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berni_mccoy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-13-06 05:15 PM
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Non-Aligned Movement Seeks to Declare U.S. a Terrorist State
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/WarOnTerrorism/2006/09/12/1830560-ap.html

HAVANA (AP) - Iran, Syria, North Korea and more than 100 other countries are pushing to broaden the world's definition of "terrorism" to include the U.S. occupation of Iraq and the Israeli invasion of Lebanon.

Converging on Cuba for a summit this week, members of the Non-aligned Movement complain of a double standard: powerful countries like the United States decide for the world who the terrorists are but face no punishment for their own acts of aggression.

A draft of the group's joint declaration condemns "terrorism in all its forms," especially violence that targets civilians.


They meet this week. One member country is Iraq. For more info on the NAM, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-Aligned_Movement
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Fridays Child Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-13-06 05:16 PM
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1. k/r
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bobbolink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-13-06 05:18 PM
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2. THIS is what I've been waiting for! Speak up, world!!
Edited on Wed Sep-13-06 05:19 PM by bobbolink
Goddess, I hope every country signs on to this!! :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

where's that crossed fingers emoticon....
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AlamoDemoc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-13-06 05:20 PM
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3. K&R n/t
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rubberducky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-13-06 05:20 PM
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4. Sounds like they are forming a coalition.
k&r
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-14-06 10:09 AM
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19. Forming a coalition?
We've been a coalition since 1961 and the group was most powerful following the Vietnam war.
http://www.nam.gov.za/background/background.htm
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angstlessk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-13-06 05:23 PM
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5. Based on what the RNC wants to do...it is not JUST this admin..but the
entire Republican party who are terrorists. RNC wants to kill Democrats...THAT IS TERRORISM!
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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-13-06 05:31 PM
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6. our Justice Dept used the word terrorism willy nilly--guess this bound
to backfire on them sooner or later.
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sweetheart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-13-06 05:32 PM
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7. wonder if any M$M will ever report it
Those 100 nations should condemn racism and celibrate the equality of women and all humankind, as
otherwise their morals are skewed with their own unprosecuted prosecution.
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berni_mccoy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-13-06 05:47 PM
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8. unlikely... it's up to us to spread the word... speaking of which
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sweetheart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-13-06 06:16 PM
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9. The truth about 9/11 is that i could have died there
It is a total accident of life that i am still alive, and i owe the universe for this second chance.

So my truth is that i've died in 9/11, and my collegues died, my business died, my romantic memories
of new york died, really, it changed everything.

I was very heartfelt with the Olberman diatribe, it is 'personal', and i'm unlikely as a person in this
lifetime to ever not know the scar of that god-thunderbolt and the accidents that kept me alive to write this.

So, why was i saved, when so many better persons died? You know, really, if you wanted to honour my death, even
if it is from terrorism, end AIDS and don't kill anybody, please; spend the impetus and the bloodlust of war on
being grand and outstanding as human beings, like fucking star-trek artful at intervening with primitive species
and coming off the smart uplifter out of it all. And I'm glad i did not die in those attacks,
as nobody ended AIDS, nobody brought peace or democracy to the middle east. Nobody stopped massive state
terrorism and war crimes, a terrorism of prison guards against prisoners in a wealth-distribution civil war,
where one white man who did not die in 9/11 believes white men and american projeny have a special right to more.

I am sickened, i am dead, buried in the rubble of 9/ll an unmoving corpse beneath concrete,
released from my earthly chains, and in liberation, free of the tyranny, the egotism and
the hate of mankind, free of the appearance, free of hate, degenerates and the culture of ignorance.

In abstract, the career objectives of WTC finance was to provide a service to the world's markets for infinite
liquidity in bond markets. This means, in lay-speak, "the money closet". That in a collaboration of trading floors
and a bluster of phone calls, a hundred billion dollars can just be born out of nothing. The terrorists bombed the
money closet that paid for all the american terrorism in the middle east for so many long years, and i have read
all the history that an average person can understand, that i feel comfortable in saying the US has earned the 9/11
attack, but that is impersonal, an abstract strike of cultures and ideologies, not the personal story of individiuals
involved in their important tasks and jobs of empire and war.

The act is abhorrent, but the meaning must not be lost. It was a slap, a strike, a prick to wake up.

And american culture, instead, has rolled over and gone back to sleep. It has totally missed the opportunity
and instead pressed anglo-american culture in to a decline to obvious that it has spurred a competitition of empires
to supercede the US strategically as it declines in influence due to its long-debtor status... with the money closet
gone, the wars are no longer paid for, and the dead are long forgotten whilst empire extracts its toll in blood.

9/11 is personal, i've read all the reasons 'why' and none of them satisfy. I am angry that my potential
death has been turned in to a war against islamic nations, where non-democratic regimes that supply hyjakkers
are made to take sovereign responsibility. Really, if you want to wage a war on my grave, nail pakistan and saudi arabia,
the sponsors of the terrorism, and spare me the excuses about israel, iraq, or afganistan, or the drugs war.

I'm dead this 9/11, 5 years a rotted corpse, reading the news every day wondering when somefuckingbody will report what
actually went on in those towers that the very-well-informed enemy sought to destroy.

I am immensely saddened that the act of terror was not turned towards an ending of strife around the world, a world
justice system and global economic prosperity... and instead, a very achievable future has been traded in on a
race to war and stupidity in every country as every conservative party seeks to emulate the success of bush-fascism.

Instead of doing something great with 'our' deaths, the bush filth have just murdered and cost my loved ones their long
term security... what an ass, really, what an ass, and all the republicans should be voted out for supporting more murder
than their enemies, for forgetting their christian values and giving way to bloodlust and revenge, in showing the world
that they are NOT christians, and that in deed, 'we' are not christians, taking the hand of the lord from over our refuge.
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rosesaylavee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-15-06 06:48 AM
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22. Powerful statement
this should be a post in and of itself. I am not sure anyone here has seen this here.
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rosesaylavee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-15-06 06:43 AM
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21. agreed.
Rights for all should be addressed across the board.
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babsbunny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-13-06 06:41 PM
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10. Great Post!
So imformative! Thanks!
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berni_mccoy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-13-06 06:55 PM
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11. It's also very depressing and shameful
that over 100 nations feel its necessary to label the U.S. a terrorist state.

Our government has committed international war crimes and those in power, all of them, need to be held accountable.
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meganmonkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-13-06 07:11 PM
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12. There was an AP article about the summit
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berni_mccoy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-13-06 09:13 PM
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13. Thanks...the forbes article was less specific
calling it bush bashing vs. labelling the U.S. a terrorist state... interesting change in language.
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Usrename Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-14-06 08:31 AM
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14. We were invited to the summit.
"China is attending as an observer nation, an opportunity the United States passed up."

Idiots!!

:banghead:
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berni_mccoy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-14-06 09:47 AM
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16. Yeah, I saw that.... the bush admin
Is seeking to show that the NAM is irrelavent by not acknowledging it.

Head in sand...
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-15-06 06:50 AM
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24. The best articles on the summit can be
found here

http://www.plenglish.com/

http://www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID={DA6BFE4A-4663-48CE-B47D-A3194679411D}&language=EN
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meganmonkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-15-06 08:40 AM
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26. Thanks for the links
:hi:
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Horse with no Name Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-14-06 08:33 AM
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15. See? Even a broken clock is right twice a day
Edited on Thu Sep-14-06 08:34 AM by Horse with no Name
George W. Bush IS a uniter!! Fucker even has a coalition against him.
Now remind me...did Clinton ever have a coalition against him? (other than the rabid Repugs?)
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ceile Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-14-06 09:58 AM
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17. K&R
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-14-06 10:05 AM
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18. The times
they are a changing. Go Non-aligned movement.
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indepat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-14-06 10:52 AM
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20. Ouch!
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ShortnFiery Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-15-06 06:50 AM
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23. Yes, State Sponsored Terror in Iraq n/t
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Vidar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-15-06 07:12 AM
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25. Wonderful idea.
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