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I think everyone here is pretty well-versed on this story. I felt she was deserving of her own zero dollar, so here it is: For the whole series of Zero dollar bills, go here: "Flickr Archive of Zero Bills"

Flatten and horribly insult your country abroad and get nothing for it. No more troops for Afghanistan. Our allies lined up to say no with respect to helping us fund and fight the war on terror...Hark! What am I smoking?...I mean “the overseas contingency operation.” This is the achievement President Obama will take home, a big fat nothing but shredding his own country, in the name of what, international stupidity? I think yes. Obama’s covered and notable quotes from the G20 meeting seemed to be nothing but bad mouthing America at every turn. In a speech to France, where we...

Gerhard Schroeder under fire after blaming Georgia for 'detonating' war with Russia Germany's former chancellor Gerhard Schroeder has been told he should "keep his mouth shut" after appearing to support Russia's invasion of Georgia. By Tony Paterson in Berlin Last Updated: 11:54PM BST 23 Aug 2008 The 64-year-old Social Democrat already has a reputation as a Kremlin apologist and was widely criticised for taking a £200,000 a year job with the Russian energy company Gazprom after he left office in 2005. Not only is he friends with the Russian premier and former president Vladimir Putin - whom he has referred...

Senator John McCain’s trip abroad this week — which took him from the Middle East to No. 10 Downing Street to the Élysée Palace here — was more than just a Congressional fact-finding trip, or even a candidate’s attempt to appear statesmanlike. It was also an audition on the world stage for Mr. McCain in his new role as the Republican presidential nominee. And it offered him the chance to test his hope that he could repair America’s tattered reputation by shifting course on some of the policies that have alienated its allies, in areas like global warming and torture....

KENNESAW, Ga.--Is the history of our great nation important to you? Union Gen. William T. Sherman said of Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, "After all, I think Forrest as the most remarkable man our 'Civil War' produced on either side." This came from a man who was once a foe of Forrest on the field of battle. Why do some folks attack America's heritage? Several years ago, attempts were made to change the name of Forrest Park in Memphis, Tenn. Now, there are people trying to change the name of Nathan Bedford Forrest High School in Jacksonville, Fla. But was...

LONDON, England (AFP) - Yusuf Islam, the British singer known as Cat Stevens before his conversion to Islam, added to the criticism of Pope Benedict XVI's recent remarks about the religion. Islam, known for his 1970s hits including "Father And Son" and "Wild World," said that the pope quoting from a medieval text which attacks some of the Prophet Mohammed's teachings as "evil and inhuman" showed the pontiff was not infallible. Roman Catholic theology says that the pope cannot err in teachings on faith or morals. In an interview with BBC television, Islam said that he went to a Catholic...

Seoul Skeptical About N.Korean ‘Ballistic’ Missile Test The South Korean government believes that some in Japan and the U.S. are having a field day with the uproar over alleged preparations for a long-range ballistic missile test in North Korea, an insider said Monday. Seoul thinks even if a missile is fired, it is not necessarily a military device, and sees reports in the U.S. and Japanese press that claim a launch is imminent as unreliable. U.S. and Japanese authorities have portrayed the situation as a fundamental threat to security. If a launch were to occur, their ideas on how to...

Eric Haney, a retired command sergeant major of the U.S. Army, was a founding member of Delta Force, the military's elite covert counter-terrorist unit. He culled his experiences for "Inside Delta Force" (Delta; $14), a memoir rich with harrowing stories, though in an interview, Haney declines with a shrug to estimate the number of times he was almost killed. (Perhaps the most high-profile incident that almost claimed his life was the 1980 failed rescue of the hostages in Iran.) Today, he's doing nothing nearly as dangerous: He serves as an executive producer and technical adviser for "The Unit," CBS' new...

Relatively few people are aware that during the Civil War, Confederate leaders put forth a proposal to arm slaves to fight against the Union in exchange for their freedom. In his new book Confederate Emancipation: Southern Plans to Free and Arm Slaves during the Civil War (Oxford University Press, 2006), UCSC history professor Bruce Levine examines the circumstances that led to this startling and provocative piece of American history. In the process, he sheds new light on a little-known but significant story of slavery, freedom, and race during the Civil War. The idea for the book came to Levine in...

As a Ph.D. Islamologist and Arabist I really hate to say this, but I'll say it anyway: 9/11 had nothing to do with Islam. The war on terror is as phony as the latest Osama bin Laden tape. It's a tough thing to admit because I know on which side my bread is buttered and dropping Islam from the 9/11 equation is dropping my slice of bread butter-side-down. The myth that 9/11 had something to do with Muslims has poured millions, if not billions, into Arabic and Islamic studies. I finished my Ph.D. last year, so all I have to...

  On November 4, 2005, Jewish Defense League (JDL) member Earl Krugel was murdered in an Arizona prison.  It was only his third day into a 20-year sentence at the Federal Correction Institution in Phoenix.  The 62-year old Navy veteran and former dental technician was exercising when another inmate came up behind him and hit him over the head with a concrete block, killing him instantly.  Why a loose cement block was just hanging around the exercise yard is still unknown.  Authorities have been fairly tightlipped so far, but the investigation has reportedly focused on a white supremacist inmate.   While this...

Contents IntroductionWhat is the PSM/ISM?ISM Rewriting History ACT NOW! - OPPOSE GOOGLE'S PLAN Automatically send emails opposing Google's planSign a petition Introduction According to Lee Kaplan, writing for FrontPageMagazine.com: The Internet giant Google will give news agency status to the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), according to an anonymous source at Google. If true, the ISM—an affiliate of the anarchist/communist wing of the PLO—would be on par with professional news services such as CNN, Fox, and Associated Press. … The International Solidarity Movement (ISM) and the Palestinian Solidarity Movement (PSM) are related and interconnected organizations that have one goal: the...

In the event of a nuclear attack , all of our options stinkBy James Lileks One step forward: A group of British imams issued an honest-to-Allah fatwa against suicide bombers. According to the clerics, terrorists are not acting in the name of true Islam and will ride a hot, slick razor blade straight to hell. Good; more, please. Alas, there's also one step back: In the same news cycle Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., mused on a radio show about his preferred response to a nuclear attack on America: bombing Mecca. No doubt Osama bin Laden did a jig after hearing...

A journalism professor at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, who previously described the United States as the "Great Deceiver," is criticizing the "attempt to involve U.S. Muslims in London guilt," a reference to the July 7 terrorist attacks in England that killed at least 52 people and may have been the work of al Qaeda. Dr. Kaukab Siddique, who also teaches English at the university named for Abraham Lincoln, is warning readers in his New Trend online magazine not to try to "appease the people in power by subservience, or 'uncle tomming.'" The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), one of the...

It wasn’t long after the smoke began to clear that the serial terrorism apologists started coming out of the woodwork. "It’s America’s fault that this happened." they say. "If they hadn’t started that war in Afghanistan and Iraq, then the bombing wouldn’t have happened." What’s interesting is that this excuse is being made by both leftist politicians in the West as well as people of Middle Eastern descent everywhere else in the world. The Director of the Institute of Islamic Thought in London, Dr Azam al-Tamimi, while condemning the bombings as barbaric, took the opportunity to criticize Tony Blair. "If...

Interesting.... This muslim Cleric visited london EXACTLY one year ago from the date of the attacks, July 7, 2004 CNSNews.com) - London Mayor Ken Livingstone's previous support of a Muslim cleric who advocates suicide bombings may cause him some embarrassment as he now must speak for the city in the wake of Thursday's terrorist bombings. Livingstone condemned the Thursday attacks as "mass murder," and added that "this was not a terrorist attack against the mighty or the powerful, it is not aimed at presidents or prime ministers, it was aimed at ordinary working-class Londoners." Yet Livingstone has in the past...

Re: The "news" that former FBI agent Mark Felt broke the law, broke his code of ethics, broke his oath and was the main source for Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward's articles that helped depose Richard Nixon, a few thoughts. Can anyone even remember now what Nixon did that was so terrible? He ended the war in Vietnam, brought home the POW's, ended the war in the Mideast, opened relations with China, started the first nuclear weapons reduction treaty, saved Eretz Israel's life, started the Environmental Protection Administration. Does anyone remember what he did that was bad? Oh, now I...

BREAKING NEWS PHOTOGRAPHY Associated Press StaffThese photos have to be seen to be believed. They are the collection of AP photos from Arab photographers in the Middle East that recently won the Pulitzer Prize. Every single one shows either: (1) triumphant terrorists, (2) defeated or exhausted Americans, (3) Arabs angry at Americans for something, or (4) Abu Ghirab. Seriously, you have to look at the page. Here is the Link. Send this page to a friend. Treason? Maybe, maybe not. But the Associated Press has definitively marked itself as Al Qaeda's official publicists.

London 07.03.05 | Last Friday I published the result of an investigation regarding the falsely claimed tax exempt status of Eva Golinger's not-for-profit NGO "Venezuela Solidarity Committee". It seems that Golinger, or colleague Jeremy Bigwood, have been busy trying to cover their tracks by way of removing said false claims from their website venezuelafoia.info foolishly thinking, as ever, that those who have a constant watch on them are as mediocre as they are.

This is to all the thin skinned FReepers who got offended by Hannity's comments at the beginning of his 2/16/05 show. Ease up on the guy! Personally I like him, he's young, good looking (yea, the girls dig him), doesn't back down from a fight (something the Republicans desperately need) and he is on our side (really). The constant bashing he takes on this site makes me ill. One of the things he said yesterday was that we eat our own, who can disagree with that? 2500+ replies (at this writing) on a couple of sentences he spoke shows we...

When backing tracks are the norm in genres ranging from pop to hip-hop, why hate Ashlee Simpson? IF SHE HASN'T done so already, Britney Spears might want to consider sending Ashlee Simpson a sympathy card. In October, just as the public was taking its hatred of Mrs. Federline to a new extreme – for committing the cardinal sins of, uh, "marrying down" and eating Cheetos – Simpson appeared on Saturday Night Live and, one backing-track mishap and impromptu jig later, gave Spears an indefinite hiatus from her reigning status as music's most reviled star. By the time Jessica's little sis...

(Updated) A few weeks ago I posted an entry titled The Final Stages where I described the stages of castro's revolution vis-a-vis Venezuela. I wrote: One: Convince the have nots that the haves are evil. Two: Decry the evils of foreigners. Three: Manipulate an election. Four: Nationalize all media sources. And the fifth stage: Expropriations. I also mention the sixth stage, the Nationalization of Banks, which, if I am not mistaken, has already begun in castro's Venezuela. In the comments of that post, I had a run in with a person named Martin who stated, among other things, the following:...

I BIT MY TONGUE AND RESISTED the urge to fire off an angry email. Reading through an on-line discussion board for budding Catholic apologists like myself, I had come across a message written more with an excess of zeal than with a correct understanding of canon law. Granted, the offending message was written with the best of intentions, and I also admired the offending author as a competent biblical apologist when it came to defending the Catholic faith against Protestant challenges. Nevertheless, this apologist’s competency with the Bible didn’t extend to the Code of Canon Law. And the question had...

Three years after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, America's politicians and media continue to gravely deceive the public about the so-called war on terrorism. Now the definitive book on terrorism has appeared that should be mandatory reading for every thinking person. It's called Imperial Hubris: Why The West is Losing the War on Terror. The cover simply identifies the author as "Anonymous," but he's already been widely identified in the American media as Michael Scheuer, a senior terrorism analyst for the CIA.

When I consider the choices for the upcoming presidential election, I look back and forth between Sen. John Kerry and President Bush and don’t see a whole lotta difference. Both are grads of Yale University, where both belonged to Skull and Bones. Both are sworn to secrecy about their membership in that incestuous fraternity for the rich and powerful. Despite all the claptrap about Kerry being so liberal, I don’t believe a word of it. I sure wish there was a viable alternative to this pair of blue-blooded bookends. Why is the choice, as usual, limited to a couple of...

What's up with all these Kerry football throwing pics?

Coalition Educates on PSM While PSM Obfuscates By Andrew L. Jaffee, November 7, 2003 Home   Search   Forum   Terms A broad coalition of conscientious, peace-loving individuals and organizations has done great work in exposing the Palestine Solidarity Movement (PSM) and International Solidarity Movements (ISM) for what they are: racist, hateful terrorism supporters and enablers. Yesterday, Representative Dixie Allen (Democrat - Dayton), Rabbi Hillel Fox of Congregation Beth Jacob, Dayton, and myself, publisher of netWMD.com, LLC, held a press conference at Ohio's State House at 4 PM, trying to draw public attention to the PSM conference at OSU. We then presented a petition with...

NASHUA, N.H. -- Howard Dean said Wednesday he regretted the pain he caused by saying that the Democratic Party must court Southerners who display the symbol of the Confederacy in their pickup trucks. Speaking in New York about campaign finance, the former Vermont governor sought to quell the dispute that erupted over his recent comment and his unwillingness to apologize for it during Tuesday night's debate. "I regret the pain that I have caused, but I will tell you there is no easy way to do this and there will be pain as we discuss it and we must face...

The way Muslim apologists speak of Bernard Lewis one might believe they think him the Devil incarnate. Famed anti-Orientalist Edward Said, for one, never missed an opportunity to execrate Lewis. Intrigued by all this calumny I picked up a copy of Lewis’ latest book, What Went Wrong, in which Lewis cursorily examines Islamic civilization, trying to tell us, well, what went wrong. I’d like to say I found out what it was, but I didn’t. Lewis never answered the question. While he thoroughly details the historical problems Muslim societies have faced when confronting with the modern West, he doesn't dig...

Anti-Semitism in Solidarity Movement Conference at Ohio State By Diana Appelbaum, Guest Columnist, October 27, 2003 Home   Search   Forum   Terms A plan to eliminate a population of five million Jews, by murdering some and, presumably, so terrifying the rest that they flee in fear of their lives, is properly called anti-Semitic.   But what if a Jew proposes such a plan?  And not an apostate Jew.  What if a professing Jew proposes such a plan?  Is it still anti-Semitic?   This is neither an historical nor a hypothetical question.    The International Solidarity Movement, its American, student affiliate the Palestinian Solidarity Movement,...

Please read text below and TAKE ACTION: Take direct action opposing the conference (http://netwmd.com/anti-ism/). Ohio residents: sign petition opposing the conference (http://www.petitiononline.com/amcha803/petition.html). OSU alumni: sign petition opposing the conference (http://www.petitiononline.com/stopISM/petition.html). Download and distribute press release providing extensive info on opposing the conference (http://netwmd.com/anti-ism/press/netWMD_PressRelease.doc). View press coverage regarding conference (http://netwmd.com/anti-ism/press/). This November 7th - 9th, OSU will permit a conference to be held by the Palestinian Solidarity Movement (PSM), the American student arm of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM). PSM/ISM claims to be a peace activist organization in support of the Palestinian people, but it has a record of voicing hate-speech,...

Status Update: Opposing Terror Supporters' Meeting at OSU By Andrew L. Jaffee, October 21, 2003 Home   Search   Forum   Terms The coalition working to oppose the Palestinian Solidarity Movement's (PSM) November 7th - 9th planned conference at Ohio State University (OSU) has made some great strides. Approximately 9,200 emails have been sent to OSU and Ohio officials voicing opposition to the conference. Over 1,000 OSU alumni have signed a petition asking the university to cancel the conference. Over 10,000 Ohio residents have signed a petition asking the Ohio Governor Taft to cancel the conference.Our efforts have led many newspapers to cover the planned...

You might not think so from listening to me, but I like to be liked. Not only that, I like my country to be liked around the world and it isn't. I wish President Bush would try to make this country less hated. He could do it if he set his mind to it. To begin with, we should change our attitude toward the United Nations. There has to be some power in the world superior to our own - for our own sake. Iraq isn't our problem. It's the world's problem. When the president spoke at the United Nations,...

Contents IntroductionWhat is the PSM/ISM?ISM Rewriting History ACT NOW! Automatically send emails opposing the conference (APPROX 5340 EMAILS SENT TO DATE!)Ohio residents: sign the petitionOSU alumni: sign the petitionSee responses from Ohio officials NOTE: All references/links/articles documenting ISM/PSM activities have been permanently archived by netWMD. Copies available on request. IntroductionThe Palestinian Solidarity Movement (PSM), the American, student arm of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), will hold its three-day National Conference at The Ohio State University this November 7th through the 9th. This group was denied by Rutgers University to hold the same conference on its campus. It is the...

<p>This is a partial transcript from Hannity & Colmes, September, 12 2003 that has been edited for clarity.</p> <p>SEAN HANNITY, CO-HOST: California gubernatorial candidate Cruz Bustamante's past affiliation with a controversial group, MECHA (search), is drawing a lot of attention from his political opponents. Will his past involvement with this group destroy his chances at becoming governor?</p>

Please Oppose the International Solidarity Movement's Planned Conference at Ohio State University Home   Search   Forum   Terms Contents IntroductionWhat is the ISM?ISM Rewriting History ACT NOW! Automatically send emails opposing the conferenceOhio residents: sign the petitionOSU alumni: sign the petition IntroductionThe International Solidarity Movement (ISM), will hold a three-day conference at The Ohio State University this November 7th through the 9th. This group was denied by Rutgers University to hold the same conference on its campus. It is the objective of War To Mobilize Democracy (netWMD) that this conference also not take place on The Ohio State University campus because ISM is an...

Noam Chomsky is appearing on CSPAN's BookTV In-Depth this Sunday, June 2, 2003, at 12 Noon. In-Depth is a 3 hour interview that can often give insights into the subject's character and thinking that are not readily discoverable in other venues. It is well known at Free Republic that Chomsky is a pathological and compulsive prevaricator whose list of lies and errors are nearly endless, beginning in the 70s with his diehard defense of Pol Pot and his denial of the existence of the killing fields of Cambodia, and continuing to the present day with his speaking tour of the...

If anyone had told me, in the autumn of 2001, that we were less than 18 months away from what might become the world's first nuclear war, I would have thought they were insane. In the half century since Hiroshima and Nagasaki, no one has been that reckless or indeed that stupid – even, or so I thought, the Bush White House. Then came the twin towers and everything changed overnight, to the point where we find ourselves apparently on the threshold of a terrifying conflict in the Middle East. So the question I am going to ask, at the...

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- © 2002 David H. Hackworth A Pentagon Top Gun opposed to the Iraqi military solution – a member of the growing number of disenchanted military officers who've kept their eye on the terrorist ball and still see al-Qaida & Co. as the main event – writes: "The 8 December deadline calling for weapons declaration is a White House-designed fail-safe booby trap. If Saddam says, 'Iraq does not have Weapons of Mass Destruction!' Bush and his rabid War Council will immediately declare this is a false statement that violates the recent U.N. resolution. Then expect: bombs away." "And,"...

What has happened to our image as a beacon of freedom, opportunity and the right way to live? Much of the world fears or hates us. We have a proclaimed policy of attacking any country whose policies or regimes don't follow our dictates. Why have we become the biggest bully in the world?

  I am tired of apologist, excuse makers, agency shills and all around bungling idiots on the Senate Intelligence Committee and the endless line of like minded witnesses appearing before the U.S. public. The cover-up and orchestrated general soft glove hearings are a scam at best. They have degraded to less than the Warren Commission. Accountability and a "NO EXCUSE SIR" revelation will never be seen. Ineptitude permeates from the top to the bottom. The Senate Intelligence Committee has no intelligence and is a joke.. Bob Graham, chairman, has no intelligence. NONE ! He cannot put together one coherent sentence...

Thursday, September 12 PM says U.S. attitude helped fuel Sept. 11 By SHAWN McCARTHY From Thursday's Globe and Mail Ottawa — Prime Minister Jean Chrétien says the United States and the West must shoulder some of the responsibility for last year's terrorist attacks on New York and Washington because of their wealth and exercise of power in the world. In a CBC interview taped in July and aired last night, Mr. Chrétien suggested the root causes of last year's Sept. 11 attacks were global poverty and an over-bearing American foreign policy. "It's always the problem when you read history —...

HANNITY: If we prayed more, would that help stop the violence in the Middle East? Our good friend Pat Robertson--he'll be here. He'll answer that question tonight. Also, is Yale University rewarding students arrested for drug crimes? Now if you've ever paid a dime in tuition, well, you're not going to believe this story. Plus, how many visas has the government granted to visitors from the Middle East since September? That answer is coming up. But, first, earlier this week, a good old-fashioned war protest broke out on the campus of none other than University of California at Berkeley. Now...