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Robert Fisk: The only lesson we ever learn is that we never learn ROBERT FISK
Post Date: 2008-03-19 20:07:24 by tom007
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Robert Fisk: The only lesson we ever learn is that we never learn Reuters/Jeff Mitchell President George Bush addresses US Army soldiers and their families at Fort Hood, Texas, 3 January 2003. Bush addressed the possiblity of military action against Iraq Wednesday, 19 March 2008 Five years on, and still we have not learnt. With each anniversary, the steps crumble beneath our feet, the stones ever more cracked, the sand ever finer. Five years of catastrophe in Iraq and I think of Churchill, who in the end called Palestine a "hell-disaster". But we have used these parallels before and they have drifted away in the Tigris breeze. Iraq is swamped in blood. Yet what is the ...
Bush Is Wrecking Not Only America, But Japan (By a Former Class Mate of the Smirk)
Post Date: 2008-03-19 17:11:38 by tom007
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Bush Is Wrecking Not Only America, But Japan [Analysis] Tokyo and other Asian markets continue to fall Yoshi Tsurumi (internews) Email Article Print Article Published 2008-03-19 11:11 (KST) Recently, America's Federal Reserve rescued the bankrupt Bear Sterns, a large investment banker. It was the desperate attempt at arresting the global spread of US-made meltdown of global financial markets. However, Tokyo, and other Asian markets continued to fall. None trusted America's ability to repair the Bush-Cheney wrecking of the US and the world. Japanese financial institutions and pension funds have long been sweet-talked by the Wall Street into buying the now defunct sub-prime ...
Obama bill: $845 billion
more for global poverty
Post Date: 2008-03-19 12:25:42 by James Deffenbach
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Obama bill: $845 billion more for global poverty © 2008 WorldNetDaily Barak Obam Sen. Barack Obama, perhaps giving America a preview of priorities he would pursue if elected president, is rejoicing over the Senate committee passage of a plan that could end up costing taxpayers billions of dollars in an attempt to reduce poverty in other nations. The bill, called the Global Poverty Act, is the type of legislation, "We can – and must – make … a priority," said Obama, a co-sponsor. It would demand that the president develop "and implement" a policy to "cut extreme global poverty in half by 2015 through aid, trade, debt relief" and other ...
China's pollution nightmare is now everyone's pollution nightmare
Post Date: 2008-03-19 09:09:18 by angle
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The emergence of China as a dominant economic power is an epochal event, occasioning the most massive and rapid redistribution of the earth's resources in human history. The country has also become a ravenous consumer. Its appetite for raw materials drives up international commodity prices and shipping rates while its middle class, projected to jump to 700 million by 2020, is learning the gratifications of consumerism. The catch is that China has become not just the world's manufacturer but its despoiler, on a scale as monumental as its economic expansion. A fourth of the country is now desert. More than three-fourths of its forests have disappeared. Each year, uncontrollable ...
The Obama Bargain [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2008-03-18 17:04:42 by mirage
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Geraldine Ferraro may have had sinister motives when she said that Barack Obama would not be "in his position" as a frontrunner but for his race. Possibly she was acting as Hillary Clinton's surrogate. Or maybe she was simply befuddled by this new reality -- in which blackness could constitute a political advantage. But whatever her motives, she was right: "If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position." Barack Obama is, of course, a very talented politician with a first-rate political organization at his back. But it does not detract from his merit to say that his race is also a large part of his prominence. And it is undeniable that something ...
Everyone here is flumoxed about why the president is in such a fine mood.
Post Date: 2008-03-18 02:37:25 by Zoroaster
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By MAUREEN DOWD Published: March 16, 2008 WASHINGTON Skip to next paragraph Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times Maureen Dowd Go to Columnist Page » Readers' Comments Share your thoughts on this Op-Ed column. Read All Comments (630) » Everyone here is flummoxed about why the president is in such a fine mood. The dollar’s crumpling, the recession’s thundering, the Dow’s bungee-jumping and the world’s disapproving, yet George Bush has turned into Gene Kelly, tap dancing and singing in a one-man review called “The Most Happy Fella.” “I’m coming to you as an optimistic fellow,” he told the Economic Club of New York on Friday. His ...
Reverend Jeremiah Wright: Anti-American Or A Man Speaking Truth To Power [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2008-03-17 12:19:30 by Brian S
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There has been quite a furry over the past week concerning some admittedly controversial statements made by Senator Obama's pastor, Reverend Jeremiah Wright. Yet if we look at Rev. Wright's statements in full context, they are nothing more than a man speaking truth to power. Rather than acknowledge the truth about the dark past of America, and in some instances the present, we are quick to charge anyone who removes the veil of our history as being racist and/or anti-American. African American religious leaders have historically combined sociology, theology and politics. In some instances, it has been done to inspire change, and in other instances, to inspire awareness. Dr. Martin ...
Bush v. Chavez - An Update
Post Date: 2008-03-17 06:11:32 by Stephen Lendman
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Bush v. Chavez - An Update - by Stephen Lendman Imagine the following - the nation Martin Luther King called "The Greatest Purveyor of Violence in the World Today" may brand democratic Venezuela a state sponsor of terrorism if extremist lawmakers on the Hill get their way. On March 12, George Bush accused Hugo Chavez of backing Colombian-based "terrorists" and using Venezuela's oil wealth for an anti-American campaign. He further claimed Chavez has a "thirst for power....of squander(ing his country's) oil wealth....of prais(ing a) terrorist leader as a good revolutionary and order(ing) his troops to the Colombian border. This is the latest step in a ...
A Bear Stearns Market
Post Date: 2008-03-16 21:22:33 by ...
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Panic is old hat on Wall Street. Rarely before, however, has there been a crisis so comprehensive as this one. It first materialized last summer in the shape of a disturbance in the low-rated, or subprime, mortgage market. "Contained," the regulatory establishment hopefully pronounced. But it has blazed across markets and time zones, with central bankers, politicians and Treasury functionaries in hot and, to date, futile pursuit. What makes these proceedings so frightening is that not only is credit in crisis but so, too, is money. There are well-founded doubts about the promises to pay money and about the nature and integrity of the dollar itself. So it was on Friday that the ...
The resignation of Admiral Fallon will provoke renewed fighting in Iraq
Post Date: 2008-03-16 20:44:37 by robin
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George Bush will play all he’s got The resignation of Admiral Fallon will provoke renewed fighting in Iraq by Thierry Meyssan* voltairenet.orgContrary to what has been written so far in the mainstream media, Admiral William Fallon was not removed because he was opposing President Bush on an attack against Iran. He resigned from his own initiative after the agreement he had negotiated and concluded with Tehran, Moscow and Peking was sabotaged by the White House. This decision by the Bush administration will provoke renewed fighting in Iraq and exposes gravely the GI's to a new Resistance this time supported without restraints from the outside. It was nearly 22h GMT, on Tuesday ...
Spend rebate on beer
Post Date: 2008-03-16 13:07:41 by PSUSA
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President Bush said we can get up to a $1,200 tax rebate. Now, if we spend that money at Wal-Mart, all the money will go to China. If we spend it on computers, most of the money will go to Korea or India. If we spend it on gasoline it will all go to the Middle East. None of these scenarios will help the American economy. We need to keep that money here in America, so the only way to keep that money here at home is to drink beer, gamble or spend it on prostitution. Currently it seems that these are the only businesses still left in the United States.
Poster Comment:In other words, GO TO VEGAS! We are so screwed. LOL
Breakdancing Drunks on the Edge of a Cliffr
Post Date: 2008-03-16 08:51:32 by Zoroaster
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Sunday, March 16 Breakdancing Drunks on the Edge of a Cliff. Looking behind the news… or deeper into the news, as you prefer, it starts to look like a video of extreme skateboarders and off road bikers on cheap wine and PCP. Sometimes it looks like an army of crazed suits, chasing gold dust in a windstorm across the desert of the Sierra Madre. In the meantime, entire nations are displaced or forced behind high walls and razor wire and used for target practice. At the same time we are treated to endless details of the vainest and emptiest lives anyone can imagine. When you really look at it, really look at it, it is madness at all levels. It is mad to engage in it. It is madness to ...
TBR News March 14, 2008
Post Date: 2008-03-15 14:46:01 by gengis gandhi
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TBR News March 14, 2008 The Voice of the White House Washington , D.C. , March 13, 2008 : “Interesting piece of news of the duplicity of everyone inside the Beltway. The McCain people are terrified lest Crazy John’s religious nut preachers’ jabberings make serious trouble for him. In a typical alliance, the Clinton people have given the McCain people some tapes of a very emotional Chicago black minister, attacking the white establishment for years of harassment of the black community. The McCain people, in turn, using Karl Rove’s hate networks, are planning a Swift Boat type of attack on Obama to deflect public attention from McCain’s vicious friends in the ...
Spitzer taken down by Mossad?
Post Date: 2008-03-14 20:47:13 by robin
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Spitzer taken down by Mossad?By Jerry MazzaOnline Journal Associate Editor Mar 14, 2008, 00:36 Eliot Spitzer took on Wall Street like no other attorney general before him. As the Washington Post reported in 2004, “His targets in the past have included everyone from big Wall Street investment banks and the $7.5 trillion mutual fund industry to polluting power plants and supermarket chains that underpaid delivery workers.” Additionally, Wayne Madsen reports [subscription required] that “Defense sources have confirmed our March 11, 2008, report that Emperors Club VIP, the prostitution firm that entangled New York’s outgoing Governor Eliot Spitzer in a call girl ring, ...
Sun-powered drying
Post Date: 2008-03-14 20:10:10 by Dakmar
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Saving energy can be as simple as not opening the dryer door. Just hang those freshly laundered clothes on the green-as-green-can-be contraption known as a clothesline. Time and (if the device is outdoors) Ol' Sol will drip-dry them just fine, without electricity or natural gas. But not, alas, in many of America's subdivisions. As a Chapel Hill woman frustratingly found out, many neighborhood covenants -- deed restrictions governing what homeowners may and may not do -- prohibit outdoor clothes drying. Not attractive, apparently. And back when few people worried about energy consumption, why bother? That didn't seem right to Deborah Fulghieri, a fan of fresh-air drying who ...
GOT ILLEGALS? GET USED TO IT!
Post Date: 2008-03-13 23:53:30 by X-15
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If your slow simmer turns to a rolling boil every time you hear of another illegal who’s raped an 8 year old, run over a cop or driven his car into a nursing home while under the influence, chances are you won’t cool down after the November presidential election. The so-called ‘front-runners’ from the “Big Box” parties are just hankering for more amnesty which means more illegals and more of the invasion that is destroying our country. Take McCain (please). He’s trying to do damage control on his pro-amnesty track record by reworking the rhetoric while playing both sides against the middle. Conservatives who’ve been paying attention will remember ...
Copy Of Emani to Tom007 From Joint Forces Command )Surprised)
Post Date: 2008-03-13 16:09:23 by tom007
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Thank you for your email. Your copy will be sent Friday. -----Original Message----- From: tomjacxxxxxxxyahoo.com [mailto:toxxxxxxyahoo.com] Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 3:29 PM To: Your, Gregg P. CIV US USJFCOM J00 Cc: Rudinsky, Melanie M. CTR US USJFCOM J7; Grunwald, Jean V. CTR US USJFCOM J7 Subject: USJFCOM Public Feedback Feedback has been submitted for USJFCOM From: THomas Jackson Message: "Navy Capt. Dennis Moynihan, a spokesman for the Norfolk, Va.-based Joint Forces Command, said, "We're making the report available to anyone who wishes to have it, and we'll send it out via CD in the mail." I am requesting said CD. Tom Jackson 262 XXXXXXXX Colorado ...
Alan Dershowitz supports torture, national identity papers
Post Date: 2008-03-13 15:22:26 by X-15
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2001-11-08 17:15:50 Alan Dershowitz spoke to a packed crowd at the Jewish Community Center in Creve Coeur, St. Louis, on Sunday, as the opening speaker for the Jewish Book Fair. The celebrity lawyer and once-famous civil libertarian said that he supports not only identification papers but also court-ordered torture. “Civil rights activists need to re-adjust their thinking due to recent terrorist attacks,” said Dershowitz. Dershowitz says that his new support for police-state measures is “not totally out of line with” his past policies, but rather are a natural outgrowth of them. According to the civil libertarian, fourth amendment and fifth amendment freedoms cannot be ...
Destroying American Culture: Multiculturalism
Post Date: 2008-03-13 10:10:52 by christine
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Less than 30 years ago, most everything in America enjoyed the moniker "All American." Sports heroes became "All Americans." When you bought a product, it read, "Made in America." Everyone spoke English and raised their hands to their hearts while saying, "I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God with liberty and justice for all." Our leaders, with their open-borders approach to life, dismantles the fabric of a successful nation. Which is it – free market economy, or forced Multiculturalism? “Many liberals hear talk of national culture and shout ...
Caption The Dees Illustration
Post Date: 2008-03-12 22:45:30 by wakeup
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On my Home page: www.onedollardvdproject.com is a sign-up box which leads to a Thank You page: www.onedollardvdproject.c...-new/Thanks_Pictures.html with lots of Dees Illustrations. Please, for fun, help me caption them with something clever. Then, I will add the best new captions to each illustration.
Spitzer's Troubles May Hurt Clinton
Post Date: 2008-03-12 13:18:05 by christine
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For a supporter, New York Gov. Eliot L. Spitzer (D) sure hasn't done Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) any favors lately. After all, it was Spitzer who, in the view of her advisers, caused the slide that put her where she is today, fighting from behind for the Democratic presidential nomination. A question about his proposal to let illegal immigrants get driver's licenses tripped her up in a debate in late October and ended 10 months of unquestioned dominance in the race for the nomination. Now, his apparent involvement with a prostitution ring has not only distracted attention from her efforts to take down the front-runner, Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), it has also brought back ...
Are We Closer to War?
Post Date: 2008-03-12 13:17:53 by robin
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Are We Closer to War?By Dan FroomkinSpecial to washingtonpost.comWednesday, March 12, 2008; 11:51 AMThe abrupt resignation yesterday of the top U.S. commander in the Middle East, Admiral William J. "Fox" Fallon, has sparked a new round of speculation that President Bush and Vice President Cheney have some sort of plan in the works to attack Iran before their time is up.Fallon's resignation -- or firing -- was apparently precipitated in part by a recent Esquire profile that depicted him as brazenly pushing back against the White House hawks eager to launch another war.Now it turns out that what Thomas P.M. Barnett, a former Naval War College professor, wrote in that profile was ...
Buchanan: To Die For NAFTA
Post Date: 2008-03-12 11:23:18 by Brian S
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"The commonest error in politics," said Lord Salisbury, "is sticking to the carcass of dead policies." Lord Salisbury's rule comes to mind on reading of John McCain's delight at the $40 billion contract awarded the French-led parent of Airbus — to build the next generation of U.S. Air Force tankers. The contract could run to $100 billion and is a body blow to Boeing in its duel to the death with Airbus. Two-thirds of all air-to-air refueling tankers are used by the United States. The contract gives a 30-year lease on life to the expiring Airbus A330 and means early death for Boeing's 767, the U.S. model for the tanker. Congratulating himself for ...
An admiral takes on the White House
Post Date: 2008-03-11 15:44:54 by tom007
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An admiral takes on the White House By Gareth Porter WASHINGTON - A new article on CENTCOM commander Admiral William Fallon confirms that his public statements last autumn ruling out war against Iran were not coordinated with the White House and landed him in trouble more than once with President George W Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. In an admiring article on Fallon in Esquire, former Pentagon official Thomas P M Barnett writes that Fallon angered the White House by "brazenly challenging" Bush on his aggressive threat of war against Tehran. Barnett also cites "well-placed observers" as saying Bush may soon replace Fallon with a "more pliable" ...
Radio Fear America
Post Date: 2008-03-11 13:34:56 by Brian S
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Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia read the funnies over the radio to cheer up New Yorkers during a newspaper strike. President Franklin Roosevelt gave “fireside chats” to bolster Americans during the depression. President Bush used his radio address on Saturday to try to scare Americans into believing they have to sacrifice their rights and their values to combat terrorism. Mr. Bush announced that he had vetoed the 2008 intelligence budget because it contains a clause barring the C.I.A. from torturing prisoners. Mr. Bush told the nation that it “would take away one of the most valuable tools in the war on terror — the C.I.A. program to detain and question key terrorist leaders ...
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