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Adler hired two former members of Congress to help him collect the millions he had deposited and one of them told Adler the deal was a scam.
ONE of them? I'd love to know the name of the other one. And how much he got paid.
The judge also found that Adler paid $2.1 million in bribes to Nigerian officials in violation of state and federal laws.
He paid over $2 million to total strangers to help them CHEAT, and never thought they'd cheat him too? I can't believe the first court papers ever got filed on this. If his lawyer didn't know the outcome in advance, he/she was greedy and stupid too.
Wotta maroon.
And this guy was supposed to be a businessman? How the hell does he stay in business if he's this dumb?
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He's a Republik of Laficornia businessman, is my guess. And a Sammy Dagan to boot, heh. Prolly lives on the island or in Pacific Beach.
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actually - Chula Vista - where I grew up got older, says he owns factories in Tijuana...I'm gonna find his phone no. and see if he wants to invest in me a little proposal I'm gonna fabricate develop
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"Adler appealed but the ruling was upheld by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which noted there was no "Chief Abba Ganna Hen George" nor any oil fields in Kaduna."
It's reassuring to know that, whatever its faults, the 9th USCCA it least has brains enough in its pointy little head to recognize a Nigerian money scam when it sees one.
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Why does everyone flock to Nigerian investments of such dubious quality? This disturbs me. Because of this disturbtion I will describe to you my situation in Yellow Knife.
It all began when a visiting moslem engineer flew in with a twin auto and removed our strategic fishline recovery industry.....
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Hey Quinn---Yellowknife is a good place. Jumping off place and supply depot for much northern Canada mining. It is a fun town.
BTW, you want to invest in some diamond or uranium penny stocks or futures? Drop me a line.
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reminds me of a segment I saw on Cops when a woman called the police and told them a guy ripped her off for some drugs she sold him. She got arrested.
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Weeelll you see this guy could start his own scam:
I HAVE 5 MILLION DOLLARS I NEED TO TRANSFER OUT OF NIGERIA.
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It's Bush's fault. No, a while back, a Guardian tool lost several hundred quid to a Nigerian scammer and actually wrote a column blaming it on Bush and the "Texan oil culture" that (according to her) has infiltrated Nigeria via the petro industry.
Pollutants cause huge rise in brain diseases Sunday August 15, 2004
Scientists alarmed as number of cases triples in 20 years Juliette Jowit, environment editor The Observer
The numbers of sufferers of brain diseases, including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and motor neurone disease, have soared across the West in less than 20 years, scientists have discovered. The alarming rise, which includes figures showing rates of dementia have trebled in men, has been linked to rises in levels of pesticides, industrial effluents, domestic waste, car exhausts and other pollutants, says a report in the journal Public Health. In the late 1970s, there were around 3,000 deaths a year from these conditions in England and Wales. By the late 1990s, there were 10,000. 'This has really scared me,' said Professor Colin Pritchard of Bournemouth University, one of the report's authors. 'These are nasty diseases: people are getting more of them and they are starting earlier. We have to look at the environment and ask ourselves what we are doing.'
The report, which Pritchard wrote with colleagues at Southampton University, covered the incidence of brain diseases in the UK, US, Japan, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands and Spain in 1979-1997. The researchers then compared death rates for the first three years of the study period with the last three, and discovered that dementias - mainly Alzheimer's, but including other forms of senility - more than trebled for men and rose nearly 90 per cent among women in England and Wales. All the other countries were also affected. For other ailments, such as Parkinson's and motor neurone disease, the group found there had been a rise of about 50 per cent in cases for both men and women in every country except Japan. The increases in neurological deaths mirror rises in cancer rates in the West.
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Do you suppose there might be some connection between an increase in diseases of the aged with the fact that across the planet more people are living long enough to enjoy them?
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Do you suppose there might be some connection between an increase in diseases of the aged with the fact that across the planet more people are living long enough to enjoy them?
A more likely explanation is that as better tests are devised and symptomologies are more clearly distinguished, the accuracy of reporting has increased. Many diagnoses of these individual diseases were lumped together previously.
None of this diminishes the threat of environmental toxins. The food issue is one of my pet peeves. All the whining about preservatives that you hear of these days is actually quite ironic. If you examine a recipe for corned beef from 100 years ago, it will contain somewhere from 10-100 times the amount of saltpeter used for curing that a modern preparation might use. As progress has been made in hygenic food processing, far less preservatives are now required to assure product quality.
While environmentalists have too often resorted to scare tactics and alarmist publicity, there are still a lot of valid concerns about hormone mimics and endocrine disruptors. I really want to see more detaied information about the Japanese brain disease rate and its link to diet, that one is a truly significant anomaly.
The report, which Pritchard wrote with colleagues at Southampton University, covered the incidence of brain diseases in the UK, US, Japan, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands and Spain in 1979-1997. The researchers then compared death rates for the first three years of the study period with the last three, and discovered that dementias - mainly Alzheimer's, but including other forms of senility - more than trebled for men and rose nearly 90 per cent among women in England and Wales. All the other countries were also affected
In other words, this is a statistical study only. They took numbers, did zero actual emprical research, and said it is all linked.
The Guardian saw the report and regurgitated it just the way the writers wanted it to, without any serious questions into the study.
Do not publications ever check these things once a leftist publication like the Guardian publishes them?
I can prove statistically that the very same rise in incidents of cancer/demenia/disease du jour in the UK can be tied to increasing numbers of blow jobs given by young British female journalists. It may not be true but I can damn sure prove it.
Sat Aug 14,12:30 PM ET LONDON (Reuters) - A rabbit set alight by a bonfire at a British cricket club got its revenge when it ran burning into a hut and set it ablaze destroying costly equipment, the club said on Friday. Members of Devizes cricket club in Wiltshire, western England, were burning dead branches when a rabbit caught up in the waste sped burning from the flames spreading a fire which destroyed lawnmowers and tools worth $110,000. Insert overcooked Welsh rabbit jokes >here<.
"After it had been going 5 minutes, the rabbit shot out of the bonfire on fire and went into the hut which is our equipment store," club chairman John Bedbrook told Reuters. Two fire engines were called to extinguish the blaze. The rabbitâs skeleton was discovered in the charred hut. "The firemen were certainly concerned about the rabbit. They felt sorry for it," said Bedbrook. Let this be a lesson to you all regarding what happens when cricketers are left to their own Devizes.
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Wascally Wabbits!
"So Doc,what's in hossenfoss?"
Reason #258 as to why you don't use the ACME flamethrower.
Pommy twits.It's throw a shrimp on the barbie!
Would it be accurate to say that rabbit was burning rubber?
These self-serve ovens are going to need some more work before we can market them.
Work gloves?2Euros.Solid gold lighte?300Euros.The look on insuranse adjusters' face when you explain how club burned to ground?Priceless.
"Look at the bright side,Sir John.We 're going to win next weeks' Britains' Funniest Videos."
"I say,fox hunting isn't nearly as thrilling!"
"Flopsy,I swear I haven't been drinking.The pile of wood just burst into fire for no reason."
"Rabbit season!""Duck season!""Rabbit season!""Duck season!""Rabbit sea...say do you smell smoke?Bugs?...Bugs?"
"Next on the BBC.Why signing the EU constitution would keep our woodland friends alive."
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After hearing the Iman's latest rant against Western culture,Wahabi Wabbit decided to strike a blow for Islam,secure in the knowledge 72 virgin rabbits awaited him.
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The real story behind Peter Rabbit and the Farmer McGregor arson case. Next Geraldo!
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Stephen, at the risk of putting yourself on the Fatwa short list's top five offenders, I'd copyrite the name "Wahabi wabbit". That is a classic in the making.
Aug. 16th (Bloomberg) -- Crude oil futures rose to a record $46.75 a barrel on concern supply from Venezuela, the fourth- largest exporter to the U.S., may be disrupted by violence after a gunman fired on voters in yesterday's referendum.
One person was killed and another 12 injured in Venezuela's capital of Caracas as they stood in line to vote on whether to recall President Hugo Chavez. Petroleos de Venezuela, the state oil company, doubled security at its fields, refineries and storage tanks before the vote.
``If there's more problems there, the market, being fairly nervous, will probably trade it up a bit more,'' David Thurtell, commodity strategist at Commonwealth Bank of Australia in Sydney, said before trading resumed.
Crude oil for September delivery rose as much as 17 cents, or 0.4 percent, to $46.75 a barrel in after-hours electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. It was at $46.53 at 8:59 a.m. Singapore time.
On Friday, September crude rose $1.08, or 2.4 percent, to $46.58 a barrel, the highest close since oil began trading in New York in 1983. Prices reached $46.65, a then intraday record.
Oil prices rose 6 percent last week and are up 51 percent from a year ago. Fifty-seven percent of traders and analysts surveyed by Bloomberg News Thursday expected prices to rise this week. Twenty-eight of the 49 survey respondents predicted the rally would continue this week. Ten expected prices to fall and 11 said oil futures would be little changed.
`Fear Factor'
Fighting in Iraq and a legal battle between Russia and OAO Yukos Oil Co. also threaten supplies. Previous attempts to oust the 50-year-old Chavez, including a military coup and a national strike, sparked deadly protests.
``There is a fear factor that something may go wrong after the referendum,'' said Gal Luft, executive director of the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security, a Washington-based think tank specializing in energy security. ``Either way, it's going to be very unpredictable and no one wants to see the boat rocked,'' Luft said before voting started yesterday.
Chavez's current term runs until 2006. Should he lose the referendum vote, a new election will be held within 30 days. The president has already announced plans to run.
Venezuela was the fourth-biggest source of U.S. crude-oil imports during the first five months of the year, according to the Energy Department. Oil Minster Rafael Ramirez said Friday that oil workers won't accept a Chavez defeat.
``If Venezuela enters into a period of instability, I don't see a ceiling to prices,'' Ramirez said.
Violence
Bullets sprayed from a vehicle passing near a line of voters in the eastern Petare neighborhood of Caracas at about 5 p.m. local time, Fire Chief Rodolfo Briceno said in an interview.
Polls closed at 8 p.m. local time Sunday, four hours later than originally planned, because of a high turnout, National Electoral Council Vice President Jorge Rodriguez said in a televised press conference in Caracas.
OPEC President Purnomo Yusgiantoro yesterday said fears about Venezuela, the fighting in Iraq and the risk of a supply shutdown by OAO Yukos Oil Co., Russia's biggest oil exporter, have added about $16 a barrel to the price of oil.
The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries pumps more than a third of the world's oil. It has the capacity to add a further 2 million barrels of crude oil to the market each day, Purnomo said. Members of the producer group will discuss output at a meeting in Vienna on Sept. 15, he said.
Yukos will ``very likely'' file for bankruptcy in the next few days unless Russia eases the pressure it's been applying, the Financial Times said, citing an interview with Chief Financial Officer Bruce Misamore.
Russian authorities are taking about half the company's monthly $1.8 billion in cash-flow as part of the government bid to collect a $3.4 billion tax bill, the newspaper said.
``If we are insolvent because we do not have the cash to pay our bills, we have to declare bankruptcy,'' the newspaper quoted Misamore as saying.
``Everything seems to be going wrong for oil consumers at the moment,'' Commonwealth's Thurtell said.
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The Devil's Excrement is reporting that the vote has broken roughly 60%/40% in favor of the recall:
Across the country the world's fifth-largest oil exporter long queues wound around the schools and public buildings being used as voting stations from before dawn. Some voters complained of delays in being able to cast their vote as untested finger-printing machines intended to prevent double-voting caused bottlenecks in many areas.
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(It's going to be a real rough week in the stock markets, but very bullish for oil.)
Aug. 16th (Bloomberg) -- Asian stocks dropped as oil prices climbed and U.S. economic reports signaled that consumers may spend less on goods made by exporters such as Toyota Motor Corp. and Samsung Electronics Co. because of higher fuel costs.
``We're right in the middle of pricing in the potential impact of surging oil prices and a slowdown in the global economy,'' said Yasumasa Nishimura, who manages $181 million in Japanese equities at Dai-Ichi Kangyo Asset Management Co.
The Morgan Stanley Capital International Asia-Pacific Index, which tracks the performance of more than 900 companies, slid 1.1 percent to 85.03 as of 11 a.m. in Tokyo. Japan's Nikkei 225 Stock Average shed 1.7 percent to 10,578.62, while South Korea's Kospi index dropped 0.5 percent to 772.04.
Shares of BHP Billiton and Japan Petroleum Exploration Co., which produce and explore for oil, gained. Crude oil futures rose to a record on concern that supply from Venezuela, the fourth- largest exporter to the U.S., may be disrupted by violence after a referendum yesterday on whether to recall President Hugo Chavez.
All other benchmarks in the region's markets open for trading dropped, except for those in Singapore, the Philippines and New Zealand.
Toyota, the world's biggest automaker by market value, lost 2.2 percent to 4,110 yen. The company gets 80 percent of its operating profit from North America. Samsung Electronics, South Korea's largest exporter, shed 1.9 percent to 429,500 won.
Nintendo Co., the world's biggest maker of handheld game consoles, sank 1.1 percent to 12,170 yen. The company gets more than two-thirds of its profit from exports.
Taiwan's Quanta Computer Inc., the world's largest notebook computer maker, shed 2.6 percent to NT$55.50.
Record Oil Price
Crude oil for September delivery rose 0.4 percent to $46.75 a barrel in after-hours electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. A gunman fired on voters, killing one person and injuring another 12 in Venezuela's capital Caracas, as they stood in line to vote on the referendum. Oil prices are up 51 percent from a year ago.
In the U.S., the trade deficit ballooned in June to a record $55.8 billion as imports of crude oil surged, the Commerce Department said in Washington on Friday.
Energy prices there, which were 11.3 percent higher in July than the same month last year, have chipped away at incomes and caused spending on other goods and services to slow. The U.S. is the biggest destination for the region's goods.
U.S. consumer confidence fell for the first time in three months, dropping to 94 in August from 96.7 in July, the University of Michigan's preliminary index of consumer sentiment showed.
BHP, Japan Petroleum
``Both high oil prices and the U.S. trade deficit will be further blows to Asian countries,'' said Paul Tsai, who manages $14 million at International Investment Trust Co. in Taipei.
Shares of the region's oil producers and explorers advanced on optimism higher prices will bolster earnings.
BHP, Australia's biggest oil producer, advanced 1 percent to A$13.12. Woodside Petroleum Ltd., the nation's second-biggest producer, rose 1.2 percent to A$18.93.
Japan Petroleum added 1.8 percent to 4,560 yen. The company, also known as Japex, on Friday raised its first-half profit forecast by 59 percent to 4.87 billion yen ($43.5 million) as higher oil prices boosted the value of its inventory.
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Chinese President Hu Jintao has sent important instructions on relief work in areas hit by Typhoon Rananim, calling for all-out effort to cure the wounded, restore water, electricity supplies, transportation and telecommunication infrastructure as well as properly arrange people's life in the area. In an instruction, Premier Wen Jiabao also called on relevant departments to continue their effort for the all-round success in disaster relief work. Typhoon Rananim has killed at least 115 people, left 16 missing and injured more than 1,600 in east China's Zhejiang Province by Friday afternoon. Too bad they've been spending all their money on building those missiles to point at Taiwan. Maybe building levees and emergency service facilities would have been a better idea. That is, if the politburo actually gave a sh!t about the welfare of their people.
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Amen, Zenster, for recognizing exactly what's wrong with the PRC ... oh wait, in Chinese, they're called heroes. :-P
(It's a linguistic thing - the Chinese phrase for hero really means "ballsy guy with strong ambition and determination", and has no inherent moral connotation whatsoever.)
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I'm in Zhejiang province - the typhoon was a kitten. Just some mildly strong wind and rain. We've had heavier rains before. Typhoons really don't compare to real Hurricanes in strength for some reason. But in the countryside you see some really ramshackle houses. For the wedding of a coworker, we went out into one of the REALLY rural parts of the province (45 minute ferry ride, 20 minutes on a dirt road) and there were thatched buildings everywhere. Not really houses, but outbuildings, workshops, and suchlike. And even the Big Bad Wolf could blow those down.
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Frank G: gromky - no net censorship there?
I don't think there's much censorship of English-language material. My use of the Internet in China is episodic, and coincide with my trips there. But I've never had any problem getting access to English-language web sites, including Fox News, CNN or MSNBC.
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They block BBC, plus blogspot.com and typepad.com and an assortment of other sites that you wouldn't really think of, such as a newspaper in Florida and a few others. Half the time, it's not that it's blocked, but that the so-so infrastructure can't reach the site. Outbound ICMP is blocked upstream, so no traceroutes or pings. What's interesting is the sites they don't block...pretty much all of American sites are there. Probably because they figure it's English-language and not much of a threat.
As for me, I just set up a simple unecrypted squid proxy on a box in the States and anytime I hit a block I just enable the proxy (F12 and x in Opera!) and off I go.
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P.S. my Chinese name is Zhang Lei...I briefly considered posting under that name here, but obviously it might cause some confusion! So nadsat slang instead.
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gromky, off topic, but while we've got you online here ...
Were there ever any arrests and prosecutions in the "bloodheads" case? I've been looking for any sort of sentences (or heads) handed down for this massive wrongdoing. The only arrest of note was that of Wan Yanhai for actually publicizing the medically caused AIDS crisis.
I've seen executions and other charges of corruption, like the recent case of Bi Yuxi and the fake milk fraud in Anhui, but never a peep about the bloodheads. One would think China wants to trumpet their prosecution of the devils who promoted such a devastating plague.
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gromky ... do you agree with my statement on "hero"? (ying xiong)
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Zenster, no idea. I don't really keep up with domestic news, it's dry as dirt. The English-language CCTV-9 is one of the most boring TV stations I've ever seen.
Yee, I don't speak Chinese. A city of 6 million, and there are no Chinese language schools here. Go figure.
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EY: gromky ... do you agree with my statement on "hero"? (ying xiong)
Based on my readings of the translated Chinese classics the Romance of the Three Kingdoms and the Water Margin, both of which form the basis of the canon of chop-socky movie classics, I would have to agree that heroes in the Chinese context don't have to be moral - they just have to win. Lying, cheating, backstabbing - all are acceptable. To paraphrase Stalin* - based on the Chinese classics, winning has a moral quality all its own.
* Stalin is reputed to have said, in reference to the fact that his forces were, man for man, inferior to German forces, the following: "Quantity has a quality all its own".
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Hero = "ballsy guy with strong ambition and determination", and has no inherent moral connotation whatsoever ...
Day late and a dollar short, but since gromky was good enough to respond, here's another question;
Hero= "[S]trong ambition and determination" - [with] - no inherent moral connotation whatsoever.
Edward Yee, not that you might argue the case, but how does this connotative disconnect properly signify a true hero? While comprehensive altruism need not be the prime ingredient of heroism, some degree of uplifting and protectiveness must be, elsewise it is only self-service in the worst sense.
How can heroism be so devoid of moral polarity? I do not so much expect any explanation from yourself save some sort of acknowledgement of the absurdity. My own doubts could be summed up in less than a sentence.
A STAND-off is looming over just who wears the bikinis at the Olympic beach volleyball competition in Athens. It's already a sport where the scoreline sometimes takes second place to interest in how little the players are wearing. But now the players have voiced concerns over the antics and the dress of a troupe of a dozen dancers that entertains the Athens crowd between matches. "I feel it's kind of disrespectful to the players to have other girls in bikinis out there dancing," said Australia's Nicole Sanderson after her opening match today. "I'm sure some of the male spectators like it, but I'm not so sure about the players."
The way I look at it, you can never have too many scantily clad maidens...
Somebody buy Nicole a drink Er, several drinks, she's Australian
Sanderson and Sydney gold medallist Natalie Cook, the fifth seeds, won the match against the Bulgarian sisters Linda and Petia Yanchulova 21-16 21-12. Cook's partner from the Sydney Games, Kerri Pottharst, earlier won her opener with new partner Summer Lochowicz, beating Tian Jia and Wang Fei of China 21-18 21-18. Both Sanderson and Cook suggested that one solution to the dancers, whose orange bikinis and exotic manoeuvres have attracted almost as much attention as the volleyball, might be to slip in a couple of male dancers. "If it's equal, then it's fine," Sanderson said.
Not as interesting, but fine...
Just have the wimmin dancers at the end where I'm sitting, 'k?
Beach volleyball debuted as an Olympic sport in Atlanta in 1996 and attracted such a devoted following that it became the fifth most watched event in Sydney four years ago.
You don't think it had anything to do with the amount of skin displayed, do you?
Australia is again one of the favourites to win the gold medal in Athens, but its chances dipped even before play began in the Cook-Sanderson match. Cook walked onto the court with her right shoulder heavily strapped after she suffered rotator cuff tear earlier in the week. She said the injury hadn't prevented her from showing too much skin hindered her too much today and she was confident it would survive the seven matches required to win a second gold medal. "I think I've got another six matches in me," Cook said. "I've been icing it and doing what I can to get me through." But in beach volleyball, there are other forms of assistance to help the players through. The most obvious is the relentless music that blasts out between points. The scoreline in today's Cook-Sanderson match meant that snippets of 70 different tunes got an airing. During one time-out in today's second set the resident DJ played the Rolf Harris standard Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport - which did nothing to inspire the Bulgarians. In the last match of the first day's program, Australians Mark Williams and Julian Prosser beat Americans Dain Blanton and Jeff Nygaard 21-16, 21-14.
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Bulgarians play beach volleyball?
Where do they practice?
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The only fair way to determine which troupe of girls can wear the bikinis is to have a all-out, no-holds-barred jello wrestling match between the rival teams!
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> Bulgarians play beach volleyball?
> Where do they practice?
On the fine beaches of the Black Sea, from Varna to Burgas. Google a map of Bulgaria for a revelation.
Just in case anti-Bush documentary "Fahrenheit 9/11" needed any more controversy to fuel its hot box office, a new war of words has broken out over whether the U.S. Army is stonewalling efforts to book the film at military bases. But the organisation that orders films for the 160 base theatres countered on Friday that it was the distributors -- Fellowship Adventure Group, IFC Films and Lions Gate Films -- that had the problem and noted they plan to stock base stores with the film's DVDs when they are released. The movie, made by Oscar-winning director Michael Moore, has grossed over $113 million (61 million pounds) at domestic box offices and such a blockbuster would be routinely, and quickly, ordered up by the military.
But the movie presents a scathing view of President George W. Bush's drive to war in Iraq, and it paints an unflattering view of the conduct of some U.S. military personnel. Although to be fair, many of the men and women fighting in Iraq are depicted as compassionate and caring. Moore has made no secret of the fact he wants Bush ousted from office, and the film is undoubtedly anti-war. "We have made all requested materials available to them, but unfortunately, a commitment to show the film has not been made," a Lions Gate spokeswoman said. A spokesman for Fellowship Adventure Group claimed the military was stonewalling for obvious reasons. Judd Anstey, public affairs specialist for the Army and Air Force Exchange Service which books movies for military base theatres, denied any suggestion the decision not to book the film had anything to do with its content and was solely based on business. Mostly that it's not good business to have your theater screens shredded by irate crowds.
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"We have made all requested materials available to them, but unfortunately, a commitment to show the film has not been made," a Lions Gate spokeswoman said.
This is a bunch of crap. AFFES has already aired messages on AFN (Armed Forces Network) here in Europe that because of it's popularity (in France, Hamas Home Theaters, San Fransico, etc.) that it has not been able to get a copies of it from the distributor.
It also restated that it doesn't censor the movies it orders. It orders the most popular stateside movies that it can get. Which it does.
My guess is that they (Fat Boy(TM) and his distributors)just want to beat a dead horse a few more times to try and get the impression out that Bush and the DOD conspire to prevent Michael Moore's crap from being aired and to pocket a few bucks. Don't be surprised when it flops in the theathers though.
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Well, if he can't get his film shown, maybe Moore should just show up at Camp LeJeune or Twenty-Nine Palms and explain his message to the Marines and their families. Then he can move on to Fort Bragg, if he's able.
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Matt, I would PAY to see Moore show up at a Marine or Army base! That would be entertaining!
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"And here's Michael Moore arriving at Ft Bragg...wait...the crowd is rushing forward. It's hard to see what's happening...it appears they're burning an effigy of Michael Moore."
"Erm, I don't think that's an effigy. They don't thrash around and scream while they're on fire."
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note: knight-ridder syndicates this article all over the country...
oh, and the book comes out today...heh heh
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The MSM had better get a clue, and fast: if they insist on providing cover for Kerry's tall tales now, and he wins the election, they're going to have to keep on providing cover for another four years.
And if they do, their credibility will be utterly destroyed; this story is NOT going away.
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I assume this will be in the Tallahasee Democrat.
Lets put this thing on the radar by putting it someplace even the NY Times cannot ignore: the best seller list.
Kerry sold out his fellow veterans, and the truth needs to be told. One veteran to anohter was the way before, in VFW and LEgion halls, but now its time for the public to know what us Veterans have known for a while: Kerry is unfit for command.
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Ahhh! The link's bogus. It was a Boston.com (read - online Boston Globe) search of 'Kerry Cambodia' that returned 0 hits. Don't know how the URL got hosed, sorry...
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Column by Kack Kelly, Not So Swift, in today's Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04228/361477.stm
Yes, I suspect the dam's about to burst. If it doesn't, and Kerry wins, all the dirty water behind the dam will burst forth during his presidency.
One of the big advantages of telling the truth up front (aside from minor considerations like morality and ethics, of course) is that you don't have to keep on telling new lies to cover up the old ones.
So c'mon, MSM, get with the program.
Like Kelly says, not too swift.
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The German newspaper "Die Welt" is the first here to catch on
For us non-Deutsch gesprachers could you give us the jist? Is it painting the SBVT ad waco liars or granting them a legitimate place in the debate?
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I got as far as "John F. Kerry", and then the rest of it went over my head-- too many words ending in -ung and -ische.
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FWIW, with Google toolbar, you right-click on the article and pick "translate into English". It does a pretty good job, sometimes syntax, etc. is funky
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The article maintains a neutral stance but seems to see the SBVT as legitimate, especially in the light of Kerry's intent of "correcting his account".
It believes that if the allegations are confirmed that Kerry could be in real trouble.
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I just ran it thru my own translation program but it does read funky. If you are really interested I could translate some passages but there is no new info there, just that it is the first time I see this topic treated in a major German paper.
It's always been my experience that I could do as well as the translators with my 30 year old college German but that we both miss the, shal we say, nuance that really gives meaning to the article. Are these things getting any better? I know my German isn't
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One point of the article is that if the Vets can prove Kerry's Cambodia episode to be a lie, their other allegations in the book would gain credibility. Kerry would lose his "war hero" advantage on Bush
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#6 Raj - it surprised me. It retured an "error" message. :-(
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#12 - Frank G - click where? No matter where I right-clicked on the article, it didn't give me a choice of "translate." (And yes, I use Google)
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This whole story is SEARED I tell you, SEARED on me binnacle!!
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in the text... hmmm - it's the last option above "properties" in my browser when I right click....
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Doesn't work for me, Frank G. Maybe something has to be turned on/pre-selected for it to work.
Wish I could find out how to do it, though - it would be a great tool.
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might be "enable third part browser extensions" in internet options - advanced....? I don't see anything else enabled that might make the diff., sorry
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Kerry is not as good a schmoozer as Slick Willy and he's an even worse liar.
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"I think he just outright lied," said Hoffman, a founder of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. "He never was there."
I don't know that I would say that Kerry was never in Cambodia for Christmas. Who is to say where he enjoyed the holidays after he signed on as an operative for international communism.
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I always say if your going to lie,lie well problem with Kerry he couldn't lie to a 5 yr old and get away with it.
Via the Cracker Barrel Philosopher. Severely EFL
... This is an insufficient condemnation if one of the more gruesome passages in the book turns out to be true. That is, one night in January 1969, Kerry and crew were patrolling the banks of the Cua Lon River when all hell descended. Kerry told quasi-official biographer Douglas Brinkley that many minutes of silent patrol had gone by when someone yelled, "Sampan off the port bow!":
"Everybody froze and we slowed the engines quickly. But the sampan was already by us and wasn't stopping. It was past curfew and nothing was allowed in the river. I told the gunner to fire a few warning shots and in the confusion all guns opened up. We moved in on the sampan, and taking one of the battle lanterns off the bulkhead shone it on the silhouette of the craft that was now dead in the water."
But the presence of eyewitnesses betrays Kerry's self-serving remake of the incident. According to gunner Steve Gardner, who "sat above Kerry on the double .50-caliber mount that night," Kerry stayed in the pilothouse during the incident. Kerry failed to spot the sampan on radar and give warning; he didn't join the crew when they heard an engine noise and saw the boat; he wasn't there when they threw the PFC lights on; he did not order them to fire warning shots; and he wasn't there when Gardner ordered the craft to stop.
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While this account is from a crewman who hates Kerry and may be suspect,I still can't get out of my mind Kerrys' own account of mine/rescue/medal incident out of my mind.When the mine went off,Kerry stated he left(ie fled) the area and then returned-yet the other boats stayed there.Same in his journal account of Christmas Eve,contact and Kerry stayed in middle of river and 2 other boats went to investigate.
If any Swift boat vets are reading,was it common practice to break contact as soon as you came under fire?
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Explains why Gardner is not on the Kerry platform. It would be hard to live with that every day for the rest of your life.
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At least this explains why Kery thought there were so many war crimes being committed.
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With a Faruno or an SPS-10 radar you could not have missed that large of a contact. Therefore, he was not looking at the radar - probably asleep, reading, writing or smoking in the pilot house. Must have been awoken by the gunfire.
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busy trying to figure out where the hell they were - we already know he doesn't know where Cambodia is
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Kerry also contacted Brinkley to "modify" the account he gave to Brinkley.
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Iran's Arash Miresmaeili has been eliminated after failing to make the correct weight at the Athens Olympics.
But there is confusion over the affair, following the judo star's reported threat to walk out in protest when he was drawn against an Israeli opponent.
Iran has a strict policy of sanctions against Israel and forbids any contact with Israeli citizens.
Iran's President Mohammad Khatami has said Miresmaeili's act will be recorded among the nation's glories.
The International Judo Federation (IJF) said: "We're very surprised an elite player could not make his weight."
It added: "At the moment we have someone who is representing his country and did not make the weight. We have to know more about it."
Controversy
The IJF's executive committee met on Sunday to discuss the case, but a spokesman said that no decision had been reached. More talks are expected on Monday.
Tolerance, solidarity, peace and friendship - these are the values of the IOC, these are the values of judo
The International Judo Federation
Miresmaeili, the world champion in the under-66kg division who carried Iran's flag at Friday's opening ceremony, had been drawn to face Israeli's Ehud Vaks in the first round.
After the draw, he was quoted in Iran as saying that he had refused to face his Israeli rival in sympathy with the oppressed Palestinian people.
A spokesman for the Iran National Olympic Committee said it was a "general policy" of the country to refrain from competing against Israeli athletes and that Miresmaeili had simply observed the protocol.
But the IJF said it received letters on Saturday from officials of the Iranian Judo Federation denying Miresmaeili would withdraw from the Olympics on political grounds.
On Sunday Miresmaeili was weighed for the contest but was over the featherweight limit of 66kg needed to compete.
"We sent this information to the IOC," said the IJF.
"We don't know if they (the reports) are true or not true. We have to study that - at the moment we don't have the right information.
"As regards the political issue... the IJF want to promote the values of judo...
"We heard IOC president Jacques Rogge calling for the values of tolerance, solidarity, peace and friendship.
"These are the values of the IOC, these are the values of judo so we would like these values to be promoted in judo."
The IOC said that it had not received notification of any issues relating to Miresmaeili's withdrawal, but it is unhappy about any political gestures, says the BBC's Harry Peart in Athens.
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Iran's Arash Miresmaeili has been eliminated after failing to make the correct weight at the Athens Olympics. But there is confusion over the affair, following the judo star's reported threat to walk out in protest when he was drawn against an Israeli opponent. Iran has a strict policy of sanctions against Israel and forbids any contact with Israeli citizens. Iran's President Mohammad Khatami has said Miresmaeili's act will be recorded among the nation's glories. "Our overweight contestant never even got onto the mat before being disqualified! All to Iran's greater glory! Give that man another platter of kebabs."
Didn't think he could take the Zionist infidel, huh?
The International Judo Federation (IJF) said: "We're very surprised an elite player could not make his weight." It added: "At the moment we have someone who is representing his country and did not make the weight. We have to know more about it."
I'm thinkin' he likes pie. What do you think?
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The IJF's executive committee met on Sunday to discuss the case, but a spokesman said that no decision had been reached. More talks are expected on Monday. Miresmaeili, the world champion in the under-66kg division who carried Iran's flag at Friday's opening ceremony, had been drawn to face Israeli's Ehud Vaks in the first round. After the draw, he was quoted in Iran as saying that he had refused to face his Israeli rival in sympathy with the oppressed Palestinian people. Isn't there some way to make it so that all of these bigoted anti-Semitic countries have to face Israel in their first rounds of competition? It sure would weed out a lot of these scumbags and save a whole bunch of expensive airtime. This sort of intolerance needss to be shown the door at light speed. Why should an international venue serve the ends of violent bigots? Isn't the UN enough already?
If he'd thought he could beat the Zionist infidel he'da been eager for the match, a victory to be dedicated to the struggling Paleostinians. Instead he went for a Muslim-style "victory."
Attackers armed with machetes and automatic weapons raided a U.N. refugee camp in western Burundi, shooting and hacking to death at least 180 men, women and children, U.N. officials said. Burundian Hutu rebels claimed responsibility, insisting the camp for Congolese Tutsi refugees fleeing tribal fighting was a hide-out for Burundi army soldiers and Congolese tribal militiamen. But most of the victims appeared to be women and children. Their charred remains lay among the cooking utensils and the smoldering remnants of their former homes on Saturday.
The attack late Friday echoed the killing during the 1994 genocide in Burundi's neighbor Rwanda and raised fears of retaliatory violence that could undo peace efforts in Congo. The camp, 12 miles from the border with Congo, sheltered ethnic Tutsi refugees, known as the Banyamulenge, who fled fighting in Congo's troubled border province of South Kivu, U.N. officials visiting the camp after the attack said. ``People were sleeping when the attack happened,'' Eliana Nabaa, spokeswoman of the U.N. mission in Congo said. ``People were killed as they tried to escape.''
Isabelle Abric, spokeswoman for the U.N. mission in Burundi, said 159 people were killed on the spot and 101 others were wounded in the attack in Gatumba. At least 30 of the wounded died later in hospital, she said. Leaflets distributed before the raid warned refugees to leave the camp or face attacks by a coalition of Burundian, Rwandan and Congolese factions seeking ``to fight the Tutsi colonization in the region,'' survivors said. The attackers spoke languages and dialects from the Congo, Rwanda and Burundi and were believed to have crossed into Burundi from Congo, witnesses told The Associated Press. They asked not to be named for fear of retribution.
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But most of the victims appeared to be women and children.
Hey, Kofi - Is this a genocide yet? Just askin'...
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Leaflets distributed before the raid warned refugees to leave the camp
So the UN knew it was coming - yet all they did was watch it happen. Why not just install video camera's or get sattelite images and save us some money on lavish expense accounts.
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Sylviane Diouf knows her audience might be skeptical, so to demonstrate the connection between Islam and American blues music, she'll play two recordings: The Muslim call to prayer (the religious recitation that's heard from mosques around the world), and "Levee Camp Holler" an early type of blues song that first sprang up in the Mississippi Delta more than 100 years ago. "Levee Camp Holler" is no ordinary song. It's the product of ex-slaves who worked moving earth all day in post-Civil War America. The version that Diouf uses in presentations has lyrics that, like the call to prayer, speak about a glorious God. ("Well, Lord, I woke up this mornin', man, I feelin' bad . . . Well, I was thinkin' 'bout the good times, Lord, I once have had.") But it's the song's melody and note changes that closely parallel one of Islam's best-known refrains. As in the call to prayer, "Levee Camp Holler" emphasizes words that seem to quiver and shake in the reciter's vocal chords. Dramatic changes in musical scales punctuate both "Levee Camp Holler" and the call to prayer. A nasal intonation is evident in both. "I did a talk a few years ago at Harvard where I played those two things, and the room absolutely exploded in clapping, because (the connection) was obvious," says Diouf, an author and scholar who is also a researcher at New York's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. "People were saying, 'Wow. That's really audible. It's really there.' "
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Jeebus Cripes - they're just like the Soviets were, claiming they invented/discovered everything.
Next they'll claim they invented air, too. And probably demand reparations from us for breathing it.
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everyone knows Kim Jong-Il invented music! A sea of fire upon these pretenders!
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John Lee al-Hookah
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The connection between Hollerin' and Blues is tenuous at best. Never mind that white folk in hill country did more Hollerin' than blacks on the levees of Mississippi.
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If Muslims invented the Blues it would be just another thing invented and then forgotten by Islam in their quest to be the low tier culture in the world.
What happened to the mythical Golden Age of Islam?
Once Arab traders were everywhere. Once Arabs invented Algebra and preserved great writings. Once they developed the Blues. Now they have one product to sell and don't have the technology to drill it without help. They haven't invented anything in over a thousand years. And the hard core fellows have banned music entirely and even frown on kite-flying.
...Ask an Iraqi communist or Kurdish socialist today what support they have had from the liberal left and they won't detain you for long. Apart from the odd call from the Socialist International, there has been none worthy of the name. One expects the totalitarian left to be stuffed with creeps, but the collapse of the democratic left strikes me as catastrophic. Why couldn't it oppose the second Gulf war while promising to do everything possible to advance the cause of Iraqi democrats and socialists once the war was over? Why the sneering, almost racist pretence that Saddam had no honourable opponents?
The ineluctable answer is, I'm afraid, that there no longer is a left with a coherent message of hope for the human race. The audiences at Michael Moore films don't look at his propaganda images of kite-flying kiddies and pull themselves up short by thinking of what happened to their comrades in Iraq. They have no comrades. They don't support Saddam. They don't support his foes. They have no policy to offer. The noise of their self-righteous anger is merely a cover for an indifference bred by failure.
Marxist-Leninism is as dead as any idea can be - it made the fatal blunder of putting its ideas into practice and died of shame. Fifty years ago, there were revolutionary socialist movements in dozens of countries ready to take power. Today there isn't one, and the world is a better place for that. The nobler traditions of the social-democratic left are also under enormous strain. It seems that Tony Blair or Gordon Brown is about as good as it can get in Britain. Europe has leaders who appear more left-wing on paper, but to date they have failed to pull the Continent away from stagnation.
Unless you believe that the failure of the world's peoples to look leftwards is all the result of brainwashing by the corporate media, you have to conclude that the left is dead. The anger that propelled it is still there, and although it won many battles, some of the oppressions it fought against remain as grievous as ever.
The pity of the aftermath is that while the honourable traditions of the left are forgotten, the worst flourish and mutate into aberrations that would have made our predecessors choke.
which among other things includes a list of lies. I'm removing much which may still be disputed.
March 23: The network begins 2 days of unequivocal assertions that a 100-acre facility discovered by coalition forces at An Najaf is a chemical weapons plant.
March 24: Oliver North reports that the staff at the French embassy in Baghdad are destroying documents. [How could he know this?]
March 28: Repeated assertions by Fox News anchors of a red ring around Baghdad in which Republican Guard forces were planning to use chemical weapons on coalition forces.
April 7: Fox, echoing NPR, reports that U.S. forces near Baghdad have discovered a weapons cache of 20 medium-range missiles containing sarin and mustard gas. Initial tests show that the deadly chemicals are not "trace elements."
April 10: Fox "Breaking News" report of weapons-grade plutonium found at Al Tuwaitha. [In the coming weeks this "discovery" was expeditiously shoved down the Memory Hole as well.]
April 10 (3 p.m. EDT: Reporter Rick Leventhal) Fox "Breaking News" report: A mobile bioweapons lab is found. Video of a tiny tan truckâabout the size of the smallest truck that U-Haul rents â which had its cargo bed and fuel tank shot up with bullets after a looter tried to drive it away. Repeated assertions that this is most definitely a "bioweapons" lab.
April 15: Fox analyst Mansoor Ijaz claims that the top 55 Iraqi leaders (along with the whole stash of chemical and biological WMDs they have taken with them) are now living it up in Latakia, Syria.
May 22: O'Reilly fails to live up to his promise to make a big stink if no WMDs are found by today.
June 4: O'Reilly's Talking Points Memo: [Surreal.] O'Reilly says that the WMD issue has now been politicized [!!]. The war was a just war because there's now great progress between Palestinians and Israelis and that alone made the war worthwhile [?!!].
"they deal with facts"
And then again it seems there's the lying by statistics: http://www.boingboing.net/2004/05/21/fox_news_lies_with_s.html Among today's top stories, a new "Fox News Poll" that says 33% of those surveyed think the media is too easy on Kerry and 42% think the media is too tough on Bush. [...] But let's just look at the numbers they've given us. 33% think the media is too easy on Kerry. That means 66% (or 2/3rds) think the media is fair or too tough on Kerry, right? Isn't that the real story?
Fadl argued that the movie would reinforce hostility toward Muslims. "In this climate how are people going to react to these images of Muslims attacking churches and tearing down the cross and mocking it?" he asked.
About like they do already against moslims doing that and much worse around the world TODAY.
If the Western moslem-asskissing-media could be bothered reporting it.
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I agree barbara and who cares if the muslims are more hated after the movie? Limke they don't hate every one of us already.
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"I believe this movie teaches people to hate Muslims," he said. "There is a stereotype of the Muslim as constantly stupid, retarded, backward, unable to think in complex forms" he said, sounds like a good accurate film a must see for the mussies eh lol
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There is a stereotype of the Muslim as constantly stupid, retarded, backward, unable to think in complex forms" to illustrate this the spokesman created a complex sand painting using Abu Dick, Burka Jane and Sally and the dead Infidel Dog Spot.
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We here at Manchurian Corporation applaud this effort to reduce the number of red-diaper doper babies who will be available to fill the protest lines of the future.
This will allow our corporate successors to achieve our long-cherished goals of paving the Amazon rain-forest, exploiting the starving people of the third world, and strip-mining the Moon; without further hindrance from the spiritual descendants of the ironically named baby boom generation.
Thank you
Atomic Conspiracy
Senior Vice-President for conspiracies, cover-ups and black propaganda
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This reminds me very little of the old aphorism:
"Celibacy is not hereditary."
Fortunately, unless the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement seeks broader and compulsary application of its doctrine to others, it is certain to die out in a rather short time. On a closing note I'd also like to add; GOOD RIDDANCE.
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As an important sidebar, I need to mention how that loud whirring sound all of you hear in the background is Ayn Rand twirling at relativistic speeds in her grave.
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Translate to Arabic, add plenty of pseudo-pithy Quranic phrasings regards Mohammed condemning believers to the fires in myriad lurid ways if they procreate and disseminate widely, as a fatwa.
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The VHEMT is the uiltimate eco-panic. It also is doomed to failure; it was divinely promised that there will be a humanity during the Tribulation.
"As an important sidebar, I need to mention how that loud whirring sound all of you hear in the background is Ayn Rand twirling at relativistic speeds in her grave."
Actually, Some of that is Adam and Eve you hear rolling at lightspeed in their graves. Also Noah, in whose day we were an endangered species.
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Does the VHEM movement have the Dimmhicratic Party mailing list? Perhaps an endorsement from Al Gore would help. Perhaps Les U. Knight could be Hillary's running mate in '08.
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Voluntary Human Extinction Movement
What, the Shakers are back in town?
It worked for them - they've been extinct for a long time.
#4 A6079 - Great idea! Any thoughts on how we can implement it?
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"Voluntary Human Extinction"
Great idea. You go first.
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SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!!!!
Ooooops... Right idea. Wrong execution.
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My guess about this group: "Les" started it as an elaborate joke, something like Bonsai Kitten, but found that many far-gone eco-wackies were taking it seriously. There was therefore money to be made, and horny hippy chicks other benefits of activist status to be had, so he stayed with it.
Officials from Georgia and the breakaway republic of South Ossetia have held further talks on a ceasefire which was agreed on Friday. Both sides have pledged to honour the truce while the South Ossetians have agreed to allow civilians free passage through their capital Tskhinvali. But according to Russian news agencies, the Georgian village of Eredvi came under fire after dark on Saturday.
Working well so far, isn't it.
Amid rising tensions, there are fears all-out war will erupt in the republic. Georgia has vowed to re-establish control in South Ossetia, which says it wants to join Russia. But for now, the two sides have agreed to create additional buffer zones between their positions. They will be patrolled by Russian peacekeepers and monitored by the Organisation for Security and Co-operation (OSCE). "We have agreed on peace," said South Ossetia's Interior Minister Roland Guliyev who met with Georgian Defence Minister Georgy Baramidze on Saturday. But BBC correspondent Sarah Rainsford, who spent the day in South Ossetia, says passions have been sorely inflamed by the violence of recent weeks and that there is deep lack of trust on both sides. Despite the negotiations, the South Ossetians are preparing for war while the streets of Tskhinvali are teeming with gunmen, she added. Even the hospital operating theatre has been boarded up with sandbags.
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