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When Rupert Dickinson, the chief executive of one of Britain's biggest property firms, left his BlackBerry behind in London while on a business trip to Ireland, he simply ordered one of his staff to get on a plane and deliver the device to him. For Dickinson's then head of sustainability, Tim Nicholson, the errand was much more than an executive indulgence: it embodied the contempt with which his boss treated his deep philosophical beliefs about climate change. In a significant decision today , a judge found Nicholson's views on the environment were so deeply held that they were entitled to...

We need to do something more dramatic, more radical to attempt to get the democrats to stop this destruction of our American system of government. I propose we set up a national strike day which will also include a boycott. So, we don't go to work on that day and we also do not buy anything at all that day. We have the greatest impact we possible can on the economy that day. If we can get enough people to do this, it will really shake up Washington and our state governments as well. It is the American people who...

At her plea hearing, Webb-Washington, a self-described housing activist serving as head of the Webb-Washington Community Development Corporation, admitted that between March 2009 and May 2009, while seeking to win a seat on the Jersey City council, she accepted three corrupt cash payments totaling $15,000 from a cooperating witness. Webb-Washington admitted that the payments were in exchange for her exercising her future official assistance, as an anticipated member of the city council. Webb- Washington agreed that she would use her future city council position to assist the cooperating witness in obtaining certain development approvals for a purported development project on...

A few weeks ago I posted the above photo on Flickr. It was taken at a recent healthcare forum in Philly and I titled it: "A Paid Protester - Note Who Sponsored the Sign". The title ruffled the feathers of a Philly photographer who left a series of comments on my Flickr account trying to disclaim the idea of a paid protester. When I steered him back to common sense with my replies, he lamely tried to paint my Sheepdogs as paid hacks. If I had a dime for every time that false accusation was laid down, I would...

Last night I attended the Rooney town hall. As I walked into the building, someone on the sidewalk shouted "we need health care now." He was handing out Obamacare material. There was also a group with a professional video camera filming people's reactions to this. Unfortunately, I had shown up a little late and literally couldn't make it inside. Over 300 people had lined up two hours early for the forum. I then walked out to the front of the building where I saw the same group of people arguing with a guy. One young guy in a camouflage shirt...

Obama has set up web site that will automatically make appointments for you to visit your Congressional Representative. They have set this up for use by their congregation to scare Representatives into voting for the socialist health care take over. There is no reason why we can not and should not use this tool to set up appointments for ourselves. It would be great irony if thousands of Freepers showed up because of Obama's efforts. I have made my appoints. The web site for making the appointment is:http://my.barackobama.com/OfficeVisit

"For all you “conservatives” who kept insisting that there was NO difference between John McCain and Barack Hussein Obama, this is all your fault! You have no one but yourselves to blame when this Wise Latina (in other words, Aztlanist shill) legislates from the bench. To his credit, John McCain at least opposed Sotomayor’s nomination. " [I have a different take on this. Conservatives were absolutely justified in opposing the "pro-amnesty" rino John McCain. Those of us who did choose to vote for the ticket, voted for Palin, not McCain. If it were not for her, McCain would have been...

Recent headlines about Sonia Sotomayor from around the net - be sure to sign the petition opposing her confirmation at www.StopSotomayor.com Sotomayor Guns For The 2nd Amendment Second Senator Says Sonia Sotomayor Backs Roe v. Wade Abortion Case Arkansas group to oppose confirmation ofSotomayor New Documents RevealSotomayor's White House Contacts Sotomayor process began before Souter announcement

Around Christmas of 1973, a fellow sophomore approached Frank Reed, a leader of Princeton University's Chicano Caucus, to hand him a formal complaint she had typed up and to ask him to support it. Sonia Sotomayor was head of the other Latino organization on campus, Acción Puertorriqueña. And after a history of fruitless student talks with Princeton administrators over the lack of Hispanic professors and staff, Sotomayor believed the time had come to lodge a grievance with the federal government over the university's hiring practices. The written complaint, filed that April with what was then the U.S. Department of Health,...

Sign the petition against Sonia Sotomayor at www.stopsotomayor.com Organized for Life has stepped up as the leading force against President Obama's nominee for the Supreme Court vacancy created by Justice Souter. Organized for Life's PAC, OFL Action, has opened a petition site at www.stopsotomayor.com to oppose the addition of another potentially pro-abortion justice to the Supreme Court. Sonia Sotomayor has a record of legislating from the bench that stands against the will of the majority of Americans. Fifty-one percent of Americans call themselves pro-life. Eighty-two percent of Americans do not want a justice who would support partial-birth and late term...

Dear xxxxx, At an emergency board meeting held this evening, your executive board unanimously passed the following resolution. We stand adamantly opposed to the fact that the Republican Party of Florida is openly and actively endorsing one candidate over another without following Rule 8 set forth in the Republican Party of Florida Rules and Procedures. We are also opposed to efforts that would invoke RNC Rule 11 in an effort to further that endorsement. Please understand our resolution is not about supporting any one candidate over another, the resolution is about the fundamental principle of following the Constitution of the...

Flanked by two prominent activist attorneys and backed by a throng of supporters, Minneapolis resident Rosemary Williams spent her 60th birthday in court Wednesday, resisting a lender's attempt to evict her from her foreclosed house. She and supporters vowed that if she loses in court, they will use non-violent civil disobedience to try to block authorities from removing her from the south Minneapolis house where she's lived for 23 years.

The FBI on Tuesday will for the first time add the name of a domestic-terrorism suspect to its list of Most Wanted Terrorists, a post-Sept. 11 creation that until now has included only suspected Islamist terrorists, a law enforcement official told The Washington Times. Daniel Andreas San Diego, a 31-year-old animal rights activist, is wanted in connection with the 2003 bombings of two companies in the San Francisco Bay Area linked to an animal-testing laboratory. San Diego will take his place on a list that has included notorious international terrorists such as Osama bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahri and Adam Gadahn,...

Washington Activists Liberate One Final Straight Bar: Washington, D.C. -- After five years, 43 bars, 48 events, and at least one instance of a guy whipping his shirt off and gyrating to Madonna in front of confused Georgetown University parents, it was time for a beloved gay and lesbian institution to end. So on Friday night, an estimated 200 members of the GLBT community headed to Rhino Bar and Pumphouse for the District's very last Guerilla Queer Bar, the friendliest of activist movements, in which gay men and lesbians descend on a typically "straight" bar for the evening and mingle...

A memorial service is planned for May 16 for Steve Hamilton, a prominent Bay Area anti-war activist and member of the Oakland 7 who was acquitted in a notorious conspiracy trial.

Al-Arish, Egypt- Multi-national activists belonging to British MP George Galloway's 'Viva Palestina' humanitarian aid convoy clashed on Sunday with Egyptian security forces in the north Sinai town of al-Arish, close to the border with Gaza. Clashes erupted after the convoy was refused entry to the crossing point at the town of Rafah, which is bisected by the border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt. Galloway arrived in Cairo on Saturday to join the road convoy that had set out from London last month carrying relief for war-torn Gaza, and which had entered Egypt from Libya on Thursday. Galloway, who has...

For decades, Vivian Milligan complained that the government ignored the Ramapough Mountain community when Ford Motor Co. dumped a sea of waste in their Upper Ringwood community.   Longtime environmental activist Vivian Milligan says her heart was "pounding" when former state DEP chief invited her to Washington D.C. for her senate confirmation hearing as head of the Environmental Protection Agency.  On Wednesday, Milligan, who rarely ventures out of the area, plans to make her first trip to Washington D.C. – at age 57 — as a guest of former DEP Commissioner Lisa Jackson.  The U.S. Senate is expected to confirm...

Gunmen broke into the house of a women's rights activist in the volatile northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk on Thursday and beheaded her, police said. The victim was identified as Nahla Hussain, the leader of the women's league of the Kurdish Communist Party. She was alone in the house at the time of her death. It is not known what the circumstances were that led to the attack. Violence against women has been an ongoing problem in Iraq. The killing comes ahead of next month's provincial elections, a post-Saddam era watershed event that's generating an uptick in civil unrest and...

(IsraelNN.com) A prominent pro-Israel activist was found dead at the bottom of an elevator shaft in a San Francisco building . The pro-Israel activist, Dr. Daniel Kliman was the co-founder of the San Francisco-based Voice for Israel, an affiliate of the national Israel advocacy group, StandWithUs. His body was found in the elevator shaft of a building where he was taking Arabic language classes. “He was the public face of grass-roots Israel advocacy in the San Franciso Bay area,” stated Mike Harris, Kliman’s colleague at Voice for Israel. Harris is unaware of specific threats against Kliman, who had previously been...

In the dark post-election ’08 night, comes a strong beaming light: ReaganAction.com. Just when it was most needed, Michael Reagan launched his new activist website for conservatives.

As Republicans, we face a choice- Either we can spend the next several months -- or years -- trying to figure out what just happened, excusing our defeat away as a temporary blip or the result of a poor environment, and waiting for Barack Obama to trip up. Or we can refuse to take this defeat lying down, and start building the future of our party now. 2008 made one thing clear: if allowed to go unchecked, the Democrats' structural advantages, including their use of the Internet, their more than 2-to-1 advantage with young voters, their discovery of a better...

Yes, from little ACORNS... Democrats grow. But it remains to be seen whether or not the American people are sufficiently outraged at efforts by the Obama campaign to steal the 2008 presidential election through outright fraud and vote-buying. The far left organization, ACORN, a former Obama client and a favorite Obama “charity,” is now under federal investigation in at least 13 states. After a recent raid on an ACORN office in Nevada, FBI agents found voter registration forms containing the names of the entire starting lineup of the Dallas Cowboys. But none of this is new. To speak of the...

ARTICLE II PURPOSE The purpose of The Corporation shall be to organize the activities of the members of the Democratic Socialists of America. Its activities shall include education and advocacy. We share a vision of a humane social order based on popular control of resources and production, economic planning, equitable distribution, feminism, racial equality and non-oppressive relationships.

Gateway Pundit Where Hope Finally Made a Comeback. Saturday, March 01, 2008 Obama's Militant Muslim Brother Abongo Is Luo Activist Saturday late night fear-mongering...In this Obama Family photo are: (bottom row, from left) half-sister Auma, her mother Kezia Obama, Obama's step-grandmother Sarah Hussein Onyango Obama and unknown; (top row, from left) unknown, Barack Obama, half-brother Abongo (Roy) Obama, and three unknowns. (Sun Times) Barack Obama stands behind Kezia (stepmother) in a Kenyan family shot. Included in the photo is brother Abongo "Roy" Obama who is a Luo activist and a militant Muslim who argues that the black man must...

ActivistCash.com, a project of the Center for Consumer Freedom, provides the public and media with in-depth profiles of anti-consumer activist groups, along with information about the sources of their exorbitant funding. Despite their innocent-sounding names, many of these organizations are financial Goliaths that use junk science, intimidation tactics, and even threats of violence to push their radical agendas. We've analyzed over 500,000 pages of IRS records to bring you a comprehensive snapshot of where their money comes from, tracking more than $800 million to date. As you read through the site, you may be surprised by some of the connections...

You are cordially invited to attend The annual Constitution Day Commemoration Event. Location: Hyatt Arlington Hotel, 1325 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, VA 22209 Time 6:30 - 10:00 pm. Free Admission Dear Friend of the Constitution: I hope you can join me in Arlington, VA on September 17 to commemorate the two hundred twenty first anniversary of the completion of the Convention that gave us our U.S. Constitution. There is no admission fee, but because attendance will be limited by the size of the room, we must know as soon as possible whether you plan to attend. Please click here to confirm...

You have to be careful about who you insult in today's America, but if you're a liberal activist, you can freely attack religious groups without fear of reprisal. Nancy Gardner, well-know animal activist and President of the Cumberland Valley Animal Shelter, slandered the Mennonite Sect in a leter to the Chambersburg, PA Public Opinion. Trying to drum up support for legislation regulating 'puppy mills' she singled out Mennonites in her letter trying to draw some weird conspiracy theory between local Mennonite farmers and two dog breeders who recently shot 80 of their dogs in response to pending action from the...

LOS ANGELES (AFP) – A prominent Los Angeles-based Muslim activist has been jailed for four years after pleading guilty to attempting to bribe a witness, prosecutors said Tuesday. Najee Ali, who heads the community group Project Islamic HOPE (Helping Oppressed People Everywhere), was sentenced on Monday after he admitted an attempt to interfere with a witness in a court case involving his daughter. A spokeswoman for Los Angeles County District Attorney said in normal circumstances Ali would have received a two-year sentence but saw his term doubled because he had a prior conviction for armed robbery in 1992.

The activist pleads guilty in two arsons and will serve at the Sheridan federal prisonTre Arrow, a radical environmentalist who was once one of the FBI's most-wanted fugitives, pleaded guilty Tuesday to two counts of arson. Appearing before U.S. District Judge James Redden, Arrow agreed to serve to 78 months in federal prison, with credit for time served since March 2004 in jails in Canada and the United States. Arrow, who will be formally sentenced Aug. 12, will serve about two years and four months at the Sheridan Federal Correctional Institution. His sentence could be further reduced by 54 days...

PORTLAND, Ore. - An environmental activist and former fugitive who once won thousands of votes in a congressional election pleaded guilty Tuesday to federal charges under a deal that would send him to prison for two years. Tre Arrow, 34, pleaded guilty to the destruction of concrete-mixing trucks in Portland in April 2001 and to firebombing logging trucks at a contested logging sale near Mount Hood in June 2001. He had faced up to 40 years in prison if convicted of two counts of arson. In a separate case, a radical environmentalist who helped federal officials round up a militant...

PAUL WATSON, high-seas "terrorist": That’s how Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Danny Williams describes Watson, the anti-whaling activist who runs a side business as an anti-sealing protester. Watson, who was born in Toronto and raised in New Brunswick, has used his vessels as battering rams for more than a decade now. After he transforms his old scows into weapons, sailors and whalers tend to get out of his way – which is Watson’s goal, after all. He particularly enjoys using this tactic against whaling vessels. (For evidence, see the New Yorker profile on Watson in the magazine’s Nov. 5, 2007, edition.)...

WASHINGTON - Congressional leaders are racing to push through an array of election-year housing measures that already have stirred up much political wrangling and the White House is examining its own plan to further help homeowners caught in the mortgage meltdown. With foreclosure signs prevalent and a Wall Street rescue reverberating, majority Democrats want the government to step in and back up to $400 billion in troubled loans. The goal is to help strapped borrowers and thaw a credit market plagued by uncertainty about the value of subprime mortgages made to people with spotty credit or low incomes. As lawmakers...

Behold the easy-publicity, make-ya-feel-good corporate kids' contests: The Fruit Roll-Ups $1,000 search for the funniest child comedians?! The McDonald's $2,500 prize for the most active child! And from Lego, the big kahuna: a $5,000 prize for each of 10 kids who display "creativity." That last one's winners were announced last week, and Bethesda's Kelsie Kimberlin, 8, got the nod. The judges of Lego's first annual Creativity Awards got more than they bargained for. When the third-grader is asked to describe her winning entry to Lego's Creativity Awards, her explanation -- with just a little prompting from her dad, Brett --...

Dr. R. Scott Hitt, an AIDS specialist and the first openly gay person to head a presidential advisory board, has died. He was 49. Hitt died Thursday of colon cancer at his home in West Hollywood, according to John Duran, the city's mayor and a longtime friend. Hitt was chairman of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV and AIDS during President Clinton's administration in the 1990s. "I think Scott's legacy was drawing AIDS to the attention of the president. He was uncompromising," Duran said. "He was not afraid of challenging the president about what would make good public policy." When...

Caption this "representative" of American views being honored by American Atheists Kalifornia director Dave Kong.

Democratic activist sues over loss of Florida delegatesTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS TAMPA, Fla. -- A Tampa Democratic activist sued the national and state Democratic parties in federal court Thursday over the national party's decision to strip Florida of its delegates for next year's presidential nominating convention. Seeking to penalize Florida for moving up its primary election to Jan. 29, the Democratic National Committee's rules committee voted Saturday to take away Florida's 210 votes in the national nominating convention in Denver next summer. Political consultant Victor DiMaio, who serves on the Hillsborough County Democratic Executive Committee, claims in his lawsuit that the...

A global-warming activist has withdrawn a proposal to paint blue lines across a swathe of the city depicting the level the ocean could rise to if Greenland's ice sheets keep melting. The project, known as "lightblueline," had attracted criticism from some residents who feared their properties would lose value if they were located on the wrong side of the predicted flood zone. "If you're below the line, there's a stigma," said Jerry Beaver, a real estate developer who owns property that would be deluged if sea levels rise 23 feet - a scenario predicted by some scientists if Greenland's ice...

Before the tears are flowing too profusely you do know the other side of illegal immigration don’t you? I didn’t think that you did. Hundreds of not Thousands of illegal immigrates leave their families often containing young children to come to America.

TUCSON — Two priests contend their attempt to enter Fort Huachuca in November is a protected right because they were not trespassing but protesting the alleged teaching of torture on the post. However, an Army prosecutor states the case is about the illegal entry of Franciscan Louis Vitale and Jesuit Steve Kelly and not the alleged teaching of torture, which Capt. Evan Seamone, and leaders of the Intelligence Center, have constantly said is neither done nor condoned. The two Catholic priests and their attorney William Quigley are attempting to change the trespass case into a human rights issue with Vitale...

Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer shook his head. He rolled his eyes. He even grimaced once or twice as he listened to Chief Justice John Roberts read the majority opinion in the school diversity case on Thursday. As the high court ended its term, Breyer showed obvious disappointment with the opinion. For liberal members of the court, it was not the only time this year their emotions surfaced during normally placid readings of the court's opinions.

China condemned on Thursday an announced meeting between U.S. President George Bush and an exiled activist demanding autonomy for Xinjiang, the tense and heavily Muslim region in the nation's far west. Rebiya Kadeer, a Muslim ethnic Uighur, was once a member of the top advisory body to China's parliament but fell from official grace and was arrested in 1999 on her way to meet U.S. congressmen visiting Xinjiang. She was jailed for over five years before being sent into exile in the United States, where her championing of Uighur claims has led supporters to dub her the "mother of the...

Even on American highways crowded with giant family cars, buses are still big enough to make a point. ... The one driving down Route 7 in Virginia yesterday was purplish on one side and orange sunset on the other. In huge letters it said "Social Justice for Gay, Bisexual and Transgender People." On the highway, fellow drivers either honked and waved or threw Coke cans. In Sioux City, Iowa, someone spray-painted the bus with "Fag, God doesn't love you." The 25 "equality riders" from a group called Soulforce have roughly followed certain routes of the Freedom Riders who battled Southern...

Several dangerous precedents were set in the recent kangaroo court conviction of former Cheney Chief of Staff Scooter Libby. To begin with, Libby was tried and convicted for the crime of obstructing justice, ostensibly by providing false information during grand jury testimony. The entirety of the investigation was billed under the heading of determining the identity of the individual who had divulged the employment status of Valerie Plame, who had once been a covert CIA agent. So ambiguous was the nature of the investigation and subsequent trial, that presiding Federal District Judge Reggie B. Walton would not even allow the...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Anti-abortion extremist James Kopp made a last attempt Wednesday to convince jurors he didn't mean to kill a doctor he shot, while a prosecutor countered there are "no do-overs" when shooting someone. The two sides presented their closing arguments in Kopp's trial on charges he violated the federal Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act by killing Dr. Barnett Slepian with a single shot from a Russian military rifle in 1998. He could face life in prison without parole if convicted. Kopp, known as "Atomic Dog" among his peers, is already serving a 25-years-to-life sentence for a...

Social activist Dolores Huerta told a Tucson audience Friday that people of different ethnicities all originated from the same continent: Africa. "We are all related, and we are all Africans of different races and colors," she said, referring to the theory of human origins that says all people come from a small group that migrated from Africa 40,000 years ago. "We should tell the Minutemen, the Aryan Brotherhood, the KKK: 'You're Africans. Get over it,' " she said. Huerta was the keynote speaker at a Midtown lunch organized by Planned Parenthood Advocates of Arizona to mark the 34th anniversary of...

Tuesday January 9th There is supposed to be a court hearing for Wayne Fincher, a militia member who has been arrested on gun possesion charges. I don't have the address for the court he is going to. More about that story from these links and contacts: http://www.nwanews.com/adg/Editorial/177768/ http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53649Oscar Stilley info@oscarstilley.com Attorney at Law 2120 North B Street Fort Smith, AR 72901 479-573-0726 479-573-0647 fax Thursday January 11th 9:30-11:30 State Capitol Cafeteria, Eagle Forum legistlature day! Eagle Forum will have a meeting with conseratives and state government officials. This is a great opportunity to meet with and lobby your representatives....

PORTLAND, Maine - A Democratic activist spotted on a highway overpass dressed as Osama bin Laden on Halloween faces additional charges for the stunt. Tom Connolly was charged Wednesday with terrorizing and reckless conduct, in addition to the original charge of criminal threatening, prosecutor Stephanie Anderson said in a statement. All three charges are misdemeanors. "Halloween or not, in this day and age you do not get to dress as an international terrorist and wave what appears to be an AK-47 at rush hour traffic," Anderson said. Connolly did not immediately return a call Wednesday. Police responded to calls from...

She was arrested again yesterday, this time for throwing a bunch of petitions over the White House fence, apparently angry because the Secret Service officers would not take them from her and give them to the President. Now she's trying to get attention by inserting herself in the debate over Iran.

The Supreme Court has been off the radar forever in all of the news cycles forever. A conservitive SC majority was and is the PRIZE that I and I assume all here wanted 6 years ago. We can fix our current problems, but we can't nominate and confirm a conservitive SC justice if we are not in the majority. Please remind all that we need another conservitive justice to the Supreme Court. That is the PRIZE!!!!!!!

ALLENTOWN, Pa. - A federal judge on Tuesday blocked the city of Hazleton from enforcing a pair of ordinances targeting illegal immigrants, just hours before the measures were to go into effect. The measures, approved by the City Council last month, would have imposed fines on landlords who rent to illegal immigrants and denied business permits to companies that give them jobs. They also would have required tenants to register with City Hall and pay for a rental permit. U.S. District Judge James Munley ruled that landlords, tenants and businesses that cater to Hispanics faced "irreparable harm" from the laws...