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Hello all. I'm posting this in it's own thread because I don't think anyone is reading it because I originally put it in that fuckthesouth.com thread. Anyways I think this is a very interesting description of the cultural differences of north/south red/blue etc and how these differences came to be.
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WASHINGTON - Anheuser-Busch Cos., the nation's No. 1 buyer of rice as well as its largest brewer, says it won't buy rice from Missouri if genetically modified, drug-making crops are allowed to be grown in the state. The St. Louis-based beer giant, which says it is concerned about possible contamination, is the latest company to express concern over plans by Ventria Biosciences to grow 200 acres of rice engineered to produce human proteins that can make drugs... http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...r_genetic_crops i doubt this is the real reason. but what the hell might the real reason be? also, this contrasts with their new commercials that tr…
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from dailykos: and the ap article: Mar 29, 11:14 PM EST Secret Service investigating removal of three from Bush visit By P. SOLOMON BANDA Associated Press Writer DENVER (AP) -- President Bush's spokesman said a diversity of views is welcomed at events across the country as the president builds support for his Social Security reforms even as three people say the were singled out and removed from an event last week because of a bumper sticker. During a news conference Tuesday, White House spokesman Scott McClellan said the president hears different viewpoints on the news and the events are meant to educate the Am…
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http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/...stories.shtml#0 Reinstatement of the draft is likely soon, despite what the politicians say By info@NoDraftNoWay.org Contact: 39 W. 14 St., #206, New York, NY 10011 · (212) 633-6646 In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. We must begin NOW to build a movement to stop the draft before it starts. The U.S. military is in a quagmire in Iraq, facing a national popular uprising against the occupation. Although the U.S. has 138,000 soldi…
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dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y by Johan Grimonprez 1:08:00 Buckle up for DIAL H-I-S-T-O-R-Y, the acclaimed hijacking documentary that eerily foreshadowed 9-11. We meet the romantic skyjackers who fought their revolutions and won airtime on the passenger planes of the 1960's and 1970Õs. By the 1990's, such characters were apparently no more, replaced on our TV screens by stories of anonymous bombs in suitcases. Director Johan Grimonprez investigates the politics behind this change, at the same time unwrapping our own complicity in the urge for ultimate disaster. Playing on Don DeLillo's riff in his novel Mao II: "what terrorists gain, novelists lose" and "home is a …
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Watchin channel 4 news: "You call it racism, I call it 'Racial nationalism" -John Tyndall, BNP founder How can these slimy racist cunts still exist in 21st century?
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With a furious legal and political battle raging outside her hospice room, doctors removed Terri Schiavo's feeding tube Friday after a judge rebuffed an unprecedented attempt by Congress to keep the brain-damaged woman alive. Schiavo, 41, could linger one to two weeks without the tube, provided no one intercedes and gets it reinserted — as happened twice before. Late Friday, the House committee that issued the subpoenas filed an emergency request at the U.S. Supreme Court, asking justices to reinsert Schiavo's feeding tube while the committee files appeals in the lower courts to have its subpoenas recognized. Republicans on Capitol Hill used their subpoe…
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A high school student went on a shooting rampage on this Indian reservation Monday, killing his grandparents at their home and then seven people at his school, "grinning and waving" as he fired, authorities and witnesses said. The gunman was later found shot to death. It was the nation's worst school shooting since the Columbine massacre in 1999. Students pleaded with the gunman to stop shooting. "You could hear a girl saying, 'No, Jeff, quit, quit. Leave me alone. What are you doing?" Sondra Hegstrom told The Pioneer of Bemidji, using the name of the suspected shooter Not only is this fucked up, but there is no information in the article that expla…
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fuckthesouth.com- Fuck the South. Fuck 'em. We should have let them go when they wanted to leave. But no, we had to kill half a million people so they'd stay part of our special Union. Fighting for the right to keep slaves - yeah, those are states we want to keep. And now what do we get? We're the fucking Arrogant Northeast Liberal Elite? How about this for arrogant: the South is the Real America? The Authentic America. Really? Cause we fucking founded this country, assholes. Those Founding Fathers you keep going on and on about? All that bullshit about what you think they meant by the Second Amendment giving you the right to keep your assault weapons in the…
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Super-rich hide trillions offshore · Study reveals assets 10 times larger than UK GDP · Exchequers deprived of hundreds of billions in tax Nick Mathiason Sunday March 27, 2005 Observer The world's richest individuals have placed $11.5 trillion of assets in offshore havens, mainly as a tax avoidance measure. The shock new figure - 10 times Britain's GDP - is contained in the most authoritative study of the wealth held in offshore accounts ever conducted. The study, by Tax Justice Network, a group of accountants and economists concerned at the escalating wealth held in offshore locations, shows that the world's high-net-worth individuals earn $860 bil…
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The FBI has begun investigating whether the Pentagon improperly awarded no-bid contracts to Halliburton Co., seeking an interview with a top Army contracting officer and collecting documents from several government offices. The line of inquiry expands an earlier FBI investigation into whether Halliburton overcharged taxpayers for fuel in Iraq, and it elevates to a criminal matter the election-year question of whether the Bush administration showed favoritism to Vice President Dick Cheney's former company. FBI agents this week sought permission to interview Bunnatine Greenhouse, the Army Corps of Engineers' chief contracting officer who went public last weekend w…
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3 counts of perjury 1 count of conspiracy. Kim faces up to 20 years in prison. I would post the link but im not sure how. But if she does in fact go for 20 she would be close to 50 when she gets out. I doubt she gets 20 but our justice department does have a fondness of locking up hip hop and rap artists. Rarely do they solve a case unless it involves nabbing and screwing one of them.
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Condoleeza Rice is in the money! http://www.latimes.com/business/la-040405u...-home-headlines Chevron Buys Unocal for $16.4 Billion By Jesus Sanchez Times Staff Writer 10:00 AM PDT, April 4, 2005 ChevronTexaco Corp. today agreed to buy El Segundo-based Unocal Corp. for $16.4 billion in stock and cash in a deal that ends months of speculation surrounding the nation's eighth-largest oil company. The agreement was reached after a long line of potential suitors — ranging from China National Offshore Oil Corp. to Royal Dutch/Shell Group to Italian oil giant Eni — had reportedly looked closely at Unocal, which is prized for its large petroleum and …
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Link here: BBC news Venezuela and Spain have signed a number of trade agreements, including the controversial sale of Spanish military equipment. Opposition parties in both countries have criticised the deal reached in Venezuela's capital, Caracas. But Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said the equipment would be used for peaceful purposes. It includes Spain's naval patrol vessels and military transport planes. 'Instruments of peace' The agreements were signed at the end of Mr Zapatero's two-day visit to Venezuela. Several of the deals involve Spain's and Venezuela's respective o…
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First Amendment no big deal, students say Study shows American teenagers indifferent to freedoms Associated Press WASHINGTON - The way many high school students see it, government censorship of newspapers may not be a bad thing, and flag burning is hardly protected free speech. It turns out the First Amendment is a second-rate issue to many of those nearing their own adult independence, according to a study of high school attitudes released Monday. The original amendment to the Constitution is the cornerstone of the way of life in the United States, promising citizens the freedoms of religion, speech, press and assembly. Yet, when to…
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(Los Angeles) -- He'll be remembered for his wardrobe, winning, and the phrase to a jury: "If it doesn't fit, you must acquit." Famed attorney Johnnie Cochran has died at the age of 67. His family says Cochran died at his home in Los aAgeles of a brain tumor. A statement from his family says "Cochran's career will be marked by "celebrity" cases but that they are "most proud of the work he did on behalf of those in the community." For Cochran, Simpson's acquittal was the crowning achievement in a career notable for victories, often in cases with racial themes. He was a black man known for championing the causes of black defendants. Over the years, Cochran r…
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Strong evidence for a massive galaxy totally devoid of stars has been found in the Virgo cluster, about 50 million light years away from Earth. If the existence of this "dark galaxy" is confirmed, it will vindicate the favoured theory of how galaxies form - and will present fresh puzzles to solve. The new galaxy, which consists of a gigantic cloud of hydrogen gas and exotic dark matter, contains enough material to give birth to tens of millions of stars. Yet something is preventing this from happening. Such dark galaxies have been predicted, and could outnumber normal galaxies by as much as a hundred to one, but this is the first time anyone has confidently claimed t…
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Secret tapes reveal future president's marijuana use NEW YORK A published report says President Bush apparently acknowledged trying marijuana in his younger days during a conversation with a friend. Doug Wead secretly recorded at least a dozen talks with Bush between 1998 and the summer of 2000, when Bush was governor of Texas. The New York Times says in one of those talks, Bush criticized then-Vice President Al Gore for admitting past marijuana use and explained why he would not answer questions about marijuana. In Bush's words: "I don't want some little kid doing what I tried." Wead, a former aide to President Bush's father, discussed strategy and policy wi…
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Just over the United States northwest border, addicts will soon be able to get their fix from the Canadian government in the form of free heroin (search) administered by nurses and doctors on the taxpayer's dime. "They're using heroin. They'll continue to use heroin. What we're trying to do is prevent them from getting something irreversible like HIV, hep [hepatitis] C and overdose death,” said Dr. Martin Schechter, the director of the heroin program. Vancouver is the first city to take part in the North American Opiate Medication Initiative, which plans to enroll 470 participants at three sites in Canada. The Toronto and Montreal …
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the magic bullets
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i guess the truth to this wont be let out to till 2029.haha i just watched the JFK movie and it its like 911... questions that have no answers... i think they did a better job with kennedy, 911 was a sloppy mess. :evil2:
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Many a visitor to New York's Museum of Modern Art has probably thought, "I could do that." A British graffiti artist who goes by the name "Banksy" went one step further, by smuggling in his own picture of a soup can and hanging it on a wall, where it stayed for more than three days earlier this month before anybody noticed. The prank was part of a coordinated plan to infiltrate four of New York's top museums on a single day. The largest piece, which he smuggled into the Brooklyn Museum, was a 2 foot by 1.5 foot (61cm by 46 cm) oil painting of a colonial-era admiral, to which the artist had added a can of spray paint in his hand and a…
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Nature more than nurture decides how religious we are 15 Mar 2005 A study published in the current issue of Journal of Personality studied adult male monozygotic (MZ) and dizygotic (DZ) twins to find that difference in religiousness are influenced by both genes and environment. But during the transition from adolescence to adulthood, genetic factors increase in importance while shared environmental factors decrease. Environmental factors (i.e. parenting and family life) influence a child's religiousness, but their effects decline with the transition into adulthood. An analysis of self-reported religiousness showed that MZ twins maintained their religious similar…
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Palestinian land for sale...
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..this is pretty big news here as we all hate our guts for that..damn priests, here you go Greek Orthodox Financial Secretary secretly sells Occupied East Jerusalem properties for Jewish settlers The General Secretary of the Greek Orthodox Patriarch in Jerusalem, Bishop Arsta Khweis, confirmed the illegality of selling properties, including buildings and land, to Jewish settlers in Occupied East Jerusalem. The confirmation came in the Bishop’s press conference at his offices in the Old City of East Jerusalem Sunday. The Bishop says that a deal was signed by the Financial Secretary of the Patriarchy transferring several properties belonging to the…
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Link from MSNBC: http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7218202/ World reacts with skepticism to Wolfowitz World Bank nod The Associated Press Updated: 9:01 a.m. ET March 17, 2005 PARIS - Around the world, the notion of U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz leading the World Bank met with reactions that ranged mainly from official reserve to outright denunciation, but there was some support. Wolfowitz, nominated Wednesday by President Bush, is widely seen as a key instigator in the U.S. push to topple Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. International organizations worried about the nominee’s hawkish politics and questioned whether he is right for the job. …
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Guilty !st degree murderererere for wifie 2nd degree mudererererer of child. november 12, 2004
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Judge Killed in Court
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kinda surprised this hasnt been posted here, happened this past friday. ATLANTA (Reuters) - The suspect in the shooting deaths of a judge, U.S. Customs agent and two other people is in custody facing federal and state charges on Saturday after his surrender to an overwhelming police presence. Brian Nichols, 33, surrendered at an apartment complex surrounded by a SWAT team in northern Gwinnett County about 26 hours after he fled a downtown Atlanta courthouse where he had opened fire on Friday, police said. He was being questioned at an undisclosed location. "He is currently under arrest, and we're still trying to decipher out the charges," Atlanta Police …
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Pentagon Favors Air Strikes on Syria to Overthrow Assad, Free Lebanon The Pentagon is now convinced that air strikes on Syria have become necessary to overthrow the Assad regime, liberate Lebanon and stop support of insurgents waging a guerrilla war against American forces in Iraq as well as Palestinian militants against Israel, the U.S.-sponsored Al Hurra TV network says. "Political action to deal with the problem of Syria's presence in Lebanon and its support of terrorism against Israel and Iraq is no longer deemed effective," Al Hurra quoted American intelligence sources as saying, according to slain ex-Premier Hariri's Al Mustaqbal newspaper on Friday. …
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http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/byin...B20&doctype=ALL Basically the wonderful people in charge of the "war on drugs" want a full ban of the growth of all of these plants. Most are not abused or abusable, and some are so prevalent in the wild that its amazing the person who came up with this crap had the brain cells to invent this list. The ones that were actually useful hallucinogens are for the most part already illegal by federal law anyway, so I'm failing to see the point of this, other than maybe government officials attempting to look busy. I can just see some poor sucker with some jimson weed growing somewhere on his lot getting hauled off…
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This jive ass motherfucker needs a punch in the face. he is talking about Iraq, the soldiers and their families losses and hes fucking smiling half the time. What a fucking joke. :hatred:
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By WILLIAM KATES, Associated Press Writer SYRACUSE, N.Y. - The Onondaga Indian Nation laid claim to this city and thousands more square miles of upstate New York in a federal lawsuit filed Friday. Other tribes have used such lawsuits to get casinos, but Onondaga leaders say their objectives are a cleaner environment and a bigger reservation. Leaders of the 1,500-member tribe say they want the state to clean up hazardous sites in the 4,000-square-mile land-claim area — specifically a Syracuse lake they consider sacred that is among the world's most polluted bodies of water. "Our concern is for the water, the land, the air. They are not well," said…
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/russia/article/0...,872020,00.html Nick Paton Walsh in Moscow Friday January 10, 2003 The Guardian Russia has put three warships on standby to go to the Persian Gulf within the next month to protect its "national interests" in the event of an American invasion of Iraq. Russia's Pacific fleet has been ordered by the central command to prepare two cruisers and a fuel tanker for immediate deployment to the Gulf. The move will heighten tension between Moscow and Washington, who both have interests in Iraq's oilfields. The Marshal Shaposhnikov and the Admiral Panteleyev cruisers would be called upon to defend Russian "…
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Link here: http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/20...hollywood_x.htm Homeland Security guides the stars By Mimi Hall, USA TODAY WASHINGTON — Homeland security is going Hollywood. Following the Pentagon, CIA, FBI and other government agencies, the Department of Homeland Security has hired a Hollywood liaison to work with moviemakers and scriptwriters. Bobbie Faye Ferguson, a onetime actress who worked with Hollywood at NASA for seven years, is now reviewing 14 movie, TV and documentary projects. If she approves of a script or idea, the department will offer advice and technical help to the directors, producers and actors about portraying the nat…
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With only a week to go before George W Bush is sworn in for a second term as president of the United States of America, aka the land of colour-coded terror alerts (yellow alerts, orange alerts, red alerts, etc.), it would be instructive to recall some of the things he said during the initial months of his first term in office. I say instructive because whatever else may have changed in the four years since then, one thing that has not changed is Bush’s proclivity for murdering the English language whenever he is trapped into making off-the-cuff remarks (as opposed to speaking from cue cards or teleprompter text written by his staff). Consider. Referring to how f…
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http://www.prisonplanet.com/analysis_newso..._democracy.html Democracy. The word is all around us. We are bombarded by its “virtuous” definition from every entertainment and information medium that exists. We are taught in schools that democratic philosophy and tradition is the only acceptable and workable system that functions in the world, and, most importantly, instructed that it is the American way. We are told by our news media that establishing democracy worldwide is the reason our armed forces are dispatched to the remotest parts of the globe. Yes, it is for this noble ideology that we send American troops to Serbia and Iraq, and all points between. But what d…
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http://www.motherjones.com/news/update/200...d_journal9.html http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cf...=15&ItemID=6772 The United States is using napalm in Falluja. So far, the military has denied the allegations, but the proof is mounting. On Nov. 28 The Daily Mirror’s political editor, Paul Gilfeather filed a report stating: “US troops are secretly using outlawed napalm gas to wipe out remaining insurgents in and around Fallujah. News that President George W. Bush has sanctioned the use of napalm, a deadly cocktail of polystyrene and jet fuel banned by the United Nations in 1980, will stun governments around the world.” For over a week rumors have …
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Dost my eyes decieve me? Could the vote in Iraq be a catalyst for democracy wider democracy in the middle east? Democratic elections among Palestinians have led to renewed peace talks with Isrealis. Sharon even commissioned an investigation of illegal settlements or "outposts". 100 or so illegal by Isreali law, not just international law. Settlements Sharon himself had a hand in. And he commissioned this investigation. I must say I am impressed. Lebanon? Of course the assassination of Hariri has had a significant impact on reforms there.... but change is underway. However Hezbollah is throwing in their lot with Syria. Egypt? Many are questioning the legitimacy of th…
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Women Sue for Forced Breast Expose to Gifted Gorilla Two women caretakers have filed lawsuits against a foundation which cares for Koko the gorilla, famous for its 1000 word sign language vocabulary. The two claim that they were forced to expose their bare breasts in an attempt to bond with the ape. A lawyer representing Nancy Alperin and Kendra Keller of San Francisco said that they were told if they "did not indulge Koko's nipple fetish, their employment with the Gorilla Foundation would suffer". Their boss, Francine Patterson, is quoted as saying on one occasion "Koko, you see my nipples all the time. You are probably bored with my nipples. You need to see n…
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