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Two daughters lost in conflict. Two mothers searching for answers. Two nations divided by the land they share. HBO Documentary Films presents the story of two young casualties of terrorism, and of older wounds that have yet to heal: To Die in Jerusalem
To Die in Jerusalem recounts the heart-wrenching story of two teenaged girls – one a 17-year-old Israeli student named Rachel Levy, the other an 18-year-old Palestinian student/suicide bomber named Ayat al-Akhras – who died together in a Jerusalem market in March 2002. The horrific incident ignited international outrage because of the age and similarities of the two girls, and set in motion a quest on the part of Rachel’s mother, Abigail Levy, to arrange a one-on-one meeting with her counterpart, Um Samir. The result was an underscoring of the tension and resentments that persist among Israelis and Palestinians – and undermine the desire on both sides to find common ground and forge lasting peace.
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Please listen to our interview this morning with Dahr Jamail, author of “Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches From an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq.” You can listen in the archives, as he was just on live. Go to: BASHAM & CORNELL RADIO The show airs weekday mornings at 8 a.m. Pacific Time on AM 1230 KLAV in Las Vegas and simulcast on the web.
He is an American hero, he has shown courage way beyond, even unrealistic expectations, he literally risked his life… in the service of the truth. He is an independent journalist who has covered the Middle East for more than four years. He has reported extensively from inside Iraq, and has also reported from Syria, Turkey, Lebanon, and Jordan.
Dahr Jamail, and he writes for the Inter Press Service, Asia Times, and many other outlets. His reports have been published in the Nation, the Sunday Herald, the Guardian, Foreign Policy in Focus, and the Independent, among other publications.
The term New World Order (NWO) has been used by numerous politicians for many years, and is a generic term used to refer to a worldwide conspiracy being created by an extremely powerful and influential group of individuals (at least at the highest levels) which include many of the world's wealthiest people, top political leaders, and corporate elite, as well as members of the so-called whose goal is to create a One World Government, stripped of nationalistic and regional boundaries, that is totally obedient to their agenda.
The corporate alliance of the NWO is dominated by international bankers, oil companies and pharmaceutical cartels, as well as other major multinational corporations. The decision making nerve centers of this effort are in London, Basel Switzerland, and Brussels (NATO headquarters).
The intention of the New World Order is to gain complete control over every person and to eventually reduce the world's population by nearly two-thirds. This would give the ultra elite of the world the opportunity to create the "perfect society" in their minds.
Many see obvious signs within the political realm that point to this becoming a reality, sooner than we think. The bulging Mideast wars, the rapid collapse of the U.S economy, and the reduction of many of the rights and freedoms previously enjoyed in America.
In 1992, Dr John Coleman published Conspirators Hierarchy: The Story of the Committee of 300. With laudable scholarship and meticulous research, Dr Coleman identifies the players and carefully details the New World Order agenda of worldwide domination and control. On page 161 of the Conspirators Hierarchy, Dr Coleman accurately summarizes the intent and purpose of the Committee of 300 as follows:
"A One World Government and one-unit monetary system, under permanent non-elected hereditary oligarchists who self-select from among their numbers in the form of a feudal system as it was in the Middle Ages.
In this One World entity, population will be limited by restrictions on the number of children per family, wars, famines, until 1 billion people who are useful to the ruling class, in areas which will be strictly and clearly defined, remain as the total world population.
There will be no middle class, only the extremely rich and the extremely poor. All laws will be similar under a legal system of world courts practicing the same code of laws, backed up by a One World Government police force and a One World unified military force to enforce laws in all former countries where no national boundaries shall exist.
The system will be on the basis of a welfare state; those who are obedient and subservient to the One World Government will be rewarded with the means to live; those who are rebellious will simply be starved to death or be declared outlaws, thus a target for anyone who wishes to kill them. Privately owned firearms or weapons of any kind will be prohibited."
The NWO conspirators manifest their agenda through the skillful manipulation of human emotions, especially fear. In the past centuries, they have repeatedly utilized a plan that NWO researcher and author David Icke has characterized in his latest book, The Biggest Secret, as Problem, Reaction, and Solution.
According to Icke, NWO strategists create the Problem by funding,assembling, and training an "opposition" group to stimulate turmoil in an established political power (sovereign country, region, continent, etc.) that they wish to impinge upon and thus create opposing factions in a conflict that the NWO themselves maneuvered into existence. In recent decades, so called opposition groups are usually identified in the media as 'freedom fighters' or "liberators."
Meanwhile the leader of the established political power where the war is being orchestrated is demonized and,referred to as "another Hitler" such as they did with Saddam Hussein.
The war is drawn to the world stage by the controlled media outlets with a barrage of photos and video tape reports of bloody deaths suffered by innocent civilians.
The leaders of all major industrial countries like the United States, England, Germany, Italy, Australia, New Zealand, etc. are active participants in this conspiracy.
In this century, the degree of control exerted by the NWO has advanced to the point that only certain hand-picked individuals, who have been specifically chosen, are even eligible to become the Prime Minister or President of countries like England, Germany, or The United States.
It is said that many of the major wars, economic upheavals and political dissension over the past several years was created and instituted by this elitist group. These various tragedies brought profit to those of the corporate powers involved, the greater gain will be the unveiling of the New World Order.
Is there a New World Order? Was the installation of George W Bush into the presidency, the unwarranted attack on Iraq and soon Iran, the coming economic collapse, and the taking of Americans rights and privacy a part of it?
Perhaps the actions of George W Bush and those who appear to enable him, coupled with famous quotes of the past from those in positions to know can answer that very question.
"Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it." - Woodrow Wilson
"[The New World Order] cannot happen without U.S. participation, as we are the most
significant single component. Yes, there will be a New World Order, and it will force the United
States to change it's perceptions." -- Henry Kissenger, World Affairs Council Press Conference,
Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel , April 19th 1994
Labels: bush, neocon agenda, New World Order
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The State Department, which admitted this week that it can’t say “specifically what it received” for the $1.2 billion it paid DynCorp, ostensibly to train the Iraqi police—other than that somebody got an Olympic-size swimming pool out of the deal.
Draining the U.S treasury: Another phase of the New World Order!
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Larry, at 4:25 AM
The Ugly Republican America
A. Alexander:
There is something inherently ugly about this new Republican America. For a long time this ugliness was more felt or sensed than it was identifiable and quantifiable. Now, however, Republican-culture-generated ugliness is everywhere.
In Jena, Louisiana a group of black kids decided to muster around a tree that had always been the domain of the school's white kids. Apparently appalled by the audacity of the young African-American students, the white kids decided to place a noose in the tree. Some of the parents in Jena claimed it was "just a joke." Sure, and it was a real knee-slapping hoot only a little more than a generation ago, when the black kids' grandparents were hanging from the end of that noose.
But that is the new Republican America. The indefensible is reduced to the knowingly false claim that it was all just a big joke. Hanging a noose in a tree to scare away black kids -- a warning of what might come next if the warning isn't heeded -- isn't abhorrent and hateful behavior, it is funny. That is to say, it is funny until the black kids kick the snot out of one of the white boys that threatened them with death by hanging. Then, when that happens, it is a crime ... and the black kids go to jail.
For those inclined to believe that the Jena situation is all about "crazy Liberals" making a mountain out of a molehill, it isn't. It is about Republican culture trying to make a molehill out of a mountain. That is to say, since Bush Republicanism became the cultural driving force in America -- closely marked by the rise of FOX News and GOP propaganda radio -- the use of the noose as a tool to intimidate African-Americans has become a national epidemic. Construction workers, college students and even town mayors have been made victims of the Republican noose. It doesn't get any uglier than race-based intimidation, but that is the reality in the new Republican America.
Ugly as threatening to hang Jena's black students from the schoolyard tree might have been to people with a conscience, it didn't resonate across American society. Somehow people managed to either shrug it off or they didn't connect the act with the cause. They just weren't able to link the ugliness of the noose with the ugliness of Republican policies that undermine affirmative action and nurture the notion of the dominance of a white Christian culture.
The American people seem unable to connect acts of race-based terrorism to Republican ugliness, but they might be able to connect Mister Bush and the Republican Party's grotesque disregard for the welfare of America's children with the ugliness that is the new Republican America.
Congressional Democrats had sent Mister Bush a bill that would have helped provide health care for 10 million uninsured American children, but the President claimed the $35 billion price tag was too much. Within days, however, George W. Bush demanded another $46 billion -- in addition to the current 2008 total of nearly $150 billion -- for his war fetish.
Perhaps after Bush's escalated war funding request, realizing that the President had become willing to expend tens of billions of dollars that he had previously seemed unwilling to spend, Democrats adjusted their child health care bill and Congress passed it again. Mister Bush, however, quickly threatened a second veto and, "accused Democratic lawmakers on Friday of wasting time by passing legislation to expand children's health coverage."
Funding an ongoing, never-ending lost war is, for Mister Bush and Republicans, an honorable thing ... providing health care for children, literally saving the lives of thousands of American kids, is an example of Congress "wasting time." It really doesn't get uglier than that, but that ugliness is the new Republican America.
Still don't think there is a new Republican America - an extremely ugly Republican version of America that now dominates our culture? Please, explain Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo Bay and the United States government's torture policies and the ease with which it is all rationalized away by FOX News and Republican propaganda radio. Well?
Welcome to the very ugly America ... the new Republican America. The America where threatening to lynch black kids is considered "a joke," the America where sick kids are left to fend for themselves so the President can indulge his lust for war, and the America where torture is somehow excused as if it were little more than an obstinate child's poor behavior.
The New Republican America: Another Part of the New World Order.
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Larry, at 4:28 AM
New York Times:
America’s allies and increasingly the American public are playing a ghoulish guessing game: Will President Bush manage to leave office without starting a war with Iran? Mr. Bush is eagerly feeding those anxieties. This month he raised the threat of “World War III” if Iran even figures out how to make a nuclear weapon.
With a different White House, we might dismiss this as posturing — or bank on sanity to carry the day, or the warnings of exhausted generals or a defense secretary more rational than his predecessor. Not this crowd.
Four years after his pointless invasion of Iraq, President Bush still confuses bullying with grand strategy. He refuses to do the hard work of diplomacy — or even acknowledge the disastrous costs of his actions. The Republican presidential candidates have apparently decided that the real commander in chief test is to see who can out-trash talk the White House on Iran.
The world should not allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon, but there is no easy fix here, no daring surgical strike. Consider Natanz, the underground site where Iran is defying the Security Council by spinning a few thousand centrifuges to produce nuclear fuel. American bombers could take it out, but what about the even more sophisticated centrifuges the administration accuses Iran of hiding? Beyond the disastrous diplomatic and economic costs, a bombing campaign is unlikely to set back Iran’s efforts for more than a few years.
The neocons pushing an attack on Iran admit that a prolonged bombing campaign would be necessary and would likely only delay Iran’s program. But it is still worth it, they say, and if everybody gets lucky maybe the attacks will unleash that popular uprising against the mullahs they’ve been promising for years.
That is the same kind of rose-petal thinking that was used to sell Americans a fantasy about the invasion of Iraq. Large numbers of Iranians are fed up with their government’s corruption and repression and with being branded a pariah state. Rain down American bombs, however, and the mullahs and Iran’s Holocaust-denying president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, are more likely to be turned into national heroes than hung from lampposts. And that’s not even calculating the international fury or the additional mayhem Tehran could wreak in Iraq or what would happen to world oil prices.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is the other great hope (after Defense Secretary Robert Gates) for holding off a war. She still wants to give sanctions and diplomacy a chance. But, as with everything else she does, there’s nowhere near enough follow-through. If the stakes are really that high — and they are — then Ms. Rice and her boss must tell Moscow, Beijing and the Europeans that relations will be judged on whether they are willing to place a lot more pressure on Iran.
They also need to offer Iran a credible way back in from the cold — and clear rewards and security guarantees if it is willing to give up its nuclear ambitions. If it’s really that important — and we believe it is — then it’s time to send somebody higher ranking than the American ambassador in Baghdad to deliver the message.
For this to have any chance, Mr. Bush will have to tone down the rhetoric. Sure, a lot of these countries are letting greed cloud their judgment, when they balk at restricting trade with Iran. But it’s a lot easier to justify when they say they’re not giving the crazy American government an excuse for another war.
Fear and the New World Order!
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Larry, at 4:32 AM
President Bush’s recent veto on the State Children’s Health Insurance Program not only shows his irresponsible priorities but those of the GOP as well.
To blame the fiscal irresponsibility of the bill for his veto is one of many hypocrisies of his presidency. In an era of bigger government and out-of-control spending on everything but the needs for our own citizens, the Republicans’ platform is crumbling beneath their feet.
The scare tactics of saying universal health care is wrong for the United States is a crime to the millions of uninsured men, women and children in our country.
Universal health care is not a bad word but a right everyone deserves.
We have seen what private health care has done in our country. It is making pharmaceutical, managed care and insurance companies richer and increasing the number of uninsured in all of the United States.
In Missouri, the number of uninsured is increasing three times the rate of the rest of the country. If our elected officials, from U.S. Rep. Roy Blunt up to the president, aren’t going to protect our children, it is time we elect those who will.
Another phase of the New World Order!
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Larry, at 4:34 AM
On the occasion of King Abdullah's visit to the UK, I managed to dig a few facts from CIA's factbook. Tell me what's hegemonic about Iran?
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Naj, at 5:24 AM
Ten months into his presidential bid, Rudolph W. Giuliani continues to work part time at the security consulting firm he promised to leave this past spring to focus on his pursuit of the Republican nomination.
Giuliani's continuing involvement with a firm catering to corporate clients makes him unique among Republican contenders. It also complicates the task of separating his firm's assets from his campaign spending.
Gotta reward those campaign donors!
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Larry, at 8:24 AM
Six years after the Bush administration embraced harsh physical tactics for interrogating terrorism suspects, and two years after it reportedly dropped the most extreme of those techniques, the taint of torture clings to American counterterrorism efforts.
The administration has a standard answer to queries about its interrogation practices: 1) We do not torture, and 2) we will not say what we do, for fear of tipping off future prisoners.
Still lying and still committing torture!
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Larry, at 8:27 AM
The tab for US non-military spying in 2007 is a whopping $43.5 billion, according to figures released today by National Director of Intelligence Mike McConnell.
Disclosure of that amount marks the first time in nine years that funds budgeted for national intelligence activities have been publicly aired, and comes amid mounting pressure from Congress and the Sept. 11 commission to make the practice routine.
A more complete budget figure for US spying is actually even higher, according to sources cited in the Washington Post, who told the paper that if still-classified totals for military-based programs were factored in, that number would reach $50 billion.
Another phase of the New World Order: The U.S Spying on it's Citizens!
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Larry, at 8:37 AM
A key barometer of consumer sentiment dropped to its lowest level in two years, igniting concern that the upcoming holiday shopping season would be lukewarm.
The New York-based Conference Board said Tuesday that its Consumer Confidence Index fell to 95.6 from a revised 99.5 in September. It was the lowest reading since 85.2 in October 2005 when gas and oil prices soared after hurricanes Katrina and Rita pummeled the Gulf Coast. Analysts had expected 99.5.
The report heightens worries for retailers, who are already bracing for a challenging holiday shopping season after a disappointing fall. The results also rattled investors, sending Dow Jones industrial average down 62.75, or 0.45 percent, to 13,807.51.
The Faltering Bush Economy: Another Aspect of the New World Order!
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Larry, at 8:42 AM
All due respects, Lydia, but I don't buy it.
This is like so many conspiracy theories about....well....anything. There's way too many loopholes for an effective take over of an entire planet by a cabal of men.
Now, if you tell me there are opportunists who look to exploit loopholes in governments and societies that tend to benefit themselves at the detriment of others and these people are networked and organized, then yes, that I can believe.
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Carl, at 9:09 AM
Eighteen months or so ago I wrote a post here comparing Bush, Cheney and the boys from PNAC to Hitler, to the Nazi hierarchy and to the wonderful folks who gave the world kristallnacht, the terror bombings of Guernica, of London and conducted history's magnum opus of human carnage, the holocaust, the destruction of two thirds of the Jews in Europe and millions of other "undesirables."
I saw it used by others on the blogs and, guardedly, in the MSM, witnessed their reception of similar treatment and I realized that a taboo (see Godwin's law) had been created. "Disrespectful to the office of the President," some cried, "diminishes the horror of the holocaust and the brutality unleashed on Europe's Jews by the real Hitler," cried others, "the ultimate ad hominem attack," wrote one academic seeking to show that such comparisons were childish , demeaning to those who offered them and "kills dead," scholarly internet discussions.
As the months dragged on and the war escalated, the deaths, the casualties, the carnage mounted, the attacks on dissent increased, civil liberties began to erode and disappear, as the regulatory bureaucracy and the judiciary were stripped of independent professionals and replaced with ideological partisans, as tens of billions of dollars of American taxpayers cash simply disappeared into the black hole of "privatization" and reason itself came under constant attack, I couldn't help myself, I began to use the "Hitler Comparison" more often in my various rants.
I don't pretend to scholarship, or journalism, I'm an old carpenter, not an academic, I'm content to be a pamphleteer. As long as the feedback tells me that people are reading my electronic leaflets, not ripping them from under their wiper blades and kicking them to the curb, if I sense that they are following the links, I find a small measure of hope, not a lot, just enough to make me look forward to coffee and another batch of leafleting in the morning.
The war..s continue, and as the fervor grows for another, in Iran and more evidence of official "misdeeds," of lies, of outright criminality, of incompetence, rampant cronyism and fraud continue to seep out from under the closed doors of what has developed into the most secretive, insular, antidemocratic administration in the history of the Republic, the "Hitler comparison" has grown in my mind and, I believe, much of the public's to the point that we need to repeal the "Godwin law" and popularize the idea in the hopes that by holding up the mirror to the tyrant we may drive him from our shores. I'm serious, we need "Hitler Comparison" T shirts, by the millions.
Sunday night I watched Naomi Wolf on PBS as she was interviewed about her recent book by "guest interviewer" Viet Dinh, a former Assistant Attorney General, and principle author of the Patriot Act, greatly admired by none other than Rupert Murdoch, in other words, as Adol George W is wont to say, no cream puff. Ms Wolf more than held her own, after all, she knows her book and the research on which its based and defended it well against a wholly predictable neo-con cross examination.
Her book may represent, albeit in a much more scholarly and reasoned way, the ultimate in "Comparisons," (I confess I haven't yet read it) She says that she charts the closing of various previously open societies, from Hitler to Stalin to Pinochet and on to our current rapidly closing system, and finds the comparisons striking, the trends frightening, ant the peril, imminent enough to cause her to run around the country like a latter day Paul Revere shouting that the redcoats brown shirts are coming, while making astute "comparisons" between current and past events, motives and personalities.
It is, of course, a book tour and yes, the object is to sell the book but there is much more here, I hear a clarion call in her voice and feel truth in her message.
Would that several million people, Germans perhaps, in 1933, 34 or 35 had been possessed of the poor taste and "classlessness," had been willing to succumb to the gaucherie of loudly and publicly comparing Adolph Hitler to... well ..what the hell, lets go for it.. Adolph Hitler, I wonder what result might have ensued. Or, back in the USSR, had Russians stood up and said "hey this Stalin guy is becoming a real Hitler or maybe even a Stalin," how many of the fifty million Russian dead might have been spared, the cold war, arms race avoided, at least greatly reduced.
There is a responsibility of those who govern to speak truth to the governed, but, when they fail in that responsibility, there is a greater responsibility on the part of the governed to speak truth to power, to spit in its eye and to dethrone it as necessary to insure the continuity of the rights, freedoms and welfare of the public, for that is what finally matters, not the government, nor the corrupt interests of the criminal oligarchs that it represents.
I listened to the GOP candidates a bit the other night, a little goes a long way with these birds, and heard the words "personal responsibility" several times, a phrase which is nothing more, on Republican lips, than a code word for racism, sexism and a continuation of the war they have waged against the "lesser classes' for all of modern history.
I agree with them in this sense, it is time for a large percentage of the population to take personal responsibility for themselves, for their country, to unite in the name of freedom, in the name of economic, political and spiritual liberty, to rise up and seize control of the whole package, the big damn shebang, to wrest control from the five percent who have kept them enslaved, who have enforced ignorance and poverty and to throw aside the twenty percent who guard the prison.
It may be "classless" and a violation of "Godwin's law to "Compare" George Walker Bush, the arrogant young scion of eastern establishment wealth and power, grandson of Senators and son of Presidents, cowboy of windshields and owner of chainsaws, to the beer swilling gutter scum of the beer halls of Munich and Berlin but I'm afraid it is unavoidable, it is inescapable, obvious, and it is historically necessary.
Terrorism? 9/11? The attack on the World Trade Center was their Reichstag fire, the invasion of Iraq, comparable to the blitzkrieg into eastern Europe. They share the same motives and ideology, the same vision, they exhibit the same compassion, and wield power with the same ruthless disregard for the lives, for the welfare and dignity of common humanity.
Make no mistake, these people, the architects of the last six years of international turmoil, of domestic division, of war and death, of crushing despair and hopelessness, are Nazis, perhaps not yet in the full bloom of adulthood, not yet grown to the evil proportions of their twentieth century predecessors, but they have emerged from their larval stage and are prepared for full flight, They have all the weapons, they lack nothing, nothing but to complete their rewriting of our laws and of course, they need those handsome uniforms.
The only thing that can prevent them from fulfilling their wretched and terrible goals of oligarchy, universal slavery and domination of the world is your voice, your derision, your hand, raised in resistance, your lips mouthing a simple no.
Hurry, I think the uniforms have been ordered.
Bob Higgins
Worldwide Sawdust
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Larry, at 9:50 AM
Carl, Larry wrote this post.
But please I urgently ask all of you to listen to our interview this morning with Please listen to our interview this morning with Dahr Jamail, author of “Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches From an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq.”
He has riveting information on the war profiteering, the Iraq swindle and war profiteering by Cheney-Bush-Rummy and tells what the Iraqis really think of us. He was unembedded for 4 long years in Iraq. NO one knows the truth in this country.
You can listen in the archives, as he was just on live. Go to: BASHAM & CORNELL RADIO The show airs weekday mornings at 8 a.m. Pacific Time on AM 1230 KLAV in Las Vegas and simulcast on the web.
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Lydia Cornell, at 10:03 AM
I believe this New World Order is happening faster than you know.
Just study the evidence, the facts. Explain why we can't seem to get any truth out there or any action to impeach for all these Constitutional crimes and war crimes.
They will not succeed though. There is a higher power. All our joint efforts for good will defeat these monsters.
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Lydia Cornell, at 10:13 AM
Larry, thank you for a great article and great comment above.
You are right.
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Lydia Cornell, at 10:14 AM
I, for one, do not believe a NWO is inevitable. I still have faith in the nature of man to not only desire freedom, but fight for it, tooth and nail.
The next step in the agenda of the NWO should be Bush declaring martial law. At this point, it will be up to all good men to do what they know in their hearts is the right thing for themselves, their family, and their future.
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Robert Rouse, at 10:53 AM
Oh, sorry, Lydia, I didn't see Larry's name on it.
We are in danger, no doubt, of having a stratified American society, with a dwindling middle class, a swelling poverty class and a minute aristocracy that will utilize our resources for their whims. This is how all democracies and republics have developed, until ultimately, a dictator takes over, usually after some form of revolution.
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Carl, at 12:24 PM
Lydia said,
They will not succeed though. There is a higher power. All our joint efforts for good will defeat these monsters.
You're quite right, but it won't necessarily be any force for good that will splinter globalization in the economic and political realms.
The coming collapse of energy production is going to have effects we haven't even considered yet. The price spikes in energy have already created a climate where domestically-produced goods are becoming competitive again. And as it gets worse, people will look closer and closer to home for everything-and that will out of necessity include Government.
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Jolly Roger, at 12:33 PM
Can you imagine how it would have played out for the repug presidential candidates who basically all support torture and a failed war based on lies if one of the Neo Con architects of the torture and war of choice was being tried as a war criminal just as the Nazi's were.........another stellar Kodak moment thanks to GWB and his Neo Con thugs and lackies.
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Mike, at 1:15 PM
Time to be bounced out the door Troll Tex............that Mike that just posted that is anbout to be deleted is not me its Troll Tex the Slimy troll.
Bye Bye Troll Tex
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Mike, at 1:35 PM
You were warned Eric!!
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Mike, at 1:44 PM
Major dam in Iraq about to collapse
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Carl, at 2:06 PM
mike said...
Mike, Go have a triple cheeseburger and 16" pizza, and wash it down with a 12 pack.
You have homework to do, son...remedial shoe lace tying...
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Carl, at 2:08 PM
Excellent Larry
It all adds up to world war and it will not be averted! You just by default named the adversaries we all know already but I will guarantee you attacking Iran will be the trigger unless someone else jumps first.
I would say it is very scary indeed but after years of trying to wake people up, as we are powerless I can only wait and watch and see what happens.
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an average patriot, at 4:39 PM
Larry
I hate to say it but you can't listen to the Afghani's because you don't know if they are the enemy or not.
Even when you kill a Taliban they say it was a civilian to create more trouble for us. As yo know, the same thing occurs in Iraq.
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an average patriot, at 4:43 PM
Larry You are prolific here buddy! I was just reading that real long comment and Bush is so obviously mirroring the Nazi's it is sickening and only the complicit can deny it. I am afraid what the nazi's did will pale to what is about to happen thanks to Bush and NWO.
I also believe this holiday season should be a bust if the truth gets out. As usual I would expect the Fed to bail the market out and Bush to keep lying about his awesome failures and to keep thid facade of success, this house of cards going.
I would say everything will cave in once Bush is gone and the truth gets out but you know what I expect and soon!
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an average patriot, at 4:57 PM
Thanks Jim.
As you very well know the pieces are being put into place that will enable the upcoming attempt at Martial Law, while the economy completely crumbles, and the wars never end.
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Larry, at 5:11 PM
This is from Nancy Scola.
Over on the Huffington Post I’ve attempted to connect the dots between the Hunt Oil’s deal in Iraqi Kurdistan, CEO Ray Hunt’s multi-million dollar contribution to the half-billion-dollar George W. Bush Library, and the long and messy history of international economic development. Go on and give it a read.
But on the off chance that you don’t have the time or stomach for 2,700 words on the topic, I’ll share the gist. Congress is off looking for whether or not Ray Hunt had the inside track on Iraq info because of his relationship with Bush. But what I’m arguing is that looking at these two projects — the Kurdistan oil deal and the massive GWB library project — in the context of the history of international economic development projects suggests that they are part and parcel of the same destructive mess with or without any sinister quid pro quo. Men like Ray Hunt and George Bush get tangled up in the same economic orbit, and we get a seemingly neverending war in Iraq.
More Bush corruption.
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Larry, at 5:11 PM
Check out Average Patriot's post on the plan for Martial Law:
Average American Patriot
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Larry, at 5:13 PM
The NWO is alive and well.
One part of their multi-layered agenda is the formation of the North American Union and the launch of the Amerco: a combined single currency, a la, the Euro, and made up from the US dollar, the Canadian dollar and the Mexican peso.
One of the obstacles to the single North American currency has been the overheated value of the greenback compared to the other national currencies. But, the Canadian dollar is now at near parity with the US dollar and the Mexican peso is gaining speed fast.
I can only speak for myself but, I do not relish the idea of living in an EU-style nation with a central government run by Amercocrats. I'm funny that way, I suppose.
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Christopher, at 5:20 PM
Christopher:
You are right the North American Union is a part of the New World Order and once they combine the currencies of Canada and Mexico with the U.S, a new currency will emerge.
No doubt with the moniker of King Bush on the imprint.
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Larry, at 5:25 PM
by Scott Ritter
Dont worry, the White House is telling us. The world’s most powerful leader was simply making a rhetorical point.
At a White House Press conference two weeks back, just in case you haven’t heard, (United States) President (George W.) Bush informed the American people that he had told world leaders “if you’re interested in avoiding World War III, it seems like you ought to be interested in preventing (Iran) from having the knowledge necessary to make a nuclear weapon”.
World War III? That is certainly some rhetorical point, especially coming from the man singularly most capable of making such an event reality. Pundits have raised their eyebrows and comics are busy writing jokes, but the president’s reference to Armageddon, no matter how cavalierly uttered and subsequently brushed away, suggests an alarming context.
Some might note that the comment was simply an offhand response to a reporter’s question, the kind of free-thinking scenario that baffles Bush. So, in a way, this makes what the president said even more disturbing, since we now have an insight into the vision, and related terminology, which hovers just below the horizon in the brain of George W. Bush. When I was a weapons inspector with the United Nations, there was a jostling that took place at the end of each day, when decisions needed to be made and authorisation documents needed to be signed.
In an environment of competing agendas, each of us who championed a position sought to be the “last man in”, namely the person who got to imprint the executive chairman (our decision maker) with the final point of view for the day. Failure to do so could find an inspection or point of investigation sidetracked for days or weeks after the executive chairman became distracted by a competing vision.
More of the Bush agenda: World War III.
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Larry, at 5:26 PM
By Max Blumenthal
On October 20 and 21st, I attended the Value Voters Summit, a massive gathering hosted by the Colorado-based Christian right mega-ministry, Focus on the Family, and its Washington lobbying arm, the Family Research Council. With the pro-choice Rudy Giuliani leading in the race for the Republican nomination and the threat of another Clinton presidency looming, the stakes for the Christian right were high.
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At the Summit, I witnessed all of the major Republican presidential candidates compete for the affection of so-called value voters. Rudy Giuliani, the current frontrunner, sought to assuage movement leaders' concerns about his multiple marriages, pro-choice politics, and penchant for cross-dressing. Mitt Romney pledged to fight for a Constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage, hoping his newfound conservatism would somehow lessen evangelical resentment of his Mormon faith.
Though no candidate emerged from the Summit as a clear Christian right favorite, the badly underfunded former Arkansas governor and Baptist minister Mike Huckabee won over the audience with his insistence that banning abortion would put an end to America's illegal immigration problem. Huckabee's comparison of "liberalized abortion" to the Holocaust further endeared him to the "value voters." Later, during a press conference, I challenged Huckabee to explain the logic behind his rhetoric.
Recently, there has been a lot of mainstream media noise about a new, more socially conscious evangelical movement rising from the angry ashes of the Christian right. Pastors like Rick Warren and "evangelical feminist" Bill Hybels are supposedly bringing issues like the environment and poverty to the forefront of the movement's social agenda, while pushing anti-abortion and anti-gay activism to the wayside. Yet no one told those evangelicals gathered at the Value Voters Summit about this friendly new initiative.
If anything, the movement seemed more extreme and paranoid than it did four years ago. Rev. Lou Sheldon, dubbed "Lucky Louie" by his former paymaster Jack Abramoff, told me that homosexuality is a "pathological disorder" and "a groove" that is difficult to escape from. He proceeded to passionately defend his friend, Senator Larry Craig, from allegations of homosexuality.
Star Parker, a former welfare cheat who had multiple abortions, claimed to me that abortion is the leading cause of death among African American women between the ages of 25 and 34. Then she described her wish for the forced quarantine of all "sodomites." Parker was not a lone wacko milling around in the hallway; she was a speaker invited by the Family Research Council.
Neoconservative activist Frank Gaffney appeared at the Summit as well. Before a standing room audience, Gaffney exclaimed that "by not being bigoted and not being racist, [George W.] Bush has embraced Islamofascists on several occasions." Phyllis Schlaffly echoed Gaffney's comments, declaring that there are too many mosques in America.
The New Republican Party: Bigots and Racists.
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Larry, at 5:39 PM
Colorado Rep. Tom Tancredo has had enough. Of Congress, that is.
The five-term member of the U.S. House and long-shot presidential candidate has decided he will not run for reelection in 2008, ending his congressional career as he continues to seek the White House.
Another neocon warlover bites the dust!
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Larry, at 5:41 PM
Afghan President Hamid Karzai is calling for the U.S. and NATO to cut back on airstrikes in the battle against Taliban and al-Qaida militants, saying too many civilians have been killed.
Karzai said that six years after the U.S.-led invasion the Afghan people "cannot comprehend as to why there is still a need for air power."
"The United States and the coalition forces are not (killing civilians) deliberately. The United States is here to help the Afghan people," Karzai told the U.S. news program "60 Minutes" for a story scheduled to air Sunday night.
Asked if he wants the use of airstrikes curtailed, Karzai replies, "Absolutely. Oh, yes, in clear words and I want to repeat that, (there are) alternatives to the use of air force."
At least 700 civilians have died because of insurgency-related violence this year, and about half of those deaths were caused by U.S. or NATO military action, often because of airstrikes hitting civilian homes, according to an Associated Press tally based on numbers from Afghan and Western officials.
Killing innocent civilians is another part of the "order of the elite" to eliminate the masses.
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Larry, at 5:42 PM
Baghdad - At least 51 Iraqis were killed and more than 38 injured in separate incidents in and around Iraq, while US forces handed over Karbala's security file to the Iraqi government, sources said Monday.
A suicide attacker driving an explosives-laden motorbike blew himself up near a police training centre in central Baquba, in Diyala province, around 60 kilometres north-east of Baghdad, killing at least 30 police officers and recruits and injuring 20, colonel Ali Ismail said.
More blood on the hands of the heartless George W Bush.
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Larry, at 5:46 PM
Check out this post on the New World Order:
Blog of Revelation
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Larry, at 6:12 PM
Hey guys if Bush does declare martial law how will be put in jail for disagreeing
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Holly, at 7:43 PM
Is the rising oil prices because of higher demand or because bush is going to war with iran
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Holly, at 7:45 PM
Will the reichwing ever learn censorship is unamerican?
Clear Channel is attempting to silence Bruce Springsteen
Here we go again. The Dixie Chicks redux! Bruce has the #1 record in all the land called ” Magic,” but Clear Channel has sent out a memo saying:
Alas, there’s a hitch: Radio will not play “Magic.” In fact, sources tell me that Clear Channel has sent an edict to its classic rock stations not to play tracks from “Magic.” But it’s OK to play old Springsteen tracks such as “Dancing in the Dark,” “Born to Run” and “Born in the USA.”
Republican owned corporate media once again is attempting to silence progressive positions. I’m trying to contact Springsteen’s camp for a comment.
Howie Klein has much more…
Clear Channel is a big-time and very consciously right-wing power player with a goal of changing American pop culture. They have done all they could to stifle progressive voices and to dumb down and trivialize the culture…read on
Censoring the BOSS is simply unamerican, no matter what the reichwingers at Clear Channel think, and they don't seem to think much at all
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clif, at 12:23 AM
Aides and advisers to congressional Democrats are pessimistic about their efforts to tie the approval of supplemental Iraq war spending to U.S. troop withdrawals. Even more challenging, they warn, would be a movement to cut off war funds entirely, which could split apart the caucus.
Pandering Pelosi is an enabler not a fighter.
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Larry, at 3:00 AM
The Scott Beauchamp affair is reminding me of this, from 1984:
A Party member…is supposed to live in a continuous frenzy of hatred of foreign enemies and internal traitors, triumph over victories, and self-abasement before the power and wisdom of the Party. The discontents produced by his bare, unsatisfying life are deliberately turned outwards and dissipated by such devices as the Two Minutes Hate, and the speculations which might possibly induce a sceptical or rebellious attitude are killed in advance by his early acquired inner discipline…called, in Newspeak, crimestop. Crimestop means the faculty of stopping short, as though by instinct, at the threshold of any dangerous thought. It includes the power of not grasping analogies, of failing to perceive logical errors, of misunderstanding the simplest arguments if they are inimical to Ingsoc, and of being bored or repelled by any train of thought which is capable of leading in a heretical direction. Crimestop, in short, means protective stupidity.
At first it seems amazing that Orwell could have precisely described today’s right-wing blurgh world sixty years ago. But the right-wing blurghs are just an outgrowth of human nature, which never changes. (In particular I’m always been struck by the consistency with which such people are unable to understand analogies.)
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Larry, at 3:06 AM
Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich, a dark horse contender for the the Democratic presidential nomination, questioned President Bush's mental health on Tuesday, according to a Philadelphia newspaper.
"I seriously believe we have to start asking questions about his mental health," Kucinich told The Inquirer's editorial board. "There's something wrong. He does not seem to understand his words have real impact."
Kucinich was referring to President Bush's warning of dire consequences if Iran acquires nuclear weapons during a press conference earlier this month. Bush said that he had told world leaders the country must be prevented from achieving nuclear capability "if you're interested in avoiding World War III."
Get out the straight jacket: Bush is a deranged madman.
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Larry, at 3:09 AM
About one of every eight veterans under the age of 65 is uninsured, a finding that contradicts the assumption many have that all vets qualify for free health care through the Veterans Affairs Department, says a new study.
Researchers at Harvard Medical School projected that about 1.8 million veterans overall lack health coverage. That's an increase of 290,000 since 2000. The researchers said most uninsured veterans are in the middle class and are ineligible for VA care because of their incomes. Still others cannot afford their copayments, or lack VA facilities in their community.
''Like other uninsured Americans, most uninsured vets are working people -- too poor to afford private coverage but not poor enough to qualify for Medicaid or means-tested VA care,'' said Dr. Steffie Woolhandler, an associate professor and a physician at the Cambridge Health Alliance.
The study is based on an analysis of government surveys released between 1988 and 2005. Veterans do fare better than the overall population when it comes to obtaining health insurance. Still, the Harvard researchers said the rising number of uninsured vets points to the need for more funding for the VA. The best solution, they said, would be for universal health coverage in the United States.
''Only the government can put men and women into military service and only the government can guarantee that they are covered after they serve,'' said Dr. Jeffrey Scavron.
Bush hates the U.S troops.
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Larry, at 3:12 AM
- U.S. home prices fell nationwide in August for the eighth consecutive month, offering little hope of a turnaround anytime soon, according to the S&P/Case-Shiller index released Tuesday.
Things could get worse, said Yale economist Robert Shiller, who helped create the index.
"There is really no positive news in today's report," said Shiller, chief economist for MacroMarkets LLC, which collaborates with S&P on the indicator. "At both the national and metro area levels, the fall in home prices is showing no real signs of a slowdown or turnaround."
Another result of the Bush economy!
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Larry, at 3:42 AM
...In an interview in Saturday's Daily Telegraph, one of Rudy Giuliani's leading foreign policy advisers-- Norman Podhoretz --prattles on about we must bomb Iran. Talking about military strikes, including cruise missiles and "bunker busters", this neoncon man sounds delusional: "It would take five minutes. You'd wake up one morning and the strikes would have been ordered and carried out during the night. All the president has to say is go."
Another Republican madman waiting in the wings!
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Larry, at 3:48 AM
Thanks for the heads up on that, Clif. We have a big Clear Channel classic rock station here in NYC (the single biggest advertising draw in classic rock in America).
It's time to stir up some trouble...
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Carl, at 8:02 AM
Fresh Republican (Gay) Sex) Scandal
http://www.advocate.com/news_detail_ektid50104.asp
It just ends with these people.
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Christopher, at 9:43 AM
Larry,
Grabbed your comments. Akismet is acting up. Sorry.
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Christopher, at 11:03 AM
Larry, this is fine work. The NOW sounds exactly like what I call the Reich.
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TomCat, at 11:50 AM
Everyone should go out of their way to stand up for BRUCE!
...SPRINGSTEEN
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Lydia Cornell, at 11:51 AM
Christopher, your link to advocate is hosed.
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Carl, at 12:56 PM
Carl,
If "hosed" means doesn't work, then read it on my blog -- I have the piece up there.
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Christopher, at 1:02 PM
Karen Hughes, who led efforts to improve the U.S. image abroad and was one of President Bush's last remaining advisers from the close circle of Texas aides, will leave the government at the end of the year, she told The Associated Press.
Hughes said she plans to quit her job as undersecretary of state and return to Texas, although improving the world's view of the United States is a "long-term challenge" that will outlast her.
Check out Christopher's post on this:
From The Left
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Larry, at 1:08 PM
The Federal Reserve, confronted with surging oil prices and a slumping housing market, on Wednesday cut a key interest rate by a quarter-point, the second rate reduction this year.
The central bank lowered the federal funds rate to 4.5 percent in an effort to stimulate economic activity and keep the country from dipping into a recession. The move will make it cheaper for consumers and businesses to borrow money.
It will take more than this to fix the faltering Bush economy!
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Larry, at 1:12 PM
Several hundred U.S. diplomats vented anger and frustration Wednesday about the State Department's decision to force foreign service officers to take jobs in Iraq, with some likening it to a "potential death sentence."
In a contentious hour-long "town hall meeting," they peppered officials behind the order with often hostile complaints about the largest diplomatic call-up since Vietnam. Announced last week, it will require some diplomats _ under threat of dismissal _ to serve at the embassy in Baghdad and in so-called Provincial Reconstruction Teams in outlying provinces.
Many expressed serious concern about the ethics of sending diplomats against their will to serve in a war zone, where the embassy staff is largely confined to the so-called "Green Zone," and the safety outside the area is uncertain while a review of the department's use of private security contractors to protect its staff is under way.
"Incoming is coming in every day, rockets are hitting the Green Zone," said one who identified himself as Jack Crotty, a senior foreign service officer who once worked as a political adviser with NATO forces.
He and others directly confronted Foreign Service Director General Harry Thomas, who approved the move to "directed assignments" late last Friday to make up for a lack of volunteers willing to go to Iraq.
"It's one thing if someone believes in what's going on over there and volunteers, but it's another thing to send someone over there on a forced assignment," Crotty said. "I'm sorry, but basically that's a potential death sentence and you know it. Who will raise our children if we are dead or seriously wounded?"
His remarks were met with loud and sustained applause from the approximately 300 diplomats at the meeting.
Thomas responded by saying the comments were "filled with inaccuracies" but did not elaborate until challenged by the head of the diplomats' union, the American Foreign Service Association (AFSA), who, like Crotty and others, demanded to know why many learned of the decision from news reports.
Now these Bush loyalist know how the troops feel being forced into that hellhole.
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Larry, at 1:16 PM
In an explosive monologue lambasting President Bush and the Pentagon as "ignorant" for implementing a policy of using private security firms as protection for troops in Iraq, CNN's Lou Dobbs said the US military should be "mortified and embarrassed."
The extended outburst followed a story from the network's Jamie McIntyre, who reported that US Army Brigadier General Jeffrey Dorko was wounded in Iraq on Monday when his vehicle was hit by an IED explosion. He is the highest ranking officer yet injured in such an incident.
"He was in a convoy that was protected by a private security firm, one indication of the over-stretched US troops," said McIntyre, who noted that the security contractor in question was a British firm and not affiliated with the Blackwater company.
"A brigadier general, US military forces, in a convoy protected by a private security contractor?" asked Dobbs later. "An indication of how stretched? It is also an indication of how just ignorant the Pentagon leadership, the general staff is, this president, this commander in chief and the civilian leadership, that we have US military being protected by private security forces..."
His voice rising, Dobbs blamed senior military leaders for making a grave error in judgment, in his opinion.
"Is there any sense of shame and embarrassment in that Pentagon?" he asked.
"I don't care what they're former," Dobbs said. "They are private security forces being employed to protect men and women in uniform who are making a heck of a lot less money than they are to put their lives on the line in combat. This is obscene, Jamie."
"All I'm saying is, the United States military, its leadership, should be mortified and embarrassed," he continued later.
Told by McIntyre that the Pentagon hadn't yet made any apologies for their policy, Dobbs called on President Bush to do so.
"Well then we have a president who needs to...reverse course on this policy, this is utter, complete, shameless disrespect for every tradition and value of this country," he said.
"And frankly, in my opinion," Dobbs told McIntyre, who was reporting from the Pentagon, "it is an absolute disregard for the values of the men and women who have served in that very building you're reporting from."
Tell it like it is Lou Dobbs!
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Larry, at 1:19 PM
It's not quite signing statements, where President George W. Bush used legal means to "interpret" laws, allowing him to avoid Congressional directives, but the White House is now planning to implement as much new policy "as it can" by administrative order "after concluding that President Bush cannot do much business with the Democratic leadership."
According to officials who spoke to the Washington Post, Bush blames Democrats for the holdup of Judge Michael Muskasey's nomination as attorney general, the failure to pass budget bills and an inability to reach compromise on child healthcare.
Bush vetoed the State Children's Health Insurance Program, or SCHIP, saying Democrats hadn't found a way to offset spending for the expansion of the program. Democrats have reservations about Mukasey because he has refused to denounce the president's policy on waterboarding.
"White House aides say the only way Bush seems to be able to influence the process is by vetoing legislation or by issuing administrative orders, as he has in recent weeks on veterans' health care, air-traffic congestion, protecting endangered fish and immigration," the Post authors write. "They say they expect Bush to issue more of such orders in the next several months, even as he speaks out on the need to limit spending and resist any tax increases."
George W Bush: Corrupt and Evil as he Bypasses The Law!
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Larry, at 1:27 PM
Larry,
It's outrageous that diplomats are being forced under threat of termination, to serve at the American Embassy in Baghdad.
The diplomatic corp isn't the military. When you graduate from college, frequently with a degree in International Relations, and take a government job and diplomatic assignment, you are given options of where you want to serve.
But as with all things "Bush," he's managed to fuck this up too.
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Christopher, at 1:34 PM
Christopher,
The link gets chopped off in IE5.
I did manage to find it by navigating the site.
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Carl, at 2:05 PM
Christopher said...
Larry,
It's outrageous that diplomats are being forced under threat of termination, to serve at the American Embassy in Baghdad.
No it's not, this sort of stuff goes on all the time in history. Vietnam in the 60s springs to mind.
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Carl, at 2:07 PM
Larry said...
It's not quite signing statements, where President George W. Bush used legal means to "interpret" laws, allowing him to avoid Congressional directives, but the White House is now planning to implement as much new policy "as it can" by administrative order "after concluding that President Bush cannot do much business with the Democratic leadership."
That's basically what Clinton did throughout his second term, however. He issued executive order after executive order, many of which Bush overturned.
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Carl, at 2:08 PM
clif said...
Will the reichwing ever learn censorship is unamerican?
Clear Channel is attempting to silence Bruce Springsteen
Here we go again. The Dixie Chicks redux! Bruce has the #1 record in all the land called ” Magic,” but Clear Channel has sent out a memo saying:
Alas, there’s a hitch: Radio will not play “Magic.” In fact, sources tell me that Clear Channel has sent an edict to its classic rock stations not to play tracks from “Magic.” But it’s OK to play old Springsteen tracks such as “Dancing in the Dark,” “Born to Run” and “Born in the USA.”
Republican owned corporate media once again is attempting to silence progressive positions. I’m trying to contact Springsteen’s camp for a comment.
Howie Klein has much more…
Clear Channel is a big-time and very consciously right-wing power player with a goal of changing American pop culture. They have done all they could to stifle progressive voices and to dumb down and trivialize the culture…read on
Censoring the BOSS is simply unamerican, no matter what the reichwingers at Clear Channel think, and they don't seem to think much at all."
Boy the Reich Wing sure knows how to rile people up and inspire people to oppose them.........I was never really a Bruce Springsteen fan...........BUT now ui'm gonna go out and buy his new album to support him.
I was NEVER a political person, essentially never talked about politics and Never bothered to vote and Bush and his Reich Wing Neo Con thugs inspired me to oppose THEM, just like they did Worfeus and just like they are inspiring the entire world to hate and oppose the entire USA,
based on the ignorant self serving actions of a few raging fanatics who hijacked our country and are obsessed with transforming it into a fascist police state that bullies and attacks the world like a group of thugs in the mafia.
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Mike, at 2:16 PM
US authorities recalled some 440,000 Chinese-made toys Wednesday because of high levels of lead, just hours before US children were set to use some of them while celebrating Halloween.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) recalled 380,000 Galaxy Warriors figures, 43,000 sets of plastic disguise teeth, 16,000 sets of military-style Elite Operations action figures distributed by the global Toys R Us chain, and 1,500 Ribbit board games.
The toys were the latest in a raft of Chinese-made products aimed at children which have been removed from shelves in the United States because of high lead levels.
China and Bush: Both Dangerous To America's Children!
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Larry, at 4:34 PM
The Democratic chairman of the House Oversight Committee is demanding that the White House hand over more than 600 pages of documents detailing the nature of its contacts with convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
“The White House is withholding hundreds of pages of documents about the activities of convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff on the grounds that these documents involve internal White House deliberations,” wrote Chairman Henry Waxman (D-CA) in a Wednesday letter to White House Counsel Fred Fielding. “Unless the President is prepared to assert executive privilege over these documents, they should be turned over to the Oversight Committee without further delay.”
President Bush has previously denied any connection to Abramoff, who was convicted on three felony counts and sentenced to more than five years in prison. “I don’t know him,” said the president in 2006.
The letter recounts a number of similar statements from top White House officials seeking to distance themselves from the lobbyist, including former senior advisor Karl Rove, who had described Abramoff as a “casual acquaintance,” through a spokesman.
But Waxman says that former White House political director Matt Schlapp, who is cooperating with House Oversight’s investigation and provided testimony in a deposition, tells a different story:
“Mr. Schlapp estimated that he had ‘monthly’ contact with Jack Abramoff on subjects that often involved official government business,” writes the chairman. “He also told the Committee that Mr. Abramoff and his associates ‘had many friends in the administration’; that Mr. Abramoff was regarded as a ‘point of information’ because of ‘his knowledge and his experience and his judgment on issues surrounding politics and policy and how the town works.’”
Bush and Abramoff: Thick as Thieves!
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Larry, at 4:37 PM
Not too long ago a misguided and idealistic young man, later diagnosed as being developmentally disabled, torched-off an automobile dealership's SUVs. He was labeled a terrorist -- an eco-terrorist -- and sent to prison. His only real crime was that his behavior cost a multi-billion dollar automobile corporation a few bucks in replacement costs and that his actions infringed upon the God-given right of Americans to shop for gas-guzzling vehicles that are too big for anyone to actually need. For that and his own stupidity, he was said to be an Osama bin-Laden-like "evil-doer."
Meanwhile, back at the Greed-driven Ranch Mister Bush, Mister Cheney, Corporate America, big oil and big energy, the American Enterprise Institute and Congressional Republicans have done everything humanly possible to prevent the American public from knowing about and accepting global warming and its inherent dangers. Thanks entirely to their efforts half the state of California has burned to the ground, the state of Georgia is running out of drinkable water, the city of New Orleans has been washed out to sea, the Great Lakes are drying up, and the world is on the brink of unfathomable famine and disaster. Yet, some mentally challenged and misguided kid that burned up a few SUVs is the "terrorist" and he is rotting in prison, while Bush-Republicans and their corporate masters walk around freely.
You really can't make this stuff up! Doesn't it seem at leas