https://freerepublic.com/tag/by:cakecrumb/ en-us Mon, 12 Apr 2010 23:31:32 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2491679/posts Paladino responds to racism allegations Updated: Monday, 12 Apr 2010, 6:18 PM EDT Published : Monday, 12 Apr 2010, 6:18 PM EDT George Richert Posted by: Eli George BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) - Carl Paladino is firing back over accusations that he's racist. News 4's George Richert is live in downtown Buffalo where the Gubernatorial Candidate addressed the media. VIdeo of interview at link. THIs is from media matters which already has it's hooks well entrenched in what looks like a media manufactured scandal: Paging Andrew Breitbart: NY Tea Party candidate sent out racist ... (it won't let me post there... WIBV 4 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2491679/posts#comment Mon, 12 Apr 2010 23:31:32 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2171905/posts Sweeping federal subpoenas of Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's administration include requests for records involving David Axelrod and Valerie Jarrett, senior advisers to President Barack Obama. Quad City Times (AP) https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2171905/posts#comment Mon, 26 Jan 2009 14:34:46 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2091502/posts LIVE DEBATE THREAD https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2091502/posts#comment Sat, 27 Sep 2008 01:23:51 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2021885/posts May 27, 2008 -- The polar bears are doing just fine, thank you very much. So says Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who announced last week that her state would sue to block Washington from listing the animals as "threatened" under the Endangered Species Act. And it's a good thing, too - because the new bear-population protections mask what may be the most serious threat to American economic might in decades. Yes, polar bears. The polar bear, you see, marks the first species on the "threatened" list whose supposed predicament is linked directly to global warming. The current Alaskan polar-bear population... New York Post https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2021885/posts#comment Tue, 27 May 2008 14:28:12 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/913816/posts The spy behind the burqa Iraqi-born mother's undercover work helps U.S. authorities weed out terrorists   Stewart Bell National Post Saturday, May 17, 2003 Sarah is a pseudonym for the author of a book that details her account as a spy infiltrating terrorist networks.   Sarah, her mother and brother walked for three weeks through the mountains to flee Iraq.   Later in Israel, she found a newspaper photograph of her father, who was hanged in Baghdad.   ADVERTISEMENT One of the enduring myths about the spy trade is that espionage agents are James Bond types, dashing men of worldly... National Review https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/913816/posts#comment Sun, 18 May 2003 22:59:52 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/886452/posts <p>PARIS — Street protests against American and British military action in Iraq have escalated into attacks by Muslim youths on Jewish demonstrators, sparking fears of a new wave of anti-Semitism across France.</p> <p>The French government was forced to appeal for calm after protesters, some of them carrying pictures of Saddam Hussein, burned the Israeli flag and turned on Jewish students, attacking one of them with an iron bar, during a series of antiwar rallies.</p> Washington Times via Sunday Telegraph https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/886452/posts#comment Sun, 6 Apr 2003 16:37:07 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/799168/posts <p>An American court has issued a summons against the next Saudi ambassador to Britain, saying that in his previous job he helped fund Afghanistan's Taliban regime while it sheltered Osama bin Laden.</p> <p>The summons has been issued to Prince Turki al-Faisal, the former head of Saudi intelligence, ordering him to respond to a compensation claim for more than $600 million brought by the families of victims of the September 11 terrorist attacks.</p> The Washington Times https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/799168/posts#comment Mon, 2 Dec 2002 16:25:54 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/785289/posts Why the Dems Lost To understand that, we have to go back to the beginning of the New Democrats. Socialism, and it's integral components, The Cause, Activism and Revolution, became enormously popular during the '60's on college campuses in free countries worldwide. "Activism" is THE way to impliment the agenda of your group, no matter how small it is compared to the majority, by convincing the majority that they are ACTUALLY in the MINORITY; that more hold the views of the activists than the mainstream. A Socialist activist is also called a social activist. After graduation, many of these former... https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/785289/posts#comment Fri, 8 Nov 2002 18:20:04 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/680072/posts From the National DeskPublished 5/8/2002 12:10 PM MILWAUKEE, May 8 (UPI) -- A self-styled Wisconsin anarchist who used the Internet nickname "Dr. Chaos" to recruit teens for his "Realm of Terror" was indicted by a federal grand jury for causing more than $800,000 damage in a more than two-year vandalism spree across the state.Joseph Konopka, 25, faces a maximum 30 years in prison if convicted on all 13 counts against him. FBI documents showed the one-time computer technician met teenaged boys on an Internet site called "Teens for Satan." He allegedly would invite them to his job in Green Bay,... UPI https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/680072/posts#comment Wed, 8 May 2002 17:07:17 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/644452/posts Bill McBride is a managing partner at Holland and Knight law firm. The following is from the McBride for Gov websiteMember, Florida Supreme Court#146;s Commission on Gender Bias; middot; Chairman, first Hillsborough County Needs Assessment; middot; Campaign Chair, United Way of Hillsborough County; middot; Founding Chair of District VII Transportation Committee; middot; Chair, Board of Directors, United Way of Hillsborough County; middot; National Chair, Law Firm Pro Bono Project; middot; Chair, Great American Teach-In; middot; Chair, Florida Chamber of Commerce Foundation; middot; Member, Board of Directors, Florida Chamber of Commerce; middot; Chair, Board of Governors, Greater Tampa Chamber of Commerce;... https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/644452/posts#comment Mon, 11 Mar 2002 16:36:01 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/604694/posts The national media's drooling obsession with the idea of televising Moussaoui's terrorist trial is getting on my nerves. In fact, this is the Fox News question of the day. You can email your answer to comments@foxnews.com This is also an unnoficial survey of my fellow FReepers' opinion on this question. TV News Media ( all ) https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/604694/posts#comment Wed, 9 Jan 2002 14:25:15 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/581079/posts ASHCROFT: Good afternoon. This afternoon I am announcing a Department of Justice initiative to reach out to freedom-loving people of all nations in the war against terrorism. The title of this initiative is the Responsible Cooperators Program.Under this new initiative, the Department of Justice will provide immigration benefits to non-citizens who furnish information to help us apprehend terrorists or to stop terrorist attacks. We are asking all non-U.S. citizens who are present in the United States or who seek to enter our country to come forward to the FBI with any valuable information they have to aid in the war ... United States DOJ https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/581079/posts#comment Fri, 30 Nov 2001 12:24:37 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/570623/posts Last week, a violent confrontation broke out between rival Muslim groups in the Dagestani village of Chabani- Makhi. Members of the Wahhabi group clashed with those of local Tariqat Sufi orders. Two people were killed and three hospitalized. Eighteen Wahhabis were briefly taken hostage until special police sealed off the village and restored order. These events underscore the tensions that have arisen in many Soviet successor states following the relaxation of Soviet-era restrictions on religious proselytizing. The Wahhabi movement is looked upon with suspicion in several CIS states. A Sunni group, the Wahhabis have been active in Central Asia and ... Radio Free Europe https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/570623/posts#comment Fri, 16 Nov 2001 21:05:50 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/570535/posts Last week, a violent confrontation broke out between rival Muslim groups in the Dagestani village of Chabani- Makhi. Members of the Wahhabi group clashed with those of local Tariqat Sufi orders. Two people were killed and three hospitalized. Eighteen Wahhabis were briefly taken hostage until special police sealed off the village and restored order. These events underscore the tensions that have arisen in many Soviet successor states following the relaxation of Soviet-era restrictions on religious proselytizing. The Wahhabi movement is looked upon with suspicion in several CIS states. A Sunni group, the Wahhabis have been active in Central Asia and ... Radio Free Europe https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/570535/posts#comment Fri, 16 Nov 2001 21:04:22 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/560446/posts LONDON, Oct 31 (Reuters) - Parents and teachers struggling to explain the war in Afghanistan can call on a new novel to help children picture life under the Taliban. Billed as the only children's novel on the subject, "The Breadwinner" follows 11-year-old Parvana as she struggles to support her family while avoiding beatings, bombings and death by starvation. "'The Breadwinner' is a powerful depiction of life under the Taliban regime, told honestly and directly, in a way children will really understand," the book's publishers said. Aimed at nine to 12-year-olds, the work depicts Parvana masquerading as a boy -- Afghanistan's ... Planetarabia https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/560446/posts#comment Wed, 31 Oct 2001 12:27:13 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/559024/posts LAHORE, Pakistan, Oct 29 (Reuters) - Four Britons and one American, all believed to be of Pakistani origin, have been killed in the U.S. air attacks on Afghanistan, a spokesman for the hardline Islamic Al-Muhajiroun group said on Monday. All five were members of the group, described by other radical Islamic groups as among the most hardline, and had gone to Afghanistan in an individual capacity, the spokesman said. "This five-member group arrived in Pakistan in early October and went to Afghanistan to take part in jihad," he said. "They were declared missing in action after last Wednesday night's bombing ... Planetarabia.com https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/559024/posts#comment Mon, 29 Oct 2001 14:42:44 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/552676/posts Let us take it in reverse fashion. Media’s capacity to manipulate — and by its extension to build too — public opinion will perhaps never be felt by us more vigorously. It was a chilling fortnight after the violent attack on the twin towers of World Trade Center in New York causing tragic loss of thousand of lives. Never in the past the Muslims the worldover had found themselves so helpless and expressionless against the media barrage. From the word go, the media led by the Jewish owned or manned multinational purveyors of news and views, CNN, BBC and Star ... The Islamic Voice https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/552676/posts#comment Sat, 20 Oct 2001 14:56:18 GMT https://freerepublic.com/forum/a3b5c44a43d63.htm US Senators Charles E. Schumer and Hillary Rodham Clinton today inserted a provision into the Senate Energy Appropriations bill that would ban proposals to begin oil and natural gas exploration and drilling in the Finger Lakes National Forest...but she really means all of central New York clinton.senate.gov https://freerepublic.com/forum/a3b5c44a43d63.htm#comment Mon, 23 Jul 2001 15:37:08 GMT https://freerepublic.com/forum/a3b5c40d836ea.htm UN Assessment Project Survey What do you think the United States should do about the United Nations? In May, we were voted off the UN Commission on Human Rights for the first time since we founded it in 1947. This vote was orchestrated largely by Cuba and communist China, to retaliate against the U.S. for criticizing them. These outrageous human rights violators, as well as Syria, Vietnam, and Libya, are members in good standing. Congress and the Bush administration are deciding on many questions about the UN and international treaties right at this moment. It’s imperative that they have the ... Re-post of Heritage Foundation Thread https://freerepublic.com/forum/a3b5c40d836ea.htm#comment Mon, 23 Jul 2001 15:20:56 GMT https://freerepublic.com/forum/a3b12b7882ad0.htm IN THE coming months, as Californians eat their tofu by candlelight and the energy police tell Barbra Streisand to turn out lights in her castle, I pray for one thing. And that is that Jim "Judas" Jeffords goes to the wilderness of Alaska, camps out, freezes his rear end off, hugs a tree and plays catch with a polar bear. Jeffords, as reward for sabotaging last year's Electoral College result, has been gifted by the Democrats to head the Senate committee on the environment. New York Post https://freerepublic.com/forum/a3b12b7882ad0.htm#comment Mon, 28 May 2001 20:39:36 GMT https://freerepublic.com/forum/a3b0e649770da.htm Vote.com: Jeffords leaves GOP. Do you support him? Vote.com https://freerepublic.com/forum/a3b0e649770da.htm#comment Fri, 25 May 2001 13:56:39 GMT https://freerepublic.com/forum/a3abf77e81db9.htm In a message dated 02/19/2001 10:00:54 AM Eastern Standard Time, Paul Harvey writes:SUBJECT: Our Hillary Back in 1969 a group of Black Panthers decided that a fellow Black Panther named Alex Rackley needed to die. Rackley was suspected of disloyalty Rackley was first tied to a chair. Once safely immobilized, his friends tortured him for hours by, among other things, pouring boiling water on him. When they got tired of torturing Rackley, Black Panther member, Warren Kimbo, took Rackley outside and put a bullet in his head. Rackley's body was later found floating in a river about 25 miles north ... recieved via email https://freerepublic.com/forum/a3abf77e81db9.htm#comment Mon, 26 Mar 2001 16:10:00 GMT https://freerepublic.com/forum/a3ab8c3d853bf.htm Bush's bias toward industrial dinosaurs is strangling America's high-tech-driven growth. Ever since Deep Throat whispered "Follow the money" to Bob Woodward, journalists and pundits have been alert to the importance of money in U.S. politics. In the midst of the current economic downturn, however, they've been looking in the wrong direction. Throughout the election year, while money in the stock market shivered at any hint of the GOP victory, media attention -- and campaign rhetoric -- continued to focus on Bush's trillions and Gore's lockboxes, fuzzy math calculations and proposed expenditure against still-unearned government surpluses. Even now, as the NASDAQ ... Salon.com https://freerepublic.com/forum/a3ab8c3d853bf.htm#comment Wed, 21 Mar 2001 14:08:08 GMT https://freerepublic.com/forum/a3a6edc9c6d53.htm Those weren't spontaneous demonstrators venting their discontent along Pennsylvania Avenue during President Bush's inaugural parade. They were seasoned full-time professionals just doing their jobs. According to Insight magazine: They were "part of a fine-tuned, technologically savvy protest machine that is backed by labor unions and individual financial sponsors." In the parlance of today's political-pressure tactics that capitalize on television news media's eagerness to depict controversy in action, they are known as "Rent-a-Mobs." These demonstrators-for-hire have it down to a fine art, having gained considerable on-the-job expertise in fomenting or acting out protests in two political conventions last summer and high-profile ... NewsMax.com https://freerepublic.com/forum/a3a6edc9c6d53.htm#comment Wed, 24 Jan 2001 12:46:04 GMT https://freerepublic.com/forum/a3a32249d47f3.htm Saturday, 9 December 2000 1:24 (ET) Boy Scout leader charged in sexual abuse DANNEMORA, N.Y., Dec. 9 (UPI) -- A New York Boy Scout leader faces several charges of sexually abusing several young boys over the course of the last three years when he appears in court Tuesday. A state police investigator said that the charges against David A. Doherty, 35, have shocked the community of Dannemora, N.Y., located near Plattsburgh, N.Y. He's charged with sexual conduct with a child younger than age 11, first-degree sodomy, second-degree sodomy -- all felonies. He's also charged with sexual abuse and endangering the ... UPI https://freerepublic.com/forum/a3a32249d47f3.htm#comment Sat, 9 Dec 2000 11:24:36 GMT