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POPSChinese Government Performs Miracle on He Kexin's Age In its report Nov. 3, Xinhua identified He as one of "10 big new stars" who made a splash at China's Cities Games. It gave her age as 13 and reported that she beat Yang Yilin on the uneven bars at those games. In the final, "this little girl" pulled off a difficult release move on the bars known as the Li Na, named for another Chinese gymnast, Xinhua said in the report, which appeared on one of its Web sites, http://www.hb.xinhuanet.com The Associated Press found the Xinhua report on the site Thursday morning and saved a copy of the page. Later that afternoon, the Web site was still working but the page was no longer accessible. Sports editors at the state-run news agency would not comment for publication. If the age reported by Xinhua was correct, that would have meant He was too young to be on the Chinese team that beat the United States on Wednesday and clinched China's first women's team Olympic gold in gymnastics.
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POPSPelosi and her fellow totalitarians Totalitarianism is total political power by the state, and comprises a society in which the ideology of the state has influence and power over most of its citizens. Totalitarians attempt to mold the private life, the soul, the spirit, and the mores of citizens to a dominant ideology. Pelosi and her like-minded ideologues do this, of course, through every means at hand, including in Pelosi’s case the manipulation of House rules so that such things as a vote on off-shore drilling never see the light of day — or democracy.
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POPSCongressman Alcee Hastings / The Official Office of / Right Wing Score Another low score for Hastings. Gheeez, when is Hastings going to realize and face he's an old washed up Corruptocrat Congressman? DEMOCRAT Hastings is obviously PRO REPUBLICAN, thanks to the control of Hastings' office, and mouth, by REPUBLICAN Art Kennedy. WARNING: The DNC should take note, before it is too late!
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POPSHackers + Authoritarians This explains part of why I think Civil Liberties are important even to those who do not value them for their own sake.
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POPSThe Nazi War on Cancer "Proctor reveals then that the war against Jews and the war on cancer were not that far apart, having grown out of the same Nazi ideology. If that is true, he further posits, what are we to make of so much of the "progressive" health reforms put forth by the Nazis, ideas that echo today's push against smoking and alcohol and toward improved diet, exercise, and "clean living"? He sees as the answer not so much the need to refute the ideas themselves but the opportunity to see Nazism in its full complexity, good and evil together. " And, get this: "It is only by acknowledging and examining this "flip side of fascism," Proctor suggests, that we can really understand the appeal of such totalitarianism. "
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POPSWhy We Need More Heros Like Him mostly critiques of Communist utopianism and dogmatism — even though their production and publication were banned. Czechoslovak officials, eager to be rid of him (one of the country’s leading troublemakers), actually offered to let him move to the West and take a dream job he had been offered with the New York Shakespeare Festival, Havel refused. “The solution to this human situation does not lie in leaving it.” Havel — already under the watchful eye of the Czechoslovak government — became a constant target of its attentions. The secret police interrogated him regularly. He received threatening letters and anonymous telephone calls. His life began to feel as if it was one continuous round of threats, bright lights, padded doors... Finally, Havel was arrested, charged … with committing “serious crimes against the basic principles of the Republic.” He was confined without trial “in total isolation” for four and a half months in Ruzyně prison.
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POPSHow Does Barack Obama's Ideas about Financial Regulation Relate to Healthcare?
Obama is right: if the government is responsible for you, the government must be able to control you. So if you want government to be responsible for you, please accept that government will control you. Now think for a minute. If what he says is true (and I think it is), why wouldn't these principles apply to every other area people so eagerly want government to take responsibility for: healthcare, retirement, housing, jobs. If the "taxpayers" are going to be paying for you, don't the "taxpayers" (read: the government) get to regulate you? Of course they do! Welcome to totalitarianism! What most people don't understand is that nobody thinks totalitarianism is good. Totalitarianism becomes an unfortunate necessity when people cede responsibility for themselves to someone else. It's the perverse result of good but misguided intentions. Responsibility and freedom are two sides of the same coin. If you give up one, you had better be ready to give up the other. It's inevitable.
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POPSAmerica: Freedom to Fascism - video THIS IS A MUST SEE! IT IS NOT PARTISAN. Please understand what happened in 1913 and why it affect us today. This video is almost two hours long. The first half starts out with a skeptical look at the US tax code, an amazing voyage through legal challenges and obstruction. But don't give up. Where it goes is a place where we should ALL unite. AGAINST Corporate Totalitarianism. I have read a lot on this, clipped and commented on it, but this video is remarkable. Made by a hollywood producer.
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POPSBack to Basics - The truth about Statist Totalitarianism "Fascism's message boils down to "Enough talk, more action!" Its lasting appeal is getting things done." "In contrast, conservatism calls for limited government, individualism, democratic debate, and capitalism. Its appeal is liberty and leaving citizens alone." Movement of the Left * Woodrow Wilson's Progressivism featured a "militaristic, fanatically nationalist, imperialist, racist" program, enabled by the exigencies of World War I. * Franklin D. Roosevelt's "fascist New Deal" built on and extended Wilson's government. * Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society established the modern welfare state, "the ultimate fruition" (so far) of this statist tradition. * The youthful New Left revolutionaries of the 1960s brought about "an Americanized updating" of the European Old Right. * Hillary Clinton hopes "to insert the state deep into family life," an essential step of the totalitarian project. She's a "progressive, you know.
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POPSno limit to human stupidity.. on the other hand maybe the Buddhist monks should give up reincarnation all together.. get off the ride of the big wheel.. after all it worked great for the great lotus born one.. :)
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POPSLegal Argument Against Surveillance and Homeland Tyranny The expansion of surveillance camera, which record "free citizens", particularly on public roads and intersections is on the increase while Americans are distracted by frivolous entertainment, sports, and trivial pursuits. It threatens our very liberties and will not go away unless it is directly and forthrightly challenged based upon the supreme law designed to restrain such government encroachments imbedded in the Bill of Rights in the Constitution. I just researched this document and found it a very compelling legal argument, presented by a law professor in an open forum to the Dept. of Homeland Tyranny (aka Security). It is well worth reading, passing on, and making use of in your own city, state, and county governments to defend your freedom from a rising fascist police state that represents Totalitarianism under the plea of "security".
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POPS"Creeping Totalitarianism"- How free are we?
From Article: "Yet we long ago transitioned from making just laws to just making laws, which is why I look forward with a sense of foreboding. Every year our nation enacts more and more laws but hardly ever rescinds any, which means every year we become progressively less free. I call this “creeping totalitarianism.” "Currently it’s fashionable to bemoan the Patriot Act and wax apoplectic about how the sky is falling, as if it’s 1789 and we’re confronted with our very first extra-constitutional measure. Oh, I’m not saying good people shouldn’t debate these matters; no one stresses strict adherence to the Constitution more than I do. But the danger is that when we stare intently at and stand too close to one piece of the puzzle, it appears bigger and seems like the whole world. And if we fail to take a step back and gain perspective, we won’t see that there is a big picture, one formed by countless prohibitionary pieces." The truth is that unconstitutional and excessive la
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POPSI'm afraid I agree with Pat Buchanan We are entering the age of corporate totalitarianism. American companies are now global companies and American sovereignty is secondary to the wishes of the global capitalist. I'm as big a capitalist as anyone, but tyranny can come from any faction. The mainstream of America is being ripped by forces at both ends - Cultural Marxists on one end and corporate totalitarianism on the other.
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POPSLIMBAUGH'S NEWSPEAK!
Understanding Fascism Fascism has come to be a useless term in the past 30 years or so. In many respects, leftists are most responsible for this degradation; it became so common to lob the word at just about anyone conservative or corporatist in the '60s and '70s that its original meaning -- describing a very distinct political style-- became utterly muddled, at least in the public lexicon. A recent example of this was the report at Take Back the Media that Limbaugh had characterized antiwar protesters as "fascists and anti-American." It's clear that liberals are every bit as prone to confusing fascism with totalitarianism as are conservatives. The difference, is that the latter often do so deliberately, as a way of obscuring the fascism that sits at their elbows. It’s important that Americans of all stripes LEFT or RIGHT have a clear view of what fascism is- it is not an extinct political force. READ MORE AT: http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2003_08_03_dneiwert_archive.html
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POPSOn Iraq - domocrats' State of Denial Why is top-down national reconciliation as yet unattainable? Because decades of Saddam Hussein's totalitarianism followed by the brutality of the post-invasion insurgency destroyed much of Iraq's political infrastructure, causing Iraqis to revert to the most basic political attachment -- tribe and locality. Gen. David Petraeus's genius has been to adapt American strategy to capitalize on that development, encouraging the emergence of and allying ourselves with tribal and provincial leaders -- without waiting for cosmic national deliverance from the newly constructed and still dysfunctional constitutional apparatus in Baghdad. Al-Qaeda in Iraq is in disarray, the Sunni insurgency in decline, the Shiite militias quiescent, the capital city reviving. Are we now to reverse course and abandon all this because parliament cannot ratify the reconciliation already occurring on the ground?
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