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More Anti-American Images Found at German Subway Stores By Susan Jones CNSNews.com Morning Editor August 04, 2004 (CNSNews.com) - Picture this: a gigantic cheeseburger (with tomatoes and lettuce) slamming into two high-rise buildings, as cartoon characters run from the flaming ruins. It's clearly a takeoff on the 9/11 terror attacks on the World Trade Center, and according to the Virginia-based Center for Individual Freedom, the illustration appears on page 18 of a 30-page "food diary" distributed by Subway sandwich shops in Germany. Last week, the Center for Individual Freedom launched a grassroots campaign against anti-American tray-liners at German subway stores....

Kerry Rolls into Detroit by Justin Boudreau, Managing Editor, Canadafreepress.com Press pass puts locals in an up-roar with picture of import car. When one thinks of Michigan, it doesn’t take a mental leap to think of cars. The American auto giants have been (pardon the pun) the driving force behind much of the state’s economy. American’s take a great deal of pride in their cars, and it isn’t hard to see the direct ties between national pride and auto pride--especially in Michigan. So when U.S. democratic presidential nominee John Kerry (no, he isn’t even the candidate yet kids), made his...

Front Page Story Toronto radicals to lead GOP convention agenda by Judi McLeod July 14, 2004 Bandanna and mask-wearing activists, hobbling horses by tossing marbles under their hooves at next month’s GOP Convention, are taking their inspiration from a violent June 15, 2000 Queen’s Park Toronto protest. Organizers of the notorious Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) had a deliberate agenda to bring down police horses at the protest, staged against then Ontario Progressive Conservative Premier Mike Harris. The public image of proud police horses whinnying in pain and fear remains in public memory, and marked the massive exercise in civil...

COLORADO SPRINGS (AP) - Saving Pvt. Hammer became a mission for Fort Carson Staff Sgt. Rick Bousfield of the 3rd Brigade Combat Team. Pfc. Hammer is an Iraqi tabby cat the unit adopted after he was born last fall at a base in Balad, 50 miles north of Baghdad. When Bousfield found out his unit was leaving Iraq in March, he decided he couldn't leave a member of his team behind. "He has been through mortar attacks," said Bousfield, a 19-year Army veteran. "He'd jump and get scared liked the rest of us. He is kind of like one of...

UNION-TRIBUNE April 16, 2004 John Kerry "doesn't warm anybody up." President Bush is likable and strong. Those were the prevailing sentiments of undecided and independent union voters who participated in focus group surveys last month in St. Louis and Philadelphia. The focus groups were conducted by Lake Snell Perry and Associates, a Democratic opinion research firm, on behalf of the AFL-CIO, the nation's largest labor union. The results bring back to the fore an issue that cries out for justice: The systematic disenfranchisement of millions of union members who happen to vote Republican. Indeed, in the 2000 presidential election, Bush...

from washtimes The family of U.S. Air Force Maj. Gregory Stone was shocked to learn that video footage of the major's Arlington National Cemetery burial was included by Michael Moore in his movie "Fahrenheit 9/11." Maj. Stone was killed in March 2003 by a grenade that officials said was thrown into his tent by Sgt. Hasan K. Akbar, who is on trial for murder. "It's been a big shock, and we are not very happy about it, to say the least," Kandi Gallagher, Maj. Stone's aunt and family spokeswoman, tells Washington Times reporter Audrey Hudson. "We are furious that Greg...