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Americans are well acquainted with presidential candidate Barack Obama’s legendary pledges to bring “change” to America’s political and social landscape. (For example, see here and here and here.) Indeed, “Change We Can Believe In” is the slogan that adorns the homepage of his campaign website and so many of the placards displayed by the supporters who attend his speaking engagements. His Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, is also well practiced at issuing calls for change. Her “Change and Experience” ad campaign was but an outgrowth of her 1993 declaration, as First Lady, that “remolding society is one of the great challenges...

Bay Area longshore workers are planning to gather Thursday to protest the U.S. war in Iraq and Afghanistan, potentially thwarting activity at the region's ports, according to members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union. Brandon Taylor, an operations manager for GSC Logistics, a warehousing, distribution and transportation company at the Port of Oakland, said today that the company had known about the protests for a few weeks and is planning to get all containers out of the port today and Wednesday in order to prevent halting production. He said the good news is that it is a slow time...

My e-mail box is over-flowing with alarming news from Pa. where the Gathering of Eagles witnessed a 14-year old boy attacked by Peace Thugs. This news is so disturbing and so typical, that a website has now been established to document this intensifying level of violence against patriotic Americans. Peace Thugs Exposed! Dan Maloney, my friend and GOE NY Coordinator writes about this outrage. _________________________________________________________________________________________________ Iraq War Veteran and Family Assaulted! April 22, 2008 Peace Fascists, College Professors and Hillary Supporters assault Iraqi War Veteran and Family while citizens do nothing to intervene. Edinboro, PA, Apr. 22 For the second...

I've decided to pay a visit to this MoveOn.Org function. I understand many Arizona democrat lawmakers and even a disturbed, delusional left-wing mental patient talk show host named Jeff Farias will be speaking. I will be correcting some of the factual errors I have a feeling could possibly arise. I welcome any company. This Thursday at Noon, Phoenix State Capitol. 1700 W. Jefferson.

Columbia University is warily edging toward the 40th anniversary of its greatest disaster, the 1968 student uprising and occupation of five buildings, eventually cleared by vigorous and sometimes brutal city police. The revolt was led by Students for a Democratic Society, which was protesting Columbia's affiliation with a U.S. Defense Department think tank - and other students who were teed off about, among other things, the university's plans to build a gymnasium in Morningside Heights. (Protesters labeled it "Gym Crow.") Today, as another controversial war rages - and many current Columbia students bitterly oppose the university's current Harlem expansion plans...

BEIJING (AFP) - China bluntly told the world Olympics chief Thursday to keep out of politics, in a tart exchange on human rights following days of protests that have shadowed the Olympic torch around the world. International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge said the Games were in "crisis" following the demonstrations, and urged China to respect its pledge to improve its rights record before the event begins in August. China fired back that Rogge should keep politics out of the Olympics, which Beijing hoped would showcase its much-touted "peaceful rise" to power -- but which have instead become a public...

While many Democrats for political reasons are calling upon President Bush to boycott the opening ceremony of the Olympics in Peking many DUmmies as well as other Democrats really think the U.S.A. should be BANNED from the Olympics altogether. All those millions of Chinese who were starved to death by Mao during the Great Leap Forward? No big deal according to the DUmmies when compared to the massive crimes of the U.S.A. as you can see in this mea culpa THREAD titled, "Should the U.S. be banned from The Olympics?" How much you want to bet that this DUmmie...

A little lesson on the history of the Olympic torch relay: You might think, as I did before Tuesday, that it was a representation of everything that is good in all of us. That its history was lush with goodwill. Maybe you thought the relay dated back to the ancient Greeks, that it was a dramatic tribute to mythology. Prometheus stealing the fire from Zeus. Those of us who watched, as the torch was carried across the Cascades and into a high-school stadium in Wenatchee on the Fourth of July in 1984, felt inspired. Wasn't that what this relay was...

Bill on tap to dry up ALL drinking, driving By Laurel J. Sweet and Mike Underwood Monday, March 17, 2008 - Updated 10m ago EmailE-mail PrintablePrintable Comments(89) Comments LargerSmallerText size ShareShare Rate(5) Rate A Taunton state representative wants to make Massachusetts the first state to declare driving under the influence of alcohol - even one green beer - flat out illegal. Rep. James Fagan’s legislation would slash the current .08 blood-alcohol limit recognized nationwide as the standard for being legally drunk to .02. Federal government research indicates a 160- to 240-pound man would register .02 sipping one glass of wine...

'100 Dead' In Anti-China Protests In Tibet By Sky News SkyNews - 9 minutes agoChina has locked down the Tibetan capital of Lhasa and set a deadline for rioters to surrender following the worst violence in 20 years. Beijing said that 10 people had been burnt to death during a day of unrest, while Tibet's government-in-exile in India warned that the number could be much higher. In a statement from its northern India base, it said: "We have unconfirmed reports about 100 people had been killed and martial law imposed in Lhasa." The government said it was "deeply concerned" by...

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Arriving in the Port of Oakland at 6 a.m. last Thursday, the grey-blue colossus auto carrier Century Highway No. 3 carries enough cars to fill all the parking lots surrounding the Giants stadium — a mere fraction of the average 368 million annual tons of autos, toys, and other goods moving through the 29 ports along America's Pacific coast. Could there be a force of man or nature powerful enough to interrupt this perpetual merchandise tsunami? Would you believe — San Francisco radical peaceniks? On May 1, the usually bustling ports along the West Coast will become still, as members...

After 30 years, Navratilova's Czech again Tue Mar 11, 3:12 AM ET Tennis legend Martina Navratilova said Tuesday she has regained Czech nationality more than 30 years after fleeing communism in the country of her birth to live in the United States. "I lost it at the time I defected. I got it back on January 9," Navratilova told a news conference on a visit to Tokyo. The 51-year-old former world champion said she was maintaining dual nationality and keeping her US passport. Born in Prague, Navratilova fled to the United States in 1975 at the height of the Cold...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The US dropped China from its list of the world's worst human rights violaters, but added Syria, Uzbekistan and Sudan to the alleged offenders in an annual report released Tuesday. The State Department's 2007 Human Rights Report showed China, which has raised hopes it will improve human rights by hosting the 2008 Olympics, had parted company with countries like North Korea, Myanmar and Iran.

North Korea publicly executes 15 starving refugees fleeing to China in desperate search for foodLast updated at 00:05am on 6th March 2008 North Korea has publicly executed 15 starving people, mostly women, for illegally entering neighbouring China in search of food, an aid group said yesterday. The 13 women and two men were shot on a bridge in the north-eastern town of Onseong as local residents watched. It was the second mass execution to be reported this week. The group of 15 were sentenced to death for illegally crossing the border into China or for helping others to do so, to...

Andy Garcia is urging fashion-conscious rebels to stop wearing T-shirts emblazoned with the image of Latino revolutionary Ernesto 'Che' Guevara because they remind Cubans of terrible times. The actor accepts that Guevara stands for rebellion and is seen as a hero to many, but he sees the revolutionary as a butcher who killed millions of his countrymen. Argentine-born Guevara helped current Cuban leader Fidel Castro overthrow General Fulgencio Batista's government in a guerrilla revolution in the late 1950s. Garcia, who left Cuba when he was five, says, "I'd be curious to go around and ask them how much they really...

HAVANA, Cuba (CNN) -- Cuban President Raul Castro is taking over leadership of a country whose government believes its citizens are not working hard enough. The state-run newspaper recently ran an article headlined "Work: Option or necessity?" The writer pointed out that, judging by the number of people in the streets during the day, many Cubans don't seem to be on the job. They have few motivations to buckle down: Salaries average about $15 per month on the island, and Cubans get monthly food rations even if they don't work. Watch a report on the realities in Cuba » "There...

Early last week Buzz Krohn of Columbia, MD discovered That guy called me Horse pucky! That's the nicest thing [sniff] anyone's said to me in a long time! a fundraiser was planned at a nearby community college featuring an awards ceremony honoring members of Code Pink. Trooprally posted this thread to alert FReepers. Buzz played the biggest part in gathering info and getting the counter protest organized. The ceremony and fundraiser was organized by the local chapter of Women in Black. What grand honor were the WIB bestowing on Medea Benjamin, Jodie Evans, and Gael Murphy? VAGINA WARRIOR AWARDS!...

Fidel Castro Steps Down...

This is directed to Alessandra Soler Meetze, executive director of the ACLU Arizona, pertaining to her recent letter to the Herald, subject: “ACLU protects American values, civil liberties.” Concerning the imaginary virtues of that organization, her prognostications are derived from their Web site, which carefully orchestrates both its past and defined benevolences. Yes, the ACLU on rare occasions picks and chooses what and whom to defend that are diametrically opposed to the philosophies of that organization just to give itself an air of legitimacy. The fact is the ACLU was founded by Roger Baldwin, a devout Marxist, which was determined...

Berkeley Code Pink Out-Gunned By Move America Forward Pro-Troop Supporters February 12, 2008 - Berkeley, CA - PipeLinenews.org - As the nine member Berkeley City Council prepared to decide the fate of the city’s Marine Corp Recruiting Center, Move America Forward - the nation’s largest grassroots pro-troop organization - took to the streets, confronting a rag-tag group of counter culture lefties, including members of Code Pink, a group much in favor with California Democrat legislators. Starting at 5am conservatives streamed into the notoriously radical city of 100,000, carrying the dual themed but unified message of support for both our...

MANAGUA, Nicaragua -- President Daniel Ortega, who led the 1979 revolution in Nicaragua, says Barack Obama's presidential bid is a "revolutionary" phenomenon in the United States. "It's not to say that there is already a revolution under way in the U.S. ... but yes, they are laying the foundations for a revolutionary change," the Sandinista leader said Wednesday night as he accepted an honorary doctorate from an engineering university. Ortega led a Soviet-backed government that battled U.S.-supported Contra rebels before he lost power in a 1990 election. He returned to office last year via the ballot box. In statements broadcast...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - US grocery chain Trader Joe's said Monday it would stop selling food imported from China due to customers' concerns about the products' safety. "Our customers have voiced concerns about products from this region and we have listened," Trader Joe's spokeswoman Alison Mochizuki said in a statement. "All single ingredient food items sourced from mainland China are scheduled to be out of our stores by April 1," she said. "We will continue to source products from other regions until our customers feel as confident as we do about the quality and safety of Chinese products."

Barack Obama won’t wear an American flag on his lapel, but on the wall of his Houston campaign office: a Cuban flag with a picture of Communist mass murderer Che Guevara. Video link: http://www.myfoxhouston.com/myfox/pages/Home/Detail?contentId=5700252&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=VSTY&pageId=1.1.1 ....And that flag is no fluke. Here’s another one. (Video, as again the Houston news anchors don’t even notice the big image of Che Guevara staring them in the face.) Link: http://www.myfoxhouston.com/myfox/pages/News/Politics/Detail?contentId=5668120&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=VSTY&pageId=3.14.1

Hillary Clinton's most senior advisers are in a state of "panic" about her presidential prospects and are plotting to enlist Democrat leaders in Congress to thwart her rival Barack Obama's ambitions. -- The Clinton camp hopes to stop the Obama bandwagon by winning Texas and Ohio primaries on March 4, after which Mrs Clinton is planning to call on party grandees including Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House of Representatives and Harry Reid, the party's leader in the Senate, to persuade Mr Obama to stand down.

Historians credit left-wingers with coining "politics of fear" to belittle Sen. Joseph McCarthy's campaign against communists in the U.S. government. The phrase went into hibernation in the 1960s, a torpidity even warmonger-in-waiting Lyndon Johnson's daisy-girl ad couldn't disturb, only to reemerge in the 1980s to denigrate Ronald Reagan's Cold War-winning strategy. These days, the phrase has become the lefties' No. 1 rhetorical trump card against the war against Islamic terrorism. To them, Americans have more to fear from the Bush administration than from the terrorists who seek to bring America to heel. Sen. Barack Obama uses it in almost every...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE INDIANAPOLIS (January 31, 2008) - “Osama bin Laden couldn’t have said it better,” American Legion National Commander Marty Conatser said of the Berkeley City Council Resolution, which tells the Marines that they are not welcome there. “Disgraceful, disloyal, ungrateful. These words are too kind in describing the actions of the public officials in Berkeley, who voted for this disgrace. Nonetheless, our Marines continue to bravely serve and in so doing, allow Americans to spout such foolishness. The American Legion not only strongly condemns this action by the City Council but also believes that a sincere apology is...

If John McCain rolls on Super Tuesday then it is time for all Freepers living in remaining primary states to cross-over in your respective primaries and vote for Obama on the dem ballot. It's our best opportunity to stop her because she will crush McCain in November.

Key U.S. senator proposes company to buy mortgages Wed Jan 23, 2008 2:23pm EST By Patrick Rucker WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The chairman of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee is proposing to set up a government-sponsored company that would buy distressed mortgages in an effort to save Americans from foreclosure. In a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid released on Wednesday, Sen. Christopher Dodd said he envisioned an entity with an initial capitalization of $10 billion to $20 billion that would buy troubled mortgages, give them a markdown and pass on the "discounts ... to homeowners in the form of...

Maoists are turning cannibals. They eat human flesh to terrorize villagers. This was revealed by the residents of Bandiguda, 45 km from the district headquarters town of Malkangiri. The district police, under the leadership of daredevil SP Satish Kumar Gajbhiye, risked in organizing a community policing programme in a far-flung area, known as the Red Terror Zone of the district. On August 3, 2007, the people of Bandiguda saw Mukunda Madhi of their village being lifted by 'Papular Dalam Commander' Bhagat, as Mukunda was suspected by the Maoists as a police informer. Next morning, Mukunda was brought back to the...

North Korea has become more and more receptive to help from United Nations agencies, mostly due to the country's dire need of food and other aid, a special rapporteur from the U.N. said Friday. Vitit Muntarbhorn, a U.N. special rapporteur on North Korean human rights currently visiting Tokyo, assessed Pyongyang's reception of help from U.N. agencies since the devastating floods last August as a "constructive development." The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates that the North's crop yields decreased 7 percent in 2007 from a year earlier to some 3.8 million tons. The official, however, also noted that...

China's new employment law effective Jan. 1 attempts to provide greater protection and benefits for more workers. But what we are already seeing is the creativity of employers to find ways to circumvent the new rules to avoid being saddled with higher costs. Over the last 12 years, in an avalanche of economic opportunity, about 200 million farmers in China have migrated to the cities, taking manufacturing, trade and construction jobs. (Incidentally, there are about 300 million more of these workers ready, willing and able to migrate over the next 20 years). This mass migration has overwhelmed the regulatory authorities...

It’s been a while since I printed hate mail. You’ve seen one “Hey, BusHitler’s Asian whore, go home” letter, you’ve seen ‘em all. But this one’s such a prize-winner, I had to share: from Joe Roppe {snip} Michelle Malkin, I bet we could make your cry for real. Force you to eat a hamburger. I often wonder what will happen when we progressive liberal adults take back our country. The adults will stop wars for oil, Everyone will have health care. Everyone will have a roof over their heads. Everyone will have a voice in our government. Everyone will pay...

If you are a critic of the Bush administration, chances are that, at some point over the past six months, Ron Paul has said something that appealed to you. Paul describes himself as a libertarian, but, since his presidential campaign took off earlier this year, the Republican congressman has attracted donations and plaudits from across the ideological spectrum. Antiwar conservatives, disaffected centrists, even young liberal activists have all flocked to Paul, hailing him as a throwback to an earlier age, when politicians were less mealy-mouthed and American government was more modest in its ambitions, both at home and abroad. In...

A group of Cubans who arrived in Venezuela from Cuba on Saturday December 15, received an unfriendly welcome at Maiquetía airport in Caracas. Hundreds of Venezuelans at the airport received the Cubans, who were wearing t-shirts with the face of the criminal mass murderer che Guevara, with loud boos and yells of "fuera" (get out). Venezuela's official media and pro-Chavez groups who were at the airport to welcome the Cubans, never expected such a strong reaction from regular Venezuelans who were at the airport waiting for relatives and friends. Some of the Cubans looked around not knowing what to do....

JOHANNESBURG, Jan. 4 -- Within the Zulu culture of Jacob Zuma, the newly elected president of the African National Congress, few moments in a man's life are more celebrated than taking a wife -- even if he already has others. But news of Zuma's plans to marry a longtime girlfriend this weekend -- marking, by most counts, his sixth wedding -- sent waves of unease Friday through this polyglot nation where progressive notions of women's rights clash with deeply held convictions about respecting South Africa's varied cultural traditions. The development appeared particularly awkward for the ANC, which over nearly a...

A couple of years ago, I debated a professor from American University named John Doolittle who, prompted by me, admitted that Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, R-Wisconsin (1908-1957), may have exposed some real communists working in the federal government. “But I saw the Edward R. Murrow broadcasts,” Dr. Doolittle added. “He was a bad man.”

I met up with OCCASparky at the Draught Pub in Rochester, NH and we prepared to confront the commies from Farmington Peace Action at the Monument. I checked out Osama's HQ, no Masshole rapist loonies with fake bombs and hostages, the same condition existed or seemed to exist at Hitlery's HQ a few doors up, so I figured that this would be a rather a mundain show the flag operaton. We set up and waited for the commies to show at 1725. They straggled in the Ur Hippy and the commie lawyer, his hag, and a couple of others, a...

It was 22 degrees with a 20 to 30 mile an hour breeze when I picked up OCCASparky and we headed to Plymouth, NH to meet up with Past Your Eyes to FReep the local talent. Plymouth is a college town, loaded with the usual socalist trash, about 45 miles North of Concord. It is located in a river valley and has all of the usual college town stuff, a cutesy book store, a pizza joint, a Chinese Resturant, Gin Mills, Hitlery signs, Osama signs, and the other amenities of college life. We did a RECON of the place, it...

I only saw a little of the Republican presidential debate last night, which featured video questions sent in through YouTube selected by CNN. There’s a lot of griping this morning about how the debate was an embarrassment and a bad night for the GOP in general because CNN chose questions that were either defiantly peculiar, beneath contempt, or freakish. I wonder if there’s a little oversensitivity at work here, because the great surprise of the first YouTube debate in September, featuring Democrats, was how substantive it was and how it forced the Democratic field to engage for the first time...

Our FRiend and fellow FReeper Past Your Eyes has been getting agrivated by Young, and not so young, fools burning candles at the side of the road and disparaging the efforts of out troops. So he asked us if we wanted to FReep them. Because I, Little Bill, was the only one available I packed my Flags and headed Northwest to Bristol, NH. I arrived at 1830 and listend to Howie Carr while I waited for Eyes, it was cold, 28, and clear with no wind, the snow had melted, not a bad night. Eyes showed up at 1900 and...

GARDEN CITY LIBRARY 6015 Glenwood St., Garden City, ID 83714 November 15, 2007 My Name My Address Mr. MyName, The Garden City Library Board of Trustees met on November 14, 2007 to discuss your request for reconsideration of the dvd titled “El Che”. The Board thanks you for your interest in the Garden City Library Collection. All of the Board members did have a chance to view this video prior to the meeting. The consensus of the Board was that the movie is a historic document that represents a fairly realistic portrait of an “Icon”. The Board does not condone...

HONOLULU (AP) - The top U.S. military commander in the Pacific said he's "perplexed and concerned" by China's last-minute decision to deny a U.S. aircraft carrier entry to Hong Kong for a previously scheduled port visit...

Americans reading M. Stanton Evans' Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America's Enemies, may experience déjà vu even if they were not alive in 1950 when the McCarthy saga started to unfold.

Monday, November 12, 2007 Terror Teaser..."Babes of FARC" Heat Up Colombian Jungle Terror group hopes "Babes of FARC" wins over sympathizers. The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) posted "Babes of FARC" photos to promote their communist revolutionary cause. The Colombian FARC terrorists released their calendar for 2007-2008.

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia's highest court on Thursday refused to recognize the executed last czar Nicholas II and his family as victims of political repression — a ruling Kremlin critics said was dictated by the government's reluctance to condemn the bloodiest chapters of the country's Communist past. The Supreme Court upheld repeated rulings by lower courts and prosecutors that the 1918 slaying of the czar, his wife and their five children by a Bolshevik firing squad was premeditated murder, not a political reprisal, said German Lukyanov, a lawyer for the royal family's descendants. "This is an illegal decision," Lukyanov told...

I met up with Past Your Eyes at Big Heads in Rochester and introduced him to Andy58-in-NH and OCCASparky, we had gathered for our intermittant Freep of the Farmington commies, Peace Action. This trash holds a vigil every Friday, 1730 - 1830, at the Monument in Rochester and drags the whole tenor of the City down, such as there is. We set up with Flags and signs on our side of the street and awaited the arrival of the socalist scum, they were late as usual, we recieved a few honks and thumbs up, the traffic was light for a...

On Friday, Hollywood will once again celebrate the supposed legacy and heroism of the Hollywood Ten. In 1947, the House Committee on Un-American Activities began its hearings on the infiltration of communists in the film industry by subpoenaing a group of accused communist screenwriters. The so-called Ten — Dalton Trumbo, Ring Lardner Jr., and their less well-known colleagues — refused to testify about their affiliations and beliefs, invoking the First Amendment. The courts ruled against these "unfriendly witnesses," and all were sentenced to prison. Since that time, Hollywood has told the story of the Ten's heroism over and over. A...

This afternoon [10/18/2007] the editorial desk of Noticiero Digital contacted the news department of Mérida radio station Estudio 102.7 FM, who confirmed the information reported this morning. They added that the recently inaugurated monument was destroyed by gunfire. The glass monument honoring Argentinian guerilla Ernesto Guevara was not well received by the area's communities, to whom [Che] represented a figure who was totally foreign to its history and values.

This right wing assault on college campuses across the country has nothing to do with "free speech" or the oppression of women in Islam. It has everything to do with silencing dissent and whipping up Islamo-phobic hysteria to justify U.S. domination of the Middle East. If you are against everything "Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week" stands for… -Organize your campus: talk to Women's Studies professors, Muslim Student Associations, Global Warming scientists, and others about the agenda behind "IFAW" -Take a stand: Be bold and uncompromising. Figure out ways to directly confront "IFAW" and expose their lies. Use this week as an opportunity...