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►	Anonymous 07/03/09(Fri)07:55 No.131144     Hey guys, remember Iran?

Please keep all the news and discussion relating to that subject here.

Old threads:

New, deadly swine flu hits Mexico:
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Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) announced this afternoon she will resign from office on July 26 and return to private life, a stunning decision by last year's Republican vice presidential candidate to leave office before the end of her first term.

"We know we can effect positive change outside government at this moment in time on another scale and actually make a difference for our priorities," Palin said in a news conference alongside a lake in her hometown of Wasilla, Alaska.

Using a basketball analogy, Palin said, "I know when it's time to pass the ball for victory."

Palin, 45, is a major star in the GOP and is seen as a leading candidate for the party's presidential nomination in 2012. Her decision not to run for reelection in 2010 and to leave office imminently came as a shock to Republican strategists today.

"We've seen a lot of nutty behavior from governors and Republican leaders in the last three months, but this one is at the top of that," said John Weaver, a longtime friend and confidant of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), the party's presidential nominee in 2008 whose of selection of Palin catapulted the first-term Alaska governor to national prominence.

Alaska Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell (R), who will succeed Palin, appeared with Palin and complimented her service to the state.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/03/AR2009070301738.html

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►	Anonymous 07/03/09(Fri)22:37 No.131267     >>131255 I know the media does, but who tells them to say that? It is just silly.

►	Anonymous 07/03/09(Fri)22:41 No.131268     >>131267 It's just sensationalism and a convenient way to generalize an entire political party by saying "THIS RETARD IS GOING TO REPRESENT THE OTHER TEAM LAWL"

►	Anonymous 07/03/09(Fri)23:05 No.131269     File: 124668753269.jpg-(47.37KB, 600x750, Mormons.jpg) >>131260

Good comments, too:

http://martynemko.blogspot.com/2009/06/white-teacher-speaks-out-what-is-it.html

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►	Anonymous 07/03/09(Fri)21:53 No.131263     >>131233 Actually white men like nigger women more than Asian women, according to polls. And well-bred East Asian women hate honkeys, niggers, spics, kikes and other inferior peoples.

►	Anonymous 07/03/09(Fri)22:04 No.131265     >>131263 So are these scientific polls ran by the bright minds over at the Butthurt AsiaFinest Institute of Chinkfaggotry?

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Anonymous 07/03/09(Fri)22:25 No.131266     >>131265 I guess you need a poll to determine that the sky is blue? Asian women to date white men are ugly Southeast Asian niggers 90% of the time. Kinda like how white women who date black men are usually fat, crack whores, but most likely both. The reason for this is that whites have horrible taste in women, and everything in general (food, clothes, music, etc), and only the "Asian" women who have bad fathers and low self-esteem gravitate towards whites. If they don't kill themselves before age 20 they will usually date some unsuspecting white guy who doesn't know what he's getting. tl;dr I can just start taking pictures of them. At least 95% of the time the woman is hideous, and the guy usually looks pretty normal.

2009 marks the end of an era in which the United States of America led the world in prosperity, power, individual liberty and freedom. The US Constitution no longer stands as the cornerstone of freedom. The average American is no longer well suited for self-governance. The federal government no longer serves at the pleasure of the people and the states and the future of the greatest nation ever known to mankind, is beyond bleak.

The American people are divided into three political blocs today.

Those who desire access to the earnings and assets of others and are using the weight and power of the federal government to rob their fellow Americans of freedom, liberty and hard earned prosperity.

Those who have spent a lifetime on the sidelines not knowing what to believe or who to trust, manipulated by a constant drumbeat in the leftist press, academia and Hollywood elite, trading their individual liberty and that of others for a so-called “greater communal good.”

Those who still believe in the founding principles and values of a Constitutional Republic, but have no representation in Washington DC, the press, academia or Hollywood, and have yet to find a viable means of restoring freedom without force.

Even those who see what is happening live in a state of illusion, hoping against hope that it is all just a mirage. They believe that America will simply rebound, as it always has. But they overlook the reality that all of the founding principles and values that made it possible for our country to prosper and even dig itself out of tough times, have been systematically destroyed. The mechanisms needed to rebound, no longer exist…

I received the following letter from a dear friend and retired Colonel just yesterday. I have known the Colonel for many years and have never heard him speak in this tone before. His words caught me off guard, as they were quite out of character for a great man who had spent his life defending freedom and liberty. With his permission, I want to share his letter with you, although for the safety of his family, he has requested anonymity, which I will honor.

Dear JB,

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►	Anonymous 07/03/09(Fri)17:46 No.131245     I celebrated this ten years ago What took you so long?

►	Anonymous 07/03/09(Fri)18:02 No.131250     >>131243 >>Clinton's accomplishments lol

►	Anonymous 07/03/09(Fri)21:34 No.131262     >>131243 i hate you

Disney is in for it now. It's been accused by academics of failing to promote sexual perversion in its movies for children:

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, June 24, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Researchers at the University of Michigan have concluded that the love stories told in classic Disney and other G-rated children's films - such as the Little Mermaid - are partially to blame for the pervasiveness of what they label "heteronormativity."

"Despite the assumption that children's media are free of sexual content, our analyses suggest that these media depict a rich and pervasive heterosexual landscape," wrote researchers Emily Kazyak and Karin Martin, in a report published in the latest issue of the Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS) publication Gender & Society.

Kazyak and Martin said they studied the role of heterosexual relationships in several of the highest-grossing G-rated films between 1990-2005.

The results, say the researchers, illustrate two ways that the children's films "construct heterosexuality": through "depictions of hetero-romantic love as exceptional, powerful, transformative, and magical," and "depictions of interactions between gendered bodies in which the sexiness of feminine characters is subjected to the gaze of masculine characters."

"Characters in love are surrounded by music, flowers, candles, magic, fire, balloons, fancy dresses, dim lights, dancing and elaborate dinners," the researchers observed. "Fireflies, butterflies, sunsets, wind and the beauty and power of nature often provide the setting for - and a link to the naturalness of - hetero-romantic love."

The SWS press release on the research blamed what they called the "old ideals" of romantic relationships, specifically those found the Brothers Grimm fairy tales, which in many instances inspired the films' storylines, for "such heavily gendered depictions and glorified portrayals of heterosexual relationships."

The team says the results point to heterosexuality achieving a "taken-for-granted status" "because hetero-romance is depicted as po

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►	Anonymous 07/03/09(Fri)17:49 No.131247     >>just pointing out, you know, to look smart etc. and TRYING TO STOP THE DERAILING OF THIS THREAD BY TWO FAGGOTS FIGHTING EACH OTHER. There are at least three.

►	Stanley Cool Brick !FByqDI9Gn. 07/03/09(Fri)17:58 No.131249     >>131247 oh, I see, very clever of you

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Anonymous 07/03/09(Fri)20:59 No.131259     >>131244 ...that are no worse than yours. Here, I'll finish this for you. "I know you are, but what am I? 2-INFINITY" Your behavior is that of a chode, no matter how much you attempt to be eloquent. And you're not very articulate, either. All you express is hatred, disdain and contempt, without going into any further explanation of your reasons. You do not examine your motives at all. Message too long. Click here to view the full text.

MEXICO CITY, July 2 (Reuters) - Mexico will elect a new lower house of Congress, six state governors and hundreds of mayors in mid-term elections on Sunday. [ID:nN02354233]

The congressional vote will be key for conservative President Felipe Calderon's reform agenda for the remaining three years of his term, with analysts keen for new laws to shore up declining oil output and raise tax revenues.

Calderon's National Action Party, or PAN, is already hampered by not having a majority in the 500-seat chamber, and the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, which it relies on to pass laws is expected to overtake it to become the biggest party in Congress.

Following are possible scenarios for the outcome:

A CLOSE RESULT THAT ONLY SLIGHTLY CHANGES CONGRESS

Most pollsters predict a close result that will leave the PRI as the biggest party in Congress but lacking a majority and with the PAN only 40 or so seats behind.

That, or an even closer result, will leave the balance of power pretty much where it is today and most analysts expect it will mean the PRI continues a strategy of working with the PAN on reforms but mostly watering them down.

That would leave Calderon with some room to pass laws over the next three years but also risks him becoming an early lame duck if far-reaching oil sector, tax and labor reforms are out of the question before a change of government in 2012.

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Anonymous 07/03/09(Fri)16:01 No.131225     >>131217>>131221 Well, for starters, this article makes a lot of baseless claims. It makes it look like people are happy about Calderon's handling of the swine flu epidemic (there are a lot more cases than ever, but the media isn't mentioning it all that much anymore) and btw more people have died because of the drug war in the past two and a half year (the time he's been in office) than during Fox's whole term. Crime and violence is as high as before, if not higher, and human rights violations by the army and police are well documented (CNDH, AI, etc). Plus he fucked up the tourism sector with the whole SHUT DOWN EVERYTHING bullshit he pulled when the swine flu began. People have never been more vulnerable and everyone knows someone who's had the swine flu virus. The only people who support Calderon are in the media (most likely doing so because they've been threatened / payed off) or believe everything the media says, and of course foreign newspapers think that what people say in Televisa, TV Azteca and El Universal is accurate and a fair reflection of what our country is like. It's like judging America in 2005 because of what Fox News said.

►	Anonymous 07/03/09(Fri)16:31 No.131230     They have elections in Mexico? I thought the country was ran by the military.

►	Anonymous 07/03/09(Fri)19:01 No.131254     Calderon isn't great but a massive PRI victory would be a disaster. One thing any poor shithole doesn't need is more socialism.

A school told a child to remove a Christian cross despite Sikh pupils being allowed to wear bangles as part of their religion.

Lauren Grimshaw-Brown was told to take off a necklace with a cross on it due to health and safety reasons.

But the eight-year-old's mother Laina has accused the school of double standards because they allow children following other faiths to wear jewellery on religious grounds.

The mother-of-two says Lauren and brother Callan, five, have always worn crosses at St Peter's CE School in Chorley, Lancashire.

"We're a Christian family and my children wear the necklaces underneath their tops," she said. "On Thursday Lauren was told by a teacher to take it off because apparently they're not allowed to wear jewellery.

"I could understand it if it was a fashion accessory or a High School Musical necklace but it's part of our faith."

Mrs Grimshaw-Brown complained directly to the headteacher, Helen Wright, who referred the matter to the school's chairman of governors, Father Atherton, who upheld the ban.

"I received a letter in my child's reading folder," she added. "It said that if she had been a Sikh child she would be allowed to wear bangles because it's part of their religion.

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►	Anonymous 07/03/09(Fri)15:42 No.131222     >school's chairman of governors, Father Atherton, who upheld the ban. WHAT? This is a Priest enforcing this ban?

►	Anonymous 07/03/09(Fri)17:20 No.131236     >>131222 > St Peter's CE School in Chorley >St Peter's The school is even Christian in its name, and still the bullshit goes on.

►	Anonymous 07/03/09(Fri)18:20 No.131252     They didn't know what was Sikh bangles, idiots.

Buckingham Palace says public funding for the Queen and the royal family cost British taxpayers the equivalent of 69 pence ($1.41) each last year. Costs incurred by the royal family were 41.5 million pounds in the year to March 31, an increase of 1.5 million pounds on the previous year.

Public money is used to pay the costs of travel and running homes used by the royal family, including the Queen's Buckingham Palace residence. The accounts don't include the cost of security provided by the police and army. There may be a GFC on, but luxury doesn't take a holiday. travel costs rose to 6.5 million pounds from 6.2 million pounds.

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/world/the-queens-costs-rising-20090630-d372.html

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►	Anonymous 07/03/09(Fri)07:14 No.131136     File: 124663047897.jpg-(104.97KB, 388x275, Coffe.jpg) >>131041 Chimps are native to Africa. Bananas to South East Asia. There is no natural love for Bananas in this species.

►	Anonymous 07/03/09(Fri)14:57 No.131210     >>131136 Britfags are native to Europe. Tea to South East Asia. There is no natural love for Tea on these islands.

►	Anonymous 07/03/09(Fri)17:24 No.131237     File: 12466670959.jpg-(299.35KB, 646x3826, Britfaggots.jpg) >>131210 That's a common misconception. Britfaggots will never be European, EVER. They're the closest cunts to Americunts in the world and we don't want them. Honestly, I cannot even buy their beard with Euros! What a group of coloured napkins.

The four-year college degree has come to cost too much and prove too little. It's now a bad deal for the average student, family, employer, professor and taxpayer.

A student who secures a degree is increasingly unlikely to make up its cost, despite higher pay, and the employer who requires a degree puts faith in a system whose standards are slipping. Too many professors who are bound to degree teaching can't truly profess; they don't proclaim loudly the things they know but instead whisper them to a chosen few, whom they must then accommodate with inflated grades. Worst of all, bright citizens spend their lives not knowing the things they ought to know, because they've been granted liberal-arts degrees for something far short of a liberal-arts education.

I'm not arguing against higher learning but for it -- and against the degree system that stands in its way.

STARTING OUT BEHIND

Consider two childhood friends, Ernie and Bill. Hard workers with helpful families, each saves exactly $16,594 for college. Ernie doesn't get accepted to a school he likes. Instead, he starts work at 18 and invests his college savings in a mutual fund that tracks the broad stock market.

Throughout his life, he makes average yearly pay for a high school graduate with no college, starting at $15,901 after taxes and peaking at $32,538. Each month, he adds to his stock fund 5% of his after-tax income, close to the nation's current savings rate. It returns 8% a year, typical for stock investors.

Bill has a typical college experience. He gets into a public college and after two years transfers to a private one. He spends $49,286 on tuition and required fees, the average for such a track. I'm not counting room and board, since Bill must pay for his keep whether he goes to college or not. Bill gets average-size grants, adjusted for average probabilities of receiving them, and so pays $34,044 for college.

He leaves school with an average-size student loan and a good interest rate: $17,450 at 5%. The $16,594 he has saved for college, you see, is precisely enough to pay what his loans don't cover.

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►	Anonymous 07/03/09(Fri)13:20 No.131189     >>131188 I don't recall where it says that life is supposed to be fair. Corruption? Because you have something to talk about in common? If you don't like the people from Harvard, destroy their business. They'll lose power, and Harvard will stop being the social club that it is.

►	Anonymous 07/03/09(Fri)13:25 No.131192     >>131189 I don't recall where I said anything of the sort either. Was just calling a spade a spade.

►	Anonymous 07/03/09(Fri)17:15 No.131235     Not related but just saying, Yale sucks and it's for chinks and faggots.

How do you put together a consumer economy that works when the consumers are out of work?

One of the great stories you’ll be hearing over the next couple of years will be about the large number of Americans who were forced out of work in this recession and remained unable to find gainful employment after the recession ended. We’re basically in denial about this.

There are now more than five unemployed workers for every job opening in the United States. The ranks of the poor are growing, welfare rolls are rising and young American men on a broad front are falling into an abyss of joblessness.

Some months ago, the Obama administration and various mainstream economists forecast a peak unemployment rate of roughly 8 percent this year. It has already reached 9.4 percent, and most analysts now expect it to hit 10 percent or higher. Economists are currently spreading the word that the recession may end sometime this year, but the unemployment rate will continue to climb. That’s not a recovery. That’s mumbo jumbo.

Why this rampant joblessness is not viewed as a crisis and approached with the sense of urgency and commitment that a crisis warrants, is beyond me. The Obama administration has committed a great deal of money to keep the economy from collapsing entirely, but that is not enough to cope with the scope of the jobless crisis.

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►	Anonymous 07/03/09(Fri)07:42 No.131142     >>131079 lol butthurt

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'We're in the Middle of a Crash': Black SwanAnonymous 07/03/09(Fri)16:23 No.131229     The financial system is crashing and action must be taken by the US government to convert debt into equity to produce a more stable environment, Nassim Taleb, author of "The Black Swan," told CNBC Thursday. "You may have green shoots, whatever you want to call them, you may have temporary relief, but you are still in a world that's breaking," Taleb said on "Squawk Box." Anything that's fragile like the financial system will eventually crash, he said. "We're in the middle of a crash," Taleb said. "So if I'm going to forecast something, it is that it's going to get worse, not better." The government needs to deleverage debt and not try stimulus packages that will inflate assets, he said. "What makes me very pessimistic in not seeing any leadership or awareness on parts of government on what has to be done, which is deleverage $40-to-$70 trillion," Taleb said. "The monkey on our back is debt," he added. As an example, Taleb said banks should not be sending demands for larger and larger sums from homeowner in arrears on their mortgage. Instead the bank should offer to lower the monthly payments in return for part-ownership of the property. Message too long. Click here to view the full text.

►	Anonymous 07/03/09(Fri)16:31 No.131231     >>131229 http://www.cnbc.com/id/31706523

From the AP:

Americans who refuse to buy affordable medical coverage could be hit with fines of more than $1,000 under a health care overhaul bill unveiled Thursday by key Senate Democrats looking to fulfill President Obama's top domestic priority.

The Congressional Budget Office estimated the fines will raise around $36 billion over 10 years. Senate aides said the penalties would be modeled on the approach taken by Massachusetts, which now imposes a fine of about $1,000 a year on individuals who refuse to get coverage. Under the federal legislation, families would pay higher penalties than individuals.

How do you like that? If you don't want insurance you will get fined. Almost as funny is that these fines will be collected through the income tax system.

The bill also wants to whack companies for not offering insurance:

The Senate Health Education, Labor and Pensions bill also calls for a government-run insurance option to compete with private plans as well as a $750-per-worker annual fee on larger companies that do not offer coverage to employees.

I wonder what the definition of a "larger company" is?

Back to the $1000 fine though. So if I choose not to subsidize someone else's insurance I have to pay a tax. Isn't that just nice of them. The irony is that the $1000 will certainly be cheaper than buying insurance in the first place, so it would be curious to see how many Americans choose the tax over the insurance.

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►	Anonymous 07/03/09(Fri)15:00 No.131211     Already posted here http://plus4chan.org/boards/n/res/131026.html Prune plz.

►	Anonymous 07/03/09(Fri)15:01 No.131213     i dont have health insurance or 1000$, wtf am i suppose to do?

►	Anonymous 07/03/09(Fri)15:07 No.131215     >>131213 >>wtf am i suppose to do? Time in jail while you pay your debt to society.

Had the regime underststood what the internet would mean– the destructon of official media and the proliferation of unofficial thinking, booming web commerce instead of brick and mortar stores, etc.–it never would have allowed it to come into existence. Given their typical mistake–they are always trying to catch up to the market–surely the smartest minds in the state stay up late thinking of how to wreck the internet in ways that will not undermine the state through public anger. Here is the latest scheme from beloved neocon Richard Posner. This government judge proposes outlawing linking without prior permission, to destroy Google news and other aggregators that necessarily have no government-approved gatekeepers, and all unapproved web media. In particular, Posner–a crazed IPnik (for the libertarian view, see here and here) as well–also wants to protect government’s beloved newspapers, as if any young person would then pick up one of these expensive, hand-staining pieces of federal propaganda. So what would happen if Posner got his way (impossible, I guess, given all the great hackers, etc.)? We’d all link to foreign sites only, which would then cover US goings-on even more fully, because they would want the traffic. The Washington Post, the New York Times, and all the rest of the CIA’s house organs would continue to decline until they are bailed out by some Obama stimulus, thus making clear what has long been the case, that they serve the state.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/028827.html

Under Hopey Change, some animals are less equal than others — namely Christians and Caucasians.

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder says a homosexual activist who is attacked following a Christian minister's sermon about homosexuality would be protected by a proposed new federal law, but a minister attacked by a homosexual wouldn't be.

Gabbles Holder, a pro-terrorist lowlife who regards America as "a nation of cowards":

Well, the statute would not — would not necessarily cover that. We're talking about crimes that have a historic basis. Groups who have been targeted for violence as a result of the color of their skin, their sexual orientation, that is what this statute tends — is designed to cover. We don't have the indication that the attack was motivated by a person's desire to strike at somebody who was in one of these protected groups. That would not be covered by the statute.

Black on white violence is 7.5 times higher than white on black violence. But that's in the real world, so it has no bearing on the bizarre laws imposed by the kakistocracy to punish us for being normal Americans.

Equal protection under the law went out of style. It has been discarded in favor of moonbattery.

http://www.moonbattery.com/archives/2009/07/some_animals_ar.html

Democrats off-loading economics to pass climate change bill.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has put cap-and-trade legislation on a forced march through the House, and the bill may get a full vote as early as Friday. It looks as if the Democrats will have to destroy the discipline of economics to get it done.

Despite House Energy and Commerce Chairman Henry Waxman's many payoffs to Members, rural and Blue Dog Democrats remain wary of voting for a bill that will impose crushing costs on their home-district businesses and consumers. The leadership's solution to this problem is to simply claim the bill defies the laws of economics.

Their gambit got a boost this week, when the Congressional Budget Office did an analysis of what has come to be known as the Waxman-Markey bill. According to the CBO, the climate legislation would cost the average household only $175 a year by 2020. Edward Markey, Mr. Waxman's co-author, instantly set to crowing that the cost of upending the entire energy economy would be no more than a postage stamp a day for the average household. Amazing. A closer look at the CBO analysis finds that it contains so many caveats as to render it useless.

For starters, the CBO estimate is a one-year snapshot of taxes that will extend to infinity. Under a cap-and-trade system, government sets a cap on the total amount of carbon that can be emitted nationally; companies then buy or sell permits to emit CO2. The cap gets cranked down over time to reduce total carbon emissions.

To get support for his bill, Mr. Waxman was forced to water down the cap in early years to please rural Democrats, and then severely ratchet it up in later years to please liberal Democrats. The CBO's analysis looks solely at the year 2020, before most of the tough restrictions kick in. As the cap is tightened and companies are stripped of initial opportunities to "offset" their emissions, the price of permits will skyrocket beyond the CBO estimate of $28 per ton of carbon. The corporate costs of buying these expensive permits will be passed to consumers.

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►	per capitaAnonymous 07/03/09(Fri)00:16 No.131077     >>130976 Except that Canada is the least efficient country This is per person If you want to look at sheer volume, then US is your #1 winner Russia is not even in the top ten

►	Anonymous 07/03/09(Fri)06:53 No.131130     >>131074 anyone got evidence of that?

►	Anonymous 07/03/09(Fri)10:52 No.131160     >>131130 Cities are normally 2 degrees warmer than outlying areas, by comparison. This is actually well known, and can be seen anywhere that shows current temperature reports.