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Subject: My 4th of July gift to those less fortunate than me.


Author:
Gym Ratt
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Date Posted: 02:33:19 07/04/09 Sat

I'm just back from my annual trip to Spain and Monaco and as I do every year, here are my July 4th picks for you peons. If you bet with me last year you would be $15k ahead.

WNBA
Sky +6 over San Antonio
Take the under 167

Atlanta -4 over Washington
Take the over 144

$500 on each.

Tour de France

$10000 on Alberto Contador to win

$100 on Andy Schleck to win
$100 on Lance to win

Coke Zero 400

$100 Jeff Gordon to win.

Bet the bank. I don't give free advice like this too often.

I hope you weasels followed my advice in the winter and bet the Dodgers to win the World Series.

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Subject: My July 4th wish


Author:
American Freedom Fighter
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Date Posted: 01:34:21 07/03/09 Fri

To have someone cum over and plant a flag pole up my ass and salute it.

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Subject: A very sad day indeed


Author:
Joseph Stalin
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Date Posted: 00:16:13 07/03/09 Fri

Ludmila Zykina, one of Russia's most celebrated singers, has died in Moscow. She was 80.

"Several days ago she had a stroke. Today her heart stopped beating," Russia's First Channel television said in a report.

Ludmila Zykina began her professional career in the late 1940s, performing Russian folk songs.

She was much loved by millions of people in the former Soviet Union and Kremlin leaders alike.

The singer celebrated her 80th birthday last month, and was personally congratulated by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.

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Subject: It's all over now, GOP


Author:
Barry Goldwater
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Date Posted: 12:20:36 07/01/09 Wed

ST. PAUL, Minn. – Al Franken ascended Tuesday from the ranks of former "Saturday Night Live" comedians to an even more exclusive club, outlasting Republican Norm Coleman in an eight-month recount and courtroom saga to win a seat in the U.S. Senate.

Franken's victory gives Democrats control of 60 seats in the Senate — the critical number needed to overcome Republican filibusters. When Franken is seated, which could come as early as next week, his party will have a majority not reached on either side of the aisle in some three decades.

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Subject: I'm kicking some tiny Korean ass. Seriously. Those people are nuts.


Author:
B. Obama
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Date Posted: 01:14:07 07/01/09 Wed

Treasury cracks down on firm linked to North Korea
Treasury slaps sanctions on firm accused of supporting North Korea missile proliferation

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration on Tuesday imposed financial sanctions on a company accused of involvement in North Korea's missile proliferation network.

The Treasury Department moved against Hong Kong Electronics, a company located in Kish Island, Iran. The action means that any bank accounts or other financial assets found in the United States belonging to the company must be frozen. Americans also are prohibited from doing business with the firm.

It's the latest move by the United States to keep pressure on Pyongyang, whose nuclear ambitions have ratcheted up global tensions.

Specifically, Treasury alleged that Hong Kong Electronics "has transferred millions of dollars of proliferation-related funds" to North Korea's Tanchon Commercial Bank and Korea Mining Development Trading Corp. The United States has previously moved to financially isolate those two companies, alleging that they have supported the spread of weapons of mass destruction.

Hong Kong Electronics "has also facilitated the movement of money from Iran to North Korea" on behalf of Korea Mining, an arms dealer and main exporter of goods and equipment related to ballistic missiles and conventional weapons, Treasury said. Tanchon, a commercial bank based in Pyongyang, is the financial arm of Korea Mining, the department said.

"North Korea uses front companies like Hong Kong Electronics and a range of other deceptive practices to obscure the true nature of its financial dealings, making it nearly impossible for responsible banks and governments to distinguish legitimate from illegitimate North Korean transactions," said Stuart Levey, the department's undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence.

Just a few weeks ago, the department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network warned U.S. banks that North Korea might try to skirt financial sanctions by using various "deceptive practices."

The warning was aimed at making sure North Korea doesn't evade U.N. Security Council sanctions intended to prevent the financing of nuclear, ballistic missile and other weapons of mass destruction programs or activities.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates has said ordered the deployment of a ground-based, mobile missile intercept system and radar system to Hawaii amid concerns the North may fire a long-range missile toward the islands, about 4,500 miles away. North Korea launched a second nuclear test on May 25 that heightened

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Subject: Racism continues thanks to the Supreme Court


Author:
Rev. Jesse Jackson
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Date Posted: 23:42:14 06/30/09 Tue

BY JESSE JACKSON
New Haven, Conn., is a city in which African Americans and Hispanics account for nearly 60 percent of the population; yet, by order of the U.S. Supreme Court, the city must be served --"as it was in the days of undisguised discrimination -- by a fire department in which members of racial and ethnic minorities are rarely seen in command positions."

Today's ruling is deeply flawed and should not be the law of the land.

In assessing claims of race discrimination, "context matters." Grutter vs. Bollinger, 539 U. S. 306, 327 (2003). In June 2003, the Supreme Court ruled against affirmative action in higher education admission decisions. In that case, Justice Ginsburg stated what was obvious to civil rights activists: The law ought to be able to distinguish between the use of race to include a historically discriminated against racial or ethnic group and the use of race to exclude. Despite her instruction, we have not learned the lesson.

Context does matter. Six years ago, the U.S. military led the way in support of affirmative action, arguing that the nation was less safe without black and brown officers. For the U.S. military, integration of officer ranks was as important a job qualification as knowing military history or aerospace engineering. We think it matters in other contexts, as well.

What has bedeviled us these last 30 years since Regents of the University of California vs. Bakke is the notion that any pen-and-paper test can reveal everything you need to know in order to assess a candidate's ability to lead. And so we persist with the legal fictions that every qualification can be numerically assessed and that history counts for nothing.

The decision does not address the big questions about affirmative action, namely: How much may white employees be inconvenienced in order to rectify centuries of past discrimination? When, if ever, is it appropriate to use affirmative action to create a diverse workplace?

Affirmative action is justified on the premise that diversity is good for us as a society, not that diversity rectifies centuries of wrongdoing. Our penchant for rugged individualism and laissez-faire survival of the fittest seduces us into believing that every person is entitled to every benefit society has to offer and that no individual should pay a price for the greater good of the society as a whole.

Justice Ginsburg says there was adequate evidence in the record that the New Haven test was flawed and resulted in bias against black and brown firefighters. Had that evidence been credited, the test could have been revised to be fairer. Surely New Haven could have devised a test or selection device, without a similarly undesirable racial effect, that also served the employer's legitimate interest. Undoubtedly, a critical mass of white firefighters would have scored well enough on such a test to be promoted. But the court today decides that no white person need suffer any inconvenience to produce a fairer workplace.

This reasoning depends on a hyperindividualistic interpretation of American rights. Blacks were enslaved as a group. They were segregated as a group. They were held in economic and political subjugation in the South for decades following Reconstruction as a group. But now that we have reached the enlightened 21st century, remedies for these crimes cannot take the group stigma against blacks into account. Justice Sandra Day O'Connor wrote that the 14th Amendment to the Constitution protects individuals and not groups. We disagree.

Perhaps it is time to scrap the entire legal analysis of voluntary efforts to address discrimination. Perhaps we should permit employers and schools to devise plans to foster inclusion that straightforwardly account for past discrimination.

For hundreds of years, white males have enjoyed more than 95 percent of the best jobs, the best housing, the best incomes, the best health care, whether they were best suited or not. When small steps are taken to level the playing field, the court determines that no inconvenience to white applicants is permissible. The firefighters had no "right" to be promoted, merely an opportunity.

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Subject: Another down day for the crapitalists. When will they learn that it's all over?


Author:
Karl
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Date Posted: 23:35:13 06/30/09 Tue

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. consumer confidence took an unexpectedly steep slide in June, figures released on Tuesday showed, suggesting the 18-month-long recession had yet to loosen its grip on the economy.


Billionaire investor George Soros added to the cautionary tone, saying fears of inflation would drive up borrowing costs and choke off growth once financial markets recover.

Major stock market indexes turned lower after the Conference Board's consumer confidence index showed households felt gloomier about their current situation, and less optimistic about the eventual economic recovery.

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Subject: Only one person responsible for the trroops leaving Iraqi cities


Author:
Mark Rudd Brigade
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Date Posted: 21:01:45 06/30/09 Tue

That person is Cindy Sheehan.

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Subject: Here is my website. You might as well get to know more about me


Author:
American Freedom Fighter
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Date Posted: 07:31:51 06/30/09 Tue

http://www.well.com/~cynsa/newbutt.html

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Subject: Our Demands


Author:
Gus Hall
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Date Posted: 23:55:36 06/29/09 Mon

The Communist Party USA (CPUSA) joins with the world in denouncing the coup d’etat this morning against the legally elected president of the Republic of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, by the Honduran military, in which, according to a statement by the president’s wife, Mr. Zelaya was threatened and beaten before being sent into exile in Costa Rica.

• The CPUSA denounces alarming reports of physical attacks by troops against the ambassadors of Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua in Tegucigalpa, and calls for protection of all diplomatic personal; and, if the reports of the attacks are confirmed, punishment of all the responsible parties for this gross violation of Honduran and international law.

The CPUSA further:

• Demands that president Zelaya and other members of his government be returned to power immediately, and that the troops return to their barracks.

• Demands the immediate release of all labor, community and student leaders who have reportedly been rounded up by the army, and the restoration of freedom of the press.

• Recognizes that the Obama administration has repudiated the coup, and insists that President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton hold firm to this position, refusing diplomatic recognition and any military aid to Honduras until President Zelaya is restored to power.

• Calls upon unions and other people’s organizations in the United States to actively support our brothers and sisters in Honduras in resisting this brutal military coup d’etat.

Communist Party USA

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Subject: Another one of Bush's evil Kabal goes to prison.


Author:
George Ryan
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Date Posted: 23:52:18 06/29/09 Mon

Bernard Madoff, the mastermind behind the largest and most sweeping Ponzi scheme ever, sentenced to 150 years in prison

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Subject: Uncle Sam pushing for nuclear disaster


Author:
LEAVE THE DPRK ALONE!!!!!!
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Date Posted: 21:59:19 06/29/09 Mon

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea is acquiring 40 U.S.-made missiles for an Aegis destroyer this month to boost its defences amid reports North Korea may soon test-fire missiles, Yonhap news agency on Sunday quoted a military source as saying.

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Subject: Pelosi undoes all the environmental damage of the Bush kabal


Author:
Ted Turner
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Date Posted: 02:33:56 06/28/09 Sun

WASHINGTON – Hours after the House passed landmark legislation meant to curb greenhouse gas emissions and create an energy-efficient economy, President Barack Obama on Saturday urged senators to show courage and follow suit.

The sharply debated bill's fate is unclear in the Senate, and Obama used his weekly radio and Internet address to ratchet up pressure on the 100-seat chamber.

"My call to every senator, as well as to every American, is this," he said. "We cannot be afraid of the future. And we must not be prisoners of the past. Don't believe the misinformation out there that suggests there is somehow a contradiction between investing in clean energy and economic growth."

Obama said the bill would create jobs, make renewable energy profitable and decrease America's dependence on foreign oil.

"It will spur the development of low-carbon sources of energy — everything from wind, solar and geothermal power to safer nuclear energy and cleaner coal," he said.

House Democratic leaders said the bill helped accomplish one of Obama's campaign promises and would make the U.S. a leader in international efforts to address climate change when negotiations take place in Copenhagen later this year.

"We passed transformational legislation, which will take us into the future," said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., after the 219-212 vote.

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Subject: Back off, Uncle Sam!


Author:
The Pueblo
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Date Posted: 02:01:44 06/27/09 Sat





War veterans salute during a ceremony to mark the 59th anniversary of the...







‘Let’s Smash!’: North Korea Stages Mass Rally to Denounce US



SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - Tens of thousands of North Koreans shouted slogans to denounce international sanctions at a rally in central Pyongyang on Thursday, as the communist country vowed to enlarge its atomic arsenal and warned of a "fire shower of nuclear retaliation" in the event of a U.S. attack.

The rally to mark the anniversary of the 1950 outbreak of the Korean War came a day after President Barack Obama extended U.S. economic sanctions against North Korea for another year, saying the North's possession of "weapons-usable fissile material" and its proliferation risk "continue to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat" to the United States, according to the White House Web site.

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Subject: Jocko, we will miss you!


Author:
The GOP
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Date Posted: 23:08:54 06/26/09 Fri

You were just as perverted as we are.

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Subject: When O when will all the GOP hypocrisy end?


Author:
Sprio T Agnew
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Date Posted: 12:25:14 06/26/09 Fri

Every week a new right wing pol gets caught with his pants down. If they're not cheating on their wives they're in the men's room at some airport trolling for some cabana boy.

At this rate there will be no one left in this Satan inspired party. Who will be left to lead all the right wing wacko lemmings?

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Subject: Hey! Goof Balls


Author:
HogBoy
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Date Posted: 02:01:20 06/26/09 Fri

The FBI was contacted me about my site and some of the posts you loonies have been leaving here. They took down this place and looked at the ISP #'s.

Your ass.

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Subject: I thoght this was a football site


Author:
Red Rover
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Date Posted: 12:31:42 06/24/09 Wed

But as long as I am here I will say the some of you are perverted and that Dems are the scum of the earth.

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Subject: YO! American Freedom Fighter


Author:
Bush '04
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Date Posted: 02:14:14 06/23/09 Tue

What kind of starch do you use on your underwear? I had a hard time trying to pull them off you last night.

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Subject: US plotting war against the DPRK


Author:
George Patton
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Date Posted: 10:45:45 06/22/09 Mon


North Korea has accused US President Barack Obama of plotting a nuclear war on the communist nation by reaffirming a US assurance of security for South Korea, the North's state media said.

In a first official response to last week's US-South Korean summit, the state-run weekly Tongil Sinbo said in its Saturday edition Obama and South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak "are trying to ignite a nuclear war".


"The US-touted provision of 'extended deterrence, including a nuclear umbrella' (for South Korea) is nothing but 'a nuclear war plan,'" Tongil Sinbo said.

It said it wasn't a coincidence that the United States has brought "nuclear equipment into South Korea and its surroundings and staged massive war drills every day to look for a chance to invade North Korea."

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Subject: US plotting war against the DPRK


Author:
George Patton
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Date Posted: 10:45:45 06/22/09 Mon


North Korea has accused US President Barack Obama of plotting a nuclear war on the communist nation by reaffirming a US assurance of security for South Korea, the North's state media said.

In a first official response to last week's US-South Korean summit, the state-run weekly Tongil Sinbo said in its Saturday edition Obama and South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak "are trying to ignite a nuclear war".


"The US-touted provision of 'extended deterrence, including a nuclear umbrella' (for South Korea) is nothing but 'a nuclear war plan,'" Tongil Sinbo said.

It said it wasn't a coincidence that the United States has brought "nuclear equipment into South Korea and its surroundings and staged massive war drills every day to look for a chance to invade North Korea."

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Subject: Senate apologizes for slavery


Author:
Strom Thurmond
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Date Posted: 08:59:40 06/21/09 Sun

The Senate unanimously passed a resolution yesterday apologizing for slavery, making way for a joint congressional resolution and the latest attempt by the federal government to take responsibility for 2 1/2 centuries of slavery.

"You wonder why we didn't do it 100 years ago," Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), lead sponsor of the resolution, said after the unanimous-consent vote. "It is important to have a collective response to a collective injustice."

THIS IS NOT ENOUGH! WE STILL HAVE SLAVERY AND SEGREGATION IN THIS COUNTRY TODAY THANKS TO ALL THE RIGHT WING WACKOS IN THIS COUNTRY. WE NEED TO GIVE REPARATIONS TO BLACKS FOR THE SINS OF THE GOP.

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Subject: Another piece of republican garbage bites the dust


Author:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_stanford_surrenders
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Date Posted: 00:16:39 06/20/09 Sat


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Subject: In Comrade Joe's own words.......................


Author:
The Pueblo
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Date Posted: 12:57:48 06/19/09 Fri

"I'm glad I did, because about 10 years ago, Russia changed from socialism to capitalism. If I was in Russia right now, I would be out of work," he said. "It would be the same if I returned to America. I find it more convenient to live among peaceful people, living a simple life."

He said that while the U.S. military had taught its soldiers that North Koreans were "evil communists," he never believed that depiction. "They are human here," he said. "Of course, there is an ideological difference, but that is the only difference."

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Subject: Here is the TRUTH about the DPRK from an Amerikan GI


Author:
The Pueblo
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Date Posted: 00:13:42 06/19/09 Fri

Watch this video and the truth will set you free!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jj9x4AyQ-is

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Subject: Go to YouTube to see the real DPRK


Author:
George Metesky Brigade
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Date Posted: 23:55:34 06/18/09 Thu

See for yourself this beautiful country and peoples. After watching you will see why the US doesn't want you to know the truth about the DPRK. You will also understand why this worker's paradise is trying to keep its people from being corrupted by the decadence of the West and the evils of crapitalism.

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Subject: Those crazy North Koreans are my kind of guys


Author:
Bernie Madoff
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Date Posted: 23:22:54 06/18/09 Thu

Global Insurance Fraud By North Korea Outlined
Government Has Collected Millions Of Dollars on Large, Suspicious Claims
For Kim Jong Il's birthday, North Korean insurance managers prepared a special gift.

In Singapore, they stuffed $20 million in cash into two heavy-duty bags and sent them, via Beijing, to their leader in Pyongyang, said Kim Kwang Jin, who worked as a manager for Korea National Insurance Corp., a state-owned monopoly.

Kim said he helped arrange the shipment and watched in February 2003 as the cash was packed. After the money arrived, Kim Jong Il sent a letter of thanks to the managers and arranged for some of them to receive gifts that included oranges, apples, DVD players and blankets, Kim said.

"It was a great celebration," he said.

The $20 million birthday present and the gratitude of its recipient, who is known as the Dear Leader, were annual highlights of a sophisticated global insurance fraud that North Korea has concocted to provide its communist leadership with hard currency, said Kim, who spent five years as an executive of the state insurance company in Pyongyang and worked for a year at its banking subsidiary in Singapore before defecting to South Korea.

"This money helps keep Kim Jong Il in power at a time he is engaged in nuclear brinksmanship," said David L. Asher, who supervised a State Department unit that attempted to track various illegal activities by North Korea during the Bush administration. "This is the gift that keeps on giving. It has become one of the North's largest illicit revenue generators."

In interviews and court documents, Western insurers, U.S. officials and defectors such as Kim said the impoverished and isolated North Korean government has collected hundreds of millions of dollars from some of the world's largest insurance companies on large and suspicious claims for transportation accidents, factory fires, flood damage and other alleged disasters. Still, recent attempts by international insurers to overturn North Korea's claims have failed in British courts.

For years, the U.S. government and law enforcement agencies around the world have documented what they describe as state-sponsored criminality in North Korea. They have linked the North to illegal manufacturing and trafficking of drugs ranging from heroin to Viagra, as well as to expert counterfeiting of $100 bills and the production of high-quality counterfeit cigarettes.

Much less has been disclosed about North Korea's international insurance claims, in part because they have been cloaked in legal settlements by firms with no interest in highlighting their losses.

"The exact scale of the fraud is hard to determine . . . because the insurance industry has been so gullible," Asher said. North Korean insurance fraud "was absolutely something I should have been looking into more when I was running the [State Department's] illicit activities initiative," he added.

Some details emerged in London last year when lawyers for German insurance giant Allianz Global Investors, Lloyd's of London and several other reinsurers disputed a North Korean reinsurance claim for the 2005 crash of a helicopter into a government-owned warehouse in Pyongyang. According to court documents, the companies alleged that the helicopter crash had been staged, that a North Korean court's decision to uphold the claim had been rigged and that the North Korean government routinely used insurance fraud to raise money for the personal use of Kim Jong Il.
Several North Korean defectors who are afraid to speak publicly have provided South Korean authorities with accounts of Pyongyang's insurance fraud that are similar to Kim's, said Park Syung-je, a director at the Seoul-based Asia Strategy Institute, which is affiliated with the South Korean Defense Ministry. Park, who has debriefed Kim and other defectors with firsthand information about the insurance operation, said the South Korean government is well aware of the fraud but does not want to speak about it publicly for fear of exacerbating tensions with the North's government.

In addition to the helicopter crash, North Korea filed claims in 2006 for three other disasters: two train crashes and a ferry sinking. Those claims came when the North appeared to be facing a hard currency squeeze. In 2005, assets from North Korean companies linked to counterfeiting were frozen in Banco Delta Asia in Macau, as the U.S. Treasury accused the bank of being a party to money laundering. The claims also followed an article in a North Korean economic journal, Kyongje Yongu, that said "the pursuit of more active external insurance transactions" would help support "the requirements of the military-first era."

A crackdown in recent years by international law enforcement agencies on North Korea's drug and counterfeiting rackets has increased the relative importance of the insurance operation as a way for the government to earn hard currency, said Park, the analyst. He said several North Korean government officials who supervise the state insurance monopoly have received promotions from Kim Jong Il in the past year.

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Subject: Another shameful GOP pol bites the dust.


Author:
It's time to outlaw this political party
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Date Posted: 00:32:08 06/18/09 Thu

Ensign Acknowledges Extramarital Affair
By Chris Cillizza and Paul Kane

UPDATE, 6:55 p.m.: In a press conference moments ago, Ensign admitted the affair but seemed resolved to remain in political life. "Last year I had an affair," said Ensign. "I violated the vows of my marriage." Ensign did not name the woman with whom he had the affair, saying only that "the woman who I was involved with and her husband were close friends of mine." He added that he was "committed to my service in the United States Senate". Ensign took no questions.

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Subject: Bill Clinton named to UN post


Author:
Notice how no one wants Bush for anything?
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Date Posted: 12:20:05 06/16/09 Tue

Washington - The peripatetic Bill Clinton has a new job: United Nations special envoy to Haiti.

On Monday, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon tasked the former US president with steering a $350 million effort to help the island nation recover from last year's knock-out storms. Mr. Clinton helped restore a democratic government to the poor Caribbean country while in office, and his foundation is now heavily involved there.

"No one is better placed for this mission," Mr. Ban said Monday.

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Subject: I wish I could have been there


Author:
Me
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Date Posted: 10:17:52 06/15/09 Mon

Kim Jong Il Enjoys Opera "The Dream of the Red Chamber"





Pyongyang, June 14 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il enjoyed the opera "The Dream of the Red Chamber" at the Hamhung Grand Theatre.

The Phibada Opera Troupe has energetically waged a campaign to recreate the opera "The Dream of the Red Chamber" as required by the new century this year, the "year of DPRK-China friendship," perfecting all elements of representation at a high level and successfully completing its recreation.


After enjoying the opera, Kim Jong Il expressed great satisfaction over the fact that its creators and artistes completed and produced the excellent opera faithfully meeting the requirements of the original work by devoting all their wisdom and enthusiasm and he highly appreciated the successful performance and extended thanks to all the creators and artistes who participated in the recreation of the opera.


The Phibada Opera Troupe, which kicked off the creation of the Sea of Blood-style revolutionary opera, fully demonstrated once again its capability as an able and prestigious art troupe in the course of recreating the opera as befitting an art troupe that protects and carries forward the noble legacy of the five revolutionary operas, he said, adding that this is a clear proof of the validity and vitality of the WPK's Juche-oriented literary and art idea and the great potential of the art creating staff.


It is something to be highly proud of that students of a university or newcomers from it, in particular, have successfully played their main or minor parts of the opera, he noted, stressing that this is a clear indication that the WPK's policy of training art reserves is very just and the tradition of the Juche-oriented art is given steady continuity.


Noting that the achievements made by the Phibada Opera Troupe go to prove that it is possible to bring about an exceptional creative upswing when the innovative view of the 21st century is combined with the mode of creation and work-style displayed in the 1970s, he set forth important tasks which would serve as guidelines for steadily developing the literature and arts in the DPRK.


Among the audience were Secretary of the WPK Central Committee Kim Ki Nam, Department Directors of the WPK Central Committee Kim Kyong Hui, Choe Ik Gyu, Pak Nam Gi and Kim Yang Gon, Secretary of the South Hamgyong Provincial Committee of the WPK Kim Yong Gyu and other leading officials and KPA Generals Hyon Chol Hae and Ri Myong Su and other commanding officers of the Korean People's Army, officials in the fields of literature and arts and media and creators and artistes.

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Subject: MORE PROOF OF WHITE RACISM


Author:
David Duke
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Date Posted: 13:10:36 06/13/09 Sat

According to Operation PUSH, three African-American families have filed a civil rights lawsuit accusing children's restaurant Chuck E. Cheese's and a former Indianapolis store manager, Ken McGill, of mistreating them because they are black.


The lawsuit, which was filed in U.S. District Court in Indianapolis, has alleged Ken McGill, who was a manager at two different stores, refused to serve them, treated them rudely or forced them to leave while allowing white families to stay. The suit, which seeks damages of at least $500,000, claims Irving, Texas-based CEC Entertainment Inc., which runs the chain, failed to investigate McGill's behavior as the families requested.

This is a public relations nightmare that Chuck E. Cheese would rather not have to deal with. If the allegations are true, the company needs to pay for the actions of this manager, who needs some serious diversity training, then an execution.

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