Everyone please look for the "comment removed" words. This is what they do if you don't drink their extremist koolaid. They cannot defend their positions - so they censor. Please do not support a site that restricts someone's free speech.

You are spamming the blog. Get lost.

SUPPORT OBAMA'S PLAN TO FIGHT TERRORISM IN AFGHANISTAN!

Until this site deletes this, freedom loving "progressives that they are". . . . There are millions of progressive, liberal Democrats like me that have a differing perspective on Afghanistan. You might say we believe what Barack Obama believes. That Afghanistan is a lawless country where the terrorists that attacked us on 9-11 thrive because of the safe harbor and support they are provided by their ideological brethren the Taliban. You know those guys don't you? the ones that shoot people in the head in soccer stadiums and behead women for going to school. We must never leave Afghanistan in the control of the despots; all they will do if allowed to prosper freely, is continue to train and plot attacks against the West.

flagged ;)

I did not bother to read this delusional propaganda.

I dont know why he bothers, if you want to know what this guy thinks about any subject just look at the script on the U.S corporate media. He thinks he is some kind of intelectual, but eveything he believes, he has been told to believe. His capacity to hear or see something on MSNBC, MSN, CNN, ABC or the NYT and analyse it from a differing angle than that that is being delivered is zero. The man is a robot, with no ability to formulate opinions of his own.

Americans Still Say U.S. Is Best Country in the World

Seventy-two percent (72%) of U.S. voters say the United States is the best nation in the world, despite the country’s economic woes and criticism of American foreign policy from abroad.

But just 28% think other nations like America, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey taken Sunday night. Half of voters (50%) say other nations dislike the United States.

This criticism has prompted strong support for Barack Obama from people in other countries, but 37% of U.S. voters say world opinion like this makes them less likely to vote for the Democratic presidential candidate. Thirty percent (30%) say positive world opinion makes them more likely to vote for Obama, and 31% say it has no impact on their vote (see crosstabs).

While 91% of Republicans say the United States is the world’s best nation, just 60% of Democrats feel that way. Twenty-one percent (21%) of Democratic voters say America is not the best, and nearly as many (20%) are undecided. Sixty-eight percent (68%) of unaffiliated voters feel America is the best, while 14% disagree.

Only 56% of likely Obama voters believe the United States is the best nation in the world, compared to 92% of likely McCain voters.

Seventy-four percent (74%) of voters overall say America is held to a higher standard by other countries in the world. Only 12% believe the United States is not held to a higher standard.

(Want a free daily e-mail update? If it's in the news, it's in our polls).

In a survey in mid-September, before the congressional debate on a need for an economic bailout bill, just 29% of voters said the United States has the best economy in the world, and 50% said it did not.

Voting Americans are evenly divided as to whether the nation’s best days lie ahead or in the past. Still, the current results are among the most optimistic of the past two years.

U.S. consumer and investor confidence have both fallen since congressional approval of the economic bailout legislation on Friday.

Over 60% of Americans now rate the U.S. economy as poor.

In recent years, America has been the target of strong, often violent, protest in many parts of the world, in large part because of the war in Iraq and U.S. opposition to a U.N. initiative on global warming. President Bush and others worry that the latter will severely curtail the U.S. economy while not restricting major emerging rivals like China and India.

Surveys show, however, that America is still the place that many people from other countries would like to move to.

Nearly two-thirds (63%) of voters believe that membership in the United Nations is good for America, while just 20% disagree.

Men by an 11-point edge say world opinion in support of Obama makes them less likely to vote for him. Women agree but by only a three-point margin. In both cases, nearly a third say it has no impact on their vote.

Despite the economic bad news domestically, a slightly higher percentage of investors (40%) say Obama’s high ratings abroad make them more likely not to vote for him.

See survey questions and toplines. Crosstabs available for Premium Members only.

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The Rasmussen Reports ElectionEdge™ Premium Service for Election 2008 offers the most comprehensive public opinion coverage ever provided for a Presidential election.

Scott Rasmussen, president of Rasmussen Reports, has been an independent pollster for more than a decade.
Seventy-two percent (72%) of U.S. voters say the United States is the best nation in the world, despite the country’s economic woes and criticism of American foreign policy from abroad.

But just 28% think other nations like America, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey taken Sunday night. Half of voters (50%) say other nations dislike the United States.

This criticism has prompted strong support for Barack Obama from people in other countries, but 37% of U.S. voters say world opinion like this makes them less likely to vote for the Democratic presidential candidate. Thirty percent (30%) say positive world opinion makes them more likely to vote for Obama, and 31% say it has no impact on their vote (see crosstabs).

While 91% of Republicans say the United States is the world’s best nation, just 60% of Democrats feel that way. Twenty-one percent (21%) of Democratic voters say America is not the best, and nearly as many (20%) are undecided. Sixty-eight percent (68%) of unaffiliated voters feel America is the best, while 14% disagree.

Only 56% of likely Obama voters believe the United States is the best nation in the world, compared to 92% of likely McCain voters.

Seventy-four percent (74%) of voters overall say America is held to a higher standard by other countries in the world. Only 12% believe the United States is not held to a higher standard.

(Want a free daily e-mail update? If it's in the news, it's in our polls).

In a survey in mid-September, before the congressional debate on a need for an economic bailout bill, just 29% of voters said the United States has the best economy in the world, and 50% said it did not.

Voting Americans are evenly divided as to whether the nation’s best days lie ahead or in the past. Still, the current results are among the most optimistic of the past two years.

U.S. consumer and investor confidence have both fallen since congressional approval of the economic bailout legislation on Friday.

Over 60% of Americans now rate the U.S. economy as poor.

In recent years, America has been the target of strong, often violent, protest in many parts of the world, in large part because of the war in Iraq and U.S. opposition to a U.N. initiative on global warming. President Bush and others worry that the latter will severely curtail the U.S. economy while not restricting major emerging rivals like China and India.

Surveys show, however, that America is still the place that many people from other countries would like to move to.

Nearly two-thirds (63%) of voters believe that membership in the United Nations is good for America, while just 20% disagree.

Men by an 11-point edge say world opinion in support of Obama makes them less likely to vote for him. Women agree but by only a three-point margin. In both cases, nearly a third say it has no impact on their vote.

Despite the economic bad news domestically, a slightly higher percentage of investors (40%) say Obama’s high ratings abroad make them more likely not to vote for him.

See survey questions and toplines. Crosstabs available for Premium Members only.

Rasmussen Reports is an electronic publishing firm specializing in the collection, publication, and distribution of public opinion polling information.

The Rasmussen Reports ElectionEdge™ Premium Service for Election 2008 offers the most comprehensive public opinion coverage ever provided for a Presidential election.

Scott Rasmussen, president of Rasmussen Reports, has been an independent pollster for more than a decade.
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Seventy-two percent (72%) of U.S. voters say the United States is the best nation in the world, despite the country’s economic woes and criticism of American foreign policy from abroad.

But just 28% think other nations like America, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey taken Sunday night. Half of voters (50%) say other nations dislike the United States.

This criticism has prompted strong support for Barack Obama from people in other countries, but 37% of U.S. voters say world opinion like this makes them less likely to vote for the Democratic presidential candidate. Thirty percent (30%) say positive world opinion makes them more likely to vote for Obama, and 31% say it has no impact on their vote (see crosstabs).

While 91% of Republicans say the United States is the world’s best nation, just 60% of Democrats feel that way. Twenty-one percent (21%) of Democratic voters say America is not the best, and nearly as many (20%) are undecided. Sixty-eight percent (68%) of unaffiliated voters feel America is the best, while 14% disagree.

Only 56% of likely Obama voters believe the United States is the best nation in the world, compared to 92% of likely McCain voters.

Seventy-four percent (74%) of voters overall say America is held to a higher standard by other countries in the world. Only 12% believe the United States is not held to a higher standard.

(Want a free daily e-mail update? If it's in the news, it's in our polls).

In a survey in mid-September, before the congressional debate on a need for an economic bailout bill, just 29% of voters said the United States has the best economy in the world, and 50% said it did not.

Voting Americans are evenly divided as to whether the nation’s best days lie ahead or in the past. Still, the current results are among the most optimistic of the past two years.

U.S. consumer and investor confidence have both fallen since congressional approval of the economic bailout legislation on Friday.

Over 60% of Americans now rate the U.S. economy as poor.

In recent years, America has been the target of strong, often violent, protest in many parts of the world, in large part because of the war in Iraq and U.S. opposition to a U.N. initiative on global warming. President Bush and others worry that the latter will severely curtail the U.S. economy while not restricting major emerging rivals like China and India.

Surveys show, however, that America is still the place that many people from other countries would like to move to.

Nearly two-thirds (63%) of voters believe that membership in the United Nations is good for America, while just 20% disagree.

Men by an 11-point edge say world opinion in support of Obama makes them less likely to vote for him. Women agree but by only a three-point margin. In both cases, nearly a third say it has no impact on their vote.

Despite the economic bad news domestically, a slightly higher percentage of investors (40%) say Obama’s high ratings abroad make them more likely not to vote for him.

See survey questions and toplines. Crosstabs available for Premium Members only.

Rasmussen Reports is an electronic publishing firm specializing in the collection, publication, and distribution of public opinion polling information.

The Rasmussen Reports ElectionEdge™ Premium Service for Election 2008 offers the most comprehensive public opinion coverage ever provided for a Presidential election.

Scott Rasmussen, president of Rasmussen Reports, has been an independent pollster for more than a decade.

so?

I have heard it is very difficult to cure and treat MPD's.

"truthy" why don't you go fishing, or find yourself a hobby like fishing, nitting or something.

I am not being thrown off - I am being censored. I could become anonymous on another computer and there is nothing they could do. And they know it.

You are the one that does not understand, that you are a vile, despotic piece of garbage who wishes harm on America. You can deny it, but you have said too much I know it all. You hope Hamas slaughters Jews, you abuse your child, you like the Nazis - you know who you are. You just do not like being exposed. When I said I hope you suffer the same fate as the innocent terrorist victims did on 9-11...I MEAN IT.

John you can never become anonymous. Grammer is like handwritting, it can be easily recognised.

Your grammer stands out like a sore thumb. Doesn't matter what you call yourself, I know when its you.

I go when I want to - do you know how easy it is to still post here? I have three computers with different IP addresses. I am far smarter than the a hole who censors me. I will show up when and if I choose to.

They will just block the 3 I.P addresses then. They already have two of them.

You will have to be "smarter" than that John.

Then where are all your comments then? All I have to do is click on "flag", and poof! you are gone though so far I havn't felt the need, you are not that important.

Look John, you do what you want. Its obvious you centre your whole life around this kind of thing, for me this is something I do that I rate on about par with the time I spend on XBOX Live. Its way down my list of interests. You see, I have this thing, its called a life, and if 2% of that is spent kicking you around this site, then whatever.

Of course you are delighted, you can talk to yourself and the other 2 people that write here without being challenged lol. For months I thrashed you on the issues every time and also exposed you for the Nazi anti-simite I believe you are. Anytime you care to continue in person let me know yo know how to find me.

Actually I am not that bothered, and no I dont hate you.

You know John, what you never ever got was that this isn't about compitition, its not about winning or loosing. Its a comments page where people exchange thoughts. Opposing views are contemplated and the site contributers come away the better for the experience. If you come to this site with a win/loose mentality then I am afraid you have already lost.

Its the most simple of things, but for some reason you have never been able to understand. You havn't got it in you to have a reasonable grown up conversasion so now you are being thrown off.

If you dont get it by now you never will.

Sipple you are a psychopath! This is a blog don't you get that? I have thousands of other unlimited options where to write. All this proves is that they do not want opposing points of view.

My posts were deleted because I am a threat to this site's fund raising. They do not want opposing points of view, I know the truth. They are not progressive. Here is the proof. On their Afghan trip they wrote about Americans killing people -- when I pointed out how one sided that was, they immediately changed the words. Look! It's gone. Now it says . . . "and proceeded to show me deeply dramatic faces of “collateral damage”: children, tents, hunger, deprivation.

It is censorship pure and simple. The personal stuff is just an excuse to shut up a voice that exposes the truth. I know that for a fact. However, I do not care. All I care about is the truth.

if you dont care then go already.

bye bye

My posts were deleted because I am a threat to this site's fund raising. They do not want opposing points of view, I know the truth. They are not progressive. Here is the proof. On their Afghan trip they wrote about Americans killing people -- when I pointed out how one sided that was, they immediately changed the words. Look! It's gone. Now it says . . . "and proceeded to show me deeply dramatic faces of “collateral damage”: children, tents, hunger, deprivation.

It is censorship pure and simple. The personal stuff is just an excuse to shut up a voice that exposes the truth. I know that for a fact. However, I do not care. All I care about is the truth.

John (truthy) Ehrenfeld writes:

"My posts were deleted because I am a threat to this site's fund raising"

lol.....LOL.... hahahahahahahahahaha... you are trully mental

Goodbye - you have been beaten.

p.s thanks for clinging on like this, its been very entertaining. Between watching the excellent opening race to the F1 calander, killing zombies on the ps3 and watching you flail about its been a fun weekend.

thankyou

I saw no such threats. he never called for any actions - I see it all. He said he wishes harm comes to you in same way you wish harm on US from terrorists. Such lies.

John, making up a false personna to defend yourself because no one else will is really scraping the bottom of the barrel.

This is just embarrising.

Yes you did. It is you "truthy" "john" or whatever your name is.

Admit it, you were insulting and threatening other people, and that is the reason why your posts are deleted.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (Monday, March 23, 2009, 10.00am):

British court releases some of the confidential material in the case of Binyam Mohamed: US military tried to get him to sign a false statement saying he had never been abused as condition for his release

Today, the two British judges sitting on the case of Binyam Mohamed have revealed how the US government tried to get Binyam Mohamed to sign an agreement stating that he had never been tortured, to promise not to speak with the media upon his release, and to plead guilty as a condition of his release back to Britain -- all without his lawyers being allowed access to evidence that would help prove his innocence.

This annex of the British ruling was previously kept confidential by the British court because of the American military commission rules, which forbade making the materials public.

As the British judges make clear, the US military insisted that he sign an agreement never to sue the US, or any US ally (including Britain) for the wrongdoing committed against him -- indeed, the military wanted him to assign any rights he might have to compensation to the US government! (Para. 5(iii))

The US military insisted that he accept a minimum sentence of ten years -- on top of the seven years of torture he had already suffered. (Para. 5(v)) He was meant to agree to plead guilty notwithstanding the fact that the US military had not told him what the charges were to be. (Para. 6)

Significantly, Binyam Mohamed was required to waive any claim he might have to seeing the exculpatory evidence identified by the British judges, that could help prove his innocence, and how he had been tortured. (Para. 6) If Mr. Mohamed was to ask to see this exculpatory evidence, the "deal" would be off. (Para. 10)

He was required to sign a statement saying that he had never been tortured -- a statement he insisted was false -- and also commit never to speak to the media about his abuse. (Para. 11)

"The facts revealed today reflect the way the US government has consistently tried to cover up the truth of Binyam Mohamed's torture," said Reprieve Director Clive Stafford Smith , who has represented Mr Mohamed for four years. "He was being told he would never leave Guantánamo Bay unless he promised never to discuss his torture, and never sue either the Americans or the British to force disclosure of his mistreatment. Gradually the truth is leaking out, and the governments on both sides of the Atlantic should pause to consider whether they should continue to fight to keep this torture evidence secret."

Back Story: Binyam Mohamed's history of torture has been well documented. During his time in Guantanamo Bay , the US military tried to prosecute him in the military commissions, characterized by the British former Lord Justice Steyn as kangaroo courts.

This proposal discussed by the British courts was made by the US military came at a time when he was not charged with anything. It also came after a long history of efforts to make Binyam Mohamed plead guilty to crimes that he insisted that he did not commit. He had always been willing to enter a plea of nolo contendere (which essentially means you deny your guilt, but enter a plea as you recognize it is the only way to resolve the case), on the condition that he would be sentenced to time served, and immediately released back to Britain . "Indeed, at one point we suggested he would plead nolo contendere to being the Pope himself," said Mr Stafford Smith. "After the years of suffering he had been through, he was willing to do just about anything to get out of there, but he would not plead guilty to something he did not do, nor would he lie about the fact that he had been tortured."

Eventually, by early 2009, the US military was still desperately trying to get Mr. Mohamed to plead guilty to something -- anything -- in order to save face. The final "offer" was that this man, originally alleged to be a most dangerous terrorist, should plead guilty and receive a sentence of only ten days in prison, less than one might expect for many driving offences. Mr. Mohamed rejected this offer, as he continued to insist that he was not guilty.

"Offering a man who is protesting his innocence freedom on the condition that he pleads guilty to something and serves a 10-day sentence is face-saving on an horrific scale," said Reprieve Executive Director Clare Algar.

"Likewise, the 'condition' that he agree not to speak about his torture is absolutely shameful."

"The truth about what happened to Binyam needs to come out and our government should do all it can to make that happen."

For further info rmation, please contact Katherine O'Shea at Reprieve's Press Office on 020 7427 1099.

Note for Editors:

Reprieve, a legal action charity, uses the law to enforce the human rights of prisoners, from death row to Guantánamo Bay . Reprieve investigates, litigates and educates, working on the frontline, to provide legal support to prisoners unable to pay for it themselves. Reprieve promotes the rule of law around the world, securing each person's right to a fair trial and saving lives. Clive Stafford Smith is the founder of Reprieve and has spent 25 years working on behalf of people facing the death penalty in the USA .

Reprieve's current casework involves representing 33 prisoners in the US prison at Guantanamo Bay , working on behalf of prisoners facing the death penalty, and conducting ongoing investigations into the rendition and the secret detention of "ghost prisoners" in the so-called "war on terror."

Reprieve is a charitable company limited by guarantee; Registered Charity No. 1114900 Registered Company No. 5777831 (England) Registered Office 2-6 Cannon Street London EC4M 6YH; Patrons: Alan Bennett, Julie Christie, Martha Lane Fox, Gordon Roddick, Jon Snow, Marina Warner

We are quite liberal, while those which advocate for war, killing civilians and bombing populated urban areas should be considered as extremists.

Got it?

Everyone please look for the "comment removed" words. This is what they do if you don't drink their extremist koolaid. They cannot defend their positions - so they censor. Please do not support a site that restricts someone's free speech.

JGASS, the commenter who was being removed was making personnal threats and calling for the deaths of other users family members. You cant have weirdos comming here too purposfully bully other people off the site with the most vemonous personnel ad-hominim attacks just because they have dissagreements on politics, but that is what we had. He was spoiling things for everyone else.

Notice how there is no delay in posting on this site and think of how very rare that is. I admire this entities policy of letting people say pritty much anything, which is certainly what they do.

It is not restriction of free speech at all.

I have seen several lines "comment removed" and all of them were reffering to a person which can not participate in any debate in normal way. The very same person is insulting other posters and makes threats (which I doubt he can execute because it is just one loud moth shnook) in situations where he recognizes he is wrong.

For that reason, we gave him a nickname "resident site idiot", which is quite appropriate for him.

If you have any complaints about that, please try to find an argument why posts of insulting and threatening content should not be erased.

I look forward to see the films... still think it was a bit risky going over there though.

Willie, didn't you say before that you have had first hand experience with this place?

Hey Craig, thanks for the link to the video, I am impressed.

lol... who doesn't like the bear in the big blue house :)