http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/socialists/ en-us Thu, 31 Dec 2009 13:28:38 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418282/posts In 2009, LA city workers saved the City of Los Angeles. Next year the hard work begins: figuring out how to provide the quality of public services the citizens of Los Angeles deserve without the hearts, hands and minds of the 2,400 workers retiring—stepping down so that their younger brothers and sisters can keep their jobs and support their young families. This will be difficult, but it will impact city services less than the 3,000 layoffs and up to 43 furlough days CAO Miguel Santana projected if the Early Retirement Incentive Plan hadn’t passed. Those 3,000 would have been the... City Watch LA http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418282/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 13:28:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416204/posts A MOTHER and father with an incredible 14 kids who prove Britain's benefits system has gone bonkers, showering them with a whopping tax-free £36,847 (US$58,815) a year Pregnant Dawn and Sean Cain's huge family, aged 21 years to 19 months, have just enjoyed a very merry Christmas, with every mouthful of their turkey dinner, and every present stuffed under their tree, paid for by taxpayers. To match their breathtaking haul from the public purse Sean would have to clinch a job paying a gross salary of £51,500 ($82,200). Britain's average salary is just £21,320 ($34,000). He and wife Dawn admit... news.com.au http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416204/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 13:30:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415657/posts They are objects of derision.  Influential government officials refer to them as unproductive, of less value than others in society. The political party running the government aggressively denies them access to health services while putting in place bureaucracies devoted, in effect, to ending their lives. The Jews in Nazi Germany?  In the Soviet Union of Stalin? In a socialist paradise set up by the rabidly anti-Semitic United Nations? No, seniors in a United States governed by the party of President Barack Obama and his allies on the Democratic left. The Democratic Party senate healthcare bill makes it official: Seniors are... American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415657/posts#comment Sun, 27 Dec 2009 08:36:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414462/posts Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez told foreign automakers to share their technology with local businesses or they will be told to leave the country. http://www.br.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=566&fArticleId=5296745 Business Report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414462/posts#comment Thu, 24 Dec 2009 14:54:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414475/posts Apparently not content with his congressional majority that wishes to force Americans on a long march to healthcare disaster, President Obama has invoked the name of Jesus to broadcast his gospel of spreading the wealth around. Speaking Monday afternoon to a group of children from the Washington, D.C., Boys and Girls Club, the president delivered a mini sermon on “why we celebrate Christmas.” He asked the children if they knew. One piped up and said, “The birth of baby Jesus.” One can imagine the reaction of the media and other elites had a Republican president asked such a question. That... World Mag http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414475/posts#comment Thu, 24 Dec 2009 15:12:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413315/posts see post below for link source cannot be posted http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413315/posts#comment Tue, 22 Dec 2009 22:14:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413338/posts Public schools in Hawaii are closed most Fridays, rats scurry across bananas in an uninspected market, and there may not be enough money to run a Congressional election. About the only parts of the state untouched by the struggling economy are its sparkling beaches and world-class surfing. Hawaii’s money troubles are creating a society more befitting a tropical backwater than a state celebrating its 50th anniversary and preparing to welcome President Obama home for Christmas this week. “There is community energy and outrage building up,” said James Koshiba, a co-founder of the activist organization and Web site Kanu Hawaii, speaking... New York Times/AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413338/posts#comment Tue, 22 Dec 2009 22:42:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409980/posts From Drudge via Breitbart. Video at link. Americans for Prosperity Channel, YouTube http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409980/posts#comment Thu, 17 Dec 2009 23:58:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407149/posts Howard Zinn (left) with the very serious-looking actor Viggo Mortensen The small-screen version of Marxist historian Howard Zinn’s leftward-slanted history of America, The People Speak, aired Sunday night on the History Channel. The film, based on Zinn’s influential book, A People’s History of the United States, is chock full of useful idiot celebrities including Matt Damon, Marisa Tomei, Morgan Freeman, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Penn, Bruce Springsteen, and its executive producer Josh Brolin, all parroting the radical platitudes written for them. One scene in the shlockumentary tells the story of an organizer-agitator who rallied tenants against landlords during the Great Depression.... David Horowitz's NewsRealblog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407149/posts#comment Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:55:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406482/posts People such as George Soros and Michael Moore certainly talk a good game, but the next Mother Teresa they are not. Mother Teresa never criticized the free-market system; wealth just wasn't for her. Soros and Moore are quite the opposite. They will never take a vow of poverty and dedicate themselves to helping the poor. They just want our civilization to take a vow of poverty and become poor. This has caused many to wonder: How can someone preach socialism while being the most rapacious "capitalist" imaginable? Well, I have a theory about this. It has often been observed that... American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406482/posts#comment Sun, 13 Dec 2009 06:56:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405972/posts Date: Saturday, December 12, 2009 Time: 11:00am - 3:00pm Location: Washington, DC Lafayette Square across from White House (Metro: Farragut West or Farragut North) 10:30 AM YAF will counter protest the 9/11 "inside job" conspiracy theorists. They call it an anti-war rally, but the nuts and bolts are coming from the left coast for this!!! This just cam in last minute!!!! Contact: jordan@yaf.com or 202-596-7923 to join with YAF In Freedom, YAF Come protest the likes of: Scheduled Speakers Dennis Kucinich US Representative (D-Ohio) and former Presidential candidate, www.kucinich.house.gov Cynthia McKinney 2008 Green Party candidate for President, former six-term Democratic... Facebook http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405972/posts#comment Sat, 12 Dec 2009 06:22:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405865/posts Loyal Opposition: The president has called on Republicans to "stop trying to frighten the American people." But telling the truth about the never-ending expansion of government is not scaremongering. First, Democrats in Congress kept their colleagues on the opposite side of the aisle from a place at the table on health reform because Republicans "aren't offering a plan." The truth is that they aren't offering a big government plan, and Democratic leaders are blind to solutions that focus on the private sector. Now, adding insult to injury, the president told Republicans during a White House meeting Wednesday with leaders of... Investors.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405865/posts#comment Sat, 12 Dec 2009 01:40:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403839/posts According to an Associated Press report, “Obama declared that the United States still considers Manuel Zelaya to be the president of Honduras and assailed the coup that forced him into exile as ‘not legal.’ ” So the question arises, why would Obama refer to Zelaya’s ouster as an “illegal coup?” As the AP reminds us, “The term ‘coup’ is defined as ‘a sudden, decisive exercise of power whereby the existing government is subverted without the consent of the people.’ When a country’s legally and democratically elected government ‘removes’ an individual, using the processes outlined in its Constitution, it is not... The New Media Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403839/posts#comment Wed, 9 Dec 2009 17:46:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402311/posts PRAGUE (AFP) – Take a tram instead of a taxi and don't change your towel every day -- such are the rules at a two-day "carbon-free" congress of the Party of European Socialists (PES), which started in Prague on Monday. "The idea is simple: we want our congress to have absolutely no impact on the amount of carbon in the environment," said the organisers, who have made climate change one of the top items on the agenda. Hundreds of men in ties and women in sharp outfits arrived at the congress venue clutching tram tickets, distributed for free by the... AFP on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402311/posts#comment Mon, 7 Dec 2009 21:15:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2399693/posts The Obama administration is using a nonprofit group to help make America more like socialist Europe, according to video aired on the Glenn Beck Program. So says no less an authority than former Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean. In Paris a few months ago, Dean described Organizing for America (OFA), as “a new innovation from Obama.” He continued I think it’s a great thing for the Democratic Party. Remember I talked about the permanent campaign? Well, before I got to the DNC we didn’t have a permanent campaign. You would campaign for one year when you had a candidate... David Horowitz's NewsRealblog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2399693/posts#comment Thu, 3 Dec 2009 22:29:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2397308/posts The main statement publicized after the last IPCC Scientific Assessment two years ago was that it was likely that most of the warming since 1957 (a point of anomalous cold) was due to man. This claim was based on the weak argument that the current models used by the IPCC couldn't reproduce the warming from about 1978 to 1998 without some forcing, and that the only forcing that they could think of was man. Even this argument assumes that these models adequately deal with natural internal variability—that is, such naturally occurring cycles as El Nino, the Pacific Decadal Oscillation, the... PHYSICS: ARXIV http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2397308/posts#comment Tue, 1 Dec 2009 01:40:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2391773/posts It's no coincidence that the second major vote to Nationalize our health care system takes place also on a Saturday night. The Democrats strategy here is clear. AGAINST PUBLIC OPINION, this power grab of another one sixth of our economy proceeds almost under the cover of darkness, by design on a Saturday night when their phones are disconnected and their Emails unacknowledged. TV NEWS goes largely unwatched on Saturday nights. The Dems know few are watching them on the weekends, so (just like last time) they chose this day so they could HIDE from us as they pull their dirty... Shadow Government http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2391773/posts#comment Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:23:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2387131/posts Obama Proposes Federal Takeover Of Mass Transit White House Hopes For Federal Oversight Of Safety Regulations On All Local Subways, Light Rails In US Reporting Hazel Sanchez Who should run mass transportation? If the White House has its way, New York and other subway systems nationwide could be in for a federal safety takeover. It comes as a surprise to many straphangers. Unlike airplanes and highways, the nation's subways systems operate with no federal oversight. "That makes me uncomfortable to hear that," subway rider Rhonda Jordan said. "I do take the subway quite often." One City College transportation expert says... CBS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2387131/posts#comment Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:22:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2384750/posts A radical Muslim cleric alleged to have inspired the Fort Hood gunman has been praised in the past as “a preacher of peace” by a prominent SNP candidate with close links to Alex Salmond. The FBI is investigating communications between Major Nidal Hasan, who killed 13 people at the US Army base in Texas, and Imam Anwar al-Awlaki, a US-born Muslim cleric now based in Yemen. Mr Awlaki has a large following in Britain and counts prominent mainstream Muslims among his supporters. In 2006 Osama Saeed, who has been selected as the SNP candidate for Glasgow Central for the next... The Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2384750/posts#comment Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:25:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2383153/posts In a case that raises questions about online journalism and privacy rights, the U.S. Department of Justice sent a formal request to an independent news site ordering it to provide details of all reader visits on a certain day. The grand jury subpoena also required the Philadelphia-based Indymedia.us Web site "not to disclose the existence of this request" unless authorized by the Justice Department, a gag order that presents an unusual quandary for any news organization. Kristina Clair, a 34-year old Linux administrator living in Philadelphia who provides free server space for Indymedia.us, said she was shocked to receive the... CBS News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2383153/posts#comment Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:35:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2383122/posts In a case that raises questions about online journalism and privacy rights, the U.S. Department of Justice sent a formal request to an independent news site ordering it to provide details of all reader visits on a certain day. The grand jury subpoena also required the Philadelphia-based Indymedia.us Web site "not to disclose the existence of this request" unless authorized by the Justice Department, a gag order that presents an unusual quandary for any news organization. CBS News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2383122/posts#comment Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:55:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2382212/posts Great Britain’s Labour (Socialist) Party program to ease restrictions on immigration from Pakistan may end up bringing more trouble than the government bargained for. While Party insiders saw the program as a way of ultimately boosting votes for the Party, some of these immigrants are agitating for the imposition of Islamic law on a society-wide basis. Former Labour Home Secretary Jack Straw admitted “we sure didn’t see this coming. We thought these immigrants would eventually become citizens and, in gratitude for what we’d done for them, vote Socialist. The demand that sharia become the law of the land totally blindsided... A Semi-News/Semi-Satire from AzConservative http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2382212/posts#comment Mon, 9 Nov 2009 17:41:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2381548/posts "For it is impossible for any one to begin to learn what he thinks he already knows." -- Epictetus In a little-known book entitled Capital Rules: The Construction of Global Finance written in 2007 a year before the global financial meltdown, Harvard professor Rawi Abdelal tells how it was French socialists, not Wall Street or the U.S. Treasury or credit rating firms (S&P, Moody’s, etc.), that liberalized global finance. The only problem with this book is that it is not one of the many books on the financial meltdown that follows the successful pop journalistic formula of demonizing greedy financial... Pasadena Sub Rosa http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2381548/posts#comment Sun, 8 Nov 2009 16:50:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2376845/posts Barney proves he has no clue how far gone he is. Here's the bill: For the whole series of Zero dollar bills, go here: " Flickr Archive of Zero Bills" self http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2376845/posts#comment Mon, 2 Nov 2009 21:34:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2376305/posts A new video of Jeremiah Wright has surfaced, showing Barack Obama's pastor of 20 years praising Marxism and discussing his ties to communists in El Salvador and Nicaragua and the Libyan government. Equally important, Wright is being introduced in the video by Robert W. McChesney, co-founder of Free Press, an organization which has come under scrutiny for its links to the Obama Administration and dedication to the transformation and control of the private media in the U.S. In an article in the socialist Monthly Review, "Journalism, Democracy, and Class Struggle," McChesney declared, "Our job is to make media reform part... Accuracy in Media. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2376305/posts#comment Mon, 2 Nov 2009 06:08:08 GMT