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March 3, 2012 Attn: Governor Deal, SOS Brian Kemp, State Atty. Gen. Sam Olens Re: Ballot fraud and criminal cover-up Dear sirs, The facts are now in, having been uncovered and disclosed by AZ Sheriff Joe Arpaio at his March 1 press conference, and they speak to criminal activity I have been warning you about since before any of you took office. I am but one man in a State of millions but this man will not stop until justice prevails. Your minions, Judges Michael Malihi and Cynthia Wright have now done your bidding and paved the way for the...

China wants to convert some of its mountain of U.S. government debt into investment in renovating American roads and subways, the commerce minister said Friday. Speaking to a business group, Chen Deming said China wants closer co-operation with the United States in infrastructure, clean energy and technology. Such investments would tie China more closely to Western economies and might help defuse fears Beijing will use its $3.2-trillion in foreign reserves -- some $1.15-trillion of that in Treasury and other U.S. government debt -- as a political weapon. “We hope to achieve cooperation in the area of infrastructure,” Chen told members...

The heads of China's largest Internet and technology firms have vowed to stop the "spread of harmful information" on the web after attending a three-day government workshop, state media said Sunday. Nearly 40 companies, including e-commerce giant Alibaba, online portal Sina and search engine Baidu attended the seminar hosted by the State Internet Information Office, an online watchdog, the official Xinhua news agency said. During the discussion, which ended Saturday, the bosses reached a "common agreement" to "safeguard" the spreading of positive information online and "strengthen self-management and self-discipline", the report said. They also agreed to "resolutely curb Internet rumours,...

Aleksandra' Note: The following text is from historian David Martin's excellent book "Web of Disinformation", which I highly recommend to anyone wanting to understand why we need court hearings, actual legal proceedings, to officially "rehabilitate" General Draza Mihailovich, a man who never should have been in need of "rehabilitating". The next court hearing is to take place in Belgrade, Serbia on January 28th of this year, 2011.General Mihailovich was executed by the communists in Belgrade, Serbia on July 17, 1946 after one of the phoniest trials in the history of mankind and officially declared "persona non grata" based on the...

A highly unusual series of concerts occurred in relation to the New Hampshire Highland Games last weekend ( Sept 17th, 18th and 19th), annually held at Loon Mountain Ski Resort, located in Lincoln New Hampshire. What was unusual is that three schools of music and performing arts gathered amateur students together across the Atlantic ocean for a collaboration of young musicians, from the Scottish Royal Academy of Music and Drama ( Glasgow), The Strathclyde College of Performing Arts, and the Berklee College if Music ( Boston). The twenty or so young people first met each other on Wednesday the 15th...

Iranian consumers boycott Nokia for 'collaboration' Saeed Kamali Dehghan guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 14 July 2009 21.22 BST The mobile phone company Nokia is being hit by a growing economic boycott in Iran as consumers sympathetic to the post-election protest movement begin targeting a string of companies deemed to be collaborating with the regime. Wholesale vendors in the capital report that demand for Nokia handsets has fallen by as much as half in the wake of calls to boycott Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) for selling communications monitoring systems to Iran. There are signs that the boycott is spreading: consumers are shunning SMS...

Stumbled upon this while parusing this board. It certainly raises some eyebrows. I was too young to pay attention to this controversy regarding the release of documents on POW's in Vietnam in the early 90's, and I'm interested in some Freeper's opinions on the matter.

"Cardinal Josef Glemp apologized on behalf of the Polish church for communist-era collaboration by Catholic priests, as well as for anti-Semitism and luxury lifestyles among the country's clergy."

Silent march for dead youths in France's suburbs Relatives and friends of two French teenagers who were electrocuted as they fled from police a year ago have gathered in Clichy-sous-Bois near Paris. A plaque was unveiled in front of their school, and a wreath-laying ceremony was held at the power sub-station where the teenagers tried to hide. The deaths of Zyed Benna and Bouna Traore sparked three weeks of violent riots in France's poor suburbs as the young and unemployed vented their anger over what they saw as lack of opportunity and racial discrimination. The crowd gathered in silent prayer...

Now that North Korea has defied the international community and has conducted a nuclear test late Sunday night (U.S. EDT), sanctions appear to be the order of the day. A senior official from the office of U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton confirms that the U.S. State Department will begin work Monday on a draft Security Council resolution to impose new sanctions on North Korea. Another potential problem facing the White House, say U.N. sources, is the belief that Iranian scientists may have been present at the North Korean nuclear test.Under moves being considered by Washington, new restrictions...

The Security Council extended the UN peacekeeping mission in Lebanon by just one month Monday, a move meant to ensure that the force does not conflict with a larger international deployment of peacekeepers if Hizbullah and Israel agree to end three weeks of war. The UN Interim Force in Lebanon has been deployed in the region since 1978, charged with reporting violations of peace along the UN-demarcated buffer zone between Israel and Lebanon known as the Blue Line. (AP)

Stephen Harper, Canada's Prime Minister, is asking a great question when he wonders why Kofi Annan chose to keep the UNIFIL forces in harm's way in Lebanon even after Israel asked for all non-Hezbollah personnel to evacuate from South Lebanon. In fact, not only does Kofi Annan want the UNIFIL troops to remain in place, but he has called for the UNIFIL troops to remain for an additional month after their mandate expires: http://www.un.org/radio/story.asp?NewsID=4888 . My theory is that Kofi did this in order to cover up evidence of UNIFIL collaboration with Hezbollah for the past several years. Conventional wisdom...

After hearing reports that American tech giants like Microsoft and Yahoo are abiding by Chinese law mandating Internet censorship, some irritated U.S. politicians are threatening to pass laws restricting such cooperation. Rep. Christopher Smith, a New Jersey Republican, said Thursday that the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Human Rights, which he heads, will hold a hearing in early to mid- February. Smith has invited representatives from the U.S. State Department, Microsoft, Yahoo, Cisco Systems, Google, and the international watchdog group Reporters Without Borders to speak. The effort is designed to determine what can be done, either by legislative mandate...

BERLIN - A German aid worker and archaeologist kidnapped in Iraq with her driver has been freed after three weeks in captivity, Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier announced Sunday night. ADVERTISEMENT He did not disclose any details about Susanne Osthoff's release.

A new world of work is emerging, as networks enable employees to collaborate in ad-hoc teams assembled for specific projects. New collaboration software, developed by Microsoft and others, enables information workers to read, edit and route documents as a team, not just as individuals, experts told UPI's Networking. By Gene Koprowski

Thursday, June 16, 2005 The European Union: Channeling the Spirits of Chamerblain and Pétain An Associated Press report tells us that the European Union has renewed contacts with Hamas despite strong Israeli objections. It seems the E.U. is even considering reviewing whether or not to continue to consider Hamas a terrorist group. Tell me this: how many suicide bombings, Qassam rocket attacks, shootings, and other forms of murder of innocent civilians are required before a group is permanently branded a terrrorist group? If such attacks are ongoing (and they are) why would anyone in their right mind consider Hamas anything...

Toyota chairman says open to hybrid tie-up with GM Monday May 9, 9:09 am ET TOKYO (Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp. is open to supplying its hybrid technology to General Motors Corp. to help its ailing U.S. rival regain competitiveness, the Japanese auto maker's chairman said on Monday. ADVERTISEMENT Hiroshi Okuda made the comments two weeks after expressing concern about the health of the U.S. industry, saying voluntary price hikes and technical tie-ups could be ways to help peers like GM and Ford Motor Co. catch their breath as they lose market share to foreign brands. GM currently has an...

They Will Say They Did Not Know by OneFreeKorea a/k/a WonsanGhetto (comment added by TigerLikesRooster: German civilians under U.S. military escort are forced to see a wagon loaded with corpses in Buchenwald. Photo credit: National Archives, courtesy of USHMM Photo Archives )As it did in 2004, the Korean government will abstain from this year's U.N. Resolution condemning the deplorable state of human rights in North Korea. South Korea failed to vote on a similar resolution in 2003. This year’s resolution will express concern about abuses such as concentration camps for political prisoners. Among the resolution’s points which are apparently unworthy...

In light of current developments, this joint manifesto needs a new impetus. Beginning in September 1992 a consultation of Evangelical Protestant and Roman Catholic Christians began discussions regarding the "Christian Mission in the Third Millennium." In 1994, the Consultation published a joint statement outlining Evangelical-Protestant and Roman Catholics on a variety of issues of common concern in the journal First Things. The list of participants and endorsers is quite impressive, and includes many notable Catholic and Evangelical Christians. This is my favorite quote from the Joint Statement:We Contend Together...In this country, too, freedom of religion cannot be taken for granted...

String Of Beads Lanna Perry 1st March 2004 Sydney Australia My children, like a necklace is joined together, so I am calling My body, My children to come together. For if one bead is missing from a necklace, is it complete and functioning fully as it was created too? Surely Not. My children, you are like a string of beads. You are called to work together. For a necklace cannot be a necklace with one bead alone. A necklace cannot function completely without all of the beads being joined together. Yes, one bead alone has much beauty, but how much...

A controversial member of the British Parliament told an Arab TV audience that those who invaded Iraq will burn in hell. he appearance on Egyptian Abu-Dhabi TV Saturday was par for the course for maverick George Galloway, who has been involved in two libel cases with newspapers over charges he took money from the Saddam Hussein regime. Galloway's videotaped statement was posted on the Internet by the Middle East Media Research Institute TV Monitor Project, or MEMRI TV. Referring to the insurgents fighting coalition soldiers as "Iraqi people" who are "resisting," Galloway decried recent crackdowns in Falluja, Ramadhi and Mosul,...

How's this for an October surprise? While John Kerry is running around claiming President George Bush and our troops overseas failed the American people by not guarding an explosives dump without explosives in it, documents have been uncovered at Texas Tech University that show Kerry was following Vietnam War protest guidelines from North Vietnamese communists in the early 1970s. "Wait! Why am I not seeing any of this in the national news media, Mr. Gaylon?" you might be asking. "This cannot be true. Our Democrat candidate for president surely wasn't on the side of the communists and carrying out their...

Britons secretly kept in postwar French camps After the liberation De Gaulle's government held on to internees from many countries in officially closed centres to hide collaboration Jon Henley in Paris Monday October 4, 2004The Guardian The government of Charles de Gaulle held hundreds of foreigners, including at least three Britons, in an internment camp near Toulouse for up to four years after the second world war, according to secret documents. The papers, part of a cache of 12,000 photocopied illegally by an Austrian-born Jew, reveal the extent to which French officials collaborated with their fleeing Nazi occupiers even...

As he described it, Bill Burkett was sick of the Kerry campaign's sheer ineptitude. A member of the Progressive Populist Caucus of the Texas Democratic Party and a retired Army National Guardsman, he became incensed as he watched his candidate's credibility suffer from TV ads sponsored by Swift Boat veterans, while Kerry and his staff bungled their responses. Burkett wanted to do something about it, and believed he had the means to do it. But Kerry's people weren't listening. In an Internet posting, he candidly wrote that he waded through "seven layers of bureaucratic kids trying to get a job...

Senior Kerry campaign adviser Joe Lockhart tried to convince Bill Burkett to give him the forgeries:During a single phone conversation with Lockhart, Burkett said he suggested a "couple of concepts on what I thought [Kerry] had to do" to beat Bush. In return, he said, Lockhart tried to "convince me as to why I should give them the documents."If Burkett is lying, Lockhart can prove it quite easily: by releasing his phone records for that day.

Once again, CBS continues to carry water for the Kerry Campaign - even going so far as to "partner" with a Soros-funded 527 designed to push polls for John Kerry. MTV's "CHOOSE OR LOSE" - ROCK THE VOTE 2004 - Poll Gives Kerry Big Lead Among Voters Under 30 09.21.2004 11:53 AM EDT Younger voters think the country is heading in the wrong direction and that President Bush does not share their priorities, but they like Bush personally and are unsure about John Kerry. Overall, Kerry has a substantial lead among voters under thirty, a reversal of the Bush's nine-point...

John Kerry, Criminal By Henry Mark Holzer and Erika Holzer FrontPageMagazine.com For years it was said that Jane Fonda committed treason when she went to Vietnam in July 1972. In the late 1990s, with increasingly widespread use of the Internet, the charge became a staple of discussion by conservatives and veterans. However, their belief in Fonda's criminality was not substantiated. We undertook to do just that, and laid out the definitive case against her in our 2002 book, "Aid and Comfort": Jane Fonda In North Vietnam. A current parallel has arisen in connection with the presidential candidacy of John...

Just a moment ago, I heard an interview on NPR with Sylvia Poggioli, NPR's Senior European Correspondent. The anchorwoman asked her what the European reaction would be if al Qaeda turns out to be responsible for the blasts. Poggioli said that a massive attack in Europe would require some new thinking, since it has been a "dirty little secret" that Arab terrorists (she didn't say "Islamic"), especially in the 1970s and 1980s, essentially were granted free passage throughout Europe so long as they attacked elsewhere. This was just a throwaway line in her report, but to me it is the...

SARASOTA, Fla. - A retired schoolteacher who went to Iraq (news - web sites) to serve as a "human shield" against the U.S. invasion is facing thousands of dollars in U.S. government fines, which she is refusing to pay. The U.S. Department of the Treasury said in a March letter to Faith Fippinger that she broke the law by crossing the Iraqi border before the war. Her travel to Iraq violated U.S. sanctions that prohibited American citizens from engaging in "virtually all direct or indirect commercial, financial or trade transactions with Iraq." She and others from 30 countries spread out...

Reprinted from NewsMax.com Russia Gave Iraq Assassin List NewsMax WiresMonday, April 14, 2003 Britain’s Telegraph reported Sunday that top secret documents discovered by Coalition forces in Baghdad “show that Russia provided Saddam Hussein's regime with wide-ranging assistance in the months leading up to the war, including intelligence on private conversations between Tony Blair and other Western leaders.” Incredibly, Russia’s government also provided Iraq with “lists of assassins available for ‘hits’ in the West and details of arms deals to neighbouring countries.” The Telegraph said the documents detailed “the extent of the links between Russia and Saddam” and were obtained from...

The Immoral Cynicism of France and Germany By Tov B. Brog February 18, 2003 - Why are the French and Germans so determined in their opposition to the United States in our efforts against Saddam Hussein? A simple answer could be that they're jealous. Another might be that they're opposed in principle to the use of force. Well, maybe. But consider the cost of that opposition. The United States is one of Frances largest trading partner, outside of the EU itself, buying over $31 billion in French goods every year. So, angering us over a matter of petty pride seems...

GAZA CITY: A Gaza state security court on Saturday condemned to death a Palestinian for collaborating with Israeli forces against the Islamic militant movement Hamas, the court's prosecutor Khaled al-Qudra said. The court found Hamas member Amin Khalafala, 30, guilty of passing along information to Israel about "the armed wing of Hamas" and "activities against Palestinian fighters and resistance", Qudra said. Khalafala, who comes from the central Gaza Strip town of Khan Yunis, was arrested four years ago, but was not tried until now. It was the second death sentence handed down by the court this week against a Hamas...

TULKARM, West Bank (Reuters) - Palestinian militants have shot a teenaged girl in the head, killing her for "collaborating" with Israel, Palestinian sources say. They said 18-year old Rajah Ibrahim was the second female in a week to be killed by members of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, who are affiliated with Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement. Sources close to al-Aqsa said they killed her three days after abducting her in Tulkarm, one of six Palestinian cities in the West Bank under an Israeli military clampdown. The sources said on Friday that she had provided information to Israeli security services that allowed...

<p>Tulkarm, West Bank -- Only God and the Israelis know for sure whether Ikhlas Khouli, a widowed Palestinian mother of seven, was guilty of collaborating with Israel, residents of this dusty town say.</p> <p>But most have their suspicions.</p> <p>Two days after members of the militant Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade pumped her body full of bullets and left it in the town square to serve as a deterrent, neighbors, the town mosque, even other relatives had turned against Khouli and her survivors.</p>

The Military Tribunal has convicted in absentia a singer who performed in Israel of collaboration with the Jewish state and sentenced her to 15 years in prison at hard labor. Nada Rizk was also fined LL2 million for “serving in the (Israeli) enemy army, contacting its agents and entering the country without prior permission.” The verdict was handed down Thursday and posted on a court bulletin board Friday. In February, the court accused Rizk of frequently visiting Israel, giving an interview on Israel radio on Oct. 24 about her singing career, and of marrying Abdel-Basset Ahmed bin Oudeh, an Arab-Israeli...