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After reading all of the crap that people have been saying regarding Adult Private Social Clubs, I felt that I had to post an article and give my opinion. I am sick and tired of all the religous groups that are saying that there are drugs, prostitution, minors, non-consenting people, and just immoral people at these clubs! First of all, who do these people think they are to decide what is morally right or wrong for me? I believe that I have a good set of morals. I am a law abiding, tax paying citizen, I work full time and...

Lies of omission about 9/11 -- stoking fears of terrorism THEY WANT YOU TO BE AFRAID The following post was censored by freerepublic.com shortly after it was posted on their "public" forum on 9/11/04. That forum is designed to appear as though it is a community forum open to all, but this post only received three responses before it and its replies were deleted, and a repeat posting at 4 am PST on 9/20/04 didn't stay online for 5 minutes! Someone is apparently watching closely over the content of the freerepublic.com forums and censoring them 24/7 (though they might have...

Concluding Question: The Meta-Group and the United States Government It seems clear that the meta-group, with its influential connections on at least three continents, was powerful enough to effect changes, through the Russian 9/11, in Russian history. The question arises whether they could similarly effect changes in American history as well. As we have seen Russian sources claim that the U.S. Government has had access to he meta-group, for such especially sensitive projects as the assassination of Abu al Walid al-Hamadi. They claim the meta-group's involvement in a number of U.S.-sponsored regime changes in eastern Europe, from the overthrow of...

WASHINGTON, June 26 - Federal Reserve officials, who meet this week, are beginning to suspect that the perplexing decline in long-term interest rates is more than a temporary aberration. The possibility has major implications for the economy, and it creates new puzzles for Fed officials on how they should respond. On Thursday, the Fed is all but certain to raise the federal funds rate on overnight loans between banks by another quarter point, to 3.25 percent. That would be the ninth increase in the last year, and the central bank is expected to signal that it will continue to raise...

Imagine a place with a population nearly the size of England but with only half the economic clout of San Diego County. And in this place almost half the people make less than $2 per day. Now imagine some of the highest-paid lobbyists in Washington, D.C. – representing labor unions, textile mills, beef ranchers and sugar growers – filing into the Capitol to fight over whether the United States should establish a free-trade agreement with that deeply impoverished land. Once you have that picture firmly in mind, you have an idea of the debate that's shaping up over the Central...

      On June 13, 1866, in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War, Congress passed the 14th Amendment to the  Constitution of the United States, which was ratified by the states and became part of our Constitution on July 9, 1868.       The 14th Amendment, or Article 14, is commonly known as the ''Equal Rights Amendment,'' for it contains in Section 1 the now-famous injunction that ''No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due...

The Saddam conundrum: Was he killed in first raid? By Rupert Cornwell in Washington 22 March 2003 American intelligence was wrestling yesterday with a conundrum whose answer may decide the course of the war against Iraq: was Saddam Hussein killed or injured in Wednesday night's raid against a fortified compound in Baghdad? And if he survived unscathed, were either of his sons, or other top aides, among the victims? Because, of course, there were victims. As one official here put it, "You don't drop 40 cruise missiles and 2,000lb 'bunker busters' and not hurt someone." And despite the prevailing (but...

SCRANTON, Pa. -- A man charged with theft didn't have the money to pay for a rehabilitation program that would clear his criminal record, so he stole a courthouse computer to pawn off, police said. Police said Ernesto Valdez, 32, arrived Monday at the Lackawanna County Courthouse to enroll in the Accelerated Rehabilitative Disposition program, which expunges the criminal record of first-time offenders. Valdez did not have the $685 enrollment fee, so he stole a court stenographer's laptop computer to pawn, according to police. The pawn shop refused to take the computer because the power cord was missing, so...