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So It Begins By David Glenn Cox
The run on the bank that George Bailey faced on his wedding day in, “It’s a wonderful Life” made him ask, “How did this start?”
“I don’t know? How do these things ever start George.” But for us in 2008 the answer is simple yet complicated. It starts by outsourcing jobs and moving manufacturing over seas, naively believing your global competitors will be satisfied with just a piece of your business. That the student could never better the master that (…)

January 21, 2008
THE FIGHTER PILOT AND THE PRINCESS IN AMERICA’S PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARIES
John Chuckman
The fighter pilot of this story is, of course, John McCain, but the princess is not Hillary Clinton as some readers might have guessed. The princess in the story is Britain’s late Princess Diana. What possible connection is there between the late Princess Diana and John McCain? Well, as it proves, there are connections of serious importance to American voters and citizens of the (…)

With Martin Luther King Day fresh in mind, US writer and teacher Daniel Patrick Welch explores the challenges, promise and pitfalls of exposing young minds to King’s unfulfilled dreams.
Sing ’til the power of the Lord comes down Songs add promise and meaning to studying the civil rights era by Daniel Patrick Welch
Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it. If this is true, then the US is stuck in a sort of Groundhog Day time bounce, doomed forever to keep banging its (…)

UN Inspector Scott Ritter: Fools would Bomb Iran
Scott Ritter - Target Iran - Part 1
Scott Ritter - Target Iran - Part II (Q&A)
Israel’s influence of US policy & the Israeli lobby
Scott Ritter on Iranian Nuclear Program

Germany: The Melander family of Bargteheide Food expenditure for one week: 375.39 Euros or $500.07 :
United States: The Revis family of North Carolina (Sure hope most American families eat more fresh fruits and vegetables and less junk food than this family.) Food expenditure for one week $341.98 :
Italy: The Manzo family of Sicily Food expenditure for one week: 214.36 Euros or $260.11 :
Mexico: The Casales family of Cuernavaca Food expenditure for one week: 1,862.78 Mexican Pesos or (…)

By Phil Meadley
Former supermodel Carla Bruni may have maintained a dignified silence about her relationship with the French president.
But in a startlingly frank interview conducted not long before she met Nicolas Sarkozy, Carla revealed her true feelings about the "miserable" and "negative" French people and the "unbearably polluted" Paris.
She even likened the 52-year-old President - who some reports claim she has secretly married - to the pop star Prince and Napoleon Bonaparte, (…)

One of Africa’s most dramatic waterfalls will be destroyed by a hydroelectric project in Gabon, according to reports from a Gabonese NGO and the Inter Press Service (IPS).
Kongou Falls, a 184-foot (5 6m) two-mile-wide (3.2 km) cataract on the Ivindo river in the Congo rainforest, will be flooded by a dam to provide power for a $3.5 billion plan to mine iron ore at Bélinga in northeastern Gabon. The project — financed by a Chinese consortium led by CMEC, a Chinese company — is scheduled to (…)

Nervous breakdown
Non-clinical definition: general term for various emotional disorders causing severe life disturbance.
Symptoms: inability to cope.
Causes: Extreme stress, emotional trauma, grieving, severe anxiety.
I recently read a fascinating article that referred to a discipline known as ponerology. [1] It captivated me because I had never before considered the hypothesis it raised: that our systems of government and commercial enterprise across the globe have been irreparably (…)

January 14, 2008 – Twenty-five former U.S. military officers have severely criticized the official account of 9/11 and called for a new investigation. They include former commander of U.S. Army Intelligence, Major General Albert Stubblebine, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, Col. Ronald D. Ray, two former staff members of the Director of the National Security Agency; Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski, PhD, and Major John M. Newman, PhD, and many others. They are among the rapidly (…)

Missing White House emails
– http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&a...
No wonder Richard Millhouse Nixon proclaimed, "I am not a crook."
"Heh, heh, heh, heh, heh." George W. Bush