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President Barack Obama, addressing a tribal nations conference at the White House last week, announded that the U.S. government is now supporting the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People, which includes a sweeping declaration that "indigenous peoples" have a right to lands and resources they traditionally occupied or "otherwise used." "Indigenous peoples have the right to the lands, territories and resources which they have traditionally owned, occupied or otherwise used or acquired," says the U.N. resolution. The Bush administration had declined to support the resolution. At the White House Tribal Nations Conference, Obama reminded the group that...

America’s Death and Destruction: ‘We Have a Black Mark on Our Soul’ — Michael Moore http://www.theblaze.com/stories/america%e2%80%99s-death-and-destruction-%e2%80%9cwe-have-a-black-mark-on-our-soul%e2%80%9d-michael-moore/

Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore drew cheers at 190-nation talks by saying the United States was the main block to launching negotiations in Bali on a new global climate treaty. Efforts to start two-year negotiations on a pact to succeed the Kyoto Protocol flagged on Thursday, the ...udge the outcome. Gore stole the show in Bali after two days of lengthy ministerial speeches which had waxed on familiar themes about the urgency of action to slow global warming and the need for cooperation. ... "There's no precedent in history, culture for the radically new relationship between humanity and the...

Well, here we go again. Another Eurotrash, elitist whining that there is a US flag in an American movie... Ending an inconsequential review of the upcoming movie Spider-Man 3, Timesonline reviewer Leo Lewis complains: Also disappointing is the inability of the director, Sam Raimi, to end the romp without a fleeting shot of the American flag. The Stars and Stripes just happens to be fluttering behind Spidey as he makes his triumphal return to honour, probity and good honest fist-fighting. Lewis acts as if an American movie based on an American icon of the American comic book industry must somehow...

Oscar-winning actress Gwyneth Paltrow insisted Monday that contrary to a recent article in a European newspaper, she feels "proud to be American" and would never compare her homeland unfavorably to Britain. In a statement issued through People magazine's Web site, Paltrow said she was "deeply upset" by remarks attributed to her by the Portuguese newspaper Diario de Noticias, which quoted the actress as saying: "The British are much more intelligent and civilized than the Americans." "I never, ever would have said that," said Paltrow, 34, who is married to British rock star Chris Martin, the lead singer of Coldplay, and...

BAGHDAD - Preliminary investigation has identified the bodies of two missing soldiers, Pfc. Thomas Lowell Tucker, 25, of Madras, Oregon, and Pfc. Kristian Menchaca, 23, of Houston, Texas. They were found not far from the checkpoint from which they were abducted.. Positive identification will be done back in the US because the bodies were badly mutilated from severe torture. This is the very thing thinking Americans have been afraid would happen. All the heinous tortures authorized by Bush and performed by American soldiers, Military Intelligence, CIA, FBI, NSA and other agencies have come home to roost. This time America got...

June 08, 2006 War Criminal Nation By Paul Craig Roberts Faced with mounting civilian carnage, both from war crimes committed by demoralized and broken US troops and from the raging civil war unleashed by Bush’s ill-fated illegal invasion of Iraq, the House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee has decided to waste another $50 billion to continue the lost war for five more months. Our elected "representatives" are so in thrall to the powerful military- industrial complex that no amount of American shame, pariah status and military defeat can shut off the flow of taxpayers’ funds to the merchants of death. Bush’s wars...

Canadian & Albertan FReepers Needed: Bill Clinton will be speaking to University of Alberta students. Spend an evening with Former President Bill Clinton as he discusses various issues facing our world today including the critical issues that affect the Canadian-American relationship. Where: Rexall Place, Edmonton AB Canada DIRECTIONS When: Thursday, March 9, 2006 at 7:00 p.m. Details of the event The site did not mention if a ladies-only after hours party followed :-)

Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin has a problem. With us. We are Canada's #1 trading partner. 90% of all Canadians live within 100 miles of the U.S. border. The failing Canadian economy--with bloated taxes (including the regressive G.S.T.), a plague-ridden socialized national health care system (the best do not become doctors there), scores of people on welfare (New Foundland, anyone?), and a province where people who pretend not to know English insist on speaking a foreign language and want to become a foreign country. So why is Paul Martin attacking America on the campaign trail? Because he's desperate to get...

Evacuations are not a benign process. Twenty-four people were killed when a bus carrying 38 Houston nursing home residents and six employees caught fire in a traffic jam. It's thought that oxygen tanks used by elderly evacuees had a role in the fire. Given the hurricane predictions for Houston and Galveston, one can't blame officials for ordering evacuations, but the lesson to be learned is evacuations can be costly. In addition to injuries and loss of life, when evacuations are ordered, there are costs associated with opportunistic criminal behavior such as looting, which there were reports of in Houston.

If Americans had to be described with one word, there's a good chance it would be 'fat'. Americans, we are constantly told, are the fattest people on the planet. Obesity is rife. Compared with other nations the Americans are not just big, but super-size. Yet this obsession with obese Americans is about more than body fat. Certainly there is a debate to be had about the extent to which obesity is a problem in America - a discussion best left to medical experts. But a close examination of the popular genre on obesity reveals it is about more than consumption...

LONDON - Organizers of the London Live 8 concert said Sunday that the original members of the British rock band Pink Floyd would perform at the July event for the first time in more than two decades. Guitarist David Gilmour, drummer Nick Mason, bass player Roger Waters and keyboard player Richard Wright have not performed on stage together since 1981. The group, which achieved major success with their 1973 album "Dark Side Of The Moon," will join musical acts including Elton John, Madonna, Paul McCartney and Coldplay at the anti-poverty concert in Hyde Park on July 2. "Like most...

LOS ANGELES, May 19, 2005 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) – A hate message scrawled on the inside cover of a Qur’an copy has rekindled fears of increasing discrimination against American Muslims in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. “I was taken back to 9/11, my fear that somebody is going to hurt me,” Azza Basarudin, a graduate student, told a news conference at the Islamic Center of Southern California in Los Angeles, reported Los Angeles Times on Thursday, May 19. She had discovered a “Death to all Muslims” message on the inside cover of a Qur’an copy she ordered from...

We have been inundated with messages responding to our posts on the graduation remarks by PepsiCo president Indra Nooyi at the Columbia Business School MBA recognition ceremony of this past Sunday. Many readers (approximately a third) have written to comment that, unlike our rapporteur -- graduating Columbia MBA Wes Martin -- they did not find Ms. Nooyi's remarks objectionable. I am grateful that PepsiCo posted the remarks today (together with the accompanying statement) and that we can all determine the issue for ourselves based on "the ocular proof." The Harvard-Yale game this year was played in Cambridge. Consistent with some...

Actress Maggie Gyllenhaal has an angelic face, an odd name – and not much else. (Her most memorable role to date was playing a masochist in the movie, "The Secretary.") But Gyllenhaal knows how to get the attention of the Hollywood establishment: just bash America. Tell the world how conscience compels you to trash your country. Make vague allegations about the awful things America has done and how we brought terrorism on ourselves. All the while, congratulate yourself for your honesty and nobility in taking such a courageous stand. The actress, who appears in "The Great New Wonderful Thing" (about...

Talking to Americans not what it used to be MARTIN KNELMAN Hockey Night in Canada may have been snatched away from us, but this country's second favourite spectator sport is enjoying a resurgence. In the wake of the November election, when U.S. voters dared to re-elect a president widely loathed in Canada, bashing Americans has become an even more satisfying feel-good diversion than it used to be. And as the CBC discovered this week, it also happens to be just about the only reliable ratings booster that does not involve shooting pucks down the ice. Here is the astonishing bulletin....

The United States was the 800-pound spam-spewing gorilla throughout 2004, a spot it held from wire to wire throughout the year, an anti-virus firm announced Monday. According to researchers at U.K.-headquartered Sophos, the U.S. accounted for 42.1 percent of the world's spam, more than three times the next-guiltiest nation, South Korea, which launched 13.4 percent of the globe's junk mail. China, Canada, and Brazil rounded out the top five. "When we first reported on the top spamming countries back in February 2004, the U.S. had the excuse that the CAN-SPAM Act had been in existence for a couple of months,"...

London – Europe's gut reaction to President Bush's re-election was clearly displayed on the front page of the Daily Mirror, a London tabloid. "How can 59,054,087 people be so DUMB?" the headline asked. It's no secret that most Europeans do not consider Bush to be an intellectual giant, but now it seems they have grave doubts about the rest of us, or at least the 59 million of us who voted for Bush. Simon Schama, the eminent British historian and writer who now teaches at Columbia University, divides us into two nations. One America, he explains to the liberal readership...

For those of you in the “vast right wing conspiracy” who seem to believe that the liberal establishment in America bears some resemblance to the muslim fascist terrorists, let me point out just a few differences between the training of young people in America's public schools and the Saudi Madrasas where muslim fascism is part and parcel of the school agenda. Subject: America Liberal Madrasas (formerly referred to as the American Public School System): America is the root of all evil in the world today. Saudi Madrasas: America is the root of all evil in the world today. Subject: 9/11...

Liberals Hijacking America is a Must Read Eye-Opener - Political Satire Tears Down the Mask of Our Left-Wing Un-Democratic Zealots and Their "No-Rules and Everything-Goes" Society – Analyzes the Hypocrisy of the Left - The book is a razor-sharp satirical analysis of America’s worst nightmare vision: Liberals taking over our lives, our destiny. Good bye, American Dream. Good bye, American Way of Life. Good bye, our Freedom! A "must-read" for everybody concerned about our political future. The book is available immediately at PierreKandorfer.com, BookSurge.com (toll-free at 1-866-308-6235), and Amazon.com as well as bookstores. Price: $17.99. Pierre Kandorfer tears down the...

"OTTAWA (Reuters) - It was damned bastards last year, "idiots" this year. Canadian Member of Parliament Carolyn Parrish had said she hated "damned Americans" and called them bastards in the run-up to the Iraq war. She found a new moniker, idiots, on Wednesday in discussing the planned U.S. missile defense system. "We are not joining the coalition of the idiots. We are joining the coalition of the wise," the Liberal legislator told a small group of demonstrators." "The world respects Canada. If we were to join this then it will be giving credibility to what they're doing," she said. Parrish...

Michael Gove says that the Daily Mail has been taken over by Tory appeasers who detest Americans, and the fight for Western civilisation in the Middle East Could the Iraq war really have united forces that have been hereditary foes? Are clerical reactionaries now happily joining arms with secular militants to oppose a common enemy? Well, I don’t know if it’s happening in Baghdad, but it’s already occurred in London. As the war on terror has progressed, we’ve seen a remarkable new coalition form. The nation’s most powerful reactionary force, the Daily Mail, has become the objective ally of the...

I heard it stated on Tony Snow's show today that Ben Affleck has said his marriage to Jennifer Lopez was wrecked by a "racist, Puritanical" America that can't stand the notion of a white man marrying a Latin woman. Previously, I had heard reports that he was blaming it on the crush of press coverage, and there are lots of stories in the press and available on the Net pertaining to that. However, I haven't been able to locate any confirmation of this apparently new statement where he blames racism. I am wondering if any Freepers have seen a published...

Germany is the latest to be swept up by the craze Sept. 22 issue — To get a sense of how deep mistrust of the United States runs in Germany, take a look at the bookshelves. Two years after September 11, German bookstores are flooded with such works as “The CIA and September 11,” in which a former government minister of Research and Technology, Andreas von Bulow, insinuates that the U.S. and Israeli intelligence services blew up the World Trade Center from the inside. The two Boeings, he claims, were flown in by remote control as a cover-up. The whole...

NOTE:To those not familiar with the most notorious of America-bashers, John Pilger's venomous, vituperative, foaming-at-the-mouth hatred for America has made him the blogosphere's favorite joke. His columns can be best described as bizarre, convoluted to the point to make any rational person explode in hysterical laughter. As this most recent column clearly demonstrates, each and every paragraph, each and every sentence is pathologically contrived to the point where you have a very hard time believing that it is not some incredibly mindless parody. Get ready for an outlandishly hysterical read. NOW WE ARE THE IRAQ EXTREMISTS John Pilger THE "liberation"...

The left has long made a crusade of suppressing what it likes to call "hate speech." That is any language that leftist intellectuals find to be racist, sexist or biased in any way. Unfortunately, there is one kind of hate speech that the left not tolerates but embraces, supports and promotes -- speech that encourages hatred of America. Anti-American hate speech is heard and seen everywhere these days; at peace rallies, college graduation ceremonies, the Academy Awards, college classrooms, in big budget movies, in best selling novels and non-fiction books. Major celebrities who get tainted by even a hint...