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<p>Freerepublic.com has over the years filled a unique and valuable niche for conservatives. In the past, I was also a Freeper, but I ceased posting when Freerepublic.com founder Jim Robinson first began censoring and banning members for any criticism of George Bush. I knew then the handwriting was on the wall for Freerepublic.com; that the situation would only grow worse with time. . .</p>

The king of computer software Bill Gates is due to receive an honorary knighthood from the Queen for his contribution to enterprise in the UK. Mr Gates, the world's wealthiest man, is also being honoured for his work on poverty reduction around the world, said the Foreign Office. As an American citizen he cannot use the title "Sir" but will be entitled to put the letters KBE after his name. Microsoft said Mr Gates, 48, was "absolutely delighted".

Here they come: "surfing" their way through the suffering victims of the worst disaster in modern times. I call 'em "Tsunami Tsurfers". Click on link to discover why.

Courtesy of Newsweek, mainstream media’s pet blogger Wonkette takes a cute little slap at the bloggers who broke the Dan Rather fraud story: Fast Chat: The Wonkette. What did you think of the bloggers’ role in the Dan Rather affair?I think they did a disservice to the debate because they made the debate about the documents and not about the president of the United States. There was another half to that story that had to do with verifiable events of what Bush may have been up to. While blogs like LGF were doing a “disservice to the debate” by exposing...

Uri Avnery was the first Israeli to meet with Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat, and one of the last. While many Israelis blamed Arafat for the failure of the Oslo Accords and for leading the reign of terror which replaced it, Avnery said he never lost his faith in the Palestinian leader. "Arafat was not only a great national leader, but he was a partner with whom we could have made peace and should have made peace," said the 81-year-old long-time activist and former journalist. "I was the first Israeli who ever spoke with Yasser Arafat; it was unusual. My...

A Plea to American Conservatives I write to you as a friend from the United Kingdom concerned that you may re-elect George W. Bush as President of your great country. I am not a condescending Guardian reader and I am exceedingly pro-American. It is for this reason that I ask you not to vote for Bush. Terrorism cannot be defeated by dropping bombs from B-52's or by invading sovereign nations that posed no threat to the security of the Western world. Bush started a war that violated the notion of sovereignty so important to the Conservative movement for a spurious...

Just a quick post to express my frustration and to see if there are others out there who agree. Why do we all march lock-step to the beat of the Republican Party? I have voted Republican all my life. I am now at the point where I am angry with what I see going on in this country today. Illegal Immigration, selling our troops out to the ICC, SOCIALIST PARTIES (D) and (R), the coming "Generational Storm", campaign finance reform that silences "we the people", and much more. I am tired of "Christians" who aren't registered to vote and who...

Rachel Corrie, One Year LaterBy Steven PlautFrontPageMagazine.com | April 13, 2004 The one-year anniversary of Rachel Corrie's demise has arrived.For those whose memories fail them in this matter, let me refresh things.  Rachel Corrie was a young fanatic college student from Washington State, who decided she could make the world a better place by showing her solidarity with Middle East terrorism and Palestinian mass murderers.  She joined the International Solidarity Movement, a communist-anarchist group who openly support Palestinian terrorism.  Corrie set up shop in the Gaza Strip, where she and her ISM comrades spent their days trying to harass and...

Parents of woman killed by Israeli bulldozer join anti-Caterpillar rally April 5, 2004 Parents of a young woman who was killed by an Israeli soldier driving a Caterpillar bulldozer spoke Sunday at a rally to build support for two protests against Caterpillar this month in Chicago and Peoria. Craig and Cindy Corrie of Olympia, Wash., spoke at the rally at Chicago Temple, 77 W. Washington, about their daughter Rachel, 23. She was trying to prevent the demolition of a Palestinian home in Gaza when the bulldozer ran over her in March 2003. An Israeli Defense Force investigation cleared the soldier,...

The invasion of Iraq was "organised with lies", says the new Spanish Prime Minister. Does anyone doubt this any more? And yet these proven lies are still dominant in Australia. Day after day, their perpetrators seek to obfuscate and justify an unprovoked, illegal attack that killed at least 10,000 civilians, a figure confirmed last week by Amnesty International. Set that carnage against the Madrid atrocity. Terrible though that act of terrorism was, it was small compared with the terrorism of the American-led "coalition". Yes, terrorism. How strange it reads when it describes the actions of "our" governments. So saturated are...

On April 23, in Peoria, Illinois, three peace activist groups, including Rachel Corrie's parents, intend to protest the manufacture of Caterpillar bulldozers that are bought by Israel. The details of the protest are in the below pro-palestinian propaganga: Event: Stop Cat demonstration at CAT headquarters in Peoria www.peacechicago.org Description: Buses from Chicago and the surrounding area are being organized, for tickets contact me at matt@stopcat.org Our plans for April 23rd are to meet at Bradley Park (1700 Park Ave) in Peoria at Noon for a short rally, then march to CAT headquarters and demand that James Owens, the current CEO,...

The tactics of the pro-war crowd who’ve hung in there knowing we were lied to and watching a war about to enter its second year never change. The Spanish people are now appeasers, as is everyone else who opposed the war for what turned out to be bloody good reasons and now want the UN to take over as quickly as possible to end the US/British/Australian occupation.  Please have a read of New Spanish government a circuit breaker on Iraq by new Webdiarist Sam Guthrie. And please, Miranda Devine and co, accept that we all want to fight terrorism....

BERKELEY - Joseph Wilson, the former diplomat who clashed with the Bush administration over its use of faulty intelligence to justify the war in Iraq, said Wednesday that the United States would be blamed ``forever'' by the Arab world if it failed to create a functioning democracy in Iraq. ``The mess that's left over is our mess,'' Wilson said in a speech at the University of California-Berkeley. ``We own it.'' Wilson, who spoke at a conference on media coverage of the war, said journalists failed to ask hard questions about the administration's justifications for going to war, particularly Secretary of...

<p>Hans Blix, the former U.N. chief weapons inspector in Iraq, said Wednesday that the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq violated international law.</p> <p>Speaking at a Berkeley news conference in advance of Friday's one-year anniversary of the attack on Iraq, Blix referred to the U.N. Charter and said a state may attack another state if attacked or if imminently threatened by an attack. However, he added, the evidence of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction - - particularly nuclear weapons -- was not sufficient to justify an invasion.</p>

<p>TAKOMA PARK, Md. — A woman accused of acting as a paid Iraqi intelligence agent said Wednesday she is misunderstood and was only trying to help prevent a war in Iraq (search).</p> <p>Susan Lindauer (search) told The Associated Press she was being punished because she got involved in U.S. foreign policy. She said her intent was to persuade Iraq to allow weapons inspections before the war and to get it to cooperate with the war on terror.</p>

(Editor's note: On March 16, 2003, 23-year-old Rachel Corrie died in a bulldozer accident in the Gaza town of Rafah.) Today is the first anniversary of Rachel Corrie's death. I want to thank Corrie for the explosives that flow freely from Egypt to Gaza, via the smuggling tunnels under the Gaza homes that she died defending. Perhaps it was these explosives that in the year since her martyrdom--oops, death--have been strapped around suicide bombers to blow up city buses and restaurants in Israeli cities, particularly in Jerusalem, killing men, women and schoolchildren (two of them classmates of my daughter and...

<p>Freeping as we knew it is done for. It's all over.</p> <p>We just had a troll who posted a rather unique thread. But the devil was in the details. His last post, before being dispatched, informed us of our impending demise.</p>

'In Athens They Call Her She Who Would Not Retreat'February 17, 2004 By Leslie Knopp The Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions presented a posthumous award to Rachel Corrie, who was run over by an Israeli bulldozer while protecting a Palestinian home. OLYMPIA - Activist Rachel Corrie was far from her Olympia home, but she guarded Palestinians' homes as if they were her own. Last March she stood between the home of a Palestinian doctor and an Israeli bulldozer. She was acting as a human shield. The driver ran her down, killing her. "In Athens they call her 'she who...

After the bombs stopped falling, Faith Fippinger ventured out into Baghdad. At a hospital, she found a man weeping beside his dying wife. Their six children had been killed in the attack, too, Fippinger said. When the man asked Fippinger where she was from, she told him the truth — the United States, which was dropping the bombs pounding the city. Not denying her citizenship was something she had sworn to do during her time in Iraq, Fippinger said. She wanted the Iraqis to know there were Americans who did not approve of the war on Iraq. "I would say...

Wrong time for tea This is in response to recent articles on President Bush's state visit to London. As a 20-year old American and frequent inhabitant of London, I have been closely watching the news for the past two years concerning the war on Iraq. I believe, in accordance with the majority of Britons, that the president's visit came at an absolutely ridiculous time in the political lives of both Great Britain and the United States of America. President Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair seem to think that by creating fanfare around such petty things as "tea time at...