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Iran -- Run-up to the next war:
UN Nuclear Chief: There is no good reason to attack Iran| |
Excerpt: The leading voice of restraint thus far has been Mohamed El Baradei, the head of the U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency.
Recall, Baradei was one of the largely-ignored voices in the lead-up to the Iraq war. He warned there was "no evidence of ongoing prohibited nuclear or nuclear-related activities in Iraq." He was later smeared by the administration, but ultimately vindicated as the recipient of a Nobel Peace Prize for getting it right.
Now, Baradei is sounding the alarms about an impending Iran war based on false intelligence. The BBC reports that the IAEA is calling a congressional report on Iran's nuclear activity "erroneous" and "misleading" for asserting Iran was further ahead in its development that it really is.
"There are rules on how to use force, and I would hope that everybody would have gotten the lesson after the Iraq situation, where 70,000 innocent civilians have lost their lives on the suspicion that a country has nuclear weapons," he said.
Rice tells U.N. nuclear watchdog to butt out of Iran diplomacy
Excerpt: The International Atomic Energy Agency "is not in the business of diplomacy," Rice told reporters traveling with her to the Middle East.
The IAEA's role should be limited to carrying out inspections and offering a "clear declaration and clear reporting on what the Iranians are doing; whether and when and if they are living up to the agreements they have signed," she said. |
Cheney mulled urging Israel to attack Iran| |
Excerpt: Vice President Dick Cheney had at one point considered asking Israel to launch limited missile strikes at an Iranian nuclear site to provoke a retaliation, Newsweek magazine reported on Sunday. The news comes amid reports that Israel launched an air strike against Syria this month over a suspected nuclear site.
Comment: Why hasn't this monstrous m*therf*cker been impeached and arrested? Helen & Harry PERMANENT LINK |
Pentagon has list of 2,000 Iran targets; Rice now ready to sign off on attack| |
Excerpt: Pentagon planners have developed a list of up to 2,000 bombing targets in Iran, amid growing fears among serving officers that diplomatic efforts to slow Iran's nuclear weapons program are doomed to fail.
Pentagon and CIA officers say they believe that the White House has begun a carefully calibrated program of escalation that could lead to a military showdown with Iran.
Now it has emerged that Condoleezza Rice, the secretary of state, who has been pushing for a diplomatic solution, is prepared to settle her differences with Vice-President Dick Cheney and sanction military action. |
John Bolton: Israel has every right to launch first strike on Iran| |
Excerpt: President Bush's former United Nations ambassador John Bolton said the United States would stand behind a pre-emptive strike by Israel against countries developing "WMD facilities."
"Israel has the right to self-defense -- and that includes offensive operations against WMD facilities that pose a threat to Israel. The United States would justify such attacks." |
French, Russian officials tell America not to attack Iran| |
Excerpt: [Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander] Losyukov's remarks come two days after French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said the world should ''prepare for the worst'' in the crisis over Iran's nuclear program, and that ''the worst is war.'' In Moscow today, Kouchner said everything must be done to avoid war and called for all sides to ''negotiate, negotiate, negotiate without a break.'' |
Iranian leader repeats challenge to debate Bush at U.N.| |
Excerpt: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad challenged U.S. President George W. Bush to a debate on global issues at a U.N. summit in New York, state TV reported on Sunday, repeating a call rejected by Washington last year.
"I had suggested holding a debate. I am saying again that let us discuss global concerns at the (U.N.) General Assembly in front of representatives of other nations," Ahmadinejad told state television. |
Iran leader denied on WTC wreath request| |
Excerpt: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad asked permission to lay a wreath at the World Trade Center site when he comes to New York City next week, but the request was denied, a police official said Wednesday. ...
The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Zalmay Khalilzad, told reporters Wednesday that the United States would not support Iran's attempt to use the site for a "photo op." |
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Iraqis say Blackwater slaughter was utterly unprovoked| |
Excerpt: The roadblock soon caused a traffic snarl, so armed Blackwater guards began waving at the drivers, telling them to turn around and leave the area.
"So we turned back, and as we turned back they opened fire at all cars from behind," Salman said. "All my injuries, the bullets are in my back.
"Within two minutes the security force arrived in planes -- part of the security company Blackwater. They started firing randomly at all citizens."
Blackwater's mission is "to kill Iraqis", say Iraqis
Excerpt: Hated by Iraqis who refer to them as "Mossad," Blackwater contractors are also mistrusted by fellow private security guards operating in Iraq who say they are arrogant, rude and dangerous.
"They kill innocent people in the street," Hameed Hussein, a pensioner in west Baghdad's Al-Maamoun neighborhood said on Tuesday, two days after guards from the US security firm opened fire on civilians, killing 10 people and wounding 13.
Contracting expert says State Dep't is legally culpable in Blackwater incidents
Excerpt: Blackwater's rules of engagement "are set by [the] State [Department] and are different than other security contractors who use the Military Rules of Engagement and Rules of Force," Pelton says via e-mail. "State went from a kinder, gentler Rules of Force (they were told to shoot flares, throw water bottles or wave a flag to warn off motorists) to shoot if a threat is imminent with no warning shots required. They are supposed to use aimed shots and have to file a report if there is any discharge of a weapon." The State Department has said that Blackwater fired warning shots in Sunday's Mansour attack at an approaching car.
U.S. officials ignored Iraqi complaints on Blackwater
Excerpt: Iraqi officials "repeatedly complained to U.S. officials about Blackwater USA's alleged involvement in the deaths of numerous Iraqis, but the Americans took little action to regulate the private security firm until 11 Iraqis were shot dead last Sunday."
Iraqi investigators say they have video of Blackwater slaughter
Excerpt: Iraqi investigators have a videotape that shows Blackwater USA guards opened fire against civilians without provocation in a shooting last week that left 11 people dead, a senior Iraqi official said Saturday. He said the case was referred to the Iraqi judiciary.
Iraq's president, meanwhile, demanded that the Americans release an Iranian arrested this week on suspicion of smuggling weapons to Shiite militias. The demand adds new strains to U.S.-Iraqi relations only days before a meeting between President Bush and Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.
Iraq plans to prosecute Blackwater killers
Excerpt: It is unclear how Iraqi courts will attempt to bring the contractors to trial. A July report from the Congressional Research Service said the Iraqi government has no authority over private security firms contracted by the U.S. government.
Flashback: Blackwater killing people for sport
Comment: This video is from a few years ago, but it remains unknown news: It was posted on-line, complete with the Elvis song in the background, by Blackwater employees who wanted to share their pride and joy in killing random Iraqis as they drove through Baghdad. Don't click if you're easily susceptible to nightmares.
The point: Blackwater mercenaries are acting beyond the bounds of any law in Iraq -- and that it's been widely known (and barely whispered) for years. Helen & Harry PERMANENT LINK
Feds probe Blackwater weapons smuggling
Excerpt: Federal prosecutors are investigating whether employees of the private security firm Blackwater USA illegally smuggled into Iraq weapons that may have been sold on the black market and ended up in the hands of a U.S.-designated terrorist organization, officials said Friday.
Blackwater back on the streets of Baghdad
Excerpt: Despite opposition from Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, US security company Blackwater was back on the streets of Baghdad on Friday, four days after being grounded over a fatal shooting incident. |
Democrats let Republicans fake filibuster to block leave for troops| |
Excerpt: Senate Republicans have blocked a bid by Democrats to give US troops in Iraq more home leave -- a plan strongly opposed by the Bush administration.
The Democrats wanted US troops to have time off between tours in Iraq equal to their 15-month deployments.
The measure needed 60 votes to pass in the Democratic controlled Senate but received only 56 votes with 44 against.
Comment: That last sentence, of course, is a bald-faced lie, one that has been repeated over and over in the mainstream press. The measure that would give our troops extra time between deployments PASSED 56-44. Which means it should have continued on its merry way toward becoming law, unless Republicans in the Senate filibustered. But the REPUBLICANS DID NOT FILIBUSTER -- they merely said they were going to, and the useless paper "Democrats" of the Senate agreed to pretend that they had.
Filibustering is difficult, gets lots of bad press for the filibustering party, and keeps them from passing the rest of their agenda. But instead of making Republicans do something difficult, the Democrats have simply given up -- on an issue that they'd actually won.
And the Democratic leadership has folded like this, again and again and again, on issue after issue. Helen & Harry PERMANENT LINK |
"Democratic" Senators to anti-war constituents: Shut the hell up
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Excerpt: The Senate voted Thursday to condemn an advertisement by the liberal anti-war group MoveOn.org that accused the top military commander in Iraq of betrayal.
The 72-25 vote condemned the full-page ad that appeared in the New York Times last week as Gen. David Petraeus, the top military commander in Iraq, testified on Capitol Hill. The ad was headlined: "General Petraeus or General Betray Us? Cooking the books for the White House."
Comment: This entire topic, all the fake outrage over MoveOn's ad, is almost too ridiculous to merit a response. But briefly: The ad was pretty good, and the controversy about the ad is 100% phony.
Oh, and General Petraeus has lied, and knows that his lies will lead directly to many more American soldiers' deaths. By my casual definition, that's treason and he ought to face charges. Helen & Harry PERMANENT LINK SIGNATURE PERMANENT LINK
List (with contact info) of the deadbeat Democrats who voted to condemn MoveOn for telling the truth
Excerpt: On September 20, 2007, twenty-six allegedly Democratic members of the Senate voted in favor of a measure condemning MoveOn.org for pointing out -- correctly -- that General David Petraeus' report on the progress of the Iraq war was deceptive and inaccurate. Unlike most Republican media campaigns, there were no statements in the "Betray Us" ad that were factually inaccurate. It was the fact that their constituents dared to express an opinion that these Democrats arrogantly objected to.
While thinking people can (theoretically) disagree about whether Gen. Petraeus has betrayed his country, for politicians to condemn their own party's political base for speaking their minds is both anti-democratic and anti-Democratic. Here are the Democratic Senators who would really prefer that the people they "represent" would shut the hell up. ... MORE ...
McCain wants MoveOn deported
Excerpt: Arizona Senator John McCain has taken criticism of anti-war group MoveOn.org to a whole new level: He is suggesting that the organization "ought to be thrown out of this country."
MoveOn gets half-a-million dollars in donations overnight
Excerpt: And then came the donations. By midnight, over 12,000 people had donated $500,000 -- more than we've raised any day this year -- for our new ad calling out the Republicans who blocked adequate rest for troops headed back to Iraq.
The message from MoveOn members was loud and clear: Don't back down. Take the fight back to the issues that matter.
So today we're shooting for a very ambitious goal: Reach $1 million so we can dramatically expand the campaign we launched yesterday going after politicians who support this awful war. Can you chip in $25 toward our goal?
Comment: Why, yes we can, thanks to some recent bumper sticker sales, and we just did. We are pretty damn tired of fascist Republicans and cowardly, cooperative Democrats, so we are just double-dang delighted to chip in a little bit for somebody with the backbone to stand up for American principles and not back down at the first criticism.
And if you can afford it, we're asking you to chip in too. Helen & Harry PERMANENT LINK |
U.S. spying on Americans more detailed, kept longer, than previously acknowledged| |
Excerpt: The U.S. government is collecting electronic records on the travel habits of millions of Americans who fly, drive or take cruises abroad, retaining data on the persons with whom they travel or plan to stay, the personal items they carry during their journeys, and even the books that travelers have carried, according to documents obtained by a group of civil liberties advocates and statements by government officials.
The personal travel records are meant to be stored for as long as 15 years, as part of the Department of Homeland Security's effort to assess the security threat posed by all travelers entering the country. Officials say the records, which are analyzed by the department's Automated Targeting System, help border officials distinguish potential terrorists from innocent people entering the country.
But new details about the information being retained suggest that the government is monitoring the personal habits of travelers more closely than it has previously acknowledged. The details were learned when a group of activists requested copies of official records on their own travel. Those records included a description of a book on marijuana that one of them carried and small flashlights bearing the symbol of a marijuana leaf. |
(Most) Democrats vote to stop the war| |
Excerpt: A proposal to bring most American combat troops home from Iraq in nine months died in the Senate on Friday, marking the latest frustration for Democrats trying to change President George W. Bush's policies.
The vote on the measure, an amendment to the defense authorization bill offered by Senators Carl Levin of Michigan and Jack Reed of Rhode Island, was 47 to 47, meaning that the proposal was 13 votes short of the 60 needed to cut off debate.
Three Democrats voted against it: Ben Nelson of Nebraska, Mark Pryor of Arkansas and Christopher Dodd of Connecticut.
Nelson and Pryor have said they are reluctant to set a schedule for troop withdrawals, and Dodd has called for an immediate withdrawal.
Comment: Barbara Boxer, Dick Durbin, and Bernie Sanders didn't vote, but given their past records, I think you can assume that's because the bill wasn't strong enough. That means that there are only two Democrats still wholeheartedly supporting the war. Nelson (D-NE) isn't up for re-election until 2012, but we get a chance to replace Pryor (D-AR) with an actual Democrat at the end of 2008. If you'd like to remind him of that, you can email him here. Madeline Zane PERMANENT LINK |
Republicans block restoration of habeas corpus| |
Excerpt: A Republican [threat of a] filibuster in the Senate yesterday shot down a bipartisan effort to restore the right of terrorism suspects to contest in federal courts their detention and treatment, underscoring the Democratic-led Congress's difficulty with terrorism issues.
Comment: Democrats should go on the offensive, hammer home the point that Republicans are destroying the Constitution. And of course, Democrats won't do that, because most Dems in Congress are spineless and principle-free when the cameras aren't rolling. Helen & Harry PERMANENT LINK |
Republicans use Justice Department to subvert justice
Attorney General nominee has history of trashing Constitution for "security" reasons| |
Excerpt: As a federal judge in New York, [Michael] Mukasey endorsed indefinite incarceration of hundreds of Muslims on phony material witness warrants after the 9/11 attacks. He also signed off on Bush imprisoning an American citizen -- and Muslim convert -- Jose Padilla simply on a presidential say-so that Padilla was an "unlawful enemy combatant."
In other words, Mukasey may not be the favorite of "movement conservatives" who want an Attorney General who will push their "social issues," but the retired judge with close ties to former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani will give Bush what he wants most: a political ally to defend his vision of a President with nearly unlimited powers.
Chihuahua Leahy says subpoena non-compliance might matter in Mukasey AG confirmation hearings
Excerpt: Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) said the White House's willingness to comply with outstanding subpoenas on its program of eavesdropping on suspected terrorists, as well as the recent U.S. attorney firings, would have a direct impact on the timeframe for a Mukasey confirmation. |
U.S. Attorney for Minnesota is under investigation| |
Excerpt: The federal Office of Special Counsel is investigating allegations that Rachel Paulose, U.S. attorney for Minnesota, mishandled classified information, decided to fire the subordinate who called it to her attention, retaliated against others in the office who crossed her, and made racist remarks about one employee. |
Justice Dept blocks Guantanamo prisoners from meeting with lawyers| |
Excerpt: Attorneys for at least 40 Guantanamo Bay prisoners have been barred from visiting or writing their clients because of a judge's order dismissing legal challenges to the men's confinement, the U.S. Department of Justice said Friday. A Justice Department lawyer informed the attorneys of the new restrictions in an e-mail that cited Thursday's dismissal of their cases by District Court Judge Ricardo Urbina in Washington.
"In light of this development, counsel access (both legal mail and in-person visits) is no longer permitted," Justice Department lawyer Andrew I. Warden said in the e-mail. |
Rove investigation is in jeopardy due to funding| |
Excerpt: In April, the Office of Special Counsel launched a six-member task force examining "the firing of at least one U.S. attorney, missing White House e-mails, and White House efforts to keep presidential appointees attuned to Republican political priorities." The task force is in now jeopardy. "Without a last-minute infusion of nearly $3 million, the special task force may be unable to pay its staff and buy the kind of technical equipment it needs" for the investigation, according to Jim Mitchell, the office's spokesman. But the funds may be hard to come by ... |
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Top State Dept investigator covered up Iraq fraud| |
Excerpt: Howard J. Krongard, the State Department's inspector general, has repeatedly thwarted investigations into contracting fraud in Iraq and Afghanistan, including construction of the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, and censored reports that might prove politically embarrassing to the Bush administration, the chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform charged yesterday in a 13-page letter.
The letter, addressed to Krongard and signed by the committee chairman, Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.), who released it yesterday, said the allegations were based on the testimony of seven current and former officials on Krongard's staff, including two former senior officials who allowed their names to be used, and private e-mail exchanges obtained by the committee. The letter said the allegations concerned all three major divisions of Krongard's office -- investigations, audits and inspections.
Comment: OK, a 13-page angry letter is a fine start, but will Waxman have the courage and integrity himself, to actually go after this crook? Or will Howard Krongard get away with his crimes, like virtually everyone else in the Bush-Cheney administration? Helen & Harry PERMANENT LINK |
Police taser student for, apparently, asking Kerry a tough question| |
Excerpt: The tactics of police in Florida who Tasered a cheeky student as he tried to question former presidential candidate Senator John Kerry have been called into question after a video of the incident was posted on the internet.
Comment: The guy wanted to make a scene and he succeeded beyond his wildest dreams thanks to the stupidity and arrogance of the university police. They demonstrated they know how to use a Taser, but don't know when. Hey hotshots, it's not a cattle prod. SirJ PERMANENT LINK
Senator Kerry has a Kerryesque response to tasering twenty feet in front of him
Excerpt: "I believe I could have handled the situation without interruption, but again, I do not know what warnings or other exchanges transpired between the young man and the police prior to his barging to the front of the line and their intervention."
Comment: Way to go, Senator! Pilate would be proud of how you've extricated yourself from the situation. If the student barged to the front of the line, why did you acknowledge his questions at all? SirJ PERMANENT LINK |
Life in liberated Afghanistan & Iraq
Cholera spreads from northern Iraq to Baghdad| |
Excerpt: An outbreak of cholera has spread from northern Iraq to Baghdad, infecting at least 1,500 people, the World Health Organization announced Friday.
Comment: Cholera is seriously deadly, and could conceivably kill more Iraqis a lot quicker than all the guns, bullets, and bombs. So don't be surprised if a cholera epidemic is allowed to sweep across Iraq. Helen & Harry PERMANENT LINK |
Bush administration flooding Iraqi black market with billions of dollars in weapons| |
Excerpt: A recent Government Accountability Report found that the United States has been unable to keep track of the arms it sold in the region. Under Petraeus's watch, more than "110,000 AK-47 assault rifles, 80,000 Glock pistols, 135,000 pieces of body armor and 115,000 Kevlar helmets issued to Iraqi security forces" have gone missing. U.S. weapons sold to the Iraqi government were also found in Turkey, where they were linked to violent crimes. |
U.S. gives religious deprogramming to Iraqi Muslims| |
Excerpt: The U.S. military has introduced "religious enlightenment" and other education programs for Iraqi detainees, some of whom are as young as 11, Marine Maj. Gen. Douglas M. Stone, the commander of U.S. detention facilities in Iraq, said yesterday.
Stone said such efforts, aimed mainly at Iraqis who have been held for more than a year, are intended to "bend them back to our will" and are part of waging war in what he called "the battlefield of the mind." Most of the younger detainees are held in a facility that the military calls the "House of Wisdom."
The religious courses are led by Muslim clerics who "teach out of a moderate doctrine," Stone said, according to the transcript of a conference call he held from Baghdad with a group of defense bloggers. Such schooling "tears apart" the arguments of al-Qaeda, such as "Let's kill innocents," and helps to "bring some of the edge off" the detainees, he said. |
U.S. is paying off Iraq's worst war criminals in attempt to ward off attacks| |
Excerpt: Rowley's report, which includes interviews with candid U.S. soldiers and footage of a military commander handing a Sunni leader a wad of cash, suggests the role of bribery and coercion in building alliances that serve short-term goals in Anbar province, but in the long run deepen a multisided civil war. I talked to Rick Rowley about his report and what he thinks it indicates about Iraq's future. |
A.P. is confused: Did U.N.'s ElBaradei say 70,000 people had been killed in Iraq, or 700,000?| |
Excerpt: While the 70,000 figure could have come probably from Iraq Body Count, it would be interesting to know from Mr. ElBaradei where he got that 700,000 figure. In other words, what's the source of Mr. ElBaradei's claims that "700,000 innocent civilians have lost their lives" in Iraq since the US-led war of aggression?
Comment: It's an important question, because anyone endorsing the smaller figure is tacitly endorsing the obviously untrue numbers of Iraq Body Count, a way to pretend that the occupation of Iraq is only a fraction as hellish as it actually is. Among well-informed people who speak honestly, even 700,000 deaths is probably a lowball figure. Helen & Harry PERMANENT LINK |
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Bush calls for expansion of spying powers| |
Excerpt: "It will be harder to figure out what our enemies are doing to train, recruit and infiltrate operatives into America," the president said during a visit to the super-secret National Security Agency's headquarters. "Without these tools, our country will be much more vulnerable to attack." |
Republicans pushed 'bogus' terror threat to expand Bush-Cheney spying powers, lawmaker says| |
Excerpt: Congress agreed to give President Bush and the nation's intelligence agencies extra authority to spy on Americans just hours before lawmakers left for a month-long recess in August. In the legislative session's final week, news emerged of an impending plot by foreign terrorists to attack the US Capitol, and Republicans pointed to the reports as justification to expand the administration's powers.
"That specific intelligence claim, it turned out, was bogus; the intelligence agencies knew that," Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA) said at a forum on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act organized by the Center for American Progress in Washington. However, lawmakers did not learn of the claim's unreliability until "the day" they approved the FISA expansion, she said. |
Telecom giants seek retroactive immunity for spying on customers| |
Excerpt: Newsweek reports that a secretive lobbying campaign has been launched by telecommunications companies who are seeking retroactive immunity from private lawsuits over their cooperation with the NSA in the so-called 'terrorist surveillance program.' Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell has claimed that lawsuits could 'bankrupt these companies.' |
Government official uses Homeland Security data to stalk ex-girlfriend| |
Excerpt: This story represents a perfect example of why the government needs to be limited in its power and why our privacy as citizens needs to be protected. Benjamin Robinson, a 40-year old government agent from Oakland, CA within the Department of Commerce, has been charged with illegally accessing a Homeland Security Database in order to stalk his ex-girlfriend and her family. His indictment by a federal grand jury in San Jose this week was in connection with allegations that he accessed the Treasury Enforcement Communications System (TECS) over 163 times to track the woman's movements. |
Fears of dollar collapse as Saudi Arabia takes fright| |
Excerpt: Saudi Arabia has refused to cut interest rates in lockstep with the US Federal Reserve for the first time, signaling that the oil-rich Gulf kingdom is preparing to break the dollar currency peg in a move that risks setting off a stampede out of the dollar across the Middle East.
Euro could replace U.S. Dollar as favored foreign exchange currency, says Greenspan
Excerpt: Former U.S. Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan said it is possible that the euro could replace the U.S. dollar as the reserve currency of choice.
Comment: Such a development could make for bigger changes in our world than the average American realizes.
America will lose a ton of clout and flexibility once the dollar is no longer the favored reserve currency. Our government would have far less freedom to print money, and problems which are merely tough today could become impossible to fix tomorrow.
This is why Bush-Cheney are wanting to somehow put stricter rules on investors. But it's hard to imagine how they could stem this tide (which they themselves helped mightily to accelerate with their incompetence, greed, and belligerence).
And much good could come of America being humbled this way. For instance, we could be forced to shrink our military spending down to something much more fitting to the modern world. But we average Americans sure won't like the extra suffering it'll entail at street level for a generation or two!
And if we come to feel TOO humiliated and impoverished along the way, we could end up ripe for dictatorship, much as happened to Germany after WWI (paving the way for the rise of Hitler). But don't take my word for it: read the history books! JR Mooneyham PERMANENT LINK |
Bush promises to veto children's health care
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Excerpt: House and Senate negotiators from both parties said this afternoon that they had reached agreement on expanding a popular children's health insurance program, setting the stage for passage by Congress next week -- and a showdown with President Bush.
The measure to be voted upon early next week provides for an additional $35 billion over five years to add about 4 million children to the 6.6 million already covered by S-Chip. Accordingly, Mr. Bush has threatened to veto the legislation as it is now emerging, despite entreaties from Republicans as well as Democrats. |
Republican Senator's secret 'hold' blocks public access to presidential records| |
Excerpt: A fight over White House secrecy has taken a new twist, with Senate officials confirming Wednesday that a Republican senator is secretly blocking a bill that would reverse President Bush's 2001 executive order allowing ex-presidents to seal their records indefinitely. |
Thousands rally in support of Jena Six| |
Excerpt: Thousands of chanting demonstrators filled the streets of this little Louisiana town Thursday in support of six black teenagers initially charged with attempted murder in the beating of a white classmate.
Judge denies request to free Jena teen even after conviction overturned
Excerpt: A judge on Friday denied a request to release a teenager whose arrest in the beating of a white classmate sparked this week's civil rights protest in Louisiana. Mychal Bell's request to be freed while an appeal is being reviewed was rejected at a juvenile court hearing, effectively denying him any chance at immediate bail, a person familiar with the case told The Associated Press. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because juvenile court proceedings are closed. |
Dan Rather sues CBS for $70-million| |
Excerpt: [Former CBS anchordude Dan Rather] claims that CBS marginalized him within the network and intentionally sought to tarnish his reputation because of its own political agenda.
The suit was filed against the network, its corporate parent Viacom Inc., and three of his former bosses: Viacom Inc. Chairman Sumner Redstone, CBS News CEO Leslie Moonves and Andrew Heyward, former president of CBS News.
Comment: I haven't always been a big fan of Dan Rather, but he's one of the few people who could actually hold these megamedia companies accountable for abandoning their responsibility to inform the public. It would be beautiful to see someone actually pay a price for firing a journalist at the request of the right-wing lunatics. Madeline Zane PERMANENT LINK |
$6-billion in government contracts under criminal review| |
Excerpt: Military officials said Thursday that contracts worth $6 billion to provide essential supplies to American troops in Kuwait, Iraq and Afghanistan -- including food, water and shelter -- were under review by criminal investigators, double the amount the Pentagon had previously disclosed.
In addition, $88 billion in contracts and programs, including those for body armor for American soldiers and material for Iraqi and Afghan security forces, are being audited for financial irregularities, the officials said. |
Sexual diseases flourish in "abstinence only" territory| |
Excerpt: Last year in Mobile County [Alabama], 4,629 new cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis were reported -- enough instances of the sexually transmitted diseases to account for one out of every 87 people, according to a Press-Register review of state and federal statistics.
That was about three times the rate in New York City and more than twice as high as Washington, D.C. ...
In Alabama public schools, students are taught abstinence-based sex education as part of a half credit of health education in high school. Students learn that "abstinence is the only protection against pregnancy, HIV/AIDS and STDs," said state Department of Education spokeswoman Edith Parten.
New York rejects federal funding for abstinence-only sex education
Excerpt: Federal and state funding for abstinence-only sex education will end in New York and state money will now go to programs deemed more effective, officials announced this week.
The state received up to about $3.7 million annually from the federal government for abstinence-only programs since 1998, according to state Health Department spokeswoman Claudia Hutton. Another $2.6 million in state money was allocated each year for the programs.
Comment: This decision means that a lot of New York teenagers will avoid pregnancy and sexually-transmitted diseases, which will no doubt sadden and outrage the pro-gonorrhea religious right. Helen & Harry PERMANENT LINK |
There are more than three stooges
(and one of them will be America's next President)
"New" Clinton health plan same as right-wing proposal from 1993| |
Excerpt: Those who want to depict Clinton as a [liberal] extremist may be even more disappointed. The idea of an individual mandate to buy insurance is-gasp-Republican!
Go back, once again, to 1993. Before the GOP decided to kill Clinton's health care initiative altogether, 23 Republican senators-including minority leader Robert Dole of Kansas-signed onto legislation sponsored by the late Rhode Island Sen. John Chafee that would have accomplished universal coverage through such an individual requirement. ...
Clinton wants you to prove to your employer that you're insured
Excerpt: On her health care plan, Clinton said she planned to enforce the mandate to purchase health care through tax credits and other incentives.
"At this point, we don't have anything punitive that we have proposed," she said. But she said she could envision a day when "you have to show proof to your employer that you're insured as a part of the job interview -- like when your kid goes to school and has to show proof of vaccination."
Comment: So now we're all going to be legally required to pay obscene sums for what should be a basic human right. I can't think of any major change to our current health care system that would please the insurance industry more ... or that would be so certain to make things worse instead of better. Is there anyone who still doubts that Clinton is nothing but a corporate mouthpiece? Madeline Zane PERMANENT LINK
Comment: Senator Clinton's thinking insults our intelligence and is almost delusional. Tax credits? To poor people? Requiring someone who is broke and out of work to prove that he has health insurance in order to get a job? How many people in the inner cities are going to be able to afford to front the insurance premiums and then wait 12 months to get their tax credits? ... MORE ... Marina di Pisa PERMANENT LINK |
Flip-flopping Giuliani now supports gun rights wholeheartedly| |
Excerpt: Giuliani also tried to explain why, as mayor [of New York City], he joined a lawsuit by several cities against the gun industry, arguing that manufacturers and distributors made it too easy for criminals to get guns.
On Friday, he said the ongoing lawsuit "has taken several turns and several twists I don't agree with." |
Blackwater VP is Romney's terrorism expert| |
Excerpt: "The United States faces a new generation of global threats and challenges," [Cofer] Black said in a statement issued by the Romney campaign. "Governor Romney recognizes the threats before us and has already laid out the policies needed to give our men and women the tools they need to protect our country." |
Giuliani adviser: U.S. has "too many mosques"| |
Excerpt: Democrats want Rudy Giuliani to fire one of his top homeland security advisers, Long Island Rep. Pete King, for saying America has "too many mosques." |
Thompson won't rule out drilling for oil in the Everglades| |
Excerpt: "Gosh, no one has told me that there's any major reserves in the Everglades, but maybe that's one of the things I need to learn while I'm down here," Thompson said after talking over state issues with Gov. Charlie Crist.
Thompson, who has called for seeking U.S. oil resources wherever they exist, was asked by an Associated Press reporter whether that included drilling in the Everglades.
"I'm not going to start out by taking this, that or the other off the table in terms of our overall energy situation," he said.
Comment: Last week Thompson came up blank when asked how he was different from the other Republicans running for President, and told another reporter he was unfamiliar with the issues about Terri Schiavo. He seems to be the dimmest bulb in national politics since the Alzheimer's-addled Ronald Reagan -- is that what they mean when they say he's Reaganesque? Helen & Harry PERMANENT LINK |
Alan Keyes wants to be your Republican candidate for President| |
Excerpt: Keyes, a former State Department official under President Reagan, made unsuccessful presidential runs in 1996 and 2000. He also has been a Senate candidate from Maryland, and, in 2004, he suffered a 43-percentage point loss to Democrat Barack Obama in the Senate race in Illinois. |
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Did CIA kidnap vacationer? It's a state secret.| |
Excerpt: In December 2003, German citizen Khaled el-Masri boarded a bus in Germany for a holiday in Skopje, Macedonia. Instead of a restful vacation, the Muslim man of Lebanese heritage says he ended up in a Central Intelligence Agency isolation cell in Afghanistan as a suspected terrorist. He was released after five months of interrogation with no explanation justifying the action or apology if it was a mistake.
Now, nearly four years later, his lawyers are asking the US Supreme Court to examine whether the Bush administration has the power to prevent Mr. Masri from seeking recourse in American courts. |
California Secretary of State says voting machine 'sleepovers' violate state law| |
Excerpt: She's hinted as much previously, and her new security requirements issued in the wake of her landmark "Top-to-Bottom Review" of e-voting systems would seem to preclude them, but CA Secretary of State, Debra Bowen has now given her most direct comment to date on the matter of voting machine "sleepovers".
"Sleepovers don't comply with the security requirements," Bowen said in response to a question we submitted on the matter during a conference call with the Secretary sponsored by the Courage Campaign.
"It's really simple," she added, after a pause following her immediate, direct reply to the question.
Comment: Voting machine "sleepovers" means allowing the voting machines to be left unsecure the night before an election, or even for days in a random poll worker's house or garage. In other words, something no fair and free election system would allow. Madeline Zane PERMANENT LINK |
War costing $720 million each day| |
Excerpt: The war is costing $720 million a day or $500,000 a minute, according to the [American Friends Service Committee]'s analysis of the work of Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz and Harvard public finance lecturer Linda J. Bilmes. ...
"I think people are becoming more aware of these guns or butter questions," said Gary Gillespie, director of the group's Baltimore Urban Peace Program, which displayed the banners in the Baltimore suburb of Bel Air on Friday. "But when you talk about $720 million a day, even people who work on this issue are shocked by the number and shocked by what could have been done with that money. War has no return -- you're not producing a product."
Comment: I beg to differ with that one quote. For the person making that statement is ignoring some glaringly obvious products of war: the inevitable suffering and deaths of many wholly innocent men, women, and children; plus the generation of hatred for the war-makers among the survivors. And lastly, the destruction of the very foundations to civilization itself: by way of devastation to the infrastructure critical to maintaining a modern way of life. For without its 'tools' (homes, electricity, plumbing, etc.) humanity is forced back to prehistoric survival practices -- and culture.
Mass death and suffering of innocents, mass production of hatred; mass destruction to the modern pillars of civilization: those are definitely some major products of war. JR Mooneyham PERMANENT LINK |
Charges against Marine in Haditha case dropped, of course| |
Excerpt: A Marine Corps officer accused of failing to properly investigate the alleged massacre of 24 Iraqi civilians in the town of Haditha has been cleared of wrongdoing, the military said Tuesday.
A statement released from the Marines Camp Pendleton base in southern California said all charges against Captain Lucas McConnell stemming from the Haditha investigation had been dropped ... following a ruling by Lieutenant-General James Mattis, commander of the US Marine Corps Forces, who was last week named by the Pentagon as head of the US Joint Forces Command.
"(Mattis) determined that administrative measures are the appropriate response for any errors or omissions allegedly committed by McConnell," the statement said. |
Pentagon is sued over mandatory Christianity| |
Excerpt: A military watchdog organization filed a lawsuit in federal court Tuesday against the Pentagon, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, and a US Army major, on behalf of an Army soldier stationed in Iraq. The suit charges the Pentagon with widespread constitutional violations by allegedly trying to force the soldier to embrace evangelical Christianity and then retaliating against him when he refused. |
Crooked Alaska Senator's phone calls were secretly taped| |
Excerpt: An Alaska oil contractor cooperated with the FBI by tape-recording phone calls with Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) as part of a public corruption investigation, a source familiar with the probe said last night.
The recordings done by former Veco Corp. chief executive Bill Allen mean that Stevens, who is the longest serving Republican in the Senate, was under scrutiny by the FBI much earlier than June, when the senator first acknowledged publicly that he was a subject of FBI inquiries. |
Bush says Saddam killed Nelson Mandela| |
Excerpt: "I thought an interesting comment was made -- somebody said to me, I heard somebody say, "Now, where's Mandela?" Well, Mandela's dead because Saddam Hussein killed all the Mandelas."
For the record, Nelson Mandela is still alive while Saddam Hussein is dead.
Comment: Reagan's Alzheimer's wasn't publicly acknowledged until midway through the Clinton era, as I recall. So perhaps ten years after Bush leaves the White House (if he leaves) we the people might be allowed to know the exact nature of his mental disorders. I'd be low-key curious to know -- was he a stumbling drunk through every night of what's called 'his' administration? Is his cocktail of anti-depressants out of whack? Has his mental stability deteriorated, or has babbling maniac always been his natural state? Helen & Harry PERMANENT LINK |
Congress denies voting rights to mostly-black, mostly-Dem D.C. residents| |
Excerpt: This year, it seemed a compromise was reached when legislation was introduced to give D.C., which is overwhelmingly Democratic, a representative in Congress while giving Utah an additional seat, which most likely would be won by a Republican. In April, the measure passed the House, 241-177. But on Tuesday, the Senate couldn't muster the 60 votes needed for cloture. Only 57 senators voted in favor, mostly Democrats and eight Republicans. Two Democrats didn't support the bill. That means the matter will once again be put off indefinitely. |
Poll says Republicans are happier than Democrats with performance of Congress | |
Excerpt: Congress is controlled by a conservative ruling majority. What's not to like if you're Republican? And what, exactly, have they done that independents and Democrats would like? I'm having a hard time coming up with much of anything. |
San Diego Mayor suddenly backs gay marriage| |
Excerpt: The mayor of the nation's eighth-largest city abruptly reversed his public opposition to same-sex marriage Wednesday after revealing that his adult daughter is a lesbian.
Comment: Mayor Jerry Sanders -- staunch conservative, ex-Police Chief, hard-core Republican, etc. -- flip-flops on gay marriage. He used to oppose it, but now it's OK, because his daughter is a lesbian. And Sanders sounds sincere to me, and seriously, god bless the guy.
But why does it take a personal father-daughter connection to make a Republican search his soul and blow the dust off his conscience and recognize the unambiguous difference between fair and unfair? Helen & Harry PERMANENT LINK |
Pre-bagged salads from Dole might kill you| |
Excerpt: Dole Fresh Vegetables said it has not received any reports that anyone has become sick from eating the products. The recall covers "Dole Hearts Delight" salads sold with a "best if used by" date of September 19. |
Music scholar barred from U.S., but no-one will tell her why| |
Excerpt: "I don't know why it's happened, what I'm accused of," she said. "There's no opportunity to defend myself. One is just completely powerless."
Kelly Klundt, a spokeswoman for Customs and Border Protection in the Department of Homeland Security, said officers at San Francisco International Airport had no choice but to bar [music teacher Nalini] Ghuman because the State Department, at its discretion, had revoked her visa. The State Department would not discuss the case, citing the confidentiality of individual visa records. |
Chiquita pays token fine for funding terrorists| |
Excerpt: A federal judge has accepted a plea deal that will avoid jail time for current and former executives of the fruit giant Chiquita. Earlier this year Chiquita admitted to paying one point seven million dollars to a right-wing Colombian paramilitary group on the U.S. terrorist watch list.
Questions are being raised whether the Justice Department decision is an attempt to avoid scrutiny of whether the Bush administration gave Chiquita its tacit approval. Last month Chiquita revealed it told Homeland Security secretary Michael Chertoff of the payments while Chertoff was at the Justice Department in April 2003. Chertoff promised a response, but never replied. Chiquita kept making payments for nearly another year.
Under the plea deal, Chiquita will pay a twenty-five million dollar fine that the company itself proposed. Chiquita has an estimated four point five billion dollars in annual revenue. Colombian officials have criticized the deal. Colombian Justice Minister Carlos Holguin said: "[This agreement] is not worthy of U.S. justice ... it gives the idea that impunity can be bought for a few million dollars."
Colombia angry with US-Chiquita settlement
Excerpt: Colombian officials Tuesday expressed anger at a 25-million-dollar settlement between the United States Justice Department after the multinational Chiquita Brands made payments the banana producer made to paramilitaries. ...
'What would the United States say if a country that has one of those responsible for the September 11, 2001 attacks let him go free upon payment of a fine?' former Colombian attorney general Alfonso Gomez asked.
He asked Colombian authorities to re-think pursuing extradition proceedings against Chiquita Brands executives, claiming they were not punished for their support of extreme-right paramilitaries. He also said the Latin American country should reconsider extraditing Colombian drug traffickers to the US. |
CREW releases third annual "Most Corrupt Members Of Congress" report| |
Summary: Eighteen Republicans and four Democrats. |
President Bush wishes that he could be alongside the troops in Iraq, but sadly, he's too old| |
Excerpt: "Responding to one of the bloggers in Iraq he expressed envy that they could be there, and said he'd like to be there but 'One, I'm too old to be out there, and two, they would notice me.'"
Comment: Good news, W. Girls can enlist now. Tell the twins. Madeline Zane PERMANENT LINK |
E.U. official slams U.S. criticism of Microsoft ruling| |
Excerpt: Responding to US assistant attorney general Thomas O Barnett's opinion that Monday's ruling "may have the unfortunate consequence of harming consumers by chilling innovation and discouraging competition", [European competition commissioner Neelie] Kroes said that it was "unacceptable" that a representative of the US judiciary should criticize a court of law outside his jurisdiction.
"It is absolutely not done," she told journalists on Wednesday.
"The European commission does not pass judgement on US rulings and we should expect the same from the US." |
Next questionable bin Laden tape will declare 'war' on Pakistani dictator and U.S. ally Musharraf| |
Excerpt: The messages are part of a stepped-up propaganda campaign by al-Qaida around the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks against the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Earlier this month, bin Laden released two messages -- including his first new appearance in a video in nearly three years.
Comment: Notice the complete acceptance of the White House line -- it's bin Laden's message -- despite widespread doubts about this and previous "bin Laden videos". Helen & Harry PERMANENT LINK |
School officials clamp down on student blogger| |
Excerpt: A few months ago Avery Doninger, a Burlington resident who is now a senior at Lewis Mills High School in that town, sat at home and wrote a Livejournal blog entry that referred to unnamed school administrators by the misspelled insult "douchbags."
So Lewis Mills principal Karissa Niehoff, with the approval of Region 10 superintendent Paula Schwartz, removed Doninger from her elected position as secretary of the class of 2008. And a month later, when new class elections were held, they wouldn't allow her name on the ballot. Though Doninger was still elected in a write-in campaign, Niehoff and Schwartz chose not to count those votes, rationalizing that referring to administrators as feminine hygiene supplies was inappropriate for a Class Leader.
Had Doninger said this at school, or directly to an administrator, they'd probably be right. But can public schools dictate students' off-campus, non-illegal behavior all throughout the school year? If the Doninger case becomes a binding precedent, the answer will be "yes." |
Florida Governor pardons man railroaded for prescription pain drugs| |
Excerpt: The state's parole commission recommended denying clemency for Paey, who was only seeking to have his prison sentence commuted. But after his lawyer, wife and four children wept and pleaded for [Robert] Paey's release, [Gov Charlie] Crist and the Cabinet went further than Paey expected by unanimously agreeing to grant him a full pardon -- meaning he'll have the right to vote and carry firearms. |
Stanford campus in uproar over fellowship for Rumsfeld| |
Excerpt: Academics and students at California's prestigious Stanford University have launched a vigorous protest against the appointment of Donald Rumsfeld as a visiting fellow to a right-wing campus think-tank, saying the former defense secretary and architect of the Iraq war offends their ideals of truth and tolerance. |
O'Reilly is surprised that black people behave in restaurant much like whites do| |
Excerpt: "I couldn't get over the fact that there was no difference between Sylvia's restaurant and any other restaurant in New York City. I mean, it was exactly the same, even though it's run by blacks, primarily black patronship." ... "There wasn't one person in Sylvia's who was screaming, 'M-Fer, I want more iced tea.' You know, I mean, everybody was -- it was like going into an Italian restaurant in an all-white suburb in the sense of people were sitting there, and they were ordering and having fun. And there wasn't any kind of craziness at all." ... "I think black Americans are starting to think more and more for themselves." |
Hospital wants critical blogger's anonymity ended; court agrees| |
Excerpt: A state district judge has told lawyers for the hospital and the blogger that he plans within a week to order a Dallas Internet service provider to release the blogger's name. The blogger's lawyer, James Rodgers of Paris, said Tuesday he will appeal to preserve the man's anonymity and right to speak without fear of retaliation. |
North Carolina judge says Medical Board can't punish doctors who oversee executions| |
Excerpt: The North Carolina Medical Board overstepped its authority by threatening to punish physicians for participating in executions, a judge ruled Friday, striking down a policy that effectively triggered a moratorium on the state's death penalty.
Superior Court Judge Donald Stephens said state law does not grant the medical board the right to prohibit doctors from assisting in executions. |
10,000 march through Myanmar in protest| |
Excerpt: A crowd of 10,000 people, including some 4,000 Buddhist monks, marched through Myanmar's central city of Mandalay on Saturday, witnesses said, in one of the largest demonstrations against the country's repressive military regime since a democratic uprising in 1988. |
Rich Republican publisher Scaife sues rival over divorce story| |
Excerpt: Attorneys for [Pittsburgh] Tribune-Review publisher Richard M. Scaife have filed court papers demanding the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette return documents related to the divorce of Mr. Scaife and his wife, Margaret Ritchie Battle Scaife.
In response, the Post-Gazette, arguing that no court has the right to force a newspaper to surrender documents lawfully in its possession, has posted those documents on its Web site, with some personal, financial and third-party information removed. |
Charges dropped over Circuit City ID arrest| |
Excerpt: The Cleveland Plain Dealer reported on my agreement with the prosecutor in today's issue. When I read their take on what happened I was outraged. Michael Sangiacomo of the Plain Dealer claimed that I "agreed that a police officer did nothing wrong in arresting [me] after [I] refused to show [my] driver's license." This is an outright lie. I never said such a thing and would never say such a thing. In fact, I've never even spoken with Michael Sangiacomo. He emailed me looking for a quote and I referred him to my attorney. As far as I know Michael Sangiacomo hasn't even seen the release that I signed with the prosecutor. I consider the outcome of my legal battle to be a victory, yet today's paper portrays it as defeat.
Why it matters
Excerpt: By requiring us to present any sort of papers or justification for us to be somewhere where we are allowed to be (especially a public place), the government and specifically the police are attempting to proclaim superiority over us. This is absolutely wrong. I applaud Michael Righi for taking a stand and saying, "no." It is sad that he has been dragged through this ordeal. It is sad that, in order to defend his rights as a human being, he was forced to pay out a considerable sum and that his family was so put upon; but this is the price of freedom. |
Aide to corrupt Congressman shoves TV reporter down stairs| |
Excerpt: A watchdog group recently declared [Rep Jerry Weller (R-Illinois)] one of the most corrupt members of Congress due to questions about his financial ethics stemming from land deals in Central America.
"I began to throw out a number of questions regarding his controversial Latin American land deals," and asked if there should be a House Ethics committee investigation, [WBBM-Chicago reporter Mike] Flannery said.
Weller did not speak, but instead went back down the stairs, still surrounded by a phalanx, Flannery said. At that point, the scene began to turn ugly. ... |
Federal prosecutor arrested in child sex sting attempts suicide| |
Excerpt: According to court documents, during an Internet chat with an undercover officer, [John] Atchison described himself as "very much a family man." He initiated the online chat Aug. 29 with the officer posing as a mother interested in letting men have sex with her children.
Comment: The article doesn't mention it, but a few Google clicks confirms that Atchison is, of course, a registered Republican. Helen & Harry PERMANENT LINK |
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This week's commentary
How deep is your hatred?
by JS Magruder, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: Thank goodness we have a convenient group of people to blame -- that'll be helpful when the economy bottoms out and we're tempted to blame our elected officials. We can blame brown people instead. Amazing how this stuff just keeps working ... generation after generation. |
Burning salt water
by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: I love hoaxes, especially the really wild ones that hang on for a long time, like Y2K. I don't like that it is done. I like them in the same sense that I deplore free range graffiti but admire the art. This is going to displace Y2K and cold fusion in my ranking, if it takes off and becomes a grown-up hoax. |
Leader of the neo-dark side
by Kevin Good, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: The first thing out of Petraeus's mouth before Congress, when he got his breath and microphone back, was, "I'm not a puppet of this administration. Just look at the stars all over the uniform, and pay no attention to that ring-string-thing on my back. The Administration will not pull it whenever you finish one of your speeches and actually ask a question. ..." |
May our voices be heard
by Leon Fisher, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: Under no circumstances must we stop speaking out against them. We are right, and they are wrong. It is as simple as that. |
Checklist to armageddon
by Sherri B., Unknown News| |
Excerpt: It's past time to start taking your world back. Or there will be absolutely nothing for you to take. You will either become a fighter, a martyr, or a slave. |
The iron fist in the
velvet glove is back
by Mr. Chuckles, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: It is not unreasonable to believe that the U.S. dollar index will fall by 50% during the next two to three years. That will be extremely damaging to the poor of America assuming that they eat food, shelter indoors at night, and do things like wear clothes, use energy to stay warm in the winter, and buy stuff for their children. |
Kafka Komics: Police state!
by Don Nash, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: "You're resisting arrest, citizen, I'm going to have to tear your throat out." |
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