http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/peacecreeps/ en-us Wed, 30 Dec 2009 05:24:17 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417445/posts I’ve already written about how his isolationist garbage leads inexorably to nonsense like this, so let me just add two points. First, and most obviously, there is no U.S. occupation of Yemen or Nigeria. The only way the airline plot is a reaction to U.S. “occupation” is if you accept the jihadist premise that there are no Arab/Muslim nation-states but rather only one Islamic caliphate waiting to be born. Only in that way does the U.S. occupation of Iraq warrant a reprisal from, say, a Pakistani or Yemeni. And yet, needless to say, if Britain was attacked tomorrow and Obama... Hot Air http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417445/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 05:24:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2416373/posts Me http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2416373/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 17:45:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416132/posts Ron Paul is a white-haired, soft-voiced, 74-year-old doctor who has twice failed in presidential campaigns and is frequently derided by his Republican colleagues as an ideologue from the party's libertarian fringe. No one would have been surprised if the Lake Jackson congressman had slipped off the political radar after his 2008 quixotic bid for the presidency, his ambitions for higher office thwarted. But Paul has refused to go out to the political pasture to live in comfortable irrelevance. As odd as it may seem, he has become one of the most influential Republicans in a capital city dominated by liberal... Houston Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416132/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 08:11:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415837/posts On November 19th, Rush Limbaugh caused a stir when he mentioned PrisonPlanet.com on his radio show and linked to them on his website, touting their article 'With Hurricanes At Thirty Year Low, Gore Turns To Photoshop'. By the end of the day, though, Limbaugh or his handlers had tried to erase all signs of the endorsement, as Paul Joseph Watson pointed out in his article Rush Limbaugh Censors Mention Of Prison Planet From His Own Archives. Watson noted "Any links to the Prison Planet.com story, which were prominently featured all over Limbaugh’s website, have also been deleted and replaced with... Examiner.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415837/posts#comment Sun, 27 Dec 2009 18:55:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2398667/posts The ladies (and I use that term sparingly) at Code Pink are calling Obama’s escalation of the Afghanistan War a “devastating announcement”. Looks like maybe President Obama’s attempt to smooth things over by blaming Bush just isn’t going to cut it with the radical left. Yeah, they hate Bush, and they’re willing to let him shoulder the blame for just about anything, but that doesn’t mean their stance on the war has changed just because Obama’s now in charge. The following quote is from the Code Pink website, and yes I needed to shower after going there: Let’s tell Obama:... The Admonition http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2398667/posts#comment Wed, 2 Dec 2009 19:42:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2396203/posts Former Congresswoman and U.S. Presidential Candidate (Green Party 2008), Cynthia McKinney, known for speaking truth to power, has again written to President Obama, this time with the subject headed: Please Bring Our Troops Home Now! (below) Ray Songree of Kauia Truth and the Paul Revere Email Campaign wrote to his email list: "Cynthia McKinney is one of the greatest heroines of our times. Very few elected officials have EVER spoke truth to power. That is all she does. There are many women on this email list. It really is your time to stand up and be heard, not as wannabe... The Dallas Examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2396203/posts#comment Sun, 29 Nov 2009 07:41:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2396195/posts FAIRFIELD, Calif. (CBS13) ― An unidentified military veteran was involved in a tense confrontation with anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan and the group Code Pink at a rally at Travis Air Force Base on Saturday, November 28, 2009. CBS A Saturday rally led by anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan at Travis Air Force Base nearly ended in a brawl when a military veteran physically confronted the protesters. Anti-war group Code Pink demonstrated at the military base Saturday morning in the first of six planned protests against unmanned military drones currently in use in overseas war zones. Sheehan, a well-known anti-war activist... CBS13.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2396195/posts#comment Sun, 29 Nov 2009 06:40:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2354913/posts The image most of us conjure when the name Cindy Sheehan surfaces is that of an enervated woman standing in the summer swelter on the side of the road, a few miles from George W. Bush's ranch near Crawford, Texas. Sheehan's four-week long vigil began August 6, 2005, when the Iraq war protests began to reach full boil. The media referred to it as Camp Casey, the name of her son, killed in enemy action in April 2004. Demanding a meeting with Bush, Sheehan stood near her pup tent and told members of Veterans for Peace, "And another thing I... Riverfront Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2354913/posts#comment Mon, 5 Oct 2009 01:39:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2351598/posts Okay, Code Pink did not intentionally praise former President George W. Bush, but that is the clear result of the photographs the group has posted of their first days on their week-long trip to Afghanistan that began this week.Before President Bush ordered the liberation of Afghanistan in the fall of 2001, the Taliban controlled the lives of men and women--with an exceptionally cruel domination of women. Thanks to President Bush and America's armed forces, intelligence operatives and foreign service officers, Afghan women are not forced to wear burkas and girls can go to school:Code Pink's caption: These fabulous women were... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2351598/posts#comment Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:19:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2339649/posts We see the spectacle of the U.S. Congress unable to manage decent health care reform that will actually enable the American citizenry to join the rest of the industrialized world in having health care for all. The problems, it is clear, come from those who are lying. Death panels? That's true. We already have them. Insurance companies deny care to Americans who then die as a result. It happens every day, Sarah Palin. But ascribing that to the plans in Congress is untrue. In fact, those corporate death panels would be outlawed. Find the language in Obama's bill that says... OregonLive http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2339649/posts#comment Mon, 14 Sep 2009 22:30:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2327839/posts First from Trevor Loudon of New Zeal: http://newzeal.blogspot.com/2009/04/obama-file-72-obama-appoints-former.html Obama File 72 Obama Appoints “Former” Communist To White House “Green Job” A few short years ago Anthony (Van) Jones was a Bay Area radical agitator-a committed Marxist-Leninist-Maoist, waging war on the police and capitalist system. Today Van Jones holds a key position in the US government and has the ear of President Barack Obama. According to the White House Blog March 10th, 2009 The White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) Chair Nancy Sutley announced yesterday that Van Jones – an early green jobs visionary — will start Monday as Special... Romantic Poet http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2327839/posts#comment Sun, 30 Aug 2009 06:28:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2324404/posts I am in the Bay Area and rocking with the San Francisco Bay View newspaper. But something quite insidious is happening and I think you should know immediately how it involves my friends and me. Hot on the heels of my learning that the Georgia Green Party might have been described by the U.S. Government as a "terrorist organiztion," it has just now come to my attention that a "journalist" who suggested that I be lynched was actually being paid by our own government to say that. Now, when I reported it to the FBI, how in the world was... Pravda http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2324404/posts#comment Tue, 25 Aug 2009 23:45:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2319084/posts This morning the anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan -- the woman who spent so much time leading well-publicized protests outside President Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas -- announced that she will demonstrate next week at Martha's Vineyard, where President Obama will be vacationing. "There are several things that we wish to accomplish with this protest on Martha's Vineyard," Sheehan said in a statement: "First of all, no good social or economic change will come about with the continuation or escalation of the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. We simply can't afford to continue this tragically expensive foreign policy. Secondly, we... The Washington Examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2319084/posts#comment Tue, 18 Aug 2009 23:59:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2317322/posts If you’re like me, you’re pretty disgusted and close to nauseous over hearing the repeated “outrage” from the mainstream mediots about the alleged comparisons the “mobsters” at the ObamaCare town halls are making between Hitler and Obama. Ever since Pelosi’s “swastika” crack, the MSM (and their cohorts at far left liberal blogs) have been scouring town halls across the country looking for any evidence whatsoever of signs made by alleged “conservative mobsters” featuring swastikas and/or images of Hitler and Obama together, in desperate attempts to prove how diehard conservatives have supposedly “lost it” over Obama and thus should be ignored... Sister Toldjah http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2317322/posts#comment Sun, 16 Aug 2009 16:48:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283907/posts HELD AL-QUDS: The Israeli navy on Tuesday boarded and seized a ship carrying pro-Palestinian activists that was heading to the Gaza Strip in defiance of Israel's blockade, a military spokesman said. "In the last hour an Israeli navy force intercepted, boarded and took control of the cargo boat 'Arion' ... as it was illegally attempting to enter the Gaza Strip," the spokesman said late in the afternoon. The military said the ship, which was sailing under a Greek flag, was the same vessel known as the "Spirit of Humanity", which was sailing to Gaza to protest the Israeli blockade on... The International News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283907/posts#comment Thu, 2 Jul 2009 07:23:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2280560/posts The anti-war crusader said she'll continue to speak against U.S. policies despite the new administration. Cindy Sheehan's methods have evolved since she first took her anti-war message to the streets. The California-based activist said this week she doesn't put much stock in peace marches and petitions anymore. She encourages people instead to shift the country's balance of power by supporting independent media sources, growing food at home and discouraging people from enlisting in the military. That was some of the advice she gave a crowd gathered Monday at the BuxMont Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in Warrington, Sheehan's latest stop to promote... The Doylestown Intelligencer http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2280560/posts#comment Sat, 27 Jun 2009 08:16:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2225297/posts She's closed Camp Casey outside George W. Bush's Crawford ranch and recently lost her bid to unseat Nancy Pelosi in Congress. Now Cindy Sheehan is taking on Barack Obama, claiming the U.S. president is the same sort of warmonger as her previous foes. But no less an anti-war authority than Joan Baez suggests Obama and San Francisco's Sheehan should be considered fellow travelers on the same peace train. On Fox News Sheehan was recently shown describing Barack Obama as a mindless warrior akin to Bush: "We have to put ourselves in between Barack Obama and our children. Barack Obama cannot... The San Francisco Weekly http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2225297/posts#comment Thu, 9 Apr 2009 01:38:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2221299/posts What an impressive Conference put on by the Government of Malaysia and the Kuala Lumpur Foundation to Criminalise War (KLFCW). Absolutely incredible. And the audience was packed with information. I will definitely make a more detailed report later and include the information learned at this Conference in my next economics report, too, on the state of our economy and common sense solutions as I promised you. The Malaysian Foreign Minister, Dr. Rais Yatim, spoke passionately this morning about the need for accountability in the face of war crimes. And so too, did the founder of the KLFCW, Tun Dr. Mahathir.... Pan-African News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2221299/posts#comment Fri, 3 Apr 2009 05:09:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2217011/posts Rachel Maddow was unknown outside of progressive circles when she began her nightly cable show on MSNBC in September. Not anymore. Catching the wave of interest in political news and commentary, the Rhodes Scholar's mix of smarts and snark and girl-next-door approachability caught ratings fire. Almost immediately, the Castro Valley native was frequently beating CNN's Larry King in the nightly ratings (although King had more overall viewers in February). Not bad for somebody who didn't own a television until last week. It still hasn't been turned on, said Maddow, who fears once she starts, she won't be able to stop... The San Francisco Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2217011/posts#comment Sat, 28 Mar 2009 20:26:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2208562/posts A crowd of roughly 200 noisy protesters gathered outside the Telus Convention Centre in downtown Calgary Tuesday to demonstrate against a noon speech by former U.S. president George W. Bush. Blowing whistles and chanting "war criminal," demonstrators carried signs and shouted "shame on you" at people attending the luncheon event at a cost of $400 each. One man was taken into police custody shortly before noon, apparently when he tried to enter the convention centre without a ticket. Security personnel are checking each guest individually at the event. Any public appearance by Bush, reviled in some circles for launching the... The National Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2208562/posts#comment Tue, 17 Mar 2009 21:11:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2205644/posts The Boulder Daily Camera clearly knows how to sugar-coat the radical ravings of dismissed professor Ward Churchill. His disdain for the "little Eichmanns" that died inside the World Trade Center is downgraded to "bureaucratic operatives" for the sake of the Churchill legal team in his wrongful-termination lawsuit: DENVER — The former governor of Colorado defended himself Wednesday against accusations that he pressured the University of Colorado into firing former professor Ward Churchill. Bill Owens took the stand in a Denver courtroom on the second day of testimony in Churchill's wrongful-termination trial against CU. The former governor is accused by Churchill's... The National Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2205644/posts#comment Fri, 13 Mar 2009 04:12:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2196747/posts An adviser to Iran's president on Sunday demanded an apology from a team of visiting Hollywood actors and movie industry officials, including Annette Bening, saying films such as "300" and "The Wrestler" were "insulting" to Iranians. Without an apology, members of Iran's film industry should refuse to meet with representatives from the nine-member team, said Javad Shamaqdari, the art and cinema adviser to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. "In my viewpoint, it is a failure to have an official meeting with one who is insulting," Shamaqdari told The Associated Press. The film "300," portrays the battle of Thermopylae in 480 B.C., in... The Washington Post / The Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2196747/posts#comment Sun, 1 Mar 2009 17:51:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2180199/posts The Israeli navy intercepted a ship carrying humanitarian supplies from Lebanon to the Gaza Strip and towed the vessel into port Thursday, foiling a new attempt by international activists to break Israel’s blockade of the Palestinian territory. It was the first time Israeli forces had actually seized an aid ship. The navy has let some boats in and turned others around, including one carrying former Georgia Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney in December. The interception was condemned by Lebanon and Syria, adding to regional tensions in the wake of last month’s devastating Israeli offensive against the Islamic militants of Hamas who control... The Atlanta Journal-Constitution / The Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2180199/posts#comment Sat, 7 Feb 2009 03:11:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2177046/posts On Thursday, January 29th, I sent President Obama this message: “Mr. President: The Bush Administration lied to the people in pursuit of war. As a result, at least one million Iraqis and thousands of U.S. soldiers are dead. Thousands more are maimed. The stature of the U.S. is severely damaged. The U.S. Constitution is in shreds after signing statements, wiretaps, and torture. Your obligation is to investigate and bring to justice those who violated U.S. and international law, such as the torture treaty. Failure to do so makes you complicit in their crimes.” On Wednesday, January 28th, I sat in... Dissident Voices http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2177046/posts#comment Tue, 3 Feb 2009 00:57:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2172818/posts President Barack Obama is at odds with Defense Secretary Robert Gates and others in the military over America’s need for a new generation of nuclear warheads. While serving as President George W. Bush’s defense secretary, Gates repeatedly spoke in favor of the Reliable Replacement Warhead (RRW) program because the country’s weapons, mostly produced in the 1970s and 1980s, are aging and their effectiveness may be in the question, Time magazine reports. “Even though the days of hair-trigger superpower confrontation are over, as long as other nations possess the bomb and the means to deliver it, the United States must maintain... newsmax http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2172818/posts#comment Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:34:22 GMT