http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/guardian/ en-us Fri, 15 May 2009 18:09:56 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2251730/posts Charlie Skelton is now being followed by the police and still hasn't done much more than eat a club sandwich. Global secret cabals have no sense of humour. Now I've got too much to report. I'll talk later about the strange secret circus of limousines, blacked-out windows,sirens,helicopters. No time to relate being detained for a SECOND time, for the crime of being half a mile from the Bilderberg hotel gates trying to take "arty" photographs of limousine wheels as they whisked past. Doing so little wrong that I was doing it while standing next to three policemen who were fine... Guardian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2251730/posts#comment Fri, 15 May 2009 18:09:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2236671/posts We now know that legal opinions were merely retroactive cover. The Bush administration's first instinct was towards abuseThe more we learn about the Bush administration torture regime the worse it gets. The Senate intelligence committee report released Wednesday outlines specific torture techniques that were in place long before lawyers in the justice department had given the programme its legal imprimatur. The Bush administration layered one faulty assumption on top of another to reach a staggering level of incompetence. But stupidity alone cannot sufficiently explain how the United States became a torturing nation. Rather, an enthusiasm for brutality led the US... Guardian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2236671/posts#comment Fri, 24 Apr 2009 06:00:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2219697/posts Someone tore up the script. Here's how it was meant to go. Barack Obama was supposed to sweep into Europe on his first major trip abroad as the new JFK, greeted by adoring fans moistly waving little American flags. His progress would be part celebrity world tour, part celebration of the end of the Bush era. A needy Gordon Brown would bask in the Obama glow, hoping its rays would improve his own deathly pallor. Meanwhile, the rest of Europe's leaders would fall to their knees, humbly agreeing to any request made by the visiting emperor, mindful that in a... guardian.co.uk http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2219697/posts#comment Wed, 1 Apr 2009 12:24:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2159066/posts Nizar Rayan, who was assassinated on Thursday in Gaza by a bomb dropped from an Israeli warplane, was a man of the street, but also considered one of Hamas's top five decision-makers. Many considered the 49-year-old as more significant than the Hamas prime minister in Gaza, Ismail Haniyeh, and indeed other key leaders such as Mahmoud Zahar. guardian.co.uk http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2159066/posts#comment Mon, 5 Jan 2009 18:00:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2153635/posts Craig's assertions that the transition team was unaware of Blagojevich's efforts to sell off Obama's old seat do not correspond to the transcripts of wiretapped conversations released by the FBI two weeks ago in which the governor repeatedly swears and expresses frustration in his attempts to strike a deal on the Senate seat. The Guardian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2153635/posts#comment Wed, 24 Dec 2008 08:58:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2063050/posts The rise in carbon dioxide emissions is big news. It is prompting action to reverse global warming. But little or no attention is being paid to the long-term fall in oxygen concentrations and its knock-on effects. Compared to prehistoric times, the level of oxygen in the earth's atmosphere has declined by over a third and in polluted cities the decline may be more than 50%. (snip) In the 20th century, humanity has pumped increasing amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere by burning the carbon stored in coal, petroleum and natural gas. In the process, we've also been consuming oxygen... The Guardian (UK) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2063050/posts#comment Sat, 16 Aug 2008 22:35:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2061176/posts From the time of our birth, God has graced us with a faithful companion, appointed guardian and guide: our dear guardian angel.  Angels are spiritual beings who are constantly in God’s Presence, singing praises to Our Creator.  Angels serve as Divine messengers, bringing God’s Will and Word to all humanity. Although we are unable to see them they are there ready to protect and watch over us at God’s command. The Doctors of the Church teach that the guardianship of the holy angels over men only terminates at the souls’ entrance into Heaven. Some mystics have asserted that it extends to... Spirit Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2061176/posts#comment Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:35:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2060903/posts The Kremlin's decision today to call a halt to its five-day assault on Georgia leaves Russia calling the shots in the energy-rich Black Sea littoral and Caspian basin. (Snip...) Nato and the EU The Russians see the Caucasus test as a zero-sum game and have won. That means lose-lose for the west. A key objective for Putin was to destabilise Georgia to invalidate its aim of joining Nato. He may have succeeded. The Americans suffered a rare defeat in April at a Nato summit when George Bush argued strongly for starting Georgia towards alliance membership and was defeated by Angela... Guardian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2060903/posts#comment Wed, 13 Aug 2008 01:47:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1960140/posts Your new timetable, kids: double maths, English and a spot of shooting · Surge in school gun ranges after minister backed sport · Lobby group rejects link to violent crime Polly Curtis, education editor Saturday January 26, 2008 The Guardian The number of schools introducing rifle ranges for pupils has surged since ministers backed shooting sports last year, say gun groups. One local authority is reportedly seeking to introduce shooting at 16 of its schools, and an academy due to open in September in a deprived area of south Bristol is believed to be the first of the government's flagship... The Guardian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1960140/posts#comment Sun, 27 Jan 2008 02:06:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1948568/posts Guardian journalist expelled from Iran Guardian Unlimited January 4 2008 The Guardian's Tehran correspondent, Robert Tait, has been expelled from Iran without explanation after nearly three years of reporting from the country. Tait was forced to leave the country after the Iranian authorities declined to renew his visa and residence permit, despite an appeal on his behalf from the Guardian's editor, -excerpt- He is now back in the UK, along with his Iranian wife. The ministry gave no reason for its decision but said the newspaper was free to put forward another journalist as its correspondent in Iran. Tait, 43,... Guardian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1948568/posts#comment Sat, 5 Jan 2008 02:57:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1854449/posts This has been a hectic week for me. My husband fueled up his Tiger Grumman airplane with aviation gas and soared off into the skies for his first cross-country solo flight. He landed in Kitty Hawk, S.C., and spent a couple of days re-acquainting himself with the Wright Brothers and their dazzling accomplishment of first-ever flight and American can-do spirit. Simultaneously, my teenage son, his best friend and my niece left for Nicaragua on a mission by our church to help build a youth center in the mosquito-infested town of San Ramon. So I was minding my own business when... Worldnetdaily.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1854449/posts#comment Fri, 22 Jun 2007 05:15:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1834513/posts In another sad example of self flagellation by western elitists, the Guardian Newspaper in England published a column on how we Americans (and our English cousins) should not celebrate the founding of Jamestown, the first Virginia colony, 400 years ago because of... you guessed it... slavery. Here we have another elitist congratulating himself that he is "informed" enough to know that slavery makes the founding of the USA a blight on humanity instead of the great event it truly is. Another leftist who cannot bring himself to be proud of anything the west has been responsible for because there were... NewsBusters.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1834513/posts#comment Wed, 16 May 2007 15:19:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1804830/posts The Guardian's obsession in adopting "Palestinianism", big words on empty reality * "Apartheid" -, the Guardian was/is obsessed to use it at any opportunity Israel's survival war against racist terrorism by Arabs (http://www.honestreporting.com/articles/45884734/critiques/Guardian_Promotes_Apartheid_Slur.asp Guardian Promotes Apartheid Slur), long before the bribing by the Arab lobby of former US president, the infamous Jimmy Carter to use the word "apartheid" as a title of his anti-Israel bigoted book. Facts of equal rights & equal treatment of Arabs in Israel, that even Carter has admitted (interview with former President Jimmy Carter. ... "I recognize Israel is a wonderful democracy with freedom of speech... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1804830/posts#comment Thu, 22 Mar 2007 10:55:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1803595/posts What's wrong with this picture? & Just How Islamized is 'The Guardian'? Muslim organization to address Jewish audience Associated Press of Pakistan, Pakistan - Mar 18, 2007 LONDON, March 18 (APP): Britain's leading Muslim organization will tomorrow signal a radical shift in its position when one of its senior members addresses ... MCB at JCC event Something Jewish British Muslims extend a friendly hand to Jews Guardian Unlimited Instead of the MINORITY Jewish organization having a clean foot a sane voice in the dirty hate empire of Islamofascistic 'mainstream Islam' that teaches that non Muslims are apes & pigs, What... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1803595/posts#comment Tue, 20 Mar 2007 07:44:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1790785/posts PS3: difficult stories emerge in run up to Euro launch http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/games/archives/2007/02/13/ps3_difficult_stories_emerge_in_run_up_to_euro_launch.html [...] More juicy perhaps, is the comment made on a blog named FreeRepublic.com, by EA employee Dr. Andrew Garrett: "My opinion - get the 360 and/or the Wii. Skip the PS3 unless there's a big change in the near future." You can read his full post here. Naturally, anti-Sony zealots are spinning this as 'EA says skip PS3', which means Dr Garrett is probably in a whole heap of trouble. That's the problem with the modern videogame industry and the web - the two are utterly incompatible... Blog culture... The Guardian, Blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1790785/posts#comment Sun, 25 Feb 2007 07:59:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1748535/posts As she sees it now, she spent her 20s working too hard, never saying no to anything and succumbing to "the bad side of American psychology". "I love the English way, which is not as capitalistic as it is in America. People don't talk about work and money; they talk about interesting things at dinner parties. I like living here because I don't tap into the bad side of American psychology..." The Guardian Unlimited http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1748535/posts#comment Tue, 5 Dec 2006 03:56:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1734832/posts American "expatriate" Greg Palast published an article in the UK's left wing "Guardian" on Monday: "explaining" how the GOP "stole" the Mid-term elections ! (Talk about being stuck on "Stupid" !) The Inside Straight http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1734832/posts#comment Wed, 8 Nov 2006 15:56:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1713227/posts The Guardian's Sound of Silence Posted by Marc Landers on October 3, 2006 - 13:13. Remember when the AP ran the bogus story about the Crowd booing when President Bush annonunced that Bill Clinton was ill? There was no booing and the report created a firestorm in the blogsphere. Faced with an onslaught from bloggers, the AP was forced to retract the story. The Guardian's Jonathan Freeland was caught in the reverse when he claimed there was no applause in response to this statement by PM Blair at the Labor Party conference: "So when Blair said that a withdrawal from... Newsbusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1713227/posts#comment Wed, 4 Oct 2006 02:49:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1704530/posts Meaningless apology 9/19/2006 3:28:00 PM GMT   (AFP Photo) Pope Benedict XVI greets pilgrims and faithful in the courtyard of his summer residence  Fury continues over radical remarks made by Pope Benedict XVI last Tuesday in a speech during a pilgrimage to his native Germany in which he linked the noble faith of Islam to violence and terrorism, quoting a 14th-century Christian emperor who said that Prophet Mohammed's command to spread Islam by the sword had produced "evil and inhumane" results.Earlier this week and following mass protests that broke out across the Muslim and the Arab world, the pope... Aljazeera http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1704530/posts#comment Tue, 19 Sep 2006 23:27:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1658706/posts The US government said it could not find the men that Guantánamo detainee Abdullah Mujahid believes could help set him free. The Guardian found them in three days. Two years ago the US military invited Mr Mujahid, a former Afghan police commander accused of plotting against the United States, to prove his innocence before a special military tribunal. As was his right, Mr Mujahid called four witnesses from Afghanistan. But months later the tribunal president returned with bad news: the witnesses could not be found. Mr Mujahid's hopes sank and he was returned to the wire-mesh cell where he remains... Guardian (UK) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1658706/posts#comment Fri, 30 Jun 2006 23:52:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1622806/posts WASHINGTON (Army News Service, April 27, 2006) – Volunteering to work in public affairs for Task Force Guardian is somewhat like plunging into Lake Pontchartrain. It immediately awakens all of ones senses, while providing instant meaning to priorities and issues of real importance. While the experience was meant to expand my media-relations knowledge, it’s also schooled me in the power of the human spirit. As a Department of Army public affairs intern, I didn’t expect to have the opportunity to deploy to an emergency operations center. When the chance was offered to work with the Corps of Engineers, I quickly... ARNEWS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1622806/posts#comment Thu, 27 Apr 2006 23:07:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1618885/posts MINNEAPOLIS - The founder of the New York-based Guardian Angels civilian patrol comes to Minneapolis today. Curtis Sliwa (SLEE'-wuh) will offer his services to interim police chief Tim Dolan. That follows the recent fatal shootings of a Minnetonka (minn-eh-TAHN'-kuh) man in downtown Minneapolis and of a Clemson University graduate student in the Uptown area. Sliwa's Guardian Angels last patrolled the streets of Minneapolis 20 years ago. By the early 1990's, they were gone. Sliwa hopes to have a group of Guardian Angels from Denver patrol trouble spots in Minneapolis this weekend. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Information from: Star Tribune/Minneapolis, http://www.startribune.com grand forks herald http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1618885/posts#comment Fri, 21 Apr 2006 14:14:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1618076/posts May 7 2009 will surely go down in history alongside September 11 2001. "5/7", as it inevitably became known, saw massive suicide bombings in Tel Aviv, London and New York, as well as simultaneous attacks on the remaining western troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. Total casualties were estimated at around 10,000 dead and many more wounded. The attacks, which included the explosion of a so-called dirty bomb in London, were orchestrated by a Tehran-based organisation for "martyrdom-seeking operations" established in 2004. "5/7" was the Islamic Republic of Iran's response to the bombing of its nuclear facilities, which President Hillary Clinton... The Guardian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1618076/posts#comment Thu, 20 Apr 2006 04:35:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1616562/posts Britain has only one important newspaper: the left-wing Guardian. Not only is it the sole remaining daily newspaper in the country whose content is mostly devoted to serious matters, but it is the only one that the unacknowledged legislators of the world, the intelligentsia, take seriously. And this is a disaster for the country. Though it occasionally allows a dissenting voice, the Guardian has consistently advocated a demoralization of the population, followed by increased state intervention and, of course, public spending to alleviate the consequences of that demoralization. No wonder the BBC advertises for personnel exclusively in its pages. An... City Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1616562/posts#comment Mon, 17 Apr 2006 18:24:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1573624/posts During the second world war the future South African prime minister John Vorster was interned as a Nazi sympathiser. Three decades later he was being feted in Jerusalem. In the second part of his remarkable special report, Chris McGreal investigates the clandestine alliance between Israel and the apartheid regime, cemented with the ultimate gift of friendship - A-bomb technology Several years ago in Johannesburg I met a Jewish woman whose mother and sister were murdered in Auschwitz. After their deaths, she was forced into a gas chamber, but by some miracle that bout of killing was called off. Vera Reitzer... Guardian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1573624/posts#comment Tue, 7 Feb 2006 17:40:11 GMT