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Posted by seumasach on August 9, 2008
By Cindy Sheehan
ICH
7th August, 2008
“It is not if we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists will we be?” – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr
07/08/08 “ICH” — – -You know, I don’t care if it’s not proper for a Congressional candidate to say: “horseshit.” I don’t care if it is not a good “tactic” to get kicked out of a Congressional non-impeachment hearing that was just a bunch of horseshit anyway. I don’t care if I get accused of being too “extreme” for bucking the (cyst)em by doing everything form camping in a ditch in Crawford, Tx to non-violent civil disobedience to, lately, running for Congress as (oh no!) an independent.
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Posted by seumasach on August 8, 2008
For more background see:
Georgia, Washington and Moscow: a Nuclear Geopolitical Poker Game
8th August
JAVA, Georgia (AFP) – Russian tanks and troops entered Georgia’s breakaway South Ossetia province on Friday to repel a Georgian military offensive to reclaim the region amid fighting said to have left hundreds dead.
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Posted by seumasach on August 8, 2008
Dr Ellen Hodgson Brown
Global Research
7th August, 2008
Last week, Congress passed a housing bill that gave the Treasury Department a blank check to inject billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars into mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, snatching them from insolvency. To accommodate this blank check, Congress obligingly raised its debt ceiling by $800 billion. Ouch! That’s nearly a trillion dollars. Why was it necessary to incur this potentially crippling public debt to bail out two completely private, for-profit behemoths, which have run themselves into bankruptcy with their own risky investment schemes? Policymakers said it was essential to maintain the country’s creditworthiness with foreign lenders, which today hold about one-fifth of Fannie and Freddie securities. According to a July 21 report by Heather Timmons in The New York Times:
One out of 10 American mortgages is, in effect, in the hands of institutions and governments outside the United States.1
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Posted by seumasach on August 8, 2008
By Edmund Conway, Economics Editor and Richard Blackden
Daily Telegraph
8th August, 2008
“With house prices sliding and consumers deserting the high street, an increasing number of currency analysts now expect sterling to fall to $1.90 and 80p against the euro by the end of the year.”
Sterling tumbled to its lowest in more than a year against the dollar and weakened against the euro on fears that the UK economy is sliding into recession.
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Posted by seumasach on August 8, 2008
Ron Suskind
Information Clearing House
7th August, 2008
What just happened? Evidence. A secret that has been judiciously kept for five years just spilled out. All of what follows is new, never reported in any way:
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Posted by seumasach on August 7, 2008
6th August, 2008
The FBI made numerous claims in today’s official press conference. They are largely refuted by Dr. Meryl Nass, an expert on anthrax.
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Posted by seumasach on August 7, 2008
Jacob G. Hornberger
ICH
6th August, 2008
The Pentagon’s model “judicial” system at Guantanamo Bay has many fascinating features, virtually all of which are contrary to the rights and guarantees in the federal system established by the Constitution. Among the features in the Pentagon’s system are a presumption of guilt for the accused, no right to confront witnesses, the use of hearsay evidence, the use of evidence acquired by torture or coercion, no right against self-incrimination, no protection against cruel and unusual punishments, no right to bail, and no right to trial by jury.
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Posted by seumasach on August 7, 2008
Fyodor Lukyanova
Global Research
5th August, 2008
South Ossetia is once again on the brink of war. Alarming reports are coming from Abkhazia, and Russian-Georgian relations continue to be tense.
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Posted by seumasach on August 7, 2008
Russia Today
7th August, 2008
As Radovan Karadzic awaits trial on war crimes charges in The Hague, the world is once again remembering the victims of the war in Bosnia.
It’s more than a decade since a quarter of a million Serbs were forced to leave their homes in Croatia. And on the streets of Belgrade the wounds from the Yugoslav war are still raw.
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Posted by seumasach on August 7, 2008
John Pilger
Guardian
6th August, 2008
The 1945 attack was murder on an epic scale. In its victims’ names, we must not allow a nuclear repeat in the Middle East
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Posted by seumasach on August 6, 2008
We are seeing some remarkable, unexpected and positive developments: the Iraqi government is throwing off it’s subordination to the occupation, making deals with the various strands of the resistance and leaving the occupiers out in the cold. This development is another illustration of the advanced phase of imperial collapse we have now entered.
By Ahmed Ali and Dahr Jamail
Asia Times
7th August
BAQUBA – A massive military operation in Diyala province has underscored the military and political gains by the Sahwa militia, despite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s earlier attempts to thwart them. Maliki has now apparently come around to involving the Sahwa rather than opposing them.
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