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What I like about Freedom4um [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2007-04-19 15:19:48 by Paul Revere
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The purpose of this thread is to applaud our hosts for this place, and what we like about it. One of the things I do not like about modern USA culture is that people do not properly thank others. It's as if they believe they're giving up something to acknowledge that someone else did something nice. Running a site is a royal pain in the ass, and time consuming. It costs something to run, and someone has to pay that. So thank you to the owners, and here's what I like about Freedom4um: 1. No smilies!! I hate those things. I can barely stand to read DU because there are so many people who use them. Why not crayons? 2. No threads calling for government to FIX whatever ...
S. Korea Remembers Cho Family
Post Date: 2007-04-19 14:27:19 by TheSilverFox
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The family of the gunman in the Virginia Tech shootings had struggled while living in South Korea and emigrated to the U.S. to seek a better life, a newspaper reported Wednesday. The shooter was identified as Cho Seung-Hui, a senior in the university's English department, who the South Korean Foreign Ministry said had been living in the United States since 1992. Cho was the only suspect named in the deadliest shooting rampage in U.S. history, which left 33 dead including himself. South Korea's largest newspaper Chosun Ilbo reported that Cho's family was poor when they lived in a Seoul suburb and decided to emigrate to seek a better life. The family lived in a rented, basement ...
Truthers - They Walk Amongst Us
Post Date: 2007-04-19 09:53:49 by cone of balls
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A post I would rather not have had any reason to write! After picking up on this story through a post by commenter Jim on the SDA blog.... It seems that an editor of one of our local newspapers is willing to perpetuate the pack of misrepresentations, fallacies, fables, fantasies and outright lies that are the psychic food of lunatic conspiracy theorists and the misinformed and outright delusional elements of society. This pack of fools and whack jobs known colloquially as "Truthers" has been building a straw house around the preposterous notion that the events of o9/11 2001 were a conspiracy of : Pick and choose or mix and match ANY of the following - The GW Bush White House, ...
Nibbling At The Edges
Post Date: 2007-04-18 12:07:10 by intotheabyss
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In light of the recent campus shooting it brought to mind the ever-present erosion of our liberties. This morning I tuned into the Mark Davis show (WBAP, Dallas) to hear what the MSM and its shills are saying about the Virginia Tech. "massacree" (no 8X10 glossies in this case to Arlo Guthrie’s dismay). Mark was calling for instant background checks upon the purchase of a gun. He said the criteria should be based on criminal and mental health background checks. Are TPB planning on using the Russian model of deeming dissidents mentally ill in order to take away their liberties? How hard would it be to get a couple of government shrinks to diagnose someone insane based on his ...
Government and Racism
Post Date: 2007-04-18 09:55:24 by Ada
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The controversy surrounding remarks by talk show host Don Imus shows that the nation remains incredibly sensitive about matters of race, despite the outward progress of the last 40 years. A nation that once prided itself on a sense of rugged individualism has become uncomfortably obsessed with racial group identities. The young women on the basketball team Mr. Imus insulted are over 18 and can speak for themselves. It’s disconcerting to see third parties become involved and presume to speak collectively for minority groups. It is precisely this collectivist mindset that is at the heart of racism. It’s also disconcerting to hear the subtle or not-so-subtle threats against free ...
Voice of the White House - 16 April
Post Date: 2007-04-18 08:49:57 by Eoghan
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Washington, D.C., April 15, 2007: “On Thursday, March 15, a meeting was held in a private suite at the Hay-Adams hotel in Washington. This meeting was attended by CIA and CIA-based Mossad personnel, a Russian/Israeli representative of Boris A. Berezovsky, an Israeli citizen formerly a Russian citizen, representatives of Mikhail Brudno and Vladimir Duboy, also Israeli citizens and once major holders in Yukos, the Russian oil giant.. Also present was a personal representative of Vice President Cheney. The meeting was under clandestine electronic surveillance and it quickly emerged that the purpose of this meeting, which commenced after a luncheon served in the rooms and began at 1425 ...
Way Off Base [Democrats Pulled Into Popular Positions by Their Base]
Post Date: 2007-04-18 00:51:45 by ...
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Normally, politicians face a difficult tradeoff between taking positions that satisfy their party’s base and appealing to the broader public. You can see that happening right now to the Republicans: to have a chance of winning the party’s nomination, Republican presidential hopefuls have to take far-right positions on Iraq and social issues that will cost them a lot of votes in the general election. But a funny thing has happened on the Democratic side: the party’s base seems to be more in touch with the mood of the country than many of the party’s leaders. And the result is peculiar: on key issues, reluctant Democratic politicians are being dragged by their base into ...
Video of the VT Mass Murders
Post Date: 2007-04-17 22:34:34 by tom007
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US Plans To Move 40 Million High-Skill American Jobs To Other Countries
Post Date: 2007-04-17 13:57:04 by Mind_Virus
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US Plans To Move 40 Million High-Skill American Jobs To Other Countries Tuesday, April 17, 2007 - Page updated at 02:00 AM Froma Harrop / Syndicated columnist New threat to skilled U.S. workers The master plan, it seems, is to move perhaps 40 million high-skill American jobs to other countries. U.S. workers have not been consulted. Princeton economist Alan Blinder predicts that these choice jobs could be lost in a mere decade or two. We speak of computer programming, bookkeeping, graphic design and other careers once thought firmly planted in American soil. For perspective, 40 million is more than twice the total number of people now employed in manufacturing. Blinder was taken aback ...
GOP: The Party of Brownshirts
Post Date: 2007-04-16 22:58:59 by Brian S
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04/16/07 "ICH" -- -- Neoconservatives have turned the Republican Party into a Brownshirt Party. Look at the evidence. While real patriots flee the party, the remaining supporters cling to power by asserting dictatorial dominance for President Bush. The Republican Attorney General denies that the US Constitution provides habeas corpus protection to American citizens. Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney, Republican candidates for the 2008 presidential campaign, believe the president has the power to imprison US citizens indefinitely without warrants or trials. The “conservative” Federalist Society favors concentrating more power in the executive. Neoconservative ideologues ...
No Stemming the Tide of Good U.S. Jobs Going Overseas
Post Date: 2007-04-16 19:30:08 by Brian S
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Posted: 04/16/2007 On the first day that H-1B visas became available, corporations snapped up all that are allowed. Our government received 150,000 applications for the 85,000 slots set aside to bring in foreign skilled workers. Corporations whine that H-1Bs are needed because of a shortage of Americans with skills, but major studies at the University of California Davis and Duke University conclusively prove we have thousands of unemployed or underemployed Americans with all the needed technical skills. Nobel economist Milton Friedman accurately labeled H-1Bs a government "subsidy" to enable employers to get workers at a lower wage. The best way to deal with the demand for a ...
Upending the Mayberry Machiavellis
Post Date: 2007-04-16 06:06:26 by Ada
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It's up to Congress to save the executive branch from Bush's and Rove's radical experiment to transform it forever. On Jan. 26, J. Scott Jennings, the White House deputy political director working for Karl Rove, delivered a PowerPoint presentation to least 40 political appointees, many participating through teleconferencing, at the General Services Administration, which oversees a $60 billion budget to manage federal properties and procure office equipment. Jennings' lecture featured maps of Republican "targets" for the House of Representatives and the Senate in the 2008 election. His talk was one of perhaps dozens given since 2001 to political appointees in ...
Iran: the war ahead
Post Date: 2007-04-15 23:00:22 by tom007
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Iran: the war ahead John Pilger Published 16 April 2007 * 17 comments * Print version * Listen The sailors' ordeal was a diversion from the bigger danger. The US and UK identified their new enemy long ago and are preparing the propaganda for the war ahead. Plus Rageh Omaar on how the Iran affair has weakened Britain's hand The Israeli journalist Amira Hass describes the moment her mother, Hannah, was marched from a cattle train to the Nazi concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen. "They were sick and some were dying," she says. "Then my mother saw these German women looking at the prisoners, just looking. This image became very formative in my upbringing, this ...
Arrogance Unbelted!
Post Date: 2007-04-15 22:29:49 by robin
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Arrogance Unbelted! By Ted Lang Exclusive to http://Rense.com 4-15-7 When informed members of the American public, namely those who get their information in terms of accurate, truthful news and opinion from an Internet alternative media source websites, they quickly realize the truth of Lord Acton's assertion that power corrupts. And along with the public's sensing of such unlimited, unbridled power on the part of an elected politician and government official, a justified sense of loathing and contempt develops in the minds of the electorate such that any repeated facial expressions, manner of gesticulation, repeated phrases in speeches and such, are sure to incite a higher level ...
The murk and dirt of the White House )(Good AttorneyGate Explanation)
Post Date: 2007-04-15 17:09:48 by tom007
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The murk and dirt of the White House Andrew Stephen Published 26 March 2007 * 3 comments * Print version * Listen At last, the everyday corruption of the Bush administration is gradually being brought out into the daylight. It's now the cardinal rule of 21st-century politics: don't send even the most innocuous emails, to absolutely anyone, if you are a remotely important politician or government official. A very senior FBI man told me the other day not to send an email to his office: "Remember," he warned me, "emails never disappear if you know where to look for them." He knows a thing or two about tracing emails. Because the FBI was able to retrieve ...
Whitey, Learn To Keep Your Mouth Shut
Post Date: 2007-04-14 22:30:14 by Brian S
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Don Imus, the line-crossing talk-radio host who broadcast daily across America from his New York studio, has been fired for referring to a team of black women basketball players as “nappy-headed ho’s”. Imus, a former Marine with a gruff demeanour, had an unsentimental show or, as they might say in America, it featured “guy talk” (any Briton, by the way, who uses “guy” or “guys” deserves a glossectomy). There was some banter and unsubtle opinions were aired. It was not out of control but it also wasn’t a sanitised PC affair. He’s quite amusing and articulate in a resolutely uncomplicated way and had a huge listenership generating vast ...
Top Ten reasons Why this is Not a Failed Presidency
Post Date: 2007-04-14 14:47:39 by Hmmmmm
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Poster Comment:The research on this one was grueling.
so...why no talk of prosecuting the nappy headed ho who falsely accused the duke players?
Post Date: 2007-04-14 10:10:00 by gengis gandhi
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just wondering about that. you know, all the folks who get in big trouble for filing false reports, and all that jazz....like the white, runaway bride from a while back. havent' heard about that. but i just wonder what made the prosecutor think that a stripper/prostitute was a credible witness.
Snake in the Grass
Post Date: 2007-04-14 07:53:56 by YertleTurtle
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When I was in college my girlfriend mentioned to me a guy she knew had told her about me, "You can do better than that." I had met him once and had a short but pleasant conversation with him. Why, I wondered, would he say such a thing about me? The answer was immediate: he would have liked to take her away from me. He envied me. She was a cute one, it was true. Cute and smart, the kind he wanted but apparently couldn't get. So he wanted what I had. He was, to use a common expression, a snake in the grass. He was talking behind my back. We use the term "snake" to refer to someone who is a backstabber. Apparently, this particular meaning has been used for thousands ...
Preventing Opposition to War
Post Date: 2007-04-14 06:01:30 by Zoroaster
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Preventing Opposition to War by Sheldon Richman, April 13, 2007 The idea, discussed by me and others, that it is good that most Americans are not directly touched by the President Bush’s wars is of course not the whole story. Our rulers could have forced us to be more involved. They could have passed a special war tax, launched a high-profile “Buy War Bonds” campaign, and found other ways to demand “sacrifice” in the name of patriotism and victory. They could have staged more events featuring “our brave heroes who risk everything to preserve your way of life.” They even could have started conscription if only for symbolic reasons. But our misleaders ...
The art of distraction, Gangsta rappers pose a bigger threat to black community [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2007-04-13 19:00:35 by christine
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Thank you, Don Imus. You've given us (black people) an excuse to avoid our real problem. You've given Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson another opportunity to pretend that the old fight, which is now the safe and lucrative fight, is still the most important fight in our push for true economic and social equality. Jeremy M. Lange THE NEW YORK TIMES (enlarge photo) While anger is fixated on Don Imus, seen here talking to the Rev. Al Sharpton on Monday, what of rappers who use the same language? MOST POPULAR STORIES Storms could bring hail, isolated tornadoes tonight Former Hutto High police officer charged with photographing girl Acid spread in Leander city park Go ahead and filet ...
Tennessee Talk Show Host: "Many Ron Paul Supporters 'anti-Semetic'
Post Date: 2007-04-13 18:55:27 by who knows what evil
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While on my way to lunch this morning, I happened to stumble across a talk show syndicated statewide here in Tennessee on local radio WPWT. The host's name was Steve Gill, and just as I was reaching for the dial to change the station, I heard a called mention Ron Paul. That caught my attention, so I listened further. The caller was inquiring as to why the Congressman's campaign was being overlooked by the mainstream media. Then the caller stepped right on the third rail when he mentioned Zionist control of the media. (BIG 'faux pas'.) The host responded thusly: "It is that kind of anti-Semitism which is why Ron Paul isn't going to be elected President because his ...
The Sheer Hypocrisy Of CBS Firing Don Imus [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2007-04-13 16:29:19 by robin
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Warning - Please be advised the following Commentary contains citations of sexually explicit profanity. -ed When Don Imus referred to a Black women's basketball team as "nappy headed hos" he was using a description ("hos") that Black rappers have popularized on CBS sister stations. CBS is owned by Viacom, http://www.cjr.org/tools/owners/viacom.asp which also owns MTV and VHS. These stations are responsible for making this expression part of the national vocabulary. Viacom also owns "Famous Music," which publishes and markets the work of hip-hop and rap artists who portray Black women as "bitches" and "hoes." A cursory search yielded ...
Russia On The March - Again
Post Date: 2007-04-13 11:56:04 by Brian S
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The new Cold War won't be like the last one, with massed tank divisions stretched across the German plain ready to repulse a Communist invasion of Western Europe. No, the looming power struggle between resurgent Russian nationalism and Western liberty will be determined by raw economic muscle and political clout or, in Russia's case, blackmail and intimidation. You have only to look at the implosion of Ukraine's fledgling democratic institutions to see the effectiveness of the new tactics the Russian bear is using to claw back its influence over its former empire. Moscow has not forgiven Ukraine for its Orange Revolution in late 2004, which saw Kiev sweep away decades of ...
The Men Behind Israel's Proxy War
Post Date: 2007-04-13 11:10:53 by Brian S
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A shadowy Pentagon unit - the Office of Special Plans, headed by Douglas Feith, former US under-secretary of defence for policy - deliberately fabricated intelligence linking Saddam Hussain's regime to Al Qaida in order to incite the United States to make war on Iraq. This conclusion, long suspected by most observers of the Middle East, has now been confirmed by Thomas F. Gimble, Inspector General of the US Defence Department, in a declassified report, released on April 5 at the request of Carl M. Levin, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee. Together with his boss, Paul Wolfowitz, then deputy defence secretary, Douglas Feith was part of an influential group of pro-Israeli ...
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