Mauritanian pro-democracy parties were set to defy a ban and hold an anti-coup demonstration on Sunday, one day before an African Union (AU) deadline for the junta to reinstate the ousted president.
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The Anti-corruption Commission (ACC) yesterday finally submitted a charge sheet against former premier Khaleda Zia and 15 others, including 10 former ministers, in Barapukuria coalmine graft case.
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The High Court (HC) yesterday directed the government not to harass or arrest Awami League (AL) President Sheikh Hasina at home or abroad till October 20 in the Niko and barge-mounted power plant graft cases.
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The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) yesterday pressed charges against former BNP lawmaker and Partex Group Chairman MA Hashem in a case filed for amassing wealth worth Tk 17.11 crore illegally and hiding wealth information from the commission.
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(Xinhua) -- Mexican police found the bodies of ten murdered victims Saturday in the northwestern city of Tijuana which borders the United States, after dozens of people were killed last week amid escalated drug gang clashes.
Five of the bodies were found Saturday in a small lane between two shopping centers in the eastern part of the city, while another five were discovered in a van which has a U.S. license plate, a police spokesman said. Investigators said all the victims had been beaten before being executed, and two of them were beheaded.
The criminals left a piece of cardboard with retaliation messages on the scene, local media reported.
In an interview with local media on Saturday, Rommel Moreno, attorney general of Baja California state, blamed the rampant violence on the escalating conflicts between feuding drug gangs. He said more than 420 people have been killed in drug-related violence in Tijuana so far this year.
Tijuana is one of the most violent cities in Mexico where drug, weapons, and human traffickers as well as kidnapping gangs are held responsible for most of the violent crimes. More than 60 people were murdered last week in Tijuana in increasing drug trade-related violence, according to the judicial authorities.
According to local media, at least 3,200 Mexicans have lost lives in violence related to organized crime or drug trafficking.
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And MeCha waits/prays for AZATLAN...said org. sponsore by your local school districts...
Mayor of the central Mexican city of Ixtapan de la Sal was shot dead on Saturday, with drug cartel suspected to be responsible for the murder.
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Like 1920's Chicago, pols either accept the bribe or the bullet. The historicaly deep Arab strain in Spanish/Latino bloodlines showing through with the rampant beheadings...
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I mean, we all understand that Mexico has problems but you're sounding just a wee bit racist there, borgboy, and I for one won't let it slide. I'm just as mad at Bush and McCain for their failure to secure the border as anybody. But you know, the violent criminal enterprise was never strictly a Spanish/Latino thing. White boys in this country who buy the drugs are just as much to blame as the thugs in Mexico. White businessmen who exploit cheap, illegal labor can share some of the blame too. And don't forget all the honest, hard working, family oriented Mexicans. In fact, I have long held the opinion that if the powers that be in this country really wanted to stop the drugs they could do it but there is plenty of corruption on both sides of the border. So don't try to pass that "Spanish/Latino bloodlines" crap unless you're prepared to defend it.
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not so, bigjim. Assaults, carjackings, rapes have become close to commonplace in certain areas, especially of gringos, and many times by uniformed assailants
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Most Mexicans are descended from the Indians not the Spanish.
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If the stuff I'm reading out of Cal and Texas is anything to go by, I wouldn't be caught dead in any Mex border town because I might end up staying dead if I was. Things are rough over there, as this story shows.
The Russian president said in a speech Thursday that the financial crisis in the United States should be taken as a sign that America's global economic leadership is drawing to a close, reiterating an argument that leaders here have been making for some time, though investors in recent weeks have been fleeing Russia and depositing money in U.S. Treasury bills.
Perhaps inevitably for a country long lectured to by the United States, Russia is using the occasion of the U.S. financial crisis to do some lecturing of its own.
President Dmitri Medvedev said Thursday that the U.S. crisis showed that "the times when one economy and one country dominated are gone for good." Speaking of the United States, Medvedev said the world no longer needed a "megaregulator."
Russia has argued that the freewheeling Anglo-American style of capitalism is to blame for the crisis, a position echoed by Germany and other Continental European nations. Medvedev even called it financial "egoism."
A drumbeat of similar pronouncements has been heard in Russia in recent days. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin made a major speech Wednesday on U.S. financial "irresponsibility," blaming the plunge of more than 50 percent in the Russian stock market on the global economic slowdown and U.S. financial turmoil, rather than on any troubles endemic to Russia. "The saddest thing is that we can see an inability to take appropriate decisions," Putin said in his speech after the U.S. House of Representatives rejected the Bush administration's bailout plan.
In contrast, the Russian bailout was decided by decree. "This is not the irresponsibility of some people but the irresponsibility of the system, which, as it is known, claimed to be the leader," Putin said.
Medvedev spoke Thursday at St. Petersburg State University during the eighth annual Petersburger Dialog, a forum devoted to developing relations with Germany and where he met with Chancellor Angela Merkel. Members of Merkel's government have also been critical of U.S. regulators.
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ION TOPIX > INDONESIA: ASIAN BANKS SAY TO PREPARE FOR WORLDWIDE ECONOMIC RECESSION.
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Putin is claiming that Russia is in better financial shape than the US. Care to make a wager, Valdimir? With a crashing oil price, your resources are drying up, fast.
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Cause: "investors in recent weeks have been fleeing Russia and depositing money in U.S. Treasury bills"
Effect: "The Russian president said in a speech Thursday that the financial crisis in the United States should be taken as a sign that America's global economic leadership is drawing to a close"
If you come to the U.S. and buy insurance for treatment, Dmitri, your delusions can get much better mental health care coverage than even just a week ago.
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Dollar has been climbing steadily for awhile. Moreover, Oil has dropped below $90/barrel. I'd say the Russian economy is the one in trouble should oil continue to fall.
(Xinhua) -- The Russian troops started dismantling posts in the buffer zone around South Ossetia and Abkhazia to meet the Friday deadline for their withdrawal from Georgia's territory, the Itar-Tass news agency reported on Sunday.
"Indeed, we started withdrawing material property and dismantling defense barriers at peacekeeping observer posts, put up on the southern border in the security zone, adjoining South Ossetia," Igor Konashenkov, the assistant to the commander-in-chief of the Land Troops, was quoted as saying.
A follow-up agreement set a timetable for the withdrawal of Russian troops as well as the deployment of foreign observer missions. The agreement obliged Russia to pull its troops out of the territory of Georgia by Oct. 10.
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Earlier this year the Japanese government released the results of a survey which suggested that one in five men and women in the country had seriously thought of taking their own life.
Japan has one of the highest suicide rates in the industrialised world. On average around ninety people kill themselves in Japan every day.
In past years the suicide rate peaked each time the country's economy fell into recession. Now that Japan's government has reported one quarter of negative growth, and signalled it is likely there are more to follow, there are fears of further increases in the number of people taking their own lives.
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Nothing wrong with borrowing money. Using it to buy shiny unnecessary luxury crap that wears out, not so good. We've been doing that for a lot longer on a level the Icelanders can't even imagine. Get ready to appreciate a good pair of shoes...
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Keep in mind this is the same Iceland that was quite unhappy when we announced the winddown of our military presence there, despite their bitching about said presence in the past. They got to keep the facilities. I'm less than impressed at how hard things are for them now.
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Might also keep in mind that this is an "Al Guardian" article, with the usual built-in biases. I've got a young friend in Iceland - she was an exchange student here in Colorado Springs. The last word I heard from her was that the country was ready to go back to its roots - fishing, sheep, wool, and other indigenous products. Most of her friends have dumped their more expensive cars for high-mileage, low-cost imports, they've given up their iPods for simple cell phone service, and they're "cleaning out the house". Iceland will do as it's always done - survive. It might get rough, but the people who live there have been there before.
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I thought Iceland was going to be the OPEC of hydrogen.
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Oct. 6 (Bloomberg) -- The euro slid to a 13-month low against the dollar as European governments rushed to support financial institutions in the region hit by the widening global credit crisis. The 15-nation currency also fell to the lowest in more than two years versus the yen as German Chancellor Angela Merkel said the government will guarantee personal bank deposits to shore up confidence in the banking system. Germany, the euro region's largest economy, will also join with banks and insurers to bail- out property lender Hypo Real Estate Holding AG, while Belgium announced a deal to rescue Fortis, the largest Belgian financial-services firm after an earlier rescue failed.
``Everything coming out has been fairly euro-negative,'' said Alex Sinton, a senior currency dealer at ANZ National Bank Ltd. in Auckland. ``The euro zone is the second domino of the globe to be falling over after the U.S.''
The euro declined to $1.3670 at 8:15 a.m. in Tokyo from $1.3772 late in New York on Oct. 3. It earlier reached 1.3617, the lowest since Sept. 5, 2007. The euro fell to 142.65 yen, the weakest since May 22, 2006, and traded at 143.29 yen from 145.11 yen. The dollar bought 104.88 yen from 105.32 yen.
The German government and the country's banks and insurers agreed on a 50 billion euro ($68 billion) rescue package for commercial property lender Hypo Real Estate Holding AG after an earlier bailout faltered. BNP Paribas SA, France's biggest bank, will take control of Fortis's units in Belgium after a government rescue of the Brussels and Amsterdam-based company failed. BNP Paribas will buy 75 percent of Fortis Bank Belgium from the government for 8.25 billion euros ($11.3 billion) in stock, and purchase the company's Belgian insurance operations, Prime Minister Yves Leterme told reporters.
Japan's currency was the best-performer in September and the only currency to appreciate against the dollar as credit market collapse that drove Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. into bankruptcy and sent bank borrowing costs in Europe to record highs makes the yen unbeatable. Deutsche Bank AG, the biggest trader of foreign exchange, says the yen will rise 5 percent in coming months. New York- based Morgan Stanley is telling clients to buy the currency versus the euro and pound.
Futures traders increased their bets that the yen will gain against the U.S. dollar, figures from the Washington-based Commodity Futures Trading Commission show.
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ION BRITAIN: CASH-STRAPPED NAVY TO CUT HALF OF DESTROYER FLEET; + TERROR THREAT [incl. Al Qaeda]TO UK APPROACHING CRITICAL ["severe end of severe"]; + Over 75,000 BRITS MAY DIE FROM FLU OUTBREAK.
Compare last wid CHINA > MILLIONS TO DIE FROM LUNG DISEASE.
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"The euro zone is the second domino of the globe to be falling over after the U.S."
The US stumbled. The Euros are falling. As Richard Fernandez reminds us of Samuel Johnson's quote "the prospect of hanging focuses the mind wonderfully" this morning, the markets are becoming focused upon security rather speculation. The underlying fundamentals become important in determining where to harbor your resources.
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I wonder, if Europe plunges into a deep recession, if they can keep their socialist lifestyle? And if not, how bad would the riots and civil unrest be?
Maybe some of our European 'burgers could expand on these ideas.
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The US Fed has been injecting $ into Euro banks. Also I read somewhere that most of the $85B US Treasury loan to AIG went to pay off European companies.
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And if not, how bad would the riots and civil unrest be?
If France was a precursor, I'd dump any stock dealing in auto insurance.
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For years the market tracked surprisingly closely with the Euro to Yen value. When the Euro strengthened against the Yen, the market went up and vv. Luckily for us, the market has divorced itself from that trend.
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NS wins the Silver Lining award of the day. ;-)
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Firstly let me say I know nothing about economics or finance...but I keep hearing people say that the problems in Europe are due to the 'trouble the Americans got us all into'. Isn't our (I'm Canadian so by 'our' I mean Canada's) economy more entwined with the US than most others? If the American financial crisis is the cause of Europe's banks failing then why are the Canadian banks doing OK? As far as I know we have had none of them fail. Am I off the ball here?
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Nope, Chemist. You're dead on. The European banks are in serious trouble for two reasons. First, they skirted around their regulatory capital requirements, primarily through arrangements insured by AIG. Second, the European Central Bank *raised* interest rates as liquidity began seriously drying up. Perverse ideologically-rigid stupidity on their part.
So when the sub-prime mortgages started having trouble, the European house of banking cards was much more rickety than that of the US and Canada.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - Republican John McCain is calling Democratic rival Barack Obama a liar.
The GOP presidential candidate told a campaign rally: "Sen. Obama has accused me of opposing regulation to avert this crisis. I guess he believes if a lie is big enough and repeated often enough it will be believed."
In some of the harshest language yet, McCain said the campaign comes down to a simple question: Who is the real Barack Obama?
McCain drew the loudest cheers when he said the Democrat has written two memoirs but "he's not exactly an open book."
Trailing in the polls, McCain and his advisers say they will hammer that theme as the campaign heads toward the Nov. 4 election.
The Relationship Between Barack Obama And Bill Ayers Is Much More Extensive Than Obama's Campaign Is Willing To Admit
Obama's Top Campaign Staff Have Attempted To Downplay The Relationship Between Obama And Bill Ayers:
Obama Spokesman Robert Gibbs Said That Obama And Ayers Weren't Close And That Obama Was Only 8 Years Old When Ayers Was Bombing Buildings. Robert Gibbs: "If you read the article ... it says these two men weren't close, this man isn't involved in our campaign. Bill Ayers is somebody that Barack Obama said his actions were despicable and these happened when Barack Obama was 8 years old." (FOX News' "FOX & Friends," 10/6/08)
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wow, a surprise the pro-Obama front misled, lied, edited? Ima shocked!
A video released by the Jewish Council for Education & Research which appeared to show several retired senior IDF and Mossad officials supporting Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has proven to be misleading, with a number of officials who appeared in the video saying on Monday that their words were taken out of context.
"It's not only misleading, it was an interview about what the next president was going to have to deal with," former deputy chief of staff Maj.-Gen. (res.) Uzi Dayan told The Jerusalem Post. "And to know that they used this interview and took five seconds, and put me in a list of people praising Barack Obama
"It wasn't about the campaign, it was about the political and security issues of the Middle East that the next president should be involved in," he continued. "Nothing was said about Obama or [Republican presidential candidate John] McCain."
"I don't want other people to interfere in my elections, and I must not interfere with the elections in the United States," he said, adding that to do so would be neither "ethical nor smart."
In the video, the senior Israeli officials appear to support Obama's stated policy that dialogue with Iran would be the best way of confronting the current nuclear crisis. Dayan said that his position is just the opposite.
"I don't think that we - either the United States or Israel - should be engaged with Iran, because the Iranians will take advantage of that," the former deputy chief of staff said. "Our issue is to prevent Iran from achieving nuclear capability."
"We need more powerful, effective sanctions to delegitimize [Iranian President Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad," he continued. "A military option should be prepared, but used only as a last resort."
Former Mossad chief Ephraim Halevy, who appeared in the video praising the Democratic candidate, also said that he was misled.
"I was interviewed for a documentary dealing with what issues the new American president must deal with regarding the Middle East," Halevy told the Post. "I was asked about the candidates, and was complimentary to both."
But when asked about his opinion on who was more qualified to be president, Halevy said that he had rejected the question.
"I said that I thought it was inappropriate for an Israeli to advise Americans on who they should vote for, as it would be for them to advise Israelis on who they should vote for prime minister," he said.
Halevy added that it would be irresponsible to comment on the positions of any US presidential candidates before an election, as those positions may change once the new president takes office.
Both Halevy and Dayan said that representatives of the Jewish Council for Education & Research had been in contact with them, and promised to deal with the matter.
According to Israel Radio, Maj.-Gen. (Ret.) Amram Mitzna and Brig.-Gen. (res.) Giora Inbar, a former IDF commander in south Lebanon, both said that they were also unaware of the true nature of the video. However, Inbar said he did not have a problem with the clip because it represents his views.
In the video, Mitzna had said that another four years of indecision, stagnancy and a lack of intense US involvement in the Middle East peace process would be bad for Israel. He claimed Obama would achieve a greater involvement and that he "brings many hopes."
For his part, Inbar was filmed saying that he would personally vote for Obama to help Israel. Inbar said he was not convinced that the Bush method was the right way to deal with the axis of evil and that he would welcome anyone who chose to handle it differently.
Revised Films, the independent film company that produced the clip, issued the following response:
"Our firm is an independent company that created a clip that was composed of interviews with senior Israeli security officials, and whose subject was the American policy regarding Israel, in light of the upcoming elections in the United States, while focusing on the two central candidates for president, and Barack Obama. that statement is mealy mouthed bullshit and doesn't make sense
"The Obama campaign was not involved during any stage of the production, or [the film's] distribution. After the film was completed, the Jewish Council for Education & Research, took charge of the film and used it."
A response by The Jewish Council for Education & Research has yet to be obtained due to the time differential between Israel and the US.
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"It wasn't about the campaign, it was about the political and security issues of the Middle East that the next president should be involved in," he continued. "Nothing was said about Obama or [Republican presidential candidate John] McCain."
It is ALL about getting elected with these people, there is nothing else. As it is written (Devarim 24:9), 'Be careful for yourself and be greatly careful for your soul.'
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More snakeshit from Hussein's campaign. I would hope the US Jews see this for what it is. This finance upheaval has definitely swayed Jewish voters in NY and Florida. They have panicked. Maybe everyone has, but fergawdsakes why do people believe this two bit lawdog and professional scammer can handle an economic crisis or any damn crisis? Can voters pull their heads out of their asses long enough to imagine this commie and his pals calling the shots for all of us in world affairs and in charge of our military? This is frightening. And Bush and McPain performing at their worst, exhibiting no leadership and sending these voters scurrying over to Obambi. Damn, what a stinking kettle of fish.
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Only 59%? It would be nice to see a really strong "throw the bums out" movement emerge this season.
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59% = Trunks and independents. You think the Donks will turn out their own like the Trunks did two years ago? They understand its all about POWER, no matter how disastrous its implementation by their boys has been.
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I'd keep Kenny Marchant R-TX. He consistently scores near 100% at Club for Growth. And his voting record gets my seal of approval. He voted NO on Amnesty and the Bail Out. Generally, he votes just the way I'd ask him to.
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I can hardly wait to vote against my first-term Congressman Murphy (Dimwit-PA) who kissed Nancy Pelosi's butt, trailed around following her lead, and then had the audacity to locally wring his hands over the "sweeteners" tacked on to the Senate's bail out bill before he voted "yes" on it.
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Sorry, I should clarify that I was speaking of idiot Patrick Murphy, not the respectable Tim Murphy. Congressman Tim Murphy (R-PA) did the right thing and voted against both bail out bills.
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Dump the whole damned lot of them. My congressman voted against the bailout twice and he's generally very conservative and a real strong 2nd Amendment man. He's go to go as well. If he asked why, my answer would be, "You've had your trotters in the trough long enough. Let someone else have a turn."
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With the likelyhood of a Democratic President I'd sure love to see a Republican Congress. It would be interesting to see how everything was the fault of the PResident for 8 years and suddenly the President is blame-free and the Congress is somehow in the drivers seat for everything that is wrong.
Of course I'd love to have both parties Dem so their policies could be put up to the clean light of day but the damage that would do, well fear of the damage their policies would do scare me.
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If the RCCC had a decent campaign it would. Something like the Contract with America that targets specific legislative goals that every trunk campaigns on would do the trick and establish a mandate. It's much better to campaign for something other than job security.
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Anonymoose hit the nail on the head in #11.
When I was in college in the 60's one of my professors said that the purpose of democracy was to provide for an orderly transition of government. That is why he always voted against the incumbent. That still makes sense today.
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With a 10% approval rating one would think
it would be more like "90% would vote to replace the entire congress".
#2
Obama reminds me in some ways of JFK - charismatic, widely hailed as brilliant but with no track record of achievement, representing a new demographic in the highest echelons of politics. I suspect he is more likely to match JFK in debacles like Bay of Pigs and Vietnam than in economics like tax relief. I pray he gets as lucky in foreign policy crises like the Cuban Missile Crisis. And of course, luckier in tragedies like LH Oswald (or whoever.)
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Lacking the moral parables that made our ancestors wary of those delusions in which overweening pride is apt to involve us, we pursue false gods and turn away from traditions that really can help us make sense of our condition.
Yesterday on the radio, Fred Grandy (who was a congressman for a spell before he took up honest work in talk radio) was ranting about Barney Frank.
Remember the Barney Frank scandal - when he had a "friend" who was running a male prostitution ring out of Frank's Capitol Hill mansion? Turns out that this "friend" was an EXECUTIVE at Fanny Mae!
Grandy knows this since he was in the ethics committee of the House when Barney was under charges. The charges ended up being dropped since they could not link Frank (who, of course did not know) to the prostitution. Grandy says that he did not know at the time that Herb Moses was a Fanny Mae exec. Of course, Frank is a lib democrat, and as a result the MSM would never think of hinting about this clear conflict of interest. After all, there is nothing wrong having the overseer (literally and figuratively) in bed with the overseen.
The Shaman, Palosi, Franks, and Dodd are the problem not the SOLUTION!
An interesting read but incomplete without mentioning Herman Hesse which was required reading at some point among myself and contemporaries; as well as Friedrich Nietzsche. I personally disliked the themes of both of these writers (elitism, my way should be your way because I know how you should live better than you do, thought Sidartha was a damn fool with a weak will who never found Nirvana because he projected other people's accomplishments onto himself) but many my age unquestioningly took both writers to be infallable.
In her first trip to the Bay Area as the GOP's vice presidential nominee, Sarah Palin today charged that Americans don't know "the real Barack Obama," suggesting that the John McCain campaign will sharpen its attacks in the final month of the campaign on Obama's biography as well as his platform.
Palin, on the second day of her two-day California swing, spoke to a crowd of 1,500 supporters at a private Burlingame fundraiser, which raised $2.5 million for state and federal GOP party operations. The Alaska governor repeated a claim she made Saturday at a Los Angeles County rally, charging that Obama has been "less than truthful'' about his relationship with Bill Ayres, a founder of the 1960s radical group, the Weather Underground, whose members were blamed for several bombings when Obama was a child.
The Mercury reporter dismisses it thusly:
Obama has denounced Ayer's radical views and activities. Obama and Ayers, now a Chicago university professor, have met several times since 1995, when both raised funds for Chicago charities. Media reports have concluded the two men do not have a close relationship.
That would be the NYT, etc. If Manhattan sez so it must be that way ...
"I'm afraid that he is someone who sees America as imperfect enough that he would pal around with, and work with, a former domestic terrorist,'' she said Sunday.
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You tell 'em, Sarah. The people have more reason to believe you than any ordinery politican.
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Palin says voters don't know 'the real Barack Obama'
And the MSM is proud of that fact!
[Tell me again why we confuse the concept of a means of communication (the press) with the function of free communication to deliver the truth which is today being accomplished by the internet? Why should a means get unwarranted exemption from standard interstate commerce laws concerning fraud and misrepresentation?]
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That's right Mark. This SOB would likely appoint 3 Judges in his first term. Any selections likely to confirmed with down the line voting in the Senate, led by Horse Face Harry. You can bet they will be Ginsberg clones.
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Mrs. Uluque6305 was shocked yesterday, shocked I tell you, when she heard Palin's quote about Obama's association with the "terrorist" Ayers. I had to explain to her about SDS and all that. She still maintained that it was 40 years ago. I told her about the picture in 2001 where he was standing on top of an American flag. She still didn't believe it. She thinks Palin is a kook for saying it. It's hard to penetrate that image the MSM has given the Messiah.
But Ayers is small potatoes. McCain needs to hammer away at the likes of Nancy Pelosi and Barney Franks. The hypocrisy of those people trying to tell us the mortgage meltdown is Bush's fault is just staggering. I mean, where were they the whole time? Out to lunch? McCain needs to call them on it in a big, loud, repetitive way from now until November or else he's gonna get clobbered on election day.
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And by clobbered I mean Obama is gonna win in a landslide because as far as I can tell the American people are biting on this bit about the economy being all Bush's fault hook, line and sinker.
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TOTAL BS, Like she does knows the real Obama! The more I study about the Ayes connection, the more I find out that it's BS and there is no connection and how she's a down right liar. Ayes was never convicted and cleaned up his act since the Vietnam war. Most of all, Obama doesn't know him well!
Don't insult the American people's intelligence with this questioning of patriotism of someone from a different background.
If this keeps up, more Americans will be labeled un-american because their different.
This goes for Palin and goes for Fox News as well.
Ayers confessed his guilt. As for "never convicted": Mr. Ayers is probably safe from prosecution anyway. A spokeswoman for the Justice Department said there was a five-year statute of limitations on Federal crimes except in cases of murder or when a person has been indicted.
Now that both Obama and Ayers are stinking rich, perhaps Mr. Ayers will have the guts to implement his ideology: Mr. Ayers, who in 1970 was said to have summed up the Weatherman philosophy as: "Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at," is today distinguished professor of education at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Yeah. Burn, baby, burn the crooked-deal Obama mansion.
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Very interesting. Did Ayers and Dohrn convert to islam or did they name their kids in solidarity with the Black Panther terrorists they ran with.
Today, Mr. Ayers and Ms. Dohrn, 59, who is director of the Legal Clinic's Children and Family Justice Center of Northwestern University, seem like typical baby boomers, caring for aging parents, suffering the empty-nest syndrome. Their son, Malik, 21, is at the University of California, San Diego; Zayd, 24, teaches at Boston University.
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I think you failed.
"Most of all, Obama doesn't know him well"
Ayers was already on those city boards that Obama joined with his own resources.
I don't see a shred of evidence to prove they shared any kind of idealogy.
I do hear about some fellow POW who say McCain wasn't honest about his defiance against North Vietnamese.
I find it disgusting that he dumped his cripped wife for an rich heiress.
I find it disgusting that McCain was part of the Keating Five Scandal.
I find it disgusting that McCain claims he will save the econcomy but on mulitple youtube videos you can find him stating that he doesn't know much about the economy or finance, he needs to be educated.
McCain is an OLD FART who doesn't know much and depends on others who decide for him.
When I want something done, I don't go out to look for a 72 yr old to get this done.
Palin doesn't know crap about being a VP or about issues.
Obama's going to win it because McCain has too much baggage, besides being old as dirt.
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G&T, do you believe Ayers set off bombs at both the Capitol and Pentagon? Did his group the Weather Underground commit terrorism and murder? Given Ayers confession anfd Ayers and Dohrn's admission that they would do it again and wished they did more, do you believe it is moral that they got off scott free on an old statute of limitations for setting bombs instead of serving time for a terroristic crime he freely admits he committed?
"Most of all, Obama doesn't know him well"
Where in the world did you get that? It wasn't in the NYT article that I linked. Did you get that from the Daily Kos talking points, because Ayers and Obama knew each other very well. Even David Axelrod has said Obama and Ayers have a very friendly relationship. Obama knew his friend Ayers well enough and was comforable enough to announce the start of his political candidacy at Ayers house.
Obama and Ayers worked together for several years as co-directors of the Woods Foundation and disciples of the Communist Saul Alinsky. They had a jolly good time indoctrinating indoctrinating school children and bankrolling the premier voter fraud organization in the US, ACORN, via their control the $100 million Annenberg Challenge funds.
You want to know who Barak Hussein Obama is? Look at his flaky socialist mother and grandfather, his Communist Party USA childhood mentor, his racist-marxist preacher Wright, his Communist adult mentor Alinsky. An extremely ugly portrait.
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#5 Want just ONE good reason to get out the vote for McCain/Palin on November 4th?
Contemplate the make-up of a federal judiciary after four years of an Obama administration with both Houses of Congress controled by the Dems.
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Need another reason or two? Who do you think will hand out the $ 700B in USD from the bailout booty? Who (what special groups) do you think it will go to?
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GolfBravo has a good post on the RNC unloading their info on the Ayers-Obama connection.
Take a look for yourself Gleamp - just take care your head doesn't explode.
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Tom Hayden was part of the SDS/Weathermen. He was formerly married to Jane Fonda. Kathy Boudin (born 1943) is an American radical, who was convicted in 1984 for her involvement in the 1981 Brink's robbery that resulted in the killing of three people, and who became a public health expert while in prison. Ayres and his wife shared guardianship of Boudin's child, Chesa while Boudin and Gilbert were in prison. One should check out the Port Huron statement published by Tom Hayden if they would like to know the agenda of the left during the 60s and 70s. It hasn't changed much since that time.
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#13 G&T wrote: [i]I find it disgusting that McCain was part of the Keating Five Scandal.[/i]
Did you see Senator John Glenn at Ohio State over the weekend with Bruce Springsteen? Glenn is a Keating Five alum and Springsteen was in the E Street Band!
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McCain and Glenn were exonerated. The other 3, all Democrats, were not.
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I TOTALLY agree with Gleamp and Tenille. McCain is an "OLD FART" who is "old as dirt." That's all we really need to know. Being old is a fu*king crime in America, or at least it should be. They consume without giving back. Everyone who is old should die. We don't need their advice or experience. Young people are better. Kill the old people. Kill the fu*king babies, too. I hate them all for what they do to this country, and I'm glad Gleamp and Tenille have the guts to bring it out in the open. The only worthwhile people are the 15-45 crowd. Everyone else is expendable. And f*ck the Christians too.
America is OVER. OVER. We've had our day in the sun. Now it's time we pay our dues. Obama ingratiates himself to the Moslems and the left because he sees the writing on the wall. Ayers names his kids after Moslems FOR A REASON. A good reason.
We need a jihad here in America. The kind of jihad that is a real "holy war." A war against corruption, greed. We need change. We need Obama.
I'm changing my name to "pro-lib" since after this election campaign cycle, I've come full circle.
And I think the info at http://sweetness-light.com show JUST HOW FAR people will go to smear Obama.
Obama. Obama. Obama.
I love Obama. Obama will make us liked all over the world. Obama will give the riches of this country to the rest of world, which is the right thing to do. I hope Bill Ayers and George Soros and Khadaffi continue to help Obama as much as possible.
Besides that--did anyone see how he kissed Biden's wife on the lips--eyes closed and everything? Gawd, he's so sexy.
I think Obama was right when he said in his book that he's a blank slate upon which people write their own hopes and aspirations. My aspiration is to JUST ONCE, to touch him. To shake his hand.
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I watched Sarah Palin close up and live at the Tennis Stadium in LA on October 4th. If you have not seen this woman working a standing room only crowd of thousands you are missing out. She is a force to be reckoned with and she indeed took off the gloves on Saturday. It was a crowd of yound and old and Asian, Black and Latino and White. She is a wonder to behold!
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Obama may be flawed; He may not be the shining hope that his campaign would have the American people believe, but over the last 8 years the "group think" of people such as frequent this forum has acted as cheerleader to one of the worst Presidents America has ever experienced. While you screeched his praises and belittled his critics, he has presided over the economic transformation of billions of surplus to trillions of deficit. He has made America internationally synonymous with torture. He has watched as millions more Americans have lost health insurance cover. He has moved the relative burden of taxation from the richest to the rest (even Buffett doesn't argue this as fair). As the Dow, FTSE, CAC-40 etc continue to plummet, you will excuse me if I don't trust your judgement (or that of Prof Palin) in matters of appropriate leadership........
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He has moved the relative burden of taxation from the richest to the rest (even Buffett doesn't argue this as fair).
Isn't Buffet the guy who made billions of dollars buying bankrupt businesses from heirs who couldn't pay the estate tax he drones on and on about the country needing?
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Damn shame it is, as a non-US citizen you can't vote for any of them. I could give a flying phuech what a Canadian, Mexican, or European thinks of this process or it's participants.
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He has moved the relative burden of taxation from the richest to the rest
Have you actually looked up the % of taxes paid by the upper 5% or 10% of wage earners? [Rhetorial question because by laying out the usual class warfare dialectic you show you haven't.] That's the burden.
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Just wait until McCain starts telling people about the DemonRats hands in the Fiancial Crisis (including Obama and the thugs at Acorn - Hannity covered this during his show today).
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If you ask a Donk what Swiftboating means they reply lies [though they haven't disproved the basic accusations]. You ask just about anyone else you get something along the lines of identifying shortcomings of the opponents record. Same here. In Obamaian Newspeak smear is their term for reporting the record. However, when they actually engage in an overt campaign of rumor mongering directed at Gov. Palin, its cool.
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Heard today Barack Hussein Obama is rolling out the Keating 5 Savings and Loan scandal. Only one problem, McCain and John Glenn (Democrat) were both exonerated. Alan Cranston, Dennis DeConcini, and Donald Riegle of the Keating 5 were all Democrats. BO will try to link McCain to Bush and the current economy. Palin and McCain ought to take the "Make my Day Punk Approach."
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I think the McCain campaign has done well up to this point, especially considering the money gap and msm narrative. One month left, 4th quarter, time to pull the stops and win this. They have quite a few advantages to play and they need to.
Without question Palin won the VP debate against Biden. This is important because Palin can frame the next presidential nominee debate (Tuesday 9ET). Most of the grunt work has been done so McCain needs to deliver. Stuff like "If Obama is about change then why does he and Biden agree with our platform?",
"Lawyers do not make decisions they influence people..judges make decisions. Both Obama and Biden are lawyers so where is the variety of background?",
"Why on the important subject of Russian policy did you Obama switch subjects and talk about housing?",
"It is so important for the president to be right the first time.. Obama's remarks about 10,000 people dying in Greensburg in the 53rd state of Cotex (a movement not too long ago for east CO, west KS, TX and OK panhandles to form their own state as a protest of tax dollars being funneled to urban areas, lost a lot of momentum with a silly name) from someone who wants to go 'all in', a desperate move in Texas Hold'em anyways, without knowing the rules of the game and how many cards are in a deck is not being strategic but foolish.",
"You explained your name is of Kenyan origin, did you know that the OIC has been disrupting the government and economy of Kenya keeping its citizens in poverty and killing innocents.",
"You accuse me of not being able to multitask well I'm here to tell you that it is tough enough to land a jet on an Aircraft Carrier nevermind fly a combat mission. If I wasn't able to multitask the Navy would not have even let me fly never mind performing combat sortees. As your running mate stated the economic crises was as dire as when FDR explained the situation on TV in 1932. Why, then as first and foremost a senator did you not participate in the crises though you claim to be the great uniter and wanting oversight, oversight which someone cannot be part of by calling in on the telephone?",
"The first appointee of a president is their choice for vice-president. Joe Biden, who was so wrong about so many topics during the debate, says he is going to carry the load of your policy advancements. Are you going to have someone else advance policies which you feel are important enough to become federal law or does Joe Biden not understand your intentions?"
I get the msm in the tank (2 chances left where the msm cannot ignore you), I get the Maverick meme; its go time lets get fired up.
Deputy head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization Mohammad Saeedi on Sunday expressed concern about the U.S.-India nuclear deal saying the deal has violated the Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Talking to IRNA, he said the countries which are not members of the NPT cannot make use of the privileges of the treaty. The method used by several nuclear states to transfer the technology to non-members of the NPT, will create new crises for the international community, he added.
According to the NPT, only signatories to the treaty can make use of the rights mentioned in the treaty, Saeedi noted.
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived in India Saturday to showcase a historic bilateral nuclear deal, but last-minute hitches raised doubts that the pact would be signed on her trip. A signing delay would be another bump in a three-year rollercoaster for an agreement aimed at lifting a ban on U.S.-Indian civilian nuclear trade imposed after India's first nuclear test in 1974.
Both houses of the U.S. Congress voted in favor of the landmark nuclear deal this week, but President George W. Bush has yet to sign it into law.
The deal offers India access to sophisticated U.S. technology and cheap atomic energy in return for New Delhi allowing UN inspections of some of its civilian nuclear facilities. Military nuclear sites will remain closed to international inspections.
Critics say it undermines global efforts to curb the spread of nuclear weapons, because India has refused to sign the NPT.
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Sorry, Mohammad, but we don't value your opinion. See ya later.
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And if anyone knows about violating the NPT, it would be Iran.
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It seems anxiety from the financial crisis is reaching new highs, but the tipping point for one individual came at the Lehman Brothers gym in the midst of the companys collapse.
While former Lehman CEO Richard Fuld was testifying before the House Oversight Committee Oct. 6, CNBC reported he had been punched in the face at the Lehman Brothers gym after it was announced the firm was going bankrupt. CNBC and Vanity Fair contributor Vicki Ward said Fuld was attacked at the gym on a Sunday following the bankruptcy.
Frankly, I sat there and listened and Im with the guy who apparently, the day before Barclays announced they were coming in and Lehman had already filed for bankruptcy, went over to him in the gym and punched him because thats how I feel when I, you know, when I watched that, Ward said on the Oct. 6 Power Lunch. I didnt think he was contrite at all, I thought he was arrogant.
Ward confirmed previous reports about the incident that reportedly occurred Sept. 21 and said the information came from two very senior sources.
From two very senior sources one incredibly senior source that he went to the gym after Lehman was announced as going under. He was on a treadmill with a heart monitor on. Someone was in the corner, pumping iron and he walked over and he knocked him out cold. And frankly after having watched this, Id have done the same too.
Ward determined Fuld deserved the beating based on his testimony before the committee.
I thought he was shameless, Ward said. I thought it was appalling. He blamed everyone. He blamed, as you say, naked short sellers over and over in case we didnt get the point, when in fact hedge funds like Harbinger had money locked up in Lehman and was shorting it to try and make the most of the money that they already had. He blamed everybody but himself.
Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy in September 2008 and its assets were later snatched up by the British bank Barclays for $1.35 billion, which included Lehmans Midtown Manhattan office tower with a $960 million price tag.
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70% of investment banking's political contributions went to supporting Democrats. And the Democrats supported the investment bankers right up to the end.
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I thought the cultural tradition for investment bankers was to jump not to hang. Well, at least American investment bankers, I seem to recall seppuku was appropriate in Japan. Not that there's anything wrong with it being done by their American counterparts.
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Seems to be quite a bit of scum in the gene pool lately - scum that needs to be scraped off and burned in an open fire (screw EPA!). Start in DC, head north to New York, then west to LA, SanFran, and Sacramento. I'm sure most of the locals can clean up their OWN neighborhoods, if they have the courage.
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Vicky Ward - the woman who slugged CEO Richard Fuld.
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Bum Buddy Love ConnectionProminent Democrats ran Fannie Mae, the same government-sponsored enterprise (GSE) that donated campaign cash to top Democrats. And one of Fannie Maes main defenders in the House Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., a recipient of more than $40,000 in campaign donations from Fannie since 1989 was once romantically involved with a Fannie Mae executive Herb Moses.
Oil fell below $90 a barrel on Monday to its lowest in eight months, pressured by expectations that the global credit crisis will bring a sharp fall in oil demand.
U.S. light crude for November delivery fell $4.28 a barrel to $89.60 by 7:44 a.m. EDT, its fourth day of losses. It touched a session low of $88.89, its lowest since early February. Prices have dropped nearly 40 percent from a peak of $147.27 on July 11.
London Brent crude was down $3.99 at $86.26 a barrel. ...
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I look at this as for every $10/barrel drop in the price of petrleum, the US keeps $44 billion/year in the US. From the high of $147/barrel to $90/barrel, that's $250 billion/year that US consumers and industry keeps. That's the real WOT.
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Fannie and Freddie go tits up. Undeserving borrowers are told to RENT! Big city banks take an enima. Loans tighten. Crude oil prices drop. OPEC beats it's chest. Stock market corrects. Russian economy slides, USD rises on Euro and world markets. Obama unmasked.
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Why is it that, when oil was knocking on $150/barrel's door, gas was $4.00+ per gallon and now that oil has plummetted over 1/3, the price of gas is around $3.50 or about 13% lower?
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Wouldn't it be nice if the price remained stable? Perhaps as a result of an import fee that kept the price of a barrel of imported oil at a minimum $100?
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...also drill our own oil especially out my way. Its called, what is that..Energy Independence. Now if our governor would let us build our own power plants then we would really be onto something.
#10
Who mandates the 31 Flavors (or more) of gasoline? Is it federal in nature or is it individual states deciding they need such-and-such kind?
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The $90 oil hasn't arrived at the refineries yet. It will.
The $150 dollar oil hasn't arrived at the refineries yet either. Didn't stop the lcd's on the pump from going up the day after the price increased on the futures market. The amplitude of price increases is sharp and the amplitude of price decreases is gradual. Funny about that huh?
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At $90/barrel, retail gas should be about $3/gal. Give it a few weeks for the local production and imports to be refined and shipped.
I would be OK with it oil settling at $60/barrel. That's high enough for alternatives to be profitable and gradually replace imports. Unfortunately I don't think our leaders have the foresight to place an import tax price floor on petroleum, encourage US production/alternatives and give tax credits to fuel efficient vehicles/penalize gas guzzlers. The price of oil is not just what the refiners pay, but the extra costs dealing with enemy/unstable oil exporters and the foregone tax revenues of importing oil and exporting jobs and dollars.
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If I could be sure, and that's a Hell of a big if, that the extra revenue would go toward building nuclear power plants in this country, I'd be willing to accept an import floor of $100/barrel. I'd be willing to keep the tariff until such time as we had enough power here to make certain that if every car in America was electric we wouldn't have any problem supplying the juice.
Being obligated to the oil ticks has cost our country dearly. Getting off the oil addiction should be our No. 1 national priority because being entangled in the Middle East's insanity is our No. 1 national danger. The sooner we can disengage our national interest from there, the safer we will be.
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Yes, a tariff setting a $60 price floor on oil is essential to keep investment going. The proceeds should not go into the general fund, but should be used for tax credits on energy infrastructure: oil, gas, nuclear, green.
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Getting off the oil addiction should be our No. 1 national priority
Just not going to happen, at least not in my lifetime or yours. We can, however, buy more oil from ourselves and less from the ME. Drill here. Drill now.
Even though I find such things repulsive in general, a price floor on imported oil might be a necessary evil. It's the sort of thing that will ensure that billions in investment capital flow into expanding our domestic oil industry. I am told by an industry friend that the price needs to be $100/bbl for shale to be viable. That seems high, but it should be on the table.
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On the "more drilling" theme, this summer we drove from Denver to St Louis on Rt 70, and on to Kentucky on Rt 64, and we saw oil pumps pretty much the whole way.
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Still going down. Unfortunately, so is the stock market.
U.S. crude traded down $6.00, to $87.80 a barrel, at 2:30 p.m. EDT after hitting a fresh eight-month low of $87.56. London Brent crude fell $6.45 to $83.80 a barrel.
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Unfortunately, so is the stock market.
I expect it will bounce up and down for a while. Use to do that much more. When it becomes attractive enough watch the Japanese and Chinese to start snatching up goodies. For the young'ins who weren't around last time, it was the Japanese and Europeans who did that, but it appears that the Euros are just as much in the mess and the Chinese are awash with dollars [probably enough even after all the graft] to play this time around [still being poor Commies last time sort of kept them out of the game].
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Not only lost their shorts, but sold it back to Americans. Lol!
We got cars and stereos, they got green pieces of paper, which they used to buy real estate from us, which we bought back from them for $ich fewer pieces of paper.
Capitalism for the win!
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Cause in the end you usually can't move the real estate around like the paper, so you end up transferring it to someone who's usually still standing around the stuff if you don't have the patience to hold on to it or make something out of it.
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On the "more drilling" theme, this summer we drove from Denver to St Louis on Rt 70, and on to Kentucky on Rt 64, and we saw oil pumps pretty much the whole way.
That part of southern Illinois has been full of oil pumps since the Dawn of Time, i.e. when I was a kid. My sister and I used to play a car game where you counted the oil "wells" (as we thought they were) on your side of the car. Whoever got the most, won -- but if you passed a cemetery, you lost all your wells.
This got REALLY complicated somewhere on US 50 where there are pumps *inside* the cemetery.
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Would that be...Welcome to Crawford County Jim? :)
#31
All that US real estate the japs bought and lost their shorts......
They lost their shorts in domestic (Japanese) real estate. They generally broke even or made money in US real estate. The whole reason they bought assets overseas was because domestic assets were so over-priced.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - Republican John McCain is calling Democratic rival Barack Obama a liar. 
In her first trip to the Bay Area as the GOP's vice presidential nominee, Sarah Palin today charged that Americans don't know "the real Barack Obama," suggesting that the John McCain campaign will sharpen its attacks in the final month of the campaign on Obama's biography as well as his platform.
It seems anxiety from the financial crisis is reaching new highs, but the tipping point for one individual came at the Lehman Brothers gym in the midst of the companys collapse.
