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2007-05-18T15:08:22Z

UncleJalapeno: New page: '''Uncyclopedia''' is a parody encyclopedia created in January 2005. It now has over 23,000 articles. Popular topics parodied include Global warming, Evolution and Creation, th...

'''Uncyclopedia''' is a parody encyclopedia created in January 2005. It now has over 23,000 articles. Popular topics parodied include [[Global warming]], [[Evolution]] and [[Creation]], the [[Bush]] regime, and popular culture. A recurring joke on the site is making up Oscar Wilde quotes as well as quotes by Chuck Norris, Captain Obvious, Kanye West, and Russian Reversals.
==Source==
[http://www.uncyclopedia.org]

Iran-Contra affair

2007-05-18T14:55:42Z

UncleJalapeno:

The '''Iran-Contra Affair''' (also called the '''Iran-Contra Scandal''', the '''Iran-Contra Matter''' and '''Iran-gate''') was the result of an arms deal between the United States, Iran and the Nicaraguan Contras, an anti-communist group operating against the socialist government of [[Nicaragua]]. Essentially, arms were sold to Iran against an international embargo which was spearheaded just years earlier by the United States. The proceeds from this arms sale were then used to purchase additional arms for the Contra Guerilla group operating in the mountains of Nicaragua.

In the opinion of Independent counsel Lawrence E. Walsh, who investigated the affair, under the Arms Export Control Act <ref> http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode22/usc_sup_01_22_10_39_20_II.html </ref> such sales to foreign powers not deemed under the term of the act friendly are illegal. <ref> http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/walsh/execsum.htm </ref> Payments to the Contras from the proceeds of private sales, while not illegal, in the opinion of critics were considered highly unethical. Later such arrangements were made explicitly illegal by the [[Boland amendment]] to the Federal Appropriation Bill. The independent counsel's opinion alleged that the Reagan administration set about misleading congressional inquiries and may have withheld some documents. {{fact-political}}

When the story was blown open by media outlets in the wake of midterm congressional elections after Democrats retook the Senate in November 1986, President Ronald Reagan answered questions on national television and denied Administration involvement in an Arms-for-hostages deal. The following week he returned to the airwaves to affirm that weapons were transferred to Iran but he claimed they were not part of an exchange for hostages.

[[Michael Ledeen]] was an early player in the affair, and eventually arranged for arms sales to Iran though the Iranian arms dealer [[Manucher Ghorbanifar]]. John Poindexter later resigned and later worked in [[George W. Bush]]'s administration. Oliver North was also a major player in the affair. [[Caspar Weinberger]] was indicted, and pardoned by [[George H.W. Bush]].

==Sources==
*[http://www.usdoj.gov/oig/special/9712/ch04p2.htm The CIA-Contra-Crack Cocaine Controversy: A Review of the Justice Department's Investigations and Prosecutions], December 1997

==References==
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Iran-Contra affair

2007-05-18T14:55:06Z

UncleJalapeno: only elements of the Sandinistas were Marxist, they also allowed private property and cooperatives

The '''Iran-Contra Affair''' (also called the '''Iran-Contra Scandal''', the '''Iran-Contra Matter''' and '''Iran-gate''') was the result of an arms deal between the United States, Iran and the Nicaraguan Contras, an anti-communist group operating against the socialist government of [[Nicaragua]]. Essentially, arms were sold to Iran against an international embargo which was spearheaded just years earlier by the United States. The proceeds from this arms sale were then used to purchase additional arms for the Contra Guerilla group operating in the mountains of Nicaragua.

In the opinion of Independent counsel Lawrence E. Walsh, who investigated the affair, under the Arms Export Control Act <ref> http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode22/usc_sup_01_22_10_39_20_II.html </ref> such sales to foreign powers not deemed under the term of the act friendly are illegal. <ref> http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/walsh/execsum.htm </ref> Payments to the Contras from the proceeds of private sales, while not illegal, in the opinion of critics were considered highly unethical. Later such arrangements were made explicitly illegal by the [[Boland amendment]] to the Federal Appropriation Bill. The independent counsel's opinion alleged that the Reagan administration set about misleading congressional inquiries and may have withheld some documents. {{fact-political}}

When the story was blown open by media outlets in the wake of midterm congressional elections after Democrats retook the Senate in November 1986, President Ronald Reagan answered questions on national television and denied Administration involvement in an Arms-for-hostages deal. The following week he returned to the airwaves to affirm that weapons were transferred to Iran but he claimed they were not part of an exchange for hostages. The Reagan administration cooperated with the investigation, and no wrongdoing was ever proved.

[[Michael Ledeen]] was an early player in the affair, and eventually arranged for arms sales to Iran though the Iranian arms dealer [[Manucher Ghorbanifar]]. John Poindexter later resigned and later worked in [[George W. Bush]]'s administration. Oliver North was also a major player in the affair. [[Caspar Weinberger]] was indicted, and pardoned by [[George H.W. Bush]].

==Sources==
*[http://www.usdoj.gov/oig/special/9712/ch04p2.htm The CIA-Contra-Crack Cocaine Controversy: A Review of the Justice Department's Investigations and Prosecutions], December 1997

==References==
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[[Category:Iran]]
[[Category:United States History]]

Contras

2007-05-18T14:54:21Z

UncleJalapeno:

{{stub}}The Contras were a collection of guerilla groups and political parties oppressed to the [[Sandanista]] government of [[Nicaragua]] in the 1980s. The [[United States of America|United States]] under President [[Ronald Reagan]] covertly supported the Contras and their death squads.

Revelations of this covert funding fueled the [[Iran-Contra_Affair|Iran-Contra affair]]. [[Oliver North]], who was intimately involved with the funding, is currently a senior correspondent at the [[Fox News Channel]].

The Contras' brutality earned them a wide notoriety. They regularly destroyed health centers, schools, agricultural cooperatives, and community centers-symbols of the Sandinistas' social programs in rural areas. People caught in these assaults were often tortured and killed in the most gruesome ways. People had their testicles cut off, eyes poked out, throats slit, limbs chopped off, and heads chopped off.

Despite their reputation for brutality, the Contras were called the "Moral Equivalent of our Founding Fathers" by President Reagan.

See: [[Boland amendment]].

==Sources ==
*[http://cuban-exile.com/doc_201-225/doc0224.html#Nicaragua Cuba: State Sponsored Terrorism] Nicaragua 1979.
*[[http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Blum/Nicaragua_KH.html]]

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2007-05-18T14:47:09Z

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2007-05-18T14:47:01Z

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Contras

2007-05-18T14:31:47Z

UncleJalapeno:

{{stub}}The Contras were a collection of guerilla groups and political parties oppressed to the [[Sandanista]] government of [[Nicaragua]] in the 1980s. The [[United States of America|United States]] under President [[Ronald Reagan]] covertly supported the Contras and their death squads.

Revelations of this covert funding fueled the [[Iran-Contra_Affair|Iran-Contra affair]]. [[Oliver North]], who was intimately involved with the funding, is currently a senior correspondent at the [[Fox News Channel]].

The Contras' brutality earned them a wide notoriety. They regularly destroyed health centers, schools, agricultural cooperatives, and community centers-symbols of the Sandinistas' social programs in rural areas. People caught in these assaults were often tortured and killed in the most gruesome ways. People had their testicles cut off, eyes poked out, throats slit, limbs chopped off, and heads chopped off.

See: [[Boland amendment]].

==Sources ==
*[http://cuban-exile.com/doc_201-225/doc0224.html#Nicaragua Cuba: State Sponsored Terrorism] Nicaragua 1979.
*[[http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Blum/Nicaragua_KH.html]]

Noam Chomsky

2007-05-18T14:24:41Z

UncleJalapeno: removed POV

[[Image:Chomsky3.gif|right|thumb|130px]]
'''Noam Chomsky''' (born December 7, 1928) is a libertarian socialist linguist who is best known for his writings on politics. He is an institute professor & professor of linguistics (Emeritus) at the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] or MIT<ref>http://web.mit.edu/linguistics/people/faculty/chomsky/index.html</ref>.

He has always been very critical of [[America]]n and [[Israel]]i foreign policy and sympathizes with [[Palestine|Palestinians]] and, according to his opponents, terrorist organizations such as [[Hamas]] and [[Hezbollah]]. He has also been criticized for [[anti-Semitism]] and [[Holocaust]] despite the fact that he is Jewish himself. denial<ref>http://www.jbooks.com/interviews/index/IP_Dershowitz.htm</ref>.

His opponents accuse him of expressing admiration for governmental systems such as the Soviet Union, Chinese and Cambodian governments which are characterized by central control, xenophobia, and rejection of free expression in all its forms. Chomsky counters that he is merely pointing out the West's own crimes and not condoning authoritarian governments that the West opposes. Chomsky identifies himself as a libertarian-socialist who is opposed to both neoliberalism and authoritarianism. <ref>http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=19446</ref>

==Linguistic Works==
===Generative Grammar===
Noam Chomsky advocates the view that the human brain has innate ability to generate gramatical sentences, thus all utterances which is deemed sensical to the speaker is necessarily grammatical, and the only role the liguist should play is to decipher its grammatical structure. This view has been criticized by many linguists as [[nihilism|nihilistic]] in that it rejects the notion of ungrammatical sentences.

===universal grammar===
Noam Chomsky also proposed the theory that a kind of universal grammar, a grammar that underlies all human languages, is hard-wired in the human brain. Thus all human languages are fundamentally the same, with only superficial differences. This theory of universal grammar has been criticized by linguist Geoffrey Sampson as being not falsifiable, arguing that the grammatical generalizations made are simply observations about existing languages and not predictions about what is possible in a language. To this day, the search for such universal grammar has been fruitless.

For decades, Noam Chomsky and his followers have been trying to make sense of sentences such as:
<blockquote>
''Who will be easy for us to get his mother to talk to?''
</blockquote>
which are deemed by ungrammatical by a lot of linguists; by using techniques such as linking theory, anti-c-command requirement, A-positions, Bijection Principle, weakest crossover configurations, bound variable anaphora, asymmetric linking, licensing conditions, index of apronoun, null operator analysis, variable binding, configurational conditions, inappropriate and appropriate antecedents, etc.

== Further Readings ==
*[http://www.paulbogdanor.com/chomskyhoax.html The Chomsky Hoax] by Paul Bogdanor
*[http://oliverkamm.typepad.com/blog/2004/09/an_intellectual.html An Intellectual Crook] by Oliver Kamm
*[http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=23543 Chomsky's New Blood Libel] by Alan Dershowitz

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Columbine High School Massacre

2007-05-18T14:20:28Z

UncleJalapeno: the killers weren't antisports because they both played soccer, they were anti jocks

[[Image:Columbine.jpg|right|thumb|Grieving Columbine students]]
'''Columbine massacre ''' refers to a massacre by two students, Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris,<ref>The official report omits how one of the students had been taken off powerful mind-altering medication, which can lead to dangerous conduct.[http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2000/columbine.cd/Pages/SUSPECTS_TEXT.htm]</ref> of 12 students and a coach at Columbine High School in Littleton, [[Colorado]] on April 20, 1999.

The killers were anti-religion, anti-establishment, antisocial, and anti-gun control; they sought out as victims [[Christianity|Christians]], [[Americans]], and popular athletes. The killers planned their attack beforehand and investigators later found descriptions in their notes about their intentions to kill.

Politicians cited the massacre in their demands for greater [[gun control]], and congressional [[Democratic Party|Democrats]] held highly publicized hearings to pass gun control legislation. But gun control became an issue that hurt Democratic presidential candidate [[Al Gore]] in 2000, causing him to lose the election by losing the traditionally Democratic state of West Virginia, where the right to bear arms is valued. Since the 2000 election there have not been any significant political demands for gun control. [[Liberal]] [[Socialism|socialist]] filmmaker [[Michael Moore]] used the incident as the backdrop for an anti-gun rights documentary, ''Bowling For Columbine''.
[[Image:Eric harris dylan klebold.jpg|right|thumb|Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, perpetrators of the massacre, caught on Columbine High School's security cameras in the cafeteria shortly before committing suicide.]]
A moving photo gallery of the young students is available online.<ref>http://www.acolumbinesite.com/victim/memoriam.html</ref> Also online is the much-criticized official report of the massacre.<ref>http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2000/columbine.cd/Pages/TOC.htm</ref>

In 2005, Daniel Ledonne of Alamosa, Colorado, created a much-criticized video game called ''Super Columbine Massacre RPG!''' which simulates the school shootings took place at Columbine.<ref>http://live.canoe.ca/TheShow/Archives/2006/09/14/1839452.html</ref>
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