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Lies of omission about 9/11 -- stoking fears of terrorism THEY WANT YOU TO BE AFRAID The following post was censored by freerepublic.com shortly after it was posted on their "public" forum on 9/11/04. That forum is designed to appear as though it is a community forum open to all, but this post only received three responses before it and its replies were deleted, and a repeat posting at 4 am PST on 9/20/04 didn't stay online for 5 minutes! Someone is apparently watching closely over the content of the freerepublic.com forums and censoring them 24/7 (though they might have...

Troubles abound for the print business, but smart leadership can steer through the roughest seas Good news about the newspaper business is hard to find these days. Already this month, daily circulation losses ... At the demand of disgruntled institutional shareholders, once-proud Knight Ridder - the nation's second-largest publicly traded chain - is considering putting itself up for sale, whole or in pieces. This comes on the heels of deep news staff cuts at many of the nation's most respected regional papers, Newsday included... Important trends are downward and reinforcing... Profit margins, down from their peak, but still at 20...

<p>You people are jerks. Not likeable jerks either, but the kind folks would like to smack in the back of the head with a shovel. Think Judge Snells from Caddyshack or Neidermier from Animal House.</p> <p>I know this probably comes as a shock to you, but if you do some serious soul searching, you'll realize that I am right.</p>

Concluding Question: The Meta-Group and the United States Government It seems clear that the meta-group, with its influential connections on at least three continents, was powerful enough to effect changes, through the Russian 9/11, in Russian history. The question arises whether they could similarly effect changes in American history as well. As we have seen Russian sources claim that the U.S. Government has had access to he meta-group, for such especially sensitive projects as the assassination of Abu al Walid al-Hamadi. They claim the meta-group's involvement in a number of U.S.-sponsored regime changes in eastern Europe, from the overthrow of...

Excerpt - REDMOND, Wash. -- Jim Allchin, a senior Microsoft Corp. executive, walked into Bill Gates's office here one day in July last year to deliver a bombshell about the next generation of Microsoft Windows. "It's not going to work," Mr. Allchin says he told the Microsoft chairman. The new version, code-named Longhorn, was so complex its writers would never be able to make it run properly. The news got even worse: Longhorn was irredeemable because Microsoft engineers were building it just as they had always built software. Throughout its history, Microsoft had let thousands of programmers each produce their...

My father informed me that one of the Gulfport survivors from the former Navy Home (now AFRH-Gulfport), which was devastated by Katrina's storm surge, has committed suicide. Apparently despondent since arriving in DC, the man leaped from the seventh floor of one of the residential buildings. Many of the survivors were women, but like the armed forces, there are more men. They were all huddled together during the storms fury and afterward found that their cars, and anything else valuable left out was gone. They were evacuated two days later, but had to wait until the roads could be cleared...

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...

Gas costs so much. I cant afford it. Why want Bush do something? Don't say he can't. His daddy or his handlers could be on the phone in 2 minutes with the Rothchilds and by 1 week, oil prices would be under $20 and gas would be 1 dollar a gallon. You know it and I know it. Why want he? Do you know? Is there sombody we can call? Plaese advice.

WASHINGTON (AP) - Former Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry, who lost decisively to President Bush in an election focused on national security, said Tuesday the country would be "far better off" with his proposals for Iraq and the military. "I think my security proposals for the country were smack on, dead on," Kerry said. "I think that had they started to do the things I proposed on Iraq when I proposed them, we would be far better off today. And they are in fact now trying to do some of the things that I proposed. The Massachusetts senator, meeting with...

Self-doubt leaves French feeling down in the mouth SUSAN BELL IN PARIS IT IS official: the French are a nation of depressed pessimists, wracked with self-doubt and unable to see a positive future. This gloomy portrait of the current state of Gallic morale - or rather the lack of it - was made public yesterday in a damning report by France’s prefects, the country’s top administrators. "The French no longer believe in anything," the report said. "That is the reason that the situation is relatively calm, for they believe that it is not even worthwhile expressing their opinions or trying...

Halftime of the Orange Bowl featured a number of musical acts. Last on stage was Ashlee Simpson, famous for her hilarious lip-synching disaster on Saturday Night Live. Well, everything went according to plan this time, but the entire Orange Bowl jeered when she was introduced, and jeered when she was done singing. If it hadn't been so funny, it might have been sad...

Early on there was something Boston in the air. At my own packed polling place in leafy, leftie Brookline, the four voters who'd share their decision put it this way: not just anti-Bush but ``for Kerry.'' ``I want Kerry,'' said one. ``President Kerry,'' said another. There was something Boston on TV as well. When cable networks zeroed in on packed polling places in Philadelphia and Madison, Wis., and Cleveland - the belly of the battleground beast - much of the crowd looked like the Green Line to Boston College. Peach fuzzy boys, girls with jeans low on thin hips. Backpacks...

TO: Republican National Committee Cc: Butler Co. Republican party Ohio Republican Party George W. Bush Subject: Sitting this one out As a conservative, I have become increasingly disappointed at the leftward drift of the Republican Party under the leadership of George W. Bush. His monetary and immigration policies are prime examples. I have come to the conclusion that he is, quite simply, unacceptable. Furthermore, the overall position of the Republican Party is too far to the left to suit me. The argument that "the other guy is worse" is invalid. There is now such an indiscernible difference between the Republican...

LEKU, Ethiopia -- By the time his father carried him into the therapeutic feeding center here, 5-year-old Samuel Sebala was severely malnourished by every standard there is for evaluating famine-stricken children. His once-black hair was light and falling out. His wide-eyed stare was unfocused, his weight a fraction of what it should have been for a child his height. His face and feet were swollen. He made no sound as his frail body was measured and probed, just shivered horribly in the cool, damp, rainy-season morning when his tattered clothes were removed so he could be weighed. ''I have other...

WHATEVER YOU DID UNTO ONE OF THE LEAST, YOU DID UNTO ME An address at the National Prayer Breakfast (Sponsored by theU.S. Senate and House of Representatives) February 3, 1994 On the last day, Jesus will say to those on His right hand, "Come, enter the Kingdom. For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was sick and you visited me." Then Jesus will turn to those on His left hand and say, "Depart from me because I was hungry and you did not feed me, I was thirsty and...

Braintree Selectman Joseph Driscoll pulled off a victory for a vacant House seat last night - overcoming all-out efforts by Gov. Mitt Romney and the Republican Party to snatch the seat back from a political generation of elected Democrats. With all 14 precincts reporting in the special election, Driscoll had won by 436 votes out of more than 10,000 cast, according to unofficial results from Secretary of State William Galvin. ``The Republicans didn't leave a bullet in the chamber on this one, and my campaign really was kind of a mom and pop operation,'' said Driscoll, who celebrated his 33rd...

In a March 14, 2003 sermon, Sheikh Abd al-Razzak Al-Sa'adi, preaching from the Umm Al-Ma'arek (Mother of All Battles) Mosque in Baghdad, stated: "Oh God, curse upon the face of the Americans. Oh Allah, curse upon the face of the British... Oh Allah, strike the oppressors with each other, and let us come out of it safely, as you took the Prophet Muhammad out from among the polytheists. Oh Allah, sink their ships, and down their planes. Oh Allah, drown Bush and Blair as you drowned Pharaoh, and rescue us as you rescued Moses. Oh Allah, burn Bush and Blair...

<p>"PLEASE help me," wrote Benjamins, a 24-year-old computer programmer from Ohio. "I am looking for a fast, reliable way to kill myself. I don't want to screw it up."</p> <p>The message, posted on alt.suicide.holiday, known as ASH on Sept. 17, 2000, went on to say that Benjamins had spent time in a mental institution and that he feared he might not pass a background check needed to purchase a gun. Responses to his post ranged from instructions on how to slit his wrists to a suggestion that he drive his car into a brick wall at high speed.</p>

<p>Type "suicide" into an Internet search engine, and among the sites advertising therapy, hotlines and antidepressants, you'll find a handful of pages where suicidal strangers counsel each other on the best way to die.</p> <p>The largest site, called alt.suicide.holiday, or ASH, combines a public newsgroup, chat rooms and guide files instructing visitors on how to kill themselves using everything from aspirin to rat poison.</p>