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 South Korea President Lee Myung Bak was elected into office in a landslide victory.
 
Three months into governance, the tide has turned.  His decision to resume import of US beef against public concern over mad cow disease triggered major protests so serious that his cabinet offers to resign.
 
The issue with beef import was only the straw that broke the camel’s back.  The crux of the matter it seems lies in the President’s CEO style of governance - he hardly hears the voices of the people.
 
The turn of events is disappointing.  I was rather impressed when he pledged in March to donate all 5 years of his presidential salary to charity.
 
 
Maybe his arrogance and confidence have got to do with this very pledge.  His work now becomes a personal sacrifice for the nation, thereby justifying his calling the shots any which way he alone deems fit.
 
 
 

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China – Six police officers from the Chinese Public Security Bureau (PSB) disrupted a house church meeting in Taikang county, Henan province, on June 1. Seven Christians were detained forcefully. One of them, a woman who had a young child, was released. The other six, however, remain in detention under a charge of sending money to a disaster area in the name of a house church. PSB officials will not release the detainees until they have paid a fine.
India – On June 1, a militant Hindu group burst into the worship service of the Masihi Mandir Church (located in Oriya Para district, Chhattisgarh state). The mob accused the Christians in the service of “forcibly converting” individuals to Christianity. They destroyed church furniture and threatened the Christians with dire consequences if they continued to worship Jesus Christ.
Pastor Rampal Kori, upon returning from a prayer meeting, was beaten with an […]

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Ok, so apparently this beef protest is pretty serious, serious enough that cabinet members of the government have offered to resign. I’ll let Al fill you in:
Hundreds of thousands of protesters have taken to the streets of the South Korean capital as objections to a plan to resume imports of US beef continued to escalate.

An estimated 70,000 demonstrators gathered in Seoul on Tuesday evening, despite South Korea’s cabinet offering to take responsibility for the turmoil and resign.

The mass gathering in Seoul was the latest in days of sometimes violent demonstrations demanding that the beef deal be scrapped or renegotiated…

…In April, Lee [South Korea’s President] agreed to lift almost all restrictions on imports of US beef, which had been banned since 2003 after a single case of mad cow disease was detected in the US.

Critics said that the decision to lift the ban was undemocratic and designed purely to clear the […]

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JERUSALEM – Israel must push to complete a deal with the Palestinians before President Bush leaves office, because the next U.S. president might not be as friendly toward the Jewish state, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert warned today.

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unknown wrote an interesting post today on
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Archaeologists in Jordan have unearthed what they claim is the world’s first church, dating back almost 2,000 years, The Jordan Times reported on Tuesday.
“We have uncovered what we believe to be the first church in the world, dating from 33 AD to 70 AD,” the head of Jordan’s Rihab Centre for Archaeological Studies, Abdul Qader al-Husan, said.
He said it was uncovered under Saint Georgeous Church, which itself dates back to 230 AD, in Rihab in northern Jordan near the Syrian border.
“We have evidence to believe this church sheltered the early Christians — the 70 disciples of Jesus Christ,” Husan said.

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After recieving a pounding from Senator Obama one day previously, Senator John McCain told small business owners that Obama’s economic proposals would lead to higher taxes and steeper overhead costs.  Read more of the back and forth between the two here from CBS News: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/06/10/politics/main4168674.shtml

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Senator Obama’s vetting team has discussed some 20 different names ranging from well knowns to not so well known individuals.  Some are current lawmakers, some are former lawmakers and some are military officials.  Read more about this here from CNN: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/

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bmarcel wrote an interesting post today on
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I hope Joe made it clear to “Jug Ears” that he will expose him to the American Jewish voters as the anti-Zionist he is!
Lieberman-Obama confrontation strains Democratic unity
By Elana Schor in Washington
Guardian.co.UK
Tuesday June 10 2008
As Barack Obama seeks to focus on his gruelling battle against John McCain, unwelcome scrutiny has followed his relationship with a powerful Democratic senator - not Hillary Clinton, but Joseph Lieberman.
Just one day after Obama triumphantly claimed his party’s presidential nomination last week, Lieberman took the unusual step of appearing on behalf of the McCain campaign to attack the Illinois senator.
Lieberman, a staunch Iraq war supporter who recast himself as an “independent Democrat” in 2006 after losing to a liberal challenger, endorsed McCain earlier this year but had refrained from directly criticising Obama.
When the newly minted Democratic nominee encountered Lieberman on the floor of the Senate, he pulled Al Gore’s former running mate aside […]

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A TERROR suspect said he intended to pin blame on Al-Qaeda for a “publicity stunt” explosion - and said suicide bombers were condemned to “hellfire”.
Assad Sarwar, of Walton Drive, High Wycombe, said he and a co-defendant planned to tell police using a voice changer and obscure their faces on “martyrdom videos”.
He is accused with seven others of plotting to blow up aircraft using liquid explosive - but Sarwar says the plot was for a harmless “publicity stunt” .
advertisementIn his third day of evidence Sarwar he asked by Malcolm Bishop QC, defending, what he thought would happen to those who took part in a “martyrdom operation”.
Sarwar told Woolwich Crown Court: “Clearly that person does end up in hell fire for eternity.”
Sarwar has described al-Qaeda as a “deviant group” and an “extreme sect” and said suicide bombing was “alien” to Islam.
Mr Bishop asked him: “You were going to, by means of a […]

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pbtt wrote an interesting post today on
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Sayyid Imam al-Sharif also known as Dr. Fadl, former leader of Eyptian terrorist group Al Jihad, has come out with a shocking refutation of Al-Qaeda’s terrorist activities. Former Al-Jihad members, people like Al-Zawahiri, joined Al-Qaeda in great numbers. However, Dr. Fadl’s refutation has had a strong impact on Al-Qaeda type groups since it is his book that initially became the theological basis for Al-Qaeda.
Fadl sternly writes, “I say it is not honorable to reside with people—even if they were nonbelievers and not part of a treaty, if they gave you permission to enter their homes and live with them, and if they gave you security for yourself and your money, and if they gave you the opportunity to work or study, or they granted you political asylum with a decent life and other acts of kindness—and then betray them, through killing and destruction. This was not in the manners […]

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