That was tragic! BBC writer Ahmed Omed Khpulwak, 25, died together with at least eighteen other individuals during a July war in Afghanistan. NATO confessed Thurs that the reporter was really murdered by a US soldier who mistook him for a suicide bomber. Check this out: NATO admits BBC journalist was accidentally killed by US soldier. Indeed, the loss of Ahmed Omed is a tragedy for his family and friends as well as his colleagues at the BBC. Ahmed Omed’s death further highlights the great dangers facing journalists who put their lives on the line to provide vital news from around the worl ...
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you? Norway?) so badly Take a really close look in the mirror tonight   [End]
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I see the same issues everyday. Especially with all this ”outsourcing” Who will remain in the economy to buy these products and services? Especially if you have no job/money to buy them. They will eventually destroy themselves out of there own stupidity and ignorance. Evil always destroys itself in the end. That’s my prediction. Don’t worry, you ”reap what you sow”. What comes around goes around. Just sit back and watch the show!!!   [End]
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http://www.faithfreedom.org http://www.apostatesofislam.com   [End]
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http://www.masada2000.org/islam.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2829059.stm http://atheism.about.com/cs/islamandviolence/ http://www.twin-towers.net/al-farooq_photos.htm http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/asiapcf/southeast/08/17/martyr.culture/index.html http://muslim-quotes.netfirms.com/jihad.html http://www.faithfreedom.org/oped/amil30611.htm http://www.domini.org/openbook/home.htm http://www.persecution.org http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=9583 http://www.danielpipes.org/ http://uk.geocities.com/rami_thekafir/ ...
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The WMD are in Syria and we better do something about Iran and Syria’s terrorism or civilization is in trouble. Syria hiding Iraq WMDs http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=36463 http://projects.sipri.se/armstrade/Trnd_Ind_IRQ_Imps_73-02.pdf Top three suppliers of arms to Saddam Hussein, 1973 - 2002 USSR: 57% * France: 13% * China: 12% Then, in order of importance: * Czechoslovakia: 7% * Poland: 4% * Brazil: 2% * Egypt: 1% * Romania: 1% * Denmark: 1% * Libya: 1% USA’s sales -- 1 percent. None provided before or after the Iraq-Iran war ...
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The WMD are in Syria and we better do something about Iran and Syria’s terrorism or civilization is in trouble. Syria hiding Iraq WMDs http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=36463 http://projects.sipri.se/armstrade/Trnd_Ind_IRQ_Imps_73-02.pdf Top three suppliers of arms to Saddam Hussein, 1973 - 2002 USSR: 57% * France: 13% * China: 12% Then, in order of importance: * Czechoslovakia: 7% * Poland: 4% * Brazil: 2% * Egypt: 1% * Romania: 1% * Denmark: 1% * Libya: 1% USA’s sales -- 1 percent. None provided before or after the Iraq-Iran war ...
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The WMD are in Syria and we better do something about Iran and Syria’s terrorism or civilization is in trouble. Syria hiding Iraq WMDs http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=36463 http://projects.sipri.se/armstrade/Trnd_Ind_IRQ_Imps_73-02.pdf Top three suppliers of arms to Saddam Hussein, 1973 - 2002 USSR: 57% * France: 13% * China: 12% Then, in order of importance: * Czechoslovakia: 7% * Poland: 4% * Brazil: 2% * Egypt: 1% * Romania: 1% * Denmark: 1% * Libya: 1% USA’s sales -- 1 percent. None provided before or after the Iraq-Iran war ...
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==I have no partisan ax to grind== Yeah, whatever. Take away the adjectives you used to describe the administration, and the president, then I might believe you have no axe to grind. phbtbt   [End]
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The thing most misunderstood about Bush is the ASSUMPTION that he actually has an internal set of values. I worked the capitol in Austin in 1992 when the first Bush governor’s administration was set up. As an organizational consultant it interested me because I always try to determine an organization’s basic values. In that case I found that THERE WERE NO CONSISTENT SET OF VALUES at the core of the Bush administration. I watched this strange phenomomen through both his terms and now in the presidency. His net actions are the results of the push of several key advisors, formost being ...
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You Have a Call From Congressman DeLay (a true story); Is the Republican party in the business of Bilking it’s own, and is it using illegal means launder millions in contributions? By Rob Kall, editor, OpEdNews.com The other day, I got a phone call from my office. I usually do most of my work at my home office. ”You have a call from congressman DeLay.” ”Huh?” I replied. Had he read something nasty I’d written about him. He’s one of the most powerful people in the world and I knew I’d written enough to piss him off. So I took the call, cringing a bit, not knowing how to deal with t ...
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Finally - The truth is presented to America. Graphic depiction of the folks Rumsfeld didn’t feel it was necessary to keep track of. Kinda’ like Shrub and Texas’s death row. If he ignores those dead folks, they aren’t being murdered. As Rummy says, ”A battle equal to Gettysburg, Bull Run, Normandy Beach, unequaled in the annals of war- fare.” That whole bunch of arrogant, pompous-loosers should go back to the illicit corporations that they enabled and supported while they screwed the workers and the taxpayers. Their lies to the American public won’t be obscured by opaque annual report ...
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well, i’m guessing because he’s a ”military man” he hasn’t been trained in the skills of tact exactly. i THINK i kinda’ know what he’s talking about, but the manner in which he’s chosen to convey his message basically tells ME that ”we’ll have to convince the countries that whimped out in the beginning that our cause is noble, and somehow guilt them into helping us out - financially, logistically, and militarily - then we may thimb our noses at them and tell them ’see - we TOLD you we were right!’, because we’re the most important and powerful nation on the planet”. THAT’s what i was getti ...
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August 20, 2003|6:38 PM This concerns the refusal of the country’s leadership to be held accountable for the failure to execute its most fundamental responsibility. Four 9/11 Moms Battle Bush by Gail Sheehy In mid-June, F.B.I. director Robert Mueller III and several senior agents in the bureau received a group of about 20 visitors in a briefing room of the J. Edgar Hoover Building in Washington, D.C. The director himself narrated a PowerPoint presentation that summarized the numbers of agents and leads and evidence he and his people had collected in the 18-month co ...
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Patriot Act Two known as the Victory Act (a victory for the globalists) can be downloaded HERE. Take a look. Just more tyrannical power for the elite to supress everyone. No suprises.   [End]
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Reuters Cameraman Killed For Filming U.S. Graves: Brother Mazen found U.S. troops covered in plastic bags in remote desert areas and he filmed them for a TV program By Awad al-Ragoub, IOL Correspondent AL-KHALIL, West Bank, August 19 (IslamOnline.net) - The brother of Reuters cameraman Mazen Dana said he was deliberately murdered for discovering mass graves of U.S. troops killed in Iraqi resistance attacks. ”The U.S. troops killed my brother in cold blood,” Nazmi Dana told IslamOnline.net in exclusive statements. ”The U.S. occupation troops shot dead my brother on ...
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I usually agree with Josh, but this time I think he’s wrong when he says that things aren’t all that bad in Iraq and Iran. I may be an alarmist, but the Bush Cartel has damaged our international relations, trade opportunities, the future of an all-volunteer and the American economy. There is no way to save face. Forget the macho personae and get our kids the hell out of there. ********************************************************************************** (August 20th, 2003 -- 6:16 PM EDT // link) Here’s a ...
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”If we don’t succeed, we run the risk of failure.” ...George W. Bush ”Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.” ...Governor George W. Bush ”Welcome to Mrs. Bush, and my fellow astronauts.” ...Governor George W. Bush ”Mars is essentially in the same orbit...Mars is somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe.” ...Governor George W. Bush, 8/11/94 ”The ...
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Ain’t broke, for C____t’s sake! Ain’t broke?   [End]
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I’m a Vietnam vet – honorably discharged. Was on the Apollo team. Raised 5 great kids and love all of my grand kids. Own my home and pay taxes. Vote in all national elections. Do volunteer work – quietly. Believe in a superior being. Pray. Don’t ask for things much… Just say thank you. Have an excellent credit rating. Am recognized as superior in my field. My kids call to BS, at least once a week. I have never, once, touched my wife in anger. I tear-up when the Star Spangled Banner or Taps is played. Love to attend air shows. Have flown a C-5 simulator. Am so proud of my lo ...
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Fear has a way of keeping the yes men in check. They are just playin it again Sam. Hitler did it and every dictator before and after him did it. if it aint broke...don’t fix it.   [End]
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THE NEO-CONS REPLACED OUR AMERICAN EAGLE WITH A SWASTIKA? WOULD ANY OF THE NINE DWARVES STAND UP TO BUSH, THEN? WILL ONE OF THESE LIMP-WRISTED USED CAR SALESMEN GET SOME COJONES AND STAND FOR ”SOMETHING” DEMOCRATIC - WHETHER OR NOT THE FACISTS STEAL ANOTHER ELECTION... AT LEAST STAND FOR SOMETHING! THE DWARVES SEE DISASTER FOR AMERICANS EVERYWHERE THEY LOOK. THE ECONOMY, JOBS, MEDICAL CARE, THE INFRASTRUCTURE, AFGHANISTAN, IRAQ, POWER INDUSTRY, AIRLINES, STOCKMARKET, CORPORATE CRIME, AND ON AND ON. YET, THE DWARVES ARE AFRAID TO STAND UP AND BE HEARD? WHAT IN GOD’S NAME ARE THESE ALSO-RAN ...
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TOWARD A WORLD TORWARD A WORLD SERVING AMERICA Sun Aug 17,12:48 PM ET By Richard Reeves NEW YORK -- When I turn on my computer these days, I get a pop-up ad that shows four ”Friends”-like young men and women grinning and cheering on the beach. They’re all wearing tan camouflage hats under the words: ”Get the Desert Hat ... Worn by our Combat Troops in Iraq (news - web sites) ... Great for the Summer! ... Click Here Now.” ...
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It isn’t possible to create a standard minimum wage. A so-called rich man in China might be considered a pauper in Brazil. Mexicans are glad to travel thousands of miles into the U.S. to work for wages that Americans could not support a family (or themselves) on. The illegal workers even send large sums of money home. How can it be done? The taxpayer susidizes the social and medical welfare of the cheap labor. Who makes out? Stockholders and owners of the companies that utilize the cheap labor. The only way you can establish an international minimum wage is to lower those with th ...
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Amen... The problem is, so ”few” Little People are watching.   [End]
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and THAT’s what i’ve been trying to say, but apparently i came across as rooting for the Big People, even though i’ve eluded to the french revolution and my admiration for it several times. i AM a pacifist, but i’m also a realist, and sometimes fire needs to be fought with fire... vive la revolution!   [End]
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In Columbia when Coca Cola Union Leaders demand a minimum wage, right wing U.S. supported militia murder them. Over 40 Union Leaders have been murdered in the last few years. In Venezuela, the right wing Big Oil Cronies, who want to privitize everything, are trying to overthrow the Government of Chavez. If you think that Big Money will not fight an international minimum wage you are kidding yourself. It is time to prepare for what Big Money wants, free labor. The worst part is that U.S. Intelligence resources and U.S. weapons are being used to drive wages down and bust up unions. All aroun ...
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I figure $50. Swede, you are correct, as are all of the posters. I fight the inevitable. Any business owner worth his salt would move to the country that provides minimal cost per unit. BUT! I maintain that our government must either provide jobs that maintain an adequate income or subsidize its citizens in order to guarantee said citizens those rights which the Constitution addresses. Our government is abetting the abolition of our industrial base. When it’s all said and done, the party that wants to stay in power will have to pay people to take square dance lessons, knit, sketch and d ...
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FirstEnergy loses power David Teather in New York Tuesday August 19, 2003 The Guardian The Ohio-based company linked to the worst blackout that America has ever faced is struggling with more than $12.5bn in debt. It was recently forced to restate last year’s results and has caused controversy with its environmental and safety records. Early indications from officials investigating the blackout have led them to the failure of a handful of lines in the Cleveland area owned by the firm, FirstEnergy Corporation. Although FirstEnergy has not been squarely blamed for the disastrous ...
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as much s i agree with the sentiment of this ”joke”, let’s revise a few things: Joe Smith started the day early having set his alarm clock (MADE IN JAPAN) for 6am.   [End]
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AN ELECTRICAL FAILURE TRAVELS 186,000 MILES IN A SECOND! ********************************************************************* Power Grid Warnings Came Late, if at All Mon Aug 18, 9:13 PM ET Add U.S. National - AP to My Yahoo! By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN, Associated Press Writer NEW YORK - Warnings of trouble in the sprawling electric power grid ahead of the nation’s worst blackout came too late, or not at all, over a telephone hot line network created to prevent widespread breakdowns, power officials and politicians said Monday. AP Photo AP Photo Slideshow: Massive ...
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The ”leaders” silently endorse it because their globalist buddies (bosses)require this to occur in order to maximize their profits.   [End]
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Joblessness in America is a ticking time bomb. The average American is only able to buy necessities because industries have moved from cheap labor base to cheaper labor bases - Holding down costs to the American consumer. Sooner or later, we Americans are not going to be able to buy $200 television sets. Then the proverbial s__t is gonna’ hit the fan. We watched it happen... and did nothing about it. Manufacturers moved to Mexico and Indonesia said they could build it cheaper. Then South Korea said they could. Taiwan underbid South Korea. All good things will come to an end. China appe ...
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Joe Smith started the day early having set his alarm clock (MADE IN JAPAN) for 6am. While his coffeepot (MADE IN CHINA) was perking, he shaved with his electric razor (MADE IN HONG KONG). He put on a dress shirt (MADE IN SRI LANKA), designer jeans (MADE IN SINGAPORE) and tennis shoes (MADE IN KOREA). After cooking his breakfast in his new electric skillet (MADE IN INDIA) he sat down with his calculator (MADE IN MEXICO) to see how much he could spend today. After setting his watch (MADE IN TAIWAN) to the radio (MADE IN INDIA) he got in his car (MADE IN GERMANY) and continued his search for ...
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Factories Move Abroad, as Does U.S. Power By LOUIS UCHITELLE New York Times MANUFACTURING is slowly disappearing in the United States. That does not mean we should rush to preserve the remaining factories as historic landmarks. America will still be a manufacturing power in our grandchildren’s lifetime, but that status is gradually eroding. Why does this matter? Well, the essence of a great world power is its edge in producing not services but manufactured products that other people want Boeing’s airliners, for example, Intel’s semiconductors and Caterpillar’s earth-moving equipm ...
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Journalist Shot by U.S. Troops in Iraq Mourned Monday, August 18, 2003 BAGHDAD, Iraq — Fellow journalists accused U.S. troops of negligence in the shooting death of a Reuters cameraman, saying it was clear the victim was a newsman when soldiers on two tanks opened fire. Mazen Dana, 41, was shot and killed by U.S. soldiers Sunday while videotaping near a U.S.-run prison on the outskirts of Baghdad. The U.S. Army said its soldiers mistook his camera for a rocket-propelled grenade launcher. The film Dana shot showed a tank driving toward him. Six shots were heard, and ...
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WHY HASN’T THE INITIATING POINT OF THE BLACKOUT BEEN DETERMINED? FACE IT, WITH ALL OF THE MONITORING SYSTEMS AT EACH PRIMARY AND SECONDARY FACILITY, WITH PHASE RELATIONSHIPS CONSTANTLY BEING ADJUSTED (AND CHARTED) WHY CAN’T THE START OF THE PROBLEM BE PINPOINTED ON A TIME-LINE BASIS? CONTRARY TO WHAT FUTURE ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS MAY THINK, ELECTRICITY IS NOT MAGIC. REMEMBER - ELI THE ICE MAN. ******************************************************************** Al Qaida claims responsibility for blackout SPECIAL TO WORLD TRIBUNE.COM Monday, August 18, 2003 Al Qaida’s Abu Hafs Brig ...
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WHY HASN’T THE INITIATING POINT OF THE BLACKOUT BEEN DETERMINED? FACE IT, WITH ALL OF THE MONITORING SYSTEMS AT EACH PRIMARY AND SECONDARY FACILITY, WITH PHASE RELATIONSHIPS CONSTANTLY BEING ADJUSTED (AND CHARTED) WHY CAN’T THE START OF THE PROBLEM BE PINPOINTED ON A TIME-LINE BASIS? CONTRARY TO WHAT FUTURE ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS MAY THINK, ELECTRICITY IS NOT MAGIC. REMEMBER - ELI THE ICE MAN. ******************************************************************** Al Qaida claims responsibility for blackout SPECIAL TO WORLD TRIBUNE.COM Monday, August 18, 2003 Al Qaida’s Abu Hafs Brig ...
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WHY HASN’T THE INITIATING POINT OF THE BLACKOUT BEEN DETERMINED? FACE IT, WITH ALL OF THE MONITORING SYSTEMS AT EACH PRIMARY AND SECONDARY FACILITY, WITH PHASE RELATIONSHIPS CONSTANTLY BEING ADJUSTED (AND CHARTED) WHY CAN’T THE START OF THE PROBLEM BE PINPOINTED ON A TIME-LINE BASIS? CONTRARY TO WHAT FUTURE ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS MAY THINK, ELECTRICITY IS NOT MAGIC. REMEMBER - ELI THE ICE MAN. ******************************************************************** Al Qaida claims responsibility for blackout SPECIAL TO WORLD TRIBUNE.COM Monday, August 18, 2003 Al Qaida’s Abu Hafs Brig ...
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Dances With Roaches would have been extremely effective had he been available to Adolph Hitler and his cretins. If you follow his machinations, you will soon realize that he is driven to acquire power for himself and the GOP AT ANY COST. The Republicans (secretly) love him, but keep a safe distance. ****************************************************************************** Oh that’s classic. Tom DeLay says those Texas state Senators, who are off in New Mexico to stymie his ...
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We will leave it up to the reader to determine whether Tom Delay has made serious errors in in judgment. Tom has supported a Conservative Christian position especially when it comes to Church and State issues. It is apparent from the data collected, that the first amendment may be in danger from his past and future actions. When we contacted Tom Delay’s office, they stated that his position is that Christianity is a ”Real” religion.” What is a real religion, Mr. Delay? What you have been practicing? Read the following and ...
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Eisonhower was a war hero, and did everything he could to avoid war. Edwards has seen war first hand and would only go as a last resort. Wouldn’t it be great to have a person you could trust in the whitehouse instead of a clown that watchs home movies about war and thinks it the same as playing battleship with his wife.   [End]
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. . (August 17th, 2003 -- 7:25 PM EDT // link) From today’s Wolf Blitzer show, Wesley Clark on Tom DeLay ... BLITZER: General, I want you to listen, during the war, when you were still working for CNN -- and just want to alert our viewers, you’re no longer ...
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It may help you understand why we hay seeds do not accept what people on the right and left coasts so readily accept. Two weeks ago two of our drunk, uninvited, workers killed two young local girls in a head-on. Of course, the driver didn’t have a license. Our alien friends worked in Postville.   [End]
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Because the lobbyists get highly payed to weild their bullets of manipulation...they do it well. Hired ”guns” almost always get their man.   [End]
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Perhaps, it’s because I live in the ”land of the mental dwarf,” but I have written letters to the editor in a Republican rag challenging anyone to justify past deregulations... I never got a reply. The challenge applies here, too. Please defend dergulation of any utilities or services that are cumpulsory to one’s existance. Yet, the lobbyists sit before Congress and espouce the joys of deregulation on a weekly basis.   [End]
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I call it checks and balances something that is diappearing, rapidly. Enter the globalists.   [End]
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some might call regulated utilities socialism... I call it good sense...   [End]
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An Industry Trapped by a Theory by Robert Kuttner In the search for the source of Thursday’s blackout, the underlying cause has been all but ignored: deregulation. In principle, deregulation of the power industry was supposed to use the discipline of free markets to generate just the right amount of electricity at the right price. But electric power, it turns out, is not like ordinary commodities. Electricity can’t be stored in large quantities, and the system needs a lot of spare generating and transmission capacity for periods of peak demand like hot days in August. The power s ...
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I’ve got a stack of Newsweeks going back to May - about three pages perused in each one. Mol Ivins is great. Try Huffington’s editorials. Jim Hightower, a bit preachy. Yes I would like to read Palast but any book that isn’t neutral cannot be gotten at my local library - I have to buy it and then ”give” it to the library. Such is life in a small town. You might enjoy Paul Krugman although he does write on economics. Moore is a great read. Would like to read his ”Columbine” book. Huffington was a screaming Nazi two or three years ago - Read her now. What a turn around. She lived amongst th ...
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have you read ”best politics money can buy” by palast? it’ll make your hair stand on end. i usually don’t read many political books, except michael moore and molly ivins, ’cause they tend to be dry, but this one is very well written and whitty. and did i mention it’ll make your hair stand on end...? and, unlike ann coulter’s stuff, it’s actually peppered with facts :)   [End]
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oh, was that YOU? i remember differing with someone, hey, it’s better to have it out with someone you don’t have to live or work with, and it’s a learning experience. i’ll check out the book.   [End]
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Published on Friday, August 15, 2003 by Greg Palast Power Outage Traced To Dim Bulb In White House The Tale of The Brits Who Swiped 800 Jobs From New York, Carted Off $90 Million, Then Tonight, Turned Off Our Lights by Greg Palast I can tell you all about the ne’er-do-wells that put out our lights tonight. I came up against these characters -- the Niagara Mohawk Power Company -- some years back. You see, before I was a journalist, I worked for a living, as an investigator of corp ...
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I’m a registered Independent. Did vote for Poppa Bush after Clinton pulled his crap. Am liberal on most subjects. I think the only subject we ever clashed over was illegal immigration. See if you can find ”Postville” at the library. The tale continues at this moment.   [End]
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wait a minute - i coulda’ sworn you said you’d voted for bush, right? well, you don’t SOUND like any republican i know. but then again, they used to be the good guys. wasn’t lincoln a republican? my, how things change... ps vent away. i think we all take turns being the ventor and ventee. keeps a mind sane, not pretending that everything is a-ok... ds   [End]
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Thanks for the laugh, Swede. I can accept that life isn’t fair... There are smarter, handsomer, classier people than I out there. You win a few and you lose a few. What I cannot accept is greed and deceit. It would seem that one requires the preceding proclivities to be successful and powerful in today’s environment. Sorry, I won’t be that way for any amount of success. Yet, I feel that I must speak out against those who victimize and for the victims. Perhaps this is how I vent... Thanks for being the ventee. :-)   [End]
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cynic? you? well, as i said before, you’re in good company, then. i’m sure you’ve already figured out by now that i work in the healthcare industry, and it befuddles me to no end when i see doctors and nurses who are republican. i naively went into the field with a desire to HELP people, but soon discovered that THAT is not the main agenda of the majority of these people - making money is. well, la-dee-da, right? i love to hear people bitch about their hmo’s and even ppo’s being restrictive. basically, a hired bureaucrat, trained to create a truckload of red tape, decides whether or not y ...
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The Failing Airline Industry – Suffering from Self Inflicted Wounds? Do the airlines have a lemming-like death wish? It sure seems so at present. Here’s three examples. Hey, Buddy, Say it Ain’t So On Wednesday United Airlines’ Chairman James Goodwin took the unusual step of sending a letter to his 100,000 or so remaining employees (UA keep announcing staff cuts, I’ve lost count) warning that the airline – the nation’s second largest – ‘will perish sometime next year’ unless something (apparently not specified and perhaps not even known) changes to counter its current massiv ...
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God! I must look like a cynic to you, Swede. This is a breakdown on how our HMOs operate. Do we need national health care or what? ********************************************************************* Gatekeeper * Your physician is a gatekeeper. Isn’t a gate designed to keep something out? Whud up? * Managed care changes the way physicians can care for you and limits the circumstances and level of care as well as the types of surgery and medicine you may receive. In fact, managed care pays gatekeeper/providers more for giving less care and penalizes gatekeeper/providers for ...
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, March 11, 2003 CONTACT: Mark Cooper, CFA 301-384-2204 David Butler, Consumers Union 202-462-6262 CONSUMER GROUPS QUESTION FCC’S POWELL ON MEDIA DIVERSITY INDEX INDEX WILL LEAD TO CONCENTRATED OWNERSHIP THREATENING MEDIA DEMOCRACY WASHINGTON -Two of the nation’s largest consumer organizations, Consumer Federation of America (CFA) and Consumers Union (CU) contend that the media diversity index recently proposed by Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Powell in its upcoming media ownership rulemaking is not supported by the empi ...
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you know, i believe it’s all worth it in the end. i think this was a lesson, however tough, that needed to be learned by ”staunch republicans” all over. it’s as if ”once a republican, always a republican”. it could be beelzebub himself on the ballot, but people are so ”loyal” they become blinded to what’s really good for them in the end. just the other day, when the issue of gay marriage was hot on the political agenda following bush’s ”log in the eye” comment, a man whose son is gay went to say on national tv that he’d rather stay at home come election day 2004 than to NOT vote republican ...
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nothing condescending about that. thanks for the info ;)   [End]
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This will get you, briefly up to date on the deregulation snafu. Our power grids are protected by interlocking computer systems. The quality of the protection is based on a compromise between cost and engineering. Anytime you allow a private\unregulated entity the opportunity to voluntarily choose between quality and profit - we, the public will lose. I quickly found a comment on what happened to New Jersey when they deregulated electricity... Please do not consider that I’m being condescending - You asked and I am more than happy to attempt to prove my point. ************************* ...
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August 15, 2003 Forgive Me. I Voted for George W. Bush. A mea culpa to the people of America BUZZFLASH SPECIAL GUEST COMMENTARY by James C. Moore, co-author of ”Bush’s Brain: How Karl Rove Made George W.Bush Presidential” Nothing prepared me for what has happened in America under George W. Bush. In Texas, he was, politically, fairly moderate. Actually, he was even, for one brief moment, courageous, and exhibited leadership. A fiscal conservative streak ran through his policies, but not so much that they deeply harmed Texas’ already austere social services. And when th ...
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ok, so i’m a bit confused here. there was a power outage because there’s not enough alternative sources of energy (or any at all, period!), THAT i can understand. so, there’s no competition between energy companies to serve you, thus they don’t give a crap that little bobby can’t get his respiratory updraft treatment ’cause the power is out. alright. well, there’s too MUCH competition between airlines? there’s not ENOUGH competition between radio and tv stations, and healthcare providers, so they provide sucky service? i’m really just confused, i’m not trying to bag on you. maybe i’m compl ...
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Karl Rove will soon ”prove” administration’s contentions. Question: Would you buy a used car from this person? (”Man” would distort Roves true composition.) For Nixon, ”man” was okay.   [End]
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The military has been successful in spite of this hyper-political has been. God help us if his willingness to accept American losses in order to save dollars becomes prevalant.   [End]
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I experienced this, so called, Bush diplomacy in the school yard when I was seven years old.I stopped encountering this banal\plebian chest thumping when I entered high school. Hannity, Limbaugh, Reagan and on and on are all lard-assed big-mouthed punks. You could count their time in service plus their IQs on one hand. You see, I don’t base my attitude toward our allies or Europeans on what those Nazis spout. Talk about terrorists - Osama united us. Those acerbic egomaniacs divide us. I am ashamed of the immature manner in which we deal with friend and foe, alike. ********************** ...
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DEREGULATION!! Remember when you enjoyed commercial flying? Your seat fit. In- flight services were excellent. Flights were on time. Attendents didn’t threaten to rip out your juglar when you forgot to ”move your seat back to an upright position.” Most lines were three or four persons long. Flights weren’t canceled due to non-profitable passenger loads. Airlines did not monopolize cities by strangling lower cost carriers. Thank you, Mr. Congressman... Now we have true competition. How about our health care system? The best in the world, if you can afford it. Forty million Americans ...
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Does Pentagon video confirm Massive Cover-up? By Dave vonKleist On the morning of 9/11/01, The North tower, the South tower of the WTC, the Pentagon and Pennsylvania saw devastating and deadly attacks that rivaled the attack of Pearl Harbor. Question: Is it safe to assume that all four events are inescapably married to one another? If so, Question: Is it safe to assume that if we find the party/parties guilty of one of the events, are they not likely to have been involved in all of the events? If so, Question: Is it safe to assume that since no one jumped to ... [Image Embedded Here]
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Propoganda? Bu$h? Nooooo...say it isn’t so.   [End]
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wheelslip - listen, i just recently visited france, where they supposedly HATE americans. truth is, they were more hospitable than i even remember them to be, having also traveled extensively as a child and teenager. there are a few places, such as greece and turkey, and obviously the middle-east, where i wouldn’t go right now. don’t let the government scare you into believing the ”freedom fries” hype and all that bullshit. i think they have it all backwards - it’s the americans that are intolerant of the very countries who refused to buckle to the usual american propaganda, and when the s ...
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