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http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-gangs01.html# there are a few pics. i dont feel like reposting the article buts it quite interesting.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060428/ts_nm/mexico_drugs_dc Spring break just took on a whole new level of insanity.... Hell, every little weekend excursion down to mexico just took on a new level of insanity. MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Possessing marijuana, cocaine and even heroin will no longer be a crime in Mexico if the drugs are carried in small amounts for personal use, under legislation passed by the Mexican Congress. The measure given final passage by senators late on Thursday allows police to focus on their battle against major drug dealers, the government says, and President Vicente Fox is expected to sign it into law. "This law provid…
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Surprise turns sour for Iraqi-born woman She flew in from Spain for a visit with her son. Instead, she's in jail and set to be deported. By SHADI RAHIMI Published April 13, 2006 CLEARWATER - An Iraqi-born woman whose ex-husband was lauded by Gov. Jeb Bush as a symbol of progress in Iraq was detained at Tampa International Airport and is scheduled to be deported tonight. Safana Jawad, 45, who lives in Spain, said federal agents told her she was barred from the entering the country because she is connected to someone they view as suspicious. She was being held in the Pinellas County jail Wednesday night. Homeland Security Depar…
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http://www.thewartapes.com/ looks amazing. produced by the same people that produced Fog of War(which is an amazing film if you haven't seen it). microsoft word...
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So, what comes to your mind 1 2
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Marine Hero. I'm having a hard time coming to terms with stuff like this, which I've seen plenty of online (as the site says, never on the news, save for the whole Jessica Lynch debacle). Obviously the intent of the site is for you to feel proud of an act of bravery. If the events it describes are indeed true, I get a sense of admiration, a sense of awe at how this guy handled the situation, but pride? I have a really hard time feeling proud for this. But then what exactly does supporting our troops mean? Do we cheer them on when they kick huge amounts of ass and leave a path of destruction? What motivation can these guys have to do and finish their jobs if…
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<span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>Mom Accused of Changing Gender to Kidnap Her Kids</span> SOURCE March 28, 2006 — Two children who had been living in North Carolina with their mother — who allegedly passed herself off as a man and asked the kids to call her Daddy — have been reunited with their father and will return home to Arizona. Ernest Karnes and his ex-wife, Shellie White, had joint custody of their two children when White left their home state of Arizona in 2003, taking Erica, then 5, and Dusty, then 3. Tracked to Roanoke Rapids, N.C., White was arrested at her home on Friday. "At the time we spotted Shellie Whit…
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Following the resignation of Scott McClellan as White house press secretary(the guy that has answer questions for the white house), the white house has turned to the most logical choice to tell the president's side of the story...A current fox news "analyst". Tony Snow is currently host of a self-titled talk show on the Fox News network. According to foxnews.com, who had their own Bill O'reilly interview their own(?) Tony Snow about the possibilities of Snow accepting the position during an interview that was conducted on his current employers TV stations. Hmmm.... I'm sure this matters very little cool hunters that accidentally click this section on their way to loo…
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Dawn of a thirsty century By Alex Kirby BBC News Online environment correspondent The amount of water in the world is limited. The human race, and the other species which share the planet, cannot expect an infinite supply. Water covers about two-thirds of the Earth's surface, admittedly. But most is too salty for use. Only 2.5% of the world's water is not salty, and two-thirds of that is locked up in the icecaps and glaciers. Of what is left, about 20% is in remote areas, and much of the rest arrives at the wrong time and place, as monsoons and floods. Humans have available less than 0.08% of all the Earth's water. Yet over the next two d…
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listen to the second guy on this thing, hes sick and he makes some good points, what u think? and what do you think about rap as a way of expressing political views? (i considered if this was worth a thread, then thought theres no harm in sharing it)
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cynthia mckinney ^video TRIBUNE UPDATE U.S. stalls on human trafficking Pentagon has yet to ban contractors from using forced labor By Cam Simpson Washington Bureau Published December 27, 2005 WASHINGTON -- Three years ago, President Bush declared that he had "zero tolerance" for trafficking in humans by the government's overseas contractors, and two years ago Congress mandated a similar policy. But notwithstanding the president's statement and the congressional edict, the Defense Department has yet to adopt a policy to bar human trafficking. A proposal prohibiting defense contractor involvement in human trafficking for forced prostitut…
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It's your government! So, Libby says Bush ok'ed the Plame leak... Bush's supporters say he did nothing wrong because he's go the authority to declassify any info when ever he sees fit. To which I say, ok, but then, why the witch hunt? Plus the return scam guy, and the HSO spokesperson who was internet stalking a 14 year old girl AND the HSO officer in Orlando, caught in surveillance video exposing himself to a teenage girl... This administration was crooked before but now it's crooked and sitting on your leather couch butt naked.
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Tom Delay? 1 2
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SO I have been reading about how fucked up this man is for years now. Recently it seems the mass media is catching wind...this article was a real winner and touched on an issue I had not heard of... http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/05/09/real.delay/index.html The real scandal of Tom DeLay WASHINGTON, D.C. (Creators Syndicate) -- Forget the freebie trips across the Atlantic and the Pacific. Forget the casinos and the allegedly illicit contributions -- they represent only degrees of avarice. To grasp the moral bankruptcy of the public Tom DeLay, the House majority leader, you only have to know about Frank Murkowski and Saipan. Today, Fran…
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Does anyone here like ***? If you do, then this is where you can tell me what you like or don’t like about the cd, **** or his music in general. I work at **** and hearing what you guys have to say is important. So do me a big favor, and tell me what you think about his style. I like his music, because it’s about things that are facing communities, and things that we all battle with.
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"The terrorist attack on Theo van Gogh has unleashed feelings of great fear and insecurity in [Dutch] society", presiding Judge Udo Willem Bentinck said. Van Gogh, well known for his scathing criticism of Islam and the multicultural society, was shot and stabbed in broad daylight as he cycled the streets of Amsterdam on 2 November 2004. His murder stoked ethnic tensions in the Netherlands and sparked a wave of reprisal attacks mainly directed at the Muslim community. "There is only one fitting punishment in this case and that is a life sentence. You are thus sentenced to life in prison," the judge told Bouyeri. A life sentence carries no possibility of…
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http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5137581991288263801&q=loose+change This documentary is worth the 80 minutes. Sorry if the thread is a repeat. I heard a lot about this documentary over the last few months .... I finally watched it on Friday. It blew my mind. It's a must see.
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robbers filled a van with used banknotes still aint bin court nerly 5 days later a meen wer do u hide a huge truk full of money ;)
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with all the news... and there's a lot of it... there was a quik story on how "blacks" are leaving new york and it leaves room for " white PEOPLE" to move in... i thought that was the most racist shit i've seen in a long time.. be that it may be a fact that black people are movine out of new york. no reason so slide in that white people are movin in. and i love the way the news calls black people BLACKS and when they mention white people, they add in the PEOPLE i dont know.. it was a goodmornin trip to me.
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Jewish Man Accused of Killing Roommate Over Toilet Paper AP MOSS BLUFF, Fla. (Feb. 21) - A jewish man accused of fatally beating his roommate with a sledgehammer and a claw hammer because there was no toilet paper in their home has been arrested. Benjamin Jerry Greenbrennerstein, 56, was charged Monday with homicide in the death of Kenneth Matthews, 58, according to the Marion County Sheriff's Office. Capt. Thomas Bibb said Greenbrennerstein initially denied his involvement, but confessed during questioning. Greenbrennerstein told investigators that the men were fighting about the toilet paper and lentil soup over the weekend when Matthews pul…
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Former Top Aide Busted
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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A former adviser to President Bush was arrested this week in Maryland and charged with swindling two department stores out of more than $5,000 in a refund scam. Montgomery County police said Claude Allen, 45, was arrested Thursday and charged with carrying out a felony theft scheme at Target and Hecht's stores. He was released on his own recognizance. Conviction on the charges can result in a 15-year prison sentence. Authorities accuse Allen of going to stores on more than 25 occasions and buying items, taking them to his car and then returning to the store with his receipt where he would carry out the alleged scam. "He would se…
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Religious freedom is one thing but isn't this just institutionalized oppression?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Gannon James Dale Guckert (c. 1958) worked under the pseudonym Jeff Gannon as a White House reporter between 2003 and 2005, representing Talon News. After Guckert came under public scrutiny, in particular for his lack of a significant journalistic background and involvement with various homosexual escort service websites using the professional name Bulldog, he resigned from Talon News on February 8, 2005. Continuing to use the name Gannon, he has since created his own official homepage and become a columnist for the Washington Blade newspaper, where he has come out, claiming to be a bisexual. Guckert routinely obtained daily passes…
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from today's Boston Globe: March 19, 2006 KABUL, Afghanistan --An Afghan man who allegedly converted from Islam to Christianity is being prosecuted in a Kabul court and could be sentenced to death, a judge said Sunday. The defendant, Abdul Rahman, was arrested last month after his family went to the police and accused him of becoming a Christian, Judge Ansarullah Mawlavezada told Associated Press in an interview. Such a conversion would violate the country's Islamic laws. Rahman, who is believed to be 41, was charged with rejecting Islam when his trial started last week, the judge said. During the hearing, the defendant allegedly confessed t…
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Source SF Chronicle BERKELEY / Stunning photographs show the horror of genocide in Darfur / Former U.S. monitor is touring Bay Area to appeal for action http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?...BAGSVHL5KG1.DTL Brian Steidle, a former Marine captain, enjoyed photography as a lark. Then he began shooting images of genocide in Sudan. Now he recalls the awful buzz of flies in a village that was looted and burned after its inhabitants were killed. As a U.S. representative to the African Union peacekeeping mission, Steidle had access to certain areas of Sudan's troubled Darfur provinces that are restricted to journalists. The Sudanese government reluctantly…
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U.S. military plans to make insect cyborgs By SHAUN WATERMAN UPI Homeland and National Security Editor http://www.upi.com/inc/view.php?StoryID=20...12-073227-3194r WASHINGTON, March 12 (UPI) -- Facing problems in its efforts to train insects or build robots that can mimic their flying abilities, the U.S. military now wants to develop "insect cyborgs" that can go where its soldiers cannot. The Pentagon is seeking applications from researchers to help them develop technology that can be implanted into living insects to control their movement and transmit video or other sensory data back to their handlers. In an announcement posted on government Web site…
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It has recently come to my attention that the Knights of the Golden Circle (which John Wilkes Booth was a part of) assassinated Lincoln. The Knights of the Golden Circle wanted to take over central america and the carribean and enslave the population(probably for agricultural domination), but became southern secessionists during the civil war. Check that shit out. crazy And if you find anything on Amendment 1110 to Executive Order #10289 (which both Lincoln and Kennedy supported apparently) please let me know. thx.
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this is important, and with a new study showing that more people know the simpsons characters than the first four amendments to our constitution, i think it's pretty important. learn it, memorize it. we may not have too much longer before we lose it. * First Amendment – Freedom of speech, press, religion, peaceable assembly, and to petition the government. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. * Second…
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http://refugeoflastresort.net clip one clip two Filmmaker, James L. Bills, tells a harrowing story of how he took his family to a "Hurricane Proof" building in the heart of New Orleans to save them from the ravaging effects of Hurricane Katrina. They survive one of the most powerful storms in recorded history, but JAMES, his wife TRACEY, their seven year old son and two year old daughter soon find themselves in a horrible dilemma. With only minimal supplies in hand, they had thought they would be returning home after the storm to make minor repairs and get on with their lives. Instead, they, including close friends GABRIEL, his wife MELISSA, and go…
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>>>Army weapons specialists and US disease investigators on full alert Mon 20 Mar 2006<<< BOTULISM, HUMAN, BAMBOO SHOOTS - THAILAND (NAN) *********************************************** Specialists on full alert following outbreak of botulism ----------------------------------------------- A serious disease outbreak in the northern province of Nan had Army weapons specialists and US disease investigators on full alert Mon 20 Mar 2006. Almost 150 people in the province have been stricken with botulism, a rare, often lethal bacterial disease that could potentially be used as a biological weapon. Health authorities have sought inter…
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Quote from a writer in the Khaleej Times , One of Dubai's top newspapers.. "Ironically, the US should subcontract its own airport security to Dubai. After all, more US naval ships call on Jebel Ali than any other port in the world and DXB is one of the safest, fastest growing and hippest airports on the planet. Not exactly shabby mafia-infested joints like JFK or La Guardia as I remember them. ..We need to heal the wounds of civilisation inflicted by the 9/11 terrorists, not inflame them.." --- This quote adquately reflects my point.. I think this uproar reflects the ugly and ignorant anti-arab setiment in the US and sends a horrible message …
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(source) What is everyones opinion of this? I think in a way its good because they are seeking to dismantle a backward monarchy. On the other hand, these guys are hardcore stalinists, which I dont approve of. Is progress past the middle ages important, even with Maoists leading?
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From the people that brought you Gitmo Halliburton affiliate tabbed to build immigration jails by Mason Stockstill February 5, 2006 Inland Valley Daily Bulletin A Houston-based construction firm with ties to the White House has been awarded an open-ended contract to build immigration detention centers that could total $385 million a move that some critics called questionable. The contract calls for KBR, a subsidiary of oil engineering and construction giant Halliburton, to build temporary detention facilities in the event of an "immigration emergency," according to U.S. officials. "If, for example, there were some sort of upheaval i…
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Dude can't handle it when a channel asks an unscripted question, eh? I'm an admirer of Berlusconi, somewhat. He went from a cruise ship singer to PM of Italy. He once said that one should always walk as if they hold the Sun in their pocket, which is good advice. But I think he left the Sun at home this time.
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Drug bust nets more than $250K worth of pot March 4, 2006 FROM STAFF REPORTS Advertisement A South Side man who is muslimwas arrested in a drug bust Friday night that netted more than $250,000 worth of cannabis, police said. Alfonso Rodriguez, 39, amuslimof the 3200 block of West 56th Street, was charged with two counts of manufacture and delivery of cannabis, said police News Affairs Officer Patrice Harper. Police made the bust at the muslim Rodriguez's home at about 11:30 p.m. Friday, Harper said. In it, they seized just under 37 pounds of cannabis, with a street value of about $276,000, she added. Rodriguez, who is clearly…
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U.S. Troops in Iraq: 72% Say End War in 2006 * Le Moyne College/Zogby Poll shows just one in five troops want to heed Bush call to stay “as long as they are neededâ€? * While 58% say mission is clear, 42% say U.S. role is hazy * Plurality believes Iraqi insurgents are mostly homegrown * Almost 90% think war is retaliation for Saddam’s role in 9/11, most don’t blame Iraqi public for insurgent attacks * Majority of troops oppose use of harsh prisoner interrogation * Plurality of troops pleased with their armor and equipment An overwhelming majority of 72% of American troops serving in Iraq think the U.S. should exit the coun…
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So, I figure some of you might be interested in exercising and preserving your freedom of information rights... and finding out what Uncle Scam 'knows' about you. The U.S. Freedom of Information Act is approaching its 40th birthday. Given that March 12 begins national Sunshine Week–an effort to cast light onto the growing recesses of government secrecy–U.S. News is providing links so its readers can file requests for federal records under the FOIA and its sister statute, the Privacy Act. The process is surprisingly simple. Here's a link to a SHORT article with all sorts of useful links.
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Yea, so it's been on the news latley that 8000 or so military personell have deserted. Note that teh overall rate of desertion was higher pre- 9/11 than it is after the invasion of Iraq...
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I get these e-mails daily from the DoD. Thought I would share one with you guys. It gives an extremely comprehensive oversight as to where our money goes. Cheers...... CONTRACTS from the United States Department of Defense No. 193-06 FOR RELEASE AT Mar 06, 2006 Media Contact: (703)697-5131 Public/Industry(703)428-0711 _CONTRACTS _ARMY Spawglass Construction Corp., Houston, Texas, was awarded on March 2, 2006, a $30,329,700 firm-fixed-price contract for design and construction of an Armed Forces reserve center. Work will be performed in Houston, Texas, and is expected to be completed by July 31, 2008. Contract f…
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http://cbs4.com/topstories/local_story_033170755.html disturbing.....the one cop that follows the reporter down the sidewalk and starts reaching for his gun....
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http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/.../images/map.swf
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Yes I know, I typo'd the title. sizource The Muslim Brotherhood, Nazis and Al-Qaeda By John Loftus Jewish Community News | October 4, 2004 It always seems a little strange to have an Irish-Catholic talking about Yom Ha Shoah. I had an unusual education in the Holocaust. When I was working for the Attorney General, I was assigned to do the classified research about the Holocaust, so I went underground to a little town called Suitland, Maryland, right outside Washington, D.C., and that's where the U.S. government buries its secrets -- literally. There are twenty vaults underground and each vault is one acre in size. Anyone see the movie “Raider…
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