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  • Eating their own in Venezuela: The Chavez Praying Mantis effect strikes again

    01/04/2005 8:31:12 PM PST · by Kitten Festival · 2 replies · 219+ views
    The Devil's Excrement (Venezuela) ^ | Jan. 5, 2004 | Miguel Octavio
    Minister of Interior and Justice Jesse Chacon: We do not rule out that assassinated Prosecutor was part of an extortion ring. From hero to suspected criminal in less than two months -Minister of Agriculture, Arnoldo Marquez: The British owners of the large estate El Charcote have not been able to demonstrate they own the land. The documents are not guarantee that the land is private property, but that they belong to the Agrarian Institute or the Land Institute. There goes the VP’s promise to the British Government to respect their property. -General Oswaldo Bracho: The Bolivarian Liberation front which backs...
  • N. Korea offers to give up nukes

    11/14/2003 6:31:53 AM PST · by .cnI redruM · 12 replies · 106+ views
    THE WASHINGTON TIMES ^ | 14 Nov 03 | By John Zarocostas
    <p>GENEVA — North Korean diplomats said yesterday the nation was willing to give up its nuclear deterrent, stop testing and exporting missiles and permit annual inspections as part of a grand bargain with its four neighbors and the United States.</p>
  • Reparations: The Attempted Enslavement of the Mind

    01/09/2003 4:58:22 AM PST · by yoe · 19 replies · 541+ views
    Sierra Times.com ^ | 1/9/2003 | J.J. Johnson
    Reparations: The Attempted Enslavement of the Mind By By J.J. Johnson A 10th grader wrote to The Sierra Times: Well, in class before the holiday, we were talking about our standpoint with the reparations. I happen to be against reparations for many reasons, but my teacher is strong for them. So I tell her that I am against the whole reparations movement and she gets pissed. She tells me that being against reparations tells her that I am a person who has no morals and I should transfer her class if I think otherwise. She also said that there is...
  • The Billion Dollar March wasn’t exactly a spectacle fit for a King

    08/20/2002 9:17:04 AM PDT · by seamus · 12 replies · 360+ views
    The Free Lance-Star (Fredericksburg, Va.) ^ | Aug. 18, 2002 | Jim Lakely
    The Billion Dollar March wasn’t exactly a spectacle fit for a King August 19, 2002 12:00 am SINCE MARTIN Luther King’s march on Washington for civil rights in the 1963, fringe activists have slipped in behind him, exploiting the great man’s legacy to lend their goofy ideas an air of legitimacy—and massive press attention—they couldn’t hope to gain on their own. The latest stragglers are the organizers of the Millions for Reparations march, who hit the National Mall yesterday demanding trillions of dollars from the U.S. Treasury be paid to America’s 34 million blacks to compensate for “the African labor...