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Latest Articles: Editorial
Bipartisan Paradise: Liberals, Bush Unite in Ethnic Cleansing of Iraq
Post Date: 2007-08-24 22:59:40 by tom007
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Bipartisan Paradise: Liberals, Bush Unite in Ethnic Cleansing of Iraq Chris Floyd , Empire Burlesque displaced7.jpg August 24, 2007 The number of Iraqis fleeing their homes has soared since the American troop increase began in February, according to data from two humanitarian groups, accelerating the partition of the country into sectarian enclaves...The effect of this vast migration is to drain religiously mixed areas in the center of Iraq, sending Shiite refugees toward the overwhelmingly Shiite areas to the south and Sunnis toward majority Sunni regions to the west and north. It is now obvious that one impetus behind the "surge" was to accelerate the "ethnic ...
The most easily solved problem in the world
Post Date: 2007-08-24 22:51:05 by tom007
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The most easily solved problem in the world Xymphora August 23, 2007 I think that the Israel-Palestinian problem is the most easily solved problem in the world. It is only Zionist control over the American government and media, together with similar developments in Europe, that are blocking a complete and almost instantaneous settlement. Henry Siegman does an excellent job of describing the Israeli strategy, which is to continue to refuse to negotiate while establishing its 'facts on the ground’. Some excerpts: "In fact, all previous peace initiatives have got nowhere for a reason that neither Bush nor the EU has had the political courage to acknowledge. That reason is the ...
Subprime may be hitting credit cards, too
Post Date: 2007-08-24 22:30:21 by tom007
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Subprime may be hitting credit cards, too Thursday August 23, 12:40 pm ET By Jeanne Sahadi, http://CNNMoney.com senior writer Fallout from the mortgage mess and lower home prices may have started to creep into the credit card arena, judging from July payments and some initial moves by issuers to tighten the screws on cardholders. ADVERTISEMENT After falling for three consecutive months, delinquent payments on credit cards -- defined as more than 30 days late - increased slightly in July, to 4.64 percent from 4.62 percent in June, according to http://CardWeb.com. A year ago, the delinquency rate was 4.18 percent. The amount of credit card debt consumers are paying off, meanwhile, has ...
Buchanan: We Did It To Ourselves – Thanks To Free-Traders
Post Date: 2007-08-24 11:29:21 by Brian S
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"After 34 years with LTV Steel, I was forced to retire because of a disability. Two years later, LTV filed bankruptcy. I lost a third of my pension, and my family lost their health care. Every day of my life, I sit at the kitchen table across from the woman who devoted 36 years of her life to my family, and I can't afford to pay for her health care. What's wrong with America, and what will you do to change it?" It was the most compelling moment of the Democratic debate at Soldier Field. The speaker was retired steelworker Steve Skvara. He stood on crutches, voice breaking, as he spoke. There are millions of Steve Skvaras out there, and what they do not know, in their ...
The Problem Isn’t Mr. Maliki
Post Date: 2007-08-24 09:10:51 by kiki
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Blaming the prime minister of Iraq, rather than the president of the United States, for the spectacular failure of American policy, is cynical politics, pure and simple. It is neither fair nor helpful in figuring out how to end America’s biggest foreign policy fiasco since Vietnam. Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki has been catastrophic for Iraq ever since he took over from the equally disastrous Ibrahim al-Jaafari more than a year ago. America helped engineer Mr. Jaafari’s removal, only to get Mr. Maliki. That tells you something important about whether this is more than a matter of personalities. Mr. Jaafari, as it happens, was Iraq’s first democratically chosen leader ...
Towards Eco-Affluence: The Meaning of the 21st Century
Post Date: 2007-08-23 18:42:18 by farmfriend
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Towards Eco-Affluence: The Meaning of the 21st Century By Jurgen Reinhoudt : BIO| 17 Aug 2007 It takes ambition (at a minimum) to write a book titled "The Meaning of the 21st century." James Martin, a graduate of Oxford who made a fortune in the computer industry, has done an admirable job in this endeavor: after talking with a diverse group of leaders and thinkers such as Hernando de Soto, Rudy Giuliani, John McCain, Gordon Moore [of Intel fame and Moore's law], and others, he put his own thoughts on paper, outlining the challenges facing humanity in the next 100 years. Martin is environmentally conscious, but not ideological. For example, he compliments Friedrich Hayek: ...
Tipping Point [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2007-08-23 09:52:10 by christine
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My name is Edgar J. Steele. I believe that America, finally, has achieved critical mass and simultaneously has reached or is approaching her "tipping point" regarding a great many issues. Tipping points inherently are deceptive. Overtly, one perceives a sudden, dramatic shift, often without notice. Unlike schoolyard teeter-totters, however, the required force usually is not applied all at once. Let me give you a personal example. When I was younger and even more foolish than today, I smoked cigarettes. "Everybody did it," as they say, in those days. Gradually, my disgust with the habit outgrew the coolness that I imagined cigarettes imparted, Bogart-like, to my image, ...
A British viewpoint, as Bush's power wanes
Post Date: 2007-08-22 16:21:41 by tom007
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A British viewpoint, as Bush's power wanes If you're a flag-wavin', Bible-thumpin', my-country-right-or-wrong, George-W.-Bush-lovin', war-cheerin', self-styled "patriot," don't read this news item. The observations and political analysis of the news commentator that it summarizes are - well, let's just say you probably won't agree with them. A woman received emergency care in northern Iraq last week; she was injured in a coordinated series of suicide bombings that killed more than 300 people and injured some 400 others AP A woman received emergency care in northern Iraq last week; she was injured in a coordinated series of suicide bombings ...
As pressure for Iraq pull-out mounts, is Bush listening?
Post Date: 2007-08-22 16:16:00 by tom007
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As pressure for Iraq pull-out mounts, is Bush listening? Everybody's talking about George W. Bush, Jr.'s costly, aimless, tragically failed Iraq war. Everybody's talking about the fact that everybody's talking about it, too. Conietha Zapfe kissed the flag-draped coffin of her husband, an American soldier who was killed in Iraq, at his burial in Dry Ridge, Kentucky, last week AP Everybody except Bush himself, that is. Yesterday's lead editorial in the New York Times ("The Road Home"), a 1733-word shot of reason heard round the world calling for Team Bush to fold its blood-stained tent in Iraq and bring American troops home, made news overseas in its own ...
Whose Iraq is it anyway - and what role for France?
Post Date: 2007-08-22 16:02:00 by tom007
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Whose Iraq is it anyway - and what role for France? What does a puppet master do when his puppet has a mind of his own? About The Author Edward M. Gomez (photo)Edward M. Gomez, a former U.S. diplomat and staff reporter at TIME, has lived and worked in the U.S. and overseas, and speaks several languages. He has written for The New York Times, the Japan Times and the International Herald Tribune. George W. Bush is mumbling words of displeasure because Iraq's prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, the head of a democratically elected government, is not, he claims, doing enough to resolve the civil strife and chaos in his war-ravaged country that have been the hallmarks of the period of the ...
America and Venezuela - Constitutional Worlds Apart
Post Date: 2007-08-22 07:38:15 by Stephen Lendman
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America and Venezuela: Constitutional Worlds Apart - by Stephen Lendman Although imperfect, no country anywhere is closer to a model democracy than Venezuela under President Hugo Rafael Chavez Frias. In contrast, none is a more shameless failure than America, but it was true long before the age of George W. Bush. The difference under his regime is that the mask is off revealing a repressive state masquerading as a democratic republic. This article compares the constitutional laws of each country and how they're implemented. The result shows world's apart differences between these two nominally democratic states - one that's real, impressive and improving and the other ...
Dennis Miller: The Ultimate American Failure
Post Date: 2007-08-21 11:53:28 by Brian S
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You have to feel a little sorry for Dennis Miller. He has become such a professional failure and so personally unpleasant that you almost wish God would relieve him of the misery which is his life. However, there are some who take joy in Dennis Miller’s constant failures because no matter how bad their careers get, they can always say, “Well, at least I’m not Dennis Miller.” Dennis had his better days. I remember my friends and I would watch Saturday Night Live every weekend in the mid-eighties. When the “Weekend Update” segment came on, we would laugh so hard as to spit out whatever we were eating. Dennis Miller’s commentary was witty, relevant, and ...
How Super Was Our Power Anyway?
Post Date: 2007-08-20 22:33:14 by kiki
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The Nation -- Pick up the paper any day and you'll find tiny straws in the wind (or headlines inside the fold) reflecting the seeping away of American power. The President of the planet's "sole superpower" and his top diplomats and commanders have been denouncing Iran for months as the evil hand behind American disaster in Iraq as well as Afghanistan. So imagine, when President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan arrived in Washington a couple of weeks back and promptly described Iran as "a helper and a solution" for his country, even as President Bush insisted in his presence: "I would be very cautious about whether or not the Iranian influence in Afghanistan is a ...
Erectile Dysfunction - An Epiphany [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2007-08-19 17:51:58 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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I had an epiphany today that I would like to share concerning erectile dysfunction. First a little background information. I live in a small town deep in the heart of the the Baptist Bible belt. While shopping at the local grocery store today, I couldn't help but notice the number of extremely obese women walking around. As Burkeman1 would say, they were steaming "tubs of goo." This is not odd at all. I don't know if it's a Baptist thing or what, but it is quite common to see women pushing 400 pounds in this town. It's really quite disgusting. Anyway, I digress. When I came home I turned on the television and scrolled through the channels to see if there were any ...
A Closssal Enigma
Post Date: 2007-08-18 23:54:41 by tom007
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http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/esp_baalbek_1.htm
Let Americans challenge eavesdropping
Post Date: 2007-08-18 23:17:32 by kiki
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There has to be a way for ordinary people to challenge the government's right to monitor their international phone calls and e-mail without court warrants. President George W. Bush clearly doesn't want that to happen. His administration is using a catch-22 legal strategy to derail any lawsuits that question the surveillance. That's intolerable. Somebody outside the executive branch needs to take a hard look at these government programs to judge whether they're legal. National security is important, but so is the privacy guaranteed by the Constitution's ban on unreasonable searches. The courts need to find a balance that would allow these cases to be litigated. ...
debt culture gone awry (how Arabs & Persians see America)
Post Date: 2007-08-18 12:13:36 by Red Jones
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debt culture gone awry By Hamid Varzi Friday, August 17, 2007 TEHRAN: The U.S. economy, once the envy of the world, is now viewed across the globe with suspicion. America has become shackled by an immovable mountain of debt that endangers its prosperity and threatens to bring the rest of the world economy crashing down with it. The ongoing sub-prime mortgage crisis, a result of irresponsible lending policies designed to generate commissions for unscrupulous brokers, presages far deeper problems in a U.S. economy that is beginning to resemble a giant smoke-and-mirrors Ponzi scheme. And this has not been lost on the rest of the world. This new reality has had unfortunate side effects ...
James Petras: Rethinking Development of L. America and Caribbean
Post Date: 2007-08-18 11:09:05 by robin
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James Petras: Rethinking Development of L. America and Caribbean The combination of privatization, pillage and mergers of the 1990’s and the astronomical world prices of the past 7 years has created enormous budget surpluses and massive private fortunes. The Palestine Chronicle is 100% reader-supported. If you find our publication worthwhile and valuable, we urge you to subscribe to our online edition today. Without your voluntary subscription the Chronicle cannot survive. Subscribe Now By James PetrasSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com IntroductionLatin America and the Caribbean (LAC) are passing through a deep process of devolution during the last quarter century of ...
No Rich People were harmed in making this recession
Post Date: 2007-08-17 23:16:12 by kiki
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We got a federvention last night. Wages bad? Wish the recession shorter, the way the NBER did. Inflation takes off - simply ignore the parts you don't like and call the rest "core" inflation. But a stock market correction that threatens to unravel the lives of thousands of future Republican donors and the arabs they will work for... Panic! In 2001 I told everyone that Bernanke was going to be the next Chairman of the Fed. Unlike most people, it seems, I and whoever is in charge in the White House had actually read Bernanke's papers - he basically writes about how a conservative Fed could have bailed out the conservative political order in 1930, and how conservatives can ...
Oberman segment derides Glenn Beck and John Birch Society ('bunch of nuts')
Post Date: 2007-08-17 10:30:16 by Artisan
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(Not sure of original air date) Keith Oberman's "worst person in the world" segment: (go to 1:14) Oberman: "but our winner, Glenn Beck, talking about this PHONY issue of immigration reform which is code for hatred of mexicans.. welcomed a guest from the JBS- in fact actually said '"when i was growing up, the john birch society, i thought they were a bunch of nuts. however you guys are starting to make more and more sense to me". A group that said FDR knew about pearl harbor in advance..the group that opposed the civil righs act and osha..giving back the panama canal. the group that called president eisnehower a communist.. is starting to make more and ...
Debunking Portland: The Public Transit Myth
Post Date: 2007-08-16 14:05:33 by farmfriend
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Debunking Portland: The Public Transit Myth By Randal O'Toole : BIO| 15 Aug 2007 The mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and a cadre of other top officials recently flew to Portland, Oregon, my hometown, to learn the wonders of the region's rail transit system. Portland's Mayor Tom Potter no doubt told them light rail was "a cornerstone of the city's success." Potter or former Portland city Commissioner Charles Hales probably bragged that the city's streetcar line "has sparked more than $2 billion in new developments." Unless they had gone out of their way on their junket, the visiting dignitaries were unlikely to hear the other side of the story: ...
The Terror of Ethanol
Post Date: 2007-08-16 13:44:04 by farmfriend
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The Terror of Ethanol By John Baden : BIO| 16 Aug 2007 I write this while preparing for the Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment's second conference of the summer for federal judges. The first program focused on energy, while this one is on terrorism and civil society. The two seemingly distinct topics intersect as politicians opportunistically seek justifications to curry favors and further the interests of constituents and contributors. Exploiting fear of terrorism exemplifies political opportunism working in the drive to promote ethanol. U.S. Senator John Thune (R-SD) recently pronounced: "Countries such as Venezuela currently make a hefty profit from ...
A Verdict on Padilla - and the U.S.
Post Date: 2007-08-15 06:05:09 by Ada
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A Monitor series reveals the damage done to a citizen's rights and thus the US ability to wage this war. A critical legal case shedding light on President Bush's antiterror tactics will soon come to a head. A jury will decide in coming days if an American citizen, Jose Padilla, is guilty of aiding Al Qaeda. The verdict will signal whether US civic values must be bent to win a war. A three-part Monitor series reveals the troubling ways in which the administration shifted charges against Mr. Padilla, tried to avoid judicial review of his case, and likely damaged his mental health by using extreme isolation to extract information from him. (See final story.) The ordeal of this ...
Secret Government Promises Big Changes
Post Date: 2007-08-15 02:14:39 by robin
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The secret government of the US and EU has promised a major overhaul in the wake of the warning it got from the Chinese secret society, according to a senior Japanese public security police officer and Freemason who has been acting as an intermediary with the Chinese secret society. "Expect big changes this autumn," he said in comments confirmed by a member of the Japanese royal family. "What you will be seeing is the unwinding of George Bush, senior's 50-year campaign to turn the U.S. into a fascist regime," the secret police agent says. "George Bush senior is now a broken man showing signs of senile dementia," he adds. "They [The illuminati] know ...
Karl Rove Out There Walking The Streets
Post Date: 2007-08-14 23:46:16 by kiki
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Whenever we talk about criminals, we traditionally worry that somehow they'll slip through the cracks and end up "out there walking the streets." No-one wants the freakdogs of society out there walking around on our goddamn socialized streets. But there he goes anyway... Karl Rove, the second most infamous villain of our time, leaving the White House at the end of the month. And then what? He'll be out there walking the streets. Personally, I'd rather have Karl Rove in the White House where he's preoccupied by this uproariously laughable effort to make the Bush administration sound capable and popular. One of the more recent and ridiculous lines he probably ...
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