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I've lived on two continents and have seen many places all over the world, including almost all of the states of the US. I've lived in a dictatorship as well as in free countries, and discovered how fragile freedom is. "The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. Each is the proper guardian of his own health, whether bodily, or mental or spiritual. Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest." John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859
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Run Through The Jungle CCR
Men – Run Through The Jungle. With Vietnam war footage. One of my friends in country came out to visit me. He brought out some pictures and we reminissed about our friends of the past. This is in remembrance.
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Voted for on February 24, 2008 02:43am
This story has mostly positive ratings. 55 votes / No sinks
NQ:The Week in Photos 02/22
News – A photo, as the saying goes, is worth a thousand words. And the right photo--the revelatory image--can be worth a great deal more. In that spirit, we've put together ten pictures that capture the turbulent events of the past week.
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(newsquake.netscape.com)
Voted for on February 24, 2008 02:36am
This story has mostly positive ratings. 115 votes / 10 sinks
On the Iraq War; Silence is Betrayal
Politics – An editiorial on the Iraq War featuring videos of Eli Wiesel and Rev. Martin Luther King. There are only two remedies for a nation that cowers in the shadows of corporate totalitarianism; resignation or protest. Has the power of ruthless corporatism broken the American spririt?
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Voted for on January 03, 2008 12:06am
This story has mostly positive ratings. 35 votes / No sinks
'Surreal' Giuliani holiday ad has to be spoof
Politics – Speaking in jovial tones, he confides to the viewer, "I'll be working to get everyone the same gift: a safer America, lower taxes, secure borders, job growth, fiscal discipline, strict constructionist judges -- and probably a fruitcake or something."
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Voted for on December 19, 2007 02:42pm
This story has mostly positive ratings. 33 votes / 1 sink
Hard-liners for Jesus
Politics – As Christians across the world prepare to celebrate the birth of Jesus, it's a fitting moment to contemplate the mountain of moral, and mortal, hypocrisy that is our Christianized Republican Party.
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Voted for on December 19, 2007 02:33pm
This story has mostly positive ratings. 39 votes / 1 sink
Firefighters Who Lost Sons In 9/11 To Campaign Against Giuliani
Politics – In an effort reminiscent of the bitter "Swift Boat" campaign during the 2004 presidential race, a group of New York firefighters who lost sons in the Sept. 11 World Trade Center attacks is organizing a political committee to take on former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani in Republican primary states.
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Voted for on December 19, 2007 02:32pm
This story has mostly positive ratings. 34 votes / No sinks
Italians Block Construction of U.S. Base
Politics – When I asked Cinzia what she would do if they chose to build the base in Romania, she replied "We'll go train the Romanians." But as long as the struggle against the base continues in Vicenza, victories will continue to pile up in the form of a growing Italian and European peace movement, and possibly in changes in Italy's government.
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(afterdowningstreet.org)
Voted for on December 19, 2007 02:28pm
This story has mostly positive ratings. 46 votes / 2 sinks
No Vice President is Above the Law
Politics – It's surprising that it took this long for members of Congress to invoke impeachment, and that they do so against enormous political resistance and cynical indifference from the media.
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Voted for on December 19, 2007 02:27pm
This story has mostly positive ratings. 35 votes / 1 sink
Did Bush Get New Iran Intel Last Winter?
Politics – George W. Bush was told that the intelligence assessment on a covert Iranian nuclear program changed last August, but they have avoided answering the question of when the president was first informed. That evasion is necessary, it now appears, to conceal the fact that Bush likely knew about that intelligence as early as February or March 2007.
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Voted for on December 19, 2007 02:14pm
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This story has mostly positive ratings. 34 votes / 1 sink
Are Huckabee Supporters Illegally Robocalling the New Hampshire Do Not Call List?
Politics – Supporters of Mike Huckabee appear to be calling the New Hampshire Do-Not-Call list with prerecorded robocalls, an offense that carries a fine of up to $5,000 per call.
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(huffingtonpost.com)
Voted for on December 19, 2007 02:02pm
This story has mostly positive ratings. 43 votes / 3 sinks
The more people see of Giuliani, the less they like him
Politics – Republicans got a good look at the guy, heard what he had to say, learned about Giuliani's background, and dropped him like a hot potato. His campaign pulled out of the Ames straw poll, and Giuliani's support in the state has been in free-fall ever since.
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(crooksandliars.com)
Voted for on December 19, 2007 02:01pm
This story has mostly positive ratings. 39 votes / 2 sinks
Retired FBI agent: Waterboarding produced 'crap' information from detainee
Politics – Contradicting the assertions of President Bush and waterboarding advocates at the CIA, federal investigators say a suspected al Qaeda operative who was subjected to the simulated drowning technique produced increasingly unreliable information after his interrogators began treating him harshly.
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Voted for on December 19, 2007 02:01pm
This story has mostly positive ratings. 43 votes / No sinks
U.S. joins rebuke of Israel
Politics – Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice joined her counterparts in the international "Quartet for Middle East peace" yesterday in a rare formal rebuke of Israel for its plans to expand Jewish settlements in the West Bank.
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(washingtontimes.com)
Voted for on December 19, 2007 01:58pm
This story has mostly positive ratings. 49 votes / No sinks
Judge orders hearing on CIA videos
Politics – The administration must answer questions about the destruction of CIA interrogation videos of two al-Qaida suspects, a federal judge said Tuesday, rejecting the government's efforts to keep the courts out of the investigation.
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(news.yahoo.com)
Voted for on December 19, 2007 01:52pm
This story has mostly positive ratings. 65 votes / 1 sink
KENNEDY ON CIA INTERROGATION TAPES | Press Release
Politics – The nation learned the CIA had destroyed videotapes of its employees in the act of using torture or other harsh interrogation techniques on detainees. Those tapes were not shown to Congress. They were not shown to any court. They were not shown to the bipartisan 9-11 Commission. Instead, they were destroyed.
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(kennedy.senate.gov)
Voted for on December 19, 2007 01:51pm
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