Hillary,
What did you think of Lucas Belvaux's recent Trilogy? I was going to watch them while they were showing at quite a few of the cinemas in London but never got round to it. Think I'll grab the dvd boxset that's just come out.
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An average Americans view of the French people
by Maverick ini have just returned from spending a week in the company of frenchbabyface, (fbf) and would like to share some basic observation that i feel will enlighten my fellow countrymen and women about a people we, as a culture, actually know very little about.
i do believe the medias of both countries do not show their people an honest and forthright view of the other countries people.
the american media gives us almost no news of france and most of what we do get is not very positive.
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JWD ....the opium of the Ex ?
by ScoobySnax inmarx reckoned religion was the opium of the people, i'm no marx, but i reckon jwd has become the opium of the exjws.
it satisfies a need, gives one a purpose, feels someone with a greater sense of purpose, trys to give one a purpose and reason for being here, and very closely becomes a "religion" of sorts to many.
many here claim they stay to help others out of the wbts, where in fact i think they stay because it has become their new "opium" its a focal point they can meet with like minded individuals to further their own new "belief".
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Englishman,
Spill the beans man!!!
And since when were you 103yrs old?
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CANADA REFUSES TO CHANGE ITS NAME TO RONALD REAGAN
by William Penwell incanada refuses to change its name to ronald reagan, by andy borowitz
canada today rebuffed a proposal made by republicans in congress to change its name to ronald reagan.. .
the controversial proposal, which appeared to have broad backing from congressional republicans, was suggested as a way for canada to show its appreciation for the kindness and friendship that mr. reagan extended during his eight years as presidentbut moments after the proposal was floated, canadian prime minister paul martin gave the notion of renaming his country ronald reagan a frosty thumbs-down.. .
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I smell Onions.
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The history of Islam
by Elsewhere inhttp://www.islamicweb.com/history/chronology.htm
according to a pro-islam website... islam?s history is filled with conquest and violence.
i was intrigued by another posters post about how the crusades were in response to the muslims invading the western world... so i had to do my own research to see if this was actually true.. as it turns out, the muslims have a habit of trying to take over the world.
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Abaddon,
Keep up the good work man.
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I gave up trying to read the first Rebuttal. Interesting use of the English language.
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Ban on torture overruled in Pentagon
by ignored_one infrom the telegraph.co.uk but you have to register.. ban on torture overruled in pentagon.
by david rennie in washington.
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From the telegraph.co.uk but you have to register.
Ban on torture overruled in Pentagon
By David Rennie in Washington
(Filed: 08/06/2004)A leaked Pentagon memo cast serious doubt yesterday on the Bush administration's insistence that its treatment of prisoners was bound by laws and treaties banning torture.
A secret document discloses that, on the eve of the Iraq war, political appointees overruled military lawyers to assert that President George W Bush was not bound by US and international law on torture.
The US armies 'Rules of interrogation' Click for detail The memo, prepared for Donald Rumsfeld, the defence secretary, went on to claim that, if national security was at stake, government agents who tortured or even killed prisoners on the president's authority were immune from prosecution.
A draft of the 100-page memo, leaked to the Wall Street Journal, conceded that several US and international laws banned torture.
But lawyers at the Pentagon and the justice department argued that all such treaties and laws were trumped by the president's "inherent constitutional authority to manage a military campaign" and protect the American people.
The leak appears to be part of an extraordinary civil war in the Pentagon between civilian officials and uniformed officers appalled by what they have described as moves by political appointees to shroud the war on terrorism in an "environment of legal ambiguity".
The trail of the memo begins at Guantanamo Bay and leads to Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison, where pictures of abused and humiliated prisoners shocked the world.
A military official who helped to prepare the report told the Journal that the memo was requested by senior commanders at Guantanamo. They had complained in late 2002 that conventional interrogation methods were not extracting valuable information from terrorist suspects.
The official said: "People were trying like hell to ratchet up the pressure." Techniques then used at Guantanamo included drawing on a prisoner's body and placing women's underwear on prisoners' heads.
Those practices appeared in abuse photographs from Abu Ghraib, casting doubt on the Bush administration's insistence that Abu Ghraib misconduct was the work of a few low-level "bad apples".
An intelligence officer told the Journal that methods now used at Guantanamo included limiting prisoners' food, subjecting them to body searches, depriving them of sleep for up to 96 hours and shackling them in stress positions.
In public, William Haynes, the Pentagon's senior civilian lawyer, insists that all interrogations are conducted in a manner "consistent with" the international convention on torture.
Mr Haynes was in charge of the working group that drew up the memo, officials told the Journal, and political appointees claimed almost unlimited powers for the president to approve torture.
? America and Britain issued a fourth draft last night of a United Nations resolution granting Iraq sovereignty as they pressed for a vote at the Security Council as early as tonight. It ignores French demands for an explicit Iraqi veto over military operations but pledges "close co-ordination" between coalition forces and the new interim administration.
24 May 2004: Top US general 'saw Abu Ghraib jail abuse' 16 May 2004: The road to 'Camp Redemption' -
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TV channel rebuked over 'Play School' lesbians
by ignored_one inhttp://news.independent.co.uk/world/australasia/story.jsp?story=527993
tv channel rebuked over 'play school' lesbians by kathy marks in sydney 04 june 2004
for people raised in britain, play school evokes innocent memories of humpty, hamble and jemima, the rag doll.
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http://news.independent.co.uk/world/australasia/story.jsp?story=527993
TV channel rebuked over 'Play School' lesbians
By Kathy Marks in Sydney
04 June 2004
For people raised in Britain, Play School evokes innocent memories of Humpty, Hamble and Jemima, the rag doll. In Australia, the television show for pre-schoolers has earned the wrath of the conservative government for portraying a little girl and her two lesbian mums.Daryl Williams, the Communications Minister, sent a letter of rebuke to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation after the programme aired a story about the girl going to a fair. "I'm Brenna. That's me in the blue. My mums are taking me and my friend Meryn to an amusement park," the girl said, over images of her mothers waving.
Mr Williams said he had instructed the matter to be raised with the the broadcaster's governing board. "The government understands parents would expect a programme like Play School to deal with issues which are appropriate for the age of its audience," he said. Larry Anthony, the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, accused ABC of promoting the views of a minority. "When it comes to my children, when I want to explain about same-sex couples ... it should be up to me, not the broadcaster," he said.
The head of ABC children's television, Claire Henderson, said: " Play School aims to reflect the diversity of Australian children."
The row has exposed the cultural divisions in Australia, a country that stages one of the world's most exuberant Gay Mardi Gras parades in Sydney but is headed by John Howard, a prime minister, who embraces the values of the 1950s. He announced legislation to ban same-sex marriages last week.
Brian Greg, a senator with the opposition Australian Democrats, said: "I would hate to see us turn the clock back to a time when minorities were censored from Australian television, as Aborigines and Asians and people with disabilities were."
I suppose had it been just a single mum it would have been A-ok.
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700 complain over TV seance spoof
by ignored_one in700 complain over tv seance spoof
by tom leonard, media editor .
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700 complain over TV seance spoof
By Tom Leonard, Media Editor
(Filed: 04/06/2004)
A spoof seance conducted by the Channel 4 illusionist Derren Brown has attracted one of the highest numbers of complaints ever registered for a television programme, the station said yesterday.Seance, which invited 12 people to contact one or more members of an alleged teenage suicide pact, attracted more than 700 complaints from viewers.
Many came from members of religious groups and most either expressed concern that seances were anti-Christian or that it would encourage people to dabble in the occult.
Channel 4 said it received 400 complaints before transmission based on trailers and press coverage. Since the programme was broadcast on Monday, the station has received a further 100 protests, in addition to 25 calls from viewers approving.
The media regulator Ofcom has also received more than 200 complaints and is investigating the programme. The volume of complaints makes it the third most complained-about programme after The Last Temptation of Christ in 1995, which received 1,554 complaints, and the Brass Eye satire about paedophilia three years ago, which generated 992 complaints. Both shows went out on Channel 4.
Brown's previous on-air stunts include a Russian roulette game that later turned out to involve fake bullets.
Channel 4 pointed out that Brown revealed at the end of the show that a girl, whom members of the group believed was contacting them from beyond the grave, was alive and sitting outside the seance room. He also revealed the techniques whereby he made the group think they were talking to someone who was dead.
A spokesman for the broadcaster said: "We did stress this was an entertainment show. It was trying to challenge the myths about the occult rather than spook people."
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I Would Like To Introduce...Karly
by exjdub inkarly, in her first post on the board, replied to one of my topics.
i did not notice any introduction on the board, but if i missed it i apologize.
so, let me please introduce:.
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Hi Karly.
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RIP 1934 -2004
by ScoobySnax inafter a relatively short battle (5 weeks) my great aunt died this am at 02:30. of course she'd been ill much longer, losing weight, but she hated visiting doctors, and never wanted to make a fuss.
i saw her on tuesday, and felt embarrased to stand at her bed as she looked so bad after what the cancer had done to her, reduced her to someone i hardly recognised.
what happened to that glamorous woman of not so many years ago, immaculate in every way?
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((((Scott & Family))))
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