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philo
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Sep 19, 2010 - 10:39pm PT
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Still waiting Fats...
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philo
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Sep 19, 2010 - 11:15pm PT
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If they were for battlefield illumination then why are there so many pictures of them being used in daylight?
Well there is one thing for sure; the IDF is why better at "accidents" than Hamas.
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philo
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Sep 19, 2010 - 11:32pm PT
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ten posts back.
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philo
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Sep 20, 2010 - 10:36am PT
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Fifth picture.
Tenth picture.
Just to cite a few.
I know the truth is difficult for you as it conflicts with your "greed s good' mantra.
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philo
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Sep 20, 2010 - 12:00pm PT
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That's because, like your eyes, your ears are mostly closed.
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philo
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Sep 20, 2010 - 12:22pm PT
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Well then no reason to keep Vanunu in prison is there?
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bookworm
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Falls Church, VA
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Sep 21, 2010 - 04:00pm PT
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Examiner Editorial: Government and journalists cower at threats to cartoonist
Examiner Editorial
September 20, 2010
Last week, the Seattle Weekly announced that Molly Norris, its editorial cartoonist, had "gone ghost." Put another way, she went into hiding. The FBI told her she had to because otherwise it couldn't protect her against death threats from Muslims she'd angered. Earlier this year, Norris started "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day" to protest radical Muslims' violently stifling freedom of speech and conscience. Incredibly, her plight has drawn precious little media attention, even though it is infinitely more newsworthy than, say, a fundamentalist preacher in Florida threatening to burn Qurans.
When The Examiner asked the American Society of News Editors for a statement on the issue, none was forthcoming. This despite the fact that the first sentence of ASNE's Web site describes its mission as supporting "the First Amendment at home and free speech around the world." We got a similar response from the Society of Professional Journalists, despite its dedication "to the perpetuation of the free press as the cornerstone of our nation and liberty."
Freedom of speech and press are in deep trouble when the American government thinks the best it can do to protect a journalist from death threats is to counsel her to go into hiding, and when the elite voices of American journalism can't be bothered to say anything in her defense. But it's actually worse than that. The New York Times' Nicholas Kristof thinks Muslims are owed an apology. "I hereby apologize to Muslims for the wave of bigotry and simple nuttiness that has lately been directed at you," he wrote Sunday. "The venom on the airwaves, equating Muslims with terrorists, should embarrass us more than you."
Instead of telling the rest of us that we're all bigots, shouldn't Kristof and the rest of the journalism profession be outraged by what has happened to Molly Norris? And shouldn't they be angered that her government believes it cannot protect her? Imagine what they would be saying if white-hooded members of the Ku Klux Klan were threatening to kill Norris in Selma, Ala., instead of radical Muslims in Seattle. Would the FBI tell Norris she had to stop being a journalist and go into hiding? And would ASNE and SPJ look the other way as the First Amendment and freedom of the press were symbolically turned to ashes by flaming white crosses?
The reality is that the FBI fought the KKK at every turn, including when it threatened brave Southern newspaper editors who stood up against racism and violence. And from the start, journalists were prominent figures in the civil rights movement, courageously reporting the truth about the crushing stranglehold of segregation on life and liberty across the old South, often at risk of their very lives. It's time the present generation of American journalists found the same brand of courage many of their fathers showed in the 1960s.
Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/Examiner-Editorial-Government-and-journalists-cower-at-threats-to-cartoonist.html#ixzz10CAgTUtA
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philo
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Sep 22, 2010 - 12:44pm PT
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The single biggest impediment to the peace process is radical Zionism and their refusal to halt home demolitions and settlement expansions.
It's funny that Hamas was a creation of Israel insiders and the Mosad.
How do you suppose they like the blow back?
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philo
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Sep 23, 2010 - 09:37pm PT
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Obama's peace effort's have just failed:
Wishful thinking, but you are still full of it.
Do you ever get tired of being wrong?
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healyje
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Portland, Oregon
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Sep 23, 2010 - 10:05pm PT
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The play done from Rachel Corrie's journal, emails, and writings about to open here in PDX, should be good.
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philo
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Sep 23, 2010 - 10:29pm PT
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Healyje, it is a remarkably compelling play.
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philo
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Sep 23, 2010 - 10:34pm PT
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The Fat man would have you believe her death was her fault and not the cold blooded murder by the IDF that it really was.
She was a lovely person.
The parasite who murdered her went home to dinner bragging of a job well done.
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TGT
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So Cal
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Sep 23, 2010 - 11:06pm PT
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Father' of Iranian blogging faces death penalty: watchdog
Sep 23 02:58 PM US/Eastern
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A Canadian-Iranian blogger credited with starting the blogging movement in Iran faces the death penalty over his writings, two watchdog groups said Thursday.
Hossein Derakhshan was arrested after returning to Iran in November 2008 and charged with "collaborating with enemy states, creating propaganda against the Islamic regime, insulting religious sanctity, and creating propaganda for anti-revolutionary groups," said Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE) and PEN Canada.
According to the two organizations, prosecutors are now calling for Derakhshan to face the death penalty after he was convicted by Tehran's revolutionary court earlier this year.
News of the sentencing request started filtering out on social media sites on Monday, and the CJFE and PEN said they confirmed the reports with his family.
"The proposed sentence is a travesty," said CJFE president Arnold Amber, calling on the Canadian government to intervene.
"Action must be taken right away because in Iran there is not necessarily a lengthy period before executions can be carried out. We are very concerned," he added.
Catherine Loubier, spokeswoman for Canada's Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon, told AFP that Ottawa was "preoccupied" by reports Derakhshan may be executed and was seeking verification of the facts.
The Canadian government has also sought consular access to him.
However any further help Canada may provide in this case is "limited," Loubier said, as Tehran does not recognize dual citizenship.
Derakhshan is the third Canadian journalist to be arrested in Iran in recent years. In July 2003, Canadian-Iranian photojournalist Zahra Kazemi died in prison, and Newsweek correspondent Maziar Bahari was briefly detained earlier this year.
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Jaybro
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Wolf City, Wyoming
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Sep 28, 2010 - 10:32pm PT
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You do better with Tacos, Jeff...
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corniss chopper
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san jose, ca
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Sep 30, 2010 - 03:43pm PT
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Radar is suddenly no longer a deterrent to sneak attacks if we can believe
the reports that an Israeli Nano company has developed a special paint that
can be applied to anything (planes, missiles, vehicles, ships) and make
it stealthy from radar detection.
It absorbs the spectrum of radar waves and makes objects invisible to long range detection. 'A total game changer' said one military source.
Armed forces with this technology would have a significant advantage
over those without it.
http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/WTARC/2010/me_israel0672_07_16.asp
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/138613
The cost-benefit ratio is also a major plus: a U.S.-made Stealth plane
costs in the vicinity of $5 billion. “Stealth paint” costs would be in the low $1000's to apply onto an ordinary plane.
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