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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (760997)	1/3/2014 12:30:22 PM
From: combjelly	1 Recommendation Recommended By bentway Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576363

Look up Lincoln's opinions on wage slavery. He viewed working for wages as only somewhat better than slavery because those workers had a better chance at freedom. He felt both slaves and wage earners were the wrong result of subordinating work to capital.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (760997)	1/3/2014 12:44:14 PM
From: bentway	Respond to of 1576363

Claim: Kim Fed Uncle Alive to 120 Starved Dogs ACCOUNT, FIRST PUBLISHED BY HONG KONG PAPER, HASN'T BEEN VERIFIED By Arden Dier, Newser Staff newser.com ( No word on whether he served the dogs at a state dinner later..) Posted Jan 3, 2014 7:34 AM CST (NEWSER) – What's a fitting way to execute a man labeled "worse than a dog"? If an unconfirmed newspaper report is to be believed, by stripping him naked, throwing him in a cage, and feeding him alive to 120 hungry hounds. NBC News picks up Hong Kong-based paper Wen Wei Po's account of how Kim Jong Un did away with his uncle, Jang Song Thaek, last month. Its report claims Jang and his five closest aides were set upon by a pack of hunting dogs that hadn't eaten in days as Kim and his brother, flanked by 300 officials, watched; the report hasn't been verified. Wen Wei Po, which has close ties to China's Communist Party, added Jang and his allies were "completely eaten up" in the "quan jue," or execution by dogs—a break from the usual execution by firing squad—over the course of an hour, the Straits Times notes. Though Kim has championed the execution, there's been no official word from Pyongyang on how it was carried out. The Times sees the publication of the account as an indication that Beijing is none too pleased with North Korea in the wake of the execution and "no longer cares about its relations with the Kim regime." This follows a previous report that claimed that two of Jang's top men who were killed prior to his own death were executed using antiaircraft machine guns.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (760997)	1/3/2014 1:36:43 PM
From: bentway	Respond to of 1576363

Pope Francis condemns fundamentalism, urges setting an example over proselytizing By Eric W. Dolan rawstory.com Friday, January 3, 2014 11:29 EST Pope Francis recently urged the faithful to understand reality by looking at it “from the periphery” in order to avoid becoming fundamentalists. Francis meet with 120 superiors general of men’s religious orders at the Vatican in November. His comments were published Friday by La Civiltà Cattolica, a Rome-based Jesuit weekly. “I am convinced of one thing: the great changes in history were realized when reality was seen not from the center but rather from the periphery,” the pope said. To look at something from the periphery, the pope explained, meant analyzing reality through a variety of viewpoints, rather than filtering all experience through a centralized ideology. “It is not a good strategy to be at the center of a sphere,” he said. “To understand we ought to move around, to see reality from various viewpoints. We ought to get used to thinking.” “I often refer to a letter of Father Pedro Arrupe, who had been General of the Society of Jesus,” the pope continued. “It was a letter directed to the Centros de Investigación y Acción Social (CIAS). In this letter Father Arrupe spoke of poverty and said that some time of real contact with the poor is necessary.” “This is really very important to me: the need to become acquainted with reality by experience, to spend time walking on the periphery in order really to become acquainted with the reality and life – experiences of people. If this does not happen we then run the risk of being abstract ideologists or fundamentalists, which is not healthy.” La Civilità Cattolica noted that Francis expressed similar sentiments in his Evangelii guadium regarding globalization. The world needs to move towards unity without embracing centralism and crushing individualism, he wrote in the document, which was published in November. “Here our model is not the sphere, which is no greater than its parts, where every point is equidistant from the centre, and there are no differences between them. Instead, it is the polyhedron, which reflects the convergence of all its parts, each of which preserves its distinctiveness.” Francis also encouraged the leaders of men’s religious orders to “wake up the world.” He said the Church should grow through “attraction” rather than proselytization. “Be witnesses of a different way of doing things, of acting, of living! It is possible to live differently in this world,” he said.