Congressional hearings are needed to forestall an attack on Iran

Interview with Scott Ritter
July 12

Former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter discusses the likelihood of a U.S. attack on Iran and the smokescreen of diplomatic progress, how Iran’s recent promise of retaliation has raised the stakes by ensuring limited U.S. strikes would be inadequate, how facts and reason are irrelevant since the neocons in command believe they can generate their own realities, the need for Congress to reduce the level of tension not increase it with their current pending Iran war resolutions, how the War Party’s aggressive rhetoric towards Iran only helps their hardliners, Iran’s nuclear program as pretext for regime change, the dubious origins of the “smoking laptop,” the possibility of the use of nuclear weapons by the U.S. against Iran and the need for American business to demand Congress put an end to the march to war.

http://antiwar.com/radio/2008/.....-ritter-5/

#####Let’s take Scott’s advice and if you have not all ready called your reps to ask, demand, beg for congressional hearings on Iran…do so TOMORROW.

"The Shock Doctrine" is by far my favorite book during these crazy Bush years. I love the "connect the dots" aspect of it. And every week it seems, another dot to add. Unfortunately.
(I cannot recommend the audiobook version more highly)

Iran panel... Scott Ritter, Flynt Leverett, Joseph Circincione. Who would be on your Iran congressional panel?

I was just looking over the Government's plan to prop up Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. It looks like the U.S. taxpayer is going to be put on the hook for this again.

9 US Soldiers Killed In Afghanistan
JASON STRAZIUSO | July 13, 2008 09:48 PM EST | AP

Face covered Taliban militants pose before they execute two Afghan women in Ghazni province, Afghanistan, on Saturday, July 12, 2008. Taliban fighters told Associated Press Television News that the two were executed for allegedly running a prostitution ring catering to U.S. soldiers and other foreign contractors at a U.S. base in Ghazni city. (AP Photo/Rahmatullah Naikzad)

KABUL, Afghanistan — A multi-pronged militant assault on a small, remote U.S. base close to the Pakistan border killed nine American soldiers and wounded 15 Sunday in the deadliest attack on U.S. forces in Afghanistan in three years, officials said.

The attack on the American troops began around 4:30 a.m. and lasted throughout the day. Militants fired machine guns, rocket-propelled grenades and mortars from homes and a mosque in the village of Wanat in the mountainous northeastern province of Kunar, NATO's International Security Assistance Force said in a statement.

Moral Compass @ 7:

If only Bush and the neocons had decided to fight terror rather than choose re-election politics with their attack of Iraq--what a different world we would be living in today. The day after 9-11 Bush had the whole world on his side (and America's side) against those who attacked us. I guess history's lesson is that when you take your advise from Karl Rove--EVERYTHING is about politics.

Apparently you have a lot of catching up to do. The plans to invade Iraq were in place before Bush took office.

I saw the American Civil Rights Movement get reborn this afternoon in my Staten Island neighborhood that is in direct line of site of the Statue of Liberty.

Everybody that I spoke to in the crowd here is registered to vote as are all their family members and all their friends.

It's happening, it's finally happening and I never thought I'd live to see this day happen.

I got damn lucky with this video too...

Peace,

~~Nyc

Happy 13th of July, everybody.

CoIntelPro for Pronktastic Victory Over SCLM, DIEBOLD, ESS and SEQUOIA! @ 15:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4377.htm

Nyc Labrets @ 14:
excellent work.

Ruthless People @ 17:
and the bastards want to discuss attacking another country that has not attacked or threatened anyone.

Obama's get out of Iraq OP-ED, courtesy of Hollywood Elsewhere.

Kathleen @ 2:

Congressional hearings are needed to forestall an attack on Iran

that's a joke!

and a shame that it is!

CoIntelPro for Pronktastic Victory Over SCLM, DIEBOLD, ESS and SEQUOIA! @ 20:

Ruthless People @ 17:
and the bastards want to discuss attacking another country that has not attacked or threatened anyone.

Is there any wonder our 2 geographically closest allies consider Bush one of the greatest threats to world peace and part of the new axis of evil? http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/11/03/america/NA_GEN_World_Views_of_... Until we are liberated from Bush in January 2009 no one at home or abroad will be safe.

CoIntelPro for Pronktastic Victory Over SCLM, DIEBOLD, ESS and SEQUOIA! @ 23:

Tequila @ 19:

General Electric greenlights anti-Iran propaganda.

greed has a long memory

Of course. GE is one the biggest war profiteers out there. Who do you thinks makes all those turbine fighter jet engines?

Ruthless People @ 28:

CoIntelPro for Pronktastic Victory Over SCLM, DIEBOLD, ESS and SEQUOIA! @ 23:

Tequila @ 19:

General Electric greenlights anti-Iran propaganda.

greed has a long memory

Of course. GE is one the biggest war profiteers out there. Who do you thinks makes all those turbine fighter jet engines?

..."GE, we bring good things to life.....but we bring much more to death"

Charlie @ 5:

Say hello to Anheuser-Busch Inbev.

Now what can I drink?

harley @ 33:

casper46 @ 32:

Charlie @ 5:

Say hello to Anheuser-Busch Inbev.

Now what can I drink?

Good old American Kool Aid.

Stay away from the grape flavor.

harley @ 33:

casper46 @ 32:

Charlie @ 5:

Say hello to Anheuser-Busch Inbev.

Now what can I drink?

Good old American Kool Aid.

I guess with Bourbon.

Charles @ 35:

Why should we make a run on the banks?

Those folks that have over FDIC limit.

IndyMac there are around 30,000 accounts that were over the FDIC limit.

Tequila @ 38:

The "anti-glamorizing of smoking in movies" movement catches on in Britain.

Great idea.

casper: Only if you like censorship.

Anyway, the feds say "Screw you" to other ailing businesses.

Ron Says...Well, certainly they have the most to lose. They also have more diversified assets as well.

The fact is that the Fed is crashing our currency and thus collapsing our economy. They're doing it on purpose and most likely for several reasons. The first being that the entire central banking/fractional reserve system that has enslaved us all, is a complete house of cards. The entire system is based upon the fabrication/origination of debt. Once the debt limit is reached, the currency will figuratively POP.

Our currency can accept no further debt. The general public cannot incur any further debt. The Fed is releasing a plan this week, to again tighten the monetary policy making sure most Americans will have ZERO access to the availability of home loans. This is just another catalyst to total implosion. Our currency is at such a super saturated debt level that the Fed is just telling the Treasury department to print $6 billion per day just to pay the interest on our debt. And we're defaulting on the interest payments!

Social Security has been robbed. There is no gold in Fort Knox. We are collapsing. And the fuckers on Faux Noise are just telling us to quit whining. This Titanic of a country is going down. The morons who lead us have driven our country off a cliff and are telling us to stay seated, everything is just peachy.

The Bush administration want Congress to bail out FAnnie Mae and Freddie Mac.

1) where is the free market in all of this?

2) why are profits always privatized with Republicans and costs ( and bailouts ) paid for by the Public?

LibertyLover @ 46:

The Bush administration want Congress to bail out FAnnie Mae and Freddie Mac.

1) where is the free market in all of this?

2) why are profits always privatized with Republicans and costs ( and bailouts ) paid for by the Public?

You and I will not live long enough to pay the debt this administration have saddled our children, grandchildren and their children to pay off.

LibertyLover and Ron Says...

There is no such thing as "free markets" on this planet. those two words describe something that doesn't exist. When assholes in business or government talk about "free market environments," they are really talking about the complete and utter control of all commodities, including humans.

Ron @ 49:

Charles @ 47:

Ron Says...I think I said that. Yes, 100,000 per account, per bank. The problem is that when the currency collapses, what will the FDIC pay with? Worthless, devalued, hyperinflation bearing US dollars? I don't think so.

Watch what happens here. I believe they have a new currency to bring out. Just like the Euro. It will involve a series of major "events." My guess is economic chaos to usher in martial law under a totalitarian regime. They're stealing every asset from us in one way or another so that we'll be completely dependent on our government for basic necessities like food, shelter and work.

You are talking about the Amero, when the US, Canada and Mexico become one.

Maybe. That's one possible solution they have hidden from us. That can be initiated after a period of chaos. Right now almost everyone in government is denying the existence of the Amero or the North American Union even though it's a fact that the NAU super highway contract has been sold to a Spanish company. They will build a super highway from Mexico City to Canada. It will be the largest highway in human history. And the Spanish company will charge leasehold tolls to shipping companies for payment of capital to build it. It sure seems that everything is planned in secret and fabricated events lead to the execution and milestone accomplishments of these secret plans.

For example, why would our government take away all our personal freedoms unless they had a reason? Also, the economic crisis we're in is taxing our ability to even move around like we did last year. They come up with fun new words like the "staycation" to describe what we're doing with our long weekends now.

Hey y'all.

The Sunday Morning Bobblehead Thread should have Fareed Zacharia's GPS interviews with Barack Obama, as well as a panel of serious economists, included.

It was the only intelligent and worthwhile programming this Sunday. And well worth the watch online.

Zen Monks save Tassajara Zen Mountain Center from Big Sur fire

David Sirota - From Uprising to Movement: Five Ideas

July 14th Bastille Day: Casablanca - La Marseilaisse

I can't stand Glenn Beck, but here's a piece on the NAFTA superhighway from last fall. Also here is a piece from Lou Dobbs on the NAFTA superhighway from a few months ago.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQl_p-x_Crc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etbGNLS8Yg0

Since then, the "powers that be" have told Glen and Lou to shut the fuck up about this.

Charles @ 56:

SadButTrue...Your name says it all. It's a sad, but true fact that most Amurikans are brainwashed dolts. Just wave your flag, everything is going great, W's the leader. We're killing the terrorists there so we don't have to kill them here. Support the troops who are protecting our freedoms here by murdering brown skinned people abroad, and on and on and on.

Yeah, but over 20% of the populace being dumber than dirt? It's hard to countenance. I mean, don't we all learn as children that when somebody is lying about something the truth is not likely to be flattering to them?

The saddest truth is that the 'Murkin public has allowed the degradation of the very definition of the word freedom. It used to mean an individual's latitude in action and belief. Now it means a corporation's ability to reap profits without ever having to bear the consequences of any collateral damage inflicted in the generation of those profits. Needless to say this capitulation to capitalism didn't happen just in the last eight years, but has been going on for at least half a century. Democracy in the mean time has gone from taking a back seat to profit to being dragged along behind the vehicle of commerce on a rope.

Man, that's one of the best spur of the moment metaphors I've come up with in some time. All modesty aside.

Just a little heads up considering what is going on with Fannie and Freddie and the Indymac seizure. Here are some other banks that are also in trouble. It might be worth watching you someone has assets invested in them:

Banks in the Danger Zone

"On the heels of the failure of IndyMac Bank, Richard Bove at Ladenburg Thalmann has run a few screens on bank stocks to see who elese may be in danger of failing.

Downey Financial, Corus Bankshares, Doral Financial, FirstFed Financial, Oriental Financial, and BankUnited Financial all have danger zone ratios with Downey the highest at 13.6%.

You have all the same names as listed before, PLUS WASHINGTON MUTUAL which comes in with a ratio at 40.6 percent."

http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2008/07/banks-in-danger-zone.html

Joe O... All the banks are in trouble. And the reason is because of deliberate acts of incompetence and the fact that our currency is debt ridden and backed by nothing but air.

Joe O...Right on. Also I have to add Wachovia to the list. They just hired a new CEO. They are touting him as Mr. Fixit. Brought in to right the ship. Sorry, but the ship has already sunk and there aren't enough life rafts to go around.

And if Wachovia implodes, Bank of America and Wells Fargo will go down as well.

Some times I wonder if the neoCons are leading us down the path to civil war . Me I will be shocked if Obama ( not my first choice , no not mclame ) becomes POTUS . These are pretty scary times , plan for the worst and hope for the best , thats always been sound advice .
I think it is going to get a lot more crowded under the bridges , before things get better . If we do attack Iran where do the troops come from , it would take at least 6 months to put new boots on the ground , sure hope we can pull out of this nose dive .

now airlines blaming speculators for cost of crude.....
they know the fuel future business....financial institutions
trying to recoupe money

http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=69257

And like I said, I have no idea why or how I see it.

- Charles

Musta been them red pills you've been swallowing. ;)
~~~~~~~~~
As far as the ongoing collapse of the economy, with Bear Sterns, IndyMac, Fanny, Freddie and who knows what else, what did anybody expect? The simple facts are:

The US has not had a trade surplus in decades. The trade deficit has grown steadily during that time in both absolute terms and as a percentage of the economy, to over $800 BILLION in 2007. Basically the country can be compared to someone whose income is diminishing, but for some reason that person has a fabulous credit rating - and they're willing to max it out. What Robert Newman describes in his excellent History of Oil as 'a magic checkbook.'

The thing is, as everybody knows, credit is not free. At one time the US was prosperous because the term 'Multinational Corporation' meant US capital being invested abroad. That situation has reversed itself and now many US industries, even should they manage to make a buck part of that buck goes to the Saudis, Chinese, Germans, etc., who hold paper on American financial interests. And the sad truth is those foreign interests have co-opted the very government into allowing them to profit even more by paying little or no taxes.

The story of the ant and the grasshopper comes to mind.

SadButTrue... Well I've been waiting for Morpheus, but I think he's been abducted by Agents.

Oh, and yes, our leaders and private bankers at the Federal Reserve have destroyed us. They tested their power just after president Wilson sold us all out back in the 1920's. They purposely tightened the monetary supply to cause the great depression. They are using similar tactics now with better technology.

Can you say....MARGIN CALL?

McCain pretends to be compassionate on immigration.

I guess that cover by THE NEW YORKER will be the buzz of the week and distract away from McCain's fuck-ups. Everytime Obama gets rolling, someone does something stupid and sidetrack him. Their cover is supposed to be satire, but if you have to explain something as satire, then you probably shouldn't do it. The right-wing will twist and spin it for their own use and e-mail it around explaining it as anything but satire. Then all of the networks will spend EVERY MINUTE for the rest of the week discussing the rumors which is basically a way of spreading the rumors. I mean seriously, you can't go 6 months discussing whether the guy is Muslim before people start asking the question "Is the guy a Muslim? Why do they keep talking about it if he is not?"

This is why America hates the media!

Charles @ 73:

SadButTrue... Well I've been waiting for Morpheus, but I think he's been abducted by Agents.

Oh, and yes, our leaders and private bankers at the Federal Reserve have destroyed us. They tested their power just after president Wilson sold us all out back in the 1920's. They purposely tightened the monetary supply to cause the great depression. They are using similar tactics now with better technology.

Can you say....MARGIN CALL?

are the leaders and private bankers over @ the Fed ...democrats...or republicans?

Mister Anderson @ 76:

I guess that cover by THE NEW YORKER will be the buzz of the week and distract away from McCain's fuck-ups. Everytime Obama gets rolling, someone does something stupid and sidetrack him. Their cover is supposed to be satire, but if you have to explain something as satire, then you probably shouldn't do it. The right-wing will twist and spin it for their own use and e-mail it around explaining it as anything but satire. Then all of the networks will spend EVERY MINUTE for the rest of the week discussing the rumors which is basically a way of spreading the rumors. I mean seriously, you can't go 6 months discussing whether the guy is Muslim before people start asking the question "Is the guy a Muslim? Why do they keep talking about it if he is not?"

This is why America hates the media!

AMEN!

Tequila @ 79:

Karzai won't let the U.S. use Afghanistan to attack Iran.

GOOD!

chilling

It Takes a School, Not Missiles
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
Greg Mortenson has spent less than one-ten-thousandth as
much as the Bush administration to help fight terrorism in
Pakistan. Instead of blowing things up, he builds schools.

Charles @ 35:

Why should we make a run on the banks? Our currency will be worthless soon anyway. Making a run on the bank will simply hasten the Federal Reserve's backup plan. A new, debt free currency (still not backed by shit) to take the old US dollar's place.

The whole business model of the banks is to steal money from poorer customers and give it to richer customers along with the executives of the banks. Can anyone name a city where a bank building isn't among the top few largest, most conspicuous structures in a skyline? And usually in the shape of a huge penis with a pyramid on the top. This should tell you at least a couple things. Who's running this shit hole country, and we're pretty much fucked.

I am looking forward to the day when there is no discrimination in building design, when we counter those phallic symbol tall buildings with vaginal shaped structures.

Saint Augustine @ 90:

Charles @ 35:

Why should we make a run on the banks? Our currency will be worthless soon anyway. Making a run on the bank will simply hasten the Federal Reserve's backup plan. A new, debt free currency (still not backed by shit) to take the old US dollar's place.

The whole business model of the banks is to steal money from poorer customers and give it to richer customers along with the executives of the banks. Can anyone name a city where a bank building isn't among the top few largest, most conspicuous structures in a skyline? And usually in the shape of a huge penis with a pyramid on the top. This should tell you at least a couple things. Who's running this shit hole country, and we're pretty much fucked.

I am looking forward to the day when there is no discrimination in building design, when we counter those phallic symbol tall buildings with vaginal shaped structures.

carnal architecture?
novel idea!

Analysts Say More Banks Will Fail
By LOUISE STORY
There is less danger than in the savings-and-loan crisis of the 1980s, but as many as 150 U.S. banks could fail over the next year, analysts say.

not to worry - it's all in your head, so stop whining

Your owners don't what you to be able to think on your own.

Daily Reading pt 2...

NYT Editorial: History Deleted at the White House - http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/13/opinion/13sun3.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&ore...

"Why I'm Voting Republican" -- A Satirical Video that is True. Brilliantly Done. - http://www.imvotingrepublican.com/
Everything in these are 100% accurate, I defy any right wingnut to 'prove' otherwise...

Hope in the 21st Century: 43 nations creating Mediterranean union - http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080713/ap_on_re_eu/eu_mediterranean_summit

Now there has been increasing talk that the Iraqis want the US out of their country soon. Well it now appears they want the US out of the Green Zone even sooner. The Iraqi govenment has said the US should turn over the Green Zone by the end of 2008.
- http://www.newshoggers.com/blog/2008/07/soon-and-sooner.html
Green Zone Eviction (I guess when 'victory' is declared by the Iraqi puppet regime, that means the 'surge' worked and we can withdraw)

Bush Crime Family Update: New Head of Federal Election Committee is Former Lawyer for Tom DeLay's House GOP Campaign Committee. This is Not a Joke.
- http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/07/10/for_fec_its_back_to_...

Bush Tours America To Survey Damage Caused By His Presidency - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aEURwsrUSQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqLvBUSJucg&NR=1

Voter registrations in Florida show 'huge swing' toward Democrats - http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/broward/sfl-flbvoters0712sbjul12,...
An escalating number of voters registering as Democrats is providing evidence that the 2008 election could produce a wave of support for Barack Obama — and trigger a decades-long shift of party allegiance that could affect elections for a generation.
The numbers are ominous for Republicans. Democrats said Friday it's proof of what they have been seeing for months.
"Who would want to join a failed party? And that's what the Republican Party is today, a failed party," said U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler, D- Delray Beach, co-chairman of Obama's Florida campaign.

Why voting for McCain is suicidal: Bob Herbert: "When Senator Phil Gramm and his wife Wendy danced, it was most often to Enron's tune"
- http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A01E0D81038F934A25752C0A...
"How long will it take? How many decades and how many scandals have to come and go before we catch on? We're human. We're self-interested. And when left to our own devices, some of us will do the wrong thing.
Some perspective is needed. Unchecked deregulation is an express route to chaos and tragedy. Where the public interest is involved, a certain amount of oversight -- effective oversight -- is essential."
He's McBush's senior economic adviser (meaning he'll be running the economy) and he was the architect of the Enron Loophole/which enabled the biggest corporate defrauding scheme in history...THINK IN NOVEMBER!!!

What's not the matter with Kansas, Gov. Kathleen Sebelius talks to Grist about her fight against coal and her VP potential
- http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2008/7/10/145417/887

NASA Satellite Could Make Floating Ocean Wind Farms Possible (UPDATED) - http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/07/quickscat-wind-maps.php

Mapping the Alternative Energy Potential of the United States - http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/07/mapping-alternative-energy-poten...
We have the technology (solar thermal = 3,000X our annual consumption - we have the mapping technology, Solar, Wind, Hydro, celluosic ethanol & algae biodiesel, etc), we just need the funding
An Oil-based economy is doomed

The ‘Hydrogen Fridge’: A Home-Based Hydrogen Refueling Station - http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/07/hydrogen-fridge-home-refueling-r...

The Window to the Sol, Your windows could collect solar energy, says study - http://www.grist.org/news/2008/07/10/solar/

DC @ 77:

Clinton: GOP Should Apologize to America

"Our president goes to Japan four months before the election that will finally show him the door and says he's going to take global warming seriously," Clinton said. "Then as he's leaving the G-8 conference, says to people around him, 'Goodbye from the biggest polluter world in the world.' You've got to ask yourself, how did this happen to our country?"

Clinton said the last eight years had many "highlights."

"A vice-president who shoots somebody in the face, you couldn't make that up," Clinton said to laughter.

She added, "the Republicans should hold a press conference and apologize to the country and say they're just not going to run anyone for president."

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/07/13/clinton_gop_should_a...

The GOP and its media cheerleaders are amazing. The GOP will blame anyone except their own leaders for the terrible direction the United States is headed toward.

Clinton is right about this. The GOP should admitt their mistakes and apologize to the voters.

has hillary clinton admitted her vote for war in iraq was a mistake? has she apologized to the american people? come to think of it, has she ever owned up to any mistake?

what a gasbag. god, i can't wait until all clintons and bushes are out of public office...

FYI for every American tax payer: From CBS Market Watch

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/chinese-government-top-foreign-hol...

"A bailout at this stage would be the worst possible outcome for American taxpayers and mortgage holders, who have been paying a risk premium to these foreign investors. It would change the rules of the game retroactively and would directly subsidize the risks taken by sophisticated foreign investors."

"A bailout of GSE bondholders would be perhaps
the greatest taxpayer rip-off in American history.
It is bad economics and you can be sure it is terrible politics."

Now here is an issue that that the U.S. mainstream media will be silent about

Israel okays new factories in WBank settlement

3 hours ago

JERUSALEM (AFP) — Israel has approved the construction of 25 factories in a Jewish settlement in the heart of the occupied West Bank, a spokesman for the settlement said on Monday.

"We have received authorisation from the ministry of defence to pursue construction on the site of our industrial area," Ariel settlement spokesman Reuven Shapira told AFP.

"Around 10 factories exist and the project is to reach 35 factories in this area," he said, adding that work resumed on Monday.

Shapira said the defence ministry had frozen the Ariel project around a year ago to check its feasibility. The settlement lies south of the Palestinian city of Nablus and is one of the biggest in the West Bank.

The Palestinians have repeatedly said the expansion of settlements in the West Bank is the main obstacle to the success of peace talks with Israel formally relaunched at a US conference in November.

The internationally-drafted 2003 peace roadmap, which serves as the basis for the talks, calls on Israel to halt all settlement activities and for the Palestinians to cease all armed attacks.

But since the peace talks were revived, Israel has announced several settlement expansions, mainly in east Jerusalem, which it occupied and annexed in the 1967 war.

CALL YOUR REPS TELL THEM TO DEMAND THAT ISRAEL STOP EXPANDING THEIR ILLEGAL SETTLEMENTS

Will miracles never cease... Firedoglake is really stepping out of their blog clog on the Israeli Palestinian issue. They were willing to link this issue on Monday morning. But if you notice unwilling to mention who linked the story or to make any comments or to take a stand on this critical issue. At least they are dipping their toes into one of the most critical issues in the middle east. How many times do we have to hear that it is the expansion of the illegal settlements that are in the way of any true Peace negotiations in this conflict

http://firedoglake.com/2008/07/14/israel-okays-new-factories-in-wbank-se...

Kathleen @ 103:

Will miracles never cease... Firedoglake is really stepping out of their blog clog on the Israeli Palestinian issue. They were willing to link this issue on Monday morning. But if you notice unwilling to mention who linked the story or to make any comments or to take a stand on this critical issue. At least they are dipping their toes into one of the most critical issues in the middle east. How many times do we have to hear that it is the expansion of the illegal settlements that are in the way of any true Peace negotiations in this conflict

http://firedoglake.com/2008/07/14/israel-okays-new-factories-in-wbank-settlement/

Still no responses to this article about the illegal expansion of settlements in the West Bank at Firedoglake. The article was posted around 5a.m. if all goes according to what usually takes place when this subject is brought up over at FDL (which is seldom) folks steer clear of the issue basically run away. Some of us will be observing.

Kathleen @ 105:

Kathleen @ 103:

Will miracles never cease... Firedoglake is really stepping out of their blog clog on the Israeli Palestinian issue. They were willing to link this issue on Monday morning. But if you notice unwilling to mention who linked the story or to make any comments or to take a stand on this critical issue. At least they are dipping their toes into one of the most critical issues in the middle east. How many times do we have to hear that it is the expansion of the illegal settlements that are in the way of any true Peace negotiations in this conflict

http://firedoglake.com/2008/07/14/israel-okays-new-factories-in-wbank-settlement/

Still no responses to this article about the illegal expansion of settlements in the West Bank at Firedoglake. The article was posted around 5a.m. if all goes according to what usually takes place when this subject is brought up over at FDL (which is seldom) folks steer clear of the issue basically run away. Some of us will be observing.

Nicole/all if you would do me a favor go link to firedoglake via the link I provided above. It links to the article that was at firedoglake eariler about the illegal expansion of West Bank Settlements. This article was up for several hours and then appears to be have taken down. No one at firedoglake was willing to post their name or an opinion about the article. Now if you go directly to firedoglake that article has been taken down. I am not kidding go check it out. Someone all ready got to Firedoglake.

Good morning and hey more good news for the oil companies, bush just made it legal for them to drill in all those wonderful formerly unspoiled off shore areas.

At first I thought that said "Naomi Wolf" and I got excited because she did a great job at the Ron Paul Revolution March.

That gal knows how to focus on the big issues and bring people of varying ideologies together. And KUDOS to the organizers and her for having the guts to put her on the bill. It made a fantastic experience just that much better.

SadButTrue @ 53:

Have you ever reflected on how stupid someone has to be to still be a supporter of George W. Bush? How grievously, pathologically cretinous?

First off there's the recurring experience of BushCo presenting something as truth, which the 'radical left' immediately picks up on as a total lie. The right-tard reflexively defends their valiant White House hero. Then, often very soon after Bush makes some claim, it is exposed as absolute bullshit.

Iraq has WMD's - it's a slam dunk.
There were connections between Saddam Hussein and Al-Qaida.
Wiretaps require a warrant. We always get a warrant before we apply a tap.
American does not torture.
The economy's going great.
Etc., etc., etc., ad nauseum.

All proven false. Wouldn't anyone with a functioning brain eventually pick up on that repeating pattern?

Here's another thing about the Bush regime that I find it hard to understand how anyone could be stupid enough to fall for. You know how he's always saying that he expects long-term that history will vindicate his decisions as pResident? This would imply that he really sincerely believes that the actions he has taken are good for the country. But there's a problem with that idea, which I think will turn out to be one of his biggest lies.

The problem lies in the fact that America has never experienced a government in all its history that is as secretive as the Bush regime. Bush and his cohorts do everything in their power (and many things that are beyond their proper power, ie illegal) to conceal their actions.

As a matter of fact it's even more stunning than that when you think about it. From the millions of destroyed White House emails (illegal breach of the Presidential Records Act) to KKKarl Rove's refusal to testify before Congress (also illegal and criminal) to the refusal to show cause to the FISA courts for his wiretapping (criminal actions to conceal his program from a court that is sworn to secrecy - wow) - Bush has shown that he is willing to openly break the law rather than to let anyone know what he's really doing. A person of even average intelligence would suspect that whatever it is he's hiding must be really, really, REALLY bad.

And anyone who would fail to see that has to be really, really REALLY stupid.

Very well stated...and what's more amazingly mind boggling? The fact that our Congress...two consecutively...have done completely NOTHING to reign in the out-of-control and criminal Bush Administration. It's as if everyone in D.C. has gone stark raving mad and it's being treated as business as usual. One can only imagine what horrors await the country under the next President. It seems the louder We as a People scream the worse things get. The economy is tanking, our military along with our sensitive infrastructure is literally crumbling before our eyes and yet the WarPigs continue to press their war machine further and further towards a THIRD front. Iraq is unmanageable and they want us out. Afghanistan has been falling apart because of Iraq. Yet the WarPigs cast their destructive eyes on Iran, all the while our worthless Congress sits on their hands and let them do it. Like I've said before...fasten your seat belts kids it gonna be bumpy ride.

Saint Augustine @ 113:

Kathleen@110

I went to the page with no problem

http://firedoglake.com/2008/07/14/israel-okays-new-factories-in-wbank-settlement/

go to firedoglake directly now. That article was posted between Christy's latest on Senator Dorgan and the article on the Economy. That article about the expansion of Illegal settlements has been taken down
http://firedoglake.com/2008/07/14/israel-okays-new-factories-in-wbank-se...

that link that you used was the one I posted on the Crooks and LIars thread. That article was taken down. Go directly to the site via your computer do not use my link from earlier

this is the link where the article is still up ( I posted this on Crooks and Liars
http://firedoglake.com/2008/07/14/israel-okays-new-factories-in-wbank-se...

here is the direct link NOW. Article was taken down for sure
Try it
http://firedoglake.com/2008/07/14/israel-okays-new-factories-in-wbank-se...

Saint Augustine @ 113:

Kathleen@110

I went to the page with no problem

http://firedoglake.com/2008/07/14/israel-okays-new-factories-in-wbank-settlement/

go directly there do not use the link that I posted earlier. That article has been taken down

as i have said before if the country wants out of iraq the quick way is open thru kuwait , but neither bush mccain or obummer will withdraw , they all want a win they all want to protect our interests in iraq , that being iraq oil, we can be out of iraq in a month or two at the most, and dont tell me it cant be done its been done before when we made up our minds to do it in other countrys!