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The Financial Times desperate to exonerate (Oct 13) Hamas bombings its 70 citizens while trying to leave, brings in infamous Israelophobe Cobb-Smith as supposed "evidence." It intentionally avoids elaborating inhumane Gaza-regime Hamas' calls and actions to prevent Gazans to leave the north. Not to mention previous "accidents" by Hamas and Islamic Jihad shooting rockets that killed Gazans. _ The following is from media watchdog Camera, in 2022: CNN’s Farce Of An “Investigation ” By: David Litman, May 26, 2022 .. Far from being an impartial expert, Cobb-Smith is an “advisor” for the notoriously partisan rganization Forensic Architecture. This organization has...

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You can't put a price tag on surviving a deadly attack overseas, but one Fort Hood soldier knows the cost of the helmet that saved his life all too well. "I had a couple shrapnels in my side plates and in my helmet," Army Sergeant Michael Williams said about the gear that protected him on June 13, 2011. Now, more than two years after the day he was wounded by an improvised explosive device in Iraq, he got a "bill" for his shrapnel-pierced helmet. "I automatically assumed that, you know, that's the gear that I got blown up in, that...

As west sinks, eastern economies soar A few years ago, it would have been difficult, if not impossible, to imagine European leaders, begging bowl in hand, turning to China for a financial bail-out. Equally, few would have predicted that Chinese leaders visiting Washington would publicly berate US policymakers about their mismanagement of the worldÂ’s biggest economy. But the world has changed. The implosion in 2008 of the financial system in the US and Europe and last yearÂ’s European sovereign debt crisis have accelerated the shift of economic momentum to Asia. In 2012, the US and Europe are likely to be...

(VIDEO) Nation of Islam Leader:AMERICAN SOLDIERS ARE TERRORISTS NOT the MUSLIM FT HOOD SHOOTER

On November 5, 2009, Maj. Nidal Hasan opened fire at a troop readiness center in Ft. Hood, Texas, killing 13 people. Within hours of the killings, the world knew that Hasan reportedly shouted "Allahu Akbar!" before he began shooting, visited websites associated with Islamist violence, wrote Internet postings justifying Muslim suicide bombings, considered U.S. forces his enemy, opposed American involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan as wars on Islam, and told a neighbor shortly before the shootings that he was going "to do good work for God." There was ample evidence, in other words, that the Ft. Hood attack was an...

Fort Hood Texas Shootings Free Republic Archives This thread is for everyone, be sure to bookmark it. If you create a new thread, feel free to post a link to it here as well. Our prayers Continue...... *Update:13 Soldiers Killed 31 Wounded Fort Hood Shooting [Muslim terrorist Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan] *MAJ. GEN. ROBERT SCALES (RET.) "This was a deliberate act of execution." (FOX NEWS) *Barack Obama Gives "Shout-Out" Before He Comments on Shooting -- FOX News (here's the video) *Transcript: President Obama delivers remarks on Ft. Hood shooting (after shoutout) *NBC CHICAGO: Obama's Frightening Insensitivity Following Shooting *Obama...

If the White House is trying to figure how it lost control of the debate over healthcare in August, it could take a look at Glenn Beck’s television and radio ratings. The conservative talk radio host, who also has an hourly slot on Fox News every day, has seen his viewer numbers soar even as opponents have pressed companies to withdraw advertising from the show.

Lunch with the FT: Larry Summers By Chrystia Freeland July 10 2009 Larry Summers, director of the US president’s National Economic Council, usually eats at his White House desk or sitting around a nearby table with other members of the economic team. But today, for Lunch with the FT, Summers’ aides have persuaded him to walk down the stairs to the Ward Room, a windowless alcove near the White House mess. The dark-wood panelling and nautically themed paintings are meant to evoke a naval officer’s dining room but these grace notes are muted by the plastic cutlery, paper plates and...

US presidential elections involve a fabulous expense of time, effort and money. Doubtless it is all too much – but, by the end, nobody can complain that the candidates have been too little scrutinised. We have learnt a lot about Barack Obama and John McCain during this campaign. In our view, it is enough to be confident that Mr Obama is the right choice. ... Mr Obama is most disappointing on trade. He pandered to protectionists during the primaries, and has not rowed back. He may be sincere, which is troubling. Should he win the election, a Democratic Congress will...

Look up the word “fair” in Webster’s dictionary and you’ll find this definition: “Free from favoritism or self-interest or bias or deception.” Ironically, the so-called “fair tax” proposal that has been getting some attention lately is fraught with favoritism, self-interest, bias and deception. The phrase “fair tax” is a new way to refer to the old proposal to create a national retail sales tax. Such a tax would replace essentially all federal income and payroll taxes with a national sales tax levied on all purchases. So instead of having Social Security and Medicare taxes taken out paychecks and filing those...

Abortion has long been a make-or-break political issue for American voters at either end of the ideological spectrum - but those in the middle seldom cast their vote by their reproductive politics. Now all that may be about to change. The US Supreme Court's historic abortion ruling last week - banning one rare abortion procedure and inviting many more new laws to restrict reproductive freedom - has energised not just the fanatics on both sides, but the complacent middle too. Up until last week, most middle-of-the-road voters assumed the constitutional right to abortion was basically safe: it might be trimmed...

'Financial Times' Names Most Influential Journalists, With Some Surprises By Mark Fitzgerald Published: May 20, 2006 9:00 PM ET CHICAGO In its weekend edition Saturday, the Financial Times named New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman the nation's "most influential" commentator -- but the nation isn't the United States. In the U.S., the FT declared, Friedman is "runner-up" to the most influential commentator, the Washington Post's syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer. Friedman is the most influential commentator, the FT said, in India. New Delhi correspondent Jo Johnson said only three Indian English-language commentators can "come close" to claiming genuine national influence. "Strangely,...

MILFORD, Kan. - Geary County Sheriff Jim Jensen is again concerned after a deputy discovered a pair of smoke-grenade launchers in the same area near Milford Lake where five military machine guns turned up two weeks ago. ... "These weapons may appear unserviceable, but if a proper gunsmith gets a hold of them or if somebody else wants to they could probably put them back to working condition," Jensen said.