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  • HANGING BY A THREAD
    17 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    HANGING BY A THREAD
    By Peter Fredson
    February 17, 2006
    Yesterday I wrote a blog about the possibility of administration printing presses “counterfeiting” money. What happens when a nation keeps printing paper money without a backing in gold, silver or platinum reserves?
    I pointed out that Germany once printed postage stamps which sold for thousands or hundreds of thousands of Deutschmarks, and that people to buy bread would take a wheelbarrow full of paper money to the store.
    I (…)

  • HEY DICK! WAS HE FLYING ’R WAS HE WEARIN’ FEATHERS?
    17 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Les Blough, Editor Feb 13, 2006, 22:55
    C’mon Dick just set it out - give me some believable ideas here. Don’t worry, we don’t have to ... you know ... tell the truth about this. Hey! OK, OKaay - I won’t use that word again. I’m sorry, I’m sorrrry, I know that word makes you edgy.
    But we have to come up with a story that sounds like ... you know ... the T word. Okay? Good. But we’ve gotta fill out this accident report and then face the press.
    What? Your image? Ah c’mon Dick ... heh, (…)

  • War threats follow Countries dumping US dollar
    17 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Countries dump dollar in dealings for oil
    dumping the dollar - Syria, Iran, Iraq, Venezuela
    THE OIL-CURRENCY-WAR THEORY
    SYRIA:
    Syria has switched all of its government foreign exchange dealings from dollars to euros as part of a political stand-off with the US. Is it really “a political stand-off”?
    Or is it simply lack of confidence in the monetary unit of a nation which had so quickly squandered its surplus and turned it into an unfathomable deficit, refuses to educate its young (…)

  • White House Defends Port Sale to Arab Co.
    17 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By DEVLIN BARRETT and TED BRIDIS, Associated Press Writers Fri Feb 17, 4:49 AM ET
    WASHINGTON - The Bush administration is defending approval of a $6.8 billion sale that gives a company in the United Arab Emirates control over operations at six major American ports, even as one senator sought a new ban on companies owned by governments overseas in some U.S. shipping operations Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., told The Associated Press he will introduce legislation to prohibit companies owned (…)

  • Gonzales Won’t Step Aside in Abramoff Case
    17 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By PETE YOST, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 38 minutes ago
    WASHINGTON - Attorney General Alberto Gonzales brushed aside requests on Thursday that he remove himself from the investigation of Jack Abramoff and the lobbyist’s ties to Bush administration officials and members of Congress Gonzales, who was White House counsel for four years before taking over at the Justice Department, said the inquiry is being run by career prosecutors who are not influenced by politics.
    Thirty-one Senate (…)

  • How Conservatives Went Crazy
    17 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Paul Craig Roberts What happened to a formerly conservative press to reduce it to political partisanship and warmongering? Specifically, I have in mind National Review and the Wall Street Journal editorial page.
    When I was associated with National Review, the magazine understood that the U.S. Constitution and civil liberties had to be protected from government. It was not considered unpatriotic to take the side of the Constitution and civil liberties against a sitting government, even (…)

  • Conservatives Endorse the Fuhrer Principle - Our leader über alles
    17 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Paul Craig Roberts
    Last week’s annual Conservative Political Action Conference signaled the transformation of American conservatism into brownshirtism. A former Justice Department official named Viet Dinh got a standing ovation when he told the CPAC audience that the rule of law mustn’t get in the way of President Bush protecting Americans from Osama bin Laden.
    Former Republican congressman Bob Barr, who led the House impeachment of President Bill Clinton, reminded the CPAC audience (…)

  • Activist Groups Unite! Stop being divided and conquered
    17 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Divide and Conquer is their goal.
    Attack in all directions at once is their method.
    There are so many issues to fight for these days, there are millions of pissed off Americans fighting the system, but we will never affect change unless we unite to fight the head of the Beast.
    Are you concerned about the Navy’s use of sonar and how it affects whales?
    Or is there a new commericial pig farm coming to your neighborhood?
    Or are you fighting GM Foods, Aspartame, the war in Iraq, (…)

  • CHENEY WAS DRINKING AND WITH ANOTHER WOMAN
    17 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Cheney’s Chappaquiddick II: The Real Story Emerges
    by RJ Eskow
    The real story is already emerging, if you’re willing to do a little digging. Cheney and Whittington went hunting with two women (not their wives), there was some drinking, and Whittington wound up shot. Armstrong didn’t see the incident but claimed she had, Cheney refused to be questioned by the Sheriff until the next morning, and a born-again evangelical physician has been downplaying Whittington’s injuries since they (…)

  • John Fund Again?
    17 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    It’s not your imagination-the Sunday shows really do lean right.
    By Paul Waldman
    If you’re up early on Sunday mornings in Washington, you can observe a weekly ritual. Around 9am, a string of chauffeured town cars and SUVs pulls up outside the NBC studio on Nebraska Avenue in Northwest Washington where "Meet the Press" is recorded, and out tumble government officials and politicians, reporters, and pundits. They scan the weekend papers over coffee in the green room, catch up with the (…)