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THE Howard government decided in early 1999 to work for East Timor's independence but concealed this from the Indonesian government, John Howard and Alexander Downer have revealed. And senior Australian and US officials have disclosed that the Clinton administration threatened Jakarta with US military retaliation if Indonesian forces contested the Australian-led UN intervention in East Timor. These revelations in the book The March of Patriots - the Struggle for Modern Australia contradict the decade-long orthodoxy about the 1999 East Timor crisis. .... Before the Australia-led UN force under Major General Peter Cosgrove landed in East Timor, US defence secretary William...

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White House green jobs czar Van Jones had apologized twice this week for making regrettable statements and there may be another one coming. His name is posted online in support of an October 2006 petition to stop police brutality posted by the Revolution newspaper, which describes itself as the “Voice of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA.” The petition was created by a group called the October 22nd Coalition that seeks to "meet the intensifying nationwide epidemic of police brutality with resistance on the national level" and says it works with the International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu Jamal....

Here is audio of Mark Levin talking with "Steven," a listener who had confronted Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin during a Health Care Discussion a few days ago. The video of Steven confronting Durbin is also included in the clip. Levin praises him for how he stood up to Durbin, and reminded his audience "There's more of us than there are of them." He also told the audience, "You're defeating them!" . . . . (Audio / Video)

This is Dick Armey of Freedomworks. Retired Congressman Dick Armey is the top national organizer for the 9/12 Marches coming this month in Washington, DC. FOX News host Glenn Beck set the 9/12 movement in motion. Please let us know how you feel about Dick Armey's positions on illegal immigration.

Right up until Levi Johnston, Sarah Palin’s daughter Bristol’s ex-boyfriend, decided to pose underwear clad in Playgirl, he was a credible voice in the Alaskan wilderness about all things Palin. The Playgirl article, that will be the credibility-killing straw. Wait. No it won’t. Levi Johnson braying at the moon wearing nothing but boots and a polar bear pelt wouldn’t impair this young stud’s street cred with liberal media organizations. He’s trashing their favorite woman to hate, Sarah Palin. Alinsky’s Rule #2 and all that. One snarky wag called Johnston the “sanest member of the family.” Until he’s discarded as yesterday’s...

Yesterday, news broke out that Barack Obama’s communist Green Czar was a 9-11 Truther. The administration much later in the day released a statement saying Van Jones was “not now or ever” involved in the 9-11 Truther movement. Jones said the petition he signed in 2004 did not reflect his views and that he did not carefully review the language in the petition before agreeing to add his name.. Not true. This article at Rense.com from 2002 links Van Jones to the 9-11 Truther movement at its infancy: More... Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement (STORM), the revolutionary group...

September 1 marked the 70th anniversary of the beginning of World War II. The day was marked with solemn remembrances from governments and survivors. They recalled the unprovoked German invasion of Poland that led to Britain and France honoring their defense guarantees, which plunged the planet into its second great conflict in as many generations. Conservative commentator Pat Buchanan acknowledged the day a little differently. “Pitchfork Pat” wrote a column in which he reiterated his long-held contention that Adolf Hitler did not want to start a general war, that he was only trying to unite the German-speaking peoples of Europe,...

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6 Years of Saturn Credit & Copyright: Alan Friedman Explanation: Today, planet Earth passes through the plane of Saturn's rings. From the perspective of earthbound astronomers, Saturn's rings will be edge-on. The problem is, Saturn itself is now very close to the Sun, low on horizon after sunset, so good telescopic images will be difficult to come by. Still, this composite of Saturn views taken from 2004 - 2009 (lower right to upper left) illustrates the change in ring tilt over the last six years and includes a nearly edge-on ring view, based on images captured earlier this year....

As I am getting ready to head out the door to hit the gym this morning, I am noticing all of the Facebook folks who have changed thier status to something along the following lines: "No one should die from not having health care, and no one should go in debt for getting sick." I'm sipping my coffee, having just taken my vitimins. I have about ten minutes to klll until I throw on my shorts, sneakers, and head off to the gym. Once I arrive, I'll be spending about an hour grunting and sweating in the weight room, and...

San Marcos: Two Teens Dead, One Hurt in Shooting Newsroom 9/4/2009 Two Luling teenagers are dead and a third seriously wounded after they were shot by a resident in an attempted home invasion early Friday in San Marcos. The shootings happened shortly before 2 a.m. on Chestnut Street on the west side of San Marcos. One 16-year-old was pronounced dead at the scene and a second 16-year old died at Central Texas Medical Center. A third teen, also 16, was transported to Brackenridge Hospital in Austin with serious wounds. Police are withholding the identities of the teenagers as the investigation...

No School September 8th September 8th is a scheduled Site Improvement Day for the Moore Public Schools. As referenced on our school calendar, school is not in session on this date. The district has been advised that President Obama will deliver an address directly to school children on the importance of education. Parents who wish to view the speech with their children may consult the U.S. Education Department's website.

Check out the photograph of the Obamessiah accompanying this White House blog entry: TUE, SEPTEMBER 1, 12:31 PM EST Photostream: Work and Rest in August Posted by Kori Schulman You may need to search for this caption: (President Barack Obama addresses a town hall meeting on health insurance reform inside a hangar at Gallatin Field in Belgrade, Mont., on Aug. 14, 2009. Official White House photo by Pete Souza) Here is the photo of interest. Look at the halo: Either the airplane hanger has a light directly behind Obama's head, or a halo has been photoshoped surrounding the messiah.

Nouriel Roubini, a leading economist who predicted the scale of global financial troubles, said a U-shaped recovery is possible, with leading economies undeperforming perhaps for 3 years. He said there is also an increasing risk of a "double-dip" scenario, however. "I believe that the basic scenario is going to be one of a U-shaped economic recovery where growth is going to remain below trend ... especially for the advanced economies, for at least 2 or 3 years," he said at a news conference here. "Within that U scenario I also see a small probability, but a rising probability, that if...

Six, seven, and eight-year-old kids shouldn't be put in a position where they have to say that a particular president is inspiring and such a wonderful person. Next Tuesday, the opening day for many schools across the country, President Obama will give a speech to elementary and secondary students across the country. There is a reason why no president has commanded the time of America's school children in the past to make them listen to the president as part of their school day. Could you imagine the outrage if the president requested time to address adults during their work day...

...How were these revelations found? Did Glenn Beck hire some super sleuth? Is Gateway Pundit a former CIA Agent? Maybe someone broke into Van Jones house and stole the scrapbook of his greatest speeches that his mom has been keeping since he was a child? No, just concerned citizens, average schmoes with access to a computer, the internet, Google and You Tube. The real issue of the entire Van Jones mess involves the White House, because if the average citizen could find out all of this information about Van Jones just by searching the internet, why didn't the White House?...

The Democrats, whose presidential administration previously condemned as "potential terrorists" those who oppose same-sex marriage and are offended by restrictions on firearms, all based on Internet chatter, has suggested blasting those who oppose Obamacare as "right-wing domestic terrorists" on 9/11 of this year. According to an "Organizing for America" campaign document unveiled by the Heritage Foundation the plan involves having activists telephone their "State Senators" on Sept. 11, 2009, to demand a "public option" which essentially would involve a government-funded and government-run monopoly on health care.

Thomas Fitzgerald never knew what hit him. One minute he was riding home from his night-shift job and stopping his bike at Broad and South Streets to watch a mob scene that appeared to be getting out of control. The next, he told a Philadelphia judge yesterday, he was waking up four days later from a medically induced coma, with his hearing impaired and his memory scrambled. Two other witnesses yesterday helped piece together Fitzgerald's lost minutes as they described how, about 11:30 p.m. May 30, the 53-year-old bicyclist was set upon by eight young males, beaten, and left unconscious...