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On the other hand
Joined: 19 Apr 2003 Location: I walk along the avenue
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Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 3:09 am Post subject: |
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this is just a test to see if my signature comes up - i hope i dont offend anyone's religious sensitivities with it
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From what I can tell, your signature comes up on the post dated August 16 2006 3:02 PM(which I quoted above), but not on the ones made before that. |
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igotthisguitar

Joined: 08 Apr 2003 Location: South Korea (Permanent Vacation)
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Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 6:26 am Post subject: |
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this is just a test to see if my signature comes up -
i hope i dont offend anyone's religious sensitivities with it |
Ummmmmmm ... why would it?
If you were trying to make a joke, i guess it was kinda funny  |
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On the other hand
Joined: 19 Apr 2003 Location: I walk along the avenue
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Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 8:30 am Post subject: |
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This is from Andrew Sullivan's blog, dated August 16. I was unable to get the link to Murray's website to work, so quoted Sullivan quoting Murray instead. Murray's comments are in red.
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Then we have the following comment from Craig Murray. Craig Murray was Tony Blair's ambassador to Uzbekistan whose internal memo complaining about evidence procured by out-sourced torture created a flap a while back. He is skeptical. Money quote:
None of the alleged terrorists had made a bomb. None had bought a plane ticket. Many did not even have passports, which given the efficiency of the UK Passport Agency would mean they couldn't be a plane bomber for quite some time.
In the absence of bombs and airline tickets, and in many cases passports, it could be pretty difficult to convince a jury beyond reasonable doubt that individuals intended to go through with suicide bombings, whatever rash stuff they may have bragged in internet chat rooms.
What is more, many of those arrested had been under surveillance for over a year - like thousands of other British Muslims. And not just Muslims. Like me. Nothing from that surveillance had indicated the need for early arrests.
Then an interrogation in Pakistan revealed the details of this amazing plot to blow up multiple planes - which, rather extraordinarily, had not turned up in a year of surveillance. Of course, the interrogators of the Pakistani dictator have their ways of making people sing like canaries. As I witnessed in Uzbekistan, you can get the most extraordinary information this way. Trouble is it always tends to give the interrogators all they might want, and more, in a desperate effort to stop or avert torture. What it doesn't give is the truth ...
We then have the extraordinary question of Bush and Blair discussing the possible arrests over the weekend. Why?
I'd be interested in the number of plotters who had passports. How could they even stage a dummy-run with no passports? And what bomb-making materials did they actually have? These seem like legitimate questions to me; the British authorities have produced no evidence so far. If the only evidence they have was from torturing someone in Pakistan, then they have nothing that can stand up in anything like a court. I wonder if this story is going to get more interesting. I wonder if Lieberman's defeat, the resilience of Hezbollah in Lebanon, and the emergence of a Hezbollah-style government in Iraq had any bearing on the decision by Bush and Blair to pre-empt the British police and order this alleged plot disabled. I wish I didn't find these questions popping into my head. But the alternative is to trust the Bush administration.
Been there. Done that. Learned my lesson.
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On the other hand
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Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 8:31 am Post subject: |
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Finally got the Murray link to work.
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Link removed. I'd caution people about linking to Murray's website. It seems to do wacky things to my cursor when I try. Nothing damaging, just kinda weird. |
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supernick
Joined: 24 Jan 2003 Location: Seoul
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Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 5:52 pm Post subject: |
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Good post there OTOH.
We will see how this all unfolds over the next few weeks, and I'm sure that what is uncovered was not really a serious threat.
Soon after, the airlines will be filing complaints and will seek compensation for their loses.
Would there be any crimminal convictions? I doubt it. What will probably happen is create more fear to justify the UK's and the U.S.'s war campaign and will also help to create more distain in the mouths of Britain's Islamic youths. We will also see more acts of violence in the UK between Muslims and non-Muslims.
Let's also remember what intelligence the U.S. and the UK had on Iraq, some came out of torture, but much came from a free ride. As long as they kept saying what the agencies wanted to hear, the chegues kept coming in. |
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Joo Rip Gwa Rhhee

Joined: 25 May 2003
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Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 11:16 pm Post subject: |
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It has been noted that al Qaeda leaders have put out a record number of personal recordings so far this year -- many of them threatening strikes against the United States and the United Kingdom. One particularly interesting video, featuring al-Zawahiri, was released July 27.
In the backdrop hang three large photos: one of Mohammed Atef (al Qaeda's senior military chief, who was killed in Afghanistan in late 2001) on the left, one of Sept. 11 operational commander Mohammed Atta on the right and a photo of the burning World Trade Center towers directly behind al-Zawahiri.
In the video, al-Zawahiri discusses a lecture Atef gave in 2000 to al Qaeda trainees about Palestine. According to his recounting, Atta -- who was among the trainees -- asked, "What is the way to defeat the attack on Palestine?" Al-Zawahiri supplied his own answer in the video: He said Americans know the rest of the story, and that the nation that produced the 19 "who shook America" is "capable of producing double that number."
Now, it could be a coincidence that a large plot involving aircraft -- just over twice as many as were hijacked on Sept. 11 -- was thwarted only two weeks after this video was released. But we are not big believers in coincidence. To our minds, the July 27 tape was a clear message, meant to be viewed in retrospect, that al Qaeda was behind the new planes operation. It also stands as a possible example of al Qaeda's adherence to the oft-repeated principle that "he who warns is excused." |
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ddeubel

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Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 6:09 am Post subject: |
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Westerners teaching English skills for a fair wage in a healthy economy is not the same as a million plus Muslims on welfare, causing rape epidemics, blackmailing locals with bomb threats and speaking openly about conquest are not the same.
It is genuinely slimey for brown people to perform dastardly acts and then hide behind accusations of racism when caught red handed. It is a valid reason to not want them around. |
Please take your "slimey" comments elsewhere. We all know what colour you , yourself are.........or must I remind you ---- it is a blend of hate and stupidity which makes a rather murky nothingness...
Sorry but your halfbrained, racist comments don't entail any kind of intelligent response...
DD |
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igotthisguitar

Joined: 08 Apr 2003 Location: South Korea (Permanent Vacation)
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Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 9:26 pm Post subject: |
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Westerners teaching English skills for a fair wage in a healthy economy is not the same as a million plus Muslims on welfare, causing rape epidemics, blackmailing locals with bomb threats and speaking openly about conquest are not the same.
It is genuinely slimey for brown people to perform dastardly acts and then hide behind accusations of racism when caught red handed.
It is a valid reason to not want them around. |
Please take your "slimey" comments elsewhere. We all know what colour you , yourself are.........or must I remind you ---- it is a blend of hate and stupidity which makes a rather murky nothingness...
Sorry but your halfbrained, racist comments don't entail any kind of intelligent response...
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I mostly agree DD. The language was poorly crafted & clearly waaaaaaaay over the top.
He does have a point mind you re: people who almost on cue, predictably PLAY & seek to exploit a trumped up "RACIST" card. |
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dulouz
Joined: 04 Feb 2003 Location: Uranus
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Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2006 7:45 am Post subject: |
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No Sorry, I have nothing to apologize for. You want to have a good discussion, you'll have it with me. No, I don't drool at Pavlovian cues the way you have come to expect people to.
All of the outrageous claims I made are well substantiated and are therefore not outrageous at all. You just can't stand to look at them due to your elitist mentality. You are really spoiled aren't you?
This is a racist statment - Brown people are not really human because they are actually subhuman.
This is not a racist statement.
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Alarmed at last week's police statistics, which revealed that in 68% of all rapes committed this year the perpetrator was from an ethnic minority, leading Muslim organisations have now formed an alliance to fight the ever-growing problem of young second and third-generation immigrants involved in rape cases against young Danish girls.
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What kind of accomplishment is that?
http://fjordman.blogspot.com/2005/02/muslim-rape-epidemic-in-sweden-and.html
Terrorist news is now so common its passe. How about a headline like
"Government tells Muslims to cool Bio-Tech manufactoring and research due to inflationary concerns". You won't see that headline for a long time.
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Germany bombs 'mass murder' bid
Police are still trying to work out why the devices did not explode
German police have ruled out blackmail as the reason why two bombs were left on trains on 31 July - and now believe it was a failed terror attack.
The bombs were in identical black cases on trains in Dortmund and Koblenz.
They had been timed to explode 10 minutes before the trains arrived, said federal crime chief Joerg Ziercke.
"We are now working on the basis that this was the work of a terrorist group... and was an attempt to kill a large number of people," he said.
Police want to trace two men seen on CCTV wheeling cases at Cologne station.
Initial suggestions that the bombs may have been an attempt to blackmail a train company had been ruled out, Mr Ziercke said.
He said police were working on the theory that the group responsible were based in Germany.
The Arabic note found with one of the bombs lists grocery items
The devices consisted of gas canisters, alarm clocks, wires, batteries and a flammable liquid in soft drink bottles.
A handwritten note in Arabic, listing groceries, a telephone number in Lebanon and packets of starch labelled in Arabic and English, were also found.
Mr Ziercke said up to 100 investigators were trying to work out why the devices failed to detonate. "We still have many unanswered questions," he said.
He appealed to the public for help in tracking down the people who planted the device.
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ddeubel

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Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2006 11:23 am Post subject: |
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Dulouz,
Crimes are commited by PEOPLE not colours thereof.........or religions thereof , nor bearded types thereof......
This is the civilized way of viewing things and not perpetuating stereotypes. You are stuck in the 1950s beebop, catch a black guy make him hop era............
Further, please note that statistics are controlled and manipulated by those in power. Power always has an agenda. We should be sceptical and demand they don't use statistics, gather statistics in this regard. This is not being PC but protecting the rights of all citizens in whatever nation. Blacks when they quote these statistics are wrong, whites same thing....
You are wrong and show your own "true colours"....
DD |
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dulouz
Joined: 04 Feb 2003 Location: Uranus
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Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2006 7:06 pm Post subject: |
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Race matters are far more complicated than anyone believes. If you want to have a good relationship, you need to have all of the wormies exposed. The denial and censorship doesn't work anymore. A process of quality improve is the key.
I have lots on my mind, perhaps too much. I have a "stuggle" if you will.
I'll examine racist stereotyping for now. I went throught he crime stats. It seems White folks are the target of violent crime including rape at a discomfortable degree. I won't post any reference, I'll let you look them up. They will all confim my arguments.
- The issue of White people not wanting Black people around.
Due to "skin color"? Not valid.
Due to violent crime statistics? - approaching valid and in some instances valid.
Are all Black men rapists? No, but if 99.999% of them were, it would be OK according to this argument.
Are the majority of Black men rapists? No, but if 49.999% of them were it would be OK according to this argument.
I tried to define rules about stereotyping. Its OK to stereotype after 50% because you are more likely to right than wrong about assumptions.
But these crime stats don't approach 50%. That leaves us down to an "allowable amount" of racially disproportionate violent crime. Now I question why the concept of "allowable amount" exists. There is something wrong with this concept and it's a raw deal for
anyone. Yet, this is my reality.
My inflammatory comments made in the earlier posts were directed at Mexicans who are embroiled in the illegal alien crisis in the US. Ellos son malo hombres.
My 50% rule applies. Confronting the aliens about the usual stuff involved in civil invasion are routinely met with "KKK" comments. Thats sleazy behavior. Very sleazy and its very common. People do not have infinite patience. |
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igotthisguitar

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Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2006 8:28 pm Post subject: |
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This almost deserves a thread of its own
Anyone surprised?
Bomb Plot �Key Player� a CIA-ISI Asset
Kurt Nimmo | August 18 2006
Leave it up to the corporate media to ignore the obvious and continue to push the original Brothers Grimm fairy tale about liquid bombers taking out jetliners because they hate our freedoms.
For instance, the chief patsy in the supposed terror plot�a plot sans any compelling evidence, or for that matter any evidence, period�Rashid Rauf, �is a close relative of Jaish-e-Mohammed leader Masood Azhar,� according to NDTV.
Not mentioned here is the fact Jaish-e-Mohammed is a creature of Pakistan�s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), that is to say the CIA. �During the Soviet-Afghan war of the 1980s saw the enhancement of the covert action capabilities of the ISI by the CIA,� notes the decidedly less than conspiratorial Wikipedia. �A number of officers from the ISI�s Covert Action Division received training in the US and many covert action experts of the CIA were attached to the ISI to guide it in its operations against the Soviet troops by using the Afghan Mujahideen, Islamic fundamentalists of Pakistan and Arab volunteers.�
�While collaborating in the British investigation, Pakistan�s Military Intelligence is known to have actively supported and financed the Kasmir rebel groups, which allegedly had contacts with the London bombers,� Michel Chossudovsky explained in the wake of the July 7, 2005, London bombings. �The ISI was instrumental in the creation of the militant Jammu and Kashmir Hizbul Mujahideen (JKHM) in the late 1980s. (See K. Subrahmanyam, �Pakistan is Pursuing Asian Goals�, India Abroad, 3 November 1995).
It has also supported the other two main Pakistan-based Kashmir rebel groups, Lashkar-e-Taiba, (Army of the Pure) and Jaish-e-Muhammad (Army of Mohammed), which claimed responsibility for the attacks on the Indian parliament in October 2001�. Moreover, according to intelligence sources and the FBI, the ISI also provided support to the alleged 9/11 hijackers.�
Naturally, in order to portray Rauf in an even more sinister light, we are told he �deserted� the ISI Kashmir operation �and joined Al Qaeda,� according to Hafiz Allah Bukhsh, the father of Jaish-e-Mohammed leader Masood Azhar. In effect, this may be viewed as a lateral promotion, as al-Qaeda is an ISI-CIA collaborative project as well, even though Jaish-e-Mohammed and al-Qaeda are portrayed as "rivals".
In an effort to insert distance between Pakistan�s thug leader Pervez Musharraf�installed after the ISI decided the former thug-in-residence, Brig Imtiaz, had to go�and the ISI created and nurtured militant groups in Kashmir, the corporate media reported Musharraf �banned several militant groups, including Jaish, in 2002? and as a result some �groups splintered and transformed after the ban and some members left to join Al Qaeda, experts say,� reports the International Herald Tribune.
�Pakistani intelligence officials say Rauf was arrested in Bahawalpur on Aug. 9, just hours before British police detained 24 people suspected of being part of a plot to blow up passenger planes bound for the United States,� the IHT explains. �Because of the Bahawalpur connection, suspicions in the airline bomb plot inevitably fell on Jaish and affiliated militant organizations like Jamaat-ul-Furqa, although Pakistani officials were quick to identify Rauf as a member of Al Qaeda.�
In short, Pakistan is attempting to divert attention from its pet project in Kashmir, aimed at India�s occupation of the Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh region. As well, shifting attention away from Jaish-e-Mohammed to al-Qaeda takes heat off the cozy relationship between the ISI and the CIA, not that the corporate media can be expected to highlight such well-established connections.
Once again, it is transparently obvious the latest supposed terrorist threat was concocted by the usual suspects, the intelligence apparatus in the United States and Britain, expressly devised to ram through yet more draconian legislation�to wit, a further undermining of the Bill of Rights, as Chertoff recently suggested (increased surveillance and longer detention of citizens without formal charge), a cynical ploy to rob Americans of their birthright, as the fascist elite has decided they can no longer tolerate constitutional law, a tradition stretching back to Magna Carta. |
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happeningthang

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Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 7:34 am Post subject: |
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Race matters are far more complicated than anyone believes. If you want to have a good relationship, you need to have all of the wormies exposed. The denial and censorship doesn't work anymore. A process of quality improve is the key.
I have lots on my mind, perhaps too much. I have a "stuggle" if you will.
I'll examine racist stereotyping for now. I went throught he crime stats. It seems White folks are the target of violent crime including rape at a discomfortable degree. I won't post any reference, I'll let you look them up. They will all confim my arguments.
- The issue of White people not wanting Black people around.
Due to "skin color"? Not valid.
Due to violent crime statistics? - approaching valid and in some instances valid.
Are all Black men rapists? No, but if 99.999% of them were, it would be OK according to this argument.
Are the majority of Black men rapists? No, but if 49.999% of them were it would be OK according to this argument.
I tried to define rules about stereotyping. Its OK to stereotype after 50% because you are more likely to right than wrong about assumptions.
But these crime stats don't approach 50%. That leaves us down to an "allowable amount" of racially disproportionate violent crime. Now I question why the concept of "allowable amount" exists. There is something wrong with this concept and it's a raw deal for
anyone. Yet, this is my reality.
My inflammatory comments made in the earlier posts were directed at Mexicans who are embroiled in the illegal alien crisis in the US. Ellos son malo hombres.
My 50% rule applies. Confronting the aliens about the usual stuff involved in civil invasion are routinely met with "KKK" comments. Thats sleazy behavior. Very sleazy and its very common. People do not have infinite patience. |
Wow!! I guess you do have a lot on your mind... that explanation came out a bit muddled didn't it? You're talking about ...what?? Muslim rapists, black guys and Mexican illegal aliens?? Yeh, I think we do need some "quality improve" here...
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| I'll examine racist stereotyping for now. I went throught he crime stats. It seems White folks are the target of violent crime including rape at a discomfortable degree. I won't post any reference, I'll let you look them up. They will all confim my arguments. |
What statistics are you talking about? What argument for that matter?
So you're saying whiteys are targeted by violent criminals, rapists? I tried to look the stats up so your argument could be confirmed. I was looking for Danish and Swedish statistics re: the blog you linked to. I couldn't find them. Could you please post them?
Your issue of white people not wanting black people around, was a bit confusing, but if I understand your post, you're saying you can make generalisations, or stereotypes if there's a 50% chance of being correct? But becase most statistics of this sort don't approach anywhere near 50% then the violent crime comitted is now deemed an...
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allowable amount" of racially disproportionate violent crime. |
1) The reference to back up your argument isn't valid, because you haven't presented one.
2) You haven't presented any evidence or even a theory to say that violent crime is "racially disproportionate". Disproportionate to who? In what way?
3) WTF are you talking about? You're a rambling, mumbling, bumbling mess.
So you've hobbled together a theory that makes it OK for you to say 'white people don't want brown people around'. At least you're consistently using all kinds of brown people, with Muslims, Blacks and Mexicans, in your examples.
The only redeeming point you make is that you don't like people making irrelevant accusations to muddy the issue when they've done something wrong. |
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