http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/theguardian/ en-us Wed, 6 Jun 2007 08:59:20 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1845660/posts This Russian risk could yet dwarf our blunder on Iraq Putin's belligerence is the upshot of inept western diplomacy. Following cold war with cold peace may prove a historic error Simon Jenkins Wednesday June 6, 2007 The Guardian Will history tell us we were fools? We worried about the wrong war and made the wrong enemies. In the first decade of the 21st century the leaders of America and Britain allowed themselves to be distracted by a few Islamist bombers and took easy refuge in the politics of fear. They concocted a "war on terror" and went off to fight... http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,,2096395,00.html http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1845660/posts#comment Wed, 6 Jun 2007 08:59:20 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-news/1716879/posts I almost never do vanity posts but I have seen three movies lately that I want to comment on. I thoroughly enjoyed two of these movies, The Guardian, and Fly Boys, in spite of fact that the professional film critics were generally dismissive of them as being cliché ridden. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1716879/posts#comment Tue, 10 Oct 2006 15:51:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1382751/posts How you think Bush should fill his iPod George Bush may have to upgrade his iPod if he wants to take up all your suggestions for future listening. Thanks to everyone who contributed. Our panel of experts deemed the best choice to be George, Don't Do That by Joyce Grenfell - Sam, the Steve Bell book's all yours. But we also liked the following: The Guardian UK http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1382751/posts#comment Wed, 13 Apr 2005 13:18:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1325098/posts Fireworks in Washington, despair around the world The Bush administration is in denial about its disastrous failure in Iraq Robin Cook Friday January 21, 2005 The Guardian Inauguration does not do justice to the exuberant celebrations of this week. Coronation would come closer. Washington ended yesterday with nine official balls. The night before George Bush gave a new spin to the phrase moveable feast by fitting in three separate banquets. He then expended as much ordnance in peppering the sky over the Capitol with fireworks as would get his occupation forces in Iraq through a whole 24 hours. The contrasts... Guardian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1325098/posts#comment Fri, 21 Jan 2005 03:02:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1323555/posts Journalists' killers 'not being brought to justice' Dominic Timms Tuesday January 18, 2005 The culprits responsible for killing more than 100 journalists and other media workers worldwide last year are only half as likely to be caught as London burglars, a leading international press group claimed today. The International Federation of Journalists said most of the 129 deaths of media staff in 2004 - the highest on record - resulted from either "deliberate attacks" by gunmen, corrupt officials, armed gangs and governments, or "nervous, unruly and ill-disciplined soldiering". In most cases, the IFJ added, the killers were still at large.... Guardian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1323555/posts#comment Wed, 19 Jan 2005 03:58:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1271628/posts Did Guardian turn Ohio to Bush? US journalists have identified the 'Guardian Effect' Was it "the Guardian wot swung it" is the somewhat tongue-in-cheek question for analysts following George Bush's presidential election victory. Specifically, was the "Guardian Effect" to blame for the pro-Bush swing in one Ohio county? In the run up to the US presidential election, the left-wing paper identified the area as a vote-swingers hotspot. Under Operation Clark County, it began a letter-writing campaign which aimed to give people outside the US a say in the election. Opposite result The project set up its readers as pen pals... BBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1271628/posts#comment Fri, 5 Nov 2004 15:27:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1270184/posts "Started by Arkel at 06:02pm Nov 3, 2004 BST" "Does what it says on the tin. Democracy has failed, the time must surely have come for a world patriot to perform this act for the good of humanity. " "You seem to be quite offended by this thread but don't seem to offer alternatives to mass murderers." Etc. . . The Guardian Rag http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1270184/posts#comment Thu, 4 Nov 2004 13:53:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1268830/posts Clark County project backfired horribly. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1268830/posts#comment Wed, 3 Nov 2004 16:45:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1262453/posts Europeans may have trouble carving out a common foreign policy, but most agree on one thing: Bush must go. With US elections rapidly approaching, countless Europeans are fervently seeking to sway American voters. But can their efforts really make a difference? Even in Europe, there is no escaping it. The United States presidential campaign is everywhere. Every tiny change in the polls wins a spot on the evening news and not a day goes by without coverage of the campaign. Academics regularly bash heads over the latest campaign intrigue and a flood of titles critical of Bush and the Iraq... Der Spiegel http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1262453/posts#comment Sat, 30 Oct 2004 09:31:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1262185/posts Plenty of Americans believe it is none of our business whom they elect as their leader on Tuesday. But there are two underlying reasons why any presidential election matters to the rest of the world. The first concerns America's power. There is no nation in the history of the planet whose strength and actions more directly affect the whole human race than the United States. To an unprecedented degree, America makes the world's weather. Its economic, military and cultural might shapes our lives. If America goes to war, we are all embroiled, as the events of the past three years... The Guardian (U.K.) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1262185/posts#comment Sat, 30 Oct 2004 01:48:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1255961/posts (CNSNews.com) - Britain's left-wing Guardian newspaper said at the weekend that it and a columnist were sorry if anyone took offense at published remarks appearing to call for the assassination of President Bush. In a column published in the paper's entertainment guide section on Saturday, Charlie Brooker wrote that Bush would probably win the Nov. 2 election despite the prayers of "the entire civilized world," thus proving that God does not exist. "The world will endure four more years of idiocy, arrogance and unwarranted bloodshed, with no benevolent deity to watch over and save us," he continued. "John Wilkes... CNSNEWS.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1255961/posts#comment Mon, 25 Oct 2004 08:44:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1255673/posts Washington D.C.'s Secret Service is investigating Charlie Brooker of the UK Guardian. The entertainment writer's weekend, anti-Bush tantrum, ending with the words, "John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald, John Hinckley Jr.--where are you now that we need you," was picked up by the Drudge Report,--using Brooker's provocative last words as the main headline. Citing federal statute 18 USC 879, Florida attorney John B. Thompson, called in the Secret Service Protective Intelligence Unit. "Please do whatever is necessary to punish the UK Guardian and to educate Matt Drudge on the meaning and scope of statute 18," Thompson wrote in a letter... Toronto Free Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1255673/posts#comment Mon, 25 Oct 2004 00:08:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1255595/posts The British newspaper, The Guardian, recently asked its readers to write to citizens of Ohio in order to convince them to vote for John Kerry for president. Here is one of the letters sent by a Brit to a resident of the Buckeye state: Greetings my insufferable little Buckeye Twit, I have never been to Ohio nor do I have the slightest intention of ever condescending to visit your Midwestern cultural wasteland at any time in the future. However, I am writing you at the behest of The Guardian newspaper in order to properly inform you as to what is... PJ-Comix Website http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1255595/posts#comment Sun, 24 Oct 2004 22:44:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1255510/posts The final sentence of a column in The Guide on Saturday caused offence to some readers. The Guardian associates itself with the following statement from the writer. "Charlie Brooker apologises for any offence caused by his comments relating to President Bush in his TV column, Screen Burn. The views expressed in this column are not those of the Guardian. Although flippant and tasteless, his closing comments were intended as an ironic joke, not as a call to action - an intention he believed regular readers of his humorous column would understand. He deplores violence of any kind." The Guardian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1255510/posts#comment Sun, 24 Oct 2004 21:08:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1255267/posts Dear Sirs: I am not a reader of your newspaper, I never have been, and I never will be. However as a public-minded citizen of this country, I must respond to your recent attacks on George W. Bush. Seldom in the history of newsprint has a publication been so arrogant in its presumptions, so tactless in its dialogue, and so witless in what it chose to be fit to print. First, let us begin with your ill-conceived campaign to write to voters in Ohio. I have to ask: what were you thinking? Anyone with a tangential awareness of American history... RightGoths.Com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1255267/posts#comment Sun, 24 Oct 2004 15:45:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1255441/posts British Newspaper Calls for Bush Assassination Written by Doc Farmer Sunday, October 24, 2004 We're just over a week away from the General Election, folks. As expected, it's been a hot and heavy campaign, and things are only getting more intense. Television ads, talk show pundits, newspaper editors, and online columnists have been laying it on thick. There have been calls for apologies when one wife says the other has never had a ''real job'' (though none for telling a reporter to ''shove it''), calls for apologies when the vice president gets a flu shot (though none for Clinton getting... CHRONWATCH.COM http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1255441/posts#comment Sun, 24 Oct 2004 19:28:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1254988/posts [snip] to last paragraph of snide article written by Charlie Brooker: "On November 2, the entire civilised world will be praying, praying Bush loses. And Sod's law dictates he'll probably win, thereby disproving the existence of God once and for all. The world will endure four more years of idiocy, arrogance and unwarranted bloodshed, with no benevolent deity to watch over and save us. John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald, John Hinckley Jr - where are you now that we need you?" American Digest http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1254988/posts#comment Sun, 24 Oct 2004 04:37:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1252291/posts Note: In late september / early october, the UK Guardian had a letter writing campaign. The purpose of this campaign was to influence the voters in the swing state of Ohio to vote for John Kerry. Over 10,000 people requested the address list, and I am sure that those writing wrote at least one or more letters to the citizens of ohio. The article that follows is Guardian printing some of the letters. Dear wonderful, loving friends from abroad, We Ohioans are an ornery sort and don't take meddling well, even if it comes from people we admire and with... The Guardian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1252291/posts#comment Thu, 21 Oct 2004 16:14:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1247638/posts WASHINGTON - A liberal British newspaper's campaign to influence the White House race, by having its readers write to undecided voters in a key county in the must-win state of Ohio, has prompted senior Republican lawmakers to question whether the Capitol Hill press accreditation should be withdrawn from the publication's two Washington correspondents. The write-in campaign started this week by the London-based, 400,000-circulation Guardian, is focused on Ohio's Clark County and is seen as a bid to deliver the state to Democrat John Kerry. Readers are being encouraged by the paper to sign up by e-mail to receive the names... The New York Sun http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1247638/posts#comment Sun, 17 Oct 2004 05:27:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1195153/posts 'When ya gettin' rid of him?' Tony Blair has become an embarrassment to Labour's natural allies across the Atlantic - the Democrats Mark Seddon Friday August 20, 2004 The Guardian Out on the stump in Brooklyn with Democrat Congressional hopeful Frank Barbero came a chance to talk to the footsoldiers in an election that all agree is the most important in decades. America is polarised between red and blue - or, as some Democrats whisper, between progressive America and a revived Confederacy. With George, the Vietnam vet turned transit worker, and Jeff Gold, the eternally optimistic full-time organiser, we leafleted... Guardian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1195153/posts#comment Fri, 20 Aug 2004 02:21:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1124407/posts While Europe is a eunuch, America is our only shield We can't walk away from Bush's follies without a credible military alternative Overtaken on the motorway by a motorcycle weaving between lanes at reckless speed, we glance at the rider and mutter something about bloody fools. Curiosity focuses upon the pillion passenger. Is he or she enjoying this? Is it not ridiculous to put one's life absolutely in the hands of a reckless idiot? In other words: how does it feel to be Tony Blair in Iraq? So much bad news turned up at Chequers over the weekend that the... The Guardian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1124407/posts#comment Mon, 26 Apr 2004 03:17:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1044598/posts Fraudsters have discovered that folly and greed are not so rare In the revolting world of spam, among the penis enlargements and worse, are the money laundering frauds so palpably absurd you might think only idiots would fall for them. An innocent Scottish chemist's shop is the latest to be caught up in these Nigerian frauds. Victims were promised they would inherit an oil company in return for an up-front fee. The fraudsters used the pharmacy's address, pretending it was a bank, and now dupes from Norway, New Zealand and the US have been turning up in Thurso to try... The Guardian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1044598/posts#comment Mon, 22 Dec 2003 01:12:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1035675/posts How King of New York took battle to the Great Polariser Graydon Carter is one of the biggest names in US magazines. Now Vanity Fair's editor is gunning for George Bush Joanna Walters in New York Sunday December 7, 2003 The Observer He has been hailed as the King Of New York. With his charming manners and ability to make or break celebrities, Graydon Carter is to the magazine world what Jay Leno is to the American talk show - powerbroker to the formerly, currently and would-be famous. Carter, the editor of Vanity Fair, was portrayed by some as a... Guardian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1035675/posts#comment Sun, 7 Dec 2003 16:55:10 GMT