem Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2384443/posts#comment Thu, 12 Nov 2009 04:35:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2383669/posts Sorry for the vanity...but I have been here for awhile and I just cannot stay quiet any more...if anyone is wondering...there are hundreds like me...by personal contact...not CNN estimates. Vanity (Speaking up for the silence) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2383669/posts#comment Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:55:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2379460/posts Find out who is getting the next Nobel Prize! www.daveweinbaum.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2379460/posts#comment Thu, 5 Nov 2009 22:09:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2372443/posts On Sunday evening at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in downtown Washington, D.C., J-Street opened its first ever-national policy conference. Officially founded over a year ago, the self-proclaimed "pro-Israel, pro-peace" lobby was birthed amid controversy. While J-Street positioned itself as the voice of mainstream American Jewish opinion on Israel, critics (myself included) argued it was a left-wing front far from the mainstream. American Spectator http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2372443/posts#comment Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:59:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2368102/posts Dispersed between the speakers we bring in (great success with Amb John Bolton last week btw) and activist projects we work on, the University Republicans like to have some fun in adding to the political discourse on campus. This upcoming event is a great example. I thought readers would find the event info quite amusing and so pasted the event info below. Be on the lookout come Monday from 12:00-1:30 on the University of Chicago Quad as YOU have a chance to become a Nobel Peace Prize recipient! Yes, you could join the venerable ranks of activists like Henry Kissinger,... Thoughts From A Texan http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2368102/posts#comment Thu, 22 Oct 2009 03:36:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2362480/posts Only in a parallel dimension. YouTube http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2362480/posts#comment Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:50:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2361045/posts As the African Synod opens its second week, by now the Aula's heard a word on seemingly everything thanks to the five-minute interventions from its 250-some bishop-members and non-bishop auditors, which comprise the first part of each global assembly. But even as the delegates have heard no shortage of strong comments calling for everything from debt forgiveness and inculturation to combatting corruption and advancing a greater role for women in the church, perhaps the most emotional and profound of the bunch came Friday, when the testimony of a Rwandan religious, Sister Genevieve Uwamariya, provided the monthlong gathering's most personal reflection... Whispers in the Loggia http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2361045/posts#comment Tue, 13 Oct 2009 02:51:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2360767/posts President Barack Obama Rome, Italy, Oct 12, 2009 / 01:33 pm (CNA).- The semi-official Vatican daily, L’Osservatore Romano, has called the decision to award President Obama with the Nobel Peace Prize premature and more of an invitation to choose peace through politics. The award is also questionable because of his position on various bio-ethics issues, especially abortion. The article points out that “the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Barack Obama has taken everyone somewhat by surprise, first and foremost the U.S. president himself.” “During the last 90 years,” L'Osservatore noted, “the prize has never been awarded to a sitting... cna http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2360767/posts#comment Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:17:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2359994/posts "President Barack Obama's Nobel peace surprise was given "primarily for his work on and commitment to nuclear disarmament," according to Agot Valle, a Norwegian politician who served on the award committee. Valle told the Wall Street Journal that the stewards of the prize wanted to "support" Obama's goal, as expressed recently at the United Nations, "of a world without nuclear weapons." It's tough to think of a goal more widely espoused than the dream of an H-bomb-free planet. Ronald Reagan and Jane Fonda, political opposites, came together on this one - in his second term, Reagan stunned his own advisers... Yahoo News with TIME moniker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2359994/posts#comment Sun, 11 Oct 2009 14:54:47 GMT