thanzx gose to deacon blues hoos postered thisn mine blog. reed it all. cumpleetlee discusterin. dont kair ifn yer a hunter or not. yoo knoe thisn aint rite. sine the petishun an spred teh wurd to ablaoish thees cowurdly acts!
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well. ima disapoynted. posterd thisn at mrr janeane garafolo hopen for help an there not seam to giver rats ass. moren cunserned that em korran got kicked.
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Breaking news: NYTimes reports that Tom DeLay's running an internet piss-hunting site that lets Cheney and other Halliburton execs remotely piss on the Q'u'r'a'n with a click of a mouse. Riots to ensue, at 11.
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I agree with you mucky, this is about as low as it gets. But the world is full of sick, mean people who enjoy hurting others.
I'm just saying that by giving this the light of day, you are actually promoting it. Some mean-spirited *&&^, who would have never thought of it otherwise will say, "cool!, that looks like fun". The end result of calling attention to it, to this is that this guy will get more business. And even if you get this guy closed down, then X other numbers of people will think, hey, I would have never thougth of that otherwise, but there's an easier and less risky way to make money than my child porn business.
Maybe it's already too let, but never promote Pandora, once she leaves her box, she never can be put away.
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This has been reported on a couple of news outlets already and the Senate and House are aware of it. Internet hunting has already been banned in a number of states so people do know about it, at least the ones who would do it. What Muck and I are trying to do is bring it to the attention of people who don't know about it. I don't hunt myself but if someone else wants to, go ahead. This isn't hunting. It's killing captured animals at a feeding trough by remote control just so the person clicking the mouse can say, "I killed it". This is lower than whale shit.
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*sigh* I understand what you are saying DB, and doing nothing is not a good option. But, just be careful in how you report it. The best thing that can happen to these people is to get everyone talking about them. It's good for business. You're walking a fine line between helping and hurting when you promote
make people aware.
The best thing to do is to work quietly to shut these people down. or..here's a better idea...let's hire some jack booted thugs to seek out these people, and we'll set up canned beatings - where we take the losers who do this and then with a click of a mouse, we can have someone beat the &**^ out of them - live, pay per view.
*sigh* ok..indulge me an evil fantasy now and then.
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Virginia has just banned it, Tennessee has a bill awaiting the governor's signature, and 13 other states are considering prohibitions. I heard about this some time ago but at the time it was still in the planning stage. The fact that 15 state legistures are debating it seems to me that it is already pretty well known. So far there is only one operation on going. I understand your concerns, 2b, but fighting this quietly is a little too late. Pandora's box is already open.
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Police in Bangladesh arrested the wife of former military ruler Gen H.M. Ershad on Saturday on charges of embezzlement and making death threats against her husband, officials said. Bidisha Ershad was picked up by police from her home in Dhaka's affluent Baridhara district after her husband lodged a complaint against her at a local police station, witnesses said. The 75-year-old former dictator accused his estranged third wife of embezzling funds and threatening to kill him.
Before being driven away in a police car with her underage son Eric, Bidisha replied to questions by reporters. She said the charges were "fabricated" and could not have been made by Ershad as he still loved her. She blamed her arrest on senior officials of the Jatiyo Party, the political organization founded by Ershad during his eight-year rule as military President from 1982 to 1990. "Some leaders in the party did not like my influence on my husband's organization," she said. Earlier, Ershad had sacked Bidisha as Jatiyo's vice-president and suspended her membership of the party, the second biggest opposition group in parliament.
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Sounds like a routine divorce until:
"She said the charges were âfabricatedâ and could not have been made by Ershad as he still loved her."
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Another hellhole turns worse. Naturally, it'll be our fault.
BISHKEK - Massive unemployment and emigration have increasingly plagued Kyrgyzstan for the past decade, the state commission on stabilising the country's social and political situation reported. Since 1993, the number of unemployed had multiplied six times, rocketing from 29,000 to over 186,000 registered in 2004, the commission said late Friday.
Some 600,000 Kyrgyz left the country, and massive flow to the capital Bishkek boosted its population by 30 percent, raising it to nearly 1.5 million, the commission said, warning that Bishkek was intended to house only 800,000 people.
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Looks like the Aussies are getting hyper-sensitive about the Chinese reaction. This does not bode well for Australian support for the US during a confrontation over Taiwan.
A senior Chinese diplomat who left his job at his country's consulate-general in Sydney has addressed a rally to commemorate the Tiananmen events.
"I feel very unsafe," he told a crowd of several hundred people in Sydney.
"In 16 years, the Chinese government has done nothing for political reform. People have no political freedom, no human rights," he added.
Mr Chen, 37, has been refused political asylum, but Australian authorities might issue a protection visa.
In his surprise appearance, the former diplomat spoke at length explaining he had left the consulate because he opposes the persecution of dissidents.
He also gave examples of kidnappings, life imprisonments and executions carried out by the Chinese government.
Treason
Mr Chen's plight was first reported by the Weekend Australian.
The newspaper on Saturday said the man had got in touch to explain he had gone into hiding with his 38-year-old wife and six-year-old daughter after being refused political asylum.
Australian authorities later confirmed they had received an application for a protection visa from the diplomat, but did not expand on the asylum application they had allegedly rejected.
Mr Chen was involved in the Tiananmen Square protests and joined the diplomatic corps after being re-educated.
"I feel very unsafe, so I seek protection," the paper quoted him as saying.
If I leave the Chinese government it's a treason. I certainly would be punished."
The former consul for political affairs told the paper he was being sought within the Chinese community, and that we was afraid of returning to China for fear of being persecuted.
He said he had decided to defect because he disagreed with China's treatment of political dissidents.
Monitoring them had been part of his job, but he had been "going easy" on them, Mr Chen told the paper.
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If he is the one who has said China has 1000 spies in Australia, and he is willing to name names, they should insure that not only does he get asylum, but that he breaks wind through silk.
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While I find it suspicious he was active in the Tiamin Square protests and then got a government job, I think he is probably the real thing. I very much doubt the Howard government will hand him over to the Chinese, even though Australia is trying to build friendly relations with them. BTW, its a holiday weekend here, so very little will happen before Tuesday.
Australia's most powerful state leader broke a long-held taboo Thursday by suggesting the country turn to nuclear power as a way to ensure energy supplies and combat global warming. Premier Bob Carr of New South Wales, Australia's most populous state, said waiting for alternative energy sources which are still years away was not a sufficient response to the environmental damage being done by burning fossil fuels to create electricity.
Carr, from the center-left Labor Party which has led opposition to nuclear power in the past, said atomic energy could be the answer to global warming, much of which is caused by greenhouse emissions from burning fossil fuels. "The planet is warming up and we need some new energy source until wind and solar and hydrogen become available," he said. "I just think the world's got to debate whether uranium-derived power is more dangerous than coal.
To the extent that one really believes that global warming is real, one should push for as much nuclear generation of electricity as possible.
Australia currently has only one nuclear reactor, located in Sydney and which is used for research purposes only.
Carr's surprise remarks drew immediate fire from environmental groups. "Debate on the merits of nuclear power ended in 1986 when a reactor at the Chernobyl power station exploded, exposing the region to radiation levels 100 times greater than the Hiroshima bomb," said Ian Cohen, a New South Wales lawmaker from the Greens party.
But those were Russians and Ukes running an inherently dangerous design -- oh right, the details aren't important to you.
"There is a huge propaganda push on by the nuclear industry right now to justify nuclear power as a solution to global warming, and Bob Carr is being sucked in," he said.
Carr's proposal came amid a national debate over whether Australia should step up mining and export of its vast uranium reserves, the biggest in the world. Foreign Minister Alexander Downer revealed to parliament earlier this week that authorities were considering expanding the export of uranium, including to China and to southeast Asian nations considering a shift to nuclear power.
Downer's remarks also sparked protests from environmental groups. "The Minister for Resources (Ian Macfarlane) has said the government wants to export 'as much uranium as we possibly can', despite the environmental and nuclear proliferation dangers it poses," said Greens senator Kerry Nettle. "To facilitate the expansion of the most dangerous industry on the planet is irresponsible, putting dollars before sense," she said.
"The expansion of the nuclear energy industry will act as a disincentive for government to invest in renewable energy whilst simultaneously increasing the level of radioactive waste in the world.
Except of course that 'renewable' energy isn't available today or tomorrow. The Green recipe = poverty for everyone except the Green leaders.
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I don't see Australia building nuclear power plants in the fireeable future, but you never know. The Left-greens have painted themselves into a corner over global warming. And have loudly proclaimed it is causing the Australian climate to become drier. A factually untrue statement (in fact the governments own scientific agency says the NSW climate is getting wetter), but facts are not an issue with these people. Droughts are a regular feature of most agricultural areas in Oz, so even while false the drying climate claim is an easy sell and various government agencies repeat it.
Australia has set up a new counter-espionage unit to track down foreign spies, notably Chinese agents who have surpassed Russians as the country's biggest espionage threat, The Australian newspaper reported on Thursday.
The newspaper quoted senior government sources as saying foreign spies were as numerous and active in Australia today as at the height of the Cold War. The biggest concern, they said, was a new push by China in recent years to gather intelligence on military-related technology and strategic policy secrets. "China would be the biggest now by a fair way," said one source, who said Chinese spies now outnumbered Russian agents who were previously Australia's biggest espionage concern.
"They have built up their capabilities over the last 10 years and are more aggressive in their activities," the source was quoted as saying. "Espionage is the forgotten side of the intelligence game but it remains alive and well."
The new counter-espionage unit has been set up within the Australian Security and Intelligence Organisation (ASIO), the government's main intelligence agency, and is already operational, The Australian said. Most of the spies worrying ASIO operate out of embassies under diplomatic cover, but some work undercover as businesspeople or other professionals, it said.
China has one of the largest diplomatic corps in Australia, with 40 registered diplomats. Chinese-Australian ties were strained in 1995 by revelations that the embassy in Canberra had been bugged as part of a joint US-Australian operation.
A SENIOR Chinese diplomat is on the run with his family after abandoning his post and seeking political asylum in Australia. Claiming he fears persecution if he returns to Beijing, Chen Yonglin, 37, the consul for political affairs at the Chinese consulate-general in Sydney, said last night consulate security staff were looking for him after he walked out of the mission seven days ago.
"They are searching for me. I heard they are looking for me everywhere, especially in the Chinese community," Mr Chen told The Weekend Australian. "I feel very unsafe, so I seek protection."
A Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade spokesman confirmed last night that "an official from the Chinese consulate had applied to the Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs for a protection visa". A spokesman for the Chinese embassy in Canberra last night refused to comment on the affair.
Mr Chen, his wife, Jin Ping, 38, and their six-year-old daughter were in hiding last last night. Mr Chen claimed he met a senior Department of Immigration officer in Sydney on May 26 who, he said, rang the consulate to confirm his identity. The Chinese consulate said "they wanted me to come back".
Mr Chen said he then met with a Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade protocol officer in Sydney on May 31. He said the DFAT officer told him at the meeting that his request for political asylum had been rejected, but he was told he could apply for a protection visa. "DFAT told me the Chinese Government want me back and Australia doesn't want me," Mr Chen said.
Might complicate the uranium sales.
Mr Chen, who holds the rank of first secretary, said he was seeking to defect because he could no longer support his country's persecution of dissidents. "Since I was a university student, I have been supporting the pro-democracy movement in China and have witness (sic) the Tiananmen Square democracy movement in 1989," Mr Chen said. "Now with my strong dissatisfaction with the current Chinese Government, I call on an immediate reform to the political system."
If the Aussies don't want him we should take him.
Mr Chen, who contacted The Weekend Australian yesterday afternoon, claimed he was responsible for monitoring political dissidents, including members of the controversial religious sect Falun Gong, during the past four years in his post. He said he had been "going easy" on dissidents he had been charged with monitoring and not reporting them, in protest at Beijing's policies.
Mr Chen said he was not a member of Falun Gong but empathised with the group, whose practitioners in China, he said, had been "persecuted massively". "I am in charge of the Falun Gong issue ... Falun Gong practitioners are a socially vulnerable group, and they need help but no prosecution and forced brainwash."
Mr Chen joined the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1991 after being "re-educated" following his involvement in the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, where several of his university friends were wounded.
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Well, here's hoping anyone but the PRC, the DPRK and the ROK (they're not that far off) takes him in! Would love to have him ourselves, if he's not a false flag/mole ...
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Support for the new EU treaty is waning in Denmark after Dutch and French voters rejected the treaty earlier this week. 40 percent of voters are against the treaty, compared with 31 percent who plan to say yes note the description 'treaty' - it tells you that some danes value their identity after all
Denmark has turned against the new European Union constitutional treaty. Three opinion polls reveal Danish attitudes toward the new EU treaty shifting dramatically since Dutch and French voters rejected the treaty earlier this week.
According to a survey conducted by Greens for business daily Børsen, 39.5 percent of Danes would vote no for the treaty, compared with 30.8 percent who would vote yes. Undecided voters still make up 29.7 percent of the population.
Just last month, Greens found that naysayers represented only 26 percent of the voters, while 34.3 percent of the population expected to vote yes on the treaty.
The Danish People's Party, which opposes the treaty and has called upon the government to call off Denmark's referendum on 27 September, found encouragement in the new figures.
Morten Messerschmidt, the party's spokesman on EU affairs, was pleased with the change in public opinion.
'You can't count your chickens before they are hatched, but this is great news. I think the government should follow the Danish People's Party proposal about not holding a referendum. It seems pointless, since there isn't anything to vote on, now that France and Holland have said no,' said Messerschmidt.
Foreign Minister Per Stig Møller tried to downplay the importance of the new results.
'This change isn't surprising considering the dramatic developments in France and the Netherlands. But opinion polls go up and down. If you get shocked by such things, you shouldn't be in this business. It cannot be true that when opinion polls go up, you hold referendums, and when they go down, you cancel them,' said Møller.
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Assuming the margin of error is @plus or minus 4 %pts,the Yes vote has remained roughly w/in margin of error,while Nos have picked up about 1/4 of previously undecideds.
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Whilst the media can not say this, the no votes are substantially against immigration which has caused many problems in previously cohesive societies. A good friend is Danish and many are very concerned about this issue and the EU and its policies (and its restrictions on what can be done about it) are being blamed. The people are saying we don't want to go any further down this road. Scandinavian blogs are full of this issue. The EU otherwise is still popular.
Think about it: more and more European politicians are coming out and trashing the overvalued euro and ECB monetary tightness as the cause of stagnation in Italy, Germany and France. Italy may well reintroduce the lira. Might Schroeder try to reintroduce the deutschemark in a last-ditch effort to defeat Merkel this fall? The Dutch aren't happy with the euro, either. As we've seen with the rapid increase in NO sentiment concerning the EU constitution across Luxembourg and eastern Europe in recent days, there's a major snowball effect developing.
Soros took advantage of the same kind of snowballing pessimism in 1992, when he lined his pockets with $1B at the expense of the Bank of England. Is there any doubt that he and his fund managers are looking to score again at Europe's expense?
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The EU caused this: they bashed Microsoft, so Bill Gates rented the Halliburton Ballot Box Stuffer Ray and stole the French and Dutch elections. You can look it up:
http://www.colemanzone.com/cody%20images/Radarmen/CodyRayGun.jpg
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Not a good few days are coming for "Professor" Ward Churchill. This is just one of five articles coming out in the RMN over the next few days. How this fella will survive the pressure to resign will be intersting to watch. The story linked here is incredible long and detailed.
The Rocky Mountain News is closing in on the whole truth of this charletan.
My advice for Churchill: Take a settlement. Now. Something is better than nothing.
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At the core of the questions surrounding Churchill is this: Is he who he says he is?
He has repeatedly said that his mother and grandmother passed on to him the often-told story that there was Indian blood in the family. He's believed it since he was 10, he has said.
In speeches Churchill has given this year, he has introduced himself this way: "I bring you greetings from the Elders of the Keetoowah band of Cherokee, my mother's people."
At times, he has suggested that he is 3/16ths Indian. That would be the equivalent of three of his 16 great-great grandparents having been 100 percent American Indian.
But from all indications in an extensive genealogical study by the News, there is no evidence of a single Indian ancestor in Churchill's long family history in America.
Churchill isn't the only member of his family who heard the same story.
Many of his wide array of relatives have been searching for more than 100 years, through records that go back before the Revolutionary War, seeking the elusive link that would confirm the family legend of Indian parentage somewhere along the line.
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I don't give a flying F* about his ancestry. The guy is a traitor, a plagerist, a forger, and a fraud. If I lived in Colorado, I wouldn't want by taxes going to pay this bastard, and certainly wouldn't want him teaching my kids.
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Churchill is even less likely to resign than Bill Clinton. To resign means that you have a modicum of honor, self-respect, duty, responsibility, or even shame. He has none. He is a bully, a brute, a liar, a cheat and a sociopath. He will not even be passive when dismissed, but will assume the mantle of "victim", using his "victimhood" to "prove" that he is a native American. He is a scoundrel who deserves horsewhipping.
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Green from the Elder Pliths of nLothabain. Peace be upon their tie rod ends. I am directed to request geld in the nform of an extryplanetary donation. Peace be upon you and your distributor ca
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tie rods ends. I nsee the nhodes gather against ne and my shoe polish. Back off jones, thisn my stage.
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hee hee! Is that slowly roasting pig I smell?
The series
⢠Today: Overview of the findings
⢠Monday: Fabrication charge
⢠Tuesday: Plagiarism charge
⢠Wednesday: Mischaracterization charge
⢠Thursday: Misrepresentation charge
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I wonder what this says about those other relatives who've looked for their history?
But no, this doesn't save him a lick.
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If I were an Indian, I wouldn't claim him.
Isn't there some category we can stick him in, so he can't embarrass any ethnic group that actually exists?
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I suspect that Chief Shitting Bull is only the most prominent of many thousands of academic frauds who have gained their positions courtesy of multi-cult tokenism and the astonishingly corrupt hiring standards that often result.
His case will have far-reaching repercussions as non-MSM journalists and conservative skeptics begin to take a critical look at their local faculties.
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He is just a lefty thug that signed on to exploit sympathy for native Americans as a way to forward his "revolution." He ought to be kept at the university, but not as a professor. He should be transferred to the medical department for study.
History students could also learn quite a bit about the fallacies of revisionism and the mechnisms of propganda by tracking his footnotes back to where they actually lead.
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We've seen the photos. He's legit; here's the village his people come from: http://huffingtonstoast.com/173/it-takes-a-village
EFL; you all know the context.
A huge majority of Britons believes that pumping billions of pounds into Africa would be a waste of money, a verdict that is a major blow to Tony Blair's crusade to rescue the continent. Ya think?
As the Prime Minister prepares to fly to Washington on Monday to try to secure American support for proposals to tackle poverty in the Third World, a poll for The Daily Telegraph shows that 83 per cent of people are not confident that money given by the West would be spent wisely. Gee, I wonder why.
It also shows that 79 per cent of voters believe that corruption and incompetence were to blame for Africa's problems. Common sense, it appears, isn't dead.
According to Treasury sources, a new law, ratifying the UN convention against corruption, will be implemented under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 in the autumn. It will give the Government power to seize the assets of corrupt former politicians from overseas in a similar manner to the power that already exists when dealing with suspected terrorists and organised crime. Good idea -- except for the "UN" part.
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Note that this was another YouGov internet poll. IMO this is exactly the sort of subject people will be more willing to honestly answer questions about online than they would to a door-to-door, street or phone pollster. However, the poll shares the fundamental flaws of YouGov polls - the respondents are pretty much self-selected and a distinct subset of the popoulation - internet savvy, and better educated and probably somewhat more intelligent than Joe Average. Also, just because people are dismissive of the benefits of aid doesn't mean they won't criticise the aid industry in public or give as individuals when the occasion arises dues to the effects of peer pressure and years of continual brow-beating by the worthy.
"It will give the Government power to seize the assets of corrupt former politicians from overseas..."
So people like Bob and Chirac will be immune unless and until they have fallen. Well done, UN - you've added another incentive for the kleptocrats never to yield power.
"...just because people are dismissive of the benefits of aid doesn't mean they will criticise the aid industry in public and/or won't give as individuals..."
Question is what Brown overlooks and what Bush requires.
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Hey, Mr. Bush! I have one question:
Show me anywhere in the constitution where our Government is authorized to make donations to charity.
When I give out of the goodness of my heart, willingly, happily, or even guiltily, there is a certain amount of nobility attached to it. It's called generosity, philanthropy, etc.
When the government takes my money, and without my approval or consent, "donates" it to some fucked up foreign country where it promptly disappears down a rat hole, that is not charity. That is THEFT.
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A majority of Brits are pretty smart. Africa's other problems are dwarfed by problems with bad governments. Pumping billions of pounds into Africa will just increase the Swiss bank accounts of the local thugocracy.
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"According to Treasury sources, a new law, ratifying the UN convention against corruption, will be implemented under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 in the autumn. It will give the Government power to seize the assets of corrupt former politicians from overseas in a similar manner to the power that already exists when dealing with suspected terrorists and organised crime."Other than being a trendy 'catch phrase', what the heck does "corrupt" mean? Why am I inherently suspicious of giving *any* such power to an international treaty? I apply the "Kissinger" standard: if the law *could* be used by some twit in an effort to prosecute or harass Kissinger, then it is a bad idea, and most likely solely an effort to undermine US sovereignty. N.B.: there are as many "international" efforts to do so as their are "international" tax plans proposed by Chirac.
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A huge majority of Britons believes that pumping billions of pounds into Africa would be a waste of money, a verdict that is a major blow to Tony Blair's crusade to rescue the continent.
Add one (at the very least) American to this group.
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They are, unfortunately, correct. It's too late to save nost of Africa. The people who don't starve from the "enlightened" policies of their leaders will most likely die of AIDS. I predict a 70% die-off within a century.
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Since most corruption money goes to Swiss or Carribean banks,this is a PR feel good bit. If Bob fled to London tommorrow,so long as he rented a house and leased his cars and kept his bank accounts out if the UK,there'd be nothing to seize. But the Act sure sounds like the Government is doing something-sound and fury,signifying nothing.
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The ACLU, representing an atheist, is threatening five San Diego-area personalities with legal action over the proposed wording of a ballot initiative that will determine the fate of a historic cross on city land.
I'm sure I'm missing something here, I thought the ACLU stood for free speech.
The five behind the Mt. Soledad initiative are KFMB radio talk-show host Rick Roberts; KOGO radio talk-show host Roger Hedgecock; San Diego Padres radio announcer Jerry Coleman, Rep. Randy Cunningham, R-Calif.; and SoledadNational.com Director Phil Thalmeimer.
The attorney for atheist Philip Paulson, James McElroy, has told the men he will file the challenge next week. McElroy claims that a number of their statements on the ballot, prepared for the July 26 city-wide vote, are "false and misleading."
So hold a debate.
Some statements at issue include, "as in the case with Mount Soledad, wherever veterans are honored with the symbols of the fallen, an intolerant few will launch frivolous lawsuits that waste our tax dollars..." Another statement under challenge is, "in 2004, the president of the United States signed legislation designating the Mount Soledad site as a 'National War Memorial,' necessitating the land transfer." McElroy also objects to the sentence, "Vote Yes to transfer the land to the federal government and to permanently preserve Mount Soledad -- as it is where it is."
Other than stilted English, I don't see a legal claim.
Last month, the San Diego City Council allowed voters to decide the fate of the historic cross, which overlooks the Pacific Ocean in nearby La Jolla. The legal battles date back to 1989.
Roberts said today he and the others "will defend the wording in court." While there has been "a legal challenge against all five of us, I think we will prevail in court," he said. Roberts stressed that the issue is important for those who want to preserve the heritage of San Diego, which includes the La Jolla cross. Donations for that cause are being taken by both radio announcers and SoledadNational.com.
Roberts also is a regular guest host for Michael Savage's nationally syndicated radio show. Hedgecock substitutes for Rush Limbaugh occasionally. Coleman will be inducted this summer in the Baseball Hall of Fame as a radio announcer.
Now it's clear. I'm surprised Move.on and George Soros haven't jumped on this.
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Who says athiesm is NOT a religion? Why shouldn't IT be separated from the state and reduced to the status of ... um ... say, Methodists?
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LOL - here in SD it just kicked up the "save the cross vote" by about 50,000 votes. When you have rival radio hosts working together in joint broadcasts to get something done, you've got a brushfire going. The ACLU's too fucking stupid to see that this totally diminishes any standing they might've had. It also falls on teh same ballot as the new mayoral election, and Donna Frye (stupid dessicated bitch) is oppposed to saving the cross. Bye Donna!
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Whoa, nice! (In San Diego)
And right or wrong, the whole idea of the ACLU/atheists suing five radio hosts for the wording of a ballot initiative they didn't write is just ludicrous. Seeing the subject, it's even more hilarious ... in that wrong kind of way.
If they're this intolerant about historical significants, I've got a few temples and covens on the next-to-go list ...
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I'm sure I'm missing something here, I thought the ACLU stood for free speech.
Doc, only the Left's speech is to be untethered; all the rest of us are to stifle ourselves like good little peasants.
American Civil Liberties Union has been shredding documents over repeated objections of its records manager and in conflict with longstanding policies on preservation, disposal of records... Developing...
Perhaps we're overimaginative, but doesn't this suggest (especially given the current celebration of whistleblowers everywhere) some disgruntled ACLUer has something embarassing and otherwise documented to (a) complain about and/or (b) announce in public?
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Re #6: And now, the NEXT element of the Master Plan!....BWAHAHAHAHAAAA!!!!!
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The ACLU will get away with their intimidation game until the people stand up to them, then they will slink away and look for other prey or venues to ply their trade.
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What the ACLU is doing looks like an annoyance campaign on its surface, but evidently there is a rule that allows them to recover "legal costs" of their suit against the state whenever they win a separation of church and state case. They are like a tumor that is mutating.
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only if their suit had merit, or was opposed by pussies on the winning side (think McCain)., In this case they'll come out tainted and no $ if I have anything to say about it ;-)
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You guys don't know their game by now? If you don't get what you want at the polls, you go to the courts. It doesnt matter what the will of the majority is, the common people(us?) are to goddamned stupid to know what is best for this country anyway.
The United Nations on Friday urged Zimbabwe's government to halt its campaign of evicting urban poor and demolishing their shacks around the country, calling it a clear violation of human rights.
Ya don't say.
The Zimbabwe action, which the government calls a cleanup campaign, represents a form of apartheid and must be halted, said Miloon Kothari, a U.N. expert on the right to adequate housing. "We are seeing in the world, and Zimbabwe is a good example now, the creation of a new kind of apartheid where the rich and the poor are being segregated," Kothari told reporters. Over 200,000 people have already lost their homes and a further 30,000 people have been detained since the government began the crackdown on May 19, he said. "The vast majority are homeless in the streets," Kothari said. "This kind of a mass eviction drive is a classic case where the intention appears to be that Harare become a city for the rich, for the middle class, for those that are well-off ... and the poor are to be pushed away."
So, okay, now what are you going to do about it?
Amnesty International has also condemned the crackdown, saying it has left whole communities without shelter and destroyed thousands of livelihoods. It said police and other security forces are using excessive force - burning homes, destroying property and beating individuals.
Bet they didn't describe it as a 'gulag'.
Thousands of street vendors have been arrested and their wares seized. Police using torches, sledgehammers and bulldozers have burned and demolished kiosks and homes of the urban poor in shantytowns around the country, leaving thousands homeless. The evictions apparently are a result of the notice Harare's government-appointed Mayor Sekesai Makwavarara gave in May to dwellers in the city's myriad backyard shacks. He told them they had until July to vacate, citing health grounds. About half the city's poor live in such shacks. The government has not explained why it began demolitions before the July deadline.
"Okay, here's my plan: We've won the civil war and kicked the white government out. Next, we're going to kick all the white farmers out and take their land!"
"Right, boss!"
"Then we're going to kill everybody who opposes us!"
"Right, boss!"
"Then we're gonna kill everybody who doesn't oppose us!"
"Uhhhh... Right, boss."
"Then we're gonna have a purge and kill each other!"
"Uhhh... Right."
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06/04/2005 00:30 ||
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ima daren yoo to dare! how darez yoo! goddam daren darels!
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The United Nations on Friday urged Zimbabwe's government to halt its campaign of evicting urban poor and demolishing their shacks around the country, calling it a clear violation of human rights.
