http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/napalminthemorning/ en-us Tue, 5 Apr 2005 17:50:57 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1377889/posts Many argue that communism will never be possible because of "human nature". The essence of this false argument is the belief that a communist society would consist of an all-powerful central government that would tell everybody what to do--and would therefore undermine the creative initiative of individuals and the search for happiness. • This argument is based on two false assumptions: (1) It assumes that a communist society will look like the former Soviet Union, or the current China, North Korea, etc (ie: corrupt police states with a feudal-style ruling class) (2) It assumes that people will only work in... Bolshie Mod Manifesto http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1377889/posts#comment Tue, 5 Apr 2005 17:50:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1444200/posts http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/cmp/20050715/tc_cmp/165702500 UN Panel: No Single Nation Should Control Internet Addresses Aoife White Thu Jul 14, 9:38 PM ET BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP)--A U.N. panel created to recommend how the Internet should be run in the future has failed to reach consensus but did agree that no single country should dominate. The United States stated two weeks ago that it intended to maintain control over the computers that serve as the Internet's principal traffic cops. In a report released Thursday, the U.N. panel outlined four possible options for the future of Internet governance for world leaders to consider at a November "Information... Yahoo! http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1444200/posts#comment Sat, 16 Jul 2005 13:52:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1442983/posts Here is the list so far for sponcers to this hate America fest: ANSWER Code Pink UFPJ NION Al Awda World Workers Party Ruckas Revolutionary Communist party Moveon.org ACORN Campus Antiwar Network International Socialist Org Greens Party Muslim Student Association CPUSA http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1442983/posts#comment Thu, 14 Jul 2005 19:53:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1353401/posts The United States wants to develop the capability to destroy Iran's nuclear facilities with air strikes.Officials said that the need for US capabilty to destroy underground nuclear facilites has spurred the renewal of the effort to create the so-called 'super bunker busters.'Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, issued the request for the weapon, termed the Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator, in a letter sent to then Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham in January._Full Text, subscribers Geostrategy Direct http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1353401/posts#comment Tue, 1 Mar 2005 15:40:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1322934/posts Top News Story U.S. Department of Defense Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs)News Release On the Web: http://www.dod.mil/releases/2005/nr20050117-1987.html Media contact: +1 (703) 697-5131 Public contact:http://www.dod.mil/faq/comment.html or +1 (703) 428-0711   No. 046-05 IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 17, 2005 Statement from Pentagon Spokesman Lawrence DiRita on Latest Seymour Hersh Article             The Iranian regime’s apparent nuclear ambitions and its demonstrated support for terrorist organizations is a global challenge that deserves much more serious treatment than Seymour Hersh provides in the New Yorker article titled “The Coming Wars.”              Mr. Hersh’s article is so riddled with errors of fundamental... Regime Change Iran http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1322934/posts#comment Tue, 18 Jan 2005 07:00:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1322253/posts Top News Story US Special forces 'on the ground' in IranIan TraynorMonday January 17, 2005The GuardianAmerican special forces have been on the ground inside Iran scouting for US air strike targets for suspected nuclear weapons sites, according to the renowned US investigative journalist Seymour Hersh. In an article in the latest edition of the New Yorker, Mr Hersh, who was the first to uncover the US human rights abuses against Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib prison last year, reports that Pakistan, under a deal with Washington, has been supplying information on Iranian military sites and on its nuclear programme,... Regime Change Iran http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1322253/posts#comment Mon, 17 Jan 2005 06:02:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1321655/posts Top Story Jordan King receives photo of al-Zarqawi, Iran military chiefs Sat. 15 Jan 2005 Paris, Jan. 15 – A photo showing Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Jordanian born mastermind behind the latest spate of bombings in Iraq, standing with senior commanders of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) was seen by Jordan's King Abdullah II last month, according to an Algerian journalist. "The Islamic Republic's Foreign Minister did not attend the Amman conference of Iraq's neighbors in response to accusations made by Jordan's King Abdullah II", Atwan Tazakrat on Thursday told US-based Radio Farda. "Fifteen days earlier, Jordanian intelligence... Regime Change Iran http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1321655/posts#comment Sun, 16 Jan 2005 02:43:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1321295/posts Top News Story Soros supports mullahs: The left embraces yet another enemy Posted: January 14, 20051:00 a.m. Eastern © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com On Jan. 13, 2005, the pro-mullah American-Iranian Council joined forces with George Soros's Open Society Institute to host Javad Zarif, Iran's ambassador to the United Nations, to give a talk titled, "The View from Tehran." Soros did not waste any time after supporting with millions of his own money John Kerry's losing 2004 presidential bid. Even before George Bush could be inaugurated the second time, Soros was rolling out the carpet for the mullah's top man in New York. Soros... Regime Change Iran http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1321295/posts#comment Sat, 15 Jan 2005 08:25:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1320619/posts Top News Story Iranian agent arrested for al-Qaida ties Connects Tehran to Osama bin Laden's terror network Posted: January 13, 20051:50 p.m. Eastern By Aaron Klein © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com An Iranian agent was arrested yesterday in Kuwait for ties to recent al-Qaida-related attacks in several Middle Eastern countries, according to a popular Mideast radio network. Sawa Radio, which broadcasts throughout the Middle East, reported the unnamed Iranian agent was apprehended by Kuwaiti security forces after intelligence implicated his involvement in an al-Qaida terror network with prior information on recent attacks in Saudi Arabia. Earlier this week, two Kuwaiti security forces were... Regime Change Iran http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1320619/posts#comment Fri, 14 Jan 2005 10:00:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1319798/posts Top News Story Israeli think tank: Only U.S. can neutralize Iran SPECIAL TO WORLD TRIBUNE.COMWednesday, January 12, 2005 TEL AVIV — An Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear facilities would pose greater risks than benefits, a new report concluded.The Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies said an Israeli attack on Iran would fail to either destroy all of its nuclear facilities or halt the program. The report said Teheran could retaliate by launching massive rocket and missile strikes on the Jewish state — from either Iran or Lebanon.In 1981, Israeli F-16 multi-role fighters destroyed Iraq's nuclear reactor in a single bombing... Regime Change Iran http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1319798/posts#comment Thu, 13 Jan 2005 08:20:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1319036/posts Top News Story EU Lessens Nuclear Issue in Iranian Trade Talks [Excerpt] January 12, 2005 Marc Champion and Juliane von Reppert-Bismarck Trade talks between the European Union and Iran to be reopened today won't be linked directly to progress on controlling Iran's nuclear ambitions, EU officials said. The talks, aimed at securing a Trade and Cooperation Agreement between the EU and Iran , were frozen in 2003. They now are being reopened as a result of Iran's Nov. 15 agreement with Britain, France and Germany to suspend its uranium-enrichment program temporarily. Even if nuclear watchdogs were to catch Iran... Regime Change Iran http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1319036/posts#comment Wed, 12 Jan 2005 09:46:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1318278/posts Top News Story Iran may resume uranium enrichment in March 10 Jan 2005 13:32:47 GMT Source: Reuters By Parisa Hafezi TEHRAN, Jan 10 (Reuters) - Iran may resume uranium enrichment -- which can be used to make atomic bombs -- in March if talks with the European Union fail to yield satisfactory progress, a senior Iranian security official said on Monday.Even if the talks go well, Hossein Mousavian told Reuters Tehran was only prepared to extend until June the enrichment freeze it began in late November in an effort to disprove U.S. accusations it is seeking nuclear weapons. "The... Regime Change Iran http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1318278/posts#comment Tue, 11 Jan 2005 08:17:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1317575/posts Top News Story Iran Won't Allow Military Gear Inspection Monday January 10, 2005 5:16 AMAP Photo NY114 By ALI AKBAR DAREINI Associated Press Writer TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran will allow U.N. nuclear experts to take environmental samples at a military site the United States links to an alleged nuclear weapons program but won't allow them to inspect military equipment, the foreign ministry spokesman said Sunday. The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed ElBaradei, said last week that Iran had agreed to grant access to the site at Parchin, just southeast of Tehran, and that his inspectors... Regime Change Iran http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1317575/posts#comment Mon, 10 Jan 2005 09:56:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1317026/posts Top Story Saturday January 8, 2005 The Guardian Twenty-five years after the revolution, Kevin Rushby meets a new generation eager to shake off the fundamentalist legacy The world was gone mad. The coach was a Volvo and on the door it said Millwall Football Club. The sound system was playing Elvis as we boarded,"... we can't go on together with suspicious minds..." and the video was Indecent Exposure with Clooney and Zeta-Jones. Outside the door, men were finishing their Winston cigarettes. A girl wore Levi jeans and touched the sticking plaster on her surgically improved nose. A mad world... Regime Change Iran http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1317026/posts#comment Sun, 9 Jan 2005 05:23:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1316613/posts Top News Story Group discloses secret nuke effort By Jennifer Joan Lee THE WASHINGTON TIMES PARIS — The Iranian opposition group that exposed the nation's covert nuclear weapons program two years ago said yesterday that supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has ordered the effort to continue in secret.    The opposition group, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), also disclosed the existence of what it said is a new uranium enrichment facility in central Iran that is nearing completion.     Speaking to reporters in Paris yesterday, Mohammad Mohaddessin, chairman of the NCRI's Foreign Affairs Committee, said the Iranian regime is... Regime Change Iran http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1316613/posts#comment Sat, 8 Jan 2005 09:41:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1315434/posts Recent News! They discover proof that Atlantis did not submerge complete but only one part...By Salvador Morales. Atlantis News Agency. Madrid, Spain. 01-06-2005. The Spanish investigator and scriptologist, Georgeos Diaz-Montexano, has discovered paleographical proofs that in fact the island or peninsula (Nêsos) denominated like Atlantis or Atlantic, it was divided in two parts below the sea. To date all atlantologists and students of the Timaeus and the Critias de Plato had thought that in texts of the Greek philosophist narrated the collapse of the all island or Atlantis peninsula, nevertheless, Georgeos Diaz-Montexano has reviewed the oldest texts known writings in... Atlantis News Agency. APP. EFE. AFP. Madrid. Spain. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1315434/posts#comment Thu, 6 Jan 2005 19:36:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1315851/posts Top News Story Rice Is Said to Pick Trade Negotiator as DeputyBy STEVEN R. WEISMAN Published: January 7, 2005 ASHINGTON, Jan. 6 - Moving to assemble a pragmatic team as secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice has selected Robert B. Zoellick, the administration's top trade negotiator, as her deputy and is considering two veteran diplomats with reputations as moderates for the No. 3 job, administration officials said on Thursday.The officials said that the under secretary of state for political affairs, the third-ranking post at the department that is reserved for a member of the foreign service bureaucracy, would probably be... Regime Change Iran http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1315851/posts#comment Fri, 7 Jan 2005 09:28:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1315124/posts Top News Story Intel Drone Crashes in Iran?DEBKAfile Exclusive: Unidentified drone crashes at Arak nuclear site in central Iran, according to sources close to Iranian Revolutionary Guards ex-commander Rezai. Evidence in wreckage of intelligence-gathering at presumed uranium enrichment site. Last week, Iranian air force commander said mystery aircraft reported by witnesses over sensitive sites would be shot down. Regime Change Iran http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1315124/posts#comment Thu, 6 Jan 2005 09:23:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1314287/posts Top News Story Risks of appeasing Iran's mullahs[Excerpt]By Struan Stevenson Iran's increasing meddling in Iraq and its defiance in its nuclear weapons program pose the greatest challenge to peace and security in Iraq and the whole Middle East, as we enter 2005. ...     Its proxies in that country, including the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), have put forward a united slate, hoping to gain a majority in the newly elected parliament, whose primary task is to draft Iraq's future constitution. The Iranian clerics have never been so close to realizing their decades-old dream of erecting a... Regime Change Iran http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1314287/posts#comment Wed, 5 Jan 2005 08:26:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1313466/posts Top News Story Number 936 December 30, 2004 Influencing Iran's Nuclear Activities through Major Power Cooperation Patrick Clawson This is the second part of a two-part series on diplomacy surrounding the Iranian nuclear program and discusses the role of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, with particular focus on Russia and China. The first part appeared as PolicyWatch 928 on December 16. The Iran nuclear issue will be on the international agenda in the coming months. The often-postponed visit to Tehran by the head of Russia's Atomic Energy Agency (Minatom) Alexander Rumyantsev to sign an agreement... Regime Change Iran http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1313466/posts#comment Tue, 4 Jan 2005 07:37:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1313030/posts WASHINGTON DC -- Fifty million humans have been LIBERATED, NOT COLONIALIZED, BY THE UNITED STATES. They live in Iraq and Afghanistan. Prior, mortals there lived under two morally rotting regimes from The Pit. Fifty million people. Count them and give thanks for freedom spread. That liberation goal is what the US President pronounced to the world as his chief purpose for sitting in the Oval Office, though Dems and liberal press don’t want to get the clear, repeated message. Of course, they do get the message; but they are not driven to encourage liberties elsewhere. They are motivated by their... Magic City Morning Star http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1313030/posts#comment Mon, 3 Jan 2005 17:28:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1312791/posts Top News Story Iraq's Shiites rule out Iran model Monday, January 3, 2005 Political coalition says it won't create an Islamic theocracyBAGHDAD In a surprise press conference Sunday, leaders of the Shiite-dominated coalition that is expected to prevail in national elections sought to dispel fears that they are under the secret sway of Iran, or have any desire to create an Islamic theocracy. Speaking in offices that were damaged by a car bomb just six days before, leaders of the United Iraqi Alliance urged disaffected Sunnis to join in the elections for a National Assembly, scheduled for Jan. 30.... Regime Change Iran http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1312791/posts#comment Mon, 3 Jan 2005 07:47:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1312328/posts Top StoryIran's Ebadi to run for presidency LONDON, Jan 1 (IranMania) – According to Iran Daily, news sources on Friday reported of Peace Prize Laureate, Iranian Shririn Ebadi's candidacy in the upcoming presidential elections. 14 groups such as the Council in Defense of Prisoners' Rights along with independent human rights advocates are to form a coalition to back Ebadi's candidacy. This is while according to Iran's Guardian Council, the controversial term ' Rejal' explicitly mentioned in Iran's constitution in defining the characteristics of the presidential hopefuls refers to the masculinity of the candidates. Thus it is still unknown what... Regime Change Iran http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1312328/posts#comment Sun, 2 Jan 2005 05:32:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1311958/posts Top News Story Iraqi Prime Minister warns Iran, Syria to stop disrupting peace Fri. 31 Dec 2004 Iran FocusBaghdad, Dec. 31 - The Iraqi interim-Prime Minister, Ayad Allawi, speaking on Iraqi TV today echoed comments made yesterday by Iraq’s Defence Minister, about Iranian and Syrian meddling in Iraq. “There are countries which host those who are involved in activities that are harmful to the people of Iraq”, he said. Allawi made the comments in response to a question by Al-Iraqiah satellite TV channel on Iranian and Syrian meddling in Iraq and the recent evidence that had been obtained in... Regime Change Iran http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1311958/posts#comment Sat, 1 Jan 2005 09:07:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1311427/posts Top News Story Iran, Russia to study UFOs Scientific probe amid rash of sightings in Eastern Hemisphere Posted: December 30, 20041:00 a.m. Eastern © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com Image taken from infrared video of UFOs in Mexico in May With a rash of recent sightings of unidentified flying objects in the Eastern Hemisphere, Russia and Iran have agreed to jointly study the UFO phenomenon. According to the Islamic Republic News Agency, the two nations are stressing "expansion of bilateral cooperation particularly in space research and construction of satellites." In addition to the scientific look at UFOs, Russia and Iran are finalizing agreement for... Regime Change Iran http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1311427/posts#comment Fri, 31 Dec 2004 07:16:38 GMT