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When there is a new outrage, I have to download some of my existing outrages, to make room. -- Al Gore CANNES, France -- What he wants you to know is that he has not made a political film. Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" tries to move outside politics and focus on the facts of global warming. Gore says those facts are established, the returns are in, there is almost unanimous scientific agreement about them, and we may have about 10 years before the earth reaches a tipping point from which it cannot recover. He has been traveling the world...

Freed hostage will arrive home today amid growing concern, report our correspondents  Norman Kember, the freed peace activist, will arrive back in Britain today amid growing controversy over his failure publicly to thank the military forces who rescued him.   Neither Professor Kember nor the Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) organisation for whom he worked have acknowledged the work of the soldiers who rescued him and two Canadian hostages on Thursday, or of the teams of military and intelligence officials who spent months trying to track them down.   General Sir Mike Jackson, the head of the British Army, expressed the...

On April 8, the Rolling Stones will make their first appearance in mainland China, performing in an 8,000-seat stadium in Shanghai. In order to accommodate the communist regime's ministry of culture, the group that once was synonymous with 1960s-style liberation has pledged not to play "Let's Spend the Night Together," "Brown Sugar""Brown Sugar" and two other songs deemed too risky by Chinese censors. The Stones' capitulation to Chinese censors comes at a particularly bad time for foes of political correctness. Increasingly, free expression is under attack around the world -- including the U.S. The incidents of censorship are widespread and...

Cuba is one of the most beautiful and fascinating countries on Earth—and George Bush says you can’t go there. Well, we’re going anyway, and we invite you to join us! This New Year’s CODEPINK will be organizing a large group of fun-loving and freedom-loving Americans to break George Bush’s ban on travel to Cuba. Join co-founders Medea Benjamin and Jodie Evans, together with other prominent activists from around the country, as we visit with farmers at their co-ops, doctors at their family clinics, dancers at the National Folklore Group, and young people at the ballpark. Don’t miss this historic chance...

If you read nothing else today, make sure it's this devastating article in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch by reporter Ron Harris on an anti-war fraud named Jimmy Massey. Excerpt: "For more than a year, former Marine Staff Sgt. Jimmy Massey has been telling anybody who will listen about the atrocities that he and other Marines committed in Iraq. In scores of newspaper, magazine and broadcast stories, at a Canadian immigration hearing and in numerous speeches across the country, Massey has told how he and other Marines recklessly, sometimes intentionally, killed dozens of innocent Iraqi civilians. Among his claims: Marines fired...

The Venezuelan government has warned it will confiscate hundreds of private companies that are lying idle if they fail to re-open. President Hugo Chavez said the firms' workers would be given help to set up co-operatives and re-start production for the benefit of the community. He said the move was needed to fight poverty and end Venezuela's dependence on "the perverse model of capitalism". Some business leaders fear it may lead to a wider attack on private property. 'Perfectly productive' Speaking on his weekly television programme, Mr Chavez said the measures were necessary. Either capitalism, which is the road to...

This letter comes to you from someone -- like most of the elected officials in Washington giving you military orders -- who has never served in the armed forces. So you may be tempted to dismiss what I say as not relevant to your very real and scary daily experiences in Iraq. But I speak to you as someone who, like you, loves our country, and who is very worried about both your continued survival and about the effects on you from what you're being asked to do in Iraq. And, just so you'll know where I'm coming from, I'm...

my friend from college dsent me an email with the following : I need your help. A friend of mine from high school has been brain washed by left wing conspiracy theorists. He is basically using that time honored form of Manipulation called flooding to try and convince me That George Bush is responsible for 911. That is he is e-mailing me everyday, more and more asinine crap that there is not enough hours in the day to type down reasonable explanations. Could you take a look at this? I want to go through and disprove each point. If there...

Listening to Lewis & Floorwax (radio personalities out of Denver, CO on 103.5). Boulder High School is having a talent show Friday night. One of the acts is a band that includes 2 teachers, the band name is "The Taliband". They will be performing a song they worte titled "I Wish George Bush was Dead". This was reported by a parent. The band had to audition in front of a group including two other teachers and were selected to perform Friday night.

Visit the PX Hanoi Jane: Yesterday's Fiery Communist RevolutionaryShe's today's very rich capitalist October-December 1996 Issue By Ted Sampley U.S. Veteran Dispatch When Jane Fonda traded in her Ho Chi Minh sandals and Viet Cong pajamas for a pair of tights and a leotard, most Americans quickly forgot how the illustrious star of stage and screen had only a few years earlier been one of communist Vietnam's most loyal and fiery supporters. Fonda's involvement with the Vietnam War began in 1967, after several visits with French Communists and underground revolutionaries in this country convinced her America was the bastard nation...

This should be good, folks. The head of the commie organization A.N.S.W.E.R. will be shredded at the 10:00 AM hour by KABC's Al Rantel. It should be great radio. Al is subbing today for O'Reilly. Tune in --- KABC RADIO - LISTEN LIVE

2nd Amendment "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed." Have you ever heard someone say gun control is a fine idea— except that the Second Amendment prohibits it? It’s a popular sentiment. Fortunately, it’s not true. The Second Amendment was never intended as a gun license for the entire American populace. As originally drafted—and as consistently interpreted by the courts for more than a century—the Amendment does not grant any blanket right to own a gun nor does it...

HOLLYWOOD -- More than 100 entertainers have teamed up to write a letter to President George W. Bush to pre-emptively protest anything the President does now or in the future. The West Wing star Martin Sheen and Mike Farrell (M*A*S*H) were among nearly a dozen performers who got together outside Matt Damon's Malibu condo to draw attention to their new coalition, Artists United Against Anything George W. Bush Does, Now & Forever. According to The Associated Press, Farrell, who most recently starred in the television drama Providence, said Hollywood was speaking out to show average citizens that it's OK to...

<p>Most Minnesotans will have their first opportunity to directly compare Sen. Paul Wellstone with his challenger, former St. Paul Mayor Norm Coleman, when they debate on the KTCA-Channel 2 program "Almanac" at 7 tonight.</p> <p>As recently as Wednesday morning, Wellstone was refusing to participate unless the Independence and Green Party candidates were included, which KTCA was unwilling to do. But Wellstone reversed himself later in the day.</p>